The Liberal Magazines Art Running True to Form
Lee, Algernon
The Liberal Magazines Art Running True to Form r & no sorprtoe that the Nation and the New Republic nude hot haste to applaud tie action of the majority of the National Executive Committee in...
...Workers get from legislative bodies only what they can force them to yield, and more will be won by representatives of workers fighting in these bodies than by begging favors of the enemy...
...The court is really a Supreme Council of Nine so long as it exercises a veto power, over legislation...
...Often a yellow dog contract is thrown in...
...Dooley gats it, synthesismk all one's conversions and spostasfm by constant iteration of one hee/j felt prayer: "From Social Democracy and front Organized tabor, from Karl Kautsky and from W"j» liam Green, from the boredom oi sober science and the aohunonptset facts of everyday life, good Lent deliver us...
...Out of the breadth ef its cosmopolitan and richly varied racial background the I.L.G.W.TJ...
...Long Island wants higher fares...
...Learn to smite, and now and then throw a kin % your audience...
...NOBLE LANDLORD AND TENANT EVER hear of a tenant asking his landlord to raise his rent...
...Liberty and initiative" do riot concern the party brokers in the one section of society where it is most important...
...Nye read testimony from papers and memoirs of the late Secretary of State Robert Lansing, Col...
...In the roar of united voices, in the mass chant, we shall hear the throb of the power generated by solidarity...
...If the Constitution is their Garment of Protection...
...This is the answer to those who declare that the parties of capitalism take over our proposals and that we should abandon them...
...For many years they hate followed a consistent course—consistent, though by nomeans honest or courageous...
...The tenant asked the landlord ; to raise the rent...
...Let them begin to enter inn) their heritage...
...Senate Dignity in Classical Debate TPHE debate ran in part as fol* lows: Senator Connally (Dem...
...It cannot be otherwise with ruling parties serving I capitalism and the upper ruling classes...
...Here we are advancing-, to make further contribution...
...Our boys laid dowrr their lives snd their health by the million— Mothers and wives and children had to take it...
...The Internationsl Ladies' Garment Workers" Union has already pioneered in pladnt medical science, education, and cultural activities within the reach of its members...
...A little indiscretion of a young Senator, earnest, able and honest, but a little too anxious for front-page headlines, and the craftiness or chicanery of old and experienced politicians may kill the Senate munitions investigation...
...Briefly, the bill provides for payment of the bonus in non-negotiable bonds dated June IS, ISSt...
...They revolve, ft W tlSS^ like ballet dancers of the old school, whirling around OT5 their toes without ever taking a forward step...
...ture without requiring them IE think consecutively or hhpoejm any obligation but that of IK service: second, that of fUtterbw their affectation of superiority ? the plain and plodding Ameriem workers...
...Beginning in the seventies, there was a twenty-years' period when no enforcement machinery was provided and labor legislation was a joke...
...At this point, Nye, who hasn't learned that there are times when you are supposed to shrink from drawing obvious conclusions from your facts, said this was evidence that Wilson falsified to the Senate committee about the secret treaties...
...The "freeman" passes into a corporation barony and is known by a number on the books...
...Footlights rather than footnotes will be our means of education here...
...One speaker declared that, "At the present rate of appropriation it will take twenty years to do the job intended by the legislature" and that a million women still remain to be, covered by the Minimum Wage Law...
...Labor and the Theatre By Mark Starr Educational Director of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union "SPEAKING of dramatic art and ** the theatre under capitalism, ""rnst Toller wrote in the preface if his recent collected edition of ilays, "The few regarded themelves as the lessees of art...
...Such coquetries have "ait stood m the way of a whole «erit* of other "crushes,* new en iPsjB] reform, now on pure-and-simMi pacifism, now on ever new UtojSsI, each of which is really just an «f| Utopia with its whiskers shares off and its hair dyed...
...Commuters hold mass meetings of protest and then vote for capitalism...
...This is an old trick of many corporations and an easy method of reaching into the pockets of victims and taking money which high-hat gentlemen think they might as well have...
...Moreover, the judicial blows are aimed, as a rule, not at ordinary legislation but at basic acts involving fundamental policies...
...a great man, a good man, and a man who when alive had the courage to meet his enemies face to face and eye to eye...
...they ->aid for it and their spirit was rejected in the art of their time...
...There ilte Constitution...
...j It s a great life—if you can afford to pay the rent...
...their struggles and their ideals...
...I would accept the word of Woodrow Wilson rather than that of Balfour and of Seymour and of the Senator from North Dakota put together...
...Here is a region of arrogant bureaucracy, in support of which there is a united front between the two ruling parties...
...In numerous speeches . and addresses and i in his veto message last May, the President round}* condemned such payments in prises pie His general objections are strengthened by the knowledge the the Treasury, even without the burden, must finance an extraordinarily heavy relief program, potting severe strain upon ate federal credit during the coming months Will the President stick by his guns or will he change his miad in this year of the President"!*, campaign...
...which would be non-tranaferj^a, non-assignable and not subject to attachment, levy or seisur...
...Always it is some cotton mill corporation that comes into court Crying out about 'States' Rights" to get protectior from some cotton mill hands— Or some mine corporation, begging protectior against the Union of—miners— Or some chiseling manufacturer, shrieking about "States' Rights" To save him from the little children who want theii parents to earn a living— Or some railroad corporation, invoking "Interstate Commerce" Against some rugged individual whose limbs havt been ruined at a.grade crossing— It is never, the rights of South Carolina or Texas against the Union of Uncle Sam— Always it is the "rights" of some capitalist lawyer* against some Union of Labor...
...Senator Glass (Dem...
...The former pays rent to the latter for using the East River Tunnel and Pennsylvania Station...
...PVTL communications corrupt good manners"— *~* This Constitution seems to have been getting into bad company of late...
...He rings a time clock and receives a brass check...
...Then there has been a long period of half-way measures and "joker" measures with inadequate appropriations t which continues to the present hour...
...Some checker - playing, beerdrinking, back room of some low house is the only place fit for the kind of language which the Senator from North Dakota, the chairman of the committee, this Senator who is going to lead us out toward peace, puts into the Record about a dead man...
...But the judges have been rather reticent about that kind of liberty— Except those judges who have claimed that it is k Unconstitutional...
...Its members must accept the guiding hand of a majority of the nine members of the court...
...Tax dodgers never fail to invoke me Constitution...
...It began with the rise of the corporation kings...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington By Benjamin Meiman Storm in the Senate Over Nye's Accusation That President Woodrow Wilson and His Secretary ef S t a t e, Robert Lansing...
...The history of labor legislation would make an interesting story...
...The theatre must cease to 'je a toy for the diversion of the ,tiff-shirted and bare-backed idle rich to round off their wining and lining...
...Really, gentlemen, there is no quarrel between Republicans and Democrats...
...And which Union...
...One has to cite oniy such cases as the Dred Scott decision fixing the status of Negro slaves and the income tax'decision, among others, to understand that the quality of acts and not their number is the important issue in this controversy...
...Pirouette to your heart's costent, ladies...
...From Anarchism pgk and simple through Anarche^SjS dicalism to Bolshevism is a chanZ of cults which foy them has 2, quired no change of ideas...
...We hope that we are taking a tep today to help change that situation...
...And how they jumped at it...
...We shall see what wt shall see...
...LIBERTY AND INITIATIVE" I^HE concern of Herbert Hoover and others for the preservation of the liberty and initiative of the masses stirs us to the depths...
...Not at all...
...Nor is it any surprise that they falsify the facts in order to make their readers believe that t h i s dictatorial procedure w as justified by what Addison called "necessity, the tyrant's plea...
...Demanding that the committee be permitted to continue* its investigation, Nye said: "The committee is especially anxious to learn why certain companies are permitted to supply potential enemies of the United States with the latest American military inventions and devices...
...THERE is the Constitution— Bulwark of our liberties and Cornerstone of the Union— Protector of State Rights and Guardian of our properties— With all and whatever respect due to the Liberty League— With proper consideration for the National Association of Manufacturers...
...of Virginia: "If it were permissible in the Senate to say that any who would asperse the integrity and veracity of Woodrow Wilson is a coward, if it were permissible to say that his charge is not only malicious but positively mendacious, that I would be glad to say here and elsewhere to any man, whether he be a United States Senator or not, because the charge would be not only destitute of decency but it would be such a shocking exhibition as never has happened in the 35 years I have served in the Congress of the United States...
...They did not dare to raise their voices against it...
...LABOR LEGISLATON AT a conference of the Consumers' League in New York City this week the need of larger funds to enforce wage laws in the state was urged...
...Queer...
...7 It must be fun to be thus aiwayi "going places" without baring-"i* bother about intellectual baggagg...
...one is ksespag i* Saint Upton's chapel, which stone snugly near to H oily wood—and is on, "like s ha spy but riotous K f as Mr...
...of Missouri: "Does the Senator regard it as pulling the grave clothes off any dead man to read the record immutably written and on file in the State Department of his own official pronouncements...
...Just as on the picket'Dne, the workers stick together and ntoS* the employers realize their power, so in the realm of art the members of the great International family are going to show what an enlightened, progressive trade union can do...
...w * * THIS Constitution was not able to protect us from the World War...
...Criminals—big ones—always • pray to the Constitution for protection— Corporation lawyers claim benefits under it that were never dreamed of by its framers— Constitutional provisions written there to protect human persons Are always handy when it comes to finding some refuge for legal persons— While human persons—like the cotton croppers and coal miners— Have learned to "take it" to the inhuman limit from those who could hire lawyers...
...Both accept campaign contributions from the feudal rulers...
...They are ffiia taken...
...The driving wheels of a loee* motive also revolve—but they take a grip on the steel rails of realltf and pull the train ahead...
...important as that is...
...S. Supreme Court nullifying laws of Congress is to cite the fact that of the 24,300 laws enacted by Congress in 146 years, the Court has set aside only 62 acts...
...Wilson Democrats in the Senate denounced that as a ghoulish attack on the late President...
...A labor movement that matters will fling its own banners a the breeze...
...Oh the one hand, they have missed no opportunity to show their sympathy with the Communists, especially in so far as Communism could be played off against the Labor' and Socialist International and against both the Socialist Party and Organized Labor here in the United States...
...The exposure i of all this by Socialists and fighting for real and effective measures are duties that cannot be neglected...
...Falsified" —The Bonus Bill as a Challenge fa'President Roosevelt Our Washington Correspondent T H E desire to keep this country out of war nearly caused a war in the Senate, and its importance cannot be overshadowed even by the passage of the bonus bill...
...After, kow-towing to Saint Ganda one rushes hotfoot to the Kremlii snd burns incense at the sarin* of Saint Lenin—a moment mor% and presto...
...It was raised...
...Many did did not like it, but they had to lump it...
...In these studios workers wtH learn history without headache* and economics without tears...
...Increased rentals increased the deficit and a deficit provides a reason for increasing fares...
...No More Funds "*"""HE immediate result was the * refusal of funds to complete the investigation of the Munitions Committee...
...If not, consider the Long Island Railroad Com- j pany, owned by the Pennsylvania Lines...
...j?j three hare had for them the mm charms—•first, that at catering,* their appetite for vicarious advej...
...The U. S. Supreme Court actually determines the basic character of legislation and Congress becomes a rubber stamp...
...We are not going to enter into controversy with these two magazines...
...Only, don't take yoto> selves so seriously...
...They are running true to form...
...Millions of these "freemen" are coerced into a company union...
...ernment at some designated place, probably th" local postefBee, bet veterans wc Id be encouraged to hold the bonds by a 3 per cent* iS terest rate, payable to the date of redemption...
...The bill was sent back to the louse, which is expected to toss lverboard its own cash payment ilan and accept the Senate subtitute...
...Regarding the storm aroused by Nye in declaring that Wilson and Lansing "falsified" during the World War in regard to their knowledge of secret pacts of the Allies, the Senator said: "There corare some doubtless who feel, for sentimental reasons, that my personal comment on the official acts of two men constitutes sufficient reason for putting' a summary and premature end to the broad constructive work of the committee...
...Each local in addition to the central groups will find hett in these studios a convenient hem* to develop it* talent in mask sal the arts...
...The Liberal Magazines Art Running True to Form r & no sorprtoe that the Nation and the New Republic nude hot haste to applaud tie action of the majority of the National Executive Committee in pretending to "Oft" the Charter of the Socialist Party of New York State and thereby s u m m arily ex- Ielude from the national organization a b o u t one-sixth of its t o t a 1 membership...
...Whose liberties, and whose rights, were being protected then—and now...
...It will have its ft* chorus and cultural organisetan...
...Where was the Constitution during all that mess...
...They will not disturb corporate industry where tliis feudalism thrives...
...THESE famous "States' Rights"— * What State is rising up in its might and demanding, or complainingExcept the State of Talmadge's Georgia...
...As for the American Labor movement, they follow the same line as do the New York Post, the World-Telegram, and on occasion the Hearst papers, sedulously suggesting the false belief that its officials are in the main either ignorant or cowardly or corrupt, AO this i s in the eld tradraon «f what Charney Vladeck the otkm day aptly nicknamed the 'fLufluHB inltUigruzia," Thirty or 2 9 years ago tills sort ef people djSS on Johann Most and Emm* QBE •man...
...j These dear ladies get a graft thrill out of believing that U&f are revolutionists...
...Possiblj also Louisiana...
...locals and membership have valuable contributions to make to the culture of s brave new workers' world...
...HIS Constitution thing must be something * wonderful...
...Sixty-four votes is the maximum necessary to override a veto...
...If the worker invents something, a contract requires that it goes to the corporation...
...President, I assume that the Senator from North Dakota (Mr...
...House, Lord Balfour and Lloyd George that in the spring of 1917, immediately after we entered the war, Wilson was informed of the secret treaties among the Allies which barred them from accepting American ideas as to what the peace settlement ought to be...
...About eleven million Americans have lost their shirts— And this has been going on for about seven years...
...They have not shown even sportsmanlike fairness toward the British Labor Party or the German Social Democracy...
...In the labor theatre the workers will live over again the stirring picket line struggles which created the union and swept away the sweatshop...
...Plays by and for workers will portray their hopes and fears...
...In heir theatres the terrible story of nankind was twisted into empty rifling . . . the tremendous drama if the human passions was reduced o the vitally absorbing question if which woman had betrayed vhich man...
...While doing this, they have safeguarded themselves from being labelled as Communists by occasionally slapping Stalin on the wrist...
...Some of them thought they had a right to a Union, too— They thought they had the liberty to organize as workers...
...This reasoning is fallacious when one remembers that a' judicial blow striking down an act does not strike down that act alone but bars many others that might be enacted...
...They started a regime which Albion W. Small more than thirty years ago declared was reducing workers to "marking time in the lockstep of capital's chain gang...
...Then Nye tactlessly read from Wilson's statement before the Sen-, ate Foreign Relations Committee after the war, when in answer to questions from Borah and Hiram Johnson the President said he did not know of the secret treaties until he arrived in Paris for the peace conference...
...A singing army is a.victorious army...
...It is respectable, it is safe, and it does not I ring the burglar alarm...
...Nye)—who purportedly is pursuing the munitions investigation in behalf of peace—on yesterday wantonly and flagrantly and without any justification whatever insulted the memory of a man who, perhaps, of all men in recent times, devoted his life, his efforts, and practically sacrificed his life in behalf of the cause of peace...
...The dead level is here and has been here for some decades...
...Whose properties ? And, which State has come into Court demanding the protection of its rights ? * * . * PORTY million workers in this nation had little * other property than their jobs— Eleven million of them now look the world in the face—propertyiess...
...The Bonis Bill DAYMENT of the bonus in $50 * government bonds, immediately -edeemable at full value in cash, vas approved by a vote of 74 to 16, the majority carrying sufficient trength to override a Presidental •eto...
...May we respectfully rise to inquire: What liberties...
...On the other hand, while these magazines have frequently taken occasion to praise some individual Socialist, especially if he could be hailed as a "leader," it would be hard to find a single instance of frank and ungrudging approval for anything done by those who still adhere to the ideas of Berger, of Hillquit, and of Debs...
...Higher fares easily lead to higher rentals, another deficit follows and a demand for higher fares is again in order...
...To win them over to our side would be a doubtful gain, even if it were possible...
...They talk a lot about it as though it came down with the Ten Commandments— But it doesn't seem to start any factories Nor build any houses for those who live in the slums— And every time the working people try to get together to do something for themselves They run into something Called "The Constitution...
...Chairman Nye declared his recent revelations of Woodrow Wilson's war-time acts was being used as a "smoke screen to cover a general attack on the committee...
...But now they have found an excuse to choke it off in the name of a dead President, Woodrow Wilson...
...We must use the stage to mock reaction and to interpret Labor's ease to the outside world...
...In fact, it would not surprise some if the pending neutrality legislation were vigorously opposed in further tribute to Woodrow Wilson...
...Probably we are building better than we know...
...Nye declared the committee also is about ready to report on the probable cost of government ownership of munitions plants, adding: "It would be greatly to the financial advantage of certain powerful industrial interests to have this report buried, and the subject forgotten...
...Senator Clark (Dem...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, as chairman of the Senate Munitions Committee, contributed a great deal to the cause of peace by showing what part the munition makers and the international bankers played in getting us into the world war...
...of Texas: "Mr...
...This committee, which is headed by the Senator from North Dakota goes back like a ghoul, like a historical ghoul, and desecrates the sacred resting place of the honored dead...
...A little later Haywood wfc their idol...
...It will enrich a real culture built up by the people rising from below...
...Our Government sunk ten billion dollars in the War, But the bankers got theirs back...
...A SUPREME COUNCIL OF NINE ONE effort to make out a case in favor of the,U...
...vastly larger number may simply be eager to seize upon any weapon and resort to any subterfuge to kill legislation which threatens the bloody profits to be made from war...
...It must become a creative force...
...To get a job he must fill out a blank giving information similar to that collected by the police for a rogues' gallery...
...Aided by others who, while not particularly interested in Wilson, have other equally impelling reasons, they appear to have the votes to end the Nye investigation...
...s J These could be cashed on demand through the Federal Gov...
...The bankers are saying that they knew all along America would get into it...
...They assert that President Roosevelt's policies will reduce us to a dead level of robots ruled by an arrogant bureaucracy...
Vol. 19 • January 1936 • No. 4
