THE CLAS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE Vol. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, 1918 No. Devoted to International Socialism Published by The Socialist Publication Society, 119 Lafayette St. City Issued Every Two Months 25 a Copy; 50 a Year Editor. LOUIS BOUDIN, LOUIS FRAINA, LUDWIG LORR VOL. II JANUARY FEBRUARY, ...

596 THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE TORRENT OF THE REVOLUTION 599 Letters from Women The most interesting letters that receive come from women.
These letters, concerned with the impressions of the stormy present, are filled with anguish, resentment and wrath, but they are not apathetic like those of me...

r Schwartkop, THE LASS STRUGGLE DEVOTED TO INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM Vol. MAY JUNE, 1917 No. The Task Before Us The Emergency National Convention of the Socialist Party By BOUDIN The War and America By LOUIS FRAINA Majority Limitations and Minority Rights By FRIEDRICH ADLER (Vienna)
The Red Cross a...

72 73 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE at once with your subordinate bureaus and to call their attention to the exceedingly critical conditions under which the urban population, and particularly the ammunition industry, are suffering at the present time. The food commission must, through tho...

48 49 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE delegates. Which proves conclusively that the so called majority report was no majority report at all, and that it was adopted by trick and chicanery nearly one half of those voting for it not being for it at all and voting for it merely as the result o...

46 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 47 one.
American war. The center and the radicals could agree on the attitude towards the war in America, but not on a declaration of principles.
That is to say, if the issues had been made and kept clear, and people were honest with themselves and with ot...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 51 50 THE CLASS STRUGGLE noted here that long before the platform came to be voted upon formal protest was made upon the floor of the convention against the convention doing any further business, as the convention was neither physically nor mentally able to combine its delibera...

56 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CLASS STRUGGLE 57 which the coming generation will face with the equipment which their school is to give. They would say, if they were cross examined that a person trained to face real problems in a realistic way is fitted to attack the high cost of living or the struggl...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 27 26 THE CLASS STRUGGLE January, 1917.
Year, 1916.
Year, 1915.
Aug. to Dec. 31, 1914.
MERCHANDISE Credit Trade Balance (Excess Exports Imports of Exports. 613, 441, 020 241, 674, 851 371, 766, 169 5, 481, 423, 589 2, 391, 654, 335 3, 089, 769, 254 3, 554, 670, 847 1, 778, 596,...

First Appearance in this Country: From October to Brest Litovsk By LEON TROTZKY This book of about 100 pages covers the entire period of preparation for the October (Nov. 1917, Revolution in Petrograd, the events of the November Revolution itself (exciting struggles for individual buildings, disc...

68 THE CLASS STRUGGLE SOCIALISTS AND WAR 69 Why the anarchistic tendency of the race has died out in Germany is one of the great mysteries of history. do not myself believe it is dead. think it merely suffering a transitory obscuration or eclipse. believe that deep down in the subconscious depths...

134 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 135 Our national constitution expressly provides that the delegates to international congresses should be elected by referendum vote.
Since the motion for the calling of such a conference emanated from our own party, our executive was in a position to call f...

CURRENT AFFAIRS 119 118 THE CLASS STRUGGLE all did their duty each trying to reduce the tax on his industry. the Detroit members assailing a tax on automobiles, the representatives from Hartford objecting to a tax on insurance, and so on, as the same reporter informs us. The climax of this exhibi...

48 THE CLASS STRUGGLE POLITICAL MAJORITIES 49 axioms were overthrown by this new factor, which was puzzling not merely because of its newness, but equally, because it seemed to contradict and nullify the accumulated unvarying experience of years.
The market had collapsed in 1907, but as a direct ...

36 THE CLASS STRUGGLE WAR LEGISLATURE 37 War Legislature By JOSEPH WHITEBORN Socialist Member of State Assembly In observing and judging the New York Assembly, it is not only profitable but proper to note the physical surroundings.
The Assembly Chamber is a tremendously large room, about two hund...

74 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 75 If this verdict, gained in such a manner, is allowed to stand, then members of organizations of Conscientious Objectors are de facto guilty of conspiracy to violate the Draft Law, and may be indicted, convicted and sent to prison.
It is this which makes...

78 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE CASE OF FRAINA 79 defense, under the able management of Louis Boudin, completely smashed the case of the prosecution.
Boudin first succeeded in having the first count under the Espionage indictment dismissed; and before the case went to the jury, he made a motion to dism...

A NECESSARY BOOK SOCIALISM AND WAR By LOUIS BOUDIN scholarly discussion of the causes of the Great War, and a splendid discussion of the economic basis of Imperialism.
It has everywhere been bailed as a fine contribution to Socialist thought, by such men as Eugene Debs, Austin Lewis and Joshua Wa...

224 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 225 our betters are quite familiar. That is quite easily fixed by negotiation. Hence the demand from quite unexpected quarters for peace by negotiation.
As a matter of fact the negotiations have already begun. And the demand now is to give these negotiations...

226 THE CLASS STRUGGLE CURRENT AFFAIRS 227 will always be a secret conclave, is, of course absolutely indispensable for the proper arrangement of a negotiated peace at the expense of the Russian Revolution. It would never do to discuss such delicate matters at long range say, in an exchange of vi...

206 THE CLASS STRUGGLE GERMANY, THE LIBERATOR 207 But what were the Germans to liberate? How numerous is the German population in the Baltic Provinces? These provinces, Courland, Livonia and Esthonia, cover an area of 90, 000 square kilometres and, according to the census of 1897, have a populati...

142 143 THE CLASS STRUGGLE fic is aggravated by delays incident to unloading coal trucks and picking up fallen horses.
Real estate used as coal yards is wasted. If coal in cities were used for heating only and for eking out hydro electric power, great areas of water front could be set free for be...

THE LAND QUESTION 145 144 THE CLASS STRUGGLE land, or from exploitation by the agrarian nobility, there being none such in Siberia or in Central Asiatic Russia, or at least only in spots.
In view of what has just been said, it is necessary, in a discussion of the Russian Agrarian Question, to con...

170 THE CLASS STRUGGLE 171 The Future of the Russian Revolution By SANTERI NUORTEVA Representative in the United States of the Provisional Government of the Peoples Republic of Finland The most recent innovation along psychologic lines is the attempt to capture not only the masses of one nation t...

294 THE CLASS STRUGGLE THE NEW AMERICANISM 295 industrial progress that not until the capitalists of the foreign North invested their capital in the South has the latter made progress since reconstruction days. Just in proportion as northern capitalists have fertilized southern establishments has...