The ELECTRICAL REVOLUTION
The ELECTRICAL REVOLUTION Shall It Be Our SLAVE or MASTER? THE new revolution in industry, agriculture, and house work, into which the United States is now entering through the use of...
...Speaking for the Executive Committee of the Nethcrland Trade Union Federation, K. Kupers drew attention to the ever-closer cooperation between the party and the unions, which made the recent discussion in the press of the possibility of founding a Labor party on the British model rather superfluous...
...The meeting Is one of a scries of Sunday evening peace meetings, Thomas-Hones Debate A debute between Norman Thomat and Rev...
...He points out that the Sofiulist International has plenty of outine work to do in preparation for the ultimate taking over of the powers of Government by the work ers am...
...AUSTRIA Rural Victory Was Substantial Belated official reports of the results of the local elections in Lower Austria (which no longer includes Vienna) on Nov...
...Hones, of Roscoe, Nov York, will take place at the Workmen's Circle, Labor Lyceum, Monti cello, N. Y., on Tuesday, March 81 8,30 p. m. The subject will be: "R* solved: That the veil-being of Ala kind can be better promoted satOF...
...Theodore, Labor Premier of leenslsnd since 101 SI, has retired and been replaced by Comrade W N, Gillies...
...Radicals, 10...
...Admission will be free...
...In the old Board there were eleven representatives of the Trade Union League and two so-called Government Socialists, in addition lo eighteen straight Socialists, hut (he report fails to give details of the makeup of the new Hoard LUXEMBURG Labor Wins Two New Seats Reorganized under the name La I bor Party, but with a radical So- j rialist program, the political forces of the Belgian workers raised their representation in the Diet of the little Grand Duchy of Luxemburg from six to eight in the election of March 1. The other seats were divided as follows, according to semiofficial returns: Clericals, 22...
...Rev...
...Thomas, were elected as the fust British representatives on the Bx-ecutive of the S. I, I., and who, with them, resigned upon taking office in the Labor Cabinet of Great Britain in January, 1924, i hark on the Executive again, having hcen chosen by the Labor party to take the place of A. B. Cameron...
...Auf IS Next The Administrative Committee of ths Socialist and Labor Interna none I has fixed Aug...
...LATVIA That, the fears of the Lettish reactionaries aeout the progress of the Socialist movement in Latvia, which, as told in The New Leader [of March 21, have caused them to resort to murder in a vain attempt to check it, were justified, is shown by the results of the recent municipal election in Riga...
...The bourgeois parties lost 165 seats, instead of e-aininir 122, as first reported...
...Comrade Adler admits that the S. L. I. is not yet a 100 per cent...
...31, 1923, to 38,2(15 on Kept...
...revolution gives us a new i hance,' Generation and transmission of electricity are ihe pivots Control of the generation and transmission Urf electricity and what is done with that control uie the points lo be watched...
...THE new revolution in industry, agriculture, and house work, into which the United States is now entering through the use of giant elet trical power, should be guided by the following basic princi pies, according to the liepait ment of Social Action of the National t atholic Welfai e < on ference...
...that a relatively few individuals must necessarily Its,the owners of electrical power, and that somehow it will he best for everyone if theae owners are allowed to make as much money, or nearly as much, as they can, than the body of the people, the employes in industry and the farmers, and our whole political, intellectual, and social life will lie the worse off...
...In iiuoting from the report of Secretary C. Werkhoven and giving reasons for the decline in dues-payinfr members from 41.230 on Dec...
...30 show that the Socialist victory was more substantial than indicated ' v the early accounts (printed in The New Leader of Jan...
...The total vote fell from 13,061 to 11,540, and the Communists polled only 1,185, against ,1,808 on May 4, retaining but three of th'ir five representatives...
...was to use his wealth...
...Socialist than a capitalist onto « society...
...As reported by the London Bureau of the S. L. I I . the number of Socialist Alder men was increased from eighteen to thirty, and the popular Socialist vote rose from 23,000 in March, 1922, to 60,000, about 34 per cent of the total...
...The steam revolution came among peoples who were rationalists, and lationalism at that time glorified the individual above everything else, made wealth a sign of virtue and gave e man nearly a free rein over now i...
...HOLLAND Hon h Socialists Ready for Fray I Faring the probability of elections ! for the Second Chamber of Parliament during the coining summer, the delegates from all over Holland who attended the twenty ninth Congress of the Social Democratic Labor parly, held in Amsterdam, Feb...
...Adler Sets Swiss Papor Right In a masterpiece of Socialist reasoning, Frederick Adler recently re • plied to an article in the Zurich | Volksrecht which had voiced the i view, common in Swiss Socialist circles, that he was leaving his plate II Secretary of the Socialist and Labor International because he was tiliatisfied with the progress that organization had made since its founding at Hamburg in May, 192S...
...THE INTERNATIONAL Congress Open...
...Ho urges the Swiss Socialists to join the S. L. I. and I work as a "loyal opposition...
...The campaign platform approved by the convention calls for immediate steps toward cutting down military expenses and effecting national and international disarmament as soon as possible, demands far-reaching Labor legislation and reorganization of the Government service, urges a war of education and regulation against alcoholism and in general covers the whole range of national and international problems, including the "democratization" of the League of Nations...
...22 cast 4,667 votes and elected thirteen Aldermen, against 4,067 votes and twelve members of- the Village Council on May 4, 1924...
...In both Thuringia and Brunswick the vote of all parties in the municipal elections fell off heavily compared with the vote in the Reichstag election of Dec...
...Marxian workir.g-cla* machine, but he says it has already made much progress in that direction, despite the slips of some of its leaders and members, and that le 'b resigning just because he believes that the hardest preliminary work has been done and that from no , or the sail : mg will he comparatively smooth...
...It will mean a different set of opportunities to do right, and a different a«t of teinp tations to do wrong...
...that only through such activities can it become strong enough arid well organised < nough to cope with its final task...
...Instead of a net gain of two Couneillors, the Socialists netted 190, in addition to 160 elected on so-called Small Farmers' lists put up by Socialist peasants in places where the agrarian reaction was so strong that it was considered too risky to nominate straight Socialist candidates...
...J. F. Ankersmit...
...3 Control by money owners as such should be put at the lowest mai k necessary to finance the lit dustry and develop 1, * |>tti|j aition to apply these pi in i ipies Is needed tieiaust of the great gjowth en the use of fleililtal I wt t and th* ^leat ihanges in oui social life that are coming through its use...
...After hearing Comrade Ankersmit's explanation and also his reply to other casual criticism of the management of Het Volk, the delegates voted by a big majority to keep him at his post as editor-in-chief...
...30, 1024, W, H. Vliegen, the party chairman, pointed out that the only way to boost the membership was by personal propaganda work and he urged the delegates to fee to it, that every, one of the party members devote considerable time to this part of the political struggle...
...I --T [ AUSTRALIA J Theodora Quilt in Queensland E ti...
...We are entering upon a revolution comparable to the one initiated by the discovery and use of steam power It will leave its mark upon everyone...
...I The publn should share in 1 he control ui Ihe i lei final power in mdu.sliy so that the public will get all the electrical iiower neeued in the places needed and at a fair price...
...sole editor-in-chief of Het Volk, the leading party daily paper, since the recent retirement from active party work of the veteran, P. J. Troelstra, was subjected to considerable criticism for his refusal to print F^do Fimmen's laudatory statement on conditions in Russia last fall, but he defended himself by averring that tho Secretary of the Transport Workers' International had been in Russia only et short time, did not know the Russian language and had not been in any position to obtain an objective view of the situation...
...Johnson at Peace House The Rev...
...Ernest Johnson, secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, will bo the speaker at a pence meeting to be held Sunday, March 29, at 8.15 p. m. at tho Peaoe House, 108th street and Fifth avenue...
...The London 11 eau of the S, L. 1. says Ooairadu Then dote (put because the Labor parly disapproved of his opposition to the introduction of the 44 hour week in State industries and the way he negotiated a loan in London last year...
...14-16, were full of enthusiasm for the fray and vowed that after the battle of ballots was over the score of Socialists in the Chamber of 100 members would be materially increased...
...In Nowawes, a newly or-gapized'eity in the suburbs of Berlin, the Socialists on Feb...
...7, but the losses of the Social Democrats were less in proportion than those of their opponents on both the Right and Left...
...GERMANY Municipal Elections Choer Socialists Confidence that the Social Democratic Party will roll up a big vote for Otto Braun in the first round of the election for President of the German Republic tomorrow (Sunday) is reinforced by i result of recent local elections in Brunswick, Thuringia, and other parts of the country...
...1 he new < In t ma...
...Combinations of all bourgeois parties against the Socialists were common...
...Comrade Vliegen cited several instances showing that while the workers were not overanxious to pay party dues they were generally willing to contribute to the campaign fund and to do volunteer work for the ticket...
...i-ul — On The International Front "Workori of th* World, Unittf You havt nothing to hit but your ckaini end a world to gain...
...The railroad unions are ag nst the bills...
...By standing aloof from the International, he says, the Swiss Socialist Party, which is enthusiastic for a Marxian International, is really assuming a nationalistic attitude and standing in ils own light...
...Ths forced the ' dissolution of the old Diet...
...A new link between the organizations is the Institute for Labor Development, established last year, with the assistance of the Central Labor Insurance Bank and contributions from the party and the unions, for educational purposes...
...The use of steam power turned the Dinted States from a nation of hand nihil farming, small handi ciafts, and small trade into a nation of factory industry, mines, machine fa i tiling finance and world wide liailt ll cieated cit «s, faitoiy town.- and mining towns It put us into a new setting with new materials tools, and Weapons lo use the n en who controlled the > new tools, materiala and weapons | weie made enormously powerful | and the men who did not control them, whether as consumers of the products of the steam revolution or as propertylea, workers, were mad* corresponding!, weak...
...determined later The agenda will be made up at the next meeting of \ the Executive, May 9. Henderson Back on Eiecutive Arthur Henderson, who, together with Ramsay MacDona'd and J. 11...
...Nationalists, 3; National Union, 2; Independent Clerical, 1, am' Liberal, 1. In the old,Diet of foi y eight members, the Clericals had twenty-six Deputies, but several of these broke away from their leader, Minister Renter, and blocked the passage of the bills practically turning the railroads over to Belgian-management...
...He intends to devote most of his time to activities linked with the i cause of working class internationalism...
...The results are well known...
...15, 1925, as the date for opening th" second congress of the S. L. I. somewhere I in France, the exact location to he...
...2. Those at woik in the generation and transmission of electrical power ahould share in the control of the wages and salaries they get, in the conditions of then work, in the methods that are to be followed, and in the rewards of then efficiency...
...If the ml, of ilit steam revolution la followed, if electric...
...y is to he owned and :..M rolled oil the principle...
...When the names of Troelstra and Henri Van Kol, another veteran forced by ill-health and advancing age to cease his Parliamentary activities a short time ago, were' brought before the convention they were made the objects of an ovation and s letter from Troelstra calling for renewed vigor in Socialist propaganda was hailed with great enthusiasm...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 13
