WHAT THE SOCIALISTS ARE AFTER
Laidler, Harry W.
WHAT THE SOCIALISTS ARE AFTER "Socialism Seeks To Apply the Principles of Democracy To Industry Socialist Are And Are Not By Harry W. Laidler Executive Director, League for Industrial...
...There wal be other features of literary and artiitle merit that are now being trimmed inb> shape by the Editor, William MorriJ Peigenbaum...
...Mississippi Socialists should write him NOW...
...7 East 15th street The branch will meet Tuesday eve-gjrjf March 27...
...The older communists of the Utopian variety believed not only that industry should be socialised, but that consumption 'goods—furol-tnure, libraries, etc.—should be comman property and that all private ownership should be abolished.- Socialists are Socialists because they want the mass of producers to have more private property In consumption goods, mare of the necessities and comforts of life than they now have...
...Comrades Dobsevsge and Claessens addressed the members...
...New York City A mass meeting will be held Sunday, March 25, 2 p.m...
...At the next meeting, work will be mapped out for the 7th and 8th Assembly Districts...
...38 West 9th street...
...Governor and United States Senator are to be nominated...
...March 23, with a talk on "The Presidential Campaign and the Socialist Party," at our new headquarters...
...Rachel Panken will appear la behalf of the Organisation and Membership Committee of the Socialist Action Committee...
...The* seek to achieve .their ends through trade and Industrial unions, through the building of cooperative societies, through political parties of labor and through education...
...Sergei's Speech on Income Tax The speech made by Comrade Berger on the income tax recently was one of the very best he ever made in Congress —and that is saying a lot...
...Socialism and Industry »~h«iw» do not demand even that all industry be owned by the community...
...Circle Ten Seniors of Flatbush came down en masse and were given a royal welcome...
...However, a good deal of industry would undoubtedly be conducted by voluntary cooperative groups of producers and consumers, especially in handicraft industries, in agriculture and in Intellectual production—in magazines of opinion, experimental schools, etc.—and a certain amount by private Individuals with proper regulations regarding labor conations and prices...
...Go easy on the gratters...
...Convention Ytnsel Program Members of the Committee on preparations for a Yipsel Program at the rooming Socialist Party National Convention please take notice of the meeting of the committee...
...State organizer Jursek will speak before "The Friday Night Club' 'at one of the Yale College class rooms, Friday, Mar...
...Enrolled voters circularized can also be asked to affiliate, with the dues' paying organization...
...Kennedy Is going to make a trip to the state capitol to get a line on the situation regarding placing the Socialist ticket on the baUot...
...production—national, municipal, ee» . operatives of consumption and production and private—can exist beside each, other in a socialist society...
...The branch also welcomed three new members, Israel and Nellie Fein-berg and Helena Turitz...
...Potts town - I. L. Weinberg, local secretary, writes The New Leader that much can be done by Socialists if they "get down to business...
...Especially so after we have taken up our morning paper and read of the gift of one of our numerous millionaires to some favorite charity that happens to Ue in Our immediate vicinity...
...Unemployment Meeting Sunday, April 8, at 2:30, there will be a meeting on Unemployment at Fapu-eil Hall...
...An idea can be gotten of the value of the above mentioned msto-rtal be a suggestion made by Morris HID-jutt that many of these articles b»w» sufficient value to warrant printing " » seperate booklet for propaganda pox-xees...
...M. J. Koniklow is the speaker Thursday, March 22, at a meeting of the Boston and Dorchester branches at 21 Essex street at 8:00 p.m...
...For you know that all of these gentlemen are veteran Christians and pay allegiance to the great institution which aims to serve the masses...
...A good time is positively assured...
...Anyone that contributes to the fund we are raising can get them in proportion to the cost, which will be about $4.00 per thousand...
...Real political rebels have a chance to vote for Socialist candidates in Idaho this year...
...No sooner had they organized than the conservative newspapers of those days—among them the New York Post and the Philadelphia Gazette—ran long editorials filled with denunciation...
...7th AD...
...the city editor does pride himself on a "scoop" (always front page material) of some benevolent soul who has manifested his good will to the race by the donation of a million or two to Harvard, Columbia or other of our universities, presented a library or hospital to some struggling municipality or subscribe generously to an organization for the propagation of the gospel among the heathen...
...Tbe meeting will be held in Redman's Hall, Ferry and Liberty streets, Schenectady, and open at 3 o'clock...
...The National Office wishes to hear from more Socialists in that State right away...
...Convention and Organization Fund The National Office has sent out a call for renewed activity in the collection of fundi for handling the expenses of the National Convention and for the purpose of organization...
...Oklahoma The Socialist Party convention held in Oklahoma City on Saturday, March 10, was only the beginning ot a powerful party in that state, for since the convention the mail arriving at National Headquarters brings the good tidings that comrades are happy to know there is'again a real party organization in Oklahoma...
...Campaign and the Socialist Party...
...Those desiring to be present are urged to telephone, write or call at the City Office, 7 East 15th street, telephone, Algonquin 4820 at once...
...The amiable "Little Giant" of the Socialist movement...
...r On Wednesdav evening, March 2s, a Theatre Party will be held In the Republic Theatre for the benefit of the Socialist Party, New York City Organisation...
...So therefore we have no time to lose...
...Sunday evening the Circle will hold a very interesting education programal...
...It is the duty of an Socialists to be present and particularly *b bring, with them they possibly can...
...But it is far better than if our schools were left in the hands of Individual schoolmasters dominated by the profit motive and charging for tuition all that the traffic would bear...
...James Oneal will speak on "The Socialist Movement in the Unit-ed States...
...He is our hero and friend...
...Those who eee> emplate a complimentary "ad" are UTf** o send their material immediately *° he National Convention Arrangenawm Committee...
...All comrades receiving the call, as well as those having contribution lists in their possession, should make their reports as soon as possible...
...Package Party A package party scheduled by Circle Two, Seniors, at 219 Sackman street for Saturday, March 24, has been transferred to the East Side Socialist Center at _^4 East Broadway...
...But society is not a lifeless structure, made of brick and mortar...
...6-8-12 th A.D...
...Let us hope that we shall riot have to wait too long for tips glad day...
...We believe most all we read in the tallies about our millionaire friends, and when we are a bit in doubt as to the meaning of it all we turn to the" editorial columns for further light on the subject...
...Give them but time enough And they will prove by rote and rod The whole thing was an act of God, (On God a little rough...
...State Organizer of the Socialist Party, Karl C. Jursek, of Greenwich, gave a very interesting talk on tbe miners strike...
...The Convention to convene at 10 a.m., standard time...
...Sib A.D...
...The entire house is at our disposal...
...Here we learn that these generous gifts were inspired by the loftiest of sentiments--desire for the betterment of the race, sympathy for the deserving poor, etc...
...March 23...
...Presidenial electors...
...The members will vote for National Convention delegates...
...Every circle should be re resented at this affair...
...There are a number of articles covering important phases of the American Socialist' movement...
...His sub-ect is "Tuberculosis as a Social Disease...
...Have they not well subscribed...
...The same manifold character of economic mechanism as exists . today Is possible in a socialistic society...
...Another meeting will be held in April with Comrade Panken as speaker...
...Russian Branch The Russian branch has a mass meet-bj Friday...
...Plans will be made to raise funds to help defray delegates' expenses...
...Let this convention be an epoch in the Socialist Party of New Jersey...
...Good enough...
...It is possible to study the trend'of industrial development and forecast the gerieral lines of future progress but no one can predict just what the majority of inhabitants fifty years hence shall decide to do regarding a particular question under discussion...
...While not successful in attendance, nevertheless, a couple of new members were obtained whose personality shows excellent additions to the membership of this growing branch...
...To that question there are at least as many answers as v were given by the blind men who were asked to go out and find out what an elephant was like...
...It would produce, the newspapers declared, a dead level, decrease industrial efficiency and would prove totally impracticable...
...All members and sympathizers who expect to help in the campaign must attend...
...Socialists do not necessarily Ammn^ that all workers obtain an equal compensation...
...Secretary Hlg-gins Informs the National Office of more new members and continued activity on the part of the State Secretary towards the organisation of more Jov cals and selection of a state and national ticket...
...State Secretary W. C. Kennedy, R. F. D. 5, Magnolia, wants to hear from every Socialist In the state...
...Flatiron Bldg., opposite the main station of the Erie R.R...
...The most saanlfaM forms of ownership In the meant of...
...The next meeting wfll be held at the Bronx Headquarters, 1167 Boston road on Friday evening, March 30...
...30, at 8 p.m...
...cooperative order...
...Mississippi Who said the Socialist Party could not break into the solid south...
...Russell of the late Progressive party In that state...
...Under a Socialist state the ftnnctpal industries would probably be owned by local, state and federal communities...
...A delegate to the National convention has bam elected...
...Of course the gift is gratefully acknowledged with bravos by the great American public and the benefactor promptly enshrined with the wise and ;ood of the century...
...Helen Olantz refuted his statements with a very pleasant and ;trong talk...
...When I was a small boy, I was brought up by a loyal member of the Republican party in Brooklyn...
...One blind man felt the side of the elephant and reported that it was like a stone wall...
...4-14ih A.D...
...has outgrown its quarters at 1465 St...
...May Day A May Day celebration has been planned by the City eCntral Committee...
...it would lead to a system of "dividing up", forcing the thrifty and the industrious to pay the taxes to send the children of the idle and shiftless to the public schools...
...What is Socialism...
...The first undertaking will be to get in touch with all delinquents and sat the branch records in proper shape...
...New Haven The women of the Workmen's Circle held a very successful package party, Saturday evening, March 17 in behalf of the striking miners...
...Go easy on tbe grafters...
...1 Slowly and steadily the branch is receiving new recruits who are doing fine work to build up our branch...
...March 31, the Socialists of Gibraltar will meet at the Fire Company hall for the purpose of considering the formation of a branch organization of the Socialist party...
...Letters were sent to about 100 enrolled In the 4th A. D. and some of thus* people were present...
...S-eth A.D...
...Arizona So many letters have arrived from Socialists in Arizona during the past week that we have become enthused and feel assured that there will be cooperation by aU comrades in that state in rebuilding the movement...
...Go easy on the grafters...
...Although a newspaperman I must confess that I have not had the-fortune to meet any of the Rockefeller and Morgan class...
...Socialists realise that Socialism cannot be achieved in a day and it "will take years of the most intensive education, organization and constructive thought and action before w»=-bring about the...
...Birch Wilson, city purchasing agent: William C. Hovei-ter, candidate for State Senator, and John A. Aulenbach, county organizer, will be the speakers...
...Henry Gross, who is in cnarfl Jf advertizing, reports that *1 .'j** 'ads'' are in and there Is every reason » believe we may double that sum...
...Speakers will include Joseph Bearak, S. J. McBride .and Alfred Baker Lewis...
...In some cases a pextnersfhp could be worked out between the federal government and the local governments, In somewhat the same way that it Is now...
...More latterly Socialists have favored the development of separate federal and municipal corporations, owned by the community, organised somewhat aftar the Nort Authority of New YaeaV'wat with...
...as will be mvd'j for cooperation with other Williamsburg branches in the coming membership drive in that section of Brooklyn...
...All had a very pleasant lime ilstening to both parties...
...Arrangements are made for mailing The New Leader to enrolled Socialists in the 8th district...
...And how...
...The New Leader is anxious to report a Potts town Socialist victory...
...They only meant to make their pile, And mixed too well the work with guile...
...Arkansas More new members signed up during the week in Arkansas...
...CONSCIENCE GIFTS' - "The guilty consicence" plays its part in these dramas of redemption...
...The leading Socialists of European countries have contributed...
...The establishment of public schools, these papers maintained, would strike at the very foundation of the American Republic...
...are invited to the Friday evening meetings and for Friday, March 23, Ethelred Brown will speak on "The Comlru...
...Speakers will be Jacob Panken, B. C. Vladeck, William Karon, A. I. Sbsplacoff, Louis Waldman, and Chairman, Algernon Lee...
...In Cooper Union...
...Potts town Socialists are planning for a stUl larger meeting and Weinberg declares that they expect "to follow the example of the Reading Comrades...
...Every Socialist and every other thinking man and woman will want a copy of it...
...In the late twenties and early thirties of the last century, groups of working men in New York, Philadelphia and Boston organized into labor parties for the purpose, among other things, to agitate for the establishment of the public school system...
...Picture to yourself the bare lives of the men who worked on year after year in order that it should be possible for one exploiter ot labor to make this gift...
...The time and place of the State Convention will be set at the next meeting of the State Executive Committee...
...Only the hunting and the hunted, the struggling, the annihilated and being annihilated of the present competitive struggle are excluded and therewith the contrast between the exploiter and the exploited...
...Russell had said that his party had no national affiliation and that if the nlri parties nominated no satisfactory candidates his following would stav at home...
...Branch Seven The Branch will meet Tuesday, Mar...
...Go easy on the grafters...
...Perhaps even now as you read this some honest psychologist has announced his results of his study on the Important problem "The Psychology of the Millionaire Benefactor" and the metropolitan dailies have outdone themselves In an effort to furnish their readers with a greater thrill than that of the Teapot Dome tragedy...
...This spells progress...
...To Organise Gibraltar On Saturday...
...Local Passaic wul arrange a dinner for the delegates...
...JUDGMENT RESERVED (After the dam burst in Southern California, killing hundreds of men, ¦women and children, it became known that needed repairs, often delayed by politicians, had caused the disaster...
...And aU folks do it anyhow, In this, or other guise...
...the present Ume will be abolished, anot when all able bodied and minded men and women will contribute according to their respective abilities to the social product...
...And there will be more work to de...
...They have no objection to a moderate difference of compensation, if it is based on a difference in productivity and Industry, and if such difference seems necessary to bring out the best in the workers...
...There is no doubt but that Oklahoma will soon take its place along with the best organized states for the cause of Socialism...
...The souvenir book to be publishes ih connection with the National Convention will go to press on or about April 7. Material is coming in every day and the contents promise one of the best bocks of this character ever published by the Party...
...We are afire...
...All members are very welcome to attend our meetings...
...I was informed that Socialists believed in a system of "dividing up...
...While desiring to see Socialism in our time...
...It has been suggesed that the party morale might be improved by holding It up-State this year...
...Indiana Greater activity is manifested by Indiana Socialists: money is coming in with every day's mail to assist in the work...
...An unusually good collection of articles are on hand, many of permanent value...
...About 100 Ytpsels will be needed to make up a scene of an open-lir meeting...
...When will we realize that Capital changes its front to meet every change in the social and economic order, but never changes its real purpose—the exploitation of the worker...
...This .is the first installment as a result of efforts made on the part of our Jewish comrades to increase the ssaaskeamp of 'then-branches throughout the city...
...BRONX Central Branch A fairly well attended meeting of the Central Branch was held last Tuesday...
...Watch for announcement of place and speakers...
...A state organization is in the making, and soon we hope to see things moving there towards a bigger and more active party...
...Marks avenue and has engaged a new meeting place in the Rockaway Mansion, 695 Rockaway avenue (the Rockaway avenue station of the I. R. T. is but a half block away...
...We have had no.end of studies by our psycho analysts explaining the causes of social unrest among the poor, the connection of poverty and crime, etc...
...The StKUttfL baa no objection as such to law or government, but does object to law and government in the interest of a ruling class and looks forward to a Ume when the sharp class divisions that exist at...
...Among places mentioned are Albany, Poughkeepsle and Camp Ganedln, Cold Springs...
...There are few branches that can report such splendid attention on important Party matters...
...Thomas ia Schenectady Norman Thomas is the speaker at Schenectady's Labor Forum on Sunday afternoon, taking for his subject "Industrial Democracy...
...Plans for organization and propaganda work and an intense campaign throughout the state are to be made...
...It is by no means perfect...
...B aims at the social ownership and democratic control of industry to the end that waste and poverty and exploitation be abolished, that equality of opportunity and freedom be established and that the personality of the masses be fully developed...
...A new local is in process of organization and within a few lays we will have things moving towards a. real party movement...
...Circle 13 Dance The third annual dance of Circle 13, Brooklyn, will be held Saturday, April 28, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum...
...Circle One, Bronx, win not meet Sun-lay, March 25, but will attend the Cooler Union meeting...
...Next notice will jive a State Secretary for Delaware and Further details as to...
...They represent the labor of every worker who is exploited in the name of industrial efficiency and progress, and who receives but a half or something less of the real value of his work...
...They would like to end that dividing-up system...
...And published well their quick relief...
...Chairman, Dr...
...Several weeks ago I bad the pleasure of interviewing a manufacturer who had just stepped into the limelight by the generous/gift of 125,004 to a private tuberculosis hospital where his employes could go to die in peace after they had broken down through overwork and undernourishment...
...Now, owing to various influences, the public school system in America is the the most extensive in the world...
...The command is always to move forward and to keep moving...
...8 p.m., at the Rand School...
...There Is much to do and but one day to do it...
...socialism also aligned The movements for universal manhood and womanhood suffrage, for the abolition of slavery and for other advanced measures have been similiarly attacked and misrepresented...
...These stamps have been allotted to locals and branches pro rata with membership, and every member will be expected to pure chase at least one stamp...
...one of the outstanding theatrical successes of the season...
...Go easy on the grafters...
...The Benevolence of Wealth By John F. Kellett EjrriTH what thrilling "human Interest" stories do the great metropolitan journals regale us every now and then of the kindly deeds of our worthy friends, the millionaires, in the role of benefactors of mankind...
...ROBERT WHITAKER Socialist Party Plans and Progress Through The States National Readers in unorganized communities desiring information on how to Organize local divisions of the Socialist Pkrty may obtain instructions, leaflets, charter applications, membership cards, application cards and all other necessary information by addressing William H. Henry, National Executive Secretary, 2653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...Socialism has become one of the most important movements in the world today and is vitally influencing the social, political, economic and thought life of the world...
...AU residents ot Gibraltar are urged to attend this meeting...
...The early Utopian socialists made the mistake of regarding society somewhat as an inanimate structure...
...Room 508, on the subject: <"H>e Eleventh Anniversary of the March Revolution...
...Committees are now at work planning for a Package Party and Dance on April 29 to serve as an official housewarming...
...As Judas soiled the kiss...
...The ruling economic groups, constituting a minority of the population, are trying to mold it to their own class purposes...
...Idaho C. H. Cammans, state Secretary, recently had a column in the Molse Capital News which critically analyzed a statement of a Mr...
...In constructing a building an architect may make complete plans for every room, every door, every window, and the building goes up according to specifications...
...Delegates to the National Convention of the Socialist Party will be elected, it being impossible to elect by referendum vote...
...Write the National Office and state where you stand...
...27 at the club-rooms, 4315 Third avenue...
...The National Convention Agenda will be discussed and the results of the referendum election of delegates to the convention will be announced...
...They meant no woe like this...
...Socialists are not bolsheviks...
...This is an invitation to all our comrades and friends to do their Dart...
...The dead are dead, we know...
...The play Is "Porgy...
...8th AD...
...Are not the Morgans and the Rockefellers occasionally touched to the very heart when they hear a sermon on the text "That which thou hast stolen, thou Shalt repay...
...Delaware win have its delegate at our National Convention, April 14, Connecticut - The State Executive Committee will hold an Important meeting Sunday, Mar...
...the meet1 diverse fonts of industrial orraniaa-tton of remuneration and of forms of circulation...
...If we are not to act as blind leaders of the blind in the work in which all of us should be engaged—the work of bunding up a nobler civilization...
...New Jersey State Convention The State Convention of the Socialist Party wUl be held on Sunday, Mar...
...Sometimes I think, that even we Socialists are taken in by the propaganda of the Capitalist press and believe after aU that the exploiters of labor are our real friends...
...The Friday night club is mostly composed of former members of the Young Peoples Socialist League...
...in the Rand School...
...Despite that misrepresentation, however...
...Things are getting started again," he writes, "and everyone connected with our organization Is beginning to get on the track of things again, and getting pretty weU informed...
...Newbury port Mayoa QUI is and Alfred Baker Lewis will debate the question, "Resolved, that the Republican Party can be Reformed from Within," on Thursday, March 29 in Newburyport...
...Socialists At Work," under the auspices of the Shillington Branch...
...This, in brief, is the Indiana State Secretary's news letter...
...Inviting enrolled voters will be followed at each of the coming meetings...
...I am inclined to think that our young people of tomorrow will not look so kindly on these public gifts of our millionaire benefactors...
...Plans will be perfected for a huge organization drive in conjunction witli other Williamsburg jrar.ches throughout the territory...
...The anarchist belie?*} in the absence of law...
...Mass Convention A Mass Convention will be held Sunday morning and afternoon April 22 at the American House...
...National Convention Souvenir Bess...
...The audience contributed $37.50 and literature to the amount of $35.50 was sold...
...Socialism A World Force , "Nothing Is more false," declared Karl Kautsky, "than to represent tea Socialist society as a simple, rigid mechanism whose wheels, when once MS in motion, ran on continuously in the same manner...
...What they do object to is a difference of Income based on the fact that one group owns the natural resources and prime necessities and that the other group does the work with little or no snare m we ownership of today] ¦ j Sorlallsrii do not favor the centralization of an public industries in the bands of the r—"""*1 community...
...The presidential nominee will be Invited to speak...
...Socialists, finally, do not undertake to work out in complete detail a new: social order nor do they seek to superimpose that" order on society In any final form...
...West Virginia And still they come...
...This Is wrong, and should not continue...
...They will be personally canvassed for subscriptions and membership...
...Labor, assisted by the more enlightened educators, succeeded' in their fight for universal, free public school education...
...They desire as much decentralisation as is compatible with efficiency and there probably would be under Socialism a very great amount of industry run by the local as well as the national community...
...Socialists of that state all signify their desire to not only have our presidential ticket on the ballot for tbe fall election, but they intend having a state ticket...
...For, declared these editorial writers, the chief excltment to Industry on the part of the worker was to earn a surplus with which to send his children to the private schools and pay the tuition in these schools, and if he was no longer under this necessity, a great premium would be put on comparative idleness...
...No rehearsals will .be necessary...
...being worked out between the province of Ontario and the municipalities in the generation and distribution of electrical energy...
...An effort will be made to get out the best attendance for this meeting...
...The State Executive Committee will consider inducements to hold the sConvenUon at other places also...
...Readers of our press should ALL take the matter seriously and send their assistance so the work can be pushed with a vengeance...
...M. C. Miller spoke on "The Tragedy of Waste" at headquarters, 218 Van Sicklen avenue, on Tuesday evening, March 20...
...anarchists—differ from the popular conception of them...
...Comrades are urged to make note of this change and to inform others...
...Further plans will be made in behalf of the fight which the Socialists of the State have started for an unemployment insurance law...
...Some .seven applications am on hand and -there 4s every -reason to expect a good functioning branch hi these bouses and wsth sjrBsnethetse persons *vmg In .«hc vJetnny...
...And it Is natural ' that the Socialist movement should be subjected to the same treatment...
...16th A. D. The branch will meet Friday evening March 23, at the W. C. Center, 2316 30tl avenue...
...Yet a man has a right to his opinion...
...Kinsrs County comrades and readers of The New Leader please take note...
...No gift from them to their less fortunate brethren is too trivial to deserve mention...
...Comrades Pruchter, Orr and Claessens were present...
...Mayor Nichols" has been invited to address the meeting and tell what the city is doing to relieve unemployment...
...They represent the product of unpaid labor—your labor and mine...
...A meeting will be held in the new Amalgamated Apartments for the organization of a branch dn that section of the Bronx...
...The third blind man felt its tail and thought that it was like a rope while the fourth, who felt its trunk, regarded It as a hose Socialism may be looked upon as a philosophy of history, as am indictment of modern society, as • world movement or a social ideal...
...Speakers: James Oneal (in English), C. Kantorovich (Yiddish), Viliazer...
...There a«s been an excellent response fraet trade Unions, Workmen Circle branch** 3o-operatives, Socialist Party Locals ana 3ranches, as well as individual member* md sympathetic businessmen from aa >arts of the country...
...It is a fifing, growing organism, made up of Bullions of human beings with all sorts bf conflicting aspirations...
...18th A. D. In the broad lexicon of youth there are no words meaning "stand still...
...Enrolled voters In the Brownsville section of the 2nd AD...
...Howe avenue starts at Main street at the...
...Shall they, the foremost now in grief, Be lightly diatribed...
...But for their enterprise Where would this land of out's be now...
...Ham den Local Hamden will meet at the home of Gustave Berquist, 28 Millis street, Highwood, Thursday evening, March 22...
...Try and ; Imagine, when you again read of the' gift of a million or two to some of our big universities or medical foundations by some captain of industry, the minions of hours of stolen labor that this gift represents...
...Why should we not canonize him who has so felt our suffering that he was willing to give a portion of his hard-earned savings toward its alleviation...
...BLOOD THROUGH EVERY PORE" When will we learn the truth of Karl Marx's famous epigram "Capital came into the world sweating blood "through every pore...
...All branches arc notified that votes for the delegates to the National Convention must be reported to the City Office no later than Monday, March 26...
...Yipseldom Circle Two Seniors Sunday evening a very interesting debate brought on a lecture given by Fabian Frisch...
...The branch has met with considerable success in its drive to get delinquent members in good standing and a report of this drive was made...
...Pennsylvania Mayor Stump to Lecture On Friday evening, March 30, Mayor J. Henry Stump will deUver a public address in the Shillington Fire Company hall on the subject...
...Whether or not this will be done, will be decided upon later...
...No country offers to an enterprising researcher so wide a field for study of this particular type as our good old U. S. A. and in no other country is he so provided with material for first-hand study by a courteous pulpit and press...
...Those wishing x> join may do so by attending the group neeting or writing to the League office...
...With the reawakened Interest in Socialism going forward in the United States today our young workers will catch a vision of a new order based on personal obligation for each and fair play for all...
...Jessie Wallace Hughan has accepted the office of organizer and an effort is being made Mrards reorganizing and future acti-Ttues...
...Admission free...
...in the home of Cpm-Jades Lee...
...What do these gifts of which we read so much in the metropolitan, dailies really represent...
...August Claessens, will Uiitiate the cultural activities Friday evening...
...Socialists are not communists in the old sense of that term...
...Socialism, then, is one of the great movements of the modern world...
...They believe that Abraham Lincoln expressed a great truth when he said: "Inasmuch as most good things are produced by labor, It follows that all such things ought to belong to those ¦rhose labor has produced them...
...To secure to' each laborer the whole product of his labor as nearly as pnatlhlr is a worthy object of any good government...
...We are living, so the sociologists tell us, in an age of glamor—an era when the chief aim of man seems to be to bury unpleasant facts beneath pleasant exteriors...
...Every member is urged to vote...
...For the pre»-rat a large edition of the Souvenir Bo* ¦fill be published and every comrade who wants one, may obtain a copy J5c...
...The branch will meet Tuesday, March 27 at their headquarters, 377 South 3d street...
...New England Boston Dr...
...More specifically Socialists may be said to have as their aim a social order wader which the principal industries will be socially owned and democratically managed, with the ideal ever foremost of social service rather than el private profit...
...But never one, so far as I can learn, Mealing with the unusual mental state of the millionaire benefactor...
...The committee in charge of the journal and the dance is Tlllie Rothman, Sam Glicker, Dave Silken, Henry Sapkowitz, and George Berkowitz...
...Florida J. D. MltcheU of Mulberry writes The New Leader that a local of the Socialist Party has been organised in this city...
...My solution of the riddle as that of a guilty conscience trying to find peace by atonement would be considered a bit old fashioned, if not unscientific by the profession, I am afraid...
...Our opportunity is here for building the party and for a hot campaign...
...The youthful 18th A.D...
...how Delaware Socialists can help build the party and cooperate in placing a full ticket for the fan election...
...The Hall win open at 2 p.m...
...For if one Ue has failed We can build others Just as good, Nor shall we stay the grafters* brood Though one or two were Jailed...
...The second blind man felt the elephant's leg and stated that, from his point of view, the elephant seemed like a tree...
...I am waiting for some of our learned psycho-analysts to present us with a scientific study of "The Psychology of the Millionaire Benefactor...
...Delaware The Socialist Party is being reorganized in Delaware...
...Cammans recalls ;he labor planks wlitch the Progressive party ditched in 1924 and pointed out that a party that thinks of joining non-voters is absurd...
...25, at the Workmen's Circle Building, 50 Howe avenue near Jefferson street, Passaic...
...Socialists are Socialists because they object to the way in which millions of intellectual and manual producers are, under the present social order, compelled to divide up and support absentee owners who contribute but little in human effort to our productive machinery...
...To have become a Socialist," declared H. G. Wells, "is to have learned something, to have made an intellectual and moral step, to have discovered a general purpose in life and a new meaning In duty and brotherhood...
...Comrade Claessens will address the group Saturday, March 24 at 3 -y.m...
...An intensive* membership Irive is In progress in the Bensonhursl section and various plana are in -formation for work to Increase the membership...
...The Los Angeles Times assumed its usual role and asked the people of California to icithold judgement, suggesting that the disaster might have been an "act of Cod...
...East An enrolled voters meeting was held last Friday evening...
...Socialists believe that the spirit of democracy should be shot through and through the administration of public industry and that the worker, the technical and the managerial staff and the cosnumer should all be adequately represented on the board of control of the public industries...
...Not only has it made passionate followers of millions of members of the working class, but it has fired the imagination of some the foremost intellectuals of the last half century—dramatists like Bernard Shaw, novelists like H. O. Wells and Anatole Prance, philosophers like Alfred Russel Wallace and 'Bertrand Russell, engineers of the type of Charles P. Steinmetz, poets like William Morris and Edwin Markham, economists like Sidney and Beatrice Webb, John A. Hobson, and a host of others too numerous to mention...
...This branch will meet Monday evening, March 26...
...28nd A.D...
...Tbe object of this meeting Is a discussion of national and local problems, such as: Unemployment, tbe impending seven cent fare and the New York city traction muddle...
...An infinite variety of experiments in social, control will take place te an effort to reach the'ideal and there will be a constant shift of opinion as to what constitutes the ideal...
...What of a hundred lives or two...
...My knowledge of their sterling integrity has come largely through reading of one of their recent benefactions in my daily paper...
...State Secretary Merrill advises every local to urge all members and enroUed Socialist voters to go to the polls Tuesday, April 3, and vote In the spring primary...
...representation by consumer, prodo-eer and technician all forces who, by their interest and their training, ssa qualified to participate in managsssssS Socialism, Anarchism* Bolshevism It Is unnecessary to say that BoaasgSj differ from anarchists and that aaasaW' ists in turn—particularly philosophwa...
...Tfcs branch will meet Tuesday, Msrch 27, at the club-house, 167 Tompkins avenue Pn.par'«ti...
...Opposed To Dividing Up Socialists are often confused with members of other schools of thought...
...g Bronx Jewish fepnas . " Comrade Wechsler strolled into the City Office bast week with 4en spptocatson blanks for new members to be added te the Bronx Jewish Branch...
...Saturday, March 24, at 3 p.m., at the Rand School...
...that, if they had their way, everybody would have to put their money in a common fund, and, after it was all collected, the authorities would count noses, and divide the wealth equally among an of the people...
...New Haven...
...Admission Is free...
...BROOKLYN 2nd A.D...
...Branch 7 reports that over three quarters of Its members voted on the referendum for election of delegates to the National Convention...
...Information regardinc speakers, literature, platforms, etc, may be obtained from the National Office...
...The State Constitution of the Party provides that the State Executive Committee may levy an assessment to pay the railway fare of delegates going to and returning from the convention...
...Can it be that the city editors have purposely misstated their real convictions, or is it that the motives underlying the gifts are not quite dear to them and that they have drawn their conclusions from current moral standards...
...more activity en the part of women Socialist* in BajnwaPoMi Party organisation...
...WHAT THE SOCIALISTS ARE AFTER "Socialism Seeks To Apply the Principles of Democracy To Industry Socialist Are And Are Not By Harry W. Laidler Executive Director, League for Industrial Democracy "t1 VERY movement for the social aa-vanee has, at various stages in its career, been greatly misrepresented and misunderstood...
...The weekly lectures and discussions are developing - good talent for open air meetings It will not be long when our district will pride itself upon a dosen good speakers...
...Private property in those things that are necessary for the personal well-being of producers—in clothing, furniture, books, houses not used for exploitation—cooperative ownership of machine Industry, where the machine is usetd for exploiting others, is the aim of this group of social thinkers...
...It would stifle the chief incentive on the part of the laborer to work...
...But it has happened in an ages of the world that some have labored, and ethers, without labor, have enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits...
...One may disagree with the tenets of Socialism, but one cannot but agree that a movement of such tremendous import must at least be understood...
...Hearing for the first time the word Socialism, I asked what it meant...
...All profits will be turned over to the Yipsel Publication Committee...
...This, of course, said my Informer, would not solve the social problem, as the clever and shrewd wogdd of coarse- eetoa eonsoet some scheme to get tbt tttney a way from the more;: gullhble and conditions would in a short time return to their former state...
...Voting in the referendum on delegates to National Convention will close Mar...
...let's go...
...Several-new members were obtained...
...Delegates are urged to be on hand at 10 o'clock...
...As a social* ideal Socialism seeks te apply the principle «of democracy to Industry, to Inaugurate in industry a commonwealth of the people, by the people and for the people...
...There are stUl some seats avafl-able...
...Volunteers will be needed to take part in the skit that is being prepared by August Claessens...
...Brailovsky and Alexeef (Russian...
...A very substantial sun\ of money was raised...
...They wul see the pageant of the hour in its proper perspective and be able to correlate the sham splendor of the Capitalist palace and the quicksands of exploitation and misery for the masses on which It is raised...
...I have "written up" a retired pharmacist, who was enjoying a comfortable old-age through twenty years sale of 40% medicinal whiskey, and who had merited a front-page story of his activities In connection with a' branch Red Cross organization...
...Another meeting, to which the enrolled voters were invited, was held hurt Friday evening in the Freeman Mansion...
...Every comrade in the state must help him select the ticket and get the petition circulated when the time comes...
...New York State The State Office has Issued a 50 cent assessment stamp to defray the expenses of the 1928 State Convention...
...And only last week I covered the story of a kind-hearted factory owner who had given a turkey dinner to four of his eld employees who were spending their last days bt the poorhouse after forty or more years of drudgery at starvation wages...
...Speaking will begin promptly at 8 o'clock and the ShUling-ton Male Chorus will render vocal music from 7:36 to 8. No admission will be charged...
...But of course' no sane Socialist ever pi opened such a. division...
...At Jim Maurer's recent lecture on "What I Saw In Europe," 500 people were present...
...25, 2 p.m., at the Workmen's Circle, Educational Center, 438 Oak street...
...I agreed, and- for a number of years until I was about to graduate from the Boys High School, regarded Socialists as proposing a particularly stupid solution...
...easy on the grafters...
...S. Ingerman...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 14
