Editor's Corner
Editor's Corner —^—— Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise by James Oneal Questions for Norman Thomas JS a letter by Norman Thomas to the New York...
...If you have ** human being has ever been able to learn what they are...
...Now Thomas declares that the opponents of the secessionists are "splitting the party...
...Eva Katzman Dies at 60 Dr...
...lead a weekly discussion on "Socialism and Our Times...
...You are for one thing in public and something els Were your insurrectionists, for one thing at night and another thin...
...That was within their rights...
...And yet you helped to organize such : •ftptt ta the party here...
...Do yon have any convictions or principles at all...
...KINGS Borough Park...
...Louis Hendn wil...
...They explain hat it took the combined efforts f five tree men and a small army f the bank's own staff to incline he tree to the balcony...
...You hav gM*d with every element in the party...
...membership...
...Part...
...The display of a sizable Christias tree as an expression of good •ill to the people of Yorkville has >een a custom of the bank for lany years...
...Rose Goldsmith, is doing excellent work in getting advertise ments for the journal in connection with the 23rd annual ball to be held Saturday...
...March 21...
...If day...
...easy cures for the illness of ou llialfciin civilisation...
...You impeacl •tf honor and of other comrades associated with me when you mak test statement...
...And yet yon call us "opportunists...
...During January, Dr...
...You did not even answer my letter...
...He has since refused tc do so...
...one-third opposed, and one-thir •Mwiy between...
...But to move reconsideration some one who had voted for dissolving the faction would have to make the motion...
...wnocracy, indeed...
...All her life tere she was an active member of he Socialist Party and of various • ther labor organizations...
...The branch, in addition to the individual donations made by more than 20 members present at the Debs Auditorium party meeting, donated $20 to Local New Lork.—Ben Lichtenberg, organizer...
...You impeach our conception of party democracy...
...rising from a specially lade tank filled witn water to r. oint well above the mezzanine oor on toward the tuo of the )fty central dome, thirty-four feet ver ail...
...At the meeting of the C.C.C...
...We can understand them s* human being can understand yeSi...
...You add to the reference to "easy cures" this statement: "It i by deeds that we shall win...
...jiant Christmas Tree In Yorkville Bank A giant Christmas tree has been 2t up in the ciU'-er of t;ie main anking floor cf the Manhattan avings Institution, 154 Ear-t 60th treet...
...le tip and secure the lights...
...We publish this correction but we are compelled to add that nc assurance was given to the party that it was a civil service appointment...
...That brings us again bac to the questions we ask above...
...Finally, do the honorable thing...
...Even a "militant" should report the fact, especially if it is an appointment to a Washington job...
...As a result of your work with this dual organization you hav jjpngftt a split...
...The organ of the bolters brazenly attempts to stigmatize this decision by listing our branch in its shortlived roster of "Anti-Loyalty Branches," a signal honor, as a matter of fact, considering the unsavory record of these new "Loyalty Oath"-makers...
...All comrades are urged to k e e p that night ODen...
...Either that or admit tha 9*M have no information whatever that justifies this statement...
...She was he wife of Dr...
...The trouble with Thomas is that he is the leader of the secessionists whose price for peace in the party is their right to support armed insurrection...
...Try to be a Socialist, for example...
...It .as then drawn by sled to a raiload siding, shipped by flat, open ar to 133rd Street '"and Willis ivenue Bridge, and from thence o the bank...
...Next Monday, Dec...
...You say that we have a desire to bargain "with old part since holders who have jobs to give out...
...hotter...
...The commonest query reach ins le ears of the bank's official- is ow they succeeded in attaching he brilliant star cluster to the ee's distant tip...
...Tickets available at the Rand School office, 7 East 15th St., in advance at $1...
...Editor's Corner —^—— Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise by James Oneal Questions for Norman Thomas JS a letter by Norman Thomas to the New York secessionists he makes the following statement: ^ "We can easily make it dear that we are not splitting the party, ^ are saving it from petty tyrants denying democracy...
...The party members throughout the country want an answer t< these questions...
...Individuals, couples, groups and parties are welcome...
...That is what a man of honor will do when he impeaches the bono •I others...
...This year's tree is he largest of all...
...He has been the supporter of the Communists expelled by Local Buffalo and has voted in the N.E.C...
...we are saving ft from the lawless dictatorship of the old guard—Forward coalition...
...The ethics of decency do not permit circulation of sue" statements...
...insurrection-secessionists you sa...
...eare in the advocacy of armed insurrection...
...to condemn the New Yor...
...Is that Communism or Socialism' Ate yea for it or against it...
...The Issue of Oligarchy _w You know the answer...
...24, after a long ill— >ess...
...SOCIALIST LEAGUE OF FURRIERS'UNION BACKS OFFICIALS Whereas, labor throughout the country has come to the realization that re-employment can only come through the shortening of the hours of the work week, and Whereas, a labor union cannot truly serve as such unless it assures its members the right to their jobs, and , Whereas, labor realizes that capital is responsible for unemployment and should pay for the workers' idleness, and Whereas, the steady rise in the cost of living reduced our minimum pay far below a decent scale of wages...
...Signed: Furriers' Socialist League...
...Joseph Mandelsohn will lead a discussion on Current Events...
...13 authorising the City Executive Committee to take such steps as are necessary to dissolve the organized faction...
...For the sake of the movement, end this artful dodging...
...Midwood Branch...
...Why do you continue to squirt this poison ? Do you hav • # ethical standard at all ? If so, what is it ? The fact is, there is only one party member I know of who has dick ewd with "old party office holders" and he is Norman Thomas...
...The secessionists had the guts to sa that they want the right to advqjste it...
...You assert that we are an "oligarchy because we oppose the imposition of the minority oligarchy over th *"*ty organization...
...usurping its function: sad powers...
...I wrote you asking you to have the decenc to present any evidence supporting that statement to the proper part agencies...
...BRONX Bronx County Ball—The Women's Committee of the Bronx Ball Committee, under the chairmanship of Mrs...
...wery grievance in a common fight for the conditions above enumerated, and be it further Resolved, that the Socialist group in the Furriers' Union will fully support our leadership in every -nove to gain those conditions, and ve call upon all furriers in sympathy with the Socialist group to ;et aside their grievances and work vith might and main to bring ibout humane working conditions n our shops...
...on Dec...
...In that same message to yoj...
...She came to Vmerica in 1892 and graduated rom college in 1905...
...You will get : **rill out of it...
...You once put that into letter to another comrade...
...Try t' be something...
...and 14th Ave...
...The recording secretary, who quit the branch, failed tp bring the minut< book to this meeting, but pledged his word to the assembled com rades, while the meeting was still in sessicm, to surrender it to the branch...
...Is I possible for you to write that two and two make four ? A Point of Honor Then you say something that raises a point of honor and huma decency...
...If you ar far armed insurrection, say so...
...What deeds ? What do you mean ? D you mean insurrectionist deeds ? If not, what deeds do you favor tha we do not...
...25, our branch holds its third annual dance in its clubrooms, 204 East Broadway, featuring Harold Picles and his cucumbers, radio artists, who will furnish the entertainment...
...That 4s a basic rule of parnamentary law...
...Where de yon stand anyway, Norman Thomas...
...Is it because you want to please all of these elements...
...By an overwhelming majority, with but three dissenting votes, our branch ratified the action of our Central Committee delegates in demonstrating their loyalty to the party by not joining the secessionists, and by their action in voting for the abolition of dual organizations...
...State Committee for not reinstating these armed insurrectionists...
...What do you mean...
...The chairman of the Ball Committee is Harry Kavesh...
...Exactly a month ago, according -> M. Frank, florist, this stately 'ova Scotia Balsam was felled eep in the Canadian forest...
...You are for this and for tha' tK&r-fifty for this, one-third against it...
...At the door the admission charge will be SI.25...
...They are tired of your wabbling, tired of your jug gong «| hardware, of china plate and rubber balls, while you walk slack wire and change one disguise after another in bewildering sue cession...
...Name names...
...It is now a secession clique and you are stT want...
...All proceeds will be divided between the People's House and the Rand Playhouse, cultural division of the school...
...Your insurrectionist friends claim to have found an eas...
...You cannot erase it...
...be it therefore Resolved, that the Socialist group in the Furriers' Union fully supports the demands of the 30-hour week, closed shop, unemployment insurance and 25", increase in the wage scale and every point in the demands set forth .to the manufacturers as being" vital in keeping the worker.- and their families in iecent sustenance, and be it further Resolved, that the Socialist group in the Furriers' Union, while not ^in accord with the present administration, and while it may argue md even emphatically disagree vith the present leadership in the Furriers' Union, will set aside its...
...How long woul l*i tolerate an organized clique in the L.I.D...
...Any members of an organization who bolt it split it...
...Eva Katzman, veteran So•ialist and old-time Russian revoutionist, died at her home in New 7ork on Dec...
...I. M. James...
...PARTY NEWS MANHATTAN 4th A. D.-^Saturday evening, Jan...
...Are you ajfainst it in public but for i is private ? If you are against it in private and public, why are yor the leader of the secession insurrectionists and why do you insist tha the Buffalo insurrectionists be readmitted to the Socialist Party...
...A special program and all-star variety show will be featured...
...You "are again on your slack wire juggling hardware, china plat' and rubber balls while you*shift from one mask to another...
...You know that it is a par •J party history...
...Then, rom the top of a high step lader, some one was able to reach New Year's Eve Dance At the Rand School What to do on New Year's Eve has been solved by the Rand School...
...You repeated it in your letter to the Forward...
...Unless one who had changed his mind made the motion it is obvious there would be no change in the original vote...
...that we Socialists are "seekers afteV...
...He know...
...30, in the Borough Park Lyceum, 43rd St...
...insurrectionist a few Stalinite plants, Lovestoneites, Trotskyites and Gitlowites wh are certain to stage a merry shindy now that they have isolated then selves...
...Will you have the manhood to sign your name to th •ewsaUon, bring the accusation before the party, and then presen the reasons and the evidence on which you make the accusation...
...A CORRECTION The New Leader has received a note from Harry T. Smith of Branch Jamaica, which seceded from the Socialist Party, saying that our reference to Jack Karro of that branch having accepted a job in ohe NRA at Washingttn is in error, that he passed a civil service examination and is employed in a purely statistical position in the Labor Department...
...In defiance of parliamentary democracy and of decency they bolted...
...4 they began in a legal manma by moving for a reconsideration of the action on Nov...
...Algernon Le asked you to name names, to bring the accusation into the open an •tsume responsibility for it...
...The secessionists could not find one delegate who had changed his stud, so the motion could not be made...
...Advt...
...The facts are that the "militant" insurrectionists as a dual party machine bolted the party and announced themselves as the City Central Committee...
...Now you pose as a democrat after having violate S„deinocracy of the party...
...Comrade Katzman was born in Messa in 1875, and immediately ipon her graduation from the •ymnasium joined the Social Dem>cratic movement...
...Does anybody know wha rim mean...
...Would you call it democracy for that clique to assum reactions and powers not vested in it by the L.I.D...
...Come for a gay time, refreshments, and costume dance to a tuneful orchestra on the night of December 31...
...Oar answer to Thomas is, If you are for Socialism why do yo support the bolters whose demand is for the right of party member to advocate armed insurrection...
...Tell us who wants to bargan **tfc capitalist politicians...
...in Burnside Manor...
...Why do you insist on writing like a medieval obscurantist, string tag words together that may mean anything or nothing ? Is it becaus four secessionists now have in their midst the R.P.C...
...I am also asking you to do so...
...Wabbling and Juggling In a letter to the secessionists Thomas says, "We are not giving ever the party to Communism' but saving it for Socialism...
...Did yo JW for several years urge Senator Norris, a Republican, to lead th SoeiaBst Party into a political coalition...
...A large forum is being planned...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 52
