A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN everything else fails, write your autobiog- raphy. The new style autobiography, as witness Joan LoweU, Benito Mussolini and others,...
...One table in the Appendix is of special interest to American readers...
...Section VI is the report in three languages...
...He wanted me to go along with him in this new venture, out Uke the prudent man that I am...
...As I walked down *U»e street from my palatial Fifth Avenue home, which has since been demolished to make room for Modom . P'Ginsburg's Beautie Parlor, I knew that little chil*en were asking of their parents, "Who is that funny -looking stiff...
...It is also interesting to observe that Austria leads the world in trade union organization...
...Executive, Bureau...
...Tbe Fact* ef Membership The value of the book is enhanced by a number of statistical tables showing the membership affiliations and income1 of tbe various Internationals...
...Considering the bulk of the material consulted the work is a marvel of condensation which must have taxed the patience of the author but which makes every reader indebted to him...
...I have given my manhood to serve you, I have given my gladness and youth...
...Is there need to recall the importance of these discussions and the necessity jf knowing them in full in order to study them thoroughly...
...The Affiliated Parties...
...I have broken my strength oa four steel...
...My early education was meager...
...Imagine my surprise when I discovered that it was none other than Solomon Stanwood Menken, the Great American Humorist, affectionately known as "Old Sol...
...The new style autobiography, as witness Joan LoweU, Benito Mussolini and others, doesn't have to be troe...
...This section occupies less than a fourth of tbt book and yet it does not appear that tbt author has missed anything of vital importance In this section so far as significant factors and trends are concerned From this period on there is a maze of complex factors, trends, ideas, upheavals, maneuvers, and antagonisms, involving war...
...j Rarely have we come across a book' that is so informing, so comprehensive and satisfactory In arrangement of material, so complete in its survey and so well balanced in its presentation of issues as this one...
...Will you not hear that the world is full of wonderful things, besides your own creation...
...in turn, by fatal splits in the ranks of the working class, they set before themselves, in re-grouping the disconnected or errant workers, th...
...The table shows that in the matter of organization the United States, which should lead all other countries, is almost at the bottom of the list, its proportion of the population that is organized being 3.5 per cent...
...So that they might batter down all barriers to liberty with its pounding rhythm for time and measure...
...What problems are presented for the relations with the workers not yet grouped in the L. S. I. or with the other international organizations, such as the I. F. T. U. of Amsterdam...
...Even little Iceland has a larger proportion of its population organized...
...You have used me and spent sse and crushed saa, And thrown ma aside without ruth...
...Administrative Commission, Special Commissions, Secretariat, etc...
...From this mass of information on conditions sufficiently complex and various it is necessary to single out the reports of the Dutch Socialist Party and above all of the British Labor Party, for a reference and an objectivity truly instructive...
...At first it was a hard struggle...
...Illustrations reproduce the features ol the deceased members of the International, as well as the aspect of the AntiFascist Press Exhibition at Cologne...
...Let all of us vew on this May Day, this especial date set aside to remind the workers of their place in the sun, that we cannot rest content with just Firsts of May and Labor Days to recall what we really mean as hewers of wood and builders of merchandise...
...numerous splits and varying shade: of opinions and emphasis as Europe heavals, maneuvers, and antagonisms, ining toward, stabilization with two international forces fighting for the allegianci of the organized workers of all countries one representing the views of Moscov and tbe other opposed to Moscow...
...By the side of this report may now be placed the three volumes which conserve the documents relating to the Third Congress, that of Brussels, held from the 5th to the 11th, August...
...country »y country, the replies g:\en to the questionnaire drawn up by the Commission appaointed at Mairseilles to establish the situation of colonized people and at the same time the socialist activity in the colonial domain...
...You can put Into it all tbe fiction plots that you can't tell anywhere else aad make a real snappy book out of it I am working on my autobiography...
...Ever so many people paid me as high •a twenty-five dollars an hour for me to tell them what was the matter with them, after they bad told me what was the matter with th<"" - those days my bobby was drinking Scotch and Parcheesi...
...Women in the L. 6. I. Report presented at Brussels, with the statistics relative to the organization of Socialist women in each country, as also to their position in political activity, by the right of Suffrage...
...It was a form of magic based on the quaint idea that if you knew what was the matter with you, everything would ¦* aK right...
...Mind you, we never blew up for money...
...The Book of the Soc ialist International A Review by ALEXANDRE BRACKE (Alexa>\rfrc Brackc is a leader of the French Socialist party and a Socialist member of the French Cha)v.ber of Deputies...
...THE CHATTER BOX May Day THIS is the season of a drab content For those of us who find the season slow With debt, and fear, and little to be spent Save the tired sinew and the sweat of brow...
...Enough sa I coma in say hunger To beg for mora labor again...
...Cops Ban Hose Organizer READING...
...rushed into the water pursued by the lovelorn Class...
...Oreat Britain is second, Australia Is third, Czechoslovakia is fourth and Germany is fifth...
...But whoever will reflect on one page only of the work will take account of it and will thank him for having, sacrificing his tastes and his ardor as a man devoted, to science, placed all that he had of virtues and of talents, inherited from his father or acquired by himself, to the service of a single task: that of forming one real International and preparing the victory of the working class in the world...
...It was to be called "The National Security League" and he had a fine list o...
...the Anarcho-ayndioahsl International, and the International Federation of Christian Trade Unions, chief...
...from 6.285.415 affilated members we are approaching seven millions...
...Less is known of the Anarcho-syndicalist and the Christian Internationals because they play a much smaller part in international organization and the two sections devoted to them will prove welcome to readers...
...That is the amount of labor, of devotion, of Intelligence unceasingly on the look-out, which represents the central life of the International of which it is truly the main spring...
...Come out of your shops, your rented flats, your bent posturing...
...In that • year Texas Guinan opened her first night club and tbe word "whoopee" was invented...
...The author finds tbe origin...
...Stone is stupid stuff until you trace Your wizardry...
...I made mental note of my emotions and after Mr...
...Tbe Slave I have broken my hands on . your granite...
...Xy father was Prince Francis Charles Augustus Emanuel Prince of 3 axe-Co burg-Go tha, and who bad tbe nickname of Albert, otherwise known as "The Consort," was visiting bis wife Queen Victoria at the time in England...
...None of us knew what these words meant, any more than anyone today knows what "farm debentures" mean...
...This is the day that promises a dawn Of such a Day when men will walk the way* Of manhood, proud of labor, garlanding their braun And building things above the senile praise And dull parade where glint and epaulette Now stalk before the battle-hungry herds...
...It is impossible to face such facts without acknowledging that something is wrong with the movement In this country...
...It is on a day like this that words flow haltingly from the pen...
...Since Mayor Walker placed a depart* mcnt store doll at the head of the Police Depart* ment the simation has become almost intolerable...
...So silky words Can heap these pyramids of stone and ttetl Or dig these labyrinthine underways Or launch these armor-bellied ships a-keel Into the seven seas . , . Nor is there phrase So magical to pound a rivet into place Or cleave a board, or sew a simple band...
...Life in those days was simpler, too...
...This book will take its place as a standard authority in its field...
...You have boused me in horrible places...
...But the disposition even of the material, and above all the extent of the Information brought together, bear witness to an advance along a road already traced...
...I first met Nanab on tbe beach at Averne...
...hardly ever play parcheeai now...
...You have shut my eyes off from the sasmgha...
...My father was a poor man who had nothing much but tbe suit on his back which later was to take his name, so I had to go out and become a trapper-boy in a South Orange mica mine...
...I mention these facts so as to "date" my autobio* graphy and keep Lincoln Colcord out of the picture...
...As long as men remain slaves of wages and the system they blindly support, every hour of my living cries out for freedom, and peace and plenty to those who "make the comforts of life for mankind...
...the various threads of forces and tendencies that led to the founding of the First International In London in 1884 Tbe first period of evolution is tracec to the outbreak of the World War ir 1914 when the ideal of internatlonaliaa ended in war and revolution...
...We mean to make the world a place where only those who labor shall eat, and have all the fruits of creation...
...2.50...
...I assured him that when I came back I would be prepared for a legal fight for my union's rights ; to organize hosiery workers...
...the Red Trade Union International...
...A Tribute Ta Adler ' There is one thing that the Secretary of the L 8. I., our friend Frtedrich Adler...
...t there are some things too intimate even for an intimate autography of this nature and I will skip ^¦*h and go onto tell you next week how I became headof tbe Electric Bond and Share Company...
...Resolutions of the Brussels Congress, with the reproduction of the amended constitution...
...You masters and drivers of men...
...How do you Hie it as far it goes, boys and girls ? "Conquest and Success" The Autobiography of McAlister Coleman I was torn in the upper berth of a Pullman named -Chuck Ward," on a snowy day in August, 1800...
...Mencken, the editor, had fixed up the story by putting in the words "polizei" and "boobs" the piece looked pretty good...
...The Christian International is made up of dual unions which, except for a few small Protestant sections, are under the control of the Catholic Church...
...Surrounded by squalor and care...
...Day after day I would trudge through the dreary dawns to the old colliery (which at that time was called affectionately by its workers The South Orange Mica Mine and Carnegie Free Library"), my traps Jangling from my tiny elbows, as often as not to return in the evenings, empty-handed, not having trapped a damned mica all day...
...I was in the swimming pool of tbe Hotel Shelton when a lithe form dived close to me and came up sputtering...
...Mc Alister Coleman The Storv of Labor's Internationalism n -A Review by JAMES ONEAL — rT,HE labor movement of the world has long been In need of a comprehensive history of its various international organizations, especially since the end of tbe World War...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE BOOK OF THE WEEK WHEN everything else fails, write your autobiog- raphy...
...The Rothstein murder case began when I was ten and I recall how eagerly I followed its developments from day to day...
...air...
...I am an old man now and my memory of these things is not all that it should be, but I think we bad a Police Commissioner named Wollem on tbe case...
...peace and reconstruct lor issues...
...People known then as Communists were prophesying k world revolution within six weeks and an inevitable war with S&xe-Coburg-Gotha within a month...
...V. The Colonial Problem...
...And wood is dead until your singing saw Biles life and use into the languid grain, While all the pompous sentences of law And frose, and speech, puff forth in vain...
...Then take up the report of the Second Congress of the Labor and Socialist International—the Congress of Marseilles (1928)—the picture and the course of which have, undoubtedly, left to all the comrades of the most diverse nations a souvenir so living and so attractive...
...Except for the religious emphasis the American Federation of Labor appears to have much the same conservative outlook on most issues as the Christian International and in relation to the interference of the state in labor legislation the A. F. of L. bears a striking resemblance to the Anarchosyndicalist International...
...and VII...
...Indeed, one will find the argument of this international on such matters almost identical with the argument of the A. F. of L. in its press service...
...Realizing that I had no chance to make "The American Mercury" unless I was an ex-convict or an unfrocked minister, I took the lesser of the two evils and stuck up a bank...
...the internationals of separate trades awl industrial unions...
...Is there not some relation between the power of the workers in these nations and the absence of a powerful labor party here...
...Most complete and instructive information of each of the parties of the L. 8. I. A comparison with the situation at the Marseilles Congress bears witness to an enormous progress...
...When lunch time came around the law got hungry, and White was release* on condition that he leave town immediately...
...This is your day when, you men and women prisoned In by jobs, by poverty, by fear against to-morrow, by the necessity to have food and cloth and roof So that your lives and those you love may go on, listen to the prettiest bud or the tiniest sprig of green...
...There is always too long an interim between celebrations...
...It was all in tbe spirit of sportsmanship and often as not we boys would roll around on the pavement in sheer hysteria over the sight of some stationer or Armenian, "hoist," as it were, "by our own petard...
...Those were indeed halycon days...
...Questions of Organization...
...the Pan-American Federation of Labor...
...It should be known that in 1928 there were 64 Socialist women representing their party in Parliaments and that the L. S. I. counted in its ranks 937.622 Socialist women At present there are more than a million...
...1923...
...tbe Amsterdam International...
...This is a season out of discontent To promise laughter for the better day t o all who have so little to be spent Until they learn the meaning of the Mar Here, Mr...
...I did so temporarily," White told Federated Press, but gave the police chief assurance that I would be back in the near future to solicit membership for our union, which he informed me was against the wishes of the industrial barons of Lansdale...
...My lungs from the untainted air...
...Is It desired to measure the progress accomplished on this road for five years only...
...Editor, is my poem for the May...
...You have blighted my sons aad say daughters...
...which had rushed in at a phone call from the employers, was sure that some ordinance had been violated...
...I then went into the labor life insurance business and was made Secretary of the National Civic Federation, "ghost-writing," as we called it in those days, for Ralph Easley...
...The New Republic" came out when I was thirteen, - or in 1873, with an article featured on the front page called "Tbe Progressives, Pragmatism and Prognosis...
...As I shot the cashier and four tellers...
...Psychiatry, or mental palm-reading, was very fashionable in those "old, forgotten, far-off days...
...No Socialist library, no section, can neglect to procure this repertoire, either complete or in sections...
...I r"kN that day of May...
...I assured him that I was on the inside of an even more whimsical group, -be National Civic Federation, arid couldn't afford to take on any more jokes, life being the serious affair that it is...
...I have sweated through years far your pieaaure, I have worked Uke a slave Cor your weaL And what is tbe wage you have paid me...
...It is on this day that I call on tha makers of symphonies and phraseleas song to find a leit-motif to sing into the souls of the millions who plod the tread-mill of hopeless toil, so that they might hail to its call, step .down and march forth chanting revolt against the entrenched masters...
...All the more reason for looking at it and seeking instruction from it...
...The Congress ef Brussels Do not let us speak only of opposing to the 300 pages of Marseilles the 933 pages of Brussels, although the comparison would have its eloquence...
...Report of the 3rd International Women's Conference...
...Papa...
...when, met together at Hamburg through their Instructed delegates, the Socialist parties of the world reformed between them the organic international connection which had been broken by the trials of the war and...
...Mr.' Lorwin has succeeded within 624 pages in presenting the essentials not only of the history of the various Internationals but their forms of organisation, their relations to each other, their varying...
...What differences !5 France does not shine in this picture...
...TO begin with there was Nonah...
...Eheu fugaces...
...ackers who would fall for it after he told them his "bad-time stories" about tbe reds grabbing the country...
...I have built the world m its beauty, I have brought you tbe glory aad aaaS...
...Pa —i FT"—Arrested and threatened with imprisonment when he tried to idstribute union literature to workers at the Lansdale Silk Hosiery Co...
...No, I will not dull this hour with remonstrance, or chiding...
...a chisel for a wand...
...But on tbe whole I think we boys had a better time -than tbe youngsters of today...
...We are inclined to think that a German and French edition' would also be welcomed in Europe where there are so many more people interested in the theme of w*iich it treats...
...t - Political Survey...
...Most of our generation were simple...
...Moreover, the Rothstein murder still remains a "mystery.'' Some1 fine day the truth may be known and a glaring light will likely send some of the "moral'' right thinkers scurrying to rat holes to save their skins...
...The price of labor's emancipation is ceaseless struggle for the Co-operative Commonwealth...
...From the moment that eyes on that girl I knew that she and I were eQmaiQn...
...In this respect American trade unionism vegetates on a level with small agricultural nations like Latavia, Esthonla, Hungary and Spain...
...To this may be added the sentence imI>osed upon a mother for passing information to her sons relating to the same matter...
...was a great day in my life...
...That need has been amply met by the informing study made by Louis L. Lorwin (Labor and Internationalism...
...That is...
...There are fields that carry welcome to your city-ridden souls, hills to gladden your eyes, forests to envelop you with their health and consolation...
...This compilation shows the population and membership of unions in each of 43 nations...
...and that the answer would be, "That poor bum is McAlister Coleman, the great psychiatrist...
...Its history is reviewed here, with the documents, circulars, and manifestos which it is always so useful to have at hand and so difficult to find when dispersed...
...Moral" Right Thinkers RAIDING of a birth control clinic and illegally seizing records relating to patients is the latest outrage by trie obscurantist gang that rules New York City...
...In all these leading nations the organized workers have their own political parties...
...I felt that at last I bad found my place in the world and did all I could for the labor movement by fighting such Socialist proposals as old age pensions and workers' compensation...
...The author has succeeded in reducing all this complexity to a consecutive narrative as ideas and antagonisms unfolded In stating the respective positions of each faction and group he is eminently fair, seeking only to present each indictment and rebuttal as each aide Itself would state it and permitting the reader to draw his own conclusions...
...Let me just call unto you, as the spring wind bids...
...Walk out against the sun ze'Uh shoulders set In line to all your deeds...
...VIII...
...Activity of the responsible organs...
...The whole has been divided into nine sections, each one separately paged and capable of being detached from the rest...
...I shall never forget the laughter that ran through tbe class-room when I confused an aorist in Homer's Illiad with a dative...
...Ea.-I White, organizer of the Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, was denied the right to consult an attorney...
...At election times we marched in torch-light parades shouting "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too...
...We hold no brief for or against birth control bat we are interested when the agent* of a dirty regime of "honest graft"' strike a "moral" pose on this question and wipe their feet on elementary civil rights which we assume are guaranteed by the Constittition...
...Up to the age of four I bad not yet completed "De Senectute" and my Greek was still wretched...
...Then say unto the roasters of your fates, and the captains of your bodies: "The spring time of our birth into freedom is here...
...This is the report of the whole of the activity from 1925 to 1928 of the international working classes organized in the L. S. I., and of its attitude in all the struggles against world capitalism, against reaction in all its forms, against everything which menaces the labor and Socialist movement...
...I was a member of a jolly group of good fellows known as "The Bomb Squad," and I want to tell you of the younger generation that you will never know of the thrills that we experienced when we would blow up a small stationery or fruit store...
...Catholic...
...To me, every day is May Day, however...
...April 17th, 1898...
...policies, principles and attitudes on important issues, their membership, income and actions...
...rain, sunlight, life...
...Much discussion between the police chief and the justice of the peace failed to settle the exact nature of White's offence, but the law...
...who has assembled, prepared, classified, published all the elements of this review as well as the other parts of the collection, was not able to say...
...Syndicalist and A. F. of L. Policies Here will be found the story of the first, second and third internationals...
...I enumerate them, giving short notice on them in case of need But it is impossible to give an idea of this treasure of information...
...I wish I could make it longer, but even in poetry, brevity is the soul of truth...
...This is a day when there ought not to be a grovelling whine in any worker's' voice, nor a bant back, nor a weak knee...
...It created quite a stir because of its bold suggestion for forming a new party to be called "The Repub* lican (or Democratic) Party...
...Indeed, by a happy innovation it has been possible to give the speeches of everyone in their original text As an appendix section VU contains the translations of those speeches delivered in the other two languages This marks an anxiety for exactitude which will be still better satisfied in future, when every translation published will be made on the shorthand text of the original...
...You wonderful, wonderful man with those great, nonnous muscles," she hollered...
...8. A. Da WITT...
...All about us lay tbe great spaces of Manhattan Transfer...
...I bad a feeling that we would get to know each ether better, in a big, pure way, I mean...
...It is also an amazing performance in another respect...
...of international organisation of labor in tbe period oT*l830-lt4« and gather...
...And as we have learned to alter all things of nature to our wills, so do we mean to change tbe seasons of our enslavement...
...That is, we bad something in common...
...My first jail sentence came about after I had had two manuscripts rejected by "The American Mercury" which was then devoted to showing up the stupidity Of the Fundamentalists in Arkansas...
...divisions into Right, Center, am Left...
...ansdale...
...Proceedings of the Brussels Congress...
...I Little by little my power grew...
...You have scourged me again ta my to*;' Yet I suffer it all in my parlansa, For somehow I dimly nave known That some day tbe Worker win conquer In a world that was meant far Ms own...
...task of accelerating the development of theoretical consciousness and at the same time the movement of unified organization capable of bringing the working class of all countries to coherent action within and by means of a single International...
...Go forth upon the highways, between the walls and palaces you have reared into being, stretch out your gnarled arms to the life-giving light...
...1928, which also, indeed, is unforgettable for those who took part in it...
...The comparison, whether at a first glance, or page by page, will speak volumes regarding the distance covered in the last three years, the accumulation of persevering efforts, and the improvements made in methods as much of study as of action...
...She was surrounded by her family who were eatr* »*lami and butter-scotch...
...I laughed heartily over this idea but little did I think then that it would actually come to fruition...
...How times have changed...
...Shall I remind you on this glad day, that you are not half as w-,se as the weeds and brush on the roadside...
...As we lay at the bottom of the pool together, he ."^pld me of the huge joke that he was going to put over on the American People...
...So that all our years and the years of our childnen be measured out into one eternal, laughing, singing ^irst of May...
...Every liberated brook sings the song you should be singing, a song of freedom, of joy in being alive...
...The author will be remembered as the author of "The Women's Garment Workers" published under the name of Louis Lertoe in 1924, a history of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...This be the day when all imprisoned things, the homeliest worm, the meanest blade of grass coma forth to find careless jgy in ail God-given pleasures...
...It is manifest, for example, that it is on a profound task, on preliminary enquiries, objective and pushed far, that the principal resolutions of the Brussels Congress which mark a date, have rested: in particular that on Militarism and Disarmament and on the Colonial Problem...
...jBut J must tell you something about my love-life...
...Mecmlllan...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 15
