Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor NEXT WEEK WE have planned for special " reports next week of the Socialist Party vote in important cities where a bis; vote...
...They accuse and they condemn—condemn you, not us...
...These affairs are arranged for subscription drives and others will be announced later...
...We will give special attention to it next week...
...So there are "degrees," just like passing from one to another in the Mystic Knights of the Sea...
...These young comrades are "determined to further the circulation cf our paper and to aid it in every available manner...
...Five and Two Make Four...
...Fine work, Comrade Heisler...
...Isn't It about time that we ceased to be packhorses...
...New Leader Meetings The editor will lecture at the Socialist Forum in Lynn, Mass., Sunday evening and at the Dorchester Forum in the morning...
...You feed us and we clothe and shoe you...
...The prices of your products go down and you go down with them...
...It is said that he expressed this righteous view while counting his gains in recent years...
...If successful, the ruling capitalists and bankers, under whose management capitalism collapsed, will become feudal masters of all industrial activities...
...Tour enemies and car enemies have that control...
...We urge the responsible local party official in each locality where an encouraging vote is received to get a report to us not later than next Thursday morning...
...They also accuse and condemn...
...They do not think...
...By James Oneal THE COTTON TEXTILE INDUS TRY OF THE SOUTHERN AP PALACHIAN PIEDMONT...
...and the 18th A. I)., Brooklyn, 100...
...a reader inquires...
...Amos, Andy V Lusk f-XAYTON R. LUSK, former New York State Senator who helped to expel Socialists frcm the Assembly more than a decade ago, finds the New Deal conceals "Socialism or Communism, according to the degree practiced...
...A Bronx Cheer Circle 1, Seniors, of the YipseU i this famous sector of New York sends a resolution in support of the drive and commending The New Leader for its ten years of Socialist work "which should command the support of every party and Yipsel member...
...He sends in 20 yea dies and writes: "I did not mail them in sooner as I was afraid some of your staff would be shocked and might cause an unpleasant week-end...
...the Yipsel Circle 5 gets 50...
...We pass it on to others as a suggestion...
...SOUTHERN COTTON MANUFACTURE...
...Our crazy system of production and exchange makes arithmetic absurd...
...Improved machinery was an important factor in the shift of the industry to the South...
...Reading, New York City and Bridgeport, Conn., are outstanding cities and there may be others...
...There is little doubt that textile power is not only passing but...
...now you see it, now you don't...
...So are we...
...the money magic of capitalism conceals robbery more intense than the slave ever endured...
...A worker, or farmer,- or shopkeeper, having voted for years for capitalist politicians who have brought him to ruin, get real mad...
...Go tell them now that we will destroy their homes—tell them, if you dare...
...You need it and to do we...
...He forecasts a period when "vast rooms full of rapidly whirling machines will turn out millions of yards of cloth which a few men will go in and collect at stated intervals...
...The price of our labor goes down and we go down with it We are both down—nearly down and out...
...Rumor has it that banker Wiggin hates Socialists because they want other people to divide up...
...In 1905 the editor held his first soap box meeting in an Ohio tour at Bryan, and Comrade Weaver of that town sends for sample copies for sample copies for a meeting to organize a party local...
...BBen F. Lemert...
...DOTH farmers and vage workers never know from the dollars they receive just what their incomes are—if they have any at all...
...The farmer faces the same magic of money...
...The text is supplemented with 84 graphs, charts and tables that enhance the value of the atniiv...
...they follow...
...That should be clear to you if the robbery is not...
...He also served his country by forming six Wiggin corporations to dodge paying full income taxes...
...One can" not fully answer in a few words...
...The Shocker Sub Agent Martin B. Heisler is at it again...
...Workers In the cities can sympathize with you...
...Both sections of the army of labor feed, house, clothe and pamper idle millionaires who live on our labor...
...There are 600,000 children pointing their fingers at you, not us...
...The time of Comrade Claessens is limited...
...We pass this on to Andrew H. Brown, who is running for Alderman in Harlem as the candidate of the Fresh Air Taxi Company, with the suggestion that the comedy team be enlarged to Amos, Andy V Lusk...
...The government would have a supervisory and veto power...
...You are striking for better incomes...
...In that year 24 bushels of wheat purchased the things he* needed...
...Of the New York edition the Amalgamated Branch of the party takes 500 copies...
...We urge locals to make the bundle habit a chronic one, an aid in building the party and a big circulation...
...Comrade Silver of Los Angeels with four, and so on with singles, twos and threes that have made the sweet girl in the office sour because of the work of recording these subs...
...Labor will be asked to come in...
...Think It Over, Mr...
...The Terzani Case 1I7HAT may prove to be another Mooney case * * is that of Athos Terzani, held in Queens County for the killing of Anthony Fierro at a meeting of Khaki Shirts with "General" Art J. Smith in command...
...This lias the support of Administrator Johnson and of tlie head of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce...
...Yes, banker Wiggin does his part and the part he does he does well...
...Too late, the rank and file find that they have been taken for a ride by clever gangsters...
...may your tribe increase...
...Certainly, textile manufacture is ripe for socialization...
...the 2nd A. D., Bronx, 60...
...Get out of the old moss-back parties and aim for the control of the coreraiMS* iuelf...
...And what of the millions of other children whose future is black, who see no place for themselves in the civilization that your rule has ruined...
...Old ways of action have not been sufficient...
...Then he complains that he has only six sub blanks left and wants more, declaring that his quota of a hundred subs by Christmas will be filled...
...Before it begins the Massachusetts State Committee will arrange far Claessens in all parts of the state, Sorry we cannot give more dates, comrades...
...Slave owners took the produce of labor direct...
...But who cares for a sour girl...
...But that Isn't all...
...He wants a change and he wants it quick...
...II does not appear that the author has neglected a single important factor in his study which includes geographical influences, labor supply, wages, trade unions, cost of living, raw materials, power, watei routes, transport in general, raw materials, fuel, markets, machinery, relation to other industries and to textile production in New England...
...We must strike, of course, but the strike has only an immediate aim...
...Portland, Oregon, orders a hundred of the National Edition and Detroit gets 50 each week...
...If the charlatan is successful he rules for himself and a choice collection of other charlatans...
...In 1933 this farmer purchased less with 60 bushels than he did with 24 about twenty years ago...
...We are down* and they are up— tap on our backs...
...Comrade Coonrod of Idaho gets under the wire with a sub with the promise of more, and Comrade Whitaker of Bradentown, Fla., does the same...
...During recent years the author was amazed at the "vast number of machines and the small number of operatives" he observed in the mills and only one or two more inventions are required to make them completely automatic...
...Play with dynamite or rny other powerful explosive while lighting your cigarette and you will take less chances of disaster than you will by listening to a Fascist con man...
...Other financial juggling filled the money vats of the Wiggin family...
...They ride and we are ridden...
...By the time the dupes wake up they find that they are also in the ash can...
...The ruined persons, always being led, are again led...
...Those who are led get a lot of fine speeches and a cargo of glorious promises are dumped in the ash can...
...Comrade Berger of Bridgeport, Conn., comes again with two...
...It is...
...A Rush Order From Comrade Shosteck of Washington, D. C, comes a list of 58 comrades who will canvass 600 sympathizers for subs and membership applications with an order to rush copies to each canvasser...
...Some clever charlatan comes along and offers to lead...
...Fascist Con Men "U7HAT Is a Fascist...
...University cj North Carolina Press, Chape Hill, N. C. $2.60...
...Comrade Miske of Tamaque, Pa., with three...
...vote and even some victories are expected...
...Thinking becomes a crime and the supreme virtue is to obey the ruling crooks or be beaten and jailed...
...Godly and patriotic man that he is, he has made it known that workers should work for reduced wages while he does his part at $200,000 per after retirement as head of the bank...
...The Kingfish and Lightnln' will appreciate the new star...
...Proximity to raw materials, water power, cheap labor inexperienced in labor organization and other factors have transferred over two-thirds of the cotton cloth manufactures to the Southern States and most of it is manufactured in the Southern Appalachian Piedmont...
...Wiggin believes in the Bins Eagle slogan of doing bis part...
...The United States News carries a picture of the wheat farmer's income since 1914...
...Capitalism is a robber system supported by robber parties...
...But take an example...
...The Menace of Feudalism we go to press the dailies carry stories of of a plan proposed by Gerard Swope, one of the leading open shop magnates, for the transfer of the administrative functions of the NKA to a National Chamber of Commerce...
...That should not occur under the NKA...
...Our Homeless Children FOUR years of the depression has cast up * 600,000 children of homes that have been broken and destroyed and the number that will need assistance this winter "is increasing steadily.** So reads a news item of Tuesday...
...The working class will face a sbarp and dangerous turn in depression ¦ history...
...That same night another dinner will be held in Newark,' with Frank Crosswaith and Charles Solomon as the speakers...
...The smug Colden sniffles over the temptation to crime of Queens Boro youth in his campaign for office and yet shows this indifference to the lift of a young Italian who is charged by an adventurer like Smith with killing one of his best friends...
...Five and two may be four and two and five may be three...
...Think it am and you wig come to a Socialist conclusion and cat the party chains that have dragged yon down to dears nation, Wiggin Does His Part MEET banker Wiggin of the Chans National Bank who receives $200,000 for doing nothing...
...Tell us, you who play the role of retainers for the capitalist system, you who often told us that we Socialists would break up the home, tell us— you, the destroyers—what you have to say of your own work...
...The workers of the whole nation will be aroused if necessary to save Terzani from a Fascist frame-up...
...Farmer tt/ELL, fellow workers of the farms, it's a long ™ way from the time when agriculture was a paying occupation...
...A New Leader dinner will be held in Baltimore Sunday night, November 19, with B. Charney Vladeck and the editor as speakers...
...There is team work that will get results...
...Ten dollars a day may be more than eight, and eight may be more than tenl It is like a trick of the late Houdini...
...For this farmer, arithmetic means that 36 bushels added to 24 means less than the original 24...
...Why not make all our actions lead to a final aim as well...
...Bundle Brigadiers It's an excellent week for the bundle brigade...
...District Attorney Colden, Democratic candidate for President of the Boro, apparently ignores evidence submitted to him that Smith later boasted that he had "killed one radical and sent nineteen others to a hospital" at mis meeting, Colden has never followed up this lead despite the fact that Smith has since been proven a racketeer by getting away with funds of his Khaki dupes in Philadelphia...
...The Socialist Party is the party of the robbed...
...However much we might blunder, we could not do worse...
...If the ten dollars will buy less goods than eight it is evident that eight is more than ten...
...has largely passed from New England to the Southern States...
...The Claessens' Tour The tour is shaping up fine, with the hearty cooperation of the state committees of New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania already in charge...
...A new type of almost automatic spindle before 1870, well adapted to the spinning of coarse and medium yarns, and then the automatic loom, which reduced "weaving from a skilled process to one of machine-tending and knot-tying," left foremen and repairmen the only skilled employes and the shift to the South, a paradise of unskilled and low paid labor, began...
...Sub-Getters We have to be brief this week...
...TTHB textile industry has been the * subject of many studies and this one on cotton textiles in one region is about as thorough as can be compressed within 176 pages...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 19
