FROM THE NEW LEADER MAIL BAG
FROM THE NEW LEADER MAIL BAG SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM Editor, The Mew Leader: In your answer to Emil Stock In the last Issue of The New Leader on the question of the difference...
...te begin make a frmtiee* search for work here...
...aad Mrs...
...While making allowance for this it still remains true that even the merchant with experience faces a difficult struggle...
...The American Guardian devotes a full page to a five week plan to end the economic depression and wires it to Hoover...
...Permit me to call your attention to Section 3 of the resolution adopted st the hurt convention of local New York Socialist Party and reported fully in the February 7th, 1931 issue of The New Leader, which reads: "We deem it necessary to make it dear to our adherents and to the general public that there is a fundamental difference in theory and practice between Socialism and Communism, as exemplified by the Soviet government...
...New York.—Beast Walker, in his sany many...
...One does not "require a book to answer this correspondence inquiry" as you state in your answer, unless one wants to get into a discussion on the history of the Socialist movement...
...Public ownership of itself is not 'sjpdfj^fk It all depends upon who administers it and for what purpose...
...LAVOIE...
...Caiman, will say that the story he read to the New Leader as follows: 'Milwaukee Police Make Socialist Rally Move From earner' was a BIG pises of news...
...Paper and other material were purchased from one house with no competitive bids...
...The Wickersham commission was appointed by President Hocconservative Republicans and Democrats...
...We imliietlllt that they are willing to baas another talk about it .if fan insist...
...B. M Miller Executive Mansion, Montgomery,- Alabama Your Excellency: X am writing st the request.of the members of the Sixth Congressional District Branch Socialist Party of Cook County, niinoia, which at the last meeting on July 18, 1931, Instructed me to write to you on behalf of the Negro boys who were sentenced to death at Scottsboro...
...This drivel is followed by Governor Richie of Maryland who declares that the owners of industry should provide against a return of widespread unemployment or the "government is going to step in...
...Hte son, 29, who was with him, was also arrested...
...Shinnecock Hubs home here Sunday fob Mr...
...Formal action on this question was taken when a -national laffisalMu motion- was officially aahniWtlia to the Federation membership on the initiative Mae with constitutional procedure ps,l»tae*f l/\a/4 Sana tvia . — asssassal ¦ all nia pewstsDsu sa tuts organization...
...Maurice Caiman of New York finds that while the record of the Milwaukee police may be commendable hi dealing with crime, tt is not so praiseworthy to dealing with free speech...
...This difference is frankly stressed by the Communists, and the Socialist movement has nothing to gain by trying to minimise or obscure it...
...ThseMjj when they were taws...
...We would also like to bear from other labor dramatic groups thoughout the country...
...Text books have been frequently changed which would indicate that text writers have been close to public officials...
...8. Raise a fund to put in a fun time State Secretary and Orgganiaers and attempt to reorganise the State...
...Hoover please observe that the chicken in the pot which an workers were to-receive has become grass sad roots for men, women and children in some sections of the mining regions ? Perhaps the Republican slogan next year will be "Grass for the Jobless...
...As an mtermediate class the merchants may eventually be displaced just as the workers are displaced by machines...
...Reading the story in the New York Times it is not difficult to understand what happened to the "socialistic experiment...
...The second is to produce plays with the aid of those young men and women who as amaterus are anxious to express then- social philosophy in a true dramatic form...
...Charles H. Sabtn, unemployed banker, gave a large luncheon party at Ba berry land, their...
...We hope, in due time, to be able to coordinate the work of these groups sad to form a nationwide movement of Workers' Theatres...
...When we have money and a larger membership we can hold community meetings in the schools and bans...
...Th^ press that aeeaatstttsa aff him from among the employees in the tap it subject to mscfaanj filing of charges of ass to the city...
...Toward this end we am in need of aU sorts and types of labor plays...
...low Hoover prosperity has also fallen as a commodity...
...The efaab Chief of Police is sal peal to the courts «¦ of Milwaukee are Wf reinstate a chief discbi Socialist mayor, aa « with the Fire Chief «f discharged by the sa sion while Seise...
...FROM THE NEW LEADER MAIL BAG SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM Editor, The Mew Leader: In your answer to Emil Stock In the last Issue of The New Leader on the question of the difference between Socialism and Communism you make the following statement: "Theoretically both movements are opposed to the capitalist system of society, but in the matter of organisation and methods there is a vast difference...
...The more unions there are ia one industry the less unionism there can be.—S...
...A temporary addition on the ocean side of the house accommodated the guests...
...he controls his following...
...and Mrs...
...Prom our study of the matter, which has been Impartial, we have reached the conclusion that these boys have not bad a fair and just trial, and, in our opinion, a judicial murder will be committed if thaw boys are executed...
...45 Gealesa Ave...
...ATTENTION MICHIGAN SOCIALISTS Editor, The New Leader: As tnrttttnt state secretary of the Socialist Party I would like to suggest aome plan of action to the membership...
...We turn from the half-wits to Leo Wolman who cuts through the drivel by saying that the capitalists as a class are powerless...
...The street car atrlk* in Havana continued into the next weak and on Tuesday hundreds of merchants closed their doors, either in sympathy with the strikers or fearing disorders...
...The Princess is a great granddaughter of Alexander Mac Donald of Cincinnati, a noted unemployed oil j magnate of a tw>ssas Detroit...
...Newport, R. L—A select list of members of the unemployed colony of Newport were entertained at a dinner by Mr...
...IfrafH ScAiaaWl Xy he...
...Various private and capitalistic ventures settled upon the state publishing business and with the connivance of politicians sapped it of its vitality...
...Clarence H. Mackey, icte bead of the Western Union telegraph interests...
...to secure the Itoitos, eewa ff tbeyJB " -~ -1 - '"''"irfis 'JWLssarl...
...and Mrs...
...A self-controlled and disciplined movement is impossible with the free lancer...
...In a word, Socialism, and we will come to this as certainly as taxation will fail...
...Lincoln Steffens in his Autobiography tells the ttory of a private corporation which secretly tried to sabotage the publicly owned power plant in Seattle, Washington, in order to have the wreck turned over to private exploiters...
...Yours tor a better justice than is found in the various religions...
...The liberally minded people in my audiences and my comrades in the ward branches, are given to understand tpe fundamental differences, both theoretical and tactical, between "Socialism and Communism, and when, at some msetlng in the near future, I win bs confronted with a clipping from The New Leader, stating your answer to this question, I will be "stung...
...Even the Spanish language dailies suspended for a day and in Havana there : were frequent rwsheei with strike-breakers...
...Everything is aU right now...
...If you decide to print this series in pamphlet form, please kd at* knew when they are ready...
...Ia this article Work pointed out that five members of the Milwaukee police aad are commission are appointed one a year by the Mayor...
...Interesting correspondence has been received by The New Leader concerning the relation of the Milwaukee police department to the Socialist administration...
...With the idea that labor is the basis of progress goes the truth that labor must be free.—Robert G. IngersoU...
...He declared that our ruling capitalist class is carried along with the tide of events rather than exercising any control...
...They win ffiifl Greenwich, OasBijflN George H. JaeuatshJI Plana, is retaratagj8| leave the foEowiag a Harbor, Maine...
...41, hanged himself In Ms room in the Hotel Hermitage here last week...
...A goodly throng of unemployed millionaires and their wives attended...
...One hundred of the unemployed were fed, while as many mora Jobless came in later from music and supper...
...Chicago, I1L We agree with the above letter and cannot observe any conflict 'between it and the answer to which Comrade Green refers.—Editor of The New Leader...
...Southampton, L. I.—Mr...
...Communism...
...They start with small capital, little or no experience in merchandizing, set up in poor localities, and are doomed before they start...
...This would be futile, as futile as we believe taxation of chains will prove, to be...
...We now have some idea of why the "socialistic experiment" failed...
...The first is to reach a workingclass audience that is unapprochable by the commercial theatre...
...As a matter of fact," Work declared, "the present chief Of police was Mayor Hoan's choice...
...Heads of the Confederation report that while the 24 hour general strike was not 100 per cent effective many of the trade unions obeyed the order...
...faUed to eat » notes...
...a • » :" ~ Matt Won is again to the front in a heroic battle for the working class by scoring, yes, actually scoring, big capitalists and hankers who favor wage reductions...
...Pannes, Prance.—Paul Frank of New York and Saint Germain, and Pricess Laura Murat were married here Monday...
...I don't know waatft New TotV-SBl itinerant mayor of Est ed Tuesday oa tsfdB Clarence Macker-'f| Newport in time tt i Majestic...
...The chat] for due cause' *C*aS Wisconsin law, mssst feasance in office er 0 some law...
...The New Leader: In accordance with instructions from my Branch, I am enclosing a copy of letter sent to Governor Miller re Scottsboro esse...
...What is required is intervention by a social power which means heavier taxation of great fortunes, the beginning of public works on a large scale and subsidizing cities for a similar program...
...There should be an army of delegates representing-the organized masses in Washington when Congress convenes to "talk straight" in this emeri • A Tale From Kansas lb \ DREADFUL story comes from Kansas of a "socialistic experiment" that has gone to pot...
...There are also a number of free lance publications that bear no responsibility to any organization...
...The citizens there lay tt te the faet that the city has had only two chiefs of police fat 4S years ' aad no control ever the chief was even attempted by the pollttdans since the effort was/ made many years ago to lusttin a chief who claimed the right so act BWtepestssstBfQf, freed front the dictation of politicians...
...I hated to steal,'* be said...
...3. In view of the fact that most of the active members of the Opsa Forum Committee last winter were BoebvHsts, I would suggest that we run open meetings and lectures ester* stakday evening ail next winftoerett 4, Rent an office or Small hall in central locations for a bssskajtrtsri the first of September m^^gS^H^to^kymt^kme^^^ in members' homes during the winter to form contact with sympathisers...
...RADIO AMATEURS Suitor, The New Leader: Will licensed radio amateurs, either active or potential, interested in organising a Socialist Radio League, please communicate with W8QO...
...Will those people who possess or who know of such type of plays please communicate with she...
...He discounts team work, discipline, organization and cooperation...
...WUl Mr...
...We mention this not because we would urge taxation on machines...
...A former chief defied the politicians when they sought to destroy the morale of the ponce Supai teases of that city...
...Acting Secretary, Sixth O—gi saslsaisl District Branch, S. P. Cook County, (Enclosure) Gov...
...The mayor of Hartford, Conn., answers Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, who proposes that mayors of cities urge a special session of Congress to enact unemployment relief legislation, by mumbling some jargon about our government being "founded upon the Anglo-Saxon idea of individual rights and hbertjes...
...We do not think so...
...That Is she I am mayor of this city of Milonly last rfer bbbs with a So resist meeting I have ever award ef states waukee...
...No other city has such a record...
...Mr and Mai Moore are rttumssg fa ha...
...Eighteen years ago the state went into the business of publishing school books and a legislative investigation shows that it is a mess...
...1117 West Third, Santa Ana, California...
...Who Controls Milwaukee Cops...
...Alexander Hamilton Ben...
...This immediately brings private capitalism into the picture...
...He Is In a serious condition In Rochester General Hospital...
...Rochester, Pa.—Attempting to steal food for sis hungry mother aad brother, EDwood Collins, of Crow's Kan, 19 and wnemptoyed, was shot In the back near here Sunday...
...Oliver Harriman at Wisteria Lodge Monday night...
...He would have capitalists fulfill a "social obligation" by establishing insurance against unemployment whereas this would be a feudal, not a social, obligation...
...GEO...
...The new style Populism in die West with its stressing of "usury" as the cause of all economic ills is an example...
...Plates and copyrights have been discarded with large stocks of books on hand "in order that five-year royalty contracts might be made with publishing houses for new text books...
...Special prises are being given by Mrs...
...Neverthlesa, the commission was forced to admit that Milwaukee, under a Socialist administration for almost 20 years, is the one bright spot fat police administration...
...We 'urge you, therefore, to do whatever you can within your office to see that justice is done to these colored boys so that the good name of Alabama will not be stained by the blood of innocent youths whose only guilt is their color and their poverty...
...T. Suffern Taller and others...
...H. Withey...
...Spoils sweaters who were elected to office, as soon as their desaaaa fer apartsl privilege* pose this UiuiiiiujHbas pnlbe executive...
...We thought that WoU's Wgh tariff wall eg m .VsTg ¦ Notes on the Jobl Activities of the Unemployed Reported from '? Southampton* New York and Other Ptrtmtt NEWPORT, R. L, — The first major entertainment of the summer season of Hew putt's unemployed aad the largest nervate party thus far was given Sunday night by Dr...
...It is made up of on ate way to serve fate time...
...What is needed is a benevolent assimilation of the machines and chains, that is, socialization of production and distribution...
...The Half-Wits Talk ¦etTE axe drifting to a catastrophe and the dull ??wits at Washington, with Hoover leading, do not understand what is ahead...
...1.SO0 urtempioye The men were easjssj a week, w tth ska, b3Tsbeisr*et,,,*| Praise for Socialist Milwau Richer sham Commission Finds Poliee Adminiit Free From Vsuml Corruption hp PolWeimm CONDEMNING the police departments of American cities for general failure "to detect and arrest criminals guilty of many murders, spectacular hold-ups and sensational robberies with guns, frequently resulting in death...
...William H. Vanderbilt...
...Practically the same explanations that BnteaBsm and Communism differ not only in tactics bat in theory, we find in a good many books and pamphlets that we now sell and distribute from Socialist party platforms and street corner meetings...
...1. Continue to have picnics during the extreme hot weather, open 'air mathags also if possible...
...The fact that this strike is possible ia Cuba would indicate that after all the terrorism, President Machado has not succeeded, in destroying organizations of the working dass...
...Both face prison terms on burglary charges...
...MORDECAI SHULMAN...
...In turn, tap** after the Coiiiiiisbb t them a I In atliliajWj nauniets-bad' been sfi| Mot and looking If could not help but si they were looking fell baved fairly wen el have no apologies to < conduct of our police whether udder my Ja not Its policy la Us toward free speech si the unanimous apprsti cialiats and fair-mla* our city...
...We have received a number of letters like the above and in answer to all we can say that the Band School is considering the publication of the articles in pamphlet form.—Editor of The New Leader...
...ordinances...
...The Right to at "This might dkfM with the need of say as to what, if say, fad gal authority I have i lice department M the mayor of MDwesl head of the Police Dtp could saapead tht CM With the election of 1 the resctlofisrtss want islature and repealed •ion, making the CM the bead of his dtss tnUOU\ r* tlTi tat* PtsaaVgaflLT fee the enforcement...
...New Bedford...
...The labor and Socialist movement has suffered more in this country from such irresponsible journalism than any other country...
...Suppose the workers demanded heavy gaxatJaa of labor-saving machines, would the organization fighting the chains support the proposal...
...The police have a restricted area downtown...
...and Mrs...
...Hoover aad Doak have had another talk about relief for the Jobless and they have again decided that the chief burden rests, with each community...
...To relieve the tedium, the unemployed will hold a dog show August 23rd on the estate of Mr...
...Politicians of capitalist parties may try to wreck it and they sometimes do and Acs we nave the failure of « "socialistic eatperia*ot" '"'^im Fighting the Chain* SOME tWrtjr dd* trade groups have organized in New York State against chain agora and they have reaotved-tw fight far crisis awon the corporation chains...
...Young Collins was found lying in the vegetable garden of George Rejonovich late Sunday night...
...he is irresponsible and to the extent that he gets a following it does not control him...
...He shouM haw moral babasBCt sesjj which I bthevs im up to this time, ia ahaj icy on labor and tow1 a Socialist mayor W Chief of VabkW'WhtM obdurate, would bt « difficult task...
...The National Confederation of Labor headed the movement and many unorganized workers participated in the strike...
...THE SCOTTSBORO CASE Editor...
...E., Basel Park, Mich...
...Caiman's letter to Mayor Hoan, who has sent us the following rePly: "Replying to the letter of Dr...
...and to impart to that audience a definite message of a classconscious social ideal...
...The editor plunges into his consciousness, emerges with this idea, consults no one else, publishes it to the world and, no doubt, makes a big impression on some of bis readers...
...the Wlckersham commission this week found control of the police by politicians the mala cause of "a loss of public confidence in the police of our country...
...Foreign language papers please copy, as we wish to reach an members in the state...
...Speaking of poison gas, the Republican speeches of 1928 have been so deadly that many victims have not yet recovered their health...
...however, to observe that politicians do not the chief*te amply sestactsd by bis removal without Just and sufficient cause...
...In fact, it is a problem that has never faced the workers ia Europe and only on rare occasions has it appeared in England...
...TBS ONEAL ARTICLES Editor, The New Leader: I find James Oneal's reply to the Pope's Encyclical very good...
...These best minds are in themselves tossed here and there by the industrial convulsions and we doubt vhether one in a hundred understands the economics of their own wretched system...
...1 only wasted to take wait we would eat...
...The New Leader forwarded Dr...
...Chicago.—Charles Wind, 65 years old, te In Jail here because be stole a set of marble setters' tools in order that he might get the first Job that he had been offered'fat a year...
...Its members have never thought of the wage worker...
...This sabotage failed but it appears to have accomplished something in Kansas...
...R. B. GREEN...
...Caiman concluded with the view that either Mayor Hoan insist on police recognition of free speech or cause the removal of the police commissioner...
...Secretary - Treasurer William check-up^of tiw'baUots returned allowed to parade tad tec tion of the ponca, W proceeded to tht Square, where at oppeg er was speaking onsax The Communists sad* tear him down fast I were in the act of b speaker up what ftea osded to his bsksstl s and bis right s? fa Whereupon ttM^bsaa tacked the ajgjsat* < tolly-club esjfiet teat ficientiy to Mate to pital...
...The capitalist system has had its day, and, like other systems that have gone before, it must pass away when it has fulfilled its mission and make room for another system in harmony with the forces of progress and compatible with the onward march of civilization—Eugene V. Debs...
...lake the Wlckersham report, these papers, however, suppress the vital fact that the difference In Milwaukee te due to the existence of a Socialist administration as distinguished from old party administrations in other cities where the politicians ate the police to maintain profitable relations with the underworld...
...JOHN PANZNER...
...Fraternally yours, MORDECAI SHULMAN...
...Cuba General Strike Aids Car .Workers Beginning met Friday the Cuban workers clecraxed a general strike off 24 hours in sympathy with the street car wotkeis of Havana...
...Caiman maintains a statemsat made in a New Leader news story of July 18th that "the (Milwaukee) chief of police is not appointed fay tits Mayor and cannot be removed by him" te inconsistent with a recent article, by John M. Work...
...Two chiefs of police fat 48 years te MBwaa kee's record aad to this fact we may trace the fine record of The Chicago Tribune and The Nsw York Evening Poet have recently announced belated aiscow eries that Milwaukee under Socialist rule te an outstanding example of honest and effective police acministration...
...New York, Oat of week for some time, Walter lass bo...
...A local merchant made a great outcry against so bugs a crowd ia front of hte store, that a friendly copper asked the speaker If he would aot be kind eaough to move his soap box to the next premises, which he gladly comptfcd with...
...The capitalist order is a criminal in the dock and there are millions of workers now willing to listen to our indictment Without the workers,there is no Socialist movement and yet in this period of our greatest Opportunity there are freak ideas and movements that can only lead masses up a blind alley...
...7. Buy a bundle of New Leaders each week and sen them...
...Have you made your contribution of money or of shoes end clothing to the suffering miners...
...The next paragraph of the article quotes: 'Similar "interference" to other radical meetings by the "Socialist" police of Milwaukee has been advertised throughout the country as an evidence of Socialist hypocrisy,' and I presume it must refer to scene htadataos to the Communist press...
...aad Mrs...
...They were always allowed the same privileges that are agreed to by the Socialists to hold their outdoor meet tugs outside of the congested area, "The Haymarket affair which Comrade Work refers to is aa incident where the Communists were Hosiery Workers Urge Labor Party Be Formed PHTI.A DM MMUL^- The' membership of the American Federation of Fun Fashioned Hosiery Workers, by vote taken te each branch of the otgtijlutlrm, has gone on record Ja favor of a poller of militant independent political action...
...From this answer, one infers that the two theories or philosophies differ only in matters of organization and methods, . Being a Socialist agitator for many years and somewhat active now in building up local Cook County, I make it my business to distribute "What's So and What Isn't" by John M. Work, because the chapters on "Communism" on page slS to 34 inclusive, answers the questions that are always put to me on Socialism vs...
...Free Lancers TF there is one thing needed in Socialist agitation today it is clarity in presenting our fundamental criticism cf the capitalist system and basing our appeals upon working class aims and interests...
...SAMUEL EOTHENBERG...
...The philosophy and program of each is earned under the hat of each editor and all together constitute a bedlam of ideas and plans...
...Secretary, Workers' Theatre, 7 Bast 15th street...
...Hoover and Doak again talk of "local action" to meet the unemployed emergency although many cities are near bankruptcy...
...It looks like a case of sabotage and this has occasionally happened in this country...
...The U. S. Supreme Court has upheld, a similar tax enacted Hi Indiana and the movement to tax the chains has spread to other states...
...IN A NUTSHELL July wheat drops to a new low record and the decline of the price level measures how...
...Nicholas Murray Butler, here to recover from the strain of their recent Idling in Europe, were among the guests...
...The free lancer is a product of that restless individualism that has been conspicuous in American life...
...And here is what another section of the report says -of Milwaukee: "It te rfifrwdileg...
...A WORKERS' THEATRE Editor, The New Leader: Several dramatic groups hi New York City—namely, the Young Circle League of the Workmen* Circle, the Young Peoples' Socialist League, the Rand School, various groups of the Socialist Party and the Labor Unions, several Negro dramatic groups of Harlem, Brookwood Labor College.— have banded together to form the Workers' Theatre in order to carry out a two-fold purpose...
...New York City...
...nfjjhssbi work for lSqHML child starving figjl boy into the kassia Impoverished sasst ¦ ea the gas...
...Please make mention of this...
...Talking Socialism is essential but acting its spirit is also vital...
...The party is growing in many states' onwHt of aflBMBaa There is much discontent both among the fanners and wage workers in this, state, we mast act...
...These little ventures continue to appear and disappear and they are counted among the casualties due to the competition of chains...
...That the chains menace the small merchants there is little doubt, and yet recent studies have shown that many of the small stores that failed are of a type that failed before the chains bad assumed their present growth...
...was is true that I wrote M era...
...aad Mrs...
...Science is more hopeful of perfecting poison gas than of curing cancer.—John Galsworthy...
...the sOl Mayor appoints the 1 lice Commission of sw Whom I have sift] com mission in turn skt of Police...
...2. Join hands with other radical bodies in Detroit outside of the Communist Party, and form an Unemployed...
...The drive for 82 million dollars even if successful will not meet the emer- ¦ gency for one winter...
...Caheaa refers to "the mishandling" of the Communist unemployment demonstration in March, 1980, and recent interference with a Socialist street-corner meeting where the ponce felt that the meeting- was blacking traffic...
...The fact fat that the Socialist rally was moved rather than suppressed,did not mitigate against its Importance, 1 presume...
...Here is what the Wlckersham commission reported this week: "Milwaukee Is often cited as a city free from estate or amass the criminal is speeduy detected, arrested, aad promptly tried and ver to enquire into the causes of lawlessness...
...Hotel employees broke get no response to their knockhimself to a steampipe sometime atfer 5 o'clock Sunday night...
...members of tatas Comrade Work atjS that they get out or* The fact is that I had I tag charges against si for several months jj been flagrantly ilate" the department and T of evidence tc support I "What I wish to cow that under the Miiwts the mayor csn not sti with reference to 18*1 lice...
...They seen found that the ordinances of Milwaukee and laws of W isconsin were suffi dent to withstand their weilptanned attacks, and ia the end despite the vicious attempts of the spoilers, the courts returned the chief to fate posttlsn tat the department...
...It is admitted that private publishers have fought the enterprise and "have probably done much to hamper it...
...The Communists, whan they were active, used to delight to breaking this rule la order to tease the police aad look for aa opportunity to be arrested and pose as martyrs...
...SOCIALIST...
...Council...
...Milwaukee Socialist...
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