British Labor Triumphs in the Cities

...Anti-Socialist, 266...

...at the Academy of Music, Lafayette Avenue, near Flat-bush Avenue...

...I L P 202 3— Labor, 1238;' Anti-Socialist...

...The prospect of recovery has become more than a prospect...

...On WEVD Station WEVD, the Debs Memorial radio station, announces among other features for the forthcoming week the following: Sunday, Nov...

...The actual figures in the seven fights into which each faction entered were: t 1—Labor, 1025...

...say that Norwich is reputed to be...

...5.—That I also hereby demand that!shall immediately be grant-ed s new trial on the one remaining indictment against me, No...

...These elections give us an annual opportuni'y of testing public opinion over the whole area of Great Britain, so far as the towns are concerned...

...Anti-Socialist, 698...

...Plans will be announced at the Academy, and members will be enlisted there...

...and' the list of cities in which gains' of one or two seats hsve been' secured it far too long to trouble you with...

...The capitalists do not see that machine...

...for the retiring councillors this year were elected three yearn ago, when we were at the high-water mark of our strength in this country...

...And the second factor which gives added significance to our success is that we have gained it against the unhappy attempt of the I. L. P. to set faction-fighting going within the movement Opponents' Hopes Daahed Our capitalist opponents had based high hopes on our being seriously weakened by that, especially in those places where I. L. P. candidates actually took the field against Labor and Socialist candidates...

...For there have been two factors in this civic General Election throughout Britain which must be taken into account in estimating the magnitude of the recovery they represent for the Labor cause here...

...In the eighty largest towns and cities we have put up fights in no fewer than 836 wards...

...Now the farmer's best customer is gone, there is an overproduction of farm products and the farmer is bankrupt The capitalist is heading the same way, but will not take a warning from the example...

...and the result almost everywhere has been a magnificent recovery of our strength all over the country...

...and quite generally the candidates againat us have presented themselves to the electors definitely as "Anti-Socialists...

...2—Labor, 916...

...By Fred Henderson British Labor Triumphs in the Cities Local Elections Show Gains Over All England—Triumphs Show Increases Over 1029, Labor's Year of Greatest Triumph—L L P. Secession Split the Vote, as Expected...

...At the time of the trial District Attorney Fickert asked that the remaining indictments against Mooney be dismissed...

...all of them the two old parties, Liberal and Conservative, combined and put up a single capitalist candidate, adopting the label of "Anti-Socialist," against us...

...1 — National Negro Forum, 10 to lO.ftO...

...Our biggest success was at Oldham, where we have gained six seats...

...In the result we won eight of the twelve seats...

...Mooney also demanded that he be granted a new trial on the one remaining indictment against him...

...Both Nearing and Oneal are forceful and effective speakers, and their appearance on the platform is a guarantee that the debate will be strictly upon the merits of the issue...

...In that way the leisure and blessings of the robot system would have been divided between all citizens and the capitalists would not have lost their customers...

...A Great Victory And these sweeping successes have not been in localized patches here and there \*»they have been achieved in every part of the country...

...In most places the fac-tionists have been simply swept out of existence in the result of the contests...

...8:16 to 8:30, talk, "The World Tomorrow," Kirby Page, editor...

...But, welcome as that evidence was as a manifestation of the renewed spirit of the Party and its clearer-than-ever insistence upon its full Socialist purposes, it was evidence only of the mood of the Party itself...

...IN my last letter I was able to report the splendid evidence of recovery in the prospects of British Labor as shown by the proceedings of the annual conference of the Labor Party at Leicester...

...Tuesday, Nov...

...Our little pilot in Washington has tried to remedy this by causing more overproduction...

...and Communist candidates were ignominiously at the bottom of the poll...

...Think of all the oats he ate...

...Machinery increases the capacity of production, but decreases that of consumption by taking away the purchasing power of the largest class of customers, the working class...

...snd in the circumstances, with this faction-splitting of the anti-capitalist vote, I think that any one of our capitalist opponents would have bet you ten to one against more than one or two Labor candidates being elected...

...7—Anti-Socialist, 836...

...The result: Overproduction and underconsumption...

...7637, 'which ia still undismissed and which li now ponding in the Superior Court of San Francisco...

...and that in number one on the list the I. L. P. candidate was the retiring councillor elected three years ago as Labor Party candidate...

...That is how the robot turns on its creator...

...Capitalism's Tailspin By Uaemp Lloyd TTiiK capitalist syrtem is making * a tailspin I The big crash is expected on the evening of November 8. Once at a manager'a meeting the president of the large corporation came in and announced, with...

...The robot ate gas and oil from the capitalist's oil well...

...Judge Louis Ward of the Superior Court stated from the bench last January that this indictment could be brought to trial, with former prosecution attorneys retained aa assistants to the present district attorney and with the evidence of deceased witnesses read into the record...

...8.—That the said Paul M. Calli-cotte's confession has remained unshaken in spite of four months' grilling by Portland and San Francisco police, newspapermen and attorneys...

...Later he was indicted and tried under the Espionage Act for writing the anti-war pamphlet, "The Great Madness...

...Thursday, Dec...

...Machinery is all right so long as it serves man and beast, but when it is allowed to kill its customers, then the robot turns on his master...

...2.—That Panl M. Callicotte of Portland, Ore., has now publicly come forward and confessed that he waa the person who placed the suitcase containing the bomb which caused the explosion on July 22, 1916...

...This national manifestation of I our restored strength is even more notable than the figures might indicate to you...

...we have improved upon it...

...You will readily understand how, with the combination of our capitalist opponents and the faction spirit of a section of those hitherto fighting with us, the general wave of success all over the country has been immensely heartening to us...

...Forum Season Will Begin With Oneal-Nearing Debate THE Brooklyn Forum starts its second season Sunday night with a debate on "Communism or Socialism—Which Should the Workers Follow...

...80—The Nation program, Oswald Garrison Villard, 8:16 to 8:80...

...Our big cities sre governed by city councils, one-third of whose members retire each year...

...In my own native city of Norwich the Labor Party contested twelve wards...

...and the Labor debacle in the Parliamentary fight was accompanied by losses—not nearly bo severe, but still serious losses— in the civic elections...

...Anti-Socialist, 892...

...29—6:16 to 6:80, Michael Strange, dramatic and poetic readings...

...Mooney energetically fought the move...

...Labor, 663...

...I. L. P., 360...

...We might have made quite a good recovery from our desperately bad position of a year ago, and still not have been able to retain anything like the representation which we captured at the crest of our successes as a party three years ago...

...6—Labor, 1093...

...27—Forward hour, 11 a. m. to 12 noon...

...I remarked dryly: "That will mean the end of this company, because when machinery ' comes so perfect, THERE WILL BE NO CUSTOMERS FOR YOU...

...reflecting in that way the low ebb to which the mismanagement of affairs by Mac-Donald's Labor Government had then reduced the fortunes and the outlook of British Labor...

...6-- Labor, 857...

...We have been putting all the revived hope and the new spirit which has come to the Labor Party during the past summer and autumn into these city contests...

...James Rolph Jr., of California, for an open pardon hearing at which the governor shall examine the confession and testimony of Paul M. Callicotte as the basis for reopening my pardon application...

...Harry W. Laidler...

...Mooney's statement is: I, the undersigned, Thomas J. Mooney, do hereby affirm and declare: 1.—That I am absolutely innocent of any crime, yet have been imprisoned almost 17 years...

...2—"The Making of Tomorrow," Hendrik Willem Van Loon, 8:16 to 8:80...

...other than to one of the three strongest I. i. p, provincial centres in England...

...Rolph grant a new pardon hearing on the basis of the confession of Paul M. Caili-cotte that he unwittingly placed the suitcase which contained the bomb at the point of the explosion...

...Anti-Socialist, 766...

...4—Labor, 843...

...number four also having been an I. L. P. sest in the last council, though with another candidate on this occasion...

...Not only is the Party awake and on the march again, but the working-class rank and file, so sadly discouraged a year ago, have also caught the spirit of renewed Socialist purpose which animates the Party, and are rallying to it with renewed enthusiasm...

...At Leeds we have gained five...

...He took a 100 per cent pacifist position and ran for Congress against Fiorello H. LaGuardia, Republican-Tammany fuslonist, on a platform of opposition to the war...

...Wednesday, Nov...

...Think of all the acres cultivated...

...Judge Franklin A. Griffin dismissed all but one indictment and that has been pending for 16 years...

...Communist, 134...

...He has written voluminously on Communism, as upon other subjects...

...Satanic satisfaction, that he that day had seen a machine, which gave him the assurance that the time was not far off, \" he could sit at his desk with a battery of buttons in front of him and run the wl^e plant WITHOUT A SINGLE MAN OR WOMAN IN IT...

...can - . ltce nun only as workers, not at customers...

...L L. P., 260...

...Communist, 49...

...He haa established Farm boards, Reconstruction corporations, Home loan banks and what have you, all of which may make a small showing before the election, but which will in the long run be just that many more blows by the robot on hte capitalist system and with it on the entire suffering nation...

...Oneal Is a noted Socialist historian and is considered one of the best informed of the American Socialists upon the history of the Communist movement...

...Harry Laidler will preside...

...The test was a severe one...

...The Brooklyn Forum fa opening its second season with a drive for Season memberships, carrying admission to all the affairs of the year...

...This announcement was made at the time Tom Mooney issued a demand that Gov...

...and 468 of our candidates have been elected...

...Scott Nearing, Ph.D., former assistant professor of economics in the University of Pennsylvania, espoused Socialism when he was removed from his university position for radicalism, and joined he party during the war...

...If a working man does not support his wife, she has the right to put him in jail, but if an employer causes the non-support of thousands of wives by laying off their husbands, he has the perfect "American Freedom" to do sol The industrialists are even incapable to learn from an example...

...The horse was for centuries the honest and faithful servant of the farmer...

...An actual case in point will reveal to you, more clearly than any amount of general description, exactly what the position is in this respect And if I give you the facts in complete detail, it is because I think it to be rather important that you should have definite data, and not merely my opinion or an I. L. P. opinion, on which to form your own judgment as to what is actually happening here in Britain in this matter...

...at Sunderland four...

...Friday, Dec...

...During the past month we have had triumphant evidence of the response of the nation itself—general and widespread—to the new fighting lead given at Leicester...

...In 36 of these 80 cities we have gained new seats in addition to retaining our three-year-ago representation...

...Our success is all the move notable against this combination, which will, I think, prove to be a permanent new alignment of political forces in our civic life here...

...the elections being held on the same day— the first of November—in every city...

...He was also the farmer's best customer...

...What he should have done way back in 1929 waa to create a commission with the power to regulate the weekly working hours in inverse proportion to the number of unemployed...

...it has manifested itself as a realized fact And if I devote this letter to what, at first sight, you might regard as the domesticities of British politics rather than their national expression, I think the facts will show you what a real and authentic national recovery is revealed in them...

...City Elections Last year these civic elections were held almost simultaneously with the Parliamentary General Election...

...The debaters will be James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, and Scott Nearing, Communist lecturer and writer...

...Anti-Socialist, 801...

...We have had to face a pretty complete capitalist combination of forces...

...He was later accepted as a member and he has made several trips to Russia...

...and in every case the l.LJ...

...TOM MOONEY ASKS FOR A NEW TRIAL CAN FRANCISCO.—The long-awaited attempt to bring about a new trial of Tom Mooney for the bomb explosion on Preparedness Day, July 22, 1916, is to be made at once by Attorney Cyrus B. King of Oakland with the support of Attorney Frank P. Walsh of "New York...

...Just a word of explanation as to our British system of local government...

...I give these figures in detail and without comment...

...It is this program which is now planned...

...Communist...

...To have forced them into one camp in that way, and compelled them to adopt such a public label for themselves, is in itself a rather significant psychological victory for our cause, quite apart from the actual seats gained...

...Well, we have done belter than retain It...

...10:15 to 10:80, talk, Dr...

...4.—That I hereby make public application and demand upon Gov...

...In seven of the twelve wards we had, however, also to face candidates put up by the I. L. P. and the Communists...

...When Nearing quit the Socialist Party for its alleged conservatism, it is reported his application for membership in the Communist Party was held up because of his long-time uncompromising opposition to all wars under all circumstances...

...In his book, "American Communism," he traces the development of the Communist Party out of the so-called "Left Wing" of the Socialist Party In 1919, through its many turnings and twistlngs to its present stand for immediate reforms...

...In the first place, Liberals and Conservatives almost everywhere have stopped fighting one another in these civic elections...

...I. L. P., 240...

...at Birmingham, Hull, Birkenhead and Ipswich, three in each case...

...But "American Freedom" did not permit such freedom for the ordinary American citizen...

...Then the farmer substituted him with machinery...