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grew out of that sense of social responsibility of all for each, which was not socialist at all, but grounded in private property and pioneer experience.

The English socialist movement became the Labour party and that has a very strong leaning towards socialism as a theory. A great many of the continental labor people that I have known in recent years in the latter part of my life since I've been going to International Labor Conferences are clearly socialist in their thinking. They always seem astonished and always ask questions as to why there is not more socialist movement in the labor group in America.

Of course there isn't this socialist movement in America that I can make out except in the needle trades unions and that was largely, I think, because of the fact that they were established by Europeans. There wasn't any union in that trade either until the Europeans began coming. They had a tradition of labor unions started by socialists in Europe around the 1850s. There were no trade unions of that kind here. They had a much later rise in this country. I think there's no question that the Scottish, British and German immigrants - not the farming Irish - who came here in the great period of expansion in the '40s and '50s were