BELGIAN SOCIALIST CONGRATULATES PARTY ON ITS CONVENTION
Longville, Franz
Belgian Socialist CongratulateParty On Its Conventick Longville Sees Rapid Conquest of Power by America* SocHslist Movement Sy Frosts Lengvilie ' (Commie Longville. brought...
...The Socialist parties of Europe are, in their inception end formation, parties of manual workers with a few gifted Intellectual leaders...
...I have found in it, as one can imagine, much food for thought and speculation...
...consequently, not a line of demarcation between them...
...Their economic interests are based upon the exploitation of the wage workers and the maintenance of the capitalist system...
...One more word...
...Senator Borah is convinced that the voters will "demonstrate that the •oyablican party belongs to neither creaks nor cowards...
...Their respective members have the same ways of thought, of living, the same religion that deeply divides the bourgeois parties in certain European countries...
...And ungrumbling shared the leanness Of the floundering textile mart...
...The ultimate result of this evolution will be that these two parties will fail intto each others' arms, representing a united front of economic and social conservative forces against the party of all those who work with hand or brain for a living...
...The enthusiasm and the Joy of the delegates showed what a place the candidates take in the hearts of all those present, and what sincere admiration they coauaand as flagfoearers in the struggle for emancipation of the workers of America and the world...
...And our leaders, men of wisdom, Tell us that our cause is just...
...Knowing when you raise the standard It is for your children^ sabs...
...They are hi tactics, policy and economical and social outlook, exactly alike...
...From all over our fair land...
...By your courajpe and »ur patience, ' Toilingintheup-Sftlgut...
...A vote for Norman Thomas and "Jim" THeini ¦ the only vote that is not wasted...
...I am not unaware that certain questions, as* the tariff, for instance, form opposing groups, but the defenders and the opponents of this question can be found in both parties, and tills is...
...THOMAS SPELIMAN, Weaver...
...The Socialist Party represent* the workers of this country and if it whu hi an election you never lose...
...indeed, I may be greatly mistaken, but I do not see any essential difference between the Democratic and Republican parties...
...IT ins my £ood fortune to he able to " attead the National convention at the Socialist .Party and to follow its wotfc...
...Well, it's a piece of aaeaettj wa have no desire to yeeseie...
...The growth of a strong, active, Socialist movement will soon clarify this position by bringing more teqsion in political life, a more critical attitude to the masses, and finally an end to the different labeling of exactly the same politics and politicians...
...X think that there are, in the present situation, many reasons to believe in a rapid progression of the Socialist Party ia the political life of the U. S. A. which will bring to a n end the hegemony of the two old parties...
...Their betrayal and desertion of the Party, especially in France, also strengthened this feeling...
...That well get the helping hand Of our noble fellow-workers...
...There existed always an instinctive mistrust of them, also motivated by the tendency of many socialist-minded intellectuals to neglect or underestimate minor Socialist reforms, although of great importance for underpaid and politically untrained workers...
...SUck -together to «Ms fight...
...Clonal interest that participation 3 the Socialist movement is the only war to secure for the largest number possible, a fuller and richer life in a society based upon social justice and co-operation, what a formidable strengthening* would that not-mean for our struggle f. The Candidates 1 If we accept the foregoing, we nam da it without any futile and harmful comparison of the relative importance of the manual workers and professional men for the movement...
...Belgian Socialist CongratulateParty On Its Conventick Longville Sees Rapid Conquest of Power by America* SocHslist Movement Sy Frosts Lengvilie ' (Commie Longville...
...But the excesses of an urkultured, ruthless and tactless ptutocjacy, the get-rich spirit, the rigidness and deadly uniformity of social beliefs, win lead here to a bigger and more Mure participation of intelligent professional men and women in a movement which is bound to bring higher ethical and moral values...
...rs, came to the realisation thai their work...
...One can not simply dismiss this question by arguing that politics are directed by the bankers...
...You've deserved a commendation...
...1 I am Of the belief that the Socialist Party in the C. S. A. which has not...
...if many others of the jsofe** slonal workers eame to the 'isetjiiim through their adtentific, ernctkmaLst r...
...I know, further, that they use, (with success, alas...
...brought the greetings ?/ the Belgian Labor Party ie the recent notional convention of the foeiMt Pttrtyi...
...You're not fighting for vain glony, , A decent .living is at stake...
...It means far the Socialist movement in America as asset and a promise of vast Importance...
...At present, when the Socialist parties in many countries are exerting a decidedly important influence in the State and have their representatives in many executive offices, the lack of Intellectuals in the party: the lawyer, the-engineer, the physician, etc...
...faction;, if the physician and ties biologist came to the conviction that a saner race and a healthier and bapsjtr ale would be possible for millions effteople, if^the .capitalist motive in aacfc*^ was Briefly...
...Let the motto on your banner ' Be far justice and for right...
...thi iisgs «n of its session...
...Both an indispensable for a real mass movement of the workers...
...It is as harmful as discussing the significance of the trade union movement and the political movement for the labor movement...
...In the industrial depression You did take a noble part...
...the same past, will not have the same problem...
...The national convention, as compared with similar conventions in Europe, is already an example of how widely varied the attraction of socialist principles manifests itself...
...But I also know that the promises and the program are readily forgotten after the dupes are fooled...
...And that if we stick together * We will win, and win we must...
...Staiking New Bedford Weave Tells Story Of Fight in poem "We Will WERE he Say Stick Together...
...Not the stinging lash -the cut...
...I can not stop writing without mentioning the memorable manifestation of Tuesday afternoon, where the Party candidates for the Presidential election were nominated...
...The professional workers—the so-called, liberal professions—have never been willingly accepted into the movement...
...is a very serious handicap for the realisation of Its constructive policy, and postpones indefinitely its coming to power...
...Mgaat «iad % Mm'i'r of New Bedford...
...Let us try to visualize what it would mean if the engineer and the salaried director, working for stupid, parasitical and dictatorial own...
...If executed for the common good it .would render themslves and others mom.happy, would give them sjpre social aOSBlflrrntkin and thus rases] satis...
...Now.the cheering news has reached us...
...a certain opportunistic and demagogic election game whereby planks of the platform must be opposite from those of the other party...
...Workers and Intellectuals There is another general observation that I should nice to make...
Vol. 7 • May 1928 • No. 20
