A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES AMONG us civilized PERSONS rtTHING makes us feel poorer—financially poorer Jfj^nntr—than reading the advertisements in The IB* Yorker. _ / itm ft) the weekly...
...We are confident...
...And throughout the poem, for all of its complete concept, we see a great artist struggling with primary colors that are too weak for his subject, and surely too unfamiliar to his art...
...That consciousness did not come from studying Marx, not even from reading Jeremiah's waitings, over the destruction of the Temple...
...The constant repetion of "class-struggle" is monotonous, repulsive, and harmful to our propaganda...
...Mat is a perfume called "This Breath of Luxury" smt which the copy-writer fairly swoons...
...Of course there are struggles, strikes, lockouts, etc., but these are group struggles for individual gain, just as there are struggles among groups of capitalists or businessmen...
...The public monopoly continued for three years...
...But there are the young people in our movement who should hear her side of the story...
...The popular view of our early period of settlement is that of a godly people of rugged virtues generally known as "colonists" who plant, sow, reap, build and hunt...
...Madam Chairman, that our stay here for the next few days will be as pleasant and comfortable as can be desired...
...It should prove ecstatic at the very ]*sjt...
...Most of the delegates had already left for home...
...Perhaps it would be wise to resort to the soap-box once more, and, in no uncertain terms...
...Classfeeling does not come from listening to Socialist orators, or from reading books...
...We know everything better than everybody else...
...In her address to the delegates, Rose Schnelderman, National President, said in part: "In the name of the National Women's Trade Union League of America I want to express our joyous appreciation to the officers, members and friends of the Washington League for making our gathering here possible...
...Life was stiH before her...
...Incidentally, they also gave the strikers a lesson in the irresponsibility of Communist leadership in strikes...
...But, damnation take that dollar hungry mob...
...And when that was over, be presented me with a book of verse written by Daisy Saniai Gill, under the imprint of Harold Vinal...
...John W. Gillies Jr., General ¦**ger of the Mercer Pottery Company of Trenton, N. J., he gets around these days...
...Well, here is a demonstration of race consciousness, based on race feeling, race pride and race solidarity...
...sharp, he lands *jt>»w>ate field at Stony Point, N. Y. \*Zm^Pb' you too, are in a position to use an airplane to J*8** we are, Gus, but this "Robin" thing cost *7,500...
...You haven't...
...Who can remember the grocer, the butcher, the candlestick maker that sold their merchandise to Ann Shakespeare, while ber Will chewed the goose quill fiat in search of fitting eloquence for Hamlet . . . .? Or the bankers who cashed Dickens' cheques, or the creditors who hounded Sir Walter Scott into the Waverly Novels...
...The author has explored a virgin field and bis work is entitled to rank as a masterpiece of economic interpretation...
...An excellent article entitled a "Cohesion of Plunder" appeared in The New Leader, March 9th...
...An analysis of the convention proceedings, together with a summary of the League's work during the past twentyfive years, its attitude toward the A. F. of L. and the attitude of the A. F. of L. toward the League, will appear in a future issue of this department...
...So whole-hearted and generous was the welcome given the working women of many lands, so keen and enthusiastic was the interest in their deliberations that we shall cherish with pleasure the profound memory of those days...
...John T. McRoy, by whose years on earth the world acquires undeserved wealth...
...For one, I am happy, that we have one lad who has not fallen for the saccharine, just because he has the gift of ready rhyme, and the easily encrusted power of speech...
...And even when feudalism ended, they were not much better off...
...Those of us who had the honor of-being present on that historic occasion when the first International Congress of Working Women met in Washington In the autumn of 1919 can recall with pleasure the very delightful hospitality accorded us at that time...
...Marriage is no longer a guarantee against the life sentence of having to earn one's living, and, unless economic conditions affecting working men change for the better, the married woman in industry is here to stay...
...Their grief is Inconsolable...
...o Ob the inside cover of the last issue of The New Terker is a picture of a bath-room...
...ToJ not stop to knock upon my door, "Good-morcing, how are you today...
...Soft spoken, soft-meaning, halting his every thought of goodwill to others with the fear that his desires and deeds unto others may be too bold or encroaching, and yet going ahead through his quiet life, doing and dreaming and planning for the new day...
...In other words, something of a state capitalism in the Indian trade for the special benefit of the planters...
...And mad as a Union Square Communist at his betrayers...
...In fact they collected quite a sum of money and gave it to the strikers directly...
...Must we build our party on the class struggle theory Must we single out the proletariat as God's chosen people for whom and through whom Socialism is to be brought about...
...In the poem "Automatic" he thunders out for the dawn when all the newspapers of civilization will find themselves piled up before a dead world, no people to buy or read them, just the automatic piling up from the octuple presses until their mountainous heaps end with the last roll petering out and the gears and shafts and pulleys whirring and roaring on in useless rotation until the power house exhausts itself and all is still again as in the beginning...
...I was helping in the production of specially strictly Kosher Matzoth...
...Borne of the slaves were employed by the planters but the Negro came to be tbe more reliable economic asset...
...gt about these advertisements...
...The problem of the women in industry is becoming increasingly more complicated...
...A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES AMONG us civilized PERSONS rtTHING makes us feel poorer—financially poorer Jfj^nntr—than reading the advertisements in The IB* Yorker...
...Twenty centuries of exile, persecution, pogroms and insults of every description has beaten it into us, so that if a Jew in Russia, Roumania, Hungary, or anywhere, is in distress, every Jew the world over feels the pain and is ready to share with what little he has to come to his aid...
...To make them strictly Kosher we cut the wheat, thresh it, and pick the grain one by one to be sure that no barley grain or garlic seed gets mixed in it...
...Hi would have been hotsy-totsy with these "civilized }*»¦," . Then there is a picture of a heavy-looking financier ¦bo is thinking about getting more life insurance...
...He tsBs, you that he has a wife and two children under ten •ad he already has $24,000 life insurance and nearly WOO in good securities...
...ely, lovely Lady Violet Astor" who according to the 25* "—' sweet as her shy name-flower" peeps coyly out *•» Pages to tell you that she can't get along at all with•* food's cold cream...
...Max Price, chief of the Dental Department of the Union Health Center, was crushed to death at the stampede which took place at the ball game in New York on Sunday last...
...There were a few children with the strikers—presumably children of the striking textile workers, but a Washington teacher, one of our delegates, pointed them out to me as children who attend school where she teaches...
...At college she was known as one of the outstanding students in her class...
...mi jojoect that there are some "civilized persons" _^«tag around v/ho have never seen The New Yorker **J%S»itn't think it so nor...
...Indian wars brought slaves to be sou in tbe West Indies and in South Carolina this business reached commercial proportions while the distant tribes were also essential to the fur trade...
...make clear to the woman wage-earner her responsibility In making the store, workshop and office better and more profitable places to work in, and that the only way that can be accomplished is through unionization...
...P.S : The meaning of Ishem Matzoh Mitzwah, is in the name of the holy Matzoth...
...and "Cavender's House" is progressing for him in the wrong direction...
...Well, then, what is to be done...
...When the Socialist movement was started here, the sowers of the seed were indeed classconscious workers...
...It says that she is the daughter of ***l»nd "grew up amidst the pomp of vice-regal courts...
...For awhile we iLnrbt it was a picture of the reception-room of the of Roumania...
...And while I am on it, it would d*1 but decent to assert that this young poet's work throughout the book, for all of its unevenness...
...Those who are familiar with Miss Schnelderman's work for the past twenty-five years do not need her statement...
...They will stoop to anything so long as it serves their purpose...
...I explained that the convention is practically adjourned, but as soon as the motion was voted on, I will ask those present to remain, and then he could talk to them to his heart's content...
...Gillies around...
...In quiet alleys, and in fifth story tenement flats, artists scribe out their dreams into color and form, and poets bite on the ends of lead pencils while their minds chase the effectual word to give craftsmanship to their songs...
...inserts a bright color into the drab texture of American literature...
...John D. has millions, of course, but it's America, and John the street cleaner has his hopes of getting there and if a boy born and raised in the slums of the east side can become governor of the richest state in the Union, and coming fairly near being President of the greatest country in the world why can not everybody hope to become somebody such are the thoughts of the average American, and we must recken with it...
...Too bad that Shoeless Joe Jackson isn't around these days...
...But knew not why the sudden call of earth Denied him happiness, wrought shadow out Of clear heaven, lifting a dreary firth Out in an armless sea...
...Seldom indeed, does that feeling of tenderness and soft glow come over my turbulent, squabbly self...
...itm ft) the weekly magazine which you simply have L if you are a ••civilized person...
...Tike Is the agonizing tale of the poor bum who walked J*t onto the Wykagyl fairway wearing THE WRONG T~ be did, the sucker, and you should see the dirty the rest of the "civilized persons" are throwing at him...
...Or if this is jT~*hle...
...The author gives an excellent account of tbe organisation, financing and equipment of this trade and some idea of the profits derived from it There were some combinations of rival companies to effect economies, eliminate competition, and realize at least a partial monopoly in some areas...
...There are several hundred poems which, considering her youthful - ness, her lack of life's experience, have a great deal of merit...
...Stranded at the shore's end no sky above And only shifting earth be'--*- this too Apostrophized in heedless rushes of Swift wind crossing his heart, well he knew...
...Poor, miserable strikers...
...BAB ALPERT...
...Last week, at the L. I. D. dinner he invited the whole Leader staff to be his guests at the table...
...The American born workers were not infected with that germ, on the other hand large numbers of immigrant workers, after having tasted the American dollar their classconsciousness evaporated, and now there are very few...
...They carefully examine the ground upon which they are to erect the building...
...My dear, J** have you been...
...We have theories, and they must hold good everywhere alike...
...There is a socialconsciousness dormant in every human being which can be awakened with the proper kind of literature...
...As I dreamed how a world might abide In the system I built out of a shell...
...Women's Trade Union League Convention -yHE National Convention of the Wom* en's Trade Union League of America was held in Washington the first week in May...
...Class-struggle presupposes classconsciousness, and class-consciousness presupposes class-feeling, class-pride, and class-solidarity...
...For many centuries they were serfs under a feudal system kept down as inferior beings, with no rights that the feudal lords were bound to respect...
...Until the high pressure book gang discovered that Robinson was a hundred per cent Yankee American who wrote good poetry, the sedate, ironic and erudite fellow rose slowly through his shorter efforts into tbe heights of the epic "Lancelot" atad that strange product for our desert land, "The Man Against the Sky...
...These conditions have created the class-feeling and class-solidarity among the workers in Europe, so that when our leaders began to lay the foundation for the Socialist and Labor movement abroad, there was the solid ground, the class-conscious proletariat, to build upon...
...For I have long since decided to value my eye sight much more than to waste it on so useless a task...
...The greed of tbe exploiters and their utter lack of ettilised ethics in pursuit of their aims emerge from this study although the author does not emphasize them...
...A Tragic Death Eleanor Price, only daughter of Dr...
...And it scattered my mansion and me For the Gods of the storm liad spoke...
...He did not even have a credential to present to the delegates, but he did have a lot of impudence...
...All that is lacking among the workers in this country...
...I thrilled with the prospect of our tend coming into possession of an immortal...
...You can figure this thing out into infinity...
...if any, class-conscious workers, hence there is no class-struggle...
...Make it Anglo-Saxon, and all that...
...a frail violet under my blustering being...
...He must have the floor right away...
...Yet even as now I am swirled In a gust at the end of the storm I am dreaming my hope of a world I am molding its wonderful form...
...Reeve did not like about it...
...An scaur is coming up from the cider shop at Third Averse and Tenth Street which does not enchant us, meseunes and messieurs...
...There ought to be . limit to the temptations that bright young copy|Sgj are permitted to spread before frail humanity...
...Then we grind the wheat on a hand mill, etc., all under the supervision of an overseer...
...if they did see it...
...Vl room is called, "Corwith" by the Crane boys and tke rest who wrote it up says it should prove "inspirA small word...
...Tbea you go along a little and there is a picture of Htm very skinny gals having a conference in their •rjamaa...
...Like the storms and feathers and chaff Like the dust of the road we became, That the Gods of the storm might laugh As we danced to their thunder and flame...
...These are called "Dressmaker Pyjamas" and tkry only set you back $14.50 a piece and when you ma trim- that the tuck-ins stay tucked in because the tops have elastic at the waist, it seems dirt cheap...
...I guess -W jart don't get right down to a bear-skin and a fptrted club, even if you don't take The New Yorker...
...True as this version is it omits some of the most important phases of settlement and frontier life ai i Professor Crane has supplied those features that are essential to a complete understanding of that phase of our history in the region he has selected for study...
...We will have to free our party from much of that luggage if we are to have a real strong Socialist party in America...
...They are not with a purpose of freeing labor from exploitation...
...And now it must be said, that the muchly advertised Book of the Month greatest American poet, Edwin Arlington Robinson, with his new book, "Cavender's House," proves quits) conclusively what Eugene O'Neill has set forth into equation on contemporary history in American Belle Lettres...
...Socially and politically everybody is equal in this country...
...And while she majored in natural science, she was the poet, too...
...I am, as you know, sorry for the strikers for they alone suffer the consequences of such a leadership...
...Indeed, early in the eighteenth century the South Carolina assembly, ruled by the planters, set up a public monopoly for a brief period by creating a public corporation of five commissioners, most of them planters...
...tssteally if she uses Ponds all you gals better hustle out !** tat some of that stuff even if your old man wasn't an *d sad yon just grew up amidst the pomp of Jefferson **¦»* police court...
...While it is true that since the inception of our league twenty-five years ago, the conditions of work and standards of life are materially better than they were at that time, it is also true that there are still many industries employing thousands of women workers where conditions are relatively just as deplorable as they were then...
...When my attention was called to a news item In the Daily Worker on Monday last which charged officers of the Women's Trade Union League with having thrown out of Its convention a group af strikers from Gastonia, I read it— though reluctantly...
...Economically they were free to look for a master to give them a job or starve...
...I repeat, were it not for the young readers of this paper, I should have hesitated to ask for space...
...We had more important things to do...
...These give out of themselves whatever they possess to water the desert and instill life into the parched vegetation of existence...
...It is a picture like this one of an obscure poet that enriches humanity...
...But a tempest arose from the sea...
...Price...
...You simply can't be a best seller, or a box-office star, and remain a real artist on the upgrade...
...It is acquired from centuries of suffering, ffi The New Leader of Feb...
...In addition to all that we had to say—after the overseer every few minutes would tell us...
...One Englishman recorded in a tetter the high ethical motives that too often controlled relations with tbe Indians...
...The engineers do not theorize that because in the one place they could proceed with laying the foundation right after they finished digging, they can do the same everywhere...
...My heart goes out to them I Because of the previous Inaction of the A. F. of L...
...4.50...
...You would think that, to be enough to assure that Matzoh is real Kosher and holy...
...It the back of the book is a free verse eulogy of fcatsdale, New York, which starts: wi ."A residential community of Westchester— - Distinguished alike in its em>ironmen!—— And the beauty and charm of its homes" Aad so on for most half a page...
...Duke University Press...
...Man Seul Ami- richly fragrant— smartly sofsttfcated—the newest of Isabey's exquisite parfums...
...The Indian as an economic factor in early frontier society is more dearly portrayed than in any other study that has been made...
...They are without classconsciousness, without class-purpose or class-idealism...
...There is any quantity of matter with which we can interest citizens in the party...
...the Eriglish-Spanish-French economic and colonial conflict: the struggle over the profits of the fur trade...
...John, and John D. is Mr...
...We have no high bom, higher born, or highest born...
...There is no class struggle in the United States...
...Reeve talked to them, and the delegates in turn talked to the strikers...
...Jews have been Jews before they became Socialists, and they remain Jews even when they are Socialists...
...The reality of it is heart-breaking to those who knew her...
...this and more such dealing with matters that can interest every decent citizen should be published in leaflet form for distribution...
...and the blunders of the Communists, they must pay the penalty of hunger and wretchedness...
...used by ultra orthodox Jews...
...23d, Comrade Fuchs critizes the "Forward" for giving money and other aid to the movement that is raising funds to send tools and machinery to needy Jews in Russia, saying it should be the business of that paper to employ all its energy to rebuild the Unions in this country and leave the ;harity work to the Marshalls, the Rosenwalds, etc...
...Lies, Lies...
...And it is here that I fall upon the great moment in the book of Charles Wagner, "Nearer the Bone," published by Coward-McCann...
...In America the conditions have been and are entirely different...
...You should know that on Fridays *W8es stops pottering around and at 4 o'clock he goes *• Trenton airport in ten minutes, steps into his closed""Robin'' aeroplane and at 5:15 p.m...
...Our phraseology has become a habit with us somewhat like religious people with their prayers...
...when some crisis required then- presence in Charles Town it was necessary for the assembly to publish a moratorium.*' That the Indian trade was something of an important business and that it contributed much to the creation of that genteel society that distinguished tbe later Charleetown is evident from tbe fact that one firm employed 103 horses in charge of 15 pack-horsemen besides the principal traders...
...This is the game we Intend to play if possible...
...And while we are very busy watching ¦"¦a get older by the minute we didn't know that we were to get lyrically net up about the process...
...However, let me say this to you, the remaining delegates did stay, and Mr...
...No, we will as heretofore do whatever we can to help the workers win better conditions at work, but we should do that without repelling other groups of people with our phraseology...
...American Socialists and the Class Struggle By Joseph A. Weil WE often see excavations made in order to build a foundation for a building...
...Will this make our task of bringing women into the ranks of our trade union movement easier...
...If you Bottle up and write to them the Frigidine folks will tend you a "courtesy card" which you lug around to ywr hair-dresser and get a free wave on...
...To cry, to shout, To stir this torpor, him only denied— Tbe day grew, somewhere a lone gull cried...
...THE FRONTIER TO THE SOUTH By James Oneal Com amazingly good work rr Amerlean economic and social history is being done but most of it appears in monograph studies published by universities and it reaches only a few students...
...Writing of certain proposals to the Creeks be said...
...Nonsense...
...Our hearts go out to Dr...
...And if a billion merchants, and bookkeepers, and manufacturers and captains of indusfry have scrawled their names under cheques for trillions of dollars, has any of them left a breath of beauty or a strain of song behind for all of his portentous transactions ? Let us hold then that the meanest maker of music, the lamest dawdler in the realm of beauty holds a high place in our lives...
...Like most men I have a way of singing in the tab, but I don't know any songs refined enough for a jmmm like "Corwith...
...ELEASOR PRICE...
...I know even as I write, how these frail words of appreciation will hurt htm...
...My favorite is "Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...
...McAlister Coleman...
...This "ctvllperson" gag is a favor...
...We gather here today for the purpose of taking counsel how best to promote the happiness and well-being of our sisters...
...Tribe was played against tribe and the Indians learned the game of playing the English against the Spaniards or the French or the other way around...
...But, why be surprised at the story...
...Get in the one cent words, they holler...
...Children are born, and with each one goes a scroll of the future, and in each script lies the possibility of an Einstein, a Beethoven, an Orville Wright or a Pasteur...
...But it's a bath-room all right beZ^m tbere is a ducky green tub over in one corner...
...What the hall was used for thereafter, we cannot be held responsible...
...He does not dwell oh that thought much beyond the piles of unread papem...
...More books into more power from the pen of Charles Wagner, rebel and poet, say we...
...I am genainery sorry for Mr...
...have in mind It is Ishem Matzoth Mitzwah—Ishem Matzoth Mitzwah...
...The transient character of woman's place in the store, workshop and office is gradually being eliminated...
...8 you will figure out where we can get that tidy little 2hhH*01 take care of ^ airplane riding...
...Watch them take the polish sad sdogBng the polish with the stains of grass and earth aaf feather, get the complexion of an old violin...
...How this enchantingly lovely odeur-" Excuse a minute while we shut the window...
...The workers in Europe had a somewhat similar experience...
...we would just as soon have that snappy little ^¦"Jjjat is advertised on the next page as costing $5,950...
...tbe economic conflict of merchant and planter: the robbery and enslavement of the Indians...
...one for the promoters jfMgfc-bat magazines...
...From the clear of the skies it broke...
...This convention marked the twenty-fifth birthday of the organization...
...That reminds me o fa time when I was That reminds me of a time when I was old country...
...Socially they were kept in "their place" and politically they had no standing, and their chance to elevate themselves was practically zero...
...But that feeling was confined mainly to circles where the immigrant workers predominated...
...It has been cruel to keep quiet, and I know he will forgive me for having broken the faith for silence...
...They know where she stands...
...ABWe further on we are earnestly asked by a shoe maker ¦ Web his shoes grow old...
...The laborious and dangerous workof trading with the Indians fell to the lot of poor workers, many who had been indentured servants who often took Indian wives...
...We can pretend that there is, we can theorize about it...
...And forgot ail the flow and the swell...
...and Mrs...
...In spite of its complexities, it held for her a worth-while future...
...When you have finished with reading of the glory of this parfum, you go on to read all about "Frigidine" which is the cool method of permanent waving...
...I was about to adjourn, when in came a group of strikers led by Karl Reeve of the National Textile Workers' Union (Communist) and demanded the floor at once...
...Then, there is that life ennobling soul...
...There's always a way of repeating the crucifixion story with its thirty pieces of silver as a motive, even in modern poetry...
...Wouldn't it be just like John T. to place this treasure tome of old memories into my rough palm...
...Immigrants, they came here in large numbers and brought their consciousness with them, and being fairly numerous it seemed for a time that the class-feeling was taking root in this country too...
...THE CHATTER BOX Sonnet This haunted silence at trembling dawn Could be death, or a life's end awaking, Knowing the breath of deep wonder borne Bravely at a lone heart's breaking...
...If we ever have i bath-room like that I shall have to learn some exotic __sn Love Lyric, like "Less Than the Dust "because a_t*s how this room affects me...
...Should we cease to participate In the workers' daily struggles for a better existence...
...Much Remains to be Done" "We met here ten years ago for the purpose of establishing friendship ~ and understanding among the wojtung women of all lands and to dedicate ourselves to the task of bringing hgpPuiess and wellbeing into the lives of millions of working men and women throughout the world...
...t S. A- de Witt...
...The prophetic vision of it is almost unbelievable...
...k'e yon heard about Mr...
...What the author has done is to show the interrelation of polities and economics in the early period of the southern frontier...
...Unfortunate wretches, they were often heavily in debt to the Charles Town merchants "which made them exiles for many years in the Indian cavalry...
...Well we bit and thought at first they fid have bare legs tut they are just wearing seamless a_ stockings that give them "that bare leg look...
...Here is a strident voice, with ideas impelling , protest and sorrow, anger and understanding, but always fresh in imagery, always stirring in tone...
...Oh no...
...Not so do we Socialists proceed...
...Perhaps that was the thing Mr...
...a^J*** that you advertising boys have a lot on your minds J^JdWa, taking care of all the needs of all the "civilized JLT*1'" So maybe if you could just send us along a dollar '2** wln start the initial payments on both the yacht tirplane that gets Mr...
...But he yearns to know whether or not he should get more insurance and The Equitable Trust Company is all set to answer that question sad one from a "Young Married Woman" too...
...But selfishly I unleash my thoughts of him here, having kept silence through all the years that he has done his big, quiet bit to aid the party and help tide over the rough spots of our paper...
...Lies...
...They have got tot wong complexion In fact their complexion is that of jte TWhnd Tunnel...
...Thanks Comrade Poetess for your gentle verses...
...No, that did not satisfy him...
...They are scientists...
...The study concludes with an informing short account of the origins of the Georgia enterprise, a number of invaluable statistical tables, and an extensive bibliography...
...the exploitation of the poor devils who carried on the trade with the Indiana, and tbe accumulations at capital in this early period...
...It doesn't matter that there is no class struggle in this country...
...Sthaagings are gorgeous pink and white, the walls mm painted plaster, the floor is oak, the lavatory is -fjk- green and the music is by the Crane Company...
...This is Jew consciousness upon which rests the race struggle, and it is due to the existence of that feeling that the various undertakings, such as the Joint, the Ort, the Hayas, etc., are a success...
...Can't our noets at least be left alone...
...an your angry footsteps on the floor, BP calmer as they slowly died away...
...It may in the long run, but before good results can be hoped for a great deal of educational work will have to be done...
...The following poem was written a few weeks before her death...
...But you couldn't go around joDering that amid such surroundings...
...Tbe only thing we can say to them is, that with them we mourn her loss and take solace in the fact that those of us who knew her win cherish her memory...
...When I finally announced him he promised me the kind of publicity "you would not like," and as you see, he kept his promise...
...their activities now and then being interrupted by Indian attacks and living on a rough margin of subsistence...
...One of the most valuabe of such studies that has appeared is that of Professor Vemer W. Crane of Brown University (The Southern Frontier, 1870-17S2...
...The world is hardly aware in what manner it becomes enriched...
...A few months ago at a party meeting comrade Thomas was talking and was Interrupted with a request that he should use the "class struggle" more often in his speeches...
...The original stock of 5,000 pounds currency, writes the author, "was appropriated in bills of credit and soon proved inadequate, but the board also received loans from the treasury, the use of public property, and the services of a number of public employes...
...At home, I read through the spirit of a splendid woman comrade, and her poems left me reminiscent and subdued...
...Maybe because I am after all...
...Tristram" started the debacle...
...This makes the matter of great weight to us, bow to hold both as our friends, for some time, and assist them in cutting one another's throats without offending either...
...Must everything on earth become fouled and rotted and killed by tbe erase for moneymaking...
...A Bemuddled Young Man "His charge that we cleared the hall for a dance is tbe invention of his bemuddled brain We had made no arrangement for a dance either during or after the convention...
...Nevertheless, I went to Miss Rose Schnelderman who, as National President, presided at the convention, and asked her to make a statement for the readers of The New Leader...
...It was ever thus...
...We had the hall until noon of that day...
...They've just gone and slapped the poet back into a pot-house of in* feriority...
...The tragedy of her death is hard to bear...
...An illustration of how low they wfll stoop occurred right there in the oau...
...We have built strong Socialist parties in Europe on the solid basis of the class struggle, therefore must we build on the same foundation in America...
...Young as she was, she was endowed with a spiritual and an intellectual maturity that at times surprised us all...
...And so we find a fine poet handicapped by too much advice from his literary underwriters...
...SOLOMON POBTNOW...
...We are so used to ' xbulated figures of production, consumption, caxloadings, and all of the other measurements that go into an accounting of wealth, that little else matters...
...Then come tour ladies with their backs to you and the heading, "Bare Legs...
...I cringe before sentimentality at most times...
...STORM / sat by the sand of the tide...
...That's !¦¦» Bunt be the matter with our shoes...
...Robinson...
...We are inclined to think that tor decades it will be cited as the chief authority in its field...
...For, Eleanor was young—not yet seventeen...
...Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN A department of news and viewi of particular interest to the woman of the labor movement...
...New there is not a comrade who is so often found on the front line in strikes as is comrade Thomas, but that does not seem enough He does not say Ishem Matzoth Mitzwah, or class struggle in this case, often enough...
...a^**0* pine too much for songs that die, j"**** new ones in every wind that blows, «S***ot wonder where you went or why, Ig8>*"» not ponder long on melted snows...
...John...
...But the power of the concept hurls the reader with catapulted force clear Into a region of unbounded surmise...
...Comrade Gill used to write for the old Call, and often indeed her poems had moved and inspired me, until my own first crude efforts were offered to Frank MacDonald, and Josh Wanhope...
...Some wise birds have been chirping into bis ear that bis style is all wrong, too many long Latin words, too many high falutin' phrases...
...When the history of American capitalism is written the author win have to turn to this study for its origins in the entire region extending from the Carolinas to modern Louisiana...
...John the street cleaner is Mr...
...After they are through digging in some place the stone-masons commence laying the foundation, while at other places they first drive long pillars into the ground upon which the foundation is being built...
...Much remains to be done in this direction in many fields...
...But no...
...Thanks John, for a moment of fragrant peace...
...This is what Miss Schnelderman told me: "It was the last session of the convention...
...But, _here comes a time, and this is one tlfffe, when even those who, wisely enough, ignore the residents of Union Square, must take issue with them when the reputation and character of an old fighter for labor's cause, is dragged down to their own low level...
...The Socialist party in America is weak because we have been trying to build on a foundation that does not exist here...
...However, the merchant class sBooeeded in liquidating this arrangement through powerful friends in • • • By aad experience with the English and the Spanish the Indians teamed that they were pawns in an economic and cokmial gamble for control...
...It is this enrichment that intrigues the most...
Vol. 8 • May 1929 • No. 19
