THE NEW LEADER FORUM
THE NEW LEADER FORUM TO CORRESPONDENTS For many months The Mew Leader Forum has Placed before 1U readen almost every range cf opinion regardiDf party principles and tactics. Thlt. continued...
...The for- j msttnn of a club based on the char- I actexistic habit of clannishnea* of our j race would make for more effective work for the common cause...
...Invito a revolution...
...Signed) Joseph W. Sharts...
...The Judge's unfortunate error in this connection i* hi* apparent belief that "Socialist party" and "Judge Panken" are synonymous term...
...The Judge, In the course of his address for Comrade HUlqult, indicated his agreement with those who felt that anti-Semitism had much to do with the case...
...May I add...
...Gueas there's something Eddieguesty and sentimental about me after all...
...o:____I \ D__I ar___i...
...AS I. L f. (MB By William Betels Several member* cf the Br.uti Independent Labor party now resident* in the United State*, are forming as I. L. P. and Labor party dub...
...He says, "The statement that the formula of the Hoan supporter* was that no Jew can lead the Socialist party' was mt li to false asm vfeswas," etc After reference to say notes Indicated that this statement had been made by Comrade Sharts, I wrote this comrade In Dayton, Ohio, asking him whether the quotation was not correct...
...we do in our platforms...
...We will go further and say that confidence is the need of the hour or even of the moment...
...Brtafcty...
...He hinted darkly, and none too vaguely, of "secret letters," etc...
...Individuals cannot get all they earn because there will be the young, the old and the sick to take care of and government, whether capitalist or Socialist Is more or less expensive...
...Due to the fact that many once active member* are strangers in a strange land they are unattached and lost to the labor movement...
...Hasting-on-Hudswvj, N. T. THE FOLLOWING EDITORIAL WILL NOT APPEAR IN MY CHAIN OF NEWSPAPERS (Signed) Paul Krocked CO\r IDF.NCK, confidence is the crying need of the day...
...Yea, but due to the depression his income or rather his salary waa raised to $40,000...
...A MAP OP THE FUTURE By William Edwards In a term of study of Socialism longer than that of H. D Morrison* I have had time to get over the idea of drawing a map of the future...
...However, my attention was called to hi* correspondence appearing In the issue of May 24, 1032...
...We could draw up a Declaration of independence a* wet) a* the revolutionist* of 1776 did...
...in reply to the general criticism raised by the Judge: I conrider it my duty to write about Socialism and the Socialist party for whatever publication win print what I cay without harmfully editing it In all this writing outside of the Socialist press, as well as within my sole aim is always to advance the best interests of the party...
...The campaign Strugs'* °' *ne P"*7 must no...
...Leader, Edward Levfnaoa, acted a...
...I make this statement without any reservation or qualification...
...In these-daya of materialism and scepticism there cornea to mind the saying of that business leader made famous by Bruce Barton, "Except ye be aa little children," eie», etc, y Recently my little son, Yankele, aged two, exclaimed as he lay in his crib sucking the nipple of his bottle, "Daddy, am I correctly informed when told that the mayor of this city receives only $25,000 a year...
...There were a few safhtants who wanted an A*neneaa Socialist party instead of a Socialist party in America, and their Amerij canism expressed Itself In a desire u hare American names and confining : th...
...Neither do I feel that this slogan i* suitable for the 1912 campaign...
...As I started to say, what the public (City Affairs Committee excepted) needa today is confidence...
...To attribute that statement to me is a falsification...
...Talk about the ingratitude of democracies...
...That Is the only way I can understand hi* reference to the "associate editor (I am really only a bumble assistant editor) of The New Leader, who l» on oar payroll.- Hi* threat at the convention to wire the Jewish Daily Forward about Comrade Vladeck'* stand is of a piece with hi* "payroll" reference...
...It would be a great favor and a progressive itep for the common cause I If The New Leader would broadcast' through the medium of Its valuable column* that ail former LLP...
...Vladeck Jumped to hi* feet with an appeal to the chairman that the former Judge was 'degrading the convention.'" This is equally false and vicious...
...I behove this to hi of more than pasting Importance...
...j The good judgment of the comrades ha* prevailed, and we are now in our national executive committee ; led by Morris HUxpnt...
...I'll bet that Jimmy hasn't even got a garage for every car...
...They didn't say anything about what should be done with fortune* of billion*, or railroad*, mines, power trusts and other weapons of extortion because they hadn't any, and we know a* little a* they did about what conditions may be 80, 20 or even 10 years from now...
...when II come* to a constitution, wj should be In about the same boat as they were...
...As Seahury is my judge, folks, that's how It hip* pened...
...Somebody will have to do the dirty work and R may be necessary to compensate the dirty worker at a higher rate than the clean one...
...Even more I don't like the slogan because it ha* certain middle class idealistic vagueness that is incongurou* for a Socialist party...
...Ardent young Socialist* who think it would be nice to write poetry, paint and do the finer things, may be disappointed...
...Between vacations he is exported to be in the city to give hja critics the bum's rush...
...I recall his striding up the aisle of the convention, shouting and gesticulating excitedly that he was going to wire to New York (meaning, obviously, the Jewish Daily Forward) that Comrade B. C. Vladeck had -introduced the subject of Americanism In the convention.'' It aho stems to sue that such a pasrionstf defender of veracity a* Judge Panken ought to be more certain of his own statement...
...Lousy, I calls it," cried the little tyke, hurling bis bottle at the cabinet containing my collection of Ming and Sung porcelain...
...I have today received this wire from Comrade Sharts: "Edward Levinson, The New Leader...
...N. T. A rSOTEST By Jacob rankest The associate editor of The New...
...I regret any injury that may have been done the Judge...
...Undoubtedly, -.here were a few...
...Come on, promise now...
...It would be better J all member* of the party able to j write could find employment in So. cialist party publication...
...It was highly improper for him to write falsehood...
...In the paragraph quoted, he say* that "Mr...
...THE PARTY PLATFORM By Arthur McDowell Prominently above the platform adopted by the national convention of the Socialist party is reproduced in May 28 Issue of The New Leader, appeared the campaign slogan of 1928, vis, "Plenty, Peace and Freedom.'' Looking over the platform again my first feeling la that the slogan and the platform don't jibe...
...While feeling that "Bread, Jobs and Socialism" might be even better I assumed that something very close to the Waldman slogan would be chosen and used...
...Vladeck did not Interrupt me, nor did he appeal to the chair while I was making,, my address in support of Hinsuit for chairman of the nattmal enmnrtttee I cannot bring- myself to believe thai ail" or any appreciable nimwirr of the Hoan supporters are of the opinion that no Jew can lead the 8c' cialist party...
...and Labor party numbers and friends should get In touch with William Beedie, 83 Halsey street, Brooklyn M. Y, for particulars of proposed meeting...
...Nobody asks for a map of heaven when they join a church, why should they want a map before joining a political party...
...He wrote and had printed the following paragraph: "Judge Jacob Panken brought on * few tense moments when he charged that the 'formula of the Hoan supporters was that no Jew can lead the Socialist party.' Mr...
...There may be technological unemployment in those lines and they may have to do something else for a living, but if Socialism is worth its salt there should be no Chattertons...
...It is false and vicious...
...Members of the Socialist party have the right to take employment in the capitalist press...
...Letters on other theme* will be printed but we hop* to reduce them to a minimum in orde: to give a* much space at possible tc propagands material—Editor...
...The best w* can do Is to specify an ideal to which future laws should conform...
...Such conduet is reprehensible I have not read all of the correspondence sent in by the associate editor of The New Leader, who is on our payroll, to the Herald Tribune, and printed In the issue* of that publication...
...Comrade Lout* Waldman Of New York, in nominating Norman Thomas, used the tri-word slogan of "Bread, Jobs and Security...
...I have concluded that that is one way of wasting time...
...That is however, with this reservation—that even though a member of the party can write, he should only be employed if he Is honest, upright, stralgntforj ward and ha* the interest of the So; cialist movement at heart, j There can be no doubt in the mind of any one that a journalist em! ployed in an official organ of the Socialist party cannot be permitted to act in the same capacity for the capitalist pre**—writing for the So' cialist press in one manner, and for i the capitalist press in an utterly different manner...
...Certainly, no Socialist holding the ; position of editor or associate editor ] of a Socialist publication can be per' mitted to at the same time act as correspondent for a capitalist newspaper, when hi* duties a* correspondent or possibly his inclination* are to write in a manner which reflect.' unfavorably on the party and therefore harmful The retailing of fact*, when colored by comment, give the facta meaning that the comment calls for...
...I ask that this statement be not printed merely as a letter...
...The difficulty in summarizing in a half hour the proceedings of an entire day of stormy and tense convention debates was apparently too great in this instance...
...Vladeck jumped to his feet with an appeal to the chairman that the former judge was degrading the convention'" The statement that the "formula of the Hoan supporter* was that no Jew can lead the Socialist party" was not made on the floor of the convention...
...That correspondence Is false and harmful to our movement...
...The reason I do so is because in my Judg] ment it involves matter* which should be sifted, discussed, acted upon and a principle established...
...The 1 British paper*, "Forward" and "New . Leader," have already itnied an appeal and excellent re*pon*es have been I received...
...continued to the last tome before ttar national, convention met and nothing 1* to be gained by turtber ditrnsslnp of these inner party mix...
...bare toe attention of The Mew Leader, and of in - memben...
...If I had not definitely expected this I would certainly have recommended at a member of the convention campaign and artsnltatlwi aoaniilllii, that the slogan button which the committee recommended SS a financing device after the model of the LaPollette campaign medallion*, should bear thi waldman or some ether closely shut* lar slogan...
...The change from the anarchic, dogeat-dog system to which capitalism has come, to an orderly system cf government, from below, representing the mass insteal Of the elite, must be worked out, not by us but by those who will sooner or later, be elected to bring it about People who appreciate the benefits we owe to capitalism but determined to abolish the evil* of private control...
...the correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune at the national eonvention of the Socialist party In Milwaukee...
...All for a meaaly $40,000 a year...
...IN REPLY TO JUDGE PANKEN Ey Edward Levins on I owe Comrade Panken an apology for ascribing to him a statement wb.ch was in reality made by Joseph Sharts of Ohio...
...At the same time I am at a loss to understand the heat with which the Judge recoils from the sentiment expressed by Comrade Sharts...
...Make the aim the abolition of all means by which one individual or class can control the life of another and detain can be dealt with as they are met...
...Your notes are substantially correct...
...j The least that should be expected I from a person in the position of asso; date editor is truth, aside from the fact that he should not for a con1 sideratlon write for a capitalist paper sensational news report* originating in fiction, vicioutneas and falsity...
...Poverty and want will not be considered necessary to bring out genius...
...It's enough to raise the roof of Sherwood's Mexican Hacienda...
...Daddy," pleaded little Yankele, "before the nurse cornea in to change me, promise that you will kick in with something for Jimmy...
...unfortunately, in , the convention who were stupid, non: S^cialUt, bigoted and beyond all j juerly opooruintotic...
...for the pre** and marshal act* of the convention in a manner which would be acceptable to a capitalist paper...
...Can yon beat it," he said reflectively, reaching for a lolly pop, "you have a mayor who is expected to convocate in the night clubs and invocate in the churches...
...I am afraid the Judge has been infected by the "payroll ethics" of capitalism, which hold* that a worker must take his opinions where hit salary come* from...
...It might be perfectly proper for him to write Socialist articles for the capitalist press...
...leadership of the movement exclusively If natives...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
