RATION OF PRINCIPLES
ration of Principles We Debate at Detroit, and Now JT$f the Socialist Party Zdum Vote ragfe of the labor i m organizations,! rtfre ww| bona focMtiAf, are necfor toe immediate fat of the...
...THHE New York delegates had to * touch base at Chicago to validatfttheir round trip tickets...
...And by allowing the white collar classes to be won over to the cause of fascism without an effort to save them for Socialism, they showed themselves to have a fatally limited idea of the class struggle...
...M. SHADID of Oklahoma, a new member, is an active worker in the Farmers' Union, and is the leading spirit of a hospital organized on a basis of cooperative medicine...
...Krzycki, a vice-president and national organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, was elected to the N.E.C...
...They looked forward to two possible events...
...In its struggles for a new society, the Socialist Party seeks to attain its objectives by peaceful and orderly means...
...Guy is a great artist and for many years he ran an art school at Kalamazoo...
...NORMAN THOMAS of New York, re-elected...
...Unfortunately, there is very little hope that the Communist-led part of the workers will react to this appeal more favorably then their brethren did in Germany, In France, in Lithuania and, two weeks ago, in Latvia...
...It will rely, nevertheless, on the organization of a disciplined labor movement...
...No one would believe us when we reported that the active and energetic Lockwood was agitating back in Spanish war days...
...JAMES ONEAL of New York, editor of The New Leader, member of the Exeeutive^of the Labor and (Continued on Page Six) Fascism Scores Heavily in Industrial Poland IN the municipal elections of 341 * cities and towns of Poland, which took place on Sunday, May 27, the fascist Nura party scored a number of important victories...
...they will, on the contrary, by agitation and opposition do their best not to be broken up by the war, but to break up the war...
...It was these two groups primarily who caused their downfall...
...They will meet war and the detailed plans for war already mapped out by the war-making arms of the government by massed war resistance, organized so far as practicable in a general strike of labor unions and professional groups in a united effort to make the waging of war a practical impossibility and to convert the capitalist war crisis into a victory for Socialism...
...War cannot be tolerated by Socialists, or preparedness for war...
...It was it wts good that •**, with his Itrtlve wife as {California...
...Recognizing the increasing resort by a crumbling capitalist order to Fascism to preserve its integrity and dominance, the Socialist Party intends not to be deceived by Fascist propaganda nor overwhelmed by Fascist force...
...A,t 7 p. m. one delegate (namely, the author of these inspired words) sat down with a book...
...Nothing is more likely to'lead to wrong conclusions than to guess what happened in the past...
...For at least thirty years the European Socialist parties have been vitally concerned with the problem of reaching the rural areas with the Socialist message and many of them worked out programs for this purpose...
...Graham is president of the Montana State Federation of Labor...
...A big steamer, spacious decks and perfect weather...
...Immediately after the elections the Socialist ^Party issued an appeal to the workers of all Poland to give up their factional conflicts In order to face the fascist danger with united forces...
...an active worker in the trade union movement...
...Mors Documents Noxt Wood In next week's issue we will present the full text of the Detroit convention's resolution on NRA snd Lsbor snd the Agricultural Program adopted by tke delegstes...
...True democracy is a worthy means to progress...
...In Germany, at least, probably as many of the city proletariat followed Hitler as of the other groups, especially the slum and criminal elements...
...Propaganda was carried on in the rural sections but it is obvious that little headway was mads in thiR work...
...If the crisis comes through the denial of majority rights after the electorate has given us a mandate, we shall not hesitate to crush by our labor solidarity the reckless forces of reaction and to consolidate the Socialist state...
...The^ustrian movement had also studied the agrarian problem and in Austria it is especially complicated by the fact that most of the peasants are Catholics, A peasant population, in an individualist environment and of this religious character is especially difficult to reach and yet the Austrian movement did not ignore the task...
...Referring to these 'parties, he said: f "The first is their failure to realise the scope of the working class and to appeal to the farmers and the white collar workers...
...We may also add that these parties did not neglect the peasantry either before the World War or after it...
...The Socialist Party proclaims anew its faith in economic and political democracy, but it unhesitatingly applies itself to the task of replacing the bogus democracy of capitalist parliamentarianism by a genuine workers' democracy...
...The reaction might attempt to destroy the workers' organizations before coming to power or attempt a counter-revolutin after achieving power...
...The Austrian Program A NOTHER mistaken view relates to the Austrian movement...
...f * bates remembered b with affectionate national secreIng period, and Winnie Branstet»nnd chipper as ling all of 65 I it is 85...
...A Mistaken View pOMRADE KRZYCKI is mistaken...
...That was in 1899 (and it was a "horseless carriage" then...
...t»arlington Hoopes expresses it in the current issue of the Socialist Quarterly...
...To divisive capitalist nationalism it opposes international workers' solidarity...
...it Bst that he la b) tame party lArticles fnNt*Week h d* articles by g.la the series ¦pw of the Sof Kheduled for W7...
...The other t Stone, is active cog Island...
...They will oppose military reviews, displays and expenditures, whether for direct war preparedness or for militaristic propaganda, both in wartime and in peacetime...
...It produces eco* nomic groups and classes that, with a few exceptions, do not parallel the classes that are typical of industry...
...It will do all in its power to fight Fascism of every kind all the time and everywhere in the world, until Fascism is dead...
...Her Kerr—Terry of N—looks like a kid, although she ideal more than • kind of Socialark of his ideally...
...It is this which complicates the agrarian problem for ths Socialists in each country...
...teat if .we .are to avoid mistake...
...Preparing for Conflict HTHE Linz congress is also important for other reasons¦ Some comrades interpret the history of the Austrian movement in terms of neglecting to prepart for this conflict...
...Watch young Artie McDowell of Illinois and of th\ Yipsels...
...At this congress ths Austrian Socialists realized that they would likely facs a final struggle with the clerical, capitalist and landed reaction and they decided to carry propaganda to the soldiers because the Minister of War mi replacing Socialists by non-Socialist workers and peasants...
...se/ving his second term as a Socialist member of the Pennsylvania legislature...
...For the Stalin Comintern is still TffMlngt real unity of organized workers...
...serving his sixth term as Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee...
...ALBERT SPRAGUE COOLIDGE of Cambridge, Mass., re-elected...
...Agriculture is an especially difficult problem abroad »s it is at home because its economic basis in all countries differs from that of urban industry...
...JAMES D. GRAHAM of Missoula, Mont., re-elected and serving his third term on the N.E.C...
...in Interpreting the Atftv trlan movement...
...He's young, he's energetic, he's intelligent...
...It purposes to eradicate the perpetual economic warfare of capitalism, the fruit of which is international conflict...
...in 1932, and was elevated to the National Chairmanship after the death of Morris Hillquit...
...rtfre ww| bona focMtiAf, are necfor toe immediate fat of the coning class, but sen with the self-discipline undent adminisdettries of which avtrol...
...It has not yet fulfilled Its historical mission of weakening Socialism in order to introduce fascism in every modern-country...
...This history is imps...
...Of special significance is their victory in Lodz, the largest and most important industrial and labor center of Poland...
...The Socialist Party, while standing for the interests of the American people, recognises that the well-being of any one nation is inextricably interwoven with that of every other...
...DANIEL W. HOAN, re-elected...
...They were welcome as cool breezes would have been...
...ft* every Socialist h a loyal and I tke union in his sad to strive for 1 and solidifying ¦ movement...
...Their' result will show how pro* duetivl was the sinister lessen at Lodz...
...One New Yorker went out to the World's Fair the day before the convention opened, broiled in 106 degrees of heat, milled around with 600,000 other visitors on the midway, and came back with reports pi the Streets of Paris...
...Coolidge is an associate professor at Harvard...
...There was the usual number of Yipsels and other young Socialists who hiked and hitched—and both to Detroit...
...The party realized that it was necessary to either win the soul of the peasants or to make them as neutral as possible in the event of a conflict with ths ruling classes...
...They will loyally support, in the tragic event of war, any of their comrades who for anti-war activities or refusal to perform war service come into conflict with public opinion or the law...
...DARLINGTON H O O P E S of Reading, Pa., re-elected...
...They will seek to eliminate military training from schools, colleges and camps...
...Newcomers on The New Party Executive DETROIT...
...On June 10, sixteen more cities will go to the polls In Poland...
...FRANZ DANIEL of Philadelphia, a new member, is an organizer for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...The new Nstional Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, elected at the national convention, is as follows: LEO M. KRZYCKI of Milwaukee, National Chairman, re-elected...
...That is, nearly eight years before the February fight of this year the Austrian comradss had anticipated and prepared for what happened...
...because and devoted to the same Cause as we are...
...Their new program is now concerned with action snd policy In a period of defeat by fascism...
...In fifteen minutes he found himself the, center of 24 delegates arguing ¦bout—Russia...
...By refusing to recognize that the peasant who worked on the land was as much a worker as the mechanic in the factory, they alienated a great potential ally...
...It privilege of the Socialist press to aid the unions in their struggles for better wages, increased leisure, and better conditions of employment...
...Guy Lockwood was the first Socialist to use an automobile for propaganda speaking tours...
...Its methods may include a recourse to a general strike which will not merely serve as a defense against Fascist counterrevolution but will carry the revolutionary struggle into the camp of the enemy...
...This is also a mistaken view...
...If the capitalist system should collapse in a general chaos and confusion, which cannot permit of orderly procedure, the Socialist Party, whether or not in such a case it is a majority, will not shrink from the responsibility of organizing and maintaining a government under the workers' rule...
...It was largely a convention of young people, however...
...Writing of the Austrian Socialists and their attitude toward this problem, he says: "If they had made as strong an appeal to the farmers as to the city workers, Dollfuss could not have crushed their movement...
...We quote the leading sentences...
...Life is like that...
...Those with, round-trip tickets were not allowed to buy sleeping car berths for some reason known only to the Big Minds of the New York Central...
...i * ! don Hoan, M. fat Allis, Wis., » * Mmsjtion would mt i visit from ") de Jong, forwk, now of Chiw was a bettersa de Jong, and ifeetionate greetk 1 * s three decades ¦trick has been , hero to this is a gallant i he stands on I makes his ap*»m, there is a noble in his nets...
...The violently antiSocialist, anti-Semitic and antiPilsudski National-Radical (Nara) Party won 72 seats in the city council, the Pilsudski (government) party—7, the Jewish national bloc—16, and the Socialists (P.P.S...
...MAYNARD KRUEGER of Chicago, a new member, is county chairman of Cook County, 111., an associate professor in Chicago University, and delegate to the International Socialist Conference in Paris last summer...
...He came around as a delegate from Michigan, driving into Detroit in a car that must have been the great-great-great grandson of his 1899 propaganda chariot...
...One result was a bridge game from Detroit (9 p. m. Central Time) to Albany (8.30 a. m. E. S. T.) participated in by Simon Berlin, Sam Orr, Sam Baron and Sol Perrin., The dopes...
...In either event, the party decided the workers should use their economic and armed power and, If successful, establish a "workers' dictatorship" till the reaction had been thoroughly crushed...
...The next ;day the police closed the Streets of Paris for being a bit too Parisian...
...Otherwise they had to do what one delegate did: throw away the return ticket and buy a new ticket home...
...They will unitedly seek to develop trustworthy working class instruments for the peaceable settlement of international disputes and conflicts...
...Capitalism is doomed...
...which had a majority in the previous city council—only 11...
...This implies neglect of the farming population and that view is erroneous...
...He will be a figure in the movement, if those who knotv him intimately are not mistaken...
...In fact, a literature came out of the Socialist movement abroad which was devoted to the agrarian problem...
...to the Socialist parties of other countriea it extends full support in their struggles, uniting with them in the common effort to build a world-wide federation of Socialist republics...
...e ' It was lovely on Lake Erie on the way to Detroit...
...Editors Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise - By James Oneal IN appealing to history it is important thaf Socialists * should be sure of their facts...
...POWERS HAPGOOD of Indianapolis, re-elected...
...We may differ in inter* pretatlon of the facts and differ In formulating a theory based upon them, but facts that are of record cannot be changed...
...If it can be superseded by majority vote, the Socialist Party will rejoice...
...but true democracy must be created by the workers of the world...
...The Linz congress of the Austrian party in 1926 gave special attention ,not only to this problem but to the problems involved in the possible attempt of reaction to destroy the organizations of the workers and to establish a dictatorship...
...They also made another important decision...
...The Socialist Party is opposed to militarism, imperialism, and war...
...In his speech at Detroit opening the Socialist Party'convention the national chairman, Comrade Krzycki, maide a reference to the Socialist parties of Europe that is nit In accord with the history of the movement on the Continent...
...Moreover, recognizing the suicidal nature of modern combat and the incalculable train of wars' consequences which rest most heavily upon the working class, they will refuse collectively to sanction or support any international war...
...In this country we have produced no literature at all on the agrarian problem except Simons' "The American Farmer" which, on its historical side, is still an excellent study down to the period it was written...
...egates Broiled Over Policies inal affairs was ill wrong," said I picked up a Its," said Coolrofessor at Harght to be a pi r, he did not at|e article introstion...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 69
