Books in Brief
Rogin, Lawrence
BOOKS IN BRIEF A Proletarian Novelist By Lawrence Rogin I*HE paucity of proletarian lit" erature in America which has been notorious, especially in so far as the novel is concerned,...
...He is different from other writers of the hard-boiled school...
...Comrade Blanshard assured the Communists that when the time comes for barricades, he will be with them...
...She realises that in our capitalist world It is a curse to be born poor and a* curse that must be exploited in this world and not in the hereafter...
...Most writers learned the mechanics of their art before learning about life...
...Sunday School Teachers The Socialist Party's committee on Sunday Schools has called a meeting of all teachers in the party for this Saturday at 2:30 p. m. at the Rand School Studio to discuss the program for this year's centers...
...Delaware Breaks Record WILMINGTON...
...Can you throw any light on this rumor...
...There was not even any account of the Thomas meeting here which was an overwhelming success...
...Baltimore, Md...
...In words that sear and burn, the lives of the victims of an inconceivably vicious system of punishment are portrayed...
...Eugene V. Debs ia still Bring sad, if so, where...
...The only movement to battle the increasing terrorist reaction in Argentina, according to "La Vanguardia," local Socialist daily, is ths Socialist Party, and the task is being splendidly achieved...
...This is a grim commentary on the political situation of the country...
...The New Leader did its utmost to report all campaign activities but the West was the most difficult to cover...
...Led by Slaney they overpower the guards and Slaney escapes...
...The hall was Jammed and hundreds were turned away...
...Eiptrteoced hikers only...
...Eugene V. Debs Can you tell sae If Mrs...
...Oregon Socialist News Why hi it that we sever see any account of the activities of the comrades in Oregon in The New Leader...
...They frequently drag in fence words with the saairk of a small boy with a piece of chalk, while Tully uses Elizabethan terms and others of a later coinage easily and naturally...
...More important than this, however, has been the development among those now beginning to write of an understanding of and sympathy with the working class and its problems, and their attempt to put a working class point of view between the covers of a book...
...On a lonely farm he meets a girl whose parents have died of the plague...
...However, it is so long since "Ditte" has been called to the attention of the public that it deserves some description...
...However, this promising development of our own literature doea not detract from the power and ability of those European writers who with a growing class-consciousness among the workers of their countries sought to bring that same spirit into literature...
...the latter has lived and suffered with those be portrays...
...Sunday, November M: Hike Bear Mountain-Torn Pond-Highland Fall Host » a. m. at 42nd Street ferry...
...Following ths Oneal-Nearlng delate, Charles Solomon will debate Harry Eisner Barnes *a "Is' Democracy a Failure...
...Ditte Is born on a deserted farm, but she spends her short life in a fishing village, working o" a farm, as a housemaid in the city, as a wet nurse and as a seamstress...
...The prison camp boss and his assistant, spurred on by ths big reward offered for Slsney'i capture and smarting because of the failure to break his spirit, run him down...
...Leader: Henry Mueller...
...It is hoped the total will reach 2,500...
...In fact, the description of the escaped convict's perilou...
...With the organization growing by leaps and bounds, we expect to increase the circulation of The New Leader here...
...Her work brings her into contact with other workers and she sees in the lives of the poor the ugly details far outstanding the happy moments...
...their ideals, hers...
...Roger L. Austin, Michigan...
...There is only one thing 1 would like to comment on, and that is his pitiable effort in trying to appease the Communists...
...The court in the land of chivalry sentences him to the chain gang for life...
...Debs is still living and may be reached by addressing her at North 7th Street, Terra Haute, Ind...
...dash for liberty with the girl bears com pariaon with a similar and unforgetable episode in Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms...
...Last year the big opera house wss Jsmmed week after week by eager listeners to hear the debates snd lectures on vital subjects...
...From this account it appears that the Communist Party of France has expelled R. Color as a spy...
...The passages in this part of the book bear no resemblance to the first part of the novel, which borders on the maudlin...
...Now, does Comrade Blanshard want to be a martyr and be mentioned among the unknown soldiers of the Revolution, or does he just want to take away the industries of the capitalists...
...The Nature Friend* are going', to publish their hike announcement* regularly in Ths New Lsadsr, and appeal to ths readers to join them in their hike* or trips to their Midvale, N. J. camp, TWO WEEKEND HIKES Saturday, November 19, trip to Camp Midvale, combined with hike Haskell-Midvale...
...Mrs...
...The former set in motion and guide their characters...
...They are mechanics, while he is a craftsman...
...W. Laidler will preside at the Oneal-Nearing debate...
...Virginia Breaks Record RICHMOND.—-The vote for the Thomas Maurer ticket in Virginia will break all Socialist records according to Incomplete returns available...
...A PERSONAL WORD By William M. Feigenbaum I hope my friends and comrades, and the comrades, friends and admirers of my late father will' understand if I take this public means to thank them upon behalf of my mother, my sisters and myself for their deeply appreciated expressions of sorrow, sympathy and comradeship during the trying week just past...
...One of the enthusiasts, George A. Johnson of Philadelphia, writes: "The New Leader always says the right thing at the right time...
...Leader: Jack Hengersberger...
...At Its 21st Conference in May of this year it was announced that the membership had increased by 9,600 since the 20th Conference in 1920...
...The vote in Richmond wss 444 snd in Norfolk 197: Us Communists polled about 150 votes...
...Protesting against the anti-labor reaction, the paper said in a recent issue: "In view of the violent persecution to which trade unionists are submitted, the violations of the right of meeting and association, the restrictions on the freedom of speech and of the press, and the projected attacks on the proletarian trade union movement, the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party decided at its last meeting to intensify its activity by means of new public meetings in order to condemn this reactionary work and defend the rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution of the country and indispensable for the Labor Movement...
...And so his family feels, in the face of the flood o" messages that have come to us and after the beautiful tributes paid him on Sunday, that he lived a good life, a useful life and an honored life...
...There is vigor, indignation and pity in the recital of "Laughter in Hell...
...Being just a worker, be cannot plead the unwritten law...
...In Tully*s "Laughter in Hell" (Albert eV Charles Bonl, (2.50) we have a story that may become the Uncle Tom's Cabin of the chain gang prison camp system...
...During a yellow fever epidemic the prisoners are ordered to bury the victims...
...On the contrary, it should call attention to those forerunners of our own, as yet, comparatively feeble efforts...
...27, at 10:30 a. m. The committee will provide .teachers and programs, but the branches are urged to make Other arrangements, including, if possible, sending letters to registered Socialist voters in the vicinity...
...In the fight that follows, Slaney and his would-be captors are killed...
...He knows the world of drunkards, thieves, drug addicts, tramps, the sweated, the outcasts—"the vassals marred in the making...
...Frankly, we don't know, unless it be more readers...
...What more could a subscriber ask...
...I could tell by his intelligence that he couldn't possibly do it, so why try co appease people who don't want to be appeased...
...The 1932-1933 season begins in the evening of November 27th with a debate on "Socialism and Communism" between James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, and Scott Nearlng...
...1,141 825 Kent County.......44 1 Sussex County________818 8 Totals ............1,503 829 The highest previous vote m the state was 988 in 1920...
...NEW LEADER FORUM BARRICADES By Louis Reeenfeld Paul Blanshard spoke at a Symposium at the Baltimore Open Forum here recently, representing the Socialist side of the political campaign, and many of us enjoyed his talk immensely...
...Brooklyn Forum Plans THE Brooklyn Forum, the Sunday evening lecture and debate forum conducted by the Socialist Party at the Academy of Music, offers the only establishment of its kind meeting regularly in the city, and the managers are fully prepared to meet the opportunities that face them...
...It is the story of Barney Slaney, a simple, likeable giant who murdered his wife and her lover...
...K. M. Small, California...
...The hike loader* of the New York branch know their trail...
...Branches are asked to elect a Sunday School representative to be responsible for arrangements and to cooperate with the committee, have a sign put on their headquarters, and take registration on Sunday morning, Nov...
...His personal rule was then ended by a revolution, only to be replaced by an open military dictatorship...
...Like the priest in one of his short stories, Tully, at times, seems to hear the swish of angels' wings...
...One little gas bomb will probably destroy more than half a dozen barricades...
...ARGENTINE SOOALIST BATTLE THE REACTION BUENOS AIRES...
...With 56 out of 100 counties reporting the vote is 1,907 The vote was 250 in 1928, and the highest previous vote wss 1,060 In 1916...
...Doesn't Comrade Blanshard know that the only way he can satisfy those fellows is to join their ranks and swallow Stalinism—hook, line and sinker...
...We ran some items regarding Oregon but a number of these were picked out of letters...
...but if he wants to take away the industries from the capitalists on barricades, that is impossible...
...Alexander .Fischandler will speak, laat year's progress will be reviewed, and assignments for this season given...
...The reverse is the case with Tully...
...My father belonged to us, but he also belonged to the Socialist labor movement, and we gladly share our feeling as we shared my father with the masses to whom he gave Up the energies of his long and splendid life...
...I beard tale from a friend and find it difficult to believe...
...Perhaps it was something of that point of view that caused Peter Smith to reissue those two grand books of Martin Anderson Nexo, "Pelle the Conqueror" and "Ditto" in a form and at a price ($3.00) much more convenient for the depression pocketbook than those at which the first American translations were issued years ago...
...During all this time he was an agent of the French police and his true role was only recently discovered...
...Meet 2:80 p. m. at Erie ferry, Chambers St...
...The debate will inaugurate the second season of the most successful enterprise of its kind ever undertaken by the party...
...interested in hiking, camping and similar outdoor activities...
...N. 8, Portland, Ore...
...It presents the best topics by the best writers...
...His last years were marred by a torturing illness, and death must have been a blessed relief, but to the very end his thoughts were of our party and our movement...
...Our vote in Delaware is as fellows: * 1932 1928 New Castle County...
...Martin Anderson Nexo hss built around the life story of a girl born into the lowest section of society, a picture of the poor in every walk of life...
...J. G, Brooklyn, N. Y. « • • We have heard of this case and the- "Workers' Age," organ of the Communist opposition, issue of November-IS, carries a short story of this affair...
...He was a member of the Central Committee, district organiser of Paris, and since 1925 he was all the time a fire-eating Bolshevik...
...Round trip fare: $1.80...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF A Proletarian Novelist By Lawrence Rogin I*HE paucity of proletarian lit" erature in America which has been notorious, especially in so far as the novel is concerned, has been somewhat allayed in the past few years...
...However, even this defect cannot seriously weaken the strength and the feeling that Tully shows in "Laughter in Hell...
...Happity, the Socialist Party, which has fought for the popular liberties against Irigoyen, against the military dictator General Uriburu, and against the present General Justo, is steadily growing...
...Laughter in Hell By Ban Blumenberg |1M TULLY is an American ** literary relative of Gorky...
...The Congressional ticket, all at large, polled between 8,012 snd 2,559 rotes...
...Mrs...
...The girl and the escaped convict flee the stricken territory and Slaney finds work in the nainea...
...If he just wants to be a martyr, of course, the barricade is the proper place...
...Experience in the recent campaign shows that at least one party member should be vestet" with the responsibility of a news correspondent and not rely on comrades burdened with other work to also assume this Job...
...The depression has brought with it a drift to the left even among those of our American literati who were so excited about "Humanism" only a abort time ago...
...Questions and Answers A Frame* Spy Is it true that a prominent Communist in Franc* has been discovered to be in the pay of the French police...
...This reviewer has already gone into rhapsodies over "Pelle" in the columns of The New Leader not long ago and so will do nothing more than mention it here and recommend it to those who have not as yet read it...
...THE FRIENDS OF NATURE Many readers of The New Leader are undoubtedly...
...And still a great number of worker* do not know that the proper organization for such lovers of Outdoor life is the Nature Friends, the workers' outdoor club, with an international membership of 170.000 in 21 countries...
...There is tenderness, too...
...and the following week Louis Waldman will defend Socialism against George Gordon Battle...
...fare, $1.40...
...The struggles of the working class become her struggle...
...And the Presidential and Parliamentary elections of November 1031, which were ostensibly held to facilitate the restoration of constitutional normality, have left the political life of Argentina still in a state which may be imagined only too well from the above decision ef the Socialist Party Executive...
...Harry...
...In a few of the western states we received no reports at all...
...Not for a number of years has Argentina known real constitutional government Until September 1930, the country smarted under the autocratic government of President Irigoyen...
...And new members are still being enrolled in hundreds...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
