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NEW LEADER FORUM AN HURON ISO I) 8 REPORT By Monroe SweetLnd, Jr. In en Associated Press dispatch of Dec. 30, from Chicago durine; the recent National Student Congress Against War, the following...
...To be sure, this is a rough classification for there is an extension of ideas from one period to another and even a reversion back to or a survival from a former peril i, as in the case of LaFoUette who waa something of an old-style Jef-fersonian floating into the modern age...
...The Institute of Advanced Education The Institute for Advanced Education has moved to well equipped, commodious headquarters, located at 111 East 15th St., Dr...
...It did not single out the Workers Socialist Party nor did it exclude the Socialist Party...
...TECHNOCRACY REVIEW APPEARS The first number of Technocracy Review, published by Tochni-Craft Publishing Corp., 98 Park Place, New York City, has appeared, with Hugo Gernsback as editor and David Lasscr as managing editor...
...For example, Lincoln Steffens, king of the Muckrakers, who "has aucc ed under successive Inoculations of disillusions to the dangers of pragmatism, and is orally inclined to the theory that whatever la, is right—provided you think it is...
...Address all communications to me at 110 Eastman Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y. Questions and Answers We have received from Scott Frampton, national secretary of the Workers Socialist Party, nearly five pages disagreeing with the item in The New Leader of Jan...
...Is there nothing that can be kept a secret from H. M. WicksT CUVILLIER WILL DEFEND TAMMANY THERE is something the matter with New York, but what is it T Dr...
...It permits him to see the virtues in Lenin, the virtues i* Henry Ford and the virtues in Herbert Hoover...
...VOU cat>t fool the Communists...
...Comrades, and all others who are interested in world peace...
...Towards a New World, Alfred Kreymbor...
...Pennsylvania employers have for years withstood the demand for reform until the Pennsylvania act, originally one of the most advanced, lags far behind other less important industrial states...
...To impute to thee* leaders ths slightest honesty of purpose is to aid them in their attempts to conceal their betrayal of the workers...
...The writer would like to hear from comrades and others who would be interested in starting such a society...
...The Foundation of Personality: Social and Psychological Application, Louis Herman...
...Dagobert Runes, editor of The Modern Thinker and The Modern Psychologist and director of the Institute, states that the new courses of lectures are designed to reach wider audiences than heretofore and that reduced rates will be given to students...
...By John Chamberlain...
...UNMASKED AGAIN...
...Not much, however, for to deny that there had been stool pigeons in the ranks would be-to* accept Communist Party responsibility for the inscription on the banner, with all the ugly implications thereof...
...Throughout the whole range of this study one gets the impression of the futility of the reformers so far as any major conquest...
...RIGHT, AS USUAL "THESE facts are submitted with-* but comment: In T(ie New Leader of December 17th, a writer called attention if a banner carried by the Communist "Hunger Marchers" on its return from Washington bearing the words, "Four Policemen in the Hospital at Hageratown," and commented "We don't need to make any elaborate investigation —we know that there is a stool pigeon among them.'' The local Communist sheet ^aid some attention to the item...
...Why not start a veteran organization that glorifies peaceT Call it "The War Veterans Society for the Glorification of Peace...
...Wilson sponsored the same resolution in the 11)31 session, and the proposal is again to be urged by the Socialist legislators with over 2,000,000 children under 17 years still employed In industry in spite of the millions of unemployed adult workers...
...If there is to be planning will it be for the masses and, if so, how plan for them when the power is possessed by the present dominant economic groups T Planned capitalism "is a contradi -tion in terms...
...Whatever effort waa made in that direction by pacifists in the Congress did not enlist our support, and I believe I express the predominant sentiment of the Socialist delegates in saying that we would have opposed any such resolution had it come to a vote...
...Syracuse, N. Y. TO PEACE VETERANS By Carl I. Elliot Since the World War many veterans socities have been organized...
...Socialists have frequently sponsored proposals for the socialization of specific lrdustries, but Pennsylvania's Socialist legislators are here seeking to lay out institutions for the carrying on of general socialized production on a wide basis...
...Socialist for Federal Child Labor Amendment Representative Lilith M. Wilson again introduced the resolution for ratification of the pending Federal Child Labor Amendment...
...One does not have to agree with each of his interpretations to pay this compliment to the first book of this new surgeon of American culture...
...Intimate Glimpses of the Great, Irma Kraft...
...No matter what Socialists say or do they know us and find us out...
...Practical Application of Adlerian Psychology, W. Beran Wolfe...
...7, entitled "The Chorus of Chaos...
...Blsns-hard has been the spearhead of the attack upon Tammany misrule of New York for three years, while Cuvillier has been its most vocal defender in the Seabury Committee, as he was the most voluble assailant of the Socialists in the New York Assembly during the notorious ouster proceedings of 1920...
...The subject will be debated by these three men at the next meeting of the Brooklyn Forum, Sunday night, January 22nd, at the Brooklyn Academy of Musk...
...This is a species of New Thought that enables him to sympathize with the Russian experiment at the same time that he see* • solution in Mussolini's coercive Merovingian state, where a Mayor of the Palace rules in the name of the King...
...And the Socialist method is vigorously to avoid doing those things that are open invitations to stools, provocateurs and sneaks to mislead and betray workers into disaster...
...Compensation for Occupational Disease^ The glaring Injustice of many years standing under the Pennsylvania version of the Workmen's Compensation Act w'aereby workers whose lives are whittled away by occupational disease have no recourse, would be remedied under a bill of Socialist Representative Dastington Hoopes making victims of occupational disease eligible for benefits from the insurance system that employers must carry...
...the second period brings the giant industrial dinosaurs crashing into the scene, frightening^ the underlying population, summoning the "muckrakers" to battle, producing the novel of respectable dissent, and expiring to the roar of the guns of the Imperialist war...
...Everything they do Is for the purpose of deceiving the masses, to try to defeat jthe struggle against capitalism...
...Under tbe pic-tur* are the words: "But It is not him...
...They have moved forward to the assault time after time and have been repulsed, sometimes with strange reactions...
...Socialist Legislators Move for Socialization HARRISBURG, Pa...
...A variety of points of view of Technacracy and the questions it raises are pre-sented while the editor proposes that married women and minors be withdrawn from industry, thus removing 9,000,000 workers and reemploying three-fourths of the 12,000,000 unemployed...
...The well-known authors and critics John Langdon-Davies and C. Hartley Grattan will also lecture for the Institute the latter part of the month...
...Everything they do and say, everything these people print, is carefully prepared and is part of a definite line against the working class...
...The letter presents the case for the Workers Socialist Party which "maintains itself to be the only Socialist Party in the United States...
...Chamberlain does not present that cocksureness of the literary Bolsheviks nor does he attempt to read a thesis into the past His final impressions are those of the independent Socialist who is feel-Ing his way, who realizes the need of a party "dominated by labor, skilled and otherwise, the white-collar worker, the unemployed, ard the poorer farmer...
...The subject will be "What's the Matter with New York...
...We have no desire to open our columns to a general debate between the organizations we mentioned regarding the respective claims of each...
...first three organisations and knows that they glorify war...
...They therefore contended themselves with the usual denunciation of "Social Fascists" without being too precise about the item they were getting worked up about...
...Our statement waa a general one...
...Powers specifically open under the bill would be production and supplying of water, heat, light, power, foodstuffs, ice, electricity, clothing material, fuel, street railway and taxi and bus servjce, dwelling houses, etc...
...As for example: "What we failed to see clearly in many instances in the past, and what many do not understand today is that the Socialist Party leaders and the Socialist press are not, as some woulci...
...If there is to be a debate on this theme The New Leader is content to call attention to the theme but not to provide the forum for dismissing the merits of the various organizations...
...This organisation should have an auxiliary consisting of mothers, fathera, widows, and children whose loved ones had been killed in war...
...Boards could exercise powers of condemnation of property or works to protect themselves against utility plants...
...For example, in a recent issue of their official sheet that fair-minded and clear-headed journalist, H. M. Wicks, exposes the Socialists ugain...
...Among the courses to be given are the following: Psychology of Personality, Jos...
...Liveright, Inc...
...Communist grammar.] Just an ordinary slimy stool pigeon and "Sickly exposed by th* worker* hi th* National Hunger March la Washington The capitalist method of sending agents Into the workers' ranks in order to disrupt them...
...And to repudiate the banner would have been admission that there were stool pigeon...
...The planners ignore the importance of power in society...
...Armed with powers of taxation and the right to issue bonds to cover cost of purchase or construction, boards would be empowered to build plants and supply almost any kind of necessary goods or service...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF BKFORM8 AND REFORMERS By Jsssee Oaeal FAREWELL TO REFORM...
...We have a high respect for the devotion of this group to education in fundamentals of Socialist philosophy, but we submit that the sentence we quote above justifies the caption we gave to our item...
...Although he does not divide his study into periods it falls roughly into three, the nineties with its agrarian rebellion under the Populist banner, the disappearing frontier, Coxey's armies, Henry George's Single Tax, the A. R. U. strike led by Debs, Turner's epoch-making historical thesis of the frontier, and topped by the Spencer-Sumner theory of individualism...
...We have the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled War Veterans, etc The writer, a disabled veteran, has belonged to the...
...Louis A Cuvillier, Tammany's dean of the Assembly, thinks that it is' something else...
...So ends a stimulating volume that is suggestive, critical'and interpretative of three stages of American development that are familiar to millions still living...
...M. Ostium...
...The claim of the Workers Socialist Party is the claim of the S. L. P., the Socialist Party, the Communists snd others end these mutually conflicting claims constitute a "chorus of chaos...
...The letter of Comrade Frampton enumerates the reasons for the claim his party makes...
...I don't know so much about the other veteran societies, but I hear that they, too, glorify war...
...William J. Schieffeiln thinks that it is Tammany Hall...
...Only veterans would be eligible for membership of this society...
...Beginning with the nineties, Chamberlain surveys, the evolution of ideas In literature and politics down to the present hour and concludes thst the reform complex has passed into history...
...Schieffelin is director of the Committee of 1,000, is the prime mover of the City Party, and is chairman of the Citizens' Union...
...Whether someone msde this statement deliberately, intending to misrepresent us, or whether it was a bona fide mistake, I do not know...
...have us believe, 'honest but misinformed individuals.' It is not stupidity, or ignorance, or mistakes and1 errors that account for the deceptions of the Socialist press...
...Moreover, W. J. Ghent as 1902 could in the satirical marker forecast an Industrial feudalism which in some respects is realized in the great corporations of our time...
...are concerned...
...And Paul Blanshard, of the Socialist Party and the City Affairs Committee, has an opinion quite different from Cuvillier and Srhieffelin...
...Current 1 vents, Scott Nearing...
...Socialist Representative Lilith Wilson has again Introduced the Public Service Districts bill providing for the creation of a new type of municipality to carry out a program of socialization of the production of necessaties...
...THE sub-title of this book, "The Rise, Life and Decay of the Progressive Mind in America," forms its main theme and the "farewell* is the conclusion of the author...
...The first number carries articles by Paul Blanshard, J. K. Atkins, Edward Levinson, Howard S""tt and William Z. Foster...
...A Survey of Contemporary Civilization, V. F. Calve rton...
...Gracious...
...New York...
...On January 18th, 1988, the Communist sheet carried a picture of s man captioned, "Looks like Hoover" (he resembles the President about as closely as Schnozsle Durante resembles Jean Harlow, but let that pass...
...In answer to a number of inquiries from Socialist friends I wish to have it understood that we did not seek to have the Congress go on record as opposed to class war...
...the third period in its ripe stage producing the planners like Soule, Chase and Beard with reform a pale ghost receding into the background...
...the recent National Student Congress Against War, the following statement appeared: "The Socialists fought unsuccessfully to have the Congress go oh record as opposed to class war...
...It is another one of those volumes that reveal an increasing interest in and the study of American culture...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 3
