Broadening Social Vision of Labor Opens New Horizon
Oneal, James
Broadening Social Vision of Labor Opens New Horizon Acceptance of Philosophy of Social Control by A.F.L. Forecasts Probable Drift to a Labor Party After Next November as Capitalist Methods of...
...All this is not due to choice...
...It is likely to finance certain Democrats, mainly in the Eastern States, who are more in accord with the views of the aristocracy' than with the views of their party in general...
...Whsjfc* we came in the Mayflower or aJbx ships, we are now all in tiwJB WiH Irwin, the faenons )eMi|L ist, struck the keynote of the sav sion when he spoke of tnhuieu upon which the United States she prided itself...
...Changing Social Views Our "leaders" have been absorbed with the problem of the road to power...
...As she was -out of town at the time these girls arrived, Sunday evening, the President substituted as host for his wife...
...one a telephone operator...
...no matter what the methods...
...This would be the, "chaos and confusion" which some of our juvenile philosophers think is favorable to the Labor end Socialist movement...
...It is reported that 400,000 of his conscripts will be ordered to remain in Ethiopia as colonists, and that is certain to make the relatives of these young men resentful of this decision, it practically amounts to banishment in a country not suited to the habits of Europeans...
...The most conspicuous are Technocracy, Eqjritartans...
...PERVERSIONS OF DEMOCRACY \3l/HAT is known as ''spoils" in American capitalist ? ? politics is a vulgarized phase of political struggle...
...We have seen in New York State a minority in the Socialist Party use the unorganized Socialist voters to do this very thing and control the membership majority...
...Given the continuance of present economic conditions and trends, sad there is no Indication that they will not continue, there are good reasons for this conjectunpT* The Labor aad Socialist movemenu sre one...
...PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT - began this week in a novel way...
...Whether .we like it or not they are a part of our future...
...Within the past five years movements have appeared with programs intended to pot an end to the depression...
...The most outstanding factors are two First, a steady industrial revival for five or six months, and yet the number of the unemployed remain practically the same...
...Among those who led the discussion were such outstanding Americans as Hon.John G.Winant, chairman of the Social Security Commission and former Governor of New Hampshire...
...It is because of this that the Trot sky ites have been proud to call themselves "Bolshevik Leninists" and their program and policies "Bolshevik Leninism...
...It is today the owner of more than $120,000,000 worth of farm property which it acquired through the Federal Land Banks...
...These mass upheavals ef dissident ideas tow direct tram the decay of ear economic system, aad this decay has also had its effect upon the thought of the trade unions...
...All are delegates to the convention Mrs...
...If be doesn't leave by himself we ought to deport him...
...Here are two conditioning facts that must be the basis of any forecasts made ef future political history...
...Ia other words, we have a permanent army ef outcasts...
...We have missed a great opportunity because the depression has produced abnormal tendencies in the Socialist Party which have given Us incompetent leadership...
...it shast means that we are two §*cnam • the same general workmf daS movement, aad that if eat * crushed the other goes *•* with it...
...There is, therefore, reason for expecting that after the national election next November there will be the beginning of a new political set-up of a labor character in this country...
...Another bad feature of the Ethiopian defeat is that it has materially weakened the prestige of the League' and is likely to induce the Powers to venture into a renewed armament race and to contract special alliances...
...In other words, the Federation s legislative program is more and more of a social character in which it strives for government intervention into the industrial anarchy of capitalism...
...Taw twedM«a,et«ac, The entire world rearms, ssi Uncle Sam keeps pace...
...Both represent the capitalist order, but each has a different approach to the problems presented by the depression...
...This is the issue that faces party members within two,years after the Detroit convention, and we are huge that the real Socialist delegates to the-Cleveland Wvention will settle accounts with those who are capable of ssjgh a maneuver...
...Nazi leaders quietly rejoice over the failure of the League of Nations to check the fascist war against Ethiopia...
...It indicates that there has been a displacement ef many millions of workers for whom capitalism has no use even if industry reaches a stage of normal recovery...
...However, thanks to almost criminal . negligence, the masses have passed us by at a time when we should have about three times the number of members that we now have...
...it is the heritage of the industrial depression...
...Jf sip IB tar are "led" by outsiders, *P union members have not r* Beached the stage of self -gown** action, and it is As willing am self-governing initiative of the organized masses that is uSlbSW sat sheep "led" by outside a* chosen "strategists...
...THIj) WORLD DO MOVE" T'HE depression has transformed the Federal Govern* ment into one of the biggest business concerns in the world, and this gives the big shots of capitalism the shivers...
...He pointed OftX overheated patriots overlook % contribution of the immigrant,w recent American life...
...Roosevelt' tn receiving seven working girls as guests at the White House' during the Convention of the Women's Trade Union League, now being held in Washington...
...Upper Capitalist Polities In the upper range of politics the two parties of capitalism will fight for control of the government...
...Ethiopia is more adapted to serving as a penal colony than for permanent residence even for Italians with their low standard of living...
...Forecasts Probable Drift to a Labor Party After Next November as Capitalist Methods of Meeting Crisis Are Exhausted and Their Futility Recognized — The Task of Socialists...
...The mere fact of their organization for better conditions is proof of this...
...George Vincent...
...It is a home owner and in the real estate business...
...Hysterical Action In the-meantime, the stability of the whole capitalistic order requires that the distressed laboring masses must receive at least minimum food rations...
...The Wisconsin movement will have its first test of stability in the election next November...
...Irwin said, "Mankind lowteasta The impulse to hate the taHeeuvt neighbor began propably with tke gathering of humanity into grama and clans...
...Believe it or not, the Women's Trade Union League received more attention from Mrs...
...If one will compare its present program with that of six or seven years ago he will observe a marked contrast, ¦ The Federation Scats far saaay ef 1 the issues fas the political struggle : far which wa 'Tsghl afane stress the iiprsaeism began b* ISSt...
...Read Lewis said: "At a time when it is difficult to meet the needs of our own citizens, it is little wonder that the alien in the United States is the subject of bitter controversy...
...The organized workers are the most conscious of the underlying population...
...They are significant of a vast undercurrent of unrest and dissatisfaction with the present economic and political conditions in the United 'States...
...This dees aet ssaaa thstW accept all of their views ST •* they s crept ail of ears...
...Townsend's /OJd-Age Pension scheme...
...may participate in the common life of the country, and may contribute to it the best of their own cultural heritage...
...In Wisconsin, the Socialists have established a political federation which includes trade union and farmer organizations and the Progressives...
...Policies of die Powers in the next few weeks will be important for the future of humanity...
...Had we admitted fewer immigrants, there would be morej jobs for the...
...We have passed from a century of immigration to an era of assimilation...
...Eventually, its political methods will be adapted to this new outlook and new goal...
...1 Governor Winant quoted Pm...
...If industry responds to stimulants aad a steady increase ia production follows without reducing the number ef the jobless, then we have aa unusual phenomenon in the history of industrial crises...
...The' general hostility to the foreigner seemed to resolve itself into a program like this: 'Let him go back...
...However, hysterical masses, uninformed of the causes of their misery, see not adapted to intelligent action ta such a situation...
...From Behind the Step...
...Until recently we Americans Ifa been poor and desultory haterim take it out just now OS the aha.' We invited : the alien to ea shores when his labor wa* need** to build eat railroeas, work our mines and man oar indasadesj-We cannot deport the aatiat born citizens of this stock...
...Some of these movements have attracted hundreds of thousands of people, and it is significant that several have offered what their sponsors believe to be something to replace the existing social order...
...Roosevelt at a luncheon, and were entertained at the White House Wednesday afternoon...
...Justin Miller, chairman of the Attorney General's Advisory Council on Crime...
...with his conquest is a mystery...
...Monsignor John A. Ryan, of the Catholic University...
...In recent years several national unions and a number of lesser bodies have been recorded in favor of independent political action...
...We -are traveling ana road sas the "strategists* another, asd m shall let history determine wae» right, confidently awaiting ** verdict...
...These events have enhanced the prestige of fascism in Italy, but not outside of Mussolini's slave state except in Germany, where the...
...may have aa equal opportunity of economic independence...
...There is a saturation point beyond which the Federal Government will invite bankruptcy and risk a program of money inflation, yet it must continue relief because many states and municipalities long ago have reached the and of their resources...
...ties...
...To take an,example: assume that a trade union has organized a large number of workers in an industry and then a law is passed permitting the unorganized to also have a voice in determining the policies, demands and aims of the union...
...An attitude ef tolerance and equal opportunity h much better, he said, than thee policies toward the alien net ;a much in fashion among our rstturous haters which are inflicflsj "wounds that might become sav manent scars...
...Law V order" would step in through the police powers ef tte local, state aad national governments, or seme demagogue would lead them into aa ambush ta defeat Sod disillusion...
...That most of these programs are ill-adapted for the purpose proposed is true, but it is evident that these masses are susceptible to Socialist teaching, aad had oar movement been healthy and not diverted from its normal educational work, we would have made much headway...
...Action called for in the appropriation bill includes: - 1. Increase of naval person*) from 87,000 to 96,500...
...National conceit has MbdaM^a, tions and expreasiohi that mm ble the sinister illogic of imaaftj...
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...The delegates were received by Secretary of Labor, Miss Perkins, in her office at the Labor Department, addressed by Mrs...
...Father tjj| I pleaded for an equal opaart*S| ! for the lawful alien in his...
...Never before in time of peace has at ansa money been poured into machine* of war...
...Public office became a commodity like the output of a factory...
...If fajji going to deport the alien ot Sf| mm down, we should dig up th bones of Michelson, our first Net) Prise winner, of Steimmjtt m electrical wizard, of PoShi 5 great scientist', and send tksa back to Germany and Jugoslav...
...This loot runs into millions, probably billions, of dollars and is more important to most politicians as a real issue than anything else...
...Will Irwin and Maurice Hindus...
...of^tfca,0 "AlhrB"-—Unele^Som Joins the Mad Novel Race —The World Rearms...
...it has investments in business concerns and it has a grip on many banks that are unable to repay loans made to pull them out of the crisis of 1933...
...The whole drift of the changing philosophy of the Federation is in the direction of social control...
...The only result of this maneuver will be to transform the Socialist Party into a party of "Bolshevik \ _•_a_ OS Leninism...
...Professor E. A. Hooten, famed anthropologist of Harvard University...
...Two Roods to Travel If we do not fully agree as J* let it be aoted that there is »*» more agree ment now than at *sf other time in the labor hsrtsiy • this country, while the f»j|FJg contact and agreement accumak* with each passing year...
...It they at vance the .dates far building of aw ships ahead ef schedules is a» Arms Limitation Treaty expirsf December 31, then the Aiasrie* building program goes into MM Secretary of the Navy Saaaas asserts that Great Britain hateready given notice of intention * advance her building schaha^wj' So the race is aa...
...Actually three emigrants are leaving our shores today for every immigrant who enters...
...Class lines will be more sharply drawn and class antagonism will be more apparent...
...Socialists should not brush these movements aside as unimportant...
...Into this situation enters the American Liberty League, which has mobilized large funds to fight every proposal not in accord with the interests of this upper aristocracy...
...2. Expenditure ef 1st aaWss dollars for continuing the const ruction of ships already begun 3. Outlay of forty million deUsn to add 338 airplanes to the prestst air strength of the navy, m 4. No navy yard competitwe wtt private manufacturers of airsUse aad engines...
...He substituted for Mrs...
...Some program must be worked out whereby the five million aliens in this country may learn our language, laws and institutions...
...The sum of est sjfiuea dollars was appropriated bj the House to the Navy Departs** This was added to an sppra> mately equal sum already voted h Congress for army upkeep sad topension...
...The organized workers will have exhausted-the possibilities of old political methods and are likely to occupy more advanced ground...
...Now, that army can be reduced by a drastic reduction in the hours of labor, but tins program will be bitterly fought by the masters of industry and their financial allies...
...They may make some concessions, but it is not likely that these copcessions will be sufficient to absorb more than a few millions of idle workers...
...InUHigent SocUhs?* will .therefore, bath aa a matter ef duty the organized workers sf «aaW try...
...la Defease of the "Alien" Another interesting gathering in Washington was that of the Foreign Language Information Service, where a Strong voice .was raised in defense of "aliens" in our country...
...it brings the bill far av tion defease to mors thai as billion dollars—largest pease tin* total...
...Charging that the alien in the United States has been exploited by selfish political motives , and harrassed by economic fear on the part of American citizens, Mr...
...On the other hand, the Federal expenditures for relief cannot continue forever...
...Thus an instrument of perverted democracy has been used to obtain minority rule...
...What the outcome of this will be cannot be predicted, but if the movement is given a definite labor character and itcan avoid being used by politicians* for their own ends, it is likely to have a future of valuable service to the working masses...
...We should deport Tetsa, Gear* Santyana and Albert e^-rtJ Quoting Dr...
...Read Lewis, director of the Foreign Language Information Service, called a conference of prominent citizens to discuss the problems of immigration, naturalization and assimilation in its broaden terms...
...By James Oneal 1*HE continuance of the industrial depression, has brought a situation in politics more con*, fused than in any period since the decade before the Civil War...
...The world do move...
...There have even been instances of prices fixed for various offices to be distributed by political brokers...
...If this increasing frsteraotsti* and cooperation are to eontiBS* Socialists must 'and will avoid ow policy of the "militant" 0*mP of organizing little groups to* unions to "lead" and to "f°*"" the organised workers...
...The Democratic Party has made concessions to the trade unions and to the working masses in general, while the Republican Party has the support of the upper section of the aristocracy of capital and finance, the section that sees recovery of capitalism in a dlastic curtailment of relief, opposition to...
...The National League of Women Voters reports that 62 per cent of state government jobs consist of "spoils ,^41 Iter cent of municipal jobs are in this category, and 33 per cent are assigned to the Federal Government...
...This indicates that among several million people outside of the Socialist movement there is no longer prejudice in favor of capitalism and none against a proposal to replace it with something new...
...Of the seven young women, three work in textile mills...
...The trade unions must and will fight for shorter hours through strikes snd legislative enactments, but they will be bitterly opposed...
...Senator Long's Share the Wealth, Father Conghlin'.s Social Justice and Dr...
...It will just as impartially finance Ueading Republican candidates who are loyal to the ruling capitalist dynasties and fight some Republican candidates in the West who represent western discontent with capitalism especially ht the farming areas...
...He challenged thsX curacy of statements made he . Senator Reynolds, the Crusaaht and other groups, that there e* seven or eight million aliens is ? country and cited the Coausk si oner of Immigration's testuafn before Congress that there aasjS than five million, aad that mejMt I them are here legally and wail L s here permanently...
...otherwise -they Will not remain quiet and are more likely to seek food and clothing by direct action in one form or another...
...Although the primary system is not tainted by this commodity character, it is too often a perversion of democracy in die name of democracy...
...In the hour of his 'triumph" Mussolini, however, faces a heavily increased debt, and what he is going to do...
...Should such a measure be introduced in a state legislative body it would be fought by the organized workers, and rightly so...
...THE ETHIOPIAN DEFEAT 'T'HE collapse of the Ethiopian defense, followed by --J^tbelooting and rioting in Addis Ababa, marks a dramatic turn in international politics...
...The great mass of immigrants who we have admitted are here to stay...
...dent Coolidge as saying: "Ail a us were once immigrants...
...Even if they discovered the road, they do not have the soldiers to travel it or even enough to keep it repaired Our job has been to educate, train and recruit members, aad the rise of eight dissident organisations dissatisfied with capitalism shows that our opportunities have been great...
...This is a forecast of what will eventually be done...
...Roosevelt than did the convention of the Daughters of the American Revolution...
...One could not conceive of this government invasion of so many forms of private property in a normal period when politicians pay homage to "American individualism.** Yes, Rastus was right...
...In the National Capitol By Benjamin Meiraac Ow W»Hm§Utn Corretpondent...
...And the pink-red-yellow alliance rejoices in this "democratic" decision...
...one a typographical worker and one a former hosiery worker, now having a full-time job as a president of the Birmingham Women's Trade Union League...
...Second, the increasing debt of the Federal Government, largely due to the necessity of providing for the needs of twenty millions of human beings in distress...
...Ia the peat six years the American Federation ef Labor has changed its program...
...Than we grew reflate...
...nomic and social adjustments...
...Here is a contradiction between the need for relief and ability to provide it, merely one ef the many contradictions which make the The Trade Unions Considering the more and more social vision of the trade unions in the field of legislation, a change that is also largely the product of the depression, it is likely that the impact of the depression will push the trade unions to more and more advanced ground...
...Right Rev...
...The Wisconsin Federation Outside of Minnesota the FarmerLabor Party idea has not made much headway, and as we are on the eve of national political conventions it does not appear that there will be a national political organization of this character this year...
...Immigration into the country has practically ceased...
...iflMSteliaer the nneartam ,.~„ r vraamaaks^^-ji^wwanHsinji confused and chaotic political conditions are certain economic facts that are important because they are determining...
...5. Construction ef two new hp> tleships of the largest else, eoetint SO million dollars each, to be atdertakan if— J The "if" depends on action-a" other naval powers...
...Now, it is precisely this Trotsky Communism that is being welcomed into the Socialist Party by Norman Thomas and his ''militants.' They do it in the name of an "inclusive party" but also with the intention to use these dangerous elements, to enforce ''militant' rule of the party...
...social legislation, a balanced budget and reduced taxation of its clique...
...The conditioning factor is necessity, an example of man bong compelled by economic changes to do things that run counter to his convictions...
...A "third party" is not worth striving far...
...Sinclair's Epic, .the Utopian Society...
...A PARTY OF "BOLSHEVIK LENINISM" •T^HE Communism of Leon Trotsky is the uncompro* niising Communism of Trotsky and Lenin in the days when they were the two conspicuous figures in die Russian dictatorship...
...one is a retail clerk...
...Father Ryan said that claims that aliens caused ssajaS of jobs for native-born is not e*> cowardly and unjust, but she shows a bankruptcy of «conoaj, thinking...
...Roosevelt united them to be her guests during their stay in Washington...
...Professor Thorston Selin...
...a party of the laboring masses aad ethers pledged to the reorganization of capitalism on the basis of collective ownership of the powers of production, meantime fighting far every concession that can- be wrested from its opponents, win be worth while...
...native born!* "It is not quite so simple as that...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 19
