A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES JUST DROOLINQ ALONG rTB M though it were all off. The propoMl to p*^™oelegation of American Socialist* to England jyeorer what the British elections are ail...
...That evening he was her body-guard while she addressed a rather hostile meeting...
...The anions consider "rationalization" to be inevitable, as certain as the coming of steam and machinery at the beginning of the first industrial revolution...
...but in the period of 1925-6 " a sum equal to about sixty millions sterling was budgeted for to provide special unemployment relief...
...With Sam Friedman and Hank taner and John Herling and Eddie...
...One man in a hundred thousand feels a cause sufficiently to devote his active life toward its accomplishment...
...She is leaving early in May and we wish her a happy time while there, and a safe return...
...In- the meantime the old parties have done their utmost to stave off women's enfranchisement until they thrust us into the World War...
...First, economic conditions must show a trend and ripening toward socialization of industry...
...Le: Mrs...
...None of us really became offensively rich...
...and with his long, protecting arms shielded her against their violence and slime: brought her to his own home to insure her safety...
...Maybe the above is all cockeyed and we are just ¦uTering from the old inferiority complex again...
...Help build an active women's group within the Socialist Party...
...And all the time the Russian revolt lay in the background as so much stage property for the scene of internecine hatred...
...Take Course;* at Brookwood College TACOMA...
...to be found in the system of cooperation between employes and management...
...The party headquarters became a dim sort of shrine toward which we infrequently ventured, out of constrained piety...
...said that nothing good can come out of filmdom...
...The —ly trouble with it is, that it is never on the job when » & really needed...
...Of the members 738,810 are men and 198.731 are women, while of the increased membership the men account for 52,430, and the women for 17,230...
...The above brings to mind a very sad realization...
...the big bankers and capitalists who run the fcj~^t1ric Federation a little pin money but their ^***ant in chloroform pays good dividends...
...Norton of the Firestone Rubber Company, and a few others...
...On the same principle—the influences of economic conditions and their political reactions—we look forward to the flapper vote going across big for the Labor Party, because the Labor Party Is already a gloriously challenging power...
...So it goes...
...To create and stimulate such an intellectual grasp among women, to keep the shining light of our goal ever bright before our eyes, is the task to which the Women's Section of the Socialist Party has set out to do...
...One is tempted to give some of the data which show how labor is scrapped and the fortunes reaped by the new rohrig classes but space will not permit...
...The film version of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle," has been banned in Haverhill, Mass...
...Wash.— (FPi—No union watermark on the credential duplicate and mimeographed literature of the Workers Education Bureau caused lively discussion at the regular meeting of the Tacoma Central Labor Council...
...Funk <te Wagnalls...
...Even Socialists who are accustomed to study current trends find the revolution advancing at such a pace and making such profound changes that it is difficult to adjust our thought to them...
...I aay rise...
...In the labor unions, the split came as a direct protest from the strike of impoverished members against the officers and desk proletarians...
...The policy of the organized workers is of special interest considering that similar problems are facing us here...
...One man in a million lives out his span in a dream without succumbing to hopelessness or deviating circumstance...
...The rank and file however remained aa ever, inept, dissatisfied with their struggle, untalented and unable to rise as high into material well-being as so many of us had managed to climb...
...The total sum of the revenues of the Party districts in 1928 is an indication of the strength of the Party and the selfsacriflce of its members...
...The matter and 'manner of their reports and discussions made my heart swell with pride...
...Fletcher, that the trouble with the pictures is that they try to tell a story, or to declare so soon that "a complete boycott of talking films' should be the first duty of anyone who has ever achieved a moment's pleasure from the contemplation of any film...
...I recall the sneers and whines that were heaped upon the Socialist Party by its "friends" and some "cowards," too, when the women's vote annihilated our growing average...
...Lauck has assembled muck interesting information but in our judgment his book tends to foster a happy optimism that is deadly to any real grappling with the problems posed By current industrial changes...
...It would be funny 8 we took all their advice and did just that and then tamed out to be something they would dislike even ¦ore than they dislike us as we are, if you get .what wt mean...
...And the Russian film, though in its portrayal of mood it has sought for a deeper and finer range of naturalism, has consciously been propaganda for the Russian revolutionary ethics and has thereby destroyed its chance of effectively opposing the American conception...
...by action of the Mayor and the City Marshall...
...We become resentful, cynical, grief-wracked at this indifference...
...The little cinema is developing a system of revival of good films that will enable critics to make fuller analysis as time goes on...
...Prom the Organizational report of the Party Executive it appears that the number of local groups of the Party increased from 8,462 in 1927 to 8,916 at the end of 1928...
...The so-called Communists were impatient...
...Movie Movements TJNDER the title of "The Crisis of the Films" (University of Washington Chap books, 65c) John Gould Fletcher subjects the present state of moviedom to a searching examination...
...The other—headed by our beloved Gene Debs...
...All of them were or are noted for their antagonism to trade union organization...
...Then our meeting halls held a glamor against the drabness of the cramped domesticity and the colorless walls of home...
...Levtnson, and taw noted radical athletes we have been playing ¦sketball in the basement of a Baptist church...
...They came to look upon us as "bourgeois traitors to the Marxian theory...
...To this is attributable the increasing number of strikes and lockouts as the financial results of rationalization became perceptible in many important balance sheets in various industries during 1927...
...This is essential for Socialist women to bear in mind...
...Pres...
...The first work is concerned chiefly with 1 the transformation made in Germany, its beginnings in England, and the policies of capitalist and worker organlza- i tions in the two countries...
...Among the eminent men who respond to the roll call ot the greater humanitarian outlook are the late Leonard Wood, James Roscoe Day, former chancellor of Syracuse University, Owen D. Young of General Electric, Henry Ford, Julius M Barnes, once head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, J."A...
...They saw revolution around the corner...
...They will meet again just before the election...
...Today the leading Industrial countries are going through another industrial revolution and few are aware of all its implications...
...the individual worker but only the organized j|Z""**utty of workers that can tali a control of the « work m the modern world.—F...
...And therein lies the sacra* of our slothful progress toward any ideal...
...THE CHATTER BOX CO few of us remain usefully young and determined with our projects...
...The Year Book also contains a number of articles on constitutional, economic and similar problems, reports on the Trade Unions, the Consumers' Cooperative Societies, the Cooperative Building Societies, the Workers' Sport Movement, the Workers' Professional Employees' and Civil Servants' Bank, mt Welfare Work...
...these are the Germans, with whom I also rank the Scandinavians...
...Perhaps, here appears the most disintegrating influence of all...
...Most things «t hurt like hell are...
...In accord with this policy the German trade unions maintain a watchful attitude and fight for every measure of advantage possible...
...We were guilty of all sorts of folly and perpetrated upon our party hari-cari—or whatever it is the Japs call it...
...How I longed to see a similar Socialist women's movement here in these prosperous United States...
...Apart from the Report of the Party Executive, the Year Book contains the Reports of the Socialist Group in the Reichstag and the Socialist Groups in the Parliaments of the different States, from which a survey of the whole political development in Germany during 1928 may be obtained...
...box office...
...Years and years ago, among the men and women who actually lived and felt within the bitterness and injustice that they sought to uproot, rebels did not weep for the brevity of life against the long road toward freedom...
...And what with the struggle between the rank and file and the now comparatively prosperous leaders in the organization, little indeed was left of a once powerful party...
...The leading section of a resolution adopted In 1926 gives their point of view: "So long as the private enterprise industrial order exists it will produce economic classes which will struggle against each other to settle the respective shares of the proceeds of industry...
...Two conditions must be present for the growth of Socialist thought and action...
...8ut no doubt this is very good for us...
...An Appendix contains the Party Programme, its local government policy, and a full index...
...The rank and file resented the comparative security their officers appeared to enjoy, while they hungered and idled and saw no hope...
...That Luncheon—Don't Forget...
...Doping the past two weeks we have gone in for Kiktics in a big way...
...you wake up in the mornings with every so-called •¦jj-le shrieking in agony, that, I understand, is called ^•*fiaJ fit" Pound yourself in the' chest (if you *• *» it without inflicting any fresh bruises) and 7*p* out into God's sunshine, saying, "Goody, I'm 11 that's the way he-men do, I am told...
...Having grown older and more comfortable in our individual lives, we quite naturally commenced to talk more sensibly about revolution...
...Perhaps all this were bast rounded up here with tins thought, that if we are to be called Socialists, and remain worthy of that high calling, we must remain ever young in its light, and tor all the temptation that soft living may Lorelei to our ears, remember that the way is hard and long, and that though we may never see the full fruit of our travail, we shall, be content with the joy of devoting ourselves unsparingly for the coming of a New Day on earth...
...the world-shaking things we were going „ do twenty years ago...
...if I care To buy a thing I can...
...Here and there they picked on a Comrade who had managed to acquire some wealth, and burned bla effigy in verbal fire...
...I mean it in the relative sense only...
...He stepped out and took his place between her and the jeering mob...
...The membership increased frcm 867,671 to 937.381, an increase of 69,710...
...And it is difficult to end up appropriately what X originally started out to say...
...This seems as intelligent as the attitude of those who...
...the organ of the women organized in the British Laboir Party, writes in its February issue: "In the Labour Movement tt is emphatically not the rule for candidate's wives to play just a passive role in the campaign of their husbands, and they are to be found speaking and campaiging very actively in most constituencies...
...If only there were some way of inspiring our comrades with the perfectly valid thought that we need not live to see* the fruits of our labor . . . that it were enough to hsfp build into the unseen future something that we know must rise to take the place of the rickety thing we call "Modern Civilization" . . . ? There's one of the rubs . . . Then again, this madness for success has instilled into our softened selves the virus of vanity...
...Joseph T. Shipley...
...From the "Lahor W oman The organ of the British labor women has the following to say concerning wives of candidates- It is interesting in view of our approaching campaitfn: "The Labour Woman...
...a__ver we are not down-hearted...
...eWetimes after Hank has walked on our stomach ¦a Jack has cracked the back of our neck with all ** efficiency with which an osteopath goes after his "tuns, we have longed for the dear, dead days beyond "•all when dominoes was our major sport and we won • letter by beating Ben Stolberg in five straight post...
...What is still more surprising is that the author mentions the Mitten-Mahon plan in terms of one" who has discovered an ideal Utopia...
...Subconsciously, there was always the resentment against our business and professional success...
...Bat let's get back to this idea that is so often the iMb of the tired radicals who tell you that some day "when their ship comes in" they are going to roll up adr sleeves and get behind Norman Thomas, etc...
...The nights that we once loved to spend in party organization work were eaten into by pleasant musicales from the radio and social visits of friends and relatives...
...We hold this struggle to be unavoidable, because an impartial scientific agreement on this question is not possible...
...True, our thunder was stolen . . . true, we were not paraded with honor, or given trumpeted acclaim for these happier laws and circumstance...
...A typical illustration of the old attitude is the following: When Susan B. Anthony came to Terre Haute, two crowds awaited her at the station...
...The authorities told organizations arranging for the exhibition of the picture that the film not proper to be shown at this time...
...as renegade Socialists...
...In the early stages of the revolution there was no national system of unemployed insurance but this state obligation "to do everything possible to mitigate the hardships...
...These ascetics, these strange off shots from the common trunk of stolid life, passed into dim memory...
...That «, the young bloods have been playing basket-ball •4 we have been used as a general door-mat for their triumphal progress up and down the court...
...It is an attempt to "analyze and bring to light the extraordinary changes which have occurred during recent years in thought and action relative to theories of wage determination and the principles regulating the participation of employes in the output in industry...
...Only the original credential was union watermarked...
...their aggressive approach and yet I their poise rivaled well indeed, with the able men delegates present...
...Have you made reservations for the luncheon to be given by the Women's Section on Saturday...
...Tacoma Unionist Urge...
...since the treasuries were emptied through industrial warfare...
...But they do not stop with this...
...A» A. E. Houaman has remarked, by the time you km a pile, you have lost the ability to enjoy it as jk had planned...
...Should the flapper disappoint us—which is possible— it will be because conservative forces having always had a freer scope to impress themselves upon women, it would require a little longer time to erase that imnrint...
...I do not know who is responsible for the curious way in which some of the words were twisted In items one and three of this department last week...
...But I was ***n for a loss on my own ten yard line by a five ~* collector from the electric light company who a size thirteen collar...
...the delegate continued, "should take a course in Brookwood Labor College and learn the value of the union label before attempting to assume the role of dictating worker education...
...Not only are the wives of some of our candidates passive," but alas...
...Of course when...
...Their victor}' is ours, for i: will whirl its meteoric way into every dark land where men...
...In South Wales a new venture lias been tried...
...may take our place on the world's labor map for American and international progress...
...Ifrr8sts nothing but organization of workers might force something more substantial than words...
...Brea now, I bear some ot my Kepuoiican friends < oji and sundry that as soon as they make leather hundred thousand, they are going to devote Jntfceir time and energy to some noble and uplifting for all humanity instead of the wife and the kiddiesWe knew from the beginning that we never could Bite any money so our conscience did not work in Out particular way...
...The pence are here and here the fair...
...0/ this one thing you may be sure For worker and for plutocrat t There is no one and certain cure...
...As this struggle receded there emerged a "new constructive policy'' and a more human concept of wages which the author traces through various wage awards and the statements of a variety of men in public life, including even the names of powerful capitalists who participated in the open shop drive after the war...
...We saw no Immediate struggle on the barricades...
...There is no indication that the wider experiences of rationalization, and its effect, especially since the end of 1926, have modified the policy of the German trade unions, except in so far as a cleavage between the workers and the employers on the question of higher wages and less working time has tended to become wider...
...Will the Women's Section be able to accomplish here, what the women have done, and are doing in England^ It seems £9- me that with the co-operation of all women members, the job may not prove impossible...
...The left and right wing split...
...The productive power of the German workers has been enormously increased through the application of German science, inventions and organizations to industry...
...Friedman's comment on the British women's report...
...April 27...
...On the character of the changes being made by the industrial revolution Meakin's book is the more informing...
...TJkm (hips have a curious way of sinking spurlos nttt in the harbor...
...was realized in 1927...
...The book by Professor Lauck is interesting but for other reasons...
...I worked in a newspaper office once with a man Be my conscience...
...He has made an extensive study of it in Germany and this study enables us to better understand how the Oerman masses have been able to survive the Peace of Abominations...
...for all the youth and manhood we have unselfishly given to speaking and striving for our faith, we find ourselves with so little reward from the very ones we mean to help into happiness...
...The Workers Education Bureau officials...
...The American women's maiden vote — the subsequent ones as well—went overwhelmingly to the owning-class parties, notwithstanding that the Socialist Party was the only persistent advocate of suffrage i aside from the Suffrage Party itself) its propogandist in season, and out, till the fight was won...
...How much reliance may be placed upon the words of men who are not willing to concede an elementary form of democracy in industry may be a matter of opinion but we at* inclined to think that they, like former owners of slaves, are not averse to saying that they want labor to be comfortable...
...It never occurred to them Whether they might live long enough to see their plans fulfilled, their persona laurelled, and their names trumpeted forth in victorious parade...
...No doubt many of the officers were sincere and high minded and certainly without pay...
...know of no other source of producing values than ^"1 labor but ownership of vast wealth has its ex2*** in something else...
...But I am Just wondering whether the typesetter was sleepy, or whether he is not used to a Woman's Department . . However, we are satisfied that our readers will understand and therefor—forgive...
...Experience has shown that the masters of the great enterprises endeavor to reap the benefit of the savings in industry...
...Count me as one who will never believe that the Russian Revolution and the Third Internationale were the basic reasons for what is now a hopelessly divided house...
...Each was duly an elected representative of a labor union, or of a housewives' group...
...All of the new-comers are trade unionists...
...So many people^ have been telling U now to make ourselves over...
...One may well contrast this book v.'ith what the pther author shows of the outlook and policy of the organized workers of Germany...
...The propoMl to p*^™oelegation of American Socialist* to England jyeorer what the British elections are ail about £/jSttne same it was a grand idea...
...I do not blame any one...
...Green Opposes Scheme Of Bar Association WASHINGTON (FP i .—Any legislation that makes arbitration agreements between employers and employes legal and enforceable in the courts, would legalist) company unions, according /to a statement issued April 4 by .William Oreen, president of the American Federation of Labor...
...We will expect vou to be there at 12:30 o'clock...
...We know how much wiser we are than the ordinary run of mankind...
...A discussion took place on the best way cf making their influence felt, and they have arranged amongst themselves to interchange visits in the different constituencies...
...Then our protest and our revolutionary fervor found fuel in the tawdry lives, that we"*Tived...
...Perhaps tt was all imagined by the maddened rank and file...
...Henderson...
...Yet it was our hand that wrote the warning words on the walls of Babylon, • • • Then, even when seme of our weaker brethren sea through the embittered haze and understand that all has not been in vain, there is the cloying danger of yielding to the softness of a higher standard of living in which they find themselves...
...that is 22 days after the end of the year, all the accounts or the 33 districts with their 8.916 local groups had already been settled...
...Prof...
...Scanning The New Book German Socialism JX>R the second time the German Social-Democratic Party has made its Annual Report in the form of a Year Book, which in 408 pages gives a comprehensive review of the work of the Party and the workers' organizations connected with it...
...But ventre's the lost young man'" Aid you simply can't buy your way into anything that counts with a lot of geld that you've made under Una precious system of ours...
...Time was when we were all very poor . . .. when our homes were squalid...
...He used to bust around the place with Us tongue hanging out, always ready to take itarJM about old ladies falling down man-holes in the jronx, or the first signs of Spring in Nutley, N. J., mi than, when some good story would break like a arktog train wreck with ever so many people all aaunsd to smithereens or a divorce in the Gould family, be would be out to lunch...
...Bound to Happen—Even to Us...
...It has happened that mere accident has ruled the production of films from first to last: accident and the demands of the...
...For haven't we perceived the true solution of all the crazy problems in society . . .?" Yet...
...There are better known towns than Peekskiil but few of them send in a larger list at one "crack...
...The second essential condition for the growth of the Socialist movement is an intellectual gresp of these economic forces and how to direct them toward a warles, hungerless...
...In our tottering ¦il^otf advanced senility we have come to the conjj^j jf one out of twenty-five ideas which we COBW" within one-twenty-fifth of approaching JJJ^, our batting average is high...
...The New Leader keeps us regularly informed about the great industrial and financial mergers, resulting in intenser concentration of control, colossal profits for the controllers, low wages and growing insecurity for the controlled...
...Mindful of our international cause we wish the British Socialist women victor}' at the polls...
...Says Houaman: "Whin first my way to fair 1 took Few pence in purse had I And long I used to stand and look At things I could not buy...
...S. A. de Witt...
...What -ccith this and what villi that...
...We are very glad to publish Mrs...
...When our meeting rooms, humble as they were, offered more warmth and social comfort than the tenements in which we dragged out our lives...
...Having done so much for unionism the bureau resorted for the rest of its paper to what, according to a delegate, was "manifestly the output of a non-union mill...
...Brentano's...
...But few are prepared to state so positively as Mr...
...Green was referring to the plan proposed by the American Bar Association's Committee which is going to try to have Congress act upon it at the coming special session* Green called attention to the fact that the A. F. of I...
...And here we come upon a and circumstance...
...twenty years ago...
...We wen sane enough and patient enough, to understand that the Russian upheaval was a consequence of such horrible circumstance, as never obtained anywhere else in history...
...They accepted death at the tyrant's mandate or his filthy prison with assurance of ultimate triumph...
...Tbe obvious difficulty is that in the grim course of railing up a sizeable bank-accountv you have stepped ¦ so many faces of decent folk and kicked so many working class people in the pants, willy nilly, that the wocess has become a habit that is as hard to break M any other...
...Do not miss an interesting discussion, led by a most interesting speaker —Mrs...
...The New In- : dustrial Revolution and Wages, by W.1 Jett Lauck...
...The second study is more concerned with American theory and practice related to production and wages since the end of the World War...
...We could afford to be calm and forbearing with the system that enslaved mankind...
...Panken know at once how many reservations you want...
...at Town Hall...
...And only a few weeks ago Mahon of the Street and Electric Railway Employes practically repudiated this approach to peace with company unionism after organized workers in Philadelphia had subjected the agreement to bitter criticism...
...others expressed their regrets at having a previous engagement...
...than the 17 gathered by Daniel McBain...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A department of newt and views of particular interest to the woman of the labor movement...
...they are not even members of the party...
...They lived irPphysical austerity as direct and plain as their drearns...
...Fletcher attributes the merit of many German films to their combination of "familiar realism and boundless fantasy,"ja blend that he finds in the best film*work, from the Chaplin pictures to Caligari...
...A proof of the preparedness of the organization is that on the 22nd of January, 1929...
...This sum was not less than 10.350.000 Marks in round figures...
...But we have not aooloeized yet...
...Those (tucks have been hitting us with more and more frequency of late...
...We hate to imagine ourselves failures...
...2.50...
...And above all we were living well enough to refuse ourselves any too great excitement about an immediate revolution here...
...co-operative world, not for profit to a functionless investing class...
...It has become not American art, but American showmanship...
...A meeting vis recently held in Cardiff to which ail the wives cf Labour candidates and sitting M. P.'s were invited...
...Friedman, by the way, is one of the fortunate ones who will be in England during the general elections...
...has a committee at work on the Bar Association's scheme, and this committee of the Federation will soon meet to prepare its own report...
...We hardly ever stop to consider that we have accomplished tangible things . . . that our words have fallen here and there and sprouted forth into political reforms and improved living conditions for the worker...
...women and children toil to enrich our idle class...
...W.E.B...
...The author devotes the final chapter to a consideration of the displacement of workers by the industrial revolution and shows that it is serious...
...that the good film, though it does come, is the exception...
...Their knowledge of the many problems facing them...
...This shows a gain in real wages -of almost 11 per cent in the past two years while only 26.6 per cent work more than 48 hours per week...
...Xous times are altered...
...Then, and not until then, did they allow us suffrage as a war expedient to get maximum war service out of the women...
...For the elections in 1928 about 2.570,000 Marks were expended...
...At the same time the unions have cooperated "for the solution of various economic, financial, social and political problems," as they state in their resolution...
...The reason why the women voted lor the dominant parties was not because they could not think as well, or as poorly as their men folks, but because they could not, and cannot be expected to think much differently, given the same economic and social influences...
...The reverse was true...
...Unconsciously the American film has served as propaganda for the emotional monotony, the naive morality, the sham luxury, the haphazard etiquette, and the grotesque exaggeration of the comic, the sentimental, and the acrobatic that are so common in the United States...
...He considers it "The most comprehensive and successful application of the theory of productive efficiency...
...Bring a friend or two...
...Actually we are wounded in pride...
...Incidentally, we suggest that those who have made cocksure assertions that "Marx is out of date" may do well to hold their judgment in reserve...
...The war period marked the first change with government interference in disputes followed by a setback in the post-war deflation period when employing corporations fought the unions and raised the banner of the open shop...
...Several attended...
...They are like **»y ducks used by hunters to trap game...
...He is convinced that** significant change has come over the Industrial leaders, economists, statesmen and publicists regarding wages, the whole trend being to abandon the old "living wage" and similar pre-war views...
...to**d that the other morning and after a cold J***1 rushed out hollering: "Nothing can stop me !*» r*u feeling fit, watch my smoke...
...tt remarkable how those "progressives" in Conej^WBerally manage to take the stump for reactionIbewi*8 durinS a general election...
...This is an excellent showing for it must be remembered that the German working class is still laboring under the staggering burdens imposed by the allied powers...
...And so with Socialists as with all devotees of other inspirational beliefs the death rate for devotion is always high...
...Judged by American political standards, or by political standards anywhere the criticism was justifiable...
...an Increase of 454...
...When you know the exyou are qualified to join the Socialist Party...
...Meanwhile, though the story on the screen fights successfully for popular favor against pictorial art, there has been a steady increase both in camera technique and in the composition of what we see, considered solely as picture...
...The superior talents and abilities that most of us possessed, the mental alertness that we quite easily developed in the intellectual discussions of those days came to our stead in the economic struggle, and with the rising tide of "this prosperity" we managed to earn more money, equip ourselves with better homelife through furnishings, luxuries and such, and rent into the pleasanter sections of the city...
...Modern Industry: Jett Lauck's Optimism A Review by JAMES ONEAL £)NE who today reads the history of the industrial revolution which brought factory and machine production to a position of supremacy in society knows that millions of people knew little of the force* that were shaping a new society...
...McAlister Coleman...
...Out of approximately 400 delegates, eighty were women...
...ogavens...
...The rift in the labor movement that followed close on the political schism shows my -contention all the clearer...
...Tie only difference is that sometimes when I go tot to lunch, my conscience stays at home...
...Then came the demands that such a standard of life made upon our energies and time...
...Only one race, by the sheer force of genius, has so far shown us what the film might be...
...Florence Kelley...
...These remarks are occasioned by two ' studies of the industrial revolution, (The New Industrial Revolution, by Walter Meakin...
...And if ever the ship does come in, jau look down the hatches and find that the cargo is Mostly applesauce anyway...
...W. T. Morris commented: "How can they expect the rank and file to practice patronage of the union label when they are so evidently indifferent on the subject themselves...
...This condition is a fact in our country...
...With interesting survey of their art history...
...With such activities among Socialist women in Great Britain as I have observed and as this report indicates, no wonder that British public opinion concedes that a large flapper vote will go to the Labor Party In the coming elections • We did not get such a vote...
...I mean that we had come to a stand near to middle-class standards of life...
...There are phases of the contemporary revolution that appear to completely justify some of the forecasts of Marx that have been questioned and one of its accomplishents may be the emergence of Marx as the most remarkable philosopher of all time...
...The discussion closed with the hot shot: 'The Workers Education Bureau needs educating in union label patronage...
...That the aggressive attitude of the German trade unions Is correct is shown by a recent survey made by the central organ of the unions...
...This report brings to mind my happy Impressions at the annual Easter Conference of the Independent Labor Party held in Gloucester in 1925, to which I was fraternal delegate from our Party...
...The British Women's Report Bv ESTHER FRIEDMAN The activities among the organized working women of Great Britain referred to in this column two weeks ago, should be an inspiration to urge us on to greater efforts, so that we, too...
...But the fact remains, that the rankers allowed a few inciting demagogues to lead them into a civil war that has all but shattered a work structure that took a decade of sacrifice and struggle to rear...
...The trade unions have been fully aware of the character of the changes and the need of the organized working class to use Ita power to prevent an Inhuman drain on the vitality of the workers...
...Everybody admits Urat the movies are in a sorry state (when haven't they been...
...It will revivify them with renewed pride, strength, and joy in the struggle to abolish capitalism...
...Without a powerful party of the working class we doubt whether this would have been accomplished for the workers...
...I believe that it is the gosh-darnritat hard-working conscience in these parts...
...The Jungle" Banned In Haverhill, Mass...
...As it is, it works overtime in eBOgh other ways...
...gong them, we are smug enough to state, was not ^Tjaatbtul fallacy that we would go out and make y« pile of jack and then sit back at forty or therein and do just what we wanted...
...The organized employers do not admit any "social purpose of improving the general standard of life," says the author...
...But now I am entering into a long discourse, space forbids...
...The author presents the results of his studies of a number of industries, coal, steel, chemicals and super-power, and they all reveal the same story of a super-capital ism imposed upon the old that brought on the World War...
...I The class war came into peculiar being within our own ranks...
...the mob—the same that always does the dirty work for the gentlemen in high places...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 14