Word: socialistes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...names of four candidates will appear on the ballot: Herbert Hoover, Republican; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democrat; Norman Thomas, Socialist; and William Z. Foster, Communist. The names of the other three candidates will not appear but a space will be left where those or any other names may be written in. Voters will also be asked to specify what party they favored in the last election, in order to determine the amount of shifting which has taken place. Signatures will be required but will be kept strictly confidential and the ballots will be destroyed as soon as they are counted...
...When Labor has again won power, the Party will immediately go straight ahead with the promulgation of socialist legislation, irrespective of party consequences." Thus was the resolution adopted by the annual conference of the British Labor Party in Leicester. Mr. Arthur Henderson's warning that the resolution would seriously damage the Party's cause was drowned out in an uproar of dissent...
...their ways. There will be no delay in socializing the Bank of England and certain industries that have long been slated for government control. The resolution passed at Leicester is essentially an impatient repetition of the old cry: "Socialism in our day." Today it appears that the intellectual socialist element is dissatisfied with its past role of adviser to the stand-pat trade unions, and intends to renew its appeal by turning to the professions and to the bourgeois classes in general...
...very considerable stake in the existing order, and as long as they have that stake in it they will not be easily won over to Communism. While the Communist party has made some inroads on the unemployed and more poorly paid labor, the great body of organized labor remains Socialist--in other words, on the side of capital. Unless Communism succeeds in winning over this labor vote, which it hasn't much chance of doing, it has very little opportunity to achieve power. The Socialist parties of Central Europe constitute one of the strongest bulwarks of capitalism and of capitalistic...
...Communist parties have vital organizations, outside of Russia, only in Germany, France, and Czechoslovakia, and those organizations are to be explained by particular conditions. In Switzerland, Austria, and the democratic countries of Northern Europe with strong Socialist parties, Communism has never gained a significant foothold...