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THOMAS, NORMAN
Hy [Norman Thoman 1 IHCLy TCLPICS Morris Hillquit AT the end of a Sunday night meeting in Detroit newi wee brought to Detroit Socialist* and to me the sad newt of Morris HiUquit's death,...
...20th, from 4:30 to 4:45 p. m. William M. Feigenbaum, as sods te editor of The New Leader, speaks on Friday, Oct 18th...
...Madge Patton Stephens and Wallace W. Stephens of Terre Haute...
...The European stage is all too well set for wsr which can occur whether other nations are disarmed down to the German level or Germany is allowed to arm up to, let us say, the Polish level...
...In spite of improvement, neither farmers nor industrial workers are getting enough spending power to maintain for any considerable period of time real prosperity for workers in the needle trades at the new wage levels which successful strikes in some of them'have won...
...Instead we must go through with the job...
...We must have better cedes than most of the codes are and we must set up machinery for comprehensive economic planning which as yet we entirely lack...
...Following are some of them: Hebrew Actors' Union...
...American Federation of Russian Party of Social Revolutionists...
...It may be ever so wise s plan but it will get nowhere without power...
...and with the publication of his well-known "Case for Socialism," he became recognised as one o* the foremost exponents of the movement through the written word...
...He will be missed wherever there are Socialists, and most of all in America where for so many years his brilliant intellectual gifts and his sincere devotion to the great cause of Socialism made his leadership a source of strength to our movement Hsd he chosen other paths, doubtless he would have risen to place and power...
...and the final book In his recent series—the "Foundations"— Was completed, after they had gone through every line of it together, only ten days before her death...
...dying, will know Strong hearts have learned from him the way to go...
...1 New Bosses IN spite of Mr...
...The lias and eagerness of the audience to'most places where I go shows popular Interest in what we Socialists have to say...
...Merely to list those who sent expressions of grief snd sorrow would fill msny columns of this I paper...
...Various panaceas may have their place...
...the Cleveland office of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...J. T. S. WEVD NEW LEADER SPEAKER James Ones), editor of The New Leader, will be the speaker of The New Leader period of Station WEVD on Friday, Oct...
...Hy [Norman Thoman 1 IHCLy TCLPICS Morris Hillquit AT the end of a Sunday night meeting in Detroit newi wee brought to Detroit Socialist* and to me the sad newt of Morris HiUquit's death, A leader among Socialists has gone from us...
...McKee's backer, the Bronx boss- Eddie Flynn, sim...
...Cloak snd Dressmakers' Union of Los Angeles, which characterized HiUquit's death as "The greatest loss that the labor Movement has ever sustained": Dr...
...This book hss been translated into many languages and has taken its place as one of the classic presentments of ,the Socialist idea all over the .world...
...Phil H. Callery, oldtime Socialist who nominated Debs for President in the 1008 convention and who was secretary to Mayor Lunn of Schenectady, when he was a Socialist...
...Henderson has published a series of three books, "The Economic Consequences of Power Production," "Money Power snd Human Life,1* and "Foundations for the World's New Age of Plenty," which, by their penetrative analysis of the causes of the present economic breakdown, have commanded wide-spread attention and roused a great deal of discussion...
...Joint Board of the Cloakmakers' Union...
...Roosevelt's popularity, I And no I great faith in the Democratic Party...
...the Socialists of Newark...
...Swedish Unions Join German Boycott STOCKHOLM...
...It is 82 years since he wss elected to the city council as the first Socialist ever elected to any public body in Eastern England...
...of Youngstown...
...Unquestionably things are better in the Middle West than when I toured it last winter and there is a new attitude of hope .and courage...
...the So clslists of Ohio...
...August Claessens then read the resolution of the American Federation of Labor on HiUquit's death...
...Louis A. Schneyer...
...It is not a big place...
...In New York City it was abundantly evident even before I left that the fight nominally between O'Brien snd McKee was nothing but a struggle between bosses...
...A vasl throng, unable to enter the hall, heard the speeches outside through amplifiers, and they reverently followed the cortege after the services...
...American Federation of the Russian Socialist Revolutionary Party...
...Henderson is a native of Norwich, and has been associated with the civic administration of his birthplace all his life...
...For all their work was done together in the collaboration of a great companionship...
...Central Committee of the Bund in Poland...
...They've seen to that And if Fusion should win-* well, after all, LaGuardla has been a pretty good boy whd talks about taking care of a million unemployed without new taxes, and he is safely balanced on the Board of Estimate by a banker candidate for comptroller...
...He has likewise been in nationwide demand as a propagandist for the national movement...
...To outline a program for the logical development of NRA is one thing...
...The President is trying to win a campaign by organizing each division of his army without any central strategy for all divisions...
...Montagnon and Renaudel have dedeclarations of the International' Socialist Congress held at Paris lato In August...
...He is now the senior member of the council, and alderman and magistrate...
...A vast throng, estimated at from 20,000 to 50,000, filed past to view the face of the great man who had passed, the stream beginning early Tuesday and continuing until long past midnight...
...Herman Reich of Montreal...
...During the past three years, Mr...
...Y.P.S.L...
...It nag made an awful mess of things in Michigan...
...Other workers can't buy the clothes they make...
...Lucy Henderson, quite Independently of her husband's work, was a great figure in the British Socialist movement...
...and during his 32 years of civic administration has seen the Socialist strength grow from his own solitary representation of Socialism Into the controlling power...
...Sara Limbach...
...Whichever boas wins the bankers will win...
...Philadelphia Labor Institute...
...He will be welcomed at the pier by local Socialists, and will immediately go WJest The tour will end in New'York in December...
...To abolish poison gas in the present stage of the world would be sheer hypocrisy...
...For a whole day the body of the late leader lay in state in the People's House, flanked by flowers and guarded by a Young Socialist Guard of Honor...
...the Baltimore staff of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...MILLIONS MOURN (Continued from Page One) ger, Louis Waldman, Abe Miller of the Amalgamated, Morris Finestone of the United Hebrew Trades, and Algernon Lee...
...In general, the volume of retail sales in September was disquietingly low...
...QUorris QtilltfuU {August 1, \m-Oetobor 8, 1983) 'THERE it a quiet tort of leader who Behind the orator* mold* the campaign, From flight* of rhetoric etoadiee on the plain Of etark reality, and can eee through The pretty promises of voting yeare, That lure the ever-trusting from the path To give their vote of more to him that hath, In vaineet hope of cheeking mankind'* teare, He holds hi* way serenely, knowing how Many must stray, then slmk back to the fold, Many, without once eeeing the light, grow old, Dream for the future what he work* for now...
...The 650,000 members of the Swedish federation, and their families, will boycott Germany as consumers...
...B. Gilbert of St...
...From Karl Kautsky I AM DEEPLY MOVED BY THE DEATH OF MORRIS HILLQUIT...
...FRED HENDERSON ARRIVES TODAY pRED HENDERSON, noted Brlt* ish Socialist writer and propagandist snd London correspondent for The New Leader, arrives in New York Saturday for a coast-tocoast lecture tour for the party...
...The struggle for peace Is the struggle of the workers against Fascism, against Imperialism, against intervention, for instance in Cuba,.and for the fulfillment of the slogan "Worker* of the world unite...
...at the same time...
...I think, however, I find signs of growing convictions that more had to be done than NRA or A.A.A...
...The Socialists of Illinois snd of Cook County, the Socialists of Cleveland...
...Maryland Leader...
...Louis...
...What a rich heritage they have left us and what responsibility for us to carry on I —————— Improvement or Not ON this trip I am trying to avoid premsjture judgments on the under-currents of political feeling...
...Her death, which was sudden snd with only a few days of warning Illness, last January, was a great loss to the Labor Party and a tragedy to Henderson himself...
...tho Baltimore local...
...Disarmament TPHE near approach of another session of the Dis* armament Conference makes it timely to face certain facts...
...One more thing everyone who worked closely* with him can attest...
...followed by the family and a number of close friends and party associates...
...Both Philadelphia and Baltimore promptly wired New York that memorial meetings are being arranged for next Sunday, and Philadelphia reported that several hundred comrades would attend the funeral in a body...
...He Is chirman of the public libraries' authority for that district of England, and has been continuously active ih practically every department of the civic administration...
...Every nation with chemical industry would get around the prohibition...
...H* WAS A FRIEND, A GREAT'LEADER, GREAT THINKER...
...mancipation of the working class through the medium of the Socialist Party...
...has done so far...
...the Socialists of Rochester...
...The moral, of course, is not to increase misery by again cutting wages...
...It may do something for economy by reducing armaments and for internationalism by establishing the principle of international inspection to find out if agreements are kept Barely possibly the conference might abolish thst affront to humanity and decency, private trade in arms...
...Paul Porter for Local Philadelphia...
...The trade union movement of Sweden has joined the boycott of German goods, following the action of the International Federation of Trade Unions at its Brussels congress last month...
...Following the stop at the Forward building, the body was taken to the crematory...
...He was the kind of leader— a rare kind—who never expected from his...
...TPO win real success for the working masses in towns or in country the New Deal must give us far more direct atatck or redistribution of national income through higher wages, shorter hours, unemployment benefits and social insurance on the one hand, and scientific taxation of incomes, inheritance and land values plus the capital levy on the other...
...ply offers new bosses for old, and the Roosevelt administration is behind him for the sake of power...
...There Is as yet no corresponding organisation of that interest on the economic field, still less In the political field...
...And Schloseberg Joseph Schlossberg, General Secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, expresses warm admiration for HiUquit's long career, as do countless other labor leaders...
...His visit to America is the first piece of large-scale work that Henderson has undertaken since his loss...
...The Kellogg Pact did not abolish war but only the declaration of war...
...Matthew M. Levy...
...No ono had to humiliate himself In order to keep his fsvor, nor could keep his favor by such means...
...Pants Makers' Union...
...i_ IN FRANCE It is reported that CompereMorel, who recently gave up his Dost as administrative director of te Populaire, the only Socialist daily in Paris, of which Leon Blum is chief editor, is planning to establish an evening paper to represent the views of the opposition group within the party, and that Renaudel, Marquet, Deal, and Montagnon will be the- editors...
...HIS MEMORY (Continued from Page five) practical parts of leaderrlip...
...No one hsd to do for him anything which he would have been ashsmed to do himself...
...the Socialists of Detroit...
...There is mighty little that the Geneva conference can do in the present state of the world for peace...
...Organisation is an outstanding problem...
...Henderson and his wife were the first married couple In England to sit on the same civic authority together when women became eligible for public service under British Isw...
...It is a positive danger to international peace to put second things first and to lull the peoples into false security by making them believe that there is a cheap and easy price of peace...
...the Baltimore section of the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...For the present, no attempt will be made to Interfere with the merchandising of German products...
...HIS DEATH IS A HEAVY AND IRREPARABLE LOSS TO ALL OF US...
...Socialist Party of Bnffalo...
...the Socialists, of Cohoes...
...That's about all...
...Washington Heights Y.P.S.L...
...followers any compliance which they could not give without loss of self-respect...
...No one had to shoulder responsibility for his acta...
...Living, he moves ahead...
...The money changers are back in the temple...
...Since experience shows how hard it is to plan for what you do not own wo must come quickly to social ownership of banks, coal, oil, and the great basic industries...
...Henderson has recently revised it and brought its illustrative points up to date, and In this new form it is now about to be Issued by the British Labor Party as an official national state merit of what the party stands for...
...He preferred the satisfaction of service for the...
...Those who followed him will be proud of it as long as they live...
...Debs, Meyer London, Victor Berger and now Morris Hillquit...
...FROM FAR AND NEAR gress from his Island territory, and head of the Puerto Rican Socialist and Labo.* movements, and he wired: "Both Labor Federation and Socialist Party of Puerto Rico express condolences for the loss of the great leader of the Labor cause, Morris Hillquit...
...James Battistoni of Buffalo...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 16
