Gene Tunney Does Some Shadow Boxing With the Depression
Helping to Build AT THE SUBWAY STATIONS A valiant band of 100 young Socialist boys and girts are going to sell The New Leader at the important subway and elevated stations an over town,...
...As an economist, James J. Is still a good prize-fighter CHAIRMAN JOUETT SHOUSE of the Democratic National Committee wants a platform no longer than 300 words...
...Say, Sam, have you got a moment or two in private T I've got a real important matter to consult with you on...
...Instead, James J. prefers the capitalistic system which, he admits Is a system of dividing things up unequally in favor of those with the "brute brain...
...Very interesting, to be sura...
...To live straightforwardly by your labor Is to be at peace with the world...
...And it may be a heavy combination of both...
...That is, 1 feel pretty sure I could whip a salesman...
...The little store keepers are busted...
...to get along by the akin of his teeth...
...Writing in the American Guardian on the recent Socialist convention Paul Sifton declares that 'Socialism In our time is now the practical working principle of the Socialist party in the United States...
...Labor Leagae Will AM Party Campaign MILWAUKEE...
...Howdyedo, Comrade...
...Education and organisation of the workers on the political and union fields for Socialism are the only methods we subscribe to...
...My pants are wore out and buated...
...There will be a meeting of the brigade at the Rand School Tuesday, 6 p. sa., which will be addressed by Junta darter and Jack Altaian...
...Aa a Journal," writes C. C. Church of Chicago, "The New Leader is getting better and better...
...Since then, the Democratic Party has progressed some more by supporting high tariffs...
...Friedrich, labor editor of the Milwaukee Leader...
...And while I bantered, however, a sudden change hi his demeanor brought my chattering to a halt...
...A member of the Department of Bacteriology in the School of Tropica] Medicine, San Juan, Puerto Rico, sends |4...
...The gang wants to know when you're ready for a return engagement . . I returned bis hail and praise with as much modesty sad interest as a tool merchant can conjure up in a hurry against such delightful intrusion...
...Otherwise the hall will remain the same...
...He reports excellent meetings, fine interest and good sales of The New Leader and of subscription cards...
...Rugged individualism breaks down the moment there is a Jam, and a tiny slice of Socialism la needed to save the situation...
...We went all the way to the rear, where only the laden shelves of twist drills and hacksaw bladea might, overhear the interesting matter that was bothering good Comrade X. "Now Sam, I've been doing a lot of thinking these dizzy days about the necessity of the party being prepared for the revolution that is surely on the way...
...Since then he has married Polly Lauder, a niece of the lata Andrew Carnegie...
...John Banachowitz, president of the Milwaukee Federation of Full-Fashioned Hosiery Workers...
...The little farmers are busted...
...Comrade X. didn't have must more to add to his proposal after sensing the tethered turbulence behind my quiet remarks...
...They do slip in somehow...
...And it has been found from the beginning that The New Leader is the most popular article that la offered far Mia there...
...Or maybe, as we have often advised our audiences . . . there are a few nuts In the Socialist party at all times...
...Well, whichever he may be, I neither fear nor desire his kind about my diggings...
...It had taken a deal of my patience to bear through with him until the end It took all of my limited reserve of voice control to say this in reply: "Brother, you are either cracked, or you don't know your Social Democratic philosophy...
...Much credit la doe George H. Goebel and County Organiser Rosenkranx for their-excellent work In building up the meat lnga...
...Sometimes a Few Nuts Dd Slip Into The Socialist Party B9 S. A. DrWIII w-iVERYBODT tells me Comrade X ia a genufL inely good fellow and a hard worker for the cause...
...And we understand this comas from one who has not Joined the party to got Socialism la our timet...
...For Instance, we ought to organize a secret board of military strategy that would furnish a trusted group of comrades with maps of the city, marking out all the arsenals, armories, police headquarters and precincts, airports and forts, and for each man of us to study these points until we know them by heart...
...That leaves more than 200 words for a forthright statement forthrightly promising the same type * of good, clean old-fashioned government that the Democratic Tammany Hall has given New York...
...No, It can hardly be that...
...AN impoverished Idaho farmer writes that things looked pretty bad for him until the Government sent out some seeds, which help made it possible for him...
...AWEST VIRGINIA farmer and reader of The New Leader, in homely language, writes of the economic situation aa he observes it in his community...
...Helping to Build AT THE SUBWAY STATIONS A valiant band of 100 young Socialist boys and girts are going to sell The New Leader at the important subway and elevated stations an over town, beginning next week...
...I am trying to do my part all the time...
...Gosh, no," I almost exploded audibly, "he can't be a spy, or an agent provocateur of the U. S. Secret Service...
...DEPEW BOOSTS AT COHOES Allin Depew orders 50 copies for street meetings in echoes...
...But men steal things through the use of brute brains and get away with it What is worse, they are held in high respect...
...Plana will be drawn up for a thorough coverage of the city to get The New Leader into the hands of S vastly increased circle of readers AT MILITARY PARK ¦very Saturday many hundred copies of The New Leader are sold at tie fine meetings at Military Park, Newark...
...We must keep hammering away here," he writes...
...BLUMENBERG ON TOI'K Ben Blumenberg la on a week's tour of the state on behalf of the party and The New Leader...
...He walked in with his usual heartiness in ¦tap and greeting...
...That would be my Idea of planning for Socialism...
...Here ia the Hoover parade as he sees it: The little banks are busted...
...The little renters are busted...
...THE moment, the Republican convention adjourned decorators began to dismantle the Republican decorations from the Chicago stadium and hang up Democratic decorations In the same hall...
...My stomach Isn't buated but It's awfully empty...
...And until his last vlait with me, I ¦ ¦all asm been headlong in my rusk to jots fa the universal acclaim...
...The ex-soldiers are buated...
...The Red Cross Is busted...
...Says James J. Tunney: "I could go into a haberdashery, whip the salesman and walk off with a dozen shirts...
...May we suggest: "The Democratic Party ia the party of progress...
...Just got' in from the sticks, and things sure are humming...
...Meta Berger...
...Sponsored by leaders of two state federations of labor and a number of other prominent trade union leaders, a "Labor League for Thomas and Maurer" is to be organized to bring the Socialist party candidates and platform to the attention of every local, state and international trade union group In the nation...
...Gene Tunney Does Some Shadow Boxing With the Depression GENE TUNNEY was S prise fighter sad once held the title, "Heavyweight Champion of the World...
...J. J. Handley...
...Gene ia now Jamas J., mixes in high society and is an executive of The American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company...
...We'll give the Leaders away if we have to, to get the truth to the people...
...The Democratic Party supported slavery and kept America out of war in 1917...
...So that's that...
...Which gives you a rough idea of the difference between the two old parties...
...If returned to office, the Democratic Party proposes to bring progress to the nation by bringing back the good old daya of Jefferson*Jackson and A. Mitchell Palmer...
...The little tax payers are busted...
...People come there by the hundreds Just to gat their weekly issue of The New Leader...
...Thank you for the sample copy of The New Leader," writes Horace D. Westbrooks of Columbia, S. C. "I like your paper...
...I believe your paper to be the best reading matter in newsprint," writes Eugene Woods of Lava Hot Springs, Idaho...
...The party la hardly on Its feet as yet...
...And not a pretty tale at all...
...Some of them are even church trustees...
...But it Just Is his last call at my store and the conversation that ensued between us that inspire my stammer in his praise and make querulous stuff for this column...
...Then he muat be one of those romantic Red Rosas in pantaloons, who envisions a movement of revolution in which all the comic-operetta frills and trappings are employed to bring about hastily the muchly desired result...
...The city treasury Is busted...
...Society has polioed the abuse of the brute muscle...
...Forget it, brother...
...Leo Krzycki, textile organizer...
...he wants his subscription renewed, and the remainder he wants to go to the party's campaign fund...
...Mighty glad to see you...
...Now, just go back and forget about your Napoleonic campaign . . . forget It, comrade, and go to work like a real Socialist...
...What this country needs Is more Socialism...
...Good crowds and attentive, but they have no kale...
...In fact he left me several minutes later, with just a "Good-day" and "see you again...
...We haven't recovered from the bitter blasts of 1918 to 1920"when we were torn asunder from within and bludgeoned and jailed from without by the agencies of the master class...
...It would be exceedingly hard to outline here in clear phrases exactly what I did think, when the low-toned earnest voice and the concentrated gaze of my visitor ceased...
...To live on the labor of others ia not only to render your life false at home, but It Is to encroach upon those around you, to Incite resistance and hostility.—Edward Carpenter...
...J. Ptepenhagen of the clothing workers' factory, and members of the Socialist national campaign committer among them Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Clarence Senior, national executive secretary of the Socialist party, Powers Hapgood, and Mrs...
...What do you think, Comrade...
...But I'd be arrested at the door, aa I should be...
...secretary of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor and James D. Graham, president of the Montana federation, are among those who have accepted membership on a provisional committee which is to organize the larger body...
...That was a swell ¦nesting ws had when you spoke for us...
...I remained at the shipping table for quite a while, motionless and in intensive pondering...
...Its convention functions' on rules adopted as recently as 1840...
...Together with this, we ought to start some sort of military training In the branches, and plans for the securing of the necessary means to pounce upon these points of vantage when the arranged hour is struck...
...Suppose we go in the back of the store, eh...
...Although James J. Tunney thinks the state should "control the acquisitive instinct" he declares emphatically that he does not believe in Socialism, which he regards as a system of dividing things up equally...
...The ways I have learned in the party I am proud to belong to are utterly apart and In an entirely different direction...
...Organization of the "Labor League for Thomas and Maurer" was decided upon at a conference held In Milwaukee this week between J. J. Handley, secretary of the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor...
...All the Socialist* In all the years before this convention didn't want Socialism in their Urns, For some reason they had overlooked It...
...And they are noticed because they are so few...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 26
