MACDONALD DESCRIBES CAMPAIGN TRIP AND HOLIDAY IN ENGLISH COUNTRYSIDE
P., J. Ramsey MacDonald, M.
MacDonald Describes Campaign Trip And Holiday in English Countryside Reception Among Land Workers Thrills Labor Party Leader By J. Ramsay MacDonald, M.P. LONDON. J7ASTER this year saw those...
...in charge of arrangements...
...That was what the resolution proposed...
...Reservations lor the luncheon should be made immediately at the office of the League for Industrial Democracy, 70 Fifth avenue...
...is not the ideal place for an Independent Labor Party Conference...
...Lawrence power, because the rates to tocharged for this .jower arc not subject to contract control but to the ssm: character of litigation which has dragged on for expensive year* in the Telephone and New York Edison' casev According to the letter, "the result may be that most of this power will go...
...That means that the Socialist leader...
...shone in the sun...
...The debate ended with the adoption of the report by 183 votes to 131 for reference back, while a London Central amendment in favor of the original Whitley Bay resolution was defeated by 182 votes to 102...
...Maxton is a strict constitutionalist 3r...
...The garden was a choir of singing birds...
...The new editor-in-chief of II Nuovo will be Prof...
...Southall is an elderly artist who wears a skull cap, and somehow or other contrives to be at one and the same time a Quaker pacifist and an admirer of Moscow...
...Through the morning mists the noble view of bending river and controlling cliffs could be seen but dimly, yet the gateways, the timbered houses, the old Town Hall in the middle of the street, and the shattered castle ruins leaning over as the result of the blasts of Commonwealth powder wbirh had been exploded under it...
...It lies terrace upon terrace on the steep banks of the river...
...The I. L. P. might be needed, he declared, in the event of a Labor Government that would be timid, and shirk doing what it had been sent into power to do...
...Students, undergraduates and student members of the league will be admitted to the speaking at 1:4$ for $.25...
...will be the subject discussed at the April luncheon of the New York Chapter...
...however, thinks more of Max! ton, as Angus Livingstone put it, as John j the Baptist, whose services as idaalisi I and agitator and fervent advocate of ! Socialist first principles count mere than his...
...through their windows, fashioned so appropriately as eyes through which to peep out upon a peaceful world, and watcb the passers by...
...private company which u in conflict with the State on so many points " Protest against the proposed treaty was first raised by the Public Affairs Committee of the Socialist Party, through its chairmen...
...And those who worked at coal and Iron also had the prints of the sun and the wind upon them, and it was refreshing to meet them snd tali to them...
...How the world is missing its way In its unhappy endeavor to make home* like unto Its fussy and meaningless life of to-day instead of making life like unto the grey houses of the Cotswolds built by something more than hands...
...By steep and narrow paths, the rock sides of which were covered by ivy and ferns, and where there were pockets of dainty rock plants and glowing patches of crocuses, we went down to the reedy sides of the lake...
...The fact that the comptav had defied the orders of the Federal Government was also cited as a ream, why the private company did not "merit the trust or honor of being singled oat in place of New York State ss an agent of the Federal Government...
...Md., Dr...
...where fanners and laborers, miners and ironworkers, shopkeepers and parsons come together to !i>ten to a gospel...
...With all his revolutionary ouilook...
...i • * * Next morning we went out whilst the dew was still heavy on the grass and the sun was again struggling with the early mists...
...temporary adventures as one of the 1 chief mutineers, hauling up the ckul...
...Socialism in our Time" There was little remotely resembling life in the Conference until the Living Income Report came up for consideration...
...April 20th at 12:30 p.jn...
...The position is in some ways like that k> England...
...May 9th...
...D. C, District Secretary, N. F. Matterson of 636 G. street...
...Radicals 16, Miscellaneous 3. Thus the Socialists to get a majority of one would need to gain 22 seats, and that is out of the question...
...They were still brown and dead, but on the higher margins the sun was making great patches of wild daffodils shine amidst the dark green of their crowded leaves...
...Saturday and Sunday, May IIth and 12th—Tampa...
...Tickets are $1.25 for members of the leagoe and the Civil Liberties Union, $1.50 for non-members...
...Conservatives 30, Socialists 53...
...Jewish Daily Forward Gives $350 to Brookwood Scholarships to enable trade unionists to attend Brookwood Labor College have been pledged by Local 3. American Federation of Teachers, Chicago, and by the Fellowship of Reconciliation...
...It was a busy scene of craftsmanship, and the men were all taken from the village...
...S. C„ S. V. Kennison...
...Again the beams of the sun becoming more and more horizontal across the workshop and lighting the eastern wall warned us that time passed with unpausing step, and that we had still a long road before us...
...A wise decision, which will avoid splitting the Party on an abstraction...
...He will assume active charge as soon as he can change headquarters to New York...
...and cross bones on the flagship of the J pirate ship...
...There are only a few copies of the book left in the office of The New Leader...
...Sidney Strong has offered to give the final $25, and Anna Louise Strong will donate the next to last $25 of a fund being raised for a scholarship...
...Giuseppe Bertelli...
...N. W...
...The value of the grant to the company was indicated by the rtst in its stocks during the period the treaty was negotiated, of $62,000,000...
...Its floor was bestrewn with shavings, and the air was heavy with the scent of freshly cut wood...
...This luncheon will be held in cooperation with the American Civil Liberties Union and the speakers will be Henry T. Hunt, Arthur Oarfleid Hays...
...the white be ribboned carriages to the church, and the black plumed ones to the churchyard, it was the worker who looked...
...aft?r a dreamless sieep in a tiny room in a comfortable oldwcrld hotel, which had surprising stairways and confusing corridors, along which we wanted to play hide and seek, we woke to a misty morning and went abroad to see the sights of the m town...
...Monday, May 6th at 7 P.M.—Wilson, N. C. C. .H...
...J7ASTER this year saw those who have to bear the racket of April and May going into a restful training...
...How delightfully fresh those audiences in the more remote industrial areas are...
...Florida...
...Coming in the night before we had seen the lights sperkling on the face of the precipitous hills upon which the Saxon stronghold was built, and outlining the ridge, and our hearts wero satisfied...
...nej.r Wellington, there was such a meeting...
...BOSTON— (TP) —Old ace pension measures backed by the Massachusetts Federation of Labor went down to defeat, 1! to la, in the stats senate...
...And he also makes the furniture for churches which flu with reverent graclousness into Gothic aisles and arches, and holds the color of the sun wanned and shadowed by stained glass...
...Socialists had always argued that public authorities should be model employers, and pay a living wage to their workers...
...Friday, May 3rd—Washington...
...Room 1, Union Station, Tampa, in charge...
...Blum, the brilliant leader of the party in the c b amber, failed of reelection at the last general election because o f heavy attack made on him by the conservative and Communist parties...
...New York City...
...May 10th—Jacksonville, Fla„ IJarry Feldman, 3113 Gilmore St., in Charge...
...The report declares against the immediate establishment of an all-round legal minimum wage, on the ground that this would mean a large scale subsidising of industry, hopelessly impracticable until industry is reconstructed...
...In the first part of the conference the only Interesting debate took place on Roden Buxton's suggestion that^the I. L. P. should cease to occupy itself with politics and parliamentary candidates, and devote itself entirely to educational and Socialist propaganda work...
...And the greater part of the proceedings" were about as dull and dreary as the hall...
...Socialist president of the Buffalo City council, is also fighting the deal...
...Nevertheless Maxton was re-elected to the chair by an overwhelming majority I securing 284 votes to the 39 polled by Emanuel Shinwell...
...A workman, carrying a child in his arms, walked in front of us by the side of his wife holding also a child in her arms...
...that if It were right to establish a living income standard for Government employees it was right to establish it all around By the time Wise had finished drafting the report aald Dollan...
...At that Conference the Party adopted a resolution, which became known as the policy of "Socialism In Our Time...
...Unfortunately, a good deal of confusion has arisen since that time as to exactly what the I. L. P. was advocating...
...The main feature of the resolution was the demand for Family Allowances, 5 shillings per child to be paid out of direct taxation, and the outline of a plan of constructive socialism by vrhlch a Living Income could be obtained...
...The system of proportional representation makes it beyond hope that the Socialist Party can gain a clear majority in the new Parliament...
...Wednesday, May 8th and Thursday...
...of fee "Saint*' Reft" t« his first parishioners of Bridgnorth), and we strolled down the street where Bishop Percy walked so often aa a youth before the "Reliques of Aaetent Poetry" made htm famous...
...State Chairman, Box 478, Petersburg, Va., in general charge...
...Dollan and Wheatley Clash Dollan moved the rejection of the report in a vigorous speech in favor of the Immediate legajf establishment of an all-round minimum, which Wheatley later describe* as eloquent, humorous, but entirely irrelevant, Dalian's main line of attack was...
...A seat became vacant m a district near Paris about a month ago through the death of a non-Socialist member...
...M E Edson...
...All the omens point to a big 8orlalift victory...
...In these Cotswold regions we pasaed cottages which were shrtnes, and went through villages which invited us to return to them as our "last abode on earth, to pray and die...
...When I had paid, however, the balance was surely in my favor...
...With the news of II Nuovo Moodo's new political lineup comes the announcement that it will be merged with La Parol* del Popolo, Socialist weekly published for the lest 20 years in Chicago, and that publication of the" latter will be discontinued...
...Socialists of Denmark Out to Win Victor?', But N o t Complete xMajority, Expected in Voting April 24th tar • N*» Us4»r c»iiMUrtw" -"•©PEMBAGEN —It Is «r* dedded that ^ the General Election, brought about hv ihr hwir-uD "f the Fanner Conservatlve alliance, the defeat of the Budget, and the consequent disso1u tion of Parliament , will take place on April 24...
...Wheatley replied to Dollan, pointing out that if colliers were earning low wages, that it was no reason for keeping down' the wages of municipal workers, that that this ^as the last thing that Dollan stood for on the Glasgow Town Council...
...Meetings will also be arranged for West Palm Beach and Miami...
...How beautiful were the churches, the abbeys and the cathedrals we visited that day, but my heart is in the abodes of men, and this last shrine was of that order...
...Atlanta, Ga., Charles Weintraub, 771 Washington St...
...It had a velvet smoothness, and whispered to me of long seasons of happy and grateful growth of the tree, of the generous bearing of fruit, and the sheltering of birds, of the fondly ccresslng of the human hands which had worked upon it...
...We went to the churchyard where Cromwell's soldiers fought, to the house where Richard Baxter ttr«d (for we www bare* that be bad s»it»erort tut edBtoa...
...and !t was a delight to behold them...
...When such letters pour in.vjji such quantities —and all indicating such a spirit of optimism and hope" said Comrade George "you cannot in any possible manner convince me that the South is not ripe today for a Socialist harvest...
...This report, a twelve page pamphlet, was presented to the conference by e. f. Wise who explained that it had the unanimous support of the National Council with the exception of Dollan...
...The definite schedule of meetings is as follows: Thursday...
...They have still a virgin Curiosity and interest...
...Mooney Case to Be Subject Of L.I.D...
...Charging that the rights of the Stat* to 317,000 horsepower, three quarters of the power developed by the company, have been ignored, the letter states that the claims of the State are weakened rather than strengthened, as tar as the bulk of the power and the new diversion are concerned, by the proposed treat...
...phrase "Socialism in Our Time" was vague, and the critics who did not take the trouble to read through the proposals superficially described the whole thing as a wild slogan without condescending to argue about the detailed program that was outlined...
...a member of the last Labor Government...
...Id "bow its bead in shame" at its neglect of aged people brought Indignant retorts from silks tocklng district solons that thj Old Bay State has no intention of admitting shame...
...Wheatley went on to defend the report as a real and practical pregrant on which a Labor Government could work...
...absorption of money makins and trafficking is still remote...
...Bits of cupboards and desks and choir screens lay about, and I longed to join the craftsmen and do something with my hands so smooth, so beautiful in line and curve, so sweet smelling and so clear...
...For whilst we stopped to ask our way of a man driving cattle on the road, I recognised the valley in which we were as that where dwelt a famous craftsman wrtc made good furniture from woods which seem to delight in growing with beautiful grain as though offering by their life a service to those who, by their own ieerciee, hare elafens to sit at tames ana seeks, and on estates aad to store thetr Uata aad clothes In cupboards, which please their eyes—at tables whereat grace can be reverently said, on chairs where one can truly rest and be thankful, in eupbeerda which take, as with affectionate hands, the apparel of dally use and the shrouds which will wrap what remains of us when the end has come, aad we lie at peaee...
...The original Living Wage proposals became mixed up with P. J. Dollan's advocacy of a 4 pound a week legal minimum, and the Cook- Maxton campaign while H. N. Brailsford...
...A scholarship of $450 entitles a student to a year at Brookwood...
...We had run, the day before, through the civilisation of wayside petrol pumps and of bungalows for which, on bare and bended knee, wr should apologise to the coming generations who must fit them Into English life and story...
...We had to see one more shrine...
...There was one piece of furniture made of English walnut upon the surface of which I could have passed my hand over and over for hours...
...In announcing the thange in administration, Editor Romauldi said, that the policy of the paper would remain anti-Fascist...
...Waterfowl splashed and preened themselves, dived, and sent shivering ripples across the smooth surface of the water...
...Springtime has followed on the footsteps of winter, the "Lent lillies" are out and nodding their yellow heads amidst wide carpets of green, the birds are singing in the land, and 1 am on the road...
...Within its plain stone walls and lofty, round arches there is more of the prayer of the imperfect yearning for perfection, of the dependent and passing trusting to the Omnipotent and the eternal, than in the groined roofs and carved pillars of glorious piles, and, in its darkness, there is a surer sense of the Unknown than in the vast well lit spaces of noble cathedrals...
...Niagara Deal Once Agaii Under Fill Committee Joins in Ojk posing Grant of Ad& tional Water Rights is Private Company TN an open letter sent to Senator Basset F. Wagner eleven objections to granting an additional ai0.000 horsepower « State water to the Niagara Fails Pew* Company were advanced by the PuSBe Committee on Power in New York State...
...Through their doors of chaste proportions, it was laborers who entered...
...he had "in accordance with true tradition of the CivL Service," made it so that nobody understood it, not even Wise...
...Friday...
...The present state of parties is: Farmers 47...
...and the 38 polled by J. P. Dollani, a tribute to his personal popularity frcm a Conference where there was a considerable body of critical opinion, that had grave doubts about the political wisdom of the celebrated manifesto which now seems to be in temporary cold storage, while Cook is carrying on a campaign urging us to drop our petty differences and work for a Labor govcrnment...
...But a great, bleak building of this kind, where the echoes of the tramp of every new arrival makes it difficult even to hear the voice of James Maxton...
...but whether it will be a Socialist Government with Radical support, or a Coalition, depends upon the exact result of the election...
...S. W., in general charge...
...The gain of 50,000 votes—15 per cent.—in iui month's municipal elections is one indication of the way in which the political tide is running...
...I handed over my discs in the coinage of a speech...
...Comrade Claessens consented to turn his vacation into a lecture tour, and New Yorkers must understand that he does not intend to stay in Virginia to "raise a crop of tobacco" nor to care for crocodiles in the Everglade*^ It is a two-weeks vacation...
...But the sun was nscsBsUng in the heavens, and we bad far to go before we found our next sight's lodging • • • That day we went through the England il long past centuries, before the industrial revolution made the power of economics predominant' in the life of the people, aad when industry was conducted by craT-smeu who fashtoned beautiful things because they put themselves into the work they were doing...
...of 557 King St...
...Managing Editor Serafino Romauldi and other workers on the staff of II Nuovo retain their position...
...Be put on his coat to welcome us, for he has old-world manners as becomes his craft...
...Thev are not blase...
...State of New York as agent for the Federal government in the diversion...
...The I. L. P. has been occupying itself with what has become known as its Living Wags, or Living Income Policy since the Whitley Bay Conference of 1926...
...May 2nd—Baltimore...
...Carlisle, is a splendid place {or a Sergeant-Major to teach a squad of recruits...
...League for Industrial Democracy held this Saturday...
...To shake their hands was to bid adieu to the life from which I was escaping, and to begin a sojourn amidst ploughed fields, brown moors, gray hamlets and the open :ea...
...Maxton did not have the heart to censure anybody, and so the dialectical display continued unabated...
...At Madeley...
...Sunday, May 5th at 2 P.M.—Richmond, Va., David Lidman...
...We stopped at his door and found him at bis beach...
...now editor of La Parola...
...I beard through my touch the voices of many generations offering up praises that it had been created...
...Illinois Labor Wins Springfield, Til.—The old-age pension bill has passed the Bouse by a vote of 84 to 49...
...and yet it seemed that something guided us aright...
...Luncheon Today "The Mooney-Billings Case—Is 1t a Frame-up...
...near Wellington, in Salop...
...13 Meetings For Claessens In The South Letters Indicating Great Interest in Tour Reaching New York Office HPHE tour of August Claessens of New York through the Southeastern states in early May promises to be a very successful one, according to David G. George, who is managing the tour for the Socialist Party...
...The let tar pointed out that the nee water diversion, although supposed tool temporary, would really be permanent, and that Senator Wagner had states that he would be against any permanent grant to a private company of additional waterpower...
...Blum was opposed by a renagoade Socialist...
...Who can put down in sentences on paper the spirit that dwells In Bradford-on-Avon...
...The Press has done !'a utmost during the last few months to depict Ma:;ion as an arch conspirator always engaged in secret in deep and diabolical plots to knife the powers that be...
...Hamlin, of Atlantic Christian College, in charge...
...in the soothing scent of musk or of lavender...
...The Mygdal Government has passed a stringent Trade Union law it has cut down the social services, and it has done nothing to deal with the unemployment, which in Denmark, as in England, is the gravest economic problem...
...The I. L. P...
...DENVER—<FP>.—Frank Palmer has been made full time director of worker education by the joint'boards of the Denver Labor College and the Workers Summer School...
...The conference, however, gave Maxton and the National Council discretionary powers in interpreting the resolution...
...Taunts of textile district senators that Massachusetts shoe...
...Roger Baldwin, and Lemuel Parton...
...If the States rights and the consumers' interests are to be established and protected, action looking toward that end should be begun at once...
...covering tunition, board, room and_ laundry...
...and it was he who slept under their cosy thatch or stout stone way, in the soothing scent of musk or tiling...
...Lewi BhuB» Leader Of Fremeh Sedate . 'Remrned to Chamber s»As2aV—T*e French Socialist party ¦eared a distinct victory here tats week with the ejection of Leon Bonn, the famous leader of the party, to the Chamber of Deputies...
...S. M. Nelstadt, of 1697 East Baltimore street, is in charge of arrangements...
...An interesting reply came from Charles Trevelyan...
...and of a new youth that would mellow and grow richer down untold years...
...Pension Act Passed...
...Maxton's re-election to the chair of the I. L. P. is the recognition zt his work as a great and powerful Socialist propagandist with a big human popular appeal...
...as Conference procedure and etiquette is concerned...
...II Nuovo Mondo Bought by Socialist Partv Italian Section II Nuovo Mondo, Italian antl-Fascist I daily, bat been acquired by the Italian ] Federation of the Socialist Party, and ! will henceforth be the official organ of that body...
...But in one way the position here differs from the English one...
...They do not applaud much, but they communicate both appreciation and disapproval by the looks on their laces, and bv the steadiness or unsteadiness of their gaze...
...They were of the stock through which those saps of life flow with robust energy undiluted by the weakening mingling of artificial refinement...
...As a result, the National Council was instructed to present another report...
...The English villager is still a craftsman, and only needs the opportunity of showing it...
...The 'buses came In from the villages around, and the hall was packed by men and women with bronse faces and in rough, sober attire —men and women who lived in the open, and knew the surf both at his rising and his setting, who tilled fields and nursed children, who belonged to the real things of life...
...He was elected by a subs tan".J margin...
...In the hollow of the valley below, the water of a lake caught by the sobered gleam of the sun...
...Tuesday, May 7th—Charleston...
...In the state of Washington, Dr...
...The danger to the interests, of the etsw and the conflict between the proposal'' treaty and the views of Senator Wagner and Governor Roosevelt were the subtest of ten points...
...Louis Waldman and Norman Thomas...
...What is practically certain Is that there will be a majority of Socialists plus Radicals...
...They were a goodly sight to see, and they, with the dark trees, the bright yellow daffodils, the glassy lake, and the thinning mists, made a fitting beginning for the day...
...Benjamin Stolberg the President of the New York Chapter, L. I. D. will preside...
...Comrade Claessens wants to make it clear to all that this is a "vacation" tour...
...It recommends, however, that a Labor Government should set up a Commission to fix a reasonable living income, which would be immediately paid to the Government and Municipal workers, and also to those receiving poor law relief, and the unemployed, while two years would be given to private employers to recognize their industry, and to enable the living income standard to be paid...
...Over the high moors we went, along the old twisting roads, on the nigged primitive rock country, down to the southern sea, and I write to the whistles of ships passing up and down the harbor coming home from and starting on voyages to far awa;> lands...
...I. L. P. Re-states Its Program For "Socialism In Our Time" Carlisle Convention Brings Re-election of James Maxton to the National Chairmanship fSy a New Leader CorreipondenO i^ARLISLE...
...if we hare our war...
...Abolishing the Army The sensation of the Conference came when Joseph Southall, of Birmingham, managed to get through the Conference an emergency resolution instructing the I. L. P, M. P.'s to vote against war esumates...
...The treaty is now before the United States Senate for action The arrangement for this new jxint of waterpower is called a step backward from the stand taken by Governor Rocs> velt for the development of the 8t...
...Others may hear the speakers for $.50...
...The Jewish Daily Forward Association has recently contributed $350 to the school...
...At the Norwich Conference last year Dollan succeeded in carrying an amendment making the establishment of an immediate allround minimum wage the first plank in the program, whereas the Whitley Bay resolution had laid it down that this could only be achieved by the Socialist organization of industry...
...I had to pay toll before I got out on the highways which run through peaceful grey villages, on to the moors and flown to the sea, and...
...The return to the State in rentals was estimates, to be between $37,750 and $68,280...
...Frank C. Perkins...
...in charge...
...The party threw its full forces behind Blum in an effort to capture the district and return their leader to theVchamber...
...That night we went to the Crown in Bridgnorth, and...
...Stauning, will farm the next Government...
...The shrine of the spirit which built Bradford is the simple, rugged, but devout Saxon chapel which stands In the Abbey yard...
...Comrade George describes the number and type of answers which he has received from comrades and friends In the southern states as "inspiring...
...one of the drafters of the program, in a fit of despair gave up hope of its being accepted by the Labor Party ar.d came to the conclusion that the only thing left was a Labor agreement with Lloyd George...
...as at present, to certain favored industries standinz in close relationship to the power company, and that the municipalities will get no benefit from this cheap power, although many of them are now paying very high rates...
...The...
...These he makes...
...Tnej' asked for the same ireple and nourishing fare for their minis which they had for their oodies...
...bad bargain for the State " The letter, prepared with the *id of Morris L. Ernst and Albert Hirst, of counsel, proposes that in view of tfct unsatisfactory relatlonthips of the company with both the Federal ar.i State Governments, and the possibility that the company will be in litigation with the State over its charters, the convention tie changed by the designation of th...
...The offer of "Pioneers of Freedom" with a new sub,—all for $3, will soon expire...
...The workshop was full of the sound of the swish of planes and the rasping of saws...
...In the high roads and the bye roads we missed our way...
...but its main object from now on would be educating Italian-American workers in Socialism...
...CHICAGO—(FP)—-Riding in on the tide of union sentiment that is sweeping the Carolina textile centers, the American Federation of Teachers has organised a local of its union in Charleston, South Carolina, announces Secretary Florence Curtis Hanson on her return to headquarters In Chicago...
...It the meantime the hands of the State should not be tied up by the designation of th...
...Orey house gables and church spires crowd by the river, and guard the bridge which in its grace as well as by its chapel "as at Bath for mass" (as Leland says) shows that its building was a pious deed...
...England.—No doubt the Drill Hall...
...Interested persons may communicate with Comrade George at the Socialist Action Committee, 31 Union Square...
...Here was a peaceful richness of life and story in winch there was more of the clash of iv,-ord and the tinkle of coin, and from wh.ch th...
...And these were not classy dwellings...
...at the Hotel Manger, 50th street and Seventh avenue...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 14
