Workers Have Great Stake In the Court of Appeals
Workers Have Great Stake In the Court of Appeals Why the Mattes Should Not Allow the Election to Go by Default—Panken, the Workers' Candidate for Chief Judge. IN tee excitement over the...
...In the elections of Oct...
...Out of the Civil War came two new political parties, one still bearing an old name but lacking its basis in slave property and turn inga into the same temple occupied its main support while the other enjoyed the support of the triumphant plutocracy of capital invested in banks and a swarm of industrial enterprises...
...In the last analysis, the Court of Appeals determines what is permissible under the constitution and what shall be the law for the stale...
...For one, we shall not stand in the way of any greater party of the workers, but an amalgam of various groups lured by cozening the prejudiced and concealing our real purposes will find us vigorous dissenters...
...Not only that, but to satisfy this prejudice he would water the program, tone it down...
...A man rose in the audience and after declaring he had never in all his life been so moved by a public address, moved a rising vote of thanks to Solomon, whereupon the several hundred men and women rose to a man...
...In order to avoid any idea of a class party and fat the hope that the new movement will not la vita prejudiced attacks he would avoid the word Socialist Of the Socialist Party he writes: "Its potentialities for growth are greatly hampered by the unreasoning prejudice which large elements of the public attach to the word Socialism" and they include many of the farm population and "large sections of the lower middle class whose antipathy to the word Is every whit as great" The attitude toward Socialism which he would conciliate he admits Is one of "unreasoning prejudice...
...The court, under the decisions handed down by tho Appellate Courts, could deprive the citizen of hia liberty and of his good name just for no other reason excepting that in the opinion of a judge the acta (and the act may be a failure to act) tends to a breach of the peace "In the relationship between the individual and the government, whether municipal, county or state, the courts hare a determining band...
...Now Ycrk...
...If the platform had not contained it we would have fought to have the requirement stated on the application blank and many other delegates would have joined in that fight...
...9, which covered all the cities and communes in the kingdom, the Socialists won more than 800 new councillors and lost only 50...
...Socialists reject the theory that there should be no partisanship in elections for the bench, and insist that the issues that divide citizens in voting foi executives and members of the legislative likewise should be considered in voting for the judiciary...
...The right to strike, the right to organize without interference by Injunctions are matters which are tremendously important to the successful results as a consequence of the organized labor movement...
...By James Oaeal Tho Coming of a Now Perty.< Bp I ml H. Dou§mo...
...on the question of eminent domain...
...Theatre Party Upper West Side branch will be host to Socialist Party members at a midnight motion picture party at the Little Carnegie Playhouse, 67th St., east of Seventh Ave, on Saturday, October 29...
...More* over, American capitalism has reached a period of chronic stagnation that makes the appeal to a vague "Socialism" an anti-eiimax...
...Douglas presents plenty of evidence to show that the two reigning psrties have become the property of the same reactionary and exploiting classes...
...In this we differ with him...
...on the question of condemnation for public use...
...On the contrary he Is fundamentally honest in his proposals but does not understand the fatal implications we have mentioned...
...Belgian Socialists Score Heavy Gains Filled with enthusiasm and confidence as the result of their big gains in the municipal election of Oct 0, the Belgian Socialists are eager to do battle with their bourgeois opponents in the impending general election of the Chamber of Deputies, judging from reports found in late issues of Le Peuple of Brussels and other European Labor papers...
...In an appeal for the election of a Sociulist to that office Panken said: "The Chief Judgeship of the Court of Appeals is an important post...
...If the ratio of gains made in the local electionsis equalled or exceeded in the general contest forced by the Last Cabinet crisis, the Belgian Labor Party is Likely to more thsn recoup the sight seats it lost in the elections of May 28, 1929, and to increase its representation in the Chamber from 70 to BO or 90 out of a total of 187 deputies...
...Does he think that he can satisfy "unreasoning prejudice" by not using the word SocialismT lie apparently does...
...After election It is expectet" to crystallize the sentiment for Thomas by forming a Teachers' Socialist Group...
...This is not to say that Prof...
...The Socialist judiciary ticket ia headed by Jacob Panken, former Municipal Court Judge, who is candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals...
...Douglas pleads and this concept underlies much of his reasoning...
...Not that he does not want a labor section of the proposed new party...
...The movement that hasn't the stamina proudly to fly its own colors, courageously to proclaim what It frankly stands for, and go forward and combat all myths, traditions and prejudices, rather than try to conciliate them, is a movement tha^t begins without any confidence in itself and that deceives the laboring millions to whom it must make its primary appeal if it ia to make any headway...
...However, it la a movement not based upon recognition of class antagonism for which Prof...
...laughing at a strikebreaker might be disorderly conduct under that decision...
...Under our system of government the state Is an entity, and within its own boundaries it fixes and determines the law governing ita citizens...
...He sold 100 copies of The New Leader and left 100 sab blanks for the local Socialists to sell SOLOMON MOVES BIG TEMPLE AUDUMCE fjfJHKN Chariot Solomoa, Socialist U. 8. Senatorial candidate, completed his address ia the political symposium at the Men's Club of the 8th Avenue Temple, in Brooklyn, Tueaday night, the large and representative audience, which included leaders in all walks of Brooklyn's life, burst into wild and prolonged applause and stamping of feet which, according to reports in Brooklyn newspapers, lasted well over a minute...
...on the mandatory requirements of public officers to perform duties...
...Generally, the United States Supreme Court Is more conservative than the Court of Appeals of New York State, "Every conceivable question affecting the life of the people must, in the course of time, come before the Court of Appeals...
...The applicant for membership is required to accept the principles snd program of the party, and the writer of this review and Morris Hillquit as members of the platform committee,, worked out this class concept in the platform that was adopted at the Milwaukee convention...
...Teachers for Socialism All teachers interested in the formation of a Teachers' Socialist Club are requested to communicate with Jack Altman at 1 East lfith Street A New York Teachers' Section of the Thomas for President Com mittee has already been formed, 500 having already signed pledge slips for Thomas...
...The propram will include the French picture (with Engliah titles) "David (loldir," Mickey Mouse, shorts, and well known entertainers—John Gumey, tenor, Gregory Weston* and Budd Wesoly...
...Douglas accepts this reasoning...
...and many other matters that vitally affect human life 1 "Civil rights and their preservation are always questions before the courts...
...These acts or lack or acta need not manifest themselves in war between labor and capital...
...Judge Grover Moacowitz of the U. S. District Court presided...
...Ha presented the fundamental demand of the world Socialist movement for social ownership and Democratic control of the essential means of life, with production for use Instead of profit, discussing also the immediate Socialist program for relief of unemployment and destitution...
...They won the majority of the councils in 74 new communes and lost only 16 of the hundreds of local administrations they already controlled...
...It is exceedingly important for the Socialist and labor movement that the place be occupied by a Socialist...
...The construction of a dwelling house to conform with modern requirements, should be a question of expert medical, architectural and sanitary knowledge...
...IN tee excitement over the election of a President, a Governor, United States Senator, Congressmen and state legislators and a Mayor, voters should not forget the fact that they are also voting for members of the judiciary...
...Tickets are 85c...
...On the contrary, he does want it but he wants it merged with other groups in the new party, not as the fundamental basis and driving power of the party...
...might arise between individuals in their private capacity...
...Is a New Party Needed...
...The other speakers were George Gordon Battle, for the Democrats, and George Z. Medalie, Republican Senatorial candidate, for his party...
...The labor movement has a stake in the courts...
...It may be a surprise to learn that the Appellate Courts have decided that 'any act, which, in the opinion of a judge, tends to a breach of the peace constitutes disorderly conduct, and the court therefore should convict and punish.' Very few people, looking askance or accusingly at a strikebreaker, under the law as laid down by the Appellate Courts, might...
...If the new party under another name will really serve to emancipate the working masses it will be just aa bitterly attacked as under the name of Socialism...
...Socialists reject the theory that a judge is a disembodied spirit, sitting in judgment on laws and abstract issues ami j having no relation whatever to the world around him...
...Most of the Labor Veins were made at the expense of the Catholic and Christian Democratic partiea...
...On the question of tsxation...
...In the first place he wants no party that is baaed on the class struggle and he asserts that the Socialist Party abolished this requirement Here we disagree...
...What is needed is a class conscious message to the despoiled, the awakening of workers to their power as a class, and frank assertion of the claims of the masses to abolish the capitalist regime that has brought them so much misery...
...Another political revolution is due snd Douglas presents many of the economic reasons for it Many of these reasons are Bound but when he reaches the second section of the book under the general heading of Tactics we are compelled to dissent with much that he suggests...
...The individual in his purely private life may have his right preserved, his liberties protected and extended or curtailed and destroyed, dependent entirely upon the constitution of our Court of Appeals...
...on all of these questions the courts, particularly the Court of Appeals, is the final arbiter...
...It comes before the Court of Appeals, and that Court might upset what sanitary experts would prescribe on the ground that the requirements are confiscatory of private property...
...The Democratic Party within the past twenty years baa moved all of its belongings into the sametemple occupied by the Republican Party and both are kept by the great capitalist kings and financial nobles...
...He went on to show that depressions and unemployment are the inevitable consequences of this system and that it is a forlorn hope to expect any aubetantial relief while the capitalist system continues...
...on the enforcement of Uw...
...Requirements, for instance, as to fat content in milk or purity of food in general are questions that might come before the Court of Appeals...
...News comes that Parliament has been dissolved and elections will be held on November 27...
...The United States Supreme Court lays down what is pet missive under the law for the people of the entire nation...
...McGraw-Hill, 82...
...A feature of the election was the failure of the Communists to make any material advance, even In the mining districts where they had hoped to profit by a certain amount of discontent with the Socialist leadership of last Saunter's strike...
...It is not for us to go over to the lower middle classes but for us to ohow them that their present interests cannot find tatitfaction within the capitalist system and that their future interest* are linked with tho liberation of the working clans...
...tend to a breach of the peace and constitute disorderly Conduct...
...Solomon pointed out that there were no longer any substantial differences between the major political parties, that the primary function of each waa to perpetuate the capitalist system under which production and distribution are carried on for private profit, ceasing or declining when profit ceases or declines...
...William M. Feigenbaum of The New Leader went to Lake wood Tuesday to make a campaign address...
...In the first period the Federalists and Jefferponians who had displayed deadly hatreds for nearly two decades had practically merged by 1820 and a few years later there waa a political revolution and the rise of Jacksonian Democracy...
...Such a development will make It practically impossible for any bourgeois government to continue in office without Socialist toleration...
...HERE is aa Litereating bosk earryinc a Foreword by John Dewey...
...Party life has reached a stage that It reached twice before in our history, once in 1824 and again in 1852...
...and if it will not serve this purpose it will be useless to Ike winkeri under any nam...
...In our judgment it isnt even good political expediency...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
