Liberty Is in Danger!
Frazer, Robert
By Robert Frazer Liberty Is in Danger! World Unrest and Rise of Fascism Can Be Conquered Only by Labor, Freedom's Champion, Fighting for Social Justice and Peace. I IBERTY is in danger. Justice...
...Ordinary civil liberties, ordinary legal rights, have been wrenched from the people...
...It comes with the promise of change...
...The great unrest of the world today is born of the denial of justice to the common people...
...Every intelligent person knows whet Nazism has done to the German people...
...Smith's...
...Over large areas of Europe it' has been destroyed...
...Only fly-by-night So-eiaUets wUl "faW for tke taranfollowing day regional director of the Federal laeaf* Prohinl, Was forced to re...
...It leaves liberty, it leaves l icence, with the powerful...
...Borah and Lvnching CPEAKJNG of the record-Senator William Borah, who has declared himself in no uncertain terms against any Federal anri -1 y n e h i ng legislation, was greeted by a long picket line of Negroes on the occasion of his speech in Brooklyn...
...Liberty is fragile...
...y&KH~bm urge* insurrection ' [_ Mtjdt eaufgeats tkot overt act* Spsefpfi* way for resurrection A nd "deeds" are dtadliet thaifc Sbap-M eye upon tkot bird...
...j'HMN, k**U excite some parlor -w9»e dote upon a brand new thrill mmdtjfom seen join tke plant* and ^KaTaMday erg, tkot blood must 'Wmem-fiw cetmpu* lads and lib'rals mUgey swell tke gory chorus WfmWtkej in noisy decible...
...It should be noted, however, that the Socialist free trade unions of Germany, whose membership was' only one-fourth of the alleged membership of the Labor Front, spent mere than 100 million marks in 1931 'for benefits alone...
...It is because their demand for justice remains unsatisfied, gees unheeded, that civil tension exists...
...Well, now we're going places...
...Lipsdritx Smith and his sparkling confederates at Washington...
...This and aseee might be perfectly true, bat the public good, as Socialists see it, requires us to look deeper inns shbetantUl facts...
...The German Labor Front is — j amazing organizational featyThe J real task of this huge workers' army will come once the -structure of Hitlerism anoS supenfimposed Nazism cracks and topples over, j On that day the world wia see the' qualities and the real /spirit of | Gl rman organized*tobor 'naw hidden under the brown veneer of 1 Nnzism...
...Those who deride them as the mere shadow of liberty may be left to contrast the condition of the German people, now cheated of such rights, and the British people, still in possession of them...
...They vanished overnight...
...Insufficient as they are, they are yet priceless, both in themselves, and because they are the key to liberties more adequate...
...Because the things which we be-ieve to be ennobling and priceless ire endangered is no reason for caution and timorousness...
...It purchases "unity" by the simple process of crushing dissent by limitless brutality...
...Without peace, life will be torn from millions of simple and guiltless people...
...It was a sotsadsd performance and should net he taken lightly by those whose views are contrary to Mr...
...In its fight against progressive legislation and everything tending to alleviate the lot of the humble man, the Liberty League has spent no less then $389,973.92 during the last year...
...But let us look behind the scenes of the fantastic perfwinahce play* ed By the 65,000,000 supposed rational human beings of Germare...
...Now we know that liberty, once it is won, is not won for ever...
...With*, tke way thing* are being That your method* are too ancient afclwepjOto torie* on the run...
...TPO make liberty, justice and * peace secure for mankind there needs to be stated once igain, with the captivating fresh-less of the early enthusiasts, the :ase for Labor...
...An audacious stand must he made for peace, not because it fc the mere absence of strife, bat be cause it is the essential condition without which reason, kindliness, and progress cannot be achieved...
...pPejrftjss Old Guard- tactics bore gO when you spot a red-flag 1»ae brags he's redder them the The chance* are you have a raver ^Haef^HtWSiag/er e feathered nest...
...For it •* was because men were using their liberty to secure social justice that their liberty was taken from them, and with it their chance of justice...
...Individual liberty, goes Up the cry, meet be subordinated to national unity, Wetemal order, national discipline...
...Britain's imperishable glory lies not in her might or her Empire, but in the fact that it was simple British men, by their deeds, and grave and brilliant British thinkers, by their books^swho demonstrated to the mocfern-^world that nothing gave such quality to life as freedom...
...twef Baron von Neurath of Nasi fdfmeamtej, mod...
...I IBERTY was destroyed in Ger-*"* many and Austria and Italy because the people were beginning to use it...
...IT conies with the challenge that * the old ways must go...
...And for those brave enough to speak their minds and to obey their conscience, it keeps the truncheon, the steel whip, and the prison...
...Liberty in the full sense can be achieved for all people only when economic life is placed upon a basis of co-operation and public service...
...only partial until it is so extended that every men is I free to work, free to live without want, free to be himself at bis best...
...Class inequality, profit as the mainspring of production, social injustice—these fascism would endlessly maintain as the pillars of the State...
...bone...
...The outstanding feature of the congress was, as an old labor observer put ft, "the speakers do not know what they want, but they want it very badly...
...DE ACE is in danger...
...They were beginning to employ their political liberty, to secure a wider freedom—to secure a fair chance in life, to secure a common control in the interests of all in the economic process...
...But then, of course, the gradual rise from the sidewalks of New York to the Governorship of the Empire State and his later carc&r is likely to blunt that ke«n democratic upward surge of which Al Smith spoke so eloquently...
...We have come to regard the liberties we have as normal parts of our lives, as regular and as certain as the morning...
...Seventy-five million marks ($30,-000,000) may look like, a very imposing sum and it is...
...The abrogation of human rights is possible, practicable—unless the people are alert to watch and ready to resist it...
...That is to be admitted, to be claimed...
...WMiam e#s upon that bird...
...JjjjBWPTOUR EYE UPON THAT IjMNeee* Beaker¦ Jailed...
...When a fair share of the world's income goes to those whs labor by hand and brain, when equality of opportunity is a realized fact, the good society, the classless society, win be oorn...
...There is a lesson for us in that disappearance...
...About one-third of this was contributed by the du Pohts...
...The Labor Front, as it stands today, consists of 13 territorial'or State federations, 32 provincial divisions, 852 sections and 14,271 local branches...
...Meat, less to say, the congress was a brilliant show, but it produced nothing else...
...There is tension in Europe, in the Far East, in the Pacific...
...LAUGHTER on ike LEFT • TV, ^nhsppy Worrier^ eV^aeppy Wetvter...
...His was only a fleeting shadow long'after the spirit of a greet classic bard had disappeared...
...Murder, concentration camps and the executioner's axe are matters of common knowledge...
...No service to mankind can be greater at the moment than to emphasize once again the supreme importance of human liberty—of its maintenance no less than its extension...
...Whet price The United Front overture* are booed on tke dulcet theme "come ^tetrwoVjMrtor eaid tke *pider to tke fly...
...nwere circulated far the first time in the history of the Soviet Union...
...But it changes nothing except that it suppresses the right to say that there should be change...
...Dictatorship allows no such right...
...TellB tie with whoml • ou associate ancl { will tell youfl who you are," isl an admirably ex-flfc Jb.M pressed truth|M|| fhich might weH^™^^^^^™ be applied to Al Siegfr...
...Vital questions, sack as wages, working conditions, employment, etc, were deliberately ignored or glossed over in noncommittal speeches...
...A^fo^fc the oney Bo^s Al 8mtth...
...A short time ago a rnngnfiss nf the allpowerful German Labor Front was held in Leipzig...
...Yet when all is said and ione I cannot >. help thinking of fl be simple ruleH which adult |wl pie and life itseLB teach every day Hj o growing gen-l orations...
...It says they must be ended, but it seeks to make them perpetual...
...IUSTICE is in danger...
...Not only have the States failed to prevent these acts, but what is worse, in no case have the guilty parties, undoubtedly known to the local authorities, been brought to justice...
...Just why the Marxian am rim is a mystery, bet it is suspected that the Russian workers might take the slogan ^This reminds us of the transparent, Aesprton of the "Sunday Worker" when it deleted the hammer and^ sickle and "the official from it* mast bead...
...Of the 200 million marks spent in 1936 by the Labor Front, 75 millions went for membership benefits...
...With mis awppiistg jpmWicatiop, we proceed to our immediate tasks...
...For however imperfect our democracy is, it allows at least the right to say freely that it is imperfect...
...The cry is spur whey hynoeHtiral...
...But I have no sympathy with those who deride as nearly worthless the liberties the British people now enjoy...
...Without disrespect to the dead, it might be said that he died long ago...
...Justice ^ is in danger...
...Without liberty and justice, or the protest of them, life is barely worth having for men and wo-men of self-respect and independence...
...the great friend of the people, has spoken...
...By "unity, discipline, order," it means quite simply the suppression of the Labor and Trade Union Movement...
...Centuries of struggle has been necessary to establish them...
...Smith, flower of the East Side and simon-pure product of American democracy and opportunity, must have felt a little em-b?.rrassed in such distinguished company...
...flU^^latpereaBecaw *^ tt/HES some yap yells revolution jSj 4*d brags he's redder than Shout*, "to hell with evolution, Direct action serves us beet," «a/f^;«tW npon that bird...
...Peace is in danger...
...The people have no interest in disorder...
...Leaving aside the question of States' rights: Whet, may we ask the Honorable Senator from Idaho, shall the Federal government do when public order and law observation in the States break down p Wt'do-to'denc^^ to beat oar brasses and to pro^ chum to the world at large that "we are, after ati* better hue** beings...
...The man who likes to survey the record might well look into the eeord of his sponsor, the Liberty League, and the driving forces behind it...
...Al Smith in his denunciation of the New Deal ts "socialistic" is -welcome to his new-found political bedfellows who denounced him until yesterday as "Socialist and a demagogue catering to the instincts of ,the masses...
...Liberty is...
...Maxim Litvinoff djgsojeeeeetae - see Soviet regime iwJwaed aide by side at tke King George funeral is absolutely with.J|^^^ tjb— yoqjean^aay Joe ' ^^^^^Jr^^^w*Terk Hitting the High Spots By Siegfried Lipachitz dramatic and appeals in a sense *tue3S(WorlWi*^ instiiKts of fatr* rtanenL -TfiiiBiiLii ^c^oS^W^SSi niinicsei iliiii enrh a hs|E)taoooev Somehow bele^~nJore hidhsed to hit'the wdafc spots of some af|^|^^P^/':lfxtf>9- **« found in opposite camps...
...Liberty is in danger...
...There were twenty lynehings of Negroes and whites in the United States in 1936 —an increase of five since 1934...
...H Yet this important gathering, held under the thumb of the Naxi masters, revealed something alas...
...P"REE elections, a free press, * freedom of conscience, free assembly, free speech—these are things of greatness not to be spurned...
...B'"™1 ** Although the menu at the Libia j T laajsa dsaner eaBadfor^ast fern ips?^Mr^Sm rtb,' tiTe^ntin ?pabOTd1d had soaes^flhmrinating tilfwerli Unite...
...r- ' Bought With Bones ALITTLE late, but not too late ---The whole world is mourning Kipling's death, so the newspapers say...
...Fascism steals liberty from the ordinary people...
...Other great public benefactors, such as Alfred P Sloan, John J. Raskob and E. T. Weir, president of the National Steel Corporation, fell not far behind...
...The League * has been weakened, largely because of the negativism of the "National" Government...
...It showed a truly imposing edifice of labor organization i em imaajQpej, no less than 23 million members...
...Witness Us song: Walk wide o' the Widow at Windsor, For 'arf of Creation eke own*!, We have brought her the oerne with the sword and tke flame And we have sotted it down with our bones— (Poor beggar*, ff'a blue jcith say...
...Alas, for but a few fleeting moments, he was more than that., He knew who paid the bill, and who were the profiteers...
...Eulogists de-stribe him as the immortal bead of British imperialism...
...It is a reason for sagacious ludacity, for enterprise, for giv-' ing and accepting the signal for advance along the whole front...
...but, in fact, it- bolsters up the old ways...
...Liberty today confronts a menace more substantial than far generations: the menace of fas-cism in all its forms...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 5
