Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers'n'Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers V Boosters -By the Editor _ NEXT WEEK! TPHE Sixth International Trade * Union Congress held in Brussels in July-August adopted a resolution on Socialist...
...He gravely doubts, however, "it is a solution upon which on the evidence we are entitled to count with any certainty...
...It ia true that capitalism produces ambition and ours is the ambition utterly to destroy it root and branch...
...It appears to be a definite, positive plan to destroy the Republic aad substitute a social democracy...
...It is primarily a movement of those who do useful work to win power, to use that power for the conquest of industry and government so that both will serve the masses...
...John H. Johnston of Pittsburgh was the first to get under the wu« and his latter, a long one charged with enthusiasm, contained 12 subs...
...Let's apply it to the bosses...
...The White Goods Workers' Union, Samuel Shore, Manager, went on strike on Tuesday and in the afternoon Manager rhon ordered a thousand copies of the New York edition...
...Negro workers for this company earn from 6 to 13 cents an hour for an eight-hour day and a five-day week, $2.40 and $5.20 per week...
...Questions and Answers R. Spindler, California.- We do not know whether the Brown Shirts of Philadelphia have any connections with the Silver Shirts of North Carolina, but both arc >\t the same Fascist brood...
...Acknowledging the probable use of force, he deplores it, saying: "Revolution, like war is infinite tragedy...
...By Harold J. Laski- •University of North Carolina Press...
...About 26,000 workers were called on strike...
...TPHE Sixth International Trade * Union Congress held in Brussels in July-August adopted a resolution on Socialist Economic Planning that is of special interest to our readers considering that It gives attention to the NUA...
...Let's apply the merit system to the owners and say, "Get out...
...This equality must seek extension to the economic sphere...
...Both Presidents, Lincoln and Wilson, were given similar extensive emergency powers and they used them to the limit during wartime...
...The capital was full of cure-alls proposed, not by unknown visionaries, but by some HEADS OF GREAT INDUSTRIAL CORPORATIONS...
...They want oligarchy and we, the workers, need Socialism...
...Politicians and high IihIh in Washington were frightened...
...The kind masters want the power of discharge without a union to protest against discrimination...
...It is not Communism for it bears no resemblance to the regime in Russia...
...F. R. Fairchild, South Dakota.— The principle of occupational representation may be worth while to stress in order to bring out the unfairness of the present form of representation which places voters of differing economic interests in the same district with the view of electing a person who will "represent" capitalist and laborer, farmer and banker, etc...
...Where do you Bland...
...The large powers vested in the President are nothing new and are not necessarily a Fascist trend...
...R. Whitcomb of Greenfield, Mass., sends a letter that would encourage a man in the bread line and encloses 6 subs...
...They own mines and mines are useless unless they are operated...
...when the workers as the organized nation own industry it will serve us...
...What Is the NRA...
...Capitalism has shelved you and you can shelve capitalism if your class and the workers of the cities unite for this purpose...
...On the bearing of the way of the Russian revolution n proletarian movements in other countries, Laski declares: "The environment in which Lenin was successful is of extreme rarity in history...
...The Farmer Is Thinking f\PINIONS of John Farmer, surveyed by the information service of the Federal Council of Churches, show that in general he is not weeping over that scarecrow that Hoover called "individual-Ism...
...Laski writes with his usual eloquence and brilliance...
...It is not State Capitalism for that implies government ownership of many industries...
...This means a struggle between the shirkers and the workers for power in industry and government...
...Prof...
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...Not if you act intelligently, the Socialist answers...
...They say it with subs and we wish that we had more space to report those who are enrolling in the Leader Booster Army...
...Political parties, labor anions and cooperativea are means of winning this power...
...Can you now see the big shots of capitalism behind the crashing timbers of capitalism last March...
...That is a long way from the days of the Populist rising...
...Laski does not hesitate to pronounce the peaceful and democratic establishment of Socialism "the most satisfactory, because the most rational solution...
...We have received two inquiries regarding such editions, one from Indiana...
...It la a fine Socialist statement, a critical analysis of the Roosevelt recovery program that you will appreciate...
...Prof...
...The masters cannot patch it up...
...Merit in Mining C"OH many years the coal industry has been a * wreck...
...On the other hand, the blight that has settled upon the rosy dreams of farm youth for education and a "career" makes many farmers and farm women think that everything has "gone haywire...
...And why not...
...He strongly echoes one of the principal criticisms by Socialists of Communists when he says: ". . . anyone who analyzes the efforts of the Third International to grasp the ethos of the British character will be tempted to conclude that skill in psychological diagnosis is not one of its predominant features...
...Leonard Bright of New RocheUe, N. Y., tried a bundle of 25, increased this to 35, and wrote, 'will order some more...
...If it fails to restore capitalism the government will extend its paternalism...
...The NRA is simply State Paternalism...
...If you are interested, write The New Leader immediately for terms...
...A chorus of voices shout "State Capitalism" or "State Socialism" or "Communism.' What is NRA...
...In brief, these specials carry three or three and one-half pages of the best propaganda in the edition used...
...Morris Rosenkrantc of Newark is an old booster whose illness for many weeks interfered with hit work...
...That is how money bags act when their system decays...
...Prof...
...Announcement Within the next week or two all j controversial articles will be eliminated from the National Edition...
...Prof...
...The government serves as a father trying to restore capitalism as it was, not to make of it something it has not been...
...In his address at the NKA rally Tuesday night, the NKA administrator, Hugh Johnson, gave us a peep behind the March scenes...
...It is not State Socialism for that means government ownership with workers an influential power in government and industry, but with capitalism still the main economic factor in society...
...They are basically irreconcilable...
...that is the issue between Capitalism and Socialism...
...There were then not a few who, in the light of what had happened in other countries, believed that an economic czardom was necessary," said Johnson...
...Leader Special Editions Last year The New Leader published special campaign editions for various districts in Greater New York...
...They are also a nuisance if operation makes life a hell for miners and their families...
...All in favor say Aye...
...1.50...
...If you want to follow party discussions, read this edition...
...THK NKA transplants "alien ideas from Russian to American soil," says Senator Hatfield of Wewt Virginia, a state where thousands of miners are forced down to a dog-standard of living and where expressing an idea not bearing a corporation label is forbidden...
...While capitalists own industry it will serve them...
...Of Communist theory generally, he discounts its universal application in the definite observation that it "has been largely moulded by the experience of men whose ideas were shaped in contact with either Russian despotism or the half-constitutional oligarchies of Germany and France," and thaf\the views of Lenin and Trotsky were "shaped by their desire to see their prediction fulfilled as universal principles derived from a particular setting...
...lag disaster If we rely en what ft* is reported as saying of the Federal Child Labor Amendment Here it is: "It ia a communistic effort to nationalize children, making them primarily responsible to the government instead of to their parents...
...Shirk work for this aim and yon will continue to work for the shirkers or go Jobless and hungry...
...The remaining page or half-page contains local campaign material and advertisements in the locality where the candidates run...
...What is that...
...They would also recognize "merit" in a minor who satisfied them...
...Laski is unequivocal that "it is one of the supreme virtues of parliamentary democracy that it offers as no other system, the opportunity to create this atmosphere...
...James T. Young of California sends 5, H. Koppelow of San Francisco 4, Thomas W. Davis of Nyack, N. Y., 3 with a promise of more...
...The singles are too numerous to mention, and Monday's mail piled up scores from ten Btates...
...Julius Weisberg of the same city congratulates us on the National Edition and orders 50 sub blanks...
...It strikes at the home...
...We shall continue to carry this type of contributions and also letters in the New York Edition...
...The farm press with one exception approves government regulation of acreage and prodnction control...
...Resuming his work ha ordered a bundle of 25 two weeks ago and now increases it to 100...
...Having done that, the Republic should arrange to pickle the noble judge after he passes from this carnal world and exhibit him in a museum...
...This important document will appear next week...
...Clarence B. Martin, president of the American Bar Association, is advance coirier of the com...
...A shirkers' or workers' world...
...Comrades who contract for such a special four-page issue get it at a price much lower than if they brought out four pages themselves...
...Capitalism, with its essential inequality is in direct antithesis to the ideal of equality inherent in democracy...
...This is the "merit' argument that big corporations in the North seek to read into industrial codes and which is now an issue before the NRA administration...
...Capitalism and Democracy By Charles Solomon DEMOCRACY IN CRISIS...
...Shirkers and Workers KTO, Socialism isn't a plan, a blue print or an ex-periment...
...If autocracy DOES come it may come out of the present ruling groups, not out of a Fascist push...
...E. Carlson of Waukegon, 111, expresses his opinion of the Nt> tional Edition with 8 subs and we are waiting for the next letter from him...
...A Big Boost...
...Julian Harris reports discrimination in the New York Times, citing a pink slip Negro workers in one industry draw from their pay envelope warning them against propaganda of "false friends" against equal pay for equal work...
...It is not Fascism for Fascism is the rising of decaying sections of the middle classes, hysterical workers and peasants, gangsters and political adventurers...
...Read the newspapers, you say...
...Sometimes we have to wait years for this news behind the news...
...Pass the word along...
...The NRA tries to get the owners from under the wreck and they fight for company unionism...
...Behind the March Scenes 11/11 A I was happening last March in Washington ** when a sick capitalism substituted a Democratic doctor for a Republican physician...
...You are a miserable failure...
...They want the "merit" idea written into the labor section of the act...
...This power MAY become the source of some form of autocracy but we cannot say that it WILL become thnt...
...We Do Our Part" That's what an increasing number of comrades are saying...
...The workers will have the highest ifficiency and merit when they fight for each other regardless of color...
...He is no champion of dictatorship or of Russian methods...
...If it can restore capitalism to health it will release it to follow its own course again...
...It ousts the governing parties by force, destroys all opposition parties and organizations, and rules as a dictatorship...
...Why should the capitalist owners of industry insist on the open shop when for years the shops have been closed to the workers by these same owners...
...Save the home, the Republic, the children and the profits of those who tenderly employ children in industry...
...In either case there is no "merit" in the bosses and their ownership of the coal industry...
...Goblins Are Abroad TPHE mighty republic is ahaken to its foundations, * ghastly goblins prowl in the night, thunder booms and lighting crashea warning of impending doom...
...And this company displays the Blue Eagle...
...A young correspondent wrote one farm Journal: "Is my generation going to be stuck on the shelf without a chance...
...Cabot of Harvard says that NRA is a step toward Fascism...
...11/IIAT is wrong with democracy, " according to Prof...
...Sure, but even the press does not always broadcast what transpires behind the scenes...
...Blue, Black, White and Pink ""THE Blue Eagle changes color in some sections * of the South and becomes a Lily White Bird that digs its talons into the Negro worker, holding him to a scale of living lower than that of the white worker...
...s. 'This company does not base wages on color but entirely on efficiency," reads the slip...
...He emphasizes the importance of an atmosphere favorably to the social changes proposed by those who would supplant capitalism with Socialism...
...Laski, is capitalism...
...H. Rivoire of Chicago crashes in with 12 subs and casually states that more will be on the way soon...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 12
