Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters "THIS column mil be an intimate chat of thq editor with Nm /Leader readers and boosters. In it ujM appear comment questions, answers,...
...In the forty years since its first celebration a profound revolution has occurred in this country...
...Across the Atlantic the Powers had been sitting at a thieves' supper, but they broke up in a bloody row beginning in 1914...
...today it is a corpse...
...But the workers will wave that outrageous decree aside and proceed with their struggle against the strong on the bench and in the baking industry...
...It threatened little Latin-American nations...
...Empty Heads and Stomachs P"VKKY large city in this country has been trans *-* formed in part into a poorhouse, and New York City is a mirror in which others may observe their own image...
...A family of six lived en cast-off lah for so many months that a boy of 7 was found emaciated and the plight of the family was thus discovered...
...Are You Educated...
...The new century revealed the United States' as an imperialist power...
...From ferment to merchandise...
...It is published by the Rand School Book Store and can be had for a nickel...
...They have taken some terrible punishment in the past four years...
...The judge expects 2.600 workers to slink out of sight at the wave of his hand, a wave applauded by 400 bosses...
...Call it to the attention of young folks who are studying for a professional career...
...And now this fortieth anniversary of the first celebration of Labor Dayl The modern labor movement is at least a century old in this country...
...It is said that the NBA gives labor a voice, but that voice will not be heard unless it Is a roar...
...A Suggestion George R. Kirkpatrick, Socialist candidate for Vice-President in 1916, now an active member in California, suggests that we reprint some of fhe best New Leader propaganda material as leaflets...
...So much to the good...
...That situation is more or leas general throughout the country...
...Fred Krafft Die* Socialists will be shocked to learn of the death of Fred Krafft in the Englewood Hospital, New Jersey, early Thursday morning...
...Workers were complaining of displacement of labor by machines and eight years before made their first general demand for an eight hour day...
...It served as a collector and policeman for these bankers and capitalists...
...Build the circulation, of The New Leader ana other party papers...
...The New Leader often receives letters of inquiry which art generally personally answered...
...The natural resources, machines, mills, mines, railroads and utilities murt become the nation's, and we are the nation...
...Much of this increase is due to the transfer of many families from private relief organizations to the city rolls, so that 93 percent of the jobless are now on the municipal rolls...
...they have no assured berth In it...
...Gus Tyler has also given the movement an excellent pamphlet on the "United Front," Which is in general demand...
...What can you say of young attorneys working in law offices who are paid $10 a week while the stenographer gets $18 T That's some overturn, ian't it...
...It was an excellent work of reporting and Socialist interpretation...
...That is the rate that must be maintained if the NRA generals accomplish their declared purpose...
...We agree...
...Is there any prospect of getting 3,000,000 each month back to work...
...It cannot be cleansed but it can be abolished by class-conscious workers...
...He brought it back full of enthusiasm, saying that it should be used as a Yipsel leaflet...
...Concentration of wealth and capital proceeded at a rapid pace...
...In 1927 the game judge declared that picketing is not "a manly occupation...
...When they finish the job they have transformed you into a packnorse ready to serve an employer...
...He" is survived by four daughters and six grandchildren...
...Farmers were being robbed on a vast scale and Populism polled its largest vote in 1894...
...It seized some by force, took over their customs services, set up puppet dictators, wrote new constitutions and had them ratified behind American bayonets...
...For one thing, the Roosevelt honeymoon will come to an end...
...Small production was giving way to trust production and this is becoming mass production...
...Humor in Reading Birch Wilson of Reading, Pa., sends us a fiery Communist document distributed in that Socialist city...
...What do you bring to the business world...
...We doubt it...
...The republic was transformed into an empire...
...We understand that the Hand School Book Store is also considering a reprint of the editor's four articles on "A Tabloid Explanation of Socialism" which ap-peared in July and August...
...It turns out thst many industries cannot start without funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...Their big hope will be gone...
...October, 1929, marked the end of this belief...
...An Infamous Injunction AS The New Lender goes to prats, news comes of a startling injunction granted by Justice Selah B. Strong prohibiting picketing in the strike of the bakery workers...
...At the same time there has been a net increase of 34 percent in both private and public relief...
...Empty stomachs in the lower ranges of society and empty heads in the upper seats of power...
...In it ujM appear comment questions, answers, reminiscences, suggestions and other idea* suggested by the letters and contribution we receive...
...Incidentally, Birch is the husband of Lilith Wilson, Socialist member of the State Legislature...
...The workers fought against old aristocratic privileges...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters "THIS column mil be an intimate chat of thq editor with Nm /Leader readers and boosters...
...The workers must constitute the basic layer of a Socialist movement if the movement is to remain true to its declared aim of abolishing capitalism...
...We and oar fathers and our fathers' fathers built it.1 On this fortieth, anniversary, what ohall be bar aim...
...As for other phases of this column, they will unfold from tpeek to week...
...We favor a labor code that will make it treason for a worker to vote for any capitalist party, but we doubt whether we can get a hearing before Administrator Johnson on that issue...
...Comrade Baldridge of Kansas, a tireless party worker, asks what would be the best method of reaching business and professional men in his town...
...Next week we will run a remarkable article on this phase of the depression, written by a young attorney who recently graduated from the Yipsels...
...We think that busi-ness men are not likely to provide Socialist converts...
...During the split of 1919 Birch was State Secretary of the party in Pennsylvania and one of the most efficient any state ever had...
...That has often been done in recent years, George, and more such material will be reprinted...
...The professional main who has a special interest in science may be reached, while other professionals not so inclined are likely to accept the economic and political views of the business class...
...You enter a school as a piece of human ferment and pass through the hands of various experts...
...We hope to have more of his work and our regret is that we cannot compensate him for his...
...Millions of workers will find themselves at the end of another blind alley...
...Speaking of Yipsels Some of the very best work in the Socialist movement is being done by Yipsels, and we wish that every new party member made as earnest a study of basic Socialist principles as many of our Yipsels do...
...Slogan for American capitalism: "Destroy to prosper...
...More than a million human be in us received some form of relief and the total of city relief rose 6C percent since the first of the year...
...It.is written with a proletarian-,'/punch" that measures up to the very best Socialist writing...
...Here it seemed to millions that a "new capitalism" had become as solid as granite...
...Simply this1: WE PROPOSE TO INHABIT WHAT WE HAVE BUILT...
...excellent contribution...
...And have you thought of what you can do to make yourself more valuable to the employer you look to for ¦ atart...
...Marx wrote that capitalism came late the world dripping...
...Finally, the fine cartoon on the first page is the work of Harry Herzog, a Yipsel...
...In our issue of August 19 we were glad to give the leading position on the first page on the upstate milk strike by two Yipsels, Alton Levy and Harold Goldstein...
...We do not think that this is possible or even desirable...
...All this a by-product that has hitherto gone to waste but which can be utilized for building the Socialist Party...
...we must now conquer their last stronghold—their ownership and mastery of industry and the jobs...
...What are you worth...
...The measure making it a legal holiday became law on June 28, 1894, when President Cleveland signed it...
...Resources of thai italic organizations, become smaller while the city approaches a financial crisis...
...This is one of the most successful Labor Day issues The New Loader has published...
...with Mood and dirt from every pore...
...The American Empire was drawn into the struggle a few years later., From the first day of the peace the old order within which the labor movement had functioned was sinking in many countries except the United States...
...American bankers made increasing loans abroad and capitalists invested in overseas mines, docks, railroads and utilities...
...Meantime this stuaed sad malicious decision will be appealed to the highest courts...
...There's the Idea of "modern" education...
...Having accomplished this, every day v ill be a Labor Day and the workers will be free to control their own llfaSY" ¦ '* A number of contributions to this issue have been crowded out and will appear later...
...If they fail—and we think that they will—what will happen...
...They have no incentive to conceal the facts regarding capitalism...
...Next Winter Mill AT is going to happen if from Ave to ten " million workers remain without jobs next winter...
...Why not take over nil the industries, give the capitalist owners a permanent vacation, give all workers jobs and end the agony...
...Over $50,000,000 was spent for relief in New York City in the first six months of (his year...
...Will they take more and get solace for their wounds by affectionately gazing at the Blue Eagle...
...Without examination of a single witness, without a trial, and solely upon affidavits presented by the hessoa, Judge Strong has declared picketing a "nuisance to the public as well as to former employers...
...We shall present the gist of tht more important questions and annvers in this column so that others will also be informed...
...Throw that into the scales agaKurt capitalism and the latter will be teased into the air...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has decreed a cut of 15 percent In American wheat which will effect a reduction of 9,600,000 acres and 124,000,000 bo*h*l...
...bur brain and brawn tnd skill and genius are embodied in this material itrurture of capitalism...
...We snowed the article to Aaron Levenstein, who has piloted the New York Yipsels for a year...
...He looks you over and determines what value yoa have for Mm...
...Questions and Answers W. F. Hitler of Colorado suggests the need of" a government press, federal, state and local, to be published in competition with privately owned papers and to' which we could "with confidence go for information...
...Following the usual attacks on the Socialists the document demands "A real public park and another swimming pool," and Birch adds: "From the sublime of 1917 to the ridiculous of 1933...
...Dpn't miss this article...
...But this civilisation is not yet ours...
...We »re the builders and doers...
...It was the ruler of subject peoples and interested in a big navy...
...We recently saw a letter by a government official, written to a citizen, in which he said that the total number of jobless workers in this country is 2,000,0001 We are likely to get that sort of distorted information from politicians in office...
...Hoover's "rugged individualism" was then a fact...
...They fought for the suffrage, for the right to organize, for popular education, against compulsory military service, against imprisonment for debt, against the sweatshop, for workers' compensation and other concessions...
...Funeral, 2 p. m. Saturday...
...Ere long the value of "educated" paekhorses will be quoted on the stock exchanges...
...Winter is three months away...
...If they collide, what wiH happen...
...Millions of workers are even outcasts...
...NEXT WEEK...
...AN advertisement of New York University in part reads: "Measure yourself by an employer's standard...
...We have eaten away many ef the privileged of the ruling classes...
...We are the tenants of a handful of owners...
...He is one of the best informed men in the party and has written many of the local leaflets that helped so much to build a powerful Socialist movement in that city...
...Today we know that the "new capitalism" differs little from the old...
...The lowest estimate places the number now at 10,000,000...
...Labor Day SEPTEMBER 4th will be the fortieth annual celebration of Labor Day as a legal national holiday...
...Just as a cyclone turns everything topsy-turvy, so the depression has made ducks and drakes of the "laws" of capitalism...
...Then comes the NRA that is to set everything right when some more magic is wrought by the terms of the blanket code that makes your head swim...
...He was for several decades prominent in the German section of the Socialist movement and was one of the first victims of the infamous Espionage Act, receiving a sentence of five years in prison...
...Services Friday, 8 p. m., at Leber Funeral Parlors, 4070 Hudson Blvd., Union City...
...It is not only a gripping fact-story...
...The best that we can do is to disarm some of their worst prejudices...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 10
