Communists Seek to Drown Out Oneal in Debate with Nearing
Communists Seek to Drown Out Oneal in Debate with Nearing With an outburst of typical Communist tactics, a large number of Communists interrupted, hooted, shouted and in other ways sought to...
...The surples material is still so large that mors than three weeks after the close of the campaign it has yet been cleared up...
...Because of Bolshevist methods, the Communist movement is quarantined by organized workers as a diseased pariah to be avoided at all coats...
...Receiving a letter of inquiry from Comrade Baron, he wrote him of his difficulties...
...Norman Thomas immediately applied to the park commission for a permit to do likewise, and was refused...
...All intercstel pet in touch w.h him at 7251 H idbourne Poad...
...MASSACHUSETTS Boston...
...Better by far than even this increase in votes is the determination of the membership to build up a real Socialist party in this state," State Secretary J. F. Higgins reports...
...The Bolsheviks had seized power and when they pulled aside the veil they fcund not the modern machine production but a semi-feudal and handicraft production...
...Herat Gtataer ¦alia...
...It is now announced that the first draft has been completed...
...A. L. From Bleeding Germany Beethovenstr...
...No other comrade to whom the editor wrote regarding the difficulties responded with such a letter...
...This change in policy grows out of a show-down forced by Socialist...
...The article mentioned by Comrade Baron was received with a maas of other material from many sources, greater than in any other campaign of recent years...
...Late in October the press announced that President Hoover would speak in the plaza...
...The state convention is being held Saturday and Sunday in the Union Labor Temple, 12 Jackson St., Fairmont...
...For this reason I must object to your publication of this letter which was intended as personal and not for publication...
...NEW LEADER FORUM GREEN AND THE A. F. OF L. By Marray Bare* I am using the more accessible columns of the Readers' Forum to register an emphatic protest against the inefficiency and inadequacy of the Editor with West Virginia A. F. of L. poll tics—details of which were embodied in an article submitted by me to The New Leader for publication during the campaign...
...He assumed that his article should have precedence over any other material and he went out of hia way to designate material that did appear as "tripe," including an item intended to focti* attention on the Madison Square Garden meeting where our standard-bearers were to speak: Surely this is a "high hat" complex with a vengeance...
...Whether my contribution merited publication or not is determined finally by the editor...
...and Mrs...
...A constitution was adopted and the report of Organizer Brawn on the money collected and expended by the local w.is accepted...
...If Green Is the responsible author of these letters, it would ba wall not to drape the picture of Green with columns of nosannas welcoming g repentant black sheep—returning to the fold (issue of Nov...
...The proletarian movement has something better to offer than blackguardism...
...When he appeared at a Senate sub - committee hearing several years ago to support the appointment of Judge Parker of Injunction Fame to the United States Supreme Court—Green at the same hearing assailed Townsend as a foe of labor...
...If organized workers move towards us on an issue that we have been urging for many years, we are not to welcome It warmly...
...Whether a Socialist, a Communist or a Syndicalist movement rose to power in such circumstances, it would be compelled to plsy this role, which the capitalist class hss plsyed In the history of the capitalistic nsHons...
...25 of several articles expressing almost ecstatic joy and expectancy because the Cincinnati convention of the A. F. of L. announced its belated support of Unemployment Insurance, which, however Inadequate, was encouraging—for was it not a forward step presaging—who knows —maybe the support of the Socialist Party...
...In answer to the editor's explanation, Comrade Baron wrote on Oct...
...Green reiterated his opinion of Townsend in a letter dated March 7, 1932—addressed to a Mr...
...Although the commission did not issue a permit, it did not call in the city police and the meeting was held peacefully Nov...
...1932 Day of the German Revolution (may a more radical one cornel) Congratulations to The New Leader I It has put up a splendid light, and surely must hsve been a big help to the forefrontfighters la the election campaign...
...PPIeaie communicate offers to YPSL...
...The New Leader Is most eagerly waited for by me out here la the German sticks...
...This commission consisted of Ramada Curto and Alfredo Franco, respectively chairman of the general council and secretary of the party, and Bourbon e Meneses...
...We ran two articles a year ago regarding similar documentary material relating to the "non-partisan" policy in Arizona...
...Finally, the editor, Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit welcome the shift of the A. F. of L. to support of unemployment insurance which s Baron sad and cynical...
...By the Editor The above letter la typical of a certain type received in the past year or two...
...Upper Darby...
...If men like Woll and Green are honest though conservative leaders, this pronouncement favoring a palliative which they could not avoid might justifiably encourage the Socialist movement...
...Party News PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia.—After long barring minority political groups from using Keyburn pla/,a tor public r.eetings, the Philadelphia authorities have at last opened that area to all...
...In the modern capitalist nations when the working masses come into power and pull aside the veil, the modern machine production necessary to a Socialist society would be revealed...
...I relied on a newspaper report which I thought to bo trustworthy...
...Yet The New Leader, subsequent to the submission of my article, continued much that was of less consequence and certainly less pertinent...
...Oneal quoted a Communist publication claiming that Communists had raised 1500,000 for the defense of Sacco and Vanzetti, a letter by Tom Mooney in 1929 denouncing them for raising Mooney funds which were never used for his defense, and the defense bulletin of the I. W. W. carrying a letter by W. B. Jones, Kentucky miner serving a life sentence, which denounced the Communists for collecting thousands of dollars for accused miners which were not expended for their defense...
...The long and thorny road of mankind upward from the beast to elementary decency and honor is strewn with tears, Buffering and sacrifice...
...Mo, during Christmas week and would like to borrow a car for the trip...
...WEST VIRGINIA Star City...
...All members of the Greater Boston locals are urged to be on hand promptly at the genera...
...during the presidential campaign...
...TAM1MENT REUNION Elaborate preparations are being made for the Camp Tamiment Reunion to be held in the grand ball room of the Hotel Pennsylvania, Dec...
...Haptonstall (a Democrat), copies of which were distributed throughout West Virginia resulting in a letter—dated April 7, 1932, from Green to Haptonstall, saying in part: "When I wrote you on March 7, 1932, I did not write you with the intention that my letter would be published or that it would be injected into the political campaign now pending in West Virginia...
...If the editor farther protests that I am adopting the typical sophomonic high-hat attitude towards labor, allow me to say that scores of unionists in the West Virginia Socialist Party will find it hard to reconcile the glowing warmth towards the A. F. of L hierarchy with the facta stated above—which are common knowledge in that state but apparently unwelcome to the editor...
...with a lecture by Frank R Crosswaith, Socialist candidate for Congress in the rere n* campaign, who will speak on "After the Democrats, What...
...F. of L. 'hirearchy'" to avert contamination with these workers...
...The Bolsheviks were under the necessity of trying to build within ten or twenty years what had required a century or more to build in the capitalist countries...
...Encouraged by Local Delaware's success in building membership from six members and no branches in March, 1932, to 280 members and eight branches at present, the party is now moving m adjoining Chester County to see if it can't be brought into the ranks of active counties working for Socialism, Organizer George R. Cooper reports...
...Space forbids lengthly quotation from the communication, copies of which are in my possession...
...Except for a few large enterprises mostly owned by foreign capital, modern production was not present...
...It is this assumption of honest conservatism which is Implicit in the attitude of certain elements in the Socialist Party—namely, coax, gently chastise, politely admonish, tactfully counsel and slowly wean away these A. F. of L. leaders from honestly held—but shortsighted policies...
...Nearing, who spoke first, was given respectful attention by the whole audience, including many hundreds o* Socialists, when be repeated the usual Communist line about the Bo-callet "treachery" of Socialists in all countries...
...Years far the Herniation...
...Marriet Davis, Harold Fowler and Franklin C. Brawn, of Augusta, and Harry B. Brawn, of Harmony, formerly secretary of the Maine State Federation of Labor and for 28 years a labor organizer...
...He wrote similar letters to others who aent similar Inquiries regarding their contributions...
...11, Dr...
...6 III Wittenberge/Pdm Nov...
...Franz Boas and Algernon Loe...
...2fi, slurring other comrades...
...MAINE Augusta.—Temporary organization oi a local was established last week, Lawrence E. Brawn being elected temporary chairman and secretary...
...This is an important meeting...
...He said that the situation there could be illustrated by the building of a monument...
...This modern production had in other nations been built out of the capital exploited out of the workers over one or two hundred years...
...membership meeting called by t'.c City Central Committee for Sunday afternoon at 1:30 at the Hotel Bradford, Tremont St., across the street from the Metropolitan Theatre, to consider the adoption of by-laws...
...PORTUGUESE SOCIALISTS It wss recently announced In Republics Social, the oflcial organ of the Portuguese Socialist Party, that a comaabslon had been appointed to study, the question of bringing the program of the party up-to-date...
...We must move away and use the Communist lingo of "A...
...The publication of these letters should elicit some defense or denial of their content* from Green...
...of the Tenants' Aid League, chairman, and Mrs...
...Brooklyn Academy of Music...
...26, page 8...
...Me., when officers and committees were named...
...The Baron article was held with a large quantity of other material, the editor being uncertain as to what could be used...
...As official returns come slowly filtering in to the state office, it becomes evident that there was a 500 per cent increase In the vote over 1928...
...John Haynes Holmes, Theophelus Lewis, Prof...
...Leon R. Land, director of" the Bronx Free Fellowship, will speak on "The Cause and Cure of Race Prejudice in America...
...According to this draft the new program will open with a declaration of principles, representing a synthesis < f Socialist doctrine in dealing with the various political and social problems of Portugal, such as the defense of the workers, the religions question, national education, the military defense of the country, social insurance, the agrarian question, and the question of the colonies...
...People's Educational Forum The Peoples' Educational Forum will resume its activities Sunday afternoon at S o'clock at 2005 Seventh Ave...
...3, with police protection instead of interference...
...Charles Grant and F. D. Blodgett, of Randolph...
...Those in charge of the reunion call attention to the fact that all profits made by Camp Tamiment are turned over to the Rand School...
...MAKE A GIFT TO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY IN YOUR TOWN AND TO THOSE WHO ENJOY READING THE NEW LEADER BY SENDING IN A CONTRIBUTION TO THE FUND TO SUPPLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES WITH OUR PAPER...
...I heartily regret the annoyance which my error has caused Comrade Senior...
...That the Green letters are contradictory is obvious, and had the conditions in the office been otherwise than stated, we would have been glad to run the article...
...Oneal emphasized Bolshevik methods and "morality" and Nearing avoided discussion of them...
...11, from 2 to 6 p. m. Gleb Yellin's famous orchestra will furnish the dance music and it is certain that a large proportion of the thousands of friends of Camp Tamiment will be present Among the out-of-town guests will be three hundred "campers" who will arrive by special train...
...Harry W. Laidler, Walter White, Noah D. Thompson, Heywood Broun, Romeo Dougherty, Dr...
...Among those pfesent at the organization meeting were Mr...
...This letter, followed by one dated April 14, 1932—one week later—to John B. Easton, reactionary President of the West Virginia State Federation of Labor and ally of Townsend, who unembarrassed distributes copies of same In which Green completely reverses himself, landing Townsend as a boon to labor...
...Summing up these methods and the Communist tactics of bringing civil war into the ranks of workers and trying to break up meetings of other organizations, Oneal said: "We denounce Bolshevism for its foul record...
...IN JUSTICE TO NATIONAL SECRETARY SENIOR I was altogether wrong in attributing to National Secretary Clarence Senior a prediction that 8,000,000 votes would be cast for thp Socialist ticket this year...
...Socialist and progressive labor men of West Virginia were outraged at this action, which fails to conform even to the questionable ill-defined standards of the A. F. of L. non-partisan political policy...
...The uproar was so great that Chairman Harry W. Laidler was obliged to adjourn the meeting while many members of the audience were on their feet seeking to ask questions of one or am her of the speakers...
...Thomas D. Emptage...
...AUTOMOBILE WANTED Five members of the YPSL National Executive Committee must travel from N. Y. C. to St...
...That he was cramped for space due to the campaign is undeniable...
...The New Leader had in editorials and news stories given attention to the absurdities of the "nonpartisan" policy...
...c. o. New Leader...
...What a calamity...
...They were therefore compelled to sweat vast quantities of capital out of the working masses...
...Communists Seek to Drown Out Oneal in Debate with Nearing With an outburst of typical Communist tactics, a large number of Communists interrupted, hooted, shouted and in other ways sought to drown out the speech of J anus Oneal, editor of The New Leader, in his debate Sunday night with Scott Nearing at the Brooklyn Forum...
...When the Unemployed Councils also asked for a permit the Philadelphia Civil Liberties Committee backed them up, writing the commission that it assumed that "from this time forward the use <»f Reyburn plaza will be granted for, the holding of .Peaceable meetings by anyone properly applying for such permission...
...In view of The New Leader's generous hospitality to articles of the above character, I persist in resubmitting through these columns a short resume of the events in West Virginia referred to above —which, if uncontroverted by Green, implicates him in one of the shoddiest deals in labor's sullied political history—and which should cast suspicion on any move made by Green ostensibly for labor...
...Let aae knew exact time when It will expire, i Forward, red America...
...Louis...
...It comes like a fresh breese Into this cage, which say poor country is becoming presently...
...He declared that the editor could "adhere more closely to high journalistic discretion and standards ty omitting such tripe as the bit concerning Krit:er's involvements re Madison Square Garden and the oratorical blather of G. August Gerber...
...Pauline Williams, secretary...
...Its instructions were to prepare a draft to be discussed by the party sections and afterwards submitted to the vote of a special conference...
...Particularly germane to the issue raised herewith is the appearance in The New Leader of Nov...
...I shall darned surely reaew say subscription...
...If this isn't the sectarian high-hatting that has built a gulf between the organized working class and the Socialist movement in this country,, we do not know what it is...
...Comrade Baron's assumption was plain...
...Among the speakers to come are Prcf...
...Tom C. Townsend, Republican candidate for Governor of West Virginia in the recent election, is a notorious anti-Labor reactionary...
...He spoke anyway, and without interference...
...On Sunday, Dec...
...John Dewey, Morris Hillquit, Eugene Kinkle Jones, Dr...
...A second meeting took place on Sunday at Randolph...
...Oneal was upholding the Socialist position against Nearing, who defended Communism, and it was not long before the beginning of hie first speech that Communists sought to rattle him by carefully planned interruptions...
...When honor is thrown on the ash heap in the name of revolution, the revolution itself will turn to ashes...
...If the editor of The New Leader argues that he has consistently criticized Green snd other union leaders, he hss done so on the premise thst they were essentially honest but wrong...
...Oneal expressed the sympathy of Socialists for the measureless suffering of the great masses now facing more severe privations In Russia, which he said is due to Bolshevik statesmanship...
...It was otherwise In Russia, Oneal said...
...Officers of the Forum are: Frank R. Crosswaith, director...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 23