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...There has been one advantage to workers imprisoned in the company unions...
...Nations are aeain armin?, encircling each other, playing the vile old game of'Balance of Power...
...Democracy was thrown back for a terrific loss...
...For the issue, in a real sense, was not misgovernment or conservatism in any one locality...
...The whole scheme is weighted against the working class and reduces workers to conscripts marking time in capital's chain gang...
...m 'THE dark of life is blacker now Than any in the tomb Where phosp horesence • lit the dead And vainly showed futility...
...Nothing can save the world from a disaster the consequences of which may well destroy civilization excepting only the Socialist movement, the united action of all the workers of the world...
...ktmosi monstrous feu Rested...
...A score of shame-faced worshipers slunk to the door...
...VHAT of the shades That linger by and watch the dance of life, And see the piled up armaments, VhUe racial hates are fired W battleships built up in Haste h tweet "recovery"!' Jf/fiy stand aside and sadly note 'the race for markets set the stage m one areat "show" and keenly know How vainly flesh was blown to bits, And why the bones forgotten lie , Beneath the fertile earth...
...Fascism began to become a erave menace...
...The latest case is that of Rockefeller's Colorado Fuel and Iron Company where the vote was nearly four to one agianst the company union...
...When Hitler's movement was sweeping Bavaria, he was due to attend a solemn ceremonial mass in a large church...
...At which the great Christ-figure stepped down from the cross behind the altar, and passed out slowly through the door...
...The r>» .1 Swope plan is dangerous righting tUe if for no other reason ^kaii/liilont than that it would create r i a iii iii l« iii a soii(j emp-rc o{ capitai Masters'Unions a"d fi"ance towerine above the government itself...
...The pa the "active and conLdaw in this organized Lee...
...For the issues are in effect the PURIFYING THE CHURCH Hitler,'the scourge of the Jews, is a Roman Catholic...
...In Great Britain government is conducted by single-chambered legislatures...
...Today we stand again where the world stood in 1914...
...Fifteen years ago the world went quite Insane in a delirium of joy over the news that the war had come to a close...
...It was the echo of Socialist agitation...
...The working tip the bottom of this all-powerful oligarchy...
...And so, as we cried before 1914, and during the awful years of war, and the years after, so we cry again the words that alone can save humanity, the rallying cry of angntsbed htimanityWEVD NEW LEADER SPEAKER Janes Oneal, editor of The New Loader, will be the speaker of The New Leader period . f Station WBVD on Friday, November 17th, from 4:30 to 4:45 p. m. Ben Blumenberg, of The New Leader staff, speaks on Friday, Nov...
...And in winning so many municipalities, the Socialist movement is coming closer to real power than ever before...
...As a result of the recent elections important industrial cities like Leeds and Sheffield have Socialist Council majorities for the first time, and Socialist programs like municipal ownership of utilities and municipal housing, and rates and taxes based on the workers' needs will be brought out of the propaganda stage and put into actual practice...
...The world trembles on the brink...
...A Deep Change f»UT all that is past now...
...The ruling barons E for commerce and in| oa questions of finance be, and what else...
...10th, at the same time...
...When Briand and Strescman sat down as comrades in the cause of world peace and understanding they were able to make the progress they did only because Socialism was marching forward everywhere, and creating a international mind...
...Election after election gave great victories to the Socialists, and in nation after nation even the'most conservative statesman began to display something lkie enlightenment in dealing with international problems...
...But twenty-five important cities have now been added to the Socialist column, and that is important...
...And on that issue they fought the election and on that issue so many of them won...
...While statesmen intrigued peoples of all lands drew closer together...
...Armistice Day, 1918 (both the premature announcement, and the actual announcement of the end of hostilities) constituted the greatest pacifist demonstration m all history...
...After Fifteen Years piFTEEN years have passed, and looking back we see much progress toward the great ideal of a world bound together in bonds of brotherhood...
...Balances of power...
...They cared for but one thing: THE WAR HAD COME TO AN ENOl Self-determination of Bukovina and the disappearance of the Wittelsbachs, the freedom of the seat and the title to the Shan-Tung peninsula were matters of less than no importance to them...
...The millions anpeaf to have died in vain: the anffuilh of the wounded, the* sufferitifs of all humanity to have availed nothing...
...they cheered and sang and got gloriously drunk for one reason only: THE WAR WAS OVER...
...G. G. Coulton relates a fable with a moral as told him by an Alsatian priest...
...Armistice Day Fifteen Years Later, and What Do We See in the World Today...
...Workers would become serfs...
...The lessons of the dreadful years of slaughter and destruction are being forgotten, and again the nations are feverishly preparing for whatever it is that nations prepare for when they sharpen their swords and lay in vast supplies of high explosives...
...TTHIS is a day for memory and for tears...
...Its realization would mean nationwide corporation feudalism...
...In one country the leader of Socialism betraved his comrades and turned his country over to the reaction: in another wild and Insane hatreds swept everything before them and Undid all the slow and painful work of previous years...
...We are the dead"— the . echo rings Around the world — unheard...
...As Socialism grew, as Socialists took office in some countries, and assumed t creater and creater influence in others, the had old past seemed to be dlRannearinr...
...But, in addition, there is little doubt that thej company union fraud, now being challenged by secret balloting of workers, would fasten its cancerous tendrils about our throats and strangle us...
...In the majority of twenty odd cases they have rejected company unions...
...In 1930, disillusionment at the feeble MacDonald policies lost Labor 80 seats, and after the 1931 debacle lost again, this time 160 seats...
...m i s tice UJay The grain stands tall and straight and clean, rki reaper whets his scythe— iti Moloch laughs...
...to lie written down In history books, together with stories of torture...
...Labor Triumphs Point to Parliamentary Victory THHE victories of the British Labor Party in the municipal elections of November 1st are of more than passing importance...
...As industry continues sick it will be offered again and again...
...The priest, bent on purifying the congregation for this great event, gave out from the altar-steps: "All who have a Jew for their father, leave this church...
...If the workers at any time complain, they may be called in and asked what it is all about...
...Under the NRA they have had an poportunity to take a secret vote as to .whether they desired unions of their own...
...For in that country the cities and towns have much local selfgovernment, no state standing between the local and national government, as in America...
...we see that from the time the poison in the svstems of European statesmen spent itself two or three years after the Armistice, up to three or four years ago the world marched steadily toward peace and progress...
...The millions who marched and shouted and sang in the streets of every city in the world did not care about war aims or about victory or defeat...
...Then: "All who have Jewish grandfathers, leave* this church...
...A few years ago there was a sharp change...
...They may be permitted to appeal to some government authority as well but original^ jurisdiction is vested in the corporate executive...
...it was the general appeal of Socialism to the workers that is sweeping the world...
...In all of England and Walesexcepting only London—one-third of the councils are renewed every November 1st, and therefore in many cities in which Labor scored a sweep this year there are still Conservative majorities...
...Half a dozen more trickled out Yet again: "All who have a Jewess for their mother, leave this church...
...This...
...Although the officials balloted for were only municipal, borough and county councillors, the men and women elected have it in their power to carry out farreaching plans of municipal Socialism...
...They have charge of rates and streets, schools and housing, health and recreation and many other municipal enterprises...
...In 1928, in the full tide of its influence that led to the victories of 1929, Labor won only 188 seats, and in 1929 about 200...
...Watch this hateful thing for it would bring slavery and death to our hopes of an emancipated Working class...
...This is a day upon which human beings must look back to the anguish and horror that ended fifteen years ago and to make a high resolve: IT MUST NOT BE AGAIN 1 The memory of the dreadful years that ended November 11th, 1918, is, alas I fading out, and again the war-clouds are gathering...
...The peoples of the victor nations— SOLELY BECAUSE OF THE GREAT AND GROWING INFLUENCE OF SOCIALISM-dld not long hold animosities toward the defeated peoples...
...A Council, chosen by the voters, creates policies and.selects executives to carry them out...
...Political Socialism, and that alone, was responsible for the chano-ine attitude of nations...
...True sitting committee at Washington will be kind enough to listen to any appeal workers might make against a decree from the royal throne...
...This year's victories, therefore, are the beginning of a sensational recovery that point to a triumph in the Parliamentary elections, whenever they are to be held...
...ententes, alliances, spheres of in* fluence, Little Ententes—all existed, but they were slowly fading out as a cleaner, a saner point of view slowly began to prevail...
...Hatreds were being liquidated...
...The crazy policies of Balance of Power had been all but abandoned...
...These local governments come close to the lives of the people, closer in many respects than the national government...
...Reaction set in...
...oat, nationally, better EtJDtahniig good and conbee* and considers with k«t will promote greater »pt up a committee to i sit in Washington "ami «lt as a Board of Ap Mftk on any questions pt may arise in the interpretation and en foroeineht' of the naff endeavor to see that mm" The affiliated KJmuld report condi¦jjtfrom time to time fadeavor to coordinate Wkt which should lend •non of industry...
...Rest assured, we have not" heard the last of this proposal...
...The Labor Party lost only 19 seats previously held, and won 261 new seats, a net gain of 242...
...and in "The British Weekly," Dr...
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