DARK HOUR
Dark Hour 1927 "Did you see what I did to those Anarchistic bastards T" Seven yean of living death, Seven years ef wasted breath, Seven years they bore the pain And then Golgotha tame...
...They had their servile tools in office but there was also a different breed in Massachusetts...
...help bridge the gap between the Mt generations...
...Will somebody please show the sunny aide...
...Conservative in outlook, this party supports the old monarchist and land owning traditions and is also favored by some powerful capitalists, especially in Austria and Germany...
...Others are just plain scoundrels, as our long history of graft and swindles from the railroad thefts of the mid-nineteenth century to the latest plundering of oil deposits amply proves...
...For these reasons the labor organizations are armed and their members are ready to give their lives for the republic...
...No one has ever had the courage to say that they are labor parties...
...In his book of biographical rambling*, "On My Way," he expands his ideas...
...We accuse, we accuse...
...The gallery at Bethel has been open for some weeks and...
...The Struggle to be "Fare" The Boston oligarchy can never forget...
...The number of workers and animals decreases while production during the five-year period from 1922 to 1926 increased 14 per cent more than in-the preceding fare years...
...He calls it "pious fictionization...
...Such words conceal thought...
...Their chief support ccmes from the peasant regions where education is less widespread and where the feudal traditions of submission still survive...
...Their censors search magazines and books...
...Here we may find an important reason for the interest taken by the capitalist parties-in agriculture...
...The farmer is sinking in the economic scale...
...Both are a part, of American history...
...at this period, sb...
...Perhaps this paper, whose ethical standards are not inconveniently high, does not quite realize what a grave accusation it makes against a man who is no longer able to repel such a charge...
...So Boston's memorial meeting Is held in New York City Friday, August 33...
...But they have not been, able to forget A two-volume novel has made the criminals notorious for all time...
...In recognition of this problem sat the need of youth eduation, the park has in the past fostered the Young tie, pie's Socialist League and the Suarkr School movement among boys sad gtrh Such groups are now few and weak a number...
...Jefferson and his party were revolutionary for his day...
...then rushed it to that sentient thing whose hot thoughts freexe to shining leaden slugs that carry tragedies and mirths, abstractions and particulars...
...Between the adults and m young people lies a considerable dt8e> ence of viewpoint and interests, AM yet the gap must be bridged...
...The word itself belongs to the class which Belfort Bax once called "blessed...
...m ea> nection with this kind of work, oiarade Lee, to a recent issue of fia lav Trader, has expressed a regret that a dearth of such material exists, snd Ml proposed a conference on Labor Edsav tion for youth to be held to New Tat preferably in the last week of Decenaar...
...Thy fault, thy fault, thy most grevious fault, 0 Commonwealth And fhy fault too, 0 Power and O Voice...
...We are not interested in the religious aspects of such political movements but we are concerned with the political and economic aims, their support of armed methods against the ballot box and alliance with dictatorships...
...It is open Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a. m. to 7 p. m. It will also be open on Labor Day...
...But, unlike many wets as well as many drys, he did not think that prohibition was the only important issue of the day...
...The implication of "Americanism" is that anything long associated with the United States is blessed...
...Both tendencies mn through our history...
...How weak must be the basis of Massachusetts capitalism if it must censor the reading of the masses and cannot afford to have its deed discussed in the public forum...
...It is...
...The polluted would avert pollution...
...In short, the decisions of the ballot box will be set aside by armed bands if the reactionaries have their way...
...For that reason he has not exploited the gallery la the usual advertising manner...
...Dark Hour 1927 "Did you see what I did to those Anarchistic bastards T" Seven yean of living death, Seven years ef wasted breath, Seven years they bore the pain And then Golgotha tame again Behind grim prison walls that 'August :>:, nr...
...The Art Young Gallery la located at Young's Bethel, Connecticut home...
...If the truth were known they would be driven from power by the masses who are now under the spell of "pious fictionization...
...M. Kunchak, editor of the Wchblatt, organ of the minority, not only warns the Chancellor, declares the wireless to the Times from Vienna, "but makes it evident that the real figure behind the alleged putsch is believed to be Mgr...
...In fact, the Catholic Party (Christian Socialists) uses the Heimwehr for its purposes...
...correspondent in the New -L™-"- York Times who objects to the "success biography" which in recent years, has so much glorified leaders in the capitalist world...
...They seek to keep Boston "pure...
...These institutions have mar had any important degree of support, aa they have been fairly successful ant a the extent that they have had prep* local co-operation...
...They praise one of the most distinguished of American Socialist on the ground, as they allege, that he was really not much of a Socialist—which shows how little they understand either the movement or the man...
...We believe the writers are now speaking their true minds and, although most of them would again play bloodhound against men of Berger's kind if occasion should arise, we find some satisfaction in their too long-delayed acknowledgement of his sincerity and manly courage...
...Some are semiilliterates like the late master of the Duke millions...
...Boston capitalism wants no thinking...
...By more important task confronts the toleration than the problem of tins yotrasw generation...
...Numerous appeals have come to Akjav non Lee, educational dire tor of the lip school, for suggestions, plans of onsetsataoa, outlines of courses, etc...
...Therefore, when one tells us that he stands for "Americanism" he tells us nothing and ohe who argues in terms of nothing is either a fool or he.wants to deceive...
...Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis each represented fundamental and conflicting causes and views and the abovr: analysis applies to them as well...
...Capitalist production is coming to the farm and the farmer is becoming a serf of the capitalist class...
...were, necessarily^ deficient in the* as, preach to the young...
...The gallery is located on the Chestnut Ridge road, one mile Sooth of Bethel...
...We have to choose,, one or the other...
...Two years have passed, and Herb, and Al, and loves, and minor things, and going to doily tasks in the trains have crowded the dead into the dim recesses of ear brains till only a searing memory, remains...
...Art Young, most famous of American radical cartoonists, has realised a longplanned ambititon with the opening of an art gallery containing the originals of his drawings...
...They are vague...
...He watched you burn, this gentleman of the press...
...A Note on "Americanism" THERE is a trick in discussion which has become popular in some circles in recent years...
...Capitalism is compelled to weave a halo about the heads of its ruling chieftains...
...It hat ahaa been assumed that the movement waS accelerate at such a pace that the Sam people would inevitably be carried akaa Another fact which may be offaredate...
...There is, however, one feature of a good many of the articles concerning our late comrade which must not be permitted to pass without challenge...
...and the type as...
...Their affection follows the investment of capital, not the problems of the working class...
...Massachusetts became a medieval oligarchy, descending to tho level of Bavaria in the eighteenth century...
...Let's forget it," said those gentlemen...
...Some are fairly decent but with no exceptional abilities...
...Conservative labor men often resort to this trick when principles and policies are discussed...
...Thruout the world the workers mourned...
...Berger would have detested it...
...Bore the subject can be given detailed attention and some effort made to SB Ike void Comrade Lee is interested is a* certainlng if sufficient interest is St subject and ta a conference prevails, tat all those Interested should rather wrtJ him...
...Its capitalists and bankers wanted no "agitation...
...The increased use of machinery is accompanied by enlargement of farm areas in some sections and farming is becoming industrialized...
...Hand labor still is the rule but mechanization has made remarkable progress during the last ten years...
...Its adepts strike a pose and affirm their "Americanism...
...Erich Maria Remarque's famous war hook, by order of the Austrian Defense Minister, will never he read by Austrian soldiers...
...The swine in the high places ttill are matter for no song By any...
...Bethel Is near Danbury...
...Agricultural Capitalism THE latest survey of American agriculture is that made by the United States Chamber of Commerce...
...Within the Catholic Party is a forceful group which opposes the extreme reactionary majority...
...The yeast people must be assimilated into the mewmen t and educated for Socialism...
...His occupation is going through a revolution...
...It cannot be wrong and ideas from abroad cannot be right...
...the interest displayed by admirers of Art Young's work has brought many to his doors...
...It is this situation that troubles many American Catholics whose political training and beliefs are utterly foreign to it...
...Massachusetts will never be tree till her capitalist and banking oligarchy la divested of power...
...But U remains...
...Absorbed with their at* a*a tare cotnferta, so runs Boclalsa aaaa* many cows are quite content wenJfl milking process, and momentarily talk poor listeners for our Proptaaaaav^l But what about our own young r al are they not coming into the bk**b3 In one sense, the movement ea£S bound to go on without outside aeeesSm tf the children would "stay by tht...
...Polished gentlemen whose ancestors accumulated their wealth from piracy and the slave trade washed their .hands of blood and dirt The damned Wops are dead...
...N They watched yen burn, those grim, silent, stolid witnesses, doctors, surgeons, and one lone reporter who, after your roasted bodies were carried out followed the silent file out of that awful room and with the odor of seared flesh still in his nostrils rushed to a waiting telephone connected to his city desk where sat the night editor, earphones to his ears...
...Boston has been advertised to the world as the moral leper colony of America...
...On a number of occasions in the past five or six years the Austrian workers have had to repulse the armed Clerical Fascist attacks on the republic and another ordeal appears to face them within a month or two...
...This view is confirmed by the provincial organ of the Heimwehr, the Tiroler Volksboten, which declares that next autumn "we must make order, and Chancellor Seipel will participate in this work directly and indirectly...
...Did one represent "Americanism" arid the other oppose it...
...And they were heard in Boston...
...Justice-mocking men washed their hands Even as Pontius Pilate while In tenement homes the' workers mourned And women wailed and tore their hair...
...Heaven nearcd For two dead men behind the prison bars...
...We suspect you when yon refuse to talk sense...
...Admission to the gallery 1* tree...
...Te bt« Socialist, one must know...
...Seipel, Catholic prelate and former Chancellor...
...But they cannot forget The world will not let them forget...
...It has philosophy a3 a history, as well as a future...
...Harry F. Sinclair appeals for a pardon because of his bad health...
...Prom Parts and Berlin, Vienna and London, an over the world had*" come pleas to stay the hands of the executioner...
...MICHAEL C, ARCQS...
...f The second anniversary comes and the killers want to forget...
...Phillips and Garrison and Emerso* sad their kind did not submit to the insolence of their time...
...Impartially enforced, this order would leave Tammany without a cent for its '•¦"¦r—*§- pmi Boston Would Like To Forget By James Oneal {"¦N August 23, two years ago, Nicola " Sacco and Bartolomeo Vensetti were executed Is Charleston prison, Massachusetts...
...The killers want to forget...
...It means aid not to the old type of independent farmer who is doomed but help for the agricultural capitalism that is emerging...
...Concede that the Hoover program for more stable marketing becomes effective...
...They are not precise...
...But a new generation a-eaa growing up, the children of Ssckdam who are maturing outside our ranking Indicating little Interest in Socialist mm It la a recognised fact that Sack** have never propagandised their Catalan aa aealouatr as they have their abb mates and fellow citizens...
...Of the nine dictatorships in Europe in at least five nations—Poland...
...The killers want to forget Last year the Outlook magazine published the confession of Prank Silva which revealed that Vanaetti had no connection with the Bridge water holdup...
...Our kings of capital are no exception...
...We do not forget and the killers cannot, forget Sacco and Vanaetti from their graves point to the killers...
...Berger in the '28 Campaign THE old-party press has, in general, spoken in high praise of Victor Berger since his death, thus making tardy and imperfect amends for the cruel cowardice with which in 1917 and the following years, it defamed him and sought to have him committed to prison...
...Its agents in power build a Chinese wall around their slave pen...
...They are denied uae of any public building...
...One argument is never made in favor of staying within the two parties of capitalism...
...Perhaps we would make more progress in behalf of old age pensions if we could retire some fossils in the labor movement on old age pensions...
...It wants to forget And tins in the twentieth century...
...The independent farmer of American history is becoming a myth...
...Yet this view is so frail that it cannot stand the slightest-investigation...
...Slave owners had their literary police, including politicians, parsons, editors, poets and publicists...
...A number of them represent Berger as having supported Alfred E. Smith during the 1928 campaign—which is altogether false—and at least one paper, The New York Evening World, has the impudence to allege that he voted for Smith, because Smith was opposed to prohibition...
...For our part we cherish those phases of American history that are identified with its revolutionary democracy, its struggles against reactionary classes and aims and we frankly detest those phases of "Americanism" identified' with ^reaction, slavery and tjQftsaiaa...
...Every ruling class has had its literary cult...
...Both are present today...
...Art Young this weak extended aa invitation to readers ef The Mem* Leader ta vkdt Front the NEW LEADER MAILBAG EDUCATING THE TOBIaf™ Editor, the New Leader: Lamentations are always fe^if among Borttlitti over our tntWi a_ txect aay number of reeruas % «, standards esperlaTly the verms* ^ oration...
...The implication of our pious business fiction is that our ruling capitalists and bankers are models of all the virtues...
...A novel is banned, a magazine goes on the medieval index...
...They are not...
...That is, Keep Kool with Koolidge...
...Perhaps a little oil to grease the legal skidc will help hi mto slide out of the hoosegow...
...Young has often advocated "aa art gallery tor every town...
...Don't dodge the issue by shouting your "Americanism...
...It was a ghastly thing to watch them die...
...IN A NUTSHELL The Swiss Government has prohibited the sale of a Fascist organ at all Swiss railway stations and the Fascist press of Italy bawls against this "attack on the freedom of the press.'' Holy Mussolini...
...Eventually they drove the sycophants from power...
...Brooklyn authorities have ordered the collection of a fund for the bund discontinued...
...We hope that the armed insurrection will be soundly beaten and that Austrian democracy will triumph against reaction...
...eagerly rushed to composing stones, and the locked steel chases te matrix moulds, and the matrices to casters, stereotypes te presses, the damp papers to eager newsboys,—if was an eager task eagerly done—so that an eager nation including the honorable men who travestied Christ's, trial before Caiaphas might sit down to smug breakfasts, read the screaming words and say "Good riddance to bad rubbish...
...Trade unions, Socialist organisations, novelists, scientists, dramatists, poets, phltosopheBj, edtters joined in the appeal for mercy, But legal murder had been planned...
...That Victor Berger heartily disapproved of prohibition is true...
...avidly grasping each word that came over the screaming wire and pounding it en the battered typewriter,—eagerly"lt£riting the details ef your executions,—your last farewells and your last messages,—and the copy boys as eagerly rushing pages to that automaton at a telegraph key who as eagerly sped it to every corner of the globe, over the wires to newspapers where eager scribblers with their jargon fashioned a mess out of the crucifixions,—out of your agonies, your tears and your vain pretestings...
...It is difficult for many American readers to understand clerical politics and parties in Europe...
...With them died the democray of Jefferson, the humanism of Emerson, and the liberating ideals of Lincoln...
...We cannot agree with the views of both...
...1929 "la* na apeak of tana thing no more," yon aay, "Let as speak Let us speak of this thing no more...
...Some are just mediocre men who inherited wealth and power...
...nor was he the man to help put a presidential candidate in the field and then knife him at the polls...
...They defied th: ruling class of Massachusetts...
...Had you but from the beginning raised the cry And hurled indictment against the perpetrators Of this infamous deed— Two men might not have died— Oh, but you were content to so complacently creep Along the jogtrot way of smugness mapped out by your keepersHad you— But what's the use' They sleep—this will not bring them back...
...We are reminded of the fact that the United States entered the World War to "make the world safe for democracy" by reading an article in the New Tork Times on the nine dictatorships that rule in Europe...
...Hamilton and his party were reactionary...
...Of course not...
...prudent singer but, how long, O Dead, how long...
...Owners of private halls are terrorised by the oligarchs and no private hall can be obtained...
...That, as between Hoover and Smith, he would rather have seen the latter elected, is very probable...
...When that day dawns a memorial will be erected' on Boston Common to Sacco and Vanaetti, the humble laborers who, though dead, live in the memory of decent men and women...
...Pious Fictionization" MANY thanks to the...
...Now he has acted on them...
...In quite a number of nations Catholics and, in some nations, Protestants are organized into political programs...
...Young is not Interested merely in curiosity-seekers...
...He had the courage to advise others to vote as he himself intended to vote: and he had the honesty to vote as he had advised others...
...Its conclusions verify other studies being made...
...Portugal, Hungary, Italy and Spain—the Catholic party is a leading element...
...The New York Times of last Sunday carried the story of an expected Fascist attack next autumn through the Heimwehr, the* armed bands of the reaction...
...It appears that this problem k particularly serious among the Pinna, was are comparatively late arrivals to ev shares than, say, the Germans, that are few American born Finns, of aa ages of 38 to SO, who...
...The Sacco-Vansetti Memorial Committee of Boston endeavor to arrange a public meeting...
...An anthology of 61 poems perpetuates the names of Sacco and Vanaetti...
...planation te that many Arnerleaa S*> leasts, being of foreign birth, best etaversant to a foreign tongue, and breath up ta a totally different mil.....ma...
...We had almost forgotten that never-failing remedy for all who face economic distress, the famous K.K.K...
...The cotton for its textiles was raised by slaves in the South...
...Algernon Lee, 7 E 15th St, aa Tork, N. Y.) EMIL I.IMBACat Pittsburgh, Fa...
...Clerical - Fascism in Austria NEWS from Austria every week reveals the danger of a bloody struggle between the monarchist-clerical reactionaries and the forces of modern democracy led by the trade union and Socialist organizations...
...Then from a publishing house came a number of volumes giving the official proceeding of the "trial" and the final hearings and investigation...
...The size of farms is increasing at a rapid rate...
...A humble shoe cobbler and a fish peddler have driven this oligarchy to its shameful deeds...
...Their success means despotism for the working class, Catholic and Protestant alike...
...The minister declares that the book shows only the "shady side of war...
...This bring the necessity of education always It tat fore...
...Art Young Opens Art Gallery At Bethel, Conn...
...Their letters became available to all lovers of humanity...
...The Evening World may consider such duplicity praiseworthy...
...It is to be cherished for that reason alone...
...and, after the story was in and the awful tension loosened went to Jack's on Pequoit Street and sat,.and drank rotgut whisky—trying to deaden each memory of that awful scene enacted and repeated...
...Once before Massachusetts was ruled by an oligarchy...
...Socialism Is essentially more that at ideal or a slogan...
...An alliance of Smith's party in Boston with Hoover's party in the state constitutes this oligarchy which has made the state a synonym for shameful and cowardly class rule all over the world...
...And women's wails, in rising cadences Soared to the skies and dropped, Beating like heavy rain Impotent against your heart ef stone...
...The keepers of Massachusetts capitalism are not permitted to forget...
...Sacco and Vanaetti were led to the chair and the polished gentlemen had their way...
Vol. 9 • August 1929 • No. 3
