You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday December 5, 1914
From the American Socialist: Meyer London, the Lone Socialist Congressman
Today's American Socialist discusses the reaction of the Wilson Administration to the election of Socialist Meyer London of New York to a seat in the U. S. House of Representatives:
AFRAID OF LONE SOCIALIST
Meyer London
Socialist Congressman
from New York
President Wilson's closest political advisers are much displeased with Tammany for its having allowed Meyer London, the Socialist and attorney from the garment trade unions of New York, to break into the next House of Representatives.
The Taft administration had to put up with the Socialist, Berger, it is true. But then the Democrats had the House anyway and Taft was not responsible for the acts of a Congress divided in its party allegiance.
But this Wilson administration takes itself more seriously. It has a nominal majority in both branches of congress, and it must hold to its power and patronage at any cost. It must befuddle the working man and compromise with the political reformer and satisfy the Southern standpatter and trade with Tammany, all the while it is uttering high sounding platitudes about the duty of a Christian nation toward warring Europe.
if it fails at any point in holding its elements to a makeshift loyalty it will break up and it knows it. In that case the old Republican remnants will try to carry on the same game for their own especial advantage.
But there is danger that the Socialists may come to the front, heading off the Republicans, and make history by legislation that will be quite as epochal as that which Europe is making by artillery and bayonet.
Meyer London, the second Socialist in Congress, makes Socialism take on the character of political permanence in Washington. The President and Secretary McAdoo and Postmaster General Burleson have visions of a Socialist member of Congress introducing bills that will solve the mine-strike problem by immediate ownership.
They are afraid that the Socialist will demand that social insurance be made an immediate reform. They are disturbed by the spectre of a socialist, demanding on the floor of the House that the United States throw it weight, in the peace council which shall re-make the map of Europe, on the side of democracy in Germany and Russia and Belgium alike.
They shiver at the thought that he may expose the commercial users to which the diplomatic service is hired out. The whole situation, with a high-grade Socialist agitator in Congress at this time, is unpleasant-for all old party partisan politicians.
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Latest cartoon from Ryan Walker:
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SOURCE
American Socialist
(Chicago, Illinois)
-Dec 5, 1914
pdf!https://www.marxists.org/...
See also:
Appeal socialist classics, Issues 1- 2
-ed by William James Ghent
Appeal to Reason, 1916
(For legislative record of Meyer London,
search: Meyer London, & choose p.22.
For legislative record of Victor Berger,
search: Victor Berger, & choose p.13.)
http://books.google.com/...
Humour and Social Protest
-by Marjolein t'Hart, Dennis Bos
Cambridge University Press, 2007
(search: Ryan Walker, & choose p.51)
http://books.google.com/...
IMAGES
Meyer London
http://en.wikipedia.org/...
Cartoon by Ryan Walker
pdf!https://www.marxists.org/...
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Workers of the World Awaken
If the workers take a notion,
They can stop all speeding trains;
Every ship upon the ocean
They can tie with mighty chains.
Every wheel in the creation,
Every mine and every mill,
Fleets and armies of the nation,
Will at their command stand still.
-Joe Hill (words and music)
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http://www.folkarchive.de/...
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