Slow Science
SHIPLEY, JOSEPH T.
BOOKS IN BRIEF Slow Science By Joseph T. Shipley In "World Chaos: The Responsibility of Science" (Covici-Friede) William McDougall joint the long list of those who have effectively pictured the...
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...Alas and alack, one more panacea has gone the way of others proposed to solve, the internal, external, and Inevitable contradictions of the capitalist system...
...1XKW LKAIsKR FOR I'M A WORKING CLASS PARTY...
...This first volume fulfills his purpose very well and It is certain that the second one will messure up to the first one...
...Single copies, 25 cents...
...Further information on the activity and proposed conference can be secured by writing to P . O. Box 51, Station D, N. Y. C, or by calling Bonding Green 9-9448...
...I don't feel sure...
...In order that they may be able to study, a circulating library has been started...
...But who are the laboring millions...
...The volume correlates with the modern trend in historical writing: except that it Is intended for general reading...
...Our aim is to raise the whole of the working class above even ths status now occupied by its more favored sections...
...We will go forward In building our own party, indifferent to what liberals and progressives may do...
...The conference Is called by Nathaniel Weyl as temporary chairman, and the keynote address, "Tthe World in Crisis," will be delivered at 8 p. m. on the first day by A. Fenner Brockway, Chairman of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain and Chairman of ths War Registers' International...
...A very rough estimate of the forty-odd million wage-earners shows that about sixteen million are what, for the sake of distinction, may be called laborers...
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...and I thought him optimistic...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF Slow Science By Joseph T. Shipley In "World Chaos: The Responsibility of Science" (Covici-Friede) William McDougall joint the long list of those who have effectively pictured the evils of the current social system...
...But he curiously bases his hopes for man's rising out of this mess of evil upon science, especially upon anthropology, as the basis of economic "science...
...The present author's volume on "Provincial Society" in the History of American Life series also displayed his interpretive skill and new in the book under consideration we have the first of a two-volume more popular history bearing the sub-title, "The Rise of the Union...
...Norman Thomas—whom, by twisting a word, McDougall attacks—knows a better solution, fitted to our urgent times...
...By James Truslovi Adams...
...Among the organizations represented will be the Young People's Socialist ¦ I league, the ¦ la > 4. D., Pioneer Youth, the Young Circle League, the Rand School Fellowship, the Young Communist League (Opposition), Brook wood Labor College Fellowship, and many pacifist organizations...
...President-elect Roosevelt will play ball .with the Progressives...
...CONFERENCE ON HARLAN CASES Delegates representing more than one hundred organizations will attend a conference on the Harlan and Bell Counties, Kentucky Miners' eases December 1st, at $, at the Labor Temple, 242 East 14th Street...
...I realize that I can be answered simply by the statement that Socialism aims at a classless society, but we are dealing with facts, not with hypotheses...
...The line of demarcation between the laborer and white collar worker is so easily obliterated that the two are constantly interchanging, and there is not a large class of people born to toil and curse an oppressive class...
...One has to be wary of treating events related to men still living and yet much of Mr...
...The concept of a socialistic state must be altered from one with the laborer triumphant to . one with labor and middle-class triumphant...
...We need many more...
...In short, the author has accomplished an excellent task in this first volume but it will be a more difficult one for him when in the final volume he writes of the past twenty years...
...Other speakers from the Socialist Party and organizations sponsoring a congressional investigation in the Kentucky coal fields will address the assembly...
...they subscribe to bourgeois views...
...Columbus, Ohio...
...Can our civilization survive in the meantime...
...It will be remembered that the so-called labor Statesmen predicted the growth of their labor banks to rival Wall Street, while Otto Kahn, Frank A. VandsrUp, and other financier* welcomed the labor bankers as brothers fen business...
...but I hope it may: for I can see no alternative measures that offer hope of its salvation...
...He began by saying that •ur national vote of about three quarters of a million, three times that of four years ago, Is a remarkably encouraging result of a campaign carried on almost without money or organization...
...The learned Vsn Loon proceeded to convulse the audience with a long story of the rise of Theodore Shouts, the moral of which was that the hope of Socialism lies in education of the young...
...It is the Socialist Party...
...In his article Comrade Oneal refutes the argument of Mr...
...There is enough of the backgrounds presented to arouse the curiosity of the layman for a more extensive view of some of them...
...f\V the modern social historians ^¦^ Jamen Truslow Adams ranks high, although his work is uneven i n merit...
...Incidentally he challenged Broun to produce fa his column a Socialist platform within the limits of a hundred-and-fifty words...
...Then, isnt it reasonable to suppose that this aversion of the "white collar class" to Socialism arises from a fear that Socialism will deprive It of its better status, real or fancied...
...but unfortunately life cannot wait for the schoolroom...
...eleven million, farmers...
...That would bring us to the year 1970, or thereabouts...
...Aa to the suggestion of doing away with immediate demands, ha referred to the eleven million unemployed and tssaarksd that they need food now, not In the future Socialist commonwealth...
...Douglas has made the point...
...As for the party itself, it is either a working class party or it is not If not it has no right to call itself "Socialist...
...Douglas that the Socialist movement should not be based on a class struggle, on the grounds that any com{iromise movement "deceives the aboring millions to whom it must make its primary appeal If it is to make any headway...
...Only seven'banks remain, with total resources of $28,564,797...
...James Price, a field representative in Harlan for eight months, will give a detailed report on conditions and the distribution of relief to miners and their families, and on the court trials, which he attended as a General Defense Committee official...
...Morris Hillquit...
...Adam's magazine work In the past few years indicates that he will acquit himself of this task with credit The book appears in a beautiful, cream-colored cloth binding, stamped in gold, which gives the reader the same sense of satisfaction that reading its informative pages does...
...that at the top some gentlemen acquired social prestige and 100 per cent profits out of fat war contracts, and that the Fathers thought it perfectly natural to confiscate the properties of their Tory opponents...
...In introducing the chair-, man, B. Charney Vladeck, Algernon Lee referred to the twenty-seven years during which .the Rand School has been the educational organ of the Socialist movement In New York, and the audience proved by the warmth of Its interest how loyal are the friends of the school...
...Can we afford to wait so long...
...Any one wishing to send any of these or any other labor plays, books, poems, etc, for use in workers' study groups may send them to my address...
...Among them ware many of the old-timers and also...
...I have tried to hold the balance even," the author writes in his introduction, "and not to substitute for the old 'drum and trumpet' merely the voices and motives of the market place, or a pissunseane account of manners and arts and thought...
...Oneal's review of the book, "The Coming of a New Party" by Paul H. Douglas, in the issue of Oct...
...His suggestions evidently had some support in the audience...
...The various sessions will be addressed by Glen Trimble, Tucker P. Smith, Devere Allen, J. B. Matthews, Benjamin C. Marsh, Roger N. Baldwin, Relnhold Nlebuhr, Norman Thomas and others...
...It is the job of the Socialist to show that the aristocratic "higher plane" view of any section of workers is illusory, not to make concessions to it...
...All this is gently stated and similar backgrounds In other periods are brought into the narrative...
...Anatole France guessed 1,000 years for what McDougall allows 20...
...The class conflict waa going to be settled in their counting rooms...
...Can you convince people that you are attempting the thing that will benefit them by instating that another class ef people, or what they choose to call an...
...Twenty-two of the original forty-three miners indicted on conspiracy charges in the spring of 1931 will go to trial about November 28th...
...Rand School Dinner Hears Discussion of Vote Results The annual Rand School dinner' on November 20th drew a great crowd of enthusiastic Socialists to consider the results of the political campaign...
...We do not have a large working class which has been oppressed for hundreds of years...
...On Saturday night the conference will resolve itself into a rot-licking frolic, entitled, "The Dance of the Cannon Fodder...
...To me, the view of some Socialists is not realistic: it presupposes facts which are unwarranted...
...y Prank McBreesa Without appearing presumptions, I would like to take exception to the underlying philosophy contained in Jam...
...The book is published' by Levin • Welsenberg, 540 Wilcox Building, Los Angeles, Cal...
...The conference is held under the auspices of the Kentucky Miners' Defense and Relief Conference, the local representative of the General Defense Committee, Chicago...
...The chairman, In his introductory remarks, thanked heaven that two ef the three speakers had a sense of humor and then Introduced Headrlk Witless Van Loon as the man who recently become famous as a broadcaster ever station WEVD...
...That is to aay, neither the old-style stressing of the work of politicians, statesmen and soldiers nor the geographical, economic and social backgrounds of American are emphasized...
...The professor's thinking Is even more awry than his arithmetic...
...Opportunity is plentiful for advancement from the poorer state to the richer one, and that seems to be the inherent weakness of an appeal to the laboring class alone...
...To try to placate those views is to abandon the Socialist position...
...New York: Scribners, $.'1.50...
...There are many requests for such pamphlets as are put out by Brookwood Labor College: "When Southern Labor Stirs" by Tom Tippett, "Your Job and Your Pay" by Tippet and Polla, any of Upton Sinclair's books, "Clash1' by Helen Wilkerson, "Life of Mother Jones...
...By James Oneal The March of Democracy...
...The] Case for Socialism" lucidly explains and answers current objections to Socialism, snd is ideal for a text book...
...Hey wood Broun, the second map With a sense of humor, quickly turned serious and suggested methods of making Socialism successful: (1) producing...
...a lot of new-timers, and the occasion had about it the atmosphere of good comradeship that ia always expected at Rand School dinners...
...seventeen million, white collar workers...
...At one time there were 86 labor banks, with resources of over 1125,000.000...
...It is because Socialists have always held that the workers are the "basis and driving power" of their movement that the movement la distinguished from all capitalist and middle class parties...
...It seems to me that here lies the dangerous weakness of the Socialist movement: its refusal to translate the ideals and aspirations of Karl Marx into present-day terms and conditions...
...Youth Conference Against Militarism A UNITED Youth Conference " against War, sponsored by a large number of Socialists, trade union, radical and pacifist organisations, has been called to meet at the People's House, 7 East 15th Street, Nov...
...a Socialist platform In a hundred-and-fifty words and printing it on a postcard, and (2) coming out atraight for the whole program of Socialism without any immediate demands...
...As this is written a dispatch from Chicago quotes Paul Douglas as saying: "There is no present prospect for the strong third party...
...The conference will be called upon to formulate methods to secure publicity and finance on the Kentucky situation...
...Ho remarked, that the campaign Just closed fur* nlshes • good beginning far the work of building such an organization, for both national and ls> Cs^el CosMDe%lJP/UsJbTH ¦ hfe^^s) ^JstttU heaves'lWsj4 genuine Socialist and working-class Ideas...
...THE CASH FOR SOCIALISM" Ths publishers of "The Case for Socialism," by Fred Henderson, British correspondent of The New Leader, are making a special offer, of 15 cents per copy for the pamphlet in lots of 25 copies or more...
...This does not mean, as our correspondent Implies, that we want to lower "one class to equalize the balance between the two...
...The impact upon the reader of "drum and trumpet" history must be to awaken his curiosity for more...
...The problem is to propound a doctrine, not of lowering one class to equalize the balance between two, but of raising both to the same high standard (rugged individualism causing the farmer to hold out to Urn last ditch against any form of social equalization...
...On a hopeful view, another twenty years would elapse before substantial progress along this line might be expected...
...ether class, shah he the "fundamental basis and driving power...
...The present work covers the period of discovery and settlement to the eve of the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency...
...Labor Banking not a Panacea Professor J. Douglas Brown, of the Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University, has issued his latest table showing the condition of labor banks as of June 80, 1982...
...Several persons have already sent books and magazines...
...He will learn that when the word "colonists" is used in relation to our colonial ancestors that it included aristocratic groups of various types as well as various social layers down to mudsills and slaves...
...that there was something more substantial than abstract patriotism in the Boston tea party...
...the, third speaker, drew the biggest laugh of the evening »<y remarking that apparently he waa the only person on the program who lacked a sense of humor...
...Education is a great help, it may be...
...Ho felt that our vote was a Socialist vote and expressed satisfaction at the fact that we did not receive' the protest vote...
...The author endeavors to take all the strands and weave them into an interpretive narrative for popular reading...
...As to Socialist work (n the continuous tafts day saMsBulgu ha said that what we need is a solid, nation-wide organisation baaed on the working class...
...that beneath the American Revolution there yawned a class cleavage...
...it is evident that the distinction between "white collar worker" and "laborer" la one of convenience only, and that fundamentally they are identical, but no amount of theory will alter the fact that one class, the "white collar," considers itself, falsely or not, on a somewhat higher plane than the "laboring...
...In his argument for a united move toward Socialism...
...Therefore, I think Mr...
...His three volumes on the history of New England dealt the final blow to the frost-bitten-angels theory of the Puritan saints, a job of debunking which began with the work of Henry and Brooks Adams and William B. Weeden...
...BOOKS WANTED North Carolina textile workers have shown an interest in reading and study groups, but they can't buy books with their wages of from $250 to (4.00 per week...
...Beulah Carter, Organizer American Federation of Full Fashion Hosiery Workers' Union...
...Large numbers of clubs, college | groups, etc., are reported as send-' ing delegates, and a representative conference is expected...
...What Roosevelt and the Progressives do or do not do is of no concern to us...
...He comments, indeed, upon the analysis of many others...
...In plain words: the "white-collar" or middle-class is essentially aa important to a Socialist movement, in this country, as the laboring class...
...The third party Is here...
...If any "white collar" or even skilled workers consider themselves on a plane above workers in gen-era...
...Arnold Johnson, a representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks on the legal aspects of the cases...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 22
