TIMELY TOPICS

...The second possibility is that labor will take a more militant and aggressive stand...

...which they appealed is by no means a true economic middle class...

...What we need, however, is state action...

...On this point Congress I seems to be going decidedly wrong...

...It was a joy to 'address them...

...The absorbing quest ion is: can Mr...

...C.L.U...

...Arthur Garfield Haye, general counsel, and Roger N. Baldwin, director...

...Indued, such cooperation may often seem to be at the expense of the workers unless it is undertaken directly for their benefit and in the light of a passionate belief that only the solidarity of workers 'round the world can guarantee us peace and prosperity...

...Nowhere has the profit motive produced so low a specimen as the typical sweatshop employer who literally crushes youth for his profit...

...The struggle for peace must be carried on steadily, at home as well as abroad...

...The feature of the evening will be James H. Maurer (former candidate for Vice-President with Norman Thomas) with a lot of thing* in his mind about Hitler, and Roosevelt, and good times, and Morgan paying hia income tax, and all that, and his own wsy of telling it...

...The plain truth ia that we are still too near the World War for any nation likely to contemplate a renewal of such struggle...

...If not, economic warfare will continue or il will be modified less by proper international arrangements than by the very difficult attempt to return to economic nationalism of a somewhat nonimperialist variety...

...Behind all fine phrases that is precisely what will be the effect of this bill for regulating industry...

...True peace can only be achieved when workers of the world unite, and true unity requires unity in economic control...

...For instance, we can't preach antiimperialism to foreign powers and argue they must not send their troops outside their own borders and keep our marines in Haiti...

...Signers of the letter to Secretary Hull were: Dr...

...In addition to Algernon Lee, Prof...

...Their identity with the middle class waa on the psychological side...

...It would be a great error, however, to think that this means that the aun of peace will never again be dimmed...

...But industry is given a chance to set its own house in order its ] own way...

...The Administration isn't after socialization either in the conduct of industry or in paying for public | works...

...It was followed lapidly by a four-power agreement between England, France, Germany and Italy to keep the peace and then by the promise of the United States through Norman H. Davis at Geneva to take part in a 'consultative pact for dealing with an aggressor nation...

...It included a lot of what we call white collar folks who are neither owning farmers nor small business men...

...It is probably true, as Walter Lippmann argued, that if we Bet our own economic house in order we are less likely to he engaged for the present in violent competition with England or France...

...And then to add to purchasing power the government will embark in a three billion dollar public works program...

...It is long past time to get after the ' rich when not one of the Morgan banking partners has paid an income tax since 1929...

...Spain Erects Monument To Pablo lglesias ' • ' H E Socialist Party of Spain, " the City of Madrid and the Spanish Republican Government are cooperating in the erection of a most impressive monument to the memory of Pablo lglesias in the beautiful Paraue del Oeste within sight of the snow-covers-d Sierra de Guaderama...

...The bill does dot provide for housing under public authority at cost, and that ought to be the most important feature of any program for j adding to the national wealth by public works...

...A man may be a clerk, an engineer, or professional man—certainly he may be a school teacher and very genuinely a worker...

...On the whole it is easier to build an economic nationalism than to push forward in the difficult field of economic cooperation throughout the world...

...For the rest the Administration is trying to give us a liberalized version of state capitalism...

...Congratulations to Louis Waldman on his victory in th* Court of Appeals, sustaining his right to fight th* outrageous Brooklyn bus franchise, on* of Jimmy Walker's legacies, in th* court...

...Rarely have I been more pleased j than by the magnificent spirit of the girl strikers in Shamokin...

...Pablo lglesias was the founder of the modern Socialist movement in Spain,-and the first Socialist deputy in the Cortes...

...Nevethcless, it is neither psychologically nor economically possible much longer to advance toward a self-contained economic nationalism and toward international cooperation...

...Powers Roosevelt Won't Get I T appears that the American people are willing f to give the President power to inflate almost any way, and to add to this, almost despotic power over agriculture and wide and untested power over industry, Will they let him take up the forgiveness of foreign debta or the reduction of tariffs...

...That's why the campaign that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ia making ia so t vitally important...

...Not if Congress knowa what it's doing, it's an amazing commentary upon the drift to economic nationalism that the President apparently is more afraid to ask for power over definite tariffs than anything else The Administration's bill for regulating industry and building public works follows the line of forecast...

...War Clouds Lift CERTAINLY the l u t few days have seen • greet lifting of the war clouds...

...Some of these factories are alleged to be recruiting grounds for the white slave traffic, still for the profit of the bosa...

...Harry F. Ward, chairman of th* Civil Liberties Union...

...Perhaps evPn better than a surtax would, be to make public works a charge against that capital levy which, constitutional or not, is the reasonable way to deal with our problem of debts and of the socialization | of industry...

...This is an .outstanding mat j ter of Socialist and labor tactics...

...That will mean an immense growth of vigorous unionism and a passionate campaign for organizing the unorganized...

...next question is to learn whether the new * zeal for peace will be reflected in the economic conference...

...It is particularly necessary for us in America to make these people understand the identity of their interests with the workers...

...Yet for this the remedy liea in action by the workers, not in pitting nation against nation...

...They cited the American tradition of political asylum, snd spoke in behalf of members of minorities opposed by the Hitler regime, who would be cared for by friends snd relatives here with guarantees that they "would not become publie charges nor compete with American labor...

...If Regulation Works A SSUMING that the new law for regulating will * * work at all, labor and its leaders can take one of two courses: They may be content to become a kind of company union, a creature of the state only a few degrees more free than the statecontrolled "unions" in Italy and Germany...

...Each year is likely to dim the memory...

...Public works ought to IK- financed not by sales taxes, not by a tax on hard liquor after it has been legalized, not even primarily by an increase in the ! basic income tax rate, but by an increase in sur- j taxes on great wealth...

...Hitler's speech was— for him rather reasonable and pacific...

...For an emergency period of two years the President is to have vast powers over industry...

...Bona, and others, there will be musical snd other features, with dancing to follow the exercises...

...that it will seek to capture control of the state which now becomes so vital to its Interests...

...Something of this sort, it will be remembered, happened during the World War, but then there was the immense emotional patriotism of the war to influence both the employers and the workers...

...That emergency, as Kiplinger's letter warns its business clientele, will never end...

...If by any ill-fortune labor should be temporarily content with this role of virtual company union to the state it will probably give political expression to its docility by support of one of the old parties, most likely the Democratic Party which is now in control...

...It will also mean a new political alignment, a working class party v to express its interests on the political front...

...The Rand School Student*' Associstion, Donald Duvall, president, invite all Party members, Yl peels, and readers of Th* New Leader to b* their guesta...

...Such care seems to have been taken in the announcement made on President Roosevelt's authority...

...This, outside of Russia and Austria, will be the first official monument erected by a government to the memory of a militant Socialist...

...In town after town sweatshops are paying from $2 to $6 a week, sometimes to children whose parents have had to lie about their ages to get them into the factories...

...Urges Open Door For German Refugees WASHINGTON, D. C—Lifting of existing restrictions to admit political refugees from Germany outside the quotas, was urged upon Secretory of State Cordell Hull in an appeal submitted by th* officers of the American Civil Liberties Union...

...Although the Primore Rivera dictatorship was in force at the time of his death, over 100,000 workers followed his cortege to its final resting place...

...The middle class to...

...The hope of the future depends on labor's making this second choice...

...What industry will say and do if and when it begins to get a little better, is another matter and a matter that will profoundly concern labor...

...about half what ought to be spent...

...The Italians are right who see strong resemblances between the economics of this form of industrial control and the economics of Fascism...

...That is why industry, which is in a terrible state, welcomes the bill which is a direct denial of all its older professions of belief in individualism...

...The nationalism they profess and are obliged to keep on professing in order to drug the workers is itself opposed to a sure and reasonable peace...

...Why should the workers, unless they are hypnotized or coerced, accept the intervention of the state to perpetuate so much of irresponsible private ownership of production goods...

...The Economic Conference •piip...

...Both Mussolini and Hitler owe part of their illomened auccess to the sentimental appeal they made to the middle class...

...He has been pushing a program of ordered economic nationalism at home and on the other hand working for some kind of economic agreement...

...Neither their characters, their records nor their philosophies make Mussolini and Hitler guarantors of peace...

...Already the President has had to suspend the operation of some of the very important features of I he farm relief bill because of his promise not to increase tariffs pending the economic conference...

...At the very least in this transitional period why ahouldn't the state be required to license employers with regard to character and responsibility...

...We can't too strongly insist that the possession of a few shares of stock of dubious value, or of an insurance policy or savings bank account does not make an incipient Rockefeller...

...The Muscle Shoals bill is the only measure ! which has a Socialistic complexion...

...lglesias is considered one of the greatest figures in all Socialist history...

...Until now President Roosevelt's policies have been two-fold and have contained at least latent contradictions...

...There is no peace when Socialists and Communists and others are subject to the oppression and indignities heaped upon them in both Italy and Germany...

...There will be no admission charge...

...The rest have become whits collar workers of one sort Or ano I tier w ben they work at all I It is the middle class who have recruited j the Black Shirts and the Brown shirts to no small degree and who ' may recruit a similar movement I in America unless we get them j first...

...Professor Moley, chief of his so-called brain trust, in a radio address has warned the American public not to expect too much of the economic conference— which was not what President Roosevelt originally aaid...

...White Collar Workers W H E N we Socialists speak of the working class ** party I think we must make it plain that we include professional and white collar workers...

...Pennsylvania Sweatshops QWEATSHOPS are bad in many *~ states—in Connecticut, in New Jersey, for instance—but they are worst in Pennsylvania...

...Since 1 8 7 0 the percentage of those gainfully employed who were directly engaged in producing goods—that ia, in agriculture, mining, and manufacture—has fallen from 7 7 to 52...

...Socialists generally have approved the idea of the consultative pact, provided great care be taken to guard against the danger that we should be forced into war, allegedly fe» preserve peace...

...Roosevelt give us the economics of Fascism without the politics of Fascism with its appeal to demagogery, to passion, to prejudice...

...That solidarity, by the way, can exclude no race or language...

...THE RAND SCHOOL'S BIG FRIDAY NIGHT This Friday night (May 26) at 8 : 3 0 p m In the People's House Auditorium, 7 East 15th St., will be the occasion of the Anneal Commencement Exercises of the Rand School of Social Science...

...Certificates will be given a large class...