VANDERBILT KIN TELLS WHY HE HAS BECOME SOCIALIST
Vanderbilt kin Tells why He Has Become Socialist Apathy and Snobbishness of Fellow Students at Harvard Started Him Thinking—Vienna Socialist Accomplishments Made Deep...
...In spite of the campaign work taking most of their time, the Newark Comrades (that is, the Womens Committee) managed to And time and energy for a very successful get-together Hallowe'en Party on Friday last...
...Both Passaic County, with its Thomas meeting on Thursday of this week, and Essex County, with Its Thomas meeting the same evening, are making all possible efforts to make each of the remaining days count for results on Election Day...
...The latter seems impossible...
...Among the matters discussed were the number of series of outside lectures, types of study classes, public speaking classes, indoor educational and organisational meetings to be held during the coming season...
...It is well to tear down your house, but unless you build another one to take its place you will be worse off than ever...
...The Jersey City Circle, through Its secretary...
...A special invitation has been sent to all Italian-speaking local unions of this city to set aside any other affair that may conflict with the date of .this celebration...
...If anything, it has confirmed whatever views I had about our present regime...
...The Vienna meeting will show that the Socialist labor movement may rely on a Youth movement which Is well educated and full of enthusiasm, ready to continue the •JBja of Its older comrades, _ Ohio Miners Hear Leader of Socialists Sharts Predicts Revival of Support for Party Among Coaldiggers i By Joseph W. Sharts 1 Seeianet Candidate far Govoraor of Obi...
...While I went to an excellent school, and in summer went to the Rockies, or to Europe, boys my own age were driving trucks, digging ditches, standing behind counters, while I had all the time to the world to let my mind wander where It would, theirs must concentrate on the immediate...
...Italian Chamber of Labor Celebrates Anniversary The Italian Chamber of Labor will celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of its foundation on Saturday evening—January 36th—next...
...The whole college system was devised to give those who were born with leisure even more leisure and those who had to work an the more work...
...It was not very difflJ cult to see surely, that there was no equa, llty of opportunity even at Harvard...
...International Youth to Celebrate Majority of Socialist Youth (From Youth's International Press Service) The first International Youth Day last year celebrated the 20 th birthday of our International of Socialist Youth...
...Max Mueller, Watson, All port, Briffault, Ellis and others...
...Americans, according to this boo* let, have Increased their purchases o automobiles from an average of in, 000 a month in 1921 to 245,000 i month in 1927...
...Comrade Shulman has also been of great aid to Comrade Prank ar-nwins;, Executive member o" the Y. P. 8. L. in conducting Comrade Manning's campaign as the Socialist nominee Xox Coast rsatmsu in that district...
...old parties...
...Why were they comparatively Ignorant...
...ulty of Hamllne University, St...
...His Socialist Ideal There are many reasons why I intend to cast my first vote for Norman Thomas and the Socialist Party...
...If the workers themselves are too dumb, why cannot the operators see that a continuance of -this desperate struggle Is only slow ruin, and that public ownership of the coal Industry is the only salvation for all...
...they buy It as they buy their labor power—wherever they can get a satisfactory quality most cheaply...
...Paul (a ] group of 400) the day before election, Monday, Nov...
...Can you wonder that I am a Socialist...
...open...
...So says, in affect, the a publican National Committee bt booklet on "Sevan Years v.* .t can Rule...
...A good pull and a strong pull will put us across the line in a way at least satisfactory to ourselves, so that we shall be all set for a good start the next day...
...Comrade Murphy expects, of course, to come out with flying colors...
...Besides its regular study classes and organisation meetings, it is aiding the Ward 14 campaign committee in conducting It work...
...What a commentary upon our beloved system of private capitalism...
...If there were not enough col, lege rooms to go around, and there never . were enough...
...Obviously because they had so little opportunity to go to school...
...Ash of Ohio University immediate superior of Prof...
...le spoke with Maurer and Goebel at the Oarrick Theatre, Minneapolis, Friday...
...The Boston Circle, No...
...In Mr...
...Accompanying his letter were the two charter application blanks with the names of the Charter members...
...Ing at this recent episode I am not surprised I am a Socialist, it epitomises what happens time and again...
...I Jursek collected fifty-five dollars fori the National banquet...
...National Office Issues Charters To Two New Bedford Circles NEW BEDFORD, Mass.—Comrade Lester Shulman has notified the National Office In regard to two large Yipsel circles which he organized in New Bedford...
...To win an election in America, a party must rent private ears, private trains, large suites in well-known hotels, huge auditoriums: it must make use of the biggest possible radio hookups...
...And now all who can do so are asked to man the polls on Tuesday next and to call at 53 So...
...If for no other reason It would be worth supporting a party of such a small minority in order to shake the present incumbents of pu: lie attention ont of unforgivable inactivity...
...At Carbonhfll the whole community turned out...
...Now that the Progressive voters of this country find themselves riding upon the two horns of a dilemma, they could take no more staid and sensible action than to reciprocate the capabilities shown by the Socialist candidate, Whose stand is for the protection of the people first...
...A fine but futile gesture I Ohio Industrialists don't buy coal on sentiment...
...We turn to contemporary...
...The final watchers' meeting will take place In the Lyceum next Monday night...
...and the Passaic circle is ta the process of reorganization...
...I am not In the slightest bit flattered by this momentary prominence...
...It is the only party which regards political questions from an objective, scientific point of view, which promises Intelligent basis for Judgments, which uses scientific measurements o* social accomplishment...
...Conditions of industrial wag earners," says this wonder book < the golden age, "are indicated by a Increase of 218 percent in tbt is* ¦nee of foreign money orders by th postoffice . . . American hOBM have doubled their purchases sine 1921, and the increases in purchase reflect-more than mere necessities, b that they represent remodeled homej addition of plumbing and electrics appliances, refurnishing of nomsj and other purchases possible only t prosperous periods...
...And slowly I realized that the newspapers, the industries, the commerce the land of the country were In the hands of a wealthy minority, who owning could dictate their own terms: Why was it that tlrs teachers at school, the professors at college were not so handsomely rewarded as those who played golf and tennis at the country clubs, those whose life was an endless trivial amusement...
...They must stick to s routine Job...
...A week before a neighboring peasant had been shot to death for poaching on this estate...
...Arturo GiovannitU, general secretary, and Leonardo Prlalna, general organizer of the Chamber have been charged with the task of preparing a Souvenir Journal with a complete outline of past activities and future program of the Organization...
...Few took the trouble to find out whether the issue would have a remote effect...
...here...
...It must maintain elaborate publicity departments, pay a myriad of stenographers, publicists and so on...
...He will speak be-, fore the Student Senate and entire fac...
...Last month Governor Donabey Issued a Proclamation begging Ohio people to buy Ohio coal and save the industry...
...New York City...
...What is the ultimate fundamental on which civilisation and aU its ramifications is constructed...
...The most loyal unionists must stand idly by In cruel uncertainty and anxiety, while the weaker ones break away and get the few jobs...
...The Two "Ah" "Governor Smith in all of his campaign speeches has carefully made plain the fact that he wants the people to own the generating facilities, but he quibbles and evsdes continually the real issue which is the ownership of the facilities of distribution and sale, and his refusal to answer my communication Is proof positive to my mind that his political expediency is nothing If not conclusive evidence of his determination to evade the issue...
...How can anyone fall to be Impressed by the triviality, the superficiality ot a social system which makes such monstrous nonsense over a middle Initial...
...To start in on the next campaign right after November 6th, is the plan, and the young people are cooperating...
...In this letter he •aid: "I have been in New York State and carefully investigated Governor Smith's actions m the protection of the people's tights in the question of water power, and to make a long story short, Doctor, X must advise you that the result of Governor smith's actions in New York State Is nfl, and the people in New York State are paying the same high prohibitive rates for electric current Just the same and in some Instances even higher rates are paid than In the State of Maryland...
...Impressed By Vienna By the time I bad finished college, therefore, my attitude toward nearly all srclartiuestlons was that there was something radically wrong...
...But the fact that a "V" is in a signature to the letter gives it such new* "this that all the syndicates broadst It...
...Again allow me to state merely my present answer: The measure to which each individual in it is given equal opportunity for the most perfect possible fulfillment of the promise...
...It is announced the Democrats will be represented by Albert Con* way, candidate for the office of attorneygeneral, and the Republicans by Thomas P. Peters, judicial candidate...
...I saw nothing but Italian books dls- . played in the shop windows...
...The Socialist Party wfll not win this election, nor the next...
...Wesley H. Maurer who was discharged recently foi too much sympathy with the striking miners, attended...
...26, says: "In the opinion of most observers, the coal industry in the Hocking district, including both the Hocking and Sunday Creek Valleys, is believed to be definitely on the upward climb...
...Probably It was Plato and Kant more than any othen Influences that made me lose Interest in the so-called things of the spirit, and turn my attention to concrete issues that can be handled by the mind of man with pragmatic proof of results...
...Mow theatres are the second biggest industry...
...At the Ylpsel Meeting in Newark on Friday last there were no less than fourteen applications for membership received...
...The Chicago circle has started its own mimeographed paper, appearing bi-weekly...
...He rescues the letter from the waste, looks up family history, published a half column story...
...I was told of the low price of necessities of life in Vienna, of the exorbitant price of1 luxuries, of the cheap cost of transportation, of the building schemes completed and In process, of the despair of Austrians confined as they are geographically and economically toward their future...
...Few men have done more than Comrade Greer in a financial way to assist our cause...
...As it is, the Communists are working hard with their traitorous reactionary propaganda of despair and Insurrection...
...probably it was that injustice is self evident to any but the blind...
...Among them was an abhorrence of dirtying their hands, and dirtying their hands meant having to do with a public even so small as that represented in a college community...
...Friday of this week then will be s theater pes ten manes in the New Ron and Theater, St Johns Place and Eastern Parkway, for the benefit of the campaign fund...
...Thomas in drive For Goldberg Sunday Night With possible victory saosatng larger on the political bswjaoa, the Socialist sampafcm to Brownsville, tautered around the candidacy of Louis P. Goldberg, for member of the Assembly, approaches its conelusion la a blase of activity...
...As editor of the college dally I had oc, casion time and again to discuss some ! local Issue with wealthy friends...
...Vanderbilt kin Tells why He Has Become Socialist Apathy and Snobbishness of Fellow Students at Harvard Started Him Thinking—Vienna Socialist Accomplishments Made Deep Impression "WfONEY is too powerful in the United States, rick students at Harvard are lory, narrow-minded and indifferent h public Questions and many workers, though ignorant, are finer men than edwated idlers" Frederick Vanderbitt Field, great-grandson of William H. Vanderbilt, says in a signed article published in tke English section of the Jewish Daily Forward last Sunday...
...My host arranged' for me a wild boar hunt...
...Our Socialist Youth International is preparing greater and more Important meetings...
...A castle dominated the whole...
...I could not forgive this on the part of those who had every opportunity in the world...
...G.O.P...
...The Socialists In Chicago will miss him greatly and will ever remember his noble qualities and splendid work for the Cause during a long stretch of years...
...Gasoline consumptla is more than double that of 1921 ' Seven million radio sets have bee installed in American homes...
...There follows this question, in a society what is the measure of accomplishment of the above premise...
...How ales explain their attitude toward labor...
...Johnson...
...Money is too powerful...
...These two circles are certain to be the nucleus of a large section organisation of the Y. P. S. L. in that part of the State, It Is the Intent of the National Office to keep Comrade Shulman organising in that district as long as possible...
...This is to be an openair debate, and even to get the opposition to enter into It is considered a victory...
...In psychology I felt I could find the answer...
...only to the wealthy minority...
...At New Straltsville, among those who came up and signed cards was Comrade A. B. Ferguson, of Shawnee, who used to be secretary of the old Socialist Local, long defunct...
...At the Plains, this afternoon, the man in charge will be Ed Michaels, head of the local UM.W...
...And hi signed up a card for contact with the Socialist Party...
...Saturday night win witness the final street meetings drive...
...Vienna is the symbol of Labor's struggle for power, for a reform of the world according to Socialist alms...
...Without discussing the conclusion I am using, for such a discussion would not be pertinent' to this article, let me simply state it: Every individual seeks to satisfy his own desires, which are, chronologically, physical necessities, fundamental desires, derived desires, sometimes known as standards or ideals...
...Then came the question what does the individual desire...
...Thus goes the vicious circle of the old parties, a circle out of which no liberal within those parties can possibly pass...
...In the Brownsville Labor Lyceum on Thursday night, a very successful meeting was held...
...6 th...
...Perhaps anthropology would help attack the question from the historical angle...
...I could not understand why real issues of every day life were so consistently and skillfully avoided by the standard organs of public opinion...
...Marguerite Prevey, Scott Nearing, George R. Klrkpati-lck...
...Bierets made public a letter he has sent to Mr...
...Sunday night, under the Joint auspices of the 18th and 33rd assembly district organizations, there will be a mass meeting in P. 8. 1S6, Sutter avenue and Grafton street, with Norman Thomas as the principal speaker...
...He was a generous contributor to the Party and its press...
...But may I be permitted the Interpretation that God has no pregmatic validity in the ' writings of either...
...Among thost present was Lee Hall, President of Dlst...
...It throws Into vivid relief the condition in which society finds itself today...
...Perhaps It was chance that the former interested me more than the latter...
...Monday be spoke at the Shlp; stead meeting...
...In it were nine farms, thousands of acres of forests and shooting grounds...
...head of the Mine Workers for the entire state of Ohio...
...Organiser Sutton anticipates the forma! tion of many strong Ylpsel, branches throughout the state In the near future...
...If you have net, sta 1921, secured a new nr.—> and 1st savings bank account, vacation : Europe or the Rockies, or sported good car and a long range radio s all the while, you really should 1 them know about It...
...Field reveals himself as an idealist of a new school, hard-boiled in that he bases his support of Socialism on his studies of anthropology, psychology, economics and philosophy, discarding spiritual Questions for "concrete issues that can be handled by the mind of man with pragmatic proof of results" Here are excerpts from Mr...
...unquestionably and undoubtedly the policy of Governor Smith to protect the monopoly barons by giving the mownership and control of the facilities for the transmission and sale of electricity...
...Tarns To Socialism Bo far, you must be aware, these impressions and attitudes were predominantly negative...
...During the July of next year the second International Socialist Youth meeting and the third International Youth Congress will be held in Vienna...
...Usually they neither agreed nor disagreed...
...Prom here the propaganda for the Vienna Youth meeting will be carried all over the world...
...He and I drove1 out Into the forest in carriages...
...Joseph H. Greer Dead Dr...
...Rochester, N. Y...
...Clubs, with luxurious houses, ex •1 cellent food, facilities for study, reading,1 5»i£eia another amenities...
...I WASHINGTON — Automobiles, i ' din seta, new homes, savings bank ¦ counts...
...The Polish Alliance In Passaic have a campaign rally on Friday the 2nd...
...Natl Campaign Mgr., has addressed the Saturday Lunch Club and the IMCi...
...Comrade Corsu, reports a great Increase in activity...
...Besides the business meeting large mass educational meetings are being conducted...
...The need of dally bread for themselves and then* families was too great...
...Apathy of Students Bflad Hiss At Harvard another factor mads a deep Impression...
...He was like a man resurrected from the tomb...
...Insurance policies, mora pc said beef and bread on the table, an movie tickets, and many other ettr tive prlsea are offered you, in at lottery, so long as you keep the 1 publican party in control of your gt eminent...
...This was one of the final big rallies of the Duluth Socialist...
...Asst...
...how can it get money from the rich unless it presents to the country a platform wbJeh will please the rich, which will maintain them in their dominant position...
...It maintains political organisations so complex, so luxurious, organisations that can command the latest devices for Influencing public opinion, that can reward sapinssin with influential Jobs, that X despair of any progressive social platform from either of the...
...Union Leader Out For Thomas Building Trades Head, Who Managed La Folleite Drive, Denounces Al Smith T>BOORE8SrVE voters are urged bj E. D. Bleretz, campaign manager foi the 1934 La Pollette campaign in Maryland, to cast their votes next Tuesday for Norman Thomas, the Socialist Party nominee...
...True both speak of God...
...LOGAN, Ohio, Oct...
...At Glouster, arrangements were in charge of Comrade Dan W. Wallace, Secretary ol the Central Labor Union...
...It was while I was in school that these facts began to dawn on me...
...Comrade Greer was known by all Socialists in Chicago and in many other sections of the nation...
...Intelligent political party come to prominence...
...To do all this the party must have money and how can It have money unless it caters to the rich...
...Dorchester Circle No...
...The two Als, "Smith and Ritchie,' have become pals in a retrograding democracy that if successful In the coming election would become as corrupt as the peculiar form of national Republicanism administered by Harding As a sincere Progressive, I am compelled to cast my ballot in this election for Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate, and in so doing I feel that I am doing that which every Progressive should do...
...His talks for Thomas and Maurer were well received and resulted in re; quests for him to speak at outside group j meetings...
...2 is engaged In real Ylpsel activity...
...In the former Austrian Tyrol I saw Austrian children having to learn their lessons In Italian...
...I had little chance to mix with factory workers...
...The Socialists were big enough to lay aside ritualistic and dogmatic political creeds In order to unite all Progressive thought behind Senator La Pollette and when they did so they convinced the writer of their capabilities...
...These volunteers should report to the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 3lg Sackmsn street...
...Hudson County has a debate for November 1st between Timothy Murphy for the Socialist Party, and John Meehan for the Hudson County Democratic Party, upon the subject "That the Socialist Party platform has the only solution for the unemployment problem...
...Never has the campaign for an International Youth meeting been easier than in this case...
...We regard the situation more closely to notice that even within our geographical boundaries there are decided limitations to the social basis adopted by Democrats and Republicans...
...For the coal strike is ending In bitterness and disillusionment...
...The answer there was easy, the school was supported by churchgoers, therefore an who taught or attended It must do likewise...
...The reason for this is...
...If we had had a state office functioning properly In Ohio, X could have obtained meetings at scores of mining towns...
...1, held a general educational, business and social meeting Sunday evening, October 21, with the members of the Dorchester, Chelsea and Lynn Otreles as guests...
...Everett Bhrtmpe, college man, had charge...
...At Athens, Prof...
...The place of meeting is famous in the labor movement...
...Field's article there it nothing of the frustrated hard-boiled attitude of the cult of Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken or the determined whimsicality and forced wist fulness of Hevr<ood Broun...
...at.—Thanks to tbt initiative and loyal work of Oomradi Stanley Dawley, the sob of a coal miner | now a student at Onto University and I I teacher, X have completed a series of I ! meetings in the Hocking Valley coal ooun ; try: Friday night at Qlouster, yesterdaj at Athens and New straltevills, todaj (Sunday) at the Flams, and Carbonhin Our meetings were not large, except th« hut, but of a significant quality...
...It was, therefore, necessary tor me to find a basis on which to i build a social Utopia, using the word Utopia In a very practical sense...
...What's the differ...
...Each of the letters h Immediately relegated to the scrap basket...
...The Athens Messenger, Oct...
...and Chicago, 111...
...Joseph H. Greer of Chicago, one of the old timers in the Socialist movement, has passed away...
...Comrade Briggs, of the Rochester circle, reports a fine organization meeting and real activity in regard to the Thomas meeting of the 33rd...
...Editor's Note:—We thought we were the one to complain about the lack of news for this section...
...In due season the worm at the core made known its existence, and for the last eight years the coal Industry In this section has declined and occasionally convalesced, had setbacks and complications, and reports of the demise of the patient have been circulated by leading consultants time without end...
...B. C. Vladeck.'former Socialist Alderman, win speak between the acts...
...American politics to find that most of the utter-, anoes, and the greater part ot the platforms of Democrats and RepubLuans accept as the boundary of society the geographical outlines of the nation...
...U.M.W., that is...
...The Finnish Comrades are to the fore again...
...Congratulates Thomas MATPIELD, Cel.—Cyril Clemens, prav ldent ot the Mark Twain Society, writes to Norman Thomas, congratulating bin on his radio talk in San Francisco, "Tbt fact that the government often controls the power but not the distribution vat most enlightening...
...This year we look even more forward...
...But it fa essential for the welfare of the future American society as well as our own that a liberal...
...In not a single instance has Governor Smith taken any action in the direction of securing to the people the benefits to be derived from lower rates of charge for electricity...
...The swath cut by the coal business in those hectic months was the hilarious and undisciplined hysteria that generally precedes a collapse...
...Herbert Hoover is quoted as to tat doubling of the use of electrical power in these seven years, the rise el wages and decrease of hours of toft the stabilization of employment sad the growth of insurance and of savings...
...From these and all the otjier influences that contribute to any Judgment I concluded that for social Issues the Individual was the true point i of departure...
...Where they agreed, they agreed and that was . all...
...In Italy I saw huge armies, a growing population, a despotic unity...
...The Newark circle Is in fine shape...
...Wonder Book Of Mother Goose Stories Happy Land Where Ever! body Has Prosperity <* Use Knows Where ft Can Be Found...
...A Vanderbilt has turned Socialist...
...In spite of the near two years' paralysis of the Ohio coal industry caused by the Open Shop drive, to beat down wages here to the level of the good old Democratic non-union South, there is no market for Ohio coal . The victorious operators are living on hopes and cutting wages still lower...
...There will be a new birth of Socialist organizations soon throughout this coal country...
...It was the poor student who , bad to find a room where he could afford , to pay the board...
...New Jersey Winds Up Campaign-—Ready To Start Over Again Though during the campaign the orI ganization of the party has extended , southward through New Jersey, the center ' of activity is still in the Northern counties...
...But even hi a group of school teachers why was It that If one did not believe In going to church, pressure was brought upon him to conform...
...A mile beyond us about twenty-five peasants began driving the boar towards us...
...In Upper Silesia I visited a large estate...
...ence anyway, was the prevalent attitude...
...Dark days are ahead not alone for the coal miners but the coal operators...
...This type of work so ably performed by Red Mike 1* the sort of activity that will always keep circles going...
...Something hi gone wrong In delivering the root to your address...
...A large meeting was arranged for him Wednesday eevnlng at the Moose Temple (the Han where Thomas spoke...
...One of the causes tor starting it Is the lack of publicity for the circle in this section...
...Many thousands in many countries were united in single thought at the same time when the great meeting was held in Stuttgart...
...Vienna is the city of Socialist administration...
...Orange ave., Newark, or 256 Central avenue, Jersey City, for assignments In Essex and Hudsun Counties...
...The net result of Governor Smith's action In New York State with regard to water power is the possible payment of the biggest sum by the people for the development of water power generation of electricity and the assured profits of the public monopoly barons from the use of electricity by the people who pay for its generation...
...The great grandson of one of the wealthiest railroad capitalists Joins that dangerous group of radicals that support the workers I There is no news value in a letter about important social issues, none in an appeal ot first voters to become aware of the fact that there is a third party...
...They saw no reason to act on a conviction provided the issue did not lmme| diately affect them...
...The Maurer speech was enthusiastically received and broadcast over the radio...
...Preparations are under way for election day and the outstanding need Si watchers...
...But the few laborers whom I got to know casually seemed fine men...
...toward injunctions, their toleration of company unions, their lack of cooperation toward organised labor, their kowtowing to the Industrial monopolists, their attitude, toward taxation, especially on Incomes* their attitude toward land values, toward gambling on the market, in real estate...
...Jursek Covers Many Meetings In Minnesota DULUTH, Minn.—Karl C. Jill1 sot...
...They have donated their band on several occasions, and It will again be in evidence at the Thursday meetings...
...How else could we have such pollc..s i i manifested in Nicaragua, m woe . nHllppine<, toward the League of Nations, toward the World Court, toward tariff, toward immigration...
...Dark days are ahead for the coal miners...
...Some one may say that I have j taken from Plato and Kant what I wanted . to support former prejudices and dlsI carded that to which I had previous aver-, i sions...
...First Saw Facts la School Liberals there are in the Republican, hi the Democratic parties, but what can they do...
...Nine-tenths I of each class had to eat at cafeterias, many worked every hour they were not , studying...
...Then an enterprising reporter by chance learns what the middle Initial of one of the signed names stands for...
...Field's article: By Frederick V. Field Two young men Interested in social questions send a letter appealing to liberals to support the Socialist Party to eight newspapers...
...Solomon to Speak At Brooklyn Symposium Former Assemblyman Charles Solomon, candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court, will speak for the Socialist Party in an Important symposium to be held on Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock, under the auspices of the Bnal Israel Community Center, 54th street and 4th avenue, Brooklyn...
...In regard to the S. P. campaign, aid, particularly for the coming Thomas meeting, was discussed in relation to Literature and pamphlets, publication and distribution...
...Jursek spoke In Superior, Wis, Tuesday...
...He inquired eagerly for old comrades: Jlmmle neal...
...Chronically ailing for an extended period beginning several years prior to the World War, the industry emerged from that colossal, upheaval to become the 'Flapper of 1920' in major industrial circles...
...We dls- j mounted, were handed guns and told to I face the woods and wait...
...I saw soli diers at the mountain passes...
...Rather Mr...
...We bad little time to prepare It, nevertheless, it was very successful...
...It was my good fortune to meet several Viennese and through them learn something of their Socialist Government...
...The Massachusetts circles are very active right now...
...Field's article is entitled "Why I Am a Socialist" and is a complete, frank and modest confession of the mental and emotional quest of an intellectually alert young man of the post-war generation—a sort of modem Young Pilgrim's Progress, reminiscent of H. G. Wells and in sh-vp contrast to F. Scott Fitsgerald's wealthy college men in "This Side of Paradise" and the same men, embittered after the war in "All the Sad Young Men...
...A Concert and Ball has been arranged for the occasion at the New Webster Manor, 136 Bast Eleventh st...
...It was the apathy, the lack of interest in anything which transcended a minute immediate social circle, the narrow-mindedness of the wealthy students...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH JACK WASSERMAN EDITOR Toaag Poopst-h Hsstattst Leagws, tl Esses Stress, Published Every Week By The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League National Office Reports Activity Among Yipsel Circles Great activity among Yipsel circles is reported by Comrade Louis Rablnowitz, National Director of the Y. P. S. L. Activity is reported from Circles Bridgeport, Conn...
...Bat more than that I look to a Socialist Party ever growing hi numbers and influence the world over, breaking down ill-founded conventions and prejudices, dissolving national boundaries, discarding industrial Jealousies, substituting for the present economic criterion of all life, splendid human achievements...
...In Vienna the youth comrades of the entire world win march and bear testimony of their struggle for a new Socialist, Society...
...Certainly it has strengthened my opinion that any administration which is not aware of the injustice of, present conditions, should be forced out, or at least made to change its program...
...Bieret* who is executive secretary of the Baltimore Building Trades Council, challenged the wisdom of Mercer Green Johnson, who has announced bis support of Governor Smith, to speak on behalf of the La PoHette organization...
...I read Le Bon, McDougal...
...It was addressed by Morris Hlllqult, B. C. Vladeck, L. P. Qold1 berg and A. I. Ship lac off...
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