Hearst is a Menace to Education
Dewey, Prof. John
Hearst is a Menace to Education And a Menace to Education is a Menace to the Future of America by Prof. John Dewey By John Dewey WILLIAM K. HEARST owns twenty-nine newspapers in stwateen »i...
...Hearst is not content with what has already happened in lopping off many kinds of educational service, in dismissal of teachers who join the ranks of the unemployed, in reduction of salaries and closing of schools...
...Labor has majorities on 15 out of the 28 Metropolitan Borough Councils, and it is near a majority on two other Borough Councils...
...Pierre Renaudel Dies IT is a sad duty to announce the death of Pierre Renaudel, long one * of the most brilliant and devoted of the leaders of French Socialism...
...Our street speakers and other party workers should get the pamphlet and use the information it contains...
...Yet individuals are constantly singled out for abuse, vilification and downright lies...
...Yet these teachers have the responsibility of preparing future citizens of the United States for the performance of their public duties...
...we shall have much to be proud of...
...But the evil is not a personal one...
...It is an assault upon the ability of the whole American people to arrive at an intelligent knowledge of actual conditions and the causes that produce them...
...He is thus doing what he can to produce a victory for catastrophe...
...Today we have a Labor majority on the London County Council, the greatest of the world's municipalities, after 27 solid years of Toryrule, preceded by 18 years of Libersl rule...
...Hearst is actively encouraging chaos...
...He must also do all he can to make the readers of his papers think that the schools are engaged in a campaign to overthrow America institutions...
...Herbert Morrison, leader of the Labor Party in the London County Council, known as the "Prime Minister of London," writes of the past year and the past 21 years, as follows: "We shall look back on our troubled earlier history when the Coming-of-Age celebrations, which we hope to plan this year, take place...
...he had gone to Majorca for his health, and he-was unhappy over the state of affairs of his party...
...THE immtSt...
...The struggle for the maintenance of the Danzig Constitution, which has been successfully carried on by the Social Democratic Party for the last two years, will reach its climax in the election campaign...
...And so again the soundness of the policy of local Socialists is vindicated...
...The Milwaukee Leader, local Socialist daily, comments editorially as follows: J AGAIN A little over a year ago Lord Marley, whip for the British Labor Party in the House of Lords,, visited Milwaukee under the auspices of the Relief Committee for the Victims of German Fascism...
...postu 1 ates""of this beak hive long been truisms to atadSSU of the classics in Sotitlism...
...He controls eight film and news services...
...the actual position is better than this' for we cor.ro] the London County Council, which is the Public Assistance Authority for the whole of the Administrative County" of London...
...Every teacher who permits free discussion of economic issues in his classes is assailed as one engaging in endeavoring to overthrow American institutions and in trying to substitute for them an un-American form of Bolshevism...
...Marquet, indeed, receiving the Portfolio of Labor...
...1he New Leader Book Corner ty Charles Solomon TBE STATS IN THEORY AND PBACTLCB...
...It is in a majority on the Metropolitan Boroughs' Standing Joint Committee, and it has material representation on the many special authorities for special purposes which function in Greater London...
...Twenty-one years ago the London Labor Party came into being, for the first time challenging control of the city by "Moderates" and "Municipal Reformers," the names assumed by Tories and Liberals in local affairs...
...Once overthrown, this power lies in the hands of its opponents...
...The author adopts in toto the criticism of the German Social Democracy one encounters in the literature of communism...
...For a quarter of a century, indeed, Socialist- had participated in the work of the government of London, such men as Sidney Webb, Bernard Shaw, J. Ramsay Mat-Donald and others having been elected to the London County Council (the city's governing body), where they did notable work along certain lines...
...there was not a single Labor Borough Council...
...I quote this instance as showing the length of misrepresentation to which Mr...
...Indeed, out of the 1,300-odd Metropolitan Borough Councillors only between 40 and SO were Labor members...
...younger men, and they supported the Doumergue government that followed the riots of February 6th last year...
...A- Trogic Race Before the depression Mr...
...He ha- in this country in gjgsjpa six magazines, two of [|wa with circulation* arelf over , jmJSjob earh...
...Can the transition from capitalism to Socialism be accomplished peacefully in a democratic community...
...Attempts at the "unconstitutional conquest" of the state through insurrection and the general strike are foredoomed to failure while the army remains loyal and the normal governmental machinery operative...
...Lord Marley has just sent his resignation to the Relief Committee for the Victims of German Fascism...
...And I wast ts begin by saying that the fsjae schawls of the coantry ewe tat Heart papers a debt for whst taejr save done for the schools in | tat sort by way of active support...
...The break with the official party was over the policy of non-collaboration with Left governments headed by Herrtot, Chautemps, Laval and Daladier, which the Socialists, nevertheless, kept in office with their votes in order to prevent the Left leaders seeking support from the Right of the Chamber, with consequent concessions to them in reactionary legislation...
...Comrade Renaudel died virtually in exile from his country and his party...
...Some time ago, I saw in a box on the first page of one of his papers a statement made by a judge in Toledo that ninety per cent of the college teachers of the country were -engaged in teaching communism in their classes...
...Hearst succeeds in preventing in a single class room a fair and honest discussion of economic realities and policies, he is helping to create an unenlightened future citizenship...
...At that session vital problems will be settled, mainly those dealing with the United Front with the Communists...
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...nor a single Labor Board of Guardians...
...As a result, they dare not touch upon the facts of a system in which after more than five years of a great depression there are ten millions employed and one person out of five in the whole country is living on charity...
...It is an attack upon the power of the American people to develop in an orderly and intelligent way the measures and policies that will bring about economic restoration and prevent the lecurience of the present sit-, nation...
...Did his interview with Mr...
...And the achievements of this majority have made the London County Council famous and respected throughout the country, and indeed throughout the world...
...The publication address is 3 West 16th Street...
...Capitalist democracy" affords a united working class the opportunity to take the offensive...
...The Council listened to a report by Marius Dubois, delegate fcpm the Or an Federation, on conditions in North Africa, and unanimously adopted a resolution calling attention to the severity of the economic crisis there, denouncing oppressive measures taken by the authorities, and assuring the workers of North Africa, without regard to race, color or religion, of the complete solidarity of all French workers...
...It was at about that time that Marquet lost his seat in the Cabinet when Flandin succeeded Doumergue...
...Motwrehatoading- aH this' the...
...New York...
...What is back of this...
...ho is engaged in social arson in starting the flames of prejudice, intolerance, class hatred, and ignorance whose result is violence and war...
...H. G. Walls said that we are engaged in a race between education and catastrophe...
...The leaders of that secession were Marquet and Deat...
...It is almost certain that we should have held a majority on most of the Metropolitan Boards of Guardians had they continued to exist...
...which means they are read ; y nan)', many more...
...The United Front comes in for 'consideration from Prof...
...This little pamphlet is packed with carefully verified facts and figures, showing what the German labor movement was in the years before Hitler, and how Nazist "Coordination" has broken and plundered it, setting up in its place the so-called Labor Front, which is nothing more nor less than a government agency for policing the wage-working masses in the .interest of the employers...
...Round the County of London there are Labor majorities on two cut of three of the County Borough Councils and on quite a number of the Municipal Borough Councils, whilst Labor parties varying in size are at work on the other local authorities surrounding the County of London...
...Hearst's menace to education...
...LABOR UNDER HITLER The Chest for Liberation of Workers in Europe, an organization launched by the 1934 convention of the American Federation of Labor, has done one more good piece of work by bringing out a 32-page pamphlet entitled "Labor Under Hitlsr...
...and out of the 700-odd Metropolitan Poor Law Guardians only between 20 and 30 were Labor Guardians...
...The part he played in fastening the Spanish-American war, warn his control of the agencies of publicity was far short of wast it a now is a reminder of an srsat sewer...
...His estate in CsWnrnii comprises at least four sashed square miles...
...Hence news just received from England is of more than ordinary interest...
...Laski insists upon the importance of the "fullest possible exploration of constitutional opportunities" offered by such countries as Great Britain and the United States...
...While no price is set upon it, they will perhaps feel that a dime or more should accompany the request for a copy, to help continue the work...
...It is absent because the historic experience of these countries has not produced the conditions and, therefore, the psychology , wfiich successful revolution requires...
...Not only shall we rejoice in the mere advance of our political power—that in itself could be but an empty thing...
...fata extensive enterprises mean assist sad capital...
...Not only do we possess that majority, but it was a majority won by steady fighting, and not by a fluke...
...Th* author rings the ' changes ¦> a..- thesis — the ;mmanently mreive and class character of the «**— because "We have moved w» one of those critical epochs is history where we have to define sat fundamental objective of social Pdjrjr...
...Capitalism is the most terrible scourge of humanity...
...and al*V has been a supreme, coercive atkerity employed by a ruling eka to preserve the particular esspkt of class relationships of •sat it is the prime beneficiary...
...I propose to speak for a few mows* the way he is using his power in one respect, namely, with reference to education...
...They probably regard it as an honor to be singled out by Mr...
...The American people are faced with a choice between change by peaceful and orderly means or a change by chaos and into chaos .To make the first choice, wo mast have inquiry aad free iliacanasaa...
...He holds that working class unity is impossible without abandonment of the theory of social fascism...
...Hearst is using his powerful influence to create snd maintain a red scare, and as part of the campaign he is engaged in a most serious attack upon freedom of thought and teaching in the high schools and colleges of the country...
...As far as he is able he is undermining the confidence of the public in educational institutions...
...It therefore' becomes essential for anyparty which is seeking to transform the economic foundations of the state to maintain as long as it can a constitutional order which permits it openly to recruit its strength...
...Laski is convinced, will be a Jong and-arduous T. Prof...
...But Mr...
...The picture he paints is not an encouraging one to the advocates of "revolution...
...By Harold J. Laski...
...I L___ --_,_ In more than one city be has come to the aid of the schools snd the teachers when they were threatened by drives coming from organizations of-wealthy taxpayers...
...When—the history 'of French Socialism is finally written in its proper perspective the name of Renaudel will be found in a prominent and an honored place as that of a great idealist and a devoted Socialist, orator, editor, party executive and brilliant parliamentarian, respected even by those with whom he differed and finally broke after a'lifetime of noble and selfless association...
...In November the Neo-Socialists, who called themselves French Socialist Party, Union of Jean Jaures, applied for admission to the Labor and Socialist International, but were rejected...
...I would gay that not one-tenth of one per cent of the teachers of the country are communists, and that even they are not engaged in teaching Bolshevism to their classes...
...Laski's mind that in democratic countries, "where the members of a state enjoy fundamental political rights," it "is the duty of the citizen to exhaust all the means placed at his disposal by the constitution of the state before resorting to revolution," for "the gains inherent in the technique of constitutionalism are profoundei, even though they are more slow, than those which are implicit in the revolutionary alternative...
...Yet towards the end of his book (p...
...But we shall also have a great deal to rejoice about...
...John Dewey By John Dewey WILLIAM K. HEARST owns twenty-nine newspapers in stwateen »i the largest cities of tht I'mtc...
...We shall have the much greater satisfaction of rejoicing in the evolution of a labor and Socialist movement which has shouldered vast responsibilities in the local government of millions of people...
...At the same time there is no doubt in Prof...
...Let us make no mistake...
...Hearst selects to throw his whole weight against the opportunity for 'producing them...
...In such circumstances "it a the first duty of polhacal phi^ **9tr,ir to examine the character d the state in its actuality..* The state must be revealed "as the guardian of the class relations which deprive us of the richer civilization that -tnight be ours...
...Laski makes hi closest approach to Marxism...
...we shall celebrate the wonderful achievements in our reviews of the 21 years, 1914-1936...
...A report of the concrete work of the past year will appear here shortly...
...At its last annual convention the British Labor Party declared that membership in the above committe is not compatible with ' membership in the Labor Party...
...Such vast agsmriaes mean, of course, large sailrinr affiliations...
...It is not the term of the Constitution which is a stake but its content in the face of Nazi terror aad violence...
...A Year of Labor.Government in London A YEAR after taking over control of affairs in London, the Labor Party can look back not only to a year of magnificent work in the metropolis of the British Empire but also to 21 years of participation in the affairs of the capital...
...Jsst eoacsntrated capital has to tr issfesnsd with in this country ssjs witheat saying...
...In it Prof...
...They have a dfCttlation at at least ten milgoae...
...Hearst is a menace to education...
...Laski's book, while persuasive and eloquent, suffers from redundance...
...The depression has hit the schools and the teaching body hard enough...
...Hearst's attack upon public education is, I repeat, not a private matter...
...This is not the whole of Mr...
...Many teachers who are less well known are intimidated...
...He stadies the state from the tape of the class struggle and anrsnca...
...Laski contends that all the available historical evidence compels a contrary answer...
...Ho is doing more than playing with fire...
...It is not absent, as the proponents of revolution are inclined to argue, because of the cowardice of non-revolutionary Socialists...
...Wells certainly did not mean just schooling by education, and neither do I when I say that Mr...
...Judith Greenfeld...
...Many of these persons are not injured by these attacks...
...Just as capitalism grows, so grows pauperism, that mill-stone around the neck of civilization, the revolting cruelties of our factory system, the squalor of great cities, and the presence of deep seated poverty by the gates of enormous wealth.— Karl XatX 4 The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World French Party Congress June 9-12 *T*HE National Council of the French Socialist Party, at its recent * meeting in Pre-Saint-Gervais, Paris, voted to summon the 32nd Ordinary Conference of the party in Mulhouse, June 9th to lZth...
...It a the executive committee of fit ruling class...
...287) he argues in a way that seems to provide an effective answer to his own • criticism...
...Hearst's menace to education is not confined to the teachers he singles out for attack...
...Policy Toward 'Innocents" Vindicated by Events MILWAUKEE.—The policy of the Socialist Party in refusing to cooperate with Communist "Innocents" in anti-fascist work is further justified by the action of the British Labor Party...
...Laski who has no illusions regarding that Communist device...
...The 'Red" Score At present, however...
...For the London Labor Party is of age...
...To make this revelation decisive, Prof...
...I "am not concerned with Hearst's personality or his motives...
...Apparently his motto Is that of the Bourbon king: "After me the deluge...
...He has become a menace to the political and economic education of the American people...
...This support is absent in both England and America...
...Hearst uses his newssapors is a matter of utmost publie eeeosm...
...is much in the book to give aid and comfort to the Communists and the advocates ef "revolution" in general...
...It is known that Renaudel was supremely unhappy over the party situation and kept the cables from his Mediterranean retreat burning with demands that Deat and Marquet cease collaboration with the class enemies...
...Comrade Renaudel was in the past year one of the leaders of the so-called Neo-Socialists who broke away from the party with a considerable section of the party's parliamentary delegation a year or so ago...
...When this jnasl controls a large part of the issdisg xMtter of the people ol tar soon try, the way it is used oases to h a private concern, fas newspaper- of the country are ¦fleeted with a public interest, and tas way Mr...
...Capitalism yields its outer works, but never—at .least not voluntarily—its inner citadel...
...It is the inescapable necessity of any revolutionary strategy that hopes for success to be able to count on the support of the masses," he writes...
...Hear* ass at least as much, more ^assi invested in mines aad land, m am coantry and in Mexico, Cafe snd Peru...
...And Mr...
...Creating, Unenlightenment Just as far as Mr...
...in this issue, discusses in detail -that United Front and the way it has worked out during the past year...
...Hitler lead him to believe that this move was the best^sujy to get a fascist control of .ajRation in this country, with eomHTe subservience of teachers andfpidents to Mr...
...States...
...it fattens on the misery of the poor, the degradation of the worker and the brutalizing toil of his wife and children...
...Laski's view of the state leads him inexorably to what he regards as the "central problem" of our time...
...Is* Viking Pre...
...A menace to education is a menace to the future of this country...
...In 1929 we won a majority of the London parliamentary seats, 2nd we are as certain as we can be about anything in politics that a majority of the London M.P.s in the next Parliament will be Labor members...
...Never was there such a need for thoroughly intelligent citizens...
...At the time certain elements in liberal and radical circles bitterly denounced the Socialists for this action...
...Yet this is just the time Mr...
...In 1914 there was hardly a Labor Party at all on the London County Council...
...They do not venture to refer to the defects in the economic situation which are the causes of the breakdown...
...From his discussion of the Russian Revolution it would not be difficult to spell out approval of proletarian dictatorship although elsewhere Laski states proletarian dictatorship is not a necessary stage...
...In blocking that method...
...Party Conference in Danzig 1 • ASPECIAL conference of the Social Democratic Party of the Pros City of Danzig was held* March 3rd to take decisions with regard to the forthcoming election to the Diet, and to draw up plans for he election campaign...
...Hearst's own economic interests...
...But in 1914 for the time the Labor' Party entered politics in the city as such, and is this year celebrating its "Coming-of-Age...
...The Socialist Party refused to have anything to do with the meeting, claiming that the organization sponsoring it was a Communist "innocents club" and more interested in raising funds for Communist propaganda than in relief work...
...materialism, arriving at tat conclusion that it is...
...Hearst is willing to descend...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 14
