Two Worlds, One Dead, The Other to Be Born
Two Worlds, One Dead, The Other to Be Born MAY DAY, the international holiday of the workers of the world, comes-in a period of continued decay of capitalist civilization. For more than forty years...
...The victims want to use and the owners want to sell...
...Streck, Mrs...
...What strange place is this then, for their beautiful array...
...It is therefore fitting that we call the honor roll of comrades and friends who have helped...
...WBEN-W-falo...
...C. Letter, Wm...
...Rich golden-brown in hue, and of sparkling lustre, they might be costly topazes or Ceylonese zircons adorning a jeweler's window...
...The black forces of the old order, the clerical and capitalist reaction in Austria, have transformed the nation into a prison...
...In South America, in Japan and in the United States this last-ditch movement to save capitalism has its supporters...
...Modern war is something more than {he greed of capitalists, bankers and concession hunters...
...Wilklns...
...Cohen, \V...
...Indiana—II...
...Nevada Rev.' E. Peterson...
...F. Commlngs, A 1 Blemiller, M. Peters, Arthur E. Robin, Louis Peterson...
...No one can foresee what another May Day will bring...
...Now York—Martin Helsler, Wm...
...The need of the masses comes into conflict with the greed of the ruling classes...
...Illinois N. A. Hiss, M. franklin, M. Illniiilii, C. Pogorelec, L. Mujowskv, D. Goldstein, G. Moyland, J. F. Smith, J. Branson, Win...
...John Van Vloten, James Smith...
...Dempster, C. Lewis W. Goldberg, A. Siniontacclil, B. Robinson, H. It...
...Jacobs...
...Bangs, 0. Baye...
...WTIJR—ItarflmoTt...
...The modern machine and technics have heaped up vast productive powers...
...Utah—A...
...J. Favier, H. Usdansky, W Plampln...
...Despite the best generalship the workers may exercise, despite heroic sacrifices they may make, there may be other nations enslaved...
...Or out of the conflicting ambitions of the ruling cliques, out of imperialist greeds, the race for more armaments, the itch for the expansion of capitalist enterprise, or as a result of playing the idiot's game of the "balance of power," Europe or the world may be plunged into another hideous war...
...that is left for thi ruling gangsters of capitalism who send workers to the trenches in the name of God and country...
...WLIT— Philadelphia...
...Ruth M. Moore, T. II...
...Georgia—J...
...P. Donahue, T. J. Coonrod, Ralph rollings, H. H. Frcedhelm...
...For more than forty years the workers of the nations have celebrated tltis anniversary...
...Davis, M. A. Wolll J. P. <;irt, Nick Welllich, J. L. Robert son, John Kastrevcc, J. I...
...T. Nicholson, Daniel F. Downey, Acliillis Di Malllo...
...THE NEW LEADER ROLL OF HONOR IN the job of building the circulation of The New Leader, the most important factor is the worker in the field who never tires of...
...C Perry, J. H. Sullivan, J. Naislvera, Powell W. Smith, Joe Roth, M. E Mnlllnge, A. Martornmi, C, Parsons, John O. Cooper, C. Valensteln, Dick Eylers, Anthony Ztotnlk, A. Kushner, Otto L. Enders, Allln C. Depew...
...Normal Thomas will speak over NBC May Day from 2:15 to 3:30 p. m., East-ern Standard Time...
...Virginia—J...
...Toxaa—L...
...The Honor Roll Arltona Alva H. Shcwey...
...A. High, Henry C. Werner, D. B. Belsler, A. Savanow, II...
...Now Mexico—Leon Couscns...
...Conn...
...Nebraska—James S. Wallace...
...J Halt/ell, J. F. Hlggins...
...Nicholson, John M. SinejkHl, John A. Wecklund, John A. Antisdel, John K. Arnot...
...J. Hi aim, E. E Mollett...
...Missouri ,1...
...WWJ—Detroit...
...Clms...
...No matter how well the management may develop plans for circulation and push them, without these workers in the field no Socialist publication can succeed...
...Joe G. Brlnocar...
...Socialism is the world striving to be born...
...WCAE—Pittsburgh...
...California S. I...
...H. Macfarland...
...Since the last celebration the workers have suffered severe blows in Germany and Austria at the hands of'fascist vandals...
...WTAM—Cleveland...
...Ail son, Frank C. Page, B. W. Van Winkle, P. ft...
...L. Kibler, David Grow Washington C. E. Kirkman, S. link aiison, A. S. Thompson...
...Throughout the world the masses who understand their interests , organize to deliver the new world of Socialism...
...Montana—James D. Graham...
...It is a struggle between death and life, between l exploiters and exploited, between despotism and j freedom, between a possessing minority and a ' dispossessed majority...
...Connecticut — J. C. Bergen Peter Monte, Leonard E. Ftelin, S. Schacht...
...H. McFall...
...Borli Fogelion, Herbert Lubln...
...Jr S. Osliry, S. Stark, S. Llmbach, , W'elsberg, Frank J. Oberc, 6eo...
...This is happening in all the capitalist nations of the world...
...Homer L. Hylton, C F. trie...
...Wisronain—Geo...
...It is the Socialist aim and hope that inspires workers in the concentration camps of ! Germany and Austria, the tireless heroes who work and wait for a nemesis to overtake fascist Italy, the enlightened masses in other nations who suffer from the depression blight that broods i like a nightmare over their homes...
...The murder lust of the gangster in the lower reaches of society is not defended in terms of piety and ethics...
...Come what may, do what they will, the black forces of reaction cannot forever keep , their dead world from burial...
...Stegmelcr, Wl A. Blanklry, Elinor II...
...life of our shaggy ancestors, except that these ancestors did the fighting while our war-makers send those whom they exploit to the front to do the fighting...
...Iowa—J...
...Capitalism is a dead world...
...They want to sell the goods and their victims cannot buy...
...This recalls the striking statement of Matthew Arnold: We are living between two worlds, one dead, and the other powerless to be born...
...Here is a label back i the dish of sparkling jewels in tl Zoological Park cabinet— It reads, "Crystallized Snal Venom...
...WHC-Wushltigtpn: WCFI^-Chlcago;WMAO Chicago...
...Mlnlcn, A. F. Silver, H. Sheanin, H. KulMn, B. R. Foler, T. A. Walworth, Jos Andcregg, Selden Osborne, Edwin K. Wilson, M. S. Alderton, If...
...Now Jersey Samuel Edelatcln, George H. Goebel...
...E. Elkin, Or...
...It is a lunatic attempt of the war-makers to live the...
...Can it be that they are lookin more closely, than of old, at thoi same promises, assurances an devices, to discern what they hoi for them of injury beneath tk brilliant and colorful outwai aspect...
...Sherman, Roy E. Green, Emma Henry, 0. G. Oven-ash...
...Look...
...It is possible that a few may be overlooked in the list below and, if so, it is hot intentional...
...Michigan—Nell Steabler, W. F. Peeler Max Kalb, Leonard Woodcock, Larry S Davidow, M. Kakanovich, Seth Whit, more, Thos...
...The masses cannot consume, the ruling classes cannot sell, and the machine comes to a standstill...
...V Hartman, E. G. ShenU, J. J. Nlsk...
...We.t Virginia—J...
...J ^Jte (Perilous fjewvl ¦y Eliot Whit* LIERE at the entrance to the Keptile House at the'Zoolog-ical I'ark, what seem brilliant gems are exhibited in a dish on the shelf of a cabinet...
...Edward...
...WJAR-rwt...
...Huuth Carolina—H...
...A. F. Oreni...
...W. Kahlman, Richard S. Parrolt, Sidney Yellln, A. Breilna, Dr...
...Lchmin Helen M y I kin...
...Where they are successful it merely proves an alliance between the ruling classes and the gangsters to maintain the old dying order...
...Ed Kildow Harol D. Parry, W. E. Annon, Win...
...This is the May Day ideal that inspires mil- J lions of enlightened workers throughout the j world...
...Promises to the workers of the world that their interests will be amply eared for by their exploiting masters dazzle less vigilant eyes with gemlike flash and color...
...R. Puddl-combc...
...For the moment the working masses have been crushed and their organizations have lieen destroyed...
...A. Losan...
...What then...
...Tennessee—G...
...Idaho—D...
...WFAI--Clnclnnall...
...THOMAS IN MAY DAY BROADCAST .."The Case, Against Fascism—Ad Answer to Dollfuss...
...O ie« on—Donald Kingslcy, Stephen i Christopher, A. Strelf, P. Wellzrr...
...afasaachmetta— F.dw...
...lliiettrinaiin, Sr., C. H. Bloom...
...WJ1 —Philadelphia...
...Both enable us to live in abundance, but an owning class monopolizes their fruits...
...i And what are the stakes...
...Germany rotting hysterical sections of the middle classes, allied with Nazi criminals, with peasants and the underworld, have delivered themselves to Hitler, the Junkers and big capitalists and bankers...
...Kansas John W. Plerccy, Peiiztann Briggs...
...WEES—Boston...
...It must go to > the tomb, unhonored and unsung, a hideous , memory for those who live b the future And I read its history...
...On the other hand, the barren fruits of fascist rule, the misery of its victims, its inability to solve the contradictions of capitalist production, the continuance of the crisis, are likely to bring recruits to social revolution in one or more nations under the hoots of the fascist terror...
...Each year they have gathered in great mass meetings to rejoice over victories and to consider defeats, to take stock of their experience and to plan for the future...
...And yet the many devices make the saddles slightly leu gg] ing, the curb-bits easier, and tl spurs a degree less sharp, -*hi the riders still refuse to get off tl backs of the exploited, are steadil losing their specious attraction f( the ridden...
...The stakes are the productive 1 powers of the world...
...Throughout the old decayed world of capitalism, monarchist and j clerical, fascist and militarist, capitalist and banker, imperialist and nationalist, seek to pre- ! serve the old order of decay...
...It must go to ' join the regime of the Roman masters, the ( feudal rule of the Middle Ages, and our old , slave oligarchy in this country...
...Flavell, Henry Puranen, W. C. Hutchins...
...M. Norrls...
...Florida Mrs...
...And why this reversion to infancy...
...M. Caldwell, L. 1 Rottenberg, Roland Whytock...
...Ohio—H...
...Not understanding the causes of the deadlock, hysterical sections of the population turn to fascist gangsters...
...Ruth Siahe, John Koaln, Mrs...
...bringing the paper to the attention of others and getting subscriptions...
...Jurnbson, Wi G. Illkeliluger, Reginald Wilson, tin G. Clark, C. R. Schrelder, J. S. Thonii son, L. A. Slrlik, Anton Zornlk, a. : Barker, S. J. Marino, A. V. Kaiser...
...V. Britton...
...WKBF—IndliinapolitjWCSH Portland, Me...
...C. F. Cluck, Morris Berman, F. Kadel, Prosper Sc net ting, E. G. Simlngton, Alex Wlberg, W. bolder...
...It is a throw-back to an infantile stage of human development...
...Pennsylvania Geo...
...W. H. Trognltz...
...New Hampshire—R...
...Assurance that the dispossessed inheritors of a divine birthright in the earth and its manifold resources, may now safely abjure retort to strikes or other like ru& nesa of revolt, and trustingly ,¦„„ mit their welfare to those who hai confiscated the common inherit*^ and now claim to "own" it, fgw nate the over-hopeful by their %\\ terlng display...
...Cities and villages will be reduced to ash heaps, the dead will strew the battlefields, the crippled and the blind will be carted back to their homes as waste products of the war, debts will again be piled up, civilian populations will be destroyed by poison gas, disease germs will be released, and bombing planes will drop explosives upon great cities...
...Rhode Island—J...
...In the rest of Europe the working masses face the possibility of a struggle with a similar fascist reaction...
...The speech will be offered by tte NBC Red Network to the foltowtal stations: ¦/ . WTIC—Hartford...
...WTAG—Worcester, Mass...
...Wyoming—Roy Mines...
...David F. Davis, Geo...
...WGV—Schenectady...
...r the maniacs in the seats of power may find thai their orders for conscripts to mobilize for mutual' destruction will be answered with a refusal, with strikes tying up transport, production, communications, and thus paralyze the preparations for another blood bath...
...In that event, the workers will have learned that the "enemy" is not across the frontier but within the nation itself...
...Minnesota—Slgmund M. Slonim, Olaf P. Vlctorien, Jones Juane, Wm...
...From the machine gushes vast quantities of goods which pass into the hands of the owners of the machine...
...Refusal to die for the despoilers at home would bring a crisis within the nation for the ruling classes who hazard their all upon a ca4I for war...
...C. Cole, A. J. Tandzy, S. P. Levenberg, A. Kallsh, A. D. Atkinson, Earl C. Hamilton, Thos...
...The greatest in the i long history of the struggle of slave and bondman to be free...
...Do they not belong in some museum collection of the world's precious stones, rather than so near these cages and dens full of dangerous live creatures...
...L. Wilson...
...It is the effort of the ' masses to acquire the ownership and control of j raw materials and industry, reorganize them J on a Socialist basis, to revive our industries, dis- i charge the present owners, and guarantee access ] to all forms of employment to every able-bodied 1 human being...
...Tenth Anniversary Number is the place to call that roll...
Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 17
