ON PARTY BUILDING

...The new immigration laws,* the more severe measures regarding naturalization, as well as the threatened laws on alien deportation—these have brought about a situation, according to the league, where the alien worker must seek naturalization without delay...

...In a word, be answerable to the party for the enrolled Socialists assigned to him...

...Lassalle was one of the greeted gifts to the working class of mod...

...whys and wherefores of the...

...They hsva so declared themselves...

...Instead of the haphazard lectures, unrelated, to one another, planless as they are being carried on now, courses should be organized and given consecutively by one lecturer...

...Wilhelm von Humbolt called him "Das Wunderkind"—"The Miraculous Child...

...His Great Merit It is the merit of Lassalle that lie tun] come to certain fundamental conclusions that agreed with those reached by Marx and Engels...

...Add to tbasc few suggestions the distribution of properly | prepared leaflets, including litera-I tuie for trade unionists, or where ! possible personal contact, and we have a comprehensive plan that is workable...

...The enthusiasm upon which our j party lived must be revived...

...That can be done in cooperation with the Rand School...

...the obvious...

...The only question is, how...

...There arc, I am told, in New York County at lenst 1,000 in good standing in the party...

...It has also made specisl educational drives among women workers with the result that its applicants for the last year Increased over 100 per cent among women...

...On March 16, Dr...

...One factor which he stressed was overdrawn...

...The abandonment on thi part of Labor, at least for the time being, of the idea of an independent Labor party places the Socialist 1'arly in the position of going forward, us the only political expression of Labor's cause...

...1.....II...

...These courses may be repeated in different parts of the city...

...If only a few of the fourteen in charge are induced to attend our finances arc taken care of...

...Tha most likely source is the body of enrolled Socialist voters...

...The Armenian Socialist Party has replaced Comrade Var-andian by A. Isuhakianz as its member of the executive...

...The total bourgeois strength in the council is 180...

...HUNGARY Socialists' Immunity Lifted...

...Of course, a Socialist is not one in the true sense of the word until he is an active member of the organized Socialist movement...

...Indicted and imprisoned for a short time because of^sV address on "The Working-man's Program," his speech in court waa, to quote Veblen, "in point of lite.'ary quality a masterpiece of forensic oratory...

...Swerving neither to tho Right—in the direction of the Gruetlianers (a semi-Socialist organization), nor to the Left—in the direction of the Communists, the Swiss Socialist* now have the satisfaction of recording material gain* in votes and representation, while not only their bourgeois opponents, but also their competitors for work., ing class support, have suffered losses...

...cm times and affection for him by the workers of all countries win deepen as his remarkable service* to th* Great Cause become better knoWn...

...These index cards may be for each enrolled Socialist or for each member as the plan in \U working out require...

...The representation of the working class must he a fact in the legislstftl bodies of the nation...

...Due to nomi-s nations by the .Communists and Gruetlianers for the so-called Narrower City Council, a sort of Executive Committee for the city, the Socialists mado no gains there, merely holding their three seats, against three Liberals, two Democrats and a Gruetliener...

...In Hamburg the Board of Aldermen elected « Senate (the city executive body) of seven Socialists, four Democrats and four People s party men, by a vote of 97 to two blanks...

...The conference to be held neat Sunday will take up, among other things, the plan to increase the minder of branches of the league so as to reach more directly every local Labor union body...

...The first, definite step toward a Cuban Labor Party waa taken on March 20, when the Socialist Club of Havana was founded, under the presidency of Francisco Domenech, Cuban Labor delegate to the last general conference of the International Labor Office of the League of Nations...

...Nothing is more calculated to impress upon a class a Worthy and moral character," he said, in "The Workingman's Program," than "that it is called upon to raise the principle of its class to th* pjfjj cipl* of the entire age, to rinia** ft* id«a into tii...

...leading idee of the whol* of society and thus to form ink society by impressing upon ft its own character...

...Organizations which have not sufficient time to officially elect delegates are invited to have their officers represent them at the conference...

...The bour-geois bloc and the Communist party each lost a seat...

...It must be systematized...

...The work...

...These are not potential Socialists...

...overlooked...

...The Naturalization Aid League has, during the year 11I25, served almost 20,000 workers, the largest percentage of whom are members of progressive and radical Labor unions...

...With reports on the work made at stated times, plans for the ultimate recruiting of these enrolled Socialists could be evolved and brought to fruition...

...This plan will help the party financially ' with no outlay...

...Jeanneret as a "disguised Communist" last Fall caused considerable hard feelings, local elections have shown no material falling off in the Socialist vote, and in some cases notable gains have been made...

...It should be obligatory with membership to take the assignment...

...They give us our ext job, definite and possible...

...As the Berner Tagwackt put it, Zurich is red...

...They sre workable and can j be carried out immediately...

...There are upward of 50,000 such enrolled Socialists in the City of New York alone...

...ing class," he said, "must coatC tute itself an independent polisktat party, baaed on universal equal SQ frage: a sentiment to be Inscribes1 on it* banner*, and forming tig central principle of its action...

...Hie answer was that in th* address that offended his prosecutor* he had presented a scientific view of the necessity of fundamental change and that revolution no more implied violence than reform did...

...He was the greatest orator Germany haa produced, his power over his audiences, his logi-csl exposition of any them* and his mastery of detail (wept great audiences with intense conviction...

...We would need several lecturers...

...In New York County there are a little more than 14000 enrolled Socialist voters...

...they actually are Socialists...

...On the same day the Assembly lifted the immunity of Deputies Emit Pikler end Stephen Farkas, Socialist*, and Vin-cenz Nagy, Republican, so that they, together with Comrade Vanciak, might be prosecuted for the -heinous offense of having at a dinner together dared to drink toasts to the Republic, Michael Karolyi, Oskar Jaszl and Martin Lovaszy...

...That some of th* Gruetlianers are beginning to see that there is no more room for half-way working class parties is indicated by the fact that the Interlaken -section, one of the strongest in Jh* country, voted on March 14, to dissolve and join the Social Democratic Party...

...As was reported in The New Leader of March 21, the Zurich Socialists turned down a Communist proposal for an electoral pact...

...It is a work that I each man can a|\d ought to undertake...

...Every effort | must coordinate with other efforts...

...Winter For urn...

...In New j York we should have at least four j such forum:, centrally located...

...In Winterthur the election to the Msln Council did not change the relative strength of the Left and Right groups, the bourgeois parties holding their 31 seats, against 29 for the working class parties, but the Socialists increased their representation from 24 to 37, while tha Communists fell from 4 to 2 and the tnftltlianera lost their sole seat...

...CUBA Socialist Clab In Havana...

...I admit they are not extraor-| dinary...

...History, lsw, economics, jurisprudence, philosophy and other sciences were an open book to him...

...The .Socialist Party to perform its duties to the Cause, carry on the propaganda, education, political campaigns and organization work, needs a large membership...

...I have taken New York as an ex-nnrple fur this suggested work...

...Heimerch, the Socialist candidate, was elected Mayor of Kiel by a vote of 29,884, against 20,736 for the People's Party (Big Business) nominee, and 16,814 for the Democratic contender...

...What we really need is a simple plan of action...

...The Nationalists and the Rscislists did not come to the session st which the election took place and the Communists made such a row that they had to be ejected before the ballots were cart...

...On March 20 tha National Assembly, upon the request of the Attorney General's office, voted to suspend the Parliamentary immunity of Johsnn Vanczak, responsible editor of Nepszava, Budapest Socialist daily, so that he might be tried on twenty ch-rge- of violation of the press law, in addition to one for which he had already been sentenced to six months...

...H* presented to the court a view of reform and revolution which is as sound today as when he uttrrea it...

...But these ll'i usands have openly avowed their adherence to the Socialist cause...

...Indicted He was indicted en th* ground thatph* had incited the workers to rk*Pagainst the ruling classes...

...THE INTERNATIONAL Changes on tha Executive...

...In Zurich, where the fight was bitter, the Socialist*- elected 56 aldermen, a gain of 11 seats, while the Communists fell from LI to 9 and the Gruetlianers from 6 to 1. The bourgeois parties had a net loss of three seats, bringing their total down to 60, and leaving the workers' representatives in a clear majority...

...What the Berlin Vorwaerts called a good curtain raiser for the Presidential election, occurred on March 22 in the Saxon city of Zeitt when the Socialists Increased their vote in the municipal contest from 6,746 on May 4, 1924, to 7,780, although the total vote was 10 per cent less, while the Communist vote fell from ?,694 to 2,277, and the bourgeois vote from 9,984 to 9,168...

...Fl^INifMD LASSALLE fesi^SONEAL ONE HUNDRED years agof April 11, 1826, Ferdinand Laasalle was born and to tha workers of Germany was given one of the most gifted men that ever served the Labor "movement...

...Even if the price is put as low as one dollar for a course of eight lectures, they can be made to pay, if the enrolled voters, through the efforts of the comrades, are drawn to the lectures...

...In addition we ought to plan for the winter public forums...

...The new city council consists of 14 Socialists, 4 Communists and 17 members of the bourgeois bloc that includes everything from the Democrats to the "Kadicals...

...On The International Front "Worktn ofth* World, Unitil You havo nothing to lot* but your ehaint end a world to gain...

...three seats they formrely held...

...Many thousands of the enrolled voters, I am sure, can be drawn into the party organization...

...In the cantonal election in Aar-gau the Socialists Increased their representation from 61 to 61, at the expense of the bourgeois parties and the Gruetlianers, who lost th...

...Even in the Canton of Vend, where th* party row over tactics resulting in the expulsion of Dr...

...The simplest method, it seems to me, is the best...

...That means that each party member will look after fourteen enrolled Socialists, get acquainted with them, make friends of them if possible, get on a personal basis with them...

...pc'':iB» of I he party in the re-1 tent few months...

...It will [ distribute the duties among all...

...Classifying Prospects A card index would indicate the progress made and art as a check \ on the efforts necessary to bring these enrolled Socialists into close •contact with the Socialist movement It would be quite easy for each of us to prepare our index cards, if tije county office were unable to do that...

...All Labor and fraternal bodies are invited to send two delegates...

...GERMANY Mora Cains at tha Polls...

...I believe that most [ people will attempt to find their so- j lutions of problems in the unstaked and unfrequented road...

...Even Bismarck, who hated everything in politics for which Lassalle stood, could not withhold his admiration for the scholarship of the man who more than any other helped to found the German Labor movement...

...For this reason he minimised the value of trait union* and did not recognize their great importance in raising the standard of living...

...The branch and (tie city organisers should keep in touch with the members on this question and call for these reports if there be any lagging...

...A reform, on the other hand, is i fleeted in esse the existing situation is maintained in point of principle...

...He said: "What, then, is the scientific meaning of this word 'revolution,' and how does revolution differ from reform...

...1 believe that these lecture courses can be made to be...

...Divide the 14,000 enrolled Socialists among the 1,000 Socialist Party members and you will find that there are fourteen enrolled Socialists to each party member...

...self-sustaining...

...U it peculiar, but true, that in any attempt to solve a problem, the ! mi st circuitous road is usually . sought and employed The open road ahead is not seen...

...A plan such as this will hav* a ; double purpose...

...Two Kinds of Recruiu There are two general sources from which the party can recruit its membership: the Trades Unionists and the enrolled Socialist voters...

...The Socialist Party of Argentina has appointed Eugenio Etchegoin, resident in Paris, as its representative on the Executive Committee of the Socialist and Labor International...

...It seemed ,to his contemporaries that Lassalle had traversed the whole field of human knowledge...

...The work must dovetail...

...He believed that wagej under the capitalist system w*ja determined by am "iron law" which condemned the working class to S bare subsistence...

...What is more, it gives each of Us j a job, a job that none of us can ! not perforin or should escape Course Lecture* NeceMary In conection with this plan (he following should be considered...

...Put a searching mind to solve any question, and it will go in quest of something that others I osnnot see...

...It will not serve any purpose, in | this article, to discuss the...

...These are scattered all over the county...

...Whil ¦ some radical bourgeois papers are occasionally fined and'their editor* jailed for alleged press crimes, which generally consist of telling -the truth, Nepszava has the honor of being the* special object of the attention of Horthy's minions...

...With some modifications to suit local conditions it can be made ef-| fective everywhere...

...His intellectual attainments ware so remarkable that he towered above his German contemporaries...

...While the speakers should come from all walks of life, the forums sl c uld be stamped as Socialist in . stitutions...

...Compared with some of the other Cantons, the Vaud is rather weak in a Socialist sense...

...But the cards were stacked against Lassalle, and, like all ruling classes, his enemies thought they would silence him by imprisonment...

...Here, again, it is not a question of the mesne A reform may be effected by means of insurrection and bloodshed, and a revolution may be carried out in piping times of peace...

...He challenged his enemies to permit the most eminent scholars of Germany to pass judgment upon th*[ sbara*-, ter of the address, a challenge"' that was not accepted...

...Naturalisation Aid League The Sixteenth Annual Conference of the Naturalization Aid League will b< held next Sunday, April 12, at 2 p. m., at the Forward Hall, 175 East Broadway...

...SWITZERLAND Victorias Justify Party's Policy^ Sweeping victories in municipal and cantonal elections in several parts of Switzerland in March are taken by political observers there as justifying the middle-of-the-road policy followed by the Social Democratic Party...

...One reason for the early development of the Labor and Socialist movement in Germany was that at Its very inception It had this gifted man to inspire the workers and to Interpret th* historical role of their class in history...

...These few suggestions sre not very ambitio.t, but I think they have the merit of not bein(, involved...

...Had he livid longer there* is little doubt that experience and further study would have induced him to modify this view...

...Nothing lea) will satisfy tie awakened demand* of the working classes...

...Revolution means transmutation, and a revolution is, accordingly^.^ccom-plished whenever, by whatever means, with or without shock or violence, sn entirely new principle is rubstituted for what is already in effect...

...It seems to me that this plan is not only simple but absolutely workable with little effort...

...I realize there are other and bet-I ter suggestions, but they involve financial burdens that are at this moment beyond the party...

...The apparent swin^ to more radical po- j litical views by Labor needs crystallisation and organization...

...Every party member should be willing to have assigned to him fourteen enrolled Socialist voters...

...It will add mem 1 bers to tha Socialist Party and fit ' them for the So»*U»t activities i they are gifted for...

...In outlining my plan let me take a concrete case...

...In his open letter to the National Labor Association of Germany fc 1863 ha dearly defined what course the political struggle of the work, ing clatS should take...

...In a city like New York it is ipnte possible to run several courses...

...Further evidence that the Horthy regime in Hungary regards the Social Democrats aa its most dangerous foes, althorgh they do not talk as wildly as some of the emigres living in safety abroad or the few remaining followers of Bela Kun, is found in recent happenings in the land of the White Terror...