Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor THE LEADER'S BIG HIT OUR May Day and Tenth Anniversary Number made a big hit and we are still receiving occasional letters...
...A year a^o last March the number of unfortunates on relief rolls was 4,560,000 and the number now is in excess of this figure...
...During the five years of the Stauning government in office, the Socialist Party increased its dues-paying membership by 40,950...
...Keep me on th...
...You and your associates did a big job in a very big way in giving to the workers a May Day number of The New Leader of which we all have just reason to feel very proud and I believe that all other comrades will feel as I do...
...The number still unemployed is, in excess of 10,900,000...
...They paid so much for a nomination and when elected they recovered the investment and a profit as well by marketing their votes for important legislation...
...And this in a country half the site'of Maine and a population of only three and one-half million...
...I sent you twenty-flv< cents last month, now making ii fifty cents...
...the planned, brutal treatment of the liberals, Jews and other minority groups, and the complete destruction of democratic Germany, made possible through the sacrifice of 13 million men in the World War...
...The house, cow, poultry, tools and gardens were available to rural folk except in the South where 4he slave system reduced millions of whites to pariahs...
...We are still getting calls for this edition and a small number remains for the stragglers who want some extra copies...
...Here is a note from Theodore Debs that is typical of many that we have received...
...This condition it widespread and it ia a hard task to make headway against it and yet The New Leader has forged ahead in spite of it Such letters are depressing because they make vivid to us what Is happening to the workers...
...Many cannot repair their houses because of lack of tools and destitute families are even ia need of land...
...In the last sev eral years we have received man} pathetic letters from readers unable to renew their subscriptions asking for an extension of time 01 paying a small amount and urging that we wait a week or two foi the balance...
...The Leader has always been an excellent paper, but one cannot fail to recognize the improvement in the last several months...
...Wouldn't you like to spread yourself over a dozen states and have a number of Democrats and Republicans in each state represent you...
...And the price of deliverance of,the whole working class is a knowledge of Socialism...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor THE LEADER'S BIG HIT OUR May Day and Tenth Anniversary Number made a big hit and we are still receiving occasional letters referring to it...
...This is essential if the Labor Section is to continue...
...Become a public utility like electric power and you can accomplish tliii magic...
...Being unemployed, il ia hard for me to pay one dollai in one payment so I will have U make it in a few payments...
...It had 180,000 on Jan...
...Modern Poor Whites JJUNDREDS of thousands of rural families throughout the nation are on relief rolls and without a cow...
...Dividend paymer.fi have made a s'-ikii*^ reco try...
...It is receiving very fine response in Detroit...
...This registers a total of 515 favorable dividend changes compared with 156 last year...
...The Laboi Section should carry"great weight' with the workers...
...The chicken in the pot is still there but those who are enjoying the meal have not invited the working class to dinner...
...A Rotting Reed CII.AS H. STRAWN'S address at the U. S. Chamber of Commerce last week is a good index to the mind of our ruling class...
...Now Sumner was tho leading singer of the virtues of individualist capitalism and a small book of essays of his in the eighties became the Bible of our budding Babbitts...
...At one time buying law-makers was a brisk business in this country...
...The working masses still vegetate in misery, many millions are down to an animal standard of living, and we are now approaching a Congressional election...
...A similar letter comes from John Antisdel of Pontiac, Mich., who add* that The New Leader "Is the moat scholarly, authoritative pub lication of the party...
...But the opposite seems to be the truth...
...They have railroads and 'tdustrial plants because they did not eat them...
...The estate of George F. Baker, "grand old man of Wall Street," is reported at Only $73,000,000 because his large security holdings shrunk $23,000,000 since his death...
...Today we have plenty of wheat and breadless days, plenty of meat and meatless days, while the brainless days have extended into years...
...1, 1933, and 190,070 on Jan...
...This aver-* ages $3,600 a year for six years...
...National recovery" so far means the recovery of dividends for the owners of industry...
...They ar< alao inspiring because they display s spirit of sacrifice to get the papei that shows that The New Leader is appreciated...
...Of the total membership 124,031 are men and 66,039 women...
...Here is a sample front a New Jersey reader: "I am enclosing twenty five cents for the continuance of The Nev, Leader...
...He ceased to be vicepresident of a local power company and then while Senator began to receive "compensation for loss of employment" from the big utility company...
...We value our Democratic institutions too highly to seek support from groups who favor the destruction of Democratic institutions in Germany...
...Banker Shawn now exhibits it despite the wreck of fhe ideas it defends...
...1, 1934...
...This is an offshoot of capitalism just as revolting as the fate that has overtaken the industrial workers...
...I do so much wish I had some money to send for the cause," writes a California reader...
...The capitalist system reduced most everything to a matter of buying and selling...
...Sumner's little bocl...
...Let's draw the curtain...
...Now hundreds of thousands) of rural families have become "poor whites'* throughout the North...
...Surely the masters of capital appreciated that bo:i-mot...
...Sarah Limbach, state secretary of the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania, likes "the Labor Section very much and The New Leader in general is very good...
...The State of the Nation TP1IK n.ontl survey Dy ; American ! ti< n of Labor shows that the total income of industry is still 45 per cent below 1929, that the money wage for the year ending last March had increase << " per cent, but aa increase in the cost of living of 9.3 per cent cancelled this increased wage...
...They have...
...Weeks of planning went into that issue and no expense was spared to make it a unique special number...
...He is certain that *he greatest menace to the revival of capitalism is "lack of confidence...
...Capital is only formed by self denial,'' Strawn quoted from Sumner...
...Pittsburgh Socialists Spurn Unsought Nazi Endorsement (Continued from Page One) candidate, a: for the failure to endorse one of his opponents, stamps the Federation as definitely accepting and approving the destruction of the German trade union movement, and their political expression, the Social...
...Democratic Party...
...The Labor Section Fannia M. Cohn, secretary of the Educational Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, in writing of our Labor Section, declares that "It is imperative that the daily struggles, at well as the activities of the organised workers, should be recorded in The New Leader...
...He is like a man sinking in quicksand and clinging to a rotting reed...
...In some states rates were quoted f6r Assemblymen, Sen* ator and other office holders...
...There is the contrast...
...In upstate New York a State Senator is being investigated...
...On the 1st-of January, 1929, the party numbered 149,120 members...
...Have a weep with us...
...For inspiration the speaker went back to the writings of Dean Sumner of Yale University more than three decades ago...
...While chairman of the Senate Committee on Public Service this Senator received from a utility company $21,600 in six years...
...Now look at the other side of the picture...
...Larry Davldow of Detroit thinks that it "Is an excellent contribution to a better understanding of what is going on...
...IMPORTANT property interests in all ages seek refuge in law and the protection of government...
...During the World War we had wheatless days, meatless days and some millions had brainless days...
...The Depression Our readers can have no ade quate impression of how wide spread unemployment affects a So cialist publication...
...God's in His Heaven...
...41 Thousand New Members CINCE the Danish Social Democratic Party took over the jrovernment in 1929 and since the five past years were years of depression and unemployment, one had a right to expect that the Socialist Party would lose some support among the workers...
...Out of 670 dividend changes reported by Standard Statistics, for the first four months of 1934, there were 156 extra dividends, 128 firms increased their dividends and 231 either resumed dividend payments or paid dividends for the first time...
...The substance of the Sumner creed was that capitalists and bankers should own and control our economic life, workers should try to "save apital" and ascend to the heaven of the silk hats, and the government should serve merely as a policeman iO keep order in the struggle...
...Strawn comes to die front with a supply of the Sumner article and Ms fell >w fatwits accepted it in solemn session last week...
...God's in his heaven and big capital looks after its loyal servants...
...Sub bustlers: Read these messages and put a punch in your drive for subscriptions...
...The Socialist Party of Allegheny County, in behalf of its candidates, repudiates the endorsement of the German-American Federation...
...Sending four subs, R. F. Britton of Charleston, N. C, observes that the Labor Section "is a fine addition and will serve to introduce many members of organised labor to Socialism and in that way will convert them...
...He hopes that some plan will be worked out in Detroit to get subs among union workers...
...Hoover dragged this ides into the campaign of 1928, but befo.e he left office he tucked H away in moth balls...
...That is to say, that these unfortunate* are worse off the rural families were a century ago...
...list (or a week or two longer and I will get a dollar for the paper I must have," writes another from Illinois...
...hope you will be generoui enough in allowing me a six monthi subscription...
...Unlike the German-American Federation, the Socialist Party stands definitely in favor of the boycott of German goods, as a weapon with which to hasten the overthrow of Hitlerism...
...was forgotten by the modern generation as concentrated capitalism rnd absentee ownership had rendered it absurd, but in 1918 when Europe was going rough a revolutionary upheaval a friend of Sumner rushed a new edition to the press with the hope that Sumner's literary musket would hold back the revolutionary horde which he feared would reach the United Stages...
...My hearty congratulations to you all...
...That affection of a big power company for a Senator whose "loss of employment" opened its money bags overwhelms us...
...Confidence in capitalism was never greater than in 1929 and yet it has plunged to the lowest depths in its history...
...Why not recover our intelligence by voting for candidates who represent our class and who want to abolish dividends rather than recover them for the big shots of industry...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 19
