The New Leader Faces Its Tenth Year
Feigenbaum, William M.
By William M. Feigenbaum The New Leader Faces Its Tenth Year Founded Nine Years Ago in a Period of Doubt and Despair, The New Leader has Upheld the Banner of Socialism Despite All Obstacles—Now...
...Then came the deflation of that movement, the change of heart by many labor Isadora...
...Those who have been postponing action in getting their reservations to dine and make merry with The New Leader upon the occasion of its ninth anniversary, and to hear the splendid discussion, have one more chance...
...SMART PEOPLE HILLSBORO, III...
...For today The New Leader <s proudly and joyously serving a movement whose every prediction has been completely justified, and the need for which to the workers it greater than ever before...
...Its name was changed on October 1st, 1923, to the New York Leader, and it began a new career...
...LAST CALL FOR THE NEW LEADER DINNER...
...For nine years The New Leader has kept the flag flying—the Red Flag...
...The New Leader carried on, inspired by devotion to a high and noble ideal ,and today its faith in that ideal is completely vindicated...
...The New Leader vas born at a moment when the fortunes of the Socialist movement had* sunk pitifully low...
...For its first four or five years The New Leader served a Socialist movement that had aunk to the lowest ebb in many years, prostrated by war and terror, by dissentions and the indifference of the masses in the face of a false and fradulent "prosperity...
...The New Leader was born out of the collapse of the New York Call...
...is making -t'lis fight at a time when vast sections of our supporters are either jobless or have had their meager wages cruelly slashed, when organizations that have supported us loyally and generously have found it necessary to curtail their material support—without in the least cur tailing their moral support...
...There are a very few reservations left, which will undoubtedly be snatched up early Friday, February 10th...
...A distinguished list of contributors, writers and artists, consisting of men and women who have given their best work to The New Leader freely and with devotion, has made work on the paper a joy and an inspiration...
...for bread and peace...
...in its last year it fell upon evil days because of general conditions...
...Many changes have of necessity taken place in the nine years since the first issue...
...Speakers, Dr...
...Its first political battle wai the exciting, though puzzling LaFollette campaign* that left the part/ organization prostrate...
...calls upon its friends, its readers and its supporters to dedicate them, selves...
...when the lead the Socialist movement and The New Leader can furnish is the one bright spot, the one gleam of light in the murky night...
...Then came the advent of the first Socialist government of Denmark...
...To that struggle The New Leader dedicates itself...
...At a time when despair is gripping the masses and millions are looking for a lead...
...to that struggle The New Leade...
...The New Leader was in ' the campaign that followed, leadOne Editor for All Nine Years of Its Existence— Many Stirring Battles for Socialism...
...It is enough to say that no matter what the battle was, no matter what field it was on, no matter whether it was a political struggle, an industrial struggle, a battle for world peace, for justice and humanity, against hideous political corruption—what* ever the battle was, there was The New Leader and there were its editor and staff and contributors and supporters...
...and The New Leader was left to speak for a discouraged Socialist party in battle after battle until the turn of the tide in 1929...
...It was changed from a morning to an evening paper...
...At the .beginning the oversigned was associated with him...
...Its first issue chronicled the advent of the first Labor government of Great Britain headed by the then Socialist propagandist, J. Ramsay MacDonald, and indeed that issue carried a cable of congratulations and good wishes to The New Leader from MacDonald himself...
...the murder of Giacamo Matteotti by the order of Mussolini came shortly thereafter, and The New Leader was leading American opinion in condemnation and detestation of Fascism and all its works...
...A Stirring Battle / The New Le...
...The 1924 Battle Editor Oneal left his desk early in the summer of 1924 to attend the convention that nominated Senator LaFollette for President, and then the Socialist party con-' vention that endorsed that nomination, thus making a clean break with the party's old-time policies and looking toward that union of all the workers in a labor party for which Socialists had so long hoped...
...There is work to be done and The New Leader is here to do it...
...The second issue carried the story of the death of Lenin, and within a week or two the filth of the oil scandals was spattered across the pages of the American press...
...William Jay Schieffelin, Major Fiorello H. LaGuardla, Morris Hillquit and Norman Thomas...
...The great daily of the Socialist movement had fought for fifteen years from May, 1908...
...This is not the time to recount the numerous straggles of the Socialist movement...
...It was a brave endeavor, but it was doomed to failure...
...after the first year he went to other fields of activity, but with the beginning of the tenth year he is back again in a close and affectionate association with Comrade Oneal that began years ago on the staff of the lamented New York Call...
...This issue appears in time to be read at the Ninth Anniversary dinner, and in a certain sense, it is a sort of souvenir to be distributed to the guests, a tangible sign of...
...service ana prugicoo...
...Headed by Norman Thomas, whose Timely Topics have been a regular and welcome feature for many years, and including such great names as Morris Hillquit, Hey wood Broun, Upton Sinclair, Joseph T. Shipley, Devere Allen, Louis Waldman, A. M. Sullivan, Victor L. Berger, Joseph E. Cohen, Meyer London, Karl Kautsky, Charles Solomon, Art Young, Bernard Ziskind, Fred Henderson, Jessie Wallace Hughan, J. B. Matthews, Harry W. Laidler, Algernon Lee, Samuel A. DeWitt, and many others in America and most of the foreign leaders of Socialism, they have made The New Leader one of the most worth while of the Socialist papers ever published in this country...
...The New Leader appeared at an interesting moment...
...Remember...
...The Editor When The New Leader was launched there was no dispute as to who should be its editor...
...Men and women have been associated with the paper, and have gone elsewhere...
...and today it is fighting n tht van of a Socialist movement to which has been entrusted the sacred task of uniting millions of working people—robbed of their right to work, hungry, bitter, facing a bleak future of misery, uncertainty and despair—and inspiring them to assort their united strength in the struggle for survival—and then for Socialism...
...WITH this issue The New Leader begins the tenth year of its " existence...
...By William M. Feigenbaum The New Leader Faces Its Tenth Year Founded Nine Years Ago in a Period of Doubt and Despair, The New Leader has Upheld the Banner of Socialism Despite All Obstacles—Now More Than Ever The New Leader It Needed By the Working and Workless Masses...
...to throw itself into the battle for relief and work...
...Although they are surrounded by coal mines, so many people are cutting down trees for fuel because they cannot afford coal that the stats agricultural college has issued a warning against denuding the stats of timber...
...A group of Socialists eager to' publish a weekly was hastily called, and within a week meetings were being held, and within two or three months The New Leader appeared...
...for justice and for Socialism...
...ing Socialist sentiment to support that daring step...
...In a desperate effort to save the paper it was reorganized and nonSocialist elements were given a hand in its management...
...As we face the tenth year of The New Leader more than ever devoted to the ideals for which the paper was launched...
...Symposium on "Is Fusion the Way Out...
...vpHIS is the last call for The * New Leader dinner...
...James Oneal, distinguished Socialist scholar, historian, journalist, lecturer and party leader was the one man even considered for the post, and for nine years he has been the guiding genius of the paper...
...And if any names are omitted—and they are—it is due only to lack of space to list them...
...The Leader Norman Thomas was editor, but its managing editor was taken from outside the ranks of Socialism...
...The New Leader begins its tenth year with an e litorial i-talT identical with the staff with which it began in the winter of 1924...
...Six weeks after the effort began the paper suspended, and for the first time in over thirty years there was no Socialist paper in the English language published in New York...
...Call up ALgonquin 4-4622, ask for Comrade Hillson, and if you are early enough you may still get a reservation...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 6
