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The Socialist Record in 1930 Party Records Greatest Activity in Recent Years By ClareiTce Senior wpLEJCTION of three new Social»T T lat mayors sad eight other city officials; nine new...
...The total incomes of these fill persons, capitalized at 5 per cent...
...It is my Socialistic opinion that the Socialist movement of the world owes i it to Socialism to extend an unselfish, helping and comradely hand to the brethren in the first line of action...
...As for the kid, "Prosperity," there is no doubt that it is suffering from a variety of diseases...
...As Sam DeWitt said in "The Chatter Box" recently, we would do better work for Socialism by paying more attention to things right here in the United States and not worrying so much about what is going on in the Soviet Union, Our justified disgust with the American Communists often makes us loath to "give the devil his due" over there...
...In our seal for freedom of political action we sometimes run the risk of being defiled by the pitch of the White Guard emigres who would hang a real Socialist with as much pleasure as a Bolshevik...
...This should have been the case from the beginning on, let it come now when the critical moment has arrived...
...An example of the extension of old trends is the complaint of university professors that they are becoming reduced to the status of wage workers in factory enterprises...
...Believing all this, naturally the intellectual - police of capitalism concluded that the Socialist philosophy had been exploded...
...It is a handbook of proof that "normal prosperity" was undermining the economic safety of the great majority of Americans, and making inevitable the unbalance which ripened into the Hoover collapse...
...Accepted by several state federations of labor and international unions...
...eight more revised and illustrated...
...Socialists at Boston A. F. of L. convention introduce and speak for insurance resolutions...
...I doubt whether even our leading and internationally known Socialists have an lnnipg of what the next step will be...
...the revolting cruelties of our factory system...
...Not a companionate marriage but one for the lifetime of the affectionate couple...
...Cut and mat service for party papers started...
...I have LsjH been on the Om^H breadline for the bse|9 last few days, aJH but it is a slow PieaH death on the 1***^H breadline...
...There is abundant wealthproducing property in the United States...
...Jimmy Hlggins contest initiated • • • C Little Library of Socialism edit• ing beg^ Twenty titles at five cents will have an iramediate circulation of 100,000 seta, according to the pnNlrtsor Washington press releases inaugurated...
...Well, there was some over lying before the Wan Street crash and...
...Bush...
...N. E. C. calls for three-fold attack on poverty for 1931: (a) Unemployment insurance model bill and action supporting it, (b) Old age pension bill and action supporting it, (c) Child Labor Day agitation • • • Compared with what should have been done the record is most meager...
...o When men finish conquering each other they will begin to conquer themselves.—Anatole France...
...to Comrade Thomas' remarks on the "Five Year-Plan" in The New Leader of Dec 13...
...There is, as the Communists claim, a Socialist, state, the government is Socialist par excellence, and still their methods are worse than those of the czars, and it is our duty to protest, to denounce them, and to declare before the whole world as loudly as possible that they.are the nearest heirs of Ivan the Terrible...
...Colston E. WarnfJ lard L...
...It has, however, brought the powerful banking houses to the headship of corporate and merger capital...
...The industrialization of our universities is extremely adverse to the advancement of learning...
...That means public ownership of industries...
...Kindergarten Economics f V U T of South Dakota comes Congressman Williamson who proposes an absolute embargo on Russian manganese, grain, eggs and sugar, and other articles of which these commodities may form an ingredient...
...A. Froude...
...We would also urge our correspondents to keep ln mind what others have written on a given topic and avoid, as much as possible, merely repeating what others have said in previous issues...
...It is merely an expansion and .extension of the old capitalism...
...They assumed that it had been stabilized, that normal production would continue, that industrial crises would never return, that the class antagonism had been wiped out, that economic welfare and security were assured for the masses and that Amer• ican capitalism had shown the way of peace and 'happiness for the rest of the world...
...It is very natural...
...Thirteen speakers toured by national office—Social Problem* Lecture Bureau set up to supply Socialist speakers to forums, unions, etc...
...Among^^^gj...
...I f released without a guardian he might bite some one...
...Take for instance the table showing that, among 4,070,851 individual who made income tax returns for 1928, there were 511 who admitted to having incomes of $1,000,000 or over...
...of workers to make a thorough study of the causes that lead up to the present panicky situation...
...Makes propaganda tour of west...
...The system in its modern phase has also made fools of those economists, editors and politicians who claimed that the Socialist analysis of American capitalism had been proven unsound...
...It was further resolved that unless unemployment insurance is forthcoming from the political powers that are now in control "they will be held to account for their failure to act in this crisis jjnjj the worktTdeeTwiUii" 11" tJjesLe^> f ? M t y THE NEW LEADER MAIL-BAG NOTE A large number of letters are on hand on a variety of topics and writers must be patient...
...F. C. S. Schiller...
...i -, • « • "A little hard luck never hurts any one, for it builds character," adds Mr...
...Gem English descent, avoiding and making their conclaJi servative...
...Thus Ham Fish gets a recruit for the holy war against Russia...
...If anything, those powerful groups only caused disillusion to many of us...
...In these days of rapid intercommunication information is readily transmitted and widely known...
...Socialists can afford to laugh and await the next move of the "best minds/' The New Capitalism WHAT is called the "New Capitalism" does not contain anything new in fundamentals...
...23, I was present in the Pennsylvania Hotel at the conference to protest against the terror regime la Soviet Russia...
...Williamson hasn't the slightest idea that his proposal would throw more workers out of jobs in this country and alienate a good customer, injuring that customer as well as ourrselves...
...This is not the case in Soviet Russia...
...THE SOVIETS Editor, The New Leader: Since the attitude of the Socialists towards Soviet Russia has once more been questioned, I ask for space in the matter...
...Today not a shred of the Pollyanna creed oir the professors, editors and politicians remains...
...Nine new leaflets issued...
...He is talking over the radio in scornful ridicule of public ownership of even so profitable industry as the power industry...
...War is the usage of the power of the few—by which they impose their wf 1 on the foolish many — H. Dennis Bradley...
...It is dangerous to the existing system—it is no longer seriously called 'order"— because it makes the unemployed and the impoverished think about possible changes in ownership of wealth-making property...
...Professor Henderson of Yale recently asserted that "Nowhere but in the United States is university education organized like a corporation for manufacture or transportation...
...from the White House...
...If Dohertm cided to entertain the bm stead of the well-fed eefl two hundred thousand • of the unemployed rata revived an ancient faitbj mas being a time of "P|| Goodwill towards Mea'Vm Comment on the t w *a superfluous...
...Labor will be advised to beware" of "sharing up" its empty belly with the 511 who have only twentytwo billion dollars...
...o o Senator Norris is wrong...
...Considering these facts we are inclined to think that the author of the blurb should also be "under clinical observation...
...The institutions in which they teach are in part maintained by investments in capitalist enterprises...
...One on Flathead power site forces Senate fight against Ananconda Copper Co...
...On the other hand there are fools offering proposals that would make things worse for the masses in this country to say nothing of muddling international relations...
...For it is perfectly clear that it was the very rich who grew richer, in 1928, and that they grew richer because they owned property which shared in producing more wealth...
...Some of our 100 per cent Marxists seem to occupy the position of the members of a religious sect who preferred to go to hell-rather than be saved in the wrong way...
...New York City...
...When the system goes into the discard intelligent human beings will enjoy this phase of American society in the twentieth century...
...The 99 per cent of payers of income tax had to get along in 1928 with 75 per cent, instead of the 80 per cent, they enjoyed in the previous year...
...Fond parents who want' their youngsters to grow up clean and wholesome can always point to Tammany magistrates as an example of what to avoid, o • o If promises of capitalist politicians were sandwiches there would be enough food to feed the unemployed for a year...
...o It) is an historical fact that the meek have a knack of inheriting the earth after their lords and masters have killed each other off.—Dr...
...Nothing it of importance if it stands m the way of obstruction...
...It has not displaced the tipper capitalistic group that began to reduce the lesser capitalist proprietors to second rank at the turn of the present century...
...Sweating injures no other enterprise or calling so much, . . . The teaching staff should be partners in a noble enterprise, not employes in an industry...
...Doctors shake their heads...
...One gains the impression that our opposition to the Bolshevik...
...One obstacle to revival in all countries is the insane tariff barriers that have been built by various nations...
...They are so more realistic now than they were before...
...Csance of miSM eliminated ky the ccopej the pastor and church mj Of the 598, 461 were wjjl era, 16 self employed, J pkryable because of *S*M ity, 84 salaried employeljj 461 wage earners, 98 | M ployed...
...A LETTER TO HERBERT HOOVER Editor, The New Leader: The following letter has been sent to President Hoover...
...What we need is not a third party but a second one to replace the two that are one...
...Bronx, N. Y. FRIENDLY TO RUSSIA Editor...
...Otherwise, I am afraid they will abandon our ranks and go to the Communists...
...The True Story Magazine adds to this collection of Americana this week with a full page blurb announcing the incestuous marriage of Brother Capital and Sister Labor...
...It began to crumble hot only in the United States but all over the world where it had a foothold...
...IN A NUTSHELL The capitalist system places idleness on the throne and industry in jail.—Eugene V. Debs...
...Negro Labor News Service begun...
...On the contrary, it is only by such organization that these teachers can accomplish something in emancipation from the factory trend in education...
...Granting for the moment that one has ample reason to doubt the Communist axiom that they at least hit the right path we, nevertheless, must recognize that they are struggling valiantly with an unknown factor, experimenting on their own bodies, willing and ready to die in o.-der to hold on to the first real opportunity history offered...
...Generally speaking, the Yipsel delegates were correct, and -their amendment Is praiseworthy, but in this particular case, I think, they were wrong...
...In this country we toss into Congress men who are often illiterate in international matters...
...President: "I want to express my thorough appreciation of the "Child Health and Protection Conference" held recently in Washington...
...The same holds true of economists of the first order...
...We are trying to distribute the communications each week among the subjects discussed and also keeping ln mind the date on which letters are received...
...The only thing we can demand from him is to mitigate the evil, and this he does...
...The economic structure for a socialized commonwealth is here but the masses are not intellectually prepared for it...
...We are interested in the health of the kid and the blurb anticipates our anxiety...
...itiWiiTifrir "Statistics of Income" Br Lawrence Todd 'STATISTICS of Income for ijisas.That is the name of the dangerous document compiled and issued by the Treasury Department as a New Yoar-s greeting to the American unemployed and half-employed, which should cams* the Fish Committee a lot more anxiety than any testimony it ha* heard in its long months ot junketing around the country...
...a bird uf the hand is worth two in the Bush...
...Otherwise the impression will be that we are decrying communism, not terrorism...
...What is the use or sense in trying to improve the race only to have the results all nwdnne —people with progressive sane outlook forced to participate by the ruling of an unenlightened government, ln an orgy of insanity through that most stupid, disgraceful and criminal of all procedures, war...
...Average of ahnpet 100 per cent increase...
...Should the infant recover it will never be the robust kid of normal parents...
...Socialist Philosophy • S O C I A L I SM as a philosophy of social and economic development has an interesting setting in the United States...
...Jefferson learned this more than a hundred years ago...
...Young Peoples' Socialist League increases membership 50 per cent —move headquarters to Reading and electa new director—increase activities—holds successful national jamboree...
...they are bloodthirsty, but they have nothing in common with Socialism...
...The party must become intensely active next year, because 19S1 offers greater opportunities and greater responsibilities for the winning of the Clinical Observations American people to Socialism...
...Indicate that they possessed wealth to a total of over 122,000,000,000...
...But the second-class plutocrats are scared...
...Then the whole capitalist system showed symptoms of an economic convulsion...
...A simple...
...That the Soviets are not Infallible goes without arguing...
...iela Low, iwpreeentlng the Socij list Party, will take the affirm* ive e M Ludwig Lore will take the negative...
...The fact that all members of the family are "under clinical observation" would indictate that they are occupying a psycopathic ward in Bellevue...
...New York City...
...Even within the party there were a few who believed that we should resolve it into an educational society and give up the political struggle...
...More literature sold by national office than any year since 1920...
...0 0 0 One of the ironic humors of this season of nationwide misery among the workers is the fact that the spokesmen of the millionaire class will be on hand at Miami, the middle of January, when the executive council of the American Federation of Labor convenes in that resort, to see that no dangerous thoughts based on these income figures get into the council's proceedings...
...Are politicians of an inferior class that they still cling to preparation for the possible observance of a custom unfit for contemplation for a moment by any civilised human being...
...It is world wide...
...Socialist philosophy emerged as the most realistic interpretation of capitalism...
...Yet he thinks that it would be disastrous for higher education if the American Association of University Professors became a labor union...
...Again, 1 per cent, of the persons making income tax returns had 25 per cent, of the national income in 1928...
...National, Executive Secretary speaks 160 times...
...For this volume dlirlrswa that the wealth of the nation was rapidly flowing from the hands of the many into the hands of the few, in the days when Herbert Hoover was completing his Job of business regimentation in the Commerce Department, and when Calvin CooUdge was solemnly croaking his "All's Wen...
...Of course, there are excesses and suppression in Russia...
...o I suppose, at the smallest average, for the making of a single rich man we make a thousand whose life long is one flood tide of misery.—J...
...call-T ^TOBwSwi The above item* appeal I issue of the New< York • I dated December 26...
...He is a Socialist and still there is terror in India...
...The only one who is interesting to us Socialists, is MacDonald...
...g^B fore he turned atjH on the gas...
...Even the nations which had not entered the cycle of capitalistic production but which exported raw materials were seriously affected...
...Just as Capitalism grows,, so grows also pauperism, that millstone around the -neck of civilization...
...Hollis, N. Y. Our readers should consult the record of the party on Russia which appears on another page...
...unless the records are all wrong, there were many innocent sufferers during the American Revolution, the French Revolution and the Paris Commune...
...German members of unions will be held Sunday, January 11, si 8:30 p. m...
...Properly developed, the ideas promulgated there should have effects so widespread and beneficial that it is scarcely possible to imagine them in entirety...
...This branch disapproves of the resolutions passed at the Hotel Pennsylvania conference, and "3...
...B* § • WIS* ii111usal IfMM to'the Poor tad O Turns on Gas...
...The membership of this branch expresses its sympathy with the Soviet experiment and it* belief in it* ultimate success, and "2...
...23, 1930: "Whereas: In spite of almost insuperable difficulties, the present regime in the Soviet Union is trying to establish a socialist commonwealth, and to a limited extent is succeeding, and "Whereas: The failure of the Soviet government would be considered by the world at large as the failure of Socialism and thus be one of the greatest setbacks to International Socialism since its lncipiency, and "Whereas: There was held recently at the Hotel Pennsylvania a conference protesting against alleged Russian persecutions, and this conference was attended and supported by various leader* of the Socialist Party, and Whereas: Because of the participation of prominent Socialists, this conference appeared to the press and the general public as an official Socialist conference, and Whereas: There was presented before this conference a resolution by the Y. P. m. L. protesting against the persecution of Indian workers by the government of Ramsay MacDonald...
...MAXWELL Ht'BWITZ...
...Even less than that do we know of the hope of humanity...
...Party manifesto on California case printed by labor papers all over TJ...
...Neither am I interested in the showing of disrespect where it is not due...
...some districts as high as 4,000 per centFive million leaflets distributed...
...Capitalism is the most terrible, scourge of humanity...
...Surely, certain practices on the part of the Russians go so counter to our conceptions that we cannot ignore them...
...They rationed "optimism'' and urged "confidence" and collected alms...
...That's fine, but the medical authorities do not agree with it...
...o * o > Rockefeller's Standard Oil university is a pillared pile of public plunder.—Eugene V. Debs...
...Compared with activities of the past six years, 1980 was a year of great advance...
...i T O t t WENTWORTH, ITALY, RUSSIA AND INDIA Editor, The New Leafier: Sunday, Nov...
...The fact remain*, though, »htit many of us "unknowns" do not and will never subscribe to that kind of relation, with the bleeding Soviets that almost place us beside the WhiteGuards and their capitalistic allies...
...The university is today largely a factory turning out a standardized product like Ford's great plants...
...who Bhiv- sfl ered in the |H breadline, is f jH dead, a suicide D<9 in the shabby s^H $8 a week room 1H he had rented IJH at 93 T h i r d mW Avenue...
...at the rate of $5 per dsj have added 200 days toj of the suicide, and the] dollars splurged on tfl would have given a shell of life to a thousand msl the breadline...
...They cannot imagine any social change in this country, in their lifetime, that can overcome the power of their money...
...The resolution asks an local unions, progressive group* and persons to join with the union by holding mass meetings all over the country and encouraging the appointment of committees from the ranks...
...HARRY T. SMITH...
...School issues outline of capitalist system for study by branches...
...We are informed that "while that child and its fond parents may be, for the moment, under clinical observation, they are fully expected to recover and nourish heartily...
...Labor paper press service expanded...
...Have we more reason to be proud of our comrades in Austria, Germany and Great Britain...
...They believed that the current trends of capitalism in some way ran counter to Socialist fundamentals...
...the squalor of great cities, and the presence of deep poverty seated hard by the gate at enormous wealth.—Karl Marx...
...Of course, he could retreat, leaving far the Conservatives to do this ugly work...
...Few of them would be qualified to serve as village constable in any other civilized country...
...There is no doubt left in my mind that that would be the position if the Russian experiment were approached from a historical perspective...
...Dear Mr...
...Thorp of Amhesjfl They took a church mefS get a cross section of faf] pie, largely of Scotch...
...MmM ' • M e r r y ts9 Christmas," it * • read, "I am BtjH broke I have YssflJ no money and I doBI can't find any dsajH work...
...The New Leader: The Washington Heights Branch of Local New York of the Socialist Party adopted the following resolution on Dec...
...Increase in labor union support of party candidates and measures —Wisconsin, Montana, California, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia and Pennsylvania...
...The question foremost in the mind* of Socialists is how to accomplish Socialism...
...They are Fascists and are acting accordingly...
...Back of him are the fears of scores of thousands of the men who take more than $100,000 a year out of the national income...
...Merle Thorpe, editor of the official magazine of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, is terribly worried over this dangerous idea—public ownershsip of industries...
...S. and Europe, e e e National office first to charge Republican manipulation of census— later widely substantiated ana supported by other organizations...
...Rickets and pellagra are evident...
...I. don't mean to accuse the Yipsel delegates...
...in the Labor TemplZ 24S East 84th street, Manhatta/ The German Socialist branches Tf the city have challenged LudvJtg Lore, editor of the "Volkszeituni.and a semi-Communist, to debate the question, "Should Progressive Werkingmen Support the Leber and Socialist International...
...Yet, will it not be difficult for those to receive benefit who need it most—the thousands on thousands ot our poverty-stricken citizens...
...None of them can be compared with Soviet Russia...
...However, it is doubtful whether this statesman's proposal will have any effect as the House has no control over foreign affairs...
...Moreover, be as brief as possible.— Editor of The New Leader...
...And...
...A report from the attendant in charge would probably state that Brother Capital shows symptoms of softening of the brain while Sister Labor shows many traces of suffering from malnutrition...
...ebfl Discitoh, 38,^ s |B who came from pgH Highland Falls, ieH wrote a note be...
...We are confronted with the gravest unemployment problem we have ever faced in our history...
...MacDonald himself is a Socialist, but the state he represents is not Socialist...
...Through our international the Socialists of the world should impress on the minds of both, the struggling workeis and peasants of U. S. S. R. and the capitalist world that we are determined against intervention, treachery, nipping in the bud of the first attempt at Socialism...
...Whatever is base, brutal, Irrelevant ln that system must be attacked...
...WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH POLTTIGXAKS...
...The feud has taken on proportions which are bewildering on the one hand and totally dismaying on the other...
...tion reveals the fact then tertain one single guest J herty's spent $1000...
...It fattens on the misery of the poor, the degradation of the worker, and the brutalizing toil of his wife and children...
...Or, comparing the figures for 1928 with those for 1927, think over the fact that 40,000 persons took $1,600,000,000 of the increased national income in 1928, leaving $1,000,000,000...
...The apologists for capitalism then turned to Pollyanna measures to Doultice fine disease...
...I pre- perflH fer to take this sevesfl way out, nouafl overcoat, which nlsi^H is in the room, entsfl I wish that it for Mm bit given to some gueefH poor man who to gjfl needs it...
...Worms devour its vitality and it keeps other patients awake o' nights with its squalling...
...AMEN" FOR THOMAS Editor, The New Leader: Allow me to say "Amen...
...Were this not the case our place would be within that movement...
...Unemployment action committees formed by several dozen locals— forcing action by city councils in Dallas, Duluth, Newark, New York and other places...
...JAY STEINSALTZ...
...o • • Issuance of such facts by the government is dangerous to American private-profit-competitivecapitalist society...
...The debate will be said JilBt^liSt!^ -> t Helen Lee| tames Steps Out J ''BreaaUaer* J leas, Haagry...
...The project deserves hearty support from all sections of the country and classes of people...
...The professors are wage workers and if they want to have some freedom of expression , recognition of their humble role and one hundred per cent organization as wage workers are essential...
...Merry the J H Christmas...
...Embargoes are still worse as they aggravate a situation already bad...
...The Socialist MacDonald is the manager of a capitalist state, he has no power to act fully as a Socialist, and on many occasions he expressed his vexation that it is so...
...A system'9 which is responsible tarn contrast stands conderssjj 33% Work Fulll 46% Part Tim*] Shows in am AMHERST, Mass.—(fl 33.2 per cent of the worn employed full time, 4fcM work part time, and 20.21 are without any empkjjj survey of 598 member* 1 Church, Holyoke, *hcw*J| person had put in eifjJB day, 38.7 per cent worn been unemployed—probtfl servative estimate of_fl unemployment situatiojJjH The survey was cosfl Profs...
...They have a child named "Prosperity...
...And since everyone cannot be in the privileged group, hungry people are likely to decide that the best solution will be a general distribution of ownership in the industries...
...Vast traditions, inertia, fat-accumulatinghaziness have become deterrents...
...WE hope that historians are collecting the output of drivel that appears in the periodical press which paints the United States as a holy order of saints and our capitalism as a final goal in human happiness...
...Youth is snore sentimental than logical...
...Nation-wide Mooney - Billings and May Day meetings reach thousands...
...B*9 Delcio Disci- = toh...
...In the whiteheat of censure, the Socialists have knowingly and intentionally been pushed towards a form of hostility that does us neither honor nor credit...
...So it is common knowledge that intellectual leaders in all countries have repudiated war...
...Miners Local Asks for Unemploym't Insurance SPRINGFIELD—Unemployment insurance is demanded by the officers and members of Local Union No 1471 United Mine Workers of America .here, in a resolution adopted last week...
...N. E. C. meets west of the Mississippi for first time in party history...
...E. SHAFRAN...
...Party representative appears in public hearings on old age pensions at Washing-ton Speech widely quoted and published by government Three nation-wide radio hookups spread party message...
...Gimme a cup of coffee," said John Workless, "I want to build me character...
...Research cooperation between Rand School and national office set up...
...in 1927 their share had been only 20 per cent, of the total...
...The outstanding disheartening feature in the post war period ha* been the readiness with which those Socialists helped in the srabilrtatton of the old order of the jungle instead of as might conscious Socialist finds that outside ot a hazy conception in our minds we do not know what we are heading for...
...He is afraid it will become popular among the millions of unemployed, and the other millions now enjoying wage cuts or part-time jobs...
...Party launches relief drive for Danville textile strikers, after visit by Norman Thomas and executive secretary...
...JIJovB phasize the irony and 1 trast both paragraphs wesi side by side...
...Unemployment insurance pushed by leaflet and speaking campaign...
...More members gained than is all yean since 1923 together...
...It is scarcely true to say that the men who get $1,000,00 a year are disturbed...
...For a number of years these gentlemen lived in this smug assurance...
...The record will help to clarify views.—Editor of The New Leader...
...But social problems cannot be solved by sentiment and it is the duty of the leaders of our party to pay more attention to the Yipsel organization...
...Mussolini and Horthy have nothing to do with Socialism...
...tactics is of a kind that should the latter in spite of opposition and difficulties succeed ln breaking through into the open spaces of Socialism we would to spite them refuse to have anything to do with Socialism as such . . . I do not want to imply that Comrades Hillquit, Kautaky and even others are actuated by base motive...
...It does not consider the support given this conference by individual Socialists in keeping with Socialist principles, and "4...
...THEREFORE be It resolved that: "1...
...a fifth had beeaji Job lea* than a month, 4m one to three months, 9 J H from three to six mont|(9 ffom six months to a J MH ether fifth more thejg lrbose under 25 or Owij rtwice the uneniployBBtM /group between 25 and wfc| I vey was conducted * F f i | ' economics under t^ilotJpH Griffin BUI Backer* J To Hold PinsierjfcjJ The Griffin Bill M | New York is holdingjkM 17th at the Town HaBtJI guests of honor will b* Wj have been denied ctiimtal cause of their refusal j arms...
...Bankers and capitalists dominate the university boards...
...This branch expresses its support of the protest at the Y. P. s. L against the policies of the Labor government ln India...
...Beta Low, Lad wig Lore To Debate Russia Sunday A debate that has aroused the interest of German Socialists and...
...Twelve new papers started sad twelve new mimeographed bulletins...
...And, it is because of this uncertainty that differences arise as to the proper attitude towards the Russian experiment...
...three new pamphlets—more issued from national office than in previous she years...
...who is practicing it—a friend or an enemy, an opponent or an adherent of Socialism...
...of the total $2,600,000,000 increase to the remaining 4,030,000 persons who made income tax returns...
...nine new legislators in Wisconsin, two ln Pennsylvania, tad sheriff of Milwaukee County...
...However, Socialists, the leadership in the first place, have lost control over their emotions altogether...
...The organization and cooperation necessary to reach the neglected classes makes of this project a gigantic task, though the benefits conferred by it on the nation as a whole will more than: repay for all the thought and cost and time that may be expended...
...But the question is: would it be better for the 300,000,000 inhabitants of India* There is an old saying: not the people for the Sabbath but the Sabbath for the people, and therefore has he the moral right to sacrifice the welfare of the people in India in order not to stain his name as a Socialist...
...But—here is the point that springs to the mind of every deeply thoughtful person who has been interested to read the reports of the meetings and the counsels of Secretary Wilbur: What would be the value of all the splendid training, mental and physical, if the finest, healthiest specimens of young manhood are to be killed, crippled or made insane by warfare and the civilian population exterminated by poison-gas and diseasegerm bombs...
...o Irving T. Bush declares that the United States will lead the world to prosperity in 1931 because the "underlying wealth is still with us...
...But, does one kill his brother to rid him of bad habits...
...The author of the proposal should take a course in kindergarten economics before speaking again...
...Increase in attacks on the party —National Electric Light Associiwe^ eii^STtmu pu^ Im^TmL^ Twenty-five arrests of members Forty per cent of all congressional districts ran candidates, polling more votes than were cast for president in 1928 for entire country...
...Here and there a few who had been with us in did struggles quietly retired from the scene...
...What puts a person in the powerful class is ownership...
...Of course, our friendship must not necessarily mean submission...
...But is Socialism to be blamed for it...
...Certainly, so-called Socialist power and influence where they exist have a* yet produced nothing distinctly Socialistic...
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