OUR NEW FEATURE
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers V Boosters By the Editor OUR NEW FEATURE DKGINNING this week The New Leader will provide its readers with " an interpretation of events in Washington by a...
...Philadelphia Yipsels order a bundle of 100 in>l Asbury Park, N. J., takes 150...
...65 at two meetings...
...Not a banana or an orange of the fruit region will belong to the workers...
...Next to George Goebel, Martin Heisler 'in upstate New York made the best drive...
...Organize the Jobless COCIALISTS fight on a number of fronts, the political, the economic, the cooperative and the cultural...
...That is the result of every such war...
...Who will be next...
...In these perilous times nothing should be' taken for granted...
...D, Downey, of the same state, writes: "May I say how pleased I and my comrades are in the new* ness of The New Leader...
...Not fast but sure...
...Fascism, the looney creed of a dyirtg capitalism, will even openly approve this policy...
...Workers of both nations kill each other...
...The Wcirton Steel Company, located in the barony of Pennsylvania, the regal province of Prince Meljon, assumes this attitude...
...A Code for Funerals TJJti want a code of fair competition in funerals so that after dying our bodies will not be a by-product for enriching extortioners...
...Gloomy Gus leaves the hall when Goebel appears on the scene...
...Now new tasks await the whole working class, tasks that require a new class consciousness and renewed fighting spirit...
...Kitfhto, comrade...
...On the contrary, they must be encouraged to organize and fight against the neglect that consigns them and their dependents to stark want...
...The paper is getting hotter every week," writes George Dim-mick of Rome, N. Y. "The New Leader has come out so much better lately," writes John 11...
...If you have the money you enter and purchase the article you want, in this case the commodity being a candidate for public office...
...A Fortieth Anniversary THE United Hebrew • Trades Will celebrate its fortieth anniversary in New York City on Sunday and The New Leader congratulates the Jewish workers...
...That battle was eventually won...
...When this job is completed the workers will all look like sawdust dolls...
...An example is the old accusation against Socialists that we would reduce all workers to a dull level of uniform life...
...That is the substance of the struggle as reported in the press...
...After the cat paign he began to read The New Leader...
...Do not neglect any pi.rty work, but also give what time you can to inspire unemployed workers with the need of class solidarity through organization, education and struggle for relief...
...What do you think of 65 subs at two meetings...
...Freedom, Work and Bread' Early in the summer the Socialist Party and the 200 trade unions of Holland several weeks ago got up a joint committee to carry on a special propaganda simultaneously against the two antidemocratic movements, Fascism and Bolshevism...
...Keep this new feature before your prospects in your drive for subs...
...Certainly not...
...They claim that fully 80 per cent of their serfs really love the company union...
...Hence the suggestion of a code...
...He will accuse others of offenses of which he himself is guilty...
...The Boston Dinner Arrangements are about completed for The New Leader Dinner at the Bradford Hotel, Sunday, January 7, at 7 p. m. Jacob Pan-ken, former municipal judge in New York City, will be the principal speaker...
...It will go into the hands of labor exploiters who were never on tne firing line...
...Not large mass meetings...
...That's George's record...
...That hypocrite is abroad today in the form of capitalistic programs...
...He bagged several subscriptions, the "Big-Wigs" front page article last week getting the last one and now he wants to join the party...
...Perhaps the serfs would sign a document declaring that they would die for the steel gentry...
...He fired ten new subs and close on his heels came M. Franklin of Chicago with 9. Remember, this is the gift season...
...You will get many an item of information from Observer that you will not get from any other source...
...Goebel at the Bat . When George H. Goebel goes to bat, the bleachers are all attention...
...George gathered in 45 subs at The New Leader and party dinner in Newark last Sunday and 20 at the Bronx party Open Forum...
...Living, we are exploited...
...We are sure that this will help to clarify thinking...
...Its propaganda qualities are being devel* oped more now, it appears to me, than for some time past...
...Will the NRA please provide a code for the dead...
...This committee soon began to issue a weekly paper for free distribution, with the title "Freedom, Work, and Bread...
...It will appear next week...
...For a long: time we have wanted a com...
...Of course, some good people were "shocked" to hear of this, but it is not an unusual business transaction...
...Valuable Property 'J'HE politics of the reigning princes of capital and finance sometimes resembles a department store...
...By the middle of August the circulation of this paper had reached 50,000...
...Locals Philadelphia and Newark have also decided to place The New Leader on all the newsstands of their respective cities...
...Fruits of a Fruit War A WAR between Bolivia and Paraguay is raging over the possession of Chaco and the casualties arc proportionally greater than in the World War...
...To reach them with meetings and literature is not difficult, but to get them to assert their claims through organization is not so easy...
...Older members will recall the days when conservative American workers discriminated against Jewish workers and the latter had to fight for a place in the sun...
...On December 6 a hearing at Washington disclosed that there is much racketeering in directing funeral services and that families mourning their dead have been swindled by various practices in die trade...
...Why not send The New Leader to a friend...
...But when the war is over, what of the stakes...
...There isn't a phase of activity in Washing, ton with which he does not have some contact...
...We have only one ambition: to awaken the masses to class-consciousness and to build a well informed and powerful Socialist Party...
...next week...
...Sure, and a governor is a valuable piece of property that may prove very useful in an emergency...
...He bagged more than that at the Madison Square Garden meeting at the end of the campaign, but that was a much larger audience...
...All that they will get is lemons if you get what we mean...
...The logic of the arguments advanced, as well as the conclusions drawn, and 1 began to take hold and started talking about it to friends and enemies alike," he writes...
...Answer tvith more subs...
...Mighty Lords of Steel COME old aristocrat once said that "God will think twice before condemning a gentleman...
...He has a long and serviceable career in the labor movement and his many years residence in Washington give him an intimate knowledge of what is going on behind the scenes...
...These are only a few lines from a few letters out of many that are rolling in in appreciation of our efforts to bring out a better and better paper...
...Sub-Getters We wish that we could make mention of all the Jimmie Higgins who are sending in subs but space will not permit...
...In Germany the Nazi bosses have ordered that all the me.nbers of the German Labor Front shall be dressed alike from head to foot...
...If a man with a pile of cash wants to add a governor to his gas and oil holdings, why not ? Isn't this a free country, where private property is sacred...
...Socialist organization of the jobless not only tends to avert this because of the education they get but they are inspired to fight with workers in general for relief and emancipation...
...Let our enemies laugh that off—if they cau...
...AH experience shows that they are more likely to follow some demagogue...
...Down in Louisiana a Senate investigation has revealed that a gas and oil capitalist invested $75,000 in a candidate for Governor, said candidate agreeing to aid in amending a tax that was a financial burden on the investor's big propertie...
...and the committee has set 75,000 copies as its mark for the first ofjthe year...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers V Boosters By the Editor OUR NEW FEATURE DKGINNING this week The New Leader will provide its readers with " an interpretation of events in Washington by a Socialist writer who appears as "Observer...
...Jobless workers accomplish nothing by brooding over their fate...
...A Few Roses Yes, quite a number of them have been tossed our way in recent weeks, especially since the improvement in the display of our stuff...
...Johnston of Pittsburgh, who sends two subs...
...Ambrose M. Feeley of Massachusetts writes that he received the paper last year, but was so busy "straddling" campaign issues as editor of a small paper that he paid little attention to it...
...Now whether Paraguay or Bolivia wins, will the relatives of the dead soldiers and the surviving soldiers possess the rich fruit region...
...Now look at the tens of millions of toilers who look as though they came out of a mechanical mold, they are so much alike in their .nisery...
...It conducts a "primary" election in straight company union style for candidates to he voted for by the workers to "represent" them in (lie baronical court of the steel magnates...
...petent man who would do this job for us and now we have him...
...the next week 59,000 copies were distributed...
...Bundle Brigadiers Still they come...
...Observer knows what is news for the workers and he knows how to write and interpret it...
...Laugh This Off 'J'JIR hypocrite who publicly advertises his virtue but who is privately a crook or a scoundrel or both, is familiar to all...
...Next Week Th*> complex role which money plays in a capitalist society is not easy to explain, and even some Socialists are uncetrain as to the Socialist position on inflation...
...The conflict is to determine who will control a rich fruit region while Bolivia also wants an outlet to the sea...
...Steel, with railroads, oil and other corporations, has its influence at Washington...
...They will not on'y possess it...
...Are you with us...
...We are not trying to be funny...
...This rich stake is not for the workers...
...It is always a quiet transaction as the article in turn must be sold to the voters...
...Deceased animals provide soap and other products as a source of income, but the capitalist motive of profit that induces human beings to racketeer in the dead and to exploit human sorrow is a little too much for us...
...We will run an article on the U.H.T...
...Comrades are working hard to pack this affair with friends in the Greater Boston area and make it an inspiring gathering...
...Ruling gentry have often considered themselves above the law, even the law which their butlers in office enact, while their conception of God is a glorified capitalist with extensive investments that are as sacred as the mystic rites of ancient priests...
...Its owners received a code that other princes might envy and yet it is not satisfied...
...During the depression another front has faced us, the job nf reaching the unemployed...
...He wants an article on the money controversy...
...Ix>cal Paterson, N. J., has elected Ernst Kondea New Leader Agent and Local Asbury Park has elected S. Edelstein, Later...
...Faugh...
...The Yogoslavl Socialist Federation is making a vigorous drive among its branches to order bundles of The New Leader and to get subs...
...On Wednesday we were swamped with ones, twos and threes- and it would take a column to report them...
...they will also exploit many of the soldier workers who were at the front...
...dying, we are too often a source of income for racketeers...
...If the workers in the industry lose this struggle an important battle will be lost in a leading key industry...
...Workers fight and shirkers take what is won...
...It isn't true, as some seem to think, that jobless workers will swing to a Socialist movement in some extraordinary crisis...
...M. E. Edson, state secretary of Florida, writes: "I think you are improving The New Leader and hope that you can secure a large increase in the circulation...
...Keep up the good battle," writes John Petersen of Chicago, who wishes The New Leader "the best of luck...
...Next week we will present an article on this subject by David Berenberg, author of "The Essentials of Socialism...
...In the four decades since the founding of this central body of Jewish unions the Jewish workers have contributed much to the labor movement...
...To the extent that Socialists can help in organizing the jobless they should do so...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 25
