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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES BOOKS IN BRIEF The Prison Problem ONE of the abominations of our social order is Its prison system and administration which in recent months has produced a number...
...The second meeting of the group took place last night, and was addressed by Comrade L'maaacy...
...on third floor: 2 servants' rooms, store-room...
...We'll walk around Gin Lane together and t h en g e t b a ck tS time to hold a grand review of t h e eight servants, sitting in front of t h e nine open fireplaces sad warm our tootsies next to the pipe furnace in the halls...
...This particular group of juniors is being story led by than organiser Jos Gcreiik...
...Bat then this becomes immaterial against discussing the play...
...7 Saat 15th Street, regarding the study of the American section of the movement made by James Oneal, "American Communism" The book, published two years ago, is based upon an exhaustive study of original material and is the only attempt that has been made to present an objective history of American Communism...
...Before they tack us in, w e m a y g e t a chance to horn in for s bath in one of the 5 bath-rooms o n the second fleer...
...Woll to Speak on A.F.L...
...The interest which these three mimeographed papers have developed Is probably the real reason why the National Convention of the Y. P. S. L. had urged and sponsored a strong national youth publication...
...Always be v e r y careful not to g e t m i x e d up sad break into a servant's bath by mistake...
...Contributions should be sent to Harry Lopatln, 1 Bast iStc street, New York City...
...And if the ill-treated and mutilated victims of the Hungarian Soldateska go into the infirmary their lot is no better even there...
...Letters have been mailed to all circles three weeks ago snd if not received are to be acted upon in substance which appears here: Bach circle may nominate two for each office...
...A great deal of pulling apart...
...Thomas Wright and others...
...After all circumstance has altered the case for Socialism in Russia...
...Telethon* The New Leader, sVSfeawjBSS *$ZZ, Horthy's Hungary rpHX Prisons or Budapest (published by K l d n * Comp...
...socialists ureet Spanish Party on Fight Against Dictatorship CHICAGO.—Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, has cabled to Julian Besteiro, leader of the Socialists of Spain, congratulations for their stand in favor of a democratic republic Hillquit's cablegram said: "The Socialists of America send hearty congratulations on your stand in favor of a democratic republic and wish you luck in your courageous struggle to free the'Spanish workers from the double yoke of political and economic oppression.'* On Wednesday, Mr...
...Men are only incidents...
...In the last two years the need for a youth paper devoted to the Labor and Socialist movement has been severly felt...
...Youth, love, morals, •ax, honesty, decency in human relationship . . • all are taking on queer guise and strange posture...
...Circles of the Y. P. S. L have issued and are Issuing their own papers...
...To All New York Circles Please note that all ntsnmatSons for Executive and Financial Secretaries most be ID by the first session of the Annual City Convention...
...A. Grossner, Manager of Freie Arbiter Stimme: Joseph Conn, Editor of Freie Arbiter Stimme, Walter Starrett, Editor of Road to Freedom...
...Their cure-all for crime is severe treatment of offenders which finally emerged in New York State in the atrocious legislation known as the Baumes Laws...
...NATIONAL NEWS Philadelphia At the last meeting of the city Executive Baord of the recently organised City League of Philadelphia, plans were formulated for sn extensive membership campaign...
...This mass business is horribly serious...
...Child Labor in the United States, Meaning of Unemployment, and Rally With the Y ipse Is...
...Juniors of all j parts of the country are tnrrsed to send in their thoughts on questions of interest to Yipsels, especially Juniors...
...You can y d yonr check to Abe Belsky at 7 East 15th •rest...
...Circle Thirteen, Brooklyn Tonight, at 483 Sutter avenue, Brooklyn, Circle Thirteen will hold a ; gala affair at the operJng of its new headquarters...
...And the way love and marriage are tabooed as capitalist shares you would Imagine that all the members of the Alimony Club of old Ludlow Street Jail had migrated to Moscow and drawn up the domestic code...
...Coupled w i t h this draft of boy power goes the threat of compulsory military training in the schools...
...Ptrst the educational department of the A m alga•Ated Co-operative Apartments up In the Bronx **ica...
...being formed in Statan Island after many years of apathy In the Borough of lUrhmond...
...Drive to Launch Youth Magazine At the recent National Convention of the Young- Peoples' Socialist League, the Youth Publishing Association (at present composed of New York members only) was authorized to expand on a national scale and mltlats a drive for sufficient funds to launch a monthly magazine...
...the modem theatre, some near-Communist friends forced Mr...
...The only laugh I got oat of the play was at our friend's fear that the drama had been twisted out of its true, meaning far American consumption...
...not us...
...Woll's subject will be "The American Federation of Labor: Its Policies and Practices...
...ee you at the dinner...
...John Haynes Holmes of New fork, and Rev...
...The Federation of Labor also opposed military service and the Socialist members in the Cortes (the former Spanish Parliament) always voted against the standing army and its budget The Federation of Labor with its 250,000 members forms a strong anti-militarist unit in a country which otherwise is hardly touched by pacifist movements...
...Howard's work has become a classic as it was the first extensive study made of this phase of life...
...New York City, Sunday aftersnoon, February Oth, at 2 o'clock...
...A hearing of prisoners means blows with butt-ends of rifles, kicks and cuts with a whip...
...automobile i; owner cares for grounds...
...Marriage and Morals, by Bertrand Russell...
...The New Vista The New Vista has announced the inauguration of a "Junior Yipsel Page" for every issue...
...Frau Boloni...
...On Communication The recent flare-up of the Communist movement in New York City baa brought many inquiries to the Rand School Book Store...
...The "Free Youth," which lasted six or seven months of 1924, had to be discontinued because insufficient funds had been raised before it was launched...
...To the illiterates who sponsor this policy we recommend an old work by an Englishman, John Howard ("The State of the Prisons...
...So much so that I resolved forthwith to venture forth a a knight-errant to rescue the fair damsel . . . Middle-Class - . . from the fen clutches of the Communists...
...20, at the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street The lecture, to be followed by discussions and questions, will be open to all members of trade unions or of the Socialist Party...
...I t is expected that some opponents of social insurance legislation will accept invitations to express their views...
...McAlister Coleman...
...A paranoica...
...Moreover, they represent the type of politics which gives us racketeers and gangsters, political alliances with the underworld and which lias brought one large city, Chicago, to financial ruin and bankruptcy...
...Tama, by Kuprin...
...For the Egfatary of Labor can't do much harm...
...First applications are first served...
...stable contains 6 stalls, box stall, kitchen, 2 bed-rooms and bath-room...
...States Island A Junior Circle is...
...This conference is the result of several group meetings of Building Trades Workers interested in spreading progressive labor ideas in their unions...
...The two works were the result of extensive travels by Howard in England and Europe devoted to a personal investigation of prisons, prisoners, and prison administration...
...At Labor Institute Session In N.Y.C...
...Schenectady Labor To Have Public Forum (Br s> New Is—Si CsrpespnSnt) SCHENECTADY.—The Schenectady Trades Assembly, city central labor body, will start a forum in Schenectady's new Labor Temple...
...Harry W. Laidler of the League for Industrial Democracy, A. J. Muste of Brookwood '' College, Executive Secretary Williams of the League for Independent Political Action, Director Mabel Leslie of the Art Worksfalp, Rev...
...Davis fast BMP to bat with a statement on unemployUgnl which he had to retract, almost immediately...
...But ws wish that when they want so badly to get something oft* their chests they would get it off on the *P*talir...
...Howard was also the author of another work, "an account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe," excerpts of which are included in the present volume...
...Understanding that Yipsels are not immune from the devastating effects of the capitalist system, the arrangements committee has aet the price per person st only one dollar...
...More detailed plans will be made public by Marx Lewis, executive secretary of the Socialist party, In next week's issue of The New Leader...
...And Company, by Bloch...
...New York City, assured that anything you P*e win be well spent Last we are going to drum up a crowd for The jjw Leader dinner which will be held at Webster * f i on Wednesday, February 12th, next...
...Friends all over the country are being approached to give aa much as they can towards this fund...
...Their scurrying shoot* testing this, tightening there, oiling and smssrlag . just so much accompaniment...
...Coronet, by Komroff...
...It will be a package ! party and dance, sod the admission will be thirty-Ave cents...
...Theorists back and hew to a hairline...
...Prosperity, Fact or Myth, by Stuart Chase...
...ss first floor: hall, parlor, library, double guest room sad bath-room, dining-room, butler's pantry, rtti-r^", servants' dining-room, 4 servants' bedrooms and bath-room...
...And Three Cheers ^ W S D t to refer a mlstsks that was .made In last week to our bright young psychoWe ^ ss—H ' "John L. Davis as President of ueUsited Mine Workers Of AmetVs, whereas, .petT including ourselves knows that it Is John LxiwU...
...Boys between 10 snd 18 in all schools, public or private, would be forced into the Boy Scout regime by the proposed law...
...Way is it, we wonder, that those who have the same general viewpoints on life, devote s o much precious time and energy cursing out their likesfisded fellows ? So f a r a s w e know, w e never did laything to this Sampson and yet he writes us as tbsaga he were a none too distant relative...
...Duttons...
...A banquet on the eighth of February will institute a preliminary drive for members to get enough to pitch Into activity for the National Drive for members, which commences April 1st...
...A few more bad breaks like that and Herbert may L looking for another and a better alibi artist, . j d if be should pick Lewis snd get that Old Man If -jse Sea off the bowed backs of the coal-diggers s/ the country, we for one would be devoutly thaakfiL > It is warm today with the halm mess of ths false Spring that hit these parts in February and Just M *<« are thinking where we win go this Summer ilMg esases a magnificent suggestion from the real estate offices of Alfred E. Schermerhorn, giving a ujt of neat little places which we can rent for the ggpssat down at Southampton, Long Island...
...DeWitt of Flushing...
...Among other things he accuses us of "posturing on t h e rostrum" o r rostering on the postum or whatever it is that he doesn't like, sad warns us solemnly t h a t he won't vote f o r u s say more...
...But then again, that is their business . . . end maybe some dsy we win find that love laughs at Communists as well as locksnftha • > * / It was at the height of the play's eloquence on this subject that our parlor-revolutionary friend (an estimable middle-class lady, yon may be assured) whispered to me: "That's not tree . . . the translators have twisted the play into anti-Soviet propaganda...
...A few reservation* far The New Leader dinner next Wednesday Bight are stui aVstsfs...
...All interested Building Trades Workers are invited to attend this conference U.S...
...The new Director, Comrade Mulhauser, is coaching them in draraahrs The Junior Organisation in New York is represented by either chartered oz about-to-be chartered circles in an five boroughs...
...Fiction A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway...
...All thai matters is results...
...This Forum, which will receive the moral support of the Socialist local of Schenectady, proposes to have its first meeting on Feb...
...The main reason for the failure of the latter was that left-wingers had gotten control during the split...
...The object is to raise enough money to underwrite the first year's publication and leave enough for a successful start the second year...
...He points out that since he finished the book the Communist Party has divided into three parties snd that the three-party factional war has brought many desertions from the ranks...
...With true Theatre Guild fervor, the sex question is stressed) albeit the heuroiicisms of Eugene ONeill are sadly absent...
...and "The New Vista," a monthly, is published by Circle Two, Brooklyn...
...From a long observance of the self-styled Communists here in America, it is easy to discover what hsppwt to unfortunate idealists when they are lost to the balance of laughter...
...Australia Felix, by Richardson...
...The man who invented the term "catty" to de1 P the spitefulness and bad-temper of such ss write nasty letters to folks on newspapers didn't ~ ~ * much about cats...
...A mimeographed newspaper is being contemplated...
...The reason why there is so much reiteration of "middle-class" in this writing is because it was hammered without mercy into our ears for the drama space of two hours...
...First published in England in 1777, this edition appears as a volume in the useful Everyman's Library with an introduction by Kenneth Ruck...
...This is a bargain...
...Seek Drafting of All School Boys Into Boy Scouts Nothing leas than conscription of ail boys in N e w Y o r k state schools between 10 and 18 into the semi-militaristic Boy Scout movemeat is contemplated in a bill introduced in the state legislature on which the new Y o r k Teachers Union has turned the full glare of publicity...
...First ss-aptJHoas are first served...
...Memorial Meeting For Peter Kropotkin A Kropotkin Memorial Meeting will be held in the Rand School Auditorium, 7 East 15th street...
...So tar the board has distributed cook lists, song lists, snd educational suggestions...
...The discussions are true to the average experience of debate among the Russians...
...Let this then thunder down until it rumbles setsSOS through Laoin'a tomb: A Communist is a Socialist without a sense of humor I guess that answers it all...
...Uniforms would be compulsory...
...Disgusting food, pestilent air, every kind of danger of Infection, ill-treatment and humiliation are not spared even the prisoners who are very ill...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES BOOKS IN BRIEF The Prison Problem ONE of the abominations of our social order is Its prison system and administration which in recent months has produced a number of convict revolts in American prisons...
...Apologists for this regime and its administrators are generally politicians who have no comprehension of criminology...
...Pkaarmftl Switkes, and will be a novelty in that a banquet has not been held with conventions since the days of the old timers...
...It is being tendered to the new national chairman...
...Among the speakers at the first session will be Dr...
...insurance, employment exchanges, and the plans employed in private industry to relieve distress through unemployment insurance...
...mad sponsor, Comrade Pe'.ix An average or fifteen attending meetings regularly, and a basketball team are two Incidental accomplishment...
...Soviet Russia is proceeding through an unprecenU ed spiritual change because of her mass-self-shaping in mind as well as industry...
...The latest is f r om somebody called Sampson who Hres in Buffalo...
...It Is called, "Duneside...
...The leaflets are Appeal to Reason, Effect* and Defects of the present educational system...
...The psychological factor enters into this j l — you recall that Davis is Secretary of Labor for many years, Lewis baa been trying to getM***R mast bs because we want John L. Lewis to kgve that Job, that we erred so stupidly...
...The Circle meets at 219 Sackman street, j Brooklyn...
...The prisons in Philadelphia, New York and elsewhere were similar to the prison abominations in Europe, while imprisonment for debt was as common here as it was abroad...
...Well, that's that vote gone t o hell...
...In Horthy's Hungary a denunciation is sufficient to mobilize military justice, and Frau Boloni was arrested as a spy after such a denunciation...
...He adds that in recent years the Communists h a v e brought their children into their public demonstrations in order to give the appearance of numbers which they really do not have...
...After reading some of these effusions we turn gratitude towards our sleeping cats who rei their magnificent energies for real fights that something and rarely indulge in Internecine '•"•> save in the spirit of play...
...Of course, as the play progressed and true love showed a meek bourgeois face, it was not difficult to convince our friend that no one had warped any meaning of the author out of the original...
...to the extent of ten dollars...
...Labor and Farmer Parties in U. S...
...Frau and Herr Boloni never directly entered into politics, but whan tha Horthy regime had established itself in Hungary and mads life impossible for decent people they Sad to Vienna and settled down there...
...The young Socialists of America are feeling the need for an organ wherein they might speak to youth in a way that youth will understand, and on matters which young people are interested in...
...In announcing the lecture, Louis Schaffer, secretary of the Committee on Labor, said that invitations to speak at Institute lectures have been extended to President Green, John Fitzpatrick of Chicago, H . H . Broach, president of the Electricians' Union, and others...
...Of coarse, we Socialists should have no particular worship for the qualities of our own shop keeping, land holding and extremely possessive bourgeoisie...
...It is "on the South Side of Gin Lane on the Ooetn between Wyandanch Lane and Little Plains Bead...
...Many individual cases and incidents that came under the personal observation of the author make a vivid account of how low in the scale of brutality the law and prison regime can sinkIt is unfortunate that Howard never visited the United States...
...This hangout has a most attractive situation...
...But the way of suffering for this woman began when she aet foot on Hungarian soil...
...J. O A Mistake—An Invitation A Pest...
...It's his sje to make every thing in the labor world look Hrtvr for ths benefit of the administration...
...Abraham Epstein, Louis Waldman, 8. John Block, Edward F. Casskly, and Algernon Lee...
...A mediocrity, a misfit, a weakling, whan gripped with the passion for power, who cannot see the comical twist to such a picture, carries with him to the grim end all the vinc^ nr"»*f of tyranny . . . all the wantonness of destruction...
...Published Every Week by The New Leader for the Young People's Socialist League this Sunday evening's meeting, Herman Field will speak o n "Robert Infersoll: His Lite sad Works...
...gets together as fins aa audience as is con^**s* la all the city for its Sunday morning forums...
...Sunny-side The Sunnyside Juniors are getting new members after a period of quiet...
...And we made no pretense at forgiving its sins...
...The fundamental view that has on the whole dominated detention of those who break the law is not reclamation but revenge...
...The purpose of the lectures is to provide a forum where trade unionists and Socialists may exchange views on the problems of the labor movement...
...Every Socialist party branch is being asked to elect four delegates to the Institute, in addition to party members who may wish to attend...
...Harry W. Laidler, Abraham Beck* erman, and H. Rosier...
...The same was true of the "Young Socialist.** which existed during the years of 1916 to 1921...
...After going all over the grounds and ySQmg at the owner to police t h em up g o o d and sack, we will stall around in t h e s t a b l e f o r a while sad then have the local Boy Scouts of the Southampton Lodge guide us t o our various beds...
...At the present time Circle One, Cleveland, is issuing "The Young Leader,'* a fortnightly paper...
...Bach nominee must receive a majority of the votes cast...
...Requests for tickets should be sent to the Labor Institute, Socialist Party, 7 East 15th Street, and should indicate what Socialist branch or trade union the writer belongs to...
...If you do not agree with tha ukase of the hour, or the plan of the day, your are Nap . . . middle-class . . . kulack . . . and you are to be "liquidated...
...after the strenuous sessions of the convention...
...Ivans ISISJML to attend a performance of "Red Rust," prsooatsd by the Theater Guild at the Martin Beck Theatre, -i Needless to Insist, left the show fully impressed with the message of the Russian dramatist...
...Parallel thorn with (he profeasaoas of Communism . . . a movement to bring Ufa, happiness and fiuadoiu to the soeeses...
...Everything that does not fall into the coioreless, passionless pattern of what is now commonly known as Sovietism is middle class, bourgeois, and antirevolutionary...
...G. F. Beck, director of Labor Temple, an old admirer of Peter Kropotkin from the time of his residence in Egland...
...Starvation, filth, disease and death stare at the reader from many paces while torture was not unusual for slight infractions of discipline...
...According to Al Schermerhorn's dope sheet, it «0eatains in the basement: laundry, ironing room...
...With our summer problem s o nicely settled, we sew open what we have come to call our "Hate •ML" Pretty nearly every week we receive letters f r om persons we have never seen or heard of, commenting with acerbity upon our habits, our looks, our intelligence and our grammar...
...Corns on down and see us, b o y s and girls...
...Emotional idealists shout, sing, shriek and faint...
...Among speakers whose activities are being sought are Rev...
...While many of the horrors of prison life of the late eighteenth century have disappeared on the whole the attitude towards offenders is about the same...
...But the martyrdom of fellow-prisoners, which she observed and shared, and of which aba tells in her moving book, calls up tha inquisition of the middle ages...
...For example, imprisonment for debt was almost universal not only at the time when Howard made his investigations but well into the nineteenth century...
...It's a shame...
...Start sating your pennies, and make your reservations quickly...
...Dresden) la tha name of a book In which Frau Boloni, formerly secretary to Anatola France and wife of a Hungarian journalist, describes under the pan name of Sandor Kemen bar experiences in Hungarian prisons...
...Ws have brooded over this list and have practiesfly settled upon Number 70...
...All checks and monies should be sent to him at 7 East 15th street, Room 601, New York City...
...The Communists of the underworld here have the more picturesque phrase . . , "taken for a ride...
...and Mrs...
...Newgate in Connecticut was a hell whose horrors w e r e common knowledge...
...A few l e m v i t i w for The New Leader dinner rant Wednesday a i c bt are still available...
...Bach nominee must have been a member of the T. P. 8. L. for two year*, and s member of the s P. for . one ye*x The Chatter Box As • 4mmtmi n • JSsfljj...
...But the sufferings of this woman pals before the terrors which she had to witness in the prisons...
...20th Matthew W o n , vice president of the American Federation of Labor, is to be the first speaker at a series of lectures being arranged by the Labor Institute organized by the Committee on Labor of the New York Socialist Party...
...New Fork City In connection with the Annual City Convention s banquet is being hen on that Sunday {February 16) at the Rand School at 6 pjn...
...Those of us who are patient and more lenient with our hopes view all this with a sincere psayse for the best...
...The great fault with the play as such was that it was peculiarly Russia...
...All Quiet on the Western Front, by Remarque...
...on second floor: 7 family bed-rooms, 5 bath-rooms, 2 servants' bed-rooms, linen closet, trunk room...
...There's another one of these H a t e B o y s out W e s t ssuawkere who sends illiterately written letters, • • a y pages in length telling all of us on T h e N ew Leader that we don't k n ow h o w t o write, that we dflat say anything when we do w r i t e and t h a t we should all be fired pronto...
...Had he done so his account of American prisons of the same period would have revealed no difference with prisons abroad...
...A drive for funds to launch a national magazine taw Ypsels is under way under the competent 'eadership of Abe Belsky...
...Hang it all, much as I dislike summing up any.' thing in a phrase just to appear witty . . . the temptation to tame overwhelms to this Instance...
...Never a momeat of happy humor, never a light quip, never a flash of tickling relief...
...This old account of prison regime is revolting...
...Ytpaels and friends are invited to attend...
...We are oat this week, cheering for three things...
...Arrangements under the auspices of Road to FreedomConference of Building Trades Workers Feb...
...Romance, fidelity to friends as individuals, personal preferences, and all the other quits essentlsl elements of what ws have standardisd as civilised and sane are shredded to bits by tha precise teeth of a mass theory...
...Physical and moral ill-treatment of tha prisoners form the method of securing "confessions,'' of collecting confessions of guilt, which tha system of justice of Horthy and Bethlen need in order to justify the White Terror...
...It takes on all the unemotional power of an octuple printing press going into high gear...
...He and most of his Socialist comrades have served terms of imprisonment at different times for their uncompromising attitude against war...
...The author presents in moving picture **T1rt-n small pictures of the effect the new order has upon a group . . . or "nucleus" . . . of young •tsdontS) in Moscow...
...If I were in Russia, the chances are for my becoming part and parcel of that tremendous mechanical experiment...
...But the acute madness that pervades Moscow these days against anything that does not keep step with the dtsay dervishiog of aa ever new economic policy, taxes the 'tolerance of any civilized observer...
...The prisons are stinking quarters with foul packs of straw for beds, with walls which are swarming with bugs and vermin of every description...
...John A. Ryan of the j Catholic University of Washing- j ton, Vice President Matthew W o l li of the American Federation of] Labor, Dr...
...Even, if JT say chance we should happen to speak, the rest * **e program will be swell and you can make "*Q r reservations by <-niiw«fj up The New Leader right now...
...on Feb...
...Where the chains ef Capitalism are forreS...
...Ernest Caldecott of Schenectady...
...A struggle is crudely depicted between sacred love and the profanity of sex freedom...
...Woll will speak on Thursday, Feb...
...Preliminary preparations have been completed, and this week marks the beginning of the drive...
...Men and Macfainsn, by Stuart Chase...
...Juicy expectoration to punctuate a curse...
...The Yipsel Call" is published by a Chicago circle...
...In recent years the Young Peoples' Socialist League has been without an official publication...
...This practice punished unfortunate human beings because of their poverty...
...Then what . . . T • • • A return to middle-class adjustment . . . a judge, or rather judges . . . much middle-class compromising on the judgment . . . and the horribly bourgeois ending . . . where the villain is caught . . . and middle-class virtues, honesty, ethics, and the decent lover triumphs...
...The board has been financed by a loan from the Junior Circle One...
...Literature is being distributed in connection with the campaign...
...The following sessions will have as their speakers, among others, Judge Jacob Panken, Dr...
...But international Socialism will fight with all the more energy against the outrages of the counter-revolutionary forces, and will raise its demand all the more Insistently that the doors of the prisons be thrown open and the victims of oppression set free...
...All grosn, shout, sigh and shriek...
...Tha whole of the hate of the Magyar counter-revolution against everything progressive and free, against everything that borders upon aocJaBam or Communism, exhausts its fury in this ill-treatment of defenceless prisoners...
...And last you laughtoo long, take serious moments enough to realise bow devastating aa indictment it is to say that an>> one lacks that great fundament of human sanity...
...New York...
...And ws can have "Dunegttt* for the mere pittance of $12,000 for the season...
...Range them alongside of the unnumbered Social Democrats in Soviet jails or unmarked graves, ths pall of dread and sordid silence that envelopes every dissenting lover of liberty in Russia, and the naradosirsl philosophy from the Kremlin that proposes to free mankind by asss»ksag it a slave to >Bssse production and machinery, and you win pray with sue for the day when Russia shall learn to laugh good-naturedly at herself...
...The drive chairman is Abe Belsky...
...cellar, backstairs, 9 open firejrfacss, electric light, telephone, one pipe furnace to heat halls...
...Hillquit received the following cabled response from Julian Besteiro, the Spanish Socialist leader: "Spanish Socialists accept your congratulations and send to their comrades in the United States their most fraternal greetings...
...The principal speaker will be Dr...
...Bat food and speeches win not be the only provisions at this jolly get-together...
...A short time ago Frau Boloni made a journey into Hungary, with regular identity papers, in order to see to their house and things, which they still pnannaanil there...
...Only on the way home, after the harsh *""tnftr of the drama thinned out, reflection brought me some odd conclusions...
...Much pretense at pugilism...
...for whom influential people had intervened, and who was aet free as a result of the efforts and complaints of her friends after six weeks as the accusation against her was quite untenable, waa spared the most frightful thing of all, bodily illtreatment...
...There were gentlemen of the type of Banmes who objected to decent treatment of these offenders an the ground that H would ancournonpayment of debts...
...Each day they would receive 30 minutes' drill in boy scout training with special training during holidays and the summer season...
...There iriB bs •tprrj'isT srri entertainmeat, and the object is not to raise funds but to have a live and comradely evening...
...Soon the gears and rolls shriek a deafening chorus of accomplishment...
...Oneal declares that the New York disturbances are to be regarded as the convulsions that accompany sickness and decline...
...there mist the (As reported by the Rand Book Store, 7 East ISth Street, Nsw York City) >©n-F$ctJon An East Side Sole: The Life ef Meyer London by Harry Rofroff...
...13 A conference of Building Trades Workers will be held under the auspices of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action at 7 East 15th street, room 502, Thursday, February 13th, at 8:00 p. m...
...Square these conclusion* with history seat and present...
...Maybe we are serving a useful purpose as a sort °4 Bis disposal works for atrabilious comrades...
...Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd...
...by Nathan Fine...
...It is rich in a mass of statistics, data, and observations by a humanitarian who is deserving of the blessing of all who seek a more humane world than which our official guardians provide us with-today...
...Telephone New York Socialists Will Hold Institute On Social Insurance Problems affecting: the worker in industry and a discussion of how social insurance legislation could help solve these problems, will feature the sessions of the Institute on Social Insurance, to be held under the joint auspices of the Socialist Party and die Rand School, at the People's House, 7 East 15th street, on Saturday and Sunday, March 1 and 2. The first session will be field on Saturday, February 15, at 2 o'clock, with unemployment...
...There is much hullabaloo...
...For one, I cannot mind thatr calling me: "yellow," ''middle-class," "spinelaas" and tha like...
...Moreover, men and women were imprisoned and harshly treated tor offenses that are no longer offenses...
...This old classic is also valuable in its contribution to the history of one phase of the working' class for prisons are chiefly intended for the "lower orders'* of mankind, as many a successful thief in the upper range of modern society knows...
...In view of the recent political shift in Spain, it is interesting to lote that Francisco CabaUero, general secretary of the "Union General de Trabajadores," one o f the Socialist members of the council of state, was the only member of the council to vote against all appropriations for the Moroccan War...
...Even the personal fate of this woman, who was morally humiliated and ill tree ted by heartless police officials in tiring hearings without any guilt being established, who was then while exhausted and seriously ill again trailed half-unconscious from prison to prison and placed in cells which are sufficient to kill the healthiest man, would be sufficient to conjure up a picture of cruelty...
...Other speakers include Hippolyte Havel, for a generation the most picturesque figure in the Revolutionary movement in America and a personal friend of Kropotkin...
...For six weeks she was moved hither and thither between different civil and military prisons...
...ad the second, our young, old friends the Young ""'as' Socialist League which has a lot of grand and, we believe, the guts and energy to put over...
...Idealistic* youth struggles valient* ly against its tyrannical dogma only to succumb...
...A strong, well-edited Zauth publication is a real need right here and Youth must be served and there is no service Aat will be more worthwhile than helping our Jpmgaters get a magazine of their own...
...egotist is one who has forgotten how to grin at bis own groiosquenesa...
...Weiss, Brodsky, Oorelik, Green berg, Butler, Aritzky, and some subs constitute the team...
Vol. 10 • February 1930 • No. 1
