TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
Bv Norman Thomas 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. Great...
...Yet it was not primarily the size of that meeting after all, I've seen cities of less than 100,000 do as well or better in this campaign - but the quality, especially of the ¦sheering and singing...
...But I don' bullieve lots ya' see in noospapis...
...They must be kept up after the election...
...We should like to see evei y class in the Rand School filled to capacity...
...Fraternally yours, "NORMAN THOMAS...
...Making The New leader the greatest and most forceful newspaper In America...
...Now teat capitalism draws so near its doom, it will be a tragedy beyond power to exaggerate if in its dying hours it so poisons the labor movement by the virus of racketeering that these builders of the future in the hour of challenge and opportunity not only cannot act to bring us new life, but becomes sick themselves with the mortal sickness of the acquisitive society...
...Yeah...
...I have written Comrade cahan as follows: "Editor of the Forward: Your vigorous editorial, 'Keep Your Unions Clean,' in which you endorse and strongly support President Green's attack on racketeering in 28 unions, is timely and Immensely encouraging not only to all Socialists but to all who have the welfare of the labor movement at heart...
...Dat's wot he said...
...Great Inspiration in Town Hall Meeting rWN Hall has by now seen many fall openings of the Socialist campaign In New York City, but last Sunday's was the first that called out a great overflow meeting in 43d Street...
...And to Socialism they are the worst enemies, for they destroy the Integrity of labor, its true solidarity, its very soul...
...I toT ya' dem re-po'ts was frum Washington, didn't I?" "I don' care if dey was frum Tuscaloosa or Hoshkosh...
...Pacific Standard Time) on Friday, Oct...
...but also to 'America for All," which I think aught to be continued as a propaganda paper issued by the party after the election, I provided It can be financed, as I think It can, without burdensome deficit...
...I think it may yet be necessary in this connection to name names and give facts...
...Well, wot do d'noospapis know...
...In one instance, an undernourished newsboy was the sole support of a family of seven...
...AND IN PARTING WE should like to see The New Leader circulated throughout the world...
...Eastern headquarters for the drive have been established at 907 1Mb atreet, Washington...
...Strengthen the Socialist Press Throughout Nation ONE encouraging thing In this campaign is the increased use of literature...
...And lastly, we should like to see all of our candidates elected and get started on the roai to Socialism...
...Besides, it should give room to discussions of party questions treated more controversially than in a general propaganda paper...
...The election of Thomas for a government of the people, by the people, and for the people...
...Ya' ain't grown up...
...An' Prealden' Hoover ain't such a bad guy...
...Our Socialist publications of all sorts are steadily improving...
...One thing to be remembered is this: Unscrupulous leaders of the racketeering type are using the depression to say to the workers who once threw them out: Remember, no matter what we did that you did not like, you had better wages and conditions when we were in...
...Morris Hillquit for mayor of a city which is in dire need of an honest, an efficient, a Socialist administration...
...When our young people can stage a demonstration like that, at once so genuine and so well carried out, there's hope they will fight as they sing...
...We should like to see numerous contributions towards the campaign...
...Norman Thomas's speech before the Commonwealth Club here, to be made from 12:45 to 1:30 p.m...
...I am delighted by Forward's vigorous editorial backing up the campaign of President Green and other A. F. of L. leaders against any or all forms of racketeering in the unions...
...ny grub an' plenny Jobs if he's reelected He says dat fings will be O.K...
...It would give us the greatest joy and thrill of our life...
...What labor needs is the heroism that the Amalgamated Clothing Workers showed...
...We need more of this in every city to put color and life into our meetings and other activities...
...the courage to fight such injunctions as that recently issued against the bricklayers, and above all, a purpose and plan big enough for this great crisis...
...7, will be broadcast from station K G O and the "Gold" network of the National Broadcasting Co., which covers the Rocky Mountain and Pacific coast states...
...W'y d'noospapis said it...
...We should like to see many, many new members In our branches...
...G. Walter Zulauf of the Allegheny General Hospital made the statement concerning clinic applicants that "their situation Is so .serious that only an infinitesimal percentage of the thousands seeking free medical care could, in nny sense, be termed undeserving...
...But it kinds seems t'me ya' ain't no Linbolg ya'se'f...
...A CONVERSATION (In CJnlon Square Park) TWO shabbily dressed men are seated facing the statue of Washington...
...Maybe so, but why...
...recruiting, canvassing and enrolling...
...Dat's d'mattuh...
...Freedom . . . Peace . . . happiness . . . eternally...
...Well, who said it...
...Thomas to Broadcast Over Pacific Coast Network SAN FRANCISCO...
...IM'm give It the power that It needs...
...Only 217 of the 500 were employed, 154 on part time and 63 on full time...
...More power, then, to your fight and labor's...
...Ya' just standln' still...
...next year and f trust him, Ilka as If he was a big brudder...
...THE NEW LEADER, for the sake of the movement In the New York area, needs to give us more, not less, local news...
...Plenny 'bout anyt'in...
...Pittsburgh Hospital Survey Reveals Need PITTSBURGH (FP) The desperate need for free hospital service was graphically stated in a report of the Hospital Association which covered 900 cases treated without charge in Pittsburgh clinics...
...Let's do the job before us...
...We is gotta stan' behla1 d'government an' don' change bosses in d'middle o' d'lake...
...There is room and need for various sorts of papers...
...It Is our paper and our voice...
...Mebbee so...
...He saya dey ain't no use in gettln' excited cos in a coupla weeks it's all gonna be O.K...
...The hour is 9 P.M.: "Oh, yeah...
...I refer not only to leaflets, pamphlets and such popular little texts as August Claessens' "Essentials of Socialism" (by jthc way, we need his pamphlet on public speaking...
...Let's talk it up...
...Channing Sweet Leave* $1,000 to Socialiil P»rly DENVER, Oolo.The will of the late Channing Sweet,,, veteran Socialist who recently died, when probated here revealed that he had left $1,000 to the Socialist Party and $100 to the jgidow of Eugene V. DebsLocals and branches considering affairs for the drive are asked to communicate with Marx Lewis, director, 049 W. Randolph street, Chicago...
...Supt...
...Well, seeln' is bullevin' an' I don* mean watcha' see in d'noospapis...
...More Power to Labor in Fight Against Racketeering AND speaking of things to applaud and support...
...Ya' don' know nuttln', an' ya' nevuh will know nuttln...
...An' he says dat d'soldies in Valley Forge suffered too an' we is like dem...
...Of the group surveyed, 70 per cent had no physicians, while 25 per cent had drifted away from their family doctors through inability to pay...
...Only Socialism can do that in any true and lasting fashion...
...Bv Norman Thomas 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...
...Aw, baloney...
...These same things are true of our other excellent local papers...
...Ya' don' bullieve 'cue ya' alnt got no Intelligence nor nuttln...
...Socialism as a means to that end...
...Let's get behind with subscriptions aplenty...
...Intense educational methods to organise the people and to teach them that in the Democratic and Republican Parties does not Me their salvation...
...I sesso...
...Aw, wotsa' use talkin...
...Another Guest Conductor Cthe Chatter***** Continued from Page Nine) Hoover In bis attitude towards labor, the worker, peace, happiness and the B. E F. a I APPBOVE OF Thomas and Maurer as standard bearers of the only party for the workers of America...
...I said dat d'repo'ts from Washinton says dat all d' rich guys is gonna' be taxed more f help d'guys wots outa woik an' dem' wot haa fam'lies fsuppo't an' dem wot haa rents f pay...
...Oh, yeah...
...Rally to the call, comrades...
...Particularly a word of praise for Matthew Levy's combination of legal wisdom and skill with a bold and resolute support of the position of the strikers...
...Savee...
...W'y dey know plenny...
...Oscar Ameringer's "American Guardian" Is doing magnificent and invaluable propaganda work, but is, after all, a personal rather than a party organ...
...The better they do their jobs, the more room there will be for a national, party-owned propaganda organ...
...According to the survey, 40 families live on wages of from SI to $5 a week, 55 from $6 to $10, while 276 receive no wages at all...
...Aw, scram...
...Aw, ya' talk like a kid...
...Yeah, plenny 'bout shootin' an' moidls an' rackiteers...
...Simply because times were better...
...Don' lem-me laugh atcha...
...A great school -a great teaching staff -(or men and women who wan' the finest in education...
...As little as it may be, it will go a long way to educate the masses to the wisdom of Socialism...
...Plenny 'bout wot...
...Mebbee so...
...The candidates of the Socialist Party...
...Aw, be ya'se'f, kid...
...Yeah...
...These men back In power cannot improve conditions...
...Who sesso...
...We can't have a strong movement without strengthening our press, Good Work by Bronx Socialists in Rent Strike AWORD of high praise to the Socialists of the Bronx for their fine work in connection with the Bronx Tenants Emergency League, whose cooperation In the tenants' strike in the Sholom Alelcbem apartments is a splendid service to the cause of labor solidarity on the field of the relations of landlords and tenants, where capitalism is almost at its worst...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
