Twelve Years of Struggle For Labor and Socialism
Oneal, James
Twelve Years of Struggle For Labor and Socialism Party at Lowest Ebb When the New Leader Was Born Following War-Persecution and Communist Split—Despite Apathy of Boom Years Paper Founded by "Old...
...In view of the subsequent careers of Mac Donald and Snowden, the leading paragraph of Snowden's article is of unusual interest...
...BBf famous painter, Diego RrvBJK leading a group of workers...
...U The Labor Government was in office by the time this first Homier of The New Leader appeared aad MacDonald cabled greetings as the Labor Prime Minister...
...m The ballot of united labor expresses the people's will and : he people's will is me supreme law of a free nation...
...They were busily engaged in hurling bristling manifestoes from buildings calling the masses to "armed insurrection to overthrow' the bourgeois state...
...member of the Foreign Affaire Commission of the Chamber...
...Workers and employers will enjoy, alike their full righto under the law, but no excesses or transgressions of the law will-be allowed...
...If the money, developer of industries, belongs to England, the United States, Spain or even China, then the soul belongs to Rome Over oar country bancs two slaveries: the present- one-, belonging to absentee capital, the spiritual to other men stranger yet "If Laborde assures us in his speech that the work of the revolution should direct itself toward national redemption, toward a Mexican socialism, in tvjurtofiaMrm the nation, and later transform the system that dominates as, it looks rather conflicting, trying to establish in Mexico the doctrines of Russia........1, •-----------Mft- leeks as if * Laborde wishes to convert ear country > into a feudal state of Russia, taking tbeari power away from absentee capital i and absentee religion...
...Large headlines told of a mob that had invaded the offices of the New York Call, the struggle that took place on the stairs and in the hall, of the beating up of young men and women before the mob retreated as our comrades battled with the enraged "patriots...
...They expected to - make large sums out of speculation in real estate and gambling fHa^.UiilVv Brisk Indnstiinl activity, propaganda regarding the "new capitalism," and the general illusions of the period, made the working masses indifferent to the Labor aad Socialist movement...
...again our members were threatened with bodily injury, one Tammany yegg occasionally hinting that tossing the Socialists out of the window would be welcomed by a...
...The stock exchange is stagnant...
...J ffPOf-od^atsTm by stating that the ! BSJting nad fascist tendencies and 1 |w4t those who organised the ConPgss were false leaders...
...I sincerely regret the t political differences which have state that I was not aware of them until now...
...These manifestoes floated from the tops of buildings, from elevated structures, and were scattered in working class quarters by furtive distributors who dodged into basements and hallways, reappearing elsewhere to repeat the performance, Pest-War Cynicism By the year 1924 these Utopians were convalescing...
...The New York Call had become the "New York Leader" on October 1, 1923, under new management and a new policy...
...But you bite conBmr I tinued in the same direction, BB^- I truthful to the teachings of all BBflE I our great masters, from Marx ¦ to Jaures, Liebknechr, Karl ^BBBj...
...He also stated that the labor movement was ready to lend its cooperation to the Government of President Cardenas...
...y When I was among you in America more than thirteen years gap The Daily Call was still living—however with increasing ¦¦Sh B'- financial obatactas...
...The New Leader dees not believe in God-sent "leaders" to whom the rank and file must pay homage...
...The raids were illegal bat the authorities were running amuck...
...It emerged from the ordeal weak in numbers and resources but determined to carry on...
...It was no surprise that the "New York Leader" was a wreck within six weeks...
...Hundreds of heads ware cracked in these raids and workers were thrown into Jail without earthing more charged against them than that they were revolutionaries or suspected of "seditious activities...
...However, it was ailed up with "liberal" ^journalists beaded by Heber Blankenhorn and Norman Thomas...
...The fighting Old Guard "pat the party on the map" in that year and ant-war iDatioas late in 1029 and tat increasing gravity of the industrkl crisis the party began to get (-bearing and the movement slowly It is no exaggeration to say that The New Leader and the fighting Old Guard Socialists of New York contributed more than any other group to preventing the disintegration of the Socialist Party in this pantry...
...I Jfjj^etted B. very much its disappearance, but I since mat time The New Leader ^^^K^fl^^^^^FrfgyBB has been trying to do weekly for ^"^^^ I the cause what The Call had beBBB/ I fore done daily...
...During the World War it was published against tremendous odds...
...i asaa Labor, relsting a pathetic story ef C C4Wa\ttas V4&d OA Pat ft ^^BttaMB*}' (Continued on Page Thirteen) H* w^-MbW^to get^ .^stoTe jESwtthu his plight...
...flr ?^BB^L>Bfl You have lost two magnifiBF ¦ cent apostles of our creed— ¦L I Eugene V. Debs and Morris ¦f^annat^ai I HJklu"- I had the great honor ^E^RV I to count them among my very BE- ¦ dear friends...
...1 In the last issue of the publication CROM, there is an editorial 1 headed "Mexico Re-conquered," ' printed in February, 1930/ It ex- 1 presses the thoughts-aad principles regarding the Mexican situation in the light of the teaching i of the leaders aad the state of ! communism in Mexico as described | by Hernan Laborde, preponderant ; director of the Communist Party, : who has distinguished himself out- ] standingly...
...3& OM Overt Services The labor movement was not inmmtd, youth was enjoying the SWail and psychoanalysis period, JBsnts were studying for "caK" to business and the pro.Smhms, and many Socialists, afP with that "tired feeling" Kt comes of seeing no results, flopped out of the movement...
...l j i iissto.il ^a^aaa*a»teant* OOC8 D#lreyT6 in RTwItl Wrrinie, from bslsw, net try «e haan^eaeaj deem from en high...
...Inevery stale of society, ancient and modern, labor has been exploited.degradedand in subjection...
...We did...
...Comrade Hillquit contributed the leading article to this issue which was given s prominent display...
...The political situation of the country at this time is delicate and to solve the problem there are , two ways: "Either the capitalist dictatorship or the government run ' by the workers,'* he said, and added, "that the labor congress meeting should declare that the purpose ' guiding them toward...
...r-» Hemar...
...Lais M or ones , In a speech delivered, by Luis Mo rones in celebration, of the 10th anniversary of the affiliation^ of the Union of Soap Workers with the C.R.Q.M., he stated, that President Cardenas had publicly decisred at a meeting held in his honor by labor organisations m Orizaba* that his administration would be a labor administration...
...thirty years the eases ex St...
...It believes in a self-governisg movement sf the working mains, free at tbettoh at career ism, ef arrogant snd in tolerant leadership, of intrigues and i maneuvers, of rah-rah and dra, matic publicity...
...That is true within and outside of the Socialist movement today...
...A Big Coiebratt— . . The night after this first number was published the big Debs Auditorium was crowded to the doors with .Socialists at a dinner aad mass meeting to celebrate has event...
...This ¦•«dthat it had become a party \ gf*^ reject the chop suey reejeatoa" of Ameringer and his |2H*"*?* A* *e same time naIsWrL fecretary Senior solemnly "¦"¦v* "charges" Ameringer's « SIIwa bringing against me...
...It had the largest fund the daily ever had one time in its history, about $90,000, and yet it died on November 12...
...r^uM >a, .n...
...This was a serious blow bat others were to follow...
...Liberals" Seattle Paper It was in the presence of such discouraging backgrounds that the first number of The New Leader appeared on January 19, 1924...
...In so fighting it will be i responding to the duty it owes to ' the working masses and to the Socialist movement as well...
...In answer to Laborde, the editorial goes on to say: "If Laborde has spoken about the economic .end it is nothing hew...
...It will yield nothing in this fight and it will carry it on to victory f Raining the Parry William Plampin...
...Bjeit provided us with several Stand new readers the cost of ¦Eoot the unexpired subscripflpyeaa a heavy burden to us...
...These are Che principles and objects of the Socialist Party and we fearlessly proclaimjbem to our fellow men...
...They hare aassaajasi as ; jlgje^ greesives,' dubious liberals' and a motley coiection ef new cults have been spawned by the World War...
...Texas...
...I AM opposed to dictatorship in every form...
...Bw^iBBBBB, others who have/ bum the mod*q!BWr BJ I ern Socialist moverrsent in ¦BjkakdppaaBJ Europe, while Debs and HillB^^aB H quit were trying to awaken the American working class tfWslass consciousness and political wisdom, i- At the present time, while everywhere the movement is wagipg a tremendous battle for political and civil liberties and winning, recently, magnificent battles in France, Spain, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, Belgium and Great Britain, we...
...If the soul belongs to others and our social life belongs to Russia, then we must ask: What is : left...
...Capitalists and financiers are trembling with fright...
...good "patriots...
...I consider myself a mili' tant Socialist, but since the word 1 has come to mean just a loud 1 mouth who wants to kick out ' everybody who doesn't follow his particular line or tits line of his chosen leader, I have changed the word and use aggressive instead.'' njjiifti of Karl Man, Socialist member of the French Chamber of ¦JKjjtw...
...Thjs declaration • BUf received with marked enthusP*3f ^ the delegates...
...No warrants were used...
...Within a few weeks after this disaster Socialist comrades met to plan for a Socialist weekly...
...The...
...i "Mexico is a backward country : as well as semi-colonial," he said...
...The prospectus went on to , say: * ' "Various movements and tadii vidnals with hasy views have hang > ea ts the fringe ef the floors Hit • Party...
...Make Everybody Rich—Industry's New Goal" was the title of a book published in April of that year, one of the authors being a former Socialist and a contributor to the New York Call...
...The Critical Internal Situation In the Mexican Labor Movement By Santiago Iglesia jj^Sn^gican labor movement...
...j For the first time we feel that the large masses or Labor are awakening in your great conticnt...
...Ills;anti-Socialist course finally haatVits.wsy into the National toaftree Conunittee, Indeed, that •say aohnunly listened to a comPWat against The New Leader MB* Terfc "militants" »Meh included the fact that I had seeqTr erittefeed Ameringer...
...The movement had so declined that not more than a half-dozen functioning state organizations existed...
...Ha -wrote: "The wildest political excitement prevail...
...Our Socialist delegation in the City Hail had also faced a savage majority of Tammany members who feared that the rising tide of Socialist sentiment would carry them into merited oblivion...
...They gathered sub*?wPifc for the- "AmericanGajrdpa'' which represented a ehsf stty of the queerist of ideas * IwM the same time insisted on I MjftpV to he heard through The New Leader...
...He emI j*5J|**u'* affirmed that they were 1 EMfeg to organize labor' into a 1 ***pst organization, making it Bwtr of .|he official government **S«hinery as a tool of the govern¦BJ which will continue to control ?aaj exploit the working classes, {fjfg* Ns speech, Diego Rivera ^B**** from the assembly, anWjhcmgr:: that he would - return |**f' "to-speak clearly and to unB^.ths.leaderil...
...Most of oar Socialist weeklies had disappeared and the few that remained maintained a precarious existence...
...When we say that we arc for dictators'hipi we give the capitalist press an opportunity to attack us...
...has no power whatI **er to consider charges brought ¦Pfajahar in one state against ¦HSR*" in another state but ••et^w a constitution among Th^New'^Leader has <*rn4-the Labor and Socialist peer., for thirteen years, never ^pjjg* it...
...In Mexico three billion dollars ¦ mean ten billion pesos of foreign i capital invested in petroleum, in the mines, in the railroads, in electric power planto,i.and it gives to ¦ absentee capital the dominion over the fundamental possession of the nation's economy...
...He strongly criticized two' labor leaders, \%jcente Lombardo Toledono aad .JklfSrexJo Navarrete, exmembers of the Mexican Federation of Labor (OJLO.M...
...This continued to the very eve of the collapse late in 1929...
...It calls upon all workers of the Republic to oppose the labor racket in any form...
...It _«__I -11...
...Centuries of struggle were toi wrest this symbol of freedom: from the mailed clutch of tyranny and place it in the hand of labor as the shield and lance of attack and defence...
...Sweet Seals" This was followed by a state> ment that reads as though it i were written yesterday because of > it* application to present cdndir tions...
...QaJUroJ Calies Position General Calles censured the division existing among labor factions because of radical strikes which, he said, have injured the industrial life of Mexico in recent months...
...delegates from several radical , nSpJB attended the Labor Unifica*>m Congress at Guadalajara, Jal.,^p^n February...
...The working class must be employed by the working class...
...They practiced sabotage, encouraging tea uuntretion of Amennger's «hop sucy into the party while at I^HMjIiBm trying to kill The ||MWWW'Their selection of the ^aaadhflP revealed them as amstears having no sense of the resanehehty that real Socialists save for the movement...
...They had taken the oath and had taken part in the proceedings...
...Aimless and going they knew not where, 'sweet souls' looking for a Messiah, they have looked with compassion en Socialists for » number of years...
...Mexico Re-Coaquered The Mexican Federation of Labor (C.R.O.M...
...As though the Socialists and union men had for many years sacrificed to establish a daily to compete with the capitalist dailies in this field...
...They have ss much to unlearn aad aw much yet to learn—yet they want [ la teach us...
...JBsnte Toiedano...
...War, bloody war, must be ended by the working class...
...Its mailing privilege had been revoked by Postmaster Burleson because of its anti-war policy...
...On December 8, 1923, announce-, meat of the coming publication of The New Leader was sent through, out the country...
...r ., _» ' I have tried to present a brief picture of the Mexican labor situa' tion as it appears from the actions, declarations and words of its leaders...
...k> 'I Oppose Dictatorship' . Some pertinent paragraphs from the writing* and speeches- ef * v . • Eugene Victor Debs...
...I believe that the strikes are a consequence of difficulties between the workers and industry...
...Twelve Years of Struggle For Labor and Socialism Party at Lowest Ebb When the New Leader Was Born Following War-Persecution and Communist Split—Despite Apathy of Boom Years Paper Founded by "Old Guard" Helped Rebuild Shattered Party—Sabotage by Militants and Present National Executive Committee—The Fight for Democratic Socialism Still Going On By James Oneal *j*IE NEW LEADER was [¦^ioonoed "thirteen years ago in a period when the Labor and Socialist movement was on the dechoc The New York Call, the Socialist and Labor daily, made its' appearance in May, 1908, and continued publication into the Fall of 1923...
...The Communists began to give their . main attention to the capture ef the needle trades unions and by 19mbe"h''f the *U b0t WT#dMd a American capitalism, fattening on, the miseries of Europe which required loans and materials to rebuild its economic life, largely \ shattered by the Worid War...
...t And The New Leader will fight 1 on confident of vindication and > victory, confident that the millions ! of organized workers will fight for democracy and against dictator' ship no matter what mask it I wears...
...What dines.ex-President Cities < W* represent in the light of the gJBUs'of the revolution as com- < #sred with the stand taken by j , sfesidenr Cardenas ? Which one t Is the most revolutionary and, < of the masses of die working * b^b^b^b^Lt 9kL ^^^^^ 'jf^ B^B^ia^B^B«ft(^^'^^^ ¦ ^Ls 9bBBBBBBk BB^r -BBB^g...
...The fat* ; cist has always hasten tit ototBMf nist to the noose With the result 1 that it is coiled about the necks el i workers with fascists holding the - end...
...The Rand School of Social Science was raided by the Police Department and the safe was broken and its contents rifted to get evidence of "seditious activities," Then followed the threat of the notorious Lusk laws intended to place all such schools under police espionage...
...It is necessary that we speak ef the spiritual end of the Mexican people...
...I hsve more respect for Upton Sin: clair, who repudiated his Socialism snd frankly turned reformist snd opportunist, than I have for those [ who have no better object than to • ruin the Socialist movement it has • taken years of effort and hardship • to build...
...Child labor must be abolished by the working class...
...So were the official and private "patriots" who had engaged in the brutal orgies mentioned above but the Socialist movement was seriously injured by the attacks of both...
...The purpose of J -tWCongress was to form one solid , iSm under the direction of Mr...
...The five Socialists were unseated without a hearing, without an opportunity to defend themselves...
...It knows that he who plays with the fad of dictatorship i or tolerates it is preparing a noose ! for the working masses...
...Laborde said, "The labor unification now initiated with this . Congress representing the most important organizations of the republic will mean the downfall of reaction when the revolution takes place with the abolition of property by giving the means The Congress adjourned without accomplishing its purpose ef a ' "United Front...
...Ex-President Calles has always been willing to maintain the rights of the working people to organize and to bettor their conditions, socially and-economically, within coni sritutionsl limits...
...It has been advocated by CROM since 1923...
...I Kautskv, Adler, Pablo Igiesias, I Georges Plechanoff, and* many |BBBB...
...It has conegauwyJoaghfe against any comand their funny follies...
...s ' * - _ * '* . Since, the- race was voting there .have been class struggles...
...w^sfteaVJPreant...
...The once vigorous working clsss policy was transformed into a vague "progressive" policy that could not and did not inspire...
...Upton Sinclair was announced as one of the speakers, the novelist who was to later m> low in the footsteps of Snowden and MacDonald but on a smalls* scsle...
...Brutal raids of workers societies and dubs, mainly those of foreign nationalities, were arranged by: the Police Department...
...The Call could not live as a Socialist Party organ but it had a chance as a fighting labor daily and this was to be -its character...
...It has nan to fight reaetf«riw*ide and irst&rsu^rtts-.tt reads to pew*r7KWBWJ!m*pmfidence in the working class, in its capacity to learn, 1» otganlea, » struggle and to effect its own emancipation...
...It was a period of'"chaos sad confusion" such as some of our Utopians think provides a fine opportunity for Socialism...
...Not once did the party, the New York Call or the Rand School lower their colors...
...to reconquer the national ; spirit ander new auspices...
...Outside of that, ! HfcM my purpose to present the picPR of activities in Mexico as the j Mln, themselves, present it...
...He added .that the strikes were causing great Disappointment to capital and grave injury to the community and that these labor leaders were lacking in ethics and in the most elemental respect for the rights of the organization...
...modest salaries which we had been content to receive were abandoned...
...Sweet souls looking for ar Messiah...
...And although it is true that they cause unresVln the country, it te also true that they have been se*>' tied with justice, considering that in the end they will bring welfare to the working class...
...It «ne a stouendnoue task but it wss undertaken with a will and determination that have no parallel in the history of the movement ha this country...
...Morris Hillquit, Judge Janken, Algernon Lee, Mayer London and Adele Schrsiber, than a Socialist mbrahar ef the German Reichstag, ware among the Speakers...
...He also ¦ stated that be¦'felt his "vinculacion" ' Uaffscy), of the- social movement i of the Mexican people more strong* lj iiwa jtikj - .-' l As Chief Executive of the Ne¦ tion, kg declared, "I have rawer ! adrised divisions, which I believe - arwaj« heoe had dismal censei quehces...
...Returning from Europe in May, 1919, the writer obtained a copy of the "New York World" while the boat was coming into the harbor...
...whom he called-leaders of chaos...
...The Mexican Federation believes that the strike la the last resort of a labor organization in the settlement of difficulties .with employers...
...A paper started by Bjy*ian»i office, "The American ¦RT to which Eugene V. Debs jb bla name as editor, also made Rlf~r snd The New Leader Sasksd to take it over...
...Love and-labor will give us the Socialist Republic—the Industrial Democracy—the equal.rights of all men and women, and the emancipotion of all frbm the vicious and debasing thraUdoms of past centuries...
...expect much from our American comrades in the near future, in spite of all the obstacles they have to meet...
...I hope the labor organizations will continue to show their patriotism and wisdom in order that problems which are pending will be solved with'peace and justice...
...It will seek-to inspire Socialists with the , remarkable record of the party in i its position on the World War and i its avoidance of illusions after the , war ended...
...the pprmetlt in New York where a Bttaag Old Guard fought on, Biwihg that the social and ecoasaic illusions could not continue This new burden was no less than taking over, the whole job of raising funds for and managing the national campaign in 1928...
...laWanita The New Leader vHSfc sJew years after rendering this altable service to the AunneWBocialist movement the iiienhm began to sabotage The JW jester...
...Labor has always been the mudsill of the social.fabric—is so now and will be until the class struggle ends in dass .extinction and free society...
...before enemies within >em without the party...
...The first issue of The New Leader carried greetings or articles from Morris Hillquit, 'Bag— V. Debs, John M. Work of ths Milwaukee Leader, Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, Otto Branststter, national Secretary of the Soctafn* Party, Philip Snowden, J. Ramsay Mac Don aid, Robert Smffiie and Richard Wellhead of the British Labor Party, Jean Longuet aad S. Grumbach of the French Socialist Party...
...Again and...
...t The New Leader challenges the principle of dictatorship in the movement and in society...
...The Congress • I *WJared itself from the very befjyng frankly communistic, adfPaating the abolition of the cap- : PW system...
...soared to heights of " prosperity.w A gambling mania swept millions off their feet...
...In- the ensuing years atsfc' by one the few sickly weM$SkmeW>' aP^rfrc^.TiH<2^ •— —vi^^v...
...In fact, the Communists thought so...
...Uk miH U«k< At large ball meetings one could detect police spies aad government agents taking notes of what speakers said...
...then that this-was a brilliant opportunity for the organized labor movement of the country to carry on a program which would crystallize the aspirations for betterment of the labor and peasant population of Mexico...
...PrasJdsat Cordeaoa President Lagaro Cardenas replying to ex-President Calles' crit: icism stated that he was obliged 1 to make a public statement "in view of the serious and unjustified \ situation watch has been developed in the part few days...
...the unification of labor was not to serve in . order to achieve the equilibrium i between capital-and labor but to : achieve the abolition of the cap- „• italist ayatsat...
...The Chief ^xecBtive is resolved to work decisively for the enforcement of the program of the Revolution, without regard for the alarm of representatives of capitalist interests...
...i "This, in good romance, is called a change of masters, "The CROM believes that the na- i Sioaal" movement should direct it- . self .toward a goal strictly Mex- i ican...
...Sir its twelfth anniversary I am pleased to'"^|pH|^|ie^ Tbt' T'New Leader for its fine work for Socialism and Labor in Anaerica under such tremendous difficulties our movement seldom ggets in other countries...
...The big shots were paid much larger salaries and expensive sport writers were employed to serve readers with sport news...
...obtain freedoaj from'Rome and the bour- i geoisie...
...Phrases do not make a revolution...
...is still the oldest ' and strongest organization of bona fide workers in Mexico, It was this ' organization which- brought about 1 the inclusion of Article 123 in the 1 Constitution of Mexico, and has ' continuously fought for the wel- 1 fare of the workers...
...lite*not°des ire to express a per- ' seihl opinion but rather let the ' Mjjtiean* leaders express them- 1 Mm and make known their posi- 1 ¦ - - - ['Ifdo desire at this point to say ' MB the Mexican Federation of { Pelor— CROM — is one of the < i'fossders of the Pan-American Fed- 1 |"Sj«Jon of labor, and its leader, ' |laa Morenes, is vice-president of ' |<a# institution...
...B^BJk...
...However, the struggle with the police, the reactionary Assembly ' aad the Communists was followed by a pessimism in the labor movement and inditerence to Socialism among the masses in general...
...The most exaggerated fears of impending disaster are prevalent...
...Our Socialist Assemblymen were ousted at Albany in 1920 on the ground that they were elected on a platform •'inimical" to the welfare:of the state and nation...
...Within a year or two The New Leader was the only I weekly of its kind in this country with a national circulation and it | carried the burden for the whole , national movement...
...That is what you may call a semi-colonial country, dependent on imperialism...
...Since the accomplishment ¦Ithat important.task there are Hon who had been anticipating "careers," who joined the party sad have been parties to infamous smons, the suspension of the state deists, the suspension of the state fhjrttjr tnd recognizing a specially eflHM machine within the party...
...He declared the country was tired of this labor agitation, especially when it was not justified, and he cited the tramway workers' strike and the telephone workers' strike...
...lbs Mexican Federaton of Labor believes in tile sincerity of the Government in cooperating with the laboring classes to raise their standard of living...
...Laborde, leader of the Communist Party, who was a candidate for President during the last elections and who was defeated by Lazaro Cardenas, delivered an address...
...Since then they have passed out of the picture to play the role of respectable conservatives...
...Morons* felt...
...It was a lucid and InHaiOs ing survey of the international movement, concluding with hesscy good wishes to The New Leader tin its service to the Socialist asoya* ment and the working class, j m . We all knew the difficult teisk ahead as economic conditions- wens, not favorable for the party sad Sha paper...
...For such a task the results will be so much more fruitful if you are able to develop in your fine and active paper the teachings of International Socialism...
...The proceedings read like proceedings of our own National Executive Committee today...
...The reJrg tehseriber but ^within a year ^flftbe years of post-war prosjJTtf weeks often patted without EL paid...
...Funds of the school were diverted from the work of education to the preservation of the school itsstf...
...The Hajiirti became so gloomy that & another burden feu to...
...The*nros pectus declared that "The Now Leader I will fight for the' Socialist Party , without any reservations...
...j Tktmtgh ati xke centuries the -enslaved- toilers have mowd slouH buriSfWy Ttiward their find freedom: > ^— * * * The working, class must be emancipated by the working class...
...It has lived in a period where millions of human beings hare been con*, scripted in the hells of dictatorship and it knows that these hells cannot be reconciled with the human liberation that the So, cialist and Labor movement hah forecast since its organization a i century ago...
...The .fruits of labor must be enjoyed by the working class...
...we N.S.C...
...Leader Vincente Lombardo Tol¦**so made a vehement speech in ¦P*** he spoke on labor matters ALT'* HM>Te emphasis on naBB^^itics advocating that "thsf government should be run by work- - ers...
...The abuse and not the use of it is responsible for its evils...
...Speaker Sweet announced that the Socialist members would have an opportunity later to prove their right to be: seated...
...All this is due to ths imminence of s labor government in office...
...we are for freedom ' and equal rights...
...It was a fine celebration...
Vol. 19 • March 1936 • No. 11
