An Attorney-General for the Workers

...That isn't precisely so under this so-called system of rugged individualism...

...Roosevelt'* 'New Deal' For Exploiters Only— Workers are Left Out Candidate Roosevelt made a speech at Salt Lake City in which he took up the railroad problems in a serious way...

...But a compromise ts worth considering only when It meant a step forward...

...There may be minor differences of opinion here and there, but not in any fundamentals...

...The present Attorney - General, a McCooey henchman, at the time he wai designated for the office, was employed in the law offices of counsel for J. P. Morgan & Company...

...And he said "it is only those who vote for what they don't want and get it who throw away their vote...

...In choosing one of their lackeys for Attorney-General, the Morgan interests made no mistake...

...W O R M A N THOMAS was speaking over the air the other night and he said something which is good to remember and discuss alid mull around in your mind...

...Committees of trade unionists, Yipscls, members of the L. I. D., women's organizations and others are being formed...

...As head of the Law Department of the State, the Aatorney-General has brought no proceedings to discover whether the Tammany mayor violated the laws of the Slate, his oath of office, and whether or not the State Government was entitled to an income tax upon the Mayor's extraordinary income...

...Buying Offices We know that the buying and selling of public office, that the corruption of these offices is the order of the day...

...So, many have lost interest in politics, and the largest body of citizens today ia that of the non-voters, larger than all political parties combined...

...We talk about climbing the ladder of success as if it consisted of nothing other than a foot on a wooden rung...

...The Garden meeting, however, will l>e but the first of a series of five wind-up meetings that will bring a historic campaign to a close in ,1 blaze of glory...

...6 ABBYS1NIAN B A P T I S T CHURCH, 132 W. I38th Street Speakers, Norman Thomas, Frank Crosswarth...

...Our everyday life has in it many elements of warfare...

...That is why we are compelled by private distributors of public power to pay many times as much for electric current as it r sts to produce...

...What we all want is pretty much the same thing...

...I have known people to say with the heroic air "I never compromise," but they were mostly people who are not telling the truth or people who didn't get anywhere and didn't expect to...

...A mere turn of the wheel in the last couple of years has changed the status of some people from wealthy to complete p o v e r ty stricken...

...Circulated in advance among railroad men and bankers interested in rail securities, an early draft had received wide if silent commendation...

...He has permitted the professional politicians to have floaters by the thousands in New York City, and to deny1 many voters the right to secret voting...

...The present incumbent has signally failed properly to exercise its functions...

...We go on electing the candidates of one or the other major party although we know perfectly well that these organizations are 'not capable or even desirous of giving us the things we want most...

...I N accepting the nomination of the Socialist Party for Attoney- General of the State of New York, I did so knowing that it gives nie an opportunity to put before the working people the importance of capturing that office for themselves, At present that office i» in the grip of the bankers...

...Even people who are A t the moment comparatively well-to-do are very far from being secure...

...m Sunday, Nov...

...Citizens who cast a protest vote have been beaten up and their votes miscounted...

...3. The Socialist standard bearers, Norman Thomas, Louis Waldman and Morris Hillquit, together with other national and state candidates, will make their final appeals to the voters of the metropolis at a.meeting that is expected to be the greatest political demonstration in the history of the continent...

...This failure of the present Attorney- General must be attributed to the fact that he is a beneficiary of a spoils system...

...Vote for a Democrat or a Republican...

...The Legislature gave over to the power interests properties worth hundreds of millions of dollars without protest from the Attorney- General's office...

...Business under our fierce competitive system has become so much of a gamble that no one can say what the life and expectations of a great corporation may be...

...6 BROOKLYN ACADEMY OE MUSK", 8 ]i...

...Unfortunately the wheel very, very seldom works the other way round...

...He is chairman of the Board of Canvassers in the Department of State...

...He was talking about the old familiar American election bogey—don't throw away your vote...

...7 Harry Kritzer, who has been selected by the city campaign committee to organize the five meetings, has issued an urgent call for volunteers to co-operate in all the manifold functions required to make the great meetings successful...

...We ought to know by now that the system under which we live doesn't function very well Even Its advocates have to admit that every six or seven years brings about a breakdown...

...Hosiery Union Leader Appointed to Milwaukee Police Board MILWAUKEE.—John Banachowiez, president of the local branch of the American Federation of Full Fashioned Hosiery Workers, has been appointed to the police commission by Mayor Daniel W. Hoan...

...Now if you honestly think that our present way of life Is good enough for you and your fellows, I see no reason on earth why you should vote the Socialist ticket...

...3 S T A T E N ISLAND (Place not yet determined) Friday...

...A sidestep or a backward move la no compromise at all That's a retreat Prepare for Final Meeting at Madison Square Garden Nov...

...Thai has been true in this country of a great many years...

...American Car & Foundry's William Woodin had contributed ideas, as had Bernard Baruch, Wall Street'* 'White Eagle...

...I think that the best sort of radicalism is thoroughgoing radicalism...

...We are all gamblers at heart, at least, I will admit that for myself and not accuse the rest of you, but the game isn't a good game if it affords, the possibilities of losing so much and gaining so little...

...But One cannot expect that the present Attorney-General, a hireling of the Morgan banks, would regulate public utilities in the interests of the people while he is the beneficiary of an office given him by his former private employers...

...Baltimore & Ohio's Daniel Willard, Union Pacific's Carl Gray, and William Averill Harriman had conferred with him on the subject...

...3 'T'llli local Socialist campaign, operating on three fronts for city, state and nation, will come to a climax et a great mass meeting in Madison Square Garden Thursday evening, Nov...

...It was one of his "major" speeches and he considered it an important state paper in his definition of what he calls a New Deal, a statement of t! e policy he is to pursue in the event of his election...

...If ever the masses take over that office, their own Attorney- General, as a member of the Water Power Control Commission, would have to take his place on the people's side of the struggle between them and the Water Power Trust...

...4 BRONX COLISEUM, 2 p. m Sunday, Nov...

...The best they can hope for is to accumulate enough to tide them over these terrible periods...

...I suppose that first of all a man or a woman wants security...

...For man/ years the Attorney- General...

...He is a commissioner of the Land Office, and, moreover, a member of the Water Power Control Commission...

...The mayor announced that Walter Rybacki, who is an employee of the county, had declined renomination after his term expired, in line with the Socialist party's policy not to have one person hold two public offices...

...I don't mean that there Is no such thing as compromise under certain circumstances...

...It behooves, therefore, the people, . nd particularly the workers, to take unto themselves this extraordinarily important office...

...The full roster of meetings in the great wind-up follows: MADISON SQUARE G A R D E N Thursday, Nov...

...If elected Attorney-General of the State of New York, I would exert all the powers of my office in favor of the direct distribution of electricity generated from public water power plants and would use the Law Department to insure the people the full protection of the law in every election district and would prosecute every public officer who employed his office to enrich himself...

...Wall Street men used to be fond of speaking about certain stocks as "blue cbips," These were the assured investments for widows, children and orphans, but these socalled "blue chips" went tumbling down into depths which have never even been conceived...

...We want to be rid of fears and hardly a hand-full can say "for me there is no danger of poverty through economic or physical accident—and I am quite sure that my old age will be financially comfortable...

...Hitherto the Attorney-Generals in utter disregard of our interests have permitted the alienation of power sites which unde.- their very eyes have passed into private hands...

...Possibly the most amusing thing in this campaign has been the attempt of Republicans to picture Franklin Roosevelt as a violent radical intent on overturning the country's institutions...

...An Attorney-General for the Workers By William Karlin Socialist Candidate for Attorney-General Calls Upon the Workers to Capture That Vital Office for Themselves—Morgan & Co...

...Competition may be the life of trade but It is also the death of comradeship and cooperation...

...The very boldness of the plunderbund calls forth daring leadership which can only be found in the Socialist Party, for that party is the only one which seeks to overthrow the social order which by its nature breeds corruption...

...Now it is up to the masses to give more strength to the Socialist candidates...

...That a slum can infect a whole city and that a cyclone of unemployment is going to spare very few roofs, indeed...

...I am not using violent radical as a reproach...

...And I think we are beginning to realize and ought to realize that poverty and misfortunes are contagious diseases...

...By Hey wood Broun Why Not Vote for a Change For Something We Do Want...

...Let us strike terror to the hearts of all those who have conspired against the common weal...

...And, after all, even the gains are largely made at the expense of some other persons...

...He may be a little wiser, I don't know, but at any rate he is practically standing for the same things...

...Even more willfully negligent is the present Attorney- General in permitting his Tammany friends and McCooey fellowhenchmen to violate the provisions of the election law...

...Thus, the Morgan control, water power and electric interests, a-e charging the people $7.80 per horsepower which cost them only 75c...

...Climbing the ladder means putting your foot on somebody's neck and then another neck until you get to the top...

...Franklin Roosevelt, I will admit, seems to have more personal charm than Herbert Hoover...

...Instead of making water power the people's servant, the Democratic and Republican administrations have presented it as a gift to our taskmaster, the Power Trust...

...The Attorney-General is the head of the Department of Law of the State of New York...

...Governor Roosevelt," says "Time", the weekly newsmagazine, "had put much thought and effort into his railroad speech...

...office was blind to almost all the violations of law committed by Election Boards...

...Have Representation in That Office Now—It Belongs to the Masses...

...Regulation Breaks Down There is a complete breakdown Of public regulation of all public Utilities in New York State...