Debts and Reparations Bring Crisis That Puzzles Bourgeois Statesmen
Debts and Reparations Bring Crisis That Puzzles Bourgeois Statesmen HP HE capitalist governments are engaged in a verbal duel over war debts and reparations and this problem it shot full of as...
...It is combining (lie spirit of this gifl season with Socialist educational work...
...The establishment of a special organization department at the national office of the Socialist Party, to be intrusted witli all matters affecting (he building of ihe organization, was decided on by the National K.xcctttive Committee of the Socialist Party at its meeting here, the first since election...
...About eleven of his children—eleven Southern StateB—repudiated bonds sold before the Civil War to finance Internal improvements...
...The imperialist allies tried to make the "enemy" pay their debts...
...It was voted to publish a list of "accredited" Socialist papers, to include only such as are published cither directly by subdivisions of the Party or by associations of Party members, with or without Che co-operation of organized labor.' It was also provided that from time to time privately owned Socialist papers may be "recommended" and the American Guardian was added to the latter category, Hillquit, Graham and McLevy voting in the negative...
...Maurer, a former member of the committee, and candidate fdr Vice-President, arrived on Saturday and took part in the deliberations...
...They can pay in gold, in goods, or in their own currencies...
...Why it was only a few years ago that the gentlemen on each end of the teeter-board were horrified to learn that the Russians had announced repudiation...
...from their political activities...
...Repudiate debts...
...They sapped the vital ity of the "enemy" and they must now try to save him...
...Plans for Future qaign treasurer, showed that a little over $50,000 had been raised for the national campaign, and about $3,000 more was spent...
...Senior reported that if no more than 75*> of the accounts receiveable is collected there will be enough to pay the deficit capsed by the campaign...
...This dying system that has brought so much suffering to the working masses has its main support in the minds of its victims...
...Cancellation of war debts and reparations...
...But that means doing something that is considered a'terrible sin against the holy system of capitalist property...
...Keep your paper in mind in this season of Christmas gifts and give your friend something of value to him and to your movement...
...How are we to get the recruits required to meet an emergency that may issue out of the continued sinking of capitalism...
...Several subcommittees continued to work until late at night...
...Now it is war debts and rep arations...
...To meet tht next one with some hope of success will require many more Socialists than we have now...
...More than 200 party members and sympathizers attended the dinner, and contributed over $200...
...Hoan was chairman of a subcommittee on finances, of which Graham, Hapgood, Lewis, and Senior were members, Public Work A review of activities to be undertaken, to reach thousands of sympathizers and create news by more effective propaganda means revealed that approximately $75,000 will be required during 1038, of which only one-third could be expected from the usual sources, leaving $50,000 to be raised...
...Plans Arc Made ForFutureWork by Party's NEC DAI.T1MORE...
...Julius Umansky, national chairman of the Young People's Socialist League, and Winston Dancis, of the New York organization, appeared before the committee to request more active co-operation in the handling of the problems that the Y.P.8.L...
...This decision, along with a series of others covering a wider scope of Socialist activity than any planned in the past decade, followed a thoroughgoing survey of the state of the Socialist organization in every part of the nation...
...American Socialists met that crisis...
...Uncle Sam will not let them pay in goods and has put up a high tariff wall to prevent them from attempting it...
...The debtors do not have sufficient gold and if they had they must retain a reserve to bolster up their own finances...
...Uncle Sam controls the lever and threatens to pull it, but if he plunges his debtors into an abyss it will also swing him into the air...
...the vote cast in presidential and state elections...
...To send it into the homes of these workers is to serve them and the Socialist movement as well...
...Reports submitted by Clarencs Senior, national secretary, and Msrx Lewis, who was the cam* N.E.C...
...e know that we are in a race with time...
...aber Matters A Committee on Labor Relations, consisting of five members, three of them members of the N. E. C, was chosen to assist in furnishing aid to labor, strike relief, and defense, the exact scope of the committee's fanction was to be worked out and referred to the National Executive Committee...
...To pay in foreign currency would bring the problem of converting such payments into gold—and there ye are...
...The system is crumbling dav by day and another Christmas may find us facing a chaos that will test the movement as it was tested when the United States entered the World War...
...Industrial crises came frequently before the war debts and reparations became a problem and capitalism would have plunged into the ditch just the same...
...In the mean time they have become afflicted with the depression disease and need help themselves...
...The New Leader sweeps ancient prejudices and illformed views from the minds of those who must ultimately be the army of Socialism...
...A public affairs committee to provide a more active participation of the party in national political affairs, and to insure the party's representation at congressional hearings was named, consisting of Hillquit, Thomas, and Lee of New York, and Maurer and Maude McCreery of Milwaukee...
...He wants payment of debts and the Allies can neither Sweat the money out of Germany nor pay it themselves...
...the growth or decline of party branches...
...Hy dear thinking an' extern ive organization and tl se cannot he ibtained without educating the masses in the basic principles, philosophy and program of the Socialist Tarty...
...and any special problems they may present, were used to form an estimate what will be required in the future...
...A motion was adopted designed to end the practice of local groups soliciting campaign and other funds outside their own territory...
...It is important to remember this fundamental fact...
...It is a gift that will grow upire valuable with the passing of time...
...The committee was authorized to employ a research secretary...
...It was also decided, because of criticism that was expressed regarding the way in which advertisements of the Haldeman-Julius Publishing Company were framed that the company be requested not to list the twenty blue books which comprise the 'library of Socialism literature along with blue books dealing with ; objects that might lead to confusion as to the Socialist party's attitude' on religion and other subjects...
...If debts and reparations are cancelled it will afford some relief, but we should not fall into the error of thinking that such cancellation will revive the capitalist system of production...
...The cartoonist of the London Daily Express presents the situation as it affects European and American capitalism...
...Many of us- are apprehensive of the future...
...Krsycki was made chairman, with Graham, Hapgood, Maurer, and Emil Hieve, president of the American Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers, as the other members...
...An office committee of Hoopes, Krsycki, and Hspgood was selected to advise Senior on office matters...
...In each capitalist nation we hav« the stupidity of too many com modifies and starvation...
...On Sunday evening the Lyric Theatre was jammed to hear Hillquit, Thomas, and others...
...Coolidgo, Hoopes, snd Algernon Lee of New York were named a subcommittee to work out plans with a subcommittee of the young people's organization...
...Taking up States in their alphabetical order statistics indicating, the party membership over a period of years...
...As part of the educational program felt necessary to inaugurate it was voted to- recommend locals and branches to take advantage of the Rand School Correspondence Course...
...James If...
...So we urge you to use The New leader as a weekly courier for carrying on this educational work...
...However, Uncle Sam has a shady past on this score...
...To Aid Y.P.8.L...
...This financial tangle has contributed to the impoverishment of the working class of the world...
...Annual regional conferences of organizers and secretaries was approved by the committee in principle, on the recommendation of Senior...
...The committee decided that no such appeals by either State or local groups to Socialists outside of their own jurisdictions should be issued without the permission of the national executive committee...
...Most of these bonds were sold in England «nd the heirs of the original buyers still maintain an organization that is trying to collect...
...They turn to Uncle Sam who grew fat in the post war years but who is now he coming lean...
...Uncle Sam denies responsibility for the shady acts of his children, but his "moral" pose in the matter of cancellation appears droll when this family affair is called to his attention...
...Those present, besides National Chairman Hillquit, were Daniel W. Hoan, Mayor of Milwaukee, Leo Krzycki of Milwaukee, Norman Thomas, Llllth M. Wilson and Darlington Hoopes of Reading, Pa., Jasper Mcl.evy of Connecticut, Powers Hapgood of Indiana, and James D. Graham of Montana, and Albert S. Coolidgc of Mass...
...The unprecedented gains registered on the Pacific Coast, particularly in Washington and Oregon, confirming, as they did, the reports that had come to the committee prior to the elections, led the committee to adopt a motion requesting James D. Graham to visit that section to work out a plan of more intensive organisation work there...
...Debts and Reparations Bring Crisis That Puzzles Bourgeois Statesmen HP HE capitalist governments are engaged in a verbal duel over war debts and reparations and this problem it shot full of as many absurdities * and contradictions as is the capitalist system itself...
...The New Leader is a torch that brings light into bleak homes and hope to the outcasts of capitalism...
...It is a gift that is renewed week after week for a whole year and at its end there is the prospect that the Soeialist Party itself will have a new recruit...
...plenty staling at hideous Want, wheat burned for fuel while workers need bread, and so on...
...The debtors have three ways in which to pay their bills...
...Membership Doubles The review revealed that the Socialist party membership had doubled in a comparatively short time...
...And the answer...
...is confronted with as a result of the tremendous gains it is registering throughout the country...
...What other alternative faces the antagonists...
...that over fl<M) new locals had bee organized during the year| that the increase in the Socialist vote invariably was more pronounced where the organizations had been functioning for a period of time, except where factional differences had developed to • point where they diverted the attention of the member...
...After routine matters were disposed of the committee plunged into an inventory of Socialist resources and strength...
...Vermont Organized Vermont was added to the States entitled to be recognized as organized States, and a charter was issued...
...The committee members were guests of honor at a dinner arranged by Local Baltimore at the New Howard Hotel at the close of the first day's sessions, on Friday...
...idle m dustries that need workers and idle, workers that need the indus tries...
...A Christmas Gift Worth While THERE is yet another week for our readers to take advantage of our suggestion that no hotter Christmas gift can he made to a friend than to send him The New Leader for a year...
...A western organization committee will meet in the near future to assist, Graham announced...
...Thomas and Hillquit agreed to take part in a conference the joint committee will arrange...
...The subcommittee recommended that Norman Thomas be chairman, and Lewis, director of a finance committee, to undertake the raising of the $50,000, and that the drive be launched immediately after New Year's Day, so that the plans of having a dozen organizers In the field early in the year, a series of regular Sunday afternoon broadcasts, and other vital activities be put into practice not later than February...
...The committee voted to continue Chicago as national headquarters, after a resolution adopted by the New York Stat* Committee recommending that the headquarters be moved to Washington was presented...
...A Socialist receivership for a bankrupt capitalist world and that solution awaits the action of the workers •f the nations...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 25
