THE SOCIALISTS MUST LEAD

...Now the former Scotch laborer and the former ironfounder's apprentice summon you to London...

...The announcement here shows that Mrs...

...A man with the economic views of Henry George would decide certain legal questions differently than a man holding the economic opinions of, let uei say, John 'Adams...

...The working class was emerging out of the old unionism into the more stable unionism of the modern period...

...William English Walling, tb author of the article, builds up a fantb...

...There is growing unemployment...

...The first represents the wage workers and the second enslaves them to the employing class...

...Several times the workers in the service have gone on strike to destroy the company union and to establish a trade union...

...The article charges that the "lnte9s> tuals" are trying to oust the trade unkej from their control of the Labor Part?, The basis for this ridiculous acewttt is the fact that George Bernard Baa, dramatist, and one of the founders of tte Fabian Society, had made the statsnat among others that "the trade ansa movement is saturated with the csptMH idea...

...It is in conflict with tbe history of courts and the judiciary...

...This attitude repeats the history of the Xoxtb thirtv and forty years ago with its massacres r#"tbjt Hocking...

...Berger Accepts Post On Socialist N. E. C. (bt a New Leader Corrnpendrnt) MILWAUKEE...

...Tammany's Labor Kite J^mcxmutatXST that the Mew York Central Trades and tmboe Council executive onmrntttee favoring the re-election of Mayor Walker, Comptroller Berry, aad Aldcrmanic President McKee, and the support of all bat a few of the Tammany candidates for public office throughout tbe gi eater city came as no aarpraa last week...

...Socialists do not object to property...

...Should Norman Thomas receive an enormous vote the drug stores will be unable to supply the lady with smelling salts...

...The whole organised labor movement of the country was officially on record for the support of Robert M. LaPollette for President and against Davis, the Democratic candidate...

...There can be no compromise between trade unionism and company unionism Each is at war with the other...

...But there must be a liberal outlay at the start...

...A former iron founder's apprentice sends an invitation to four oowers to meet in London in January...

...tr* ¦r*t\r*n The four million workers v/bo tab* to the British Labor Party through SBt> bership in their unions are not Sa»f fooled, they understand the saasa* They know that when Labor was ia P8*1 er before, wages rose by over |1 JCSSM* that there was less unemployment, sal destitution, lower taxes on their ** more education, and less money on armaments...

...We can read it but we doubt whether you-can...

...The Labor Council is not independent in making its recommendations however much it may try to give them a "nonpartisan" character Every intelligent person knows this...

...Whether our party is to lead the march or to tag along behind in the years to come depend very much on what kind of a showing it is able to make, not necessarily in getting votes, but in doing educational propaganda work throughout the country within the next twelve months...

...On Monday night of this week this sacred spot was desecrated by Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., who said a few unkind things regarding that holy man...

...The good lady was shocked but...

...Berger'to aSSs* election to the National EreeBtrst *tH nalttee continues two members *",!5| committee from Wisconsin...

...A new page in the world's history has been turned...

...Berger's acceptance is agreeable *• IB and the party organization...

...it is tbe oafeS* of cne man out of 65.000 who belong a the Independent Labor Party...

...The London Conference ACALL for a five-power naval conference to meet in London next January has been issued by Arthur Henderson, British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs...

...She is also a»a»B» of the state board of regents.* _ The decision of Mrs...

...w-hich carries with it labor conscripts, a huge army and big navy, a capitalism sanctified with ethical fervor, conquest of the heathen abroad, and willingness of humble folk to die for this crowd, can get by this lovely dear without rebuke...

...heaviest work has been punching ><w* writer, is out of step...

...eugene v. debs...

...The council could have easily done this in many elections and in so doing it could have also made some genuine labor choices...

...o open-minded person, with British Labor's victory before his eyes, can doubt that this is so...

...The workers came to grips in many struggles' with TrjirlJ Owners, and railroad gamblers...

...Let us turn our eyes to the future and make that future ours...

...The only question for us is, How soon will the American working people follow the British example...

...Every student of history knows'that this is true -and we commend the above paragraph to La Guardia and those newspapers that have been supporting an injunction judge on the ground of the "independence of the judiciary...

...Hitherto such gatherings have had their origin in aristocratic gentlemen representing landed property, or invested capital, or some other influential property interests...

...The following paragraph from the article is illuminating: It might in a sens* be said that the Judge is a part of our industrial regime...

...An auxiliary cannot do otherwise than ratify the works of the parent organization...

...In making its political recommendations the Central Trades and Labor Council does not have the influence that various Independent organizations have in elections...

...In 1928 a group of the Interboro strikers sent a letter to Mayor Walker in which they said that they had been "compelled to waaja dishes and do menial services tor strikebreakers...

...The oscial organ of the latter says of flbsll speech...

...It is buttressed by a mass of legal citations and historical references that cannot be brushed aside...

...That is significant...

...George D. Herron...

...Gestlexnen of the Upper Classes, salute us...

...The 1924 Betrayal The most striking example of how the Labor Council has become tied to Tammany Hall in the matter, of political action was in the national election of 1924...

...That new age came to the South later and ntw its ruling classes are repeating the history the Hoiking Valley and Latimer...

...The full effect of Shaw's asssa was lost by his incurable impluliiaa his delight in making extravagant «bb" ments...

...In each such struggle the police department has been used on the side of the ccrpcraticn and the company union...

...Not one protest was made by that mayor or by any Tammany member of the Board of Aldermen...

...James G. Randall, Associate Professor of History in the University of Illinois...

...it can be kept up because we shall have more party members and more active sympathizers to finance it...

...this will prove a hard bed for the furniture workers to lie on...

...Once we get this old-fashioned basic work again fairly under way...

...Mrs...

...Now is the time for us to put organizers into the field, to get up-to-date leaflets printed and distributed by the millions, to build up the circulation of our party papers...

...When presidents appoint judges, the economic doctrines of available men are considered...

...Tammany supported Davis...

...Berger has since the early pk of the movement been actively Ma*^ with the movement...

...At the recent meeting of the committee in New York City the members favored Mrs...

...Wage* are being cut...

...we rise to put a pertinent question...

...He may have been a militant advocate of capitalist property in politics and before the courts but it is assumed that when he is elevated to the bench he becomes "independent" of such views...

...It had failed to meet its own test of "non-partisan" action...

...But the new age has come to the South to sts...

...Meta Berger...

...Berger for the position but the Wisconsin organization and Mrs...

...judges and Economic* MUCH ado has been made by some New York dailies and by Major La Guardia, the hash candidate for Mayor, regardtag1 boss McCooey's rejection Of Judge Callaghan as a candidate for the bench...

...When we protested we were- discharged...

...After the last great massacre, despite all your hypocritical promises, the leading nations you control have loaded up with more weapons to repeat this horrible drama...

...Here was the supreme test of the Labor Council's "non-partisan'' attitude...

...ib article shows the venom of one of at traitors to the cause of labor who, met deserting the Socialist Party in its taat against the war, has been a hoasaa "free lance...

...if the activities of the armament ring and their agent, shearer, had brought about war, would we be "traitors" to our country if we refused to fight for this gang?, . '• '• • absolute belief in your own view of truth is sincerity...

...Walling makes the mjsn* of thinking that everyone in the aa* movement in England must be as !»**¦ erant as he is, and misses the pofls si Shaw's usefulness entirely...

...It is this administration that is approved by the Labor Council...

...The theory has received brilliant criticism at the bands of some historians...

...For political purposes it has become a bureau of Tammany Hall "Non-Partisanship" a Pretext The Labor Council has only itself to blame tor the fact that its recommendations have no influence on elections...

...IN A NUTSHELL Major LaGuardia has a labor committee out working for his candidacy...

...without an economic organisation aad without economic power, the fruits of any political 'victory the workers may achieve will turn to ashes on their lips...

...a furniture corporation has perfected a process by which furniture will be produced on a mass output basis in molds by a chemical process...

...All the things that we Socialists have predicted are now coming to pass...

...In dulcet voice, yet firm and indignant, the lady replied : "Why shouldn't he have l>eeii paid if he is a zealot for the good of the Cnited States...

...The textile magnates may as well resign themselvs...

...And that, in turn, depends on whether we put over the money drive and get that $50,000 to clear off pressing debts of our various organizations and give our enthusiastic new National Secretary, our state secretaries and local organizers, our press and radio station, and last but not least, our Young People's Socialist League, the meant with which to resume aggressive activity...

...No objection was made against tbe partnership of the Tammany administration and the corporation in maintaining a company union on the lines...

...However much members of trade unions may disagree on other matters there is one issue on which they are unanimous...

...Other conferences of the powers have been held but this one has a significance that no other parley in the world's history has had and it has this significance nu matter what may be the outcome...

...Sbsa ¦ treated in England as a person who jsp up lazy brains, as a tonic for tired •*•" colt r\r*t ok a miM...

...It appears only the first Monday of each month over, WEAF.in the early afternoon and for that reason many of us are deprived of this unique entertainment...

...Those who preceded you in power for generations before sent hundreds of thousands, aye millions, to death in other wars...

...Damn good, I say...

...if press reports are reliable, she saved the situation—and the country—by her preseix-e of mind...

...over which was run a scare-head, Tan* Story of a Tremendous Conflict for .CSstrol...

...But in the minds of tbe sympathetic public there is another question—-Will the present Socialist Parly Jead in the awakening, or must it give way to some new organization...

...Berger herself were uncertain whether it would be advisable for her to accept...

...We give it thi: free advertisement...

...This action has become such a matter of routine for years that It creates no Interest and it is doubtful whether it makes tbe difference of a hundred votes...

...Joy Through the Mike TPO our way of thinking, as Alfred Emanuel Smith would say, the most delightful radio program is that of the Government Club...

...Comrades, let's stop lamenting tbe depression and dissension that followed the war...

...the refusal to others of a chance of proviig their own truth is intolerance...

...Tinsel and pomp, aristocratic culture and bewigged statesmen of the old order, have characterized such initiatives...

...They only object to such usa of property as enables classes from eration to generation to livp...

...A battle had been won for God and Country...

...If in some year or for a number of years the Labor Council had distributed its "non-partisan" endorsements among at least a third or one-half of the candidates who have not borne Tammany labels its actions would haye had the character of some consistency...

...We are living in a new day...

...A Lying Attack On British Labor 4 N attack on the british Labor sj| which rivals all that the open Sky employers say about the americana* ions is contained in an article wrtttealf an American "Intellectual" which appeared in several papers recently...

...Tbe action of tbe council win not induce an independent, a Republican or a Socialist to support tbe Tammany candidates...

...Anarchs of the South "WATITH six workers dead at Marion, N. C, as a result of the brutal order of Sheriff Adkins to fire on defenseless strikers, and other killings in recent months in southern strikes, the capitalism of that section is spattered with blood...

...The honor and good name of the labor movement require that this record should be cited The Labor Council's action simply, means that an auxiliary of Tammany Hall has endorsed Tammany Hall candidates...

...One of the ablest considerations of this bunk, is the leading article in the October number of the American Historical Review by Dr...

...The son of a Scotch laborer visits the great capitalist republic of the West and confers with the President regarding armaments on the seas...

...She has been eSS> cially Interested in the public schtt8*r*g education in general and for nearly twS>g ty years she has been a member e< MM local school board...

...Declaring that three tons of lead were used in the World War, Baldwin is quoted in the southern press as saying: "Here we used less than five pounds and four are dead and twenty wounded...

...The press talks of an "independent judiciary" and La Guardia echoes this...

...These -struggles /were often raw...

...In the last strike in 1928 the striking men were brutally beaten while leaving a peaceful meeting in their own hall...

...Wis.—Announcement it made here that Mrs...

...The affairs of state have been in the hands of men representing the upper classes...

...City and the i. B. T. New York City is a partner with the Interboro Rapid Transit Company...

...That corporation maintains a company union...

...Valley, at Virden, Latimer, HoinesteaA and other scenes of labor struggles...

...He should arrange for injunction Judge Callaghan to lecture to the labor men on his specialty in solving the labor problem...

...Ask any P*** ogist for an explanation...

...In the city hall sat a mayor bearing the label of the Labor Council...

...The two men who bulk large in these international matters represent not the upper classes but the "lower" classes, those classes who but a generation ago were considered unfit to have the franchise and unfit to govern the affairs of mankind...

...Judicial reaction to economic environment is a factor that cannot be escaped...

...It has become so consistent in its support of Tammany candidates for years, so onesided in its recommendations, that its pretence of a "non-partisan" policy has become absurd...

...and the Senate gives heed- to this factor in confirming nominees...

...One has to go back to the old era of American politics when the canaille were excluded from the franchise and powdered wigs and silk breeches gathered ia aristocratic parlors to select presidents, goveruors and senators, to get the flavor poured into tl\e mike under the auspices of the Government Club...

...Bat here is something unique in the world's history...

...A perfect lady with a voice reminiscent of the ladies of the Back Bay, whose husbands made their wads through shady contracts during the Civil War, is in charge of ceremonies...

...There is still another test and one that is Just as convincing...

...and the cost of living is not being reduced...

...The working farmers arc facing tbe same fate that came upon the self-employing craftsmen with the advent of the steam engine and the factory...

...Gentlemen of the Sacred Order of Capitalism, here is something over which you may well ponder...

...This is bunk...

...In Great Britain they have marched into your citadel of power...

...He also gave his ideas of tbe bture Socialist state, whioh axnone (aajBiar with Socialist thoughs'taejs do a* coincide with those of aatap fbw f> cialists...

...William b. Shearer, who was taking care of God's country at Geneva for a salary paid by our blessed armament ring...

...In doing so it acted in conflict with the decision of the whole trade union movement of the country...

...Who does not envy.-those perseus who are privileged every first Monday in the month to listen in on this program...

...They are drunk witti the tains they have sweated out of men and v^orgtr...

...on the.proceeds pf other people's labor without doing any useful service to society.—J...

...widow of the late Victor L Berger, will succeed him on the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party...

...shows Usefulness From tilts slim basis of the speech.a" one man...

...Certain of the court's decisions are more memorable for their economic doctrines than for purely legal principles...

...But this is an old grkrsBP* Evidently Mr...

...Its active men are attached to Tammany Half politics by many ties...

...Tbe assumption is that the moment a lawyer .becomes a judge some magic raises him above, the ewtxrcuic, political, and social views that away ordinary - human beings...

...and bloody because the new ruling class was intoxicated with its riches and was illiterate n understanding the new social age which had dawned...

...Instead of following this course, however, the Labor Council's recommendations have been so overv.-heimingly of a Tammany character that to call the council "non-partisan'' in politics is merely to cause a smile...

...The press report states that the admirals, generals and ancient hulks applauded...

...After that performance no intelligent voter could take any of its political decisions seriously...

...Salespeople are being thrown out of work, and small traders are being put out of business by the chain stores...

...The reason for this is obvious to all who have any knowledge whatever of politics in Hew York...

...Northern capitalism had emerged triumphant out of the Civil War and the new rich ran the government as the railroad thieves ran their trains...

...Davis is a conservative aristocrat and never rendered any service to the organized workers...

...Although this would be unthinkable twenty years ago, you will go to London...

...Leaping to the mike she rebuked Satan who had wormed his way into the program...

...The end of Socialism is the abolition of all classes and parties, and the coming m of but one class, with opportunity for every man to produce his Own living...

...that will slowly strip them of the public power whicl Uiey use as an annex to their mills...

...They re the anarchs who regard themselves as a law uto themselves...

...It is the most delightful thing that radio has brought to invalids who cannot get out to enjoy the comic farces of the theatre...

...The mood of its ruling cTasses has an apt illustration in tb,e, shocking statement attributed to President Baldwin of the Marion Manufacturing Company...

...In making that journey you will pay tribute to the movement that will eventually reorganize the social order which you represent and which many of you think is eternal...

...Here once each month admirals and generals, patriots and ancient hulks, politicians and gouty old gentlemen worshiping at the altar of old Bourbon kings, air their views...

...Nothing but pure "patriotism...

...LaFollette had a good record of service to labor...

...to labor organization and eventually to a labor part...

...Comrades of the Socialist Party, it is for us to give the answer to that second question, and in large measure to the first one as well...

...standing up for your own.-belief in truth is not intolerance, but- duty...

...But in the meantime the masses have "been slowly stripping you in many parliaments of your power to do further harm...

...He avers that Shaw had said st was glad that the working pecpJe ha been ousted from control of Abe La** Party, which is untrue if the pubtta* reports of the speech are di Hindi** Ever, if he had said it...

...The council thereby revealed how far it had gone in becoming a section of Tammany Hall...

...Under your guidance the world was plunged into fKe greatest'butchery in all history...

...and some of the notable dissents are traceable to a difference of economic approach between the dissenting justice and bis associates...

...The employing class may lockout the workers in any industry but the power to do so may be taken away by ballots when the workers know how to cast them for themselves...

...A few weeks before the election the Labor Council issued a statement announcing its support of the Tammany Hall candidate...

...Its action is of less importance and of less influence than acUon by any independent group of voters that may organize in one assembly district to support some particular candidate...

...The conditions are here...

...They know that tBe Is* bor Party elections are always reersSM periods for unions, and that the 1^" Party Is the only chance they bW» * participate in the government of ¦** country...

...Every judge has his economic philosophy, his social ethics on questions of property, land-holding, appropriation of socially created values, protection of capital by a public guarantee of profits, and the like...

...Only William English Walling...

...Ramsay MacDonald...

...Mrs...

...The "non-partisan" approval of the Labor Council is given to an administration that brought such degradation to workingmen who were trying to throw off the yoke of a company union...

...In tbe few instances where a Tammany candidate is not approved the disapproval will not Injure him...

...You have had your way for thousands of years...

...Shearer paid for his job at Geneva...

...In the Board of Aldermen sat a big majority of men who bore the same label...

...of the working class and now that the.-e workers,'are 'revolting against intolerable exploitation the mill owters and their agents react to strikes as northern capitalists did thirty ajjd forty years ago...