Ypsels Meet in Fine City-wide Convention
Lopatin, Harry
By Harry Lopatin Ypsels Meet in Fine City-wide Convention FORTY-FIVE circles of the Young People's Socialist league of New York City represented by 117 delegates met last week-end at the...
...It is a tabloid history of the movement interpreted with ths knowledge of one who has made a deep study of it...
...The book Is not nearly as ambitious as most of the books that have been written on the subject It has no suggestions for a future society, nor any for a method of Ohange from our present society to whatever society the Technocrats desire...
...To several questioners he mad* It quit* dear that capitalism 1* a powerful fore* in th* destruction of th* family...
...It finally does admit that when It says "price system" it means profit system...
...The new union's program was hailed, claiming it is consistent with Socialist trade union policy It opposed dual unions urged because of differences regarding form of organization, political ideology and methods of action but favored it against bureaucratic union control...
...Some wert Party candidates...
...It declared "reactionary elements" controlling the A. F. of L. used "outworn methods on the industrial and political fields, urged more Socialist activity in unions and against settlement of union controversies in the courts...
...Work in the past year included increased participation in labor struggles...
...Ths New York Organization sent out about twenty speakers and organ* iters of some 25 Falcon groups...
...The first session Sunday, opened rather late that morning...
...If men have more leisure, sin will flourish— we all know the truth of the old adage, The devil finds mischief for idle hands.' But perhaps the technocrats expect no difficulty from that source...
...THE BRAY of THE WEEK Gosh, Technocracy It Sin Because It Gives Leisure, and That's Bad THE truth about Technocracy is at last out...
...Prof...
...Clothe* war* one* made at home, moat of the food was prepared there, and it was th* center of social life...
...Various forces, he said, are at work seriously affecting marriage as an institution...
...Then it shows a greater understanding of economics and of the role of profit in running the machine...
...It does nothing at all to clarify in the reader's mind what the Technocrats are talking about...
...or Bunk...
...The status of women has changed and now a woman's future is not, as before, only marriage...
...Books, plays, and moving picture* deal with characters and situations that deny former ideas of morality...
...As Claessens uttered these words in marched a cheering, singing, joyful group of about 150 "Red Falcons," youngsters between the ages of 10 and 14 organized by the Y.P.S.L...
...In membership we Increased almost 100 per cent The turnover in membership amounted to less than 30 per cent—including many who had graduated from the Yipsels into the party...
...It still puts its emphasis on the wrong flaws in capitalism, insisting as it does that it is the rate of technological change, plus our present credit structure and the use of money as a means of exchange, that causes the trouble...
...He was proud of these young Socialists and hoped that their deliberations would be a stimulant to further growth and influence...
...Education has increasingly become a state function, and children, at a constantly decreasing age, are being sent to school...
...Committees were elected, and the session ended...
...We don't want to sacrifice the lives of our fighters for a better world in wars...
...He also spoke before the Lansing Forum...
...The report of the Educational Committee by August Tyler cams like an answer to a maiden's prayer...
...Harry Riseman, Detroit ¦ttorney, and W. E. Alexander, Kalamazoo, justices of the state supreme court...
...August Claessens brought greetings from the Socialist Party of New York...
...On trade unionism it favored militant struggle for jobless relief, social insurance, shorter hours and better living standards...
...A novel and interesting plan for the development of a system of Educational directors, and secondly of a group of capabli comrades who would make it their business to prepare pamphlets and treatises on socialism, Socialist economics and history...
...strikes, relief, and organization work...
...Peter Fagan, Lansing, regents of the University of Michigan...
...James Oneal contributes an article on "The Trade Union Movement in the United States...
...and Chester Graham, director of Ashland College at Grant, member of the state board of education...
...The resolutions committee reported three...
...They were on tat Party platform as well...
...Somewhat over half of the members are unemployed...
...Economic and social orders may change, but "marriage," he'concluded, "will survive Into the future practically ai it has existed In th* p*st...
...Whichever it is, the Brooklyn Forum announces as its next Sunday feature a symposium on the subject, "Technocracy...
...Holmes...
...Over a hundred at* tended classes at the Rand School...
...Clarence Senior, national secretary of the Party, addressed the convention, urging the necessity for building up a strong organization...
...The second Sunday session was the most interesting of all, with Dancis as Chairman and Harry Margulies aa Vice Chairman...
...HOLMES By Israel Saltzman AT the Brooklyn Forum Sunday ** Dr...
...The article remains one of the most confusing pi ces of writing that this reviewer has seen...
...Two book reviews, one by Joseph Shaplen, on a work by Karl Kautsky, "War and Democracy," and one by David P. Berenberg on John Chamberlain's "Farewell to Reform," rounds out one of the very best issues of this magazine...
...Women are entering the professions and arts and are attaining some measure of economic Independence...
...The background of opposing class forces is sketched by one who knows the situation and the article enables the resder to better understand the recent change in the German Government...
...L. B. Scott, representing Tom Mooney, brought greetings from the martyr of California "justice" and appealed for an intensification of propaganda on behalf of Mooney to enable him to appear in court...
...August Tyler of the Yipsels contributes one of the very best articles that has yet appeared on the International Socialist Youth Movement...
...Various alternatives to marriage have been proposed...
...MICHIGAN PARTY HOLDS CONVENTON LANSING.—Resolutions demanding the immediate socialization of industry in the state and nation, the release of Thomas J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings from prison in California, a moratorium on evictions, tax sales, and mortgage foreclosures, and upholding the principle of an income tax were adopted at the first annual mid-winter convention of the Socialist Party of Michigan...
...Dozens of Youth Rallies were held throughout the city, a number in conjunction with kindred organizations such as the Young Circle League and the Young Poale Zion...
...The Rev...
...Charles Staff, Owosso, state highway commissioner...
...Increase in membership and circles was the most significant part of the report...
...4, at 2 p. m. These resolutions were on: The Situation in the Coal Fields, Trade Unionism, and a dual Federation of Labor proposed by the Progressive Miners' Union...
...Home is a place where you live," said Dr...
...There i* marriage a* we know it on the extreme right "companionate marriage," trial marriage, "freedom inside marriage," and, on th* extreme left what ha* been called "free love...
...It has already obtained readers in Japan, Australia, Mexico and several European countries...
...The entire convention Joined them in singing the "International" and other Socialist songs...
...Holmes declared, hare been change* in standards of morality...
...Siegfried Lipschitz has an article interpretative of the Socialist movement in Germany in recent years...
...Open air meeting* were held from the early days of Spring, through the election campaign, during which they averaged 25 per week by Yipsels alone...
...He endeavors to balance the gains and losses and to probe the reasons for the crisis...
...A Jugow is recognized as one of the best Euronean authorities on the economic evolution of post-war Russia and he contributes an informative article on the present Russian crisis as it affects the Five Year Plan...
...It is an old issue among Socialists and he discusses the problem as it faces Socialists and the unions In the post-war period...
...Thomas L. Graham, preaching at St...
...The young Socialists must be on the alert and sense the full import of the economic situation...
...John Haynes Holmes of the Community Church answered the question, "Is Marriage a Failure...
...TECHNOCRACY IS SUBJECT AT FORUM •TECHNOCRACY has flnslly * reached the Brooklyn Forum...
...The deficit is over $940...
...At about 7:80 p. m. a motion was passed to take up the rest of the resolutions snd the report of the Industrial Committee on Saturday, Feb...
...Trade union and campaign work caused many arrests and son* convictions...
...While Technocracy offers nothing new, while it does harm |n that it brings attention to minor faults of capitalism and does point Out the need for organization If we are to build a new society, yet it does good in that it calls attention to the fact that fundamental changes must be made in our social system before we can hope for any permanent relief...
...The new material in the book, which in a sense is anonymous, shows considerable improvement over the previous writing of the Technocrats...
...David P. Berenberg writes on the Socialist attitude towards fusion, having in mind New York City where there will probably be a reform fusion movement this year...
...Winston Dancis, Executive Secretary, opened the sessions Saturday afternoon and upon the election of Aaron Levenstein as Chairman and Noah Walters as Vice Chairman, the convention sang a spirited "International...
...Now clothes are factory-mad*, food 1* bought in cans and from th* delicatessens, the movies and the theatres are centers of amusement, and children spend most of the day at school Most important of all in its effect upon marriage, Dr...
...The two great needs are more, and bettertrained, leaders and directors, and money to carry on work...
...In th* old day* there were certain thing* right and wrong, decent and lnd*c*nt" All i his ha* changed...
...It means leisure and leisure means *ln...
...Dancis, as Executive Secretary, reported activities and growth in the past twelve months...
...On the Progressive Federation of Labor a resolution deplored the call of the Gillespie Labor Council as "tending to divide the working class by splitting existing unions," especially in the coal fields...
...Father Graham has the floor: "I am not concerned with the methods of the technocrats, but I am deeply interested in their promises of more leisure and of cessation of crime...
...The idle millions of worker* will be interested...
...It can be obtained at the Rand School Book Store, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...during the last year or so...
...It seems to show that Scott, at least, of the Technocrats is interested in getting rid of capitalism...
...Boon7 Blight...
...Socialists can make use of the farts that Technocrats turn up and Jf the interests that Technocracy as stirred up without allowing •urselves to become tangled up In their squabbles or confused by their confusion...
...Candidates to represent the party in the spring election were selected at the meeting, which attracted nearly 100 delegates from all parts of the state...
...Maybe they have made a deal with Satan...
...Members of the stabs executive committee, which was increased from five to nine members, were also elected at the convention...
...Patrick's Cathedral last Sunday, exposed its most innermost purpose...
...They must instil a hatred of war, militarism and the system that mothers them...
...By Harry Lopatin Ypsels Meet in Fine City-wide Convention FORTY-FIVE circles of the Young People's Socialist league of New York City represented by 117 delegates met last week-end at the Rand School, heard the report of a year of heartening growth and activity, and planned for the future...
...February 11 when a hearing will be held on one of the indictments...
...Every group in the city helped te make the United Youth Confer* ence Against War a great success, and over fifty delegates were sent in uly to the National Convention of the YPSL in Cleveland...
...Walter N. Polokov, noted engineer and lecturer, one of the ablest men in his line in the country, will discuss Technocracy from the stsndpoint of the engineer...
...Of some of the others we cannot be so sure...
...C. W. Crura, McBrides, and Frank Bennett Nashville, farmers, member* of the state board of agriculture...
...or possibly the Brooklyn Forum has got around to Technocracy...
...The Socialist movement—especially the young Socialists—must become effective among the younger generation, in the fight against the inevitability of international war...
...One virtue it does have, however...
...Now that the subject is taken eare of, the speakers will represent four different points of view...
...The first, expressed support of the Progressive Miners' Union in its fight against the John' L. Lewis organization...
...The book is a very short one, having only about forty pages of new material and a reprint of Scott's article In the "Living Age...
...Harold Mr Farland, of the engineering department of the University of Michigan, and Mrs...
...In recent years much has been written and said on proletarian literature and Haim Kantorovitch considers the subject in an informing article, especially in relation to the discussion in this country...
...The adoption of a revised constitution took up most of the time...
...CAPITALISM DESTROYS MARRIAGE AND HOME, DECLARES DR...
...Samuel H. Friedman made so appeal for aid in the organization of the Sunday Schools and other classes throughout the city...
...rather than social production and private ownership, as Socialists have pointed out for many years...
...The Winter Number of The Socialiat Quarterly THE winter number of Th« American Socialist Quarterlj has appeared with a series of ar tides that will appeal to Socialisti and students of the Socialist phil osophy...
...The home is gardually disappearing...
...The candidates are: Walter Bergman, teacher at Detroit City College and vice-chairman of Mayor Frank Murphy's unemployment committee, superintendent of public instruction...
...There were also double the number of circles— with groups in every borough...
...Two "official" Technocrats, Hugo Gernsback, editor of the Technocracy Review, and Harold Loeb, author of "Life in a Technocracy," will speak for the new idea, and the Socialists will be represented by Oscar Ameringer, th* "Flying Dutchman of Oklahoma," Socialist agitator, lecturer, editor of the American Guardian, and author of that noted historical and philosophical work, "The Lif* and Deeds of Unci* Sam...
...First of all, It is clearer...
...Axel Londal, Detroit, was chosen chairman, and Seth Whitmoro, Lansing, **cretary of the state central committee...
...Ethel Schachner had been elected Chair•man and Harry Lopatin Vice Chairman...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF "Official" Technocracy By Lawrence Rogin D FADING of "the only authorized presentation" of Technocracy by Howard Scott and assoeiates (John Day, 90 cents), written before the split in the ranks, leaves me but a slightly changed Opinion of Technocracy...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 5
