VICTOR BERGER, PARTY BUILDER
THOMAS, NORMAN
Victor Berger, Party Builder By Norman Thomas VICTOR BBRGBR was a Socialist leader of more than national fame and significance. He was the great builder ef the strong Socialist Party to...
...Let them dwaW their wml-monopoues tots mp»mW "They will make soctolam BaiBiak They are the ones who are feaeSjgdB*" ern merit control of business...
...What this means is that American labor power is more intensely exploited than the labor power of all other nations...
...Lynch's book is an interesting study of the man and his times...
...Seidel reproaches our party with being "orthodox," with holding "tenets" and "dogmas" and "doctrinal canons...
...We now haai'Spk about "concentration of wealisVJ^BB* ncation" and "Marx's predictta**" **te»" fessionsl and trade associstiont aaSpaB than in Union locals...
...Surely the sorrow that has overwhelmed Victor L, Berger's comrades during the past ten days finds compensation in this universal tribute...
...IN A NUTSHELL Mr...
...it ia thine...
...They just took jt for themselves...
...you could take your choice...
...We can understand and sympathize with these union men, but the ineffective form of political action employed by most American trade unions leads to that violent form of action in a crisis which leading A. F. of L. men oppose...
...tempered with "philanthropy.-!' The mass of the populaf'on...
...The situation leaves the labor men in that body with a solemn issue to face...
...Haiti has been a satrapy of American power for fourteen years...
...It is obvious that this policy of domination across our frontiers is solely dictated by the material interests of our investing bankers and capitalists...
...Certainly it is not...
...every burned book or house enlightens the world...
...with possessing some kind of "sign manu.1 of baptism"—whatever that may be...
...The mob ts man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast...
...These gentlemen write In terms of "complexes," defective glands and a Freudian jargon that presume to present the "real" man or woman that has escaped other students...
...In this respect he may be paired with some great Americans, Phillips...
...The debet*™ wffl m_mj aural Charles U Russey aad 1» Wm L Hun This event MB* traettog unusual tatereaU ;- 1 exploited than tbe labor power of EaajBsaag laborers...
...Crmnning declared "That Kind free which Is Jealous of ita own freedom, which guards itself from being merged, in others...
...The first page carries a story announcing that Konsul W. G. Kummer of the Bemberg and Glanstorff corporations presented the local chamber of commerce with $500 to be equally divided between the Salvation Army and the public library...
...aad I ask htm whether he can answer "Untrue" to ail or any of them...
...It was Emerson, when contemplating proslavery mobs, who wrote the following in his essay on "Compensation": "A mob ir a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of reason...
...The chairman introduced Sherman as representing the holy order...
...Louis...
...It brings to them the activities of the Socialist and Labor parties all over the world...
...What Prof...
...Violence vs...
...Dying in 1862 with Lincoln in office and the guns roaring to determine whether the northers or the southern social order should rule the republic...
...Its actions are insane.....It persecutes a principle: it would whip s right: It would tar and feather justice, by inflicting fire and outrage upon the houses and persons of those who have these...
...b£fjeamed to fight this alliance...
...Tbe fundaoaataMfc vision is economic, not ieJ>gBa|a| UCTTEBS OF FBANB ¦hBnwl Editor, The New Leader...
...American "Prosperity" T\R- THOMAS THORNTON READ of Columbia University has completed a study of labor productivity in many countries and comes to the conclusion that the American worker does from three to seven times as much work as the European, worker and contributes one-half of the total work of the world...
...The Detroit Times declares his conviction to be a "war measure solely, one of the many injustices wars inevitably breed-' aad Berger's record "seems chiefly valuable now as a climax m proof of his unswerving devotion to the principles his conscience led him to espouse...
...Cyril Metnke, Brooklyn.—Tea letter with questions was put sap because of importance of mm", work...
...Not so with a man of die type of Victor L. Berger...
...No other issue is at stake between them...
...If in one year it costs him fifteen bushels of wheat to purchase a suit of clothes and the next year it costs him twenty-five bushels to buy the same suit the ex(tortion is plain...
...Later when the protagonists of slave property became more arrogant he ranged himself against the extension of this form of property which induced him to accept the nomination of the Free Soilers for President in 1848...
...IN A NUTSHELL Mr, Woll complains about the danger of the export of factories to .other nations...
...That is...
...Dual allegiance is impossible...
...Who gave them this mandate...
...aaawBek a drive for sa*acs*anasae...
...The general council will consist of 40 or 50 of these members of the American nobility and will have an executive of ten or more to look after their interests...
...John F. Hymn, former Mayor who has been barking on tlte stoorvtep of Tamwaaoy Hal (or three years, working fox the notrwnation that went to La Guardia, peeved because he obtained nothing, turns against La Guardia, becomes a penitent and announces that be will support the Tammany ticket- . Over in Queens County the aftermath of the sewer mess leaves the situation uncertain Both Republicans and Democrats are still in a big row and who wins the nomination in each camp is of vital concern to those who appreciate the juicy contracts that go with that expanding borough...
...Between Walker's service to cori>orations and the company union on the Interborough and the banker-anti-Socialist-La Guardia ticket the man and woman who work for a living have no choice...
...Under Congressional rules snd practices no single Congressman has much of a chance, least of all if he is a solitary representative of his party...
...Tweed never entered the lists for any high office but Van Buren was not only a political general...
...Now let us see just what points of hitherto accepted Socialist theory Comrade Seidel or other advocates of so-called Americanization wish us to reject...
...Objecting to an old ordinance relating to jitneys that might be invoked against the strike, having no political power because they wasted it in previous elections, the strikers act wild in their desperation...
...If many of his ultraconservative views were exported with this capital there would be some compensation...
...In other words, the upper section of a class the most powerful of r.ny in all history take it upon themselves to "guide the country...
...the useful workers on whose backs this alliance rest?, do not appear to be of any importance in this publication...
...And to whatsoever "vested interest" or such Hke stood up, gainsaying merely, "I shall lose profits"— willingly legislature would answer, "Yes, but my sons and daughters will gain health, and life, and a soul—Thomas Cariyle...
...Tammany as a hothouse for its sweaters and wage-stealers is likely to emerge from any honest investigation and a "safe"' hearing, safe for the sweaters, is on.the program...
...If you have read "Vulcan" yea WSJ that the Ultima Thate of the PWA is the one-day working week ss tht keaj of improved machinery...
...crime or hunger.—William Oobbett_ • • * There is one kind of patriot who waves the flag, but a far higher kind is the man who blushes every time he sees a neglected child.—Dr...
...If we express this in terms of the farmer producing foodstuffs it becomes more simple as in the other case wage payment tends to -conceal the robbery...
...head of the -ewipfoyment of the rayon plants who became "arbitrator'' of the recent strike, were- admitted as members of the Rotary club...
...Representative Ks&yT'addrss* wss ft reference to the ' "Capper-KtOj R* Trade BUI" Introduced by hfcn is Oa> tress...
...This cult is one phase of the vulgarization of American culture of which the tabloid, jazz, Bruce Barton and Babbitt are symbols...
...Because at ka sympathy and understandingthe student body of today...
...For instance, now that the old age pension movement Is gaining headway ' it Is well to remembej thst Victor Berger was to a real sense its father in America and introduced an old sge pension bin tn Congress long before any cad party politician would think of it...
...Wo ask you to follow fia sir ai—afs...
...book dealing with Frank¦WmmS Through error, I understsa...
...Labor men headed by Matthew WotFkre now pledged to fight for this measure...
...In his "Inquiry into the Origin of Political Parties" Van Buren wrote: Such aggregations of wealth and influence, connected as they usually are with social distinctions, naturally come to be regarded as the fountain of patronage by those who are in search of it The press, men of letters, artists, and professional men of every denomination, and those engaged in subordinate pursuits who live upon the luxurious indulgences of the rich, are all brought within the scope of their influence...
...It includes cuteore...
...I think it was his passionate and unwavering stand for the freedom of the human mind during the sad period of the World War...
...5. That tbe interests of capitalists and those of wage-workers as such being antagonistic...
...They shall be gentle, brave, strong To tpill no' drop of Moos' but dare All that may plant man's lordship firm On earth, and fire, and sea, and oir...
...It presents a phase of American "prosperity" that is always ignored by those who advertise it...
...in demoralizing luxury and lack of responsibility for many of the owners...
...Walker and his "colleagues want no thor-, ough investigation—at this time at least...
...aad la governmental policies which involve an ever-present danger of war...
...Poland, 6; Holland, 7; France, 814...
...Where, at k Europe, Catholics are organised aj a party supporting capitalism ue party fights such parties est fights all other parties of capttaV iam...
...Sometimes we wondered whether the struggle against tremendous odds wss worth while, but he never doubted If we paused, he chided...
...Congressmen have died before and have received a passing notice in the newspapers...
...Fortunately, the workers are thinking and...
...New York: Horace Liveright $5...
...every prison an illustrious abode...
...It seems to us that the camouflage of Sherman is transparent...
...In Congress, it declares...
...The Republican nobles agreed to La Guardia picking bis aseociato on tia.tidaJt," Haroid G. Am*** beakeris the AkHsjalaat tak f GSutnOtr...
...Wild asses are the prey of lions in the wilderness...
...Thornton has shown is that the Jabor power of American workers is more severely An Issue for Labor Men AN INTERESTING situation has arisen in the National Civic Federation, that holy order for preserving tbe dynasties of banking and corporation capital...
...m§ have opposed these unprlndplal inarnaaarlaa They myw»jB masses and render intethpafi thinking and action impoeafbU...
...Perhapa he figures that with the general slump in the stock market the price of votes baa also declined and he can buy more in the Pennsylvania market...
...As the author points out...
...And yet "Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame...
...Read also gauged tbe comparative amount of work done per person in various countries...
...He was carrying out the old policy of the Civic Federation...
...He was a thinker and a doer...
...A Labor or Socialist Party in control of New Orleans would have averted this wild demonstration...
...Berger "furnished a dash of noncomfonnity and nonuniformity of which our goosestepping house could with advantage have considerably more...
...I don't see that calling someone else's opinion a dogma proves it to be false...
...the voters are cattle who are to be used in a game of distributing offices and contracts to mercenary politicians...
...52$ The New Leader Will Become a Great Power Wilth Your Help NOW deaf the mrmfmaimmtd expounders *of "American psosperilf have in port Been deflated by the Wall street raid of thousands of small speculators and while the big kings of the industrial world look forward to the-next few months with apprehension^ an increasing number of people are in a receptive mood for the Socialist message...
...Why these masters of American life think it is necessary to have a super-executive of their class, considering that their claims are generally registered into law and that there is no powerful labor group in Congress to challenge their dominion, we do not know...
...Rotary, journalism and siavedriving...
...Each became the absolute master of his party and forerunners of tHe sort of politics that flowered in the days of Tweed and Grant...
...Nam readers can be ahtainmd...
...But in order to put any theory to this test, we must first get it clearly and correctly stated...
...An intelligent electorate would hoot both sets of performers from the stage...
...What peace is there between the hyena and the dog...
...This sort of loose talk gets us nowhere...
...see Look not mournfully into the past...
...He early saw what LaFoHette only saw at the end of his life, namely, that the very structure of both old parties and their ownership by the interests which finances them made them impossible vehicles for genuine social rrogress...
...Nobody...
...Czechoslovakia, S',i...
...Meantime the weak little country is the prey of American banks...
...Cstaaw masters exploit Catholic wuiaSBI Protestant capitalists mum Protestant workers...
...The Dayton (Ohio) Daily Nm's offers a sympathetic review of Berger's life and work...
...If the American worker produces ten times more wealth than some other worker does and receives less of the total than the other worker does he is a cheaper wprker and is more intensely exploited than his brother abroad...
...He was a man cast in no commonplace mould He fitted no conventional pattern of Robot or Babbitt or self-made man—not even the false conventional pattern of the typical radical...
...Fraud, theft, and even murder are frequently, and meet frequently, the offspring of want In these cases it is a choice of evils...
...Yet Victor Berger made an extraordinary reputation...
...in a great deal of servility in private life, dishonesty In business, corruption ta pontics, aiV governmental oppression...
...In the Argentine the influential La Prensa declares that the strikes in Haiti "have given rise to a display of military force which no State in the Union would tolerate for a moment...
...The people of Milwaukee owe it tc Victor Berger and the Socialists that they have had the genuine good government so long typified by Mayor Hoe n't administration...
...Belgium, 16...
...Acting State Industrial Commissioner Corcoran agrees to an investigation but his decision does not meet the demand of the carpenters for an open airing of grievances...
...At any rate they feel confident of their poww and have organized a state within the state...
...Victor L. Berger received a sentence of twenty years in prison for saying in 1917 that the World War was commercial in origin...
...it returns not ageJkv Wisely improve the present...
...Only time will give s proper perspective...
...The boss of the Whig party in New York, Weed, subscribed to the same view but where Van Buren would cautiously permit democracy to drip slowly down to the masses Weed was even more cautious and fearful of change...
...The American farmer is the most productive farmer in the world...
...v Politics and Spoils TTWE lineup in the politics of New Ywk City ' capitalism becomes funnier each.work...
...If Victor Berger had lived there can be little doubt but that his district would have again returned him to Congress, Not only the Socialist Party but the whole country is the poorer because his voice is stilled...
...They act in the firm belief that the republic and the whole underlying population belong to them and they have some reason «f or thinking so...
...We loeea|«S these as good athletes mm aS fag or little more...
...Although "* refers to Bernard Shaw he envjjkafsl new social order...
...W* welcome all ta the Socialist Par*' believers, unbelievers and lbs* different, aad tell them to depaB their individual views ooteia* 1 party's doors with their ruBbS* when they apeak and act as SJ delists...
...This Dutch politician was the supreme master of the art of saying something in such a way on some important issue that extreme opponents would be either satisfied or be unable to translate the statement into something that could be attacked...
...Would we hear from the top bats and their watchful retainers ? We would...
...surely the equal in these finest of human traits of Eugene V. Debs and other great souls who have trod the path of martyrdom...
...Here we will summaries ¦£ general Socialist view...
...From time to time The Vm Leader has also considered da matter of religion and the chose ta relation to the Socialist man, meat...
...j| I must thank you for hevhajw' eluded in your Issues of BOwawai 9th a notice of my fort...
...in an exaggerated cmphaata on money-getting aa an aim ta life, with consequent undervaluing of Intellectual and esthetic achievement, cynical disregard for human welfare, aad contempt for moral ideals...
...How outrageous was his trial snd conviction during the war was proved not only oy the fact that even the Supreme Court finally overruled the lower court but by the common consent of intelligent men who have remembered with some sense of shame since his death that he was victim of the tyranny and hysteria which were the first fruits of ths war alleged to be for democracy...
...Tho Nm* Lomimr "fcr Boston, JBwW aastaw aU*»s> JSmM Secretary of the party, km jaw Tears frees* sending subn i imtionsi Mis-mm m leaf afaBsV brought 90 threw months esilaaWp tfalB...
...He was a Congressman who as s solitary member of his party made an astonishing record for the constructive Qasottoston of public issues...
...While this study is chiefly political, economic and social backgrounds are sufficiently sketched to give the reader some comprehension of the economic changes and political trends in New York State that contributed to the career of Van Buren...
...When trade unionism goes into the National Civic Federation it simply means that we trade unionism for worthless opiates of those who want to make the labor movement harmless...
...piety, salvation, rayon capital, Chamber of Commerce...
...Let them continue thsk ¦'¦*** fab- labor policies...
...It is easy to assert this right in peace time but to deliberately exercise it in the face of abysmal bate and hysteria is the supreme test...
...Let them luuBSS their cut-throat, destructive t*mWSr Uon and fight all laws which wcaSsVav force fair competition...
...Both Vare and Grundy invested large sums in the Pennsylvania election...
...In the November number of "Current History" James Truslow Adams submits this type of biography to the most merciless criticism and those who would fully understand how shallow it is are referred to his article...
...Willson was charmed by this "wonderful organization.'' Only two editorials appear on the editorial page and both sing the praises of the Chamber of Commerce and the rayon corporations...
...Tecumseh Sherman appeared before the commission in his old role of opponent of this measure but this time declared that he spoke for himself...
...Fatten of the Democrats declared tbat he is a Jacksonian Democrat and explained this by saying thst he believed "to the victors belong the spoils...
...Facing a sentence of twenty years tn prison which, to his esse, meant death, he did not falter...
...I sban be obliged for a cepy^S two of your issue of Noveawsr 1431 8. 84...
...But this lovable, kindly man was also a fighter who never ran away from any conflicts for the cause in which he believed...
...4:<',*-But the work of Osmm /rasas* is mark ¦ that can be duplicated as ewene mmmmmm by readers all amor the aaaaeaw at a) at service which brings tmeSiiIssaaf annual week after week to the steiiilfiil of mam readers and therm is m it thing aiere of footive in educational work eatapt m waokhr radio broadcast ami that Is m tmstmry mmich the Socialist Party eeaueef afford...
...Jf In this -country no mch partta are iniaiilosil but religious dhts> encea, pcojudices aad hates asa been cuttivated by Republican «si ¦Democratic politicians far that own purposes ta recent years...
...It is suspected that the violations extend to other public work and the carpenters want a thorough investigation...
...The author makes no attempt to explore complexes although Van Buren was a widower the last 43 years of his life...
...The xa*mu*J^k common interests regarduas e their views on religion...
...So it is with great souls like Victor L. Berger...
...It keeps its readers informed of the books that are worth while...
...for production of wealth is one thing and its distribution is another...
...How will they answer...
...It could not occur in Milwaukee or Reading...
...If he Wfll ten us this, we may have a definite Idea aa to what be means by bis cry for revbaoa aad amarlieslaa tarn SATURDAY...
...Van Buren also had an uncanny ability to so adjust himself to the complex and changing politics of his time that he generally managed to emerge from each new situation a little farther on the road to eminence with its terminal at the White House...
...To that cause we dedicate ourselves...
...It would be more honest to admit to the world that imperialist capital and finance is so powerful that Jts sway cannot be challenged by the Administration...
...i?» *> esassses^Pv g^a^stms^^mm^su^rsr ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ a»lsB«dypoattrye*a» saJaK ericaniaatioa ef oar aartyvl Up to tbe reseat aeaesafJH the able leadership of mm>ft hetT aEctaUets pem^rbaTaJ tttea to Oss young men aad eenV of oar eoDegee...
...If a little smut is found in the life of the person studied it bulks large in the biography while the social and economic backgrounds find little or no place in the study...
...By way of suggesting what can be done work for The Now Lauder fa the pas* mum weeks, The MornUgsnU Branch of Urn party under the im a i ilea of frame B. Bumioi and Jamas A. D.asi...
...One yarn regarding the politician's ability ta this respect gave him much amusement...
...How can they retain their self respect by officially associating with agents of the Civic Federation who take every opportunity to fight the most important social legislation supported by the whole labor movement...
...If this is made Tammany contractors and corporation nobles are likely to be exposed as sweaters...
...Such stiJJB* is being fed to British worklngaatOaBP the prosperity of American sBJae^gew The comment of the Business Asjil* the Schenectady Carpenters' thm*** whom I reed the passage in QUesftyeP to the effect ttuu the General swfflj publicity most be responsible m^B...
...He had become conspicuous in that body and in the nation...
...He w"as something more than a man who had served a number of terms in Congress...
...I suppose I am orthodox...
...Something like this has* happened to the American farmer in the past ten years...
...Its fit hour of activity is night...
...A. Froude...
...He obtained the following ratios, again showing this country far ta the lead: China 1; British India, \yx\ Russia, 2...
...But whether orthodox or not, I know I was born not far from the Missouri line, and have an insistent desire to be shown...
...That is why he is complaining...
...Some twelve or more people were killed by Chinese pirates who boarded a ship near Hongkong which hardly equals the casualties in Wall Street that have not been fully reported...
...Julius Barnes who heads this offshoot declares its purpose to be "To deal with any future business crisis, and to safely guide die country from the dangers of the recent stock market crash...
...The movement and the ideal capable of evoking it certainly have potential power that is destined to make history...
...He could not be ignored...
...The Rising in Haiti "¦"VENTS in Haiti vividly portray the results of American overlordship in Latin-America...
...A -ictorc tit,::, in March, 1926, soon after he left Er White House where he made a -ski...
...However, it was a cautious democracy, more pronounced in what it opposed than wh-^t favored, and sufficiently oppo .anistic that the politician of mature years could make undercover bargains with Federalist opponents...
...Reared within the shadow of the vast Van Rensselaer estate with its traditions of a feudal aristocracy, the son of a tavern keeper and small farmer, ignorant of books but a shrewd judge of men, he inherited the Jeffersonian Democracy of the village and-countryside...
...Victor Berger And The War By James Oneal NOW that Victor L. Berger sleeps in the affection of those for whose happiness he labored we may ask...
...Bard S Cottr, long s Ts3rrr«hHTy#e,-pr»tfea*iofiaJ snti-Socialist and adviser to big "fat hoys cm how to play the rose of ^fmttm*mX,~ joins Little Eva in the moral crusade...
...Canada, 20, and the United States, 30...
...Considering that both Van Buren and Thurlow Weed were New Yorkers and probably the most astute and masterful political generals who have emerged from American politics, it is rather surprising that only a few casual references are made to Weed...
...DECEMBER 14, 1929 A Giant Super-Execntive ONE result of the summoning of leaders in industry, agriculture and labor into conference by President Hoover is the organization of an "advisory council'' representative!of the great capitalist kings of the nation...
...When capitalism and capitalist politics leave bis so So of workers with housing in great cities that ia little batter than what our cave ancestors had it ia rotten ripe for abolition...
...Apparently less successful than LaFoHette, he built on sounder foundations, snd LaFoHette progrcsslrism in Wisconsin or elsewhere can only live and be effective as it comes nearer and nearer to the general Socialist philosophy and unites with Socialists to build a strong party of the workers with hand and brain...
...Today the upper section of the hierarchy is interested in all sorts of capitalist enterprises and this capitalist soul of Tammany becomes vivid in the protests of the District Council of Carpenters...
...In the issue of M 13 we presented the Sodassf view of the liquor traffic In ia> cial article because of another e» respondent who questioned our Or, titude...
...It was to the effect that he had been asked whether he concurred in the general opinion that the Sua rose in the east- Van Buren answered: "I presume the fact is according to the common impression, but aa I aleep until after sunrise, I cannot apeak from my own knowledge...
...Tammany Sweaters "YgATHEN Croker succeeded Kelfey as leader of ™ * Tammany Hall the machine leaders were becoming interested in corporation enterprises...
...1929, the followtaf esttatlon from Representative KeDfV a*> drees before the special session of Cap gross printed in the Druggists OwBV lar Aug...
...It was precisely the source of Victor Berger's political significance that he recognized even at cost to his own ambition the vital necessity of doing what so few able politicians in America have been willing to do, that is...
...Atheist aB> talists exploit workers ef own views...
...The marines are theirs...
...They did not even pay labor leaders the idle compliment of inviting them to sit in with them...
...and then having done so, I want it possible for him in honor to have and enjoy useful things under decent conditions.—George North Taylor...
...New York opinion is similar,, a general recognition of Berger's ability and sincerity and a rather shame-faced regret for the war mania that expelled him from Congress and brought him a savage prison sentence...
...I've had worse epithets applied to me and survived...
...Garnet Baker...
...The alhence is certainly very interesting...
...Perhaps you can snuBB this ta a subsequent laeao...
...American workers part with snore aad more labor power without compensation as the farmer parts wkh more aad more wheat and that is why our rating higher Babbittry yodles the chorus of "prosperity'' with such happy gusto...
...Organise a party mm*" Hats, or Catholics, or CBia**a...
...Representatives of organizations were invited, including the Gvic Federation...
...A willing legislature could say very many things...
...It might reduce the Tammany vote...
...This by way of an introduction to a study of Martin Van Buren, eighth President of the United States (An Epoch aad a Man by Denis Tilden Lynch...
...Perhaps the Governor thinks Grundy is entitled to the .seat because he paid more for it...
...More and more American intervention follows the investment of American dollars in the weaker LatinAmerican countries...
...They are organized into a nation wide solidarity of finance and capital that knows what is wanted and that will "advise" how the rest of us are to be drilled to serve them and their interests...
...the New Leader: In addition to the opinion sb to present trend ot retail business to-Js United States by P. T. Cberinrwq- Jjl Y. Times, Aug...
...The winkers hsst^H dustrtal democracy" by virtue **jBT ownership...
...Labor men who have supported Tammany will have to close their ears and eyes and store their unionism in a Tammany locker if they vote for "Jimmie" and his pals this year...
...In tbe state constitutional convention of 1821 Van Buren favored removing the freehold qualifications of voters but favored certain restrictions on proletarians although he would not exclude the latter entirely...
...a * The politician who talks about "American individualism" while mass production makes the individual a cog in a machine has a mind that belongs to the lower Silurian period of geologic time • • • International conflicts appear to be essentially conflicts between propertied classes situated In different countries.—J...
...Italy, 2...
...Go feat...
...We marveled at has daring and courage white those who dad not understand could only hate...
...Distance is essential...
...so poor men are pasture for tbe rich.— —celestas tlcua...
...He met the lies and misrepresentations of the war days, the outrageous persecution of the government, the hysteria of a House which denied the fundamental principle of democracy by refusing to seat a duly elected representative with unflinching courage and great resourcefulness...
...r 3. That the prevalence of this condition results in several grave evils—in actual destitution, continuous or recurrent, for a considerable part of the working people...
...Many of us who believed as he believed faltered but he never hesitated...
...to subordinate their own ambitious and their own temporary success to the building up of a powerful and intelligent party devoted to the Interests of the workers with band and brain and to the great, principles of social control of what it necessary for our common life in order that we may achieve for ourselves and our children plenty, peace and freedom...
...The council charges wholesale violations by subway contractors of the prevailing rate of wages law...
...and what peace between the rich man and the poor...
...But into this decision no doubt entered a political motive, a desire to get revenge for the action of the Democratic convention in 1844 which deprived him of a renomination by invoking the two-thirds rule...
...A little contribution to some interests of importance," reads the accompanying letter...
...From it will emerge the Immigrant of lofty purpose, indomitable will, love of his fellows, passionate lover of freedom yielding nothing of bis convictions when, prison yawned, and going to his rest honored, cherished, snd loved by his sorrowing comrades and friends...
...Great Britain, 18...
...Van Buren knew what it was to be hungry while a law student in New York City and he understood something of the economic interests that are the basis of political action and political parties...
...It was a joy to visit him in his home and a privilege to share with him even for a few moments his delight in his fine library and the books which were his friends...
...Hoover is very much distressed that American dictatorship has not taken the hate out of Haiti and will send some more marines...
...It is certain that its vast power will cast a shadow over Washington...
...The great movement called Labor is the supreme instrument in politics for the realization of a new and better social order.—Canon Donaldson...
...Tecumseh Sherman, travelling spokesman against old age pensions for the Civic Federation, still serves the holy order in that capacity...
...every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side...
...Hugo Hofmannr;chief chemist, and E. T. Willson...
...Foreign policy is theirs...
...Berger was right at the wrong time which is a crime in a period of war...
...Practically a part of the American Empire, Haiti does not have the standing of an American state which is protected against Federal interference by the Constitution...
...Van Rensselaer of the Woman's Committee of the Civic Federation urged the merits of the poor house system...
...It is one thing to oppose physical force: it is just as important to so use our political power that violence becomes unnecessary...
...Japan, 3H...
...Happy Elizabethton...
...Bat he will understand just what Z mean by each question...
...What was the outstanding phase of his useful life...
...T TOW the new southern capitalista wedges itself into strategic positions of influerice is revealed in the Elisabethon Star, issue of August 8th...
...Organized labor was represented by President Sullivan of the State Federation of Labor and Secretary Ouinn of the New York Trades and Labor Council who urged an old age pension law...
...Van Buren's life spanned the period which included the end of the colonial era and the rise of a capitalism that was to domtarte the whole republic Mr...
...Let us hope tjwjtf^herr organized might wiil within the next few_ve*r%-make them the ruling power in the economic ?«Sd political Hfe of Elizabethton...
...Tbe rma}^^ not be a political movement seta rope of sand...
...Try U. Life of a Master Politician By James Oneal Astream of biographies has poured from the presses in the past few months and in recent years a school of writers representing a speudo-scientific cult has degraded the art of biography...
...We may be sure that La Prensa represents general opinion south of the Rio Grande...
...Victor L. Berger met this test...
...Too shrewd perhaps too good an American to be an extreme doctrinaire fanatic in politics, he was also far too shrewd to fall into the opposite error of having no guiding philosophy and blindly seeking salvation by some political Messiah...
...1929) is of interest aad a> niflcance...
...American power sets up a dummy president who remains in power by the support of American bayonets...
...Radical dissenter, crank—whatever Victor Berger was, his country is a good man poorer by his death.-' What is impressive of the widespread comment is that it is widespread...
...Laws which other men have claimed aad win claim in days to come were first suggested by Victor Berger...
...The former has been denied a seat in the U. S. Senate and Governor Fisher may appoint the latter...
...The Congressman skat to saea> then the structure of the lnduyiiuoat retailer, thus preventing their ssRB> Uon which he foresees...
...The Now Leader is a Socialist weekly that appeals to all who think of economic and political problems* It is recognised as the leading publication of its kind in this country, its staff endeavors to provide- a variety of features, news stories of the labor struggle, of political events and economic changes...
...4. That the only way to get rid of this relation between non-producing possessors and non-p eases sing producers—in brief, between capitalists and wage-workers— without sacrificing tbe advantages of large-scale production, is to socialize tbe ownership and control of the socially operated and socially necessary means of production...
...Australia, 8'-i...
...Why we follow this policy »•> vious...
...But I want to praise our comrade and friend less ss Congressman than ss the organiser of s party...
...r~- • D. n. DllLBBf I Editor...
...And this is the new capitalism that has won the affection of the grandsons of planter squires whose class rule was unchallenged in the old south...
...If you are close to an .artist's masterpiece you cannot fully -appreciate his genius...
...Suppose the workers were thoroughly organized throughout tthe nation, established a supeiexecutive, and then calmly announced that they were going to "guide the nation" through any crises that might occur...
...If we questioned, he reassured If doubt and hesitation was followed by desertion, he grieved...
...Our correspondent is -*'-tiaa The party has never lie miiaja) help of students and edocaeat Many years ago students tee sfta were induced to serve as stria* breakers which caused daaaejt prejudice againet college not Thanks to the excellent week a the L. I. D. college men tn rose years more and more help m labor ani Socialist movement sat their aid is heartilv welcomes, tg let us not forget that workers aa also capable of intellectual bat ershio as the Socialist inn usee in all countries has proven.—!*, tor...
...The reference to a ftel»nwetoelr»*, penter coming to work ia a at i ail m senger limousine and lequtilug djfj&M other ear is delicious...
...Aristocracies fight for wealth and power— wealth which they waste upon luxury, and power which they abuse for their own interests.—J...
...to mast the shadowy future without fear aad with a manly heart.—Longfellow...
...4. 192») and diseases by you in an editorial In the New Lase on August 10th...
...2. That this condition does exist to a great and increasing extent here in the United States: that the effective control of an ever larger part of our productive wealth is passing into the hands of a rather small fraction of the people...
...In good times or ill he had always the -love and support of that remarkable woman his wife whom we are proud to call comrade...
...His speeches are an education In public affairs...
...If cme apostatised by Joining the enemy, he never forgave, for that was the supreme offense against humanityBe was a great man...
...Only one other Congressman in our generation received similar appreciation from these sources at his death, Meyer London, also a gift of the Socialist movement to the nation...
...To play the role of a sanctimonious Uriah Heep by assuming that our imperialism is intended for the good of those who are under our heels deceives no one...
...What say you, comrades, is it true or untrue— 1. That the ownership and control by some persons of means of production which other persons must have access to in order to live by their own labor enables the former to exploit the latter— that is, to offer the non-owners the choice of not working and getting no income or else working enough to produce a good income for the owners and a relatively poor one for themselves...
...The New Leader: I wonder if you have the 'Toaspsp: Tomorrow" monograph entitled 5?B or the Future of Labor" aad wrBtBt ft Cecil Chishobn...
...The contrast enables us to understand the significance of this organization of the great masters of the American Republic...
...Garrison said, "I will not retreat a single Inch and I wUl be heard...
...The New Leader is capable of being a great power through extension of its circulation and we are again appealing to our readers to help us in this important work...
...in a great deal of preventable disease, ignorance, vice, aad crime...
...He reaffirmed his allegiance to intellectual freedom and concluded his address to the court by saying, "If I am to be punished for having told the tenth as X saw -ash aa mercy...
...ThefJ** hands, in effect, with those whe SbBBt the philosophy that monopoly Is ss aw lutlon and can not be piuiaiad" Similar views are frequently ezsesssl by Government investigators, eeoasjaW and businessmen...
...he marched through one office after another and finally into the White House...
...John Milton affirmed, "Give me the liberty to know, to utter, aad to argue freely according to conscience, above all other liberties.'' Phillips said, "anything that cannot stand argument, tot It crack.'' It was these fundamentals that lie at the basis of human freedom that found rich and passionate utterance in Victor L. Berger at-a time when to assart them meant hasardtog reputation, liberty, aad even life Itself...
...This giant offshoot of capitalism may prove of more than ordinary interest...
...We Socialists honor Victor Berger for his war record in the service of democracy and peace...
...Victor L. Berper...
...Woodrow Wilson said the same thing two years later in St...
...Forum will conduct a fsmmm bete ea "Diss rm smart" M meeting wfll be held in the M auditorium at SOJ-tlO J^PJ etreet...
...I am a Socialist because I want it possible for any man to produce, with honor, useful things under decent conditions...
...The military occupation of Haiti must cease at once...
...Political Action fLkTlTH strikers and their friends staging a vio" lent demonstration in the City Hall at New Orleans and dispersed at the muzzles of police revolvers, we have an example of that desperation that comes to striking workers who realize that the public powers are ranged against them...
...The story told by this analysis is not a new one but it appears to be more thorough than any other investigation made...
...We have considered both lie rlous issues...
...in overwork, inadequate physical comfort and cultural opportunity, economic insecurity, haunting anxiety, for most of them...
...The following summary by the New York Times is significant: Dr...
...In uttering these words Victor L. Berger placed himself by the side of not only the greatest Americans but the great libertarians of the world...
...and that an ever larger proportion of the people, not having the means to employ themselves, face the alternatives stated above...
...What I am asking Comrade Seidel is not, whether he thinks say wording of these prnnnsttlnae a suitable one for popular propaganda...
...Master of political intrigue...
...The American Federation of Labor is now definitely ranged in favor of old age pensions...
...Throughout the volume the great figures in tbe politics of Van Buren's age flit before tbe reader, especially Burr, Clinton, Livingston, Rufus King, Marcy, Spencer, Tompkins and Wright who were conspicuous not only In New York but in national politics...
...As for slavery, Van Buren had owned a slave said when Tom ran away he did nothing to recover him...
...If the fact and the theory do not correspond, then the theory must be discarded...
...Germany, 12...
...The holy order has waged a war against adoption of this needed legislation...
...LEON GILBOOK Now York City...
...W. Williams...
...3S From the new leader mailbag Lii.w...
...Van Buren's answer to an inquiry regarding bis position on the tariff was so worded that his "views stamped him as either an ultra-protectionist, or a tariff reformer...
...The working people of New York City are voting stock in the view of these professionals, stock that they can cash into dividends for themielves...
...It would be embarrassing...
...He had courage that is rare in this goose-stepping age...
...Standpatters who warned that wage workers would be coerced into voting with their employers were answered by Van Buren who declared that in that case the new voters would be "on the side of property" anyway...
...He was of old Dutch stock and colonial Dutch was spoken in the Hudson Valley for decades after 1782, the year in which he was born...
...Pieman Thomas would be ussarap sable as leader and orgsaiawi this work...
...Moreover, the vast number of messages that were received by his widow from trade union organizations show that Victor L. Berger was more widely appreciated in the labor movement than many of us thought...
...But we think of him first of all ss a friend...
...Nation with nation, land wtfa tand, Unarmed shall live as comrades free} In every heart and brain' skatt throb The pulse ej one fraternity...
...Garrison, Charming, Emerson, Debs, Thoreau, and others...
...It brings to you the work of special contributors each week...
...On December 4 and 5 there was a hearing before the New York Commission on Old Age Security...
...The police mission which Washington is exercising in Haiti is contrary to international law, is a violation of another country's sovereignty and is contrary to recent promises...
...What I found was just a reiteration of the vague and negative fault-finding of which we have had so much...
...Hi*£™**> "Sffi ** ""^^aSlaaS »oe do not know, ¦ .:T...
...Our saaah, that has radically rhaapatSB from the students thsesssrsalu watchers aad helpers danag'fa campaign, was such that ft t* be compered only to the task spirit of the students hi Bani who were the backbone ef a* I believe that It ia important* start Socialist branches B'eS legee, universities, seminaries aa' even high schools...
...Tributes to Victor L. Berger ^tATHILE comrades and intimate friends of the late Victor L. Berger have paid their tribute to h» life and work, press opinions have been very UK*retting...
...to President Coolidre for rsstaraftW: of the clUsenship of Socteasts sat* radicals Jailed daring the war...
...Victor Berger was himself s pithy and salty human being, full of humor, sometimesIrascible, always at heart the soul of friendliness, the lover of his home and friends, the shrewd observer of men...
...He was the great builder ef the strong Socialist Party to Milwaukee...
...They never would have got it by voting now for this reformer and now for that demagogue on an oldparty ticket...
...Renewals are camming im mmjjkjBm mnd new subscription* with sneer eases...
...The next item appears on the same patje...
...By all means, let us continually revise our theories—that is, reexamine them in the light of changing fact or our changing knowledge of fact...
...m mum iea was excluded fros* J notice...
...Sherman blandly said that he was speaking only for himself...
...Scientists, or Theoeophists, J Atheists and so on...
...Leaai Aveaae, M Catena*, DL *M Hnseev and Hall to De*ag Araaaaaeatto ta PnikH 1|B» PHILADELPHIA —Bunday.» IB, a:S0 P. at, the Labor BBf...
...In the sense Indicated above, it ia to be expected that, aa members of this relation, they will tend snore aad more to think, feel, aad act in accordance with their interests aad consequently in unison with other members of their class aad ta a manner favorable to the realization of the aha set forth la the preceding paragraph?' 6. That the growth of such a clear understanding aad -of such ways of thinking, feeling, aad acttag on the part of wage-workers is to be welcomed aad ought to he promoted by those who desire to do away with class a nt at unlaw aad its attendant evils by socializing the means of production...
...limousine story—he knew bo saafdW" penter although he has bsan Wtp|Jl delegate for the union from tingmemorial...
...Compared with Beveridges studies of Marshall and of Lincoln the "psychoanalytic" biography has the comparative value of the dime thriller and the dramas of Ibsen...
...When a leader and a friend is taken from us ws honor him leas by verbal tributes thin by renewed dedication of ourselves to the cause to which he gave the last full measure of devotion...
...Denied a seat in the U. S. Senate Vare of Pennsylvania declares he will run again...
...Press opinion outside of New York revetis practically no trace of that malice which ten years ago pursued Berger...
...Victor L. Berger vtetoned a world destiny made vivid In the lines of the poet, Symonds, in "The Coming Day:" These things shall be.—a loftier'race Than e"re the world hat^ knewn shall rise With flame of freedom in their souls, And light af knowledge m their eyes...
...All of Latin-America is again aroused over the plight of Haiti...
...la morals, aa in art, saying is nothing, doing la all.—Renav The Letter mm raatthe ¦SenAS iVlnw^Sftat^S^ aSsi™nau«S...
...That takes care of culture and religion...
...He says:, - "I will tell how to bring soeaBav Let them continue building up Bar great retail trusts and driving teosate dent business men out of their aeBd service...
...I looked for something timely, constructive, and concrete—something which would help to inspire us or guide us or both, in this hour of opportunity...
...You believe prohibition at religion to be the most tmpcroaV issues of today and that The Mm Leader ignores both...
...Socialism would pat an end to this sort of "prosperity...
...Negative Fault-Finding Is Not Socialist Criticism By Algernon Lee rDMl'ND SEIDEL'S article entitled "MacDonald and American Socialism" was a disappointment to me...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 2
