Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o* The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor NEXT WEEK! BECAUSE of the time value of the letter tent by the Sunnyside Branch of the .Socialist Party to Paul Hlanshard who...
...He follows the subject through all the mazes of the gold standard, inflation, money, bank deposits, bank credit, public debts, moratoriums, free silver coinage, war debts, tariffs, and so on...
...It's a beaut I Contestants should remember to mention what booklet they want when submitting contributions...
...To stave off the inflation hounds, President Roosevelt authorized the Agricultural Adjustment Administration to purchase $75,000,000 of surplus food and clothing for distribution among the jobless and pledged the government to lend cotton farmers 10 cents a pound on this year's crop if they accept the acreage reduction program for 1934-35...
...Restless Cuba TTHE Cuban firecracker continues to fizzle with * the possibility of a general strike said to be urged by the Communists...
...It ia assumed that New York State will receive about $7,500,000 from the Federal Government, but the share of the city is a drop in the bucket compared to what is needed...
...New Leader Key Men To the list of Key men we reported last week we may add several more...
...Last week the Painters' District Council in New York City through Philip Zausner ordered 1,500 copies of the New York edition...
...Never haa such an indictment been drawn against our social system aa that implied in the suffering of these masses...
...Cities of the Hungry WHAT is happening to jobless workers and their families in other cities may be imagined by their plight in New York City...
...The politicians echo what they hear from the voters back home...
...They pay no enormous salaries to officers and provide real protection to members...
...cial attention to New Leader circulation...
...We urge every reader not to let a copy go to waste...
...Reads like the "good old U.8.A...
...Three come in from Alof Victorien of Minneapolis, two from Lawrence Wilber of California, and others arrive from various states...
...On Wednesday there were disclosures of graft on a large scale through government mail subsidies...
...They want capitalism returned to the old basis and accept the aid of the Federal doctor, but they want to be sure that the doctor will not become a permanent guardian issuing orders...
...Discontent has brought a demand for inflation which may increase to a rosr when Congress meets in January...
...Further food supplies, if any, will have to be obtained from the city or private agencies...
...We repeat the list from which the winner each week may make a selection for a contribution to the Poor Fish or the ljray of the Week: "Manual for Socialist Speakers" by August Claessens, "Swastika Over Germany" by Siegfried Lipschitz, "Communism and Socialism" by Karl Kautsky, "The Case for Socialism" by Fred Henderson...
...In 1929 eleven ships carried a total of one pound of mail at a cost of $115,335...
...We refrain from citing more details as some of our readers have weak hearta...
...Inveat in three ounces of culture and get right with God, Bruce Barton and Bernarr Macfadden...
...By Irving Brant...
...Henry Haberman of New York testified that the board had agreed to put the ships in good shape for sale but denied that he had paid a $510 tailor bill for T. V. O'Connor, former chairman of the board...
...Not that we do not have this sort of thing today, but it is an overlooked item that floated into the present period...
...Winslow, Ariz...
...The answer is, Yes...
...State Secretary Higgins of West Virginia wants four times our number of readers and will do his part J. F. Barge of Iowa pledges ten yearlies, and State Secretary Dietz of Louisiana arrives vjith an enthusiastic letter pledging cooperation...
...The Minority Resolution As a rule our party press has never printed resolutions defeated at International Socialist congresses but this year four of the American delegates to the Paris Congress supported a minority resolution on the main question before the delegates—the policy of the international in the face of a rising Fascism in many countries...
...From July, 1930, to June 20, 1931, the corporation's ships carried eight pounds at a cost of $125,820 a pound...
...His method is well adapted to his purpose...
...Don't faint...
...Getcha money's worth...
...Often the subscriber sends his own sub, at the same time expressing his marked interest in the National Edition...
...Then ask for subscriptions...
...Socialism seeks to replace all these political movements, not to yield to them or any of their candidates, It ia an issue of fight or surrender, and one cannot do both...
...It's the nation's means of locating your blood pressure, the thoughts that wander through your brain cells, and what the wife is thinking of mass production and buying power...
...The big American Investments In the Island make this interference possible, not a love of Cuban freedom...
...See their advertisements on another page...
...The nation ia recovering...
...It is one that the agitator will be glad to have at his elbow for reference...
...This book is a translation from the Financial into the American language," he writes, and that is what he has accomplished...
...peared September 9. First Award The first mail Monday morning brought a contribution to the Bray of the Week from R. E. Wolseley of Evanston, 111., who gets the first award in this contest...
...If half our readers will persistently do this, thousands of subs will be added to our list Try itl We have little room for the roll call this week...
...This question is of importance to party members throughout the country...
...Yob said it...
...But what of the workers...
...The minority resolution thus has special interest for party members and we shall publish it in an early number so the members can study it and the majority resolution which ap...
...We are fighting a battle for fundamental aims against tremendous odds...
...Some 500 officers located in the National Hotel, where they have defied the new government for three weeks, have been ordered to report for duty by the end of the week...
...Many of these singles are the result of a reader showing a copy to a friend or sympathizer...
...FLOATING into the present era from the glorious days of Hoover is the disclosure before a Senate investigation committee that the Shipping Board spent $1,825,718 in repairing eighteen ahipa that were sold to the Export Steamship Corporation for $1,071,431...
...Moreover, the doctor should not permit the workers to get anything out of the NRA...
...In a short Foreword he points out that if the daily press were to print news of other nations in their language we would have an analogy with the publication of news of finance in the jargon of the financiers...
...We enjoyed reading this book...
...B. N. LeSuer of Endicott, N. Y., gets under the wire with a bunch of subs and incidentally remarks that we will hear from him again...
...No phase of capitalism is more intricate and puzzling to the average person than its amazing financial structure, and in twenty-five chapters the author haa attempted to explain it to laymen readers...
...A Nervous NRA DACK of the NRA show windows at Washington are anxious politicians who grumble because the recovery plan has not produced as much as was expected...
...If the politicians next January force through an inflation program—well, look out...
...What a man, what a man...
...Aiding the capitalist class has produced "positive gains," but if the workers organise, "the flexibility of American Industry would be destroyed...
...New York: John Day...
...So, away with it No "positive gains" for the working masses who lie deep under the ruina of industry owned by a class that haa shown "complete inability" to run it...
...The government Is supported by the revolutionary atudents, who bore the brunt of the long fight to oust Machado, and a Revolutionary Guard has been established by a presidential decree...
...This has always been the course each time that troops have been landed in Cuba...
...Recently 100,000,000 pounds of pork was slotted for jobless relief and the administration plans purchase of some $30,000,000 of dairy products for the same purpose...
...There are many things that yam ought to know that you don't know...
...The week following you will hear from a Connecticut musician about—well, we'll tell you more about it later...
...The article by a mid-western journalist regarding the economic conditions facing newspaper workers, promised this week, is postponed to next week...
...Write them for particulars...
...We want a complete list of them...
...The big shots in business are not taking any chances, although they are willing to be shown...
...They would then get more "positive gains...
...BECAUSE of the time value of the letter tent by the Sunnyside Branch of the .Socialist Party to Paul Hlanshard who has resigned from the party we are giving preference to it this week...
...Newport, N. H., and Ridgeley, W. Va., are the latest to report Let's hear from more branches...
...See his selection from Bernarr Macfadden on the double-page feature section...
...This wee...
...See full page advertisement in dailies this week...
...Don't elect a Key Man and then not report it...
...rrilK sub-title of this book, * "Questions and Answers in Finance," indicates its scope...
...It is impossible to imagine the privationa that have overwhelmed tens of millions of human beings from this depression...
...The Boosting Boosters Not a mail arrives in The New Leader office that does not bring some singles, the first mail bringing the largest...
...The Nation's Recovery WANT to know what you are thinking of the NRA7 You'll get it in True Story Magazine...
...The New York Herald Tribune is thankful that the capitalist class is guaranteed the right to organize into nation-wide trade associations and that the Federal doctor has helped the "ailing industries" of the owners who "had shown a complete inability to help themselves...
...The New Leader ia nore and more appreciated aa a weapon by workers on strike...
...Grit your teeth...
...Three ounces of culture, fall weight guaranteed, for the price of a goad cigar...
...Party branches select these Key Men who give spa...
...His interpretations are presented in question and answer form and he has remarkably succeeded in making his explanations wo' simple that the "man in the street" can understand...
...It is not only a good answer to Wanshard but a good propaganda document of interest to our readers...
...Total subsidies paid to the Export Steamship Corporation in 1931-1933 amounted to much more than the line paid for the ships...
...American intervention hovers over the Island and Washington has given naval officers almost freedom of action, but the State Department denies that intervention Is intended...
...Positive Gains" IN relation to the above it ia interesting to note * that the ruling class is divided...
...Say it with subs...
...1.50...
...Y-a-a-s, Trie Story...
...Explaining Finance By James Oneal DOLLARS AND SENSE...
...Between the capitalist parties or a fusion of elements of these parties and the Socialist Party there can be no compromise...
...True Story's circulation, far example, went ap almost aa quickly as employment went ap...
...The simplicity of treatment is surprising and, on the whole, his explanations fairly correlate with Socialist opinion in this field...
...Use it as a sample to show to your friends...
...Fight or Surrender ANEW party member inquires whether voting for LaGuardia, fusion candidate for Mayor of New York City, will subject him to expulsion from the Socialist Party...
...the Teamsters' Union, Local 138, through William Snyder, sends in an order for 1,000...
...And think of that feeble pulse...
...From August 10, 1928, to June 15, 1929, three pounds were carried at the rate of $234,980 a pound...
...Y-a-a-s, True Story...
...We don't like atorm troops, but if you want to take us by storm in this building of circulation we have no objection...
...Class-conscious from roof to basement, we wish that all workers were as well informed of their own interests...
...A physician for bankrupt owners...
...The effort to unionize all American labor under the pretense of restoring prosperity should be definitely ended...
...Y-a-a-s, True Story...
...Two Big Orders...
...Fine...
...The Herald Tribune knoweth the clasa it serves and we know ours...
...Didn't know that, didja...
...To pause in this struggle to give approval to one or more candidates in the other camp makes the member an apostate and his action treachery to the Socialist cause...
...All of which indicatea that the gigantic poor farm that emerged while Hoover ruled is still with us and millions of workers must be fed and clothed by charity...
...Funds of the Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee are exhausted and distribution of food packages to more than 30,000 families ceased...
...Buy now...
...of blessed memory...
...What a Man...
...Haberman's physician "frequently felt his pulse" while on the stand...
...Avord Dave of Saratoga Springs, N. Y., once the summer resort of slave owners, hits capitalism with a bunch of four subs and announces that this is only a starter...
...The Socialist Party will consider political action in common only with other working class organizations, not with fusionists, liberals or progressives, for whatever may be their name they represent some phase of capitalism in politics...
...Questions and Answers John J. Miske, Pennsylvania.— Yes, the Workmen's Circle and the Workmen's Furniture Fire Insurance Society are reliable organizations controlled by workers...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
