THE NEXT EMANCIPATION
THE NEXT EMANCIPATION VI.—The Task Before Us installment of a revised booklet, "The Next Emancipation" by 'James Qneal. It has been published to. sell at cost, 16. cents posteoid, by...
...For them the future is in the lap of the gods...
...He said that he had taken the clothes of '-fie Bm officer who had been captured...
...Pueblo...
...The white masters have placed both Negro and white labor on the same plane of equality of servitude...
...But the rules of war said it had to b* The rules of war are not the rules of humanity...
...Our readers ore referred to the interesting story of this case on page four of this issue...
...One may in the ' columns of the Times in the past year or two obtain evidence in refutation of this view...
...not any more last rounds vbatsam THE ENGLISH SHOOT AN ENEMY I LETT me tell a short story about the curious ImpersoosBm war...
...Now, the NegrO worker dislikes the whtte worker because the latter dislikes him...
...Thousands of mining towns and small manufacturing centers are also bleak hells of misery for jobless men with families and for others working part time at reduced wages...
...The same white worker who holds this prejudice may be working in the same ditch, on the same farm, or in the same factory with Negro workers...
...qSome...
...IN A NUTSHELL The Pope warns us that we should not support Socialism...
...YET BOTH ARE ROBBED BY THE SAME CLASS OF WHITE CAPITALISTS, CONTRACTORS...
...the man gave the name of the missing oBtm he immediately arrested him...
...the British Parliament and a Catholic...
...Bogaiusa was the headquarters of the I Great Southern Lumber Company, i whose sawmill is said to be the...
...Transformed into intelligent action, these incentives, within, a year or two may break down old prejudices, conservatism and ancient views and emerge as • powerful Socialist movement...
...They get little more education than the Negro...
...You have got to s t f ,l have played the last round...
...This will be the beginning of understanding, and understatnding is necessary before there can be unity of action...
...This it wonM do...
...Special articles on unemployment, destitution of the farmers, pathetic stories of workers in the breadlines, occasional items regarding jobless men committing suicide, and even letters have told a tragic story that is in conflict with its observation...
...There is nothing harder to make the prejudiced white understand than the question of "social equality...
...They will stay in this equality* until both join hands to liberate themselves from those who buy their labor power and exploit them in the labor market, Capitalism lit the Dock ' T H E tread towards a sweauciop America is evident in some sections and some industries and the continued depression is giving many masters of capital and finance considerable anxiety...
...isn't it about ttn And so they took him out and shot him...
...Capitalism is in the dock, accusing fingers of millions are pointed to it, its apologists can present no reasonable defense of its horrible failure, and its dominion has become a menace to all but a handful of fat usurers...
...Here is a glorious beginning of that understanding' between white i and Negro workers against the i common enemy...
...The Scot tsboro Case "FIGHT young Negroes sentenced to death in Alabama for a crime which it is very doubtful they committed have become of interest to American Bolsheviks...
...Police of Los Angeles Arrest Busick Twi Others AreTheater liam Busick, Socialist...
...They should continually insist on the color line being wiped out where ever it exists, and thai Negro unions be amalgamated with the other unions...
...Colo...
...Wherever a few of the brethren are able to form a "nuclei" they so act except to the larger cities where they have learned that they cannot get away with their pleasantries...
...and shovels digging the grave for him...
...Be raises the value of neighboring weed-growing property and pays for the M I I H S B I of doing it...
...Tour correspondent, Mr, Wolbnann, like a good many others, has Jumped to wrong oonchisions ss tattaecBSsi of making society the landlord...
...Socialists are, or ought to be, concerned shout workers and rent payers ^^pm^ >spB?a^^gtV^S sBBr^&sa tot the unseat at least, rent hie extra rooms tor a rentalon reams would go to •cctrtvTkven now there are land values sad house vames aad^Uhat^division could be made mere period of a few years during which to make these i ladjnshw nls to taxes...
...That they are* - possible in this country is simply evidence that the workers after a hundred yean of trade union organization have no political power...
...that Is, to shift the burden from an indiscriminate levy on land and homes to a burden on tod...
...I I said, "Mon Capitan...
...I replied that all we could do under tins system was the best we can until we can make the change, that is what ws have done thus far...
...For some J time it had made use of unor- i ganized Negro workers against i white wage workers...
...The great task before the workers of both races is to make both see that so long as they hate, each other the class that robs both will continue to exploit them...
...Another Labor Trial" ftONVICTION of Albert Hoffmann of "son^""^ spiracy" in the strike of Pennsylvania hosiery workers at Stroudsburg adds another notorious frame-up in American labor history...
...This assertion is astounding...
...Socialists are trying to put brains ia their heads...
...Had he ever sees 9* Lillie...
...Thomas, thai amount would have to be paid in taxes to the city, m say the landlords would be expropriated...
...I could not sell my, bouse new -tor • 'Wro-Steds of what 1 paid for it'but" ft, it assessed at over 85 per cent of fts cost...
...six mills** wage workers are there and a few million farmers...
...Yes...
...Before my luck went so bad I used to play in poke: pdBffl we used to say, "The game will stop sharp at 1 o'clock...
...Because the .same ruling whites that rob the Negro worker, rob the white worker...
...These cases are too numerous in this country to be explained on the theory of an accidental miscarriage of justice...
...He may be living in a shack that he calls "home," just as the Negro worker does...
...The orderly said, "Oh, I'm so sorry y 2H paper men came today...
...This is the way to labor solidarity in'industry...
...Of coarse we Socialists, not being single tax adherents, would also keep and Increase income and inheritance taxes...
...Who would want to own a home...
...In the past eighteen months the total wage cuts of steel workers at Mansfield, Ohio, have reached 37 H per cent...
...Sine* fM had been moved, there proof either way, so he w l ij ed oc a charge of 'durtarBBj peace...
...A vote for capitalism is so luxury that workers cannot "afford...
...It has not came to my attention that there has been a rush of corapenng organisations into these industries...
...He may be getting wages that are little more than the Negro worker receives...
...Let not thy right hand know what thy left hand doeth" as a policy may result in all departments becoming as harmonious as a kraut band...
...The Bolsheviks go so far as to charge that organization with employing an insane man to look after the case...
...In the troubles that came to a head on November 22, three white men were shot and killed, one of them being the District President of the American : Federation of Labor, who waa ' helping to give protection to a colored organizer...
...Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of* sustaining Ufa, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shelter from 'he cutting blasts of a winter night.—Horace Greeley...
...1) by making possible the exesoptioc ee almost complanning which ia now impossible-in say gamma way so long as everybody has to work for the land owners...
...Do you expect to make'- converts among the thousands jrao...
...o'clock somebody, generally a loser, would say, "Let us f a n last round," and at 5 o'clock in the morning we wouM S s j playing last round...
...the war of the Revolution, but he would like very autitasB I • fought with the Greeks against the Persians at Barathea,'" H I said, "Well now...
...The members should exclude these gentlemen from their nm lings tor the same reason that they would exclude a half-wit or a rowdy drunk.—Editor of The New Leader...
...Even in the South, this is* possible, and we have seen the beginning of that union of white and colored labor in behalf of their common interests...
...Because this is true tnosc who sincereiy desire justice for the accused will not juggle with their lives...
...They also Bab nails their literature at our meeting...
...If you an J to swear off on war you have to swear off complete.' I A DISAPPOINTED OFFICER Mt AGOOD many people say, "Yes, I am for peace: I aac't MB - in war...
...The wages of workers have been reduced but they pay the same rates for gas and electricity, therefore their real wagea are lass...
...Under our present onsajeanflc tax law, a man is actually penalised by owning a home...
...don't trouble—don't bother If rifle grenades at the Germans, they might fire back after « t | fl gone and wound some of your men...
...He may be working for the same master...
...After *U,<jI nists are people who arc opposed to all wars ur to tha 3 they think there might be just one more war, arid that wBm good war because you would have the proletariat on onc«a tile bourgeois and the capitalists on the other, and that J 3 I war...
...own a one or twofamily house by taxing them out of existence...
...So I say if you are going to swear etfl you have got to swear it off altogether...
...I know that If Norman Tbomas was linked with the master class he could not be what he is in the Socialist movemerit...
...If every Negro's place in the South was ailed by a white man, conditions of the white workers would be what they are now...
...BOLS HIES Of PUEBLO Editor, The New tassel i Communists here are striving to get a hold by ridiculing national figure* Jnjthe^Soclahst movement They hang to force their way in sad get the use at Our aaOs to speak in after we pay tor them...
...I . X was talking to a Communist and he scid he didst tabes!S the last war...
...Now it is a monstrous Caliban feeding on its victims at home and yet fearful that its gluttony is a death feast just before the end...
...Moreover, it is credited with doing some things which we cannot now mention out of consideration for the lives of the accused...
...j And as soon as they arrested him the - man admitted fiH was a German...
...The verdict was t n a tH shot within an hour...
...Capitalism is committing suicide, snd the present generation must save itself from the results thereof.— John Wheatley, former Labor member of...
...That we do not exaggerate is evident from a report of the Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor which shows that wages as low as three dollars a week are paid in some Massachusetts textile mills by new firms that have taken over abandoned .mills...
...my country is fighting for setf-defaet 9m • cause is right...
...1 largest in the world...
...Azure Masonic Temple, 16*1 Boston road, near Bast, H2nd street, on Sunday evening...
...Of course, I would be for a defensive war or |9 ecus war...
...he did the same as any man ass under the circumstances...
...Tea, but ho liked Beatrice Lillie better...
...Frank Kent, a keen observer, recently wrote in the Baltimore Sun of the fright that has come to many of our ruling oligarchs...
...Morris HUkntit and other national figures in the Socialist o^ftesdmg.^Pa...
...Working for a few dollars a week, they earn about enough to poorly feed an animal, not a Lej-"»" being...
...If it is said war is a natural thing, I say it is not sa There was not a soul in that tent that wanted to take tsstl fellow out and shoot him for doing nothing that seemed *° wrong or villainous...
...What is around the corner they do not know but they are afraid that it is a pit that >»U1 swallow them up...
...What hap- ' pened is told by Benjamin Braw- i ley, in his "Social History of the i American Negro," p. 349: i "The forces of labor, however, began to organize the Negroes ia ; the employ of the company, which held political as well as capitalistic I control in the community...
...The only trouble about that is that we did h t v t jB to end war...
...A Times Boner XNCIDENTAL to a consideration of economic conditions in Russia the New York Times says something that should bead the list of boners for this month...
...New York City...
...Norman Thomas please explain just what you assFby that...
...All the indications point to a capitalism on its death bed after a carouse of ten years in which it i e d upon the misery of millions across the Atlantic...
...there is even a fair measure of comfort arising, as some complain, from too generous methods of public insurance add relief...
...Wherever possible, they should get a white unionist who understands the need of this to supplement their appeals...
...he didn't believe in the Civil War...
...But the white worker, because of his ignorance and prejudice, sees only the color line and not the class line...
...The time to off ia right now...
...There is no hope for either so long as they hate, There is hope .when they cease to hate...
...BANKERS AND EXPLOITERS IN GENERAL...
...I hope yon can nip tha violent advocacy and answer to the untruths of Communist organisers and their press...
...Negroes, as a /rule, find the cards stacked against them in white courts...
...I was talking to an Englishman, an actor, and S B served with the British Army at Gallipoli, and the word wstfl out that a young English officer had disappeared...
...As a matter of fact, both the Negro and such White, workers are victims of s "white supremacy'' exercised by exploiters...
...This Is a new party local and we assure Us members that those Communist activities are "^*»*^ new...
...cents posteoid, by the Negro Labor News Service, P. O. Box 66, College Station, New York City, or 2653 Washington boulevard, Chicago...
...Tours tor social ^ t F t T N ' M O N O P O L Y P R I C K S Editor, The New Leader: With respect to the article by Qua Tyler, a well written and interesting Uts'are aptlo'owiook'sa Important aspect of capitalist economy aad thev It always fsOow than when an hv ^try^^to^very^^profltahle there^ta an Ms "iff smsglu u^J&^jjjn ***** **During this period**^nepreaaioE commodity prices have faBen snd wags* hate bom reduced so that osrsble than before, for example, the electric power and gas industries...
...What is just as pathetic are Use hundreds of thousands hanging on the edge of the pit...
...HOOVERS ADVICE Editor,' The New Leader: ; l u s t • a wood-from the Evergreen Battel goeiahsts out here are as scattered « hen's teeth, but it's Just as eonamag to the few of us to hear of Socialist gains in other places...
...What to do they do not know...
...It observes that in the "capitalistic countries there is, of course, hardship due to unemployment, but there is no starvation, no misery, certainly no destitution...
...Arthur L Agnew's address at the « o'clock Fellowship Berries at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship...
...Yes, and he thought she was funny...
...A tax rising to the full rental value of tod would fartmats small home owning...
...HEYWOO BROUN War: Let's Be To Abstainers THE COMMUNIST MOPS IN WAR % WAR is one of the things which drives an issue MB E Communist party and the Socialist parry...
...It is not likely that the condemned had a fair trial...
...Such white workers need not fear social equality...
...You guessed i t Monopoly, a limited field for operation, restraint of trade through racketeering and other obstacles...
...Today is very quiet...
...In the South, his children may be deprived of arrvducaOon just as the Negro's children often are...
...These incidents show that the accursed prejudices can be wiped out and unity of the workers of both races obtained...
...A white union organizer gave his life in defense of ; a Negro member of the wage ; working class...
...they i think be was a dirty villain...
...Had he sua trade Lawrence...
...Yet many thousands of these whites are steeped in the deepest poverty...
...j I said, "Oh...
...They should point out the advantages to both white snd Negro workers in such unions...
...sssTttt Wbwawlh^f grafting...
...Wo permitted aha to speak seven minutes snd Lester Snuhnan very ably defended Socialism, against his ridicule...
...Extend that understanding between the workers of i both races from Bogaiusa, throughout the South and the North, and this class brotherhood would wipe out much of the ignorant prejudices that prevail...
...After I had addressed Mbs meeting along fundamental principles, the Communist asked one question, "What are the workers to do for •sasthlag to eat until election...
...Later on we shall return to this matter when some things can be said without injuring victims* who stand in the shadow of the electric chair...
...Ha hsdgm been killed or captured, and there was a possibility that a QBJ would come into the lines using his name...
...This is a disgusting performance with death staring eight boys in the face...
...Yesterday the Germans were boamfl all day long and wounded one or two of my officers and i«fm men...
...The fact that some labor men have beerr acquitted in such cases is no answer to pur accusation and the Tacajrhac lp% b^prmen, at jn the case of the MeNamara b«txr<ctvbsni*fcojh guilty of crimes charged to them does not alter i p t pdgmeat, There'are cases like the Saceo-Vtnzen: "trial," the Mooney-Billings affair, sad the shorking Ceo- j traiia convictions which show that American courts can be transformed into brothels when the hates of exploiting classes are aroused...
...What is wanted Is not a "whits" South or a "black" South, but a working class South and a working class North...
...They never occur in England and-•on* the Comment...
...an American acwpgm man among French soldiers...
...THE NEXT EMANCIPATION VI.—The Task Before Us installment of a revised booklet, "The Next Emancipation" by 'James Qneal...
...The 1 company then began to have No- 1 groes arrested on charges of vagrancy, taking them before the I City court and having them.fined and turned over to the company to work out the fines under the , guard of gunmen...
...NoJtO yoSu.r sW imOlUy.4 BAKS Brooklyn, N. T. ; Bdltor, The New Leader...
...Its shameful misuse of funds collected in the names of Sacco and Vanzerti is a case in point...
...The Bolshevik organization is a collection agency that is more interested in collecting funds and diverting them to hs own propaganda than anything else...
...Why are they ragged, ignorant and poor...
...Me was a nice yoBf low, he spoke English well...
...I merely want to point out the necessity tar reforms such ss control of rates sad prices, higher taxation, social insurance and betterTsbor taws, aad las need, necessarily for class action on the political field by the ' workers...
...he tttaci agj...
...The prise of wheat -has been greatly reduced, das, of course, to the habit of those terrible Russians of dunking, t h r e a d been*reduced?1, HerVagain!0...
...Just listened in to Hoover's welcome addiBsj to the International caramercial Club when he left it sH up to them to sponsor the movement to relieve she depression and dimmish armament, but what T couldn't understand was bow art they to go about it when the most influential members are the manufacturers of war materials...
...This in turn has brought a conflict with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People which has provided counsel for the condemned boys...
...We hope that the frame-up at Stroudsburg will stir the whole labor movement, that, this latest victim will be released, and that the experience will contribute to more effective use of the political power of the working class...
...demanded the floor...
...A White Labor Hero In Bogaiusa, Louisiana, in November, 1919, there was a striking instance'of this unity of white and Negro wage workers...
...Take another example...
...He spent two or three bewrtjM British lines noting their machine gun emplacements • courtmartialed and had no defense...
...They didn't want to talk about Ml They talked about shows in London...
...The N.A.A.C.P...
...has a staff of the most eminent lawyers in the country to advise it in such cases and we may be sure that it will do everything to protect the rights of boys of their own race and color...
...The soldiers were ism out for anybody who gave the name of this missing English sB An officer going down the trench met a young man in his UtW challenged him...
...The taxes we pay now are heavy enough...
...I never knew a wtyfl was not a righteous war to the people who were fighting it t f l I was a newspaper man with The Tribune, I was in a f a g l trench at Rheims...
...Busick was held for Ji hours and released on bsfl*H Almost immediately tl»JS«rBJ was arrested again sad takoyj different station, "on SSSBJ He was not held hwweveaSji police later denied ttmm arrest Other men woSBll Busick, in the district, hsjg threatened by P°ilc*i***B paigh literature h s s ^ f s lj from them tnS 3e«t.u»"*sm plaints to police headqjUStBBB aroaght no relief...
...J. T. LANDIS...
...Well, he did fire the rifle grenades but nothing bsppanC'jH Germans seemed to realize that this was just a Cook's tisffl didn't pay any attention...
...What is the reason for this paradoxical state of affairs...
...Yet this white worker, who In every respect has beast reduced to a level equal to that of the Negro worker, is afraid of " s o c i al e q u a n t y l a the South many such white workers believe that they are a part of what is called "white supremacy...
...Suppose a boose snd the ground on which it stands were assessed, say, for 110,000 of which, say, $2,600 represented th* value of the ground Under the proposed system, suppose the property brought tl.000 yearly in rent...
...According to Mr...
...Then if it hac bewsadfl for me or a French soldier in that trench to climb over siissfl that short distance we would have met a German, aoiSUIIm ' man would have said, "My country is fighting in self-oBa* S B my cause is right...
...The really vital and powerful tendencies of our times are toward a higher and wider form of social aad economic organization— towards Socialism,—Thomas Kirkup...
...The contrast in the treatment of four slayers of Alberta Bachmann, a girl striker, and of Hoffmann, leader of the strikers, is revolting in its revelation of legal machinery rigged against workers...
...S O L m a m . New York CHy...
...That's Just one of the big sticks that gets into our government machinery, and neither of the old parties dare pull it out...
...NORMAN THOMAS...
...If anybody had asked mi Ivifl have said then...
...been to this place for a cocktail, or bad he read this book Of1 worthy...
...They are striving to arouse the workers to violence...
...Twenty-one utilities corporations show a gross increase of nearly M million dollars in "earnings" for the year 1930 which shows the utility of private ownership of utilities i s wall as the futility of workers voting for utility candidates...
...Will you or Mr...
...Talk along that Hue, and then finally he thrust W out and looked at his watch and said, "I know this is not esfl you fellows, but it isn't easy for me either...
...And if you had asked a Turk orsBftrtJ or an Italian—everybody down the line, everybody woaibai sssB the same thing...
...But they let me look tkrourk i j f l scope at the front line of the Germans, about 70 yards ewitVB "NO MORE LAST ROUNDS" I ISN'T it curious," I said...
...As a Socialist \ shaB ooctta— so discourage violence confront ^ B * o l r t n K o o n d i t I O M *•* There was a Communist organizer at our last two meetings...
...So li """ f l l j "I am against war but I would fight in a righteous war, f BH saying nothing at all...
...Our reactionary classes are so powerful that when evidence is piled mmintim high of bias and perjury after the trials die victims often go to the chair or stay in prison...
...To realize it should be the aim of intelligent men snd'women of the ! white snd Negro working class...
...When the editorial page does not know what the other pages have been saying it is time for the-staff to take stock...
...With such facts staring us in the face it is mockery for conservatives to boast o? labor's power in politics...
...Meantime the social pit yawns for workers and many are tumbling into the abyss...
...The life of society is being strangled by the forms which once promoted it...
...Negro workers should organize into unions aad continually insist upon the trade unions extending help to them in this work...
...which is fan of falsa accusations against Marman Thomas...
...The abyss is filling up with its human casualties, discontent is widespread, and the incentives for a vasl movement of the working clam are accumulating every day...
...The Bronx Freer Fellowship "International Relations and World Peace'' will be the topic of the Rev...
...Through the International Labor Defense, a Bolshevik auxiliary, a wax is being nude against the N.A.A.C.P., the latter being charged with "treachery" in handling the esse...
...Thousands of white workers there hare deep prejudices against the Negro...
...Any Frenchman there would have said, "My country iispgmj in self-defense: our cause is right...
...iuiufl| councilman in the nintk em was dragged from his astsjH police red squad, hsadeoBiif taken to jail "for distribBBBJ literature in his dtstrteffl desk sergeant pointed sat m arresting officers that tat J ture was the New Era, 9m paper, of which Busick s g Officers then claimed that am had parked his care more foot from the curb...
...By JAMES ONEAL CONSIDER the situation in the South...
...Thank heaven we can save our souls by supporting Tammany piety, profits aad graft, to say nothing of the vice squad...
...Looks as though they .yuldjisssst their own purpose which If it wasn't such a henldas crane to study social economies maybe the ripie would learn to take an interest their own affairs aad governments would be asked to fanettoa massed of commercial ehms...
...I informed the Communist that he positively could not ass the hall...
...The sickness of their own system is a mystery to them and they are afraid that it will go down in ruin...
...It appears that we are in a race with chaos and every comrade should find a place in which to serve in these trying days...
...that's all right, we are just newspaper SssjH have got to take our lot, we won't blame you...
...No ruling class would dare challenge a ballot-armed labor army if that army were using its political power I effectively and earing away the power of the enemy It is not only that labor victims are railroaded in court trials...
...May 24...
...Never was the time so opportune and so necessary for Socialist education...
...Here I am...
...I Thereupon he sat down with the wv.yM.v officers in a test side the tent they could hear the British soldiers with th...
...That opens up a very big "loophole...
...j No soldier likes to go out and have his head blown oifhU'l feels that he is fighting in a righteous cause...
...a Jouett Shouse of the Democratic National Committee has been to Texas to put "heart' 'into the Democrats...
...Well," he said, " i n tell you what 111 do...
...They had an hour to kill...
...The workers on the docks in New Orleans some years ago were also involved In a strike, and the white and Negro workers stuck side by side snd shared in the hardships and sacrifices of the strike...
...He sees the Negro, whom he dislikes instead of the white masters, whom hs should dislike...
...Sam, that is a Utile academic, of Jfl Nobody is going to conscript you for that war, anc 'sa.ybefl ware around a t the time of that war you would not have wsaBB be in i t The Athenians were possibly going around pphwal fellows on the shoulder as we did in the late war...
...Many plans are being suggested to help some The New Leader Mailbag The New Leader: In his restatement of the Socialist "program in The New Leader, Norman Thomas mentioned the expropriation of the landlords by taking in taxes the rail ground rent...
...have not observed say rush of competing elements into this industry, or, to come closer home and to our milk problem, the ease with which the price of milk Is raised wueusssi desired snd prices kept at a level to resort to the vernacular, a caption...
...I am disappointed...
...Deflated values snake them peevish and apprehensive...
...I'U get sceasfl men to fire rifle grenades over at the Germans and maybe thlH stir them up...
...They should send committees before the unions for this purpose...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 21
