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ORDER BLANK PUBLICATIONS OF THE LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY No. of Copie1 Prirt The Old World and the New Society ............ BRITISII LABOR ON REf!ONSTRt'CTION IN WAR AND PEAC!E .................. $ .15 ............ ROLE 0"!1' THE R.Af!ES TN 0 R FU'l'URE CIVILIZATION-A S:vmpoRium contributed to by Pearl Buck and 35 others .............................................................. .50 ............ MAXIMUM PRODUCTION: WARF.ARE AND WELFARE-A. SYMPOSIU~I .....15 ............ THE INTELLIGENT CONSillmRs G IDE TO HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL PLANS-Harold Mu slow ...................................................................................................... .li'\ ............ LABOR PARTIES IN I... .ATIN .AMERICA-Robert Alexander .................................. .15 ............ WHAT PRICE TELEPHONES ?-Norman Perelman .................................................... .15 ............ ECONOMICS OF DEFENSE AND RECONSTRUCTION- Symposinm by a score of sneakers .............. .................................... ............................ .15 ............ WORKERS' EDUCATION TODAY-Mark Starr ............................................................ .15 British Labor ............ THIRTY-FIYE YEARS OF EDUCATIONAL PIONEERING-John Dewey, Jonathan Daniels, Norman Thomas, Harry W. Laidler, and others ................ .10 ............ THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT .AND FUNCTIONAL DEl\fOC!R.Af!Y- Harry W. Laidler .................. ................................................................................................ .10 on ............ TH1JJ MIDDLE f!LASS AND ORGANIZED LABOR-Robert Morss Lovett ........ .10 ............ MONOPOLY AND BIG BUSINESS-Irving Lipkowitz ................................................ .20 ............ IMMIGRATION .AND NATIONAL WELFARE-Felix S. Cohen .............................15 ............ NEW ZEALAND'S LABOR GOVERNMENT AT WORK-W. B. Sutch ... ............. .15 Reconstruction ............ RUSSIA-DEMOCRACY OR DICTATORSHIP?- Norman Thomas and Joel Seidman .......................... ...................................................... .25 • ............ MEXICO IN TRANSITION-Clarence Senior .................................................................. .15 in ............ LABOR, MACHINES AND DEPRESSIONS-Alfred Baker Lewis .......................... .10 ............ THE J'EWTSH REFUGEE PROBLEM-Bruce Bliven and THE EGREGIOUS GENTILE CALLED TO ACCOUNT-Grover C. Hall ............................................ .lli ............ HEALTH SECURITY FOR THE NATION-John Kngsbury ................................... 15 War and .Peace ............ THE UNDERGROUND STRUGGLE IN GERMANY-E,·elyn Lend ...... .. .............. .25 ............ ANTI-LABOR Af!TIVTTTES I THE UNITED STATES- David J. Saposs and Ellsabetb T. Bllss ................................................................ ...... .15 .: .......... TOWARD A FARMER-LABOR PARTY-Harr:v. W. Laicller .......................... ...........15 ............ DEMOCRACY VERSUS DICTATORSIIIP-Normun Thomas .................................. .15 ............ SHALL STRIKES BE OUTLAWED?-Joel Seidman ...................................................11) ............ FORDISM-C'arl Raushenbus h ............................. ........................... ........ ................................ .15 ............ RICH LAND, POOR LAND-Stuart Cbase ........................................................................ .15 ............ CONSUMERS' COOPERATION .. .. .......................................................................................... .15 ............ DOES NORWEGIAN J,ABOR SEEK THE MIDDLE WAY?-F!nn Moe .............15 ............ INDUSTRIAL UNIONISM IN THE .AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT- Theresa Wolfson .................. .................................................................................................. .15 ............ "SIT-DOWN"-Joel Seidman .................................................................................................... .10 ............ WHAT IS FOLKSOCIALISM?-Paul Sering .....................................................................25 ........ .... THE OFFICE WORKER-Orlie Pell .. ...... .......................................................................... .10 ............ RAILROADS VS. PUBLIC INTEREST-Irving Lipkowltz ...................................... .15 ............ EUROPEAN TRADE UNIOKISM AND POLITICS-Dr. Franz Neumann, preface by Harold Laski .................................................................................................... .15 ............ PUTTING TIIE CONSTITUTION TO WORK-Harry W. L aidler ...................... .15 ............ AMERICA IN THE DEPRESSION-Harry W. Laidler ........................ ........................ .10 ............ AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR ELECTRIC POWER-John Bouer ...................... .10 ............ WASTE AND THE MACH1NE AGE-Stuart Chase .................... ...................................1 5 L . I . D. PAMPHLET SE R I E S ............ POOR OLD COMPETITION-Stuart Chose .................................... .................................. .10 ............ UNEMPLOYMENT AND ITS REMEDIES-Harry W. Laidler ................................ .25 ............ PUBLIC OWNERSHIP HERE AND ABROAD-Harry W. Laidler ...................... .15 LEAGUE FOR INDU S T R IAL D EMOCRACY ............ WHY I AM A SOCIALIST-Norman Thomas ................................................................ .05 I 12 East 19th Street (Lower Prices /nr Quantity Order1 on Pamph/etr ) New York City LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY 112 East 19th Street, N ew York City 15 cents Join the League for Industrial Democracy RECONSTRUCTION The League for Industrial Democracy is a membership society engaged in • education in behalf of increasing democracy in our economic, political and cul m tural life. To this end, the League issues pamphlets, conducts research, lecture and information services, organizes city and college chapters and sponsors con ferences, forums, luncheon discussions and radio talks. WAR and PEACE Membership in the L.I.D. is open to those who agree with the League's democratic purposes. Members receive the pamphlets published during the year by the League, the L.I.D. News-Bulletin, issued quarterly, and notices of all of the League's important gatherings. They select the League's Board of Direc tors. In cities where League chapters exist, members are also entitled, without extra dues, to membership in the local chapters. The yearly L.I.D. dues are: Active members, $3; Contributing members, $5; Sustaining members, $10 to $25; Life members, $100. Interim Report of the National Executive Committee of The 1942-43 Oflicers of the League are: the British Labor Party, approved by the Party Conference Honorary President: JOHN DEWEY under the title President: DR. BJARNE BRAATOY "THE OLD WORLD AND THE NEW SOCIETY" Vice-Presidents: Elisabeth Gilman James H. Maurer Mary R. Sanford John Haynes Holmes Francis J. McConnell Vida D. Scudder Robert Morss Lovett Alexander Meiklejohn Helen Phelps Stokes Exec11ti11e Director: Treas11rer: Chairman of the Board: Harry W Laidler Mark Starr Alfred Baker Lewis Board of Directors: Murray Baron Don S. Howard Rose Shapiro Leroy E. Bowman Jessie Wallace Hughan Mark Starr Bjarne Braatoy John Paul Jones Monroe Sweetland Wallace J. Campbell LEAGUE FOR INDUSTRIAL D.EMOCRACY Harry W Laidler Norman Thomas Samuel DeWitt I 12 East 19th Street Alfred Baker Lewis New York City Mary Fox Ashley L. Totten Odie Pell Elisabeth Gilman Frank Trager Price: 15 cents William Pickens Adolph Held Bertha Poole Weyl Carl Raushenbush William Withers Joseph Schlossberg TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Preface PREFACE . 3 ITHIN the United Nations today increasing attention is being given A SUMMARY 7 W by members of governmental, labor, educational, religious and civic groups to problems of reconstruction after the war. I. LABOR STANDS FOR VICTORY 9 In the United States labor is devoting more and more thought to these problems. In late 1942, William Green, President of the American Federa II. THE "APPEASEMENT" PERIOD II tion of Labor, at the request of the A.F. of L. Convention, appointed a Post-War Planning Committee with instructions that it begin the im Important Lessons-The Failure of An Unplanned Society 12 mediate preparation of a program designed to give reality to "the ideals for which America is now fighting." III. PROBLEMS OF BASIC RECONSTRUCTION 13 In announcing the personnel of this Committee, President Green made Four Essentials 14 these significant remarks: Public Ownership and Planned Production 16 "We must start planning now for the emergencies that will face us when the war is over. We can't afford to wait until victory is won. With From War to Peace 18 out adequate preparation and a specific program to meet that day of vic Toward Economy, Efficiency, Democracy 20 tory we may find-as in the last war-that the battle was in vain. "We know our objective. We want lasting peace. We want equity be IV A PLANNED DEMOCRACY 22 tween nations. We want freedom and opportunity for all nations. We want social and economic security for all peoples. The Machinery of Justice 24 "These are the things labor in America is working and fighting for. v IMPERIAL QUESTIONS . 25 These are the objectives which will spell the real victory and the perma nent destruction of the forces of hate and oppression against which we are VI. THE PROBLEM OF INDIAN SELF-GOVERNMENT 27 now engaged in a desperate war. "I firmly hope that through the findings of this committee the American VII. OBJECTIVES OF