THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK The death of Robert M. La Follette La Follette and Edwin and Ladd Freemont Ladd remove* two conspicuous senatorial leaders of the progressive movement in politics....
...the laws on civil servants empower it to build up a clsss of Government employes entirely faithful to the Fascist regime, the power to emit decrees without consulting Parliament gives it almost a free hand to pass any legislative measures it thinks fit, while the laws on the press enable it to exercise powerful action on public opinion...
...M. Laboulle, Public Works...
...THE FRENCHSOrCULIST VOTE ASWING to the Left in the French municipal elections in May continued in the election of a General Council in the Department of the Seine last Sunday...
...These two worthies henceforth will be of no influence in Minneapolis and even tha capitalist crowd that purchased their service will have little use for it in the future...
...M. Wauters, Labor and Industry, and Camilla Huysmans, Arts and Science...
...We are airej^ consulting engineers »nd "i«hwsye»ron how to bring the ftg«jWflef...
...o Late last week stuThe Chinese dents and strikers at Strike Spreads Canton decided upon a general strike and boycott of British, Japanese and American goods...
...Then, despite all experience and even the warning of men in other sections of the country, the leaders of the movement for a time accepted the professed cooperation of Communists...
...H. Herri**'-oIs it June...
...The decision cites the fact that religious instruction is not one of the requirements of the State education law and that "consequently it is unlawful and unauthorized for a Board of Education to substitute religious instruction in the schools...
...nearer to normalcy and Greenwien a. i. us IB* 4...
...The death of these men is a distinct loss to the farmer radicalism of the Northwest There is no man to take the place of La Follette and it is probable that without such a personality the agrarian movement will develop more confusion and will finally lapse into the content that followed the farmer revolt of the '90s...
...It appears that churches and school officials had been following the procedure described and their right to do so was challenged, with the result mentioned...
...Meantime the solemn judgment remains...
...Although Socialists could not accept his economic philosophy they admired the man for his courage...
...This simply means that the Senate must do the will of Mussolini or he will disperse it with Fascist bayonets...
...s-oFor a Nagging Wife // you have heard this story, stop me...
...The workers have an interest in rejecting the claims of all to the domination of the schools...
...Let the parsons fight if they will...
...A Government that is capable of masking its work in Morocco as a "struggle between Western civilization and tyrannical barbarism," to quote Painleve, deserves not even the qualified support which French Socialists have given it...
...The Senate alone stands in the way, but Mussolini warned that "the Senate cannot assume the responsibility of opposing us, which would lead to very grave consequences...
...The referendum of the party regarding support of Painleve is reported as 61 in favor of withdrawal of support and 61 divided between two less drastic resolutions...
...Shall it be Protestantism, Catholicism, Mormonism, Spiritualism, Christian Science, Theosophy or some other creed...
...It was decided that collaboration with the so-called progressive elements of the Clericals and Liberals would constitute no danger to the Socialists, so long as they held to their legislative program...
...Ladd was of another type...
...The Mount Vernon agreement between the churches and school officials WW an ingenious method of avoiding the objection to such instruction in the public schools...
...Is it June That twingt th* crescent moon In these blu* altitudest I* it Jun* That lightly holds despair, , j, Twining moonbeami in her hair-' Offering beauty for a prayer...
...He therefore cast his lot with the Non-Partisan League...
...The conference itself was representative of working class opinion, representative of trade unions, political and fraternal organizations of the working claas...
...7n Heaven there's a tale that's told Of her beneath—a nagging mistress— And him, the Devil, ever bold...
...Despite the warning that the early deaths gave of the danger oi , tetraethyl lead poisoning, four mer > have been added to the death toll this year, t To continue to risk the lives of men after . this experience was little short of criminal...
...It is probable that the Labor Government will make tha visit of the fleet the occasion for a great anti-war demonstration and ask the Americans to join...
...tain side, fourteen paces from a brook,« garden, a hen coop, a corn field and' a cow—some woodland for the fireplace, enough summer farmwork with our neighbors for cloth and wool through the winter four walls lined with our books, a typewriter and plenty of manilla sheets—ids' ' you all can have our Bronx flat, stears h^at, open plumbing, motor car, golf dub, opera, electric reproducing piano, Queen Anne dining room suite and Klizabethu bed room six-piece set, board and director!' meetings, nomination for Assembly, weekly write-ups, in the news, tool and hardware business, bank books, check books, bilk, notes, drafts, receivable, payable, discounts bills of lading, bookkeepers, stenographer-, salesmen, lock, barrel—yea, everything ws ar,e to-day as we sit here pounding out this hemorrhage of phrases...
...Will we see you at the L. I. D. Conveirtios this week end at Tamiment...
...Important actions of the Fascist Chamber this week are summarized by the Times as follows: "The laws against secret societies give the Government the right to inquire into the collective activities of any class of citizens, full power to reform the penal civil code and police laws to enable it to form a completely new legal system...
...Ladd, also, was limited in his views of the economic basis of capitalism but he was thoroughly honest...
...oBolivia's railroads Railroad Strike are practically tied In Bolivia up by a general strike, and troops have been called out to intimidate the strikers, according to a despatch sent from La Paz on June 19...
...The upshot of the whole affair is hst the odor of petroleum oozes from this totorious case and in the id Doheny and linclair are likely to get what they want mil not what we would like to give them...
...There is a place for YOU, reader, and it is now for you to find that place and to do the work that you can do...
...The platform is the most carefully written document ever drawn for the consideration of the voter in New York City...
...It is a story of division and uncertainty in the ranks' of the workers, treachery and betrayal by former trusted leaders, timidity in the face of an unscrupulous enemy, an effort to tone down the claims of the working class, with the inevitable decline of the Labor vote and- decrease of representation in the City Council...
...Harry P. Sinclair, hat Sinclair Gets won in the Teapot A Decision Dome oil lease by s judgment delivered by Judge T. Blake Kennedy in Wyoming...
...He was a scientist inevitably drawn into the agrarian movement of North Dakota because the abysmal ignorance and servility of reactionary politicians did not permit him ss State Chemist to serve the agriculture eol his State...
...Ai laaat 100 wars null ill in one plant alone...
...At Hongkong "a state of emergency" has been declsred, which means the imposition of the censorship, owing to the power developed by the strikers...
...Just a hut on a moun...
...Two mighty judges equally learned in the law come to opposite contusions on important matters...
...flic,t of dreams, schemes and chicaneries vomited out of the gullet of God's meet moiistroifs creation, civilized mankind...
...We should keep all of them out of the schools...
...There was nothing wrong about the organization of Farmer-Labor forces into a political coalition against capitalist interests...
...In Shsnghai martial law has been declared but the strikers sre holding out, while a London report states that the agitation has spread to Manchuria where it is ascribed to a "Bolshevist agent" How unhappy the Powers would be if they could not ascribe Chine's troubles growing out of their own measureless insolence in China to "Bolshevist agents...
...Months were spent in quarreling over this Communist experience and it hag left a bad feeling as a result...
...o The black shirt gang Mussolini's that rules Italy seems to Program hare recovered from the revolt of opinion after the murder of Matteotti...
...The news that filters out from China and India, the daily prints that headline un- . ending* tales of mine disasters, hold-tips, love murders, Lucullan ribaldry and revelry in the higher spheres, lust, bigotry, rioting, and vieioushess in the lower castes—without a ray of hope from any spot oa the black surface—a vast, impenetrsbls man of flesh and bone, impervious to thought and sensitive in a dull way only to hunger, squirming like a gigantic worm te tasks, grovelling back to rest—a mass thst ii called the public for want of s better name, that is governed by the whip lash la the hands of a few, and is always grunting to itself by the way of self-nypnosis, "We art the people...
...Full returns of the election of Msy 30th give the Labor Party forty-six seats in the Legislature, against thirty-five for the Nationalist and nine for the so-called Progressives...
...RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS ADECISION of Supreme Court Justice Albert H. F. Seeger granting a permanent injunction restraining the Mount Vernon School Board from permitting children in the fifth and sixth grades to take forty-five minutes from each school week for religious instruction strikes a blow at the movement for a union of Church and State...
...Even in France this hypocritical sttitude Is tsken towards Chinese students in Paris who entered the Chinese Legation and forced the Chinese Minister to sign a statement approving the movement in Shanghai and accusing the "imperialistic governments...
...The mistake consisted of not resolutely relying upon rural and urban workers in the Minnesota political movement...
...One says thst black is black and the other it is white...
...A capitalist society that gives precedence to profits over human life and that piles up dead human beings isn't fit to survive...
...It should be declared bankrupt and taken over and managed for the welfare of all...
...The moment any form of intimate cooperation between Church and State is proposed the question immediately arises, What religion shall be taught...
...We believe that the marked thrill of enthusiasm that was invoked durin the nominations is an index to the determination of the delegates to carry on a vigorous campaign...
...But whatever the motive, we are convinced that the Socialists of France have made a stupendous blunder and nothing is to be gained by pretending otherwise...
...Ws can argue it all out there...
...They would either win concessions for Labor from their collaborators or, In case of obstinacy by the latter, the Socialists could force a fresh crisis and go before the country with a fine campaign issue...
...All the more astonishing is the report that French Socialists in Parliament, after a week or more of hesitation and discussion, gave a vote of confidence to the Painleve Cabinet oil Wednesday with four abstentions...
...After all, the work of the traitor can be harmful only temporarily...
...oLabor is again in Labor Captures control of New A...
...There can be no compromise on this issue...
...That burst of feeling, if carried into every organization represented at the <fonference, will bring the team work, the Volunteers, the cooperation and the enthusiasm that will make this campaign the most conspicuous one waged since 1917...
...He further pointed out that there are only 180 school days in the year, which leaves ample time for any additional instruction that parents may desire for their children...
...o- * Sometimes, when we are away in tat hills west of Liberty, N.Y., hiking tloag cow paths towards nowhere, a eenaiof pervading sanity sieves through our gutter, grained hide and we jiecide never to return again to the city...
...The moment these claims are tolerated they tend to divide the working class over a matter that prevents concentration of their forces for their own material welfare...
...1 It may have ended with a scalding fieri But them we might save learned te IgJ instead, * Soon you will go the way of winds esi ships, And I will stand alone upon our kill Clutching the fast blown kiss upon my Urn And empty hours like cups that I will M With dreams once lightly banished, wkt» you said, "Play with them only when our Uvt is dead...
...It would appear from all accounts that the usual silly methods of Communists had driven the Socialists to this vote of confidence at a time when it means support of the Government in the war against the Riffians...
...the Communists 14, against 7; and the so-called Moderates (probably other parties of the Left Bloc) 61 against 62...
...At about the same time reports from Lima, Peru, put the number of workers killed by troops and police during the recent strikes and near-revolts in the nitrate fields of Chile at from 600 to 1,000 ss against a Government report of fifty-nine...
...A master stroke is the statement that China was an ally in the World War and yet "in none of the defeated nations do we find the existence of extra-territorial courts, concessions, leased territories and externally Imposed tariffs...
...Nevertheless, it required cooperation between the two institutions and school teachers had handed out cards prepared by the Board of Education for parents to sign...
...That ¦'all did not consult the Attorney General egsrding this business is alsc an unimportant item to the learned Wyoming udge...
...Here one only finds an interminable con...
...The French Socialists should have refused a vote of confidence even if it meant the fall of the French Cabinet and the return of the National Bloc...
...Judge Kennedy Found that "no allegations of fraud have ¦ieen sustained" in the case of Sinclair, while Judge McCormick thinks otherwise...
...La Follette was the most agressive and intelligent leader of this movement as well as the most courageous...
...There was a commercial rivalry between the duPont plant and another firm which would suggest that the owners of the former preferred to stake human life rather than risk losing some portion of the market...
...The Socialist Party will come back stronger than ever...
...That the masses will some time rise is certain...
...He Ms a sis* Leap through the heavens, that thi* **t May chase it wide and far...
...Emil Vandervelde, the veteran Socialist Parliamentarian, is Minister of Foreign Affairs and Vice-President and is backed by four of his comrades holding the following posts: Edouard Anseele, Rsilways...
...5. Wales South Wales, leaving Victoria all alone as the only bourgeois-governed State of the Australian Commonwealth...
...Not until the movement had its experience with them, not until they had sowed suspicions and divisions, did the movement take action to oust them...
...The King has long ago accepted the dominion of the paranoic...
...Because Communists oppose the Government in their stupid way is no reason why Socialists should not present an intelligent opposition...
...The auspenson of operations until a thorough investigation had been made would have involved a sacrifice of profits for the plant and the knowledge that no human being would hazard his life for wages...
...oSince September, I>r„th Toll of 1923, eight men Tetraethyl have died of tetraethyl lead poisoning n the duPont plsnt st Deep Water, N. J., he last one giving his life in March of his araar...
...The Devil would Give all to get away from her...
...The treachery of Van Lear and Gilbert was left to complete the demoralization gad confusion...
...f " Junel Lews...
...Many weeks were spent in gathering, reliable data so that the conference would have an intelligent document jbrj, consider and the result is a comprehensive program...
...Socialists now have 45 seats, against 33 in the old council...
...For a Dog Who Lovei to Cot* a Ball When God is in the mood...
...That return is not desirable, but the price of preventing it should not be support of a Premier whose soft words belie his actions...
...Recent actions of the Fascist regime show a tendency to thoroughly "Fascistize" the Government and render civilization in Italy a nightmare of iron rule and intimidation...
...Hope so...
...His courage was tested during the war when, like Lincoln in the Mexican War, he stood his ground against the charlatans, jingoes, patrioteers and capitalist chauvinists...
...The delegates came to tha conference determined to unite those who are capable of intelligent cooperation and they made short Bhrift of the small group who thought that they could break up the conference...
...A report of a speech in St...
...There at least one would find peace...
...Due to fear by the Cabinet Crisis Clericals and LiberOver In Belgium als of new general elections in which the Socialists would probably have made another big jump toward the majority they are aiming for, the Belgian Cabinet crisis, existing practically continuously since the elections' of April 6, was settled, at least for some little time, on June 18 by the swearing in of a three-party Government, headed by Viscount Poullet the leader of the Democratic faction of the Catholic party...
...Meantime there is little doubt n the minds of intelligent human beings hat Fall received a "loan" of |100,000 vhich was delivered in a satchel while the rsnsfer of oil wss being considered...
...Viscount Poullet has four of his Clerical friends in his Cabinet and there are two Liberals, although the Liberal party had solemnly declared that it would not help form either a Catholic of a Socialist Ministry...
...There is one consolation left, however, that most of ui> who feel as we do abort the city, and capitalist civilization in particular, can hie away, for a brief spell st least, to Camp Tamiment in particular or any other radical centre in general, sal bresthe out the fierce odors that we beees* filled with after months of this mad modern life...
...They tried to unseat him without success...
...Out of a total vote of 877,000 the Communists polled 810 for their five candidates...
...But the harm had been done...
...Dispatches state that the motion was made by Socialists...
...Had La Follette grasped the whole tendency of the modern capitalist order and acted upon it he might have occupied a place in the Labor movement that Jaures occupied in France...
...That sings a quiet tune Along star avenue*t...
...There are meetings to be held, funds to gather, literature to be printed and distributed, voters to be canvassed and other important work...
...On June 15, the Nationalist Government resigned and J. T. Lang was asked by the Governor-General to fens a agw Cabinet ' OUR COMING CAMPAIGN W'lTH the nomination of Norman Thomas for Mayor, Samuel E. Beardsley for President of the Board of Aldermen, and Harriot Stanton Blatch for Comptroller, the Socialist and Labor Conference has nominated a ticket that we can work for with enthusiasm...
...The reason for the strike was not given...
...It is true that he made some progress even under Republican administrations, but he 'felt that his experiments and recommendations could not fully serve the farmers while their enemies controlled the State Government...
...For our part we are glad that the Chinese masses have finally had the ' courage to demonstrate against their alien i masters and we hope that they will even, tually throw off the foreign yoke...
...It may take two, three or five fears for the Supreme Court of the United States to decide whether it is black or white or something else...
...Instead of this it organized small business and professional men as well and to hold the allegiance of profit takers it had to moderate its utterances, thus depriving itself of the permanent enthusiasm of veteran workers...
...I'he latter believes that the secrecy in which the oil leases were negotiated was ieliberate in order that "Congress and the lublic should not know what was being lone," but Judge Kennedy does not share his view...
...The more one who has kept a semblance of idealism virgin within him ponders os this Gordian tangle of modern humanity, the sterner his pessimism grows, the fiercer waxes hie determination that Christ's jab was impossible and his punishment' just...
...As we go to press the Peking Government, in two notes to the Diplomatic Corps, demands release of Chinese arrested at Shanghai, the reinstatement of strikers, improvement of working conditions, Chinese participation in the Shanghai Municipal Council, liberty of speech and assembly, i dismissal of the secretary of the Municipal Council, and revision of treaties giving ths Powers extra-territorial sovereignty in China...
...The shipping strike spread to Hongkong where the striken are trying to link up with the Csnton strike which began Monday, followed by servants and clerks leaving the European quarter...
...When the—the naaging wife—appear** In hell, the imps made quite a itir, A day elapsed...
...Naturally, this decision is being contrasted with the decision of Judge McCormick in the California case where Doheny was on the grill...
...We have been nominated for Boroufk Prssidsnt of the Bronx by the Psrty, although Caesar, like we, thrice refuses ? crown, we were actually laWtSSSd MR . service JNext week we hope to hs*» ready lined up our election PWg^SiS platform and our slogsn...
...Human endurance has its limits and once the population rises against the assassins who rule it, the monarchy will go down with the castor oil bullies...
...In what looks like s move to wish something on to its Labor auccessor the outgoing Nationalist Government has proclaimed a public holiday on July 23, the date the American fleet is due to arrive in Australian waters on its Pacific cruise...
...oLESSONS OF MINNEAPOLIS WE direct the special attention of our readers to the remarkable story of the Minneapolis election which Murray E. King unfolds in this issue...
...Whether this was a referendum of local organizations or members of Parliament and party officials is not stated...
...This group may well be forgotten, for with it there would be no unity and without it nothing is lost that would be worth Having...
...It would appear from this thst Chinese students in France cannot express sympathy for their own people in China without French officials demanding their explusion from* the country on the ground that they are "Belsheviata...
...It now appears that the Kuomintang (People's Party) is the ruling faction in Canton and that it has given impetus to the strike despite the menace of British and French gunboats...
...Paul inserted a word he did not use and reversed his meaning and upon this forgery it was proposed to drive him into obscurity...
...The one hopeful phase ia the report that the Socialists now have their opportunity and that the tendency is "to get back to fundamentals...
...The action of the Socialist leaders had been authorized by a vote of 495,481 to 108,325, with 21,982 abstentions, by the regular Congress of the Labor party, held June 6-8...
...He delivered one magnificent address in the Senate a few years ago on Mexico which showed a complete comprehension of American, imperialism...
...It now remains for the committee of fifteen entrusted with the organiaztion of the campaign to mobilize the resources of the cooperating organizations...
...THE Chatter-Bo* More Sonnets to a Dark U|J XXII You will bj gen* he/ere we turn the las* I And all the Jttta premise of « dag *M , Will ehrivel swiftly into the dull majU The queer nth* that follow* «U „ dart not da: "» When doing may have colored up « VMr That now holds stupid doubt and sU, ahead...
...Possibly a hope of concessions by the Government to the workers was also one consideration...
...we rule"—all this and the eras/ patchwork of streets, skyscrapers, lanes, alleys, hovels, trolleys, elevated roads, subways, wagons, pushcarts, screeching sulci, bells, and clocks, clocks and bells, deal and windows, locks and keys, polices** firemen, insurance agents, beggers, SlinHsj pickpockets, bootleggers, drug stores, CSS* terias—oh, when can one end this heartrasping enumeration...
Vol. 2 • June 1925 • No. 26
