Working Women, Awake; join With Us In Fight Against Hunger, for Freedom
Friedman, Esther
Hooks in Brief Tell, of 1931, Deeisive Year of Soviet Planning RUSSIA'S liUhUh YEAR, by Ellery Walter. G. P. Putnam's Sons, N. Y. |S. 282 pages. ' a iHERE is no end to the books II on...
...The use of the word "citizen" was perhaps unfortunate, but that the painters did not imply antiforeign prejudice is evident from the fact that they have quite a number of Jewish and German members...
...Brown took Issue with economic theorists who advocate reductions in the hours of labor...
...Unemployment Relief I often hear that Socialists have a plan to prevent unemployment in the future and also to immediately end this Insecurity...
...One would be the years of wrecking by Communists, which not only weakened these unions but disgusted many members with political action, whether Socialist or Communist...
...He ends the volume with a quotation from an editorial In "Izvestla" of January 22, 1931, regarding the decisive year which complained: "The plan for 1931 was achieved with respect to neither quantity nor quality...
...The shock, bewilderment and pain of that child were my own...
...Lo and behold I Not one local of the International Ladles Garment Workers, yet there were 23 locals of the Teamsters Onion represented...
...To save me from a permanent black eye, renew your subscriptions to The New Leader...
...Founded In 1917 by Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, "The World Tomorrow" has carved out a position In the field of radical religious Journalism...
...An appendix presents some Interesting data from Soviet statistics...
...In the disorder that continued, bricks hurled from a building killed Michael Semen and Nicholas It...
...There isn't a week that I don't find something I want to clip and Ale away for future reference...
...Renew Prize-Winning Subs...
...J. O. Ia It true that after Eugene V. Debs was released from Jail, he was called a drunkard and counter-revolutionist by the Communists T ROBERT CHILDS...
...The Communist party has brought, actual civil war into the ranks of the workers...
...At Bronx Fellowship "ttQPBFUL SIGNS ON THE II HORIZON" will be the topic of Rev...
...Do Socialists look at workers from the angle of drifters, non-residents and foreigners, or from the viewpoint of the laboring class...
...The crowd of workers won the batUe and the Trotsky gang fled...
...They remained at home where it was safe for them rather than go to Utlca and be recorded, i I could count the known party members who were there on the fingers of one hand and still have fingers to spare, though 450 delegates were present...
...Oh, what the deuce...
...Here's something for you to do, Comrade Beardsley and the labor committee...
...Questions and discussions from the audience will fallow...
...Now, don't somebody say Socialism to me, because that doesn't happen to help...
...The lack of skilled r.ockers, low grade industrial technique, quality sacrificed to speed, insufficient rations for many workers, overstrain of the working massei, and the Individualism of the peasants are among the discouraging factors he mentions...
...In his own state, Indiana, he was always nominated for delegate to national conventions and he generally declined to accept...
...Suddenly and both at once, they spied him, a two year old boy, blissfully watching the bears...
...I am sure that many slumbering American citizens would join you if you answered in The New Leader...
...While at it, is The New Leader owned, controlled and supervised by the S. P. or Is it a Socialist weekly chosen by preference to speak for the pari* but in reality not owned by it ? I. STONE...
...In fact there's lots of good stuff In It, and maybe If enough renewals come in, It will inspire me to write...
...Investigate this condition and find out whether our so-called Socialist trade union leaders are not morally bankrupt fearing to act in a convention where the spotlight will be upon them...
...Some are particularly Interested In how the latter acted when the resolution to give Mayor Walker a vote of confidence was carried and when Oovernor Roosevelt was endorsed for president...
...Renew Your Subs ! Anyway, I'm pleading with you now...
...Each of them was twice as big as I. But I did lace It into them...
...I cried "Shame" after them and I did get some of the people around me to cry "Shame...
...THE BRAY _of THE WEEK INCREASED cooperation between capital and labor was prescribed as a fundamental cure for the present depression by the Rev...
...Two Deaths Result Of Lefts' Civil War THE Communist party's physical assaults on other working class meetings brought Its logical fruits recently when two Communists were killed at a street meeting run by another Communist faction on the lower East Side last week...
...This form of control is the same as that of the Milwaukee Leader, the Reading Labor Advocate and The Forward...
...Leon Rosser Land's address Sunday evening at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service, at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple, 1501 Boston road, near East 172nd street...
...Let me say emphatically that our Socialist trade union officials were not there...
...Each of these meetings dissolved under a barrage of criticisms and questions from the very unsympathetic audience," says that paper...
...He held the post from about a year after his release from prison until his death...
...With a letter of Introduction from Senator Borah, he spent six months and travelled 15,000 miles through all sections of the Soviet Union, lie left Russia discouraged with Communism, his net impressions being similar to those of Walter Rukeyser, the American engineer who rendered Important services in the building of some large Russian enterprises...
...With he New Leader, furthermore has jeen combined The American Ap>eal, founded by Eugene V. Debs leveral years ago and recognized is the official organ of the party...
...But I was trembling so, and all the lime I was saying, "This Is the proletariat...
...In an epilogue, Walter sums up his investigation and presents his reasons for disillusionment...
...G to V Life Is such a little thing, So soon disposed of, How stupid when the poets sing Of anything hut love...
...BEN SCHURMAN...
...One of the moat interesting is Ellery Walter's "Russia's Decisive Year...
...Charles R. Brown, dean emeritus of the Yale Divinity School, in a sermon at the Riverside Church...
...It Is notorious that Communist party members, under orders, attend meetings of other organizations as organized groups and have employed physical violence to break them up...
...The Communist criticism of Debs was reiteration of the statement that he had "grown old" and had for many years been under the control of the "politicians" in the Socialist party...
...With one accord and without a word, they grabbed him by the arms and began beating the breath out of him...
...Reference is made to •drifters," "non-residents," "non-citizens" and public opinion is asked to support the strike of the painters...
...The terms ueed in the story are well known to organized workers...
...I have before me the roster of organisations represented...
...There are times, however, when such discussions are of great value to readers and party members...
...Are Socialists included in the public opinion referred to...
...In each of them, gangster elements working with the Trotskyites, and obvious White Guard Russian elements, picked fights with the workers at the meeting who denounced the Trotsky program...
...A copy of the Socialist party platform will- be mailed to you If you send us your address...
...Moreover, the composition of the membership has changed, and changes In the Industry have undermined the unions, leaving them with acute problems of sheer preservation...
...The crowd of workers won the battle" should read, "Communist party workers broke up the meeting...
...Me neither...
...Well, anyway, there's love, or so some people say...
...At the 9 o'clock open forum, Dr...
...When the woman turned around I threatened to have her arrested and I even walked a way looking for a cop...
...Of the meeting where the two men were killed the "Daily Worker" declared: "At Saturday's meeting the Trotsky speaker was discomfited by criticisms from the crowd...
...MEW LEADER FORUM STATE A. F. OF L. CONVENTION By Herman Wotkow I have recently returned from the 69th annual convention of the New York State Federation of Labor and many comrades are asking me how our party members who were delegates acted on certain questions...
...Discussions should be distributed among all party papers, not concentrated in one...
...Socialism will end unemployment and guarantee security to all...
...These are the people we have to . teach Socialism to...
...Its present editors are Klrby Page, Relnhold Niebuhr and A. A. MacLeod...
...Sidney Goldstein, associate rabbi of the Free Synagogue and chairman of the executive committee of the War Reatstera League and of the Joint committee of unemployment, will speak on "The Crisis m World Affairs What Is Needed...
...Kruzlak...
...Brown maintained...
...It answers your questions In detail...
...Ridiculing as "downright nonsense" the assertion that "men work because they have to," Dr...
...You see, once upon a time 1 didn't need inspiration to write...
...they also implied that he was a piece of putty in the hands of others...
...Additions to the staff of the weekly publication will be Devere Allen, now associate editor of The Nation, and Paul H. Douglas, profesosr of Industrial relations at the University of Chicago...
...They imply types of workers who have not organized and who are likely to take the places of strikers...
...y_______ ("Ihe Chatterbox," Continued from I'aye Nine) is just naturally lazy, what can i and told me to mind inv business you do about it...
...And so here we have a little love poem: V to G T OVE is such a little thing ILv In life's Immensity, And yet the stupid poets sing Of naught but "thee and me...
...The World Tomorrow" ttrcomes Weekly Journal After continuing as a monthly for 15 years, "The World Tomorrow" has become a weekly Journal...
...The Striking Painters 1 would appreciate your answer to the following questions: The report on the painters' strike in The New Leader is puzzling...
...a iHERE is no end to the books II on Russia...
...Downs of locals ** engineers and firemen and oilers tjftd longshoremen and building trades ¦at not one of our so-called Socialist or "progressive" trade unions...
...The report Implies that the Communist partyites had nothing to do with breaking up the Trotskyite meetings and that all that occurred In the way of opposition was "criticism" by "workers...
...The latter had been before the American Civil Liberties Union with protests against their opponents' attacks on meetings...
...There Is no known instance of that party's attempting to break up meetings of the capitalist parties...
...We do not think that this accusation is true...
...He cited the country's available physical resources, which, he declared, were fully as great as they were in times of prosperity...
...The Communist League of America (opposition), the Trot skylst group, has declared, both in Its weekly organ, "The Militant," and In a special leaflet, that the whole case is a "shameless and unexampled frame-up" and act of provocation on the part of the "Staltnlte bureaucracy," which is accused of trying to railroad those opposed to the administration to Jail...
...Unfortunately, comrades have too often imposed on The New Leader by raising questions only In our columns and not in other party publications...
...The affair grew out of clashes between the official party Communists and the Trotsky Communists...
...But this cock-eyed world knocks so many of your hopes into a heap of dust that If you don't take to drink, you need some other stimulant to keep going...
...Even the story of the tragedy that appeared in the "Daily Worker" (official Stalin Communist organ) of August 25 Indicates what happened...
...Those who knew Debs knew that this was a caricature of a man who never hesitated to speak his mind...
...A commune consisting mostly of American workers impressed him as a bright spot In Russia Although their living conditions may be lower than In Seattle, from which many of them migrated, they are much higher than the general Russian average, (ieorgla also Impressed him favorably...
...Gene, after refusing so often to become a member of the N. E. C. because he preferred campaign and propaganda work, finally consented to become chairman of the national executive committee of the Socialist party in order to remove all possible doubts as to where he stood and in order to answer those who were purposely misinterpreting his attitude...
...The New Leader-is owned by a publishing association composed exclusively of party members and its policy is determined by the Socialist party...
...There he found no food lines, while plenty of meat and vegetables were available...
...Pennsylvania...
...Bronx...
...A survey of the unions mentioned would reveal some factors that should be taken Into account...
...The return of prosperity, and In more lasting form, Is contingent upon development of a "new state of mind toward our fellow men and our work," Dr...
...While capitalism lives, there will be jobless workers, but even they can obtain some measure of relief through unemployment insurance...
...They said that the "politicians" had never permitted Debs, four times candidate of the party for the presidency of the United States, to be a member of the N. E. C. The fact is, that in all the years of his membership Debs had always received hundreds of nominations for the N. E. C. and he had declined them...
...The Communist stories about Debs being controlled by "politicians" were not only false...
...While watching the polar bears, a man and his wife came along two big husky Polacks I think -who weru looking for their child...
...Socialists certainly approach problems from the point of view of the working claas, but Socialist members of unions on strike also have to face the types mentioned when fighting the bosses...
...k . V...
...To think of these unions in terms of their pre-war Socialist IdealIsm Is to Ignore much post-war history...
...The musical program is by Genevieve and_ Zelma Kaufman...
...The author explains that be investigated transport, the light and heavy industries and the farm collectives and relate* many Incidents, some of them amusing and many informative...
...They are too closely linked with Tammany through Tammany members of organised labor, by getting a favor done for them once in a while that they havent the courage to act as Socialists when attending conventions, so they simply stay away...
...Wily Politicians Gotta Be Careful of Window Dressing...
...The added hours of leisure would not be of advantage to the moral welfare of the nation," he said...
...I wanted to grab him away, but I was afraid they might beat me...
...Editor...
...For instance, on Sunday, I took my nephew to Bronx Park to see the animals...
...Brooklyn...
...Robert Cull urn, Michigan.—We agree that too much space has been taken in The New Leader Forum in recent months and since the convention we have tried to discourage discussion as much as possible...
...Ellery Walter was In Russia during the offensive against the kulaks last year and tells of seeing 17 prison trains carrying men, women and children Into exile...
...Healthy people are happiest when at work...
...The Trotsky Communists were holding a number of meetings or trying to hold them with increasing difficulties...
...Two photos of a prison train are among the 15 Illustrations...
...The author is a newspaper man and went to Russia a Communist Sympathizer...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 12
