MORRIS HILLQUIT: PILLAR OF SOCIALISM
Feigenbaum, William M.
MORRIS HILLQUIT: PILLAR OF SOCIALISM Highlight^ in the Cm&prxtf me Qreatbeodm of Socialism in the United States Socialists everywhere this week joined in honoring the work of Morris Hdlqymt,...
...Be tough...
...Brandt said that he believed in Socialism as much today as he did when he Joined the Social Democratic Party in 1897, and in trade unionism as in 1388, when he affiliated with an organization of labor, famous for its laying the basis of the conservstive snd radical working class movement In America...
...The A F. of L, he said, was not functioning in the basic industrial...
...The tragedy to that there to at as no movement big enough for tuck a sat in his own country...
...will never be forgotten by those who were there...
...In Philadelphia they toil 9-10 hours...
...Under the New Oapitalism, meigers ware crushing the middle class, mechanisation was driving the farmer off the farm...
...Be Concrete...
...It to rather by nto sterling Character and, the fact that be has thrown every ounce of his ability, careless of his own health and welfare, into the service of his cause...
...Union...
...As a party leader he has been willing to suggest any fine of action that | seemed to promise success...
...In the beginning we had Samuel Gompers, Adolph Strasser, and the Cigarmakers' International Union which they built up out of the fire of conflict with sweatshop conditions in tenement houses, and with dual organizations, and by and through other unions like the Cigarmakers, the American Federation of Labor arose...
...In 1921 he urged a resolution through a party convention that opened the way to the Conference for Progressive Political Action and the great adventure of the La FoOstts nasattott-o Bs threw htmsslf tatp that sampasgn aith all hto ensrgtos ¦gam...
...manager of the International Pocketbook Workers...
...It wss a campaign that will never be forgotten by those who engaged in it...
...And, tae Socialist movement of the whole world Is taking...
...The formation of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action," said he...
...Don't worry about leaders...
...His ¦sill Hiss haws Inn res ttd rear by year...
...And the campaign tor Mayor followed...
...Not as a party," said McLevy, "but as individuals in the unions, Socialists can accomplish results, by being concrete, by serving the unions, by securing the good will snd confidence of the rank and file...
...He expressed complete confidence in the aims and purposes of the Socialist Party snd stated thst the League would co-operate to the full wherever the Socialist* had an organization or an effective campaign...
...Hillquit has also been the trusted counsel for large sections of the labor movement...
...But no ont st) knows him well falls to have s warn tsl affectionate feeling for him thst u bag} on tn appreciation of t beautiful est* acter...
...He liked: "Is it prosperity, is it the mechanization of industry and the making of a robot of the . worker, is it the subtle methods of the employers, is it the leadership of the American Federation of Labor or that of the Socialist Party, or is it something else, that accounts for the relative weakness of the trade unions and the party, and the separation between the two...
...He belong...
...He deliberately risked hto health, hto liberty and hto life, knowing what hs was doing, in order that no one could say that he wss not facing the Issues, in order that those who looked to him with pride and affection might not lose heart...
...unforgettable and unforgotten William Mailly,—Meyer London, and a host of others...
...indeed, the Tammany candidate who ran third was the first to cry fraud...
...Hillquit wss exceedingly active not only ss an ardent member of the snti-DeLeon wing In committees and before the party membership but with hto pen...
...In 1918 and 1930 it required a Tammany - Republican fusion to defeat Hillquit...
...We need a moral movement in America and in labor, to say nothing of a Socialist spirit...
...Finally, for those who work, there to torn of skill, speed-up, and the company union, with loss of industrial and consequent political liberty...
...s movement worthy of such a sat movement in which such s gssst 1st properly function...
...McLevy cited cases where Socialists as individual trade unionists had won the wholehearted respect of the rank and file, and had bettered the conditions of the workers...
...And he holds his position ss spokesman for (he Socialist sacrament in this country because of his remarkable clarity and brilliance of mind and brilliance of - When it happen* that the Socialist Sxcrvemsnt catches the attention of the somiEunity, as It did In 1917, the movement has reason to be proud of Hillquit, as It was then, for with the eyes of the public and the ears of the public resdy to see and hear what the party stand* tor he to and has bee*—and most sasurStUy will be—a matchless spokesman...
...Unlike the Socialist leaders of other Souc tries If orris Hfiqtrit has held no publie office...
...The real task is to organize the unorganised, and thto the new organization it hesitant to do...
...Early Days in American Socialism Morris Hillquit was born in Riga, then In Russia, now to the Republic of Iatvia...
...He defended the position of the Socialist party in private hearings in the White House before President Wilson and in vast mass meetings...
...And today, see what has happened to tl.e cigarmaking industry, and what tasks it has given to the Cigarmakers' Union, now headed by a progressive president, Ira M. Ornburn: Cigar Industry Changes "In 1900 there were some 4 % billion cigars produced in this country...
...Socialist leader* in the uatona...
...His personality la as attractive sstt courage and ability and devotlot 8* great...
...If progressives and Socialists wish to be useful, let them concentrate in the local unions...
...It was In that campaign that his Comrades began really to realize the greatness of the man and his nobility in giving all his gifts so freely to his cause, thoughtless of himself and his, personal welfare...
...he came to the Ignited States in 1880 and promptly threw himself into the Socialist movement...
...He debated Socialism with Rev...
...Ebert referred to $he press, the intercommunication, the centralized control, the domination by the leaders through various means at their disposal, while Bloom declared that man to not an automaton, nor to a labor leader either...
...In those days it was a skilled hand occupation, today it is an unskilled machine task...
...By 1906, when he still was on the sunny side of forty, Morris Hillquit was known throughout the country ss one of the most brilliant of the American Socialists, a fine writer, a remarkable lecturer, witty, magnetic and one of the most moving of the party's orators...
...He stressed the fact that the school is part of the labor move: ment...
...Dr William E. Bonn was Introduced as the new Educational Director of the Rand School...
...in IMS, therefore, be wss chosen ss candidate for Congress to toad the party's fight to break the corrupt hold of Tammany Hall upon the exploited East Side...
...Promise or Menace...
...Rather, we seek to have s frank, serious, and constructive discussion among Socialsts and sympathizers, as to the best ways of strengthening the labor movement, and bringing the economic and political wings closer together...
...The rank snd file are not opposed to Socialism, they are merely todifferent, and the membership worried about their jobs and unions, always wondering how a Socialist propositon affects these things,'' said Caasidy...
...In this article, William M. Fetgenbaum, for yean class friend and associate of Morris Hillquit sketches briefly some of the highlights in a brilliant record of tpurage, loyalty and intellectual achievement \ -j % * - BY William M. Feigenbaum r* IS hairf to fhfnk of Morris HiTTquit as 60 years old...
...Oneal has specifically outlined the tasks of those who would serve the labor movement intelligently and effectively...
...Unofficially, however, he to actually the leader of Asserican Socialism, and he has held that position for a long time, A Party Spokesman It to, in a certain sense, no miracle to live to be SO...
...Hoehman urged, they would follow tried and true trade union practice and experience in the movement...
...in 1928, about th* billion...
...In his talk, he cited case after case where Socialists can be Indispensable...
...On thto to sixtieth birthday, those Comrstei sto know him and love him, who bps fought with him so many weary JSBt who have enjoyed the honor of bit 0ss> radeshlp can give him the only lilriHsst present that he will care to bam-US Is...
...The situation in the South to a rare opportunity for the American labor movement" said Norman Thomas in the evening station...
...James Oneal, editor of the New Leader, continued the session with an informing talk, based on his long experience on both the economic and political fields...
...And they got 95 per cent of the labor organizations behind it...
...The Historian of the Partv In 1900 Hillquit was one of the delegates from the snU-DsLeon S. L P. to the Joint committee thst waged the first Debs Presidential campaign, and out of which the present party grew...
...He declared that the leadership of the unions has adopted a policy of selling unionism to the employers, instead of organizing workers...
...p»n leader in every country and hs It hmB to them, and when they visit Uut tss> try...
...We are not here to adopt resolutions, to heatedly discuss the pros and cons of a given motion, we are not here to start a new organization certainly," continued the chairman...
...But to live ss Hillquit has fived, to serve ss Hfllqult has served —that to something sis...
...ff It is a common saying among tomV tots thst one of the tragedies of ssmV can Socialism to thst it pOtassM ask a msn ss Morris Hillquit and that to ¦ only s party lesder, not a leading ass)' ber of s nation's parliament Sunt msn belongs in the national fondn, to should be a minister...
...He emphasized three points in every speech he made...
...What the A. F. of L. should seriously consider at Its Toronto Convention is the matter of setting trp a relief committee, not merely a sustaining fund, to help the weaker unions, to properly direct the conflicts, to organise the unorganized, and to help stimulate the more conservative and stronger unions to the necessity of labor solidarity...
...In Minnesota it would co-operate with the Farmer-Labor Party, and elsewhere It would help bring together all elements who backed La Follette in 1924...
...A holler than thou attitude ought to cease...
...Howard Y. Williams, secretary of the League for Independent Political Action followed, with a most vigorous statement of the purpose of hto organisation Hailing from Minnesota, he showed how the Non-partisan League failed tn Its effort* to capture primaries, while the FarmerLabor Party survived...
...Then came the March revolution and the joy of the Socialists over the overthrow of Csarism...
...Fifteen years ago our Industry was 80 per cent man trade...
...Hence, arise the same fastors which forced the need for a labor party, a political class movement, in Bogland...
...But it was Hillquit who set the pace and struck the clear high note of the campaign—and laid th* foundation for the victory of eight years later when Meyer London was finally given the ecertlflcate of election: in other words, no one who was in that fight has the slightest doubt thst Hillquit was elected by a heavy majority, and that it took all of Tammany's battot-box stutters, election-day repeaters and thugs, crooked election officials and election-day mathematics to count its candidate in...
...Into a party with its roots deep down in the local communities and in the immediate needs of the producing classes...
...Some organizations clamor for members at one time and then shut doors at another...
...to recount the story of the party...
...Two or three years ago, the Connecticut Socialists in the unions started a campaign for an old age pension law...
...The New Orleans convention of tile A. F. of L. evidenced a dangerous tendency, where some so-called Socialist unionists strengthened reaction by not supporting Brookwood...
...His deUdost satires of the ponderous and pontifical utterances of the intolerant DeLeon are still recalled with glee by old timers...
...As symptoms, he cited the emergence of the League for Independent Political Action, the C. P. L. A., the revival tn the Socialist Party...
...There followed the .work of the People's Council and Hlllquit's great speech at the meeting called at the Garden by that body...
...Joseph Tuvim of the Sheet Metal Workers, and Nathan Rlesel of the Embroidery Workers, then reverted to the work of the Socialists in the unions, and gave some Intimate details as to what that meant in their organisations They stressed again and again the need for :lean-cut honest unoompromtotng Socialist action, and for understanding of the needs of the workers snd members...
...Says McLevy The meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party taking place at the same time as the Institute permitted of having Jasper McLevy of Connecticut and State Senator Thomas Duncan of Milwaukee, address it...
...He had suffered a collapse in 1912, and he spent a winter In Bermuda and s summer in Switzerland to rebuild hto health...
...The campaign' was repeated sb 1908...
...Bs wss also an indefatigable agitator, bssstss which ha ssrnsd hto living ss a shlrtmsJter...
...A very small group of Socialist trade unionists started a campaign for the 8-hour day and put the old party adherents on record, as to where they stood so far as municipal employees were concerned...
...The progressives did not give sufficient attention to the trade union traditions and the economic circumstances...
...Practically all are young girls, under 20 years of age...
...He said some exhibit too much suassrvlency...
...He has always been at the beck and call of every section of the workers regardless of circumstances...
...proud and affectionate note of the anniversary...
...There were other campaigners in that battle, men like Jacob Panken and James Oneal...
...To organize the unorganized, to drive for independent political action, to make them class conscious, Socialists should cooperate In the most friendly but effective fashion, said Karlin "There are three positions on the union question," Louis Stanley, instructor of the Rand School, pointed out: "There to the A. F. of L. attitude, then there is that of the Communists, and that of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...The real work to done in the International Unions of the A. F. of L, snd in the Internationals it to the local unions that count...
...He had already published his "History of Socialism in the United States" (first edition, 1903), a work of genuine scholarship thst required s great deal of research, and careful choice of material, hto counsel was eagerly sought for in the party's committees and conventions, and ha was beginning to be widely known outside of the party's ranks as an official party spokesman...
...Its teachers and student* do not look at or upon the working class as objects of study...
...Justus Ebert of the Lithographers and William Bloom of the International Ladles' Garment Workers took McLevy to task...
...they invariably come to sec km to* fore any one else...
...BS graduated from New York University in 1893 with the degree of LX.B., and was admitted to the bar in the same year...
...Let the Socialist trade unionist throw himself wholeheartedly Into the practical, derailed work of the union, get conditions for the members, and he will be trusted, he will tear down the suspicions, and be will advance the cause of socialism," wound up the splendid, sincere fighter in the printing trades...
...Considerable discussion developed when McLevy repeated what Brandt said about the leaders reflecting the rank snd file...
...He to the most undogmsUc party leader imaginable...
...The story of Hillquit's leadership of the party in its antiwar stand is a^hright chapter of American history, and it will some day be understood by all the people as something to be proud of...
...In thto country, he said, there were real signs of the decay of capitalism—not ss the Communists say, of exceptionaltom, or of peak, or of internationalist complications...
...He potatedsbut the difficulties with hundreds of local officials to be elected, but said that-the job can be done...
...Many happy returns, dear frient Sjf Comrade...
...He holds leadership betas** of the universal respect, confidence and enaction fato Oonsrades have for him, tven when they dtoagree with him...
...scribed as genuine love...
...The unions are as suspicious of , an outside organisation seeking Inside ln| fluence as the Socialist Party is and that we should always try to put ourselves in the place of the union member when i trying to reach him to insure that we > will win his attention and not his oppo- J sition...
...The leader of American Socialism is so energetic in mind and body, his outlook is so youthful, his spirit is so gay that one has to look at the records and note that he was born August 1st, 1869, one has to remember his activities as far back as the '80's, to assure oneself that there is no mistake about it...
...He has...
...He did not justify craft polices, he explained their raison d'etre...
...And what to the way out," asked Brandt...
...it showed a new Morris Hillquit— a lion-like fighter who forced" the battle, who put the cohorts of Tammany upon the defensive, who made the whole town ring with the echoes of the fight, who put the Socialist party on the map as a political force to be reckoned with...
...second, the ultimats steals of Sosmbsm...
...opened A. I. Shiplacoff...
...Russia is free...
...Marxians know the place of leaders who are no worse than the rank and file...
...he is and has been—with tow luteflupUons—a member of the National Executive Committee of the party since Its hhiiiswHii and he to Xatsrnstsonal Bex fstsij...
...Beginning 1890 he studied law...
...Clarence Darrow, Samuel Gompers and many others are still talked about...
...Socialist lawyer, and in closest contact with labor union activities, added that a trade union was not a revolutionary society...
...aU one has to do is five long enough...
...They belong to and actively participate In the movement...
...SOCIALISTS AND THE TRADE UNIONS Labor Policies Discussed at Institute in Rand School of Social Science ' ALGERNON LEE, at chairman of the Institute on the Attitudes and Activities of Socialists in the Trade Unions, Saturday and Sunday, Septem- I ber 14-15, at the Rand School of Social Science, posited some of the issues to be considered in his opening talk...
...In Wisconsin the Socialists put through the only law against the yellow dog contract, an old-age pension law, and are leading the country In progressive labor legislation...
...And then the manager of the pocketbook makers wound up by telling of a striker in Baltimore whose wages were one-quarter of organized New York, being paid full wages of $11 while on strike, and yet who came to him with a protest: He was not paid for overtime while on the picket line...
...and finally, 4b* torn of war and passe Bis courage heartens rt wtlThons It was known by hto satimstas that hs was sndaagaring hto health, by hto' constant campaigning, and especially hto series at Garden addresses But hs knew that hto Comrades looked to hha for leadership...
...It was in 1917 that HUkmit waged the political campaign thst has made history...
...Let's show the spirit of the pioneers and organise the workers, with the A F. of L. of course, but without them, if necessary...
...McLevy replied each time by saying the problem was a local one, it could only be solved In the local unions and communities...
...Inside the center of all the hopes of those who think capitalism will survive, there to the rotting of over-ripeness, tn coal, in textiles, in agriculture, in boots and shoes, to one industry after another...
...In the early years bs wss, in his own words, "associate editor, business manager and official poet of the Arbeiter Zeltung fa weekly Socialist paper, predeceasar of the Forward)-, under contract to produce one Inspiration poem every week, for which the salary was S3 a week...
...It was in 1898 that Hillquit first began to attract more than local attention...
...In 1918 Hillquit made the race for Congress in Harlem and again it took all the ingenuity of political tricksters to count him oat...
...In 1888 the troubles began la the Socialist Labor party that led to the so-called DeLeon split and the organisation, three years later, of the Socialist party...
...Can the progressives in that organization do what they ask the A. F. of L. to do...
...That its tendency was to sit tight and be content...
...The two-day session of the Institute on the Attitudes and Activities of Socialists in the Unions wound up with the announcement that another would be held in the Rand School Inside of three months, right after the election...
...He called on those who wanted a revised movement to shape the program of the school to make It most helpful to their organize tion and the goals of Socialism...
...Then it was not centralised, today a dozen people to one company and its subsidiaries control at least threequarters of the product In Philadelphia, 'of 10,000 cigar workers, less than 600 are men...
...The American Federation of Labor did not take full advantage of the situation in the southern textile field, where strikes spontaneously occurred...
...In that way...
...The year began with the Russian revolution and the entry of the United States into the war...
...In his pamphlet on the work of Socialists in the unions, gotten out for the i national party...
...He stressed the Importance of the workers and farmers uniting with the progressives...
...a st the people—not merely to a party Hot is sot at large and powerful at it skssW be...
...In the La Follette Campaign To tell Hlllquit's career is, after all...
...Finally, Brandt wound up by saying that in not a single country of the world ls there a political movement of the workers without the unions inside it...
...Unless we solve the problem of the proper approach our educational work would be of no service to the unions...
...As attorney for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union he shares with Meyer London the credit for the great progress made in that section of the needle industry...
...Thomas on the Sooth William Karlin...
...First, hto physical breakdown— his second—that took him to the mountains for two years...
...6, showed the progress of hto organization, with the present fight for the 5-day and 5-night week...
...Power and automatic machinery has been introduced, and great changes have taken place...
...Again, the Socialists threw themselves into a fight for a workmen's compensation law...
...He has written several other Important works on Socialist theory and practise, and ls always ready to present the party's position before any sosssg or in any publication at any ilma...
...tint That tragedy need not tost ws* our movement assumes the unpsrtstl thst it deserves it will find Hulqott testf to be its spokesman before tut wstt nation and the whole world...
...gsWantty and wall for the La Follette ticket and after the battle was over, to persaads the railway unions to remain In politics...
...But he showed his manliness and courage by never whining, but watching the party's work and giving it aid and advice in the face of the fury of the Communist splitters, and presiding over Its rehabilitation even though physically absent Then came hto courageous defense of the Socialist assemblymen ousted by the notorious Sweet, despite the fact that his health was still precarious, and finally his return to lead the party in the 1920 campaign...
...was a mistake...
...The courts work for a labor party, by declaring lsws unconstitutional...
...fit knows practically every important...
...It to out to reawaken the progressive spirit among the rank and file...
...Tendencies for s Labor Party In opening the Sunday afternoon session, Nathan Fine, director of the Research Department of the Rand School, traced the rise of the socialist movement in Europe and the United States, and emphasized the fact that the Marxians had minimized the time element snd the potentialities ss well as recuperative powers of the capitalist system...
...The American workers are splendid battlers for conditions...
...The industrial conditions of the '80's and '90's were ripe for its development...
...Counted Out of Congress Again It was during that campaign that the head of the Department of Sociology at Columbia University urged members of his'classes, if they really wanted to do something for democracy in America, to go downtown and work for the election of Morris Hillquit...
...It wss known that hs endangered hto liberty, that an indictment and arrest were constantly imminent Bat again he did not flinch, for to do so would have meant discouragement to his followers...
...It calls for the organization of the unorganized, a labor party, international affiliation, and militancy all along the line...
...Bo task was too greet far hha...
...Hillquit to the bast known Assstta Socialist in all other countrttx...
...The employers work for a labor party, by shortening the gap between skilled and unskilled, by mergers, by mechanisation of agriculture, by the "Americanization of the world...
...The C. P. L. A. will be sterile, If it cannot attract the rank and file...
...And there were good historic reasons why the skilled do not help the unskilled, and melt away after their sporadic strikes, who do not sacrifice for years to build...
...Let's understand the abnormal circumstances of the American scene, the refusal of the youth to enter industry and follow their fathers' footsteps, the constant flux, the economic changes going on...
...That feature of his life Is known and it to for-that he to so highly honored and respected by his Comrades...
...He insisted that the leaders could change the attitude of the rank snd file quicker than the membership can their spokesmen...
...MORRIS HILLQUIT: PILLAR OF SOCIALISM Highlight^ in the Cm&prxtf me Qreatbeodm of Socialism in the United States Socialists everywhere this week joined in honoring the work of Morris Hdlqymt, newly elected national chairman of the Socialist forty...
...Hoehman Critical of Socialists Julius Hoehman, vice-president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, manager of the dress workers, ssked If the Socialists should not criticise themselves, and question themselves if they are equipped to take advantage of a political opportunity...
...to father was s teacher, and he received his early education in the Alexander Gymnasium, Rigs...
...Morris Hillquit has been s delegate to tosalty e*try International Socialist contrast in 30 years, and sgata and again the Xuropeaa Socialist press has commented upon his brilliance, his magnificent eloquence, the superb statesmanship he shows in his addresses there...
...A young man of 39, he was highly retarded fiy hto Comrades as s brilliant and a witty man, and was beginning to bs put forward frequently as the party's spokesman...
...And the pungently witty Shiplacoff then said that unions vote against immigration restriction, and just as humanly inconsistent, close their gates to new members in their own union...
...In Bridgeport, he said, once practically every delegate of the Central Labor Union was an office holder or an aspirant, or part of a political or- ; ganization of the two old parties...
...Louis but now stationed In Philadelphia to do organisation work...
...Examine yourselves and conditions...
...It was in that campaign thst Morris Hillquit was revealed in all his greatness, ss a man of political genius, as s matchless Socialist and as a man of unconquerable and incorruptible courage...
...Hillquit and the Party Hillquit is also noted as a distinguished tribune of Socialism before non-Socialists...
...His leadership to not like that gf Bebel or James or Mac Donald, manton of Parliament and official tribunes of the people...
...On top of unemployment to the utilization of the last receives of labor ln the South from the farms, women and children and the forcing down of wages...
...But it to not by his eloquence and his forensic ability that Hillquit has become the leader of Socialism in America...
...The great Madison Square Garden meeting to celebrate the event and Hlllquit's zreat speech, with its ringing refrain...
...with the same result, and in 1910 Meyer London took up the burden at battering down the Tammany defenses...
...Were the party today where it wss before the war and the Communists had Injured it it would be ready to do what the Independent Labor Party did in 1906...
...This to s most Inadequate sketch of Hlllquit's political career, but it Indicates the magnificent calibre of the man...
...He then said something which labor lesder after labor leader at the Institute repeated and hammered home to the different 100-odd persons who attended the session: "The leadership of the American labor unions reflecXs the economic and political views of^ie rank and file...
...That was notably true last year st Brussels, when the Socialist papers of the Continent commented that Hillquit stood head and shoulders above all the other delegates there, many of them internationally Important statesmen...
...He said that the trade*unions are the fundamental basis of all other forms of labor organization, political, educational and co-operative, and that when the trade unions stagnate all other phases of the movement will be affected...
...Illustrating the way a Socialist operates in the unions, Edward F. Caasidy...
...The C. F. L. A. Debated Considerable interest was manifest when Leonard Bright, secretary of the newly organised Conference for Progressive Labor Action, was called on...
...Bs rsvsaisd an inspired Soatoitot statesmanship...
...Bs tod the 1934 eampatgw ss chairman of the Socialist Action Committee He threw himself Into everything that might advance hto beloved cause...
...This time his life was in the balance...
...What came next to one of the saddest chapters In the history of our movement...
...Now said Comrade Brandt, in 1920 there were 109,000 cigar workers, while in 1938, only about 70,000, and turning out more cigars...
...As years passed and It might be thought he bad earned s rest, he redoubled hto energies in party work And now at SO he stands ready to go on with the enthusiasm of a new recruit in the cause...
...John A. Ryan in the pages of a magazine, the debate later being made into a very important boook, "Socialism...
...BTOquit's official position in the Soemhst movssDtnt of America consists of two offices...
...Justus Ebert of the Lithographers, took sharp issue with shtplacoff on the gats tioh of...
...He started by saying that there was a need for the revival of Socialist spirit to the unions, for it wss pretty weak...
...Hence, there was a need for annoying and criticising the smugness of the few who would stop with their limited' gains for themselves...
...That to real greatness...
...In the New Brunswick, N. J., strike, we proved with affidavits that there were girls under 14 st work, snd st Carteret, they were working these children 11 hours a day...
...t Morris Hmqutt is 00 years old...
...He charged that the rank snd file often has no freedom of action to influence the leaden...
...Let the Socialists offer their assistance ss speakers, through relief, through their press, and let them carry on an intelligent campaign for independent political action...
...And this despite the extraordinary increase In cigarette output, from 4 billion to 105 billions, between 1913 and 1928...
...Quit toadying," he concluded...
...He added that the problem of helping the unions i was one of approach, how to reach the | members with a critical yet sympathetic i appeal...
...In a sense, then, he was one of the real founders of the party...
...May you be with <*¦*% many years and live to see tomethssj i the triumph to which you have g^rst S) much of your nobis life...
...no axe to grind...
...He wants to see the Socialist movement progress—thst is all...
...The communist phobia, must pass, he said, and Socialists must take up their work to help organize unions, dual if necessary, where old unions do not function...
...representing the movement of Oils tssjuliy before the world...
...In 1883, also, he married, but his home life, bsautifal as It baa been, belongs to him alone...
...The C. P. L. A. is but a new form of the old Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance, the I. W. W. and similar organizations, in spirit at least...
...It ls an impatient break, it estranges, and no matter how well meaning, It becomes hostile...
...first, the issue of the city for the people...
...Those who know him ban sr him an affection thst can only...
...It made no survey of the field, it set up no adequate strike relief machinery, It did not properly dramatize the situation...
...Since then hs has been one of the best known and most highly respected members of the legal profession...
...The home market cannot continue to sustain production, and unemployment ensues...
...And after having started the Institute in thto spirit, Lee called on William M .Brandt, international representative of the Cigarmakers' International Union, formerly of St...
...today it is 80 per cent a young girl's and child's trade...
...If the labor unions led by the A. F. of L. officialdom were to reveal a willingness to embrace political action he would begin again a fight such ss led to the Ls Follette campaign...
...The challenge to Progressives," coneluded Bright "was good Socialist doctrine...
...To fight the leaders to a waste of time, If it stops at that...
...of Typographical Union No...
...The Battle of 1917 Hillquit led the fight...
...The Conference for Progressive Labor Action," said Shiplacoff, "is not a challenge...
...His debates with Professor Seligman, Samuel Untermeyer...
...The factories open at 6:15 A. M. and close st ? P. M. That to our prosperity...
...State Senator Thomas Duncan of Mil- : waukee showed the complex character of the combined Socialist-Progressive-Par - ' mer opposition in Wisconsin, and stressed the need of building a labor party from the local communities, instead of from on top...
...Brandt's story might well illustrate Hegel's famous triology: First we have the thesis, then the antithesis, and the synthesis...
...Many men fern disagreed with him...
...Here we do not get the organized men, how will we ever build a militant movement out of the unorganised...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 7
