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The Convention
Fifth Year, No. 43. New York and New Haven, Saturday, October 26, 1889 Price 3 Cents REPORT THE CONVENTION. COMPLETE REPORT OF ITS PROCEEDINGS. Twenty-seven Sections Represented. Long Sessions, Short Speeches, and Practical Work—The Grand Mass Meeting at Vorwærts Turn Hall—Thousands of Sympathizers and Twenty-five Sore-Heads in Chicago—Platform and Resolutions. SATURDAY, Oct. 12.—At 3 p.m. the convention was called to order by Comrade A. Negendank, of Philadelphia, in the name of the Board of Supervision. After a few remarks by him in German and by Phil. Rappaport, of Indianapolis, in English, the delegates proceeded to the election of a chairman pro tem., and Comrade Foth, of New York, was elected. On motion of Comrade Shevitch it was resolved that English be the official language of the convention, but that the minutes be kept in English and German, and that every delegate might speak any language he pleased, provided the sense of his remarks be translated into English at the request of any other delegate. In order to carry out this resolution, Rappaport was elected English secretary and Fellermann, of Hartford, German secretary. A Committee on Credentials, composed of Otto Reimer, of New York; Lother, of Pittsburg; and Mrs. Greie, of New York, was then elected, and a short recess taken, at the end of which the committee reported the following Sections to be represented: New York (German Section), by Otto Reimer, S.E. Shevitch, Johanna Greie, Hy. Foth and Reinh. Meyer. New York (American Section), by Lucien Sanial. Brooklyn, N.Y., by Fr. -
A Brief History of Socialism in America.† [Published January 1900]
A Brief History of Socialism in America [Jan. 1900] 1 A Brief History of Socialism in America.† [Published January 1900] Published in Social Democracy Red Book (Terre Haute, IN: Debs Publishing Co., 1900), pp. 1-75. Introduction. ignated as that in which the gestation of Socialism, as native to American soil, was going on. It began with The history of Socialism in America, using the the appearance of Gronlund’s book, The Cooperative word socialism to embrace the various steps by which Commonwealth, which was soon followed by Bellamy’s enemies of the present social system have sought to Looking Backward. work toward a final deliverance, seems to divide itself 7. From 1897 down to the present time. The into seven quite clearly defined periods, as follows: period in which American Socialism having “chipped 1. The earliest period, embraced between the the shell” first asserts itself as a force in American poli- years 1776 and 1824, when the communistic ventures tics through the formation of the Social Democracy of the Shakers, Rappites, and Zoarites had the entire of America, the Socialist Labor Party, by its trans- field to themselves. planted methods, having failed to reach the American 2. From 1825 to 1828, when Robert Owen made ear. Two factors which helped prepare the field for the America the theater of his attempts to put his Utopian new party were the agitation work of Eugene V. Debs dreams into practice, by communistic experiments. and the proselyting powers of Editor J.A. Wayland, 3. From 1841 to 1847, the period when Four- successively of The Coming Nation and The Appeal to ierism swept over the country as a craze, leading to the Reason. -
By Leon Trotsky
Why Is Russia Mobilizing?... By Leon Trotsky Not Even the Three - Times - a - Week Kremlin Knows! L E T T H E P E O P L E VOTE ON WAR Moscow mobilizes and everybody asks himself, against Socialist Appeal whom? But at the present moment even the Kremlin doesn’t know. One thing is clear: the German-Soviet agreement facili Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International tated the defeat of Poland, but didn’t at all guarantee the Soviet Union’s neutrality. The Polish army proved to be weaker than many supposed. Now in Paris and London, undoubtedly, the VOL. Ill, No. 70 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I5, 1939 3c a Copy people are looking at the German arm y’s approach to the Soviet border with interest and without excessive alarm. The friend ship of Stalin and Hitler needs distance. The complete defeat of Poland can prove fatal to the German-Soviet agreement. Hav ing settled down on the borders of the Ukraine and White Rus sia, Hitler w ill propose to Stalin to give a more active character to his new “friendship” . Simultaneously, he can turn to Paris and London with a proposition to give the German army an op portunity to march farther east, and w ill show complete willing F. D. R. CALLS SPECIAL SESSION ness to bind himself, at the same time, not to raise the question of colonies for twenty-five or fifty years (Hitler gladly exchanges time for space). Under the pressure of double blackmail Stalin will have to make a definite choice. -
The Rand School of Social Science: 140 E 19Th Street, New York: What the Rand School Is
The Rand School of Social Science: 140 E 19th Street, New York: What the Rand School Is Unsigned article in St. Louis Labor, whole no. 761 (Sept. 4, 1915), pg. 6. Likely an uncredited reprint from the New York Call. “I do not undervalue the part which sentiment plays in social progress. Love of liberty and hatred fro injustice are great motive forces. But I am of the opinion that sentiment reaches its higher power when it is backed by arithmetic. It is not enough to have an inspiring ideal; we must also know the conditions and means to its realization. No revolution ever rises above the intellectual level of the class by which it is achieved. In order that the movement of the proletariat may fulfill our hopes, the working class itself must be equipped with knowledge adequate to the greatness of its task.” In such words as these Lucien Sanial, a white-haired and young- hearted veteran of the Socialist and Labor movement in America, speaking at a dinner held by friends of the Rand School of Social Sci- ence, had stated the need which the institution serves. The establishment of the Rand School in 1906 was made possible by an endowment provided at the suggestion of Prof. George D. Her- ron, by the late Mrs. Carrie D. Rand, with a contributory fund added by her daughter, Mrs. Carrie Rand Herron, who showed a keen inter- est in the work until her untimely death early in 1914. The income from this fund is supplemented by tuition fees and by donations from individuals and organizations in sympathy with the purpose of the school. -
American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, No. 2, January 27
NEWS BULLETIN AMERICAN COMMITTEE FOR THE DEFENSE OF LEON TROTSKY 22 East 17th Street, Room 511, New York City Telephone: GRamercy 7-6025 Denn ADeD SUZANNE LAFOLLETTE, Treasurer Evelyn Scott Anita Brenner Vida D. Scudder Paul F. Brisseadea Benjamin Stolberg James Burnham Harvey Fergusson Sam Jaffee Joseph Wood Krutch Margaret De Silver Norman Thomas Joha Chamberlain Lewis Gannett .Oscar Jaszi Harry W. Laidler Freda Kirchwey Carlo Treaca Sarah Cleghora Martha Gruening Horace M. KaUen William Ellery Leonard Joha Dos Passes John Brooks Wheelwright John Dewey Louis M. Hacker Dorothy Kenyon Ludwig Lore . Burton Rascoe Edmund Wilaon Max Eastman Maudbs n Wallr:ren William H. Kilpatrick Ferdinand Lundberg James Rorty I Charles Erskine James T. Farrell Sidney Hook Manuel Komroff Max Nomad Edward Aylesworth Ross Scott Wood This Committee Exists (1) To Safeguard Trotsky's Right to Asylum and (2) to join in th« Oraanieation of an Impartial Commission of Inquiry. BULLETIN No.2. ...... 357 JANUARY 27,1937 For an Impartial Commission of Inquiry! For an Impartial Commission of Inquiry! To the millions of workers and honest liberals all over the world bewildered, confused and demoralized by the succession For a Day in Court of trials in Moscow, this is the one demand that holds forth some hope of clarification and release from the doubts and By LEON TROTSKY questions these trials have aroused everywhere. (T lieu telegraplied statements appeared in the Manchester Guardian on Jan. 25 and 26) Let a group of prominent· figures, drawn from liberal and labor ranks, of unimpeachable integrity, weigh all the evidence, MEXICO CITY, Jan. -
1896 – Proceedings of the 9Th National Convention of the Socialist Labor Party
PROCEEDINGS OF THE Ninth Annual Convention OF THE SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY, HELD AT Grand Central Palace, 43rd St. & Lexington Ave., N.Y. City, JULY 4th to JULY 10th, 1896. FIRST DAY’S SESSION. Saturday, July 4th, 1896. The Convention was called to order by Henry Kuhn, Secretary of the National Executive Committee. Delegate Lucien Sanial was unanimously elected temporary chairman, and Delegate Charles B. Copp temporary secretary. On motion of Delegate Hugo Vogt two committees, of five mem- bers each, were elected as follows: On Credentials, Delegates Herrschaft, Jonas, Bennetts, Ruther and Kreft. On Rules and Regulations, Delegates Vogt, Curran, De Leon, Nagler and Watkins. A recess of thirty minutes was then taken. The Committee on Credentials being ready to report, the Con- vention was again called to order. The following is a complete list of the ninety-four delegates who were admitted, including one from Chicago, Ill., and one from Pawtucket, R.I., who arrived on the fol- lowing day: CONNECTICUT— F. Serrer ................................................................................................. New Haven. M. Goldsmith ...................................................................................... New Britain. F.O. Pilgrim .................................................................... Waterbury, American. J.S. Powell ................................................................................................... Hartford. ILLINOIS— Fr. Kalbitz ................................................................................ -
Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: a Comment
American Communist History, Vol. 2, No. 2, 2003 Rethinking the Historiography of United States Communism: A Comment JOHN MCILROY Bryan Palmer’s critical commentary on the historiography of American Com- munism is eloquent and persuasive and I fully endorse the core components of his argument. Absent or insubstantial in many studies, both traditional and revisionist, a singular casualty of historical amnesia, Stalinism matters. A proper understanding of American Communism demands an account of its political refashioning from the mid-1920s.1 Moreover, Palmer’s important rehabilitation of the centrality of programmatic disjuncture opens up what a simplistic dissolution of Stalinism into a timeless, ahistorical official Commu- nism closes down: the existence of and the need to historicize different Commu- nisms, the reality of an “anti-Communism” of the left as well as of the right, the possibility of rediscovering yesterday and tomorrow a revolutionary interna- tionalism liberated from Stalinism which threatened not only capital but organized labor, working-class freedoms and any prospect of socialism. In this note I can touch tersely on only two points: the issue of continuity and rupture in the relationship between the Russians and the American Party in the 1920s and the question of how alternative Communisms handled the problem of international organization. Russian Domination and Political Rupture My emphasis on the continuity of Moscow control of US Communism is different from Palmer’s. What I find striking is the degree to which Russian domination of the Comintern and thus of the politics of its American section was sustained from 1920, even if the political content of that domination changed significantly as Stalinism developed. -
Mscoll176-Socialist Labor Party-On1143392688.Pdf (340.5Kb)
State Library of Massachusetts - Special Collections Department Ms. Coll. 176 Collection of Socialist Labor Party pamphlets, flyers, and other material, 1884-1903: Guide COLLECTION SUMMARY Creator: Socialist Labor Party Call Number: Ms. Coll. 176 Extent: 2 document boxes and 1 oversize folder (1 linear foot) Preferred Citation Style: Folder Title, Box Number. Collection of Socialist Labor Party pamphlets, flyers, and other material. State Library of Massachusetts Special Collections. About This Finding Aid: Description based on DACS. Processed by: Finding aid prepared by Deanna Parsi, February 2020. Abstract: This collection documents the campaign, meeting, and rally activity of the Socialist Labor Party in Massachusetts from 1884-1903. SCOPE AND CONTENT This collection contains campaign literature, meeting and rally announcements, platform pamphlets and flyers, programs, ballots, and reports that document the activity of the Socialist Labor Party in Massachusetts from 1884-1903. State Library of Massachusetts – Special Collections Department Guide to Ms. Coll. 176 – Socialist Labor Party Page 1 of 16 HISTORICAL NOTE The Socialist Labor Party (SLP), established in 1876, is the oldest socialist political party in the United States. The SLP presented its first national ticket in 1892, featuring Simon Wing and Charles Matchett as candidates for President and Vice President respectively. Newspaper editor Daniel De Leon is credited with the expansion of the SLP in the United States by using his newspaper, The Weekly People, to reach a larger audience for the SLP’s ideas. In 1894, following De Leon’s lead, the SLP dedicated itself exclusively to its ideal of industrial democracy. In 1893, the SLP published a “Manifesto of the Socialist Labor Party of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts”. -
Corkish Alan
P a g e | 1 Them and Us; an examination of working-class culture, politics and attitudes in selected British twentieth century novels Alan Corkish BA (Hons), MA, MSc A Thesis submitted to Edge Hill University in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy May 2017 P a g e | 2 Contents Declaration by candidate……………………………………………………... 3 Abstract…………………………………………………………………………. 4 Chapter one: Introduction and methodology ……………..…………… 5 Chapter two: Working-Class novels…………………………….……….. 24 Chapter three: The voices of the Novel…………………………………… 38 Part one: identification Chapter four: Sport and education…………………….…..…………… 44 Chapter five: MPs …………………………………………..…………….. 62 Chapter six: Gender ………………………………………..……………. 98 Chapter seven: The underclass……………………………….……………. 117 Part two: ‘them’ Chapter eight………………………………………………………………..…. 139 142 173 Part three: ‘us’ Chapter nine……………………………………………………………………. 188 End words Chapter ten…………………………………………………………………….. 270 233 Literary Bibliography……………………………………………………………. 272 Critical Bibliography……………………………………….…………...………. 274 329 P a g e | 3 Declaration: This thesis is entirely my own work and has not been submitted in any form for the award of a higher degree at any other educational establishment. Dedication: For my amazing Mum & also Mum2 (Mig), and of course; for ‘us’ P a g e | 4 Abstract: ‘If only 'them' and 'us' had the same ideas we'd get on like a house on fire, but they don't see eye to eye with us and we don't see eye to eye with them, so that's how it stands and how it will always stand.’1 The thesis seeks to investigate and identify specific instances of them and us in selected British twentieth century working-class novels. The methodology employed is qualitative with a heuristic/psychological underpinning that relies in part on the theories of Clark Moustakas and which then supports a Marxist, feminist aspect centring on reader-response theories. -
Volume II September-October 1918 No. 4
TIE CM? STNKMIE Devoted to International Socialism Vol. II SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 An Open Letter to American Liberals By SANTERI NUORTEVA Reconstruction in Russia A Lesson in practical Socialism Armed Peace on the Pacific By SEN KATAYAMA Laborism and Socialism By LOUIS C. FRAINA V Price, 25 Cents SOCIAUST PUBLICATION SOCIETY 431 PULASKI ST., BROOKLYN, N. Y. THE CLASS STRUGGLE Iff Devoted to International Socialism. Vol. II SEPTEMBER—OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 PUBLISHED BY The Socialist Publication Society, 431 Pulasky Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Issued Every Two Months— 25^ a Copy; $1.50 a Year Editor.: LOUIS C. FRAINA and LUDWIG LORE CONTENTS VOL. II SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER, 1918 No. 4 Page The I. W. W. Trial By LudwJg Lx>re 377—383 The I. W. W. Trial Soviet Russia Speaks to Britain By LUDWIG LORE By Maxim Litvinoff 384—387 Sixty-five minutes of "deliberation," and the jury brought Armed Peace on the Pacific in a verdict of "guilty" on all four counts against all of the 101 defendants in the courtroom. And at that, this polite pause By Sen Katayama 388—404 of one hour and five minutes was nothing more than a matter of form. As soon as Judge Landis had finished his instruc- The Chief Task of Our Day tions to the jury, the foreman of the jury might have honestly By N. Lenin 405—409 declared: "Will it please the court. The jury agrees to a ver- dict of guilty on all counts!" Laborism and Socialism It is this that makes us so furious when we hear from the By Louis C. -
The Socialist Labor Party of America
Pro uesf Start here. This volume is a finding aid to a ProQuest Research Collection in Microform. To learn more visit: www.proquest.com or call (800) 521-0600 About ProQuest: ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. Key to serious research, the company has forged a 70-year reputation as a gateway to the world's knowledge- from dissertations to governmental and cultural archives to news, in all its forms. Its role is essential to libraries and other organizations whose missions depend on the delivery of complete, trustworthy information. 789 E. Eisenhower Parkw~y • P.O Box 1346 • Ann Arbor, M148106-1346 • USA • Tel: 734.461.4700 • Toll-free 800-521-0600 • www.proquest.com RECORDS OF THE SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY OF AMERICA Guide to a Microfilm Edition RECORDS OF THE SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY OF AMERICA Guide to a Microfilm Edition F. GERALD HAM, Editor CAROLE SuE WARMBRODT and JosEPHINE L. HARPER, Associate Editors LEE E. STEINBERG, Manuscripts Preparator Guides to Historical Resources THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN Madison, 1970 Copyright © 1970 by The State Historical Society of Wisconsin. All rights reserved. This microfilm meets standards established by the NATIONAL HISTORICAL PuBLICATIONS CoMMISSION, General Services Administration, and was produced with its assistance. The Documentary Publications Program includes both letterpress volumes and microfilm reproductions. It is designed to help achieve equal opportunities for scholarship. CONTENTS Preface 7 To the Researcher 3 The Socialist Labor Party 8 History of the Collection lO Description of the Collection ll The Microfilm 25 Microfilm Publications of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin 29 PREFACE THis MICROFILM EDITION of the records of the Socialist Labor Party of America is the second in a series of such publications to be produced by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin under the sponsorship of the National Historical Publications Commission. -
Attempt by Communists to Seize the American
ATTEMPT BY COMMUNISTS To Seize the AMERICAN LABOR MOVEMENT A Series of Six Articles Prepared by United Mine Workers of America and Published in Newspapers of the United States. International Union U.NITED MINE WORKERS OF AMERICA Indianapolis, Ind. 1923 This series of six articles was prepared by the United Mine Workers of America) disclosing the attempt that is bC'ing made by the red forces) under the direct super vision of Moscow) to seize control of the. organized labor movement of America and use it as the base from which to carryon the Communist effort for the overthrow of the American Government. These articles are the result of an independent searching investigation on the part of the United Mine Workers of America which led directly to original sources. NATIONAL CAPITAL PRESS, INC., WtoSHINGTON, O. C. 2 ~4 THE AMAZING SCHEME ARTICLE I The United Mine Workers of America with this article begins an expose of the Communist revolutionary movement in America, as promoted and fostered by the Communist International at Moscow, and dealing with it as it involves the welfare of the miners' union, and other similar labor organizations, and the interests of the American people as a whole. The purpose and object of the United Mine Workers of ·A merica in bringing to the attention of the American people the far-reaching and intensive activities of the Communist . organization in this country is twofold. The United Mine Workers of America wants the public to know what this thing is. It wants the public to know something about the fight which the miners' union is waging to stamp it out.