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A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES IF THERE IS ANY HEAVEN Mr «MMr I get, the more I run out of heroes. feted hf* with s pretty good collection. gft wm one time when Z was naive enough to n that...
...Grady, Socialism again: the transit problem...
...For all the tomes that I have read la weighty lore and mortal scheming, I want to always find an hour / To lose by dreaming...
...But be is more than emperors stags tf there is any Heaven, he will have the trow, unless the whole thing is made up as it along, which I believe...
...And all this came about because I have nevajT forgotten the depths of life from which I sprang...
...other Lewis is one of the greatest false alarms tier came down the labor pike...
...And no one .puts that i same on the front page of any paper or in history book...
...I suppose they're too busy loo kin' after the Park avenue folks to keep us decent...
...And of course, Socialists believe in school lunches and seeing that under-nourished children get the right sort of food...
...Will any other party attempt to solve it...
...Only the Socialists can really solve it, for the Socialists are interested in the people and not in big business...
...sshjt I am more cynical or whatever you t to csH it...
...r district seems to be just filthy with Harvard They sell bonds continually...
...My chUdhood, and my boyhood was voided of all the advantages' for life that it has been my good fortune to afford, you...
...He can write like a fiend from hell or |SSarel from Heaven when he is moved, t - |sj at is one hundred per cent rebel...
...This volume win help the reader to understand the changing United States in the past decade...
...Grady, Mrs...
...He asks for clemency in view of the paucity of evidence of criminal intent, and the contradictory testimony...
...There is always an alibi expert Sof that nature...
...Attorney Flowers urges that the reason these particular unionists have been convicted is not because of the evidence but simply because they happened to be indicted...
...Clothes, food, Bh«t> ter, play, education, environment all have boss granted you without stint and in wise selection...
...Socialism Is Self Critical The result is a volume that gives a forceful answer to those who claim that the American Socialist movement is a sect Each lecture was followed by a critical discussion and the topics may be roughly classified under four divisions which include What Socialists Want Socialism in the Light of American and Russian Developments, Tactics and Next Steps, and Socialist Theory...
...In a great sense, I have persisted in being K Socialist because of you, my sons...
...Smiling, he asks informally what really happened at the shooting, as the courtroom leans forward, tense...
...A good a paying Socialist who never forgets it A real Sjsr of Freedom, if you will pardon the adjPHSMSt, bt Oscar is in a real battle...
...Harrison declared he had no gun...
...Bar the slogan of "No backward step," he has ntO bunch of men from one defeat to another...
...but I've got too much to think about now...
...For aQ the years may bring to bear On me tomorrow and thereafter...
...They always come after the garbage late," eplained my patient neighbor...
...I guess I've enough to do to look after John aad the children without goin' outaide...
...o • e It is difficult to put into one short letter a boy^s outline of Socialism...
...The work consists of a symposium of views presented at the L. I. D. conference at Camp Tamiment in June, 1928, including two contributions by Europeans, Karl Kautsky and Henri DeMan...
...I hope you have decided to vote the Socialist ticket this time, Mrs...
...Roger N. Baldwin, Paul Blanshard, Louis B. Boudin, August Claessens, McAlister Coleman, Solon DeLeon, Henri DeMan, Alexander Goldenweiser, J. B. S. Hardman, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Vladimir Karapetoff, William Karhn, Karl Kautsky, Bruno Leaker, Algernon Lee, William...
...Staters, subpoena servers and the icemen all pit a point to get around before any human Bp are up...
...The non-Socialist or new inquirer should read It la connection with some good work that gives a good exposition of Socialism in order to understand that there is a fundamental unity among Socialists in ——"»"-'t as well as individual variation of opinions in interpreting the complex changes of the amazing capitalism of our time...
...gft wm one time when Z was naive enough to n that Woodrow Wilson meant something...
...if you please...
...Grady," said I; we need Socialism,—a government that provides proper municipal markets...
...I had a lot of respect for John Mitchell until ¦ssd how much he left in his will...
...Since he asks for a system la wsfejf...
...And Annie, she's been worrying me to move and get a whole bathroom to ourselves and windows in the bedroom...
...M. Leiserson, Franz Longville, Benjamin C. Marsh, James H. Maurer, James Oneal, H. S. Raushenbush, I. M. Rubinow, Benjamin C. Stolberg, I. Stone, Ernest Untermann, Louis Waldman and J. S. Woodsworth...
...It will stand for a long time as a n of the sort of men that are now making ¦tire labor movement a terrific tragedy...
...that'3 Socialism too...
...b knows what conceits they have...
...yes, about my campaign...
...But the state couldn't get a jury like this on a first degree charge, as the defense would have been allowed enough challenges to weed them out...
...This, ¦rss, may be a painter's idea of humor...
...hat know just what anybody can do about but those of my readers who are union memsbould back Ameringer, Harry Fishwick, Pret of the Illinois Miners, and Walter Nesbit, tary of the same organization, to the limit str righteous fight against Lewis's new att to destroy the only group of organized kjsrs left in America...
...t that we mean to be personal about this bird, ast mean to say that John L. Lewis is no hero rt Id Aaiertnger is...
...The abject poverty, the hopelessness, the joblessness, the hunger, the depravity, the dirt and tJG...
...You've met her kind so you can guess...
...And who's going to give ~iirn another job...
...Did you see the last issue of "The Birth ConIrriew...
...Karl Kautsy was for many years the editor of a weekly magazine which was devoted to this self-criticism of the Socialist movement in general and of the German party in particular...
...Among the chief contributors to the volume are Harry Elmer Barnes, Stuart Chase, Paul H. Douglas, Morris Hillquit, Harold J. Laski...
...If the state had charged first degree murder ,this jury would have doomed the seven National Textile Workers' Union organizers to the electric chair...
...Ah, Mrs...
...He an the best and has been written in the literaI of many languages...
...Alas, for Solicitor Carpenter of Gastonia, cheated of sending his quarry to the electric chair...
...But In the larger sense, that would have been a amail aad selfish result out of all the talents and strength given to me by a bountiful fate...
...I s hokum shnger who drags down twelve to MB thousand bucks a year for throwing probes out of the union...
...And now I must attempt jrom* conversion...
...Grady," I burst forth...
...Five different defense motions to set aside the verdict on various technicalities, including Carpenter's ^emotional play to the jury, were overruled...
...Suddenly, the third juryman varies the verdict on the assault count...
...Even in Germany which has often been considered as the home of Socialist orthodoxy there has always been a questioning attitude in the movement, a constant criticism and re-examination of programs and fundamentals...
...You have played in parks, gone to the country during summers, received the undisturbed care Of a mother whose whole life has been devoted to yoUT health and spiritual progress...
...The trains have been held up so the last two weeks that he's been late again and again, and now he's sacked...
...I ahud-_ der to think what we ail have escaped...
...As it is today, upon sane analjisBC Under our present system the situation is 11 mrsaft contrary to any sense, rhyme or reason...
...The latter section occupies the larger part of the book and includes a consideration of the Economic Interpretation of History, the Class Struggle, the Socialist View of Progress Under Capitalism, the Marxian Theory of Value, and Socialism and Industrial Democracy...
...These old farmers may not know what the defendants are guilty of, but they are positive that the men in the dock are guilty...
...That is more than most of teters have heard...
...My Call on Mrs...
...Tet I shall attempt to place a few definitions here for some sort of clarification, and await your questions at dinner tonight A Socialist is one who believes that the present system of private ownership of great public noccs> sities such as light, power, transportation, marketing, mining, telephone, and like industries must be) owned, operated and controlled by aQ the people, and managed by the people for See and act fat1 anyone's Individual profit Just Bhe we are ran* sing schools, police and fire departments la tha city and the post-office In the nation...
...AU through the evenings that we have sat after dinner and made open forum of your queries, I had waited for some question from you on taw why and wherefor of my political belief...
...A Book For Non-Socialists What is impressive in this volume of 377 pages is not so much the variety of opinions presented but its presentation of the evidence of the changing capitalism of our time...
...It is simply that he chose to believe policemen like Gilbert and Roach rather than the strikers—"nobodies...
...I it pretty sore at painters...
...She had finished her floor scrubbing, and after making a rather futile attempt at bringing order to the establishment—but what can one do with four children in two rooms...
...Grady's are going to wake up, and realize that they and their husbands and their children have a right to be comfortable and wellfed and well-clothed and happy, and have their share in the prosperity of this prosperous country, —and then they'll vote the Socialist ticket Gastonia Unionists Convicted CHARLOTTE, N. C. (FP).—A dozen policemen guarded the courtroom...
...o • Did Mrs...
...A street-cleaner is mors SflSt portant to the health of a nation than any stodg broker or speculator...
...At present he is fighting John isrts, President of what is left of the United Worsen of America...
...With my books and writings always open for you at home, I had hoped at first that you would take up the question by yourselves, through Bellamy's "Looking Backward," right ttttb Hillquit's "Socialism in Theory and Practice" . . Quite in the manner by which you have grounded yourselves in science, invention, biology, music sad art...
...I have been debating with myself whether I should take up with you a discussion of my faith in Socialist principles...
...ihad one in the other day who was rushing ad with a brush and a lot of broken English (or some reason, not yet plain to us, he painted h, Who is a good tiger cat, cream colored...
...Then, may I never grow erudite...
...The poor farmers, panting for their chickens and cows, are reincarcerated to reach an agreement...
...That butcher's a cheat," she said with disgust, as she cut up her stewing beef,—"his pounds get smaller and his prices higher ail the time...
...Then veteran Attorney MeCall rises to request at the judge's discretion the minimum sentence, since the defendants have been convicted by newspaper prejudice "which exceed anything in my experience and would have caused me to convict the defendants before I made my own investigation...
...JL She was scrubbing the floor of her living-room (very properly named, for beside It there is only the small bedroom opening on the shaft) and the Grady's are blessed with four children...
...Tve been thinking I'd tell ye, Miss Greene," she said...
...a Said it It is better to be defeated in a cause MO ultimately win than to win in a cause that I ultimately defeated...
...That does not mean, as most of our enemies would immediately howl, that the people could not run aB of this profitably...
...Just because I have managed by hook and aott)-, dent to leap out upon a firmer footing hardly suffices to dull the constant dread that the teemiag tenements of the town stabs into my soul...
...Then judgment descends with a crash...
...0 0* But my friend had her mind on a real problem and paid no heed...
...Bt of you may have heard that I am running iMerman on the Socialist ticket in the Fifteenth let of Manhattan...
...And ¦tyre not on the job, there is always ,s strange ¦tosvisa woman who calls up and asks if we ¦he Consolidated Gas Company...
...A relentless rain pours outside, and inside one word, "Guilty," drops upon the defendants 336 times as jurors rise in turn to answer the poll for each defendant on four counts...
...Let me weigh the worthiest wares On scales of laughter...
...A strong whiff of what had once been potatoes and beef and oranges and bananas, but was now unmistakably garbage came up from the street I wondered, audibly, why it had not been removed...
...Mrs...
...They i their fives with folks who have just dragged selves out of bed and feel pretty low...
...At all events I don't fall for every tat that comes along...
...I may as well tell you, John's lost his job...
...Foreman Todd, a rural postman, shakes his whiskers with real pleasure as he says "Guilty," but the others are just stolid yesmen...
...I leave politics to the men...
...Judge M. V. Barnhllj warns against a demonstration...
...MSft on to these industries as they are run today...
...IB* suranee of all kinds should be a national concern, and cot a game in which a few hundred IliiHistjJgl stockholders and officials rake in enormous diva* dends and salaries...
...It is called "The Labor Number...
...While every contributor is a protagonist of a new social order similar to that found In the Socialist view of a reorganized society, a variety of opinions are presented as to methods, policies, programs, approach and interpretation of social and economic forces...
...And all because there to) St much horrible fear stalking this land...
...no accident of business, no chance of Illness, nf occasion of death will enter to tear family bonds' asunder and throw orphans or widows upon prtvait or public charity...
...I was in Vienna this summer, and if you could see what the Socialists are doing for the people...
...No, for big business depends upon having an army of unemployed...
...His I a Oscar Ameringer and in my opinion he is ef the most civilized men I have ever met and Meat courageous as well...
...Grady Evelyn Weston Hughan t WAS calling on Mrs...
...Bamhill, before sentencing them called the union men who didn't testify, McLaughlin, McGinnis and Harrison, up for personal details...
...With modern machinery scientific progress, and with good management ffSt could all be run without the terrific waste tbsfjS* dividual competition, its enormous expense of aW vertising, stock-jobbing, and crooked flnaaatns...
...Lest I forget to err and blunder...
...Attorney Adams declares that the defendants' guiding motive to obtain good wages is nothing disreputable...
...This* by way of introducing a book which the Vanguard Press has published for the League for Industrial Democracy (The Socialism of our Times, 50 cents...
...And whatever the nation or dtjf owns in playgrounds, health resorts, schools asp universities, art and science will be open for ssss and ail in full democracy to build Its people tttf the estate of happiness, freedo mand creative beatOT that awaits us all if we only have the courage, ftp Intelligence and will for accomplishment % I shall be happy to enlarge on these statements and to add a great deal that space has not perms* ted...
...Ha the exception of Heywood Broun who is a I Harvard man, I can see no excuse for them L a to end up with Oscar...
...there happens to be one man at the mention toe* name I doff my hat with the greatest * _ l H a Dutchman who writes a paper out in tt that goes to a heap of coal miners...
...Since bis work would be useless to society...
...disease that surrounded me throughout my youtir made a depressant upon my spirit that even your* health and joy of living cannot fully dissipate...
...Grady," said I. She paused in her job a moment: "I was too busy to register this year, Miss Green,—and besides I'm a home body...
...From Father to Sons A Socialist Father Writes an Explanatory Letts* on His Beliefs to his Sons: -* My dear David and Eugene: Ever since you have attained the age of under* standing...
...Impatience has siezed me...
...Grady listen, do you think...
...Your loving father and pal ;# S. Jk...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF SOCIALISM IS BROAD AND CONSTRUCTIVE By James Oneal Editor of The New Leader J^ECKNTLY a New York World editorial referred to the Socialist Party as a "sect" The word has come to have the meaning of a group that regards its views as i fixed and unchanging and it was in this sense that it was applied to American Socialists...
...Under Socialism the Suss who keeps the streets clean would live and thrift for his importance to society...
...And the stock bre* ker would starve...
...For even today with all this talk about national prosperity, fully three million men and women and children in our great city are living that awful life of fear, emptiness, hopelessness, poverty aad despair...
...Miss Greene...
...efe WJefcii...
...Grady...
...Ah, Mrs...
...It is safe to say that minions of people are unaware of the giant forces that are undermining the old capitalism of the pre-war period...
...Those who know what is happening also know that a revolution has occurred in society aad the end is not yet in sight Socialism is as much an interpretation of the evolution of capitalism aa It is a program of economic and social reconstruction and just because it is an interpretation It is important for Socialists to continually investigate the rapid changes in society in order that they may adapt their programs to what is happening...
...f cat, Jacob, for example...
...A Socialist believes that every man wte natfil in this land with hand or brain is entitled to ttfcf fun social value of his toiL Such values ens hf determined by experts and schedules established M part of the law...
...THE CHATTER BOX Prayer Against Too Much WMejjb For all I know of sua and rata...
...that I wish you teachers wouldn't put such notions in the children's heads...
...Well, Buddy, the answer to is that I have known more organized coalHi of the rank and file than John L. has ever -t as talk about something more palatable...
...T A Socialist is the firmest believer in the sanctltf of the home, since through his system, every worker win have a decent home as his own at cost V • • • 1 A Socialist is the sincerest protagonist fat family life...
...That f they are like any painter who has ever iched our doorbell off...
...The error is apparently simple stupidity, for after lunch the jurors repeat methodically, "Guilty as charged...
...en in a life time someone comes along who can , bis head up and take a dirty wallop on the cod not fan down...
...do tbe same gag on her each time she calls, sty no, we are not the gas company but we sm of the most prominent creditors they have, confuses her and she hangs up but by that our sleep is ruined anyway and we get up, stag around the house worrying about how we to get any money and who is mad at us and w* were ever born...
...And the final problem, the problem of the job, the most important problem of aU...
...Grady," said I; "we need Socialism,—a government that cares for the masses and not the classes...
...but she never teUs her where to get it Doesn't she know that milk doesn't run out of a free fountain,—and Grade A milk too...
...Readily McGinnis and McLaughlin, both Gastonians, tell how they shot after the officers...
...ft was not his fault either...
...He is an accomplished ptdta...
...So a greater resolve transfixed me into becoming a Socialist SUMS through the Co-Operative Commonwealth alone man could accomplish for every child, what I had been able to steal and wrench out of the present Business System for you...
...Of ragged flash aad awesome thsodar, Let me keep within my mind Just a little place for wonder...
...While there have been and still are sectarian Socialists there has been no I sectarian Socialist movement *hat has dominated the movement in any country...
...Such wonderful apartment houses with big rooms and such light and air, and play space for the children, and such low rents...
...It win prove very helpful to aU who seek this understanding...
...McAlister Coleman...
...0, Mrs...
...Here's Mamie now says that Miss Flynn tells her to drink a quart of milk a day...
...They start the morning off so dis tf that by noon we are ready to surrender...
...he subtracts 12 to 15 years from the lives of McLaughlin and McGinnis, and five to seven from Hendricks...
...The impartial, non-sectarian Judge subtracts 17 to 20 years from the lives of the four northerners, including Harrison and Miller, against whom there was the least evidence...
...But some day the Mrs...
...But I do so want your thought on su thSt my sons, and with your own will, your agreanaaSJ and belief...
...w I suppose that somebody will bob up and hat as an outsider I have no right to criticize as Official...
...Nothing new for ttsrcr either...
...Judge BarnbiU's decision, unlike the Jury's, cannot be explained by stupidity nor yet by conscious prejudice...
...A few do not call themselves Socialists yet all are critics of the capitalist system and the claims of its intellectual police and apologists...
...She started to get dinner ready...
...o "When rm not so busy you might tell me about it all...
...but that nasty old subway...
...And let me keep within my brain Just a little place for wonder...
...berln with he has the soul of a poet...
...I was determined that my children would have a better chance in life than their parents...
...A Socialist believes that every man woman BnT child of the land is entitled to security sgatnst unemployment, old age, accident and health...
...He has written in "The it Miner" a description of Lewis that is a ¦"piece...
...Ramsay MacDonald had tried to enter the •4 States ten years ago he would have been exit ss a "Dangerous Socialist" Some history •weeded some hysteria in the past ten years...
...So X schemed and tricked and fought and lied with UN rest of the business World and in some measure succeeded to keep in the struggle...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 12
