Page Four Organize for Socialism, Plea of Thomas in Radio Speech PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE SEES GREATER OPPORTUNITY TO WIN SUPPORT OF U, S. ELECTORATE Warns Public of War Clouds in Far East, Threat of Fascism by Big Business; Calls for Immediate Action. Shatter the lethargy of the voters, and we can build Socialism in our time. This was the keynote of the ad dress of Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, over a coast-to-coast radio network last night. "Not merely the Republican and Democratic parties, but the capital fst system behind them stands ex posed in all its brutal stupidity," Thomas pointed out. "Its days are numbered--its doom is written in its own failures." Calls for Mass Movement. "Accepting the nomination for the presidency, Thomas said: "I am at once proud and humble for the leadership my party has giv en me. But it is not I or any other leader, but a great and mighty movement that must be the hope of men." Following is the complete text of the radio address: "This is* in a very real sense the opening of another and most signif icant campaign in the continuing crusade from which we cannot rest until the dark kingdoms of poverty have been conquered and plenty, peace and freedom reign on earth. "Hour of Opportunity." "This is an hour, at once, of great misery and greater opportunity. "Gone is the gamblers' prosperity of 1928. Not merely or chiefly the Republican and Democratic parties, but the capitalist system behind them stands exposed in all its brutal stupidity. Its days are numbered-- its doom is written in its own fail ures, failures which are not super ficial, but are inherent in the class division of society which it creates and the anarchial waste which it fosters. "Soon the old parties which are the political tool of the owning class which finances them, will meet in their national convention. Cites Hoover's Tragic Blundering. "There is not a man or woman in the sound of my voice, be he Repub lican or Democrat, who in complete sincerity can say that he expects from either old party a program adequate to these days of terrible economic depression when 10,000,- 060 men and women vainly, look for work and other millions of farmers are being crowded down to the con ditions of serfs to mortgage holders and land owners. "Look at the old parties! Hoo ver will be renominated. His rec ord will be the real platform. It is a record of mistake piled upon mistake. His only idea of restoring prosperity Is to lend some more money to those who have already hoi rowed too much. All his predictions having been falsified by events, he vainly waits for some Santa Claus to restore prosperity while he who has be stowed millions upon bankers and tariff beneficiaries fights to the last ditch against what he calls doles to unemployed workers. Warns War Is Brewing. "In an impotent sort of way he desires peace, but he has not dared to lead in genuine disarmament or to propose the elemental economy of defending the nation by provid ing accent housing for the workers and thereby creating work, instead of sinking millions in military red tape and useless armaments. "With great war all too likely in the Far East he stubbornly refuses to recognize Russia, so that by our one-sided recognition of only one of the probable beligerants, Japan, we shall be tied to it and to its mad imperialism in a perilous and unwanted qua si-alliance. "The Democrats are no better. The party which dares to take the name of Thomas Jefferson is in the south the party with the most out rageous racial discrimination, and in the north the party of the most flagrant coiruptlon in the cities. Tammany Control Shown. "For instance, one of New York city's or rather New York state's, most inf uential delegates-at-large at the Chicago convention will be the Hon. James J. Walker--unless indeed by tha* time the revelations which Judge Seabury is piling up of direct payments to Walker by inter* sts seeking city contracts or favors should be so convincing and well substantiated that he should instead have an engagement with the police court "Yet Walker was first made may or by the intervention of Al Smith. "He has always been treated with deferential fear by Franklin Roosevelt this although the gen era! nature of his, or rather Tam many's government, was well known long before the Seabury revelations gave specific evidence to back general suspicion. Pays Tribute to Hoan. "A Socialist speaks of these mat ters with the more pride in his own party with the more con fidence that in Socialist idealism is the antidote to the poison of the racketeering standards of an ac qnis'tive society, here In Milwaukee where a Socialist major is begin ning his 17th fear as the head of the best governed city in America. "It is no wonder that two polit ical parties, the machinery of which exists not to serve the peo pie but a master class--the Mel lons, the Raskohs and the rest and to act as a broker between them and the masses whose busi ness it is to find out with how few bones we can be kept quiet, have no program for our times. "Look at Washington for illus tration; look at the tax program of both old parties, written so far as they dare, not as the newspapers have sometimes charged to 'soak the rich,' but to protect to the ut termost the interest of an income paying tax at no matter what cost to farmers and workers --yes, at no matter what cost to the resumption of prosperity itself. "Sales Tax Is Barrier.'* "The sales tax, which Al Smith and others have advocated by mak ing purchasing more difficult, im pedes still further even a partial return to prosperity which depends upon the resumption of purchasing power and not at all upon private investment in fixed capital at a time wlmn our splendidly equiped factories stand idle. "The complete picture of the sit uation is the Democratic slogan adopted by three senators as a com mittee. You remember it --it is 'Hee haw, we're coming back.* "In this situation even the big business interests which have here tofore used the old parties success fully are beginning to hunt about for new machinery. "Fascism Is Growing Peril." "Repeatedly in the last few months In a great many cities in America I have discussed our rapid drift to an American Fascism. "I now hold in my Land new evi dence of this drift--the Kiplinger Washington letter of Saturday, May 14, 1932, begins: 'lt is beginning to be apparent that some substitute for a coalition government will have to be formed to handle the situa tion after adjournment of congress which probably will be on June 10.' "The letter goes on to assure its business clientele that there are several plans under consultation, but 'one revolves,' it says, 'about the idea of assembling in Washington subject to quick call, a group of a dozen or more men' who would vir tually be the government. Disguised Dictatorship Seen. "After some description of what might happen occurs this extraor dinary sentence; 'Dictatorship which is being advocated more from week to week would be avoided but some -the practical merits of dic tatorship would be obtained.' "Now, whether the Kiplinger let ter is or is not a sure prophet, there can be no doubt that the drift of the times is either to anarchic catastrophe or a desperate attempt of the ruling class by an assorted appeal to passion and prejudice to give us some sort of Fascist dicta torship, open or disguised, which can only kill what liberty we have left without solving any fundamen tal problems. "In this crisis not words but ac tion counts, and the action immedi ately most necessary is for the great mass of common people, the workers on farm, in factory, in mine, in school and in office, without regard to racial distinction or national origin, to form their own party and to insist that the things that none of us as an individual made and which all of us together need to use, should be socially owned and managed for use, not profit. Would Free Farmer* "What does this mean? That we Socialists mean to take away his own home from the worker or his own farm from the working farm er? Not at all. It is capitalism in the last stages of its dissolution which is doing that What Social ism means to destroy is absentee ownership by individuals. "We mean to use taxation in city and country to wipe out private landlordism--to help destroy the misery of tenant farming and city slums. This can be done while we lift the actual burden now imposed by our unscientific taxation on the home of the worker and the build ings of the farmer. "When the world went in for ma chinery which could not be owned, like the tools of the artisan, by the individual worker it went in for some sort of collectivism. "Mergers Preparing War." "Today we have the collectivism of holding companies and mergers --such empires of business and fi nance as an Ivar Krueger or a Sam uel Insull have built at immense cost to us and then bring to ruin about our heads. "We want the collectivism of democratic social ownership of mines, industrial trusts, public util ities and a national banking sys tem. We want economic plans in America even as in Russia. It will be our own lazines if planned pro duction and distribution in Amer ica cost is much in terms of liberty as it has cost in Russia. "Plans in a country like America with its engineers its workers, its great equipment and its traditions of liberty can oe made more con sistent with freedom than the pres ent tyranny of fear and exploita tion which our chaotic capitalism imposes. Explodes Old Fallacy. "Some of yoti will say: How can you trust government to be our servant when government is so cor ,-nnt? "The corruption of government is the creation of a sordid acquisitive society. American politics is not worse than business. It is like I business. The history of banks in the last 10 years shows no moral I superiority of banking to Tamilian,. I politics, and the best book on rack- jjMjSfittgSlmjljlSaaifflgiSjSfinffi *lSßyiSjnlM|BSnßEgjljM^ 1 --By Leader Staff Photographer. JIMMIE HIGGINS REMEMBERED WITH PAY SLASH, SAYS BROUN Heywood Broun, nationally known New York colunmist, deliv ered the following address over the Columbia Broadcasting system from station WISN Saturday night: "An amiable gentleman who hap pens to be the ambitious governor of my home state has jusc discov ered 'the forgotten man.' Gov. Roosevelt has discovered him, but never quite identified him. I can imagine the governor as saying, 'Your face is familiar but I can't quite place you.' "Forgotten Man" Is Worker. "And that is likely enough since the forgotten man in America to day is the worker. His name is Jimmie Higgins and he lives on Main st. or Central ave. and back eteering in America is not the story of Al Capone but the History of Great American Fortunes. "That is why in this campaign, as always, we Socialists must and shall talk fundamental Socialism; we must and shall seek above all to build the party, not merely get a snap vote of the discontented. Socialism in Our Time. "But we are not Communists preaching a ruthless doctrine of in evitable bloodshed and ditcatorship. "We believe that our platform outlines a program for preventing, particular wars while we change the system that is the mother of war. "We believe that if hope awak ens again the masses who so long have slept, now, with no long delay, they can adopt a program such as we have outlined in our program and shall describe in our cam paign for the five-day week, great con structive, social-wealth-produc ing public works, unemployment insurance, the lightening of the load of debt especially upon the farmers and the orderly marketing of farm products from grain and cotton to dairy products through co-operative and public marketing agencies. Pleads for Civil Liberty. "Now we can reassert civil lib erty, curb police and public officials and ignorant mobs whether in Ken tucky or in our northern industrial cities who practice the most out rageous lawlessness under guise of law, compel public opinion and ju dicial authorities to do justice to Mooney and Billings and to the Ne groes involved in the Scottsboro case, and in general make life im mediately more tolerable. "But these are only steps on the road. "We shall take them better and quicker if we are inspired by an evershining beacon of hope, and if we know that the crusade can nev er end until machinery is used to conquer poverty for all and to be our slave in supplying the material bases for a fellowship of free men. organized in federated co-operative common wealth throughout the world. Asks Immediate Action. "In this hope we come to you. With no great funds and no great organization we appeal to you now. while still there is time, to prove that the spirit of freedom still lives in America, the spirit of brotherhood and justice, and that you with us can organize for vic tory, "I am at once proud and humble for the leadership my party has given me. But it is not I or any other leader but a great and mighty movement that must the hope of men." THE MIL WAUKEE LEADER, MONDAY, MAY 23, 1932 CONVENTION AT WORK AND IN WARM DEBATE from the street in the narrow al leys of great cities. And all too often he tramps the street and stands upon the breadlines of a na tion which is fond of saying that a federal dole would be degrading. "I doubt very much whether Jim mie Higgins, the worker, is going to be particularly thrilled over the fact that the chief contender in one of the tw'o 'major parties' has dis covered him.- The* Important thing is not that Gov. Roosevelt has seen Jimmie Higgins--through a glass darkly--but what is he going to do about it. "And it seems to me that Gov. Roosevelt's idea of remembering the forgotten man merely consists of sending him a picture post card inscribed: 'X marks my room. Sleeping under blankets. Wish you were here.' Backbone of Movement. "The Socialist party cannot very well forget Jimmie Higgins because he is and must always be the back bone of the radical movement. To us the plight of the worker does not suggest merely a 'How are all your folks?' but increased pressure for an immediate program to re lieve unemployment. "You can have Socialism in your time. It all depends just how soon you wake up to your necessities and reach out to grasp your oppor tunities. "I have friends who think it's funny to be a Socialist. Maybe that's my fault I wouldn't know about that. They think it is funny to belong to a party which has nev er commanded a majority in a na tional election in this country. But I think the joke is on them. Really I can't see why anybody who voted for President Hoover in 1928 can act in 1932 as if that exercise of the franchise had proved itself the beginning of wisdom. Most Dangerous of Sports. "It has been said that the voter in this country likes to be with the winner, but band wagon hopping has been palpably proved to be one of the most dangerous of autumn sports. The contraption is too like ly to swerve in cutting corners and leave its passengers in the ditch. 'The forgotten man' is not, I think, the most felicitious coinage by the happy phrase maker. After all Jimmie Higgins is frequently remembered and even in this time of depression by our financial wiz ards and our indstrial kings. "None of the rulers of America ever forget him w'hen it comes to cutting wages or reducing the staff. Present leadership in American politics and American industry has failed. Points to Russia. "I am perfectly ready to agree with those who say that you must not blame it all on President Hoo ver. Our present ills were already deeply rooted in the soil when Herbert Clark Hoover was attend ing the little red schoolhouse in lowa. At least it seemed red to Mr. Hoover. So many things do. When he first piped up to tell the teacher that two and two makes four--the first bold step in the ca reer of a great engineer--his ad ministration as president of the T nited States was already doomed to failure. The system which has brought millions to starvation will strangle even a man who believes in it. "B e speak with increasing con fidence in our creed of planned pro duction for service and not for profit. A vast experiment is going on in the year 1932 in an immense laboratory. "They broke quite a few test tubes, particularly at the beginning. but So' iet Russia is demonstrating i that co-operation can change mass production from a curse to a bless ing. Violence Is Handicap. "I hope nobody will accuse me of being a 250 per cent American if I say that I think America can do what Russia has done and do it a great deal better. "I believe that force and violence are distinctly a handicap in any revolution. I believe with all my heart in democracy and in free'dom --but when a man does not know where his next meal is coming from he is not free. When millions are controlled thorugh the financial power of a handful are not democratic. I'm not blaming de mocracy. I'm blaming the people who seem to have forgotten what it means. "When anybody says, 'Why don't you go back where you came from,' lam annoyed. I am annoyed more than most people because I was born in Brooklyn. But there is a better answer than that. We might for instance go all the w'ay back to the declaration that all men are created free and equal. The child of the slum Isn't created free or equal. "You may tell me that in America men have risen out of abject pov erty to become captains of industry --or at least second lieutenants. It has been done, but if is not pre cisely what you would call the one best bet. We are beginning to real ize that a slum is a bad place in which to live. We must learn even more than that. Genie in Ballot Box. "We must learn that slums are bad places even for people who don't live in them. And out of a widespread conviction that misery and poverty and fear are conta gious the masses of America can and will stir themselves to build the new world. "The ballot box Itself could prove to be a sort of jar containing a genie. He's been asleep, but when he stretches out his arms his form will fill the sky. I hope to be around on the first morning of the new day. I think I know what peo ple will say. I know what they ought to say--'Why on earth were we so slow in getting here.' EXPERIMENT IN RUSSIA GIVEN CONVENTION 0 K A resolution indorsing the efforts of the soviet government of Russia to create the economic foundations of a new social order, and declar ing that tae success of the five-year economic plan there will give great impetus to the acceptance of Social ism all over the world, but at the same time urging the release of po litical prisoners and the restoration of civil liberties in Russia, was adopted by the Socialist national convention at its meeting in the Auditorium here Saturday night. Vote Is 8,735 to 3.928. Acceptance of the resolution came by a roll call vote of 8,735 in favor to 3,928 opposed after several hours of spirited debate on the wording of the resolution in the afternoon and night sessions of the convention. The debate was chiefly carried on by the delegates from New York who were sharply divided in opinion as to the kind of resolution or state ment thrt should be adopted. Fathered by Blanshard. The report of the agenda commit tee submitted three separate state ments on Russia, which, however, were all voted down, and a resolu tion presented by Paul Blanshard of New York and Oscar Ameringer and Newman Jeffrey of Oklahoma SENIOR REPORTS 649 LOCALS AND GOOD ADVANCES Six hundred and forty-nine affil iated locals and branches in 42 states and the District of Columbia comprise the present strength of the Socialist par- ty America, ac cording to the re port of the na tional secretary, Clarence O. Sen ior, Chicago, which was pre sented to the na tional convention in the Auditori um. His report cov ers the activities of the party since the last national convention in 1928 in New York. c. O. Senior. ij he only s t a f eg which have no local organization are Alabama, Nevada, North Dako ta, Louisiana, Mississippi and was accepted with three amend ments by Norman Thomas, New York, presidential candidate of the party. Two other substitute reso lutions were also voted, down. The principal amendment pro posed by Thomas was a clause "em phatically urging the release of po litical prisoners and the restoration of civil liberties." The resolution as finally adopted reads: Text of Resolution. "Whereas, the Socialist party rec ognizes that the soviet experiment is being watched closely and with intense interest by the workers; that its success in the economic field will give an immense impetus to the acceptance of Socialism by the workers, while its failure will discredit an economy based upon planned production and the aboli tion of capitalism. "Be it resolved, therefore, that the Socialist party, while not in dorsing all policies of the soviet government, and while emphatically urging the release of political pris oners and the restoration of civil liberties, indorses the efforts being made In Russia to create the eco nomic foundations of a Socialist so ciety and calls on the workers to guard against capitalist attacks on Soviet Russia. We believe that eco nomic and political conditions in each country should determine the revolutionary tactics adopted in that country, and that the Russian experiment is a natural outgrowth of the conditions peculiar to that country." Wisconsin Group Unanimous. The Wb :onsin delegation, through Senator Walter Polakowski, an nounced its unanimous vote in fa vor of this resolution, which action occasioned great applause from the delegates. While the resolution itself does not demand the recognition of the soviet government of Russia by this country and the re-establishment of diplomatic and trade relations, all the deltgates spoke in favor of such action and this demand will be in cluded in the party platform. The discussion turned principally upon the question of political pris oners in Russia, and many delegates earnestly appealed to the conven tion to demand their liberation since many of these prisoners were said to be Socialists, affiliated with the Socialist International of which the American party is also a mem ber. South Dakota. There are many members at large in these states. Fifteen New Papers. Fifteen new Socialist papers have been started since that date. There are now 20 regular publica tions printed in English and 17 for eign language papers, while the number of subscribers has in creased from 361,948 in 1928 to 692,594 in 1932. The party has gained elected of ficials in Milwaukee, Sheboygan and West Allis, Wis., and in Bridgeport, Conn., and Nanty-Glo, Pa. Nine borough officials were elected in Laureldale, Pa., but a Republican-Democrat fusion ticket cost the party elected strength in Reading, Pa. Survey Western Hemisphere. During the fall of 1929 a survey was made of all f the Socialist and labor political organizations in the western hemisphere and at tempts were made to get in touch with all of them with a view to wards the eventual establishment of a western section within the Inter national. Negotiations are still be ing carried on looking toward a conference of the American Social ist parties, including those of Can ada, United States, Mexico and South and Central America, as well as the Caribbean islands. Unemployment insurance is being advocated by 14 state federations of labor and several international unions despite the attitude of the American Federation of Labor. May day parades and other dem onstrations in the larger cities of the country are crystallizing public opinion on the necessity of federal unemployment relief. Assistance has been given strik ers, particularly in the textile fight at Danville, Va„ and in the coal fields of West Virginia, Pennsyl vania, Ohio and Kentucky. The national executive committee asked European labor sports organ izations to refuse to take part in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles as a Mooney-Billing i protest. Mayor Hoan has refused to act as city chairman of the Olympics games committee as a protest. More Speakers Arrested. Arrests of party speakers and workers have increased. The Jewish Socialist verband is experiencing a steady growth in membership, according to N. Chanin, secretary. Charles Pogozelee, secretary of the Jugo-Slav Socialist federation, reports "a gain in membership which is encouraging considering the terrific depression under which we are obliged to work." j- 1 lUII IIIH MIU HIM Hill Kin _ Li ARTHUR SHUTKIN ATTORNEY J Announces the Removal of His Offices to Room 416 Mariner Tower I Comer W. Wisconsin Ave. and N. Sixth SL 25% OFF ON ALL CASKETS a--r COVERED CASKET Funerals $75 KU AND UP 1 CAR EMBALMING SERVICE GEO. A. HEIDEN JS 3273 N. Green Bay Ave. Locust 6076 COMMITTEEMEN OF CONVENTION ARE ANNOUNCED Regular convention committees were elected by ballot during Sat urday's session of the Socialist na tional convention. They are as follows: Platform Committee, James Maurer. Pennsylvania. Daniel W. Hoan, Wisconsin. Oscar Ameringer. Oklahoma. Harry Laidler, New York. Heywood Broun, New fork. Albert Streiff, Oregon. George E. Roewer. Massachusett Joseph W. Sharts, Ohio. Elizabeth Gilman, Maryland. Resolutions Committee. James Oneal, New York. Walter Polakowskl, Wisconsin. Louis Waldman, New York. Franz Daniel, Pennsylvania. Sidney Stark, Pennsylvania. R. B, Green, Illinois. Morris Seskind, Illilois. John G. Willett, Ohio. George Goebel, New Jersey. Constitution Committee. Jacob Panken, New York. Adolph Dreifuss, Illinois. William F. Quick, Wisconsin. Darlington Hoopes, Pennsylvania* John M. Glenn, Wash!ngton. Julius Gerber, New York. Herman Ansell, Virginia. Carle Whitehead. Colorado. Jasper McLevy, Connecticut. Organization and Campaign Committee. Norman Thomas, New York. Al Benson, Wisconsin. Marx Lewis, District of Colmbia. David George, Virginia. William Busick, California. Amicus Most, West Virginia. Arthur McDowell, Pennsylvania. Ross Magill, Kansas. William Karlin, New York. Senior Ts Secretary. Clarence Senior, Chicago, national secretary of the party was chosen as permanent secretary of the con vention. Leo Krzycki, secretary of the county central committee of Milwaukee was appointed as read ing clerk and Arthur Urbaiiek also of Milwaukee was appointed as sergeant-at-arms. Morris Hillquit, New York, chair man of the national executive com mittee, who as temporary chairman delivered the keynote address, and Mayor Daniel W. Hoan. who wel comed the convention to the city, were respectively chosen as chair man and vice chairman for Satur day's sessions. COLLEGE CLUBS BOOST THOMAS FOR PRESIDENT Thomas for President clubs have been formed in the following col leges, according to word received by Clarence 0. Senior, national secre tary of the Socialist party. Pennsylvania. Columbia. Princeton. Swarthmore. Harvard. Johns Hopkins. Mount Holyoke. North Carolina. Minnesota. Many others will be formed before the colleges open in the fall, a com mittee of organizers, Andrew Grey, Princeton; Harold Luxemburg, Co lumbia, and He -man Wolf, Pennsy vania, stated. SOMETHING ABOUT FEET. Facts and Fallacies About Our Feet were discussed by Dr. Walter Blount in a luncheon meeting of the Professional Men's club of Mil waukee today in the Milwaukee Athletic club. .GROW. ■YOUNGER i It is said "A man is as old as his kidneys." Invigorate your I I kidneys so they remove more I of the poisons which slow you I up, and see if you don't feel g more vital. To do this take Gold g Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. 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