Vladeck, Practical Leader,Socialist Idealist, Dead at 52
Vladeck, Practical Leader,Socialist Idealist, Dead at 52 Life Devoted to Ending Poverty, Wiping Out Slum *^ and scholarly, Baruch Char* ney Vladeck looked neither like one who had been...
...term lasted eight months, but he was seized again in 1905, and this time narrowly escaped - being sent to Siberia...
...He was one of that party's earliest sponsors and was high in its councils from the start...
...He was not active in politics again until the formation of the American Labor Party...
...Dictators today have at their command scientific ?nstramentalities no monarehs and tyrants of the past ever had...
...What do you mean on your shelves?' she asks...
...Vladeck, Practical Leader,Socialist Idealist, Dead at 52 Life Devoted to Ending Poverty, Wiping Out Slum *^ and scholarly, Baruch Char* ney Vladeck looked neither like one who had been through the Russian revolution nor like one who would aspire to the roughand-tumble atmosphere of New York City politics...
...Vladeck was elected president of the American Ort Federation, and he was director of Hias from 1916, and chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee from 1934...
...In the hands of an authoritarian regime it can whip an entire population into hysteria in a few minutes...
...f McNutt, fascist inclined, could only be met in the Democrat* convention by a progressive and laborite who had shown equal power to* stampede a state...
...Vladeck was leader of the "coalition bloc" made up of Fusion and American Labor Party members...
...X. the Martian astronomist, happens to be present...
...There is plenty of reaction against unionism in California yet and this might possibly "upset the dope" and elect M'1"™"""^ Republican Senate Candidate Bancroft, but—once again—the "wis* money" doesn't think so...
...He was a member of the executive committee of the American Civil Liberties Union...
...Pfefe Jews place a sacred text on their door-frames to warn off uncle**' spirits...
...He was saved only by the amnesties granted in that year of revolt...
...And at the same time he moved the hearts of men...
...Candidates Rush to Woo Union Favor (Continued fronir Page Five) landslide vote...
...There is little doubt that his activities in many organizations, cut his life short at a little past middle age...
...In 1915 he edited a twovolume "social anthology" entitled "From the Depths of the Heart," and his earlier essays had been collected in book form...
...With pleasure.' Then I thought I'd better make thiagi clear...
...He bridged W» epochs: the revolutionary underground movement of Tsarist 1stsia and the radical movement in America...
...It was like this," he told me the strange tale...
...Under the revised City Charter he sought a seat in the newly formed City Council in 1937 and won the post...
...I mean just what I said,' I whispered confidentially, fqg instance, there's something called Not Guilty, put out by the Js|* Dewey Commission...
...The daily rations consis^ of a cup of coffee in the morning, one or two cups of soup, and 400 grams (less than 1 pound) of moldy bread...
...Born in the poverty-stricken town of Dookorah, Minsk, Russia, Mr...
...The artist, the revolutionist and the humanitarian bring another concept into the world, supplementing the indices of the statistician and giving added significance to the observations of the scientist...
...The union executives proved more than a match for the experts employed by the railroad corporations...
...RAILROAD WAGES /CONGRATULATIONS to the railroad unions for the victory they have won in the decision of the Emergency Fact-Finding Board that there shall be no reduction of wages on the railways...
...STUDENT OF AMERICA IN Russia Mr...
...4,081.191 INVOLVED IN NLRB'S 17,367 CASES WASHINGTON, D. C—The accumulative record of the National Labor Relations Board of three years of active operation, which ended in October, shows that 4,081,191 workers were involved in the 17,367 unfair labor practice and representation cases filed with the Board during that period, according to a recent statement by the Board...
...Russian mushfl* know charms to keep unfriendly ghosts out of their huts...
...This column, too, lays a wreath upon the ptn »! ™ a brave, kindly, deeply understanding comrade B -Cmsmef Vladeck .bridged two worlds: Russia and America...
...The following item appeared in the Daily Worker on Tuesday, Nov...
...THE PODSNAPPING DIES STARTING out with an investigation of the activities of agents of totalitarian regimes in the United States, including Germany, Italy and Russia, the Congressional committee headed by Chairman Dies has more and more become a political brokerage house for political reaction...
...In 1908, feeling that he was approaching a dead end, he left Russia and landed at Ellis Island...
...The most unbelievable conditions prevail in this camp...
...IN Wisconsin, powerful Labor support by the Milwaukee'unisss * for Governor Phil LaFollette makes his election for a fourth term, a precedent, a strong possibility...
...Other erudite proofs are submitted...
...TWENTY ceuturies ago a haggard Jew, scorned * and hated, walked by the shores of an inland sea and talked to his disciples...
...At present...
...They see it as a collection of facts, as geometrical figures—but the essential force which binds all things together escapes them...
...Olson, however, has taken no c***r position on the plan and it is now expected to be voted partly with Labor help...
...Vladeck voluntarily surrendered the title of "majority leader...
...His only formal education was that which he received at yeshivah, where his devout Jewish parents sent him...
...DY a sympathy born of intuition these men *¦* seek to find the hidden force in life, to pierce the deceptive facade which cold intelligence, unaided by insight, presents to us...
...And if LaFollette should win, the National Progressive» WOoM be ready to launch a national campaign for 1940 .immediately...
...This group eventually lost control of the Council and Mr...
...He spent his first days in this country studying the provisions of the United States Constitution and learning American history...
...May he sleep well...
...He became a student of the life of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War...
...When the City Council met for the first time last January, Mr...
...In 1934 he became a member of the executive committee of the Labor Chest for the Relief and Liberation of Workers of Europe...
...Perhaps, but workers cannot operate them on a thin diet, either...
...If a myth about Mars, despite warnings that it is a fiction, goes over so readily—why not a myth about the monsters called Jews, once the radio is monopolised by a Hitler...
...Downey has brought over to the Democratic side all the "Hs» and Eggers" who have been supporting California's pension f*sj of Thirty Dollar Thursdays...
...And ever since, men have followed this advice but only partially, some being gentle to the point of weakness and others wise to the point of cunning and cupidity...
...They feared that reference to his real name might be overheard by a police spy and his family might suffer...
...Page Dr...
...Th* same kind of solid Labor support is now back of Senator Bftsrt Thomas, in Utah, as a reward for his ball-carrying, on long pass" from Senator "Bob" LaFollette, in the Senate Civil Liberttsf inquiry...
...Finally, after a long significant silence, my friend said: "He lived in such a manner that when he died thousands will feel that they are bereft, as we are tonight...
...Even Hoover ha* now out against that as a bit too raw...
...In 1932 Mr...
...Vladeck had * achieved considerable reputation as an orator and he found he could fill lecture engagements here...
...In Michigan, the Dies Committee hearings, designed as «¦** paign material against Governor Frank Murphy, hav* asw back-fired...
...human suffering and persecution, the post-war years saddened him as the barbaric treatment of socialists, trade unionists, democrats and Jews increased in Europe...
...The "citizens" include Miss Ruth McKenney, Rockwell Kent, Malcom Cowley, Granville Hicks, Stuyveaant Van Veen, Millen Brand, Simon W. Gerson and Sam Wiseman...
...C0n ^?^ladec?c...
...They might <mpceivably grieve her high-toned comrades...
...DALADIER GOV'T RENEWS USE OF DEVIL'S ISLAND PARIS.—Devil's Island, pesthole in the sea off South America, will once more harbor French criminals under a new provision of the Daladier government...
...Moreover, the planet is too near to (or too far from) the sun for the maintenance <rf life...
...After much discutsion that group comet to a collective md complacent decision, namely: that there it no t?fe on Earth...
...Use of the notorious spot as a French prison site was abandoned under the Blum Socialist regime, after the Socialist Party had waged a long campaign to institute modern prison methods in place of incarceration in the deadly climate of the island...
...A few hours after he died a friend and I were walking through the streets of Manhattan...
...He belonged to the National Press Club of Washington, D. C, and the New York Advertising Club...
...There are also a noted chemist, a novelisi, a few eager youngsters...
...A by-product of that curious and fascinating radio disaster, we trust, will be a more conscious recognition of the immense power of the radio in modem life...
...Thus he became the standard bearer of his party in city affairs...
...An imaginary attack by make-believe monsters from Mars, dramatized too convincingly one Sunday evening as a Hallowe'en program, sent thousands of normal Americans scampering wildly for their lives...
...B* made the new land his own—and therefore felt it not only his right but his duty to make that land happier, more decent, more just He was struck down in the performance of that duty...
...It looks h'ke Murphy in Michigan, and the both «** a S*sM Labor Party...
...Since early youth he had dedicated his life to one of service to the working masses, first in the old czarist Russia where to be active was to risk prison, exile or death, and then in the United States where his unusual gifts as a teacher and educator soon drew him into the American Labor and Socialist movements...
...For four years he traveled extensively, lecturing on social,, 'political and economic*subjects and studying America at first hand...
...Thousands of factory workers throughout Great Britain are being taught to man anti-aircraft guns in order to be capable of defending plants in war time...
...There if...
...B. CHARNEY VLADECK *f*HE grim reaper has removed another great Soldier of Human Emancipation...
...It is the lipe fruit of totalitarian regimes and we who stall live outside the barbarian flood owe it to humanity to open our gates to the wanderers and share our bread with them...
...And as we all are today...
...The 1<»» is not only ours, but America's...
...Under Hague's long rule the city has become a dirty center,of rookeries and decayed streets, an economic shambles of human exploitation, political graft and gangsterism...
...For myself I wish, if I can, to capture the essence of the man who is now no longer with us...
...The strain was too much and he was stricken at the age of 52...
...Incidentally, he is committed to a pardon for Tom M<s*<^ Running with Olson is Sheridan Downey, Democratic* candaSSS for the Senate...
...In Vladeck, however, sympathy and wisdom seemed to be evenly balanced and because of this he was able to influence men in both the realm of action and emotion...
...WEIMAR SITE OF NEW NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP LONDON.—A new Nasi concentration camp, Buchenwald, near Weimar, built to accommodate 20,000 prisoners, has just been completed...
...Serving time in a czarist prison, B. Charney Vladeck knew, as few of us know, what it is to yield personal liberty in the struggle to win liberty for all...
...The forcible shipment of thousands of human beings like cattle from one country to another, the stranding of others in a twilight zone between the Czech and German frontiers were men, women and children shiver and hunger in ditches, and the flight of hundreds of thousands from Canton and other Chinese cities before Japanese armies, is a modern crucifixion of humanity...
...There is only one other party necessary to this arrangement if it is to be successful—China—and China may yet bleed the Jap dictatorship to death in the vast interior of that unhappy country...
...It can send them goose-stepping and murdering and ravaging almost at will...
...Vladeck was made general manager...
...Chairman Enochs of the Carriers Conference Committee declares that "You cannot operate railroads on thin air...
...HELP THE REFUGEES *J*HE hideous plight of refugees in Czechoslovakia and China, and the mass deportations of Polish Jews from Germany, are literally appalling in brutality...
...But in Russia Vladeck was as popular a name as John is here and he was called that by his early revolutionary associates...
...If legendary Martians can work so much havoc, imagine what the real snorting creatures of the airs the kind that new sow death in Spain and China, will do to our serves...
...Baruch Charney Vladeck has passed on...
...Prof...
...which demonstrably no organic life can survive...
...DICTATORSHIP OF ASIA JAPAN has announced that she is to be the dictator of Asia...
...Two years after being naturalized he won his first election as a member of the Board of Aldermen, in 1917T He was one of the first members of the Socialist Party to be elected to that body and was re-elected despite a coalition effort to defeat him in 1919...
...He also studied at the Teachers College pf the University of Pennsylvania...
...In 1912 he joined the staff of The Jewish Daily Forward as manager of the Philadelphia branch of that newspaper...
...All this occurs without any declaration of war, for not even Japan admits that it is making war on China, and yet human beings are starved, tortured, robbed, driven into exile or killed...
...The young 1*4 decided very suddenly and very emphatically that My apartment wouldn't be suitable for her friends after all...
...Dies himself belongs to the southern wing of the Democratic Party and is a typical representative of this reactionary clique...
...1VLADECK...
...CjJytnbailiv and ^lHjisdom (An J7?LU Qflan for &ll QThn By CHARLES YALE HARRISON I ET others speak of his achievements, of the political groups to which he belonged, of the committees in whose work he participated...
...And the only two Senators standing a chance of landslide elections are McNutt's man...
...Dripping with blood and dirt, the Jap ruling class concedes a share in the plunder only to Germany and Italy...
...In 1934 Mayor LaGuardia named him a member of the New York City Housing Authority...
...And inevitably the old question is raised: Is there life on the far-off planet Earth ? The matter is argued pro and cob...
...A JERSEY BULLY LOSES *J"HE dictatorship of Mayor Hague of Jersey City has received a blow at the hands of Federal Judge Clark whose decision opens the city to meetings where he and his totalitarian administration and views can be attacked...
...Valeur's speech, the last of a series on the European crisis, will be delivered at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St...
...The scientists in the party take the lead...
...It is also reported that pressure is being brought to induce other "citizens," including Earl Browder, William Zig-zag Foster and Robert Minor, to join this committee and that their resistance is slowly caving in...
...IS There Life on Mars...
...Vladeck early became identified with revolutionary groups...
...In California, William Green sought ts ***¦ the A. F. of L. into support for Governor Merriam, who has <s* support of big business and the fake "farmer" organisations, subsidized by the utilities and the Southern Pacific Railway...
...The attempt of Dies to pin the Bolshevik label on Secretary of Labor Perkins and Governor Murphy of Michigan is a stupid performance...
...Radicalism was in the air then, he saSfc" Mr...
...ILffR- VLADECK was manager "* and director of the Forward Association...
...BRITAIN TRAINS FACTORY WORKERS AS GUNNERS LONDON...
...This is the breakdown of civilization, a moral and intellectual degradation of humanity, and a march back to our shaggy ancestors who lived in caves and fought over bones...
...They show that Earth is enveloped in a queer substance called air, a substance in...
...Housing was one of his interests and he was a director of the Amalgamated Dwellings Corporation and vicepresident of the Amalgamated Housing Corporation, an affiliate, of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...Prospective victim and executioner may yet change places in the bloody drama for which Japanese imperialism is solely responsible...
...Whether this semi-literate bully who has become fat with wealth and power can outwit the Federal Court by some new usurpation remains to be seen...
...He remained the acknowledged leader of the minority, however...
...As thi»J| written, Olson is a favorite in the betting on the Govern^rsw race by two to one...
...They said, among other things, that he was businesslike, that he was shrewd and capable...
...A young l**y who did not know me too well telephoned to ask if she could, m* my penthouse apartment for a party—s fund-raising stunt of som* sort.' I smelled the aroma of the Kremlin, if only because she assured me that the guests would be the very best and most high, toned people...
...The group has discussed politics, unemployment, the Martian New Deal and finally comes to more cosmic considerations...
...And a friend of mine has discovered that thecals* type of precaution is effective against communists...
...However, the political marriage of the unions in Califoraisl* even more complete than in Pennsylvania, and Labor is soHsn backing Culbert Olson, Los Angeles lawyer, who is running • a platform considerably to the left of the New Deal...
...3, on "Russia Facing Western Europe...
...He ss» not an "apologetic alien," shrinking and fearful of offending...
...Some men see life in terms of mass and pattern, looking at it through pragmatic eyes...
...I knew him since my childhood and I think I know the nature of the force which set him apart from other men...
...The paragraph read, "The Communist Party is waging a vicious campaign for an increased Communist vote...
...So I said that before she sends out invitations perhaps sht had better know—well, that I have certain curious objects on wtj shelves . . . not altogether respectable objects...
...ROBERT VALEU R TO SPEAK AT RAND SCHOOL University will address the Rand School Forum at 8:30, Thursday, Nov...
...As for Governor Murphy, the fact that he is a devout Catholic having no' sympathy for Communism is equally irrevelant...
...The sentence should have read a "vigorous" campaign...
...California and Michigan are the hot spots, with Labor suftsii but on the defense...
...Labor, fairly well organized, has made the most of ths g* posure of the Dies Committee "witnesses," and the Middle-flf-**** Roaders are reported showing more and more ingratitude t°T *** effort, sow so apparent, to hornswoggle them...
...he had spent time in Czarist prisons for his revolutionary utterances and he was a member of the ©Id Board of Aldermen years Before he became leader of the,,labor caucus in the new City Council...
...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS PRECAUTION: .Superstitious people even in our civilised midst still -wear amulets against flibbertigibbets...
...10, on "France and Her Allies...
...Eugene Lyons, an authority on Russia and author of "Assignment in Utopia," spoke at the Rand School last Thursday, Nov...
...And there's the latest book of Andre (K Then there's Leon Trotsky's book, The Revolution Betrayed, **J —let me see, yes, there's Assignment in Utopia, snd—' "But I never got to the end of the list...
...In 1918 Mr...
...there are 10,800 prisoners in Buchenwald, consisting of 6,000 political prisoners, 1,800 Jews and 3,000 S.S...
...In case of air raids, they will leave their work for the duration of the attack, and make use of anti-aircraft guns placed on top of the buildings...
...men from Germany and Austria, who were imprisoned because of differences with the Hitler regime...
...The prisoners must work 10 to 12 hours a day at the rock pile, regardless of an individual's physical condition...
...Freud...
...Van Nuys in Indiana, and Senator Bone, who represents nobody but himself, in troubled Washington...
...and S.A...
...To head Bone off, Herbert Hoover spoke in Spokane this weak, but Hoover's influence is of such doubtful force that it is reportai the New York State G.O.P...
...He was an avid reader of poetry and he never lost his early interest in American history...
...Vladeck had this intuitive powesj and all men who came into contact with him responded to it, were warmed and quickened by it...
...A "CITIZENS" CRUSADE IT is reported that "revolutionary circles" are profoundly stirred over the announcement of the organization of a "citizens committee" to support Israel Amter, Communist candidate for Representative at Large...
...After four years in Philedalphia he was transferred to New York as city editor of The Forward...
...Out of this power he helped to build political parties for the working class, he managed a great newspaper, he assisted in the creation of funds for the destitute in Europe, he was responsible to a great measure for the low-rental housing movement in America...
...These are cold tables of fact nearly always without warmth and which lack the essence which makes all things live...
...One of these days someone will write a * story about a group of serious thinkers gathered around a coxy fireplace in a surburban home—on the planet Mara...
...Vladeck did much writing, contributing frequently to The Forward and other Jewish publications...
...Be as gentle as doves," he said, "and as wise as serpents...
...Well, I couldn't refuse the request-without seeming ungracks*, could I? So I said, 'Of course you can have my apartment for a evening...
...Vladeck's parents were Wolf and Broche Horowitz Charney and Charney was his family name...
...Sensitive to...
...But these, standing by themselves, are the virtues of a shopkeeper and his greatness, I know, rested upon attributes more human by far than those which characterize the trader or the party hack...
...rather forcefully suggested that it would not be wise for him to speak for Thomas E. Dewey, a Republican candidate for Governor with such an outward appearance of progressivism and laborism that he has been compared t* reaction's "Trojan Horse...
...view of the mass hysteria we may expect when bombers sai dispensers of poison gas swarm, in due time, over our blessed land...
...This use of a Congressional committee for purposes other than what it was selected to perform, the Podsnappery of Dies who waves aside what he sees and who denies what is obvious to others, is a new low in low reactionary politics...
...DREVIEW: Unwittingly the radio the other day gave us apt...
...Vladeck, who then represented the Fifty-sixth District— Williamsburg—in the Board of Aldermen, was defeated for a third term in 1921...
...tsata and charms that frighten them sway instantaneously...
...They will carry on with their usual jobs in peace and war, taking special courses and spending eight days per year in an army training camp...
...1, 1938: A Correction In an article in Monday's Daily Worker on the election campaign in Massachusetts, signed by Phil Frankfeld, a regrettable error occurred in the last paragraph...
...He was also a director of the Hias Immigrant Bank...
...Crusader, idealist, poet, humanist and lover of human freedom, he has earned the right to sleep with others who have, gone before...
...Vladeck's first prison...
...China may yet be the scene of the greatest pestilence in all history because of the sheer destruction of physical resources and deaths from violence, starvation and disease...
...When he was , 18 years old he waa caught by the police recommending "liberal books" to school children and he was sent to prison...
...The new medievalism, if it engulf* the world, will he a medievalism scientifically equipped, awful in its powers of median- . ized destruction and mechanized propaganda...
...With consummate skill the union chiefs presented a thorough analysis of all data bearing on the problem and answered every contention of the railroads' experts...
...He did journalistic work...
...His personality sunflsSl up the most hopeful elements in American immigrant life...
...It is useless for Miss Perkins to explain that she has refused to act in the Bridges case until the United States Supreme Court has acted on another case that affects the standing of Bridges...
...This is possible for me only by turning away from the friendly but uninspired obituaries and from the official records...
...IF the "wise money" of California is correct, end Olson sai Downey are elected, it will mean the defeat of the and the railroads, which sponsored the initiative referendum **[ signed to curb labor right to strike...
...And so, naturally, after thirty-odd years of labor in America, this sympathy and wisdom built for him an army of devoted companions to whom his death is a cruel blow...
Vol. 21 • November 1938 • No. 45
