A 'DEAD' CITY AND THE UNITED SOCIALIST DRIVE
SHARTS, JOSEPH W.
A 'Dead' City and the United Socialist Drive By Joseph W. Sharts Member, National Enenetive Comittee, Socialist Patty LOCALS of the Socialist Party, down in the doleful dumps, when summoned by...
...One hunted up a suitable dining place, and after repeated failures settled on the Y. W. L. Lunchroom, where a cafeteria supper St 50c a plate could be obtained...
...Olvany didn't want Governor Smith to have the discredit of being associated on the same ticket with Connolly's man...
...A few local speakers were drafted as there was no money for bringing outsiders...
...Batiedaelar Mr...
...He lead his followers to victory in many battles for increased wages and shorter hours of labor, thus lifting those in the lower social scale to a higher level...
...William P. Brunner is a 42-year-old congressman who was elected last year as a "clean government" candidate...
...And the peddling continued and the clamor and racket grew until -it seemed ss if aU the Rockaway* were a madhouse—and so it was...
...Tbat—and a lot of headaches...
...It is the enemy of social, economic and political freedom all over the world...
...And why not...
...They are capable of making the most ridiculous statements and at the same time assume that an academic label will give their utterances the stamp of wisdom...
...The "boom" had been a fake and a fraud from beginning to end...
...What he intended is the meaning that is conveyed by illiterates who assert that the Socialist is one who wants to "divide up...
...Cohwrtsa University is s business litsliliMtoo with seed, sugar, gvs, csocinc isgmt, tesbebsovb sasa csxjxex corporations...
...His works on Socialist theory are translated into many languages and are found in libraries of aU nations...
...It helps him to get money from other people who get it from our people...
...There is no city in the country, no matter how apparently dead, where a couple of enterprising Socialists can not, by following Dayton's example, equal or exceed our record in supporting the financial drive of the Socialist Party...
...Coney Island was pretty weH sewed up from the standpoint of big development The echo of the Florida boom was therefore heard in the Rocksways...
...The aldermen from the borough elected Bernard M. Patten as Connolly's successor...
...That tat, for several years the air was fun of rumors of a tremendous development down there...
...But he has never rested on his laurels as other labor leaders do...
...Is tt not within easy reach of the city...
...The results were astonishing...
...Patten won the nomination and was beaten in the election by Major Harvey...
...A 'Dead' City and the United Socialist Drive By Joseph W. Sharts Member, National Enenetive Comittee, Socialist Patty LOCALS of the Socialist Party, down in the doleful dumps, when summoned by the indefatigable and pestiferous Mane Lewis, National Drive Director, to hold a Senior banquet, have held up their collective hands in horror snd rifted the grand old wail of defeat: "Imoossiwe...
...It is significant that official opinion in Washington is only aroused when American property interests are aiTected...
...Let us hope that the Feecbt SSsS win be restrained, that they say * plunge Central Europe into a esaa* conflict tbat might easily bad to »« eral war...
...They have need tbstSf to relieve the starving masn...
...They bought at whatever price they were asked in order to ssB to the next sucker at a higher- price...
...If Absentee Jim is reelected Mayor ef New Tors Ctty be promises to do us good...
...Their starvation wage is a menace to labor standards throughout the industry and we hope that this organization, job will bring a big majority of the colored women workers within the protective fold of the union...
...The Boons Cracks Then an of a sudden the whole thing collapsed...
...The Job pays $15,000^ a year...
...Discharge the owners, keep the managers technicians and experts, and the giants will serve us instead of workless and useless owners...
...James: How are you going to draft capital under your bUl...
...Among these was F. M. KlrkendaJl...
...esSb and cooperative orgenimtka...
...And if the plots had been assembled and the stores built it would have been utterly impossible to charge anything but the most insane prices to meet the charges on parcels assembled out of lots that were selling so high...
...What to part of this sad tale is that echoes of that boom came to New York...
...It would be making us into a United States of Soviet America Instead of the United States of America...
...This win give a rough idea of the "clean government" leader of the Democratic party of Queens...
...The Forward, and active workers, aad then to school teachers and preachers...
...If ttoaeSj is destroyed snd a Fascist desjatta I erected otMts nuns, we may rest anas' that this calamity win have m nssto here...
...More than 1100,000 was expended in the campaign to get the nomination for the "organisation" man...
...No one thought beyond the neat sale...
...The drive for the national fund brought in a total of $300.00 and local Dayton came out of the affair revivified...
...They declare that their interests have not been molested...
...BhmSI ss tion triumph, the wonderful work d I nidpal housing and humane seen...
...the avowed and endorsed candidate of George W. Olvany's "purified" Tammany...
...They want a reatoeba the old order of aristocratic 4sWte] but modern and democratic Ttocast barrier to these aims...
...It ts irrtimarery tied up with the royal house of Morgan...
...1TB seven or eight Bsrepsai Ttmn-i as dooxs or ssetos M we may rejoins that Um BrSlal Government has reverses-a* aw I the Baldwin Oovernsaent whs* f Italian Fascism...
...There were charges in the newspapers of a dictatorship sustained by terror and murder...
...He is at present County Clerk and was the "organisation" candidate in the primaries...
...There are dark forces working for enforced servitude of the masses in the next war...
...However, the people from whom he gets the money are not our people...
...If all these dark elements in American life have their way the next war will make the old czarist Russia look like an asylum for the oppressed when compared with the United States...
...b lation which has been carries ed) Vienna win be destroyed 5*1 Consider the situation winch tsar...
...They work for conscription of labor but deceive their own members by asserting that they favor conscription of both property and labor...
...But having refused to utter praise for a social system that leaves masses of people intellectually In the hands of the political priests and economically in the bands of the exploiting capitalists, his name is associated with the "undesirable...
...and these were sent with a courteous request for publicity to the three English language and one German language newspapers with two complimentary tickets to the supper...
...They say nothing about the murders and suppression of all political opposition...
...We've been dead here ever since the- war...
...Now that the organization has reestablished itself after some years of internal strife which had left h prostrate, the organization of the colored women in the industry is the next big job...
...Can't be done...
...Dwyer is now rich He placed his whole roll at Brunner'i disposal...
...Beekaway Gees Beaming In 1035 popular excitement over Florida was at its height The coral sands of Palm Beach and Miami were seen as guttering goto mines, as gorgeous places, to acquire not sun tans but wealth...
...Ik M-Cready...
...We do not share the optimism of Mr...
...American Legion officials play a prominent role...
...So much for the Patten who expects to Tun for Borough President independently...
...Conquering the Trust Giants IN A radio address last Sunday night Samuel -™- Untermyer chanted a funeral dirge over the Federal anti-trust laws...
...We were snd had been for several years without form and void...
...Incidentally, the notorious De Bragg* is (till county leader of the Republican party...
...The large hall and tables were filled The newspapers reported 300 present...
...They were Assemblyman William P. Brunner and "Big Bin" Dwyer, his "angel...
...Had he devoted his talents to the destruction of liberty and Democracy In America, he would be heralded as a patriot by the kings of capital and their hired henchmen...
...So weTl let It {lass...
...While it has been vehemently denied that Patten was Connolly's man no one has been fooled...
...He won the nomination in a hot primary fight and he represents the "better" element in Queens democracy—if there can be such a thing...
...His evident abilities as an author were devoted to the production of many valuable books that helped to enrich the Socialist literature of America...
...Although recognised the world over ss a leading Socialist statesman, shameful to say...
...Spafford: Tou cannot draft capital...
...a telephone message to the city desk of two evening newspapers brought from each a reporter and a photographer...
...The SoeWat ai trade union organisations have BBSbf armed to protect the republic sgsbs to reactionaries who have beoass Ml enough to declare what they vast a* want to restrict the suffrage, .sab tot, dom of the press, deprive Vtetaa d ft autonomy, centralise power, saw b jury law in favor of reaction, lid ban emasculate the powers of toe toS unions...
...The deepest root of the evils aad inieruitles which ail the industrialvworld is the subjection of Labor to Capital, and the enormous share which tba possessors of the instruments of production are able to take from the produce.—John Stuart Mill...
...Kids would play at selling lots...
...yH The former Catholic Chaneetbr, tot Seipel, is an active supporter Sffsfi cists since he left office...
...It is represented by the old jingle that was quoted in the nineteenth century: Who is a Socialist...
...Then 1000 double postal cards were obtained and multigraphed, one announcing the supper and asking that the addressee send in his reservation at once, the return-card containing blank reservations to ebe filled in...
...Well, if this definition is correct Butler's rolling mill is a Socialist institution...
...Perhaps the experience of Local Dayton,.down to darkest Ohio, may be iSuminetmg...
...Butler is not only s "person who is anxious to get possession of sad to spend the money of other people,'* but he gets it from the other people who obtain worldess jpeosass by eajfesnsg our people, the masses who do the work of this nation...
...Moreover, it is interesting that r: resentatives of big American capitalist organizations in Cuba have issued statements in defense of t'.ie Machado regime...
...Beekaway Gees Ga-Gs What occurred was this: AH of a sudden in the latter part of July, 1935, the city heard that Rockaway had gone ga-ga...
...That is a good suggestion for the voter who thinks he can manage things by supporting parties owned by his enemies...
...This is on me" is the Inscription a Rhode Island physician haa had cut into a largo rock that will be placed on his grave...
...Enthusiasm seized everyone at the sight of a crowded meeting of Socialists...
...PtsJ Duffy declared that he ess "gJM f Mussolini and of Americans wbs'baaf' Mussolini...
...The demand was couched in such terms of sharp necessity as admitted of no refusal...
...It so happened that a splendid German Singing Society, the Klntracht existed in the city, and an appeal to them to furnish music met a glad response...
...He knows wherever there is capitalist Imperialism there must follow Socialism When the American people rule...
...The boom had struck there...
...That is the deceit that is being practiced in support of a measure which cannot stand frank discussion in the open...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Oilumbia University, appears to be in this class...
...The Terror in Cuba AYEAR or two ago the United States Senate Was the scene of a discussion of conditions in Cuba...
...snatch a bite to eat and get out on the streets and sen lots...
...In his early youth he found his work snd be did it...
...Recently President Machado had himself re-elected "without opposition...
...In the foUowing primary election Patten was the Connolly candidate against one James T. HaBman...
...Invested capital cares nothing for democracy and human life...
...In the past two years The New Loader baa received many letters from readers who have been unable to renew their subscriptions because of unemployment...
...Why not indeed...
...They did not build...
...His eloquence has driven confusion from the minds of scores of thousands of workers ss to the goal of Labor and the immediate road to travel...
...Nicholas has been very successful in getting possession of other people's money snd spending it for his enterprise on Morningside Heights...
...As an orator he has directed some of the most eloquent attacks against the crimes and human waste under capitalism...
...It happens that a brother of Connolly Is a Queens Alderman, and he admitted in the presence of a number of newspapermen—the over-signed among them—that Patten was his brother's choice...
...Ava HUbert, an unusually gifted pianist daughter of an old time Socialist family, was also living near Dayton and was willing to come and play...
...Society has Just two mortal enemies—the man who wffl not apeak hie mind and tba man who tries te close the mouths ef those who do not think as he dnenv—T...
...The spread between the wages paid these women workers in the unorganized shops ($8 and $12 per week) and the union wage ($26 to $44 per week) is an example of the revolting conditions that are possible for the sweated workers...
...People in town hoard shout the maantty and rushed out They caught the fever and bought lots to sen to others at higher prices...
...Messrs...
...There to exactly one way to dean up Queens...
...That is...
...Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, aa most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble, like a declaration of independence, or the statutory right to vote by those who have never dared to think or act—Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Under the Piatt Amendment we share in responsibility for what happens in the island...
...Senior arrived before noon of the day of the supper...
...It was announced that there would be gambling casinos, magnificent hotels, superb homes, golf courses, everything that Palm Beach had —and more...
...He added that "the men and women of labor in America will never consent to its enactment...
...Spafford: The Constitution of the United States says that you cannot take a man's property without compensation...
...Two men cleaned up...
...On April 2nd, 1928, Maurice B Connolly, unfaithful public servant and accomplice of the common swindler, John M Philippe, resigned rather suddenly as president of the borough that bad so long been plundered...
...But the lots that had to be assembled in parcels upon which these stores and theatres and hotels were to be built were being spiralled up in price until the prices asked were fantastic crazy, utterly insane...
...Idler or bungler or both, he is willing To fork out his penny and pocket your shuiing...
...He is an excellent labor leader, lawyer, author, orator, statesman, executive, theoretician, and is qualified in many other directions...
...It was "Big Bill" Dwyer...
...Untermyer who thinks that the Federal Trade Commission with broader powers will find a means of controlling the giants of the capitalist world...
...To encourage prompt response, the return-card contained also the proviso that the reservations were to be paid for at the door and to be cancelled if not called for at six o'clock p.m...
...They are ripe for socialization and should be a part of the collective economy of the nation...
...Brunner met him and gathered him to his bosom...
...To' be the candidate of the Queens County democratic organisation is characteristic enough...
...Socialism is the answer...
...In a hearing on a bill of this kind last year Past Commander Spafford was frank enough to admit this...
...So Butler's • definition is correct, but not io the way that he intended...
...and this sitoattobkai to American citizens of Jke Ocas) faith a painful situation...
...Dwyer's racket is professional hockey, real estate and various side lines...
...IN A NUTSHELL As the patriotic organisations that accepted the armament agent's propaganda have not repudiated him we understand that they have in htm their idea of what is a patriot * * * * The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and brutes by instinct.—Cicero...
...Drafting Dollars and Men SPEAKING of the proposed bill in Congress to conscript labor and property in the next war...
...Alderman Connolly was not talking for publication...
...His people get their money from our people and turn it over to him ia order that he may bark for his people...
...One who bath yearnings For equal division of unequal esxninsrs...
...Tbs streaSSB...
...Nickels for Nicholas "JTT isn't necessary that the head of a university ¦* should be stupid in order to hold the position although there are some "educators" of this type...
...Recently there have been charges of injury to some American property interests in Cuba and immediately the Hoover Administration became interested...
...It is assumed by agents of big American firms in Cuba that if their property is protected there is nothing more to be said...
...Lots were sold over and over again...
...New York has two great water-front playgrounds...
...Prices went up slowly, and then faster, end finally they went up as rapidly as the German mark had come down two years before...
...Comrade Hillquit fights poverty as the great libera tartans of the-past fought slavery...
...Fascist Reactiom In Autria By James Onel \k...
...The Colored Dressmakers ANNOUNCEMENT that the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union is making a drive to organize the colored women employed in the dress industry of New York City is welcome news...
...Our readers who turned to an article in The New Republic last week must have been impressed with the spotlight that is played upon politicians and patriots, capitalists and war-makers, who are playing this game...
...state president of the Brotherhood' of Railway and Steamship Clerks and Freight-handlers...
...We gave hearty approval to this attitude in relation to what is the most despotic proposal that has ever been made in Congress...
...Austrian reaction ft BS to contribute to the revival a ibi IS, glous antagonisms that dbpastfa political campaign hi this eesafey a year...
...Nothing had happened except that a lot of people were out the sums they had laid out as deposits, and that certain real estate interests had Cleaned up several million...
...Hoover prosperity is built upon adversity for manses of workingmen and women...
...He admits that these powers have through courts, Congress and executive departments struck powerful blows against the laws intended to restrain them...
...After ascertaining the fact that American property interests were safe, the noble Senators lost interest in Cuba...
...Vienna masses...
...Uacaulay...
...To get what they want they assert that they favor drafting both...
...Here is an excerpt from the hearing: Mr...
...tired of the P*sctoasb»bi "thrown over democracy and leMsiCj Italian people of a great Rsay at b> liberties" Father Kelly decanal h* Fascism had done violence to our fetes* "freedom of speech, freedom of MSg* worship, freedom of iiemnltj sat b Now Austrian Fascism thresh* a armed insurrection...
...We do not doubt this, 'l'/ic Machada dictatorship is safe for big American interests however much a few minor interests may have some grievances...
...Sneabbt I Fascism a year ago last AnrO...
...It has been my pleasant experience to be Hfflquit's co-worker in a mutual cause and it gives me pleasure to greet rim on his sixtieth birthday...
...Patten Bernard M. Fatten was once a state senator, and at another time played a part to a rather sordid political drama— but that was seven years ago snd it has no bearing on Queens politics today...
...tt was sasSOaneed that the United Cigar Stores were going to establish elaborate places on the boardwalk—when bant It was snswpnced that the ChUds restaur aut people were to build a palatial restaurant on tbs boardwalk if sad was announced that theatres were going to be established there...
...It to therefore interesting to took into the qualifications ef the three men who are presented to the Queens voters ss represent*tires of the new and purified Queens democracy...
...That the boom later collapsed ia no part of our present story...
...However, just as for many years Socialism appeared to many to be a lost cause in England, so we have many to whom it appears so in America...
...Unable to win the masses by JSjeb appeals, the Fascists repudiate tt* p* ful process of balloting sad SBaV use armed force to attain tbskesfi Vienna workers will net subset tot, They wul fight to the tost abaft to Si the fruits of theh long work see se fices and they wffl have tbs SJSJW and support of the masses snd KbaS democracy an over the worM...
...Instead of being regulated by the Federal Trade Corruriission they wilt do the regulating...
...there were not half so many, but they looked to be when seated around the tables...
...R therefore behooves mrj a> porter of democracy to speak to go dem nation of the Austrian Feeds*.' * * * Not a week goes by without aaatt correspondents sending news d I threatening conflict between ap democracy and despotism...
...Why should not Rockaway develop as Paha Beach and Miami and Coral Gables and Ceeoanut Orove were developing...
...Has not Rockaway as fine a beach as Miami...
...Brunner gave him a lift started htm off on his career...
...Throw both gangs oat...
...The National (Catholic) SasslaJa] Fascists are one...
...He came out broke...
...Hillquit never suffered from any such Illusion...
...He is never satisfied with labor's accomplishments...
...One definition of a Socialist," said Butler, "is that he is a person who is anxious to get possession of sod to spend the money of other people...
...The Courts, Congress and the executive departments of the government," said the speaker, "have participated with equal effectiveness in the blows that were struck at the anti-trust laws until they have been reduced to their present pitiable plight, from which they can never hope to be rescued...
...Senior was Interviewed and photographed, and an excellent story appeared that evening...
...Cleanse the community of their pestiferous presence 1 RoQ up such a Socialist vote for honesty, for decency, for the Meal of a City for the Workers that its meaning win be Morris Hillquit An Appreciation By William Karlin "VC ORRIS HTLLQUIT is the outstanding intellectual genius produced by the American labor movement...
...Two members of the Local decided to assume responsibility snd go ahead by private initiative...
...He urged their repeal and advised that broad powers of control of big corporations be vested in the Federal Trade Commission...
...Nickels for Nicholas is the creed of all butlers of the rich...
...The national office co-operated by sending press matter and mats...
...Dwyer is an ex-convict sect to Atlanta for bootlegging...
...M. Feigenbaum K. the recent PebSesratte primary in Jhusns County, Hew York, three men strove to secure the nomination for Borough PresMent to succeed Maurice R Ooanottr...
...Caettos in Boekswsy People did not take title and settle on their tote...
...He chose this, our socially backward country, to battle for the rebellious oppressed against unjust statutes, Jurists and money masters...
...the forces of democracy 'sad Fascism is still rife and Aaftakj a center of the strongto...
...indeed, it to announced that Patten assy be a carsxMsto in the general election as the "real" Democratic choice...
...Every informed person knows that labor organizations have been destroyed in Cuba, that labor officials have been jailed and assassinated, the independent press destroyed and their editors have either disappeared or have fled from the country...
...Tats...
...More than half the world to now directed by Socialist statesmen, almost aU of whom admit Hillqutt's superiority in social science, legal mindedness and ability to carry on in the face of all opposition...
...For forty yean tBfti been building up their economk...
...you know that...
...The above was considered wisdom in the Victorian Age and Butler passes the idea on with his academic imprimatur...
...the American workers are to blame for the fact that he is not highly placed in the councils of our Government...
...Came them a demand that Local Dayton arrange a banquet for Comrade Senior August 29th at which an appeal could be made for the National Drive...
...The fact is that these great offthoots of capitalism are sovereign powers...
...While other labor leaders preach contentment over victories of the past Hillquit perpetually points to the future and greater achievements to be realized ending only in complete emancipation...
...Cex and Bronner Bdward W. Cos won the recent nomination...
...Brunner had a campaign "angel" in the recent primaries...
...They want a bill that does not conscript capital and that will conscript labor...
...These cards were aadressad to an readers of The New toaster...
...Ousts* a S except for a few cities, tba WjMsi representing urban ripltilto* ami owners, have a big majorhy, a*y w; the support of armed Patents, sat have a majority in PsritointaV Thus Socialist and trade ask...
...Not only would they sing but they wanted some 30 plates...
...Their totes vers so dose, the aaasw pnBbjg'ahsat sooe mora than the third Stan, that"* can be safely said tbat nil sniintfim rjiirts *----r baen't yet eoeapMerv made up its nrtod whether its for Patten, Brunner or Cool Cox won with about azAOO votes, about SJM more than Patten, and Brunner was etase behind them with about a»,ooo...
...While veritably we know that the Socialist truth we fight for is no mere dogma and cannot be limited by seas, rivers or mountains, it cannot be forgotten that had Comrade Hillquit given the same service to the workers of any one of a number of other nations, he could have been among the highly placed rulers...
...The tact that influential thSsto like Father Duffy have spoken eat sgdS Fascism win be forgotten hi tbs ha 4 what happens...
...In Vienna the BoejaSste aSMba unions have been ikmliissl JBjLw' They won their power throughBgS cratic processes of nilin sSas>'s3 Uon and the suffrage...
...That's the trouble, I Jimmse, sad we want so store of it The Flower of Oueens Democracy By Wm...
...Hillquit's name will be inscribed in flaming red and gold letters on the pages of American history...
...From the beginning be showed ability as a labor leader...
...tt the law of gravitation had threatened any vested Interest, it is doubtful if it would have been accepted...
...Women would forget to wash the dishes and get out snd sen lots...
...is aa- area of democracy ssrtseastf clerical, monarchist, T*»tiStt aaaheM reactionaries...
...indeed, tt is in the city...
...We understand that the moat powerful telescope in the world is now being built which gives some hope of detecting some difference between the Democratic and Republican parties...
...Here's wishing that by his seventy-fifth birthday he wffl be greeted as a cabinet member to a Labor administration of the United States Government...
...President Green of the American Federation of Labor said last June that this bill, in fact, would only conscript workers...
...Ttofk to endure many hardships to eftbtoi suffrage...
...They have need tt* seebsp obtain power...
...Garrett: Why...
...He never had any doubt ot bis course...
...Coney Island and the Rockaways...
...Ot hasn't, but let that pass...
...He is a talented lawyer...
...An inspiring atmosphere pervaded the hall...
...If they can beat courts, Congress and executive, they will easily manage the commission...
...while the idle rich dawdled theh* time away upon the yellow sands and allowed their money to slip through their limp fingers In casinos others were on the Job ¦*">''"r in on the big boom...
...Nearly all the factors of human greatness involving intellectual effort enter into his character...
...These are unimportant, but the fact remains that Washington has been supporting a regime of assassination and terror in Cuba for years...
...Soon every man, woman and child in the Rocks ways was out on the streets selling lota Men would dash home from 'their work...
...If the giants can do all this through three departments of the government will a commission be any more successful ? We think not...
...R so happened there was no way of getting a meeting of Local Dayton together to plan the dinner...
Vol. 9 • September 1929 • No. 8
