Carey, Chase, Socialist Party Leaders, Dead
Oneal, James
Carey, Chase, Socialist Party Leaders, Dead By JAMES ONEAL The desth of James F. Carey, 71, and of John C. Chase, 69, in recent weeks recorded Ike passing of two ef the meat...
...Tiring of the continuous grind of party service, he retired to a farm in Maine about 30 years ago but always retained hit interest in tha movement...
...In 1897 Eugene V. Debs, Victor L. Berger and others organised the remnants of the American Labor Union and some isolated Socialist groups into the Social Democracy, but within a year the force advocates were working to capture it...
...The next day the ! Socialists were defeated by a votc of 53 to 37 on an important issue of principle, their opponents dragging out the debate until 2:30 in the morning in order to tire out the Socialists and obtain control...
...Jim Carey became eae ef ban party's moat effective lecturers...
...Issues came to a head in the Chicago convention in 1898...
...James F. Carey was an unusual gift of the working class...
...Members of the Legislature often recked with taugbtnr wSen Cart} responded in debate with a wKtJr sally a*nt listened with tense interest and naps i* when he was serious...
...S.D.P...
...Lucy Parsons, Emma Goldman, Alexander Be r km an and other anarchists were present as delegates and a majority of the executive board proved to be of this type...
...of the American Civil Liberties Union, will debate the following question: "Resolved that advocates of terror and dictatorship are net entitled tc the privileges of democracy," at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., on Friday, Jan...
...Eleven applications for Chicago charters had been held up by Secretary Keliher, and the credentials committee, headed by the force advocates, recommended seating delegates of these "branches...
...He accepted s position in a cooperative store which he helped to organise and he held that position when he was elected Mayor...
...His father was killed in an accident, leaving John and three other boys and one sister to be cared for by the mother...
...Much of this history had become an unpleasant memory when Massachusetts Social Democrats made their sensational gains...
...Both were also founders of the Socialist Party, both were shoemakers, sad' each had the distinction ef being the first men to be elected to public office in New England by the Social Democratic Party which preceded the Socialist Party...
...On one iBsstiaii the sW> publican and Democratic floor leaders announced where the caucus ef their respective parties Was to meet when the Member from Haverhill arose and solemnly announced that Ma pasty caucus would be held in a telephone booth...
...Picjwt rwJrga ^rossae, The backgrounds out of which the S.D.P...
...Organized A debate followed which continued an entire day, and that 'night the executive board granted the charters...
...Carey met some of the ablest men in the capitalist parties in debate, including U. S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Sr., each debate being published by the party and extensively distributed K> combined s native Irteb wit with a fund of knowledge Snd extraordinary ability aa a speaker which 'commended the respect and even edmrration of many people who disagreed with his philosophy...
...In 1899 Carey was again elected j While Chase in that year was re...
...He became active in the labor movement, so active in organizing unions thst he was blacklisted...
...Union Lander John C. Chase came of a proletarian family in New Hampshire...
...In 1890 the Chase family moved to Haverhill, where John continued his trade as s shoemaker...
...A masterful public speaker, brilliant debater and an able parliamentarian, his opponents paid tribute to his abilities by electing him president of the City Council while he was occasionally called upon by his opponents to preside over the Legislature...
...Carey, Chase, Socialist Party Leaders, Dead By JAMES ONEAL The desth of James F. Carey, 71, and of John C. Chase, 69, in recent weeks recorded Ike passing of two ef the meat luiiintoueui Socialists m this i inanti j' ease* than 40 years ago...
...24 Charles Yale Harrison, author of "Generals Die in Bed," and Public Relations Counsel far the United States Housing Authority, will speak as guest lecturer at the Rand School of Social Sciense, 7 East 15th St., on Tuesday evening, Jan...
...Our readers will observe that the methods by which the Communist Party "captures" organizations are by no means new and that it is the spiritual heir of the force advocates of that period...
...24, st 8:30 o'clock, on the subject "Regional Planning aad a Housing Program," at the regular session of the Rand School Conference on Housing and Social Planning...
...ONEAL AND FRAEHKEL TO DEBATE TEBBOB AMD DICTATORSHIP James Oneal, editor of the New Leader, and Osmond R. Fraenkel...
...Jim Carey and John Chase have passed on, but they win live on Id the memory of those who enjoyed the luxury of knowing them ss friends and comrades...
...When the Communist faction rose in the Socialist Party, be wrote a friend that the Communists reminded him of children st Halloween who pat on a mask and try to scare adult* by shouting "boo...
...27 at 9 p. m. HARRISON TO SPEAK AT RAMD SCHOOL JAN...
...The Socialists then retired tc the Revere House, meeting in Parlor A, in which, curiously enough, the jury which had convicted the Haymarket martyrs had come tc their tragic decision...
...It is only fair to say that these force advocates should not be confused with the philosophical anarchists...
...Carey was elected s member ef the City Council of Haverhill, Mass., in 1897, and a year Inter Chase was elected Mayor while Carey was sent to the State Legislature together with Louis Scates...
...The anarchists "captured" the old organization, the headquarters, the official paper and the name "Social Democracy," but they disappeared within six months...
...He went to work in a woolen mill at the age of 9 and a few years later entered a shoe factory, working there for eight years and attending school part tune...
...like Carey, continued his interest in the movement, both men being readers of The New Leader down to a recent period...
...elected Mayor over a combination of Democrats and Republicans...
...Although lacking the brilliant abilities of Carey, Chase proved to be an able executive, and in later years, when a split in the shoemakers' union brought defeat to the Socialist Party, Chase toured the States as a lecturer aad eventually became state secretary -if the Socialist Party in New York State...
...emerged bear an interesting analogy to the present Force anarchism had "captured" the leading sections of the Socialist Labor Party in 1883, but the Hay-market tragedy put an end to force ideas for more than a decade...
...Debs, Berger, Stedman, Heath and other democratic Socialists found thst their opponents had organized paper branches to "capture" the convention...
...It was in that room that Debs and his col-'eagues organized the Social Democratic Party...
...He had also retired from active party service when the United States entered the World War...
Vol. 22 • January 1939 • No. 3
