THE Chatter-Box
THE Chatter-Box La Dame Noir All thi* cam* in a curious dremm to M On* night we met tack ttktr «,„ _ rM ,Q_tt# K««e««_mt#_, cmd M pltntmntl* You atked tht way, and eagerly tSZ, The distance...
...And when I lit the lamp and taw ma* face I fled tk* dead leavtt in « frenzied roe —.-o—¦—— Front the four er.di of this Mag»*u dom Pegatut hat borne to our door eong epics, lyrics, dreams, until the little dram that has been assigned to us as a tarn turn sanctorum for our editing is full c "beaded bubbles winking on a brim...
...Let us confess t> all humility our guilt in assuming th title...
...What "Zero" is t the unemployed of the city, we hope to b* come to the poet* of America, God-toe* our great mission...
...But the yetrs flew, whizzed rapidly...
...Louise'* attitude waa aymhoj^ed'fataiitis fits leekad aronnd, sighed •oftly, and was on the point of leaving, when her husband resumed: "Do you wish to ask me something...
...moment...
...COOPERATIVE HOUSING I jr r HILE the matter is still in the stage yy of discussion the fact that the International Ladies' Garment Worksrs and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers ire considering the possibility of cooperate housing ia of special interest...
...While thia leadership of upper classes in tho demand for independence often prevails it is not true of all countries...
...Once again he looked at her...
...INDEPENDENCE OF WEAKER NATIONS AREADER of Tht New Leader raiie* a question regarding imperialist control of weaker peoples that is worthy of consideration...
...After all, economic servitude is rooted in the minds of human beings...
...The Coolidge view of the sale of the property or long-time lease to a private corporation is practically embodied in the Underwood bill...
...Perhaps the workers of the nation may some time become vested with the industrial franchise and become citizeps of industry, thus becoming an important—aye, the most important—section of America...
...The Rand School it the pioneer in this field...
...No, not at all...
...A rapid panorama of impressions, emotions, a subtle and generous melancholy...
...remote, indefinable...
...i.-„ witliiiig you in all sincerity what everybody is wishing everybody else...
...He regarded her absent-numb...
...The husband gave her a close scrutiny...
...Like an old song, it brought with it memories of long ago...
...One of the most valuable of these power sites is Muscle Shoals, and Congress is the scene of maneuvers to deliver this enterprise to private exploiters...
...The New Leader takes this occasion to call to the...
...it wa* tugisi...
...They were silent...
...Thit exhibition of solidarity between native ruler* and foreign capitalists and investors favors the development of class solidarity among the working masses...
...Yes...
...Now these New York Babbitts would have us believe that a Congress composed almost exclusively of Republicans and Democrats may decide in favor of Federal ownership and control of children, for that is what rationalization means...
...A, mortal sadness gripped her...
...The affair had now become an idee fixe with Madame Jamyn...
...There are two reasons why Socialists favor independence for the subject nations despite the fact-that-upper classes of these nations may obtain the larger benefits of home rule for a time...
...j. 1 Dong on sadly...
...That a human being is bette: off by not filling himself with booze goe without saying, but to assume that in creased production of commodities it evl dence of "prosperity" or that it it due t< prohibition enforcement it shallow res soning...
...Ik deed, we are living through a thrilling er of our life...
...But he had long since ceased to take notice of hit wife, had failed in the minute attentions so dear to a woman, spoke little, and amused her not at all...
...Jamyn wat ttking his coffee over hit paper...
...The Supreme Court of the United States on two occasions when it tried to legislate in the matter of child labor decided that Congress did not have the power...
...Congress will toon anawer...
...Time to make for the door, turn the street corner, hire a carriage and—cross the rubicon...
...What tbe child labor amendment proposes is a grant of power to Congress...
...Her smile assured her husband...
...It is 'urther evidence of a tendency in progresiive unions to consider matters of interest n the working class which were once beyond the vision of union leadership...
...One livei but once...
...Muscle ShoaJa is the richest prize that is left...
...One Word Did It By A. SCHOLL Translated From the French by Louise Lafitte PETITE MADAME JAMYN wai on th* point of deceiving her huaband...
...Wkitper sweetly ' Mellow fancies...
...You think so...
...In the latter the miner in the anthracite field are so dissatisfiei that a general strike may break out at an...
...There is the further consideration that if thit is a real danger the States should be deprived of any power to abolish child labor because a State can alto nationalize the children within its borders If it wishes to...
...No, she never lived...
...jr ;| Death is...
...I Every now and then a long-haired t short-winded Apollo or Sappho trundle* I on ua in true Louis Quatorze fashicf 1 MSS...
...After dinner the permitted herttlf *U» word of mtlieioua coquetry: -j "One word did it...
...o-¦ \, - could not conclude thlt extrantout appendix without making note of a Christmat spirit act on tho part of one of our, gifted contributors...
...I am certain...
...J. Thi* twena* thai - we would give the leeaee til th* preptrtj t on which we have Spent enmitd flM.OOO.OOS...
...On the other h§nd, the numeroeit proeli mattions and bulls broadcasted by Zinovie from Moscow gave the Conservative...
...A feW momentswas all that remained between virtue and accident...
...The afternoon was spent in a solitary walk...
...To comprehend the maze of factors and forces that make or retard human progress is a matter of rational education emancipated from the sinister influences that largely dominate the public schools and privately endowed Institution...
...His sonl recaptured the faint fragrance of past perfumes, roses, witcheries...
...No, indeed...
...America con tists of the "principal industries" whic show increase* in production for Septembe and October of last year...
...Her husband's solicitude touched her, but not sufficiently to make her recoil, to revoke her decision...
...So long as the masses have thi* powerful Urge of union with their native exploiters there is little hope of the development of'a strong Labor movement...
...Moreover, as Foreign A fairs, London, point* out, no demand hi been made by Tory and Liberal newspapei "for the arrest of the joint signatory, M McManus, a British subject, who wat liab to the extreme penalty for a high act < treason and who has, moreover, from thi day to this remained unmoleited...
...Count meaning nothing nowaday* Salm being a corruption of Sam, da Wit being our natural family nomer of 1st years, and von Ludlowskaya Ulitxa—wit) the aid of a German and Russian dictionary—translates itself easily in, from Ludlow street where ho was born . . . . Wi trust this will furnish facts, figures, an* data erough to prove to any Russian tat truth of our imposition...
...Louis Terr of th • Bronx, who implies that a horrible catastrophe may ensue in his house if the myt tery of Count Salm d* Witt von Ludlow skaya Ulitsa, who signed an article on th Duchess Cyril in the Leader recently, I not explained...
...Moreover, the Bolshevist hat never urged the nationalization of children and - it it doubtful whether any movement in history hat ever urged it...
...The amendment, if it is adopted, will give Congress this power...
...M. Julian Font...
...She muBt worship at the altar of some man, must lay at his feet her beauty, her soul, to do with as he sees fit...
...When "Leone" wot advised that she had won the second prWS in the last Poetry Contest—in amount Mit" —she sent the following note to us: "W» you please send check to Joshua Llebtt* ninn—For Pioneer Youth...
...She gasped...
...She was still melancholy, but firm, resolute...
...when she returned, tired, tad...
...Jamyn raited hit head...
...0 -mil ¦ We are in receipt of a long letter fret a near-Comrade, Mr...
...ha added gently...
...WHO IS "AMERICA...
...And, squirming out of an intended embrace, she fled with a troubled smile...
...Invariably she came face to fact with her wasted life, her useless beauty...
...True, he lived up to the contract, fulfilled the letter of the law...
...The other consideration is that when independence is achieved the upper classes -ben rule in their own interests and this draws attention of the masses to the necessity of obtaining power for themselves...
...When they have extra values heaped up for them by the toil of men, women and children in industry then "America" is "prosperous...
...The simple scene held something intimate, something poignant...
...To be sure, there are many obstacles to 1 overcome and organizations will have to roceed carefully in this matter to avoid Istakcs, but condition* are certainly such i to warrant a beginning...
...Ho would not seem the same after her fatal step...
...She arrived at this decision not without a violent struggle...
...i U» asetm knew, f THE RAND SCHOOL THE convention of the Rand School students and it* activities, reported on another page, are marked evidence of the increasing importance of workers' education in the United States...
...He is a t'ictini of subtle intellectual coercion which pervert* his mintf from serving himself and ' bis class and Inducing conduct that can inly serve his enemies...
...Moreover, with independence won the native ruling classes do not have the capital to develop local resources and they are compelled to call in foreign capital...
...Ita influence for good cannot be measured, but that its contribution to the winning of better conditions for the working class and promoting the ideals of a decent and human social order have been great is certain...
...We are not left in doubt...
...Whether thi* super-capitalism will le permitted to gather into it* hand* the last of the great natural riches that remain is a matter of conjecture, but that it follows a policy of American capitalism since the overthrow of slavery is evident...
...If the greed of their clast had not been checked by legislation and union organization tuccoeding generationt of workers would bo stunted and broken...
...It his assisted in strengthening trade union and Socialist Party organizations by training men and women to be more effective and efficient executives, organizers, lecturers and workers...
...THE Chatter-Box La Dame Noir All thi* cam* in a curious dremm to M On* night we met tack ttktr «,„ _ rM ,Q_tt# K««e««_mt#_, cmd M pltntmntl* You atked tht way, and eagerly tSZ, The distance ending at a tavern's light...
...All that is required is clever imitation of the style and an ir sufferable fool like the Moscow gentlema will easily serve the purposes of reaction i any country...
...At least this is tbe promise of the Labor and Socialist movement of America...
...Only alleged copii bave turned up...
...These are the reasons why support of movements for independence among subject peoples are justified by the Labor and Socialist movement...
...For that reason we stress the importance of coopera:ion with the Rand School and workers' ducation in general...
...The local ruling classes might be worse taskmasters than the foreigners...
...Warm to look, at, tool to feel, Pouring' love, and wounds to heal . ., < -Leone., sw - ¦.....¦ 0...
...She must have her flinr, must spread her wings...
...She pushed the door...
...In the former wag reductions have been marked since the No vember election...
...blacksmith of Utah has sent us an of that out-iron-bands Longfellow, cheatm tree smithy...
...Only a bungler would be guil 1 of thit^ At the late E. D. Morel point \ out in a speech a few dayt b*fer* the eta | tion, "it it a matter of common knowled , that the Communitt parti** either- ci . themselves the 'Third International' or t 'Communist International,' to distingui themselves from the 'Second Internationa which is composed of the Labor and Socii iat parties with which they are at dagge , drawn...
...e o » m - Offcring Tiger-tHy, a yellow eup, With your heart't blood leaping up...
...Representatives of the capitalist order rarely interere with private enterprise until its rretched results compel their attention, but heir interference is always timid, halflearted and never offers a permanent soluion of the housing problem...
...ily and added, carelessly: "Where are you going?*' This annoyed her...
...Fine way to start a New Year happily...
...o menacing to the life and health of hunan beings has private capitalism in housng become that conservative representaives in the State Legislature were reluctintly compelled to enact moderate rent aws to restrain the profiteers...
...Cooperation in thit matter not only helps the Rand School of Social Science but it helps to build the economic and political organizations of the workers on secure foundations...
...You ttoed in doubt, and to I offered «, My tinging telf agaxntt thi brooding nigh And we u/ere wending on before we knm Then we reached the inn wa had agree But when we entered in the bridal root 1 felt the darkneii of a fearful deed— And the dull portent of « formlei doom...
...There w*t pity, infinite sorrow, for her husband, and disgust, nausea with her imminent cheating...
...An organization of the executives of many capitalist corporation*, it cooly tend* out a pamphlet opposing the amendment in which we find thi* choie* morse) : "In brief, in the light ef serious consideration of this proposal, there arise* more than a question (perhaps unrecognized by it* leaa thoughtful and less informed advocates and doubtless unintended by any) whether it doe* not contain in essence or embryo the shocking doctrine of Communist or Bolshevist, of the nationalization Of children...
...Then he managed to find tender word* and nursed her lovingly...
...Further evidence that the document wi a forgery is the fact that the original hi never been produced...
...vegnr...
...Silently and nobly the sacrificed her youth, not without r>itterne»«i...
...She did not keep the appointment...
...or the money wage may increase with increaied production, but prices maj loar to such an extent as to mean a reduction of real wagea...
...He therefore questions "whether the overwhelming majority of the people of the Philippines, of flgypt and Haiti, would be benefited by home rule at this time...
...She wanted to give of herself generously, without stinting, yearned to spend herself, her wealth of tenderness and adoration, on some man...
...In no field has private capitalism failed nore miserably than in the matter of housng and in no other city has the failure >een more glaring than in Greater New fork...
...mine...
...And still, at the last moment, on the point of crossing the line, when she»had but to obejr her initincts, the fell prey to indecision, to fear...
...America" consists of the owners of the "principal industries...
...It was a whiff from the past...
...M A poem it a fantasy . fl Caught in a beauty'$ tape - • • H 5 A poem « a vis-a-vis Of pott and the world...
...Surely $25 as a prise ha ' magical properties among the scribe* « even this highly industrial world...
...f Defoition of Poetry A poem it an ecttaty „J Rampant on a page...
...If Yon Sho«td Tel Me that If you should tell me this, I wUl not heat Of it: that there must come a day when I Shall close your Hear and never once appear Again, or reeolleet a tingle sigh Of all the tears I thed within the wall* Of this warm room that breathes yon* lovely words i And echoes gentle toundt of your footfall...
...It appears, a certain Rut sian neighbor of hla insists that there ax tually exists such a acioh of Czarii nobility in this country...
...CHEERING news that "dry America I prosperous" comes through a bulleti of the World League Against Alcohol ism...
...She must n.akf life real, throbbing, thrilling, ar— i "mid '"i th" nuplial niurh...
...In tome countries, at in India, the wealthier magnate* are allies of the alien maaters...
...A poem it a myttery And symmetry unfurled, • Church Bells Cntme on, church belle...
...During her indispositions he wat tender, attentive, compassionate, helpful, even uneasy...
...Her eyes were sparkling, her face on fire...
...i London...
...The Babbitt* who can raise this question retort to the last ditch of dishonest appeal...
...If you should tell me thit, I will not hear...
...Muscle Shot** ia the hay to Use whoU super-power system ef th* South and its poatettten by private interest* would givs them a mastery over coming power pMduction that would make the feudal chiefs of the Middle Age* look like piker* ia comparison...
...li"ii< tb.it are ciinnidi i\: loper?' ive trt'tisiiw will lv r !>!<¦ '¦¦< mhar union* in their Icm .etive plnn...
...Increased production may occur with i marked decline.in tho real wsges of tht workers, at in the case of tht textile industry...
...Yet it is true that nearly every ruling class that has faced a curbing of iti poweri over a subject class has raised the question of either the nationalization of women or children or both...
...Not that he was bad...
...Ah...
...The workman who think* he is in a class with the banker really thinks ¦nd votes as the financier does...
...Among thes are textile* and coal...
...The transformation ef water power nto electricity and Ita tnrumiaaion 1 to industrial center* give* strategic power ; to the owner* and their banking allies...
...Croon a swan long...
...Who ia America...
...Childhood can never be safe in the keeping of those who have a black record in thit matter already...
...MUSCLE" SHOALS COAL was the great source of power in the nineteenth century and with machinery both brought a revolution in human relationships...
...The old illusion of a union of purpose and interest of all the people When the aliens directly ruled the country disappears...
...At the rustling of petticoats Mr...
...Henry Harrison...
...Are you certain...
...He then said, carelessly: "You are charming today...
...But—she was not a bit happy with her husband...
...As a man thinks, so is he...
...All that is necessary to believe that this it a real danger is to be at stupid at the members of the organization that pretendt that the danger is real...
...The former ruling magnates of Mexico would be perfectly willing to see Mexican independence wiped out by the United States invading and anneffng Mexico...
...v...
...The young woman was no longer pale, or very little...
...Independence wipes out many illusions that bar the way to a developing Labor movement, a movement that must in time link up with the movements in , «j_ other countries and eventually establish industrial democracy all over the world...
...i„ed to help n worthy caut...
...X**] on coming and sending...
...However...
...biiu St titt OttaCm* mill oa a oomprehtujiv* j I f program that will eventually challenge the • I general view that human being* must eub- mit to profiteering deepc-iler* or do without « decent home...
...6h* waa pal* aad tousUuog...
...bejng generous as well as attractive...
...I do not know myself...
...We hope that ie two or»ani...
...A vast storehouse of natural riches that could be used for human welfare has been acquired by bribery, theft, and through servile agent* of tbe master* in Congress...
...Ho calls attention to the fact that in the Philippines, Haiti, Egypt and other subject countries crying for independence it is often native upper classes who lead in thia demtnd...
...There is no single instance of tl Communists referring to their organizatii at the "Third Compunist International for the very good reason that it is tht fir organization of ita type that has ever bei organised...
...There ire thousands of tenements that are death raps, that breed disease, and for which ¦xtortionate rents are exacted by rent hogs...
...That the Zinoviev typo c propaganda helped to return reaction 1 England there can be no doubt, for if that had been no Zinoviev propaganda to imitai there would have been no forged documer available for use in England against th working class...
...i / am coming...
...By thit time we are able to recognise just who this "America" is that is- so "prosperous...
...Sometimes th* upper classes are divided, one section favoring and the other opposing independence...
...and southern Democrats favor the Underwood bill, which in part, to quote Senator Norris, would transfer "to a private agency for a 4 per cent return on only i Use tort of Dam No...
...In other words, Independence makes for an alliance between tbe native rulers and the former alien oppressors...
...In this country it wat heard against popular education, against abolition of slavery, against the early Labor parties, and a few year* ago against tl,e revolting farmers of the Noothwest...
...It brought her a flood of memories...
...It It interesting to observe that administration Republican...
...Already the gtnersl staffs of big corporations are seeking the mastery of these resources and to enrich themselves by corporate control...
...THE ZIN0V1EV FORGERY THE inside ttory regarding the Zinoviev . letter which the Conservatives sprung ' four days before the British election 1 may not be known until some years hence I 11 wb** tea** eejtlelat who know* publiab r "the facto in bit rtmajitee-ce...
...Her voice wat low, her face pnle...
...No one benefitted by her beauty...
...Workers' education aolda out the hope of intellectual emancipation for him and his class which will lead to emancipation from all forms of political and economic servitude...
...Any further check of their extortions will have to be accomplished by the tame means...
...Death it wine...
...He chuckled: "So much the better...
...Her tout wat shriveling within her for lack of love, dearth of tenderness and affection...
...The new industrial revolution it forecasted by the development of tho great water-power resources of the United States...
...Though it is much the tame thing that I fear...
...While it is true that mankind is largely shaped by the economic foundations of the capitalist system, it is also true that the system cannot be changed without an intelligent comprehension of it* history and it* problems...
...The authors of thit bulletin take no account of the economics of production but mewdv rejoice over its increasing volume...
...Ah," she said, blushing...
...Shall it go into the hands of the despoilers and profiteer* or be conserved for the welfare of all...
...Something in his wife's face recalled him his youth, their youth...
...1 Of the internal evidence contained in t 1 letter the meat important ia the fact tt 1 it mention* "The Third Communist Into national...
...She insisted upon teeing her husband before departing, even as one' wishes to bid adieu to one's dear ones before embarking upon a prolonged journey...
...th opportunity to get just such a forged doci ment as that which was used against th Labor party...
...attention of trade unlpn and party workers the importance of enlisting the interest of every young man and woman who seek education and training that will fit them for service to the workers...
...So long at alien masters control weaker peoples the tendency is for the workers and peasants to forget their own special interests by sinking them in a common struggle with the upper classes for independence...
...To i>" rrixwl and will anil wither, or to deceive and HJouoav fl°UXi*o, bloom...
...The great need it knowledge...
...The adultery appeared tcriimplished...
...He remarked: "Is there any, trouble...
...It will enable th*m to reap th* fruit* of the coming technical revolution that ia destined to alter human society as the industrial revolution did in the eighteenth century...
...I tain evMeart now known make* practJseJ certain that the document waa a forgery...
...Gall and wormwood to her this cheating, thia sneaking and driving into despair a man with whom she had lived a dozen years...
...Thia organization proves too much...
...She felt she would never again see her husband as he is now...
...The twentieth century now faces a technical revolution that will bring a profound change in the material foundations of society...
...You are going out...
...Please observe that it is "America that is prosperous...
...in waa a t ; the turn over tht problem in her head...
...The professional prohibitionist It unde the necessity of proving his prediction made in the pre-Volstead era that with th abolition of the grog shop poverty wouli disappear...
...You are not ill ?" With a gentle laugh: "Not at all...
...That never onee will there whirl up gag 6t>a*t To flutter on the silver eymbali in My mind and reaioafcen memories Of you I loved, who were my heart't bloot kin And knew me bared te all my frailties...
...LAST DITCH OF CHILD SLAVERS DULL and itupid a* much of the propaganda inspired by the National Association of Manufacturer* against th* < child labor amendment is, it is doubtful whether any reactionary agency ha* sunk to lower depths in thi* sort of work than the New York Board of Trade and Transportation...
...s. a. DEwrrr...
...None...
...It is also significant that members of tht clast who** ancestora sweated childhood and broke up worling-clas* families by dragging both women and children into factories are now posing as special guardians of the home and family...
...The working class consists of aliens who are not expected to compose any important part of this "America...
...Modern society is a complex arrangement of institutions, beliefs, customs, prejudices and interests...
...a fair Beatrice* of Venfo California, lulls us into a new hum* comedy, and brings us back a sort c chestnut-vending Dante out of the Infenu Region...
...She wat being admired, coveted, desired—but to what purpose...
...That the organized workers have the bility and the statesmanship to wipe out ome of the worst features of modern outing has been demonstrated by the Britih building guild and other cooperative exeriments of the workers on the Continent, imerican trade unions have not ventured ito this field, but with the development of abor banking and cooperative enterprises was inevitable that housing would eventully attract the attention of the more ad•nced unions...
...There are wretched kennels which vorkers on a low wage level are compelled 0 rent that are a disgrace to society...
...in hand and peroration on Hp...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 1
