Penn. Socialist Solon Assumes The Real Minority Leadership
McDowell, Arthur G.
By Arthur G. McDowell Penn. Socialist Solon Assumes The Real Minority Leadership Socialist Anti-Eviction Law b Smothered by Reactionary Senate—Democrats Asleep at the Switch. UARR1SBURG. — The...
...The play is called "Yoahe Kalb," the author, one Mr...
...The latter by the way is an unwilling groom, who stalks through the scenes with ghostlike gestures and intoninge that are intended to convey mysticism and metaphysics...
...Senator Plays Ostrich In Pittsburgh, Senator Einstein pulled his window shades, locked all doors and sent the servants to parley while he called the police when a committee of 160 members of the Unemployed Citizens' League called to solicit his aid, specifically on the anti-eviction resolution...
...Mto come, f to see the MM White W*» m ohl Wf • parade !*»> h won't I...
...May our movement be worthy of him...
...With supreme faith that our new found liberal leader, Franklin D. Roosevelt will do his level best to bring a sunken ship safely to a sunken harbor, let me tell you what I saw when I went to Second Avenue to see a successful play by the Yiddish Art Theatre, under the direction of a successful actor manager...
...Our Columnist Goes to Second Avenue To See a Much Touted Play-and Gosh, How It irks Him...
...Answer, when the bank holiday is over...
...This came first on a motion of Rep...
...But prosperity is coming back...
...Ml one of the ailing of the A. F. of L., conventions, rusted official lifted editor...
...Gosh, seeing that show, has dazed my metaphoric brain...
...An Uaprinted Reso'ution Sometime after midnight one of che amazing measures that the Senate passes so frequently in the form of imprinted resolutions came over to the House and was apparently passed there until Hoopes again took the floor to ask a second reading and pointed out that the resolution was one granting the most sweeping powers to the State Insurance Commissioner, authorising him simply under the resolution to "suspend any insurance law...
...For the Gentile (and thousands of these unbelievers have attended this burlesque of Jewish life) the play gives him the novel experience of hearing s Jewish audience aa it listens to a Jewish play on the East Side...
...If o files LmMailly Jon in Pitts1871, he wss two to Scotad worked in poo...
...May our younger comrades be inspired by the likes of him...
...I in 1895 and I in the labor le...
...Get me straight, you courageous readers of mine...
...The newspapers tell ua that we need nothing but faith to bring prosperity back...
...Arthur Brisbane is offering some unusual bargains in earthquakes, and we'll be able to buy...
...s Which brings me to the plessanter subject of Msrch 24th, In the Debs Auditorium, the Rand School, at 8:80 p. m, when a gifted Comrade, Jacob Feuerring, will present his musical talent in a recital of piano...
...Master the Moloch, or be a knave And weigh your worth as a modern slave...
...He worked for a while on the Worker, edited by Algernon Lee, and on which his coworkers included Courtenay Lemon, James Oneal and Horace Traubel...
...The *¦* ft influI Democrats...
...The costumes have historical and even customary accuracy...
...Handel, Bach, Schumann, Brahms snd Chopin srs offered to you on that evening...
...His term of office was a distinct success...
...Just as his health began to fail he was invited to become one of the editors of the widely-circulated Metropolitan Magazine and to contribute to it a monthly article on Socialism...
...That work did not spell the end of his party activities, but disease had come...
...Neither the Social Democratic party nor civilized public opinion wUl recognize the legality of a 'majority' which Hitler may secure on such a basis...
...A committee of Hamsburg un-« employed representing the Dauphin County workers committee on Unemployment waited on both the local Senator and representative, demanding passage of the Hoopes House bill 408 which would legally suspend all evictions of unemployed for any cause for the duration of the depression...
...A man of fiery temper, of passionately-held opinions, he had the excellent habit of writing out his feelings when his temper was at white-heat...
...A division was called on the vocal vote that had apparently passed the resolution and the resolution defeated by a vote of 85 to "77...
...Loud in hasty avarice you prayed...
...in 1890 i and worked [Birmingham, for five years I official, and Ii local labor d the Debs was made an tut union...
...Whatever there is of drama and tragedy, inversely becomes ludicrous by over-acting...
...between the daughter of a Polish high rabbi and the intellectual offspring of a Russian Talmudlst...
...When do we have joy, peace, comfort, confidence, God in His Heaven and all well with the world...
...More like a yelping, groaning, roaring, bellowing cross between a sea-lion and a hippo...
...Measure your life by the metered rule, Weigh your worth in a metal school...
...The dusty smoke, by your labor wrought, Will cover the towers, cold and grey, And shroud your little hour of play...
...National headquarters were in Omaha, and there were not many Socialists there to keep him company...
...e s Heywood Broun predicts that Roosevelt may go down in history as "Radio Frank...
...The Yiddish Art Theatre is too modern for that . So let's say both sides of the curtsin, up and down...
...Frankly, you will judge from this brief review that I was slightly disappointed in "Yoshe Kalb...
...But It wasn't that kind of a bleating calf, folks...
...Lordy, how I'm longing for the spring...
...Rather term It recklessness, or the careless verve that hurls a drunken batallion against certain doom...
...what they mean is that a terrorized people cast a majority of votes for the party that conducted the elections with loaded revolvers at the heads of those who were expected to vote against them...
...And there'll be few of us out to lunch when it does come back...
...So that I can become smart enough to go fishing in Frnner's pond, and ask morning, noon and twilight of a day to leave the world to hungry trout and me...
...Ths broadcasting Broun knows s bedtime story artist when he hears one...
...Hoopes as Socialist spokesman to undertake general minority leadership...
...For this the red of your heart was bought...
...In Berlin the Socialists came second to the Nazis in spite of provocation and assassination, while the Communists lost about half the votes they had polled only four months previously...
...P. H...
...I'm just sorry so many non-Jewish folk have been misinformed by box-office ballyhoo on how many people live, act, suffer and laugh within the Ghettos of central Europe...
...But what is so small a thing aa an accent in a Jewish Art Theatre...
...Are ye listening "Radio Frank" will croon you to sleep...
...We're going to be rich again...
...Kda Talbott Sayert...
...In the House the complete abdication by Democratic floor leaders of even the simplest checking functions of a minority party forced Rep...
...kind Words ¦»eJr...
...e • "You can't ruin Americal" is ths slogan of ths new administration...
...The Executive of the Labor and Socialist International, in a statement issued just before the election, declares that "A blindly ragivy terror and the free exercise of the franchise are completely imcompatible...
...and that the insanely fanatical Joseph Paul Goebbels is to be official propaganda chief for the German nation...
...And about 14,000,000 unemployed were so happy that it wasn't because of the banking situation that they didn't have money to buy...
...Although none of these measures were strictly speaking "down the alley" of the Socialist members of the House who are In the legislature definitely as working-class spokesmen and nothing else, the absolute failure of the leaders of the Democratic Party in the House to fill the function naturally falling to them under parliamentary government has forced the two Socialists to carry a double burden of their own class and general minority leadership...
...But the play has no story, the story has no plot, and the little bit of symbolism by which the Wandering Jew is weirdly threaded into pattern on shoddy cloth is utterly sewn over by comedy acting that is grotesquely tragic in its broad seaminess of exaggeration and overtone...
...The Litwaka speak Gallcian, and the Galician speak Gallcian, and so even that Ane difference between Jewish life in two separate communities Is lost as the play goes on...
...and so in September, 1912, he passed from among us...
...Apparently however not a sufficient number of the Senator!, almost all of whom are outstandingly wealthy men, heard from the organised unemployed to the extent the Pittsburgh men did, and with their first consciousness of the glaring class discrimination of suspending sheriffs' writs affecting property while refusing to extend the same moratorium to constables' writs affecting the lives of the unemployed, subsiding, the anti-eviction measure seems doomed to perish In the richly gilded Senate chamber...
...the edict that henceforth the Republican flag of red-goldblack is to be supplanted by the imperial red-white-black, with the swastika flag to be flown at its side...
...And what goes on the stags apparently communicates itself spiritually to the audience, since everything is done on the top of voices, both sides of the footlights...
...and then he did not mail them...
...ASOCIALIST is just dumb enough to remain so smart, while all these national scene-shiftings are going on...
...Sense me...
...1 ssi proving **ttkttwo...
...The play has to do with the marriage customs among orthodox Jews in Polish and Russian Ghettoea, bethrotha...
...In 1894 he was a delegate to the Populist national convention, and in 1896 he threw himself definitely' into the Socialist movement...
...But ss to the play, sadly enough only a half Idiotic wench of a cemetery-keeper's dsughter gives the true performance in realism and theatre In the play...
...Quatrains for a Technocrat WORE than the primitive in his cave, Now shsll you live as your weapon's slave...
...With the announcement of the returns of the so-called election came two announcements that are rightly interpreted as further declaration of war upon the German people...
...There followed a brief period in the early days of The New York Call, and then he gave himself to general writing • and magazine work...
...Is tV'* n. P*» to m¦pP sales Then the stock market opened and steel went up...
...Only those who know the writings of the creature realize the full meaning of that announcement...
...And she baa to outshriek and out-shout a whole village of beggars, rsbbls and the rest to put her part across...
...The Lithuanians have a different Jewish accent than the Polish Jews...
...In those pioneer days it was not a pleasant job...
...It has been my pleasure to hear him twice at Impromptu gatherings, and I mske bold to declare that ho has arrived as a genuine artist The party members and sympathizers should by all means patronise this concert and partake of the joy his performance at the keys is certain to transmit...
...All's P asd Amos *st vacation •to Congress * >t was to to remain in •sessteerfng rtwtrs...
...That's swell, because we have nothing else...
...Is it too much to ssk Roosevelt to hslt his downwsrd Journey to history for just Ions enough to remind Congress that the holidsy on eating Is getting to be boring...
...The results of the elections, however, mean nothing since the Nazi gunmen had declared they would do what they please anyway...
...Hoopes took the floor in aid of the weak voiced Pinchot, Republican sponsor of the bill and the motion to kill was resoundingly defeated after a biting exchange of interrogation across the floor had revealed only too clearly the purpose behind the sophistry of Turner's motion...
...Barely enough of your warmth you keep To plant new seed for the gods to reap...
...When is a holiday a day of despair...
...The scenery, presented in the modern Continental fashion, is well set up and artistically interesting...
...Reading unemployed represented by a committee from the Taxpayers' Protective League with over three thousand members demanded the support ef their Senator Norton for the passage of the resolution, but the Berks Senator, although a member of the committee holding the bill, professed ignorance of its existence and whereabouts when interviewed after the regular weekly meeting of the committee at which the matter was apparently not even brought up...
...The national office was virtually exile for the ardent Mailly...
...Elwood Turner representing private owners of utilities to recomit and kill a bill curbing the right of utilities to rase rates without permission...
...in 1898 he snd later to v the budding i anti-DeLeon beginning to sr his leaderwept the city, H as Mayor, s legislature, Socialism in . There Will isl Democrat, d Bertha H. i "pure-and¦ the beginning he realised the necessity of Socialist political action...
...W. M. F. i another "eection" is held in germany FOLLOWING the Reichstag "elec* tions" in which the Hitlerites and the Hugenberg Nationalists together secured just a share over a majority of all votes cast in an atmosphere of intimidation and terror the enslaved voters of Germany were permitted to go to the polls again and elect town and city councillors...
...The Nazis boast that they "swept" the elections...
...While detailed figures were not given except for Berlin the results were not surprising...
...Give yourself s real treat and attend...
...The Socialist member urged the members to hold on to their senses and not permit any such absolutely limitless and undefined power to be placed In any one man...
...In 1902 when Leon Greenbaum resigned as national secretary of the party Mailly waa elected in his place...
...until he 1 1889, for a railway secfirds, and in Ms...
...The anti-eviction resolution, jammed through the Pennsylvania Houae last week by Socialist Representative Darlington Hoopes to suspepnd constables' evictions as well as sheriff sales until April 3rd, was being smothered in the Senate Committee on Judiciary General this week over the bitter protests of unemployed organizations in the Urge working-class centers of the state...
...Here are the temples your prayers have made, And incense grey to the gods who call: "Weigh your worth for my temples tall...
...This is no mood of futility and gloom...
...A bill to license beauty culturists was the only measure to arouse any of the recognised Democratic leaders to take the floor during the entire beetle sight's session...
...Answer, when it is a bank holiday...
...He was of the race of Titans, of the breed of Hanford and Matched and of that comrade (still happily with us) that Hanford had in mind when he penned his immortal Jimir'e Higgins...
...There are no footlights...
...But you can try damned hard, it their program...
...Kalb," by the way, means calf in German-Yiddish...
...After a while he resigned to be replaced by another trade unionist, J. Mahlon Barnes, and Mailly came to New York...
...Will Mailly came from the working class and he never rose out of it...
...He leaves you with the queer feeling that his real trouble is dyspepsia, and prompts you almost to rise in your seat and mske the vulgar suggestion to him about trying a real physic for relief...
...His heart, his soul, his whole being was bound up in the struggles of his class...
...He hsd been led to the theories of Socialism by Robert BkUchford's articles while he wss still in England, but it was his many-sided experiences in the labor movement that drove him into the organised Socialist movement aa his life work...
...Singer, and the manager, Maurice Schwartz...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
