In Our Seventh Year
Witt, S. A. De
IN OUR SEVENTH YEAR By S. A. De Witt TtATELL, Comrades, here we » • ire with six hard years gone, and the New Leader still yours. Just how it came through the lethargic labyrinth...
...Socialism makes war upon a ystem, not upon a class...
...He said, ta that Socialists are not . operators, that they don't together...
...however, something in Mr...
...The slave owners trained slaves to be carpenters, shoemakers, blacksmiths, and so on...
...Mr...
...That document shows that the new capitalism has more and more sapped the labor power of an increasing number of women because men breadwinners have not received sufficient wages to live up to a minimum standard of decency and comfort...
...For b i g business is running j r government today...
...Until the workers are animated with the idea to be their own masters they cannot supplant the idea that their class is born for wage slavery.—G...
...Baldwin knows that the New York Socialists can take care of their meetings without fear of Communist "opposition...
...It stood for an oligarchy of suppression more ruthless than the terror of John Adams's administration...
...Whenever progressive Negro and white trade unionists supported by sympathetic agencies, have endeavored to accomplish something by way of trade union education and organization among Negro workers, their efforts have met either with open hostility or secret obstruction...
...Baldwin himself to set as sponsors of the meeting, [t did not state, as Count Karolyi was later to admit publicly, that the Anti-Horthy League, which sponsored the cable to the extent that it can be said to exist, is a Communist organization...
...Baldwin, with an unusual memory, g;ave The New Leader the general text of the cable...
...The day of Socialism hnay not be so far off as some people suppose.— Arthur Ponsonby, M. P. • • e If I have five guns and you have five and we favor parity of arms, we can realize parity b y tossing all our guns into a sewer but this simple solution is beyond the bright statesmen who rule the world...
...Among the important issues of the strike is the abolition of the sweatshop pest...
...He did nothing to help put the meeting over...
...Now that our circulation and advertising revenue are increasing, and printers bills and payrolls are met with astonishing regularity, we might be allowed the indulgence of retrospect and apnraisal...
...What Jack want on to - such a serious criticism of the 5 cialist movement that it me it should be placed every member...
...Editor, Tha New Leader: Sine* Mr...
...W e would ot have that eternal bootlicking hich has been necessary, and w e ould not have to listen to the Ishonest promises made b y our Jlow citizens elected to represent le people, but w h o w h e n he gets lere has t o represents b i g busiess...
...There isn't a capitalist enterprise anywhere, no matter how much "service" it is capable of rendering, that has continued to operate after profits disappeared...
...the rational world is my friend because I am the friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, then may that country boast its Constitution and its government...
...The average member of a trade union is constantly faced with the problem of securing from the white officials who control his union justice and a square deal...
...Only a small fraction of the working class has realized this cab-horse standard of decent shelter and sufficient food...
...Jack Altaian over for a little gossip...
...It did not state, as Mr...
...We know that abysmal prejudices that have their origin m the Negro's 250 years of chattel servitude still survive and yet they are not as malignant as they were a generation ago...
...Hill voiced soma trenchant truths...
...The speaker is a Republican and the limited range of his "liberalism" is interesting...
...of Everett, Washington, l i d: "We have no doubt that sooner r later organized labor will be >rced to s t a r t a labor party...
...It was from tha turning of necessary work Into amusement that art was finally born...
...these books from Socialist es...
...We could g e t improved compenition laws, w e could put over t he l i ld labor amendment, we could reserve those state institutions stablished f o r labor's benefit W e •ould g e t recognition in our s t a te sgislatures...
...Baldwin's...
...However, it is not our fault, i d as long as the m a j o r i t y of le working people stand for it, must be right...
...The union had reached the point where it was strangling the sweatshop when the "left wingers" rose to power nearly four years ago and brought chaos into the industry and the union...
...The white laborers were consigned to odd jobs and subsisted on what they could obtain from hunting, fishing, begging and odd crops raised on barren patches of soil...
...Ekm.1 contributions do not necessarily represent the policy of The Hew Leader...
...All that we will get from the fat boys in power is soothing words...
...Informal Confer Unemployment Fi •A preliminary and informal < ference of trade unionists, ists and others Interested ta labor movement will be held i day, Feb...
...e • • To make armies go on killing one another, it is even more necessary to invent lies than flamethrowers and poison gas.—Sir Ian Hamilton, e • * A New Jersey boy out of work for months held up a filling station and was killed by a policeman...
...Hill makes against the A. F. of L., he could have made an even stronger one...
...The cult has admitted that the old capitalism had its defects, that it was occasionally cursed with widelow wages, and i n r h t t r r i al depression bet that the new capitalism has Drought the era of "service", high wages, and general employmer...
...IN OUR SEVENTH YEAR By S. A. De Witt TtATELL, Comrades, here we » • ire with six hard years gone, and the New Leader still yours...
...Is that what he means...
...Good _ are drawn to this store by thai prices of best sellers and then their books on history or mica at a price higher tha...
...There is...
...Stern Julius Gerber, happy Albert Halpern, Brother Stein, Harry Smith, Sam Friedman, , and Louis Waldman are there ; mulling it over...
...We doubt it...
...And there's Bud Shipley who has plugged for years without a nickel to keep our amusement page presentable enough to entice advertising revenue...
...His attempt to make it appear that the Civil Liberties Union Is under attack is ingenious...
...Tom Paine and Old Age Pensions COME persons who are opposed to old age pensions for the veterans of industry are falling back upon the argument that pensions are an imported idea...
...Even the high wages dogma has been shot to pieces by a report made by the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor...
...There is nothing in the facts to warrant Mr...
...Baldwin, as accurately reported in The New Leader, saw this cable before it was sent and "approved it as a fair statement of fact" (The words are Mr...
...Such a course of action will not only be of inestimable value to white labor but will give to Negro labor power...
...Old and New Capitalism ^RESIDENT GREEN of the American Federation of labor reports an increase of 3 per cent in unemployment in the first two weeks of January...
...Thinking, organization and action by the victims of capitalism are imperative...
...One of the important matters f the Tuesday session was adopon of a call to every labor o r - anization in Silver B o w county to snd three delegates to the meetl g of the L a b o r Party, which will e held at 7 p. m., Tuesday, F e b . 1. Delegates Pat Delougherty and . C. W h i t e l e y of the Engineers id the discussion for the formaon of a Labor Party to enter l e city, county and s t a t e polit:al field...
...Such a party, said the speaker, "would aim to extirpate all those organizations that are holding liberty in bondage...
...Without his singular genius on the mechanical end of the job, it would be hard to explain or smile about anything to-day...
...The Women's Trade Union League has done and is doing a commendable piece of work in this regard...
...The unionization of this section of the industry and stabilizing it in favor of more decent standards are aims that command the support of intelligent and humane people everywhere...
...SUBSCRIPTION: RATES: t T o r Postpaid in the United States *2-»* Six Mattths Postpaid in the United States 100 One Tear to Canada, J2.54...
...It does not seem to me to be an impossible task...
...John Smith ONE of the best book in New York City is cialist book store run by ists for the benefit of the _ ist movement...
...This "liberalism" had its chance during the World War in this country and it surrendered to the economic and financial masters of the United States...
...neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them: my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars...
...And they still are...
...He <lerltnes to accept my statements because they conflict with what I was "reported" to have said...
...The establishment of effective machinery to serve first in organising these trades in which there is an appreciable number of Negro workers or where - Negroes are in an unorganized majority...
...From an dl da tea for state offices down o d o g catcher, the powers t h a t be elect the m e n a n d then let Domcrats and Republicans vote as bey damned please, while the b i g bap sits back and laughs in his leeve," said Whiteley...
...He informed The New Leader that he urged the signer of the cable to drop the usual Communist verbiage...
...SATURDAY...
...A "Liberal" Party A Liberal Party was urged by Samuel Harden Church of Pittsburgh at a dinner of the directors of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment Tuesday night in New York...
...Baldwin well knew, that the Rand School had invited Socialists, liberals, Democrats, non - political Hungarian leaders in New York City and Mr...
...Baldwin says "stated the facts," eliminated half the tacts and distorted the half it did give...
...Baldwin helped formulate the cable...
...In the v e r y center of the ity women and children are comelled to pass Chinese gambling nd dope-peddling places...
...e • e Cheer up...
...i preliminary meeting will twin the building of the Inter . Ladies Garment Workers' at 1p.m...
...Can Socialist Read...
...Baldwin we would close the incident snd try to have people forget about it as aeon as possible...
...Again, in a case where there are two jobs to be filled, one paying a higher wage than the other, the Negro worker is usually given the lower paid-one...
...And what fine work he has dope in criticism and occasional special features . . . Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit, Mac Coleman, Louis Stanley, Ben Blumenberg, and the others who edge in at intervals . . . the greatest staff of under-and-non paid writers the cause has ever assembled for its press...
...they are irresponsible, competition is keen, and labor con...
...Maauserlpts U used will not be returned unlets return is enclosed...
...Their enterprises are precarious adventures in profit-making...
...Any appeal to him by white exchisionists when whites are striking fall to the ground...
...More variety, more general labor and Socialist Party news...
...Why, for instance, did the cable say "SocialDemocratic auspices" and not So:ialist auspices, as would have seen correct...
...Of about 3,500 employers at least 3,000 are not manufacturers but contractors who work for "jobbers" and "sub-jobbers...
...He thus raises a question concerning the veracity of The New Leader interviews with aim...
...He offered a specific a There is a New York store runs its book department sfj loss...
...This estimate is based upon reports received from trade unions...
...yet, nothing has been done in a positive way by the A. F. of L. to organize Negro workers in the union of their trade...
...There have been instances where the majority membership of a union were Negroes, where the industry itself was manned largely by Negro workers, yet, the elected and appointed paid officials of the union were white...
...In fact we ought to have a daily...
...D. H. Cole...
...Hillquit's assumption that I encouraged the sending of the cable...
...ButteCentralLaborUnion Calls for Inclusive Labor Party Conference (By a New Leader CorrnpoDdtnt) B U T T E , Mont.— With the inaction of delegates from three tore local unions, the Silver B o w rades and Labor Asembly n ow oasts of the largest membership r recent years, and represents (filiations of 30 local -labor oranizations...
...He virtually says to organized labor, "You have hedged and dodged on your bounden duty to the Negro workers of the United States for these many years...
...It was to meet and successfully cope with these problems that the Jews organized the United Hebrew Trades, which takes up the case of every organized Jewish worker and fights for justice for him...
...Let the case rest on what I have stated in writing, not on what was "reported" in conversation...
...Dead ones appeal to the G. O. P. e - e • Only an idea can slay an idea...
...The people are always right, ten if they are asleep...
...14, to discuss the lem of unemployment in New I City...
...a Going back t o the early years, when the Board of Management kept harping on better contents and format, one sees the eager face of Comrade Gillis, the rhythmical gestures of Comrade Warshow, and the genial presence of good old Morris Berman all intent on the problems before us...
...To the "Forward" and its "Association" we owe the full fact of Our existence since their annual subsidy has been sufficient to cover much of our deficit...
...The problem is fhe same today...
...The :able not only conveniently ignored the facts, but resorted to subterfuge and falsehoods...
...to other Foreign Countries 300 Tns Mew Leader, an official publication of the Socialist Fatty supports the struggles of the organised working class...
...If it were possible to unite all [.boring- people under one b a n - er, what a great political party •e would have...
...We shall have more to say of this report next week...
...He me half a dozen recent tx economics that should be cialist libraries...
...And for six I bitter years these comrades have borne the burden of keeping the pulmotor going over our shrunken financial and material being...
...It is obvious that the framers of the cable were intent on exploiting factional differences which exist between Karolyi and the Hungarian SocialDemocrat And what "opposition" would have been created had Karolyi proceeded with the meeting under Rand School auspices...
...And we have welcomed the increased volume of friendly T every mail^brings into ni The most encouraging sig is that the New Leader read with a more terest...
...copper, utilities and railroads passed this right to their useless sons...
...To the individual comrades who have given generously and often at our dinners and the like indeed our thanks...
...The statement is a challenge to the optimistic announcements of President Hoover and Secretary of Labor Davis...
...I expressed no opinion to the representative of the Anti-Horthy League beyond a remark that that Count Karolyi, advised of the facts, could make up his own mind...
...It is not likely that he has in mind textile, steel, and other industries where the same economic servitude prevails and yet this subjection of workers to the will of industrial overlords is the fundamental basis of political coercion and social degradation...
...True, there is much to be desired for constant improvement...
...Women in industry, too, long ago saw the need of establishing some instrument for their selfprotection...
...The struggle begins with an organization that has largely recovered its old power and that is eager to make a clean sweep of the task it has set for itself...
...Such an instrument is a crying need of Negro workers, both organized and unorganized...
...All we of the Leader staff and the management can say with settied demeanor is that we knew many more lean days than fat . . . that the way was uncommonly strait and hard . . . that our friends, were few . r'i'tut the few were preciously helpful . • . that we carried on with scarcely a whimper . . . and that we are prepared through that experience to keep going on in the good cause . . . come what may...
...e • The capitalist system is producing a social canker, ss well as economic chaos...
...Keir irdia Needed: A Council Of Negro Labor By Frank R. Crosswaith HARDLY had my article on Negro labor and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reached the press when the refreshing open letter of Mr...
...Their victory will hearten the organized workers everywhere...
...Service" is simply a new plaster to cover an old disease...
...whenever your palpable neglect of these workers became the subject of criticism, you have always taken quick refuge behind the farcical doctrine of local autonomy...
...All right-thinkers can understand that this boy was a criminal, not hungry...
...Many Negro trade unionists have withdrawn from their union in disgust not because they have lost faith in the principles of collective bargaining, but because they find that whenever unemployed members are to be sent to work, invariably the white worker will first be sent...
...By St...
...the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive...
...Baldwin's reputation have suffered sa a consequence...
...Workers have been pitched into the streets and the doors of employment have been shut As profits have dwindled wage cuts have been ordered...
...and secondly, to hammer away at race prejudice within the ranks of, organized labor...
...Just how it came through the lethargic labyrinth wherein the party and its friends got tangled up during those listless years will be intricate and difficult to explain...
...Even the government survey of the unemployed for December, a digest of which we presented last week, shows widespread distress...
...On the other hand It welcomes a j a - rietr of opinion consistent with its declared purpose...
...Count Karolyi's cause and Mr...
...It also undertakes organization work in industries where Jewish workers predominate and conducts among them an unending educational'campaign along trade union lines The Italians likewise have a similar organization known as the Italian Chamber of Labor which functions successfully for the protection of Italian workers...
...It is thus apparent that Peine who was the leading light of the American Revolution and the first person to propose the independence of the thirteen states from England, cannot be charged with bringing to this country a foreign idea...
...It provided the opportunity for the suppression of even that type of "liberty" which .it is now trying to recover...
...The use of the word "opposition" in the cable was obviously intended as a threat We repeat this cable, which Mr...
...Hillquit persist* in using- your jtalsssBst) to aak me questions about the Karolyi-Rand School matter, I must answer bis last queries, trivial as they are...
...While I was L things over...
...To bad that the half-dazed jobless men who com mi ted suicide in New York in the past ten days did not have this evidence of "prosperity...
...But not ths lsta...
...he did a lot to have it cancelled...
...If we were Mr...
...circulation increases, as t_ for betterment are made its management, as its security becomes assut might we measure the pr of our cause...
...When I get some on...
...Your present writer asks too to be considered as having been in the game with love and zeal...
...Bankruptcy has faced us time and time again...
...As strong and irrefutable as is the case Mr...
...Contrlbertors are requested not to write on both sides of the and not to use lead pencil or red ink...
...war with the present system of finance, which robs Labor and gorges Capital, makes the rich, richer and the poor poorer, and turns a republic into an aristocracy of capital.—Wendell Phillips...
...and, after all, power is the only thing that counts whether one is dealing with labor's statesmen or with labor's exploiters...
...But the younger members of the Board will permit the expression of appreciation we all feel for Comrades Berman, Gillis and Warshow who have led with unflagging energy and devotion and kept The New Leader marching on...
...Baldwin alone is involved...
...And then there's Eddie Levinson, the boy-marvel in a marvellous age...
...All the information that comes to The New Leader from a variety of sources supports the view that an army of jobless men are walking the streets all over the country...
...About 60 per cent of the workers are women and thousands of them earn as little as $12 per week...
...William Morris...
...We would elect Late officials who believe that ibor f o r m s the l a r g e s t part of t he opulation...
...If we approach this problem of organizing Negro workers solely from the point of view of the welfare of the whites it will be seen that the latter's material interest alone requires that the Negro should be in the labor organizations...
...ROGER BALDWIN...
...On innumerable occasions, with an air of righteous unction, you have proclaimed labor's alleged interest in the well-being of all who work without regard to race, creed, color or sex...
...e • The...
...It is thus apparent that the efforts of the Socialist Party snd the trade unions to get old age pensions are thoroughly 'in line with the best American traditions, and that the persons who try to fight this help to industrial workers who can no longer support themselves should be laughed out of court with their charge "importation...
...Baldwin's repeated protestations of aloofness from "political rows" comes with poor grace from one who has publicly expressed community - o f interest with the Communists and criticism of the Socialists...
...White and Colored Labor "W1 White and Colored Labor rE ARE glad that the claims of* the Negro as a worker and potential trade unionist are being urged...
...I repeat again that my only connection with the cable to Karolyi was a refusal to join in sending it...
...People'* Hawse, 7 East 15th Street, New York Crty...
...Baldwin now says...
...We ought to have more special articles from authorities...
...Ji willing to be shown...
...work and say with strut "This we have done, _ greatly pleased with 1 Rather arc we quick to ass we regret having had so: work with, since we cou accomplished so much The New Leader is so, fibre of Socialism and the It mirrors faithfully wr Socialists here in the States are...
...The Labor banks were of supreme importance during those financial crises...
...Baldwin now states that he "expressed no opinion" on the cable and i that his only "connection with the cable" was a refusal to join in sending it...
...I dropped In the other day, for this stc the People's House, along the New York City Headqi and the Rand School, is very easy to gat a t A the latest books and ma are always spread out in tive array, so it is a very ing place...
...For the sake of our readers who may be unfamiliar with the question involved, let us state: Roger Baldwin accepted membership on a committee organized by the Rand School to sponsor a meeting for Count Karolyi...
...Others in the Civil Liberties Union, similarly approached, took same position...
...Leader await your pleasure, j are your voice: And the hope and a new resonance is heard...
...Success to the dressmakers...
...The sole basis in fact for this statement is that other industrial countries have been more humane to their aged workers than the United States, However, it is instructive to note that Thomas Paine, way back in the 18th century, advocated state assistance to the persons who needed assistance in their old age, and worked out quite an elaborate plan for it...
...T. Arnold Hill, director of the Industrial Department, National Urban League, addressed to President William Green of the American Federation of Labor, was made public...
...I a m n o t s p e a k i n g a s a reformr, but a s a decent citizen," said •elougherty, "when I say that onditions under the present city nd county officeholders are a disrace...
...Nathaniel Gorham mentioned above is also the bird who sent a secret message in cipher to Prince Henry of Prussia to accept the American throne...
...I believe they can be made to ut the situation they will their own institution...
...And this descent of the whites is the price we must eventually pay unless we choose to help the ascent of the blacks...
...W e would not h a v e to pend thousands of dollars use:ssly t o have labor representatives erform acrobatic features in o r - er to see the groceryman or l a w y - f who happened to be a member F t h e s t a t e legislature...
...I can see no reason why organization of standing and merit such as the N. A. A. C. P., the National Urban League, the Negro Department .of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the" Negro Women's Federated Clubs, the Negro Fraternal orders and all unprejudiced white organizations in sympathy with the true aims of labor, cannot come together and establish an organization such as the Jewish and Italian workers have done...
...Baldwin implies that there are some discrepancies between what The New Leader "reported" him to have said and what he subsequently wrote over his signature...
...Our moods, _ thusiasms, our present and accomplishment are all n in its pages and make-up...
...One of the most tragic phases of Negro slavery was that it kept millions of poor whites in hopeless economic and social degradation...
...It sells current novels, and other popular works fraction of their wholesale This is part of an advertising ; The losses are charged off vertiatng...
...We, of tht...
...The conference, which...
...Rousseau lived long before American princes of steal, oil...
...Urge you to cancel this late...
...A Communist group, the Anti-Horthy League, cabled Karolyi urging him to cancel the speaking date...
...The cable did not state the Facts...
...t. The police had hardly completed their rounds in delivering mis message when the new capitalism began to exhibit all the diseases of the old...
...We think it exceedingly bad taste to bolster an argument by going back on a reporter, even though this attempt at a repudiation is couched as diplomatically as it is...
...A literal interpretation of "holding liberty in bondage" would range him against the whole economic system and bring him into the Socialist camp...
...Their standard of living and even general education did not rise higher than that of the slaves...
...ditions sink to a disgraceful level which menace the health of the workers...
...Visitrs in our city wonder why w e ave no such official as a n officer f the l a w ." W h i t e l e y said that if unionism l any community had a task head of it is in Butte...
...charged at the Rand Book The Rand Book Store gli party messtters a discount per cent If they were to _ their books at their own they would get them, on rage, cheaper than they do rival establishment In they would be increasing . fits of the store, which go _ port the Socialist movement they are so carried away notion of getting some oae ular book cheap that the this patronage over to the Of course, I deny the charge that Socialists axe 1 co-operators...
...The cable stated the facts," Mr...
...Cannot Negroes come together and effect their own instrument to ncxve tkeni in a similar manner...
...Paine, in fact, wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence and converted Washington to the idea of fighting for freedom...
...Paine said, "When it shall be said In any country in the world, my poor are happy...
...Nor are we content _ before you the six years...
...We cannot 1 mit this opportunity to pass out referring to his years voted service.—Editor...
...Also, there is an instance where a capable Negro organizer was forced out of his union because it was felt that he was bringing in too many Negro members and that since Negroes constituted a majority of the workers in the particular trade they would soon have all paid Negro officials and would therefore control the jobs...
...A G. O. P. hero, of course...
...be in the nature of an it exchange of views, is being sored by the Committee on of the N. Y. Socialist Party...
...We wish to acknowledge here our .gratitude to Comrade Adolph Held of the Amalgamated Bank, and Comrade Solomon Fillin of the International-Madison Bank for the consideration and courtesy they have e::tended to us whenever we called on their institutions for a much needed loan...
...He singled out political groups who "endeavor to enact their religious and moral tenets into the laws of the land...
...e • e Jean Jacques Rousseau ones said that "No father can transmit to his son the right of being nssltsi to his fellow creatures...
...He has his friends in the trade anions but up to the present there has been no general invitation for him to join all unions or any concerted effort to organize him...
...e e e We may be sure that the high powered propagandists of capitalism who yodle the hymn of "prosperity" will not be found among the ranks of the millions of jobless workers...
...New York City...
...They hired out their slaves for other jobs...
...These whites could not rise in the social scale until Negro bondage was abolished...
...And to the staff . . . gallant, uncomplaining Jim Oneal, trudging through multitudinous tasks, going for weeks without pay in 1927 . . . love and prosit Jim 1927 . . . love and prosit Jim . . . you've done a difficult job better than any other man I know in the movement could have managed to perform...
...We do not think that this type of "liberal" will concern himself with the miners in many states who work in an industry that holds "liberty in bondage...
...But how soon organized labor i l l be ready is a question...
...Hillquit's partisan feeling which prevents him from seeing that I, as well as others in the Civil Liberties Union, could and did not participate in a political row with which we had no concern...
...It appears that the Rand School was swayed by "bourgeois tolerance" in inviting Mr...
...Next Friday's conference probably be the forerunner larger and official conferencs...
...Not all books at reduced costs...
...Somehow we twisted and turned our meager resources into sufficiency for the threatening moment...
...The cable stated the facts...
...The modem form of private property is simply a legal claim to take a Share of the produce of the national industry without paying for it—George Bernard Shaw...
...IN A NUTSHELL The National Republic, G. O. P. monthly magazine, declares that Nathaniel Gorham, twelfth president of the Continental Congress, served in that body in 1782 snd 1783, snd again from 1785 to 1787 but that he died in 1786...
...We cannot have one great section of labor treated as mudsills without the rest of Us being in peril of being dragged down...
...e • e We declare war on the wage system, which demoralizes the life of the hirer and the lured, cheats both and enslaves the workingman...
...e e In a fair gale every fool may sail, but wise behavior In a storm The Letter Box Mr...
...Then what is to be said of "service" as a commandment of the new capitalism ? The charm of the word is being dispelled by grim reality...
...FEBRUARY 8, 1930 The Dressmakers' Strike E strike of the dressmakers in New York City is a powerful blow aimed at the abomination known as the sweatshop, that foul parasite which in the garment trades is responsible for the tubercular worK%r and thousands of untimely deaths since it appeared in the eighties...
...Come on, boy, bring on your seventh At the risk of being . with reviving that notable The Mutual Admiration the author of the above titled to the gratitude of our era for his active work la grave emergencies that have S The New Leader...
...Ja the genial manager of the i I said: "Well, how's buslne Jack said: "Oh, business right" I said: "I suppose all the lata buy then- books here.' Jack said: "Socialists" we had to depend on Socialists' would have to close up...
...people all over the country books here...
...Income tax returns for 1928 show 40 per cent more receivers of million dollar incomes and thirteen more who received $5,000,000 or more a year...
...MEW LEADER Contributing Editors: H I U q g . i t , , AlLet, Harry P u b l i s h e d Every Saturday by the New Leader Pubiiabint Association...
...You have never been found wanting when it comes to issuing high sounding statements to cover up an apparently studied policy of inaction with regard- to Negro labor...
...We must add that with this Issue, The New T<eader considers the controversy closed A Labor Paper Speaks Up rN discussing- the recent release L issued by the Socialist Party lowing that more ground had sen gained by the advocates of idependent labor political action uring the past year than in a n y ear for five years, the Labor ournal...
...And what fine results w e would et...
...Baldwin to set on its committee...
...If his claims are not recognized he is under no obligation to recognize ours...
...It said: "Tour a rat meeting scheduled under Social Democratic auspices will create misunderstanding and opposition...
...he said, "I will acta that I am wrong...
...The problems which Negro workers today face were at one time also faced by Jewish and Italian workers...
...The new capitalism has developed an intellectual police who have given it a halo...
...Baldwin was "reported" to have •aid only what he DID say...
...It swallowed most of the cant of the warmongers and turned against the Socialists who tried to remain sane in an insane world...
Vol. 10 • February 1930 • No. 1
