Socialism And The British Voters
Henderson, Fred
Plays to see and to Admire _ we« k I have seen two plays KM^aywrighU enraged. Far be It 2. »to the field occupied In such WF^L- by our Dr. Shipley, who, In "-the most brilliant dramatic...
...The Mac Donald Government still remains nominally the British Government But from the moment this Session -Opened, the real mastery has been with Mr...
...It would be the profound, est mistake so to interpret the present British position...
...A college education was the glittering armor and steed for knight errantry over dangerous highways...
...Teaching to beset by lines of waiting lists that parallel the bread ones in length and despair...
...If the loss shown m these figures in any way represents the general movement of national opinion, a General Election taken now would sweep us out of five-sixths of our present representation and leave us a mere group in a hack corner of the new House of CnrnnKtni...
...And he goes on to explain that, holding this view of them, he is keeping them in office because he proposes to make Liberal use of them...
...And now that the livid spots of mental decarterwe show themselves even there . . . doom cannot be far behind...
...The costs and dangers of war to all sections of the population are stressed...
...The way out to an orderly but certain re-possesslon cf the natural resources, the public utilities* and the industries for a civilized people . . . to b* owned, used, made and administered by public agency only for public use and happiness...
...Romance walked along with opportunity...
...We must owa the machinery that displaces labor, in order to malm our hours of leisure longer...
...It would not serve his purposes to turn them out at the moment to put a Conservative Government In...
...H. G. Wells is working with him...
...Surely that carries some significance to those who are worrying for the present order...
...A generation ago, there was still a great deal of use for rosebuds and toy balloons...
...W about ideals is being mouthed in newsWFl***" v e i 7 day by half-baked, would-be rJ_*P T 0 0 that there is nothing in this B—" *nd that the thing to do is to 'get BP* » e getUng-e good," etc Pj*°w of Weltzenkorn's is by no means • picture of the inevitable fate of these K ? * ' always turn out that retribution R y „ * w t f t W o r B « luck, some of them "** to* bay tree in the Bible...
...Opportunity beckoned, and in thousands of instances, it led to attainment It to not fair to decry entirely the valid beneflto that the possession of income afforded the succeemmji ones...
...So far as the book goes into arbitration and conciliation, World Court and League of Nations, it describes adequately actual attempts within limited spheres to deal with war by law...
...In speecn after speech he has publicly derided the Government as "an acknowledged failure," "a "Government of f ootiers," and a variety of other picturesque epithets...
...When I spoke with some enS i e Star Final" to one of the moat teSKfl the other day, he looked scornErfjeW "But it isn't good theatre.'' jTbsen » lot of high-hat sniffing at mjsrf have to do with the MacFadRcornuck gift to the gum-chewers of S . fMold paper...
...The middle-aged and the old ones of our age aga, too far gone in habit and thought to veer with any abrupt angle from the rutted road to destruction...
...They remain on their sick-beds with the memory of past illness and convalescing...
...not eventful in the sense of legislative achievement on any great scale, but in the shaping into clear and visible form of the factors and conditions of the struggle through which the Labor and Socialist movement will have to fight for its life in the period immediately ahead...
...Lloyd George began the present Session by telling hie party that "the Government is now declining rapidly in popular favor, more rapidly than any Government I have ever seen, and that the time has therefore come for putting on the screw with "unremitting pressure...
...Never has there been a more fitting ceremonial and a more appropriate priest for that purpose...
...Northcliffe warned the Dublin employers not to go too far in their mad desire to wreck the Irish Transport Union...
...Our is not a scheme or a dream of hope}* lessuess...
...Britishers can recall watching men struggling to span 200 miles within 24 hours...
...Any moron messenger boy ^LWft a pencil and given a blank space on ElHbaard is master of this particular H a sB to put sex appeal Into "The New Ejay other labor paper for that matter...
...But they have certain testamentary dispositions to make for his advantage before their hour comes;, he being in a position to put tiw necessary pressure on them, and they being quite ready to hand over anything of value they possess in order to prolong an existence which has ceased to be either useful, honorable, or agreeable...
...From the .first day of the Session he has assumed open command of the Parliamentary situation, and has done so with a tmculence of contempt such as no Government has ever before been called upon to endure...
...Someday Northcliffe will live as that rare being he was—one hundred per cent loyal to the system, yet capable oT registering an intense emotion when he felt that capitalism was descending too heavily upon the backs of the workers...
...The Government is being judged, not for its Socialism, but for Its non-Socialism...
...We reason -as well, that once the flesh to clothed, housed and fed sufficiently, and there to time of the wakeful day left for leisure, all the needs of the spirit win be ministered to, with reason and delight But now that we see clearly how clutchmgly all the means for making money are bald to the hands of monopolists, how our very lives are hemmed tm by the spears of private greed, and how mean and low and heartless the few possessors of meat nft the wealth have become . . . the mere making of money holds forth little lure or hope...
...It can not be obtained by magic phrases or formulas...
...If they do not, he is ready, on any sign of insubordination, " to turn them out "regardless of consequences...
...It would Indeed be a despondent situation if a Government which had pressed Socialist measures forward were being condemned by public opinion...
...And yet, no Socialist should refrain from criticising certain trade union practices and policies and every one of us is eager to bring into the labor movement our view-* point, our hope and optimism, our conception of the ultimate goal and the idealism needed to attain it But every experienced Socialist knows that we can only attain that position of influence, power and respect by earning it Our European comrades have it and we have also had that position in a lesser degree some years before the war...
...An outline of the World Today, showing the dangerous trends, and the unifying forces, is well written...
...It took a high school boy to remark with rare wisdom, when his teacher inquired of him what he thought about Coolidge's oblongs of philosophy . . • "Sir," he replied, "I sincerely believe that Calvin Cooiidge's column alone to worth the price of the paper . . . " It is for us, the prophets and workers for a now social plan, to salvage the younger generation for the future...
...They K T* H o l d y0 1 1...
...There was no dishonesty in—this," writes the author...
...Northcliffe might well be described as an Adolph Ochs with the personality of a William Randolph Hearst Northcliffe possessed the technical thoroughness of Ochs and the daring of a Hearst, though It would be unfair to describe Northcliffe wholly in terms of Hearst Hearst and Northcliffe were different Northcliffe, at least, had vision and one that was not confined to his newspapers...
...The Government he said, are under sentence of death, but the date of their execution is uncertain...
...Like the antagonist Horialism, Its adherents mint have faith and hope, color and enthusiasm to carry on...
...Capitalism hears this now with increasing clearness and insistence...
...Northcliffe foresaw the aeroplane, long before bis people...
...n e e t L ^ ^ ° L unemployment recomE S T ' ^ M e d Babbitts is for the unem-< Ww^1Sf_What ^ h a v e wast they -i-uot bur...
...There to nothing they can do about It, either* AQ that is left in this civilization with any semblance of health is in the younger generation...
...There have been constant little eddies of revolt throughout the Session amongst the rank and' file of the Parliamentary group, culminating in the issue of a public memorandum of protest by Oswald Mosley and a few colleagues...
...The machine aga to creeping up upon the cradles The system of "rugged individualism and private initiative" wwrfeinnletes tale condition with alarm...
...And in the offing, they read . . . "Mene, mene tekel upharsm" with taw same dread as the ancient Babylonian ruler showed when his fate spelled itself out so cryptically on the watt of the feasting .chamber...
...It is also the record (and there to even more of it) of the splendid work of Comrades Thomas, Panken, Waldman, Shiplacoff, Solomon and the many more known and unkown Socialists who are always rendering such services...
...Monster meetings were being held up and down Britain to secure aid for the workers of Dublin who had been locked out because of their refusal to withdraw from ' the Irish Transport Union, then under the leadership of "Jim" Larkin...
...B^Sl?* yout6see aad to admire...
...The most enlightening part of the book is "the list of addresses of organizations working for peace...
...His advice was unheeded...
...n . t P u t * l l t U « " < *s ai expettomnjgL...
...But the voice of the Master could not be disregarded...
...K m asked to name the papers which B e * Tork workers read with an almost ELgt we would have to admit that Graphic," "The Mirror" and "The ITfrat old standby of labor's literary ^Lgvening Journal," has to yield the EL scavenging to these tabs...
...Wells points out to Northcliffe how his propaganda in the trenches is so nicely written and promises all kinds of things to the enemy if they surrendered, while his newspapers call upon the Allies to slaughter their enemies...
...And with industrial depressions panting through shorter cycles and with increasing misery, what to there left for the youth of this grand country of ours to contemplate with any degree of hope . . . ? Look over the long lists at captured bandits and average the ages of these desperate souls...
...E I M . NOW Labor 13,701 8,544 Liberal 4,521 7,445 Conservative 3,417 3,735 Communist 2,106 You will see by the General Election figures what a stronghold this constituency was...
...Or we could run ^Kre of a Ziegfeld gal on the front page ^Horgette Gisher Says Operators Are go l*t right back to these plays...
...Revolution is a paradox, to that It to fired by hopelessness and despair in order to light up the way onward with belief and laughter...
...Being connected with the organization headed by that hard-hitting "Fighting Quaker" Fred Libby, I really don't think she is as naive about the way war will be abolished as she sounds in this book...
...Bodily comforts are still paramount to seneeful me* and women...
...Whether the Government remains in office or is thrown out—what are the conditions on which it is to be permitted to remain in—what measures it can introduce and carry while that permit continues—whether and at what moment it is to be tossed into a General Election—all this depends on Mr...
...Science pays less than a good bookkeeper...
...These, them are the facte in the case and they seldom reach the limelight There is no high-powered super-critical publicity bureau interested in these honest chores done...
...Northcliffe, published by Macmillan at Co., $4.00...
...Although not definitely declaring so, Northcliffe feels that the politicians having declared war should should step out of the way...
...We who...
...He is offered a Cabinet position...
...He no longer hints discreetly at these things...
...It must be judged in the light of the author himself...
...bat the general nature of the quagmire into which we have wandered, and in which we are now floundering up to the neck, is clear enough...
...for the basic fact in it Is the refusal of large masses of the electors to tolerate the shelving of Socialist action by a Government whose only electoral mandate was a Socialist mandate, and whose only concern with office should be action on that mandate...
...That to why every national election shows a shift from one side of pain to the other . . . And there to no relief...
...We feel that this is not the biography of North cliff...
...Boeckel is educational director of the National Council for the Prevention of War...
...The popularity of the peace movement seems to be equalled only by its futility...
...Northcliffe had the power to advance aviation, just as he had the power to range peoples against peoples...
...The descriptive parts of the book, for the person new to antiwar reading, are splendid...
...Northcliffe knew his people...
...are not of the labor movement must first be useful to it before we can afford to be critical...
...Our machine age has turned even the universities into assembly plants...
...Of course nothing would peneHbinoceros hides of either of these two • k peddlers, but we would get a kick out Mem as eye-witnesses to the putrid inde•Lwhich they are directly responsible...
...So Northcliffe does not enter the Cabinet He is placed in charge of the war publicity department And when the story of his work is read no wonder they called him a "master of mass-suggestion...
...Twenty years The "Unions Dismissed" (Continued from Page Fear) made if he was better informed as to my trade union activities...
...Northclifle attended a mass meeting, held in the Albert Hall, London...
...How many times a week the Belabor editor h&a this dinned in his E...
...We have held itxbut for the first time on record Labor is in a heavy minority of the total vote cast We have lost over 5,000 votes, while the Liberals have gained just on 3,000, the Conservative vote t* slightly increased, and the Communists have taken advantage of the prevalent discontent to gat a first footing in the constituency...
...E L * be that both "Midnight" by Paul EMS at the Theatre Guild and "Five PToaa Weitzenkorn at the Cort TbeJiSed theatrical productions...
...I am not conZmtmv play ** dram...
...But this Session has brought a complete change in the Liberal use of their power over the Government Up till now, they were not quite easy in their minds about the opinion of the country, and bad exercised their power with hesitation of men not quite certain of now the cat would jump...
...Lloyd George and his group of Liberals...
...Socialism to the only hope left for mankind Amt the young men and women who are witting to I BM and battle in its dream, can move the world nearer, to the day of universal peace, plenty and JiiMllHmli ft...
...Lloyd George's decision...
...Wells quit and was replaced by the author...
...Accountants flop all over one another for a new account, like pushcart peddlers over one cash customer on a dull day...
...The world-wide agitation and organization for peace of the Labor and Socialist International, and its effectiveness through elected officials in discouraging Fascism in Austria and Poland during the past year, are not mentioned...
...Few are over twenty...
...not got m f c u r J ^ B I o c k oewjpapere syndl- EkaT^S capitalists and bankers to BtSrlho"^7 ^Beg...
...Northcliffe threw open the columns of "The Times" land "The Dally Mail" to the writings of "AE...
...AT the moment of writing Parliament is on the point of breaking off for a brief Christmas holiday, and we have reached a stage in the political situation sufficiently definite to mark it as one of the queerest situations in British political history...
...The pain of poverty must at mm pany these sessions...
...These definitions hold no comfort for the old mm* der...
...Whitechapel is an East London constituency wholly working-class...
...In "MidRkf fiffaxs show what happens to one of Hi/taring Midwood Babbitts, when, by •K he thinks is his duty, he unwittingly Ht front page...
...Around the life of such a man Hamilton Fyfe has written a good story...
...Here are the figures as they were at the General Flection and as they are now:— Gen...
...By way of an introduction to such a story this life of Northcliffe to watt worth visiting your local library to read, Organized Pacifism A legalistic pacifism suffused with "sweetness and light" engulfs one who reads "The Turn Toward Peace," by Florence Brewer Boeckel (Friendship Press, $1.00...
...The co-operative method of life and gov* ernment must take the place of the melees waste and unbearable cruelty of what we are suffering now, If mankind is to endure in peace and happiness...
...A* ^SflQmtft' j...
...that tabloid newspapers were easier to read...
...That would be a triumph for capitalist ideas, a real set-back to our movement Nothing of the kind has happened here...
...True, they all act as individuals and are often credited personally for what they do, but in the aggregate they constitute a goodly portion^of the Socialist Party...
...They are like prisoners awaiting execution in Sing Sing, whose term is prolonged by an unscrupulous, ingenious and clever attorney taking advantage of the law's delays...
...It is a play •ah ideas...
...The old shibboleths, the pretty phrases of encouragement the sentimental hurrahs for God and country are all being buried with proper unction by Cal Coolidge in the New York Tribune and its syndicated hook-up...
...nd go to see McAliater Coleman...
...Wells was too logical for Northcliffe...
...My record as stated above to not unique...
...Apparently there to no militant aroma attached...
...He dethrones Asquith and enthrones Lloyd George...
...Ambulance chasing, shyeterlng to magistrate courts, and hobnobbing with vice squads are the symptoms of starvation in the law field...
...I am tnterand their handling, in the au"r^eactions, in the pictures these I, made of civilization in America...
...Lawyers have multiplied with the fertility of guinea pigs...
...The promises made by Northcliffe to the Germans were never meant to be carried out They stand alongside of the Fourteen Points...
...Winston Churchill summed up the whole position in a speech in the House of Commons a day or two before the Christmas adjournment...
...The professions had their glamor for certain success...
...Under all its surface discouragements, the present situation reveals a strength rather than a weakness of Socialist purpose and insistence...
...there are certain things of advantage to the Liberal Party which he wants from them before throwing them out But the Government must do what he tells them in these matters, notably in regard to certain measures of electoral reform which would give Liberal candidates a better chance...
...At most a dozen of them ever whisper to their members that there is any connection between industrial struggle on wages, hours, working conditions and higher living standards, and the struggles between nations that are exporting capital and those that use it Until they do, the Socialists must continue to challenge them to meet the problem of war as a whole instead of expending most of their time trying to abolish the surface symptoms of a deep-seated disease.— C. S. The Chatter Box wsarOBy worry...
...And when you ask them . . . "What have you to offer to them today, so that they might not even dream of direct action...
...The idea was considered unsuitable...
...The third section does mention that there is such a thing as imperialism, but there is shown no realization that one must begin at home to cut at the roots of imperialism by helping redistribute income on an equitable basis between the owning and the working classes...
...Hfepb agencies would be glad enough to Hikes we could pay for...
...Bat it must be admitted that, in its policy of drifting along under Liberal orders, the Government still has the eupoprt of a substantial majority of Labor members, many of whom feel that in the present mood of the country, their own chances of being returned again if a General Election were precipitated are very small indeed...
...He has made Northcliffe live as the journalist later as the newspaper magnate...
...Simply...
...On the other hand, Northcliffe must forever share the responsibility for driving Britain into war with Germany rather than into the ways of peace...
...He puts them openly and with a blistering display of contempt...
...Fyfe that tabloids are just as good advertising mediums as large newspapers...
...In the last section "Forces working for peace" there to but passing mention of the efforts of the International Federation of Trade Unions, and none of the successful anti-war action it has taken...
...Of course there is no great mystery Eh* technique...
...Lloyd George's orders...
...So petty are these labors compared to making faces at Matthew Woll, plotting programs for A. F. of L. progress, applying the new research method of finding rackets in every form at behavior, and banding together all and kindred holy souls into a mutual admiration society to preserve the purity of the labor movement—that these glamorous pursuits appeal ever so much more...
...These diseases are part of Ufa, Patience and nursing are necessary . . . Oar whole conduct of economic living is attended by just such a «<ckroom psychology...
...Machinery has displaced the skilled artisan...
...Men are driven to such low artifices only by famine...
...Northcliffe gave the winner, a Frenchman, $50,000 for flying from London to Manchester, a distance of 200 miles...
...See story ^^nd let it go at that...
...One could hardly ask a German to surrender and in return be disembowelled...
...Less than three years afterwards there followed the Easter Rising of 1916...
...A whole company, led by the com- | pany commander, surrenders to ; the Italians...
...Give a New E a pamphlet on unemployment insurEalll handle it as gingerly as though i«e*oted with a stick of dynamite, "a«•Graphic" with a picture of a lovely Sty taken by a photographer lying C^anrnt at her feet, and he is all atE L to time we have been urged here on t ijassr," and on other labor papers for Ejsic worked, to adopt the "tabloid techEC!»P that rag of yours if you want End It...
...The Government apparently accepts this situation with complacency so long as it offers them the prospect of hanging on...
...and the most heartening fact of all has been the steady insistence of the I. L. P. group, with Maxton, Brockway and Wise as its chief exponents on our essential Socialist purposes...
...The newspapers were for home consumption...
...Something haJ happened to then* and there to no precedent or retrospect fo^corataf ^aptd a tempo...
...Time was when moneymakmg had the right to absorb the enthusiasm and energy of the youthful being...
...He suggested that the newspaper was too large...
...This first stage of the Parliamentary Session has been brief but eventful...
...You have been weighed and found wanting...
...We must own the weafav and material of life in order to use them for fE greatest benefit to the greatest number, a l f l can be accomplished by the Socialist plan in one land . . . And if youth Is to survive into wiftilthoedl and useful purpose for living,—in our time...
...Shipley, who, In "-the most brilliant dramatic critimmr la these environs...
...The Minister in charge of it, Charles Trevelyan, told the House that he accepted the Changes in it with great* regret and reluctance...
...They are beotmring cold ami cynical with fflstrasnlag self-assurance...
...Then there came to his desk a scathing indictment of the Dublin employers written by "AE...
...Northcliffe who had continually drummed home the threat of a German invasion now revelled in„the prospects of such an invasion...
...It is a complicated and difficult situation, and what its next developments will be I should not like to venture on forecasting...
...Our hope la for the young men and women of the nation to catch the health standards of our causa and march forth into a new age and venture...
...Nothing is said of the necessity for an international planning commission...
...The author naively remarks, "There already the newspaper had become first and chiefly an advertising sheet, which requires reading matters in order to carry its advertisements...
...An if it were definite sacrilege to speak 111 of the dead...
...The engineers and architects have dug their own graves with the madness of standardization, which they first planned so unselfishly in the interests of national economy...
...KB high priests have the benefit of expert observers in human conduct...
...New York tabloids rear themselves up to remind even Mr...
...The staff treated him as a joke and appeared at their work in evening dress...
...Strike *unds were collected through those two newspapers, though they were disguised as save-the-children funds...
...In actual legislation, the outstanding feature of the Session so far has been the evisceration of the Government Education Bill at Mr...
...It is for that reason Socialism is predicated on material concepts of life...
...Northcliffe simply passed from one task to another...
...and it is precisely the moat active the most devoted, the most influential section of Socialist opinion in the electorate that is against the position taken up by the officeholders...
...And all the multiforme of this world, sickened with laws and dead customs, with racketeering and dishonesty, cannot dish up enough suatenance for this hungered multitude of fee-fo-fums...
...Any attempt to come to an understanding with Germ an j' was rendered impossible by the employment of Robert Blatchford to raise /the scare of the German peril And when war came the Northcliffe Press, with their cocksure "I Told You So" attitude, sounded their tom-toms and Britain marched to the shambles...
...It is becoming monotonous to record the story of how the general body of electors, since the tide of defeat began to run in the early part of the summer, are eagerly taking every o port unity that bye-elections give them to express their condemnation of Government policy...
...It has, of course, been so from the start, when the first fatal decision was made to take office without power, and to stake the credit of what a Socialist Government can do for the life of the nation on such measures as our opponents would allow us to get on with...
...and It is in that atmosphere that the Government has had to face this Session so far...
...And when Hgenkom, one time on the staff of "The Hegins to think of some of the things that Km that sheet when he was there, the Hi on ail the thunder of heavy artillery, •eily decent people caught in the dirty H tab's circulation nets, kill themselves, Has of a couple of swell youngsters are H i ' in J because of the nastiness of the •mloyed by "The Gazette" editors in the • that we had it in our power to force the Epraarr MacFadden and his partner in Hie, William Randolph Hearst, to attend Hkmance of "Midnight" and "Five Star • l BOW on...
...He heard Larkin speak...
...Our Socialist men and women trade unionists must be active, courageous and outstanding characters in their unions—and be known as such trade unionists primarily...
...And for that reason, no doubt, pane of our critics who have, as much use Hon the stage as they have for a pair of Hit is the smashing shots that the Siftons Hi tabs that please us most...
...A Molder of British Public Opinion England's Newspaper King By Mark Starr HAMILTON FYFE, former editor of the London Daily Herald, has written about the Northcliff e he knows...
...AH the attributes, all the accomplishments of the old system are being repeated with religious fervor...
...That hesitation has now completely vanished...
...Even prizefighting has fatten upon hotdog days...
...Northcliffe treated them seriously...
...Bfht characters, the city editor, says at •ef the piay, "Ideals don't put a patch on Pmuers- I'm going to be one newspaper•PJ* 0 , 1 1 of this business with some dough And after he has waded through the •Pes with his job and finally come to E** N E f e e l3 himself responsible in part BP**8 w h i c a follow the publication of a g » Gazette" he repeats these lines, only Ef" * satiric laugh...
...And that brings me to the dominant factor hi the situation, the .mood ,of the electorate outside Parliament It is the revelation of that mood of revolt against the Government that has been chiefly responsible for the change in Liberal demeanor from quiet pressure to truculence...
...The war came...
...They quarrel...
...f . jjjjj you are lucky enough to have ntMrticnlar curse in your home town...
...mWm have a labor movement here which E h few exceptions is dominated by a Etj from top to bottom...
...The Czechs and Serbians, the "Irish" of the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, heard the strains of Czech and Serbian national songs, being played on gramophones in Italian trenches...
...This month there has only been one bye-election, and the figures are more staggering than ever in their tale of the falling off of those who supported Labor at tha-General Election...
...Hamilton Fyfe, unfortunately, omits any mention of the attitude of Northcliffe during the historic Dublin strike...
...Lloyd George, as the attorney/ has visited them on several occasions, and tells the world that they have gone to pieces mentally end morally, that they are doddering and gibbering...
...Last month I had to record the loss of one of our hitherto safe seats in the Shipley division of Yorkshire...
...It takes twelve specialists to make one oldtime practitioner to medicine And in a world that is living longer and ailing lees physically . . . the market for pills has narrowed greatly...
...When we came ^Eg of coal for instance, we could simply ^ • • H Bituminous, a Big Bust...
...There was a quick to the blood, and a high heart beat for every tod and toss...
...Of course there are other He Siftons' play, a slashing attack on the •rlying theory of capital punishment, the •he Roman father type with a realistic He his own home, the entire perplexed •justice in the modern state...
...Later he suggests a position he might occupy as member of the War Cabinet In the meantime Lloyd George has built himself in...
...Socialism And The British Voters Unfriendly Tide Against MacDonald In Bye-Elections No Repudiation of Labor Principles - < By Fred Henderson v LONDON...
...But PJ« several radicals who accepted this tabloid and who are now spendimiiii ii t h e l r ^"^en lives in vain atE * » Me doing what we solemnly swore IWO SUidwjslows...
...Business glowed with promise...
...When a Socialist Government to in office and the nation turns against it what would be indicated under ordinary conditions would be a reaction against Socialism...
...In fact they are the very substance and spirit of the party...
...He declines...
...The reaction against the Government Is because of its failure to give effect to the Socialist policy proclaimed by the Party at the General Election, and its settlingdown to mere office-holding on non-Socialist lines after it had become apparent that the Parliamentary situation rendered it impotent for Socialist work...
...There are over twb hundred organizations listed...
...ELfork we have it with a vengeance...
...Hamilton Fyfe has told his story well...
...Even the artist in music and the band crafts...
...Some day the story of the real Northcliffe will be written, wherein we shall be shown the workings of the real Northcliffe...
...Maybe, they will get better again if they follow the witchdoctor's orders...
...In brief, we must devote all we have to the success of the labor movement then there must also be many more thousands of us before we can hope to guide the destinies of the American Labor JHQFBH JT\ ftTl mm ago he was asked to be editor of the "New York World" for one day...
...This at to be the opinion of many of our Sjea...
Vol. 12 • January 1931 • No. 2
