THE Chater-Box
THE Chatter-Box Summerlied Likt a imilt, likt a glanct In your tytt, my (west, Like a whirl in a dane» To a Baechic beat— Likt a whimsical turn tn cucunutanct So tumrnor it Hoot, Will tht...
...The South Slavic Federation is torn with similar dissension*, while the Jewish Federation has it* internal fights...
...The literary tribe of capitalism have nothing new to offer, nothing to stimulate the imagination, no ideals to inspire...
...This simply means that standards are changing and conservative writers can no longer interest a growing section of people...
...The goblins " '11 get yu if yu don't watch out...
...0A question arises in our mind all of a moment, why we never have trained our erratic blunderbuss on that new-born put —the Tennis Fiend...
...They reaped this*»huch in the strike of 1922...
...On the other hand, the googoos who are supporting the Tammany candidate do not even pretend that Tammany is different from what it was when it worked with Hylan...
...aginabls ceeld be made up very easilpW ef our modern tennis comrades...
...of the Jewish race...
...This is only one case out of many...
...The very terms used—such as "Forty-love," "Advantage in or out," "Deuce," are still reminders of a gentle past, and snicker-teasing to the battered nostrils of the pug citizenry...
...only means of preventing this would be for^the railroad unions to refuse to haul the scab coal, but this is not likely as these unions have not yet acquired the sense of ••solidarity that is necessary to.make Common cause with the miner...
...Thus "harm is being done'' by these writers...
...At the last Convention of the Social Democratic* Labor party of Holland, held Februery 14-16, 1026, a meet ion of Comrade Van Kol** name brought the delegate* and spectators to their feet in a warm demonstration of affection...
...Secret caucusei and gum shoe work have been going on in all these struggles and heated statements are hurled by each faction at the others, charging that opponents are not inspired by principle but solely to obtain power...
...Perhaps, but it is also true that those who do any serious reading or who care for serious drama are satisfied to patronize the work of these writers, otherwise the latter would not find a market for their work...
...Meantime the bituminous fold occupies a very interesting position should a /tribe occur...
...He was thereupon released, but not until he had served five days...
...it as such, but it i.< quite another thing when hp treats the citizens of other countries,% this manner...
...WM a task for tired reefeaett 1 the mayoralty campaign AN AMUSING phase of the New York City campaign is that the Tammany candidate for Mayor, James J. Walker, is accepted as the "good man" candidate by certain newspapers that have in the past regarded Tammany ad all that is vile...
...V'ascism itself rests upon a minority of the population of Italy and is only maintained by brutal force...
...In England the marine firemen struck in a number of ports and fifty vessels have also been tied up in Australian ports...
...Although not so well known in later years as Hi* colleague, Pieter J. Troeletra, the veteran Dutch Socialist played a big part in the sarly development of the Labor movement of the Netherlands and his services were highly valued by his fellow workers...
...What was Joseph Lelber to do...
...It may be a slow decline, but it is declining just the same...
...Lg Befor* we can even dr**mff victory, ft fore w* even expropriate th* eapiagramion* of their power aad ***U\"*rJE step is to tafc...
...A few years before, the Illuminati of Bavaria, a secret organization, had endeavored to introduce come democracy into the clerical autocracy of that .oountry...
...Cyril states teat Russia is ready to overthrow Bob-bevis in and Implies thet if this occurs he hi to...
...Then in Cleveland and Philadelphia the fight has been so intense that numerous committees have been unable to settle it...
...One thing the royalist vermin have yet to learn and that ia no matter what social and political change* may come to Russia the workers arid peasants will stand united againit a return of any Romanoff...
...Food and a physician's care were required at home...
...He—or she—starts...
...Then by the organization of his Fascist "heroes" In this and other countries Mussolini is likely to become involved in complications that may be decidedly unpleasant for him...
...idea that Mussolini's boundaries and jurisdiction extend to this country...
...But the ead part of the matter is that we can enjoy no hopes that the case may not again be repeated with its flagrani illegalities and its brutal consequences to other innocent visitors to our shores...
...There is nothing we know of that so hurriedly builds up the ega in undeaerving individuals and so excellently trains the moronic mind into the art of making the fantastic excuses...
...For a few weeks after the assassination of Matteotti Fascism trembled in the balance...
...Each section of the population that becomes afflicted with this disease is obsessed with the idea that there is something dangerous in the customs, traditions, and habits of some other nationality...
...To them Mexicans are "greasers," but the wonderful handicrafts of the Mexicans only provoke admiration...
...As a wealthy man he is counted on to serve his class if he is elected...
...Women are particularly the equal of men in tennis argumentation...
...One of the most hopeful signs in many years is the cooperation of the A. F. of L. in organizing Negro workers...
...The assumption appears to he that if*Hylan has been a clown, any opposing candidate is acceptable...
...He had been out of work *for many weeks...
...But once, when ht wat ghastly hot (And ashy-white his weary face), This ancirr.t maker of graves forgot To dig his own rtception place...
...A Tammany agent playing this role and being accepted by these publications is a rare contribution to political humor...
...This aversion goes back to primitive tribal relations and it is a revival of early feuds...
...Brooding over the chance-world that provided no opportunity for him, I,eiber climbed to the fourteenth floor of an office building,' leaped, and a bloody piece of pulp is gathered up and taken to the morgue...
...It is sad indeed to relate how otherwise efficient platform carriers, literature distributors, outdoor speskers, and candidates for Assembly on the Socialist ticket, hive become sadly incapacitated through the ravagea of the tennis pestilence...
...It I* estimated thai tt a I etfik* extends te th* edge rf winter the profits to the bituminous owners will amount to $UK),000,000...
...Working men and women should have no trouble in deciding who they will vote for in November...
...The bituminous field is again stagnant with large stocks ready for the market...
...Tell Me why I find him here in hell...
...Following The New "Boeder's exposure of the illegal arrest and jailing of Vincent Vacirca, New York County Judge Thomas W. Churchill, before whom 'the matter came on a motion for writ of habeus corpus, decided that there was not enough evidence to hold him in the Tombs prison...
...The moat certain sign of this Stag* of development ia thst he or she dees est know how deliclously he or she takes ces all the joy of playing, for the others...
...They repeatedly sent him to the Lower House of the States General and finally into the Upper House, where he fought vigorously for their, interests...
...Perhaps the snswer will lie hidden anagrammatically within the following irrational remarks: Tennis in the most anti-social game extant with the sole exceptions of golf, solitaire and suicide...
...We are glad to note that the change is recognized by the Commercial, for it would not admit it unless the evidence was apparent...
...Then there are plays written by the same terrible persons...
...With the death of Henri International H. Van Kol, reported in Link Broken an Amsterdam cablegram* last Sunday, an jther link between the First International ind the present Socialist and Labor International haa disappeared...
...This process tskes a few years more, although in most cases nothing more is developed than a glibber tongue in framing, excuses why nothing hss developed at all...
...When the rebels of any ag| tend to get a hearing in literature and the drama it simply means that the old order is on the decline...
...Much of our fiction has its inspiration in the same source...
...o-Grand Duke Cyril is holdCyril Wants ing himself in readiness His Throne in Germany to assume the throne of the Romanoff*, awaiting the hour when hie beloved subjects will call on him to enter Russia and ride on their becks...
...The other night he naively said that if he ia elected he would consider it only "another business undertaking.'* That is, he will serve the capitalist class, although he will have to obtain working-class votes if he realizes his ambitions.- ( • What Is happening is the usual rivalry between two political business firms to see which shall get the contract for running the City for bankers, contractors, traction companies, real estate interests, and capitalist interests in general...
...It ia certainly a tragedy that the one hope of the West Virginia despots in case of a general coal strike is the unwillingness of other unions to make common cause with the suffering miners...
...For it will be remarked by any close observer that the poorer tha developed plsyer, the mere insistent, persistent, and pestiferous he or she is in fitting on the public court*, the camp courts, or any court la fart where no charge is made by the hour, snd staying there, to the utter disregard of how many better and more considerate players are waiting for their turn...
...Moreover, the retainers of the present economic system cannot prevent the changing standards and tastes...
...go out #f tennis...
...But never mind...
...He had obtained a Confession of one of the murderers of the Socialist Deputy, Matteoti, which implicated Mussolini himself in that foul deed and the publication of the confession in the United States led to his imprisonment...
...innfarra died*as a result of his harsh treatment in a Fascist prison...
...All this is coupled with the strike in China, and according to a Times despatch from London it is regarded in some circles as "a gigantic Red plot against Great Britain engineered and fomented from Moscow/ Considering that the strikers all have formulated some definite grievances, and that these do not require the establishment of a Soviet regime it is evident that this scare is manufactured...
...Following the American Revolution, our American reactionaries were in need or a similar goblin to explain why ragged farmers and workmen were rioting and seeking to control the State legislatures...
...organizing negroes ORGANIZATION of Pullman porters in two locals in New York City is of more than ordinary interest...
...Henry Harrison...
...It is one thing to regard Italy as a cattle pen and rub...
...According to Its publications the membership has declined from 20,000 a year ago to a little over 16,000, while the same publications admit that the party is seething with factional fights that threaten the very existence of the party...
...This is really bad news for reaction, for what would the ruling classes do without some goblin at hand to point to in such cases...
...He could not find it...
...The steps from a proper tennis racket to some sort of consistence in getting tite ball over the net twice in succession stretch over a I period of years too long for even this longi wi ded column...
...Investigation showed that it did not exist in this country and its alleged headquarters proved to be a Masonic lodge in Norfolk, Va...
...His recent expulsion of George Seldes, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, was followed by the erajjit and mistreatment of Camille Cianfarra, another Tribune correspondent...
...f oEpitaphs Far • Gr«T«dig(«r For jean he dug plethoric graves, Sly rendtzout of kingt and knaves...
...0- •' An attempt by a "citiAn Impending izens' committee" to Coal Strike prevent a co<tt stri'e has failed and as we go to press it is likely that the strike order has been issued...
...It has farthed dispelled the myth that the United States is a nation that offer* asylum to thb politically oppressed of other nations...
...The most unique example of this is that of the JewB...
...Go to any camp, even our own Tsmiias* and see for yourselves how our youth sas self-denying adulthood Is going to the fg* istic bow-wows through the mediunjjHF tennis...
...THE NEWS OF THE WEEK' There are some public Vacirca officials wh< are not Wins Freedom ready to accept ,the...
...Neat to the development of a jelly fish Into a stock broker, we believe from our evolutionary viewpoint, the processes of reaching modern tennishood are most interesting...
...It is probably knowledge of this that induced miners' representatives in the bituminous and anthracite fields to secretly confer a week or two ago...
...He la destined to a fall of another kind as well as his reactionary backers in all tb* capitalist fations...
...So one might enumerate the contradictions that enter Jnto the racial and national prejudices that have been cultivated by the war...
...with a racket costing ninety-five cents, until the compositely gendered one discovers thst there are such things as gut and frame and trade-marks that spell "class" and 4eing in it...
...That justice has been done in this case is satisfying...
...For on EvangelUt He preached of God and virtue...
...Two sacrifices are offered to the system whose virtues are hailed by editors, politicians, statesmen, and apologists in general...
...The avife collapsed and may not survive...
...o-¦ . . the goblins • IT IS a poor week that passes without our ruling'classes conjuring a Bolshevik goblin to frighten people...
...the decline of shoddy WE NOTICE a complaint in the Commercial that so many publications are filled up with Socialists and near-Socialists who write ii'xik reviews, news stories and special articles...
...Of course, selfdestruction in the case of the mental defective is to be expected, but when unfortunates destroy themselves because they are unable to find employment we have not only a tragedy but an indictment of the capitalist «ystem of industry...
...Two other factions exist beside* (he minority and majority, one known as "Loreism" and another which is fighting all three...
...following so closely as it did rn the jailing of Carlo Tresca and the gagging of Michael Karolyl, has served at least* one good purpose...
...The German Federation is all but out of the party, the Finnish Federation has Its factions and is charged with deviation from Bolshevist principles...
...That one human being should be driven to this in a world of great inventions and enormous powers for producing wealth is tragic, yet it has become so common that its significance is ignored...
...W. W. Inglis for the mine" owners reetated this position and there the matter rests...
...Go any day to any public or private court, listen in on the palaver from the side-lines or in the grandstand, and you will thoroughly understand our fear...
...Early in the year the minority and majority factions were spanked by Moscow and both were told to get rid of "Loreism...
...Just when this barbarous revival will spend its force no one can tell...
...Such a system cannot last forever...
...In whott glow, in whose gltam Wt found tach complete, Run only tkt Ungth of a gay moonbeam...
...And well they may, for whatever differences these groups may have with eech other they all have a common' interest in preventing the return of the old regime...
...Comrade Van Kol was 78 years old...
...At frail, und at fleet I September may find you So lovtlett, my twett, Tht ttart that wtrt dew May bt froztn to tlett...
...Should the strike be called in both fields, however, it will only block a portion of the bituminous owners, for moat of West Virginia and part of Kentucky and Pennsylvania fields are antiunion...
...At that time it Was noted thet Van Kol's falling health had caused him to drop his Parliamentary activities, but the end must have come rather suddenly after all, as Comrade Van Kol was scheduled to attend the Marseilles Congress this week as one of the Dutch delegates...
...but the Labor and Socialist movement stands, and must ever stand, as a barrier to the hateful thing...
...THE Chatter-Box Summerlied Likt a imilt, likt a glanct In your tytt, my (west, Like a whirl in a dane» To a Baechic beat— Likt a whimsical turn tn cucunutanct So tumrnor it Hoot, Will tht lovt, will tht drtam Wt have lit, my twtet...
...That it should appear in the United States, the one nation which from the beginning of its history has been a nation of immigrants, is striking...
...0Mussolini may yet get Fascism Claims into trouble with Another Victim some of the Powers...
...Recently Vienna wae the scene of mob demonstrations against Jews...
...A great game, we will unhesitatingly admit, for we have played it for almost a score of years, but a most serious impediment towards the Cooperative Commonwealth—analytically, of course...
...In the case of the Pullman porters we have an example of a class working for a corporation which maintains a company union which, like all such paternal devices, smothers the initiative and independence of the workers and ties them to the corporate masters in a system that is really capitalist espionage...
...The Socialist and Labor Fusion candidate, Norman Thomas, is the only candidate suggested that stands for a program of using public power for human welfare regardless of how it may affect the interests which the other candidates would serve...
...Surplus stocks were depleted and the miners went back at the old wage while the owners were able target . from $2 to $4 more per ton for their coal...
...Then commences the strained and concentrated effort to develop "form," "stroke and "accuracy...
...The • Pullman porters often work overtime without pay, prepare cars for occupancy on their own time, receive a small wage which makes them dependent upon passengers for tips, and hours of labor leave them littk tints for home Ufa, mutton and education- Through organisation they hope to redress these grievances, slid it is certain that they will be little modified as long as they art in the apider's web of company unionism...
...The Ku Klux Klan is more obsessed with this affliction than any other organized group, but tijere are other organizations that also share aversion to anything related to aliens...
...At the same time, those who indulge in this thing are compelled to accept some thingB that have .tHeir origin in the race and nationality which they feel compelled to hate...
...No man can sell shoddy if there are others with a higher grade of goods...
...Some other shock will send this tin imitation of Napoleon scooting for the hills with a tomato can attached to his coattails...
...The Daily Worker prints little about the convention as it is understood that nothing important Is to appear In print unless minority and majority agree, and they cannot agree...
...Bolsheviks, Social Democrats, Social Revo* lutionaries and'.other sections and organizations of the masses would temporarily unite against this common danger...
...A humorous item in the despatch states that some of the representatives of Labor are "seeking to soothe such fears by pronouncing Communism as virtually dead among the bulk of British workers...
...He did not want alms and prison yawned for him if he stole...
...We hope that organized Negro workers will build up a powerful organisation, inspire their fellows in other occupations to do likewise, and contribute much to tie solidarity of whites and blacks which is so essential to a powerful Labor movement...
...American reactionaries seized upon this and solemnly announced that the terrible Illuminati were rapidly organizing in the United States...
...It must also be admitted that white workers have also been reluctant to admit them to the trade unions, and in a number of unions they have been definitely excluded...
...Frank D. Waterman is the leading Republican candidate for Mayor, and his qualifications appear to be th«VijJ)e does not know enough to be^anrfful and that he is a manufacturer of fountain pens...
...The change is slow but inevitable...
...Should the miners strike in this country we may be sure to have it inspired by Moscow...
...He tried to obtain work...
...For the miners' President Lewis said that negotiations would be resumed if the mine owners *would recede from their position that anything disturbing production costs would not he diecussed...
...oThe Workers' (ComFactional fights munist) party met of Communists in national convention in Chicago last Friday and it was several days before it could be organized...
...G. B. Clark of England were pointed out a* having been members of the original international organisation of the proletariat...
...They are dull and uninteresting...
...The cane of Vacirca...
...oa savage revival ONE aftermath of the World War that afflicts the United States and many other countries is the racial and national hatreds that possess large sections of the population...
...A general strike throughout the industry will leave the anti-union mine owners to reap ths harvest of profits...
...fall heir to Russia...
...He is reported as waiting for an upheaval and the overthrow of the Bolshevik*, naively aeeuming that should this occur there 1* no alternative for the Russian masses bat te call on him and the parasites who surround him...
...At the celebration in London last September of the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the First International, Van Kol, Herman Greulich of Switzerland, Eduard Bernstein of Germany, and Dr...
...unemployeTiTsutcides WE HAVE become so calloused to self-destruction that it no longer provokes anything mare than curiosity...
...Ah, what it a poor, fearful lover to do Since tht dayt of tke tummtr art all tot ftw, Too rare—and too fleet...
...Negro workers constitute an important section of the working class, and because* of the color prejudice in this country have been generally kept in the unskilled and ill-paid occupations...
...To the extent that our opportunities for gratifying the wants of all have tremendously increased in the past 100 years, the greater is the indictment of a system that drives human beings to this last desperate expedient for relief...
...then comes the crucial stage thst lasts until death calls...
...Here the boastful Nordics reject Italians as "wops," yet they will accept Italian music...
...And since one earn riot better his game unless he playi with better men, he Insists on butting in on e" doubles or opportunities to play with better men...
...The Republican situation is just as edifying...
...yff Tammany accepted Hylan at one time just as it is now marketing Walker...
...We make no wry face to say that more words, breath and energy are employed about tennis courts than any international peace conference ev»r held...
...We remember when tennis was considered by the red-blooded sports of America as a sort of effeminate indulgence for unmasculine fops...
...In arrears for rent that he could not pay, he and his sick witeare evicted...
...This appeared to be a bone thrown to both, but the Moscow decision decided nothing...
...The worst sort Of a Socialist wor,*l...
...An intelligent face, a pleasing voice, an arm that could most eweepingly emphasize points in the economic interpretation of anything from palaeozoic fern to the Swedish thermos bottle, are all employed in explaining why a certain lob, loft, or chop spelled defeut or victory for him—or her, for that matter...
...Then there is the fact that not much enthusiasm can be created for the commonplace and the hackneyed...
...Today, thii most exacting of all physical expression has come into its own, and is replacing baseball and football in popularity...
...The New Yorker Volkszeitung la apparently, defying the deciiion not te report the convention, which would indicate that the break with the German Federation i* completi The chickens that have been hatched fer years by the Communists are new com use horn* te reeet...
...v They have provided the greatest number of victims to this mania and yet the Christ the persecutors worship was...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 35
