The Connecticut labor news., 1922-02-10
Hasn't Made Even a Dent in Organized Movement and Now Turns Up Toes in De- Spair.

Washington, D. C., Feb. Io.-With the socialist party hunting for hole into which 1t may crawl in such manner as to in some fashion save its face and make the funeral seem like a rejuvenation instead of a demise, its chee-ild, the Intercollegiate Socialist society gives up the ghost in a double hand spring of dying enthusiasm and blossoms forth under a new title.
 In the death of this I5-year-old or ganization there appears the first burst of humor ever recorded in the streaked annals of the socialist move ment in America.
 "In spite of all their activities" says the formal announcement, "our liberals and radicals have had little effect upon our social life. They have left the labor movement untouched"
 The society, now recognizing un- der the none-tooaccurate name of the League for Industrial Democracy" thus baldly admits that Is years of propagandizing, yearning and ban quetting have gone for nothing Eff teen years-AND NOT EVEN A DENT IN THE LABOR MOVE MENT! There are those who see in this tardy admission a fine compli ment to the sound sense of American labor.
 "The socialists have been so splen- 1 H1IT hue a n t1Ir says, "that they haven't worked out plan of standardization for the mines The syndicalists and radicals have been so active that they have not shown the next step in workers con tro1 in factory committees"
 Presumably all these things now will be done in order that, despite the long I5-year fasco, the revolution may not be delayed. For, behold, Our first objective" says the pro- nouncement, "is the technician, the teacher, the social worker, the brain worker generally included in the great middle class"-a class which may be counted upon to obstruct social change until an effort Is made to bring it's need before them in their own language"
 Finally-presumably after the tech nicians and brain workers have the plans all made-"our final objective is the worker and the farmer"
 Obviously, first the net and then the fshl
 And the officers upon whose shoulders devolves the responsibility for this noble scheme-and who have so magnifcently admitted Is years of fruitless effort on the part of the "splendidly busy" propagandist syn dicalists, socialists and other radical "comrades" es"-who are they? They arc:
 President, Robert Morss Lovett, Chicago; vice-presidents, Charles P. Steinmetz, Schenectady; Evans Clark, Florence Kelley and Arthur Gleason, New York; treasurer, Stuart Chase; secretary and director of research, Harry w. Ladder; chairman, execu- tive committee, Rev. Norman Thorn
 
 plan under way" Roger N. Baldwin,
 Harry w. Laidler, secretary and "director of research" is the man who has been secretary of the Inter collegiate Socialist Society which now says that it has worked for I5 years without making a dent. He will di- rect this new practical work for the New York socialist aldermen. Arthur | Gleason is writer generally critical of the A. F. of L. Roger Baldwin has been director of the Civil Liber- ties League, organized during the war when there were many war time of lenders whose cause was not popular. The Rev. Norman Thomas came into prominence at about the same time, pleading the cause of pacihsm. Lovett has for some time been known in socialist circles Charles F. Stein metz, wizard electrical engineer, has now and then given support to vari- ous socialist propositions.
 Thus, having "left the labor move ment untouched" this group of par Tor and college propagandists, break new banner to the breeze, announcing the denizens of the middle class as the objects of their next effort at making a touch. Labor-and the farmers-it is admitted, are only for the dim and distant future