Top o' The Leader Tower With Leaders 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Leaders 'n' Boosters By the Editor THE BIG NUMBER NEXT WEEK! WE are all set for the great Tenth Anniversary number of The New Leader next week. At this time we cannot...
...He is from Isafjord, which he represents in the Alting, and there he is manager of the cooperative fishing society...
...Keep this in mind when you order a bundle...
...The German idiocy is directed against the Jews and the old labor and Socialist movement in Germany, hut the child mind emerges in the comparison between the German "election" that brought Hitler into power and the election of President Roosevelt...
...Among the greetings from abroad will be messages from Santiago Iglesias, Emile Vandervelde, Karl Kautsky and Rafael Abramowitsch...
...This is like a man who is diseased on one side and healthy on the other...
...There are more people receiving relief today than at any time Tluring the depression...
...This may be true, but when these Federal agents were gagging us during the World War, iloot and the rest were hot for the Federal police...
...Jonsson is one of five Socialist members of the Alting, which consists of 28 members, and one of the regular contributors to Althydu-bladid, the highly successful Socialist daily published in Reykjavik, the capital of the country...
...The facts are embarrassing to the New Dealers and they must explain it...
...Comrade Kondla of that branch also has succeeded in placing The New Leader on several newsstands around Paterson which he supplies from the bundle his branch gets every week...
...Federal Administrator Hopkins tries to explain...
...The country is a free republic in everv essential, with a Look Out for Jokers WORKERS of the nation may well watch the Wagner Bill as it is shaping before Congress as it may put them into a straitjacket...
...Socialist will want to file away because of its historical value...
...As a general rule the "right-thinker" is a gentleman or lady who thinks that, on the whole, everything is all right—except "wrong-thinkers," The "right-thinkers" as a rule are easily recognized...
...The Health of the NRA ^IIE Blue Eagle is a realistic emblem...
...On Wednesday the amendment was killed by a unanimous vote of the Republican and Demxo-cratk members of the Senate Judiciary Committee at Albany...
...The unions and the Socialist party are essentially one...
...The comrade* of Passaic (N...
...It is moderately warm all year round and covered with vegetation, although there are few trees...
...George F. Griffiths of Pittsburgh writes that the comrades are looking forward to a bundle of a thousand a week and the readers are increasing throughout Allegheny County...
...He is interested in the workings of NRA and its relations to the labor movement...
...And now we are off to the big issue we have looked forward to for many months...
...Elihu Root, Nicholas Murray Butler, William D. Guthrie and others of this class refer to the proposed amendment as "another constitutional curse" which to enforce requires a large number of government agents, detectives, undercover men and women...
...This indicates a measure facing both ways...
...He looks forward to Socialism within ten years and is not disturbed at the elimination of profit as pn incentive to human action...
...However, nearly all materials, clothing, machinery, etc., are imported from Europe...
...The masses would be vitally interested in the income to be received and their income would be pay for useful service, not profits to workless investors...
...It hovers over a nation still afflicted with the blues...
...Jonsson said that the principal product of the Icelandic fisheries consists of herrings, and the Government is trying to get American consumers to buy their herrings rather than the herrings of Scotland and other countries...
...Iceland, despite its name, is not an Arctic country...
...We may merely observe that there are certain appointive offices that are fil/ed by the President, but if he removed governors, mayors, sheriffs and members of legislatures and city councils we would have parallel to Hitler's action...
...One idiocy cancels the other...
...Imagine a bill prohibiting company unions but not prohibiting the bosses.from "assisting" the workers to organize...
...What is so far revealed shows some dangerous jokers and the fight for real unions and agaitist l>ogus unions Cannot be won under the shelter of a law as clear as a fog in New York harbor...
...William E. Bohn of the Rand School of Social Science...
...So will Clarence Senior, National Secretary of the Socialist Party...
...The Alting, Btarted in 931, is the oldest parliamentary body in the world...
...As a start, perhaps because they think that there is nothing better than a good example, the members are subscribing themselves...
...Norman Thomas will contribute...
...While here he interviewed a number of leading Socialists on those subjects, but it appeared that the American comrades were so deeply interested in learning about the ancient Viking land and its fascinating history that they asked more questions and sought more information than they gave...
...It's just dreadful...
...Before us is a document issued by German Nazis of Hudson County, N. J. It measures up or down, as you may prefer, with the millions in this country who referred k) nil Germans during the World War as "Huns...
...Peigenhaum...
...Anyway, the figure is only 1,470 now...
...Now you know what is right and what is wrong...
...So a "curse" is avoided and the class for whom Root, Butler and Guthrie speak can breathe easier...
...Reports of its character as it is being hammered into shape indicate a vagueness similar to the famous Section 7A of the N. I. R. A. One press story declares that one of its objectives, in addition to establishing a National Labor Board to arbitrate labor disputes, will be strict prohibition of company unions...
...Theodore Debs, who writes of the hardships faced by comrades who founded the Social Democracy and Social Democratic" Party which eventually became the Socialist Party...
...The illustrations will, in part, be a pictorial history of the Socialist movement in this country, including many old publications running back to the 'nineties, early constitutions, pamphlets and convention proceeding!, one the Union Congress of the Workingmen's Party held n Philadelphia in 1876, and—but we cannot list in detail this iinimip fpatiiro nf Hits pditinn...
...it will be one that every...
...Joseph Baskin, who will tell the story of the Workmen's Circle...
...Not only will this be a fine educational number...
...His views are unusual for one who has become wealthy...
...If it is admitted that the healthy side is becoming diseased but that the diseased side shows improvement, the ques--Mori is this: Is the tmui's health improving...
...Socialist Greetings Brought From Faraway Iceland By William M. Feigenbaum A SOCIALIST greeting from faraway Iceland came to the office of this paper Tuesday borne by Finnur Jonsson, member of the Alting, or national parliament, and one of the leaders of the important Socialist and labor movement of that interesting country...
...He explains this by the statement that many of the unemployed have been living on their savings which are now exhausted...
...Meet Our "Right-Thinkers" LI AVE you met a "right-thinker" lately...
...He declares that the total number of the unemployed is decreasing and yet admits that more people than ever are being carried on the relief rolls...
...Nathan Fine, who will write of the early working class journals...
...The right to sweat children in the interest of parasites has been approved at Albany and all's right with the world...
...That myjfterfous person has appeared occasionally in the press...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Jacob Panken and William-M...
...Hate rights more than State rights appealed to them then...
...J.) County are beginning to overcome their awe regarding the 1,600 subs necessary in the county in order that they may use one full page of The New Leader for county news...
...In addition, the™ nr» a few workers like building trade workers and printers...
...He declares that he and his brother at no time thought of getting money out of their invention but were always putting money into it...
...It appears that there are "right-thinking" and "wrong-thinking" people in this world...
...Of course, this must assume that Roosevelt used hundreds of thousands of armed private mercenaries to get a popular victory...
...This issue will also carry the May Day Manifesto of the Labor and Socialist International, illustrated with an inspiring drawing...
...Our party is closely bound up with the Labor movement," said Comrade Jonsson...
...A 1' The contributors include Jacob Winnen, a Socialist in Chicago in the 'seventies...
...Harry W. Laidler, who will write of the Socialist agitation in the colleges...
...The Nazi is a case of mental development arrested at about the age of five...
...The main occupation of the masses of Iceland are fishing and agriculture...
...The general feeling is that the figure 1,500 does not look so impossible as it once did...
...In fact, it was organized by the labor unions...
...They do not have to worry about this world's goods...
...Then it is reported that Senator Wagner "does not intend that the measure shall act as a positive prohibition against industries assisting their employes in organizing...
...Julius Umansky on the Socialist youth movement, and Jacob L. Afros on the Young Circle League...
...Passaic on the Job Only 1,470 subs more to go...
...And just think, the "wrong-thinkers" would spoil this arrangement...
...Passaic Branch gave the cue with 8 subs at a business meeting (Comrade Kroll prompting), and Paterson Central Branch added one sub better a few days later...
...The incentive of income would remain but profit income would be abolished...
...Fighting a "Curse" CIXTV-EIGHT men and women who never brought a child within range of a factory or sweatshop are mobilizing in New York State to fight the Child Labor Amendment to the Federal Constitution...
...Is there a difference...
...Soon every member will keep the weather eye open for possible subscribers...
...This is fine, but h would be a mistake to assume that this idealism would immediately be invoked among millions in a non-profit society...
...It is sufficient to say that they simply cannot think right with the "right-thinkers" and so they must be kept in their place—if you get what we mean...
...James Oneal, who will write of the later period...
...The Jersey Nazis add that Hitler-sent large numbers of (heir opponents to jails and concentration camps and replaced "all office-holdjys with members of his own party as 'we do also after each election...
...It isn't necessary to describe the "wrong-thinkers...
...Child Minds 'AMONG the "rights of man" we believe in the right to he an idiot and quite a number of Germans in this country are asserting this right...
...Workers have.piled a plenty into their laps and this arrangement is just as it should be—dontcha know...
...At this time we cannot tell how many pages it will contain, but it will be the largest we have ever issued...
...Others supported by relatives or friends can no longer take care of them...
...It is interesting how big exploiters, their lawyers, and little Ixnirgeois with ample incomes can get into a lather about "State rights" and be undisturbed about the right state for children of the working class...
...Their place is at the bottom of the society that is ruled by the "right-thinkers...
...The country is the oldest, and possibly the purest democracy in the world, with :lose to 100 per cent literacy and absolute and equal justice for all...
...Both are presented as popular elections...
...The men who put personal funds into an invention out of sheer pleasure of working out an experiment will be more numerous than now, but it is not necessary to assume that this motive will become general in a Socialist society...
...There are four daily papers in Reykjavik, and many books and magazines are printed...
...Comrade Jonsson was passing through New York on his way to England, where he will remain for a few weeks...
...To answer this statement and the question would I* to assume that our readers are as stupid as these Nazis...
...The Profit Motive IN a recent nunjber of the weekly, Today, Orville Wright, co-inventer of the airplane, is quoted on the profit motive...
Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 16
