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Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters OUR ANTI-WAR AND MAY DAY NUMBERS 11/K tt'« going ahead with that Anti-War number of The New Leader " which will appear on April The League of...
...This was true...
...The maintenance of the slaves was a constant charge on the plantation...
...Our state office is in Cleve- „ . _ land- and...
...Don't we have the Statue of Liberty in New York Ilarlw and don't the academic poodles of the universities swear that they have investigated and have not found a class struggle ? That is also distasteful medicine for the princes of industry To admit that there is s basic conflict of interests between those who own and those who do not, between shirkers and workers, would be to throw • glaring light upon a basic disease of capitalism itself and the medicine for that ailment is even more revolting to the masters...
...The best progress is in the northern counties...
...Each was a shadow of what a young^ man might be...
...The May Day number will be published on April 28...
...When the class struggle grins over the shoulders of the debaters the latter ignore it...
...I could also < write about the large and aggressive Unemployed Leagues functioning in Ohio...
...So far as the owner is concerned, the worker does not exist when there is no demand for liis labor power...
...Take the Cure A NEW cure for disease has been discovered...
...as inA¦«,,•, Claewen...
...Down with it...
...Work will continue in Canton and, with the help of Bessemer of Akron and Ets-ng of Massillon, Canton will soon have a local...
...So there is another "menace" to disturb the peace of our active patriots and the ladies have discovered some teachers who "do not believe in 100 per cent Americanism...
...About that in a future article...
...He forgets the disease, it disappears, he gets into the radical harness—and there you are...
...none very large, but there are fine groups of comrades at work in many places...
...Recognizing the talent of Socialists, it is quite natural that the enlightened leadership in these unions should welcome our assistance...
...Father Corbett is fearful of granting power to Congress over children...
...Sign up with a radical organization and forget all about it...
...Don't Shoot...
...Feebly they crawled out of the depths to wander ink...
...We aak these comrades to have mercy...
...The Austrian Rising QUT of the magnificent fight of the Austrian workers has come a new spirit in the Socialist movement in this and other countries...
...One outstanding achievement is the excellent contacts established with the trade unions...
...George Goebel came in one day and says, says he: "I want a meeting...
...In the evening we stormed Youngstown, and with the aid of Comrade Yellen and a gang of splendid comrades from Girard and Hubbard we succeeded in organizing a local and started a dozen new comrades on their work...
...He is induced to join some radical organization where he can express his hate against the existing social order...
...And the influx of the numerous new members into these unions present problems of labor education that the leadership is incapable of coping with...
...As Comrade Oneal is coming, he will meet with the active spirits in the labor movement and address large gatherings of organized workers...
...We are doing the best we can...
...Let George do it 1" isn't a bad slogan...
...So he was assigned to the Thomas-Long debate and, to be sure that he would be appeased, also the Carnegie Hall meeting...
...Root is frightened over the prospect of undermining local self-governvent...
...The proletarian note struck by the speakers found a responsive echo in the vast audience...
...When the owner of industry doesn't want this labor power, he does not buy it and that is all there is to it...
...The Carnegie Hall meeting was the most dramatic and inspiring held since the World War...
...Ah, if we had but a larger crowd of efficient and levelheaded speakers, organizers and comrades trained for special labor activities, what a grand offering we could make and what attention, contact and prestige we could obtain for our great causel Fortunately, most of our Ohio comrades understand this wonderful opportunity...
...Result, over a hundred new subs and George has quieted down again...
...Not so for (he modern wage worker...
...Goebel Does It...
...In New York City alone there are 243,000 families dependent upon charity compared with 20,000 in 1929...
...They remind us of the sick boy who wants to get on his feet, but who is required to take some medicine that is revolting to him...
...Next I came into Willoughby, a suburb of Cleveland, and spoke to a fine crowd of rubber workers, mnny of them former miners from the Hocking Valley...
...These comrades, generally not workers,, fail to 1 realize the necessary labor basis ' for a genuine Socialist Party...
...evening, dinner...
...It has a definite therapeutic effect...
...In gatherings around coal stoves I met fighting coal miners, listened to their tales in gorgeously rough language and got to know some characters that will remain vividly in my memory for a long time...
...They do not want charity...
...Meeting in Washington this week the princes were told that if they want to get their enterprises going again they will have to drastically reduce the hours of labor and wages must be increased...
...ComradeYellen has also made arrangements for a huge mass meeting of rubber workers in Akron to be addressed by Comrade Oneal...
...many other states, it is povertystricken...
...Both disappear into the obscurity from which they had emerged to join the wastrels and human by-products of a capitalism that cannot insure them meals...
...I would fervently recommend the Hocking Valley and its rebels to any aspiring novelist in search of material for a proletarian novel...
...No medals were awarded them nor had they written a classic in science, art or literature...
...It was s rare experience to see him at work visiting one union office after another and observe the .friendly relationship between the onions and as...
...Even though we may get columns of newspaper publicity, attract groat numbers of prominent people clergymen, professors, Y.M.C.A...
...The Austrian situation required that we cover it fully and this crowded out many contributions...
...what they do not want is what they get...
...The lalsjr movement is also undergoing a rapid transformation...
...Our comrades caught that spirit and they are responding fn kind...
...the central and southern tiers have but few locals...
...The sick capitalists wince at this medicine...
...In spite of very disagreeable weather I had two good meetings in Akron...
...I fell head over heels in 1 »ve with one of them, Comrade D. F. Pullen...
...There are many others who feel the same way...
...Hold your fire, comrades...
...Since the founding of The New Leader we have each year issued a May Day number and we are planning a fine number this year...
...The large and sudden growth in many trade unions and the coming of the Federal Unions, popularly known as vertical unions, has wrought a great change...
...State Secretary Piercey of Kansas believes that "apathy and disharmony" of party members will decline with increased Leader circulation in the state, and he orders a bundle of 20 for four weeks...
...Samuel Laderman writes from Chicago that the Leader "is geting richer in material every week, and I believe that it is well on the road to become the national Socialist weekly...
...They cannot afford to acknowledge that such an "un-American" thing exists here...
...So the "free worker" is consigned to charity...
...Claessens' Dates Dates for Comrade Claessens continue as follows: Sunday, March 11, Pittsburgh (2 p. m.), Malta Hall...
...He joins and gives an cutlet to his spleen...
...the City Hall with other outcasts to plead for a job shoveling snow...
...Its success should be a lesson to Socialists every where...
...It is the Child I.abor Amendment...
...His maintenance is not a part of the scheme of capitalist production...
...Haven't had anything to eat all day," said one and that was also the plight of the other...
...Comrade Yellen and I went en to Massillon for a small after afternoon meeting, and along with Comrade Long and a group of Massillon comrades we tackled Canton...
...The labor and Socialist organizations in all nations are responding to the needs of the Austrian workers by sending aid and the heroism of the fighters has brought inspiration to the working masses in all lands...
...Even if he finally accepts it, he will spill half when the doctor isn't looking...
...He looked vicious and determined and we thought, "Well, we'll have to humor him...
...This magnificent Socialist and his most hospitable wife made me a relative of theirs...
...State Secretary Sidney Tellen and the State Organiser Karl Pauli work for bare expenses...
...The "Free Worker" ^JNE answer slave owners in ,he Old South always made to their Northern critics was that they fed and housed their slaves whether they worked or not...
...A 30-hour week bill has been unanimously reported by the House Labor Committee which seems to be a threat that if the code delegates meeting in Washington do not agree to tin's, the 30-hour week will become law...
...The Austrian working class fought not alone for itself but for the workers of the world...
...That means not less than a million human beings...
...A member of the staff of the Presbyterian Hospital announced this new method of treating illness...
...Medical treatment ? No...
...Isn't it just shocking...
...Until the Socialist Party obtains ' close relationship with the organ- ' ized workers and farmers it cannot function for its great mission...
...votlon equally divided between their new anion and their new party...
...and social workers, lawyers and what not—and all this is to the good—we might grow as a respectable and attractive party, become as "radical" as pseudoBolsheviks and we still would not be a Labor Party...
...His labor.power is bought and paid for...
...The New Leader had the Vienna Red Special ready within 48 hours, the Madison Square Garden meeting was under way within a few days, a manifesto to the party members was issued, the relief work was soon under way and a radio reply on a national hookup answered Chancellor Dollfuss...
...This is partly doe to a greater density of population in the North and better facilities for travel and contact in organization work...
...Boosting Boosters State Secretary Edson of Florida congratulates us on "the special editions exposing the situation in Austria" and wishes he could have circulated thousands in his state...
...March 12, Fayette City...
...We went on to Warren and had a good afternoon meeting A fine local here and a commodious headquarters...
...A letter has gone to every party branch throughout the country regarding greetings and bundle orders...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters OUR ANTI-WAR AND MAY DAY NUMBERS 11/K tt'« going ahead with that Anti-War number of The New Leader " which will appear on April The League of Nations has shriveled up, two Fascist alliances appear to be emerging in Europe, the imperialist power* are building more armaments, and—well, you know what is likely to happen...
...he ladies declare that we have had enough "socialization...
...The cure for THAT disease is the discharge of the masters which means the liberation 'of the working masses and the opening of the gates of employment to them...
...the slave owner bore that responsibility...
...Among those invited to contribute to this issue are Norman' Thomas, Kirby Page, Devere Allen, Andrew Biemiller, Jesaie Wallace Hughan and Jaspar HeLevy...
...He threatens to shoot a death ray if it does not appear soon...
...There still are a few here who are unfavorable to ' the trade unions...
...Match 13, McKees Rocks...
...In Athens County are the famous Hocking Valley coal fields, the scene of bitter class warfare several years ago...
...Fire in the subs, comrades, and let as talk to hundreds of thou* sands in the next few years...
...Two young men, one 25 and the other 35, made the headlines of the daily press...
...Our meeting was fair but did not result in the formation of a local...
...Unless we have a substantial following of enlightened workers we can not be a working-class party...
...Party members and Yipsels flocked to party headquarters and there was eagerness everywhere to do anything that would help in the emergency...
...Take the cure...
...The speech has brought thousands of these requests and additional help has been necessary to mail it...
...This is a new local and it already has a large and active membership, their de...
...Our cause is deathless I Doctors and Diseases TTHE high princes of capitalism present an amusing spectacle...
...The Communist nuisance has disappeared...
...Having been present when these plans were made, I ran say that such fraternal cooperation between the party and the trade unions can not be dupli cated m any other state...
...Buffa ambled wearily into the Mayor's reception room and there he collapsed "from hunger...
...If the children were only tending machines and we all loaded up with 100 percent Americanism this would be a happy nation...
...Pathos, tragedy —but why continue...
...We have locals In many parts of the state...
...Our local here is new and small, but in quality it is pure* gold...
...Oscar Kristopis showed a ropy of The New Leader to a friend and immediately got his sub...
...I am now entering Pennsylvania for my final four weeks and I am looking forward to work with the most rapidly growing Socialist Party in the country...
...There are still some available dates in Western Pennsylvania for August Claessens, and locnls and branches that would like to have him should make arrangements at once through The New Leader office or the State Office of Pennsylvania, 122 Ninth St., Pittsburgh...
...I came into their home a pretty siek man and they nursed me so affectionately that I really left their modest family circle a new man in health and spirit...
...During the past week I worked In Athens County, in Willoughby, Massillon, Canton, Akron, Warren and Youngstown...
...Two Prominent Men JOSEPH BUFFA and William Pikarsky became prominent men for one day and then sank to the depths out of which they had risen...
...The class antagonism emerges in tl e conflict of opinion on this issue between workers and owners...
...Curtain...
...The radical movement becomes a medical college...
...A worker who is unemployed and afflicted with a disease is brought to the hospital...
...It works...
...I arrived in blizzard and zero weather and met with small audiences of miners in The Plains, Athens and Nelsonville...
...This Is wholly due to the genius, tact, persistence and realistic attitude of Comrade Yellen...
...Never has there l>een such solidarity within party ranks as since the Austrian rising...
...The "free worker" in this respect has sunk below the level of the black bondman...
...Olof P. Vietorien of Minnesota writes that The New Leader has "improved wonderfully in the past four weeks" and approves our support of "fundamental principles...
...Several thousand dollars have already been raised and more is coming in...
...Thanks to this the Ohio Socialist Party convention will have at its sessions ,mass meeting and banquet in Cleveland on March 23-24-26 fraternal representatives of the Cleveland Federation of Labor and probably from other cities as well and from some international unions...
...Here in New York City the beginning of ftle insurrection came as an electric shock...
...A couplo of school teachers in The Plains are the soul and inspiration of our new movement in Athens County...
...Do you have a boil, rheumatism, eczema or some other ailment...
...We are again crowded and will have to end this with a card from David George of Virginia, who is thrilled with the "tone and quality" of the last issue, who heard and liked the broadcast in reply to Dollfuss, and continues with appreciation of New Leader features...
...There is so little money for organization work, so little to do anything with that it is amazing to see what really fine work is being done at such sacrifice...
...Joe Sharts of Ohio sends us a peremptory command regarding a program he expects to go before the Detroit convention and which has been on our desk for several weeks...
...Workers want the shorter hours and higher pay while the owners are opposed...
...Marked improvement" and "becoming more valuable to party members," writes William A. Ahern of Massachusetts, who passes on a number of suggestions that will be considered...
...Pikarsky, emaciated and white, fell to the floor...
...Elihu Rout, former Secretary of State, the yueensboro Federation of Mothers (Hub and lather Corbett, have called our attention to it...
...The Dollfuss Broadcast This is written on Wednesday afternoon and- requests are still coming in from various sections of the country for the editor's reply to Dollfuss which was broadcast over the Columbia network on February 26th...
...The exploiter bears no responsibility for the fate of the exploited...
...Another "Menace" MORE and more the "nation" is faced with a new peril...
...While our organization is still poor, if we record the growth in recent years and compare the number of locals, membership and activity since 1928, our revival in Ohio is most eratifvine...
...The Progress of Socialism in Ohio By A«q«it Cloessens I HAVE spent twenty-five days in Ohio and worked in eighteen cities...
...Act on this as soon aa possible...
...March 14, Tarentum...
Vol. 17 • March 1934 • No. 10
