New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-12-15
EVENING Of MUCH TALK
After Dollar Dinner C0lleCtivistS
Do a Mental Marathon.
TOPIC STILL. NEEDS LIGHT
1.-THE Strike and It's Future; Can
It Achieve a Social Trans
formation?" Answered.

When the ColIectivist Society meets there
is always difficulty in squeezing In all the
! available talk The raw material for max
ing it was displayed around the dollar
board at Kalils restaurant again last
night
II il had been six-day race at least one
speaker would not have called for a sub
stitute. Part of the audience undoubtedly
would have gone away, at least for a
time because even on one-nght stand
a number silently departed when Louis
Duchez introduced as our guide. phi1oso-
pher and friend came UP smiling after
catching his second wind He was ready
TO guide much more.
Three men and one woman struck out In
succession trying to make home rum
This was the result of the query tossed
at them by Darwin J. Meserole. who pre-
sided Each go: beyond third I'm his own
opinion, but as the audience was the UNI
pire and largely made up OF women at
that. there were no runs scored, because
most of those whose eyes were open failed
to see the plays The subject was The
Strike and It's Future; Can II Achieve a
Social Transformation?
The Interrogation still lives. albeit several
tried to answer ii. Among them were
Algernon Lee secretary of a school of So
cial science: Louis Duchez. organizer of the
recently subdued messenger boys strike
w. j. Client, who read a paper with the
same emphasis he might have read a table
Of vital statistics out of an Anticipated al
nanac, and Miss Constant LOunsbury. who
has lived eight years IN Paris and was
announced therefore to have seen conditions
abroad with the eye of the artist and 10
be able to speak of them with the voice
OF the poet and dramatist.
When every one had finished the chair
man said ne believed there was an immense
amount of ignorance still present, and urged
any one to put a question to any of the
speakers But no one seemed to know how
to ask for light.
Algernon Lee objected in a five-minutes'
straightaway to being classed as parlia-
mentary Socialist. He was a revolutionary
proletarian SociIist, which to say
that ook long time to say. There is a
movement of the working class toward
socialism. That is a movement toward a
great, worldwide age-working war of the
wage-earning class by which ii cannot only
DESTROY but in destroying rebuild. We
are in the revolution now Mr.. Lee said
this, but did not believe society would be
transformed by means of the strike. A
strike always struck him as futile thing,
as up in the air. Collectivist ownership of
the means of production would be some
thing like.
The champion in the totalizaton OF dura-
ton among the speakers, Mr.. Duchez,
clashed with A1gernon Lee in many things.
He said the old-fashiOned craft unions of
the past were pitifully Inadequate. they
become weapon in the hands of the EN-
ployer They breed division among the
workmen The strikes of the future and
with an intuitionalIy prophetic eye he saw
strikes in bunches-will be vast affairs
brought about by tremendous industrial
social revolution.
Some day there will be a spontaneous up
rising that will make the capitalists
| come. Again, it may be deferred till fall
| There is school at McKees Rocks, Penn
! teaching militant men the spirit of revolt
! 1t is regular training school for revo-
| Iutionists. He explained his system al
| immoderate length. He said it needed
| much explanation. The audience silently
| agreed. In screeching tone he promised
| time and again to quit. and when the
| chairman placed a watch before him he
! asked for three minutes more.
! Miss Iounsbury relieved the tension by
| telling a few dainty anecdotes Of Partisan
| life and by saying, with a smile. that she
| believed a great deal of the strike talk
| abroad was mere dramatics. and that the
| dark and hateful and spitefuI side OF
| things might, after all. be termed super
| fetal violence"