France, belgium-Disarmament
Vandervelde, Emile
^ « - ' \ t m From Our Foreign Correspofidents France, Eelgium^ilDisarmameiit DEFEAT OF BRI.4JVD A MA D AUGURY FOR THE COittt IJVG CONFERENCE By Emile Vandervelde BRUSSELS (In...
...It is not true as the authors state that "Frank Cross waith, an organizer who had been dropped, preferred charges of misuse of funds against Roy Lancaster, the Secretary-Treasurer...
...The toad walks on pointed tread...
...sad clothes, and every bit of help that ^ Possibly give them...
...And it places too great a burden upon the hitherto declassed intellectuals...
...at It hat their fault The showmen have long i said Shi rest of the country on the idea that b fat glittering Babylon of America, where no wests or grunts or lifts or tugs, or wonders ¦ SB next meal Is coming from...
...style in The Quest for Literature, to make intelligible the astonishing variety of literary schools that have arisen in late years, and, one supposes, to appraise them—a much-to-be-deslred end...
...work deserved commendation foi the erudition displayed, and hat 'value as a reference work and compendium, the present essay is oi little use to either writer oi reader...
...R. that visitors to Moscow see what the E-tsf went them to see...
...With the exception of two chapters, the authors have succeeded in produc...
...Well, maybe that's Hfsest do these annual summer pilgrims to P-fg shrines see...
...None other than Trotsky, splendid organizer, excellent propagandist, and superb journalist that he be, has led the van in foisting his egoistic bsaaer against the inferiorities...
...The written decision of a few friends who heard some of the charges and who sought to correct the irregularities complained of, is now In the possession of this reviewer...
...As in Tie Quest for Literature, Dr...
...which they receive their sustenance and prestige is as odorous...
...The masses have been taught that Small wonder then that ten years these non-working classes wars held In distrust and oppression...
...It was not the Communists (they bad not yet been spawned) w .o bore the brunt of the attack against Garveyism but Negro economic radicals organized in the Socialist Party...
...In this they are mistaken...
...have mighty little worshij for the superior folk who take prestige cos-fort an< luxury as their just reward, when all that they atf or win become is based upon chance and the Infer iorities they lord over so arrogantly And for the nonce, I cannot understand the ta versal of Stalin, on such aa important matter...
...D jest like the stories in 'Liberty Magazine'," Ljaa, middle-aged lady visitor from Danville triumphantly, "I hadn't thought it was etna, all those quaint, crooked, little streets pVillage and the funny-looking Bohemians and pat Why I actually saw Harry Kemp walkmm\ without his hat, the way he is always pal sad we were in one place that Mike Gold IBS Just ten minutes before we got there...
...Let the masses wait unt-1 we have settled out intellectual quarrels" . . . that has always been the sad slogan of the articulate and mind-gifted leaders...
...Against the bloody crime of having butchered the old royal family, and -the murder ed the forty-eight learned "saboteurs", let emotion be stayed a moment while we weigh the crimes of the Romanoffs tor ages against one hundred aad forty minion souls, and the relative unimportance of the welfare of four dozen Individuals against a nation rising slowly to its feet There is much for us who pretested so vehemently against the latter outrage, to weigh aad understand...
...in the days When Garveyism represented a real and mighty menace to the best interest of proletarian freedom, will be justified In asking whether the ignorance the authors manifest in this respect is designed or accidental...
...It ta generally admitted that the elections of 1932 in France are going to bring big gains for the Socialist Party...
...The usual claim of the superior intellect for pree. tige and higher station of living ta based upon the years of study in universities, th* eapease of sues training, and the services rendered eventually to human progress...
...The French and Belgian Socialists, of course, are agreed in opposing this policy...
...In their appraisal of the Pullman Porters the authors not only deliberately perverted the facts in the moat important and significant industrial struggle ever waged by Negroes, but also placed themselves in tic Inexcusable position of attempting to destroy the character and reputation of a Negro whose years of activity and devotion to the labor movement has won for him the respect and confidence of workers of every race...
...The best seller of | today becomes the junked volume J of tomerrow...
...Prank L. Owsley—King Cotton Diplomacy...
...w> If I were one of those genial Russian Social Deancorals...
...The masses know its poison-fog...
...Girls Bftof envelopes containing tickets for the big P* pte-nic at Ulmer Park on July 25th next, ¦jet everyone feeling that he is not doing half last a time when we could ail work twentyMam a day and not begin to cover our Soft sBtgnments...
...wealth that endowed the universities in which leara ing la bought or for the comforts of practical livtaj enjoyed through these processes, alec created bj the unlearned and unlearning msssei Or to the fact that when the acquiring of knowledge an training to ended, there stiu to the mas* of commei folks from whom they will jar...
...No "competent accountant" sifted these charges and no committee exonerated the Secretary-Treasurer...
...Socialists are working HR tt not harder than we are here...
...Albert MukUvtn —The Red Peg I Lifts...
...Also- in his possession are several letters exchanged by members of this committee...
...John H. Wuorinen — The Prohibi, tion Experiment in Finland Colum. bia University Press...
...And from what Z have read and learned since the red days of 1917, the intellectuals of Russia have done mighty little toward dispelling that pernicious pall...
...France continues to spend billions in constructing a formidable line of concrete forts the whole length of her eastern frontier against a Germany deprived by the Treaty of Versailles of the right to have heavy artillery, or fortifications along the Rhine...
...The cross currents, cataracts aad eddies that such events bring to the surface of a hitherto placid body of human affairs make helpless driftwood bits out of individual reason aad feeling...
...There is no doubt, on the other hand, that the "coup" of Vienna, the brusque announcement by MM...
...Stalin appears to embody the full inferiorities of the common folk...
...The book ta divided into five general parts, treating of "The Syve^BsAgiOuad of The Negro", Negro", "The Negro As a Strike Breaker", "Industrialism and The Negro", and "Negro Labor Since The War...
...In short...
...The plar he has followed is to give a rapid survey—"With Prayer to Ariadne" —of the maze of contemporary "isms" that have arisen out of the original orthodoxy of classicism then to discuss the two historical deviations from classicism, namely, realism and romanticism, and finally to discuss their historical passage to and through symbolism into the other varieties—dada, expressionism, and the rest...
...But now a new anti-Socialist coalition government, headed by M. Renken .has been organized which will insist upon the original appropriations proposed by M Jaspar...
...rK failure of Aristide Brtand to be elected President of France waa followed by a rumor to the effect that he might resign from the post of Minister of Foreign Affairs and put himself at the head of a big drive for world peace and for European union, thus becoming the standard bearer in the French general elections of 1032 of the pacific tendencies of the mass of workers and peasants...
...RR|et us wrong...
...Seldom has the art of telling a ¦ story been as highly developed as - In "Amok...
...pary developed that she had not seen Sinclair i plain, but I took it that she has a mess of Mr her paper on, 'My Experiences Among a* York Literati...
...Nor is it true that "competent accountants found the charges baseless...
...By so doing they have tarnished the otherwise golden luster of their remarkable achievement, In connection with the chapter on "The Negro and Socialism' the authors appear more concerned with misrepresenting the Socialist Party than with presenting the facts...
...I don't believe the new government win live long...
...But while the large...
...Now there is every reason to believe that if this happens the Socialists win register a material advance and, having become the largest party, may be caned upon to accept the responsibilities of power, with some support from the democratic elements of the Right and Left...
...University of Washington Bookstore...
...University ot North OaroBTia Press...
...Anpleten...
...Revolutions have never been roes gardens aad tea dances...
...i On board a steamer ploughing her way through tropic seas, a physician who for eight years had been stationed in a remote outpost of a -fever-soaked section of the East Indies, unfolds his story i to a fellow passenger...
...According to the authors if the Socialist Party declares for the solidarity of aP workers, if it nominates a Negro for high office, if a Negro presides at its convention Jpf|w^" B^ttife^P^ i^P)_j^P!^Jr*^^ ,^PP^^^^^^^ making party policies, such actions merely serve to show how disinterested and hostile to - the Negro is the Socialist Party...
...The treason of the Intellectuals in America prior to and after our entry into the war k> oa a par with that of the European...
...The hurried lipKr west away from that, with the vague idea Kid Depression had been kay-oed by Mauling itornan and that from now on we would all Snag pretty...
...At our recent conventions, that of Tours, in France, and of Brussels, in Belgium, there was a powerful antiwith Germany...
...at 112 East Ntne¦toi New York City, of which Norman ^pj ¦?•A tfcea you'<* not the Socialist Z Mr MUmw...
...AU the familiar lauda' tory terms used by reviewers and r blurbsmiths would be permissible I in describing this work that is a i real contribution to the literature ¦ for grown-ups...
...Thus he naturally drifted into the social swamps of personal service...
...University of Chicago Press It...
...On Page 424 the authors literally bend backwards to pin a rose on the lapel of the Communist coat, when they ascribe to the Communist Party a peculiar sense of vision that enabled it to discern in Garveyism "the embodiment of the emotional unrest of the Negro proletariat militant, aggressive, and sympathetic with the world proletariat...
...3, B. Lippincott...
...and, far more tragic than the lack of these, he was without education...
...This was the pathetic picture which for nearly a half century the Negro worker cast upon the industrial screen of America...
...The plan is a good one, but unfortunately its carrying out it tepid and Inadequate...
...We don't want to seem to |«eut what is doing in New York Socialist P We know that in Philadelphia and Reading E*»d Pittsburg in the coal-fields and out ' Wick's Los Angeles...
...P taut about matters affecting the workers tot around the Rand School Bookstore...
...In the convention of 1901 the delegates adopted a long resolution stating clearly the position of the Socialist Movement on the question of justice for the Negro, This resolution was adopted despite the objections of the three Negro delegates in that convention who insisted that Negroes had no desire to be singled out for special mention by their Party...
...The sudden transfer of so large a group of hitherto despised and proscribed workers on to the higher realms of industry was bound to have repercussions in the social, economic, and psychic relationship of the Negro t- the rest of the population...
...Freud might say, the missis suffer from the ds* •seas of knowing themselves to be inferior...
...t m From Our Foreign Correspofidents France, Eelgium^ilDisarmameiit DEFEAT OF BRI.4JVD A MA D AUGURY FOR THE COittt IJVG CONFERENCE By Emile Vandervelde BRUSSELS (In June...
...Scanning the New Cooks _____ Edited by LAWRENCE BOG IN ___________ The American ^egro Worker In The Class Struggle A Tragic Tale Well Told By Frank R. Crosswaith BEFORE the war Negro labor, in the main, constituted a reserve upon which employers freely drew during strikes and whenever a scarcity of white labor existed...
...The Literary Isms is a disappointing effort in a good direction OAKLEY JOHNSON...
...Overcome with grief and remorse, - the attempts of the doctor to seek I her out with offers of assistance ¦ are met with rebuffs...
...Tata a why they idealize to a Mussolini, a Napoleon, cr \ Lenin the qualities so apparently lacking ta their swn colorless lives...
...Paul's and the night clubs...
...an ambitious inferior, uagifted in the power of literary trickeries, and withal -r-a low brow...
...JShipley's method is to quote or paraphrase numberless definitions ol the terms, allowing the contrast' ing and supplementing explana...
...it was not wholly of his own making, however...
...University ot Chicago Press...
...hope that if any of you readers of "The New to* who have enough in your jeans .to get ¦* ear way, do make the trip, you will look a i below the phony surface of things...
...The treachery of the supermen to the masses frou...
...And if YOU...
...And in Belgium, too, it is expected that the government of M Renken, entangled id the same difficulties as the Jaspar government, will last only a few months and that the general ellections, not due until 1633, will be held by next Spring as the result of the dissolution of Parliament...
...Mussolini is blowing the war trumpet again...
...Louis and Chicago became open battle grounds upon which resisting white labor and the advancing black worker fought to keep the latter in his place...
...And with but • bit of thought we can really forgive much of their ayi agaJasi the intelligentsia...
...militarist sentiment, not only against any increase in military expenditures, but also in favor ol C. R. Macauiey tn the Brooklyn Katie...
...The attitude of the woman, her pride, her imperiousness, i fascinate the doctor...
...Each part is further divided into chapters where is carefully considered every imaginable phase of Negro relationship with-white America...
...natal etty, hidden away behind the tenement pj the little frame houses in Queens and &T(nonung bouses on the Upper West Side, E. markers in the factories and shops, the Ed tofts live their matter-of-fact, unexcitSenous Uvea, of these the provincials see r Ej tn Their coUective impression of a Barker must be that o' a person who lives Bpgntton frenzy, whisking every morning ¦afwhite Rabbit in Alice in Wonderland into E> ajysterious burrows, emerging for a brief Ljaaswnt to be whooped skyward to an oSlce, . to adulge in a strange exercise ceiled "paperr thence to return to jazz orgies in smokej'ajace-haUs while the staccato saxophones I jgjfie threnodies...
...ing a work that will long remain the most complete, authoritative, and scholarly book dealing with Negro labor in the United States...
...The repeating of old contrasts, bon mots, and so on, ii learned and urbane, but pointless The definitions of the new move ments are insufficient: the ten dency, in mentioning any "ism...
...On June 24 the Belgian Parliament voted the $6,000,000 demanded for frontier fortifications over the heads of the Socialists and some other groups...
...Anyway, "Qui vtvra, verm...
...As a consequence the Negro worker earned for himself the classic title' of the American Scab...
...And if native New Yorkers lap BB sort of stuff who are we to kick because ¦ft-of-towners gobble the apple-sauce...
...Curtius and Schober (German and Austrian Foreign Ministers, respectively) of the Austro-German agreement, concluded in true secret diplomatic style, has been water on the mill wheels of the French 100 per-centers...
...But the tab head-liners > this in their stride and if they mention the esaice they use the jargon of the ring-Bide...
...Moreover since the publication of th: Black Worker, another of the six men (five out of six) who led the Porters' movement, as weU as the entire Executive Committee, are convinced of the truth of the Crosswaith charges...
...Socialism", "Communism", and "The Pullman Porters" that the authors boldly abandon their admirable role of Impartial historians and scholars, and thus permit their political prejudices and personal animus to conquer them...
...Here you will find a bunch tohOst kids hustling about to get clothes for taking miners of West Virginia and the PittsISStikL Men hard at work on preparations ta earning Socialist municipal campaign which ssaThomas will head with his accustomed g».e...
...Women working for unemployment relief...
...Shipley's connections—almos no hint of sociological criticisn (which has a minor place in gen ersi criticism, but a signlfican one) appears in the discussion...
...For aU of the practical shrewdness that such a move entails For the moment, the eventual harm caused by it upon the awakening sense of power among its masses, is not pleasant to speculate upon...
...their better Uvine That ta why...
...ptore in "The New Leader" you will find the LBftb* strike that has just been called by "•¦¦hey In the Kanawha coal-fields of West |}» More than twenty-three thousand two. Ighttng proletarian- are taking off their pr a finish fight for the recognition of their P"*» Ihey need bean money those boys of H...
...East St...
...t BEN BLTJMENBERG...
...Shipley has attempted, by way of an extension of certain remarks cr...
...Keep Him Unemployed a spontaneous reduction of armaments, regardless of what may be decided upon by the Conference ot 1032, so as to bring them down to the level imposed upon Germany...
...Finally, ' after the bungling efforts of a c Chinese woman had been enlisted, • the physician is permitted to at! tend the dying woman...
...Charles A. Beard:—American Oov. eminent and Politics, sixth edition...
...Eg Bttle else...
...A perusal of these documents is sufficient to dispel the false and malicious statements on the question made by the authors...
...If there was one thing in the whole Soviet busmess that stirred my Socialist soul mightily, it wts the sight of the man with the hoe, aad the lad witj the hammer rising to a sense of their full importance in the scheme of Ufa True, they did not march with the measured tread of aa army...
...h,s-jp^T* buhers begin to mtrch, the whole labor pr* tin, in spite of Matt Woll and his com°°* hundred stuffed shirts gathered to n_?*d* in spite of John L. Lewis and his ^glract with the cos' operators in Northern 'SheSf" m 8pite of the rotten betrayal of KjJ"**y by the San Francisco ple-countr¦2?j**rcb we Socialists must join, swinging ¦g**ahoulder with the beet bunch of AmerE^to* who ever told a straw boss where t» ¦lal_'e*e are our people, flesh of our flesh, Py>"*oone...
...The Liberals who, in Belgium, fans the "military party," and who hadn't been consulted, kicked near the traces...
...Stefan Zweig's "Amok" FEW are the novels that survive a season...
...It is what is being planned to do, and what is really being done that counts...
...Tag few who do give themselves utterly, tc the movements of freedom and peace for -"fr'Wfl are broken on the rack of persecution sad overwork...
...and I mean YOU, nS 2Jf ^ your pocket before you lay ' KK-T* New Leader" aside and send every Hpt*™ to THE EMERGENCY COMMTT¦toMjfRIXERS' RELIT...
...But of such are we aU, an of us who never rise to the top, who go oa through the mechanical processes of living, ambitious Inferiors who ars afraid to even protest for the one thing we crystallise tats an ambition, the right to work, live, and rest la a measure of peace and comfort...
...White labor by denying to the Negro worker practical participation in the trade union movement contributed much toward driving him into this position...
...3.76...
...The publishers of the book should insist upon a correction ere a well earned reputation in the publishing field Is damaged...
...But when the Communist Party takes similar actions it then becomes an acknowledgement that the Negro is "an important link" in a program of world proletarian revolution...
...Beets Mexican Mass...
...Ask any doctor, any moner-hun...
...The charges against the Secretary-Treasurer of the Porters' Union were brought by Crosswaith and endorsed by four of the six leaders of the Brotherhood while Crosswaith was still an officer ot the organization...
...and critical pricks from learned sad agile pans...
...Carle tor...
...Aad fear of the capitalist forces that encircle Russia has warped and hampered the judgment of her rulers...
...Should the learned lads fail to hasten things perceptibly, (and In the nature of what has already been done indue haste would only eo-epiJcate aad retard the plan) the onus, the blame-and the defeat could be easily shifted upon the really hiene.es* experts and professionals...
...To understand these, and many more vitally important socio-economic facts comprising the Negro problem is to read "The Black Worker" by Sterling Spero and Abram Harris, (Columbia University Press $4.50...
...The world war, however, rescued him from this harmful menial position and gave him his golden opportunity to enter industry through a door more honorable than scabbing...
...Oneal then informs the authors that in 1912 when Debs declared that the "Socialist Party had nothing special to offer the Negro", Debs was simply repeating what the Negro members of the Socialist Party were saying...
...This annoying defeat of M. Briand at Versailles accentuates the feeling of uneasiness weighing down Europe eight months before the Conference on Disarmament...
...pEgy eome—school teachers from CounKLhBlf, 411 i0T a week*' trorge of ISfrUtihia, University's mass production L^L gjnc« from Birmingham, mouths watE though: of Greenwich Village speakPB| nremen from Fresno...
...In ail probabUity, | one of the exceptions will be "Amok," (Simon & Schuster, $1.50...
...Also, because of his strike breaking activities organized labor directed toward him its covert hostility while the employers of labor treated him with unconcealed contumely...
...gry scientist any fans starved arofessionsV Too little credit is given to the -^yp-t that natun set his or her way for the unusual gifts bssto-wed much too little to the masses that created th...
...The fee he : proposes is not one that can be > stated in terms of money...
...And with Bia Bund rait of others, and against him thousands of small fry professors, professionals, em tional I SinlllMiSISI tos and the rest howling outside, or struggling silently within the union, all in a battle of the feds far power and privilege to direct the fear-lades, stn...
...The Five Year plan is just as meaningless in time to me...
...Our comrades in Germany, being aware of this, deplore that this way of posing the question has further complicated the international situation, despite their sympathy for the "Anschluss" (Union of Austria There is no occasion for surprise that, under such conditions, the prospects of a serious reduction in armaments ars fading and the demands for military appropriations are increasing on the eve of the Conference...
...tions and arguments, with little or no contributing insistence ol his own, lo throw light on thi meaning and value of the theories discussed...
...The Socialist movement is coming to the front Just now in Belgium as well as in France...
...Anyone who took an active part in the struggle between Garveyism and Socialism, as this reviewer did...
...This novel, or more correctly, a long short story by Stefan Zweig, stands out from the drug and cigar store output of current fiction...
...I am not particularly happy about this circumstance...
...Briand was 69 years old on March 28), or because of the arguments of his conservative colleagues, he didn't quit and will stay at the Quay d'Orsay under the new conservative President M Doumer, although no longer with his hands free to wage an inspiring campaign in the general interests of Europe...
...treaaka on the Ropes", they announced the day r Hoover tot the frogs down...
...He is all that Trotsky characterized him to be...
...TnlfMnaa...
...The relations between France and Italian Fascism remain strained...
...for one This "W| SjiCT madness" finds its root in the present system cf iunga...
...But, whether from reasons of sge {M...
...Should the latter succeed in effecting great progress for the Five Year plan, (which is doubtful at this stage) the newly born babe of worker-power consciousness will grow rickety with doubt, indecision and fear of its own strength.- The drive toward "big man" ideology will commenes...
...But, in Belgium as well as in France, the bourgeois government headed by M. Jaspar fell, not because it demanded military appropriations, but because, in order to conciliate some more or less anti-nfllitarist Flemish deputies supporting it, it had consented to cat them by 50.000,000 about $1,375,000...
...ant this, too,- in face of the theme that have occupied the construe tionists (whom, by some mistake Dr...
...and makes real pi ogress to' a better woril to difficult...
...I could easily agree that the celling in of these oppressed wise men by Stalin, to a subtle confession of failure, and aa attempt to rig up a stuffed goat for defeat But being what meet good Socialists the world over are, a well-wisher for Soviet progress and success in its aadestsVings, X reason the whole situation out as above...
...Our only W* that New York is not aU jazz and gin, in Itfwbnt you see in the movies and the papers, P" there are a few Manhattanites who are not RJ to realities by the fierce light that beats pthaes Square...
...as a ten o'clock appointment with an eld school Russian intell-i-gent...
...James Oneal, well known author, editor, and the recognized historian of the American Labor movement, who is also a member of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party and intimately familiar with the period and events the authors discuss in the chapter, recently wrote: "The Socialist Party at its very origin approved the policy of labor solidarity...
...last they know about 'he hundreds on thouS of the men and women who make the wealth a etty by their daily toil, is that it is difficult st through them on certain streets at the noon i from the bus tops they may catch a glimpse Kfcets trudging their dreary way before struck a hot an they have to say of them is that they csnytsg queer advertising signs on their backs...
...Fear has a devastating way with logic...
...buyers from E-the hinterlands, pouring into this _E*ef New York to boost the postcard and Kpade, to make us New Yorkers feel a __- to run open-mouthed from the theatre KffaQ Street and back, and to go home HCer so much as once guessing what the U ELst this town of ours...
...The recent Convention of the Porters' Union dismissed the Secretary-Treasurer for practically the same reason as contained in the Crosswaith charges...
...And, furthermore, the membership is now requesting the return of Crosswaith to the Union...
...Everybody, even tiny Belgium, seems to want to get into the | game of spending hundreds of mil! lions in rebuilding, in modernizing, their pre-war fortifications, right in the midst of the economic crisis...
...330...
...Strangely enough, it is in the latter part of the book where is treated such contemporary questions as The New Negro...
...Down ret the Rand School, for example, at 7 F st ssth Street, we can show you a bunch of real to» who speak your language and know what ffsr* all About...
...8talis has been sufficiently Informed of that...
...There is a double unfairness about It It sets back the growth of mass superiority...
...But it turned out that it was all a mistake...
...5 cents), Dr...
...The Franco-Italian naval agreement announced by Arthur Henderson, Secretary of Foriegn Affairs in the British Labor Government, seemed a happy sign...
...Broadway at night, the C at their docks along the Hudson, Rlver_0rsnt'i Tomb, the financial district ; Bant sad St...
...There comes ! to the physician a woman who offers him a huge sum to help her out of a difficulty that took place : while her husband is on a trip to ¦ England...
...And just when it appeared that the abstract set* entiats, the expert technicians aad the general run of professionals were becoming aware of their relative unimportance as individuals, save as they worked with and for the general welfare, they are lifted back upon a plane of superiority by the dictators of Sovietland...
...Don't the jjbes picture of a city of dancing legs, dspper Be, sky-hooting divorcees in the very best p first perfected by that simon-pure, blownMettle Communist cartoonist Ryan Walker, met his yeoman's service on "The Graphic", Botes his revolting energies to drawing picla Heywood Broun surrounded by gin bottles ? i be sure, it isn't always possible even for a tab Kk the fact that here and there throughout our 7 Megalopolis there have been slight hints that rthing was sot well...
...Viking Press...
...Catapulted out of his agrarian setting by the results of the war between the slave holding South and the rising industrial North, the Negro' found himself deposited in the world of work without land, money or tools...
...The book is well documented with a rich, extensive bibliography...
...They straggled, they blundered, they made mad notour* and strutted with laughable arrogance True they earned the guffaws of intellectual hoffoons...
...Until the present terrifying period of depression, approximately one and one half of the accredited four million Negroes gainfully employed were engaged in the basic industries of the Nation...
...It will be difficult to eradicate by any sort" Iff yWpagsiMla, humans being what they are the world over And then we must remember, that ttaeffive Year plan is but one little line in a Wemendou* blue print for final accomplishment...
...M. Jaspar, who wasn't any too popular anyway, had to resign...
...Arnold Zweig—Amok...
...I for one...
...The remedy tee the evDs of liberty > a more liberty—-Mae-wtoy._ The Chatterbox There is too much wonship of the evfeptlneadly rifted person to suit me...
...I of coons, there are always the bread-lines on Bowery fast are quite interesting...
...1 Mams Otonst A lawyer TeOs the The Latest ChapbooU IN this "chapbook" (The Literary Isms, by Joseph T. Shipley...
...With a i scornful laugh, the visitor leaves...
...LATEST BOOsXS RECEIVED Prank L. Owsley—States Rights In the Confederacy...
...gling masses...
...That is why they will rush O masse at a call, at the sound of a bugle, or th3 Barely grasped paragraph of logic and appeal...
...But the authors (Spero and Harris) state that "the party never got far beyond the resolution stage...
...And—which4- ii most astonishing in a writer o; Dr...
...T. J. Woofter—The Plight of Cigarette Tobacco...
...Maemlllan...
...Shipley fails to mention, unless he meant them when he spoke of "productionists") and the expressionists...
...Unlike most writers who deal with this subject, the authors have givi en us not only a factual study, but they have subjected these facts to a keen, penetrating, and scholarly interpretation in the light of modern sociology aad economics...
...Rao riots and lynching which in the past bad been largely congnecUto the South began to occur in the industrial centers of the North and West where Negro workers had succeeded in invading the closely guarded sanctums of the skilled trades...
...He became the cook, thewaiter, the I bell-boy, the porter*"of America...
...When Stalin finally decided to can fas the bright minds, the technical experts, sad ties ItteiUgentsia bo help the bewildered masses toward the mm, t was not at all thrilled by that decision...
...to mention perhaps two othei isms in the same sentence, am half a dozen before the paragrapl is ended, exasperates without in forming the student Scarcely *aj effort is made to show the derive tion of the different movements or their essential contributions t< criticism or art...
...In view of these facts, and in the interest also of their own reputation, as wen as a decent regard for truth and fairness, the authors ought to take immediate steps to correct this particular chapter...
Vol. 13 • July 1931 • No. 2
