Socialism Only Aim, Say British Labor Leaders
Socialism Only Aim, Say British Labor Leaders "T*HE British Labor movement * matt move as swiftly as possible toward Socialism, or else lose all reason for its existence, leaders of that...
...N. J. One answer to this inquiry U found in the letter below...
...Some <" them do not follow the new precedent when favorable to the workers...
...There was no room for vacillations as between the Mussolinis on the one hand and those who stood for Constitutional reform on the other, he said...
...When Judge Panken was on the bench his opinions were of that type...
...Some day, opinion...
...candidate was credited with 11,379, corrected by the recheek to 10,806...
...Ia God's Land By Bea Blunmenberg "IN God's Land" by Martin An* dersou Nexo (published by Peter Smith), msy not be classed with the beet sellers of the dsy, but for ths years to come it will rind s place beside the author's two other time!ess novels, "Pelle the < ..n.11»fmi" and "Intie...
...To those who regarded dictatorship in this country as remote, he would say that although the Fascist Party in this country was small, the same kind of thing was true of Germany and of Italy...
...In most rases - at least in the Socialist Mayoralty vote- there was no apparent attempt to keep the Socialist total d iwn, the apparently deliberate thefs being reserved for Assembly, Senatorial and Congress candidates...
...For example, in the 4th A. I...
...The scone of "In God's Land" is s Danish farming community before and during the world war...
...JUDGE PANKEN— NOT JUDGE LEVY The opinion which was attributed to Judge Aaron J. Levy in a suit for anjunction by Morris Engelmeyre v. Bakery 4 Confectionery Workers' International Union, No...
...Ho becomes involved in one deal after another that have little relation to farming, aad often his neighbors are the victims of his u nscru pulou sness...
...The Communist list was declared invalid, in consequence of the Communists' agitation against the Labor Organization...
...It is based upon a personal investigation of a region where capitalistic production invaded communities that for generations had been isolated from the general current of social and economic progress...
...the father is religious but tolerant and has much in common with his son, s freethinker and Socialist...
...The letter below indicates the problem we are constantly facing.- -Editor...
...Tbe Third Congress waa held six years ago...
...One of the most glaring thefts aas in the 18th A. I...
...The body would have legislative powers, approve the Constitution now being drafted, and pp.oiii a President...
...The Communist candidate was credited with 24,014, whereas the recheek gave him 24,101...
...and co-operative In bor colonies...
...held in loathing contempt in peace days, becomes the leading citizen.' Prices of fauna go up while their' actual value declines...
...Perhaps, our Communist friends are hurt over the great surress we had and they spread lies that I' groes wer barred from tins meeting...
...The author offers- some suggestions tor reconstruct ion of these shattered communities but it seems to m* that the coal industry is so completely demoralized that nationalization Is the only way out...
...There is no let-down in the unfolding of the story...
...Of outsiders who came in to help them only the Quakers showed understanding of the social tissues that had been torn and strained and of how to help and get the confidence of these wretched thousands...
...wfn be the subject of what Is expected to be an unusually ''gingerly" debate on Wednesday night...
...More than 22,000 workers (78% of all those entitled to vote) exercised their voting rights...
...Newark...
...A. G. Walkden, President of the Trades Union Congress, said the Rotherham result wss evidence of the people's faith in democracy and the possibilities of Parliamentary action...
...In God's Land" vividly portrays the war's effects on a noncombatant country that had some claims to being civilized...
...Daughter of Man...
...Holy Roller and Baptist preacher miners who had joined these unions were sent to northern cities to bo instructed in Communism snd to return to the miners as missionaries...
...Jens, the go-getter, baa a contempt for both...
...Arlie Barber, who secured the auditorium had a understanding to take rare of a '•<K"> uudience We announced thst Negroes were welcome...
...Here is poverty and privation on the grand scale, communities as bewildered by tbe capitalistic invasion as simple tribesmen are by their first eontact with the white man...
...April It, in Newark, between Norman Thomas and Harry Elmer Barnes, in The Industrial Art School, High and Wfflinm St...
...in 40,011 Bronx......09,236 08 980 Brooklyn ______114,347 113,622 Queens________ 25,171 24.981 Richmond...
...Frank Kiagdow, of the Calvary M. E. Church, East Orange, will preside...
...Manhattan, the Hillquite vote of 1 155 was reported election night as 811, and in the 14th A. 1...
...The official report of the canvass on those eases, however, has not yet been made...
...The vote by counties follows: Corrected Original Manhattan tlx...
...The Palestine Labor Party polled about l&jm votes (over 80%) for Its lists, whilst Ave other groups ("Left Poale Zion," "Hashomer Hazair," the religious Socialists, the Yemenite workers, and the "Zionist Youth") secured about 4.00(1 votes between them...
...The only way to combat that slowly creeping Fascism and dictatorship which had spread from the Italian Peninsular was to put up against it an equally definite philosophy and be prepared to carry it into effect just as ruthlessly, if necessary, as the dictators on the other side...
...Kings, in which Boss McCooey reigns supreme Clone to 800 votes were "erroneously" deducted from Hillquit's total...
...In the end it found tbe farmers and wage earners poorer materially aad spiritually...
...This was only s part of the services they rendered...
...They said that Heaven is in Russia aad that Bell is here in the Halted States, aad that it wouldn't take them hut 24 hoars to throw the White Hawse m tbe river...
...I »m...
...Old horses and diseased cattle are ground up with preservatives and sold to tbe German army...
...The retbrn* reported after the "official" canvass showed a vote of 249,887...
...Sometimes becomes as wearisome as some of the Bolsliie's own stuff...
...The following excerpt from one of these affidavits is typical...
...They look into each situation and consider the rights of the employees...
...In several notorious cases, how ever, the "errors" are so glaring that it is impossible lo escape the conclusion thst deliberate thefts were intended...
...The dog butcher...
...Walkden, "they will hold the line and resist the wave of dictatorship that has swept over Asia and part of Europe, and is even affecting America...
...The world war comes as a blessing to Vorup snd other Danish farmers...
...605, was not rendered by Judge Levy, ae reported in The New Iieader...
...of that kind will be handed down by Socialist judges...
...The impact of capi talistic production upon these sim pie communities is then described through the periods of boom, collapse and rebellion...
...It is to a large extent due to the fact that the Unions have carried on a constant propaganda against the use of the in'.netions in labor disputes...
...in palestine TEL AVIV.—The primary election of the delegates to the Fourth Congress of the General Jewish Labor Organization of Palestine, affiliated to the International Federation of Trade Unions, took place recently...
...The two main workers' parties amalgamated three years age to form the Palestine Labor Party, which is affiliated to the LS.I...
...Tern ("Tin Box") Farley's grand dn-hy, the 1,323 Hillquit votes were "erronecusly" reported as 261...
...Vorup, crushed and beaten, takes leave of his family and returns to Germany...
...Everyone is going to get rich...
...Rupp hi a leading lawyer ami was Democratic randidata for United States Senator In the last campaign...
...In the statement Judge Panken said: "It is qtfite apparent that the Courts sre now looking at these applications for injunctions by employers from an entirely new angle...
...TIIK ANSWER By Harry Kokol The <>>mmunists are doing everything I hey can to spread the Idea that Norman Thomas snoke at a Jim Crow meeting in Binning ham on March 7. It *vaa one of the largest political meetings ever held in the City...
...1 also sent word to the "Birmingham Reporter," a Negro weekly, that arrangeriieiitF had been made for Negroes to attend, Now, if Negroes did not com* if was only because of specific lo cal conditions in tbe South, Ne groes stay away from large , ering.* wheie white people rongregate, particularly in political meet ings...
...The New Leader, because of the language in which the statement made by another Judge—Jacob I'a nken—waa couched, treated it as a pronounciamento from the court...
...is generally in answer to requests or because of some issue relating to it that has arisen and that requires conside ration...
...It is a moat chopping machine to which one sacrifices one's body in gratitude for the madness...
...12,000 workers voted in the cities, 7,000 in the agricultural colonies based on private enterprise, and 3,000 in the collect;vist...
...Judges in New York County do not now grant Injunctions at the request of employers...
...Madness indeed," eays the author, "Had people lost their-reason or were they devilishly tricked...
...they as* sotkitmg dot Msg and they park it ever smi past send the aid rags down here...
...The high percentage of participation in the voting is noteworthy...
...I hope to heaven," said Mr...
...I tie balcony of the auditorium waa reserved for Negio listeners...
...2,292 2,293 Total .,.251,656 249,887 It is a curious fact that the recheck showed that both the Socialist Labor Party candidate was credited with too many votes in the original canvass...
...Socialism Only Aim, Say British Labor Leaders "T*HE British Labor movement * matt move as swiftly as possible toward Socialism, or else lose all reason for its existence, leaders of that movement are saying with increasing insistence...
...He was spesking at the National Trade Union Club where a recent dinner was given in honor of William Debbie's victory in the Bother bam by-elect ion...
...Thi!was done und it would have been done even if the National office had not written...
...Proud and fearless, every man accustomed to carrying a gun, these miners fought fiercely for themselves and their families...
...By the way, why does Ye Editor devote m many precious column inches to matter baiting the Communists...
...He secured the farm by marrying Mario Fisker Who Vacillates between the practicality of her husband and the idealism of her father snd brother...
...Regardless of what happened our Communist friends would have found some fault...
...Hill people turned miners and the minora organised, with the usual tragic conflicts over wage*, unionism, military intervention, civil war, general hysteria and despousoreaction...
...Tbe post-war period brought a collapse of the coal industry, unemployment, class struggles, deflated wages snd near1lMn4l11.11...
...Although it was not necessary for the Socialist I'urty to write us, Clarence Senior reminded the local committee that the partj insists that Negroes be invited and admitted to these meetings...
...Prices soar and a frenzied avariciouanoss takes In.Id of them...
...Solomon to Debate Rupp ALLENTOWN, Ps.—Allentown comrades sre looking forward to the debate Thursday"night, April 13, between Charles Solomon of New York, and Lawrence E. Repp, of this City, st the Jewish Community Center on "Capitalism or Socialism...
...Ethical and religious precepts are trampled under in tbe feverish race to make money while the war is on...
...Maaboff, Kr" '" Hamilton Garner, Dr...
...Newark...
...Worker* to Elect to Constituent Assembly RIO DE JANEIRO.—The Cabnet has fixed the membership of the convention which will approve a new Constitution for Brszil at 254, of whom 214 would be electej by popular vote, twenty by workers' syndicates, and twenty by employers' associatlo i The date for the convention's meeting will be decreed after its election...
...The Millenium has not come...
...H, Goebel serving as the local committee...
...The debate is for the benefit et the Band Behoof aad Pewo>.< llouse, with Case...
...Among his fellows Jens Vorup stood oat as the ablest farmer of them all...
...We assure Comrade Klerane that we re?jret every inch of space we use or such matter and would be hap py if we could eliminate it entirely out what we rur...
...Thomas to Debute Barnes m Newark "Can Roosevelt Save Capitalknu...
...Judges and courts do not, as yet, generally hand down opinions such as has been attributed to Judge Levy...
...That is unsupportable, utterly unjustified oiid a violation of law...
...They sre setktthsg (1,0*0 a day fee the miners hero and the earners are not getting saw of It...
...They helped in five states, sought no publicity and in one month last year they "were feeding ,'19,000 children a day and giving milk to an additional 3,000 nursing mothers aad pre school children...
...Some judges follow the old precedent...
...Nexo makes dear thst Denmark's prosperity during the war was simply a period of inflation with a (few profiteer* carrying off the plums...
...its end the scheme* and plana of Vorup crash...
...If labor would continue its propaganda and make its voice b»ard and its power felt, even labor-fritting .'ndges will be brought to time ami will not use their powers recklessly against orCSnized worker* " NEW LEADER FORUM A QUESTION By Huber Klemm Kindly use enclosed check to con tinue my subscription to The New Leader...
...Sckap'no, t'hrm ; Chaw...
...The characters are strpeTbly drawn and there is a fine balance of tender sentiment and lustiness, primitive and healthy...
...Comrade Thomas r.nswered the Negro question s< that it could satisfy even the loftiest Communist, to say nothing o. Socialists...
...Morris llillqurt, candidate for Mayor, is found to have received 251,656 votes...
...However, the pastor of the community in which the characters m the story .live, suffer a revulsion against the war...
...Two important labor leaders are quoted to that effect in the London "Herald," both of whom insisted that Socialism is the bulwark of democracy and the only possible defense against Fascirm...
...the Labor Party has no future unless it i* going to embark quite definitely on the road to Sociai ism," said C. T. Cramp, of the Transport Workers* Federation...
...By Male—* Rot...
...In some courts, the decision handed down by Judge Cardoso, protective of the rights at workers, are disregarded...
...Fundaments...
...MacntMa...
...He goes to Germany to track down a swindler who hsd tricked him and his fellow go-getters...
...As the war near...
...The Communists also came and organized the miners but today there is little left of s Common ist union because of their inept methods...
...Il« certainly explainer the Negro question from the Socialist puint of view very satisfactorily but1 this was not mentioned by our Communist critics...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF THE HILL PEOPLE By James Oneal MACHINE AGE IN THE HILLS...
...England and the countries of the Northwest fringe of Europe remained the countries shfest for democracy...
...ist in religion, social development a nested, these people were content to live in their simple relationships when coal companies found this region vastly rich in coal deposits...
...1 personally invited many Negroes to come...
...He fails and returns to Denmark with the realization that old Fisker, with his honesty, simplicity and Idealism had gotten more out of life by sticking to farming...
...THIS rs one of the most informing books written of the modern bill people of West Virginis and Kentucky...
...On the occasion of this election several smaller parties associated themselves with it...
...the S.L.P...
...Re is*, ami Geo...
...In the war period there was brisk production, ample employment and wages, and general satisfaction with the new life...
...The official recheek indicated glaring errors, in stvcral election districts hundred* of votes Uio many being credited to the Socialist mayoralty candidate almost balancing large-scale deductions from the Socialist tota...
...They returned to their communities, mads affidavits of their experience, snd the Communist unions disappeared...
...10KRRTED vote for mayor was 251j*56 »|*HE New York Board of Elee* tions has made public the corrected vote cast in the city following the recount and re* necking of totals registered on the voting machines...
...The Communists nevertheless summoned their supporters to take part m the voting sad to vote for their lists, They secured a total number of 250 votes...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 14
