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NEW LEADER FORUM 100,000.000 GUINEA PIGS By Lawrence Kogin I understand that by advice of council you left out the namea of tome of the commercial articles I discuss in my review...
...He traded the 10 cents and a haircut in return for a night's lodging...
...It haa tendrils that extend through many industries, into politics and governing bodies, and into labor organisations with labor grafters as its agents...
...There can be nothing mon contemptible than the labor official who grafta, who accept* bis thru times thirty pieces of silver from the enemy, who rackets his wit to wealth by making his office i brothel, and sel's the members of the union like a butcher selling sausage...
...All that wai lacking to make it a Fascist raid Was the use of physical force, and a number of friends of the meeting found it difficult to restrain their sense of outrage...
...23—8:46 p. m., The World Tomorrow, talk...
...In conclusion, I wish to say that on this occasion of the passing ol the outstanding representative ol Socialist reformism, we Socialist.' should recognize the tasks that history places upon us...
...Write to The Now Leader kVlthout delay...
...There has been no aereaV tary aristocracy in this country u serve as a buffer between ten masses and the exploiting classaj and to check the appetite of u* latter...
...10 p. m., Harry Cumpson, concert pianist...
...I am very much interested...
...Cleve Hobbs will have a bed for quite a while now—in jail...
...THE LAW DALLAS, Tex.—Cleve Hobbs, a barber, had no place to sleep...
...Unless there is a su...
...His sole fortune amounted to 10 cents...
...All Comrades interested can clear up this uncertainty by letting us know...
...We disagreed with Bernstein's views but believe thai the questions he raised served tc clarify the movement as a whole...
...The Rev...
...Monday, Feb...
...Where such sets are sutpected guilt should be establishei and the guilty should be expoMi and driven out...
...A league will be formed in this section soon...
...Names are mentioned, deeds are described, snd the plunder estimated...
...pears to us that ine very city when it prevails the honest rank and fib of all the unions might well get together and formulate a plan rf war...
...That this dirty social disss* should eat into the trade unioni a still more shocking...
...More than 200 workers, including quite a number of Negro tilers, came to the meeting...
...8 p. m., Contemporary American compositions, Henry Co well, pianist...
...10 p. m., National Negro Forum...
...24—4:45 p. m., S. A. DeWltt, The N%w Leader...
...Such action upon the part of the Revisionist causes oni to question, very sincerely, the intellectual honesty that The Nevi Leader attributes to Eduard Bernstein...
...Let ui not forget thst...
...It was then that the Communists, about twenty in number, began to interrupt the proceedings...
...Added to hia intellectual retrogression, what about some of Bernstein's actions in the publishing ol certain of Engel's works...
...20—4:45 p. m., Spotting the Movies, with Evelyn Koch...
...19: Sunday, Feb...
...19—11:15 a. m., Lion Feuchtwanger, "Hitler aa a Writer...
...Its sub-title is "A History of the Rackets' Red Rule...
...Have you had your "mental and moral pathology" examined...
...8:15 p. m, Henry Cowell, Contemporary European Music...
...The law in its majesty did not care whether or not he had to sleep on the ground...
...Lynch considers the rise of this thing as the appearance of a new aristocracy...
...at 8 p. m., on subject...
...Friday, Feb...
...some sympathy in the neighborhood hut their performance turned many in the audience against them...
...To clear BP this uncertainty it will be necessary to know to win t extent there is a demand for this pamphlet...
...the social revolution...
...Marxism as a methodology provides for its self-criticism...
...10 p. m., Symposium, "The World We Live In," talks by Gilbert Seldes and others...
...8:30 p. m., Tho Group Theatre, sketch...
...Saturday, Feb...
...The Communists have been active in this section and had wot...
...One after the other took the Bern or mounted chairs on the platform foiling questions or making speeches, and the bedlam continued for a half hour...
...Comrade Koeppicus presided and the speakers were Bruno Fischer, James Oneal, Henry Rosner and Noah C. Walter...
...The speakers confined their speeches to the main object of the meeting and received a generous reception...
...IUK SPEAKERS' MANUAL By August Clsosseno Tho instalhnonts of my new booklet "A Manual for Socialist Speakers" printed in The...
...tho class struggle...
...In ordei to be able to realize our revolutionary goal, we must ateel our selves to the job of repudiating all desertions from true Marxism Let us dedicate ourselves to i clear-cut adoption of the Marxiai class-struggle analysis and all th< logical implications involved...
...cient demand to warrant the expense'any publisher will hesitate...
...BDUARD BERNSTEIN By Irving Brown The occasion of Bernstein's desth has caused mo many misgivings about the adherence of Tho New Leader to a true Marxian Socialist position...
...Thursday, Feb...
...16—7:45 p. m., Richard Rohman, Theatre Guide...
...This aristocracy hss its own code of conduct and its members live dangerously...
...Such Socialism is the kind of petty-bourgeois near-sighted utopianiam thst Man attacked so logically and correctlj in the Manifesto...
...In place of these profound and energising Marxian concepts he attempted to substitute a liberal-reformist movement that concentrated upon minute aoeial wfrWI without a decisive .octal f^^lou...
...And yet, it was fiemstein who headed the tdeoogical movement that challenged the basic concepts of Socialismhistorical materialism...
...Features on Station WEVD, week beginning Saturday, Feb...
...In recent weeks they also turned up at meetings of the unemployed on Washington Heights and other sections of the city and acted the same way...
...Quite a number of letters come to me personalty asking whether this manual will ia printed in pamphlet form...
...It will include also two blue print sketches of street corner platforms that comrades in any part of the country can have built...
...These were approved by the audience and the next thing was the organization of the league...
...The leading authority on this theme is s special study published under the editorship of Carter O. Woodson of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Washington, D. C, entitled, 'Free Negro Owners M Slaves in tho United States la 1880...
...10:15 p. m., Dr...
...COMMUNISTS SEEK TO DISTURB JAMAICA MEmNC OF JOBLESS TTHE meeting in Public School No...
...Its law is the law of terrorism—the law of the club, the torch, the Bomb and the machine gun...
...On the other hand, we should welcome, not discourage, a re-examination and criticism oi fundamentals...
...8:15 p. m., Oswald Garrison Villa rd, The Nation program...
...New J/ert: MmtmHUn...
...8:15 p. m., Hendrik Willem van Loon course in History...
...Anyone interested in the names of Ihe articlea there discuased, as well is many others, can get them by ceding the book...
...Dictatorship in t merle* t* BOOKS IN BRIEF A Racketeering Aristocracy By James Oneal CRIMINALS AND POLITICIANS...
...What we lack la fitness to live...
...Especially, what about the mangling of Engels' introduction to one ol Marx's pamphlets which resulted in a distortion of the former's ideas concerning revolutionary social change...
...The only dl.-culty involved in the publication of this pamphlet is the hazard of printing in these times...
...Now Leader tho last several weeks are now coming to an end...
...NEGRO OWNERS OF SLAVES A few weeks ago you mentioned Negro slave-owners in the South prior to the Civil War...
...Wednesday, Feb...
...Here it is: "I toll you that, strange as it seems, we simply aren't interested yet la getting well...
...Here is a vivid story of rackets and graft and murder running through politics, industry and trade unions that is literally appalling...
...I And that yon do not mentionnot In one word—the' basic revilionUm thst Bernstein attempted in his works—especially after the death of F. Enges...
...WEVD (MMEc...
...Thus we shall fight for Social Revolution in the spirit of Marx, and not for Social Reformism in the spirit of Eduard Bernstein 1 Our comrade is mistaken ir saying that the story he mentions carried no word regarding Bernstein's revisionism...
...5 p. m., American Birth Control League...
...Paul Scherer revealed this secret hut Sunday, made it as clear as crysUl...
...The Communists were determined that no league tiiould be organized r.nd continued their actions to the end, yet despite all this about a hundred names and addresses were obtained from the audience...
...But it did concern itself with the fact that he operated without a license...
...By Dili* Tilde* Lynch...
...10:30 p. m., The Author Reviews His Book...
...It isn't a question of economics...
...The entire fourth paragraph was devoted tc ihe controversy...
...THIS book is a reprint of a series •of articles in the New York Herald Tribune...
...If the underworld criminal rises to eminence and power sat camps on the doorstep of eanitaust enterprise, ear bourgeois kings base fas their greed, graft aaa swindle* for decade* set the example...
...labor theory of value and surplus value...
...Some day the history of the evolution of this revolting social cancer will be written and when it is finished it will be found that one of its most important origins lies in the swine code of our ruling groups...
...The chairman then read the list of relief measures as a program for the league to be organized...
...Lorine Pruetto, "Family Relationships...
...I take this opportunity to answer this inquiry to the many more fomrades who may be interested, here are a number of publishing organisations that would like to print this pamphlet If they do, it Will run about 82 pages and could retail tor 15 cents or, at the most, ?5 cts...
...I looked up some books on slavery in the United States, but have failed to find any reference to the facts stated by you...
...1 p. m., Bakers' Union, I talk and musical program...
...How fsr it hu spread We do not know, but it as...
...it's a question of mental and moral pathology...
...8:30 p. m., Workmen's Circle String Orchestra...
...Features of the Week on (111 as...
...5:45 p. m., The Woman Looks at Politics...
...If it isn't too much trouble, will you kindly inform me as to the sources containing material en this matter...
...It is this human nature of ours that is In a Jam, the thing wo used to think so well of, and wo wondered how the theologians ever arrived at the doctrine of total depravity...
...If not, get a diagnosis and yon will find that the depression is located in that pathology...
...It apparently Is based upon an extensive investigation by the author in many cities and he estimates that tho cost of this foul thing is between 12 snd 18 billion dollars a year...
...Its leaders, in the main, are the spawn of the brothels, the gambling dens and the corrupt political machines of the big cities, and the prisons...
...NEW LEADER FORUM 100,000.000 GUINEA PIGS By Lawrence Kogin I understand that by advice of council you left out the namea of tome of the commercial articles I discuss in my review 100,000,000 Guinea Pica, by Kallet and Schlmk...
...An<rtetepltof.ltwM ¦Wet* who started to vaporise about Socialism as a movement and not aa a goal...
...The racketeer is merely » crude imitator of the gentleae* who grabbed land and rich a> sources of other days and had he looting legalized by law-maUaj bodies...
...8:45 p. m., Jess I'erlman, "Interviews with a Psychologist* VALENTI IN BOSTON DOSTON.—Girolamo Valenti, ¦f editor of "La Stamp* Libera," Italian anti-Fascist dally and noted Socialist lecturer, will speak it the Old South Meeting House, Friday, February 24...
...We are like the patient who feels piqued when the great specialist tolls him that all he needs is exercise, with plenty of fresh air and sunshine...
...Such an opinion Li generated as a result of your puzzling complimentary and eulogistic article upon Eduard Bernstein on the •cession of hia passing...
...10:16 p. m., University of the Air Philosophy Course...
...21—10 p. m., The Compinsky Trio...
...The economic crisis is not economic...
...22—4:45 p. in., John Taylor Boyd, Jr., "Planning Communities in Crowded Cities...
...Herman Roth, New York City...
...Tuesday, Feb...
...40 at 109th Avenue and 161st Street, Jamaica, Tuesday night to organize the unemployed was broken up by Communists...
...AH, YES...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 7