On The International Front
On The International Front »u-*~^^.^»^» AUSTRALIA In anticipation of th* Federal election that is to take place in the Commonwealth of Australia thia year, the Australian Labor Party...
...Mere Electoral VletOrUt Another sign of th* receding of the Communist wave that apparently reached ita high mark in the general elections last May ia found in the result of municipal elections in the big town of Villeurbanne, in the Ebon* D*partm*at, where a combination list support**] bar Soeialisu and Socialist!* R*««eJs waa elected by s vote of 6,U« veto*, against I.Of• for the regular Camwaist*, 1,0*4 for the Else National and 495 for a disatdent Cooutaaikt group...
...Let us hope that our delegates will take advangtage of that opportunity...
...In what doet their dictatorship consist...
...let us hope that th* miatake* of the last convention Will net be repeated, and that the double^eaatog Sad the ridiculous endorsement* of Republicans and Democrats will be a thing of the past...
...So when I read of how Marxism ha* balled thing* up in Russia, I am simply bewildered...
...They seem to have no practical connection...
...Then are plenty of evolutionist* today but no Darwinians, or Spencerians ' or Huxleyites...
...truly a remarkable growth...
...If we are not cartful we shall got into the situation of the Christian Church, which after long wrangling over disputed points made creeds which included all the fringes of the faith and left the faith out...
...there it no n*«d of our going it alone...
...On taking over the rein* of office he diecovered that the chauffeur whs drove the official n.otor car provided for the us* of th* Lord Mayor was not a trade unionist...
...I hope thtt lema Mtrxiitt...
...Legal minimum wage throughout Australia...
...The time for ihoer, plain, downright talking has come...
...economic basis...
...so-called progressives and smooth-talking professional politicians...
...in the 1020 election, with our party weak, almost smashed, and our candidate in jail (thanks to Mr...
...Who are the proletariat...
...Professor Simkovitch a few years ; ago wrote a book called "Marxism versus Socialism...
...I read it with 1 pleasure...
...Comrade Patin announced that ha would net make us* of th* car unless a trade unionist chauffeur were provided...
...The Socialist Party It the third party...
...It has beta the third party for some time as a glance at the election returns for year* past proves...
...R. D. Denman, former ' Liberal member of Parliament and a brother of Lord Denman, is another Labor recruit...
...The Federal conference, by a five to on* majority, voted net only to refuse affiliation to th* Communist party, but to declare any avowed member of that party ineligible for membership in the A. L P. One of the prominent flgum in th* conference wat Edward Granville Theodore, Premier of the Labor Government of the State of Queensland, who is expected to resign hi* position to engage in Federal politics, and I* r*gtrd*d as th* next Prime Minister of the Commonwealth...
...Ia aupplementary municipal •lectio** in Aubin, made nee**a»ry by the death of two aldermen, the Soeitliit* won both seat*, a train ef...
...Socialieti would be bound to vote against this credit on general principles, thus giving the Right and the extreme Left a chance to us* them to defeat the Government...
...From The New Leader Mail Bag LANDLORDISM Editor, The New Leader: Norman Thomas, in his forwardlooking article entitled "Condition...
...I want an answer, a statement of belief, not objurgation...
...Australia - wide cooperative pools for marketing and financing farm products...
...New York City.__d...
...Without both i philosophy and an economic basis i new party will hardly be worth thi forming...
...Ha ' had forgotten...
...Th* budget went through, 807 to 224, Communltta tnd reactionaries voting together and joining their voices, and later their typewriters, in violent denunciation of "this low-down Socialist trick...
...On The International Front »u-*~^^.^»^» AUSTRALIA In anticipation of th* Federal election that is to take place in the Commonwealth of Australia thia year, the Australian Labor Party ie girding up ita loin* and laying down the lines upon which it will force the issue...
...In the presidential election of 1904 Comrade Deb* received 90,000 vote...
...A LABOR LORD MAYOR Alderman John Henry Pelin sea just been elected Lord Mayor of Bradford, England...
...Ho it a good Socialist, a member of Parliament and an official of the Transport aV General Worker*' Union...
...JOSEPH SACKMAN...
...From three separate reports of the work of the July 4th convention of the C. P. P. A., which I had the pleasure to listen to, I have com* to the conclusion, that the convention a* a whole waa nothing more than a rubber , stamp...
...The con* vtntion will afford that opportunity...
...Jersey City, N. J. A LABOR, NOT LIBERAL, PARTY Editor, The New Leader: Comrade Panken's articles, Socialism, Labor and Politics, In The New Leader, are to my mind very timely and to the point...
...Indeed liberals, but when It cornea to a show down, between Labor and capital, thete goody-goody liberals with a few honorable exception...
...For in¦tanc...
...From the above, we can tee that Socialiit thought and sintiraent has grown to a con*idera*|| cdte...
...Development and extension ef the Commonwealth Shipping Line...
...gathered there, m*r«ly eg i endorse th* work of the virion* seme t mlttees, to clothe them with author* i lty, but not to discuss their work* • or to *xprei* any thought* or ieoaia, i It leemiaLa Follette needed a con* • vention to endorse hie candidacy, i Here it was, ready made.* > , Yes, we did got a promise that , a convention would be held *om«1 tim* in January or February, and • at thi* convention, the queetie* of ' organizing a new third petty (pT«t (lumably a Labor party) will he . taken ap and decided upon...
...Are they to form a ruling da**, small or large according to th* group which they include, and ke«p the rest of the population in subjection...
...I hav* heard of th* dlctatonhip of th* proletariat...
...Government control of wirelea* broadcasting...
...Consternation in official circles...
...What are the fundamentals of Socialism, and which of them are Marxian, and which art net...
...M. Blaisot, in explaining why th* reactionaries war* going to vote against the credit, declared that "the Socialists hope to use the** funds against the Communists and us...
...The contributions of Moses to ' law, economics and sanitation «ri ' widely used today, indeed they may > be called the foundations of the - sciences, though there has been * much progress since his time...
...What is it...
...Weinman, Mend* * and de Vries have made their contributions, and the ideas offered bj f all of them are a common storthousi •' of material for th* thinkers of today 1 It it no discredit to Marx to put 1 him in the place of Moses as • scltnI fist...
...Hit place is just that of Darwin, Hux ' ley and Spencer in evolution...
...GEORGE LLOYD...
...Our party ha* grown, it will continue to go on...
...prove* that the party was on the right track, for this progress was mad* in spit* of Boll Moots McMa...
...Here's to the succor* of the convention...
...Brooklyn...
...FRANCE Sociali.u End Secret Pali** Fund While the French royalists and Communists are furnishing plenty of material for sensational stories from Paris about the alleged danger of a Communist revolt, which are dispatched via cable ana wireless to the Amtrletn daily presa with a zeal worthy of a better cause, the Sociaiiet* In the Chamber of Deputies am continuing their work of supporting Premier Harriot again»t his enemiaa on the extreme Right and Left and incidentally putting over bit* of lagitUtien in th* inter* est of the working clat...
...The special election for a etty councillor in the Tenth Arrondi»ee»*nt *f Pari* was turned into a reactionary victory on th* second ballot heeaui* the CommunUU p*r*i*ted In keeping their candidate in the field, after the other candidates of the Left had dropped out in favor of the Socialist, who wa* defeated by a vote of 2,319 to 2,015, the Cewmaaiat getting 897...
...eventually joining hando with sad becoming part of the Labor party that 1* bound to come tconer or later...
...lot us itay away from them...
...I have read Marx, and I have studied American Socialist programt...
...if there are those »ho call themtelvet such, will expound...
...N. Y. MARX AND SHAW AGAIN Editor, The New Leader: It seems to me, If I may use a copyrighted expression, that you have not been fair to Shaw in your criticism of his remarks re Marx...
...of a New Party," says, among othei things: "The two most essentia questions have to de with the philosophy of the movement and with it...
...Second—If a Labor party is net form*d at this convention, than our Socialist delegates ahould bind all their energies toward kttplng tht C. P. P. A. intact...
...i The position of the party should bt: First—To do every iaing that can be done to bring about the formation of a bont-fld* Labor party...
...Wilton), Debs ¦ received 820,000 votes...
...In Vif Canton in the leer*, an election for • member of the general council in pl»ce of a loading indeetrialiet councillor, recently deceased, resulted in a Socialist victory on the second ballot, the Radicals having dropped their candidal*, Itaving the SociellojU, and the Bloc National to fight it out a/op...
...Leslie Scott, K. C, also • former Liberal member of Parliament, joined the Laborltes a few days ago...
...when th* -uettion of approving the placing of 1,1100,000 franc* a( th* disposition of the Department of the Interior for secret police work (which largely consisted under most of M. Harriot's predecessor* in provoking trouble and hounding radical") cam* up on November 13, the reactionaries figured that the 100-od...
...Are they the poor, or the people who do productive work, or the people who work for wag**, or the workers who belong to union*, or th* people who accept tome particular theory, or what...
...Rut the Socialist* solved thi* problem easily, without having recounae to the noted mathematical talent* of Paul Painleve, by inducing M. Herriot to accept an amendment providing that th* "secret fund" be secret no longer and ¦t subject to special Parliamentary rule* of control...
...May it organise a rati Labor party and give the workers something to work for, temething te live for, something to heps for...
...Is it the Labor theory of value, or the economic interpretation of history...
...He now is painting a portrait of Ramcty MacDenald, formerly Prim* Minister...
...We do not know just yet what the result* of the last election will show, but wo do know that New York end California alone cut about 700,000 votes for La FoL - litte under the Socialiit Party emblem...
...Formerly thi* town Ms a Communist stronghold and the city council had bean unable te do anything because of a tie between the Communist* and the bacWIUU...
...That, as the land of the Unit* States is the source from which Labor obtain* the material for all wealth, it shall not be rented by LANDLORDS to the people for billion* of dollars every year and th* ill-gotten rent of the land be exchanged for the product of Labor, thereby producing the capitalist tyitam (the exploitation of the workers through the present system of landlordism...
...are found on the side of capitalists...
...Is that Marxism...
...Third—Our delegates at the convention should Oppose and veto against th* formation of a to-called third party which would include liberals, n*ar liberala...
...ENGLAND New Recruits for Labor Augustus Johns, th* portrait painter, has joined the Labor party...
...In the meantime the Lord Meyer is riding in the municipal tramcsre...
...Th* Australian Labor party is thoroughly Socialist in its character, *nd the platform declare* for socialisation of industry...
...t New the question ariiei, What shall be the position of the Socialist i Party at the Coming convention...
...Denounces British Egyptian Polity The Permanent Adminiitratrv* Commission of the Socialist Party of France has joined the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain in denouncing the high-handed policy adopted by the Tory Cabinet in the Egyptian crisis and in demanding that the whole question of controlling Egypt and the Sudan be put up to the League of Nation...
...and that the entire rent of land shall be socialized for the common needs of the people, thereby abolishing landlordism, the cause of th* capitalist system...
...One can be a Socialist on tht bails of Jesus just as logically as on that of Marx...
...Or are they only a revolutionary junta, staying in power just long enough to form a democratic Government...
...I agree with Comrade Panken when he says, "We gave everything and received nothing...
...When he object* to th* idea thai Marx hat completed Socialiit theory and that after him there is no mori thinking to be done, he does not * therefore try to deprive Marx of hit proper place a* an important con j trlbutor to Socialiit thought...
...ARCHIBALD CRAIG...
...I do not feel sure that I know what the early Socialists meant by it, add I certainly do not know what the modern Ruttlant mean by it...
...It is conceded on all hand* that the election will mean a sweep for the Labor party, as they are already the biggest party and are kept in opposition only by a coalition of the two other groups, A fighting platform waa adopted at the recent conference of the party, including the following planks: Legal 41-hujr week throughout Australia...
...There ii ne need for a third party...
...I want to know, and I suppose there arc others who want to know...
...WhyJOWlT we now join a third pMf H liberals, so-called, progre**sv*?eal disgruntled politician...
...I therefore offer the followinf pltnk for adoption by the new party...
...Committees of 48, FsrmSeroipiX parties, Communist parties, iB^Bg* parties tnd whatnot...
...Then I w*nt to ask him why he had given it that title...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 1
