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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES The End of A Perfect Folly a*jO Germany it now a member of the M League of Nations »nd there were cheers h* and tears when Briand and Streseman kissed end made up...
...I've always liked yon, Mintum," h* whined...
...I hav* a daughter...
...But V*?* the trouble with humanity...
...The creation of tbe General Confederation of Labor,*' write* Levine, "may be consid*r*d th* first important revolutionary tendency in the syndioal movement tn France...
...Dan waa startled, so deep had he bean buried in thoughts of Girard, and so harraased was h* by dark surmise...
...H* fancied that he had suffered a mats war ngjgcjtg Ma Misters into ˆkwdAtta...
...The profeeeor*, person*, poets, statesmen, scribes, and soldiers hav* iWM Swsy their ink pots...
...Tou've a great future before you...
...At that time the general strike Was regarded as a peaceful weapon...
...Even if it should spread to other lnduatrle* not originally involved, it would not lose Its legal character...
...1 can look anyone in tbe eye and tell him to go to hell...
...Labor, through It* numbers, had superior strength only on th* political Held...
...Ten* of million* of maimed, crippled, blind or insane or* still crawling, limping, groping nnd whimpering over the face of the •arth...
...tf you *OB*t mind...
...My God...
...It contains a good deal of material that should be widespread throughout the labor movement...
...I ought to be far It...
...Utrtfl very recently, the* avoxaeje article eat ]*her affairs snaee SB naeppy reedinf as an txptn frooi the weflJmown Messrs...
...dej*ct*diy, not without on* more entreaty...
...Goodnlt* said dryly...
...The idea wa* puerile...
...Preach, teach and ****s*h againat int*rnnti*n*li*m all youkwill, there bo* eaeaping the fact that nation* of this earth tag but th* cog* and wheel* of oft* hug* machine and Salt an injury to any part of this machine bringa w*»ster to the whole...
...Mint urn...
...Toirro not tho kind of fellow who like* to grind talk* down under hi* h**l...
...Stink pot* and poison pot* [with which they murdered truth end youth...
...Tou mean that you'r* counting me in against th* bill...
...Why, sure...
...Te he eetra, seeneralea iatatatSBBasKieeaysgh^ cmtijtt said Ofice that h waa the dftajfieet of - -*--- - ^ sa-jBe...
...The French worker* of that day seemed to feel that it might begin at any moment and that it therefore assured th* speedy coming of the cooperative commonwealth...
...longer be Bride* into prettily tinted blocks as is done by the £m*k*rs, Th* Watt*, Edisona, and Marconi* ^^ bag ago wiped out tho boundary lines drawn by **\g«*g*, culture and ideology...
...And least of all save other animal* mad* s virtu* of ma** murder or inethid rap*, arson, and butchery with the mantle of Mnetity and patriotism...
...A year later, in 1881...
...It must moan revolution, because it would paralyse life and reduce the ruling classes to famine...
...In 1814 a combined congress of this federation and the bourses wa* held at Nantes...
...Dan refuted a gesture of hospitality...
...The conquest of political power," . says Levine...
...bean so all along...
...He resented the Intrusion...
...SYNDICALISM—The General Strike THE HISTORY OF SOCIALIST THOUGHT By HARRY W. LAIDLER (Continued From Laat Week) First Discussion of G*n*r*l Strike ABOUT tn* time of the formation of the league of bourse*, the French labor movement became agitated with the concept of tbe general Strike...
...Brother: After turning God'* feotatool Bab a stlnklrlg elaudhterhoua*, after aquandering the •*e**Milafad riohee of a thoueand year* on one grand jfe **, dalgfium tremens, after making a *••*• that was ******** than war, they tumbled *t last to th* id** Bet the world ef their not I one waa n* longer the w*rM of reality...
...So they faoed oaoh other aero** the roomvglowarlng...
...The general strike Idea waa ballad with enthusiasm - by the syndicate...
...it shan't pass, MJnturn...
...Hundreds of millions ore stunted in body and mind far lack of food...
...That's how cioa* tt is...
...1 never *aw th* old bop so flustered," GOOdnlto Went on, Undisturbed, between puff...
...Instead he felt drawn toward his antagonist...
...Goodnlt* snickered...
...Be *ndfl*nly brought hi* great flat down on tho tapie...
...They ar* human being* like you and ins, and if thl* I* th* worst that can be said sTisnt, say of God** creature*, it applies to all of ua ,»"*)*, The fast ia that th* human being, thie thing £Sfg)'rning to be tho crown of creation, ie really the B*wn ef creation and above that th* most predatory, Bloodthirsty and foolish critter of the animal kingdom...
...Tou mean hi* wlf* 1* tor tho billT" "Sure...
...Here is something that is conscioualy esoteric...
...He trembled...
...The passage of the general atrifce resolution in tho ISM congraaa of th* Federation at Marseilles was a disastrous Mow to Socialist leadership in the trade union field...
...It there war* a eat* margin against it...
...He dated the *w*lljng purple vela* an QoedoU*'* rolling neck, a* h* threw bick his head and drained the glass clean-end ha relapsed into a sulky •Hence...
...He said coldly: "SenttCf...
...There is, so far as we know, no Federal statute against expressing onself clearly in the English language...
...Said maney wa* to go to Unale Sam In a spjnd-about way through th* Daw** *>l*n, get eome(par H got loot in the ahuffl* on tho other...
...Goodnito scowled...
...Us...
...Now wa have, forti-eiaitrtj, a newer gihaal of acotsorrtrate who can write aa wen as research...
...Goodnlt* aaailed slowly—slyly...
...The strike waa favored by a large majority...
...It wa* disgusting...
...J e e a e e It is notorious that tbe American Legion ha*, from time to tune, taken on itself the conduct of our mannera, morale and public patriotism...
...To make th* German people, whom wo I***unpad as Huns, vandal* and beast* an equal »*tamh*r and a weleom* member in the sisterhood of eivnised nation...
...lf&.its regulation*, pledged itself to remain independent of all political schools and incorporated the general strike as part of its program...
...Finally, the worker* could not hope to win on the economic field, tor there the capitalists were far stronger than their opponents...
...fc.- Ma»ks w* weer Strang* masks—upon our shameful fa*** FffttoMi* eeveringa for wen disgrac**, "* Iff'toling what we are, in furtive dread [Ig* hies the horrible, we *hr*ud th* dead...
...P It I* tho law of "nature that all m**t eating animal* devour each other...
...Some twentyfive .million inneeent bystanders dl*d a* th* result of pest, hunger and heartbreak...
...1 Juat ran into your uncle a while ago...
...Whys to take Germany into the League of Nations, tt eeureo...
...It never listen* R*bj prophet...
...h* aaM...
...Hurst loaves us with a bare margin of one...
...The general strike teemed to repair the defect* of a *trik* in one trade, to insure a successful outcome and to he' an admirable means of social revolution...
...Shea far the bin...
...Every sight now, rise raises such a row, that it ia impossible to keep" her within four walls...
...one* •Th* Alll** *re *lae unanimous by this tlm* that (bjgnjgsjrl* d*M to then* had host be wiped out, smmad Unele ShylOCk, aa they are calling dear old Ijnilf Sam now, will forget torn* eleven billion dollar* e»loh h* leaned them ts savs u* from th* Hun—H aaaon th* nioo Oerm*n* they embraced like long lost ' bjs*Jt*r* at 0*n*v* the other day...
...W*ll, th* *ong of hatred ha* ended...
...But rarely haa the Legion come so unabashedly into the open aa in its recent attempts to censor the cuatodiant of the Commonwealth College at Mens, Arkansas...
...Taking out hi* pip*, be mad* comfortable aound* with his mouth and comfortable movements with hi* leg* and arms...
...world in which every unit was ¦••ttting for existence against all...
...The combined mihtaneies of the Legion and the howling Fundamentalists will undoubtedly make some trouble for Commonwealth...
...yon knew, ana I make aa exception to the •nil*.'' Sen's reply aaafifed lam*, and, ptttif...
...Look b*r*.* Ha task: ar S«n*t* rector from Bis pocket...
...If Mr...
...a body in which JNpy organ waa seeking lif* by sowing death...
...Cga wanted to reply sharply...
...Hi* placid and pleasure-loving nature, suddenly confronted with stark facts, only hitherto dimly guessed, never consciously faced, shrank away from action like a child's...
...Besides, no peaceful general strike was possible...
...miw^klng Minturn'a word* and *!l*ne* for opposition, began to whimper...
...Hi* collar bung about hi* throat heavily.' Th* face of his companion was offensive in its mash of avarice and power, and ha hlm**lf seemed inept and weak, painfully unable to m*et th* situation...
...Toe wouldn't want to break me, waaM yon, sad send her clerking to W«*iworth*a...
...The organisation they fostered, however, waa soon absorbed in the "Parti Ouvrier...
...Gobdnlte paused...
...Knowing something about Arkansas, we are not surprised to hear of this attack on Commonwealth...
...Ta it* C*atiau*4 Meat w**k) The New Censorship - w \ fWnJry, aeshmBjs- tea*** ¦imMitJ SatsiBMifotttrnrrt...
...Humanity didn't even pay any atHptl»" to Chriat whiA he said "Lov* thy *nemiee," lB*<*t net evil," etc, and declared that tho a* who Lthe award shall perish by th* sword...
...Away forever with ahsrpnel sad msehin* guns," cries *l*g*nt Briand...
...By the time that the capitalists felt the pangs of hunger, the workera would be starved...
...CaJverton...
...His remark sounded hollow and inept...
...At first its advocates felt that it might ho decreed for a particular day...
...Th* Guesdlsts, thereupon, left and held a separate congress of tbelr own...
...New that depend*/' he said...
...But he retrained...
...Just entering college...
...It could not aucceed without a high degree ot organisation which, if attained,"and discipline, would make the strike unnecessary...
...Tou can have anything that you want it you'll piay with your friends...
...Be bad to stand sad toe Ooodnit* weap...
...There waa a pained look in hi* face...
...Henry A etch, Jr...
...Th* wis* and groat of th* earth blew in ton million young men on the field of elaughter...
...Will anybody please toll m* what ha* happened *l*e* that fatal fool day in August, 1914, that should Bring about his touching reconciliation of historic Batd hysteric enemies...
...You'r* not an tegrat...
...The general atria* idea wa* not a new one...
...ours...
...Accompanying the questionnaire ia*a letter from the Legion representative telling the coHege that "it must come through clean...
...Oh, I suppose it in, I suppo** it is, but ho ought to have told his constituency down in tho 120th wh*n he waa campaigning laat tall that Mist Knlbb* had converted him to socialism...
...o Of eeuree I am s man of peace, and a* I am a MSBTMl percent for all around forgetting and fo»*Jw*#> At tho eome time I wouldn't do my duty aaa*tf•appointee' eeurt feel to hi* eerene majesty, fpe aevereign* people, if I lot thl* jeysu* oceaalon ****** without rubbing a tittle salt on H. ¦ per e etarter, lot me shy that I regard war in general a* tho supreme imbeeility of mankind, and the lata war, tho boat and biggest war of all, a* th* •*ne*ntrat*oV double-distilled assininity of all time...
...In one Industry, was legal...
...Dan and Bredetreat...
...wag' aomehof Irresistible...
...It had been discussed in England during th* thirties, and later at the oongresses of the International...
...tie elements gathered at Nantes and laid foundation* tor a new organisation, tha General ConXederatkm Ot Labor (tha C. a. T.) at the *oongre*n at Limoges...
...To him the air wa* leaden...
...Jaat this...
...Tou can't be going to ditch us at this hour...
...They take ths matter-of-fact viewpoint that lite, liberty and the pursuit of bread and butter are matt era of...
...In thl* tons*, the idea of* the general strike waa favored In the congress of the National Federation of Syndicate in IMS...
...Seamed impossible in view of the new armaments and of tho new construction of cities which made barricades and street fighting a thing of the past These two methods...
...These idea* formulated by this group contaiad tho germs of revolutionary syndicalism...
...The formation ot tho O. O. T. was a distinct victory for tha** wfto asserted tbe superiority of economic action over political and who wanted to keep the syndicate independent of political parties...
...During the sixties and seventies many of the workers regarded the strike aa a necessary evil which never really compensated labor for tho sacrifice* involved...
...Minturn did not reply...
...He wae tired, and the shallow, exuberant spirit of the caller, like hi* hu*j*e kUlk...
...One aid* Or th* other would be sura to make it th* occasion for violence...
...But few animal* devour their *wn kind...
...fit's getting SO I can't get a drink In anybody's room but yours, Mlatum," the big man explained Jovially, ** be poured out a glass of gin from the decanter...
...I never make pl»dg*a...
...I am...
...A decent sense of shame has kept^ns from spreading the horrid truth amoog'our readers, namely, that at the advanced age of nine years, Isabel haa again embarked on what has become a perennial quest for a mate...
...She *ocm* to have accepted the raodern, rAikeopby that youth ia noJonger a matter of years bnt rather a state of mind...
...That'* his right," Dan assarted...
...he quoted bitterly...
...She is frankly out for the comrMOionabip of a large tiger cat who puts in leaf hats aslsso on an adjoining fire escape earn she doesn't care whoknows it...
...Gay lard knew it, but aa never thought Hum would be fool enough to fall far her tonga*.'' "Well, who'* going to lead the fight on it, if Hurst, i* on the other side...
...At all event*, reticence is nee ia her malts Bp...
...Mmturn...
...The world of reality, however, can no...
...Calverton and the new school of critics of the labor movement really want to make any impression whatever, they will have to abandon the octopus manner of surrounding themselves term ink clouds and return to thie drab earth m...
...Bo •Bmldng thusly, they out, hacked, and operated en 'Mob ether until they became at laat united in a .•Body me as of misery and woe...
...Mis pudgy Anger ran down tha Us* ot nam...
...That tear Dan now saw as the visible symbol tt his ignominy...
...At length, Ooodnit...
...Ita first French propagandist appears to be an anarchist workinrman, Tortelier, a member of the carpenters' union...
...p.____ For some weeks past, we have aaid nothing about Isabel, our Mack cat...
...Ton wouldn't want to ruin your naval*, weald you, seat it meant t* much to u*-" A big tear dislodged itself from the rolling ey* of th* fat man and travelled ludicrously down hi* cheek...
...n ¦ atS ¦ 1 seal at* SkWaA **n a-«•*.*¦ *ssskgj SsssTak hare dose their beat te make his tJkiiaeiafff* ration eorae true...
...Th* general strike concept thus raised a definite Issue between the Socialist* in control ef the Federation and trad* unlonlata, who placed cbi*f reliance on th* economic Weapon...
...Ooodan* naa another drink, smacked hi* lips and sat down in the •Morris chair...
...And for what...
...I'm independent, you know...
...Indifferently...
...Btlt t thought that you were for it...
...I Adam Coaldigger...
...Ooodnit* ignored bis listener's indifference, h* shuffled hi* hulk, eoaifartabty in tha chair, and reached to* the decanter...
...In the long run, however, with all liberal minded people, Commonwealth will be congratulated on the enemies that it haa made...
...the bill has its good points...
...Ton know what's a*t at* goat t it** M«r*t.- ¦•' '| "Hurst...
...Thl* peaceful strike ot folded arm* would therefore permit th* worklngmen to carry out the revolution through legal tnaans and make revolution an easy matter...
...Tou know, Goodnito, I never make pledges on bill...
...Misturn...
...Germany is all right now...
...TOU mean Senator paylard.** MInters replied...
...What matter ef the object of her quest appears to he ladWeiant to har tnost beguiling love notes...
...Afterwards, they took the position that it must bo spontaneous and could be brought about only through education and propaganda...
...This must interest Kate, who haa broken her back raising money for the institution which, of course, is nothing more or less, than a labor college...
...God damn it, you ^needn't throw that up to meC I never tried to fool you, did I?" be exclaimed *eurigbbaouaiy...
...the method advocated by Qnecdlata and others, seemed vague and Indefinitely remote...
...Isabel flBn*ea/a an admirable persistency and if we are ts/ judge from past events, there it little question bet that we will soon hw aeekrag bomea for a. new group of tiger luttena...
...The* Legion announces "that it has unearthed a report on Commonwealth from the Department Of Justice, in which there is set forth a hair-raising indictment of the college—stating that it has been subsidized by Moscow gold...
...Politic* do make queer bod-fellows," th* big* man commented saplentty...
...Dan was enlivened...
...It would b* fatal to this state, tt would •and it into bankruptcy ia two ysar...
...Hurst's absolutely right on everything else, absolutely, but it look* like he's going to vote far thl* damn power bill . . . And nothing that your uncle oaa do can budge him...
...But, by God...
...Th* Blanquiats naturally adopted it a* one of th* means to their desired end...
...Ooodnit* affirmed earnestly...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES The End of A Perfect Folly a*jO Germany it now a member of the M League of Nations »nd there were cheers h* and tears when Briand and Streseman kissed end made up while telling the world that all is now hunkydory between then and latween their respective countries...
...Bom* session, eh, Mintomr Oaa nodded...
...And that tone what assy, youth BMtat he...
...Dan smiled...
...That in that state where men are men and hogs are razor backs, any attempt at intellectual freedom should be undertaken always struck us aa nothing short of the miraculous...
...Good nit* w strolled into Dan's room...
...who wa* secretary of tho organisation from 1884 to hi* death In 1»01...
...It's the duty of every decent man'to naaiTi it...
...concern to a larger audience than a select (reap of Ph...
...a. general revolt, such as advocated by ths anarchists...
...I'll go to bed," Ooodnit* want heavily...
...The Ouesdiats bitterly attacked this position...
...With the help of their boy friends, thr local Fundamentalists of that enlightened State, the Legion has presented to Kate O'Hare and the other director a of Commonwealth, a questionnaire dealing with the aims and purposes of that institution...
...To B* Continued Next Week) GOVERNOR MINTURN A Labor Novel of the Northwest By M. H. HEDGES (Continued From Laat Week) ^TTlTHOUT rapping...
...Here th* question of th* general strike was th* main issue on the agenda...
...Wan...
...Th* organisation ot local bourses, as ha* been Jsatol, finally led to the formation of tho Federation do* Bourses du Travail in lttl Though organised first as a political meaaur* against tbe Guesdlsts, th* federation of course soon begin to devot* its main energies to economic functions, du* largely to the efforts of Ferdinand Peiloutier...
...Sura, your friend*, your family, your business associates, the folk* that have been playing square with you all along...
...But, my God 1 • It reads aa though it were written by Thorstein Vebleo in his mora Scandinavian moments, with "the collaboration of Waldo Frank and Gertrude Stein...
...with flu*h*d face...
...She roams the hack yard, shrieking loudly for some "lover wild,'' a moat distressing sight to one auch aa ourselves who was bred in a puritanical household and who was taught to believe that a certain amount of reticence accompanied the love-making of the female species- It may be her proximity to Greenwich Village, it may be that unconsciously Isabel has abeorbed something of that famed spirit of independence, loosely called the "new morality...
...ypeteaquely making believe, with lying glanee, W***bjig aa aorebatie eountonsnee, curving lips can guifbly shape a grayer, ^.•*»*** klas, • aurae, a tUHeful air, *f lav*, g leek of hit*, i amiie, w** •*•* *em* truth oonoplring to defile...
...The strike itself...
...D.'s...
...And it is th* belated real!**»••» *f this fact which finally resulted in the love f*Md at Geneva the other day...
...iMR *h, what a ghaatly price humanity had to nay , w the education of ita leader*, when all humanity wt *» do waa to listen to old Adam when ha told Pp* '*ng before th* war and all through th* war P* «**ctty how th* silly mess would earn* out...
...Pray dent think that «f am opposed to Germeny's admission to tho L**gue or think that I believed for a Moment one-millionth pnrt of th* hag wash that wee spilled over these people during tho great brain •derm, the German people are neither better nor wo res then ether people...
...He pitied him...
...Tho Guesdlsts alone frowned on It, and in their congress at Lille (1*90) declared that it wa slmpossible...
...AS a matter of fact, it ia a ehear waste of time to write a semi-mystical economics which the average man flees aa from a plague...
...We mean man el the type ef Steatt Chase, vl S. Ratishenbuap, Piplwear Tutsrefl of Columbia and a few others...
...The Legionnaires hint darkly at free love, apeak with an apparent note of envy of the nationalization of women, snd rattle ones more those skeletons of Communism that, butside of Arkansas, were long since decently interred...
...Tbe world pictured in their befuddled braine waa a Blril neatly devided into national, rseisl and *eoblirj* unit...
...During tho few days in which it was waged, its advocate* contended, it would be able to compel the government to capitulate and would carry the workers into political power...
...eliminated, th* general strike seemed to present the only and proper weapon in the hand* of the workinrmen for tbe realisation of their final emancipation...
...Tho total property lots of something like tw* hundred and fifty thousand million* of dollars can only be mad* thinkable by aaying that if th* whole North American continent war* sunk into the ocean, the Monetary lee* would ju*t about, equal that of th* great mad...
...For those who are troubled with aieepieaaaeBi and who want an example of the sort of thing we mean, we recommend a perusal of "The Modern Quarterly,'' very ably edited, to be stare, by that very able young man, Mr...
...No real social revolution, they asserted, could bo brought about -In the way indicated...
...The syndicalist Idea grew at first chiefly through th* bourses of the various cities...
...then chuckled...
...lav the meantime, Funnyface Isabel's black and white daughter by a previous marriage, watches her motber with unconcealed admiration- And there « something of the admiraUe in the manner in which Isabel eUnaa to the ways of her youth, despite her graying wmskefs...
...Million* of babiee died on empty breasts...
...pfcsrtwhlls there la talk In Oefwiany at leanini g»n*y to Pans* to Deleter up tin tease, frueela Ik kerrewing twenty mllllen Seller* In the Oh loaf* enhrty market after th* Helen ha* already berrewad •jab* elfht hundred mllllM from former fewr-mlnute **nfc*r* ana dollar.a-year men—out *f which It **>• Xb?et tw* hundred milllsn* to th* elite* is r***r*> Sm...
...wast do you **y, old men...
...S* unity travelled from 0**ev* to Geneva by HS* *f Hall and Oetheemane, moaning thereby that PM*al thing want to war to hav* peace whan all w "*d to do waa to keep th* pasoe it had...
...The C. G. T...
...H« wondered why he didn't rls* up, and turn this Intruder out of door...
...Today there is but •a*'world nnd on* humanity...
...We aaek nothing but peaoe and friandahlp with all nation* of th* w*rid," replies atreeeman, and then cheers, tears ¦»4 ambrgggg all around...
...And thaw ate tight...
...When be spoke," it wa* without conviction...
...Dan saw In the twist of hie narrow eyes-a revelation ot hi* stalwart conning ot th* man...
...For a moment, ne was aware at *k* unreality of tho situation...
...Of course, th* acceptance of the concept of the general strike Implied that one regarded the economic as superior to the political Weapon...
...Tbe Allonianists adopted It In 18*1, and lftM Fornand Peiloutier defended it with success before a socialist congress tn ltst, while Aristide Briand appeared the *am* year as its eloquent sponsor at th* National Federation ot Syndics ts at Marseilles...
...He Wis lik* hi* oompanion—a gross, fat braggart, mouthing platitude* innocent of meaning...
...None of them kill for the mere luat of killing, aa any "good •port*' will do...
...He faltered...
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