THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER
Brittain, Robert
By Robert Brittain THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER (From and to John Haynts Holmes) ^LS, ift a pretty tomb—marblt purt Cut to the lints of per fed dtttncy, In tlegant taste, reflecting their stnst ...
...During the past few weeks the company has laid off 2,800 more men, bringing the total of layoffs well over 4,000 or about 40% of the whole number of workers...
...Anthony Zager, Illinois, fires In throe, and from down In Virginia, John H. Stoke, five...
...According to this report the net earnings for the pericd have been $11,630,236...
...Rebecca /.a met kin, and a sister, Mrs...
...But it was not tnough...
...Tht eanh was warm, it was good to rest in the tarth With tht French sunshint and birds up thtrt somewhere...
...A HALF CENTURY OF SOCIALIST GOVERNMENT The fiftieth jubilee of a Socialist local council was celebrated on October 3rd In Commentry, which was the first Red commune in the world...
...Tuesday, 8:80 to 8:45—Harry Cumpsom, concert pianist...
...It is particularly gratifying when we Consider that we do not get our vote counted in New York City and have to take what is given to us...
...Negro Forum Series Carlton Moss, author of "Careless Love," one of the more notable novels dealing with Harlem, inaugurated a series of programs known as the National Negro Forum, over Station* WEVD, Thursday evening at 8:30...
...For which a Pretty medal and further service...
...Also there was music stifling tht death-cries...
...Funeral services will be held in the Forwsrd building, 175 East Broadway, Manhattan, Sunday at noon...
...A campaign of education will be waged by our party this winter, and augumented efforts will be made to again double the dues-paying membership before the municipal elections of 1933...
...And tht rest chucked back underground quickly...
...Five subs this time...
...This vote virtually reflects the Strength of the organized Socialist movement in the state, since it is almost exactly proportionate with the Increase of the dues-paying membership...
...On the same program, Cab Calloway, the noted Negro band leader, made a solo appearance...
...As part of the celebration, which was attended by about 10,000 workingmen and women, a memorial was nnveiled to Christopher Thivrier, the first Red Msyor in the world...
...Then thousands gathered and traffic for several blocks was held up for more than an hour...
...Fourteen years concentred in this day: The bell raps them a minute to remember...
...on the same day announced its financial condition for the first nine months of the year...
...Not long afterward he became associated with the Jewish Daily Forward, on whose staff he filled an important place until the failure of his health...
...Processionals gilding the streets with brass lamentations The mighty wail of a nation being glad That somt ont tlst is butchered and brave and dead...
...This is only slightly less thsn the net earnings for the same period of 1981...
...And all of them marching in reverential awe The streets of the capital and across the bridge...
...two sons, William Morris and Henry, the former assistant editor of the New Leader...
...So I killed a man, Shaking with fear and blinded, my bayonet Ripping his guts out and stuck on a bone And he with the glaze coming on him sobbbing "Kamerad", 'And me sick after, and vomiting, and sick...
...The Unique Harmony Quartet will offer a group of Negro spirituals...
...But there was no Hood on me then to make me look noble, I was young and a kid...
...Among the sub hustlers who report is the old, reliable Alfred Baker Lewis of Boston...
...Feigenbaum was one of the most tireless of workers...
...They say the fragrance covered the smell of the blood...
...Coming under the observation of the Curist secret police, he had ts take refuge, first in Belgium and then in London, where he lived from 1888 till 1891, editing a Jewish Socialist paper...
...Moss will interview Dr...
...The man who sold The victims to the priest would take a part Of the purchase price and deck the bull with garlands...
...It emphasizes the necessity of organisation in order for substantial results to be achieved...
...0 patient Cod, will they ever let me alone...
...Lieberman of Poland represented the Labor and Socialist International at this impressive commemoration...
...Plain clothesmen with rifles brandished the butts of the guns over the heads of fleeing pedestrians...
...were scenes of commotion, in which many thousands were caught, as a small group of pickets carrying signs.protesting the recent layoffs of 2,800 workers failed to attract any attention until 100 officers of the law swooped down upon them to protect the sanctity of the pavements around the utility's offices...
...When the elderly clergyman had amply established his right to the streets, he retired to a Socialist meeting in front of Borough Hall and told the story of the police violence to a dense throng that taxed the capacity of the square...
...Practically all of the work was done by volunteers...
...i After the inauguration of the memorial a banquet took place at which the two ions of Thivrier presided, Alphonse, the present Mayor, and Isidore, the Socialist member of Parliament, for the constituency...
...The crowd began to cheer him, as his white head appeared in and out in the midst of frantic upholders of the law...
...He alone was calm...
...The patrolwagon arrived with reinforcements to disperse the crowd...
...JULIUS GERBER, Executive Secretary, Socialist Party, New York...
...branch of the Y. M. C. A. VOTE REFLECTS PARTYjrrRENGTH While returns from upstate are extremely few all indications point to a vote for Thomas in the state of approximately double what he received in 1928...
...In 1900 Feigenbaum became general secretary of the then young Workmen's Circle and also collaborated in editing the short-lived Jewish Volkszeitung...
...And now let us proceed to build our organisation, make it more effective and efficient to carry on the struggle for the emancipation of the working class...
...1 thought when they took my name and gave me a number And shipped me in boats like a bull in trains like a horse And gave me a dose of flu, it was enough...
...That is our goal, and for this we must organise and educate the masses of Workers...
...To those who hsve come into the movement since the war this announcement will carry no intimate message, for through the last dozen years a complete physical breakdown had barred Comrade Feigenbaum from all activity and more recently even from personal contacts- To older comrades, however, and especially to those of Jewish origin, it will revive memories of heroic struggle...
...Then Rev...
...By J. B. Matthews BROOKLYN EDISON WORKERS IN BATTLE WITH POLICE THE sidewalks around the offices of the Brooklyn Edison Co...
...And branded my decent obscurity with bronze And I thought that at last they had eaten their fill of my bones...
...During the banquet Isidore Thivrier read congratulatory messages which had come from every country, among them being messages from the Secretariat of the Labor and Socialist International and the executives of the Belgian, Bulgarian, German, Latvian and Polish Socialist partlei...
...I was content to bt ttill and noblt and forget...
...BeUa Kamin and' Mrs...
...The grateful tribute of the nation's heart: Senators tlianking me for thtir salaries, Ambassadors offering flowers for my blood, The man who made a million out of mutes Donating the price of a mult to buy me a plaque, The preachers who lectured me on grtattr love Taking me now for a text and a graceful reference...
...Through scores of policemen he strode up and down in the middle of the street while cameramen who had begun to arrive from the newspapers feverishly recorded the news in pictures...
...He is survived by his devoted wife, Mrs...
...I want to express my appreciation for the work our candidates and comrades of the Party and the Y.P.S.L...
...I hey camt with spades Routing mt out with a dozen or to like mt Set in a row...
...And all of them standing, heads bowed and in silence A moment . . . and the lift of the shoulders' relief after Timed with a cannon blast called a salute...
...The pickets represented the Brotherhood of Brooklyn Edison Employes...
...Brooklyn, one of the founders of the Socialist Party,, died early Thursday morning, at the age of seventy-two, after a long illness...
...have done...
...For the next eight years he was an editor of the weekly Arbeiter Zeitung and the daily Abendblatt When the Socialist Labor Party split in 1899 this paper was captured by the Del.eon faction, and all the editors were ousted...
...The State Committe had less than Ave thousand dollars and the City Committee less than eight thousand dollars for general campaign purposes...
...The battle of 1932 is over but the war is still on until the Cooperative Commonwealth is established...
...Mounted officers rode their horses against him but he was not deterred...
...and they cast lots and thty chost Mt...
...So to the tomb they brought me with pageantry...
...Unknown, unnamed, even my number gone...
...A series of speeches were delivered by Poggioli, on behalf of the Union of Socialist Communes of France...
...In 1891 he came to New York...
...The National Negro Forum will present its program every Thursday evening at the same time, in association with the Speakers' Bureau of the 135th St...
...The Brooklyn Edison Co...
...Born in Warsaw August 12,1860, the son of a Talmud ic teacher, Benjamin Feigenbaum received an early education calculated to prepare him for a similar career...
...The trees have heard their voices and the grass...
...And here they come to bring me wrtaths With their nanus attached, and make me beautiful spttchts Reminding me of my nobility...
...Mounted policemen charged into the crowds on the sidewalks again and again, but their efforts to disperse the curious were in vain...
...Matilda Feigenbaum, also an almost lifelong Socialist...
...Eliot White, who up to that time had not been carrying one, grabbed up a sign and became a 1-man picket line...
...Beaumont, assistant to the present Mayor of Commentry...
...They tell me that men once made sacrifice Of bulls to all their gods...
...Alphonse Thivrier, Riviere, on behalf of the Socialist Party in Parliament, and Leon Jouhaux, general secretary of the French Trade Cnion Confederation, recalling how Commentry had been won for Socialism by the unflagging propaganda of Christopher Thivrier...
...The vote is particularly gratifying when we consider the small amount of money we had to work with...
...By Robert Brittain THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER (From and to John Haynts Holmes) ^LS, ift a pretty tomb—marblt purt Cut to the lints of per fed dtttncy, In tlegant taste, reflecting their stnst of propritty...
...Then I thought when they shot my hands off 'And left me to bleed it out, I had done my duty...
...As a young man, however, he became convinced of the truth of Socialist principles and threw himself wholeheartedly into the work of propaganda among the Jews of Poland and Lithuania...
...The series will be conducted by the University Scholarship Foundation...
...Swiftly on the heels of the recent layoffs, John C. Parker, head of the Brooklyn Edison Co., was appointed chairman of the Relief Committee for the Unemployed of Brooklyn...
...We build for the future, and the future belongs to us...
...two daughters, Mrs...
...And each so happy that it was my blood auctioned Sells part of the drop he got to buy mt a wreath...
...In the moment silence they almost hear my whisper But the cannon boom shatters it back from their ears And they cry me down with a great cry, shouting, "Greater love hath not any man than this: That he murder his friend to get his master gold...
...George E. Haynes, Secretary of the Committee on Church and Race Relations of the Federsl Council of Churches...
...Yetta Goodman...
...ON WEVD Station WEVD, the Debs memorial radio station, announces the following series for next week: Tuesday, 6:16 to 5:30— Michael Strange, a poetic and dramatic reading...
...Let us go to it with more vigor than heretofore, and we will succeed...
...Benjamin Feigenbaum, Socialist Veteran, Dead BENJAMIN FEIGENBAUM, of 160 96th St...
...Vote Is Commensurate With Organization (Continued from Page One) our comrades expected, but the vote is commensurate with our organised strength...
...The weight of all this marble chokes my voice And all their clattering drowns my single breath...
...Besides his editorial work he wrote numerous books, pamphlets, and articles, translated Socialist classics into Yiddish, spoke indoors and out in Socialist campaigns, strikes, and union organization drives, lectured all over the country, and took an active part in the affairs of the party and of the Jewish labor movement...
...The pickets were herded off more than once before the officers in anger seized and destroyed their banners...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 20
