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...Gabriel Over the White House" the "1933 inaugural picture" tells the story of a typical politician president who, cracked on the head, goes crazy—pardon me, goes honest...

...It is by the very open ness of these "legal" moves that original and true movement, our authority states, is being crushed...

...Today, of course, the people are the rulers of the land...

...The Falcons h^ve just put out an attractive stamp, the proceeds of which will go toward the building of the Falcon movement, supplying uniforms, camping equipment, etc...

...Still we're getting action...

...everything is greedy and grafty and rotten, let us be merry—such a play, "Of Thee I Sing" runs for two years and is avarded the Pulitzer Prize...

...After this effort failed early in March, a spurious organization which declared itself to be the true CROM read Morones out of the CROM and disassociated itself from the A. F. of L. So far as can be discovered this is only an attempt to discredit the activities of Morones and to drive another wedge into the staunch and loyal membership of the CROM...

...Instead of narrow, nationalistic patriotism the children are told about internationalism and co-operation...

...He closed the banks after the wealthy, in a quiet run which never reached the newspapers, had drawn out millions of dollars...

...junior groups only take in members at the age of 14...

...This, Mr...

...However, that is really beside the point...

...Lady Astor, who did the introducing, felt that Shaw's reception of the gifted blind woman was too casual, so like the general busybody she seems to be, Lady Astor shook Shaw by the sleeve and said reproachfully: "Miss Keller is blind and deaf...

...and those who still have enough saved from the debris of a rotten system enjoy, on stage and screen, the spectacle of its crumbling...

...but the Fascists have practiced the Communist preachings—and look at the results...

...Like smacking a piece of chewing gum into a burst dam...

...Several other groups have been organized, or are in the process of organization throughout the country...

...S.L...

...After which follows: ". . . this duty implies above all a determined political and ideological fight against pacifism...

...Why, back in 1930 the condition of the Bank of United States was known to be dangerous—known to bankers, financiers and others who have access to inside information...

...Apparently a move in keeping with the times, it has been maintained that this is a blind to force all labor under the fascistic hand of the government...

...Thus, there is left a void between the ages of 10 and 14...

...No doubt the banks which have now been officially declared safe and the savings banks are doing considerable business...

...The CROM repudiates these procedures and brands the accusation a calumny...

...It was dragging the drowning man up for a moment for a few tortured gasps...

...Anderson's Si'lodmmatic film "Washington erry-Go-Round" was better received than his searching play "Roth Your Houses," and only tickets bought in advance are sustaining O'Neil's bitter "American Dream...

...Many unionists, it is asserted, have been won away from the CROM by the bid to win their labor suits, which is done since the Chamber of Labor has control of the Board of Arbitration to which all disputes must go...

...The whole brigandist structure, operated by a pack of thieves, beside whom the ordinary gunman looks like a Sir Galahad (at least the gunman takes some chances with his life), wiD not be eradicated unless we nationalize sll banks...

...This will be considered at the next meeting of the A.F.L...

...From such plays the public turns...

...Every party member, every Yipsel should get behind the Falcons and help build the working-class children's movement...

...Thereafter follows something from the 12 Plenum (whatever that means) reading: "The Communist Party must understand that bare and empty propaganda of peace, unaccompanied by calls fw and the organization of tbe revolutionary action of the masses*^ only capable of sowing illusions, or depraving the proletariat by imbuing it with confidence in the pel...

...for they are not amusing...

...The Modern Nero By Joseph T. Shipley Till-: ruler of Rome, Nero, played while his city burned...

...Our rulers should he reminded that Nero gave the stsrving not only circuses, but bread...

...Prompt action...

...You will pardon us if we give the merest soupcon of a sniff...

...The Falcons have the support and co-operation of the New York City Socialist Party Committee on Youth Affairs and of the National Executive Committee of the Y.P...

...ler with the *^bb» same extra G. W. Klein kindliness which we are inclined to show toward ordinary cripples...

...Further, it is learned, a bid was made to Morones to join the National Revolutionary Pnrty, if, in the merger the Labor Party (the political organization . of the CROM) would be willing to lose its identity...

...icy of the bourgeoisie and their agents in the working class (is our face red...

...Because he gave them action...

...The Y.P...

...Yes, we are blind and deaf and dumb...

...No doubt a great number of people who knew enough of what ..as going on inside got out from under in time and are now redepositing their money in safe banks...

...Banker Lehman, had no inkling of the rotten condition of the banks during all the years that banks were crashing to the right and left of us to the tune of over 6,000 in four years ? Is it possible that the State Banking Department kept our chief executives in total ignorance of the imminent collapse of the Bank of United States...

...Since the war the European Socialist movement has fully realized the importance of youth education and has begun to train its youth at a very early age to a realization of their class mission...

...The youngsters are taught the real character of modern warfare and an effort is made to inculcate them with Socialist tradition and ideology...

...This, of course, was detrimental to the working-class movement...

...By Milton S. Mautner Seeking to Split Unit of Mexican Labor THROUGH Santiago Iglesias, head of the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, and Resident Commissioner in Congress from Puerto Rico, news has been received of a crisis in the labor movement of Mexico...

...The Communists have preached it...

...Yet at that very time a drive was started by the Bank of United States for 80,000 new depositors, and many helpless workers were practically compelled to become depositors by their employers— who, of course, got certain advantages from the bank in turn...

...Even when the Y.P...

...We . . . hope that this cry for a Federal spanking will shortly be silenced...

...Vigorous action...

...was founded November 13, 1918 by the A.K.I,, and the CROM, on the basis of class-consciousness and with the elass struggle as its fighting program...

...and of| making the working claas a plaything in the hands of bourgeois governments.* We just thought you'd like to know what the official Communist position is on pacifism, in case any of your pacifist friends cared to associate themselves with the Communist movement...

...The Mexican Federation of Labor has suggested that the Sixth International Congress of the PanAmerican Federation of Labor b» held in the near future to take the problems as Indicated above...

...It is claimed that the unions formed under the leadership of Luis N. Morones, head of the CROM, are slowly but surely being forced to the wall...

...What the people wanted was action, and action was what they got...

...Prompt action...

...They are told about the struggles of labor, their heroes are the men who have tried to make the world a better place to live in...

...The youngsters are surrounded with an atmosphere of Socialist comradeship in all their activities...

...Morones, who continues his organizing activities, is hampered by being jailed every so often, though no open force is being used in the majority of cases...

...Huge redeposits are being made, we are told...

...Immediate stress is laid on our opposition to war and child labor, and to any system which permits them...

...Socialism comes in, not as a matter of lectures but in the guidance of Falcon leaders toward a new dsy of thinking and of looking at Ufa...

...But what has been done by the President is the tmallett measure of what could be done rather than the tersest...

...The CROM, which represents the true organized labor movement of Mexico, "repudiates with all its energy the work of division of the working class that traitorous individuals are.trying to carry on...

...In an effort to ctn.bat this the Falcon movement of America was organized seven months ago...

...The result was that children, at a time when their minds were most plastic and when they naturally want to join some club or organization, had no choice but to join the Boy Scouts and similar organizations of a bourgeois, semi-militaristic nature...

...And it also occurs to us that there is another interesting fact: The Communists have preached certain doctrines, such as arming themselves and disarming their opponents: such as employing violence against their opponents, snd punishing those who employ violence against them, such as organizing armed and uniformed and disciplined forces for the purpose of ushering in their noble ideals...

...Today they merely fiddle around while the country burns...

...And when the picture had its preview in Hollywood, editorials stated: "an example of juvenile minds playing with matches . . . this picture would suggest that some people have been seized with the bright idea that to set a torch to American institutions at this juncture would be an amusing—and profitable—scheme...

...Morgsn is not likely to allow...

...In this work, the Falcon movement plays a leading role...

...attempted to fill this gap its efforts were not successful, since the activities were not of the sort to appeal to children of those ages...

...The Red Falcons Appear THE metnl)ership card of the German Red Falcons carries the following slogan: "WW sind Arbeiterkinder und sind stols daraiif" (We are working class children and are proud of it...

...Is it possible that President Roosevelt, when he wss Governor of New York, and bis first lieutenant...

...The CROM, coming to the defense of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, declares the statement made by Medina, as quoted above, shows complete ignorance of the true origin of the constitution of the P. A. F. Li and that it was made with the object of confusing public opinion and of serving the interests of a political group, that is, to split the CROM and ultimately destroy it by "benevolent" fascism...

...From authoritative sources it has been learned by The New Leader that the Chamber of Labor, supported by the National Revolutionary Party, is in all its actions subtly working towards the destruction of the entire Mexican labor movement...

...No need to question deeper...

...Some of those who picture the Collapse of capitalist society are earnestly showing its sores and seeking a way out...

...Whether the deposits are larger than would be normal after all banks had been closed for a week, is another matter...

...The P.A.F.L...

...To this simple soul there's one puzzle that seems insoluble...

...In the case of the railroad brotherhoods, for example, the original unions have been broken up to give way to industrial unions...

...Bold face in original...

...Its aim is to bring the youngsters nearer the Socialist and labor movements...

...This millionaires' panic left the small depositors holding the bag...

...The Socialist Sunday Schools only go up to the age of ten...

...These communist activities, it is said, were looked upon by the government with benevolent neutrality, so that the working class movement could be split and broken...

...Then comes a subhead in bold face capitals: CONSTANT AGITATION AGAINST PACIFISM...

...A representative of labor, one of capital, and one of the government sits on the Board and by the combination of the capitalist and the government delegate all labor complaints and suits originating from the CROM can thus be defeated and the unions won over to the opposition movement...

...It is known that the communist organization was later broken up and the leaders and many members exiled from Mexico after their work had been done...

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...There are now about 25 such groups with a membership between 260 and 350...

...S.L...

...Generals and bankers and industrialists were the heroes to be emulated...

...Capable leaders recruited from the Young People's Socialist League and the Socialist Party handle the groups...

...The CROM explains that the P.A.F.L...

...The cataclysm which is now engulfing the capitalist system is dished up in various forms, some vehement, some lightly mocking, for "the king's entertainment...

...In a blaze of rekindled hope —hope which has been just running around hunting for something to pin itself on to—the American people are crowning a new national hero...

...Referred to Pacifists THE following, taken from the * official Communist paper of March 10th, 1033 may be of interest to those pacifists who have a sentimental attachment to the Communist movement: Tbe tight against tbe outbreak of war and to turn imperialist war into a civil war for Socialism can only be achieved by constant activity, preparations, groundwork...

...For further information write to the Red Falcons of America, 7 East 15th Street, N. Y. C...

...He drives the money-changers from the temples of government, and generally cleans house...

...Executive Council in April...

...The so-called Chamber of Labor, led by men expelled from the Mexican Federation of Labor (CROM), has issued a statement against that body through Alfredo Peres Medina, its General Secretary, who says, "A plan of action is being elaborated which will nullify in our path all marks which may have been left of the pernicious influence of the panamericanistic leaders, who in 1918 founded the Pan-American Federation of Labor...

...A monthly paper, "The Falcon Call," is published...

...But a play that says the whole country has gone to the dogs, let us laugh...

...The President closed the banks...

...Until recently we had no Falcon movement in America...

...The Fascist movement can thus remain apparently a democratic one by the use of the political machinery...

...I have a hunch that the really big fish—tbe house of Morgan, for instance, from which all the banks and even the government takes orders—will not be fundamentally disturbed, nor its powers—which extend into every financial matter of importance—radically curbed...

...To meet the needs of youngsters of the ages to which it seeks to appeal it stresses outdoor and sport activities...

...What strikes me is the clairvoyant eye with which Shaw sees through the American people...

...To which Shaw is Mip|K>sed to have answered: "Aren't all Americans blind and deaf—and dumb," M « y b «\_^^^^^^^____ Shaw wasjji..;-"' - '-f^b^T"** just being II .'r Hkv i m i r t-J^J Ipg sleeky, andjHHB|gaHS then again j^EjjjfllWKtKk maybe heM(Wf /; j H felt it was Hf%.&K< -^fl^k not neces- MMJa^H|g:ij|Mi' s a r y toISL wUm I treat an vKj^p^ tfiafl 2 a m a 2. mK |^Hfe>^-^H pei hod like ^PHHfl...

...so with kingly indifference, with imperial unconcern, the people play while llie country burns...

...The country thrives...

...Elmer Rice's "We, The People" failed...

...Once in a while the truth pinches...

...The American Falcon movement is divided into two age groups: Red Falcons for youngsters between are ages of 11-15 and Young Falcons, for children between the ages of 8 and 11...

...This work is the continuation of the communistic activities of 1929, when they tried to create a LatinAmerican orgsnization...