On the Pennsylvania Front
On the Pennsylvania Front 10,000 Miners to Hear Darlington Hoopes tpmJ u the Ham Ittiu WAYNESBURG. — The United Mine Workers of America are arranging a huge demonstration and mass meeting...
...y outside of the Socialist philosophy...
...No one earn...
...Robert Band low and* Julias Zorn, and many others...
...10:15, •'Newspaper rtUild on- the Air," talks...
...They are impatient...
...Perhaps the elders can never fully understand the tragedy because they do not live it...
...Call the Party Office—Kingsley 9873, or send a card to 415 S. 19th Street, and the bundle wSl be called for...
...Mar 23...
...10:13, University or the Air...
...May 18th-19th...
...Jewish Events of Use Week...
...Harry Teyis, business agent of the union, indicated that the organization, with its now well-consolidated forces, is in a position to safeguard the gains made and to secure greater ones in the near future...
...Except for these short periods of idleness, I ha Jiiabg jptj, Spit woman of tie' pre-depression period lived in a normal worlct It will soon be six years that modern youth has lived in an tWrrrfnlt world, a world lacking the normal opportunities the elders knew in nuiiiMi decades...
...I- did not attempt to speak...
...The result of this outrageous persecution, of which these examples are only .types, was that the Western Federation of Miners was almost literally smashed, now surviving as the Mill, Mine and Smelter Workers' Union...
...It is true that capita«sm elwfys has its "reserve army" of the jobless eve* in days of -prosperity,'' bet even making allowance for this, on the whole the worker found work to do...
...The last I have heard of Floaten, he was watchman at a winery in California...
...Lodwig, Mrs...
...University of the Air, "What Next for America...
...Through the joint efforts of the union, the Socialist Party and the Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County, committees were organized to canvass retail consumers and merchants...
...10, "The Food Gambler.'" talk by Estetle Abramson...
...Breokwoad...
...We need badly to shift some of our interest to this Section of the country, In American history all new political . movements have arisen in the West, Features of the Weak on San.—11 a.m., forward (four, music and sketches...
...Interest in the conference has been expressed by all the western states...
...Petrak, Mrs...
...Irish Blackbirds Orchestra...
...The Three Debs," vocal trie...
...It was only the frantic prayers and tears of his wife that prevailed op him to give up his resolution...
...sketch...
...8:15, Edith Friedman, piano...
...However, fa understanding and sympathizing with this mood it is not necessary to yield to it...
...God save the King...
...Everything old has failed...
...Buddock, North Carolina jfofj writes that the entire Inf executive committee will at-f fin* Mountain Region conferI, Howard Kester, outstanding LgAerner who has been on the __f of the Southern Tenant Farm_i Onion for several months, and OSa ffjaw, Southern regional laDr sscretary for the Socialist M have been added to the dis...
...He was deported with the rest of the miners and their friends that the mine-owners wanted to get rid of, and deposited on the plains of Kansas...
...I may be pardoned if I recall my own experience...
...This can only be accomplished by a trained working-class activity...
...There were Eugene and* Theodore Debs...
...Away with it' Youth of Previous Generations JLaORBID resentment is accompanied with impatience to end the endless anxiety that has overwhelmed them...
...Elizabeth Thomas arid Margaret Halle...
...May 18...
...All Socialists who know the history of the movement remember the splendid start we had in Colorado some thirty years ago, which was throttled by the Titan .struggle between the mine-owners and smelter trust, and the mighty Western Federation of Miners...
...Educational Alliance Choral Society...
...From Arthur G. McDowell co*** a story of the convention which carries the following reference to this action: "The convention resolution laid down its principles governing a Farmer-Labor Party commitment by declaring that in the long run no party with a program less than that of the Socialist Party could lead the workers from capitalism to Socialism, but declaring that it was imperative that the mass of workers be disentangled from the two capitalist parties, and to that end the Socialist Party would make genuine concessions in order to win the mass of workers to independent political action...
...Royal Duldi Traveler, Ilendrik de Leejw...
...his prayers...
...Socialism Is Not Dead in Colorado ly Ida Crouch Haxlett Santa Fe, New Mexico...
...Jennie Vsecowltz...
...8:30, Cecil Burrows, baritone...
...Most of them are unknown to the present generation of Socialists and yet they were men and women of conspicuous ability...
...Ben Han ford and Alexander Jonas...
...Metropolitan String Ensemble...
...Youth wants "action," not knowledge...
...50.39 Baltimore Am, eta George H. Goebel of aW-eemey as the speaker...
...Socialist repaaaaatfve from Berks County, ¦href the amendments when he atrSSf that the original bill proffssi fa* ose registrar at each sabar pace, and that lone official •is to be appointed by the County r _ GeeWssWest Philadelphia fh» »a» Philadelphia Branch ¦** etafe meeting Friday, May *. *t Arcade Hall...
...j. A Former Struggle In Telluride, the great gold camp, A. H. Floaten, a merchant who was an ardent Socialist and whose family was' of the highest standing, was put on tire deporting train, in the dead of winter, without his shoes, and landed on top of the zero-cold divide in snow a dozen feet deep, with the rest of his comrades, and with the warning not to return...
...His Jpe wffl be "Huey Long and WlpCoughlin — Promise cr aaajpT* No admission charge...
...Henry Jager m "What's the Shooting All Atooui '. Thursday uigbt...
...People of the older generation never faced what youth faces today...
...Gotham Male Quartet...
...Marx was the hardest for us...
...Swallowed up with them are the old and middle-aged, the physician and technician, the teacher and the laborer, the wise and the foolish—the useful men and women who are deprived Of the opportunity to be useful...
...vocal quartet...
...Not because I woe timid but because I knew that I did not know...
...Cedis Reiss...
...The Metropolitan Theatre was rented for him by his friends, and he continued his noble work under the name of the People's Church...
...Labor Allege, talk...
...Auspices...
...This reveals the basis of his thought...
...Thompson, Socialist member of the School Board...
...10:13...
...the Views of Morris Hillquit LAST week's issue of the party dual organ in New York carried a reprint of the letter by Vera HiRquit that appeared in this column two weeks ago on the views of Morris Hillquit regarding democracy and dictatorship...
...Now printed in Canada on Canadian paper by Canadian Workmen at Canadian union rates...
...That settled him with his wealthy and aristocratic congregation...
...New Jersey Newark.—Samuel A. DeWTtt, at' 1083 Broad St...
...The other speakers were Alfred Lebarroni and Louis Lesly of the United Mine Workers, Jacob Hemricks of the Flat Glass Workers' Union, Peter Proekerty, who _sbnealed for organization and education among the young workers...
...Expression of the creative urge was an experience in their lives...
...this Saturday night...
...The organized unemployed have again demostrated their solidarity with the organized workers when they assumed the responsibility of picketing retail stores which refused to cancel their dairy orders with the company...
...10:45, Guy Harris, -imps Wad.—8:1...
...The demonstration, the largest ever held by Labor in this community, was proceeded by a parade...
...10 i3Q, Negro People's Theatre with GreenPastures Choir in scenes from plays of Negro life...
...The Canadian comrades have been long using the edition of the book published by the Socialist Party of the United States...
...symposium...
...The haunting fears and brooding of today's youth, the anxiety for tomorrow, the dull existence which idleness imposes, make for a morbid psychology of resentment against everything old, afl^MeT the old society that has no place for them, against the elder statesmen, thinkers, teachers, scientists, philosophies, etc...
...Man —8 am., "Starting the Day Right," Jacob S. Uat...
...Norman Thomas, in commenting on this letter...
...But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth Unhurt amid the war of elements, The wreck of matter and the crank of worlds...
...GODSAVETHEKiyG!] Fred Henderson, returning to England after a long and successful lecture tour of Canada and the United States, finds that his splendid propaganda book, "The Case for Socialism," has been officially banned from Canada by the Dominion government...
...8:3S, "The Virginians...
...Frank Bonn,, author, talk...
...of Tennessee will —j m Knoxville the same week^ to take part in the conference, H eaty Stockton, secretary, annjgHfinnrt Flayers Appear fgf Pittsburgh Workers fff TSBURGH — Sponsored by a» Socialist Party and the UnemMjui Citizens' League of Allegata County, the Brook-wood Labor ajeant will present a program of oaa, nuws recitation and songs olpadsy evening...
...10, Chicago Opera Company...
...Myron Reed, Eugene V. Debs and Edward Bellamy were, old cronies...
...ALTHOUGH Addison wrote these words a long time ago, before such a mystifying term as the class struggle was ever imagined or the revolt of servants against their "uppers" was considered an invitation to summary execution, their ringing challenge appears fittingly to apply to the persistence of the Socialist movement where its seeds have once been implanted in the submerged souls of the laboring masses...
...They cannot break through prison walls to a world of freedom outside because the whole of society imprisons them...
...The Young People's Socialist League assisted by c ontacting the children who patronize the school cafeterias...
...This was a normal and healthy deve§ipment in our movement...
...Workers may be killed, robbed, beaten, turned out into the cold and the storm, their children starved and murdered—but SOCIALISM, the promise of redress and justice by the laws of the universe, stands proudly on its unalterable logic that the rulers cannot steal all there is and feed the people, too, and that a collective society is on the way...
...Cathcart, Secretary...
...We youngsters learned from them and...
...TWO SOCIALIST PARTY REGIONAL CONFERENCES IN THE SOUTH f eSa taw Southern organization j-Zeaces of the Socialist Party -^Lgjag enthusiastically backed, fgaai Plempin, state secretary jftSM, pledred a carload of ILgav for the New Orleans cou2ge...
...However, the convention resolution declared no political movement could be recognized as a labor party that aid not have at its heart the bulk of the organised labor movement...
...However, many of the younger generation discount study, knowledge and experience...
...Joining the movement in 1897, three yean later I was a delegate to the national convention of the old S.D.P...
...School, Clinton Place and Hawthorne Are...
...Then to the Unity Convention in 1901...
...The real grievance against Floaten was that since the banks and most of the business men had joined the mine-owners against the demands of the miners, the union withdrew its funds from all such hostile organizations and placed them with Floaten...
...Disaster has come to the older generation as well, but the elders at least lived in a more normal world when they were young...
...The workers are, and always have been, the tremendous, vast majority...
...They receive an education and leave school—for what* No human being gives an answer...
...Most religious and atjnl opposition to violence has no revolutionary aim at all aad in a period of acute labor struggle it is more likely to be ranged ag* ers than for them...
...And they are not alone...
...The National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party has appointed a Western Committee to supervise special work in the West, with James D. Graham, president of the Montana State Federation of Labor and member of the N.E.C., as chairman...
...Charlotte TonJtazy ; 8:30, Don Avion'* Orchestra...
...Labor Join* Party in Big Maty Day Celebration CURWENSVTLLE.—Nine Labor organizations, among them the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the Brick and Clay Workers, Leather Workers' International Union, the United Mine Workers of America, and the Socialist Party, joined in a May Day mass meeting...
...When he reached Denver there was blood on his shirt and his feet were frozen...
...Pittsburgh, Pa...
...When Mr...
...The" Thomas implication is that Comrade HMkrert's views ace opposed to ours...
...arl Peuli, the County organizer, and Sarah Limbach, State Secretary...
...Youth cannot escape, youth cannot be emancipated by Itself...
...The strike against the Rieck-McJunkin Dairy Company, a subsidiary of the National Dairy Company, was settled when the men were guaranteed a wage increase ranging from 5 to 10%, a decrease in hours, from one to two weeks' vacation with pay, and a guaranteed minimum wage of $145 per month, plus commission...
...Thus' in ! attempting to range Comrade Hillquit against us and for himself, Norman Thomas manages to gat complete...
...A successful May Day Festival was held and funds ratted for Local Philadelphia...
...But to get power they must know how and why...
...Victor L. Berger and Fred Heath...
...The main action taken referred to future commitments regarding a Farmer!iMPe'j||OT...
...He was obliged to yield big pastorate...
...As goon as a copy of the resolution mentioned can be obtained it will be published...
...Ray Johnson of the Irvona Branch of the Socialist Party also spoke...
...managed to get on three sides of the issue—for, against, and a fiftyfifty position between both, with a final reference to "romantic perliamerftarism" which suggests a fourth position...
...e • Dairy Workers Win Strike PITTSBURGH...
...Henderson reported that the comrades publishing the Alberta Labor News threaten to publish a Canadian edition of the book with a jacket bearing the following .words: "This is the book on Socialism which the Government of Canada refused permission to import into this country...
...Fri.—8:1...
...10, League for Industrial Democracy presentation, sketch...
...The United Mine Workers of America are arranging a huge demonstration and mass meeting for Saturday, June 15th, at which Darlington Hoopes, Socialist member of the Pennsylvania Legislature, is scheduled to speak...
...How often have we not seen the new member of only a few months or at best a year or two sneaking ami an air of final authority...
...we supplemented what we learned by intensive reading of everything we could get...
...Socialists are not concerned with the religions and ethical sanctions against violence...
...tVssPsSskesf *nsv* assssssVOsssssssssrtssst ^B> ^sstsssssswsvaaassv wssssssss- as sk • MS Mir coiwintion in decatur SOCIALIST OF ILLINOIS HOLD THEIR CONVENTION IN DECATUR THE Socialist Party state eon1 vention of Illinois met in Decatur last Sunday, where the International Ladies' Garment Workers have been engaged in a 12-week* strike against hard-boiled dress manufacturers...
...H. Goebel...
...from all indications there will lag esfseity audience to greet tile lobe Players who have a large ad ejftusiastic following in the agaangh district...
...Their chairman, Robert Lieberman, was assigned by them to assist the strike commrttee...
...Editor's Corner review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise By James Oneal The Tragedy of Youth YOUNG people come to maturity ia this depression age under * circumstances unlike those of any previous generation...
...Complex as the problems of capitalism were in the days before the World War, they were simple compared with what Socialists face today...
...Fundamentally the Socialist movememnt is a movement for political power...
...With some new members a long apprenticeship in study, acquiring knowledge of Marxism, of the economic evolution of society, of the history of the labor and Socialist movement here and abroad is a waste of time...
...When he got Word that a force of the "respectable" outlaws was coming to kidnap him, Floaten took what weapons he had and locked himself in a closet at the end of his* front hall, resolved to sell his liberty only with his life...
...Seven years had passed since I joined the movement and yet in that convention I also refrained from speaking...
...So did the youngsters in general...
...Tidbits may be obtained at the efts* of the Unemployed Citizens' \mfe% First Avenue, or gt aahflint Party headquarters, ttfSJHreet, Pittsburgh, Pa...
...e New Branches Chartered PITTSBTJRGH.—The State Office reports that the following branches have been chartered: Du Bois—William Corp, Secretary...
...The steps of Weyneaburg College will be used for a platform...
...Mississippi Jj^^afcama will also be repre^ej...
...He who does not understand or sympathise wftb tSs /eangfci generation because of its terrible plight is likely to beeoni* tt abawrnial in his reaction to youth as youth is abnormal in its reaction to everything that has come down from the pre-war period...
...I did not attempt to speak there...
...The fact is that in the extraordinary crisis' that hag come to humanity all over the world intensive study is more essential then ever before...
...Many assume that these are net eSSsuYtialS...
...IS, Gertrude Well Klein, New Xeader news rervtew...
...How the owners and their friends I organized in Ku Klux K lan fashion and drove and deported not only the strikers but also those of social standing out of the towns and camps...
...3:30, String Ensemble...
...leaders of the Knoxville Mfj-f May 25th-26th...
...After some time he got back and strode up Bennett Avenue, a walking arsenal—with the word sent forth that anyone who wanted to fntejffere with him 'might as well' say...
...W. Ervtn...
...The principal speaker was Chas...
...An Associated Press story reported that under the name of "Federated Party- ft was hoped to attract voters "who have been prejudiced against our party by its name alone" However, the resolution regarding this matter Was not cited...
...We turned to Marx and gave up the job only to return to him again, repeating this experience over and over again for years until Marx became indispensable for us...
...8:15...
...Comrade Thomas also declares that "There* is a sincere religions or ethical position against violence which should be respected...
...It is otherwise today...
...Is this natural...
...At the conclusion of the dinner, arranged by a committee consisting of Mrs...
...10:30...
...It is not Socialist but religions and ethical...
...Current Scene in Washington...
...8:43...
...they hsve a philosophy of their own, s philosophy based upon the interests of the working masses and which aims at the abolition of capitalism itself...
...g p.m...
...s He who discounts the need of a long apprentteeship in study and acquiring experience today simply unfits himsehT to serve the movement as he should serve it in the years to come...
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...There were weeks, sometimes months, of idleness due to sickness or accident or a temporary stagnation, tut tie worker never felt that he warn shut out of the.world of employment...
...Some even sneer at study, knowledge and experience, and this is all too evident in the Socialist Party...
...Crushing Rebellion Down in Denver Myron Reed, the greatest of the radical preachers the West has known, whose very memory is revered, also fell a victim to the fury of the men dwelling in the magnificent mansions the miners had risked their lives to make possible...
...Then to the convention of 1904...
...8:13...
...Toes.—8:13 p.m., Frank Bonn, author and journalist, talk...
...e)a 8J5.C...
...No other young generation before has had to face this tragic experience...
...Prior to the depression, the young man and woman entered trades aad professions after they left school...
...Thar..—8:13 p.m...
...How often have We not observed the smirk and the sneer at one who has given years of service to the movement...
...Brubaker, Secretary...
...Hawthorn Ave...
...10:30, Social Drama- by the Theatre Union...
...In Cripple Creek there was a lawyer of brilliant intellect who was employed by the miners' union...
...10:13, "The National tabor Scene/' University of thr Air...
...The women are now concentrating their efforts on a rummage sale the first week in June, and the cooperation of all the comrades and friends is requested...
...10:30, Vertical Hour...
...Side Br...
...All which is by way of introduction to the announcement that the western states are expecting to hold a conference next July in Denver...
...At this stage we began to have some confidence in ourselves and we began to speak in party councils.with some confidence in our views...
...But it is not a prison that baa swallowed up our youth...
...That resolution concluded with a statement in support of an "open declaration if remittance by all means available" and this position is good Socialist doctrine...
...p.m...
...Funds and clothing have been gathered and successful propaganda meetings held for the sharecroppers of Arkansas...
...10:43, Thr Charity Musical Clock...
...This attitude was unknown to the older generation when they as young men and women joined the movement...
...It is, as natural as the man who Has been caged for years sag whs tries to escape from his prison cell...
...Youth is shut out of modern civilization...
...Refresh infills, etc...
...PluTadetphia Women's PHILADELPHIA, -qjjfr Women's Committee of Local Philadelphia has mapped out a very ambitious program for the coming months, under the chairmanship of Rose Krouse...
...Jim Carey and William Mailly, Morris Hillquit and Herman Schiuter...
...The future of the movement is" in the keeping of the younger generation, but it cannot equip itself for its task unless it telleer* the example set' by the youth- of alt the generations before...
...On the contrary, one will find the same point of view iri our resolution on "Internationalism, Socialism and Democracy" which we presented to the Detroit convention...
...Its future is bound up with the fate of all the workers of whatever age...
...Local 205 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Chauffeurs conducted the strike, which was one of the most successful largely because of their activities with which the consumers' assistance was secured...
...Idleness is their fate in a period when the creative faculties yearn for expression...
...Sat.—6 p.m...
...May 27th, 8:15 at the Moose Temple, G28 f$d Ave...
...8:30, Chicago Opera Company...
...It is expected that the attendance drawn from all the southwestern mining counties will reach 10,000 and will be the largest demonstration held by labor in this district...
...The task of Socialist Youth ijACK of it, of course, is the changed world of capital ism which has ° brought the greatest tragedy in all history to the yotnigei gene rat ion...
...TARENTUM.—Close to 100 Socialists gathered at a dinner in honor of new members and to initiate the summer Party activities of the Tarentum Branch...
...Clearfield—PI...
...Tentative plans have been made to hold a picnic July -14...
...Tommy Morgan and George' Leonard...
...Roy Milheim and James Faucett, the toastmaster introduced the new branch organizer, Michael Petrak, whose program of activities was enthusiastically received...
...8:30, Sigmund Spaeth, "The Talent Dejrrtlve...
...Knowledge vs...
...Rockton — Wm...
...least* Socialists Name §0 Election Registrars READTNG.—Reading Socialists aV BBB»e 60 election registrars, adenf of 42, as a result of amendserti t» the permanent registia$a ipr which was passed by the sheaf aad is awaiting action by IteftBfton Hoopes...
...One has only to mention this phenomenon to recognize it in the party...
...Even unskilled workers found employment...
...They want action now, action to end the nightmare of anxiety and insecurity that overwhelm them...
...Also August Claessens aad Geo...
...Reed entered his pulpit the night of the strike—he was pastor in the swank church in Denver-— his first words were: "My heart is with the miners on Bull Hill tonight...
...Wherever the young man aad woman may turn, a blank wall towers before them...
...chairman...
...Action IN the movement were members who were older, who had studied ' more and had more experience than I, and I had a profound respect for them...
Vol. 18 • May 1935 • No. 20
