Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor NEXT WEEK WHAT will happen to art and the artists when capitalism given way to Socialism? That question has disturbed...
...The man who has a genuine proposition does not have to advertise...
...THERE should be a big market for a commodity * that was sold for years after the end of the World War in this country...
...The following paragraph tells the story of the August reversal: "The total purchasing power of the industrial wage earning population increased in August, because of an increase of 8.6% in the number of employed workers, but the purchasing power of the individual wage earner diminished, because of the rise in living costs...
...Olin Swenson of Wisconsin had only fifty rents to his name but sent it as he cannot get along without The New Leader...
...Two of them are typical...
...The terror ia terrorised at the prospect of an avenging social revolution destroying the sadist gangsters and halfsane creatures who batten like vampires on human misery...
...Why did two Pittsburgh newspapers refuse an advertisement of the publisher stating that the two stores refuse to handle the book...
...But what of the artist who exhibits his art in the street in the hope of getting a meal, and the musician who is "promoted" to be a truck driver...
...To a number of correspondents...
...The Paterson Silk Workers also come through with an order for a thousand copies, and the victorious Bushelmen celebrate their victory with an order for another thousand...
...Politicians dread the coming winter and will be happy if it passes without food riots...
...The ladies now come to the front with the I. A. L. A. C. P. in the U. S. A. Translated, the letters mean "Independent American League Against the Communist Propaganda in the U. S. A." It ia old stuff...
...His scowl is law for the humble subjects of his feudal province...
...The net result wai • loss of 1.8% in purchasing power for the individual worker...
...That question has disturbed many apologists for the Misting order...
...One such survey has been made in one area of the East Side in New York City which covered 4,500 families between 1930 and 1932...
...A Connecticut musician will tell ns next week what has happened to him...
...We cannot give space to the effective criticisms you make of Upton Sinclair and it isn't necessary...
...This week the Belt Makers of the Pocket Book Makers' Union order BOO copies through Charles Schouschan...
...John J. Miske of Pennsylvania arrives again, this time with four subs, and he writes that it is nly a starter...
...If every booster is not mentioned it is because ve do not have the space...
...Somebody is always trying to take the joy out of life...
...Thus far, in spite of assertions to the contrary, I have steadily declined to give this statement to the newspapers, because I wished to avoid an attack upon the party in the capitalist press...
...Sub Renewals Sol I^vitas, business manager, muscles in on this column to urge readers to look for the expiration date on the address label...
...Graft is a foul offshoot of a system that makes all things merchandise, commodities...
...One sentence deserves to go down in history...
...All efforts are devoted to assuring the barest essentials of life to tens of millions of jobless workers four years after the industrial earthquake that shook all nations pf the world...
...Nasi Germany is doing its best to isolate itself as a filthy leper among the nations...
...It has been a fine week for subs...
...If the ladies make a success of it, we suggest that they apply to the NRA and get a code, for they are doing their part...
...You pay so much per week and the embattled ladies move their heavy artillery into action and the republic is saved...
...A revolutionary Germany will yet answer them in a whirlwind of revolutionary Are that will consume them...
...Note that chap in the breadline, the other one huddled on a park bench, and a third who dropped of hunger in the street and is being carted to a hospital in an ambulance...
...This is the conclusion of the National Industrial Conference Board based upon monthly changes in wages and the cost of living...
...Grant E. Howe of Washington gets three subs to us, and a whole string of singles have been coming in together with compliments that encourage the editorial and business staff to earn them...
...Oh Yeah...
...Avoid missing any issues...
...In fact, the book shows how a godly man may accumulate a few hundred million dollars by not letting his right hand know what his left hand doeth...
...It would be "soft" for a "solid" to speak so plainly...
...Questions and Answers A. H. Eager, California...
...Each of them is on his throne, proudly shouting his "Americanism...
...The answer is easy...
...Who's next...
...Personal Statement By Paul Blanshard I would like to express through the columns of The New Leader my appreciation for the kindly manner in which I have been treated by my old friends since my resignation from the Socialist Party...
...Plants, raw materials, and machines belong to one class and workers are prohibited from using them...
...Wages and Prices AVERAGE weekly earnings declined in August although in the first three months of the business upturn beginning in April real wages, measured in purchasing power, increased...
...Socialism would destroy the paralysis and bring productive power and workers together...
...vote for a solid...
...What's yonr rcsponsefor the next week...
...One reader complains that the two pals have often almost come to blows and that they ought to be permitted at least one good round some day...
...Bundle Orders Unions in process of organization, or engaged in strikes, appreciate The New Leader as a fighting organ of the working class...
...Subscriptions dated 9-33 are past due...
...Lord Mellon lives in Pittsburgh...
...For example, a farmer putting up jelly for his own use isn't likely to adulterate it, but if he produces it for sale he may be tempted to adulterate...
...If any comrades wish to know my reasons for re* signing from the Socialist Party, they can secure a copy of my statement on the subject by writing to 112 East 19th Street, New York, provided they agree not to give the statement to any conservative newspaper...
...The biography isn't respectful to His Lordship...
...Why...
...waukee County, speak to a mass meeting of farmers, and he is much encouraged...
...Yon know what he means, of course...
...To end that misery, to restore to the human race the happiness that is easily available is the task of the Socialist movement...
...nobility, we get this thought from the current issue: "Americanism Enthrones the Individual...
...Think it over...
...We are willing to be accused of this before any revolutionary tribunal any time and anywhere...
...That's Why Andy's shadow makes "freemen" shiver in Pittsburgh...
...He speaks of the "solid element of our Republican citizenry...
...Ladies Do Their Part...
...Mail your renewal promptly and save ns postage in notifying yon...
...LaGuardia makes the grade for the silkstocking fusionists this week with a speech that is "sane" enough to satisfy his wealthy backers and with enough "radicalism" to lure those who are dissatisfied...
...But to those who must endure it life is fast becoming intolerable...
...Workers and productive power cannot be brought together...
...His slogan should be, "Softs...
...Expand the principle of production for use to the whole of society and our critics are answered...
...Well, here's a free ad for the latest patriotic racket...
...I'm solid Joe...
...This is a fearful toll of misery to be taken by workers because our industrial system fails to operate...
...Keep that in mind when discussing the NRA...
...Just to emphasise his view he sends four subs...
...While average actual weekly earnings increased slightly, 0.5%, the cost of living rose in greater degree, 2.3...
...Socialism will abolish production for exchange...
...Some of the fakers got into trouble, especially Freddie Marvin with his Key Men and the business suffered a decline...
...The Terror Terrorized AS The New Leader goes to press dispatches from Germany report that the criminals ruling that nation have decreed the death penalty for persons convicted of importing anti-Nazi papers...
...These are swindles...
...He can get oodles of cash without soliciting the pennies of workers...
...All subscriptions will be discontinued unless renewed within two weeks...
...More booklets have been sent to him and in the meantime he takes the fret tub that goet with every ten and tuggtttt placing two prospects on the list for six months each...
...That man is a "solid citizen" who has piled up a huge pile of dollars...
...Please keep up the Old Pals' Cornfer, one of its best features...
...At thit rate there will be no end to hit tub-getting...
...It is impossible to make this mass misery vivid to those who do not live in such a hell...
...Prosper Schetting of New Jersey pledges to build up a bigger circulation and adds: "Good luck to The New Leader, the only intelligent newspaper published in New York...
...Henry Puranen of Massachusetts arrived with six...
...One from California appears this week...
...Leonard Woodcock of Detroit hurls in Ave subs and hopes that some affair can be put on in Ford's province later that will stimulate a big sub drive...
...Guard Your Throne...
...L. A. Sterick of Harrisburg, Pa., casually states that "the paper is fine and surely must be doing a lot of good for the cause...
...We have as many industrial plants as we ever had, as much raw material, as many machines, as many workers willing to apply their labor, as much productive power as in 1929, but industrial paralysis continues...
...These questions are asked by the publisher in advertisements appearing in New York newspapers...
...John liegeman of upstate New York writes that "The New Leader is excellent" as he sends in a, single and promises more...
...FROM our favorite comic monthly, the "National Republic," organ of the high G.O.P...
...Many foreign publications had already been denied circulation In Germany, including periodicals not of a Socialist or Communist character...
...Socialism Dethrones Him...
...Autolycus promises to keep Hill 'n' Joe disputing most everything under the sun...
...Hundreds of organizations scared millions of dollars out of millionaires for agitation against Bolshevism...
...Lord Andy of Pittsburgh WHY do the two largest stores in Pittsburgh refuse to sell the biography of Andrew Mellon by Harvey O'Connor...
...The findings show that illness has increased 83 percent in these families of the jobless in this period...
...That isn't so offensive as to plead for the rule of big property owners...
...but this decree is the most incredible action ever taken by any government...
...I shall refrain from all personalities and bitterness no matter what may be said about me by a few isolated individuals, partly because I feel no bitterness, and partly because the day may soon come when LaGuardia and I and most of the present Socialist Party will be in some larger movement together, in which case the memory of fiarsh words would seriously impede cooperation...
...It is a pathetic document...
...The "Softs" and "Solids" A CAMPAIGN in New York City generally gets the attention of the rest of the country because this burg ia recognized as the robber nest of Tammany Hall...
...However, Joseph McKee wins a rose garland with an announcement of his candidacy for Mayor as an independent...
...His pouff is law and his sneese is a command for his subjects...
...With that, let us say adieu to Upton and move forward against the class with whom he is allied...
...0. Baye of Iowa is becoming familiar to us and when his last letter was opened five subs were enclosed...
...Men, women and children contract diseases due to lack of sufficient food, warmth and shelter and because of accumulating mental distress...
...we will produce things for our use...
...Rising living costs have overtaken •end passed weekly earnings...
...Mass Misery ASURVEY of the health of the families of jobless workers in the leading cities of the country would no doubt show an appalling situation...
...Then comes a Socialist, a heartless wretch who would "dethrone" these happy individuals...
...The answer to the assertion that Socialists will be as corrupt in office as the politicians of capitalism it that they have been clean...
...Henry C. Wuerthner, Pennsylvania.'—Avoid all luring advertisements promising jobless workers that they can make easy money and asking them to send an enrollment fee...
...With the Sub-Getters Martin B. Heisler of Buffalo, who sent a batch of subs a week or two ago, gets peeved in his latest letter...
...Those who have not ire "soft...
...Each group had a special method of combatting the "menace...
...You did not mail me enough subscription books, as I have disposed of all of them," he complains, and sends in ten...
...Not even the Romanoff despotism ever resorted to this appalling method of blotting out every idea and opinion not bearing the stamp of the despots...
...He heard AI Benson, former Socialist sheriff of Mil...
...Think It Over I ATE last week the Roosevelt administration an*-* nounced that 1700,000,000 of federal funds will supplement state and local funds to provide food, clothing and coal to the nation's destitute...
...One sub arrived this week that is especially appreciated...
...Joe is of the opinion that the "softs" should support candidates of the "solids" and Joe himself is a "solid...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 15
