Smashing Attack on Hearst on the Floor of Congress
Smashing Attack on Hearst on the Floor of Congress Jewish Unions Pass Resolution On Lang Articles in Journal United Hebrew Trades Attacks Those Who Use Lang Articles as Excuse to Assail Great...
...Whenever they shal grow weary of the existing Geteminent, they can exercise tin* constitutional right of aanenssaj it or their revolutionary right ts dismember and overthrow it,'-" DeBROUCKERE IS CHOSEP NEW HEAD OF LSI With the entry of Emile Vawlff velde, Chairman of the Labor ant Socialist International, into M Belgian Government changes wnw made in the bureau of that fra* organization with which the Socialist Party of the United Stat* *V affiliated...
...the axis of ^government to thjB selfish purposes...
...he has spoken at its meetings, and has helped it to the stage where it is now a dual party organization...
...Thomas Jefferson, jjto drew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Horace Greeley, Edward Bellaay, Wendell Phillips, and other nativeborn American iconoclasts M| drastic things to say regarding tat evils of concentration of wealth a the hands of a few...
...Does the former presidential candidate, Al Smith, get hot and bothered because some folks are nudist (physically, we mean...
...This journalistic and political mountebank seems to have developed a definite monomania on the subject of Socialism...
...It is" the Forward which was the great power that has built every Jewish union, that always defended and continues to defend absolutely all immigrants against their enemies...
...This is the most charitable characterization of his furious and frantic fulminations...
...In all our battle the Forward is our great champion...
...They have been carrying on their scandalous work throughout the length and breadth of the labor movement...
...A similar sentence was passed upon them when they staged their diabolical dance over the hopes and interests of the Jews...
...This is also true of the resolution of the Forward Association on the question of Comrade Lang, with the addition that the entire incident has in no way diminished our respect and confidence in him ae a journalist and contributor to the activities of the labor movement...
...Executive Board: M. Abramson, A. Baron, A. Cohen, A. Dyinsky, M. Edelson, M. Goldowsiy, H. Lilliput, S. Metz, S. Polacoff, A. Solovioff, A. Student, J. Tuvim, M. Wolpert, S. Wolchock, M. Horwitx...
...We declare: They who condemn the Forward condemn the entire Jewish labor movement...
...It will be made naajy nent when the fall executive new meets...
...Hi'debrandt's remarks, as they appear in the Congressional Record, follow: "Mr...
...Moreover, the militant faction with its Communist allies in the party is more than a faction...
...f\S April 23, 1935, Represent^ ative Fred H. Hildebrandt of South Dakota rose in the House of Representatives and uttered a few pointed remarks about William Randolph Hearst and his campaign against "Reds," labo rites, progressives and everything that even remotely threatens the...
...Happy countenances were also to be seen in the likenesses of those who endorsed cures for the liquor habit...
...MOTHERS' DAY PEACE MEETING Mothers' Day will be observed with a mass meeting against war Sunday at 8 p. m. at Carnegie Hall, under the auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom...
...We turn to page two and the first thing that meets the eye is a grinning face informing the world that the notable behind it was cured of every ailment from dandruff to athlete's foot after a protracted liquid diet of-'s applejack (firm's name deleted by our advertising department...
...I realize that that appears to be very difficult, but it is our job and I do not want to do anything at this time which will appear to be a direct slap in the face of one group or the other...
...The Jewish unions will stand like a mighty force ready to defeat every attack against the Forward and against the labor movement...
...offense charged waa NtMaet unbecoming a Socialist for permitting articles by Mm to appear in sensational farm ia the Hoopes Joins Oneal in Protest Against 0. K. to Dual Paper A MOTION to add the Socialist Call, local factional paper of the militant group, to the "accredited" list of Socialist papers has been made in the National Executive Committee by Norman Thomas...
...No more inept and mediocre leadership has been tbe lot of the movement in-any country...
...There is nothing Marxian about the Communism of Stalin and Union Square...
...This is the newspaper the Day, which politically is in the service of Tammany Hall, which publishes advertisements of strikebreakers at a time when workers are on strike and suffer need and hunger...
...They have always condemned the Socialists and the entire Socialist movement, and they are condemning them now...
...Greta Stuckgold of the Metropolitan Opera will sing...
...But events in Jewish life in America show that there is also an institution of power which seeks regularly to demoralize the Jewish masses...
...Their disturbances here in America have the same character as the trouble which their comrades create in other lands...
...William Dick Sporborg will preside...
...We print it also in justice to Lang...
...Ail these things are agjk consequence...
...It was in 1989, when the Jewish masses of the world were shocked by the Arab massacres of Jews in Palestine, that the Communists welcomed the pogroms and hailed the pogrom makers...
...He pretends before the general membership to be above factions and he is more responsible for the tragic situation in New York than any other member...
...That is what radicalism is —seeking root remedies...
...The Smile and Smirk Area By Bebee TPHE progress of the depression, of' as some would say, the course of civilization, can be charted by the ever present smiles of the great and near-great whose maps adorn the pages of the press...
...By all 'means, let us tell the truth about everything, including Soviet Russia, which no true Socialist considers sacrosanct or immune to criticism, but let us not tell it in the Hearst press...
...Confidence" The editorial b saturated with appeal* to the Ge...
...It is as if we were to go tak' man who has been robbed of ia money, had most of his cloilat torn off, had his house burns] down, and been beaten to a pup in the bargain and tell him that he must stop his complainjaj, make no effort to bring tbe guilt...
...He was entitled to such consideration by many) years of loyal service to the cause of the labor movement...
...What causes the mass to buy certain saw tooth razor blades and a thousand other evidences of excess baggage that mankind, at least the American branch of it, burdens itself with, what is it, but the smile ? One starts reading the exciting news of the splitting of the atom or an ornithologist's treatise on the blue eagle and other extinct birds of preyi, what happens...
...Among the organizations cooperating are the League of Nations Association, United Parents' Association, Inc., Child Study Association, League of Mothers' Clubs, World Peaceways, Greater New York Federation of Churches, National Council Jewish Women (Jamaica Section-), United Order of True Sisters, Universal Peace League...
...The proposal was filed as an "emergency" motion, members being requested to vote by wire or air mail, two days before the meeting of the New York State Committee at which New York's reply to the Nine-Point program of the National Executive Committee was to be prepared...
...In accordance with the rule that comrades cannot serve in the ean> utive when they enter a MtaMtlO Comrade Vandervelde res...
...He wants to give this faction the blessing of the N.E.C...
...He committed a grave error in failing to realize that the Hearst press is a poor vehicle, indeed, for the dissemination of troth, whether it concerns Soviet Russia or any other political' or social problem, and that by resorting to such a vehicle one compromises the truth and plays into the hands of its enemies...
...Russia is attempting to carry out a completely collectivized society...
...The result of the voting is not known at the moment of going to press...
...Clinton M. Barr, delegate to the recent Women's World Congress Against War...
...Hearst refers to 'our socialistic administration in Washington,' knowing full well that the administration is not socialistic and that some of its most energetic opposition comes from those waaJJH convinced that socialisation <C these basic public utilities is tkt only path out of the economkwilderneas...
...He reveals lack of every intelligent qualification for leadership, especially in a crisis...
...to justice, and cooperate in resist, ing 'confidence' to the tbamjBP roughneck who subjected him to such indignities, < "Hearst knows as well aj^jjHp and I know that 'radicalism' a as American as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutias, instead of being an alien product Our greatest Americans have always been 'radical'—that it, they believed in getting at the mat of things...
...Jf law : but when the laws uadartiijp to add to these natural aaAVB advantages artificial distinct***, to grant titles, gratuities, ssntfj*' elusive privileges, to make the rka richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members ef teamf' — the farmers, mechanics, sat laborers — who have neither flu time nor the means of seaanaf like favors to themaelrea, haw I right to complain of the mjantn* of their Government...
...Presumably the same editorial appeared in the other dailies owned by William Randolph Hearst on the same day in different cities...
...The best economists of our time, instead of finding fault because of the regulatory features of the 'new deal* and favoring a return to the 'leave-things-alone' plan, believe that the real mistake is in not carrying regulation out to its ultimate—which must, in my judgment, mean public ownership of basic public utilities...
...United Hebrew Trades: R. Guskin, Chairman...
...Those were the golden days for the small town papers and the hearth and home journals...
...The Hearst press is not a place for a Socialist...
...I commend to the- attention of Hearst — knowing, however, tat futility of commending anything to him except the ruthless desire of Wall Street to go on exploitmj without limit—these words of Andrew Jackson: " 'It is to be regretted that m rich and powerful too often ban...
...he is its father-confessor...
...We do not wish at this time to take issue with Mr...
...A national I trade union leader who became an accomplice of dual unionism within his organization would be a parallel to Norman Thomas...
...But a few years ago the type of smile that met our gaze was that, say, of an alderman who proclaimed that he was cured of tbe itch or of a female prohibition advocate who sang the praises of Per una tonic, guaranteed to contain not more than 57 per cent alcohol...
...James Oneal, in oting No, commented in part: "There are plenty of reasons for believing that this motion is a factional blow aimed at the New York party organization...
...elected by a national convention, recommending a local organ speaking for a dual party I organized in opposition to the I party organization...
...Norman Thomas could not have chosen a course more provocative or a time more opportunte to open a bleeding wound...
...The United Hebrew Trades, upon analyzing the whole matter and considering all the relevant points, adopted the following declaration: In the coarse of oar entire history we have always treated with respect all questions and- incidents in the labor movement, resolutions and decisions made by other sections of our movement...
...Ah," reflected Professor Laffitov, "who can measure the farreaching effects of the smile...
...Socialists Poll Good Vote In Baltimore Election BALTIMORE...
...Smashing Attack on Hearst on the Floor of Congress Jewish Unions Pass Resolution On Lang Articles in Journal United Hebrew Trades Attacks Those Who Use Lang Articles as Excuse to Assail Great Jewish Labor Movement—Services Of Jewish Daily Forward to the Masses...
...These gains were scored despite a heavily decreased total vote...
...He has directly encouraged this faction and now helps it with this motion...
...For commercial reasons the Day often enters into an alliance with the Communists, to help them wreck the unions, la this manner it helps to ruin the economic life of the Jewish maaaea in America...
...Can you envision what will happen when every home is equipped with television and the advertising spielers' toothy smirks are inflicted upon us along with ballyhoo for gadgets, gimcracks and nostrums...
...resolution...
...In every country in the world the Communists march hand in hand with the darkest reactionaries to destroy the Socialist, and the democratic, and the labor movements...
...The Call is the organ of a minority faction which Thomas has helped to build and of which he is the leader...
...But surely, professor," asked the interviewer, "are you unaware that some of the best minds have stated that smiles will lift ns out of the depression...
...Typical of the false statements with which the Hearst editoria.s is reeking is the reference to 'these two great So(viet Republics' —meaning the United States and Russia...
...system of which he is the most contemptible exponent in the United States...
...With tbe transfer of the seat *» the International from Zurich * Brussels, Robert Grimm cesses » be a member of tbe bureau...
...One of the nine points, to which Norman Thomas agreed in the Buffalo meeting of the N.E.C., dealt with The New Leader and provided that in the event New York's reply was satisfactory the promoters of the factional organ would be urged to discontinue that paper...
...We expect no other attitude on their part...
...Warning to Socialists PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The Socialist Party of Pennsylvania warns comrades everywhere that a certain J. Travenski has been traveling through Pennsylvania and other states and abusing his privileges of party membership by imposing on comrades...
...It has caused us to smoke Stencho ¦Cigarettes for added energy and' La Flor Cabaggo Cigars to top off meals made of foods that make up in calories what they lack in savor...
...Elisabeth Gilman, Socialist candidate for Mayor, polled 2,440 votes in Tuesday's election...
...g ne» and was succeeded by Louis at Brouckere, one of the great !¦¦*> ers of Belgian and world rk>eiaraa...
...1*HE United Hebrew Trades sends us a resolution it adopted on the incident of the publication in the Hearst press of the series of articles on Soviet Russia by Harry Lang...
...la the M enjoyment of the gifts of hears...
...In voting against the motion, Darlington Hoopes said: "I think that the motion is illtimed because it will impress one side of tbe New York controversy with the idea that we are trying to do everything we can to favor the other group, which in a situation such as exists at present is very dangerous...
...M. Feinstone, Secretary...
...All who have given the matter thought realize that the decision of the New York matter, whichever way it goes, is likely-to be-most serious for the party, and unless we desire to become the laughing stock of the working class movement, it behooves us to do everything we can to get the matter adjusted without wrecking the party...
...The United Hebrew Trades, which represent all the onions in every industry and trade in which Jewish workers are engaged, warns tbe Jewish masses against such mercenary elements and institutions...
...Communism is no more "Marxian" than were Blanquism and Bakuminism, both of which Marx fought as Utopian and reactionary...
...We recognise that the editorial staff of the Forward and the Forward Association are mainly competent to judge Comrade Lang's conduct...
...Friedricb Adaar, ,<pB*tfl urer Van Bossebroeck, and to* Belgian members of the Frecathiaj Comrades Bouchery and CamiBs Huysmans, Mayor of Antwerp...
...S. M. Neistadt polled 2,667 for President of the Council, double the vote of three years ago, while O. S. Hunt polled 2,352 votes for Controller, a gain of 1,000...
...The campaign of incitement ' on the part of the Communists is a natural phenomenon...
...Abraham Lincoln's immortal words have often been quoted, kpt they can never be quoted too frequently: "'This country with its insfRttions belongs to the people vkf inhabit it...
...The resolution of the United Hebrew Trades follows: Official Declaration of the United Hebrew Trade* The United Hebrew Trades, at a special meeting, Monday, April 29, gave full consideration and freely discussed the campaign being waged against the Forward as a result of the articles on Russia which a member of its staff, Com-' rade Lang, permitted the New York Evening Journal to reprint...
...The Lady Astorbilt, the blondined marionettes of the films and Central European medical men brought about a change...
...Even the most moderate reforms tending to alleviate the suffering of American citizens under our cruel and rapacious industrial system are the targets for bitter abuse in editorials signed or inspired by Hearst...
...Harry Lang Suspended From Party for fipjr Harry Lang waa snaprnaVd from membership ia the Socialist Party far one year at a masting of the Central Committee, Wednesday night...
...M. Tigel, Vice-Chairman...
...It is clear to us that these attempts to raise a wrecking crusade against the Forward is the work of two camps of enemies, venomous enemies of the Jewish labor movement—on the one side the Communists and the other side the newspaper the Day...
...Nobody outside of an insane asylum should have any illusions about the program of the 'new deal' being similar to the policies of Soviet Russia...
...Addie W. Hunton and Mrs...
...Either we must assume that the explanation is pathological or accuse him of the most brazen and deliberate misrepresentation and insincerity...
...The following will address the meeting: Bishop Francis J. McOonnell, Mrs...
...All the way from the tamest progressivism to democratic socialism and Marxian communism, Hearst pours his editorial poison on advocates of any proposal that involves benefit to the producing class...
...He cools off with the coming of the cameraman...
...Moreover, his motion is made on the eve of the reply to be made by the New York State Committee to the Buffalo N.E.C...
...VM new bureau, now located at aJJ Rue de Lacken, Brussels, coaeiflp of the new Chairman, the Secra* tary...
...In an effort to ascertain the meaning and effects of the smiling age the renowned savant and historian, Professor Laffitov of the University of Schmaltzponem, said in a recent interview: "The epidemic of smiles should cause no alarm to those who do not see the daily press and keep their eyes closed during the showing of the newsreel...
...The United Hebrew Trades, greet tbe Forward for its consistent stand against all demagogues and trouble-makers in the Jewish world, and call upon all unions and their members to fling back the base charges being leveled against the Forward...
...This phenomenon is called to the especial attention of surviving technocrats...
...It is not necessary to quote Marx or Buskis or Fourier...
...The selection by the bnrta* 4K temporary...
...Lansing into the vernacular of his mother tongue, the famous scholar said, pityingly, "Aw, nerts...
...and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, JfH man is entitled to protection...
...It has developed into a dual party organization which parallels the party organization, duplicates its functions, has its own headquarters, tries to deal direct with party branches and members, and has established its weekly organ...
...Hearst Assailed in CohgreSJ As Enemy of Best Traditions Representative Hildebrandt Exposes Publisher as Bitter Foe of American Liberty and Genuine Progress—Scores His Hp pocrisy...
...But, for Gods tifji and, the sake of the legalized (tfkber in Wall Street—let us nuke sure that big business does not km confidence': "Could anything be more hywcritical, more asinine, more annus ting...
...I therefore ask that this matter lay over until a full meeting of the committee...
...The firstnamed smiled her testimonials for sweet charity or perhaps it was for just hubby and the dear kiddies...
...Future historians will refer to this period as the Grin and Smirk Age...
...Does a female society leader start a campaign to provide pajamas and undies for the Polynesians ? Result, her picture appears in the rotogravures, showing an expansive smile that follows the performance of a generous deed...
...Presentday Communism is the heir of Blanquism and Bakuninism...
...It makes no difference who the subject is or the occasion that calls forth the snapping of the picture: there must be a smile...
...No paper, magazine, movie or billboard is complete without the feature that leads to better things, the smile...
...Before the assembled representatives of the unions began to confer upon the matter, Comrade Lang was given an opportunity to make a statement aa to all the facta in the case...
...Social Democracy is the only force in the world today, organized, disciplined and in the process of constant growth, that has the right to speak in the name of Marxism...
...We now have the spectacle of a member of the N.E.C...
...They have carried on their wrecking operations in the unions during tbe entire period of their existence, and they are trying to break up the unions now...
...The United States, under the 'new deal,' is simply attempting to regulate private industry more strictly without abolishing private capitalism...
...Speaker, Sane Government or 'New Deal' Socialism—Which...
...When, in 1934, all of labor assembled in Madison Square Garden to protest against the slaughter of the Socialists in Vienna and to mourn the martyrs of Austrian fascism, the Communists with their rowdy attacks upon the assembly branded themselves as the worst of hooligans who deserve aa attention on the part of any decent person...
...We print the resolution as coming from an organization representing more than 200,000 organized workers...
...They condemned themselves and placed themselves then under the curse of all Jewish people...
...What matters the plight of the cniaa with ragged coat or tfBM dress...
...eminent to "restore ronfideneaf In Hearst's judgment, it m atfl| .portent for the profiteer, tha'ap^ ploiter, the man who has squeeaai millions aad billions out of tt» common people through J^B prices, inferior goods, and water*) stock to 'retain confidence.' 1MB matters the empty stomach of tat jobless man or woman...
...The present incident has only served to confirm - this fact, as will be observed by the advantage taken of it by the Communists and their apologists...
...The United Hebrew Trades demand that the newspaper the Day eease to poison the air with its Communist flirtations, with its fabricated charges against labor and the Socialist movement...
...However, it is the history of the subject that interests me...
...If there has ever been a more venomous campaign in favor or reaction and against every form of social justice than that now being conducted by William Randolph Hearst in his newspapers, I am not aware of it...
...This is a gain of close to 1,000 over the vote in the last city election...
...Hildebrandt on some of his characterizations or the distinction he makes between "democratic Socialism and Marxian communism...
...In fact, researches have shown that during the somewhat unsettled period some folks have experienced during the past few years, that production has lagged in everything'but the output of smiles, excluding even the contributions of the Roosevelt clan...
...America Must Chose," is the heading of a half-page editorial on the back page of the Washington Herald of April 22...
...Dorothy Dunbar Bromley, Miss Blanche Yurka, Miss Katherine Devereux Blake, Mrs...
...It is they who are responsible for' fascism, which destroys every bit of freedom and sows race hatred...
...The United Hebrew Trades took up the matter upon presentation of several unions that our position, should, be- defined and made known to the tens of thousands of Jewish union members and to the Jewish masses in general...
...What matters the misery of the unfortunate who has Sf home...
...tbe second to meet the expenses connected with getting rid of a succession of husbands, etc., and the physicians to pay blackmail to the German and Austrian Nazi terrorists...
...We fling back every attempt now being made to create opposition to the Forward...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 19
