WHAT LIFE MEANS TO ME
SINCLAIR, UPTON
By UPTON SINCLAIR: What Life Means to Me "The Jungle is a failure." Upton Sinclair declared in 1906 tchile a governmental and literary furore reigned throughout the land as a resttlt of...
...They were sitting at ease and speculating about t; they had been bom to success themselves, and were prattling that the lniividua...
...The question to te answered by the sovereign citizens is "What can be done to preserve the republic for which the fathers of the revolution fought, bled and died to establish...
...The pnasfaw ian writer is beginning to find t aht, and also an audience and a swam a? support...
...The hour has arrived when the workers must make and take a most solemn economic and political obligation and say to the worshippers of the gold dollar god, who now control the production and distribution of life...
...Labor Dominates the City Communal or cooperative colonies are not, of course, new in the development of sociological experimentation...
...Every Socialist propagandist has been asked by sincere or cynical questioners why the Socialists do not go off In some far comer of the world and show the rest of the world just what they meant by Socialism, and every Socialist propagandist has explained patiently, or exasperatedly sometimes, why such a procedure would be doomed to failure from the start...
...it is spoken in Russia and Japan, in Germany and Argentina, in America and Australia...
...We struck a snag, however, when we found that though His Honor, David Bloch, Socialist Mayor of Telaviv, Palestine, spoke Hebrew, Yiddish...
...I do not try^ to tell them what I think of such a_re...
...it was their words which cheered me on...
...I had tested upon my >wn person the effects of cold and hunter, of misery and disease and defpair...
...Frequently university graduates from aU over the world are found working to communal groups of both men and women...
...and it is your privilege to be a spectator—it is a privilege that I would not exchange for a ticket of admission to all that has gone before since the human race began...
...We are interested In the men—muiions of them—who are wandering hopelessly about the streets in this and other cities of this prosperous country, men who are heart-sick, men who look into the eyes of their children and see in those eyes a question which they, the fathers, could answer but dare not...
...A Program For Freedom First, the work-people, irrespective of nationality, race, color, sex or creed, must recognize the necessity of organizing as a cla&j on the economic field...
...The Federation, for instance, provides free .schools for the children and hooes to provide lunches and a school uniform as well...
...Secondly, they must organize and unite on the political field...
...Russian, Polish, Slavish (whatever that is), French and, I think, Scandinavian, he possessed no English...
...green—, and yellow-colored periodicals, known as the "True Blue Library" and the "Starry Flag Weekly...
...Is there any an dtlie vows that I took...
...I was so unpractical that I did not realise the bearing of this discovery...
...but I did not see half as much as I might have seen had I tried harder...
...After agreeing on the general lack of linguistic versatility among Anglo-Saxons, due...
...And when the same birth-pangs seize upon France and Germany, when the same crisis comes to England and to America—what will you do but run about, crying out in fright like children In a burning house...
...Through their labor unions, which, unlike other labor unions, are not engaged merely pursuing temporary and elusive gains, the workers are constantly building communal groups...
...so that L a boy of twenty-five or dx, knew, of my own experience, things >f which all the doctors and wise men...
...Socialism Discovered That was not a thing which I could learn in the literature of the world, it was only beginning to get into literature...
...I had watched the beginning and the swift, progress of dajaaWBKMOst fa body and mind and soul in myself, and, more horrible yet, in those I loved...
...Their names are Jesus, Hamlet, and Shelley...
...If there are any misstatement of facts, the writer apologizes in advance and lays it to the rather hilarious mood of the interview, engendered, among other :hings...
...Upton Sinclair declared in 1906 tchile a governmental and literary furore reigned throughout the land as a resttlt of the book 'thich its author characterized in such disparaging terms...
...and have understood and guided the change...
...finds [t voice...
...Telaviv is the only city in the Orient which has free schools...
...If the work-people want to maintain the republic of the United States, for which the fathers of the American Revolution fought, bled and died to establish, then the time has arrived when the workers on the farm and in the factory, in mines and mills, on ships and railroads, in office and counting houses, in schools and personal service—workers of hand and brain—all the men and women who, render useful service to society, must hot only organize and unite along industrial lines, but also along political lines, irrespective of their nationality, race, color, sex or creed, and make proper use of their rights to the baUot...
...but it was a book about my own soul—and the world has not yet time to pay any attention to individual souls...
...but I wished also If possible to make a popular book, one that would be read by the people and would shake the country out of its slumber...
...The Mightiest Dream Perhaps you are one of those unfortunates who live shut up in a little class of fheir own, and do not think that there is anything interesting in the world outside of it...
...The Road of Empire "Coming Events Cast Their Shadows Before" By Frank J. Weber General Sevretary, Federated Trades Council of Milwaukee "TK>DAY...
...In this I am afraid that I failed...
...I have become Ufa a soldier upon a hard campaign—I an thtnking only of the enemy...
...Is there any way that I could escape from the memory of the men and women and children whom I left behind me...
...take my advice and find out about it, for otherwise life is hardly worth livjg just now...
...The municipality takes care of its poor, who in the main are people too old and infirm to adapt themselves to the rigorous life of the communal groups, and who cannot find work in the industries...
...This is br,t one of the startling statements which Sinclair made m his article 'What Life Means To Me," uritten in 190b...
...Out of these efforts has come no brilliant success, or even a moderate success, no inspiring example for other social idealists to emulate...
...It is true that I am what the world calls famous, and shall also perhaps be rich...
...It means to me a chance to be a trusty leader in the meet wonderful adventure that the world has ever seen...
...I was enabled to do this because of a hapny knack which I possessed—that of composing (and marketing) boys* adventure stories...
...Today the workers in every line of industry in the republic should read and become informed of the history of those ancient republics that have existed and which were destroyed because the workpeople permitted the means of production and distribution to become monopolized by the worshippers of the gold dollar god, thereby permitting the wealth of the nation to become concentrated in the hands of the few While today a majority of the patriotic and liberty-loving workpeople are of the firm opinion that there is no danger that the integrity and durability of the republic of the United States wis ever submit to be thus injured, let us not forget that so also thought the liberty-loving citizens of Greece, Rome, Venice, Florence and Genoa when they were warned that the wealth-possessing zlass, assisted and defended by the judicial and military powers, would destroy •heir republic and deprive them of their liberties and rights as free men...
...and you know and care nothing about it...
...For a considerable period I used to talk these off to a stenographer, grinding them out at the rate of six or eight thousand words a day...
...So was I. From this point on, conversation flowed easily and merrily—the Mayor is a merry man albeit an earnest one—for first, we found that he was over-modest in disclaiming any knowledge of Wngltsh He spoke, as a matter of fact, a very excellent broken English Second, we were aided by the appearance of his fair colleague, Mrs...
...of drunkenness, insanity, and suicide...
...I was so anxious to begin that I went in the month of April...
...Knowingly or unknowingly, are not those sovereign citizens, who by their vote uphold the present system of exploitation of the people, directly assisting in laying the foundation stone for military despotism—the empire...
...This happens because to me the social experiment seems so much more important than any racial experiment can possibly be...
...he was worth three hundred dollars the day he was bom, and if he were taken care of he would be worth five times as much when he had attained his full growth...
...Down in the bottom of the social pit were millions of human beings, rotting in squalor ind vice, and spreading a slow contagion -hat was infecting the whole of civilization, , But these wretches were ignoring they did not know what was the natter with them...
...The Language of Socialism People say to me...
...It is not a Jewish city because of any deliberate intent on the part of the Jewish inhabitants of the city...
...And I have no particular objection to that—the public might as well be looking at my picture in the newspapers as at , the pttare of any aiMaaavsdll fighter But I protest ma«h fa] aoaderfx critics who think thai aaTT fa nothing but toe sensation of a sZ I da not think that a* bass aarsjf In American literature, attb thtiti exception of "Uncle Tool's OhaaV-S guish has entered Its | iinnhiinsa?^*' the beginning of a proletarian sssahal in America...
...Perhaps you will be surprised to be told that I failed in my purpose, when you know an the uproar that "The Jungle" has been creating...
...The Modern Parallel Those who are unbiased students of indent economic and political history are amiliar with the many schemes of pseudo patriotism and the many scheming political tactics inaugurated by the worshipMrs of the gold dollar god to destroy hose ancient republics and deprive the workers of their rights and liberties, and f they will carefully compare their invesigattons...
...was to blame for failure...
...The work-people still have the right to their political vote, and if they will use their political intelligence when casting their political ballot, they can overwhelmingly out-vote the worshippers of the gold dollar god and thereby take possession of the government and establish the general welfare of ail the people...
...but of Socialism as an act of will I was ignorant—Socialism as the worldwide rebellion of the proletariat against the rule of organised and predatory capital...
...The realists of thtrfaafa school, of which George Moor* fa2 EngBsb representative, are — writers...
...The curtain is going up on a world-drams the like of which history has never shown before...
...But is there any place in the world where I could escape from the memory of my nights of fire and the vows that I tock...
...and had lived the life of the prole;arian...
...It is not, however, a strictly cooperative community...
...But now there Is a stirring of Ishnkhf In the masses themselves...
...Never before- were the opponents of the constitutional rights oi the people so strongly united and equipped as sow...
...What, for instance, does the great Russian upheaval of 1905 mean to you, if you do not understand the Socialist movement...
...I was no longer obliged to tbtnk jf civilization as a place where wild leasts fought and tore one another withait purpose and without end...
...While there are several political parties, ranging from the extreme left (there are about one hundred Communists in Telaviv) to the more conservative labor party, they are aU combined industrially in one party...
...It welcomes to its membership persons of aU races, colors, creeds...
...Their appeal is being made chiefly to Jewish Socialists, since Telaviv is a Jewish city...
...it was not a thing which I could learn in colleges, for the colleges have never heard of It...
...my parents were memben of the ruined aristocracy of the South...
...in which manner I took care of myself from the age of sixteen...
...Socialism In The Holy City Socialist Mayor Bloch Tells of Administration's Progress and Problems By Gertrude Weil Klein TNTERVIEWTNG foreign celebrities, certain stock questions are always asked pertaining to the pulchritude of our women, the height of our buildings, the magnificence of our sky-line...
...I have frequently walked aQ the way around Central Park, in New York, "thinking story...
...he scholars and statesmen of the world, rere ignorant...
...And alas for you if rou are one of those unfortunates who sit cold and inattentive, because they do not understand the language in which the great drama is played: The name of the language is Socialism...
...the economic and political fields, wipe out the parasite class that exists only by a legalized system of robbing the work-people of the fruits of their labor, and can so legislate In an intelligent and peaceful way to have all industries operated for the benefit of all the people, thereby putting it out of the power of the capitalist owner to extract front production the great bulk of the wealth that labor create...
...They were thrown out of the unions when and as they tried to make trouble...
...of prostitution, war, and crane...
...On the other hand, it has a profound respect that mounts sometimes to love for Jesus of Nazareth and His teachings, just as it has a profound respect for the teachings of Buddha, of Mohammed, of Confucius, and of all the other great spiritual leaders of mankind...
...He has also found time for service for the Socialist Party tii Wisconsin and Milwaukee...
...I had spent seven weeks in Packing town, and had been able to find no ray of sunshine in the lives of the people, save such as they were able to get out of drunkenness...
...he thinks ot getting Mint and of getting his brothers and connate ashore—and then there will be the enough for art...
...Which reminds me that I have given scant space to the Jewish aspect of Telaviv...
...In fact, throughout Palestine, the organized workers are the one controlling, dynamic force...
...That we, the people, are the government and your political schemes to exploit us are no longer accepted as a guide for the commonweal...
...and all for lack of taking the trouble to look into the social pit, and realize that they down there are men like yourself, and that the life they live is not to be endured by men, and that it is only a question of the time it takes them to find out the way of deliverance...
...And now life means to me a chance to prove to them that they were not mistaken...
...to put the omnhata Shelley into the form of leal > MmjL...
...In those days I wrote under the name of "Ensign Clark Pitch," and "Lieutenant Frederick Garrison...
...Socialists, are making this tour of the world, asking for the help of Socialists and Idealists the world over...
...Because of the lack of capital, that stumbling block in the path of all similar enterprises, the city is unable to conduct aU its industries Itself...
...the workers in the republic of the United States are today confronted with the same unjust laws that brought confusion and disaster to the early republics and established royal thrones upon the liberties of the jpeople...
...They were also voiceless, and could not have told even had hey known...
...I discovered that I did aot hate to carry the whole burden of he world's woo- upon my own shoulders...
...I studied every detail of their Uvea, and took notes enough to fin a volume...
...When we carefully analyze the history of the eatrl...
...It Is not a Christian Church, nor does it follow the dogmas of Christianity...
...He was delighted and surprised...
...Not caring for this, I had no alterna-| tive but to go away into the woods, and...
...If you do not understand it...
...Goldie Meyerson, who is secretary of what corresponds to our Women's Trade Union League, and who spoke English in addition to the other languages enumerated, having spent her girlhood in our own Milwaukee...
...It wat their pennies which kept me alive while I wrote my book...
...One group today, having become cynical, regards all religion as a poor joke perpetrated on th-3 credulous by a scheming and selfish priesthood...
...I would sit in their homes at night, and talk wtih them, and then in the daytime they would lay...
...The municipality, whenever necessary to relieve unemployment, engages in public works...
...None of his languages being in my vanitycase, with the exception of a highly individualistic Yiddish...
...Of course I had known of Utopian socialism, of socialism as a theory of government, as a dream of a perfect society...
...After floundering about in distress for a few minutes, I propped up this hybrid with eloquent gestures and wistful smiles, and lo, His Honor discovered that I spoke German...
...but my task was so much harder—the life of the modem wage-slave Is so much more mechanical and so much less picturesque than that of the chattel-slave of fifty years ago...
...but I could only answer that I had to make it true...
...The expsiences of my life have been such that 1 cannot think of them without turatat sick...
...They are trained in the bunding trades, as road makers, as farmers, as cement workers, as electricians, plumbers, carpenters, and printers...
...My nightmare experience had to continue until I discovered the Socialist movement, until I had learned to identify my own struggle for life with the struggle for life of humanity...
...it Is a thing- which the working-class is learning through the discipline of grim and merciless experience...
...The Socialist Party, is, of course, the strongest politics, party...
...he finds It a tight mare infemo, a thing whose one esaafc, able excellence is that It drives saa a rebellion and to mutual aid In estapat...
...before the worshippers of the gold dollar god—the capitalist class—become bold enough to take those rights away from the people...
...On the other hand those who had voices—they did not know...
...But I loved the libraries, and I would begin all the courses, find out what the professors had to give me, and then quit...
...We are interested in those who are bora in the filth and dirt and disease of our own great city in this year of 1928...
...Pint of all I was an artist, and I wished to write a piece of literature...
...I wished to frighten the country by a picture of what Its industrial masters were doing to their victims...
...with high traditions and delicate sensibilities, and then turned loose In out modern commercial infemo to shift for myself...
...And just now they are dreaming the mightiest dream and fighting the mightiest battle that history has ever told...
...On the other hand, there is a superfluity of unskffled labor all over the world, and tt h nobody's business whether the child of the modern Industrial shun ever attains its full growth or not, Also the black slave generally fifed in the country, and might be loved by his master...
...The greatest fault in the old religion lay in the fact that it concerned itself with the beauty of a future life while it left the vils of this present life untouched A new conception of religion is coming to occupy the attention of intelligent men and women, a conception which is in accord with and mastered by the scientific attitude of modem research, and which which win encourage a spirit of investigation and a passion for discovery...
...It it spoken wherever men are herded together in masses, and made the slaves of machines: it is a language of brotherhood and comradeship, of mutual service and of mutual escape, of liberty and Justice and humanity...
...When I had once stud td out the universal system of graft which prevails in the place, the meat graft seemed to me simply a natural and obvious part of it...
...The most learned and able men and women of the country come to the Young Socialist College to lecture...
...I knew that his was a place where modern commercial forces held complete sway, and had the making of the entire environment...
...When we carefully analyze history to ascertain the cause for the destruction of those ancient republics, we find that the first move for their overthrow was the enactment of law...
...live in tents and shanties, and wash the dishes, and tend the baby, and nurse an invalid wife, and write literature...
...mark: I simply answer that I do not happen to be that sort of person...
...there have been bands of fervent if not overwise people who tried to establish for themselves, at least, a cooperative Utopia...
...In the meantime reading the world's literature and practicing the violin sometimes fourteen hours a day...
...I was of the opinion (and I am still of the opinion) that any man who takes into his stomach food which has been prepared under the direction of unscrupulous commercial pirates such as the Chicago packers, deserves all the poisoning he gets...
...It was Just after the big strike in Packing-town, and the newspapers had contained some account of the situation, which had attracted my attention to It...
...I was in The Philosophy of the World's Foremost Novelist of Socialism as Stated by Himself s tent, and the second night the thermometer dropped to seventeen (Fahrenheit) ; in trying to get warm I set fire to my tent, and nearly ended my adventure then and there...
...A little later in the summer I was storm-bound for three days (I was on an island), and lived on fried crow...
...there is no way that 1 can face the thought of them at all, save ss bent practice for the writing of "The Jungle...
...I began to plan a novel which should portray modem Industrial conditions, and show how they were driving the workingman into Socialism...
...It is a world-language...
...entirely by chance I had stumbled on another' discovery—what they were doing to the meat-supply of the civilised world In other words, I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I bit it in the stomach...
...8 to we had...
...What can you do but watch it in perplexity and dismay, and marvel that men should be so perverse as to do some, thing which you had declared they would not do...
...of all the evils that are raging in modern society—of neurasthenia, melancholia, and hysteria...
...In interviewing the Mayor of a Socialist city, there are, in addition, certain inevitable questions which a Socialist would ask and which we were prepared to ask...
...tlsy made themselves into a ladder for me...
...Politically, the organization is along the lines followed in Great Britain...
...Its program is not that of fitting men to inherit eternal life in some distant life, but to enable them to live happily in this life...
...Z spared no pains to get every detail exact, and I know that in this respect "The Jungle" will stand the severest test—it Is as authoritative as If it were a statistical compilation...
...It was just after the Spanish War, and the scenes of my heroes' adventures were laid in Cuba: so I used to call the work of composition "killing Spaniards...
...new scheming political policies of governmental managmeent advocated today by the worshippers of the gold dollar god in the republic of the United States...
...by linguistic difficulties...
...I, ilone of all men who had education and i voice, had been down into the social jit...
...At the conclusion of the summer.jhaving *"'«h»* the novel, and considering that I had secured--injrtelf a place in literature, and was assured of an income thereby, I was married—my earthly possessions at that moment amounting: to eight hundred dollars...
...and have girded themselves with an armor of political, legislative, judicial and military power and believe that with the assistance rendered them by the usurped power of the judiciary, supported by a military power and the privately owned public press, they can wipe out aU the organized economic and political resistance on the part of the people and also set aside the people's constitutional rights and inaugurate compulsory industrial servitude and political obedience on the part of the toiling millions...
...It believes that those dogmas are built upon superstitions of the past...
...And at the same time I discovered my ran place ha the world, and the purpose and meaning of my experience...
...I was brought up in a very secluded way...
...under the cover of deceptive compulsory patriotism, which laws granted greater judicial and military powers to those having in their hands the reins of government...
...By Upton Sinclair T was bom in what is called the upper middle-class...
...Bloch said, to their feeling of superiority and also to the fact that one can get by almost anywhere in the world with English, which fact is also true of Yiddish, Mr...
...which I believe wfll came mors baths* as the revolutionary Socialist aanaaaf...
...and my productions appeared in brilliant red—, blue...
...Such negativism Is anti-social...
...I might have succeeded if I had had as good an opportunity as Mrs...
...They can do more than that, for the people can...
...chologists: but it is no part of task- a*.' gram to live the life which they porSt and they do not feel obliged to laani the emotions of their characters, ^a* do then* work from the outside, sat ha resemble a doctor who is too muck av sorbed In his study of the ease ts aa> pathlse with the patient's desire to essfa from his agony...
...white the wage-slave knows nothing hut a tenement-room and a factory, and his master is a machine, Calls "Jungle"' a Failure An of which made tt infinitely harder for a novelist...
...when it was a question of allowing a publisher to mutilate it, they came forward—literally by the thousands—and saw me through...
...republics we alio find it plainly sets forth that as soon as judicial usurpation of power and military supremacy was firmly established, the arrogant worshippers of the gold dollar god began a series of internal brawls in order to furnish an excuse for the enforcement of the existing military' laws, thus more firmly establishing the stay and sway of the power placed in the hands of those having been entrusted with the control of the Government, Te Preserve Liberty When we study and analyze the history tc ascertain the causes for the dastruction of those ancient republics, we find that the same plans which deprived the people of their rights in those early republics are being hatched, the same tactics resorted to by the worshippers of the gold doUar god in this modem republic of the United States...
...And he does not bbbVuk b> of his fellows a fascinating iiimnlisaj for feats of artistry...
...hat I had comrades and allies in the lent...
...Whether they realize it or not...
...Another group, though honestly wishing for effective religious expression, has adopted a negative attitude of criticism for the older forms and their ministers, without going further to discover a newer, more vital form...
...I smile whenever I think of it now...
...But then that uproar is all accidental, and was due to an entirely different cause...
...I bad on hand a trilogy which I was anxious to complete^—an American historical series, which America did not seem to want very anxiously...
...Its publishers got rid of seven thousand copies in one day of June...
...off their work, and take me around, and show me whatever I wished to see...
...I have seen the troops- being, marshaled, and heard the trumpets calling—and I am a captain in the fight...
...The proletarian writer is a writer watt purpose: he thinks no more of "art lor art's sake'' than a man on a sinking dtb thinks of painting a beautiful pictu...
...I see that it was necessary that seme cue should have had such experiences, in order that it might become impossible for any man to have them again...
...The chief difficulty encountered by the administration of Telaviv is the lack of funds...
...I talked, not merely with bosses and superintendents, with nightwatchmen and saloon-keepers and policemen, with doctors and lawyers and merchants, with politicians and clergymen and settlement-workers...
...I saw the mgulsh of the hour as the first pang of the great world-birth that is coming...
...I had all the burden and the travail of the future humanity In my soul, but I was powerless to express my vision...
...It has a theatre which travels about to the various communal farm groups giving its plays...
...And this when you might have played the part of thinking men...
...had tried to the full the power of the ndivldual will, and had found its impoence...
...It is upon the faces of these people that I climbed out...
...It created something of a sensation in England, as well as in America...
...A labor movement made up of men like this veteran ivould be a potter in the United States...
...Some of the rage and bitterness of this experience Tput into a book called "The Journal of Arthur Stirling," which was the diary of a young poet who stoned in a garret, and finally committed suicide...
...The worshippers ol the gold dollar god have amalgamated their system of exploitation of the workpeople not only nationally, but internationally...
...Bloch said, we proceeded to more earnest discussion...
...You think that men who tend machines are dirty and 5tur\'d and all alike, and that what they suffer does not matter, nor whether they live or die...
...You won't be quite such a vigorous Socialist now that you have made some money...
...The Community Religion By Theodore Darnell TJKCAUSE of its isolation from the complex problems of modem life, organized religion has ceased to be of use to the intelligent man of otfr time...
...It is for this reason that Mayor Bloch and Mrs...
...We are not interested in babes who were bom in mangers 2,000 years ago...
...k the cabin...
...I did this for nine years...
...X had "fronted the blood-rod eyas of the old primeval terror of life...
...Workers of"aU races and nationalltles are welcomed...
...we have had aethhafcgjf it excepting sugar-coated seaassaaaal like "Mrs...
...It would have been traditional, at Christmas time, had one of the Community Church read sermons composed of platitudes, sweet nothings shout a babe who was born In a manger 3,000 years ago...
...I soon made the appalling discovery that my novel was not wanted that my inspiration was not believed in, and that I was out of touch with the entire civilized world—an outcast and a tramp...
...But I have been down into the workshop where ¦ he swords are being forged...
...fa far as I myself am concerned, the adsprings of joy and beauty have ban dried up in me—the flowers no lorssr »<ng to me as they used to, nor the nav rise, nor the stars...
...I went out there and lived among the people for seven weeks...
...tt gave him so much has opportunity for color and brightness, for humor and adventure, such as a popular book must have, I was warned by my friends that the sheer horror of "The Jungle" would kill it...
...down there In the social pit—from their wan and hungry faces, from their tearj and cries of despair...
...I being a Socialist, they took me in and told me all they knew...
...Sow that, on his ->0th birthday, the Socialist masses of the tcorld hail Upton Sinclair at their foremost novelist, this earlier confession hssumes first-rate interest and importance...
...I could no longer write entertaining dime-novels—the effort to do so simply tore me to pieces, and the publishers of the dime-novels soon found out that something was wrong, and passed me by...
...I 'really paid very little attention to the meatquestion while I was in Chicago...
...Just now "The Jungle" is the sensation of the hour...
...Continued requests both from the United States and abroad haie led Smciatr to consent to its publication by The A'rtt Leader at this time...
...The black slave was a scarce article...
...My rich relatives did no more than send me their old clothes occasionally, and offer me a position in the family banking-establishment...
...There is no exploitation and no such thing as private charity...
...The Community Church of New York offers a unique opportunity for service mmn n.n/1 wran*n *hn have fallen awav from the old religions...
...It is the result efatav tempt to combine the best of tat aha!' different schools...
...The labor union and cooperative movement, however, which are combined and work together, dominate all human activity...
...I had only incoherent protests and cries of despair...
...I saw a great deal of it, of course...
...I saw that I was at the end of my tether, and had better give the world the lesson of my experience while I could...
...Three Early Guides During all this time, I lived with three Intimate friends who loved me very dearly, had the molding of my character, and are responsible for my fundamentally revolutionary attitude toward the world...
...I was terribly depressed...
...It was a wonderful discovery when I made it, for it gave me the key to all my problems...
...From aU accounts, the Socialist city of Telaviv Is eminently successful...
...Labor Unified in Pontics The girls' communal groups, in which Mrs...
...I went to college, but I did not take "many degrees, because I did not fit Into the molds...
...Are those who today are warning the people not true patriots and prot.:tors of the people's rights to life, Uberty and the pursuit of happiness when they inform the people that the first attempt has virtually been made and that whenever ffiie worshippers of the gold dollar god give the word, all will have been prepareoTTor the council of state, which will overthrow the republic and establish and seat the one-man power, protected by a military despotism, in the republic of the United States...
...Frank H'ebcr is General Secretary of the Federated Trades Council of Milzoaukcc and has held many important official posts in the trade union movement...
...We are interested in the mothers who must see their Utile ones go hungry and cold...
...How "The Jungle" Started The Immediate cause of the writing of "The Jungle" was a request from a Socialist paper, the "Appeal to Reason," that I write them a serial...
...if they will organize and unite or...
...In Telaviv, the federation of labor and the government own everything, with the exception of the industries maintained by private capital...
...From the time of the Fourier colony in our own country (not to go too far back...
...Of the 12.000 orken> to Telaviv, 8000 are organized...
...And that is what life means to mt...
...At the age of twenty, I received a conviction of inspiration, and went away into the woods to write the "great American novel...
...And so I knew, with a knowledge that no man could impeach, the cause and the mean mo...
...Wiggs of the "-Msay |JS A New Liters tare &Taaajatl* "The Jungle" differs from aaa^taf work of the realists to that a a asha* from the inside...
...The Communists have here as elsewhere been a small but nasty group which attempted disruption tactics but were summarily dealt with...
...As a consequence he had a bright and happy childhood...
...In many respects I had "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in mind as a model of what I wished to do...
...Meyerson, with, I understand, two other Telaviv...
...whether they realize It or not, the tillers of the son and the workers in every line of industry are confronted with a crucial period in the republic of the United States...
...they will find that the many ;r hemes and tactics initiated ss a new rovernment policy, which destroyed those indent republics, are paralleled by the The author of this article has grown old in the service of organized labor and the Socialist Party in Wisconsin...
...He finds himself, therefore, unchurched, with no adequate medium through which to express his Inner convictions...
...I had no one to advise me or help me or guide me to the light...
...I had no friends...
...Religion must serve mankind positively if It is to count for anything in our day...
...and I might go over to England if I chose, and meet with duchesses and lords, and be a "personality...
...They assemble their aaaav with Infinite skin, and ard expsrtTI...
...Toward the end I went short on money, and then I lived entirely on ash and moldy soda-biscuit...
...Meyerson is actively interested, also engage in construction work...
Vol. 7 • January 1929 • No. 55
