TIMELY TCLPICS

...How the Nazis Reduce Unemployment New evidence comes from week to week showing how false is the claim that the Nazi regime is reducing unemployment in Germany...

...part of the drive in New York City...

...Armed Non-intervention in Cuba 1 1 / E haven't yet intervened in Cuba but we have ™ made an alarming display of naval force which embitters our relations with Cuba...

...TPHERE is magnificant courage and energy about * many of the organizing campaigns which 1 have seen or of which I have heard in the United States...

...We have not actually i n t e r v ened in Cuba...

...The fact is that the editor called in the editorial committee, two of whom are very intimate friends of Comrade Thomas, and it was unani-j mously agreed that, as the furriers' dispute was in the hands of a party committee, further discussion in The New Leader should be suspended...

...Altman was held in $1,000 bail and the others in $500 each, but the next day Altman was found guilty of 'he first charge, and sentence was suspended, while Miss Pushkoff and Schneider were discharged on the charge of disorderly I conduct...

...New York State, which may be taken as typical of industrial states, showed an increase in employment of almost 7 per cent and in wage rolls of a slightly greater amount...

...A taxi-driver said, "If they do that again there'll be trouble...

...It has to realize that in our complicated modern society a town meeting democracy is out of date and that administrative decisions have to be left to administrators in a country or in a party...

...In Hamburg, for example, a recent decree simply struck off the names of all known Social Democrats and Communist's, and similar men»ures have been taken in other places...

...I That's why it Is so important for Socialists tc i study the German situation and to reflect on the - reasons for the slow progress of Socialism in Eng• land despite the real strength of the British Laboi Party A Personal Statement ComraaeThomas is entitled to his opinion expressed in the first paragraph of his column but as it involves myself I cannot agree with his statement that in the matter of the furriers' dispute...

...UNIFORMED NAZIS PARADE IN NEW YORK The time to stop it is now, be...

...Even if a general strike in coal is averted by a comparative victory for the workers—a thing of which there is no assurance as I write—I can imagine no Code which will restore that industry to health and still leave private owners in receipt of profits from it...

...What it is cutting down is the number of persons listed to receive unemployment relief, which i» quite n different thing...

...Codes and "Partnership0 PRESIDENT GREEN and his associates on the A. F. of L. Executive Council are a thousand times right in insisting that the Codes are unsatisfactory in the length of hours they allow and the minimum wage they set up...

...There is, I suppose, no use crying over spilt milk and mourning as well we might over the fact that American labor had no central machinery of organization and action ready for this emergency...

...Certainly there is use in insisting that the immediately important issue is to get going unions on an industrial basis...

...It is understood, of course, that while we are bound together by our common loyalty to a common cause, the editors do not assume responsibility in detail for what appears in my column, nor I for what appears in the rest of the paper...

...Mayor Daniel Hoan is chairman, Morris Hillquit treasurer...

...It is simply to insist that the democ\ racy which Socialism supports must not be mechan| ical and must not be blind to the realities undo , which the mob is today cajoled and intimidated...

...The whole business was subject to all sorts of misinterpretations...

...The army has entirely too much power in the current revolution...

...At last there has been a clear ruling by a responsible government authority that workers under NRA have a right to choose their own representatives in collective bargaining and that those representatives do not have to be fellow employees...

...Moreover, it cannot be too strongly insisted that more than mere non-intervention with military force in Cuba is required if we are to do belated justice to an island which American interests have owned and exploited...

...They marched as their brethren march in enslaved Germany...

...Recent declarations by President Green and recent actions by A. F. of L. unions, and some as yet unattached to it, show a heartening vigor and intelligence on the part of labor...

...We cannot expect light all at once...

...This implies hasty and inconsiderate action...

...Norman Thomas and many other comrades have volunteered to act as character witnesses and to testify on the meaning of the Red Flag...

...We shall not help that by a further dose of the same intcrventive medicine which has been responsible for so many of Cuba's ills...

...By Norman Thomas TIMELY TCLPICS COME weeks ago 1 withdrew from The New Leader the column which I send out to a number of Socialist and labor papers for their use because of an editorial note summarily closing discussion on the situation in the Furriers' Union which seemed to me of great importance to the party and to the Socialist cause...

...As the marchers passed the new World War Memorial Grove a ' number of veterans rushed the Socialists and attempted to seize the flag...

...In the excitement Altman was arrested, and later his three comrades were also taken into custody, charged with parading without a permit and with displaying the Red Flag...

...The League Against Fascism was organized by the Socialist Party and has the support of a large committee of trade unionists and progressives...

...The Williamsburgh branch has taken 60 collection cans...

...Likewise, it is reported that sales in stores are well up...

...There is some use of repairing that situation for the future...

...Communists as well as Social Democrats failed in Germany, and Communism has plenty,, of dictatorship...

...democracy...

...The Secretary should not have gone at all...

...The Administration is going slowly and is consulting other Latin American nations...

...These things democracy can have now only as it adopts a Socialist direction...

...Nor did the printing of Comrade Thomas' letter last week give first proof of The New Leader's J "desire to permit discussion of im portant issues...

...Young Socialists are taking an active part and will carry the collection cars ! through the Loop in Chicago and through the busy thoroughfares of ' New York City...

...It is not encouraging because the conference of the International was not encouraging and the present state of the international m , o v e m e n t > s n ° t encouraging...

...The files of The New Leader show that since its' origin it has always permitted dis-' cussion of important issues and r.o 1 other party paper has printed as...

...Now for the goal of 100,000 readers for The New Lender," writes Martin B. Heisler of Alden, N. Y., as he starts the hunt for new subscribers...

...This is not to reject the principle oi majority rule...

...fore the outrage gets to be ua* j manageable...

...President Roosevelt went backwards and not forward in emphasizing the duty of private charity to help take care of relief funds...

...When the Red Cross food baskets give out around September 2.'!rd, there will be no place for thousands of families to go even for temporary and pitifully inadequate relief...

...They have smarted an innoi vation...

...We have still to work out a happy medium between the dictatorship of the Third International and the extraordinarily loose federation—a federation something less than a good debating society which the Labor and Socialist International seem.- to have become...

...I cannot identify slavish devotion to some constitution with democracy, or gi/e a mystical sanction to a numerical majority...

...Last week The New Leader gave visible proof of its desire to permit discussion of important issues by publishing my Open Letter to Socialists...

...I am therefore with pleasure renewing my column, TIMELY TOPICS, in The New Leader...

...American aid must be confined to brotherly helpfulness and ^iot to an economic and political overlordship...

...In other words, we must put Socialism first in order to save democracy ! under any circumstances and not subordinate So, Lcialism to mechanical nose counting under the conI ditions that now prevail in a hypocritical bourgeois democracy...

...Altman and Retzkin were he^d for Special Sessions on the Red Flag charge, and were released on bail...

...The democracy that can win must be devoted to the spirit rather than to the letter...

...But we are losing lots of opportunities...

...I doubt, however, if in a good many industries the Code can go any farther and still keep alive Roosevelt's idea of "partnership...

...There ought to be statesmanship enough to unite these unions and bring them all into a comprehensive A. F. of L. I T is useless to...

...The group I of about 150 was headed by a Red i Flag, and they were bound for a , day's sport at Hunter's Island...

...PLAUNTING the slogan, "Halt * the Hitler Hangmen," thousands of Socialists and members of the Young People's Socialist League will this week-end begin the national anti-Fascist tag day instituted by the League Against i Fascism...

...It is not any sort of agitators but rank and file workers who will block effective A. F. of L. organization unless these basic essentials of democratic organization in this time of opportunity are borne in mind...

...Having gone, he did well not to land...

...W'HERE are encouraging * events in the march of time...

...Last Sunday a troop of brownshirted SA men marched off a German liner at 46th Street, half a block on a city street and on to another German liner...

...In Germany the So* [ cialists and other democratically...

...Many thousands of collection cans and lists have been ; taken by Socialist branches, trade unions and other workingclass groups...

...James Oneal, Editor...

...To all these encouraging circumstances, however, there are certain offsets which we shall have to consider if we want to get a fair picture and if we want to win the victories that must be won promptly or not at all...

...This applies particularly to an industry like soft coal...

...The Piatt Amendment must be abrogated by mutual consent...

...much of this matter as The New Leader has...

...Wc have helped to keep Cuba in a kind of political darkness...

...It is only when we put the absentee owners out of the picture by socializing basic industries that we shall effectively be able to deal with the problems of hours, wages—yes, and of prices too...

...Ethel Schachner is directing the Y.P.S.L...

...New York City, Chicago and \ Cincinnati lcar1 the cities in the campaign thus far...

...The President, who is usually very shrewd in his political acts, pulled an awful boner when he sent Secretary Swanson to Havana...

...What is true in New York is true in practically every industrial city...

...The battle against poverty is very far from won...

...I A S 1 see it, the issue which bobbed up at Paris, as it bobs up wherever Socialists discuss their problems, is not correctly stated as dictatorship vs...

...The International ' T ' HE majority of our delegates to the Inter* national in Paris—4 out of 0—brought back a report which every Socialist ought to study...

...The question is the kind of democracy which can avert dictatorship in countries not yet Fascist...

...Hands off Cuba docs not mean a justification of tariff war against Cuba and Cuba's sugar on which we have made the whole island dependent...

...In the process of readjusting- relations there will bo plenty of mistakes on the Cubans' part...

...The Socialist party is going to 1 fight the case if it goes to the Supreme Court...

...Cuba must be al. lowed to recover her own resources...

...Wre are not organized to fight either war or Fascism as we should...

...I inclined officials thought it was all , right to let the Nazi nuts make fools of themselves . . . and now they're sorry they let it get to first base...

...Its headquarters are at 7 East 15th St., New York City...

...This is greater than the seasonal increase in August has been...

...ASSUMING that General Johnson is right and that we have made a 25 per cent gain towards recovery, we still have a long ways to go...

...Popular outcry against high taxes by leaders of so-called "good government" movements are really in effect protests against continuing oven the inadequate aid now extended to our fellow citizens in adversity...

...Yet the last thing on earth to do is to turn away from the International...

...On .he streets were several dozen Germans in mufti, saluting and hollering Heil...

...Quietly, timidly, at first...

...Halt the Hitler Hangmen...

...There is use in insisting on building up a corp of organizers who know how to organize and who have not grown cynical or soft at the task...

...The Nazis are beginning to parade in uniform in New York...

...Hearings initiated jn New York City for the Workers' Committee, on Unemployment, which got wide publicity, showed that in four blocks taken at random there were still 50 per cent of the wage earners unemployed...

...Public sentiment, typified as so often by Will Rogers, is clearly opposed to intervention...

...dream of a comprehensive A. F. *• of L., however, so long as any unions by their constitution or customs discriminate against Negroes and put obstacles in the way of industrial organization, including the so-called unskilled, in various industries...

...RED FLAG IS ISSUE IN ALTMAN ARREST The right of Socialists to display the Red Flag, a right long established and recognized, is thrown into court with the arrest of Jack Altman, Captain of the Socialist Vanguard, and Alex Retzkin . The two Socialists, together with Reba Pushkoff and Bernard Schneider, were arrested last Sunday in the course of an outing of ' the Socialist Vanguard...

...Above all, democracy has to have a purpose and a vigor...

...Fortunately there are very hopeful elements in the International even though they seemed to be in a minority at the Paris Conference...

...By arrangements with i neighborhood shop-keepers, cans - and posters are being placed in r many stores...

...In New York City, the Upper : West Side will have 160 collectors out...

...The New Leader had "summarily" closed discussion...

...Neither does it mean indifference to who or what vfins in Cuba...

...But if they are not stopped at once, if the Brown Pest is not ended before it gets well started there may be trouble before long...