The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist movement
Oneal, James
The Basic Principles of the Modem Socialist Movement by James Oneal The Materialistic Conception of History iv pONTINUING our discussion of the material ^ factors at the basis of historical...
...Men must build barns before they establish colleges...
...Inculcated into these plans are projects to beautify the south side of the Thames...
...State Chairman Waldnian, Charles Solomon and William KarWn were elected State Committee 6n Public Affairs, with Ham' W. Laidler, chairman of the New York City committee, as ex-officio member...
...Reflections Upon New York Market's Response to News of Political Disturbances in Europe...
...They would have been better contented to live in their old log cabins, go bare-footed, and eat hog and hominy...
...It is" also a commonplace of history that in the isolated sections of the mountains of some southern states many people still apeak the rough English of our colonial ancestors and that the spinning wheel and hand loom still survive...
...What a world for them and the generations to come...
...They will add to their numbers, select a campaign manager aivd publicity staff and five direct charge of the camSjign...
...The new clothes and shoes produced by eastern manufacturers were accepted by the younger generation of the West but the older people disliked the invasion...
...Men must have bread before books," he wrote...
...Only buildings which are in keeping with the new developments on the embankment will deceive license for future construction in the area...
...Men must learn the language of the rifle, the axe, and the plough, before they learn the lessons of Grecian ¦ and Roman philosophy and history...
...The welldressed eastern preacher sustained by eastern contributions was a suspected aristocrat...
...Beliefs become rooted in a given society and then react upon that society, tending to perpetuate it eveti after it has begun to decay...
...Stock Exchange in Amsterdam opitimistic on Austria...
...The uneducated frontier preachers and their followers believed that the invader was solely interested in lucre...
...The more raw society of the frontier had a marked influence upon the language used...
...Berlin Stocks Kecovc r. Close Steady After Sharp Fall Due to Vienna Revolt...
...LONDON'S ATTITNDE ON AUSTRIA CALM...
...y they fight to That is, so long as capitalism rules...
...If the state-kept Congregational church provided worship for the merchant ruling class in New England and the Episcopal church provided it for the landed aristocracy of the South, the democracy of the frontier supported the Methodist and Baptist forms of worship...
...These sects, unlike Congregationalism and EpiscopalianiBm, provided no stately or impressive services...
...So the human product of one environment came into conflict with the human product of another...
...Of this Thomas Ford, an early Illinois historian, wrote that "the older people resented the change...
...The bourgeois Kust...
...Solomon...
...Why pay a "dude" for polished sermons when the "real gospel" could be obtained for nothing from circuit riders who traveled the wilderness, swam rivers, slept in the woods and often endured hunger...
...William Karl in, candidate for Attorney-General, will tour the state in September, and j August CJaessens, nominee for Congressman-at-Large, will like-1 wise make an intensive tour of the State, looking toward organization rather than votes...
...The language is thickly studded with rude proverbial forms, all redundant with wild untrained metaphors, some of which, if you please, we will call cant and slang...
...As the frontier gave way to towns nd then cities, the frontier people resented the invasion...
...In October big meet-1 fags and radio broadcasts, as well I is publicity, will be counted upon 1 to carry on the propaganda upj Norman Thomas, candidate fori Cnited States Senator, will begin in automobile tour up-state about the middle of September, covering towns and villages where there has been no Socialist propaganda in many years...
...A time table has been established, in which it is planned to demolish 14,000 condemned houses, an area greater than New York City's East Side, before June, 1037...
...was making his church respectable and he could no more accept it than the polished preachers from the East could tolerate the raw "heathens" of the West...
...as While Armed Men March By William M. Feigenbaum UITLFR crushes the labor movement,' enslaves the masses, and fastens chains on the limbs of millions of workers, making of a once great country a madhouse and a torture chamber, Mussolini destroys the labor movement, grinds the toiling masses into the dust and destroys all human liberties...
...May they fight Co "PREDICT WHEAT CUT the bitter end...
...These tommittees will add to their numbers as their work develops...
...This tendency of beliefs to survive long after the basis out of which they emerged has decayed is one of the main obstacles to social change...
...Stocks in Paris rebound in buying wave after short .sales caused by war rumor...
...Isolated from the centers of education and in constant communication with the Indians, the language of the frontier was transformed and a frontier along emerged of which some survivals may still be observed in the West and Middle West...
...Herman Kobbe, ajndidate for Lieutenant-Governor, fnd Charles W. Noonan, candidate lor Congressional-at-Large, will likewise make extensive speaking trips up-state...
...It was the opinion of the committee that the main part of the fi-state campaign, outside of a limited number of big hall meettegs, be conducted in August and , September...
...This invasion of one environment by people from another one was also resented on other grounds...
...Drought spreads over the West, drying up tens of millions of acres, destroying crops and causing the death of millions of head of cattle...
...Comrade Marquer, Head of Insurance Co., Dies j Newman Marquer, executive secretary for the i.\ t eight years' of the Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society, passed away last Tuesday...
...Expect Farm Price Rise...
...Up to 59.6% of Capacity from 57.7% in May...
...Except for a plan, that never passed the "paper" stage, that called for a displacement of a few tenements at a cost greatly boosted by graft and inefficiency, the situation was never mentioned at' council meetings...
...The Tories, in control of the city up to the last election, ignored the desperate conditions and the pertinent problems that the heavily congested living quarters of London presented...
...U. Solomon was elected chairman of the standing sub-co- ittee on Budget, and G. A. Gerber of the Standing sub <'ommittee on Organi...
...Ever since the formation K the Socialist Party Comrade Marquer was a member in good Standing and for several years was I member of the City Executive Committee of t-ocal New York and !*as active in the German Branch...
...It's all a matter of niarkits and dividends, prices and "Long live all Njt...
...There is, so to speak, a western Anglo-American language," he wrote, "corresponding singularly and strictly with the western style of thought, and the character of western men...
...Efficient engineer* under the supervision of the Socialist* have reduced the oost to a minimum...
...The committee will hold its Itst meeting Monday at 6:30...
...Thus "cantankerous," "ranrpagious," "rambunctious" and "hifalutin" come down from the days when Lincoln was splitting rails in Illinois...
...the world's peace trembles in, the halance...
...Thus religious ideas were influenced by the environment in each case...
...Vienna markets are undisturbed...
...lation and Propaganda...
...Esther Friedman and Meyer Gillis...
...It appears that we're all •wromj...
...The Basic Principles of the Modem Socialist Movement by James Oneal The Materialistic Conception of History iv pONTINUING our discussion of the material ^ factors at the basis of historical evolution, let u* further consider the influence of the changing frontier in shaping ideas and institutions in the United States...
...Overcrowding, the bane of modern London, will thus be alleviated by the re-housing proposals.' Ail new homes will be established as close to the present existing ones as possible...
...Outlook called bright...
...State Campaign Planned by Committee bLANS for a vigorous state ¦ campaign, as well as a drive for party organization in the jtate, were made at a lengthy lession of the New York State Executive Committee held at L The New Leader office Monday I night...
...Markets React Widely...
...FINANCIAL MARKETS...
...VVhat are all of these human reactions if not the result of views fixed by environment and suspecting views and ways of living by people living in another environment...
...Armed men march...
...Here are some headlines from a single issue of the New York times (Monday, Arms Magnate: '7-onp live all Jul) 30) : Fatherlands...
...Poor, tortured human beings...
...Neither money nor any other reason shall stop us until the last slum dwelling has disappeared...
...Anxiety Ends in Holland...
...He resented the large funds spent in building "ornamental churches, to make a vain show and gratify pampered pride...
...DOWN TO NKW LOW...
...I The finance committee of the campaign will consist of Frank Hill, George I. Stefnhardt, Meyer Apis, Morris Berman and G. A. Berber...
...T In order to prevent speculation nnd graft in the purchasing of areas, secret decisions have been made by the council' as to the order in which these would he bought and the prices that would be paid...
...the earth shakes with the tramp of countless legions...
...Lewis Silkin, KrMjjalistjrfinirmun of the Committee oTr"tfousing and Public Health, summed up the party's attitude as follows: "We were given a majority by tho people of London to dear away the slums of London, and we intend to do it...
...The services were simple and democratic and thus appealed to farmer, hunter, trapper and mechanic...
...Other speakers to be toured through the state will include George R. Kirkipatrick, William E. Duffy and Lena Morrow Lewis, r Gertrude Weil Klein was entrusted with the task of building up a Committee on Propaganda among women, • and to get the W>rk of that body under way...
...Itate-wide campaign tours by the principal candidates on the -tatc picket...
...Hut wait a moment...
...They are instances of development arrested at the colonial stage...
...Tha memory of Vienna will he an <ver-*timul«ting and inspiring l«c«dMve, a great monument [ dedicated to workers' ml...
...Attractive gardens and promenades along the river front will be laid out...
...The early settlers had to sol re the iniperative instant question of present want...
...We thought, tynrs were terrible because they killed millions of human lieings and destroyed the best in humanity ; we used to think drought and devastation were bad because they brought suffering to human beings...
...When Peter Cartwright, a famous Illinois circuit u'der, visited Boston he was appalled at the salaries paid organists, the pomp and display of the churches, which give "precedence to the rich, the proud, and fashionable part of our hearers, and unavoidably blocks up the way of the poor...
...This majority, under the powerful leadership of Herbert Morrison, put a plan through the council for the greatest municipal improvement ever attempted, that will wipe out all known slums in the city and provide the workers witn more than 16,000 modern apart, ment houses...
...They propose to eliminate tha eyesores and the disease-infested area* and in their stead erect model homes, playgrounds, walks, park* and schools for the workers and their children...
...From such were heard complaints that the spinning wheel apd the loom were neglected, and that all the earnings of the young people were expended in the purchase of finery...
...The Socialists will further propose that more than two and one-half million dollars be spent for the installation of a more efficient purification plant to deal with the garbage that is dumped into the river...
...Socialist-controlled London is now reaping the benefits of the recent election that put tbe control of the city in the hands of the Labor Party...
...The Socialists, knowing that they have the confidence of the masses, are planning long beyond the term of office of the presenty council...
...The Labor majority will not only proceed to clear all of London slums in four or five years, but it will raise the permitted standard of housing accommodation and widen the scope of the definition of slum dwellings to include many more houses that are completely outmoded...
...A campaign committee I wMelected, a state committee on f activity among women was provided for, and plans made for...
...Activity Increases in German Industry...
...The campaign committee elected bnsists, to start with, of Frank M. Hill, G. A. Gerber, Julius ferber, William M. Fejgenbaum, Harry KriUer, Emi] Broinberg, ,U...
...William Henry Milburn, a pioneer preacher, published a book in 1860 which presents some remarkable interpretations of the effect of frontier conditions on the life of frontier people...
...J Comrade Marquer had hosts of friends in the radical movement throughout the country who were Inspired by hi* ability and steadfastness...
...Dollfuss trained big guns on the homes of working people, slaughtering men, women and children in the name of the "patriotic front...
...Hut we were wrong...
...Millburn observed "traits and tendencies" in the language of the frontier...
...Polished English was unknown and the crude speech reflected the influence of frontier life...
...For many years he was active in the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund, the Workingmen's Educational Association, the iVolkszeitung Publishing Ass'n and Ae Copneratfva Lflftgip 4>ft f""'r la, serving over a long period as Socialists Will Wipe Out Slums Of London by Victor Riesel IN five years the decrepit and dangerous slum areas of London will be a thing of the past...
...The Sacialiata are determined to do with London what their valiant comrades did in Vienna...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 31
