More Readers Jor The New Leader Is a Sore Need Jor the Socialist Party

Gaessens, August

Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor New Jersey State Convention and New Leader Dinner Almost phenomenal is the success of The New Leader Dinner this Sunday, Dee....

...Paul, 16-17...
...Maybec,' I replied...
...A CORRESPONDENT expresses fear that a Socialist transformation will oestroy homes and make us live in uniform barracks...
...Akron, 22-23...
...Grand Rapids, 6-7...
...There are wanderers whose "home" t is a dark niche concealed from the police...
...Minneapolis, 13-14-16...
...In these days of drift and experimentation, with great promises and small achievements, the air is full of questions and doubts and of hope and dispair...
...Where are we going...
...I thanked them for their fine spirit and thoughtfulness...
...Pittsburgh, 26-27-28...
...They told me how much they are going to miss me during the next three months and wished me health and success...
...Chicago, 8-9-10-11-12...
...Super-capitalism would have all men born of the same length, so that all cradles could be standardised...
...Every Chicago reader should oass this information on to others...
...explanations and interpretations...
...The Fascist Mold JLtUSSOUNrS recent speech to his black shirts on the "Corporative State* was an excellent criticism of capitalism...
...Within the past year or two The New Leader has received many queer things in the mail...
...Springfield, February 6-7...
...Nothing happened...
...Opinion and resentment lead to action only when they are organized for action...
...Milwaukee, 8-9-10...
...Even with full labor representation conceded there will be issues arising in the administration of codes that vitally affect the welfare of the workers and decisions will not necessarily go to workers because of this representation...
...Those that are awake and alert arouse others...
...The fear is like one who is frightened tint a flood might sweep away a town after much of the town has been swept away by a flood...
...What will the politicians do without me...
...We have idle and useless owners who take workless incomes from the toiling masses...
...Dayton, 21-22-23...
...a third makes it plain v/ith diagrams illustrating eras since 1900 and is kind enough to provide a key to interpret various cycles...
...If that item were on our program, capitalism has beaten us to it in many ways...
...With more readers must come more clarity in Socialist thought and action and more encouragement to the many new members and locals to do things and do them effectively and efficiently...
...In the economic scale of things the highest good is profit...
...So, noble freemen, the g-r-e-a-t issue—shall we drink in the dark or in the open?—has been settled...
...The NRA does not mean sweet harmony between the owner of capital and rhe seller of labor power, Where an industry has a code, it simply means that the conflict will be fought out within the code administration...
...However, Fascism simply subtitutes its form of standardization for capitalist standardization and does it more thoroughly than capitalism does...
...Something is bound to happen if things don't soon improve," said a tired radical...
...Socialists In the metropolitan area for miles will attend...
...Imagine at least several hundred thousand readers of The New Leader and other Socialist papers...
...he may even become an idiot and yet real service that is required will be hired...
...Came back home for a few days and I was given a comradely send-off by a group of my devoted New York City comrades and friends...
...Nowhere else has private enterprise had ;>uch free reign...
...I tried to convince him that things seldom happen...
...Government Ownership A READER is disturbed over an editorial in "Liberty" by Bernarr Macfaclden bearing the title, "Government Ownership Means Slavery...
...Lincoln, 24-26...
...Cleveland, 18-19-20...
...Today we have homeless towns, homeless families, mining towns with unifoim stables for miners, and cities where houses ait built so much alike for blocks that one must carry a light at night to find his way into his own rented shack...
...Our analysis of conditions and the prospects of the "New Deal," wherever given a hearing, makes a good impression...
...Solomon and Frank Crosswaith speaking on "America's Answer to Hitlerism," and Geo...
...Remember, when we had over a hundred thousand party members some 20 years ago, we also had over a million readers of Socialist papers...
...No, don't be afraid of Socialists destroying the home...
...Capitalism today is so parasitic that the capitalist may never sec the industries in which his capital is invested...
...More Readers Jor The New Leader Is a Sore Need Jor the Socialist Party By August Gaessens IN these troublesome times a strong Socialist Party is sorely needed...
...The Socialist conclu-sion and forecast was never more convincing...
...24-25-26...
...Of the present he said: '% The ideal of super-capitalism would be the standardization of the human race from the cradle to the coffin...
...There are millions of homes once owned by workers that have been lost and others that can-1 not be saved...
...Kansas City, 26-27-28...
...What will take it' place...
...South Bend, 13-14...
...I have little to report this week...
...What capitalist ownership ot industry has meant in terms of human suffering in five years is not stated...
...More Socialist readers mean more Socialist organization and activity...
...More circulation and more readers for the Socialist Party press is the great need of our growing party in these critical times...
...The fact is that no other nation has so litLe government ownership as the United States and it is worse hit by the depression than any other...
...Flint, 4-5...
...comments on the important events of the days...
...The Socialist Party can and does answer three questions...
...Ye Shock-Absorber DERHAPS the depression has made many normal persons looney...
...What of That Home...
...How many codes have such representation we do not know, but a number in the greater industries like steel do not have it and this lack is a peril to the working class...
...Madison, 11-12...
...But he has no stake and wants us to advertise him as a handsome Greek model available for marriage...
...Spontaneous economic or political changes are rare events...
...The old order before the depression will not return, he says...
...It cannot be faced and approved...
...Louis, 81, February 1-2-3-4-6...
...Government ownership is not Socialism...
...Then there is the Middle West fellow who throws up his hands and assures us that all workers are cattle and he is through...
...But our message does not reach enough .people...
...Socialism is not realized till the natural resources and industry come under cooperative ownership, control and management of the masses through democratic agencies...
...More later...
...Given the opportunity, our press and speakers do make good...
...We are' interested...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor New Jersey State Convention and New Leader Dinner Almost phenomenal is the success of The New Leader Dinner this Sunday, Dee...
...Erie, 16-17...
...Let this army receive their weekly message of enlightenment, advice and encouragement and many things WILL HAPPEN...
...Rleary-eycd, the old guzzler sat at a table covered with confetti as an orchestra jazzed joy and a crowd roared its enthusiasm "I was a good issue in politics," said John...
...Harriman's "New Order" PRESIDENT HARKIMAN oi the U. S. Chamber of Commerce predicts a new order that will eliminate his class...
...One person figures out that the panic was foretold in Scripture and proves it with a table of epochs...
...To make sure that I would carry enough "Leaders" .ml pamphlets, they presented me with a large travelling bag...
...Have a drink with us...
...Not in the sense of the cash register, he adds, "but in the sense of adequate compensation for the service rendered...
...IndianapoUs...
...15-16-17...
...The dinner will be at 6 p. m. and will immediately follow close of the New Jersey State Socialist Convention which convenes at 9 a. m. Both dinner and convention will be in the W. C. Institute Hall, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark...
...This struggle for workers' representation is vital, for without it an oligarchy of control will be vested in the corporation magnates whose industries are coded...
...Labor and the NRA Codes COR several months a struggle has been going on to obtain labor representation in the NRA codes...
...When workers know their own interests they will get rid of this "service" and profit by the change...
...Detroit, 27-28-29-30-31, January 1. Lansing, January 2-8...
...Jefferson City, 29-30...
...And now I am heading West, full of pep and "rarin' to go...
...He does not say...
...H. Goebel as toastmaster, "A sell out" is the way the committee describes it...
...The structure of that new order is not mentioned...
...18-19-20...
...What next...
...Rochester, 10-11...
...Gaessens' Tour I Mica, December 8-9...
...facts, knowledge and the guidance of Socialist philosophy—all this is the indispensible nourishment for a growing Socialist body...
...A Suspect Returns JOHN BARLEYCORN, a suspected character who has been in hiding for more than a decade, returned to the United States precisely at 5 :32 p. m. on Tuesday, December 6. His return was the occasion of celebrations throughout the Republic and news of his adventures and final return continued to the eleventh pa{.e of the New York Times on Wednesday...
...If we locate a damsel who has money and will accept him, he will contribute half the proceeds to The New Leader...
...corporation mastery...
...There is to be profit that will be paid for "service rendered...
...Verily, comrades, friends and straphangers, the life of a Socialist editor is one of shock-absorber for queer winds of doctrine intended for you...
...another turns to astrology and finds an explanation in the position of the planets...
...He assigned to it three periods, the period of growth, the static period and the present period of decline which is the period of "super-capitalism...
...Chicago Newsstands % Chicago comrades are trying the experiment of stand circulation and The New Leader may now be purchased in that city on all important newsstands...
...It is ignored...
...Buffalo, 12-13-14-15...
...They render about as much service by owning as a slave-owner did by owning slaves...
...Bernarr assumes that our troubles in this country are due to government ownership...
...Columbus, 24-25...
...Cincinnati...
...News of what Socialists are doing here and throughout the world...
...Every effort must be concentrated in that direction...
...The convention will elect State party officers, and laminate candidates for Governor and U. S. Senator, 176 delegates ere ^ilready reported to the State office...
...What can and must we do...
...Beth Mussolini and Hitler try to pour all human Leings into one mold, a gangster mold...
...Four years of misery have brought only more misery...
...First meeting in Albany, and a good one...
...Sioux City, 18-19...
...What service do the ruling classes render by owning industries...
...Another from the same region becomes enthusiastic and wants to give his entire time to field work...
...it would have babies divert themselves with the same playthings, men clothed according to the same pattern, all reading the same book and having tht same taste for the movies...
...This is his attack on mass production and its results and it is largely true...
...It, may mean the same tyranny over workers as...
...Omaha, 21-22-28...
...Thr " uminous Coal Code did not provide for it, but this week Lewis of the miners was reported as a propsect-ive member of the coal code...
...Boaton Dinner Boston Socialists are arranging a New Leader dinner for Sunday evening, January 7, with Jacob Panken of New York City as the principal speaker...
...Well, I am again on the road...
...10th, with Chas...
...Our organisation is as yet too small, our public meetings too few and most of all our Socialist press lacks the' large circulation to be more effective in these hectic times...
...Now that our party is again definitely and splendidly on the up-grade, we must not forget to increase the circulation of the party press...
...Toledo...
...A Socialist out of contact with his own comrades is often only a brooding cynic...
...We would ignore it, too, if we were Bernarr...
...There are money experts so numerous that we cannot count them and a neo-technccrat turns up now and then...

Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 24


 
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