The New Leader Mail-Bag
The New Leader Mail-Bag DISARMAMENT Editor. The New leader : It would be interesting to know exactly the reasons that influence the French government to make such an ado over the bunding of...
...To say we have already done that is just nonsense to those who know the facta...
...I hereby solemnly promise and swear to the following without any mental reservations whatever: I believe the Holy Bible to be the revealed word of God...
...Letters should be written to the President and Senators...
...However, the shift of the Labor Ministers has cleared up a situation which had become murky...
...In every city throughout the state there are unfortunates endeavoring to eke out a bare existence selling trinkets from door to door...
...Help the Jobless...
...walked along Fej&YMpT paused at a movie hal J at some pictmag^B our walk tcwtsftgg^H A number of tassassi succession came W H it wat not until aftSMl S chi mm el's KnlecB Rasassi said, "Boys, we aasRfl nowledge defeat 1 29 reap the fruits of asrsssi To which Qeessefl Yep, the fruits of ,SSK bananas, perhaps.** S I continued, 'WhsHpH this time is a stronger JS tion...
...Those Western farmers whs want to abolish' interest probably prefer to be skinned through profits and dividends...
...Working men and women seldom or never contribute as much as five cents to Democratic or Republican campaign expenses...
...It is significant that this company ia owned and operated by colored people and the receiver appointed is a white man who now holds tun power to manage the business aad handle all the money collected...
...According to the Treaty of Versailles Germany was allowed a certain number of naval vessels and she has not as yet built up to her allowed quota...
...e issue of tbs Boston Herald...
...That is the smug view of officials despite the fact that all evidence indicates that unemployment will be worse next year...
...They mean uphold all Constitutional laws except th...
...MacDonald has Steady been deprived of membership in his own Sranch and Snowden will certainly be deprived of Ms" membership...
...13 Destroyers...
...non-Marxian reporter in his innocence simplified the answer as shove quoted...
...ViJE cannot emphasise too often the urgent need of Socialist and labor organizations forming pressure groups to insist on state legislatures acting on jobless relief for th...
...TaegsrbatvM system of the city w? ** "1 by a strike...
...One thing you must admit about the Republican leaders who wrote the Republican platform hi 1928...
...ANDREW J. BIE MILLER, RAYMOND C. KRUEGER...
...Every Socialist in the United States should alga one or more of these petitions for disarmament...
...Their problems are ours...
...If "our" investments in Cuba become endangered by insurrection end Hoover sends s few soldiers after these dollars the army uniform will not cover one American capitalist or banker...
...We hope ha succeeds...
...OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS Editor, The New Leader: In these days of agony and suspense when the whole structure of "The Acquisitive Society" ia teetering and tottering, when the laboring man to either driven for all he can d o of elee is looking for a place to sell his energies for a pittance, out of the very mouths of the apologists for the CTijttny condition of things come revelations of the true conditions in unguarded moments...
...I j Treat thai suaila *^jg^P Sterne...
...Colored Americans, have always faithfully answered America's cell to arms in all her wars...
...Fords, Schwabs, Morgans, et al have been hit so hard by this depression that they could not pay higher Income taxes...
...l that the city ha* sai «1 money to keep fit* ii^MM ing five days About 9* H be affected...
...The fighting services arc reduced $45,000,000...
...In the majority of our industries the crew operating the first six months of this year to anywhere from 15 to 50 per cent toss than the crew operating three, tour or five years ago...
...Let us nont forget that an immediate demands of Socialists are calculated to aid hi bringing about the Socialist commonwealth...
...Increasingly being thrown on the horror and futility of war and ita nasty tentacles it is somewhat an amusingly tragi-paradox to see colored Americans clamoring for an opportunity to join the Army and Navy...
...American capitalism is today the backbone of world reaction...
...I Implore every comrade who has not made special effort to exert himself now in trying to make the United States lead in the demand for a proportional reduction in armaments that will be the beginning of their elimination...
...When I arrived from Europe I found myself surrounded by a school of ship reporters...
...T am as American Citizen and believe political office holders should be persons believing in pore Americanism, and I will not recommend or vote for any persons fer office, who I know are not as good Americans as myself...
...Aa regarda the Socialists of Germany they are strongly opposed to any further building, even up to treaty rights...
...I t is in this man's power to, completely wreck this large colored corporation...
...So many ring door bells and are turned away because homes are stocked with things these unfortunates are marketing that it is getting on the nerves of sympathetic people...
...The Labor Ministry had depended upon the small group of Liberals to tgrry on since 1929...
...This class 2uu been patient although dissatisfied and the ypott heartening thing is the reaction of the party 3a the actions of its ministers...
...The working class abroad look to the American workers for aid...
...The alarm of Prance, therefore, ia inexplicable, and one can acquit Germany of militarist designa...
...Old men profiteers and capitalists plot wars and wear stars and the imposing looking decorations...
...The adventure of MacDonald and Snowden leaves tfaesa without any standing in the Labor Party...
...while the young sape play with the rats in the trenches, live in mud and filth, plunge bayonets into enemy entrails, inhale poison gas, leave their arms, legs, or beads on the battle field and do all the dirty work of War...
...Disarmament may not be the cure for war...
...But,", queried the argumentative leputlev...
...I should HkelSH branch meeting paaatjH congenial rendezveea O H could come at any SBs3H it a place to read, w**sjH matters, listen to rash aa even find rest R e^^H and if the cause k svgVj forts thus far expeadtfS ought, by all mesas,'njSH "I fully realia* tast sitYJ become somewhat dsR?sjfl in, year out, by the reRjirfl receive...
...The Indian " is the only real American and the rest o f us either came here, were brought here, or chased here...
...In view of the light...
...s e e The reason why millions of workers and it difficult to get enough to eat is because there is too much to eat...
...But why stop at the cotton baby...
...The Governor of Texas, in answer to the suggestion, wires the Governor of Louisiana to "wash the baby first...
...The Fight Goes On •c*' '"'•:') ttgjasT?Pst?ftjM GEORGE sasdH use:" Aa#a "1 "Yep, the peophfaa 5 gine, not a Sosjaam after aU the faetafaal the crookedness aasflH I listened att»Uvek...
...I am entirely innocent...
...Certain other parts affecting colored people, Jews and Catholics were left out to be administered in secrecy: K. K. K. Oath (in part...
...Jim Crowism...
...ffUM -**3 Sanitary Teamster...
...We find ourselves greatly perplexed by the phrase "it is hoped it would be paid for in the future in a time when taxpayers are more able to pay...
...example, treaty rights to: 6 Battleships 6 Light Clusters...
...Ia every one to this country doing his duty in that respect...
...No caaltaltotirnewspaper dares to state editorially bow miserable the lot of the email capitalist or the wage-earner has become...
...12 Torpedo Boats...
...The boys had hard work in confining the hiterview of each victim within the particular sphere of bis or her competence...
...It waa for the purpose of ascertaining the truth as to the power of the Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee over his police commissioner, that I wrote you, and this, it seems to me, Mayor Hoan has satisfactorily explained in this week's Leaser...
...If they are too old to be included m the draft, they may be connected with some organisation which does its fighting from the side Unes...
...Fesj|H conditions remain as aEEJ they are: as long a i j l j aa despicable as tasgOn fight goes on...
...features between Socialist and liberal proposals regarding public works is that the project, according to Socialists, should be financed through greatly increased taxation on the upper income brackets...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...The fault is bis, not mine, and it is he, may God forgive him, that should be rlaased as a Uberai rather than a Socialist...
...She can build up to a definite limit of destroyers, cruisers, cruiser-battleships, etc...
...He numbers among, bis most intimate friends George Bernard Shaw, Prof...
...I know that 4a9j ment creeps in warn fisfl of the maaa of 'voter» es am Day is so constatati wtt • ity...
...William Green, President of the American Federation of labor, demands that President Hoover call a conference of business leaders, economists, and bankers to Washington to make a study of the present unemployment problem and formulate plans to solve it or admit that the existing economic structure is an abysmal failure...
...If the other nations are not prepared to agree to do that, then I am more than ever convinced this country should set the example...
...American citizens win do well to drive this hooded abomination back into the far South from whence it was spawned and thence into the Gulf of Mexico and Selah...
...Bad as the economic and financial situation became in England there was n? justification for this alliance with Liberals and Conservatives...
...Do that duty now...
...The fiery outbursts of patriotic oratory inciting to war usually emanate from those who haven't the remotest idea of getting into personal contact with an enemy...
...Why not include wheat, hogs, corn, sugar, shoes, steel, clothing, homes and other things ? Let us put millions of men to work destroying what they produced, then turn to producing what they destroyed, then destroy what they produced, and—well, keep it up...
...If the legislature does not meet this fall in arty given state such organized groups should begin agitation to have a special session held...
...Wouldn't you like to cash in on your share...
...Their reward was unemployment...
...The British Labor Party #>VENTS in the British Labor Party this week amount to practically a revolution in the party...
...For centuries thereafter curious people would be informed that they were specimens of politicians in office Whose idea of relieving human distress was to destroy things...
...the United States and the weather to Paria...
...Withfiict consulting die party the leaders decided, "because grave financial difficulties faced the governsaent, to form an Emergency Government with J?e anti-Socialist parties...
...The Mem to organize a new naam which was to get largasi the one issue of abolisblsr but the proceedings sail tendance show that s m money platform is not MM a large following...
...LYDIA G. WE KT WOK TH...
...That is as it shoald be...
...I promise to uphold the enforcement of all Constitutional Laws...
...She has, for...
...Men, women, and children are engaged io this and their distress is pathetic...
...The Labor Party is fundamentally sound...
...Working class folks are the ones who suffer, sicken, and die from prolonged unemployment...
...Washing the Babies •TTHE Governor of Louisiana calls the legisla"•" tore of his state in special session—for what ? To consider the state of unemployment ? No...
...A mighty wave of protest against the huge cost of armaments and their criminal purpose should overwhelm our government...
...Our duty is to build a powerful Socialist movement to check and eventually dispossess our ruling classes...
...That man is supposed to represent the organised interests and opinions of the American working classes...
...Rapid expansion of public works financed Immediately by heavier taxes on the wealthy to a socialist proposal: public works "paid for in the future in a time when taxpayers are more able to pay" to a uberai proposal...
...This is the next thing to the Federal Farm Board's advice to destroy one-third of the present crop...
...CM vey, was nominated tarli He at first refused but sd cepted "to save the sSj from the wiles of enesM> a convention address to a] that his book was dJviseb/M Andrae B. Nordskeg, ** Angeles, president of tbt I west Water League, waffl nated for Vice-Prendesi M The platform d?clarai j | ernment ownership of bassa year moratorium for prffsii free coinage of aflver, pspsj redeemable only is f**j services, and reduction of M ident's salary to $28,000 » j j Covington Hall, of Lean...
...The quotation to: "Certainly aome such relief would be more dignified than our present .breadlines and methode of distributing private charities...
...Both are in the ditch...
...The New Leader Mail-Bag DISARMAMENT Editor...
...On another page in this issue will be found a story of the problem that must be met in New York cities...
...and lynching...
...The Governor of Louisiana answers the Governor of Texas by saying that "Louisiana will wash this baby from head to foot, dress it up, and it will soon land on Governor Sterling's desk and say 'Da Da' to Texas...
...He recently released to the Federated Press the following statements...
...MORRIS HILLQUIT...
...Benjamin F. Cleaves, secretary of the Associated Industries of Maine, when protesting the proposed 15 per cent increase in freight rates to the Interstate Commerce Commission...
...The Tamraaay aashM be attacked with wesjZ to their instruraentsI^Ew cannon then we anaRwfl for it in obvious we eases ceed with Utile cap plan would consist -ejjfl J the name of the ariani American Labor PM&Vfl ought to orgaaim^^BJ branches everywhere te$g adequately all year *SBS|g| "Also, I would uh* kfiass groups conduct daaaadH sociables, lecture*, thesahss numerous delightful sedan that way, we are eertahaO ing the interest of aU latini "I should like u ssswj trained many months SsjB psigns...
...As a famous man once said, "Who's looney now...
...Who are the elected officials obligated to serve — the working class citizens or the folks who pay these enormous bills...
...In telegrams to other governors he advises them to do the same...
...We may be gore that the workers of Britain will settle this Matter in a manner that will make their party oironger, more clear-sighted^ and creditable to a party of the workers...
...New England's leading "financial" and reactionary dally, is this statement of Mr...
...Thc ~f afnf Government faced complex difficuliies,_ sarnr of them due to its policy of seeking JSL.stajf jrfcoffice by making concessions to the L ^ r a f c J i a t fJ*y* did" not face anything like the cojlpkxgies that face the Socialists on the cacti neut,- -particularly in Germany...
...Brookline, Mass...
...It occurs to us, however, that there are other babies we might wash to much better advantage...
...I believe in free public school, the Protestant Church, the sanctity of the home, the defense of womanhood...
...Why should not the Socialist Party of the United States concentrate on this issue tor the rest of the year...
...This price means not only a reduction of 10 per cent in unemployment benefits but reduction OS other social services of importance to the working class...
...Lrvermere Fan, Me...
...But such a program would be designed to aid the present situation, an emergency, and it ia hoped it would be paid for in the future in a time when taxpayers are more able to pay...
...George locasi tf ABA sai turn looked aim for a mess there was •uessnjfj Then I addeC^njjSE* | think, remember eaaRBaaajl the results — deSpsHH pointmenta — the movement shall E°9^H never backward...
...It costs about $26,000,000 to elect a president in the United States, about $5,000,000 to elect a Governor, $2,000,000 to elect a Senator and several hundred thousand to elect a Congressman...
...A *1 ley, former head of hsj partisan League, was P**JI among the Socialist* press...
...X suspect fas simply did not appreciate th» relet' cm r>t nvr immediate demands to the ultimate purpose of bringing about tne socialist commonwealth as keenly as Comrades BiemiUer and Krueger do...
...Hoover la still opposed to the dole on one side of his brain and on the other side he wants the idle rich to pass'us a dole...
...But in the Aug...
...Surely Comrade Hillquit does not believe that the Rockefellers...
...We could sweep these politicians out of office, wash the babies, and put them in institutions for the feeble minded...
...The fortress of world capitalism is in the United States and to destroy it will not only mean emancipation at home but deliverance of the workers of all countries...
...IN A NUT SHELL Extra...
...Albert Einstein, and Theodore Dreiser...
...Here is part of their oath...
...ASCERTAINING THE TRUTH Editor, The New Leader: My letter addressed to you and which you referred to Mayor Hoen of Milwaukee for reply, was not of the fault-finding kind, with regard to the conduct of the police department of Milwaukee...
...Generals die m bed...
...Yet the has not built 50 per cent of what she to entitled to baud...
...self but it was evident that m convention that Harvey *R had proven a fizzle Cermak Confab Fails...
...In extenuation of the reporter's offense, I must add, however, that I do not believe he misquoted me deliberately or that he intended to place Comrades BiemiUer and Krueger in the deplorable position of "great perplexity...
...a fight to call a third asm vention but this proposa)• feated...
...They had come down to interview a lot of returning "notabilities," including some movie stars, flnaaeaaesj a society belle sad —myself...
...or are the children of persons Who landed here for one reason or another, mostly another...
...The unclaas conscious...
...There is no rhreatrairrg .Fascist movement in England and no CjMaTmniSjBovement of any proportions as in Qermanyr^Is England there are three parties, OBI oi themv-the Liberals that appeared to be on S? road to extinction, while in Germany there axe a dozen or more to complicate the political Situation...
...QsafJI sued another etrfke call *2 Mayor Ormai'* reflua ttm members five day*' "rW*5 I of four a week The saj*n I led the union to behave tol agree to the demand...
...So like our good generals they also die in bed...
...Do you believe in public works aa a remedy for unemployment...
...I said: "It la one of the planks in our program of unemployment relief...
...He wants a cotton growing prohibition law enacted for next year...
...but it is a decided step in the right direction and cannot fan to help...
...WUttam H Harvey...
...There are petitions to be signed which will be presented to the Disarmament Conference from 40 countries or more...
...Arthur Henderson and 'others in England, Frank B Kellogg and other politicai leaders In this country, have declared that an aroused and enlightened public opinion will assure the success of this great move...
...Harvey Conveal AtMonte Nepro Inglorious Fin (Br • w«w L**4r f cenaaafj ROGERS, Ark .-Th*/** expected at the national aam called by "Coin" Hanoi semble at Monte Ne toad be about 300...
...or else, they may be cockeyed, flatfopted, toothless, swaybacked or mentally disabled in such manner as would Interfere with the performance of their patriotic duty of killing or being killed...
...It is based upon a, survey- and it indicates that the public authorities are drifting without any intelligent comprehension of the stark needs that must be satisfied...
...The Department of Commerce estimates that "we" have over $1,158,000,000 invested in Cuba...
...It has always been our belief that one of the dtotineutobms...
...Strange President Green forgot to demand' adequate working class representation on that committee...
...coining winter...
...I feel, therefore, that at the Disarmament Conference we should leave Germany to the Internal pressure of the growing body of pacifists in Germany and concentrate on obtaining agreements among the other Powers to fulfil their moral obligations to acale down their armaments to the -German standard...
...They total over 66 million" dollars, not including what is lost on the unemployment insurance services...
...The report declares that die most disturbing factor in the whole situation "is a certain complacent attitude that the emergency can be met when it arrives...
...A most subtle and hypocritical document...
...President Green Is a labor leader...
...MAURICE S. CALM AN...
...Moreover, the contribution of the workers to the unemployed insurance fund will saercase from 15 to 25 cents each week...
...would not the coat of such works have to be raised by taxes and would not that mean takina money from one pocket to put it Into the other pocke>" To the beet of my recollection I made answer thereto substantially aa follows: "The cost of any public works wilt of course, eventually have to be covered by taxes...
...Nearly every producer and the most of the merchants,, report an actual loss during the first six months of this year, with the losses ranging from a very aman percentage up to as high as 33 per cent The majority of our employers have made a cut in wages and salaries during the present year, showing a minimum of S per cent and a maximum of 15 per cent" » WENDELL F. FABRLNGTON...
...But she has not done so by any means...
...Former Judge Cleaves, who dominates each session of the Maine Legislature, and opposes every progressive measure as "socialistic," thus paints th picture of economic affairs in Maine, one of the few states that boasts that it is relatively less affected by the "depression": " I find that the «volume of business done by our manufacturera to from 15 to 50 per cent less than it was three, four or five years ago...
...City Drivers to CHICAGO...
...My purpose waa to call your attention to what appeared to me to be quite an inconsistency between a news item which held that the Socialist Mayor is wrongfully blamed for the conduct of his chief of police whom he cannot remove, and an article in the same issue of The New Leader by John M. Work which expressed a contrary view...
...The New leader : It would be interesting to know exactly the reasons that influence the French government to make such an ado over the bunding of one small battleship by the Germans and to create such an extraordinary fuss about their security when the least suggestion Is made of actual limitation in armaments with a view to gradual proportional disarmament...
...The question cannot fan to come constantly to mind: What are the real intentions of the French government...
...It was in astonishing manouver, but still more astonishing is the fact that the former Labor Ministers oesired* the Labor Party to also pay a heavy price for this amazing shift...
...Governor Roosevelt is riding the political View of the American Scene By Arthur C Parker esterne Clmetlti, America's funny man, possessea not only s splendid education but an exceptionally brilliant mind...
...But the immediate expense may be raised by a bond issue, so that It could be repaid over a period of years and when eventually repal.l the money would not all come from the workers but mostly from those better able to pay...
...It is rooted in the organized working class...
...We have more confidence «Tthe British Labor Party than ever and we are Hire that it will rise to its responsibilities, sweep aside any obstacles within, and move forward to the conquest of power...
...I was questioned about the plight of Germany, the depression in Europe, the Vienna Congress, the prospecte of Socialism in...
...All these items are t?ftl to the workers...
...The delegstavBJ credentials from ii^uia*ill| izations and each repiwSSbJ hia individual views...
...They consider it a privilege to be disarmed— an example worthy to be followed by the Socialists of all countries...
...s?gr?gation...
...Are BeehUtote throughout the United States doing everything that can bs done to encourage and assist our comrades in Europe...
...Of course, Socialism might wreck civilization but even at that we could not hope to equal the Job of the ruling capitalist parties of the nations...
...Hot to vote for anyone not 100 per cent American means to vote for no one not a clansman or very friendly to the Klan...
...Knowing, as we do, that France has deliberately impeded every move Xtyward disarmament and has built fortifications along frontiers to a greater extent than heretofore, does any other conclusion seem logical than that France to actually making ready for a future war...
...Moreover, England does not face the necessity of paying usurious tribute to conquerers ay- Germany does...
...They promised to place agriculture oa an equality With industry and they bave, kept the promise...
...In New" York state a special session is being held and the Socialist party has urged that jobless relief be considered and has suggested some measures that will be helpful...
...Thousands of colored boys bled and died in the gory battle fields of France...
...She certainly is not showing "the spirit of willingness to cooperate with other nations for proportional disarmament which would be the surest road toward that security which she chums she is so desirous of obtaining...
...They are striving for the success of the Disarmament Conference...
...New York City...
...The savings on education are expected to reach $57,500,360, health services will be cut $8,750,000, the sead fund about $40,000,000...
...I know how Pastes M ter the many long ear* of • campaigning...
...What we are facing is unemployment, and the fact that we create work for these unemployed by public works does mean that it win have to be paid for...
...Yet somebody donates these tremendous sums to these parties at each election...
...in the present shift MacDonald and Snowden form a "cooperative" Jnmistry with Conservatives and Liberals...
...and m y «Or al getic Comrade Rat bravely I ried on...
...I pledge to keep secret the names of those whom I come in contact with in this organization...
...e. • The National Benefit Insurance Company of Atlanta, Georgia, has been declared insolvent and placed In the hands of a receiver by the district court...
...Aal tbs aal plies to the gkxkat asti Thomas, Broun, Vheset <• sens, O-.eal...
...And so two great men meet a great problem like American statesmen...
...Add to all this the probability of an increase of taxes on spirits, beer and tobacco, which will mainly fall on the workers, and it-is evident that whatever increases may be made in luxury and income taxes the workers will pay a heavy price if this program goes through...
...e • • For the workers of the nation capitalist pontics means out of the breadlines to put a Democratic or Republican label on the Industrial depression and then beck to the breadline to get a dole...
...It is constantly thrust upon women of the households and what is occurring in this state is occurring in every state in the Union...
...i ,tfcentime let us not forget that the American hanking oligarchy brought pressure to bear against the Labor Government aad apparently ! dictated the legislative program as the price of a loan...
...L. Garver, and Harold * * f The Socialists dUt?HR*j ature among delegate...
...Walter H. Ayles, MP, writes as follows: "It is not' always realized that Germany, of all countries, though Infinitely weaker in ermamente, has rights under the Treaty of Versailles...
...Its two most conspicuous leaders, J. gainsay MacDonald and Philip Snowden, if cable dispatches are reliable, are out of the party and Sfiati Henderson is to be the new leader...
...The Ku Klux Klan circularized Boston with handbills soliciting membership...
...If this did happen certain well known large white Insurance corporations would benefit from the acquisir Uon of the defunct business and the enrollment of the thousands of colored policy holders Is the National Benefit Company...
...servers were Osca- « rneriaS...
...When the Emergency Governfjj?nt has -completed its special task, assuming that it witi.succeed,?the two former Labor Ministers jwtt he through, but in the meantime they will have encountered the bitter opposition of the Labor members of Parliament...
...was just as SB*L1S9 S disappointed M they -e...
...President of the company, declares the company is not bankrupt and is suing to have the receivership lifted immediately so it will be possible for them to again resume business operations...
...John H. Risher...
...TAXES AND PUBLIC WOEKS Editor, The New Leader: The New York Times for Thursday, August 13th, carries an interview with Comrade Hillquit in the course of which some remarks of his on public works projects as emergency unemployment relief schemes are quoted...
...To awaken public officials to the crying needs of suffering men and women and children of the workers is a solemn duty imposed on Socialists...
...They are the babies we would like to wash...
...13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, protect the sanctity of white Protestant homes, and defend any and aU kinds or types of white Protestant women...
...In the August issue of The New wham, the official organ of the No More War Movement, published in London, Mr...
...Among the avalanche of questions was one asked by the representative of the New York Tunes...
...When they died we could pickle theai in jars and preserve them as curios in museums...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 9
