For a Tortured World May Day Presages a Saner, Cleaner Day
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Joseph E. Cohen For a Tortured World May Day Presages a Saner, Cleaner Day Over the Barriers of Countries and Nations Are Reachec The Hands of Comradeship — For Peace and Humanity! QVRK...
...In the open country of their ideals, their spirits rise above the trials and penalties of the present clash over divided interests among rulers or combined resistance...
...it meant that his old life was over, that the brilliant career that Id so adorned the British scene was at an end, that henceforth he was an outcast, a comrade and associate of those who had not at that time even won full suffrage in the England he loved so dearly...
...Morris was also one of the greatest authorities in the world on ancient manuscripts...
...Over the harriers Through the corridors of time and over the crumbling fences of map-makers spread the throngs who feel kin, with each other, without prejudice of color or creed or country...
...Thanks, ineed...
...YOUTH AND TOMORROW Long years are mice, That move on furtive feet From shadow into shadow, And carry off Small pieces of my life...
...Our course is attuned to the tempo of thunder, "Forward and onward, along with the May...
...The workingmen, employed nnd unemployed, had come into their own...
...Determined to end the ugliness of the modern home he established a firm that specialised in the manufacture of wall paper and furniture...
...Later he went in for < artistic printing...
...Petal eco! which is Bttag Mai and >l°T*d and I growing §Msa> m Jjrijwide Pa eoniJfa/teMef |*Mt out financial sharks and manipulators...
...Beauty and dignity in homes was something unknown to the world until he, out of his love for beauty, created it...
...And since Maytimc is almost upon us, may I be pardoned ills second reminder that "Rhapsodies 'n Red" Is yours for he asking in the proletarian edition, provided you send in our sub...
...he was the pioneer of heavy furniture, straight lines and comfortable seats, solid work and fine craftmanship...
...I As they seize greater kingdoms i and their numbers dwindle their I every move sends more terrible ¦ storms of havoc among mankind i When as in the present crisis in i the existence of their social order i they are amazed by the fearful exi tent of destitution among so many millions, what frenzy of fear they have of their own doom blinds , them against being generous in measures for economic reform...
...Sou to the riders, "You thieves and despoilert, "Tyrants and schemers, the bond* you contrived "To tether forever the lives of the toiler* "Are shattered at lust, and your hour ha* arrived...
...1 To their liking the story of r man's struggle for bread and i beauty is one of endless cruelty i where the labor of the many must yield to the lust of the few...
...are a cataract freed by the eun...
...From "Rhapsodies in Red" by your Columnist...
...he entered trade...
...jj And Morris turned his back a upon that whole career when he f] threw himself into the Socialist movement...
...Abandon your hammers, your picks and your shovel*, Hoii.iih mid dreamers, for thi* i* your day, Out of your (Ihettoes, your slum* and your hovel*, March with me, sing with me, 1 am the May...
...against the movement of labor...
...It was Labor's night in Vprdun," says the Montreal Herald in reporting the election...
...Al Benson Is Elected Wisconsin State Secretary MILWAUKEE.—Al Benson, former sheriff of Milwaukee County, hr.s been elect0'' *' e «°cretnry of the Socialist Party...
...3 Spurring them is the madness f of stilish conquest even thougi ¦ their very civilization be tor.tured ' and shattered...
...Socialists Sweep Election in Verdun, Montreal Suburb (By a New Leader Correspondent) MONTREAL...
...Tomorrow is a grey-eyed thing...
...The vote was 3,648 for the Socialist to 3,573 for his opponent...
...He devised the Morris chair...
...Long live the international working class movement...
...The great German working class, for the time engulfed in torrents of race hatreds and oppression, will not forever stay submerged...
...And (till seeing the look of astonished misunderstanding, the Hebrew customer added, "Why it's Bismarck without the brains...
...SokolowitS continued baitingly...
...Happy May Day to you then, and on to the Continental ongress for a Real New Dual...
...A Kelmscott Chaucer i today is one of the most coveted items sought by collectors of rare and beautiful books...
...tie sold a large part of his price lessly valuable library, including ¦nany of his Icelandic manuscripts, x> aid the Cause...
...Their teeth leave scar* Of memory Upon my heart...
...As they join in fraternity, so , their oppressors grow the more desperate to break them asunder, j Driving recklessly in the race for ( plunder and power, they strike , ^ sp rks to the menace of war abroad und conflict at home...
...IT is all coming out now, the truth abou' Hitler...
...Sokolowitz of Brownsville walked into the local delicatessen store run by Hans Schnazelbein and asked for a piece of Hitler herring...
...f In each country the workers of field and factory, of mine and railB road, stoop to the task which is f theirs, and struggle is made against the powers of oppression, I the favors and ill-favors of wind . and weather, which turn and . snatch the fruits of toil from the I grasp of those to whom they belong...
...That creeps at night llencath the Gateway* to men'* souls, And softly f Drops a tear of ttujfh Upon the shrinking veil Of dreams...
...Builders und weavers, men in the valleys, Makers and dreamers, this ie your day...
...And he addressed lis fellow-Britons: Come hither, lads, and hearken, for a tale there is to tell Of the wonderful days acoming when all shall be better than well...
...queried the puzzled 100.3% Nordic...
...In other parts of this paper you will find news items that quite confirm my humble suggestions that the illustrious clown of Nazidom is simply not all there...
...Herve Ferland, Socialist, was elacted mayor of Verdun, a suburb of Mo ntreal, at the recent election, and with him were elected seven Socialist Aldermen, giving the workers complete control of the town...
...When their union girdles the earth, in peace and p' nty and it will belong to all humanity...
...The first edition is 'ell-nlgbt exhausted, and not from pleading for customers, assure you...
...MUSIC Have you teen the ocean in a fury, Where the wavet like hungered lions roui ( And yet how weak against the rugged glory Of the ancient rock along the thorel Have you ever felt the joy of dawning, When the ocean speak* in tender brent, And a woman from the thore itand* calling...
...He will devote his full time to the state organisation, and will endeavor to build up the party in the rural districts and small cities of the state...
...I the Rand Book Store sells It for twenty-five cents...
...We are not frozen by terror and wonder...
...on that same day he joined the Social Democratic Federation, mil said, "I am truly glad that I iave joined the only society I could Und which is definitely Socialistic...
...QVRK all the world the men and women of labor bend to th< soil for fresh strength and mw hope...
...i He also went in for dyeing and „ weaving beautiful fabrics...
...In different climes the contest ¦ with the forces bulwarked against man have to be met and overcome . in different ways...
...By Joseph E. Cohen For a Tortured World May Day Presages a Saner, Cleaner Day Over the Barriers of Countries and Nations Are Reachec The Hands of Comradeship — For Peace and Humanity...
...Donnervetter, vat you mean, Hitler herring...
...In those remote days it was not "respectable" to be a Socialist, and when William Morris joined the movement it meant mere than a mere political conversion...
...Say to the waster, and say to the matter, "Our winter of slaving and hunger ie done: "The front chains are broken, the water runs faster, "And we...
...AU in all, William Morris was quite a man, his was a noble career to bring beauty and dignity to the 1 English people, and the whole world " enjoys its results to this day...
...His conversion was real and his devotion was genuine...
...Out of your hovels, your slums and your alleys , . . Mm eh with me, Hing with me, 1 am the May...
...Tens of millions of people todayhave attractive homes because William Morris so willed it...
...kattlleb, whoae nom de plume, "Gremln orn," has graced thw column at times, writes in that he [icnt a thrilling hour with the book, and numerous other jmrades and friends have commented kindly...
...to The New Leader pronto...
...Their eyes brighten and theii hearts rejoice with the coming of May Day...
...Ever larger, the.i, grow the hands of those who labor and And within themselves, their strength and will, their courage and thought, the souree of winning the abundance which they bring into being, of tearing out the rank weeds of hate and war and desolation, nnd of gatheiing the harvest of good will and happiness...
...And i after the weary waiting", when the prospect seemed only cold ami dismal, the sun again kindles the roots of what remains into fresh life, gentler winds blow blossoms into a welcome dance, and Lhere is the song of bird to cheer man into may...
...M. Chehonin, a poet out of Russia, came into my emporium if tools the other day and modestly informed me tha' he was ittempting the herculean job of thinking in Russian and vriting verse in English...
...rla' (1 is the first « y0r elected by the C.C.F...
...Through the overgrowth of nati 1 passion and industrial plight the workers can find a clearing to where others who see and believe as they do carry t' c comradeship which will liberate them all...
...hand- v wrought metals, and beautifully , tooled leathers...
...when he became a Socialist n everything else was set to one side, - and from that time his pen was s stilled except for the writing of his glorious Socialist poems, and hb two great Socialist romances, and his Socialist journalism...
...His was not mere party member- ° ship while continuing his other 1 work...
...Clenched 'lata Relief must be squeezed out of their clenched fists...
...But early in his carrer Morris r quit the empty idling he decried, t and did something that astonished e and shocked his contemporaries...
...There is real promise in the blowing quatrains, and more power to him...
...And to our brothers in the lands beyond the sea, whose fighting arm has temporarily been lamed by the onslaught of the working class enemies, we extend, on this First of May, not only sympathy and commiseration* in their present plight but encouragement and a ringing word of cheer...
...Morris i era March it, Essex...
...Hail the First of May...
...The Sun h Shining and With it Comet a Beautiful May Day For Those Who Toil and Suffer By S. A. DeWitt --------- mar j j» rm* lycTTitt "==3==sxrraKaWr A MAY DAY SONG ABANDON your tools, the bricks and the boulders, Away from the bench, away from machines, Struighten and square your drooped down shoulders, \lurrh on the highways, crowd on the greens...
...Don't you know what is Hitler herring...
...It was on January 13, 1883, that William Morris was elected Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford...
...1st being i chivalry -painted, Itemed to h_"tte rferred to t*r of an i far from i interests e. He was i a painter i He was die sagas if original enormous we trans* was all d good, lusty English verse and ranks 1 n high as poetry...
...Which bringeth us to the best tale of the week...
...W. M. F. [Next week: William Uorrit—ll) of May...
...The re , salts of his work are manifest to this day...
...Robert S. Warshow...
...After the murky tides of Hitlerism roll back a reorganized and militant Labor movement in Germany will sweep its present fiendish tormentors into oblivion and will build upon the ruins of Hitlerism an invincible working class state based on the will and voice of its members...
...Whatever barriers of enmity are erected by their masters while thay are busy with the day's earning of . bread, they tear down when their hour of release has come and they . are ready for saving bonds of friendship...
...He was father of the Arts and Crafts ' movement, and he started the revolt against ugly wall paper...
...Wherein Mr...
...t If you have, you know what tnuiie it,, . . M. Chehonin...
...The dams you have built, we are sweeping away...
...It is the wholesonit feel of the loam, the tread upon sure ground, the awakening ol richer growth and the wane of promise which rolls over the ful surface of the globe that has picked May Day as the holiday among the toilers of every nation...
...Ferland was elected on the t'eket of the newly organized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, the C.C.F., that is, the Dominion federation of workers, fanners and un mpl >ycd upon a Social...
...since its organization last fall...
...1 For them trade und property and B domination are hungers which eat ' into each other and whose counterclaims make a cockpit of bloody I battle among nations for might t and glory of rulers...
...indeed, he was i the world pioneer in that form of I modern art, and his Kelmscott i Press was a shrine of lovers of I good printing...
...The librarians of the great libraries at the ' British Museum and the two uni- 1 versities unhesitatingly took his ' word in classifying illuminated 1 parchments...
...Then a tale will be told of a country, of a land in the midst of the sea And folks will call it England in the days that are going to be...
...And while reports about his physical condition smack of propaganda, wherever there is smoke there must be a herring...
...Hard and bitter | the soil becomes as winter withers . what is left of the harvest from i the long care and the willing effort of those who have striven...
...platform, as were the aldermen...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 17
