TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
By Norman Thotnas TIMELY TOPICS every week the presidential candidate pauses in his campaign to hammer out pithy comment on the anvil of Socialist philosophy and ripe...
...Those interested communicate with Hannah Geigcr, secretary of the section, at above address...
...Inherent Contradictions Iin a radio speech in St...
...A number of dance groups are being organized...
...We should have a national planning board to lay down general strategy...
...It is so simple that, people find it hard to believe that the logical way out is to have engineers and workers working for society...
...19, at 6:4S P.M., at Pieces Temple, ISO West with street...
...An earlier John Macy Graham Wallace Channing Sweet book was "The Spirit of American Literature," a pioneer volume which opened the way to the social Interpretation of literature...
...But one thing seems increasingly certain with every passing month: This Is no ordinary crisis...
...I have been in the field and In the national office...
...actually the big prizes go to successful manipulations...
...The defeatism Of a few of our Illinois comrades in this matter is the worst thing I have seen in our splendidly growing movement...
...The "Late" Mayor IN a new sense, Mr...
...Roosevelt says that the President does not practice, but that he, Mr...
...The logical way la social ownership of natural resources, of the principal means of production, of the great trusts, of the public utilities and of the banking system, and their management under a plan for the use of the great masses of workers with hands and brain rather than for profit of.an owning class Such a system would produce an abundance for all in the kind of private property, such as goods aad clothes and homes, in which we all believe...
...I have spoken at splendid meetings there...
...This h No (hrdmary Crisis...
...He had been making plans shortly before his death to be more aotlve in the writers' division of Rebel Arts, the cultural auxiliary of the movement Comrade Macy was the author Of many books and innumerable critical works...
...His most recent volume was "The Story of the World's Literature...
...The Thomas For President Committee of Five Thousand announces a campaign dinner for its members and friends on Monday, Sept...
...Professor Graham Wallas, one of the world's foremost sociologists, was a member of the Fabian Society and active in the movement in England...
...But there Is one industry that is thriving as seldom before, and that is the armament industry...
...McAllister Coleman will preside, and among the speakers Will be Professor Walter E. "Unemployed," 11.1.1...
...If Social Democracy cannot rally now, it may be too late forever...
...28, at 8:30 at the Debs Auditorium, 7 E. ISth street The subject for discussion will be "Literature and Revolution...
...The national ticket Is probably safe in Illinois, but different legal requirements makes it very difficult to get signatures, 25,000 In number, from those Who have not voted in the old party primaries...
...Great quantities of tanks, armored cars, guns of all calibres and ammunition have been sold (largely on credit) to Poland, Greece, Jugoslavia and Hungary...
...1 Freiburg, Germany, Aug...
...Artists In all fields are invited to Join Rebel Arts...
...Creusot and Hotchkiss recently published financial statements that prove in the clearest'terms to stockholders that profits have never been higher in any "peace year...
...that is, for themselves Instead of for absentee owners...
...Unemployment Is growing In Germany, England and France—and in all the lesser industrial nations...
...We hear about graft and inefficiency in public business in a capitalist society and we forget that this is but a reflection of the graft and inefficiency of our gambling standards, which showed themselves] in the disgraceful record of Wall Street, both in years of prosperity and adversity...
...In over sixty cities of the United States, unemployed men and women are going to sell "The Unemployed," not only to make some kind of a living but to spread the kind of important literature that will be a great aid in the campaign...
...3. Capitalism still claims that it rewards work and ability...
...long * leader of Socialist and labor activity in the West, especially In Colorado...
...Creusot's statement says: "It is needless to call your attention to the popularity of our new machine guns nst only in France but also In foreign countries...
...2) In my opinion, which I want to make as strong as possible, the strongest candidate the Socialist Party can offer to New York City Is Morris Hilkniit...
...Mayor Walker's belated resignation leaves the same gang still in office...
...Louis yesterday, I spoke on the contradictions Inherent in capitalism: 1. Everybody admits that the one essential for *he return of prosperity is a resumption of purchasing power, yet each corporation feels it is compelled to reduce purchasing power by discharging workers and lowering wages, and the governments, federal and state, actually puts taxes on sales to make the process of buying harder for the poor...
...Lovers of truth and Justice are urged to protest and to oppose this villainous act In every possible way...
...Magazine, Now on Sale TIE fifth Issue of "The Unemployed" magazine, which is published by the League for Industrial Democracy, appeared on the streets of the United States on Labor Day...
...Every slate deserves praise,, and about equal praise...
...mo flump for or moment...
...rW crisis ta going steadily from bad to worse...
...2. Capitalism still talks the language of individualism...
...Peck, Samuel A. DeWitt, and other radical writers to be announced later...
...They were arrested for their secret propaganda against the Horthy regime...
...indeed municipal socialism is the necessary basis for good government in New York City...
...In the big cities nervous breakdowns and suicides are on the increase...
...We are on the ballot In Ohio...
...Organizer of the' first party local In the state, he arrived in Colorado on the first passenger train operated by the Denver and Rio Grande railroad, back In 1871...
...The magazine will sell for 10 cents a copy and in wholesale quantities can be had for S cents a copy with the expreaaage prepaid by the League for Industrial Democracy...
...THE Socialist, and labor world suffered severely in the past few weeks through the death of three notable figures devoted to the Socialist cause...
...The lateness of his resignation, following the Shocking weakness of his defense, robs his belated appeal to the people of whatever dignity it might have had...
...I have heard the stories gay or sad...
...Norman Thomas will be the cuest of honor...
...Branches and members of the Socialist Party as well as readers of the New Leader are urged to write at once to the League for Industrial Democracy, 112 Bast 19th street, New York City, or 20 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, III...
...Immediately the Hungarian Socialists, targets of the usual Communist attacks, urged that the Labor and Socialist International do its utmost to save the two Communists...
...New York will be just where it has been in regard to a proper budget, proper taxation, unemployment relief, housing, etc...
...The Labor and Socialist International also calls attention to the fact that the hangman's regime in Hungary is preparing to execute another victim: Frledrloh Karikas, against whom a "scandalous Judicial murder on the basis of false statements" Is being planned...
...By Norman Thotnas TIMELY TOPICS every week the presidential candidate pauses in his campaign to hammer out pithy comment on the anvil of Socialist philosophy and ripe experience...
...Here is immense concentration, immense collectivism, but it Is a collectivism without plan for the common good, it is a collectivism born out of the competition which has charactcrized capitalism...
...Socialised industries should be managed not by politicians but by directorates representing the workers in the industry and the consumers...
...Leon Blum and Paul Faure sent a protest in the name of the French Socialist Party, and Jean Longuet, French Socialist Deputy and grandson of Karl Marx, hurried to Budapest to represent the two Communists before the court martial.' Longuet was denied access to the prisoners and was not permitted to consult the charges against them...
...The writers' group will hold an open meeting Friday, Sept...
...Hoover advocates rugged individualism which Mr...
...The economic collapse may bring about the breakdown of all bourgeois-democratic governments, and the triumph of fascism and militarism looms ahead as terrible probabilities...
...Rebel Arts a LL interested in the Rebel J\ Arts Camera group should get in touch with Lee Stein, 7 E. 15th street, at once...
...not, with mighty few exceptions, scientists and inventors or even managers...
...A meeting will be called of those communicating with her, and a program of worth while work under capable direction planned...
...The real fight is still on in the city—the fight for municipal socialism—and that fight now as in former years the Socialist Party must lead...
...Of which la the kingdom of capital...
...Their fortunes came from a kind of legalized racketeering of which the boom years furnished so many examples...
...He had been a member of tha London School and of the London Council and a lecturer at the London School of Economics...
...It cannot be unscrambled any more than we can unscramble eggs...
...AmmrUxm HoeiaUtt mehltect, mUtmf from okragd, tA%e* mood for Omlma, telf-mcri firing fork of SwiWJW eroSt...
...Meanwhile the two hundred largest business corporations In America control 50 per cent of the business wealth and are controlled by less than 2,000 directors, most of whom do not direct...
...I have seen the work...
...And Japan bought a large number of cannons of huge sice which were not needed for any military purpose, but merely served to eetabliab a sympathetic understanding between the Japanese government and the capitalist press in Paris...
...The wealthy families of America are...
...For nothing or for a bare living they give work money couldn't buy...
...Socialist Party branches have already begun to send in their orders...
...Not Just "Good Government" IN answer to various requests I want to state emphatically at this time: (1) The Socialist Party stands first of all for municipal socialism and that is much more than "good government...
...After hours, unemployed men and women knew that in the Rand Book Store both Jack Altman and Jesse Gross were ready to take care of .their needs for the night sales...
...There is still a long hard pull ahead before the Socialists can hope to win the powers of the state away from the capitalist parties...
...Thus we could.build a classless society of workers with hand and brain where every able bodied man and woman would work and all share the leisure which the machine makes possible...
...I expect Illinois to come through every way...
...Full Information on distribution will be given...
...This after-hour circulation reached somewhere near the total of 80,000 magazines...
...Charming Sweet was a famous "old-timer" In the movement...
...It Is a crisis of the capitalist system itself aad It may even be the beginning of the final death crisis...
...But we can own the outlet...
...James J. Walker is the late Mayor of New York...
...They were tried before a special court martial, condemned to death, and executed within two hours...
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...Real United Front Impotent to Save Hungarian Rebels An example of a real united front of Socialist* with Communists is the fate of Sally and Furst, two Communists in Hungary...
...In the fifth issue, with the situation in America having become nearly dear perate, with 12,000,000 workers out of Jobs, "The Unemployed" has kept pace in the character of its articles and Illustration...
...In New York City alone the circulation of "The Unemployed" was at least half of the national total...
...The event proved that S allay and Furst were doomed in advance...
...Two years ago when "The Unemployed", waa first published, it startled America by the brilliant array of writers and artists willing to contribute their services to such a magazine...
...There are two things New Yorkers and Americans generally cannot afford to forget: first, Governor Roosevelt's capable handling of the Walker hearing cannot remove the evil consequences of his long obsequiousness to Tammany and his< failure to clean bouse, as Illustrated by his refusal to act directly or indirectly In the very serious charges affecting Deputy Sheriff Curran of' New York, Theofel of Queens, McQnade of Brooklyn and others over whom he has direct or indirect control...
...McKee, whatever his personal virtues, always went with the gang...
...His advanced age prevented bis participation in the recent party revival, but a previous generation remembers his sacrifice and devotion to the cause as a pioneer organiser...
...The Hungarian Socialists printed a manifesto in their Budapest dally...
...Wage cuts affect all classes of workers and public employes...
...John Macy, dean of American critics, who died at Unity House after he had delivered three of his scheduled fivelecture series on "Revolution and Rebellion In Classic American Literature," was a member of the party and an ardent Socialist...
...There never was a time when there was such an urgent need for every Socialist to work tirelessly and unselfishly for our movement and for the ideas that inspire it...
...Entile Vandervelde, president of the International, telegraphed the Hungarian Prime Minister protesting against the sentence...
...TIE beat thing in this campaign Is the magnificent work ef our organisers, national and state, and some of our local leaders...
...Roosevelt, is for true individualism...
Vol. 14 • September 1931 • No. 11
