Recovery Topic Of Conference at Tamiment Institute
"Recovery" Topic Of Conference at Tamiment Institute Ifrrtan. Flynn McGrady. Waldman. Zaritsky, Lee, and Via deck Among the , Speakers at Fourth Camp Symposium. ^-The Organizing Committee...
...The boat will sail at 9 a. m. lrpm Pier 11, , East River, foot of Wall St...
...At the five sessions consideration will be given to such matters as pump priming, foreign trade as a means of recovery, capital goods in a scheme of recovery, labor'{relations and recovery, and the balancing of the federal budget...
...The list of experts present at the conference will ensure a many-sided and...
...Its author is Devere Allen, who also drafted the new declaration of 1934 which split the party...
...Something must be done immediately, and I am going to propose what I consider the first steps towards a practical solution of the problem and the eventual transformation of our economic system...
...satisfying discussion...
...The new...
...The Saturday evening period will be left free for a popular reviewby Mac Liebman and his company of artists...
...Continued next week) Fred I'm bey, general secretary of the ILGWU, Will speak during the Tamiment institute on Saturday afternoon at the annual memorial services for Morris Hillquit in Camp Tamiraent's Hillquit Grove...
...under'the most favored conditions, every form and type of tangible wealth required far the full satisfaction of their own wants...
...Among the speakers have been jgtfontl labor leaders, United Stat Senators and members of HE$e*> experts from the governfeiat departments and from the agfrersities...
...Tfte changing economic conditions ; are reflected in the topic chosen for i ttkt...
...B. Charney Vladeck, member of the City Council, and Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School...
...at 9:30 a. m. from Pier 6, Hor boken (Lackawanna Ferry), and at 10:30 a. m. from the 132nd St...
...The 1935 conference bad for its topic, "Labor, Industry, fGovernment," and this| topic, variations, was also the centheme of the sessions held in MM and 1937...
...John T. Flynn, journalist and critic of the administration...
...Leon Henderson, Works Progress Administration...
...Samuel McCune Lindsay, Columbia University...
...Tickets', priced at $1 tot adults and 25 cents for children under 12, may be purchased until Saturday at the office of the Neue Volkszeitung, 227 East 84th St, or the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St...
...June 23 to 26 The date will be June 23 to 26, Thursday to Sunday, inclusive...
...All of these conferences have been well attended and have attracted wide jttentfcm in the press...
...This will place private industry on its own footing, employing those necessary to carry on its work at wages comparable with those paid in public industry...
...Prof...
...The Organizing Committee of {be Tamiment Economic and Social ajfcjfote, hi a preliminary angouncement released early this iWek, set the stage for what promgg*lo he the most successful con - (jreBlfc Over held at Camp Tamiment The committee draws attention to the fact that this is the fourth in the series under the ausajeen of the Institute...
...The Neue Voikszeitung, wellknown Social Democratic German language weekly, will hold its yearly outing Decoration Day, Monday, May 30...
...National Secretary Roy Burt's report indicated what has happened since 1936...
...Pursuant to this conception, governments, at present, are spending billions of dollars in the effort to provide some sort of employment for those who have been cast out by private industry...
...The new document omits the statements in the former declaration that brought aboui.the split...
...Adequate discussion of it requires participation by the best experts.to be obtained...
...Among those who will participate1 are the' following: Homer Martin, president of the United Automobile Workers...
...They may also be se- ¦ cured on board the steamer at 11.25 for Rdults and 35 cents fnr children under 12...
...The charters of Oklahoma, California, Minnesota, Indiana and Ohio had been revoked mainly because of the activities of Communists within the party, while due to indifference, inactivity and decline the states of Arkansas, Arizona, Montana, Washington, Vermont, West Virginia and Wyoming were declared unorganized...
...We must not permit our comfort and happiness to be sacrificed by this elusive thing called exchange value and by the selfish and short-sighted desire of our industrial masters to obtain profits at the expense of human happiness and the progress of our nation...
...Since it is generally conceded that every quali- I fled and competent citizen and worker, with ^ proper facilities and material, can produce imt abundance everything or their equivalent valuea,: necessary for his or her comfort and happiness, and if private industry fails to provide these means of wealth production, it becomes the inescapable duty of the government to furnish such facilities, and ' since private industry has, at'*, present, dispensed with the services of ovir 10,000.000 of these workers and will doubtless continue to increase this number, the time for a drastic- and fundamental departure has arrived...
...In other words, they are paid with money borrowed from the bankers and money lender?, which becomes an ever-increasing burden in the form of the interest costs, and must inevitably reach the point of exhaustion...
...The trip will be up the Hudson to Ne%burgh on the steamer "State of Delaware," with a stop-over for several hours at Bear Mountain Park, Provisions made to entertain the passengers include a tenpiece .band, a symphonic orchestra, dancing on the 3,000 square foot dance floor, talkies, a "Christening on the Equator...
...Louis Waldman, labor attorney...
...Wilford I. King, New York University...
...It is a real, terrible, and menacing one, in which the lives and happiness of millions of citizens and workers are involved, and call for prompt, energetic, and effective action, both by the victims of the machine and every well-wisher of this nation- We will have -to establish an economic order in which the production of things necessary for human comtort and happiness may be carried on without limitation or restriction, until the wants of every human being are adequately satisfied...
...It was replete with stories of internal conflicts, revocations of state charters and reorganization of states and locals with Consequent loss of members...
...As there will be no unemployed, and as every "citizen may insist on employment in the public industries, private industries will be compelled to increase the compensation of its employees to the point where they will be able to absorb their full share of the benefits of improved machinery...
...One surprise of the convention was the adoption of a long resolution on war, fascism and international problems which is practically a new declaration of principles...
...and z Punch and Judy show...
...Mordecai Ezeklel, Department of Agriculture...
...There will be five sessions for addresses and discussion...
...It says nothing about "liogus democracy" and nothing about the seizure of power by a minority of Socialists in a period "of chaos and confusion...
...This process cannot continue, as the cost of public work is paid out of the proceeds of bond sales...
...The committee, consisting of lake T. Flynn, Louis Waldman, % Charney Vladeck, Chester M. HfiksV Ben Josephson, Algernon ?•> Bertha H. Ma illy, George BKahd William E. Bohn, anjfifeas that the discussion this jetr Will center about the question: %Xecovery Possible—and How?'' Tto question is now central in the -..., /_ thought of the labor world as well as in business *and government circles...
...A System of Public Industries . - The government must establish a new and comprehensive system of public industry which u-ill provide steady and lucrative employment for every worker not longer required in private industry...
...The products of public industries should not circulate in the channels of private industries , and come into competition with the products • thereof...
...Government and industry have recognized their obligation to the citizen to provide everyone with an opportunity to eartp a livelihood...
...This is boih a moral and legal obligation...
...The situation is critical, and it is not a time for indulging in vague philosophies or suggesting or discussing remote changes...
...In order to provide the initial Junds for the establishment oi public industry, lan excise tax should be levied by the Federal Government on ' the net proceeds of all improved machinery and...
...They opposed the majority which favored affiliation'* with state labor parties only where the latter concede Socialists the "right to run Socialist candidates against any capitalist candidates" endorsed by labo<r parties...
...Prof...
...Camp Tamiment will be more beautiful than ever...
...SP Reports Show Sharp Decline in Party Membership Special to The Sew Leader CHICAGO.—When the depleted ranks' of the Socialist Party met in" Racine, Wis., three weeks ago, with about 150 delegates in attendance, they were told in executive session that the party membership hovered around 3,0uu the first three months this year, that finances were in a deplorable condition, and the party paper was a drag on the organisation and had had no business manager for four months...
...Norman Thomas and Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee were defeated by a narrow vote on a Labor Party resolution...
...j____ A Labor Program to Beat Machinery, Unemployment PART IV Unemployment a Terrible Problem This is not a theoretical nor abstract problem...
...Edward F. McGrady, former Assistant Secretary of Labor...
...Max Zaritsky, president of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers...
...Unemployment a Social Responsibility A change of public attitude toward the unemployed has taken place since the crash of 1929...
...pier, Hudson River...
...This arrangement will allow abundant time for recreation and for informal group discussion, which are the most attractive features of such a gathering...
...Compensation should be accorded these workers out of the proceeds of the public industry in the form of credit tokens to the full extent Of the value of their production...
...These workers may and should produce...
...Phillip Murray, chairman of* the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee...
...dining hall adds greatly to the charm of the place and* will increase the comfort of the conference guests...
...new processes to the extent necessary to give a ? portion of the benefits of improved machinery to •. the workers displaced thereby...
...Another discouragement was that sales of convention stamps to pay expenses of delegates netted only $233, hardly enough to pay convention incidentals...
...It is recognized that the unemployed are victims of a remorseless, economic process, wholly beyond their control, the consequence of which should be borne alike by all...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 22
