British Labor and the International

...every resolution of our International is a milestone in their lives...

...it cannot be disavowed when a Conservative puts a question in the House...

...Warren has had intimate relations with the sugar interests and headed two big corporations...

...That Ireland with its tense,party feelings in recent years should also be thus affected is surprising...

...Just what free discussion exists J in Russis may be estimated by observing how much of i t Communists favor when they face t h e bar of d i s s e n t i n g opinion...

...Many issues have carried .stories of his activities in the Legislature, referring to him as "Comrade," and heralding him as the only Communist in a State Legialalive body...

...And Ustinka— she is nothing more than Red Rtts —the Vampire of Rebellion...

...Let me say a plain if painful' word in conclusion on a matter about which ths International is really concerned...

...Hist, Gegan...

...The Wheeler and the Couzens cases would indicate that members of Congress who have a high sense of rectitude and who seek to ferret out corporate favoritism and graft must risk their reputations in doing so...

...Long live the revolution...

...poor and persecuted uniting against their oppressors, a real comradeship on class lines...

...What of "class collaboration...

...The Socialist Party has favored this action for years...

...Bernard 3haw wrote Zinoviev a few weeks ago that he (Zinoviev) h id given British reaction a long lease of power at horn* and ^in Egypt . Here we are interrupted by a broadca'st from Moscow...

...Ths latter won seven out of nine seats in an election that was notable for the apathy of the voters...

...Every Continental parly, at the beginning, went through a period of savage repression such as British Labor, even in the darkest days of the Chartists, has never known...

...Senate...

...r i om watoingvon comei The Mew the new* that tha proposed Party new party b j established headquarter* in the Machinists' Building...

...They are above the law and their enormous wealth enables them to break through its meshes with their steslings intact Not sines th* turbuRejecttng the lent administration of Sugar Boy Andrew Johnson hss a President had a Cabinet appointment rejected by the...

...It was not raised until Senator Couzens made his public charges that certain big corporations were being favored by rulings of the Treasury Department...

...For the British movement, with its wide and loose organization, with its broadness of mind and its weakness of theory, with i t s freedom of individual thought and action, a number of men speak who cannot in themselves represent all its different shades snd currents of thought, nor pledge it beyond a certain limit of general agreement...

...Our great oligarchs of industry snd finance de not have the same status before the lew that petty offenders have...

...Bracke and Longuet, Vandervelde and Adler, and many another, are living links of international Socialist tradition...

...If they could not achieve unity amongst themselves on that qusstion, international unity woiiM *aam to lag far behind...

...The mere existence of ahother working-class party, claiming to lead by a different way to the goal, has been to the Continental worker a shock quite unintelligible to his British colleague, accustomed'as he is to the variety of organization and opinion which has made his movement broad and all-inclusive, though comparatively weak, because of the energy spent In adjusting cross-currents...

...The answer of the Treasury Department is that Senator Couzena is remiss in his income taxes to the extent of over ten million dollars...

...Governor Smith recommended a referendum on the Child Labor Amendment although hie party is pledged to ratification by the Legislature...

...Thsrir worship of the money bags during the Wilson reign, when Wilson called swarms of millionaires to take charge of bureaus, commissions and committees, indicate the mind of the Democratic members'of the upper Diet of American capitalism...

...That is why Communism on ths Continent meant more than it did In England, where it could never be anything but a different shade of opinion, adding one other to those already existing within the safe limits of an old and assured democracy...

...All accounts agree that twenty persons were hurt and that Abramowich had Uttls opportunity to deliver his speech...

...Who is Miller...

...Once more Communists Communist have broken into the headRiots lines by breaking up a meeting...

...Whci the International broke up in 1914 the Continental worker was intellectually shell-shocked...

...I it tie as I am, I help enlarge tht din In tkt shop—my world...

...The timet I may rest For the turning tki/t...

...If the referendum »P" proved the proposal he would not be responsible...

...What part ths Labor party took in the election is not mentioned although the Irish trsde unions recently reaffirmed their poHfcy of supporting the Labor party which they created and which they sustain and control...

...Sane human beings are tolerant of all views but they cannot be tolerant of intolerance, or tolerant of tho bully and ths ruffian...

...Ours is frankly a Labor party and they are just as frank in not wanting a jistinctly Labor party...

...It could have been raised at any time since 1922...

...Calvin Coolidge, who was determined to place Charles B. Warren at the head of the Department of Justice, has had Warren's name returned to him with a Senate veto...

...Miller has been broadcasted by the daily Communist organ of Chicago as a member of the Workers' (Communist) party...

...It was therefore considered to' be—and indeed was—A criminal attempt to break the workers' weapon— unity...

...This is frequently coupled with a sound feeling of distrust against those who came over later, when things were easier, but also with an incomparable loyalty to the leader who has stood the test and braved the tide when it was running against us...

...Governor Smith has been regarded by many sincere trade unionists as » "Labor" man...

...Meantime the evidence intended to reveal the secrets Of the ^ s n k accounts of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, was nearly barred from the Teapot Dome lease annulment suit...

...Wyoming...

...I > L ' «. * * * • I" The American boast of Oil and, equality before the law th* Law again Ukes the count in the , 4 . Government's suit to invalidate the Teapot Dome leas...

...From this we gather that Mr...

...If you keep on in like strain and unrestraint, a rolumneer's job will indeed be an 'appy one...

...What the Continental worker feels about his party he also feels about the International, which, indeed, appears to him its culmination...

...Lunch hour and the night...

...It does mean that when we disagree it will be in a good-natuied way, confident that the best elements in this new movement will finally accept our position...

...We have swsllowtd our pgo and decided to hold in leash the flaming thoughts that light up our elastit day-dreams...

...And, martyr-like, broke a gear tooth To save us from further bondage...

...Johnston says that "Tha fact that soma officers and representatives of some Labor organizations declined to speak for their respective organisations nationally must not be misunderstood" because they "have no specific authority or instruction from their respective memberships...

...There was no objection raised in the campaign to the proposal...

...This does not mean that we shall not lissent or criticize...

...This is accompanied with a digest of the proceedings at Chicago by the director which is an admirable and impartial nummary of the important actions taken there...

...It enables it to make its owh campaign on its own program and if its vote is a s large as the party hopes, it will have a strong influence in determining the choice in the second snd final election on April 26...

...Tha former has sent a statement out which reviews the work required in organizing * new party and asking for financial help...

...And one day he revolted Against the motive power And all tystemt that eontrol us...

...It is a rigid body, marching in closed ranks and guided by a unanimously accepted doctrine which dominates and determines all its actions...

...There is one party, indeed, in which the habit of conspiracy still prevails as in the early days, a party in which fanatical hatred of heresy against infallible party doctrines and iron, military discipline have reached an extreme in which rigidity degenerates into excessive cruelty—the Russian Bolshevik party...

...Hartwel' L. Brunson ia director...

...These crszed partisans are accumulating a fund of disgust for their conduct that will return to them many fold, for the mors decent ef their partisans and sympathizers can only turn against them in tns end...

...We are sometimes asked: What difference is there between the two parties of capitalism ? The difference lies only in tha number of voter* eaca party fools...

...With one of the richest bankers of the country at the head of the Treasury Department, his textile crony, Butler, his personal representative in the Senate, this attempt to appoint Warren shows Coolidge as a small town Kotarian worshiping greet wealth...

...T)n'the Continent Communism implied the break-up of -what was lejft to be an indivisible unit—the party...

...Meantime in New York the Communists met in Madison 8quars Gsrden without being molested by those who disagree with them...

...So I communed with a brother, Who quickly became disciple to my ides...

...What of this G. ( I . P.-Communist a l - | liance glnnf'tod by these gentlemen...

...Th* two documents bear no trace of bitterness because of th* division* that occurred at Chicago...

...In all these countries, the party snd its doctrine Mean more to the ordinary worker than they mean in Britain...

...But the nomination of a Socialist candidate has two advantages for the party...

...This time it is Chicago that gets an exhibition of their work in turning a peaceful meeting into a riot endangering the life of human beings...

...The Communists of this country have contributed a number, including their leading philosopher, Louis Frania...

...We win you...

...It present...

...This raises the question: Why did the Treasury Department wait till March, 1925, to raise this claim...

...Of course, it is a case of politics on the part of the Democrats who opposed Wsrren...

...Now it is the turn of Senator Couzens of Michigan...

...British Labor and the International By OSCAR POLLAK J*;* following article is nn echo of the tonrroverey that followed the, report that csttain members of the British delegation to.kuHsm favored the Bolshevik regime...

...Once I thought (Can I be blamed for iit) That should 1 refute to labor For those who profit by my slavery, I would free from toil All mechanism forever...

...And again, the Continental party is not only united by a thousand-in-one will, but bused on a common belief...

...The interesting phase of the matter is the claim that is made that the Michigan Senator's income tax obligations run back to*1922...

...The case of the Michigan Senator warrants the belief that he would never have been charged with evading taxes if he had not made the exposure he did...

...There i< certainly much to be said for the merits of a movement like the British today, which includes t\\ schools.efrom J. H. Thomas to J. A. Cook, Marxists, anti-Marxists, Bolshevists, Pacifists, and Monarchists...

...By this mutual dodging" of responsibility the two mpjor parties practically underwrite the po"* tion of the organized manufacturers...

...It is hardly possible that a President will be elected nn March ML as no one of thi candidates can get a majority of the total vote cast...

...Even in North Dublin, where the Ministerialists have their most effective organization, only 66 per cent of the vole was polled...

...That is why Socialist parties on the Continent are particularly sensitive about Communism...

...For the Continental workers affiliation to an International is more than a matter of expediency...

...Some of them, like Friedrich Adler or Longuet, have dared more for the international cause than many of those who today regard them as less advanced because they arc lets prepared to be trapped by Bolshevik catchwords...

...o • AN UNHOLY ALLIANCE THE history of the Labor and the Socialist movement is littered with examples of men and factions who pose as purists...

...THE Chatter-Box Machinery / am • piece of tnaekmery, A small, spinning1 wheal */ an won ty,ttml All ths long day / reel and turn, * And turn and reel On a hot, duty axil, Harneiied to motion...

...One cannot help feeling amused when Mr...

...But insisting on legislative ratification would have committed him and he wanted no record to be attacked in 1928...

...Johnston is serving as chairman as a citizen and not in the capacity of representing the International Association of Machinists...

...Thanks, thanks to ye, our worthy friends, for the gifts that ye htvt brought...

...Pufcell Steps In to teach these people real internationalism, or astonished when Mr...

...SACRIFICINGIHE CHILDREN IN a caucus of over five hours, R> publican Assemblymen have decided to take no action on thi Child Labor Amendment...

...Never theie**, the pilfering of millions of dollar* ia national property is likely to go into, history a*, on* of ths biggest steals sine* ths gamblers and adventurers gsthered in their great st k*S following ths Civil War...

...To the right of them, to the left of them, in front of them and in the rear of them is always somebody who is "betraying" the great cause...

...Center your eternal vigilance upon Morris Gest and Nick Balieff—for thtH Real R*d Revolution is brewing...

...The Socialists have followed good tactics in nominating their own candidate in tho person of Otto Braun, although this means that a number nf other candidates will go to the poll...

...But in 1901 ths Senate inserted in an army appropriation bill whst Is known as the Piatt Amendment and the republic was required to insert it ia an appendix to the Cuban Constitution...

...A letter from Robert Byrne, Secretary of State for North Dakota, dated March 9, states that "A...

...However, things may have changed since the war—and this change in the psychology of the Continental working masses is one of the biggest problems of post-war Europe—for them the word "Comrade" has still a revolutionary sound...

...And that is why they resent the incompetent attempts of some British trade Union .leaders who seem to think that international working-class unity is a simple matter of convenience, a mere trifle, just an annex to a British trade agreement with the Russian Government...

...on interesting comparison of the British and Continental Labor and Socialist movsmsntt...

...Marxism, not misunderstood as it is in England as a dry, dreary and narrow economic doctrine, but living m it does on the Continent as a broad conception of human history, teaches the workers their historic mission in the development of society and, by to doing, inspires them with the most invincible faith in a victory which will not only be the reward nf strenuous efforts, but indeed must be the inevitable result of evolution...

...Governor Smith has not given up his Presidential ambitions...

...What of the purity of the purists...

...Especially when, for the last two years, a real group of Russians have been drilling night after night at the Theatre of the Chauve-Souris—for a Red Revolution—under the harmless pretense of being a mere Parade of tht Wooden Soldiers...

...As ususl, their hatred was di rotted against Rafael Abramowich who is' speaking for Socialist prisoners in Soviet jails...

...William H. Johnstun of the machinists is chairman and Mr...

...The Continental party is otherwise...

...If a referendum rejected it he would not be responsible...

...Had he insisted on ratification by the Legislature he would have alienated the . s u p p o r t of those exploiters who share nn the dominion of his partyHe wants their support...

...Nevertheless, this slapping of Coolidge, following ihe spanking he received in his first administration, indicates that before the end of Coolidge's term the fi, 0 . P. will^be in a sorry mess...

...The new party will not compete with the Socialist Party...

...even Tseretelli and Abramovitch have always been on the extreme Left of their respective parties, and good Socialists while in the Czarist prisons...

...To get it...

...Owing to improvement of economic conditions the monarchist reaction is weakened and there is no danger of this fsction polling a sufficient number of votes to exercise any appreciable influence in either the first or second election...

...o A Glutton for Punishment News Item: President re-submits Wtrren's name to the Senate after they rtjtct his appointment as Attorney General snd once again is Warren rejected...

...For years the Communists have been pointing out men and movements that have "betrayed" the masses...

...They supported hint as such...

...The workers have been "sold" so often by the same men and the same movements that it is surprising that any more sales can be made...

...There Is one thing which the Continental workers will never understand: how it was that these British Trade Union leaders, with a Labor Government in office, were not able to assure the ratification of the Washington Convention on the eight hours' day...

...Hence there is still in all Continental parties a psychology of the catacombs, a strong sense of community among the...

...These were the days when the workers, enslaved both economically and politically, without the franchise or even the right to combine, gathered secretly, after a fourteen hours' day in the mill, surrounded by spies and hunted by the police, and spell out from torn, forbidden papers the gospel .of their Marx and Lassalle...

...Notwithstanding this unanimity, the G. O. P. members are unanimous in opposing action...

...But it is only on the solid basis of one fundamental theory that the revolutionary spirit has been able to build Dp those powerful Continental parties—the Austrian, for instance,,or the Belgian, or the Danish— where one headline in tho party paper today will bring 250,000 people to march the streets tomerr-ow in complete order...

...The Democratic platform ii so pledged...

...This political apathy s e e m s to possess the voters of all parties in the leading nations, including the United States...

...That would have been th* keystone of international working clats progress all over the world, and a broad way to real unity in action...

...This is the result of past history...

...Mine't not a drone in ths music, But a shout in ths tumultt 1 welcome, as much as another...

...But we cannot excuse the Crest Bombardier Squad Chief for his sudden swoop upon a rehearsal of a scene of ancient history—"Onward the Bomb Brigade...

...The Michigan Senator brought serious charges that many millions of dollars due under the jncome tax have been remitted to big corporations on the ground that payment of the tax might invite bankruptcy...

...So, still I keep reeling and turning In union with my groaning brethren...

...They have not changed today because the same prisons have become Bolshevik, nor has the International changed when it claims freedom for the workers, freedom of vote and speech and press, freedom from political persecution— even in Russis...

...S. A. DE WITT...

...If men in public life are to be terrorized because of observing an ordinary code of decency there are some dirty stables to be cleaned out at Washington...

...The history of the movement in all countries has also shown many examples of these purists who in the end made their peace with the enemy...

...Hid — beware...

...This gives partial control over Cuban finances and Cuban foreign affairs, and ths sixth clauss reads: T h a t tha Isl* of Pines shall bs omitted from ths proposed constitutional boundaries of Cuba, tha titis thereof being left to futurs adjustment by trsaty...

...Socialists throughout the country may well follow the example set by the delegate* tp the Chicago conference by not indulging in any fruitless attacks upon those who will try to organize this new party...

...This is ostensibly aimed at Communist agitation but it gathers all movements of works.* into the same drsgnet...

...When he heard that a Communist International had been formed he was bewildered, and it took years of strenuous intellectual effort before he found a solution to the problem which puzzled him: on what principle we should press for the recognition of the Russian Govtsynment, and at the same time repudiate the Moscow International...

...ers in Soviet Russia, and Bombardier Organ bursting in upon their minstrel tVr rehearsals, and locking up innocent to*e> ishes and samovars—also five pop-gum, We are prone to forgive our fiery Ruuiu friends for their gentle disturbances, at 'our^ meetings, bece use they are a t least sincere in their conduct—even if somewhat puerile...

...But the master only threw him in distort And supplanted a new worker in his ttttif And for the pause in our work Twice faster were we made to hustle...

...The Presidential elecThe German tion in Germany offers Election another opportunity to count noses and survey t> c strength of the numerour parties...

...was there a man dismayed—though someone had blundered...

...Cuba had to wait twsnty-four year* for this adjustment and tha settlement itself is a partial and grudging one...

...Th* Japanese Houso of Representative* hss pasaad s Pesc* Preservation Act which restricts free discussion and organisation in Japan...

...It gives American investors "most favored" treatment and Cuba is restricted from settling any question concsrning ths Isl* of Pines and a foreign nation without consulting ths United States Ths Caribbean is considered sn American lake and Cuba's "independence" is worth th* proverbial thirty cents...

...It reads: "Down with reaction...

...political expediency requires that he must sacrifice the child slaves of "fre* America...

...Hunter accuses them of getting hysterical at the Bolshy bogey...

...All ovsr th* country petty thefts of a ftw dollars, often committed by human beings mad* desperate by their econatoic distress, are penalized by send ir.g the offender* to prison...

...WHY is there sometimes at international meetings an unavowed feeding that there is more difference of outlook between the British representatives and the majority of the remaining delegations than between any other two parties T In his article, Mr...

...Last November, A. C. Miller was elected to the Legislature of North Dakota from the 41st District...

...He has missed some others...

...Drastic penalties of from five to ten years' imprisonment srs provided for violstion of ths law...

...Aa recruiting sergeants for Reaction ths polite, Communists have i n Japan no rivsls...

...Maximilian Cohen, their New York leader in 1919-20, a few years later appeared in court and made his peace with capitalism...

...The Republican platform is pledged to rati*cation...

...And this it the case not only in those border States where Soviet Russia is a heavily armed neighbor, nor in countries where Communism has split working-class forces from top to bottom and, perhaps, destroyed ihe success of revolution—as in Germsny or Italy or France—hot even in those conn*•><*• whara <''immuni*ts are hnt a few miserable hundreds against a solid strength of hundreds of thousands—as in Belgium, Denmark or Austria...

...And in my futile moaning How much like Man am I. Joseph Retnlck...

...THE TAX COLLECTORS I AST Hummer the activity of Senator Wheeler in exposing some of the grafters higher up was followed by his indictment in Montana...

...The Irish by-elections The Irish to fill vacancies caused By-Hlections by resignations in seven constituencies brought victory to the Free State party...

...Hunter has driven home one point with admirable self-criticism...

...C. Miller, Representative from the 41st District, was elected on the Republican ticket...

...a movement in Which nearly every thinking Socialist stands for S Socialism of his own...

...The unions and the party were disturbed by Larkiltitss for some time, but "Jim" Larkin's influence appears to have waned in the past year...

...There i s aome rejoicing that Th ' hie...

...It appeared to be a case of trying to punish and disgrace a man who ran foul of some dirty business in Washington...

...the U n i t e d S u l . e s h u "/ Pines turned the Isle of Vines over to C u b a , but we haven't turned Cuba over to the Cubans, In 1808 the Senate declared that "Cob* is and of right ought to be free and independent...

...One oil (nagnat* takes a vacation in South Amer|ca and two others find France very attractive, t h e s e two also declining to answer questions of a French magistrate...

...My gear teeth grinding madness, Sweating till beads el greats Drip to ths floor...

...o Our Communist well-wishers are rortainly having a rough time of it these daw, what with Socialists and liberals holding meetings for the release of political prito...

...Tammany has no better record...

...It has b«en very difficult for us to writ* this week's stint owing to the tempting contributions offered...