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Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers V Boosters By The Editor NEXT WEEK! The interest in the NKA has brought the old issue of what is "practical" in the Socialist movement. It isn't u...
...The National Edition will be what its name implies, a paper that reflects the Socialist movement throughout the country...
...Winter is approaching and the NRA generals become nervous...
...How Soon Recovery...
...Socialists Knocked Out...
...The author has a compelling style, he does some keen economic probing, makes some admissions regarding capitalism that are surprising for a conservative, combines a curious fatalism and pessimism with a hint of "foreordination" in economic evolution, ond finally takes refuge in some future arbitrary regime to preserve a system which he admits is afflicted with an organic disease...
...Get a Blue Eagle for your heart...
...Malthus held that the population tends to increase beyond the means of subsistence, not in excess of "unsaleable foodstuffs...
...Two Bags Down," reads a headline reporting a balloon race...
...We add that until this revolution is accomplished industrial crisis will not be abolished...
...DKLIEVE the St...
...Figure out for yourself when capitalism will get on its feet...
...This would mean recovery, at best, as of January, 1932...
...Much knowledge of the economics of capitalism is combined with anxiety as to its future in this, book...
...The "Times" is warring ngninst the labor section of the NRA...
...It admits "confusion within NRA" which is "shamefully bad...
...Say It With Subs...
...N.tlonol Edition........»"•"• 1 Year to Foreign Countries.....* 1 Year to Canada...............»2 Entered as Second Class Matter, Jsn»«ry 19...
...The trade unionist, the party member, the Yipsel, the interested outsider, young and old, men and women, students and workers in shop and office, housewives, professionals—there is something for everyone who wishes to learn...
...Adolf, I don't like your program," says a German...
...SUBSCRIPTION RATES: 1 Year, New York City Edition...
...At least a dozen New York braml.es ordered extras too late to be accommodated...
...We must have, in tho end, either an irresponsible proletarian oespotism with the absolute right (and power) to enforce labor, or an irresponsible military despotism cloaked in democratic forms and slowly dying of dry rot at its core," he writes...
...An Important Document Our readers will find in this issue the complete text of the resolution adopted by the Congress of the Labor and Socialist International on Fascism, dictatorship, democracy and war...
...Social unrest is likely to increase and "recovery plans have been oversold to the public through government propaganda...
...We want more short articles of this kind...
...The I'.-l...
...12.00 1 Yt...
...That will he the case till Socialism falls heir to it and the New Day will be succeeded by the New Age...
...Depression Pessimism By James Oneal THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND BEYOND...
...The idea is a popular party propaganda paper containing the best education...
...These sons of Jimmie Higgins are Everett L. O'Connoi, Nat Teitelr.ian and Paul Shapiro...
...No answer...
...PHIS book by a conservative * writer considers the depression disease in its historical setting since the first depression in 1919 and it is his opinion that depressions are as "natural" as the "return to earth of water from a playing fountain...
...Inflation is dangerous, prices are likely to rise higher than purchasing power and the Blue Eagle may turn into a flop...
...German hobbles out on crutches the following wtek and protests that the press is muzzled by the Nazis...
...German returns next day...
...Education is not the whole of Socialist activity, but it is an essential part, and the education which the Rand School gives is the sort that leads to intelligent Socialist action...
...Hitch-Hike Boosters Three California Yipsels who attended the Reading convention and also visited in New York City will hitch-hike to California, h-lding meetings enroute and taking subs for The New Leader...
...A long editorial tells the sad story of Roosevelt taking over one demand after another from Socialist manifestos, but the list is not imposing when read...
...1924, at the Post 0»(lc<- nt New York, nnder act of March 3, 1H7...
...Hitler says that his Brown Shirts will rule Germany for all time...
...By Lloyd M. Graves...
...You are not paid for it, so it is unpaid labor...
...A recent bulletin shows that symptoms of the headache have appeared...
...That is, workers produce more surplus for employers in this holy city of the open shop than elsewhere in this country...
...Now it's a Brooklyn preacher who wonders what I workers will do with leisure hours...
...Graves is a pessimist...
...Adolf knocks out the remaining teeth...
...We could read these sermons as a substitute for vaudeville, couldn't we...
...Cei many is a picture of calm on the part of the vast majority of the people...
...A "United" Germany III 11 Kl< has united Germany," says a returned traveller...
...After it dies of dry rot, what then...
...Has it...
...Sol Levitas, manager, has his hands full in answering inquiries and general correspondence...
...9-10 of this issue...
...All together, say it with subs...
...B. Hoffman who will consider the philosophy of the practical in an article on the NRA next week...
...Adolf knocks out two teeth...
...Reduced to simple Ian " guage it means that as a worker you produce values, a surplus of which goes to the corporation you work for...
...But it adds that in the city of the angels the "average annual per-worker value added to the coat of raw materials U the highest in the country— $4,564 as against $4,410 for New York, next highest, $4,394 for San Francisco, $3,844 for Chicago, and so on...
...The S.P...
...And this despite the fact that 2.000 copies in excess of new subs and bundle orders were printed...
...the food ;upi.ly would be first demonstrated in a time of great surplus of unsaleable foodstuffs...
...Suppose by December the recovery on this basis is 100 per cent...
...But if foodstuffs are unsaleable that means not a surplus population in the Malthusian sense but surplus goods in excess of buying power...
...It is now claimed that five billion dollars in purchasing power has been recovered which has lifted sales 17 per cent...
...We will turn to the P.-D...
...New York: The Brookmire Economic Service, Inc...
...One can only imagine the hideous life led by millions of workers who held one of these low-paid jobs...
...Turn to Napoleon, Bill llohcn zollerh, Nicholas, John C. Calhoun and Al Cnpone for light on this prophecy...
...One of the main reasons for the National Edition is the objection often made against too much New York matter in The New Leader...
...The Malthus view of overpopulation is casually considered and he declares that Malthus did not anticipate that "the tendency of population to outrur...
...Have you come across that idiot who URed to say that Socialism would produce a race of idle men...
...In dentistry, medicine, mechanical and electrical engineering and other professions similar conditions exist...
...Contributors are requested not to write on both sides of the paper nod not lo use lead pencil or reil '"'<¦ Manuscripts thai cannot be used will not lie returned unless return post: I'e Is enclosed...
...The New Deal has made the "comrades' heads reel...
...iimany is united as one man," says Adolf at Nuremburg...
...Nor is the school's service confined to this city...
...We have altered our plans for this issue to make room for this document and The New Leader is the first English weekly to carry it in this country...
...There is no difference of opinion in a cemetery...
...The Rand School TPIIK Rand School is to be congratulated on the rich program of lectures and study courses which it announces for the coming school season, beginning Monday evening, September II, and the comrades and working people in and near New York are surely to be congratulated on the educational opportunities which it offers...
...That is to say, the administration has turned to social control of private capitalism, but the latter is a monstrous thing difficult to control...
...Signed contributions iln not necessarily represent Hie polity of The New Leader...
...editorial by the end of the year to note a terrible headache in Washington while we will continue to grin...
...Pittsburgh heaJed the list with 500, Chicago branches came second with .'125, and Detroit third with 200...
...Our National Edition * From three states, Arkansas, New Mexico and Ohio we arc asked, Will the National Edition give less attention to New York news...
...Adolf, I object to the Nazi Party...
...What is his answer to the problem ? If capitalism produces unsaleable commodities and labor is exploited by functiorless owners, our conclusion would be to work for a democratic collectivism, but Mr...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace says that changed social machinery will fail unless our hearts are also altered...
...Capitalism produces commodities that are unsaleable, not things that cannot be used...
...It was this low tempo of buying power that had brought the whole industrial system almost to a standstill last March...
...The extra one is for Key Men who get ten subs...
...Oh jcan...
...On the contrary, we are grinning at the politicians of capitalism who have had to ditch a huge cargo of party bunk and turn to a policy of social control...
...Articles Wanted The article by a young lawyer on what the depression has done to his profession which we announced last week will be found on pages...
...The New Leader office is a hive of activity since the announcement of the National Edition...
...But this is a 17 per cent gain over 1932 and that was a year of steady descent into the ditch...
...admits that our demand for "public ownership of mines, forests, oil and power resources, public utilities and all other industries" has not been met...
...Reminds us of the affectionate exchanges between politicians in this country when the campaign is over...
...A half page is devoted to the dreadful disaster that has come to us...
...Storm Troops take German to a Brown House, a hunk of bleeding pulp is found in the street next morning...
...Louis "Port-Dispatch" and the Socialist I'arty has been displaced by the legislative program of President Roosevelt...
...THE NEW LEADER, n Socialist Party publication, supports ttie MriiKKb'i of the organized working class...
...Heavenly Los Angeles ll/'l AT is surplus value...
...A dozen Brown Shirts roll him in the mud and break a few ribs...
...Outwardly there is "ballyhoo, whoopee, anything to make front pages...
...Two politicians in Ecuador exchanged three shots in a dual without hitting each other and then embraced...
...Our answer is, Yes...
...Socialists will be glad to have it for study...
...Have a heart," comes a roar from the seats of the mighty...
...Several thousand letters have gone out to party workers and friends in the past ten days, one to party locals and branches and the other to a special list of names...
...Relatives bury the German...
...On Ihe other hand It Welcomes R variety of opinions ronslstrht with Its declared purpose...
...sideration by the NRA revealed is the frightfully low wageH paid in many industries...
...It claims that wnges in the open shop paradise of Los Angeles are higher than in any other city...
...Our Labor Day Edition The New L'adet established a record with its Lal>or Day number, That issue was sold out the day after it came from the press...
...The Key Men in the sub drive receive a book of sub blanks and receipts, eleven in all...
...This has attracted the attention of Dr...
...is cartooned as a soapboxer isolated on a tree stump, the plank on which he has been standing removed...
...Over twelve millions of workers had no buying power whatever and the purchasing power of the remainder had heavily declined...
...He's a cool philosopher and doesn't talk over our heads...
...Graves believes that we face an organic breakdown of modern society, not an ordinary cyclical depression...
...It isn't u "burning" issue but it has emerged in some personal discussions...
...Let us hear from those who knuw what is haipening in their line...
...That regime will die of dry...
...Correspondence classes for the new season are already being organized in different parts of the country, and extension courses are being planned for places within a practicable radius...
...Borne other immediate demands have been enacted into law, not as we would have drafted them, however, and these measures have knocked us into the gutter, according to the I'.-I...
...In every presidential election at least one comes down...
...His surplus of fodder may be reduced as a penalty for carelessness...
...But even that policy leaves the capitalist class masters of the industries and the workers dependent upon the ruling class for jobs...
...f\NE thing that the codes submitted for eon...
...The capitalist owners of industry have demonstrated that they cannot control it, the government must, therefore, "supply the control," but in supplying it new problems and puzzles develop in the codes and in the whole capitalist economy which increases the headache...
...Adolf, you aren't making new jobs and 1 want one...
...Here a fatalistic view intrudes but it is also accompanied by a curious theological attitude when he speaks of the "appointed destiny" of social epochs and a "foreordained denouement" in the return of each crisis...
...Instead of heart specialists, Why not competent Socialist specialists with a mandate to reorganize the whole capitalist system...
...That is bunk...
...Nervous NRA rVJOW we will turn to a confidential service for business men provided by a Washington agency...
...He admits that "Management has long been divorced from ownership in the large-scale corporate enterprises which dominate the economic order" and that capitalism "is founded, it seems useless to deny, upon the exploitation of labor...
...The editor who wrote that for his boss should be more careful...
...material in the New York edition, eliminating most of the New York items and reporting the activities in all the states...
...A California comrade sends us an editorial from the Los Angeles "Times," stating that it is n striking confirmation "of the doctrine of surplus value...
...We'd like to get a photo of that bird...
...rot and what will come after it we do not know...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 11
