SNOWDEN AT THE HAGUE
HILLQUIT, MORRIS
Snowden at The Hague An Interb ret ati on By Morris Hillquit rpHE stubborn stand of the Chancellor of the British Exchequer at the Hague has caused much sarcastic comment on the part ot some...
...There is, of course, no possible point of contact between the Labor Party and th...
...I The labor government chose to place its hope and reliance on popular senttment and support...
...Since then, England had lost much of its prestige in international councils, owing to the systematic deference of the reactionary Baldwin government to the chauvinistic diplomacy of France under Poincare and in a minor degree to Fascist Italy under Mussolini...
...Frank has written a brilliant and stimulating analysis of the chaos that is America, and he has not shrunk from the appalling task of showing a way to unity and wholeness...
...On these rut* is stamped the cooperative label, thai ingredients, and the date on which tat...
...Perhaps that is what makes him a "philosopher...
...I can only urge New Leader readers to get the book and study it carefully: and I can only urge the editor to see to it that important books receive adequate discussion...
...A growth such as this ii impress* when one realizes the meaning basM it...
...Its latest and proud* achievement is the "Hotel Coope...
...In Norman Thomas the report -ecs a "contrast with the other candidates...
...Each set consists of 27 posters, and each poster tells a vivid of the electoral campaign as it was conducted by the British ••**" era...
...If personal merit alone were to decide the contest Mr...
...There is the fact that recently Walker made a settlement with the company union I. R. T. in the matter of funds due the city...
...The Labor Party of Oreat Britain, in assuming the government ot its country, has set itself the double task of effecting same very urgent economic reforms at home and re-establishing peace and reason in the world...
...The great charter of international peace was defeated by the fall of the labor government and the refusal of the reactionary Baldwin government and other imperialistic powers to ratify it...
...And to call Mr...
...The labor government could carry its peace policy only if it succeeded in reestablishing the weight and authority of Great Britain among the powers of Europe...
...G. r. IX)KB*** Princeton Depot...
...When the party machines of city capitalism cannot present flag-bearers satisfactory to decent non-Socialist voters they have certainly reached a low leveL Big Slakes in the Tariff Raid TpARMERS are now taking a post-graduate course in the politics of capitalism with the present tariff bill as a text book provided by the great manufacturing corporations of • the country...
...To achieve this, the Cooperative a* employed all the legitimate method* of big business...
...I believe that the "Rediscovery of America" is a preamble in a new testament of American life...
...but to accuse the whole work of being shallow because some of it is, is altogether unreasonable...
...the river front...
...a cooperative country hotel open to members during the summer vacations...
...British worker* succeeded to power, Marx Lewis, director ot •§ united Socialite, drive, announced that fifty sets of posters used fcy British Labor party in the recent campaign have been received »«• the British Labor part?' headquarters, and will be awarded a* to all branches and locals contributing $50 or more to the drive fa**' between now aad October la...
...It wholly fails to account for the motives which guided the labor Chancellor of the Exchequer in power in adopting his Hague policy...
...In both of these essentials, the labor government was somewhat lacking...
...I am more dissatisfied with the exclusive policy of the NewLeader...
...Yesterday I saw the result of tia*«kJN attempt...
...When Parliament opens again in the fall, the labor government will be in a much better position to cope with its liberal and conservative opponents than it was before the Hague conference, and when MacDonald spoke In Geneva after Snowden had spoken In the Hague, his message of peace and good-will had again the whole power and authority of a strong and determined government...
...in Inferior tone, pointed out that "an 'inintroduction to a philosophy of American life' ought to be written by a philosopher...
...Wages wers low, assgS] scarce, and prices high...
...He may be a patriot but he has been getting his pay from the armament ring, which looks a little suspicious...
...The part of your paper that interests me the most is headed "From the New Leader Mail Bag...
...All this is being borne upon a tide of working class votes cast last November...
...Frank Is proposing a polite living of the good life by oneself, or in genteel social tea groups secluded from vigorous political action or militant idealism of any sort...
...rapid turnover has lessened Its overheat But there is more than these cobbbsj lessons of economies in the success of * Cooperative...
...Me is a man of ability...
...Frank's book is no doubt dull In spots, and it contains many daring generalizations that it is wise to suspect...
...la ad*y tion...
...Mr, Frank rests happily with this self-evident idea...
...were made...
...It is sure of Liberal support of its foreign policy without' formal alliance, because in that sphere the programs of the two parties virtually coincide...
...The morning World which helped to bring Walker into office four years ago is unable to disagree with this view but its conclusion is characteristic of its devious cour=e for years...
...It even worked op war scares "to sell its goods and the blood bath that overwhelmed mankind was in part the result of its work...
...Inside is a bakery witfc g, oven large enough to bake all ths stM that Strasbourg consumes...
...President Hoover was compelled to denounce the gentleman although he did not mention his name and here we may be on the eve of sensational revelations regarding the armament ring, its relations to propaganda for more ships and gun-, it* marketing of "patriotism"' as a flag for its aims, and its connections with some high officials in the navy...
...Ttej look forward to the time when, like that comrades in England, they will have their own tea and coffee plantations, sad trailport the product on their own ships...
...IN A NUTSHELL William B. Shearer, ballyhoo boy of the armament crowd and the navy junta seeking a bigger navy, declares that he is a patriot who only wants to serve his country...
...These groups point out that for eight years farm values have shrunk from 79 to 58 million dollars...
...Strasbourg A Worker's Cooperative By Nathaniel WfctgS STRASBOURG, FRANC1 *~" ; IHAVE just visited the nins^T...
...The carpenters have recently been showing how scab wages have been paid in violation of law and to the disadvantage of organized labor...
...Wherever there was a conference regarding armaments the mysterious '"patriot" turned up...
...He had the whole-hearted backing of the entire cabinet as was attested by Ramsay MacOonald's public letter...
...Shearer styles himself as "patriot, inventor and naval expert...
...two cooperatives had already been ssasM in Strasbourg, and both had fatal...
...Rather, he cloaks It with such covering of words as to make it seem remote, removed from any immediate likelihood or practical program...
...The purchaser in the ft" operative is not the antagonist In a fcajh ness transaction, but a co-owner li » common enterprise...
...This and not the paltry monetary gain is the true meaning of Snowden's victory at the Hague...
...It has conslskotfc undercut the private stores and, on th whole, sold better commodities...
...Socialists who have the courage of their ideals and the courage to abide by their own logic, will read this book and pondei its teachings...
...The labor government rejected the first alternative and, I believe, rightly so...
...Drachsler's phrase about "scientific validity" cannot hide) is to the effect that this will be a better world when each being is a better being, and when all these better beings join in a community of merged inerests...
...It could gain nothing from an alliance with the Liberal Party...
...It could not hope for any agreement with the Liberals on its economic program, because in that field the interests of the two parties clash...
...Walker's Labor Record "W/E OFTEN find it difficult to explain the views "™ and actions of some labor men...
...A writer in the New York World shows how the agents of the great capitalist firms are arranging for a more thorough skinning of both rural and urban workers...
...The World is reduced to fatuous futility...
...Frank's book a "pretentious exhibition of shallowness," as Shipley has done, is to somersault as far from the truth as it is possible to do...
...Now what Waldo Frank has done in his book is briefly this: he has taken this ideal of the reconstruction of the individual which has become such a sterile thing in the hands of the churches, and has developed it into an instrument of scientific validity, and of genuine social as well as religious significance...
...Snowden's attitude in the Hague was obviously determined by these general considerations...
...This brutality comes at a time when the Com-, munist movement has reached its lowest ebb in members and resources...
...The law as it exists is a horrible incubus on civilization: one of the worst expressions of the economic system...
...In the sphere of foreign politics the party was confronted by a somewhat analogous situation...
...Below are vast wine csQsr and cellars where cheese is stand...
...Shipley is quite, quite mistaken...
...It t run at a price which the StrasboKl workers can afford...
...Shipley has...
...In the first years after the war...
...If the oil thieves had been in jail in California we wonder whether Governor Young would consider their cases in relation to a pardon by inquiring about their "right attitude toward the social order...
...They OekhaT % start a cooperative, following ckasa- m the Rochdale Plan...
...Mass...
...We Socialists can sit back and enjoy the situation...
...The modern character of Tammany Hall as the political garage for big capitalist enterprises is portrayed by the advice of the Sun...
...I should consider the work, instead, a rather dull lay sermon...
...It was only a few months ago that two organizers of the American Federation of l^abor were kidnapped in Tennessee and their lives were threatened by the respectable mob if they returned to Elizabethton...
...A massive warehouse rssaa...
...Frank's message iwhich Mr...
...It is like a stone wasted in the fields without becoming a part of a great edifice.—Jose Rizal...
...it is a lookingforward: it is thoroughly modern, it is in the field of social philosophy what the airship is In the field of transportation...
...The trade union is based upon principles that are important for the future of democracy in all the institutions of society...
...There is nothing essentially incompatible between the methods that Frank sets forth and being an active Socialist: in fact, the two would integrate beautifully...
...WANTS MORE LETTERS Editor...
...From The New Leader Mail Bag DEFENDS WALDO FRANK Editor...
...Thomas would win easily...
...He turned up at Geneva, opposing all reductions in armament...
...Thomas and the Citizens Union r", IS conceded on all sides that the Citizens Union is a conservative organization and yet inJte/preliminary report on candidate- for Mayor it can find nothing to approve in Walker and LaGuardia...
...not profit" »Hj^ is the greatest strength of the moderns* and makes membership in It more ttaa an economic necessity...
...Nor can his behavior be explained on the score of his alleged natural truculence and tactlessness, as some of his superficial critics have attempted to do...
...that is so hasty and unfair as to be undeserving of space in your intelligent paper...
...Churches are generally considered by Socialists today as enemies, because they believe, quite oblivious of economic and social determinism, that the world can be made better by concentrating on the individual's virtues and vices...
...It is written by the Walker Administration in facts that cannot be disputed...
...when the drive close...
...Advertising is practically wiped out...
...JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY...
...All the profits of the entered* are divided among the members ii/preportion to the value of their purehaa* During the past four years the Mats have been six per cent...
...learning and high ideals...
...He has suggested a way of living in our present world, based on an understanding of the origins and nature of this chaos...
...Sets of Labor Posters To Be Prizes For $50 Contributions by Party Branche* To help the $50,000 national Socialist drive, and at the same that make available in as many ciOea as possible the story of bow sat...
...If the consumer Is sold aft groceries, he has only himself to Mis* Third of City Belongs The Strasbourg Cooperative Is aa sn ganization started by workmen and raj for their benefit...
...New York City...
...It has been aa* to sell a better product and ensure si workers higher m-ages and better conditions...
...In each net block of workmen's apartments, a bread) of the Cooperative is being installed...
...Of all the foul brood that afflicted Europe in pre-war days this thing was the worst...
...Now that record is not one of theory...
...In 1934, when MacOonald spoke in the Council of the League of Nations in behalf of England's first labor government, his position was Strang enough to secure the approval of the famous Geneva Protocol, which practically outlawed war...
...There are few men in the public life of England, in and out of the Labor Party, whose actions are as well reasoned and whose utterances are as deliberate and precise as those ot the keen-eyed student in the Chancellery of the Exchequer...
...It does not disagree with the estimate of Thomas as a candidate but it thinks that a good alternative is to stay away from the polls...
...There a i noodle factory, and ovens when eoff* is roasted...
...Rather extensive activity, to be sure, and it appears that "patriotism"' is an article in which the armament firms are interested as much as guns and ships...
...The Cooperative, wherever posssg...
...And even if we can fight on only a few frontiers at a ime...
...The Labor Party has come into power on a program of international reconciliation and peace, and Philip Snowden has always been known as an outspoken Socialist internationalist and pacifist...
...Germany and France were especially afflicted with this disease...
...Great Britain played a leading, almost dominating part in the councils of the European powers, which meant in fact the councils of the allied government...
...At Geneva he appears to have ingratiated himself with newspaper men with letters from the Defense League, Daughters of the American Revolution...
...Thomas.'' The Sun is of the opinion that this report will drive more conservative voters to support Walker...
...New Zealand Worker...
...i too...
...Cooperative...
...What then is the explanation of this seeming inconsistency' of the chosen spokesman of the British labor government at the Hague...
...The patriot has been gum-shoeing about Congress for years...
...These great powers through their agents in Congress are so confident of their supremacy in lawmaking that they are writing into the bill more abominations than any tariff act in our history has contained...
...Brother Grundy of the Pennsylvania manufacturers is on hand collecting for his crowd in return for the big fund invested in the Hoover campaign...
...and what the methods for advancing are, there...
...Twenty-seven TitMaZ was a period of great distress in tUs aT man city...
...Waldo Frank's approach to social problems is from an angle sharply different from that of most Socialists and revolutionists, and it is because of this very fact that readers of the New Leader ought to read this book, not to disprove its ideas or to protect their little dogmas from its high searching light, but to understand what it is that this man Frank is really driving at...
...When confronted with the direct question by Germany's foreign minister, Snowden himself vouchsafed the curt reply that a person in power speaks a different language than he did before he came into power...
...This book is not a harking-back...
...We hope that the full truth regarding this unsavory alliance will follow a thorough investigation...
...The policy which Philip Snowden pursued at the Hague was the deliberate policy of the British labor government and the reasons for it are after all not so very mysterious or puzzling...
...How...
...If members or officials hold these principles lightly they are not likely to make any impression on people outside of the organization...
...If we could afford It, we would supply every branch *** every trade union with a set...
...and how far they can go with him on the path that he illuminates...
...Purchasing eommodittai it vast quantities has lowered its costs...
...It is my candid opinion that if this part of your paper was extended from one stingy column or less to a full page or two instead of suppressing so many letters, it would Our Armament Ring dj"VNE of the fruitful sources of militarist mania before the World War was the armament rings and their secret propagandists...
...They are divided into three lighting factions, each robbing the other's offices and engaging in fistic encounters when they attempt to meet...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. BY WAY OF REPLY Editor, The New Leader: The essence of Mr...
...It is hardly to be expected, however, that a political party can be made precisely to order to precisely suit one...
...What must be the impres.-ion upon the workers on the lines who have made several heroic efforts to organize a genuine union only to he crushed with the aid of the Walker Administration...
...In his suit he declares that his services to the armament crowd included "interviews and conferences with various individuals, including public officials and representatives of the press...
...The New Leader: This week's issue of the New Leader carries a review of Waldo Frank's "Rediscovery of America...
...Shipley's brief and dismissing comment on the book Is all the more unfortunate, because "The Rediscovery of America" deals with matters that should be stirring and alive to all readers of the New Leader...
...It is largely due to the Walker Administration that a company union still rules the labor policy on the Interborough lines...
...It will be remembered jtbat throughout the seemingly tedious process of haggling, the spokesman of the British labor government at no time suggested more onerous conditions for Germany than those provided for by the Young plan, and that England was determined to evacuate the Rhineland whether France followed suit or not...
...The pigiron rate of Coolidge's Pennsylvania cronies is jacked up but the duty on manganese ore has been removed "to permit the larger steel companies to avoid payment of $8,000,000 a year in duty on ore they import...
...The commodities that it sells are the necessities ot life: fog, and clothing: and it alms to sell theat * a price as near cost as possible...
...manufactures its own products, either h Paris or in Strasbourg...
...They will perhaps learn : more about themselves and about theii I America, and will thus be able to bt : truer Socialists, and more effective ones...
...political rivals to force a new general election by an overthrow of the government...
...Native Sons of the Golden West and other noble enterprises...
...it has been able to insure its aaployees fully at its own expense, and pa} them a wage 30 to 40 per cent above the average...
...This took cobS...
...For the Sun conservatives Absentee Jimmie is all that they could wish...
...Thsj look forward to the time when every commodity which they sell will be mad* a their own factories, and stamped lift their own seal...
...Organization* having their own headquar'er* will find **** poster* a valuable addition...
...The writings of atf eclusive set become in time more or *¦ boresome from constant reading...
...This is so general, and so elementary, a pronouncement, that even capitalists will agree...
...But we cannot, and are doing the ¦*#» beat riling...
...like the babe playing with alphabet blocks, and so pleased with recognizing the letters that he does not think of combining them...
...claim that discussion is needed, yei J** exclusive policy precludes <Msoss*a Some of the capitalist papers are liberal in this regard...
...Reform and revolution have a thousand frontiers...
...In other words, their own complaint shows that the farmers gain nothing from a farmer-capitalist alliance...
...Asm and Lorraine have the strongest cooperative movement in the world, and 9s three cooperatives which serve ttaat provinces do a yearly business of HT000.000 francs...
...This somewhat flippant retort must not be taken too seriously, and even lf taken at its face value it begs the question...
...Rates on cheaper grades of clothing are being jacked up but the higher priced garments worn by the wealthy are not touched...
...George L. Berry...
...By its means the dead hand of-the Past presses heavily on the Living Present, and mankind are "manacled by fetters forged by their brutal ancestors...
...In form it was petty bargaining over a paltry sum, an infinitesimal fraction of the Immense >""n»i budget of the British government...
...we wUl be better fighters for knowing where the other frontiers are...
...the preparation and delivery of public addresses ; the organization and conduct of a publicity campaign for the benefit of and in aid of the business and financial interests of the defendant?,"' and so on...
...It's too bad Mooney and Billings did not swipe the nation's oU...
...It affirms that "there is no appreciable difference between not voting at all for Mayor and voting for Mr...
...A mas mS: of union leaders met to discuss fSXr' nation and take steps to aiievtaU u* a. tolerable conditions...
...The Socialist, perhaps justifiably, despises this sort of doctrine as the most harmful kind of stupidity...
...Branches that have no headqnrters find in their cities labor organizations that will be willing to post *¦*•* If more than fifty branches send in 850 each between now ana O*tober 1st, additional sets will be obtained from the British Labor P-*" This enable* all branche*, whether large or small, whether far, to obtain one of these prize* without much difficuVv," Lewi* *r elared...
...Under the parliamentary regime of England, in which the government has no fixed tenure of office but may be overthrown by a majority of the House any day, the new government of labor was doomed to a sterile existence and precarious life unless it either entered into an alliance with one of the other parties or managed to gain such a degree of popular approval and support as to make it hazardous for its...
...Philip Snowden is anything but impulsive...
...American Communism of all stripes is on its death bed and the only result of such deeds as^ that perpetrated in North Carolina on Tuesday is to give it a temporary lease of life...
...Here goods are reosb*} from the Paris wholesale cooperath* ast" shipped to the 93 branch stores of nor*, ern Alsace...
...Summer Home Opened Every year sees a new growth la fit Cooperative...
...President of the Pressmen's Union, and a few other union officials presented Mayor Walker an honorary membership card in the union in recognition of his "long record in support of organized labor...
...The interests seeking protection are gambling for high stakes and substantial fees and the expense accounts will be paid by the consumer anyway,"' declares the correspondent...
...Twelve farmer organizations are up in arms against the horrible joke that is beibg played in the name of "farm relief...
...and your readers ought to have been treated to a more considered discussion of this really important book...
...The New Leader: I was and am dissatisfied with what I regard the Socialist Party milk and water platform of 1928...
...We are 100 percent for trade union organization and action...
...The United States now appears to have a case in the recent smoking out of William B. Shearer who brought suit for recovery of a balance due him by three armament corporations "for services rendered...
...Regardless of one's estimate of his party's platform, his sincerity and fearlessness make a particularly strong apoeal...
...It is my opinion that Waldo Frank is a philosopher, a philosopher with a fine Imagination and insight, and a keenly disciplined mind...
...found it difficult to compete From at insignificant membership, the Cooptntive has gradually Increased until it a** serves forty thousand families—or oatthird of the populaUon—and does a year, ly business of seventy million francs, a proportion to their population...
...stand-pat Conservative Party...
...It assumed office as a minority party both in the House of Commons and in the popular vote...
...At present the city of Strasbourg il embarking on a new project, invohrhj the construction of homes for tuaotj thousand of Its workers...
...JACK DRACHLER...
...What the labor government undertook to do tX the Hague was to assert itself at homKytnd abroad, and it succeeded marvelousm The large masses of the British population support the stand of the Labor Party with rare enthusiasm and unanimity...
...By its stupid and malicious approval of Arab attacks on the Jewish people in Palestine, its Jewish and English organs in this city have lo-t their newsstand circulations...
...A Brutal Deed TirOWEYER much we may condemn the Com-'*--'*• munists and their deeds, duty, honor and humanity compel us to unreservedly condemn the kidnapping and brutal treatment of three of them in North Carolina...
...Here art two opinions that make the degraded politics of the two machines vivid...
...They complain that when tariff increases are made on agricultural products compensatory increases are made on manufactured products which means that farmers will have to pay more for what they buy...
...A collectivlst organization has bea able to compete with private profit-Bulling concerns, and has practically drtiw them from the field...
...He accepted the "'welfare'' expenditures of this "union", the expenses of the publicity services of Ivy Lee and for breaking the strike of the men .on the lines...
...the purchasing power of their products has declined 25 percent compared with the five years before the World War, while their taxes are 250 percent above pre-war levels...
...wrapped up in his determinism, fails utterly to see that the reconstruction of self, while not an exclusive road to the world's salvation, is yet one of the important frontiers of revolution...
...Shipley seems to thing that Mr...
...in the face of this evidence, can labor men approve the record of Walker...
...Moreover, Snowden did not play a lone hand...
...In spite of this vast growth, the leaders of the cooperative movement fad thai their goal has not been reached...
...The private stores have, of comm...
...To succeed in this ambitious program two factors were essential—power at home and prestige abroad...
...hat can be said of a ''liberal'' publication which can recommend giving up the voters' franchise itself...
...Snowden at The Hague An Interb ret ati on By Morris Hillquit rpHE stubborn stand of the Chancellor of the British Exchequer at the Hague has caused much sarcastic comment on the part ot some opponents ot the Labor Party and has puzzled many of its friends...
...be more interesting to the general pa** if not to the particularly ardent ads** of the exclusive set...
...Hoover should entertain us with one of his noble addresses on rugged individualism," explain again how it is that in God's country government and legislation are not used to enrich any class...
...This by way of introduction to a scene at CityHall on Tuesday...
...It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal...
...It is this ajpesH| "production for use...
...An open W» paper Is needed...
...that it is a prophecy of what America must become, if it is to survive and flourish...
...The World goes into mourning...
...In substance it seemed the expression of a violent nationalistic policy which threatened to unsettle the Young plan and to delay the vital process of liquidating the World War...
...It is said that he was close to the big navy crowd at Washington...
...Tba far it has succeeded...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 6
