Roads To Freedom
Laidler, Harry W.
Roads To Freedom By HARRY W. LAIDLER ix. summary We have thus sketched the social ideals held by various schools of thought—co-operators, Socialists, guild Socialists. Syndicalists, Anarchists....
...The single taxers urge merely a change in land relationships...
...All unite in their condemnation of the present system and their belief in the need for fundamental change...
...How should tasks be assigned...
...And more important, is the fact that they have had '.ho courage and conviction to write themselves down publicly as adherents of the Socialist Party, a deed that often brings social ostracism and economic jeopardy...
...Have You Reserved Your Tickets for The New Leader Banquet...
...We do not want another Socialist Party...
...The chief questions at issue be tween most of the groups relate to the problem of the plare of the State under a new system arid the rharacter of control by the producer and the consumer...
...Revolution...
...What power should be given to technici ans...
...If you want Socialism by "the armed overthrow of the capitalist Government and the dictatorship of the proletariat," the Communist Workers' party meets your theoretical needs...
...Should the political State be entirely abolished...
...Union activity in Newfoundland is undergoing a rena-j scence, and Comrade Smallwood j announces that plans are being laid I for the formation of a Newfoundland Labor party and a Newfoundland Federation of Labor...
...We have shown our plan to other Comrades and they have become enthusiastic about it and find it practicable and fcasablc...
...After all, what portion of the body politic provides more promising prospects than this particular bloc of enrolled voters...
...It can be done...
...BEN JOSEPHSON...
...it would only be a replica of the present Socialist Party...
...We would like to know what you and the readers of The New Leader think about our idea and hope that the party, the Rand School and The New Lender, will take this matter up officially...
...P. O. Box 12, St...
...The New Leader Mail Bag A Tripartita Plan for the Socialist Party Editor, The New Leader: The official canvass, as reported in The New Leader of January 10, shows that 43,819 voters enrolled for the Socialist Party in Greater New York...
...Not since 1917 has there been such a favorable opportunity for the local Socialists to put over a big job and it seems to us that the very attempt to do big things invariably tends to inspire and fire the enthusiasm of our Comrades and sympathizers...
...We feel that the situation is very good...
...How should the workers under a new system be compensated...
...And if the Socialist program does not accurately represent the interests of the working people, then the whole Marxian theory is wrong and Socialism is an idle dream...
...Some can only be answered as a result of painful experiments, after the new social order is installed...
...Our suggestion is, in the rough (the details are too elaborate to be given here) that a joint committee be formed representing the party...
...Forty-three thousand eight hundred and nineteen...
...Among the organizations that will be represented are the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, the International Association of Ma rhinists, liiternatinnal Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, the New Yoik Hiiildmg Trades Council, the American federation of Teachers, the Subway and Tunnel Constructors' International Union, the Women's Trade Union League, fur workers, printers, painters, carpenters, railroad workers, murine work ers and others...
...Who Can Help...
...Tho i problem that confronts us is: how | can we convert them into actual | members...
...That this committee raise a special fund that will be used exclusively to promote a gigantic circularization campaign...
...Our promotion scheme is not the idle dream of two over-enthusiastic young Comrades...
...Anarchists, Syndicalists and some...
...It is simply the tremendous advantage of staying with the mass of the working people whose interests are identical with ours and from that vantage point explaining tho Socialist solution of their problems...
...N Socialist pretends to believe that the La Follette program is sufficient...
...Bolsheviks be...
...The reverse side of the circular should carry a popular, convincing treatise on Socialism...
...Editor, The New Lender: The hurricane last August, which continued for two days, destroyed most of mv books...
...Forty three Unions Have Elected Delegates To Child Conference _ Forty-three international and local unions and central bodies have alieady elected delegates to the coming session of the Labor Conference on Child Education and Development, it was announced by Thomas J Curtis, president of the National Association for Child Development, and the Labor Conference, which will meet in second annual session on January 28, 8 p.m., at...
...Smallwood Returning to Newfoundland .1...
...How should industries be coordinated...
...Within the guild Socialist movement controversy has waxed ! hitter in regard to the question of State sovereignty In the Communist movement, the greatest question at issue has been the extent to which the State should use its power ! of suppression during the transi tional period It is probable that the controversy regarding the ledat-ive puwer which consumer and producer should i possess over the actual conduct of I industry will wage for many gen ! erations to come...
...R. Smallwood, contributor to The New Leader, who has been in New York for two years, during which time he did considerable ] speaking in the city and State for the Labor movement, is returning to his native Newfoundland to engage in active organizing work...
...And its' program will be progressive and true to the immediate interests of the working class...
...Will you kindly assist me to procure from comrades around the Rand School copies of tbe following books: Braw-ley's "A Socinl History of the America Negro...
...There are three of them already...
...There is no reason for the continued apathy that now prevails, considering that a substantial section of the voters in the five boroughs have emphutically endorsed the Socialist Party and its position...
...Anything short of that he "views with alarm and sorrow...
...ROTHSCHILD FRANCIS...
...In all, the circular should be dignified, yet snappy, attractive and compelling...
...He is willing to stand for a class Labor party that is not a reform party but declares itself against rent, interest and profit...
...However, Labor party or no Labor party, the Socialist Party must be fashioned into a powerful, aggressive, political unit...
...The schools disagree in regard to the most effective means to be userrin bringing about that change and in regard to the exact nature of the new social order to be attained...
...We believe if this is done, in an efficient and effective manner, we will be rewarded with substantial results in the form of membership for the party, readers for The New Leader and patrons for the Rand School...
...The only reason for a new party is that the great mass of the workers are not yet ready for a Socialist party but are ready for a Labor reform party...
...There has been a great need for such large scale activity and it would no doubt stir the listless, phlegmatic membership who have fallen by the wayside for want of something to do...
...In making this request I hope that you will understand that my desire is always to combat reaction...
...For our part wg cannot see that such a party is at all necessary...
...It seems to us that there must be some method of establishing contact with this group of 45,000 "legal" members of the Socialist Party...
...There is one thing that we should keep in mind...
...The stunt involves two mailings, an initial and a follow-up letter, a three-fold broadside, divided equally between the party, The New leader and the Rand School...
...And it is the need for having an organization that will carry on Socialist propaganda that makes it imperative for us to continue the Socialist Party...
...It serves the immediate purpose of drawing together the largest possible groups of working people...
...Reaervationa are limited...
...It is too early in social development to answer many of these pjob-lems...
...Ph.D.'*,'' a book of poems by Leonard Bacon, will be published by Harpers on I he third of February...
...Last, but not least, we will have delivered our message to 43,811) citizens, who will know that the Socialist Party is not a dead-letter, but a live, purposeful, enterprising organization...
...Syndicalists and [ some of the guildsmen groups be-I lieve that power should reside in the producer as far as administration is concerned, (ooperators, the majority of Socialists and other schools of the national guilds emphasize the need for properly safeguarding the rights of the consumer, and believe that the consumer, representing all of the community, should be the final arbiter...
...We hope a vigorous third (or second) party will result from the February conference...
...If you want straight "Revolutionary Socialism" without any reformistic "Immediate Demands" the Socialist Labor party will fill your order...
...Here are close to 45,000 voters, obviously intelligent individuals, who at least have a fair knowledge of election laws, illustrated by the fact that they have exercised the prerogative of enrollment...
...To every alert Socialist this encouraging enrollment represents a fertile field to be exploited for Party membership, subscriptions for our Press, and patrons for our educational institutions...
...Thomas, Virgin Islands...
...These aie among the many questions with which the various groups of social thinkers are trying to grapple...
...The reason for the Socialist Party cooperating in the formation of a progressive Labor party is as old as the "Communist Manifesto" of Marx and Kngels...
...If you want Socialism, but also believe in using your political power to get such betterment of conditions as you can as you go along, the Socialist Party is your proper place to function...
...1) s" a a ilnuble barrelled satire upon the drive toward acholarship at any pure Why Another Labor Party By cameron h. king Editor of the Oakland World Our good comrade, Judge Jacob Panken of New York, is worrying about what kind of a party will be formed by the Conference for Progressive Political Action next February...
...We feel that not only will a campaign as we have described enlist fresh recruits, but will also arouse our party membership to rehabilitate the party...
...The demand for a progressive Labor party arises out of the necessity of providing a place for those who are not yet Socialists but who do want substantial modifications of the present capitalist society...
...How large a field should be given to public ownership, to cooperatives, to private enterprise...
...He is going as special organizer for the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulphite and Taper Mill Workers to organize the 0,000 workers in the growing paper industry in Newfoundland...
...Many Socialists feel that some organization is necessary under a cooperative system to represent the consumer, and that the State, shorn of its (last, character, can be utilized...
...BEN BELSKY, N. Y. City...
...We know it will be predominantly Labor and farmer...
...There is nothing fantastic or abstract about it...
...If Not, Do it Now...
...or call Stuyvcsant 6885...
...Should emphasis be placed on local or on national administration...
...The Socialist Party has been vindicated and stands today as the most effective agency for eventual creation of a Labor party in this country...
...West 16lh street...
...It warrants the extensive promotion campaign we are about to propose...
...This imposing endorsement offers an unprecedented opportunity for us to galvanize this sentiment for the Socialist Party into real, organic, living material for our movement...
...Once they can be organized politically they will work out a program that will accurately represent their interests...
...Carlyle's "Frcncl...
...Our adherence to such a Labor party does not in any way bind us to acquiescence in the theory that its program is sufficient...
...We have every reason to wax enthusiastic and optimistic...
...Get Yours Without Delay...
...and I < ooperators say yes...
...Many of our readers on first reading undoubtedly will agree with him...
...But clear and hard thinking on these problems and a careful analysis of the lessons to' be learned from the various experiments that are now taking place should be of inestimable help in guiding the ship of society toward a better and nobler social harbor...
...lieve that it should be sovietised...
...Out here we are not situated as you are...
...Write The New Leader Dinner Committee, 7 last 15th St...
...All except the single taxers urge the abolition of private ownership in the means of production and distribution...
...And how should a cooperative system be ushered in-—primarily through industrial action, primarily through parliamentary action, through cooperative ventures, through educational propaganda, or through some kind of a coup d'otat...
...The New Leader and the Rand School...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
