RUSSIAN PEOPLE MUST HAVE FREEDOM, THEN EDUCATION
Marcus, J. Anthony
Russian People Must Have Freedom, Then Education From J. ANTHONY MARCUS THE NAIVETE of Bertrand Russell in his recent article in your weekly towards the Soviet Union is indeed shocking. I refer...
...At the same time, the defense and extension of democratic processes in America demand an.over-wider process if both adult and trade union education...
...Russell proceed with the task of re-educating the Russians when they are in prison, they can't read or study what they want or what Russell would give them to study...
...Your contributions have reduced that deficit by $17,000...
...What exists in Soviet Russia, anil what it is trying to hang on the rest of the world's workers, is a form of totalitarian bureaucratic state capitalism having no more resemblance to a democratic cooperative communism than Pharaoh's slave empire ever had...
...Perkasie, Pa...
...was raised...
...Grossman mentions that the 5,400 Jews in Shanghai are not ineluded in the D.P...
...In other words, there are just as many Jewish Nazis (in proportion) as Germans in thought and action...
...He juggles a lot of figures around in order to befuddle the reader What counts is that the total of German D.P.'s in Europe is at least three to lour times the amount of all the est of them together...
...the Russian turned to me: "I have seen your private corporations at work...
...N. Y. Says DP Bill Not Unfair From N. PESCH Mr...
...Most of the effects of blatantly mendacious propaganda could soon be eliminated," he says...
...It need not be argued or stressed at the present time...
...A group of Party men, under the leadership of Health Minister Aneurin Bevan, propose to bring under Government control such fields as shipping, life insurance, sugar production, beerbrewing and the tobacco business...
...Wash...
...So what...
...WHILE IN MOSCOW in 1936-37, I subscribed to the Sunday New York Tunes, the London Daily Telegram and a number of periodicals...
...They promised to investigate...
...When on our way from an ex tended trip all over the Middle West with a very intelligent Russian engineei in 1937...
...True Socialism Only Possible Under Democracy' — Engels From ADOLPH KAZLER Everywhere we turn today, we are deluged with wrong slants and erroneous conceptions about thai evil thing called "communism...
...In Shanklin, a tiny town on the Isle of Wight, the Labor Party leaders recently gathered to discuss the preliminary draft of their platform for the 1950 elections...
...How docs Mr...
...Thchave used the subways in those places They saw everything here -much that they should never have been allowed to see...
...The problems which trade union junctional ies now must deal with covei the entne area of modern social, political and economic relationships...
...For instance, the Russians are told that Moscow is the only city in the world in which underground railway exist...
...Dear Reader For several weeks we have been telling von about the economic health of The New Leader...
...II', as a nation, we support liberal and progressive legislation and defend the democratic way of life against the aggressions of totalitarianism...
...Furthermore, the phrase "dictatorship of the proletariat," as used by them, had an entirely different meaning from that which the Bolsheviks have given it...
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...We feel sure that, were it not for the dollar shortage in Europe, we would have received the same response from there...
...Yet, strange to say...
...the issues at stake really have nothing to do with the imaginary threats ol a non-existent communism...
...m ope, influence and ty^ks of the trade union movement n the United States at the present Mine arc .such that tiade union education must bo both bioadcncd and deepened...
...TO SAY, as Mr...
...New York...
...Using Nazism as a yardstick, the Jews have no more 1 ight to special treatment than any other group...
...The latter is, indeed, the specific form of the dictatorship of the proletariat, as has been demonstrated by the French Revolution...
...Quoted by J. Martov in "The State and the Socialist Revolution...
...Bolshevism, therefore has nothing in common with Marxism or the aspirations of the oppressed and disinherited...
...The tasks of education which we now face, and which the trade unions themselves now face, are of such mag nitude that they cannot be handled by individual trade unions In the light of this fact, and in the light of the strength and power of the trade union movement in America, it would seem that the time has come for the establishment of a labor university in America...
...Untold thousands of Soviet engineer...
...If a few intelligent Russians were shown round the world they would soon spread the news of what nonsense this is...
...As to tin- existence of subways in other cities, Mr...
...Only 27,000 can come to this country even if all 13,000,000 registered...
...According to the law, the Germans can bring in 27,000 D.P.'s...
...They have convinced us that the same social forces which will determine the future of Ununited States, will also determine the future of The New Leader...
...printed in your pages following my little note on trade . union education, suggest the following ibsei vation The powci...
...Berlin, Paris and London during the' past twenty-five or thirty years...
...It is merely a new system of exploitation, occasionally employing pseudorevolutionary phrases and slogans in order the better to deceive and enslave unsuspecting victims...
...The sane approach and crisp writing made Mr...
...Shaplen Wins Praise From ORVILLE MATTHEWS A WORD OF PRAISE is due T/ic New Leader for the refreshing, pointed review by Robert Shaplen of New Directions' latest anthology...
...Is this supposed to be unfair to the Jews.' Mr...
...Grossman points out that 21)5,000 German D.P.'s have registered...
...What's wrong with them...
...and mechanics and other subtcrfugi spies have been in the United States...
...The response so far has been gratifying, and we feel sure that our goal will be achieved...
...They have to pay then iv\ n expenses...
...It is the theory of the Bevan group that such an advance in the direction of Government ownership and control would reduce prices and improve the standard of living...
...If this is impossible, contributing subscribers instead will be equally helpful, (let a friend to fill out the subscription blank in the adjoining column...
...All of these things have boosted om* morale...
...Tin- trade union men favoi stopping for a breather and consolidating the positions already taken...
...Bow could Mr...
...Russell propose to reeducate the Russians when even a foreigner temporarily in Moscow on business for American industries is not allowed to read his homo periodicals and newspapers...
...Then it suddenly dawned on me that the stranger with us at the dinner table must have been an NKVD agent invited by my host purposely to protect his hide and at the same time to hear what I had to say...
...According to the original teachings of Marx and Engels, genuine communism could only come when the immense majority of the world's working class were ready for it and desired it of their own free will...
...They invited me for a conference and handed me a memorandum indicating the number of copies confiscated of each newspaper...
...I then realized that for my host to have spoken the truth about no passport requirements in America would have endangered his position or life...
...All the others-- less than me-fouith in number may bring in 200,00.1 people with expenses paid...
...If the leading trade unionists in the country can get together and want to found such a university, it could be founded There can be no doubt hut that the people who could teach at such a university could be easily found, I think that the greatest possible contribution that could be made at the present time to trade union education, to education in America in general, would be the founding of a labor urn versify...
...Chicago, 111...
...Russell does, that "within, say...
...London, England...
...But there can be no doubt that Sir Stafford Cripps gave an account of the state of affairs quite contrary to tlu- statement of Ihe Under Secretary Mayhew, who said English industry has been restored to pre-war standards...
...Their chains will be broken some day, but not with the stupid methods propounded by people who have been living in ivory towers the past thirtyone years and have failed to see the slavery of body and soul which the Kremlin has-forced upon, its disarmed subjects...
...How far these two groups were able to find common ground in the conference at Shanklin has not been announced...
...KURT GROSSMAN is disturbed because Congress in the D.P...
...Dear Editor: Union Education Program Requires Founding of Labor University From JAMBS T. FARRELL lHE COMMENTS...
...Shaplen's piece truly delightful...
...We have no quarrel with tho people of Russia...
...The old conflict between a group of Labor Party ministers and the leaders of the trade union movement is lar from being settled...
...will he your contributions thai, turn the lido...
...30 years, the whole of Russia could be completely re-educated," is as sensible and practical as to say that you could tame the leopard or the tiger by reading the Bible to them or by showing them the superiority of a civilization based on "Thou shalt not kill...
...The subject of passpoi ts...
...then the ideas and policies of the The New Leader have gained their foothold on the intellectual life of the country and our paper will be able to see its way through its dillieulties...
...I was, of course, flabbergasted...
...I hope that all those interested in the question of workers' education will now give serious consideration to this question...
...There are none in Paris, London, and New York...
...The Editor P. S. Wo realize that not all of our readers are prosperous enough to make direct cash contributions to The Neio Leader...
...So please, Mr...
...I am confident that he only told intimate li lends about our sub ways...
...Although not very clearly—but by implication—it is pointed out that the Germans are Nazis and therefore Seclion 12, reserving 50 percent of the German quota for the " Volksdeutsche," should be abolished, I remember when some of the first refugees arrived herefrom Hitler Germany...
...To prove I am not misrepresenting their views anent this point, I quote here from Engels' own words on the Erfurt program: "If there is anything about which there can be no doubt, it is that our party and the working class can only gain supremacy under a political regime like the democratic republic...
...A SOVIET ENGINEER, who had spent two years in the United Stales, invited me to dinner at his home...
...Russell: "It would lie necessary to start re-educating the Russians...
...Don't, delay...
...The letters which accompanied the contributions we have received so far were extremely encouraging...
...The need for knowledge and training in the trade unions is obvious...
...Conflict in British Labor Party Bared at Shanklin Conference From GERD TREUHAFT a^OLITICAL TALK in London centers about the" Shanklin conference...
...we still need your assistence...
...The que.turn is: Shall the Labor Government stop where it is in the business of taking over national industries or shall it proceed into new fields of endeavor...
...I also lodged a protest with the international branch of the central post ofliee...
...They showed the powerful influence and deep roots we have established among readers all over this country and Canada...
...Seattle...
...Telling others would have meant a : low denth_ in a slave labor or inn ccntration camp...
...Russell is entirely in error when he assumes that by showing a few intelligent Russians our subways, the Soviet propaganda myth of Moscow's sole subway in the world would disappear in the clouds...
...Grossman, don't hate...
...My host argued that in America, too, one could not travel without a passport or without registering at the police station upon arrival in a strange town...
...They crave freedom more than we because they have suffered more, under the most brutal tyranny that has ever plagued mankind...
...New York, N. Y. (J Anthony Marcus is the President of the Institute of Foreign Trade...
...Weeks passed and none of the copies arrived...
...They certainly are in a pitiful condition...
...We have $23,000 to go...
...The new and lower figure now becomes tiie margin necessary to continue our struggle and our high standards...
...1 have known many of them myself...
...When he returned home he did not daie speak favorably of the things hi had seen...
...The Chancellor of the Exchequer reports and doubtless made clear to his colleagues at the conference that the British dollar deficit for the year will be $940,000,000...
...They function a thousand times better than our state-owned monopolies...
...They pointed out that many a Jew would have been glad to become a gauleiter, if only Hitler would accept them...
...I personally protested to the Foreign Office...
...Our onginal estimated deficit for 1949 was $40,000...
...Well, neither are the 150,000 slave laborers in Russia, eastern .and southeastern Europe who are of German origin included...
...Bill wants to let some 27,000 Germans come to this country...
...I refer to the following remarks by Mr...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 13
