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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES ARE ELECTIONS WORTH WHILE? Pf^li response which wma evoked by my ssisaThr that U would be a good idee to send »42B!ioeer"tbew. ^ > i l^hMa *¦ receipt of tottem...
...Redhead, to 34 years ^f age, the daughter of working-class parents aad the wife of-a civil servant We give below the winning essay...
...Perlman assuredly must deatre to correct his always too sweeping statement that Socialists have "ceased altogether to criticise tbe uniod leaders...
...If Norman Thomas were WBm PBas House would there not be some intelligent SMBbartsd attempt to end unemployment, to bring Sjpaacavass to the service of those who work at them...
...Precisely tbe same question, though not for precisely the same reasons, arises to America...
...Besides I P^awfut nop as a letter writer...
...We need many more...
...fljijlp sayone aertoualy believe that England for exBfilaaadd^be a better place if the Labo rites were iSs^sefaated in this coming election...
...But we should know more definitely what actually happened to Albany, so that we can discuss these questions more intelligently...
...The prestige and effectiveness of the League of Nations have been lowered, disarmament has been Indefinitely postponed and international relationships embittered...
...To all housewives the question of food prices to a most vital one...
...j Why dees out try to fate* of six A M. Im the xebuwy . . .T j..^ , 7 A. M. AT WORK...
...Briefly tbe theory is that there is "a natural divergence to tobor Ideology between the 'mentality of the trade untons and the 'mentality' of the intellectuals...
...I wish I eabjUauTwar personally tbe really swell letters I reWBmTWatl have to buy chopped meat for four cats ttlibWty cant take tbe time out for It...
...The road they travel in the eyes of the impatient Idealist or abstract theoretician may Involve exasperating detours of i esaai mates steams rough places an the way to theh- goal: and soaeettmas there will be...
...We did nothing to get the women toto our own movement...
...r William Closson Emory, This spring to ushering in more hopeful things than just the annual recurrence of blossom and soft wind...
...Secondly, how to endow that philosophy with an attractiveness which only specialists In thinking in general concepts are capable of...
...Socialists have much to learn from same of Prof...
...From the spectacle of leaders who will not or do not work out the philosophy which Prof...
...Lamentation cannot carry far...
...St-dWag labor...
...true labor unionism, the hypoI S*lWjawamny unions wfil hold tbe field...
...But to say this is not to say that tbe individual workers ever have been, are now, or ever can be solely interested to "communism of opportunity" for jobs...
...Allah be praised . . . ! S. A. cW Win...
...They are interested also, sometimes more and sometimes less...
...But bow bring "this homegrown philosophy of tobor toto close correlation with public purposes" without defining public purposes in terms that necessarily bring in a view of life which Prof...
...The more Industry is mechanised, the more readily men can stoft or be shifted from job to job...
...Clara R. Now that the Supreme Court has denied a seven asat . fare to tbe bighbtaoing galoots of the HI...
...HHpat Mr...
...Kelley will discuss the recent New York legislative session...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A stosrtsasa* «r im Hi Ttew* at -wrUealsr interest t* the nan *c the User steveswst...
...But we were content to let the major parties get hold Of them for their own advantage...
...Your recent prayer causing me to remember—hence this letter...
...Baldwin undertook to deal wtth It drastically...
...In these days of money-mad land, that form of insanity might easily be explained as an overpowering crave for money which possesses tbe victim and atokas^ him irresponsibly violent Surely, it ought to be no effort on the part of fmt^tft" defense lawyers to dig up some impoverished experts to present a brand new madness toto t^^| laeognition...
...Tbe result has been a Food Council without authority or power to enforce Its findings, and tbe housewife today faced with no less a struggle to make both ends meet "On the issue of Peace or War, a subject of foremost importance to women, upon whom the sacrifices and sufferings of war fell so heavily, to the government's record any better...
...In the ngbt of such questions to interpret this homegrown philosophy In terms big enough to accord with reality is to interpret it far out of Its original meaning...
...Some times I feel that they overstress the [.ggawnsc complexities and kill off some of the visions [ s-BSsttnwtosms which stirred the pioneers...
...upon hnustog, upon the general ccadfiteas of the wwksra maon uswij subject of partidilsr toterest to women its record is bad...
...impressed wtth the eantonte of your dspasfaaaat that X thought t woeM drop you a fine tram, the hod of ••perpetual sunshine," where I have been for the tost three months, of clan and bitterness...
...of risalitont Green of the A. F. of L. bestirring himself and his staff Into the CseaUaas...
...This luncheon is a *M*y<""'r*f for active women and theh* friends to learn tbe truth about the tost legislature...
...Let us be thankful for Sinclair's failure to buy up full eseape from punishment for his oil brterandage...
...the question still remains whether without this other work Gomperiem would have been possible...
...jgU-aaeeta aaderetaad the Importance of that suc^SS'mitr In giving Great Britain a larger measure EgSex* bat to tbe ngbt of world peace as well...
...Where, how, and why has it failed to peas bills introduced to benefit the wageearning groups...
...Baldwin's Party...
...By the way, since that convention Mr...
...it is open to criticism on two »unts...
...Why were seven out of eleven amendments to the existing compensation tow defeated...
...It Is Incredible Sat ana like MacDonald and his colleagues could not - Mas a more humane and civilized way of living than Ml BaVawsa has thought up...
...Negro-Whit* Relations Studied An exhaustive study of Negro-white relations from all angles, is being made by the department of social science of Fisk University of Nashville, Term...
...Must not an women deplore the fact that the hopeful international situation, created by the labor Government, has been practically wiped out end long for toe return of a Party with a win for Peace...
...And these words be wrote before the tragic defeat of the' coal miners i and the demonstration of a new low level of WolUsm at the tost A. F. of L. convention...
...That Party to tbe Labor Party, which I feel has so many claims upon my support "Of tbe many patoaaa] Injustices committed by the uieatiiil Government during Bs term of office my todlgnetton to sroussd particularly by the ia,0O0-pounds a year *BAvTJfG' effected by the Ministry of Health on grants to municipal aulhoittlas tor supplies of milk to necessitous mothers aad cbfiaren...
...Just how far can the workers go in getting any satisfactory control without facing basic questions of ownership, the elimination of waste, and all the complex of relations between rival Imperialist nations...
...Party...
...Wsssat the attaatJon to at a standstill principally Jbaane ef tbe toe*, of money and because I did not aato ttos dear, namely that I had no thought of a BKef aoap-boxera going to England to instruct the dMsaate there on their duties...
...Maemflton...
...Prayers are such fragile utterances Flung against these walls of steei...
...as there has been, strife between the mam of the unions, and the mere doctrinaire of their friends...
...I bane that we wfll get ear' pension...
...Aad new that summer approaches with its heavy blanketing of sweaty air I am wrung to tbe deepest fibre...
...Grant that they did not impose successfully then- full gospel, the question is where would British labor have been without them...
...President Green is fighting the food fight la the South, the Railroad Conductors are lulling the bears, and friend Wall is selling lots of to the brethren...
...I do not think so...
...Collective action overcomes . tofl'I't""' ao matter bow strong be may be...
...There r. refreshments and dancing and no , mission will be charged...
...Not on your life, the Wfcjhto would simply be the means of establishing a|Btosto« contacts at a time when we should be closer ¦Wpfh smustau developments end serve to disabuse fitxvteto of some of our English comrades that this is a feat aval Bowing with melons and dividends and pref§pdte nnrap the world at the drop of a hat : JJShta a short time 111 let you know of the fate of WM"aew»e and In the meantime thanks for those letGuard in the Workers Education Bureau won HpMF w»ar tbe progressives...
...enough\ntelligence to hang on to what fortune and the work of better men have given them Prof...
...You may be disappointed if you delay...
...Again to tbe Tory pram we am today confronted by pictures of the mlne-rs* sufferings, pstOuiss which atos, to them who have cared to mad or oared to take more than s pssstag glance, are net to public charity to help these distressed comrades of ours...
...My retort to that I have no tatentteft of wasting my newly-won privilege on a Party (!) that can present neither program nor pohcy—a Party .so bopebn-dy <5vmed to tot cow-neb and to the Home of Otaiiaaaia as to be completely Ineffective...
...But such aceuaintaaoe as I have ¦ - had with tbe cattle cars of Bronx and Gotham to bitter beyond decent words for tipi Hamuli, It to wtth that cruel knowledge hammering onto my brain that I sometimes wonder what chance there to to build up a revolutionary consciousness la these millions of wage slaves who continue to bear tbto outrage of subway strangulation without a vrhtanpar...
...K ( . MeAlister Coleman...
...And then there is the welcome sight...
...It is, of course, easier to justify oneself...
...BeKiaat awy man on a height from which he sees lasaat'atlnr- and complexities of tilings and he ¦PJ§dg-geaateto reattse that the finding of remedies gagyxe msaas aa simple as he may have imagined...
...In Uv ' way the Bronx will assemble Its strer for the coming campaign...
...We should talk facts, not generalities...
...Why a man should deliberately want to steal more millions whoa be already possesses more money than be might be able to squander in ten lifetimes to beyond sanity...
...L. P., IS yearn old...
...And today it makes wider use of "intellectuals" than would aeem reasonable on the principle of a divorce in mentality between Intellectuals and workers...
...MSKpa peaceful retettans with the rest of the world ? -gfaawm there would...
...I I _Sftb»t of hunch that the fight has just begun, I gfOM Guard getting first blood But dont forI yiP'Sas first battle of the Civil War was an over| f?*** victory for the Confederates...
...And a weird wonder comes on bow great the endurance o£Z the workers is for such suffering as to their lot durinr the rush hours...
...which appeared in The New York World Si written by Charles J. Finger, tbe point Is MjSmt* whether the world-wonld be really any ay oC if labor and socialist candidates should be ¦pit was writJtag about' such Americans aa 'Gene ¦ jfljjilil Henry George, etc Ska Mav rnajer...
...Florence Kefley To Speak for Woman's Section April 27th Mrs...
...Of course, I for one should like to hare brother Matthew Won aJongntds of "Bill" Green down there ta North Caroliaa...
...Tbe first criticism is that nowhere in the world, not in Europe or America or more recently in Asia, has the labor movement developed without the leadership in some form of "Intellectual mentality"—to use Mr...
...We could not get s larger room...
...Then unemployment was svm-ratheticefly treated as a human and national problem, and the tot of tbe victims was lightened...
...Suppose we agree with Mr...
...Some of the most conspicuous leaders of orthodox A. F. of L. unions may be described as possessing not the "mentality of labor" butVtbe brains of barnacles...
...The first concerns Its adequacy as an explanation of what Is: tbe second its adequacy in providing the basis for i satisfactory "home-grown philosophy of future development...
...It is not disproved to Russia where notoriously the intellectual mentality of the Bolshevik leaders dominates the trade union movement That sttaatkm Professor Perlman «-*p>«»"« by the familiar contention that it was tbe Immaturity and weakness of capitalism In Russia, its/dependence on an autocratic government (and consequently the immaturity of the trade unions) that gave Lento and his comrades' their chance to exercise successfully their "will to revolution...
...Surrounded as one Is with the present situation in the movement you cant help but feel the pressure...
...Baldwin's Government Introduced the Equal Franchise Act Doubtless he will expect me to express my gratitude at the poll, and so I sfaatt—to -the Parte which created the favorable public opinion on this issue, before which even a Tory Party has been compelled unwillingly to bow...
...totarests of...
...L. F. (whose signature to fuB tt to key possession) to certainly alive to the...
...While toe BaOraad Conductor's Unionmen would be compelled to nogtaot thenreal estate investment* and the Stock market So all in all let us be happy that spring is here, a subwav crush is still five cents...
...But, you may ask, why not to tbe Liberals...
...gtSe fat smites when with his blades, JkJS*'™ not a crystal tree* mt with fire of mutiny E-T...
...easBy done or are overnight Jobs...
...The Old I rfPJpfias'achtoved the incongruous feat of making I Si* t*Ka9*Dy untons with one band and knocking I ™*P*» warkers education with the other, ¦aw* _ j^B'l^htor up...
...t This thesis, Professor Perlman thinks, a proved by the history of the labor movement to Germany...
...On second thought however, perhaps I am dedag Mr...
...A proud sound cinema of sharp color piercing, hke neon lights a cloud, to minds dulled with city squalor...
...Spring being tbe hour of hope...
...The answer is that be didn't and that as victorious Gompertsm degenerates toto WdUtom it progressively loses even tbe effective desire to organise on any basis whatsoever...
...The room at Town Ball is not large...
...Perlman's argument is...
...My own worry in the matter is small susn I'usa* ally drive to work...
...The real crime that he has committed la my little province of-thought to gluttony...
...It was saved from Its unaggressive leaders toward the end of tne 19th century by Mann and Tlllett who were avowed radicals It at today tod politically, and profoundly Influenced industrially, by intellectuals of the types Perlman dubs "ethical" or "efficiency...
...Celebration in the Bronx Socialists in the Bronx are invited to a borough-wide celebration that will take' place on Saturday, April 13, at mi Washington avenue, near Claremont Parkway...
...But they will have to do sooner or later...
...The campaign Is approaching...
...How Shall I Vote aad Why...
...Perlman .has arbitrarily assigned' to the intellectual's mentality...
...They have no reason at all to accept his narrow view of labor mentality and throw away their own broad theory of the necessity of the workers realizing international solidarity and controlling the things necessary to our common life both as producers and consumers...
...aad • selling Labor Ufa Tx-aurance to the Ttislhissi...
...But it is Bipeja as tbeas that matter to most of America Si est even a gesture In their direction is being made W^ppeaetieal men" of our own Tory Administration...
...Perlman's theory we have trespassed an the territory of our second Already from what is happening to tbe aawajtoaa Labor Movement we see the to our time and tor the future...
...and tba.( paupers will bare to do with twenty mffltoa a wear , leas in dividends, you would think all win be towaly , now for the strap-hangers aad rush-hour ttae phmg- . ers...
...dictate to theh* unions...
...Perlman that from the first tobor party to 1829 down through the Knights of Labor and the Socialists, labor learned the superiority of what we may call Gomperism...
...And Who wUI bs able to suspect that this laajiiiii talis, liiilauiiilay bating life-insuring agent to a nam other than a iw-toy* carnated Nicolai Lenta ra~»w"g to boat up the whole American system of Ufa, liberty, hi-jataim aad eanai opportunity ? feflow 1fSt 8haks«peare*Te "*mamsshF*"?.Sto S3 jay^Tou can...
...tt to history and observation to tended to support a theory of the tobor movement frankly avowed to the preface and the first chapter...
...Noting his absence however, I ascribe 1 it to the fact that he remains to do the more toxportaat work of cursing Soviet Russia from the iDitftepa...
...This is tbe government whose chief...
...It to a sharp and unescapabte contrast...
...From California We have to put modesty aside end let New York readers know what our coworkers outside think of our . department Perhaps these letters will, encourage the editors of "The New Leader" to grant us more --pace...
...The poor houses ought to be converted Into hospitals...
...The phrase has immense political and economic implications that outrun even such advanced expressions of it as Prof "Perlman seems to find industrially in the B. & O. plan or politically In the rather futile program of the A. F. of L. Realising, that fact Prof...
...ft was so...
...The London "Daily Herald" arranged a competition among the newly enfranchised wisiieu voters between tbe ages of 21 and 30 for the best answer to tbe question: "How Shall I Vote and Why," and offered a prize of 5 guineas...
...Why not ask for a commission of brain experts to have Sinclair's head examined . . ? "Dementia Americana," whatever that may be, saved Thaw from the death house, aad landed him temporarily in an luesns asylum...
...What is of value in Professor Perlman's theory calls for no such extreme statement as he wives It The facts he cites do...
...Then it Bad a sexy meaning...
...M^SS ** "BB *** S5 sewatot £|-^P*'::' —Dorothy Kramer...
...Perhaps right here I offer to his already despairing lawyers a new wrinkle for his escaping actual servitude...
...tefi^wbat^wbat -*owedaya,^wrto^sa^ preme Court tbrowtog the seven cent tarn oat...
...I always said that if we wild radicals kept muttering long enough against the baany gin Mi ay jwiaa - of tbe bto...
...In fairness to the author tt may be said that both criticisms are suggested by facts and admissions that he as a candid student sets forth...
...Perhnan's pet type of untantoaa to w^w1"** grew out ol soil prepared by the Chartist movement and the utopianism of Owen and Fergus O'Connor...
...Perlman writes: "The intsli: ' can save the labor moveir frcn - . ;umbing to a deadening drabness, if he learns to do tbe following: First, how to bring out from its sombre shell the kernel of the philosophy native to tobor...
...Then we blamed tbe women for not having voted for the candidates of the Socialist...
...Is It too late to follow the example of the British Comrades in so far as the women are concerned...
...Tbe only consolation the wot hers who must asa tbe horrible transit receive from tbe dactaton to that they win continue to pay tbe same old nickel for a dafiy experience in compressed bestiality...
...Include themselves as member* of the working daw as well, and actually contribute someUwn- for the support of the striking mltlhsnde at Durham...
...It Is a significant fact that Prof...
...The capacity, tt therefore, limited...
...To forget this does not lead to a hopeful theory of the labor movement but rather to tbe present state of affairs in America where company unions gain on labor untons and workers vie with employers to demanding tariffs, to the hurt of their own interests as consumers and as comrades to the workers of other tends...
...Without going Into the aasaston at the Amalgamated'* program, its social adequacy or its applicability to other industries, it may be pointed out that the Amalgamated, whatever its present tendencies, ¦ emphatically did not gab* its strength (as Prof...
...to drum on heaven's door, :» ^^P*Pf*g aketoa of wind, £ Pmg wjnlBlug to a crown B** «»ke-llke to strike him down...
...Then why do they hesitate...
...the Bes permanent are craft or even industrial lines and the more necessary does it become to plan not for an Industry, much lew a craft but far tbe whole...
...Communism of opportunity" cannot be maintained very well by any union concerned only with hours and wages in its own ranks...
...Wafl that question, and others who are as set against the atoasbW old age periston ef only $1 a day...
...Tseeson upon reason floods my sotod aa to why^ shcoto vote saatast this guvMiunrnt tor open sduiathwi...
...With thanks, gratefully yoursf Mrs...
...In running their own affairs without letting political parties, even their own...
...Perlman himself characterizes the psychology of a "big majority" of\the leaders in American unionism as a "curious blending of 'defeatism' with complacency...
...Baldwin, wrote during the terrible mining lock-out of 19M...
...Kngtand and...
...Ask her to make your reservation at once...
...Florence Keltey, National Secretary of the Consumer's Leakuen and keen observer of legislative measures, will address the New York Women's Section at a luncheon to be held an Saturday, April 37, at 13:30 o'clock sharp...
...Once within the sacred precincts of the open sfasp, he win immediately set about niiilin mtotag the private police morale, and institute an nadargi niBaT mesial for ~ org-snixlag the miners into -real unions...
...These are but a few reasons why my vote wfil not go to Mr...
...At all stages one must remember that tabor unions must be practical, aad that individual workers will not and cannot feed themselves and their children with pie in the unattained cooperative commonwealth on earth any more than with "pie in the sky bye and bye...
...aft hack to this delegation to England...
...On the other hand tt to to the Labor Parte that I agoaMantty took far tbe cisstton of a saw social order, whereto we shall reabae ear hope for the children's future bsxwsnsm, ccsntort to tea aged and all sngering hmaenwy—a world euatettj^be^Mjpg-^ aad ktoak THE CHATTER BOX Spriakg TlKMaajJtaB ai a Wdckkf M Why are rwOttWv ftaai asawar jOtee* W&k htif-jittK sawta'ar aad aaraVay iaiorert At 6 A. M....T Why 4a they off smell nAth state, soar sweolf Why do they stare at me .. f My bottom lay .. Where ore vt all goimm...
...They may be making whoopee over ¦MJW'hBt a few years from now they will find that | ^^Jhtoe nothing left of a labor education movement tm atosas a, blasted thing...
...Admit that and we are back 'to tbe necessity for some genuinely intellectual philosophy which to have weight must take account of the workers* experience as producers to opposition to an earning class and at the same time broaden thair conception of their needs as consumers...
...Decisions are sad by sheer weight...
...He admits this tact generously to regard to the European continent though not with regard to the yfagttsh speaking countries...
...was held by the workers...
...Matthew would only have to forsake the tasks of selling poUeten and busting up a labor college or such...
...They are therefore deeply Interested in jobs, in equality of opportunity in getting jobs, in hours and in wages...
...dB become merely an adjunct to capitalist jShteSTtaswio-u courses end the average worker might anpff take a Scrantan correspondence course in go¦fszas samJtow.the paper the Bureau will hand out BMW toea hke Jim Manrer and A. J. Muste walk . **** * eoaference, the A. F. of L Old Guard have won R*aapty victory...
...And thirdly, he must learn how to bring this "homegrown'' philosophy of labor toto close correlation with broader public purposes...
...Perlman's sspresae Illustration of "communism of opportunity" through job control, the International Typographers, today face a dtoatton through the Invention of the tote-typesetter which seriously menaces any adequate solution of their problems merely by their organised strength to the shop without reference to the problem of Item* Industry as a whole, or to the cure for...
...i l^hMa *¦ receipt of tottem from ail ports of tbe aas--tSnTe < one from California yesterday— Bggsjasliir tbe idee, sod Indicating that there . Ef ao lack of wans interest in tbe success of Ssb Labor Pbrty...
...On the face Of the Perlman theory we have a paradox: radical...
...Could he have organized without the immense propaganda work of these earner radical groups or without the work that Socialists did among the needle trades...
...After they got the women it might have done something to interest them to the program of tbe Party...
...Scanning the New Books A Theory of the A. F. of L. A Review by NORMAN THOMAS By Norman Thomas ranr authors ever packed toto SIS *- pages more useful tofermatton or shrewd observation on tbe development and Ideals of tbe tobor movement to four great countries than does Sehg Perbnaa to his Theory of tbe Labor Movement OV...
...boys la union circles, they aught come to fife sad actually put a meaning toto their pu repass It took a fine courage, and a certain wfil to leave the soft chairs sad carpeted ssnetuzas at Weauhrurton, to sally forth into tbe Southern null-towns aad xeake hattie against the greed-aimored barons of Dtxto...
...indeed, justify a strong warning to Socialists to remember that Socialism does not easily and simply evolve from the worker's untaught appreciation of his own Interest...
...The- dare not now suggest that the Prince of Wales exa«n*eratea...
...The Rebel Poet j*tontoed green eyes when he who grew ^Ito of their pine woods' floor, s 5...
...Whatever our own potlthio ocoacaatata «B flgure out about tbe legal aspects of the matter with their relation to kippered p4cktea,^hte much to certain, the subway win continue to make pigs out Of men aad rag--dolls out of women...
...In considering our first criticism of Prof...
...Mrs...
...I offer this suggestion la the true spirit of the season...
...Mr...
...Better then for ail to link hand to hand And singing high march forth together t for a saner life than this...
...I BswfS^ But they *** Ketting old, and younger men i JMtontiiaPy step into their places, if these onI *fjPK yisiagsUta are given no instructions as to the I 2** taneftana of...
...Turn to unemployment and we find that this social disease, for which the Tories assured us they had a 'positive remedy' has considerably increased, to spite of theh* five years7 unprecedented opportunity...
...All very good...
...Perlman's own phrase —even though that intellectual muitollto...
...Gompers' trade unions for reasons now generally acknowledged by all students of the matter partially succeeded where the Knights of Labor were falling...
...unemployment and similar tomes...
...failure of ear go-f-ernment to prevMe far a decent old age May she five long enough to see some of her dreams oosse true...
...and let us pray that his three month's sentence wtH give him time to ruminate on tbe Ingratitude of republics, aad thank his lucky stars that his mmtans have saved him tbe ten years penal servitude be should bars received...
...I would hke to ask Mr...
...The winner, Mrs...
...Photophone / hear the shrill, harsh, klaxon cries of peacocks strutting on the green m lawn and see the electric eyes dotting the iridescent sheen of gaudy, spreading toils...
...Perlman says the American tobor movement illustrates, he turns for hope to the amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...in the...
...N C It win even be a more difficult twist-about than-Mr...
...This is not to say that these fBBais...
...Panken...
...Ka"W*T ktodly review of my book, "Pioneers of gajsa...
...Woil s revetsiuu to the cause of the American working-man...
...Charles S. Johnson, to charge of the department will be grateful for letters, documents, broadsides and authenticated incidents dealing with negro-white interacial points of view...
...WoU dirt by hasty digs without going toto the wags, known true facts, it aught teat bs that bs Is getttog himself established as an laaiirsnns agent as a bttod altogether...
...Readers are requested to cooperate In this important work and are assured that all material sent to Professor Johnson, will be carefully handled and promptly returned to the senders...
...At what terrible expense has this savtoa* bean exacted: yet this seK-eeme govennaent dsns to propose by its Derating MS to give Oaaaumde of pounds to the Is I a is i. toe tobacco firms and other ftouraunng concerns that do not need aasss...
...We may look to no sbdiattlis educational effort from that outfit Under -jjrsxtestose direction of Spencer Miller Jr., who is the %"kai Bfaeral "yes man," so anxious to hold down his KM* be wfil eosnpromiae it out of existence, the BM...
...Tt to with pleasure and satisfaction to note the interest you are taking In bringing about old age pensions which to so craved by us old people to freeing us from these dsspteshle poor houses which are a blot on this richest Batten and acting like s pauper or a spendthrift refusing to close up these disgraceful poor houses...
...Any way, our thanks to the two letter writers...
...Get busy NOW...
...The spring celebration is to be held to welcome new members to the party and reunite old comrades...
...Now stimulating as Prof...
...and at the BaaaVM vAMeBB OQaaaaTIOasQK Owl KaBtf sBkeVdafeta^B- DetaatshV dgsfaSB gam BbbbbI For aO yon know the Railroad Conductor's Union will come out with a red hot manifesto on the equality of ail labor...
...BaMatamn tt was the purpose that was undoubtedly I H^*-***** °* their minds—this killing of workers...
...Readers should get in touch with Mrs...
...above all, tbe United States...
...But is he rtoht that In English t***^ countries the labor movement arose without much intellectual leadership on the basis * of ''conununlsm of ogsmttuatty?*1 Labor history neither to England or America supports this view...
...If that phrase is best Interpreted to American experience then Its Inadequacy Is most apparent...
...Food for Thought I wonder if the Socialist Party of the United States bad the foresight to see what a power and influence the women were to become to the political life #>f our country...
...Let us begin now...
...The trade union mentality is concerned with job control, "communism of opportunity" and will win over the Intellectual mentality which falls to three groups: "ethical," efficiency," and "determinist revolutionary...
...But really, the fault to our own...
...that is...
...Indeed as I reflect on our present situation I am inclined to emphasise that phrase "and consumers" as necessary to any solution of our problems...
...Finger accepts a common myth to the figbttthat the radical is a notoriously naive fanatic affi a magician's belief that the remedy is up his K| - • \. HMetete a& those I know inside the Socialist Party HEBSbwb understand the complexities of holding pol: Bppswer in a State which is economic, not political M Subset...
...Intellectual theories haven't worked but the "workers mentality" without It, even in the United States has rarely on its own Initiative built any labor union or cooperative and never any tobor party...
...Perhnan's facts sad his observations on them...
...Perlman admits) oh* tbe avowed advocacy of his theory but rather as a Socialistic union...
...the fact may be that the ^jlfcswilinn"""'* surrounding tbe executive and .asm m office overrules the individual, does indeed Eggs* sad guide him to strange ends...
...to America that there was "Uttte or no indication, of severe distress' in the coalfields, and those same Tar-- -a»-ers assured us again and again that the plight of the miners was exaggerated...
...Aa soon as his -reputation along these ansa becomes national, he probably puns to enter Into the West Virginia mine barony, shewing his pasaaert aad papers as a harmless life Insure nee man...
...Contrast theh- regime with the all-too-short period of tbe Labor Government to 1934...
...I knoar what the answer on the part of our women comrades will be...
...Time to on our side and all the run ! the radical youngsters I've met lately are | Bjtffr and go, end Brookwood still flourishes...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 13
