ON TOUR FOR THE NEW LEADER
Claessens, August
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor ON TOUR FOR THE NEW LEADER By August Claessens | AM glad to send in this brief report of the first five meeting*. * Considering...
...Help to fight it before it makes any marked headway...
...A few of the alert unions did, but in many industries they have little or no representation...
...We advise two things: Get a sub, and then get morel Danger Ahead...
...If by some magic this sea of goods were destroyed by fire, the whole system of production and dsitribution would revive at a feverish pace...
...A Job for Socialists INTELLIGENT workers everywhere recognize that both the Italian and German brands of Fascism are active in this country...
...Great organizations of capital allied with the big banks would take over the powers of government respecting the NRA...
...The first was in Valley Stream, Long Island, and remarkably successful...
...To be sure, we, the workers, have our share of those who cannot see straight, but look at many of the "cultured" who peddle their cure ills for a sick civilization...
...I have carried coals to New Castle...
...The gr-e-a-t principles of Jeffersonian Democracy were defeated...
...yjUlLL the NKA codes develop into gigantic empires directed l>y powerful bankers and capitalists in a super-chamber of commerce like that favored by Gerard Swopc ? That is a possibility if organized workers are not alert...
...They are an important section of the robber system of capitalism which filches the products of labor from those who produce them...
...Jobless Job Brokers DITY another group of the unemployed...
...The answer is plain...
...They frankly want to return lo the Middle Ages...
...They would fix the place of every group in society and keep each in its place forever...
...From Washington comes news that the U. S. Chamber of Commerce plans to investigate the NRA with a view to "promoting radical changes...
...The main illness of capitalism lies in industry, not in money, although the banking and money system may make a bad industrial situation worse...
...The hundred Or more are now seeking interviews with the Republican leader who returned from upstate where the temperature was 14 degrees below zero...
...Even job brokers are stricken by the depression...
...Incidentally, J. Bergen sends seven subs from that burg...
...Fascism is s tiny menace now...
...The directors favor a "program which would take the government out of enforcement and place this under unified trade associations...
...This is a good crowd, nevertheless, for an average Socialist meeting in Pittsfteld and for an ex-Assemblyman who often faced an auditorium of vacant chairs in the New York Assembly Chamber...
...Some upper range of culture should rule...
...All unions are instructed to carry on a vigorous fight against it...
...The International Front Readers will note3 on page 6 we have started a column of news regarding the Socialist and labor struggle all over the world...
...The Nazi type in Hungary offers even somc-t'ing more queer...
...So reads a Washington dispatch...
...With the state and Federal governments in the hands of conservative politicians, the Fascists arc not likely to attempt to overthrow them...
...Newark New Leader Dinner The next New Leader dinner will be held in the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark, N. J., Dec...
...This is not to say that banking and exchange do not conceal a great deal of extortion...
...Let the apologists of capitalism laugh that of—if they can...
...John H. McCooey, who has reigned in the province of Crooklyn—beg pardon, Brooklyn—for a quarter-century, is being forsaken by Democratic leaders...
...He has access to Socialist, labor and other publications abroad and his column will provide Information from week to week that one cannot get in any other English party paper...
...From time to time we are going to report what is happening in Bridgeport, Conn., where working, men have had the audacity to take over the city government, using the Socialist Party for this purpose...
...Upper Class Morons FEW years ago a favorite theory ~of intellectual aristocrats was that the workers are all morons...
...There are plenty of commodities, but workers cannot buy them...
...They do not appeal to intelligence...
...Dentists, druggists, technicians, architects, physicians, engineers, lawyers and even a rabbi are included in the "new poor" in New York hospitals and there is little doubt that other large cities will show a similar human output of the depression...
...It would revive with the present system of money and banking...
...Act and act without delay...
...The net result of his assault was to bag 37 subscriptions...
...The depression makes upper class morons emerge out of their normal life...
...want and we do our utmost to satisfy general opinion...
...Sunday morning in Hartford, audience about 80 and very appreciative...
...So whether you toss roses or bricks, as long as what is tossed is prompted by the desire to make The New Leader effective, they are welcome...
...At every meeting New Leader subs were taken, numerous copies of the paper were sold or distributed...
...John J. Wilk of Newark, N. J., with two, and there is the usual long string of single3, both renewals and new subs...
...Seven leaders will undertake the job...
...Huge high school auditorium seating 1,500 and filled last April with Norman Thomas as speaker...
...Yeah, pity the unemployed compelled to trade Democratic principles'for Republican jobs...
...A hundred or more leaders under John weep for the republic and the principles...
...The unemployed leaders believe in the exchange of value for value, in this case gr-e-a-t principles for jobs...
...They are also mixed with small business men who have been clinging to lower layers of business and who finally dropped into the pit where millions of the idle vegetate in misery...
...Mora will be gathered at the forum later...
...Monday, Pittsfteld, Mass...
...The whole system cannot recover on any basis satisfactory to the laboring masses short of taking it over for collective ownership and operation...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor ON TOUR FOR THE NEW LEADER By August Claessens | AM glad to send in this brief report of the first five meeting...
...The Sub-Getters George II, Goebel turned up at the Brooklyn party forum at the Academy of Music last Sunday with fire in his eyes...
...J. Van Vloten of Quincy, Mass., sends two, and E. Brennan of Hempstead sends two...
...The Marxian prediction of pauperization seemed for a while to be an exaggeration...
...New Leader Supplement In accord with our plans for expansion, The New Leader will soon publish a supplement on workers' education in cooperation with the Rand School of Social Science...
...As the forum builds up, more will be obtained...
...Hempstead, by the' way, is probably the only party local that runs two forums, the other forum being at Valley Stream...
...Watch for it...
...They do...
...I carry several hundred.] of these with me, and for the first time in years at every local so far visited I am agreeably disappointed...
...they appeal to ancient prejudices and hysteria, against the Negro and the Jew, the worker of alien origin, and others who do not fit in with their ignorance and malice...
...Well, this time we only had about 200 people...
...The struggle now is to obtain adequate representation of the workers and to oppose the transfer of the codes into the hands of a corporate oligarchy...
...Small but good meeting in Workmen's Circle Hall...
...The A. F. of L. by a unanimous vote at the recent convention adopted a ringing resolution against Fascism...
...That means Socialism...
...Workers and farmers would return to production on a vast scale...
...The many new and young faces along with the old-timers indicate a steadily growing party...
...The "New Poor" 'THE most active industry in this country is transforming human beings into paupers Having transformed millions of workers and farmers into this type, the forces of depression also transform professional men and women into outcasts...
...It is YOUR paper, as much yours as though you were helping to make it up...
...Every local has a literature agent on the job and on his table in the hall is found a generous assortment of recently published pamphlets and papers...
...Roses and Bricks We receive both roses and bricks from our readers, and we are glad to get both...
...Considering that unemployment and poverty are still com-panions of the working class, and our locals are poor and far from effective, these meetings were successful...
...Sunday night in Providence, R. I. Fair-sized crowd and good results...
...A collection of $27.00 was received, lota of booklets were sold, subscrip...
...Considering how recent is this growth of our party in Nassau County, our comrades are to be congratulated for their splendid work, growth and success...
...Watch for it...
...They sit at the feet of Hitler or Mussolini and glorify bombast...
...Fascism has enlisted its poets, novelists, essayists and journalists...
...What is this if not the Swope idea...
...Every girl of 12 would be compelled to wear a belt like the appliance used by deserted wives during the crusades, the father to keep the key till the girl married...
...All are likely to attract the gangster and the adventurer with an itching palm...
...Newark Socialist dinners are generally big affairs and this one is likely to measure up to the standard...
...In every city through out the United States, joint committees of bol'i should be set up together with educational n 1 fraternal organizations of the workers cap...
...John Jancar of New Jersey with three...
...About 300 people filled the hall on a bitter cold night...
...Perhaps G. B. Shaw's theory that our world is an asylum for the insane of other planets may yet prove true...
...Getting ti.e platform, he told the audienca about The New Leader and then some...
...Goodly quantities of pamphlets were also sold...
...tions to The New Leader were taken and a large number of copies were sold...
...Comrades over-ambitious...
...They will confine their activities against all organizations representing the workers...
...This struggle is vital, for the clammy hand of feudalism is reaching out for supreme power...
...le of cooperation to carry on the figlft...
...Every married couple would be required to have five children and fines would be imposed for failing to comply with this standard...
...Space is limited this week and we can only mention a few of the active comrades in the field...
...To stimulate interest in the cooperative movement we are arranging for a special contribution on this movement...
...It is a sad talc, Percy...
...Now in fighting for hours, wages and other conditions favorable to the workers in the codes, the trade unions did not get much representation in the governing bodies of the codes...
...This meeting was also the opening of the season's forum run by Branch Valley Stream and it encouraged our comrades immensely...
...Dollarized Capitalism TINKERING with the dollar isn't likely to help farmers and workers much and it is more likely to lead to inflation which will eventually ruin both...
...The Socialist movement fights on three fronts: political, industrial, and cooperative...
...The Socialist Party and the labor unions are recorded against this danger...
...F. Balek of Astoria, N. Y., arrives with three...
...What kind of changes do they have in mind...
...Charles Solomon and Frank R. Crosswaith will discuss "What Is the American Answer to Hitlerism...
...By this we mean praise and criticism...
...They constitute what is now called the "new poor...
...Saturday night in New Haven, a Morris Hillquit memorial meeting in Labor Lyceum, an overflow crowd...
...Friday night, Springfield, Mass...
...Also active are a few native kinds...
...The editor lectured at the party forum in Hempstead, L. I., Tuesday night to a small audience and four subs were taken...
...What the temperature is in the office of the Republican leader, no man saith...
...This column is in charge of Mark Khinoy who reads a number of languages and has been a Socialist for many years...
...Verily, the old days and the old pioneering spirit are in our movement again...
...Today it falls far- short of describing what has actually happened...
...A survey of hospitals in New York City shows that 11 j)ercent of this type lie in wards unable to pay hospital fees...
...Here is an opportunity for Socialist organizations and the unions to cooperate in an educational war against Fascism...
...These letters, which we receive from the comrades in the field, help us to understand what the...
...Commit :ees should be elected without delay to take up this matter and work out methods of cooperation...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
