Wild Terror Re'gns in Germany As the Fake Election is Held
Wild Terror Re'gns in Germany As the Fake Election is Held Reichstag Building Burned by Nazis in Drive to Stampede the Maeeee—A Long, Sid Time Ahead. Lettir written Sunday, March 5, Election...
...for a whis paper...
...The people of these states do not welcome the idea of a Prussian Evangelical and Nationalist dictatorship, and it remains to be seen whet her Hitler can bring them to heel...
...You make me mad," said Joe...
...Thus, the new deal was on...
...I guess you're right there," ssid Joe...
...The immediate result of the fire was the suspension of the whole Socialist and Communist press, and the wholesale arrest of working class leaders...
...Mot at you," said Joe, "but at those avaricious robbers...
...Can anyone be i.» i',upie_ Bruitels so innocent to believe the election, held under such conditions, can reflect the true sentiment of the country...
...I wouldn't swap a copy of the />«i/j Sews tor all your Marxian lectures," said Joe...
...The class struggle will not down, and cannot be ended by a fraudulent election...
...and to the day of his death that blazing spirit of devotion never left him, and from that day to this the inspiration of the man has remained with me...
...Well, for the love of Mike...
...When Hitler has made some blunder and a reaction has set in against him, then a general strike might be put through...
...it may be the outbreak of a foreign war...
...There is no room to doubt that the burning of the Reichstag building was a provocative act pure and simple...
...He promised to eat breakfast for Pathe Newareel, and lunch for Hearst, but he refused to take a bath for Paramount...
...A Moment of Reaction At this moment of reaction, when millions are beir.g swept off their feet by Hitler's demagogic brays, the moment for such action seems a long way off...
...We'll not get out <m &e boat by reading tabloids and neither of us alone can get out...
...in the afternoon," said Bill as he picked up Marx's Capital "Better come along...
...Just like the old Yankee dying of fever," said Bill...
...perhaps I'm too raw but, honest, you'd try the patience of a saint," said Bill, keeping the table between himself and his pal...
...ssked Joe...
...WITH force and fraud the Hitler party is fastening a dictatorship on Germany...
...Does the passage you quote exaggerate in the slightest degree what has come to not only the working class but millions in the professional and lower middle classes...
...That's why I would have you swap it for Marx's Capital...
...But, Joe, think of that Marxian judgment in relation to the conditions of the working class now...
...It seems likely that the dictatorship will be clamped down (Irmly tonight at least in Prussia, and that it l-« Peuple, Brussels it will last a long and weary time...
...Sure I am," Bill replied, "and that's why you got my nannygoat...
...It was more than these simple things...
...His close friend, Algernon Lee, confesses that the wound left by his untimely death has never healed...
...I also thought that the passage was an exaggeration and I was spuzzled considering that Marx urged the working class to organize and expected us to raise our standards of living...
...That passage In Marx is an understatement...
...He called a holiday and instructed the bankers not to steal anything during the holiday...
...You're dying of depression fever and prefer a poodle to____" Joe squared himself for an assault and Bill retreated with the volume of Marx in his hand...
...The fever is tsking a bad turn," said Bill...
...I can never forget the first time I set eyes upon him...
...It was not precisely the party offices he had occupied, for other men served well as National Secretary after him...
...The combined strength of Socialists and Communists is probably about 40 per cent of the population...
...They robbed not only those who had something but those who had little...
...Shake," said Joe, as he tossed the tabloid Into the waste basket...
...It is worth a dollar a bottle,' said his friend, and the dying man opened his eyes, raised himself an inch, and blurted out, 'A dollar a bottle...
...For Will Mailly was a soul and a spirit, and hi* inspiration lives on...
...it may be a hunger revolt of the famished masses...
...What's tbe use...
...Joe Is Ready to Fight...
...I'll mate you eat that book," said Joe menacingly...
...and even though deprived of their political rights, they must be reckoned with on the industrial field...
...Sure, the old Yank deserved to die...
...said Bill as they passed out of the store...
...a • • He found 'too much red In the books and not enough in the banks...
...Another danger for the Hitler government lies in the southern (and largely Catholic) states— Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg and Baden...
...He slao 1 well with t't V Andy a now if they1 Then hi N telling how i allow war« the same cli bankers snd note was *> enced even ¦ Thus fir,' to be tht ein Mut...
...The opinion of Vandervelde, as expressed in a fine speech five days ego, is that the German workers will now have to free themselves by recourse to a revolutionary general Strike...
...but at present it would look like suicide...
...The whole thing is a farce...
...You know, the Yankees were famous for swapping, and I think some of them were swapping until they approached the edge »f hell and plunged in...
...Cut it, Joe...
...Hi A.R.U...
...Mailly wi simpler," u Just a Few I pHEERS (on a limited with drawal basis) for President Roosevelt...
...They have robbed the aged and the sick, the blind and the cripple, the baby in the cradle and the child at school...
...Will Mailly was only 40 when he died, but he had made a place for himself in the Socialist movement that could not be filled when he passed...
...Marx Puzzles Joe "DUT I was looking over that same book before you came ™ in," said Joe, "and I read a passage that got my nannygoat...
...Freedom of the mails has been abolished, together with "a lot of other democratic rubbish...
...While the missus was doing her knitting in the House, Frank stayed home and knitted his brow over a ledger...
...soil honorary § Until 1U most scan younger * delegate tt inspiring q and consMl He had left had lived u movement i went to Ni Haverhill, 111 Social Don Socialist p make itself ship then l| elected Jok sent Jim 0 and started America a Mailly edit* And then Mailly...
...But what will happen tomorrow...
...We'll get out together or stay where we are...
...The capitalist class and the banking class, through the economic laws of capitalism, have effected the greatest robber raid in the history of mankind...
...there should be a Socialist majority, or even a large increase since the last election, the ballots will be torn tip by hundreds of thousands, and Hitler ballots substituted for them...
...Besides the Left unions, consisting of Socialist and Communist workers, there are also the Catholic Centre unions, and if Hitler pursues his policy of persecution against the Cttholics, these unions may have to be reckoned in as a powerful anti-Hitler factor...
...It may be a split between the capitalists and the working-class "radicals" in Hitler's own party...
...13 ] WILLIAM MAILLY dead these twenty vears at d more is still a living personality to those who knew him, worked with him and loved him...
...There is even talk of expelling all foreign correspondents from Germany who do not write favorably of the Hitler government...
...The Socialists will have to be patient for a time until, the big chance comes...
...It was not what he said but the inspired manner, the holy joy with which he greeted that minor triumph of his cause that burned itself into my sonsciousness...
...The Yankee Swapper "T1IK old guy had a medicine which he was required to take * four times a day," said...
...There was something supremely manly about the man that endeared him to his close associates and to his younger comrades who had th...
...In every case the broadcast is followed by an avalanche of requests from listeners-ln for sample copies of The New Leader, information subscription rates...
...The Socialists are not allowed to put up an election poster...
...Your Daily News keeps not only you in a depression fever but myself and others as well...
...Now the New York Times can begin reprinting those cheering editorials that accompanied the breakfast bran in the early days of '29...
...I get tired of these long-winded oraton who prate about Marx...
...The New Leader period Is rapidly becoming one of the most attractive features of the Debs Memorial Radio station, with short talks every week by members of the staff...
...honor of being associated with him...
...The comrades were receiving election returns in the old Labor Ly uni at 64 East 4th Street, New York, and Mailly was pointed out to me as one of the men at the table at the head of the room, a big, handsome, manly fellow...
...Hitler had already announced that no matter what the result of the elections, he and his National Socialist movement will remain in power, if necessary by the use of force against the majority...
...I know what's happened to the workers in my trade," said Joe with a grimace...
...If you had digested it you would have swapped your tabloid dreadful for something worth while," said Bill, who kept at a safe distance...
...The attractive programs of the station are printed upon another page of each week's issue...
...We can hope and pray that whenever that moment comes, the working people will stand together is one man- and tell Hitler's Friends in the Kremlin that they tan mind their own business...
...By nest election, however, the new deal may bo complete...
...Bill exclaimed...
...or it may be some other entirely unpredictable event...
...The lire gave him the opportunity to use violent r e p r ession, to start a terror against all opposition parties, i n c I u ding the Catholic Centre Party, and to take the whole election machin- Are you going ery into his own }>""""f1 Z 1 \o, I ant only gohands lug to vote...
...SociaH __No...
...a true son of the working class, a man of superb ability who devoted all that ability to fa burgh Nen taken st tk land, snd Glasgow | was 11 | year he wt tlon hand, the coala he went U in the coil i where he i as mine...
...Let's go to the Marx Memorial meeting Sunday and first learn what to do before we talk of being ready...
...A messenger boy entered and handed him a telegram...
...Jot Tries to Assault Bill to Avenge an intuk, but Calm Follows Ami They Will Be at Marx Meeting "| SEE that you guys have a Marx celebration on Sunday,' ¦ said Joe as he met Bill in the Rand School Book Ston looking over a collection of Man's writings...
...Extra...
...It conveys no ides of what really has happened...
...There is little doubt that the * slow conquests of a century by the working class have disappeared within a few years and millions of us do not oven have the rough grub and substantial clothing that workers had when they first began to organize to fight capitalistic exploitation...
...He leaped to his feet and read: "Carey and MacCartney re-elected by increased majorities," and then he led the crowd in wild cheering for that Massachusetts victory...
...the bid Washington beer can tt House fori so many T>t If they'll I and put os a be necessary' everybody ** And Mt.h stitnte the I system fer...
...I'm ready...
...That we have done," Bill continued, "and we have improved our conditions...
...Here's your Marx writing of the decreasing number of big capitalists who control production and distribution, which is true enough...
...William Mailly wa...
...Does Little Rosebud's Lovers and Forlorn Fanny still charm mama's boy...
...What-dyu mean about the Yankee dying of fever...
...Bill...
...Lettir written Sunday, March 5, Election Day...
...Yes, and to the farmers throughout the country," Bill added...
...I have three bottles of it and I'll swap the whole lot for your black terrier.'" "And what's that got to do with me...
...for Will Mailly, like Debs and like Berger and a few others of the rare souls that have served our cause, was an illustration of the curious mathematical truth that often the whole is far greater than the sum of its parts...
...Joe asked...
...All right, but don't do it again," said Joe calming down...
...By a vote of 88-0, the Indiana House of Representatives has approved the Black-Eshelman AntiInjunction and Yellow Dog Contract Bill...
...it may be the secession of the Catholic South...
...Joseph T. Shipley, Dramatic editor and noted poet, novelist and lecturer, was the speaker March 17th, and the previous week Benjamin Blumenberg spoke...
...Stocks are up, beer is brewing, and the depression is out...
...He tore it open, and his face lighted as I have rarely seen a human face illumined...
...Yes, we expect to have a fine celebration in tbe Town Hal...
...The measure forbids the issuance of injunctions in any labor dispute unless it Is shown In open court that there is danger to Ufa or property...
...THAT'S it," Bill replied...
...Do not be misled by contrary views expressed in the capitalist press...
...it was not his writings, for brilliant as they were our movement had developed splendid writers before him and has developed many sinct...
...Let's start something...
...In thinking of the century of improvement I forgot the four years of wholesale deflation and robbery...
...but he also wrote that with this transformation 'grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation.' Anybody knows that in the last hundred years conditions of the working class have improved...
...The Dutch Communist with only a pair of pants on, and his party membership card in his pocket, and his seven or eight accomplices who helped him plant piles of fuel in the cellars and corridors were all paid agents of the Hitler party...
...lie said he didn't mean maybe, and he gave reporter* permi**ion to flick ashe* on the rug...
...Feigenbaum to Speak on WEVD for New Leader WILLIAM M. FEIGENBAUM, of The New Leader staff will be the speaker over Station WEVD (1300 KC) Friday, March 24th, at 4.45, during the regular New Leader 15-Minute period...
...I may have the depression fever but you're in the same boat...
...A friend pronounced, it excellent, claiming it had cured his grandmother...
...But it is still impossible to say when the moment will come that such a strike cart be risked...
...Joe leaped at Bill, who dodged behind a table, laughing...
...Election Day On this election day we know already that the election will settle nothing snd prove nothing...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
