Britain's Rule Of Fear In India
Brailsford, H. N.
Our Weekly Foreign Letter Britain's Rule Of Fear In India Precise Promise Of Self - Government Urged On Cabinet; "If Tories And Liberals Disapprove, Let Them Rule" By H. N....
...ou said, as they fell to the reaper's scythe "The Will of the Lord be done...
...but they think it necessary...
...Attend whatever lectures you can on the subject Aad above all, join your nearest Young People's Socialist League circle...
...Weingart and a number of other Socialfgt are on the job feeding the jobless...
...While only here and there a star dispels The darkness, here and there a towering mind O'erlooks its prostrate fellows: when the host ,~ Is out at once to the despair of night, When all mnnhiTirf alike is perfected, Equal in full-blown powers— then, not till then, I say, begins man's general infancy...
...On the other hand, a mere few hundred thousands gamblers, idlers and schemers own and control the largest portion of our national industries and wealth...
...Your elder* are failing the dream...
...On that basis might it not repeat its invitation to the conference aad open the round table even to its prisoners...
...There comes a post-card from Winifred Harper Caoiey bringing the glad tidings that one of our cats which we gave to Winifred has become the mother of four gorgeous sons named Marx, Lenin, Trotsky and Debs...
...The women have made s i g n s that j L j p g on the walls of the l o n g low room where the *ejBegrv are fed...
...He is to be imprisoned Tor reasons of State.' "It is precisely for 'reasons of state' that, while recognizing the' need for open enforcement of the law, we insist that methods of coercion cannot solve India's problems...
...How much more must kings fear him...
...Thus the candidates of the Socialist Party this time secured almost exactly as many votes as the Irigoyenist candidates, indeed they secured about 180 votes more on the average, but only one Socialist— Dr...
...It is for you to speak the word of hope sad the mandate for action...
...It cannot anticipate the work of the round table conference, which will have to draft a detailed constitution...
...Unlike most columnists and newspaper writers, Broun, in our opinion, gets bigger with the years...
...for them the joy of power, the low passion of tyranny, and fun immunity from say transgression against the laws of the land or God, And yet, were the overlords to vanish la one moment from the earth, not a blade of grass, nor the soul of child, nor the heart of a peasant or worker would miss them...
...good Socialist propaganda, ! Here at tables amid clean surroundings these vic*•iais of a cruil system eat the nourishing meat stew and bread ar.1 coffee prepared by the energetic George Edwards, one of the best of cooks...
...If he decided to rebel, it must have been because he disbelieved in the readiness of Parliament to allow any prompt and substantial advance, to self-government The one way to end his rebellion is to prove that this pessimism is mistaken That, according to the time-table, may be possible in nine months' time, when the conference has completed its work...
...This result offers no argument for the unification of the Socialists, in consequence of the electoral system...
...How It will come about we do not know, but few of us doubt that we shall live to see the end of the direct rule of Englishmen over India...
...He will have his way...
...If it left him at large, while it arrested his followers for obeying his directions, it might be supposed that it feared him...
...In these conditions the conference will be wasted labor, and so long as tbe present emhitterment continues no good will come even from the grant of responsible government to the provinces...
...Still others jfgfixz...
...One does not know how confident Lord Irwin and his officials may be that their repressive measures will stave off dangerous rioting, prevent the outbreak of a guerilla war on the Irish model, and check the growth of mutiny in the Indian army...
...We may not share the Indian veneration for ascetics, and we may feel more than doubtful of Mr...
...Benn have done ID the last month the same description applies...
...This, according to their simple creed, is the way to deal with the discontents of a subject people...
...The Independents secured the ten seats of the "Majority" that is to say, the whole of their list was elected, and they therefore secured far more members than would have come to them by a proportional franchise...
...Accordingly, the whole of the increase in the votes cast also came to them...
...During his long period of membership,*' says the Report "be was closely identified with the life and work of the Party in all its aspects and had served s period as national chairman...
...And in times like the present financial aad industrial chaos literal millions of them lis prone with despair...
...The record, for good or ill, is closed...
...Progress •— « Progress is The law of life, man is not man as yet Nor shall I deem his object served, his end "Attained, his genuine strength put fairly forth...
...A Grand, Good Job SOCIALISTS the country over have every reason JS to be proud of the fine work that ts being done by the Women's Section of the Socialist Party In H* York...
...The National Administrative Council also reports that "it has been decided to make a renewed effort through the L. S. I. to bring about the unification of the workingclass movement in ail countries in one International . . . " A Committee consisting of James Maxton, A. F. Brockway, John Paton, P. J. Doll an, and Dorothy Jews on hss been appointed to draw up proposals for submission to the L. S. I. After Maxton had severed his connection with the League against Imperialism it was decided to reorganize the I. L P. "Imperialism" Committee as the I. L P. International Committee, with Maxton as chairman The duties of the Committee are to oppose the exploitation of subject peoples by capitalist imperialism, and to advocate internationalism on the basis of the equal status of all peoples...
...Lloyd George plainly that we propose to resign unless they will give their consent to a prompt and precise...
...Rachel Panken, Nina Prey, •Sffae Newman...
...but Labor is a minority...
...Coercion Always Falls Ireland, America, Austria, Russia...
...e a Yet without their labor, their skill their brain and brawn ail of us would perish...
...The Indian Government has done what every government in such a situation must be prepared to do...
...You go away from it, sick at heart at a n the needless misery that there is in this cockeyed world and resolved that every opportunity you get to smash at the capitalist system, you will hit with all your strength...
...Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Woodmen of the World and American Legion Posts...
...His sympathies are quick and contagious...
...He finds that the majority of those whom he questioned came to New York from other cities having read the glowing accounts in the capitalist press to the effect that ''Prosperity" has retained sad now there is plenty of work...
...But the manner of it marks another step in the development of Indian policy...
...Of the **<a eighty have been looking for work for these B5 -er-dreary months...
...The saint who will mortify his flesh can command even the gods...
...Tou watched them scramble for husks and swill, contend as the swine contend...
...The only hope lies in a fresh Start...
...In the group is a sea-captain, a pharmacist, an office-manager and a newspaper reporter...
...Youth, men and women to be—you am ah that ia left for faith and realisation...
...If it arrested a man whom the multitude loves and reveres it must arouse the anger of a nation...
...But if you are young enough to know the glory of a fine dream, the lifting dynamics of aa ill sal, the cleansing fire of hatred for man's brutality to man . . . Socialism is everything worth living aad striving for...
...Did the imprisonment of Parnell or the shooting of Pearce check the Irish movement...
...It is only a question of time...
...fem bred your sons and daughters, you penned them as swine are penned...
...It cannot risk tbe suspicion of weakness, for it rules, not by consent, but b y fear...
...The report also Includes a reference to the resignation of J. Ramsay MacDonald from the Party after a continuous membership since 1894...
...McAlister Coleman...
...Who among us enjoys it today...
...But the results have surely been anything but advertisements for the methods...
...Gandhi's economics...
...We mean spiritually and mentally...
...There is left in his record more than enough to compel our admiration...
...When one is forced to do what one regrets does it not mean that the initiative has passed from one's hands...
...There may be better methods than this...
...Nearly 200 members of the I. L P. are Labor members of Parliament and the I. L. P. has direct financial responsibility for 37 of them...
...It may have beer inevitable, but of this we may b« sure, that throughout the crvilizec world men's thoughts of the British Empire and the Laboi Government will be less kindly be cause we have not a saint in prison...
...Behind the unrest in India lie political and economic causes...
...The buzzards of da lease, accident, unemployment poverty, hunger, cold, aad crime swarm and flap above them over their homes, over their shops . . . all waiting with sinister meaning for the inevitable faltering and tall...
...1 it is possible to guess what passed through his mind He did not doubt their sincerity, but he noted the vagueness of the programme, j Dominion status will come one i day: but will It be in five years or f i f t y ? Labor, he m a y have argued, would concede it, gladly enough, in five years or ten...
...Gandhi was hesitating as to wheth; er he should accept their invitaI tion to the round table conference...
...Going back to unemployment and soup kitchens, . **S want to aay that we think Heywood Broun did a atan-sized job on bis own account with his employment service and that if he is ever out of work, we should all hustle around to get him the grandest Job ever...
...but two years later, in 1926, the bourgeois ranks were closed again and therefore had the advantage...
...Watch the sun of Light and Liberty leap upwards to the skies...
...But might it not issue a general statement of principles...
...S. A. de Witt, Our idea of the consummate ass is the boob who...
...Could it not pledge itself to forward provincial autonomy at once, and to realize the dominion status by stages which will be completed within ten years at most...
...And with hands locked tight together, » One in heart and soul for ever...
...He influences a large cross-section of such intelligent Amer^jfins as have not yet gone insane...
...In the case of this Party also it is certain that not an the newly-won voters are a permanent gain for Socialism...
...Nor are they all work aad no play...
...Is this not rather an aggravation than a cure for the disease...
...Our eyes sail too tired to see the wretchedness of the masses Our nerves are too deadened for the quick of pais or the flam of anger at the shameless dishonesty the unmasked insolence, the unbridled and inhumes, greed of the money-maddened masters...
...For them there are always the surfeit of existence, security, luxury, yachts, international residences, the seven seas and four winds for travel and adventure, the overflowing cup of life and all that can possibly be poured Into it in Joy aad Indulgence...
...Could even the moderates, in these conditions, venture to separate themselves from the mass of the people by accepting them...
...Wm...
...Is it not, In fact, going to prove even harder to solve than before...
...Then let us ask you whether you consider the Carpenter of Nazareth a failure, a killer of God or an inferiority...
...Or, again, do we expect the friaavBy discussion of our reforms after publishing a prats ordinance which has had the effect of closing down almost every Indian newspaper in the land...
...But then there's an appeal in Number 3110 before a Chamber of Commerce called, "What's Wrong With our Speakers...
...Only you are left to march within the dream for freedom, peace and sustenance for all...
...More than two-thirds of the electorate voted Socialist...
...This is not a very cheerful column but neither is the sight of that line of man of an ages silently waiting their chance at a bowl of stew and a cup of coffee...
...The Herald, which on most occasions is considered the journalistic voice of the Labor government, had the following to say editorially the day after the arrest of Gandhi: "Mr...
...Dances, athletic teams, and hikes ars as necessary as meetings, debates and organization work...
...We are bolder...
...Parliament did not -seem to be ready for such an advance aa, would satisfy even the more moderate Nationalists, Mr...
...It can quite justifiably console itself with its great success in Increasing its vote...
...The older generations have betrayed you too long...
...Rather rem em be l only that they are failures, that they have made s sorry business of their world...
...Of the new votes for the Socialist Parties, more than half went to the Independents...
...Whereas this Party secured an average of 48,839 votes two years ago, the number of their votes increased this time to 108,166, an increase of 59,527...
...The sting of his revolt Has in this life of service...
...Between these alternatives, it hesitated for* many weeks, as well it might Destiny has driven it to a logical decision...
...Can one count" on a friendly reception if India's chosen leaders—Mr...
...a a a No boy or girl, no young man or woman, who has escaped tbe mental aad spiritual gassing of propaganda from the master classes, deserves his or her place in the sight of humaniity or the light of the sun, unless hs or she march shoulder-lined with the Chriata, the Da bees and the other ail-toofew liberators of the messes...
...Why ere men hungry?** Another sign urges the six ~igr- day as a relief for unemployment...
...The jackals of fear trail behind thorn every workday, every rest day...
...The historic victories have been those of bold conciliation...
...Sarah Vol- , 3 A ilrs...
...Is the India question thereby taken a single inch nearer to solution...
...Merlin's wand of wizardry is an instrument of duU impotence against the astonishing magic of . the little scissors that clip the coupons of interest and profit from the shares of ownership...
...They congratulate themselves that we are available to do the unpleasant work of coercion for them...
...B l um Attacks Bethlen ' PARIS.—Leon Blum has written a leading article in the Paris "Populaire" on the scandal of the Hungarian Optants question, in which Count Bethlen, the Hungarian Prime Minister, misused his position in order to secure compensation b y diplomatic negotiations for the Hungarian aristocrats who have been deprived of their estates in Transylvania by the Rumanian agrarian reform Socialists Sweep Buenos Aires Elections...
...Accordingly, 71,431 fewer votes were given for the bourgeois party...
...For them the gardens, the estates, the beauty of nature and artifice...
...The law is not to be vindicated...
...It is by their criminal selfishness and cowardice that hatred aad ens' trust still stalk the frontiers and horizons...
...They deeply regret, one may be sure, that they art arresting men on suspicion and imprisoning them without trial, that they are muzzling the presi and restricting the freedom ol meeting...
...It is not vanity or ambition that move him...
...Gandhi is too big a man to take his stand on phrases or details...
...The masters crucified him as soon as their security was threatened by his agitation...
...We have received a form letter from The Public Speakers Society saying, "It has come to our attention that you gave a speech before a large g a t h ering recently," and offering...
...If one goes hack to the critical weeks around Christmas, when Mr...
...That is a singular state of mind...
...Nicolas Repetto—was elected, with 83,076 votes, ^ while five other Socialists who chanced to have a few hundred votes less, fell out including Enrique Dickmann with 82,329 votes, and Adolfo Dickmann in the third position with 81,436...
...Think of being able to do one hundred and fifty separate funny tricks at the next meeting of Kiwanis...
...ou reared them in noisome dungeons, you hid them from light and sun...
...Join th* T. P S. L. . . . You have the happiness aad the soul of mankind to gala...
...But whoever goes deeper into the real relative strength of the party groupings will be forced to see that the chance combination of this election offers no guarantee for the future, that if the bourgeoisie gets over its crisis the division of the Socialists may lead to new defeats of the working class...
...s e e Events by these external tests may justify them...
...Although the soup kitchen is not primarily an employment agency, it has already placed eighteen men...
...All of these unemployed are extremely bitter at the methods of ninning the old-time, commercial employment agencies...
...But the whole Labor and Socialist International, which is filled with genuine pleasure at the great success of Socialism in Buenos Aires, is hoping that the Argentine comrades win repeatedly examine all the possibilities of unifying tbe forces of the working class Jn order to make Buenos Aires a permanently invincible stronghold for Socialism...
...4513, "Why Did Not America go to the Aid ef-fiance ur the Franco-Prussian War of 1870...
...There lies our chance If we have the spirit to use i t Let the government tell Mr...
...Reasons of State "That the Government of India, that any government must enforce the law is true enough That Mr...
...Harold Gold**jmger and other Yipsels report for duty regularly...
...When one has tc regret everything that one does the doing of it must eventually become an intolerable burden...
...He must believe that his warfare on poverty and social degradation is doomed to failure unless he can end our rule in India...
...Gandhi is an of a British prison...
...Few doubt that within a year or two the provinces, at least, must receive responsible government...
...It is under this regulation that Mr...
...Has the Saturday Evening Post, or the Sunday magazine sections of the press frightened you into believing that radicals and social protestants are failures, malcontents, jealous inferiorities...
...How strenuously will it resist the pressure of the other parties for delay...
...to write speeches to order for us on any subject...
...Parties Win 11 Seats Out Of 14 Open Independents Win 10, Other Party 1—Electoral System Plays Queer Tricks with Results BUENOS AIRES.—The Buenos Aires parliamentary election March 22nd, brought a catastrophic defeat to the party of Presiden Irigoyen...
...The basic principle o f the system is that no partymay secure all the seats...
...and the People slowly-rise...
...B These energetic comrades have organized a soup .jptcoen at 55 West Twenty-fifth Street where they jjave been :;ei::g some 700 unemployed men and SBWBVTD every day from noon until four o'clock...
...For what is in doubt is only how soon a federal constitution can be set up, which will link the self-governing provinces and native states in an autonomous dominion...
...For our more historic moods there is Jj*ipibej...
...But he is not to be charged, he is not to be tried...
...ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT Policy Behind Gandhi Arrest Is Criticized British Labor Organ Dissents from Cabinet Policy—Warns Force Will Not Succeed ( B y a N o w L a a o t r C o r r e s p o n d e n t LONDON.—The arrest of Gandhi, leader of the Indian Nationalist movement, called forth vigorous disapproval from tbe London Daily Herald, organ of the British Labor Party and the Trade Union Congress...
...The government had to make its choice...
...Tbe happy event took place on May 17th and all hands are doing finely...
...As there were 14 members to be elected this time, each Party could only put forward ten candidates...
...We secure the real Insight into the displacement of the electorate if we calculate how the 14 seats would be divided if they were allocated on the basis of the proportional system of election...
...The Irigoyenists secured one seat...
...Our Weekly Foreign Letter Britain's Rule Of Fear In India Precise Promise Of Self - Government Urged On Cabinet...
...The People Rise For the Lords and Liars are quaking At the People's stern awaking Prom the slumber of the ages...
...For such water as has all sail j » ~ » a j ^ into the seas of maturity, we earn only be contemplative ' and resigned...
...Unity Is Essential How grotesque this franchise is is shown by the fact that the Socialists have secured one more seat because of being- split than they would have if they had put forward one list...
...That is to cover all but the last lap on the road to self-government...
...The result may thus (as in this case) be completely dependent upon the accident of a very few votes...
...Gandhi is in prison...
...And that, one supposes, is precisely the effect that Mr...
...And if this is ^^aTjg-routng, make the most of it...
...He is arrested on no charge, he is to be tried for no offence...
...But the reason for Gandhi's power and influence remains...
...Don't S p a n that street if you want to avoid the harsh SjpDties cf a capitalist system that cannot support B e a m workers...
...Gandhi had challenged it...
...And every one aad everything really useful and necessary ia the scheme of creation would be the happier for tow loss...
...But if coercion continues through the conference, the hope that it will pave the road for a peaceful transition to self-government is vain...
...Francis Adams...
...Do not waste them precious hours of your growing strength and glow* ing fervor in judgment on them...
...Do we, in the calm of London, realize the emotional effect when a whole city closes its shops and its exchanges in mourning and protest...
...It was inevitable, probably, in such circumstances, that the old association could not be maintained, but we take this opportunity of placing on record in the name of the Party, our high appreciation of his great services to the L L P . and to Socialism United Italian Parties Of Socialism to Meet ( B y a N e w TfceaSaa C p i a S a an Paris.—The delegations of the two Italian Socialist parties which are shortly to re-unite have already held several joint meetings...
...This is achieved by providing that the number of candidates which each Party may put forward is only about twothirds of the number of members t o be elected...
...Benn's timetable...
...We have forgotten too quicklj the wrongs that must be righted...
...The United Party could at best have secured ten seats, but the two opposing Socialist Parties have secured 11 seats, and it is only b y chance that they did not secure • the whole' of the 14 seats...
...Baldwin was conciliatory, but the general tone was not encouraging...
...A t that moment, take it as a whole...
...But even so, in what mood will India await the publication of our proposals ? However generous they may be, they must contain safeguards and reservations...
...The development of Party policy which began in 1924, to meet the changed conditions, and which was crystallized finally by the adoption by the Party of the Socialism in Our Time program, marked the beginning of irreconcilable differences of opinion which have been deepened since his acceptance of the duties of Prime Minister...
...I t is evident that they have not done enough...
...Will the Indian national movement wane...
...Is i t ? It has been tried again and again...
...Gandhi's arrest was expected...
...In 1924 the Socialist Party had the "majority" in an election because of the division of the bourgeoisie, that is to my, it secured two-thirds of the seats...
...Of course, if you are just content to live the life of an unthinking and self-see king mammal...
...It is the coming of the Commonwealth wherein the producing masses decree unto themselves the ownership and control of the mesas whereby the wealth they create today now neaps itself into private coffers of the few...
...Gandhi is to be held indefinitely in confinement "The noisy advocates of the "strong hand" will be delighted...
...Would you consider Gene Debs a failure . . . ? * grins* the lovs this man generated in this loveless land all the fortunes of the Rockefellers, Morgans aad Guggenheims piled into one are worthless dust...
...Gandhi is In prison...
...Yet by every standard of comparative history be was a Socialist . . . a lover of mankind, a hater of greed, a dreamer for a world In which the common folks would live in peace sad plenty...
...It has forced him into measures which must defeat his political purpose...
...The bourgeois party which opposed the personal domination of Irigoyen and was therefore called the "Antipersonalistas," did not put forward a list this time, whereas in the elections of 1928 it received an average of 26,260...
...An average of 81.202 voted for the list of the Irigoyen Party, compared with 126,374 two years ago...
...They enclose a list of speeches that we can make before Lions' dubs, Rotarisns, Kiwanians, Eastern Star groups...
...year after year, enriches the Tammany nobles with his vote in tbe expectation that he win get a ''favor*' from one of them...
...There are good reasons for regretting this act done under the compulsion of destiny...
...A. de Tomaso was re-elected at the head of their list with 109,292 votes and A. L. Spinetto with 109,124 votes...
...It was at their behest, or indifference or impotence, that ten million men were slaughtered in the last butchery between nations...
...We become inarticulate at the very thought...
...Are you afraid of failure, that you hesitate to join the Socialist Leagues for Young People...
...Gandhi's impatience...
...all that remains is to make the transition creditable t o ourselves, promising to Indians and peaceful for us both...
...The loss for this party is therefore 45,171...
...The last thing that Tories or Liberals can desire is to take over the responsibility for India in these conditions...
...This, indeed, is so certain that one finds it hard to account for Mr...
...He would like to make m weary of governing India...
...If the Independents have now secured the "majority,** this Is no guarantee that the "majority" win not faU to the bourgeoisie again in two years* time If the Socialist Parties do not unite...
...Learn all about It from the vast store of written pamphlet and book...
...Benn and Lord Irwin have | done much to promote this fortunate transition...
...It is for the freshets and rills that spout.and surge forth from the source of life that our concern is greatest To have them form into a stream of i las rasas, unsullied, unmuddled and unmuddied by the dumpheaps and refuse of a decaying civilization, that they may flow with the crystal purity of our hop* and dream for humankind is oar ordained task...
...One must suppose that after a careful study of -precedents, and of the temper of Jndian public opinion, it has made a prudent choice.- Mr...
...Plainly, there are limits to thlt state of things...
...Baldwin and Mr...
...We don't mean physically, he's plenty big enough already...
...In a world ol mechanism and materialism, -the average man still responds to the appeal of saintlrnesa, and ever Americana forget their color prejudice when his name is spoken If the Tsardom had ever dared tc arrest Tolstoy, after one of hU revolutionary utterances, a spasm of anger would have shaken Europe...
...Laughs, pep, tricks, speeches—everything...
...Browning...
...In India Itself we must expect, for a time at least, consequences even less pleasant, Indian religion has always believed that supernatural powers can be woo by austerities and abstinence...
...His avowed aim was to undermine its authority, to cut off its revenues, t o boycott every Indian who dared to serve it...
...Reasonable men may not blame it for its action, but every unbiased spectator will reflect that a government which is compelled to arrest a man of Mr...
...And there is a way of bringing this to pass...
...You win find there as splendid a set of high tMsjjsa' sad plain living boys sad girls as this vast land contains...
...Gandhi is in prison, win apparently stay in prison so long as the Government may choose to keep him there...
...Dare we wait nine months...
...Tail ought to get an audience all hot and bothered about that If you are on humor bent you can get a book that has one hundred fifty funny stunts in it that you can do at lodge meetings...
...Every EE celia Rotter, Mrs...
...Young man, young woman, you have -***»*-g to lose but your useleasness to society...
...To control this central seat of power may be 'vital for India's self-respect, but I before that can be fully achieved, she will have in the provinces the management of all the main coni cerns of her public life...
...If Tories And Liberals Disapprove, Let Them Rule" By H. N. Brailsford EVERYONTE regrets that Mr...
...nearly every one believes that it was necessary to wot him there...
...This was rebellion even if violence was repudiated...
...And hope of peace in that country rests upon the speed and understanding with which those causes are faced and tackled...
...Gandhi himself, the chairman of the National Congress, the popular Mayor of Calcutta, and hundreds of others who enjoy national or local influence— are still prisoners in our gaols...
...Over a century ago the Governor of Bombay, then a servant of the East India Company, gave himself authority to imprison, without charge or trial, "for reasons of State," any person whom he regarded as troublesome...
...The Socialist Party affiliated to the L. S. I., which because of its strict principles was less able to attract the classes who came over from the bourgeoisie, increased its vote from 44.176 to 81,378, an increase of 37,202...
...The government has, or will soon have, Sir John Simon's report before it, and it has long had that of the Indian committee...
...Eighty-five have no regu27 homes but have been sleeping in the parka, in missions and flop-houses...
...He had doubtless read the debates on the Viceroy's declaration in the Lords and the Commons...
...This frail man has risked his health, abandoned life's pleasures, faced and defeated bigots and magnates, in his incessant warfare upon Indian poverty...
...Gandhi intended tc produce...
...Godkillers . . . and all the other canards the masters invent in order to keep you from threatening their tenure of power over you...
...Gandhi, if he has, in fact, broken the law (and there seems little doubt of i t } , should bebe brought to trial for any offence he may have committed, is also true enough...
...and that they are as too old to learn anything new...
...These they claim fleece the workers unmercifully, sending groups off to jobs, collecting exhorbitant fees and then working in collusion with the employment managers to have the whole group discharged and ataVSt the vicious circle all over again...
...however far-reaching they may be, they will fall short of what Indians demand...
...The delegations have decided to propose to their organizations that the Socialist Unification Conference be held on June 10th, the anniversary of the assassination of Matteotu The Chatter Box f l of the moat penetrating m*wsr*srsff4j1|fl man wtso arrives at the asm of thirty wTtiJsant ws> Product of eicessWs wit, or whatever aim thU statement may he called by the millions wTss Mjm through life without joining the Cause, it nevertheless beam thorough test and reason...
...Since Tolstoy died, there is no human being alive today who commands, as he did, the veneration of mankind Others are liked, respected and admired, but he stands on a Mount of Transfiguration...
...Turn where you will, the records of coercion are records of failure...
...The two Socialist Parties together received 96,529 more votes than in 1928...
...Goldfinger has gathered some interesting statistics covering 150 of the unemployed as a preliminary study...
...The following picture would then be .given:— British I. L. P. Thanks MacDonald for Services ( B r a N e w L e a s e r C a r r a a p a a a c a t) Birmingham.—In its annual Report to the Conference of thi I. L P. the National Administrative Council states that after three years of continuous losses in the number of the Party's branches there is now a net increase...
...Who remembers the millionaires who fattened oa the war, aad for whose security of bloody profit Gene went to jail ? In these years even, Geaa takes his place alongside of Lincoln, John BrowB, Wendell Pbjlhps and William Lloyd Garrison as an American champion of the oppressed aad enslaved...
...Moat striking of them Is t h e one w.^.n'g "This is the Richest Nation in the World...
...A sane mind ia a healthy body requires such pursuits as build brawn aa wan as brain...
...Gandhi's character must have forfeited any moral claim to the allegiance of good citizens...
...Intent on your own appetite and comfort . . . Socialism holds nothing for you...
...The Socialist Party is limited to one member of Parliament today owing to the tricks of the electoral system...
...Go on and think of it...
...One is an instrument of destiny, and the danger is that one may be compelled to go on acting in this way, To nearly everything that Lord Irwin and Mr...
...Booth: "Songs of the City...
...Manifestly, a minority government could not take such a step without consulting the opposition...
...Do we allow for the mass sentiment concentrated in meetings of ten thousand men...
...It is Socialism...
...Peculiar Election System The electoral system of Argentina gives a very distorted picture of the voting in the number of members elected...
...He Is like the doggy who is grateful for the boas from which the meat has been strlppr...
...The toilers, tbe makers of materials, the builders o f comforts, the creators of all things useful at needful are in constant dread against the future...
...Therefore a kind of minority representation is created...
...He has organized the factory workers, created for them schools, hospitals and trade unions, brought hope to the degraded lower castes inspired respect for womanhood, and taught tolerance to warring rreeds One glances in vain at the world's premiers and presidents for a personality worthy to stand beside bint...
...There lies our weakness, but also our strength...
...Bean's own speech was frank and courageous: Mr...
...Minnie Wehnstein, Mrs...
...Destiny has upset Mr...
...Number 4249 called 'The Unselfish Policy of the American Legion" sounds pretty hot...
...The two Socialist Parties,—The Socialist Party affiliated to the Labor and Socialist International and the Independent Socialist Party which broke away two and a hah* years ago—have secured an extraordinary victory...
...Not coercion but clear-sighted constructive meeting of difficulties is the right path to pursue...
...Moreover, the number of votes which each candidate secures is the deciding factor, that is t o say, the 14 candidates who secure the highest number of votes are elected...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 16
