Karl Marx Honored At Brooklyn Forum

...Any upset in Austria, no matter what form it takes, will be certain to have its repercussions in al other countries, since any change there will upset the delicate balance that is at present e* uneasy...

...The Austrian Socialists, in complete control of Vienna and of the well-drilled Sehuttbund, their owe militia, prepared to defend the Republic, have determined to defend the Integrity of Austria and of the Republic at all costs...

...2. An attempt at a Nasi Putsch, with all the troublesome implications of an attempted Antchluat, or union, of Germany and Austria...

...MADISON, Wis.—A proposal by Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee that the League of Wisconsin Municipalities go on record in favcr of a law to make it possible to deposit all public moneys in the federal postal saving* banks was adopted by a unanimous vote of a legislative conference of the league held here...

...In face of such a tremendous emergency, they persisted in saying that 'the blow must be primarily directed against the Social-Democrats,' blind to the tragic outcome of such a policy, fanatical in their hatred of the Socialists whom they term "Social Fascists,' Indifferent to whether German workers recovered popular rights or were to be ruled by a Fascist dictatorship, in the vain hope that out of tha chaos of fascism, communism would arise...

...In full realisation of this tragic situation the Labor and Socialist International has repeatedly, bud again recently, called upon the workers for unity...

...Thomas Enthuses Vast Throngs |N a recent whirlwind speaking * tour of the South, Norman Thomas completely captivated the huge masses that turned out at every atop to listen to him...

...Karl Marx Honored At Brooklyn Forum THE memory of Karl Marx was honored at the Brooklyn Forum Sunday evening at the Brooklyn Academy of Musie in the first of the notable series of Marx memorials...

...A raried program of vocalists, dancers and speakers entertained a large audience assembled to pay tribute to the memory of the great Socialist...

...From capitalist society does not necessarily come Socialism, unless the workers will it so...

...The attempt having been renewed in New York and other cities in this country, the ostensible objective being freedom for Tom Mooncy or unemployment insurance, the Socialist (arty has undertaken to define its position, in the following resolution of the New York Executive Committee: "It Is clearly evident that the world-wide division between Socialists and Communists is the primary reason for the advance which reaction has made In recent years...

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...activity to .tiled by this division...

...Milwaukee women who Join the Twentieth Ward Republican Club will receive free shampoos as a reward, Walter F. Baumann, party committeeman, announced today...

...Living Marxism" was the topic of the address by David P. Berenberg, Marxian scholar...

...Marx Celebration The American Socialist Quarterly wlQ hold a Marx memorial meeting and symposium March 25th in the Studio of the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street, with a discussion of "Living Marxism...

...The Socialist Party of America, as well as Socialist parties in ether oountrles, ha* frequently proved (if readiness for an honest united front...

...Berenberg, editor of the American Socialist Quarterly, in a brilliant short address pointed out that Marx was not a dogmatist, and was not to be accepted blindly as a fatalistic prophet of inevitable Socialism...

...He himself, in research work, found that the facts verified Marx's theory of concentration...

...The accommodations did not permit the presence of any but students, so to accommodate the citizens ' of the town he addressed them Immediately afterwards...

...Marx showed that if the workers did not combine for the establishment of a cooperative commonwealth, than the industrial civilisation of today would end In destruction and chaos...

...The appear* ance of Thomas climaxed the intensive winter campaign of the local Socialist Party and of the Tulane University Socialist Club...

...AUSTRIAN CRISIS IS DEEPENING 1*HE crisis in Austria and Vienna appears at this writing to be reaching a head...

...In the history of such coalitions one group alone has persistently violated the purpose for which these coalitions have been formed...

...In the twelve hours that ho was in New Orleans he spoke nine times before the public schools and other public Institutions, met at every turn by eager crowds In halls, in the streets, even at the railway, station...

...Hillquit Meets Senator Robinson in For urn Debate ffcNE of the high spots in the " brilliant season of lectures, debates and symposiums of the Brooklyn Forum will be reached Sunday night when Morris Hillquit, National Chairman of the Socialist Party, meets Joseph T. Robinson, Majority Leader of tjie United States Senate, in debate on the subject, "Does the Democratic Party hold out any substantial hope for the American people...

...4. Fishing in tbe troubled Balkan waters by Fascist Itsly, Hungary, Ron mania, and various ententes and alliances, using Austria as a pawn...

...First dealing with Marx's conception of history, materialistic as opposed to the reigning Ideological view of his day, Solomon emphasised that the materialistic conception included and was more than the economic Interpretation of history, taking physical environmental factors also into considers tion...

...Party TakesStand on United Front THE attempt on the part of the Communist Party to secure what is called a "United Front" with the Socialists has been redoubled within the past few weeks, with the move reaching from Moscow through Berlin to Union Square...

...The meeting was opened with the singing of the International and other proletarian songs by the Workmen's Circle Chorus...

...Is the slogan of the Communists for a 'United Front' a means toward such a desirable end...

...Charles H. Tuttle, who was Republican candidate for Governor in 1980, will preside...

...Similar experience, are toe numerous to mention...

...Most of the working class of that southern city are employed in the railroad yards and the mining industries...

...The Tom Mooney Moldera' Defense Committee, controlled by the Communists, Is being used to promote the Communist Psrty...

...SOCIALIST MAYOR'S PLAN WINS FAVOR -- 'Vf...

...The Socialist Party in all countries, aware that generally speaking the mov e is but a "maneuver," lias hitherto rejected the tender on the ground that it has not been made in good faith...

...If it is impossible to unite the two organizations at present, because of the fundamental differences between Socialism and Communism in principle and tactics, at least common action in face of an emergency or to accomplish a common purpose could be possible...

...Our Chancellor is Adolf Hitler...

...The Socialists feel that if constitutional safeguards are withdrawn and all power is concentrated in the banes of one man ft will be as easy for the Swastika warriors to take over Austria as it was for Hitler to take power after the von Papon and th* von Schleicher ministries...

...It is the duty of .Socialists to organize the working class in America, bring to them the message of Marx, so that the proletarian body may be prepared to establish the Socialist order...

...At Tuscaloosa ha spoke to tbe students of the University of Alabama, who assembled la a vast throng...

...The Socialists feel that a Dolfuss dictatorship would be but the first step toward a Hitlerite dictatorship, while the Nasi* of Austria are loudly proclaiming: "Dolfuss is not our Chancellor...

...This group is the Communist Party, its auxiliaries, and, in some cases, other communist groups not recognised by the official Communist Party...

...A basic requirement of such cooperation is that each aided group enter it with a sincere purpose, and the Socialist Party on all Ottoetton* ha* worked in loyal cooperation with the other organitation...

...After signing up, women may stop right into the neighborhood beauty shop and the club will pay the bill, he said...

...Returning to Birmingham, Thomas was the guest of honor at a dinner, where ha also spoke, and then left for the City Auditorium, where approximately ten thousand were waiting for him...

...The Socialist Party has often joined other organisations of the working class in conferences set up for definite purposes, The Party has participated in such conferences with organizations of the I. W. W., with Farmer-Labor groups, with the S. L. P., also with anarchist groups, snd at times in the past with communist organisations...

...Senator Robinson thinks bis party does offer such hope, and in hi* place as fourth in command of the party In complete charge of the Government, he has an opportunity to make good whatever claims he can make for his party...

...They are ready for their Putiek...

...It is on the workers that the future depends.'* The Anal speaker of the evening was Charles Solomon, who was hailed by the chairman as the "Toscanini of Socialism...

...Laidler said, had come to admit the predictions of Marx were being verified at last in this, the twilight of capitalism...

...Tracing the history of class struggles through the ages, Solomon painted the picture of the classless society, which Marx bad declared was the next step...

...a* toon at there it evidence that tuch cooperation it pottible, the Soeialut Party will not ttani aloof...

...This split weakens the forces of labor...

...Only capital benefits from this situation...

...There will be discussion from the floor...

...and of tha Amalgamated Clothing Workers have been compelled to withdraw from the conference In California hecause of tha methods persued by the Communists...

...Scoring the present private banking system as largely responsible for the breakdown of industrial and commercial institutions, Socialist members of the common council, with the help of two independent non-partisans, won favorable action on indorsing a bill, now pending . the state legislature, authorising cities to establish and operate municipal banks...

...E. R. A. Seligman, Charles A. Beard, and others, Dr...

...The Rebel Arts Dance group contributed three dances, 'The Rise of Woman," "Round of I.abor," and "Strike," topped off with the International...

...A real united front with the organized American workere, en • basis of mutual trust and understanding, and which would at OH* bring b«n*flt» to the Socialist ?*+ fy and to th* Trade Vnlont, ie •* fewedseto task" A.S.Q...

...Harry W. Laidler presented a vivid picture of the surrender of contemporary conservative economists to the ideas of Marx...

...The debate will be held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music...

...At present, and as long a* tha communists use the slogan of the 'United Front' for their own sectarian ends and not for the common good of Labor, conferences with them, Inevitably resulting in conflicts, divisions and sometimes fights, only do harm to the purpose for which they are ostensibly held...

...Hundreds of Nasi agents are pouring into Austria to engineer the expected Pitted...

...The bill was Introduced by Senator Walter Polakowski, Milwaukee Socialist...

...The delegates of the trsde unions, of the Proletsrlsn Psrty, the Ylpsels, the L.I.D...

...The eommanUt mental** fc clearly shown by recent events in Germany...

...We urge," said Thomas, "the holy men to teach their flocks the need for real men of action who are ready to defend the fireside by joining and working with a fixed program to make and use the products of labor for labor's needs and not for the profit and selfaggrandisement of the few who persist in keeping a system of robbery—by usurping our government as a power to rob humanity of its reward...

...MILWAUKEE Republicans, having signally failed to win the support of a majority of women by appealing to what is Inside pretty beads are now endeavoring to lure them away from support of tbe Socialist Party by an appeal to the outside of their heads, aa witness the following: Shampoo Republican Women Free MILWAUKEE...

...a great amount of its energy Is spent in fratricidal strife, and aggrt.ilv...

...He pointed out the failure of the Southern Railway to utilize its capacities to employ many thousands of men...

...The Chancellor, Dr...

...as admitted by the Communists themselves, the 'United Front' is for them a maneuver, to further their own party's purposes and to 'unmask the Socialist leaders.' "The same history Is being repeated to obtain tha release of Tom Mooney...

...With tha Hitler regime threatening (and now temporarily victorious), tha Communists refused to clssp the outstretched hsnd of the German Social-Democracy, disregarding in this the advice of a Communist leader, Trotzky...

...Thomas' graphic picture of the conditions as seen from the viewpoint of larger social significance opened the eyes of many, according to the report of the local Socialist secretary, R. P. Harvey...

...Hillquit is one of the greatest debaters in the country, and in his time he has met such opponents as Professor Seligman of Columbia, President Jacob Gould Schurman of Cornell, Samuel Untermyar, Rev...

...John L. Bel ford, Matthew Woll, Samuel Gompera, Edward Keating, and many others...

...Engelbrecht Dolfuss, member of the Christian Social Party, is attempting to rule as a dictator, and he is being bitterly fought by both Socialists and Hitlerites—but for entirely different reasons...

...The reason for this is obvious...

...Addresses will be delivered by David P. Berenberg, Algernon Lea, Halm Kantorovitch and J. B. Matthews...

...He is rated as one of the ablest men in the United States Senate, and if any man can make ont a case for the Democratic Party he is the man ot do it...

...Local newspapers sent their star reporters to interview him at the station while he breakfasted, tbe interviews with pictures being car* tied on the front page...

...The crisis began to become acute when the Socialists exposed the Hirtenberg affair, the smuggling of arms between Italy and Hungary over Austrian territory...

...After speaking in the great industrial city of the South, Thomas left for Shreveport and New Orleans, where he was received with equal enthusiasm...

...S. An attempt at a reactionary, although not Nasi, Putsch...

...The idea of human progress as a succession of class struggles was the next great contribution of Marx, and his combining of it with scientific Socialism for the first time...

...It is necessary," said Berenberg, "to recognise, as did Marx, the important role of human will in the class straggle...

...Among them are: 1. An attempt at a Hapsburg restoration, with young Prince Otto, son of the late Kaiser Karl, as proposed king or emperor...

...Robinson, who hails from Arkansas, was candidate for Vice-President with Al Smith in 1928, and was a delegate to the London Anns Conference in 1930...

...There are involved a number of complicated and often obscure factors...

...Solomon confined his remarks to the contributions of Marx to the world of thought...

...The Socialists alone are fighting for peace, order and for the future...

...The Sehuttbund is in readiness, and the Socialists are defying the orders of Dolfuss to refrain from holding meetings...

...But," Solomon concluded, "the verification of this prediction depends on as...

...Here he urged the Socialist cause, applying Socialist remedies to the troubles of tbe South...

...The Executive Committee of Local New York therefore calls on all comrades, branches end affiliated organizations, to refrain from joining any so-called 'United Front' conferences with communist...