SOCIALIST BLOC STRONGEST IN CZECH NATION

...The old, mature apd large sections of the Internetftmal in Czecho-Slovakia cause us aB to hope that the Joint tasks ehd ends of the International will smsrge from this great struggle ¦sjjsjlliimtiil and victorious again...

...They don't Uke our name...

...Mr...

...Public ownership advocates, including the representatives of the southern California cities who have bees fighting to save the Boulder Dam power for distribution among the municipalities of that region, are disturbed by the emphasis placed by the White House on the Job-giving possibilities of the power companies...

...Franz Soukup pHAGUE—The results of the Parliamentary elections in Cx*cho-Sk>vBjria may now, be &nalysed I said, as the rtawiliittos ef Parliament thai odr ' International would be proud of the resolta...

...If a "new" party means merely a stronger oarty of course I am already for it heart and souL If a "new" party means a party essentially different in spirit and program than ours as...

...Especially since the war...

...Hearings were completed Nov...

...The Socialist party of America Joins its comrades In Europe in mourning his untimely [loss and paying loving tribute to 1 his memory...

...Banished by the Horthy regime, he had lived in Vienna...

...Neither shall we be saved in the complex affairs of our great city merely by local good government organization...

...W« have a Socialist bloc In the Republic, and to this must also be added the Czech National Socialists...

...These were (1) an unusual wave of pros pel My, which though greatly exaggerated, n^sylsrtnpftfHy a fact, and benefitted the Amerlesn wornsrsno bum silssif, (i) a pervading psychoioaw of rabid munist efforts...

...We are not wedded to any particular form or formula...

...Well, I should like to know to begin with what my friends mean by "new...

...HiUquit said that the form of organization is secondary...

...We shall not be saved by a political Messiah...

...After that win come an attempt to get possession of the government power plant at Muscle Shoals...

...Socialist a Labor Party "Yet the deep impression of Mac Donald's message," Mr...

...Today the strength of our Party is only exceeded by that of the Agrarians, who secured 1,104,956 votes with the help of the whole of the power of the State which is at their disposal...

...Schmeral the former leader and tie only political head of the party id not entering Parliament again...

...But meanwhile, our party has no intention of taking the position of a mere make-shift body waiting for the appearance of a permanent political party of labor...

...HiUquit continued...

...j From which we may conclude that we need more Norman Thomases...

...The power trust urged that Wilbur could not intend to encourage public ownership...

...and for whom...

...Boulder Dam...

...It is.amazing how few of them give constructive criticism of what ought to be new about our Socialist municipal platform...

...In many articles he defended the action of the Karolyi government and blamed the Entente far the advent of Bela Kun...

...We can't even do now what we tried to do in 1924—at which time not all of our present advisers helped us by voting for La FoUette—for the farmers and the labor unions are not ready...

...The picturesque figure of the British Premier with his earnest and vibrant personality, coming tc America in defiance of diplomatic precedents on a mission of peace and good will, has captured the hearts and stirred the imagination of our people...

...HiUquit said, in address...

...but we do not know where they will be in the next crisis...

...I like the name Socialist because I think it descriptive...

...Nevertheless, should organized labor here wish to emulate the British workers in the formation of a Labor Party, the Socialists will at aU times to be ready to merge In such a party...

...that is to say, without a: party...

...The latter dislike I share...

...Thirdly, there has occurred "a practical collapse of the Communist movement" which never was a sane or rational movement, particularly in this country...

...The two Social-Democratic parties In Czecho-Slovakia therefore reserved a total of 1,476, 215, or —arty a million and a half votes...

...But with all the good win In the world, not in spite of but because of my love for the New York we might build, I cannot seek a dubiously wider support at the price of giving up the spirit and tactics that each year's experience convinces me are essential to true social progress in a world that Is bigger than New York...

...This wlU be first concern of our Socialist convention...

...The Interest in Socialism has been enormously stimulated by the recent visit of Ramsay Mac Donald...

...The Communist opposition is gradually uniting with the Social-Democratic Party, and the remainder is sinking with the passage of time Into a sect, which is being kept alive by Moscow gold ajone...

...In large measure it was caused by the realization that his was the voice of a new force in civilization, the force of the rising working masses in England...

...2) an exhortation to us to lead in forming a "new" party, a "liberal" party or some other sort of party not very definitely described except in negatives...

...Msas^^MMHsl Hia Yiews_jm T°SlirecUy.: through the press, and other-1 wise, put to Norman Thomas on ths future of the'Socialist Party, Mr...

...In the course of answering questions, the speaker paid a tribute to Thomas...

...P.) The Cigarmakers' International Union has agreed to aid In the formation of a co-operative cigar manufacturers' organization being sponsored by the manufacturers themselves, the packers and jobbers...

...On Copying the British "Our friends who want us to emulate the British Labor Party forget that we can't by ourselves at once create the conditions that made the Labor Party method possible...

...The Socialist party has performed that function for many years...

...This sounds to them like an excuse for making an "emergency" award of 25 percent of the Boulder Dam newer to the Southern California Edison Company, as proposed by Secretary Wilbur, opponent of public ownership...

...In the subsequent Communist revolution of March, 1919, which placed Bela Kun In control of the government...

...HUlquit then replied that h« j would open the doors as wide at , possible to aU who accepted the Socialist program, but that he saw i no substantial groups such at Thomas had In mind...

...Though a Marxist himself he said, "I would not subject those who would be our friends to a rigid examination on Marx's "Capital' before admitting them to the party...

...This has created a more friendly atmosphere for a party like the Socialist to work in...

...In no circumstances do our ¦inking masses desire to allow the present reactionaries in the Santa to continue their ruthless esorse...

...But it may be said that such a depression as now seems to be upon us win accelerate earnest political thinking, from which the growth of Socialism and trade unionism alike will receive an impetus...

...For instance, I should like co-operation In a Bureau of Municipal Research and Action...

...In the recent elections the Commtmista no longer dared to upset si single one of our Party's meetings...

...If there is any aspect of sectarianism within the party let us emancipate ourselves from it...

...He ascribed three reasons for the weakness of flqflsJhSsl during the last decade...

...The admonitions addressed to me personally or to the Socialist Party, or both of us, fall under two heads: (1) an exhortation to Join in a general, non partisan, mass movement of righteousness in New York of which I am flatteringly told that I may be the Moses...

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...Of the possibilities of alliances in the near future, Mr...

...The bourgeois bloc which has governed 'tin now was left in the minority with 143 seats...

...13 on the protests which Los Angeles and other southern California cities made against Wilbur's determination to set aside half of the power for pumping water from the reservoir to the cities of southern California, and then to divide evenly the remaining power between the city of Los Angeles and the Southern California Edison Company...

...Norman Thomas polled 175,000 votes," he ; said, "while the rest of the 80! cialist ticket polled about 90.000...

...30, 1918...

...they don't like our weakness...

...2Tth were a Brest victory for the Czecho-Slovexian and German Social-DemocSatic Parties HTae Creche-Slovakian Party sailimil a total of 970,011, or nearly a million votes...

...But I think one way to cure it is to accept our invitation to join us on a program that is by no means doctrinaire or sectarian...

...Then, turning to the future of the Socialist party, Mr...

...Kunfi fled the country, was arrested on the Austrian border and finally made bis way to Vienna...

...The former bourgeois ; coalition, which was avowedlv an...

...They insisted that Wilbur obey the clause in the act which gives preference to municipalities...

...Against this argument the Southern California Edison Company, backed by a half a dozen other branches of the power trust, filed a demand for still more of the power than Wilbur has allotted to it...

...1 On learning of the death of Dr...

...If organized labor in this country should foUow the example of the British workers in forming an Independent political party, the American SociaUsts will at all times be ready to merge with it, as their British comrades have merged with the Labor party of England...

...Their vote has talien from 933,711 to 752,737, and this loss of over 180,000 votes means a severe defeat which win be completely demoralizing for their ranks...

...Our doors should be open to all...

...Kunfi, Morris HiUquit, International Secretary of the Socialist party, sent the foUowing cable to the Austrian Socialist party: "Socialist Party...

...To Detest Tammany "My answer to the first set of advisers is this: You cannot defeat Tammany, far less build the City Beautiful, without a philosophy, a program, and organization...

...HiUquit said that all in the Socialist party are agreed on opening its doors as wide as possible...

...ttSodalist, has been severely beaten...

...An end must be put to tils...

...As the result of such discussion if s "new" party means a new name I may be for it...

...The Magyar Social-Democratic Party has united with the Cxecbc-Slovakian senatorial group...

...There is no need for the creation of a new party in the United States fashioned along the lines of the British Labor Party...

...It may serve as a pretext also for delivering the Flathead power site to the Electric Bond A Share Comnany through the Montana Power Company...

...Beady to Fuse With Labor "The Socialist party does not claim to be the sole and final form of political organization of American labor...

...Una is a power which will be in s> position to compel the respect of the reactionary forces...

...revive of spesial Pi MilliFWilf T1 If.........fn , tion npHE Socialist movement in the * United States is face to face with a wide-spread revival, Morris HiUquit, national chairman of the Socialist party, cwSbed last Saturday, at a lecture which opened what promises - te be the most stimulating pubUc forum the Rand School of Social Science has conducted in many years...

...Would Open Doors Wide Later, In responding to a question from the floor, Mr...

...Thomas this week made the following statement: "So generous is the interest and so widespread and well to tent toned the advice that I have received since the last election from supporters and sympathizers in* the last campaign that I owe it to my friends, known end unknown, to indicate my attitude on the various questions they raise somewhat more precisely than can be done in newspaper quotations from speeches...

...The former opposition parties have secsred 157 seats...

...The Czech National Socialists are not to be compared with the National Socialists in Germany...

...It can today be said that our hopes nave been considerably exceeded...

...But "there is every reason why we should co-operate with all persons who accept our program...

...War has no longer any glories for the people of the United States...

...To Exploit: iffonsJEBan WAaTHINCjTOBt (f, fy...

...the Flathead site in Montana, and ths remaining power st Niagara Falls are the Immediate stakes in...

...expressed in the 1928 and 1929 platforms I am not for it, and that for no sentimental or dogmatic reason but because I do not think even m New York City, to saying nothing of the country, it can* do what must be done...

...There is no higher honor I should desire than to deserve half the good things said of me by my friend...

...The Socialist party is neither doctrinaire nor dogmatic, the Socialist leader said...

...I shall probably state my own views somewhat fully on this question at the Rand School Forum next Saturday...

...We have proved in this election that we fight municipal elections on municipal issues and that we will co-operate so far as possible with good citizens who want to go even part of our way...

...The stock market Is a pretty good barometer of Industrial conditions, and we may now expect a period of depression...

...The Socialist block in the Reptiblic today accordingly possesses XM3.718 votes, and tt may be said that every third elector In oar country today votes Socialist...

...Siegmund Kunfi, Hungarian Socialist Leader Dies in Vienna VIENNA.—Dr...

...President Hoover's invitation to the utilities industry fee come into his conferences on ths twslnrss depression, along wits ths railroads, manufacturers, bankers and agriculture, has given the power trust new hops of getting hold of important properties belonging to the public...

...It may cover the determination of Secretary Bonner of the Federal Power Commission to rive the last Niagara power to the Niagara A Husodn power merger in defiance of the decisions reached by the legal and accounting staff of the Commission...

...Kunfi became Minister of Public Instruction in the Cabinet of Count Michael Karolyi when the latter was made Provisional President of the Hungarian Government after the overthrow of the monarchy on Oct...

...Neither the .Labor pasty of Great Britain nor the Socialist parties here and elsewhere are entirely limited to the class interests of Labor in program or composition...

...John Haynes Holmes, but as I have said over and oxer again, New York needs not a good man but a good party —which, of course, must provide j good men...

...Comrade Chobot, a Polish Social-Democrat who was elected by the small Polish minority, win also co-operate with the Csncho-Slovakian group of deputies...

...I think discussion and inoulry win shed light on this question...

...The Socialist bloc with its 92 seats (out of 300) has become the strongest Parliamentary bloc...

...Lured to Scab Mill NEW MARKET, N. H.—(FP) — Workers are being hired from the union city of New Bedford to work in the scab Newmarket Mfg...

...But I should never sacrifice achievement to a name...

...The question: good for what...

...are fine, amiable ladies and gen1 tlemen...

...During the last four years it has increased its vote by 338,748, and baa therefore become the largest Labor party and the second largest party lay the Republic...

...la this connection the fact la apt to be overlooked that the Labor Party of Great Britain is ao out-and-out Socialist party, like the Socialist party of France, the Social Democratic party of Germany or, for that matter, the Socialist party of the United States...

...HiUquit" urged that the first task of SociaUsts be the strengthening of the party organization...

...Many of the liberal...

...The disintegration of this party is also characterized by the fact that with two exceptions none of their former deputies and satlsjnrs was put forward as a candidate, and that even Dr...

...Its idealistic appeal for social Justice and for international peace, its growing interest in practical work for substantial economic, social and political progress have attracted to it thoughtful men and women of aU ranks of society and all degrees of culture...

...Only before rushing to change it I wast fuller information than I or than I think my party or even my advisers have about election laws governing a new name and the probable psychological effect of changing the name and—most important of aU — what name would be better...

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...Mac Donald's speeches have given rise to some incipient movements for the formation of a political party in the United States patterned after the British Labor Party...

...Oianiilsls Go Down ' llw Communist* in the CzechoEBovsklan Republic, who were by far the greatest working class party four years ago, are in a s£eta of incessant and inevitable disintegration...

...The sections of the-Labor and Socialist International In the QSschO - Slovakian Republic are marching forward unitedly, and tney form an imposing power in the State...

...Nationalism has been dissipated, the Socialist leader went on...

...Pays Tribute to Thomas In a* question from the floor Norman Thomas said he agreec that the first need was to build I the Socialist party but did not Mr I HiUquit believe that there were i groups now so close to the So! cialist party, yet outside of it ; that it would be worth-while tc j get them together in a preliminary ! conference and sound out possibilities of co-operation...

...The Socialist party being thus constituted fills the desire of many for a Labor party such as the British Labor Party and performs all functions of such a party...

...This Party nil Increased Its votes by 94,522, a»d baa therefore again confirmed its position aa the strongest party of the German people in the Repottc followed by the German Agrarians 110,000 votes behind...

...The Boulder Dam situation is critical, from the people's standpoint...

...Last of all I come to the much discussed question of name...

...the Socialist movement has broadened out everywhere in its social concepts, methods and types of adherents...

...Los Angeles and her sister cities showed that Los Angeles ought to be given all this surplus power —above the amount necessary to pump their water supply across the mountains—and that Los Angeles would then distribute it more cheaply to other cities and to her own people than the private company would...

...The recent municipal election in Hky and fas huge vote [st csndldstss are a t symbol of the revival [ Mr...

...Siegmund Kunfi, 50 years old, one of the leaders of Hungarian Socialism before the war and Minister of Public Instruction in the Karolyi Republican Cabinet and State Commissar of Education under the Bela Kun regime in Hungary, died in Vienna, Nov...

...The question of who shall share the power in the State, and tie creation of the pre-requisites fir the new coalition of the working masses of the towns and the country districts, win be seriously considered by the Soc'al-Demoefcfie parties...

...There are, indeed, groups which by reason of their composition or avowed alms are now or may soon become our natural allies in build- < ing a constructive party of work- 1 ers with hand and brain...

...These reasons are "The spotty prosperity of lata it has begun to be exceedingly shaky...

...Hillquit maintained, "is not due entirely to his personality...

...The constant development Ufwaids the Left in our Republic alpWS us to predict that at the next election the* Czech Social Democratic Party will also, outstrip this Czech Agrarian Party end again advance to the first place m the State, which it held nine 71am ago before the Communist attack upon the working •1 (Is man Party Advances ;The German Social-Democratic Party received 506,204, or over half a million votes...

...They confine themselves to generalities...

...At the last election this party also was very successful, for it increased its vote by about 160,OpO to 767,503...

...and the power to answer the question all lead us into the field of integrated political action by a party with principles applicable in city, state, and nation...

...the game...

...We do not welcome such a depression, nor have we ever said that the growth of Socialism is dependent on the prevalance of hard times...

...Our National Socialists are the party of D. Eduard Beneach, the Foreign Minister, a par* ty of the working class aa wen as of the middle class, which even Wasted to join our International at the Hamburg Foundation Congress...

...They are not warned of non-union conditions and find themselves stranded when they refuse to work, according to complaints to the state labor department by Sec...

...The elections on Oct...

...Now to reject this proposal to lead a municipal reform movement is not, as some newspaper headlines implied in reporting Sunday's meeting, to reject a "new" party...

...Congress authorised the Secretary of the Interior to determine whether the dam on the Colorado River should be' equipped with its power plant by federal or municipal government or private interests, and whether the power should be allotted to one or to a variety of Udders...

...Kunfi accepted the portfolio of Commissar of Education A few months later, when the Communist officials were in turn overthrown...

...As for an organic alliance with intellectual liberals, he saw no immediate occasion or use for it...

...cotton mill, on strike since February...

...Referring to voters who, though non-Socialist, voted for Thomas foi 1 Mayor, on personal grounds, Mr j HiUquit said that many of them I are unquestionably progressivi I and promising elements, but thej j hardly constitute material or j which to base a permanent work: ing force...

...On the contrary, it is determined to take full advantage of the favorable situation and the growing Socialist sentiment, and to build up a strong and active organization in every part of the country...

...How j best to deal with such groups now j or as they may arise is the sub- ! ject of much thought among So- j cialists and naturally some dif-1 ference of opinion which can probably be resolved as practical I rather than hypothetical questions of coalition or concerted action | arise...

...Is the death of Sigmund Kv-fi the international Socialist c /anient has lost a great end netle figure...

...Hillqult saw no signs of labor considering independent political action...

...Meanwhile K is our first duty to build up the existing Socialist party as ao essential condition of progress, whatever coalitions may later prove advisable...

...The doors of the Socialist party are wide open to all persons who seek economic and social justice...

...A. Binns of the New Bedford Weavers Union...

...In face of this, indicated revival, Mr...

...Where do I stand on that...

...The Socialist party is not bound to any particular name or dogma...