THE SOCIALIST PARTY AND THE CITIES
Senior, Clarence O.
THE SOCIALIST PARTY AND THE CITIE The Rise and Decline of Socialist Munitpal Strength; Where Labor Rules Now; The Party's Program ' In this article the National Secretary of the Socialist Party...
...Tht tea* out municipal research agenda ai leagues of municipalities can at ttStt Organizations formed for tbt pettetl of one particular reform la bstltk, ¦ creation, etc., will usually be gad a m The International Union of LoesI 0* eminent Authorities, with sodsjat i both president and secretary, tat ¦ collected experience of 53.000 mates...
...It Is to the great honor of Morris Hillquit that he has never despaired of our cause and he has never since the years of his early youth ceased to proclaim that sooner or later the Socialist seed wUl bear glorious fruit in the United States as it has to England to the last twenty-five years...
...i It is Just 25 years ago that we met first at the Amsterdam Congress 1904...
...By Arthur Cr!snien (Member of the Executive Committee of the German Social Democrats) i have learned to esteem and love comrade hillquit as a socialist of lofty ideals and unshakable streng'h of conviction as well as a powerful and fair fi?hter...
...I Joyfully remember your visit to Denmark at the CXmgresB of 1910...
...socialist strength lay, not la tha industrialized i mas, but in the smaller towns in the agrarian and mining states...
...There is little probability, however, that there were many officials to be kept track of...
...Tht amount of prestige that is gained should not be overlooked...
...from the premier of Denmark whose party is giving the first great practical demonstration of disarmament...
...We earnestly hope that your great wcrk will continue for a long time to come, to the success of the workers of America and other countries...
...Truly and sincerely yours...
...And Raymond Molty aa i tribute to Milwaukee's sdmioaaea...
...it is interesting and important to know to what 'extent socialist theories are being applied in small ways in municipalities an over the world...
...field apart from's^^i"'!^^^ h ties...
...And even though to the new world, where you found your home, success did not as yet bring forth the great rising and the political deliverance, we know that the ground is laid, and that an extensive work of preparation has been done...
...He has taken part In the spiritual and poUtcal struggles of the determining decades to the development of Socialism and hat remained one of the keenest and liveliest among those engagad in the solution of the problems of the present...
...But the more honorably, we keep to mind the long, ardent, tireless work' that you honorable Comrade ha-e performed...
...None of the leaders of these parties is under tht Illusion that capitalism win be abolished from the city hall...
...With fraternal greetings to you all and to him...
...England reports approximately 10,000 Labor councilors, with one council out of twenty controlled by a Labor majority...
...Your devoted KARL KAUTSKY...
...he says, ". . . the socialists really have a municipal or urban platform . . . tht republican and democratic parties have none...
...Pauline Newman, Helen p. Stokes, Mary R. Sanford, Charles Solomon, Y. P. S. L. by Julius Umansky, Secretary...
...And another: the love of your comrades...
...It Is the great hope of European Socialism that the seed the Socialist Party of the United States Is sowing will equally ripen...
...Samuel M Nelstadt, George H. Goebel Lena M. Lewis, David Dubtosky, Fred L. Attend, Wfiliaai M. Felgen...
...Outside of Milwaukee...
...Socialist Party of Hungary...
...Bv A. Hueber (Austrian Trade Union Fedeaation) Dear Comrade Hillquit: I gladly take the opportunity to add my fraternal congratulations to the display of International comradeship which will greet your 60th birthday and to express my sincere admiration for the splendid work you have given to the workers' cause...
...may the socialist movement of th...
...Scattered here end there one finds that the Socialists heve united with other working class organizations and elected councilmen...
...the canadian labor party and llp...
...On the celebration of bis sixtieth anniversary we offer the sincere and cordial congratulations of all our comrades to Russia and outside of it...
...The NEW LEADER prints some cf these letters below...
...Fraternally yours, EMILE VANDERVELDE...
...It has not been your share so far, to be at the head of a prominent Socialist Party...
...On the other band, tht Socialist Party Is always organised and propagandizing far a new deal S. Tht "root of an evil" in etty politics is recognized by political scientists as well as Socialists to be the control by the monied interests of the city government for their own ends...
...But fate has assigned you the task of leadership to a country where the Socialist movement is confronting such enormous difficulties that, as a nation-wide movement at any rate, it Is still essentially a voice calling protest and hope—until the time of harvest comes...
...IV this brief survey of the past and present position of the socialists was undertaken for two reasons: it hat never been done before...
...Its understanding of the rest of ths world wfil in a large measure determine the course of the next decades...
...In addition to the letters quoted above and those reported in The New Leader last week greetings were received by Comrade Hillquit from Janko Sakasoff, Bulgaria...
...Most of the letters quoted below are written directly to Comrade Hillquit...
...We must rebuild the machinery, *BJ once existed as a bureau of tbt gates...
...In Cleveland, two counrflmen were ousted for "violation of the rules and disorderly conduct...
...America and Europe do not sufficiently understand each other...
...Here in Finland lives and hopes the working class...
...For those leader* aire most beloved whose fate has been the fight rather than the victory...
...but sines it it alleged that there is documentary evidence on that point l as so many of our european comrades who have known you and loved you as one of our most effective fighters for the cause, wish to send you my most cordial greetings and wishes . . . The foremost wish of all of your friends Is that your own main desire be realized, that your life work will soon mature the fruit which it deserves and that within the next ten years a great and powerful labor party wUl grow on the foundation which you have laid to the United States...
...VI The actual accomplishments mjm lists, even when in a mlasrQt lattve bodies, are noteworthy, Of JS stress has always been place...
...By Otto Bauer (Leader of Austrian Socialism) Dear Comrade: I Join my hearty congratulations to those of the American Socialists on the sixtieth birthday of Morris Hillquit...
...F. W. Jowett, England...
...You may deem yourself happy to belong to them...
...We are all looking to U. S. A. for the lessons this great country has to teach us to the way of industrial development and we are eagerly awaiting the day when American Labour will take its proper place to the ranks of the International working class...
...Bv R. Abromovitch (russian socialist leader) In the great pioneering work of International Socialism Comrade Hillquit occupies an important and honored place...
...He has long been my friend and we have worked together for our Socialism in various International Congresses...
...It can assist to building the party so that Its machinery will bo more powerful and capable of taking over tht next higher governmental offices...
...7. industrial cities felt the sharp dadine hi real wages that took place la 1917 more sharply than did the small towns...
...Comrade Hill quit was presented with a volume of letters from Socialist leaders the world over...
...By pierre Rertaudel (Socialist Deputy of France) Dear Comrade: I am happy to participate with my modest tribute to the souvenir which you are about to offer to our comrade, Morris Hillquit...
...EtaaJal the Socialists hammer on the Idas a] ventlve medicine—cltoics of s8 are a set up in the cities In which Bay a weight...
...through your works, that hare been tramlafo" in the finnish language, your name has become familiar to us...
...Wishing you again a long life, we send you or Socialistic srreeting...
...In the last ten years it has experienced the most astonishing vicissitudes...
...Since the war years, records are In a precarious state...
...the 1911 victories wero concentrated largely in the northern central and middle western states...
...George B. Leonard, S. A. Stocker, Dan Hog an, G. A. Hoehn, John M Collins...
...You have done much, dear friend Hillquit, but qjore is ahead of you...
...By Friedrieh Adler (Secretary tf tat SteteBtt and Labor dear comrade hillquit: several weeks ago when you carried us all away by your fiery apttch at the zurich mass meeting nobody would have guessed that yon made claim to the age of atrty years...
...Swedish Social dam- j ocratic Party...
...It Is apparent that they are watching with fervent hope for the development of a powerful party of Socialism and labor to the United States...
...from the powerful government party of Socialism to Germany...
...The most Instructive feature of tha proceedings was that this meant the removal of ths balance of power In the council from the hands of the Socialists...
...May he have the Joy of being here to celebrate the victory which he has so patiently prepared...
...R. J. Daviea, England...
...Oirotemo and Frances b. Whitest...
...The 1923 campaign was heated and resulted In the mayor being reelected with almost double his previous vote, 65 per cent...
...STAUNING...
...We til know what an extraordinary large part Morris Hillquit has had to this work, which modest as its results may be today will still have for the future the same Importance as the work of the sower Keir Hardie thirty years ago...
...V the question is often eased "what ten and do socialists antnrnplwh that could not be done by food' man who art not socialists...
...this was the peak year...
...R. ABROMOVITCH...
...tatefe^ large corporations and "public" tat) equitably that had slid out fast at taxes for years through their asset 4 the local machine and the teats i assessors...
...Your name and deeds are known all over the world and especially among the conquered and the oppressed nations, who hope to hear from you mighty words to their behalf...
...as leader of the Socialist Party of the...
...ARTHUR CRISPIEN...
...others were sent to him through Julius Gerber, New York Socialist, *ho was the main instigator of the surprise celebration...
...the New Bedford labor Party, formed by the striking textile workers under the guidance of the Socialists elected four councilssen in 19x7...
...The number of Socialist officials is steadily mounting again, however...
...As President of the Federation of Trade Unions in Austria where the closest cooperation between tha industrial and political movement has always prevailed since the days of Victor Adler, I especially welcome your efforts to promote the idea of unity in the Labour movement both industrial and political May the feeling of friendship with which we greet you today and to which, I am sure, America and International Labour will heartily Join, contribute towards the realization of this great aim...
...paul loebe...
...By Clarence O. Senior (National Exeeatire Secretary, Socialist Party) Fx strength shown by the Socialist partt in ittnllng municipal offbHata In Am»rw before the war canted leading political tttouutte to announce that it would aoon be a part* of major importance If the rate of Increase waa eonstalled...
...A. FENNER BROCKWAY...
...Against the opposition of the three dailies, the mayor and two council members Out of 16 were elected...
...totality of our movement as much it they may feel for their own nations...
...sodslah at not grappled with the housing ptata as they have to other countries, fatal the outstanding example of an sjtal Socialist housing policy...
...vn 11 The Socialist party and otbsr atS| class political organizations htft eta i tunities in the municipal field wbtfkei not be utilized as fruitfully by »flj sb group...
...tftgS welfare, health, education, ¦mb^J the raising of the standard tf bj the working class, to so far ta Probably the most importe* a category of Improvements te Be 2 of American Socialists Is tsat aflat Impartial reports on butts, stthaal Pasadena, Scbnenectady, and aQat a lay a great deal of stress at gtaj achievements to this field...
...Their usefulness will be enormously increased by the parliamentary position of tht labor party, since english cities must steurt grants of power from tht central government for a largo proportion of their activities...
...hillquit has been more than an american socialist...
...John R. coouaoss at last December at the Chicago aetata of the League for Industrial Dtattai that the Socialists were tht fir* Ssj economic and social science to fatal that he had "never met a body eratt cipal officials who were mart sat I their Job or more sincere...
...Thirty years ago there was no Labor Party in Great Britain...
...F. M WIBAUT...
...this was harder on mm socialist party *>an it would have been on any other...
...it can help lighten some of the burdens which capitalism places upon the working class...
...Other American comrades who tent greetings Included: Jasper McLevy, Mabel H. Barnes, Bertha H. King, W. H. Henry, George K. Roewer, E. H. Thomas...
...I hope you may live to see that time...
...baum, Herman Kdbbe, Hymen Kemaer, Theresa B. Wiley, Herbert M. Merrill Fred Sandler, A. N. Retro, Finnish Federation, Joed Motes...
...ties over the world, win be at grat a fulness—as win the many local am ment research and Information thee of other parties affiliated Witt saltl and Socialist International With cynicism the prertfflmijPjj "philosophy," and a widespreadtmntd democratic political machinery there isNa definite challenge tettttijj and progressives to unite to teat ** politics more interesting, wa%^mj and more significant for tbt mat ej democratic institutions...
...the tanejation muse be reached that every powerful Socialist and Labor party hi the world has reached Us present position by first demonstrating its ability to run tht nation's cities...
...What Is so remarkable about this tribute is the fact that they come not from mere government functionaries but from heads of labor parties millions of whose rank and file members would themselves pen similar warm greetings If thty but had the opportunity...
...Social ostracism Is too deadly a weapon for the professional man to face, and the business man does not dare attack for fear of hurting his buslntas...
...But we Russian Social Democrats cannot allow the occasion to pass without mentioning his friendly understanding and active assistance to the Russian proletariat and particularly to the Russian Social Democrats...
...By Karl Seitx (Mayer of Vienna) Dear Comrade Hillquit: For a decade we have known you in the International as one of those who always have an eye to the...
...pierre renaudel By Tli...
...With most cordial greetings and wishes...
...The councilman were Increased to six...
...2. When the politicians recovered they consolidated their fortes, uniting tht *wo eld parties where necessary...
...3. The wave of "piogisaslvlsm" which culminated in tht 1913 roosevelt campaign had an effect which wort off by 1913...
...Undoubtedly the exampa a\M waukee and Reading win scale kt 4 as an Inspiration for municipal tl palgns...
...William Karlin, Mete IJTtonthal...
...from the Balkans, from Greece, from dictatorridden Spain, from Ireland, Holland and Finland...
...But the seed which the small groups of propagandists sowed under the leadership of Keir Hardie has borne glorious fruit and the Labor Party has attained political power within a quarter of a century...
...Bv Tonv Sender (Socialist Member of the Reichstag) The Socialist International has but few men left who may be considered as the Incarnation of the history of our great movement...
...ralisia tha rise and decline of tha number of officials elected, tha shift of voting strength from towns to cities, and the tnrraart in urban votes in 1917 can be explained by the following suppositions: 1. tht socialist successes in ths small towns were surprises to tha old party politicians who had become overconfident...
...Wt hops from the bottom of the heart that Hillquit wfil see personally the growth of the seed and the maturity of the harvest...
...By Karl Kautsky My Dear Hillquit: I cannot allow your sixtieth birthday anniversary to past without an expression of my great esteem for you as t friend and comrade...
...At the same time America has become a leading power of the world...
...That it be vouchsafed you to continue your activities In this direction with full vigor to the next decade is a wish which I extend not only to you and Mrs...
...C. T. Cramp, England...
...We also know that a struggle against the greatest capitalism which is known to be the most brutal in the world, and is unscrupulously oppressing its workers, is hard, and at times must feel that the task is impossible to fight against overwhelming odds...
...WILLIAM GILLIS...
...With the rise of local labor parties in quite a number of cities, this informing survey will prove useful to the readers of The New Leader...
...He Is one of the sturdy champions who to a difficult environment has developed and maintained the purity of the Socialist flame in the United States...
...It is with a feeling of sadness that I think of the time when you and I atifl had the good fortune to work side by side with Victor Adler, Bebel Jaures and other great leaders...
...If you do, you will be entitled to feel that you have contributed to this end, with great ability and with full devotion...
...There it sees some of its national sections crushed by dictatorships...
...A Socialist alderman In Toledo was impeached for "disloyal" statements, and removed...
...even before the days of german and russian gold and ralph beaky, business men, alarmed, poured money that tht socialist* could not match into tht old party treasuries...
...There are probably other local parties formed by Socialists tad unionists which txtensivt search would reveal n contrary to general opinion...
...The World of Socialism to Morris Hillauit American Socialist Leader Wins Enviable World-Wide Tributes piEW men in modern timet havt won sueh a tribute as that bestowed on Morris Hillquit, American Socialist leader in the last few weeks...
...tht Socialist party of all parties cannot be a spoils party and succeed...
...This certainly Is at the bottom of the greatest esteem to which the best Socialists to our International keep you...
...Rockford, HI...
...Surely an enviable tribute...
...Party, that will enable Isolated Mfetal Socialist councilmen to benefit kt experiences of others facing ttt) sa type of problem...
...The first municipal soaMsal tuberculosis to ths world was estate a few years ago by the Labor aejal Bermondsey, England...
...The small Socialist group which existed at that time to Great Brjtain were weaker In Influence than the American Socialist Party Is today...
...beTtitaTthe experiments we aaM.eeteaQy astde in the dutctton of ScetoJtom have Iron successful, sad hate certainly net brought about the general rum that was predicted by tha opponents of Socialism...
...The New Tort stettl have Just made a commendable set I this direction by setting up t ntat) bureau under able direction...
...paul douglas states that the decline waa 16J per cent, from the standard of the previous year...
...By paul Loebe (president of the German Reichstag) Dear Comrades: We, the European Social Democrats, are thankful to Morris Hillquit for the important theoretical and practical work which he Is doing to the great American republic for the Socialist movement, and If there are as yet no great visible results of tht work we are nevertheless convinced that it is preparatory work which wfil some day bear fruit...
...Your name Is Inscribed in the history of the International, side by side with those of Bebel, Jaures, and Keir Hardie...
...You aa ana of the citizens of ths two worlds, to tht best position to understand both, wUl be able to help build a bridge between the two continents so that America win Justify its historic role as leader and regenerator of the world which, of course, tht can only accomplish under Socialistic leadership...
...Bv K. H. Wiik (Secretary of the Secial-Dttatertito Party of Finland) Honorable Comrade HHIqutt: Performing your daily tasks among a highly developed capitalism, it might be possible That you are not aware, that also here, far, on the borderline of capitalistic countries, we are famfliar with your great work and esteem it...
...The ordinary "rttorai- attatan haute, and ted by an oritsft Tilting personality, hat net the rnntinnoes political machinery necessary to give the chief official this support...
...6. the foreign language communities in tht largo cities were to quite an extent responsible for the socialist vote in 1911 tTprtttlng opposition to tht war...
...Other advantages that tht peak I these municipalities havt gained aacfc trouble In labor disputes, mare plonks' municipal utilities, increase hi tbatta tion budget, reduction of spoils ts3 and an Increase in use of the atnta tern...
...the real reason was their refusal to approve the resolution creating a war service league, and the rest of the machinery which went into action to make the world safe for the *—rf*"" an injunction was refused by the local Judge on the grounos that refusal to vote with the majority was, ipso facto, disorderly conduct...
...The control of the municipality can serve to train technicians for future work under Socialism...
...To Milwaukee in 1910 goes ttattl of first hiring experts without taaijj sure of a private "citizen's league," at, brought to bear...
...Many of your friends have regretted this, because they.lrhow that such leadership would have been, under all circumstances, to full accordance with our Socialist principles...
...Important moreover for the entire International are bis works on Socialism which have a fructifying.effect in ail countries...
...Sofia, Bulgaria...
...You are a young man...
...And now you are said to celebrate your sixtieth birthday...
...Anyway, such to the ease...
...John p. OTtourke, S. John and Anita Block, 8. A. dt Witt, August and HQda clt resent, McAlltter Coleman, Frank R. Oroerwaith, Nathan Fine, Jessie W. Hughan, Vflho Hedman, Bergius and Anna Ingerman, Arthur Kahn, Fred Gaa, Painters, Local No...
...May he have many more years of vigorous activity to the Socialist propaganda and organisation...
...large, numbers of people who will never understand Socialist theories will adhere to a party which is doing something and atM^amuvmuh Labor r%rtel'taya:,iTn Ortec Britain tht best anrotneet Jar Bcmmmmi^mSa artoLfciet...
...and the Socialists, with the backing of tha trade unions, elected their mayor hj Orasite city, ni The president of the Buffalo etty council is a Socialist...
...In those days you seemed to us one of the youngest...
...Peter Slssman, Mr...
...some incompetents and demagogs ware stated, of courss...
...And these qualities I also found to your writings which havt conveyed to the Socialists of all the countries a knowledge and understanding of the labor movement to AmfrUt, A man In public lift must know and understand tht peculiarities of his own country, but in modern politics a person cannot achieve hit best If he knows only his own country, no matter how large It is...
...Yours very fraternally, a. rubber...
...and Mrs...
...I was at once strongly impressed by your clearness of thought and your suggestive speech and my deep appreciation has continually Increased...
...From the Socialist Party of Bulgaria Dear Comrade Hillquit: From the Balkan mountains we send you are heartiest greetings and wannest wishes on the occasion of your sixtieth birthday...
...The Party's Program ' In this article the National Secretary of the Socialist Party presents soma interesting data Hoarding ths influent* of ths Socialist Movement in American city governments...
...They come from Karl Kautsky, the inheritor of the cloak ol Marx and Engels as the exploiter of the world-shaping theories of Socialism: from England, where Socialists hold the reins of the world's greatest empire: from Socialist leaders to France and Belgium who hold In their hands power to make or break governments:' from Vienna, Austria, where the Socialists are building a new Athens...
...III In other lands there was a slight slowlng-up, in tht advance of Socialism in municipalities caused by the disorders of war time...
...American people we wish you success in this post for many more years and to lead American Labour hand to hand with the world's Socialists for the realization of the Socialistic ideals...
...Luna, Ohio, has a local Labor Party which has elected two of the five members of the city commission...
...OTTO BAUER...
...We are therefore watching with all our sympathy the arduous efforts of the American Socialist Movement which under your able leadership Is developing such a fine fighting spirit whilst at the same time it never loses sound Socialist principles...
...criminal Justice, saying, "If taste ha place where criminal Justice a ajj cient it is to Milwaukee, under agate administration...
...Yours fraternally, HENRI DE MAN...
...his name is respected by socialists of all countries, and all of us who know him love him...
...hat keeps it a matter of honor to be a isrt of the International proletariat struggle for liberty, and to contribute a •hare for its success...
...2. A "good" man in office is tremendously bandtoapped without a ceceseete or fairly tnwiplsti set at offlcteli with whom he tea work...
...We wish him to preserve that youth and enthusiasm of which he furnishes us proof every time he comes to our continent to take his place in our Socialist work for the triumph of the Social Republic...
...1911 showed a drop of 652— and Jb the larger cities an the Socialists were defeated but Mayor duncan of Butte, montana, by 1915 the larger cities had regained their strength but the number of officers held did not again rise to the 1911 height...
...Morris Hillquit has had the rare good fortune to enter as a young man our movement in its heroic age and to remain to it during the period of its gradual growth and development down to the pretent day...
...In a great spiritual movement like International Socialism, there are higher rewards of leadership than those of power...
...Milwaukee and Reading are, of course, being h-~-d from an the time...
...long life to him...
...and wish that you may still have many years of good work...
...in the scandinavian countries practically an the important towns have industrial populations which regularly return socialist majorities to city councils...
...Closely connected Is the idst tf a venting crifne by Increasing rtav/sa facilities...
...Here it is on the threshold of power...
...Simon Lfbros, Martin C. Xrech, Sadie and Sidney Stark, Joseph K. Cohen, Elisabeth Oilman, Dr...
...The municipal reformer confines himself to questions of efficiency and obvious malfeasance...
...We have been friends since...
...They were overthrown by an increase to the militancy of tha socialists, probably engendered to a great extent by the ntws in 1910 that milwaukee has been won...
...By F. M. Wibaut My Dear Comrade Hillquit: I am glad that Comrades Algernon Lee and Julius Gerber, have afforded me the opportunity of participating to the intimate celebration of your 60th birthday...
...the farmer-labor Party has had soma success In the northwest but data are not available...
...the answer bat to several directions: 1. william andersen, director of the bureau for research in government at the university of minnesota, gives ont reason that socialists succeed on a program that causes others to fall...
...M However, we cannot afford to eata plate city councils dominated sf B people who mean well but who at ¦ bother to keep themselves buorati i the latest developments to the irtiwl public administration, or who do not kt access to the experiences of other aa...
...There is no final fulfilment for Socialism anyway: and it may well be that for men of your stamp, there Is more happiness In the struggle itself than in any success that ends it less to reality than to appearance...
...I hope you wfil have tht strength for many years to come to lead our cause to victory, at an American MadDonald, tht head of a powerful Labor Party In the wealthiest and strongest country In tht world...
...FRIEDRICH ADLER...
...In 1931 gave birth to the Labor League compos sd of the unions, the local branch of the FarmerLabor Party, the branches of the Socialist Party, and of the Good Templars...
...The 1911 elections were marked by ths large number of cities In which ths Republicans and the Democrats united to defeat the Socialists The Socialist -rote increased oyer four times what it had bean the previous election, hut the number of offices gamed was small...
...K. H. WIIK...
...united states have the benefit of his leadership for many years to come...
...Even m Milwaukee ground was lost In the 1918 elections for the school board and the judiciary...
...One of these rewards is yours already—the consciousness of a fight weH and gallantry fought...
...By Emile Vandervelde (chairman of the labor and socialist international) The International has been rebuilt on a new foundation after the war...
...As part of the celebration...
...in 190* there were only 35 Socialist municipal officials accounted for, and 1900 showed an Increase of Just eight, rhe neat ywar however, the number jumped to 11...
...May you preserve your, youth for many years to come and may you be preserved to strength and health to your people, to the socialist P.-irty of the cn'.tea states and to the International...
...the finns have majorities in 144 out of 180 municipalities...
...5. in some places poor choices had been mads and tht party had to repudiate aa elected official...
...Hillquit put to all the comrades in America and in the International...
...l«a party of rtferai air * to baud tiie machinery to tajta...
...then one remembers the knowledge and inspiration of his books more than twenty years ago and the incredible becomes crec^ble...
...Theresa and Leon mendel danrfapand Kathertoe Mettrote, Samuel Orr, Patrick 3. Murphy...
...in Milwaukee Mayor Hoan vetoed the purchase of . $500,000 worth of "Liberty" bonds on the ground that the city had no legal authority to buy them...
...Let me wish you, that you may live to see International Socialism (which shall be broader than pre-war European Socialism) as the driving force to economic life over the world...
...he looks forty and has the vigorous mind of twenty...
...about B0 per cent, of the elected municipal officials in australia art labor representatives...
...H. KRISTOFF, Secretary of the Party...
...The persecution of the Party for fta war stand had resulted by 1919 in scoru of wii"mp*1 officials being Impeached oi ousted on one pretext or another...
...Including tht reverberations of this control that reach Into the smallest parts of the political machine...
...it can prevent private exploitation af certain public needs...
...TONY SENDER...
...your youthfulness, your strength, your enthusiasm...
...Few persons outside Socialist ranks dare attack this basis of corruption...
...In 1934 the most Important office, that of assessor, was won and enabled the labor members to put Into effect soma far reaching tax reforms...
...American Socialists will be particularly cheered in reading these letters to learn of the great hopes these giants of European Socialism, — Vandervelde, Bauer, toe be, Stauning, Snowden,—have for the triumph of American Socialism...
...Morgan Jones, England...
...The fact contradicts all we know about you...
...Bv William Gillis morris hillquit, one foot to europe and the other in the united states, is a strong link in the chain which binds the labour and socialist movement of the world— the one sure foundation of tht league of nations...
...The Socialists have bees...
...Bv Henri De Man (Of the Belgian Labor Party) Dear Comrade HMquit: If you lived in some big European country, you would by this time be either an actual or prospective government leader...
...By A. Fenner Brcckway, M.P...
...Elsewhere again, and particularly to the United States, it represents only a numerically weak minority, and the capitalists of Europe, who at one time opposed to the Socialists of the continent the moderation of the British trade unions, today resume the same attitude In referring to America and predicting the masses of American workers will never accept Socialism...
...Jans Nos, Greece...
...vienna hat gained world wide fame under tha government of tht most militant socialist party at europe, old has introduced innovations in tot conduct of municipalized business and social welfare activities that will be of great importance to municipal officials everywhere...
...have had some successes— a majority on the edmonton council often, and several aldermen in winnipeg, calgary, hamilton and london...
...tha locked-out hosiery workers of Kenosha, Wis, ran a labor ticket tola spring and captured half of tha twelve seats on tha county board of commissioners...
...I thank you for these great deeds...
...Stauning (Prime Minister of Denmark) Dear Comrade Hillquit: On the sixty years'day, I .too, announce myself with a salutation both personal, and from comrades in little Denmark...
...KARL SEITZ...
...We know that to this struggle for liberty, you as a fighter :n the first ranks, have performed a long day's wcrk for the benefit of the coming generations...
...interests of tht American proletariat with those of the world proletariat on the basis of a thorough understanding of the practical situation combined with theoretical clarity...
...Your stake in Great America was an evidence of the advancing and penetrating power of the International idea...
...4. The ptoplt expected mors from tht socialists than thty wart aid* to accomplish under tot restrictions 4 charters and financial bmitation by tht state, and after having mads ont big affect to "throw out tht rascals" settled back into than- usual ways of hiring...
...la the spring elections of 1911 there were 400 elected, and in ths fan 787 captured office...
...But even If satisfaction should be denied to you: there is a beauty about a life spent to plowing and sowing for harvests to be gathered by others, that Is greater yet than the beauty of fulfilment...
...Nledjalkowskl, Vice-president of the Polish Socialist Party...
...I havt had many opportunities to follow personally your activities in the International and to observe in what a masterly manner you always knew how to harmonist the...
...Ths press and the professional and volunteer patriots yelled for the blood of ths Socialists...
...Leader of lr>» Tr.'—i :-.?-nt Labor Party of Great Britain) when one meets morris hillquit it is impossible to believe that he is sixty...
...Ha mutt alto understand the rest of tht world...
...The NEW LEADER last week told of the surprise celebration arranged by the New York Socialists and to which the Socialist leaders of the world Joined...
...The greetings to Morris Hillquit represent tributes from the mass of Europe's workers...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 8
