TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
By 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. Milking for...
...Yet how shall we help dairy farmers very much until city workers can buy milk again...
...5. National and regional planning for the most, efficient use of land...
...The group will tske up Socialism and Public Speaking...
...There sre few rhsnces of the student climbing up into world of the ruling oligsrehs...
...yet again I say if society would or could admit it, the face of the world would be ehanged...
...It's Better Than Tennis TODAY among farmers tenantry increases...
...No real control of production is possible save under a general Socialist economy...
...He cannot escape responsibility for intelligent action in this changing world of capitalism...
...But our ruling class and its political retainers in office face an industrial paralysis...
...To feel that we were doing work useful to others and pleasant to ourselves, and that such work and its due reward could not fail us...
...Farmers Are Workers, Not Owners A GR1CULTURE like industry requires the So*¦ cialist society...
...and by reducing tariffs...
...3. Price raising for fanners by increasing the power of wsge workers to buy, by socializing processing agencies, by creating a federal nonprofit marketing agency, and by controlled inflation through our program of unemployment relief...
...Milking for Sport...
...1...
...Nothing else will save us...
...That means lowering tariffs on what farmers buy and removing artificial checks like war debts and reparations on foreign trade...
...All this must be based on the recognition by the farmer that he must seek his rewsrds as worker, not owner...
...ef the party...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, addressed a vast and enthusiastic audience here in the Lewis and Clark High School auditorium...
...The teachers will be Esther Friedman and August Claessens, A small fee will be charged...
...The best sugar protection has given us an unwholesome low paid industry on soil for which it is indifferently adapted here in America—all at great expense to all consumers in country and city...
...At the same time the Socialist program for city workers and for the relief of unemployment would greatly increase the demand for farm products...
...For instance, I admire the spirit behind the farmers' strike, I see how it can win something in the case of a peri.'hable commodity like milk but scarcely in the case of other commodities...
...If the student is of middle class affiliation he may think of a safe niche for himself in the capitalist order midway between the ruling class and the working class...
...discontent and strife and dishonesty would be ended...
...4. Debt reduction by the same process of controlled inflation, a moratorium and foreclosure, and a refunding and actual reduction of farm debt accompanied by a capital levy on wealth to meet the cost of this and other debt reduction...
...Tariffs in the long run help wages or for real returns to farmers on their labor...
...The Socialist philosophy is an interpretation of economic and social evolution, a program of action, and a forecast of the new social order that must replace capitalism...
...18th...
...The course of the student is therefore simple...
...Lichtblau recently had the decision of the court reversed...
...Wa are trying to get every member in our local to subscribe for THE NEW LEADER," writes Barbara K. Baxjey of California in a letter enclosing three subs...
...The owning farmer is really owned by the mortgage...
...We need a new order of society planned production for use, not profit...
...What Socialism Will Do For the Fanners (SOCIALISM would alter this picture for the better by its own program of socialism...
...I have seen figures to show in the dairy regions of New York___ and Michigan that milk prices barely cover costs of feed, etc...
...This, then, is the claim: It Is right and neeeaaary that all men should have work to do which shall be worth doing, sad be of Itself pleasant to do...
...To think and act in terms of ''individualism" is to go back to the tomb of Jefferson for knowledge of this modern era...
...Once the Democratic Party represented the lesser capitalists and middle class elements...
...In New York City alone by 1931 the milk consumption was off by 1.000,000 quarts a day...
...Harry Lichtblau will be remembered as the police officer who arrested two young comrades, Jesse Gross and Bernard Rifkin, and who was later convicted, through the efforts of Charles Solomon as attorney, for severely beating the youngsters...
...The Group will stage an entertainment and dance on Oct...
...All processing and selling should be in the hands of cooperatives or of public agencies...
...Insull was found, at the very outset of the Federal Trade Commission's investigations three years ago, to be the man behind the power trust propaganda network...
...The school board of this city, which had refused to permit a Thomas meeting in the ! igh school building, bscked down in the face of numerous protests and because of ths ridicule poured over the mossbacks who thought Thomas and Socialism unit to be associated with tht public school building...
...Two mors from J. W. Adams of Pennsylvania...
...In so thinking he is indulging in illusion...
...Hymen Lassow of Mass., rounds up five new one...
...And the price to be CM for so making the world ppy Is the revolution...
...We want no new haphazard homesteading...
...That is a question which the Federal Trade Commission and the progressives in Congress will watch, ss federsl investigation of America's most gigantic capitalist, swindle proceeds...
...The propertyless millions have no stake in its preservation...
...Afternoon Class for Socialist Women The Socialist Women of New York have for several years been convinced that they should have classes in the afternoon, the time when most women can attend...
...11th...
...Alexsnder Fichandler who has recently returned from his second trip to Ruaaia will speak* on "Russia Revisited," in the Group Auditorium, 150 West 85th Street, Oct...
...The Claim of Justice By William Morris III AVE looked at this claim by the light of history and my own conscience, and it seems to me so looked at to be a most just claim, and that resistance to It means nothing short of a denial of the hope of civllisstion...
...Just because his future is precarious he should throw in his lot with the working class whose every interest lies in the overthrow of capitalism and replacing it with a Socialist order...
...Jim Phillips, a Camp Tamiment favorite, will render several solos...
...Turn that claim about as I may, think of it as long as I can, I cannot find that it is an exorbitant claim...
...It would automatically somewhat tend to raise prices and that rise in prices we should further promote by a controlled inflation deliberately designed to restore as far as possible the price level of 1026-27...
...Fichandler on Russia Dr...
...Thousands were turned away for lack of any more room, and those who managed to get into the school heard one of Thomas' great fighting speeches...
...The case has not been carried to the end, but the Police Department, apparently, still feels that a promotion is in order, while charges of "third degree" are hanging over Lichtblau's head...
...The threat lo go to court to secure the party's right to hold s meeting on even UjtV\* with any other political part/ might have hsd something Id d» with the Board's retreat, A BlondollHd, PhllaJeTpW »«y» that hs alwaVs lookslotwlrd to the next Issue, Ind ft The same time sendi'm two MW subs...
...National and regional planning boards must discuss the intelligent utilization of land...
...The first means Socialists would ur.e to wipe out farm tenantry would be a tax to appropriate the rental value of land—not improvement to the land—for society...
...The farmer milks for sport, he milks instead of playing tennis and his amateur standing is better than most great tennis players for he doesn't get as good an expense account...
...It is important that all women who plan to take this course should register in advance...
...The upper ruling class has and many of the middle class elements think they have...
...That order of society requires encouragement of voluntary cooperation among farmers...
...He should not only vote the So cislist ticket...
...These observations constitute the economics that should determine the political action of the student...
...and which should be done under suck conditions ss would mske It neither ever-wearisome nor overanxious...
...What serious bars*, could hsppen to us then...
...16th, JL couple of mors subs from Anton Zornik of Pennsylvania...
...Yours in revolt," writes George R. Defoe of Florida, ordering » bundle of The New Leader to be aent to him regularly...
...The case was finally called before Deputy Police Commissioner Leach of Brooklyn, who, in the course of his examination of some of the witnesses, said '(This case must be carried to the end as the Police Department must not leave itself open to any adverse criticism...
...Party Wins Fight To Use High School For Thomas Rally SPOKANE...
...He it was who tamed university faculties and dictated party platforms, further to Inflate his "securities" which are now a burst bubble, The investors paid for this lavish persuasion of public Sentiment snd ths cost wss passed on to ths public In tho form of rates...
...A PIcti for the Use of Land TTHERE must be plan for the use of land...
...It would socialize the farm machine trust, it would socialize the great dairy companies, packing houses, elevators, etc...
...In the post wsr period it has gone into the service of the upper ruling class snd its role now is merely one of competition with the Republican Party to serve that clap . Either party will serve this purpose well...
...He is living in a world of economic chaos, social anarchy, and politic 1 futility...
...In our interdependent world I believe we must and shsll choose or drift into ths latter...
...In co-operation with the staff of the Rand School they have worked out a plan and now announce the opening of their first class...
...Land * reverting to states for taxes should not just be promiscuously sold...
...We should also declare a moratorium oa foreclosures...
...We should in every state urge repeal of the general real eatate tax which is in effect an unfair income tax paid out of current income, and a shift to graduated income and inheritance taxes with such use of a land values tsx as may be necessary to prevent absentee landlordism under which more than half of our farmers in many states now fall...
...In many of them a temporary rise in price will first of nil benefit camnlrsion men...
...Gerbersky of New Haven, who writes: "Only a Socialist can realise what it means to lose all contact with the movement as a whole...
...Our vast industrial powers have become social in character and should be socially owned...
...It is for the student to determine what part he will play in the great struggles ahead...
...Reward of Virtue The following item in the recent Police Promotion List should prove of particular interest to Socialists: "Advancement to Grade Patrolman to $3,000.00 GradeHarry Lichtblau...
...The great decision about the use of land requires us to choose behind isolation in America behind high—almost prohibitively high—tariff walls or world trade...
...Hillquist Boosts The New Leader Following the letter sent to the locals throughout the country by National Chairman Hillquit, In which he urged the increasing of the circulation of The New Leader during the present campaign, many of the active Socialist Party members are making a systematic effort to carry out Comrade Hillquit's suggestion...
...We face a timber famine in 40 years...
...Their system is disintegrating and it must be reorganized on another basis...
...Washington Watches Insull Propaganda Expense WASHINGTON (FP...
...We mutt have a balanced program lest any measure to reduce debts simply help mortgage holders and a plan to raise prices redound to the advantage of middlemen...
...A couple of more subs from James D. Graham of Montana, member of the N.E.C...
...The upper capitalist and banking magnates are rooting out the lesser capitalists and middle clsss elements...
...Three renewals front Louie Stark, Pa...
...The meetings will be held on Monday afternoon from two till four, and the course will run from November 21 to February 19...
...Farm landlordism and tenantry must be wiped out and the farmer muit accept agriculture as a way of life, not a capitalist business or a real estate venture...
...It was then postponed until the fall...
...THE college student should vote the Socialist Party ticket in November for a number of reasons...
...2. Cost reduction to farmers by socializing the farm machine combine, etc...
...The Rand School office will receive registrations immediately...
...Students Are Told Why They Should Vote Socialist By James Oneal Written by it-quest for the Broun I nnersity Student doily...
...He should also join the Socialist Party and become an active worker in its ranks...
...he is not likely to retain a footing in a middle class niche, and his prospects sre good for being hurled into the working class below...
...The two ruling parties are simply two firms marketing the ideas and interests of the controlling industrial and financial magnates...
...What it means to miss THE NEW LEADER is summed up by Benj...
...Unless he is the prospective heir to millions uccumulsted by the exploitation of labor he has no certain future under capitalism...
...On the wsy to it Socialism offers: 1. Drastic tax reform for farmers...
...The special campaign offer of a year's subscriptions to THE NEW LEADER applies to new subscribers only snd expires on !-lev...
...Organizer Julius Gerber preferred charges against Lichtblau with the Police Department, which charges were shelved for over a year...
...Much that has lapsed in taxes plus much that could and should be cheaply bought should be put bsck in publicly owned forests which we sorely need and shall more sorely need...
...More subs will folio* i soon...
...it requires an end of absentee farm landlordism...
...Landlords and tenants cannot est out of the same dish and both he fed...
...How much of the $2,000,000,000 lost by investors in Insull stocks and bonds was squandered in influencing the press, the schools, the clergy, lecturers and the radio and moving pictures, as part of Insull's bold propaganda campaign against public ownership...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15