The Pirates Who Became America's Great Leaders
Oneal, James
The Pirates Who Became America's Great Leaders By James Oneal THK RODDER DAROSS. Hu Matthew Joiephson. Seu York: Hareoiot, Brace mid Co. $3.00. THK author of this book has written an...
...Most of them were pious, Drew and Rockefeller exceedingly so...
...To those wro are acquainted with the dozen or more economic studies of capitalism this work offers nothing new, but the author has so used previous studies like those of Lloyd, Tarbell, Myers, Beard, Oberholtzer, Ripley, Marx, Turner, Veblen and others, and supplemented them with the material to be found in the biographies of the barons, that the result is an extraordinarily useful interpretation of the rise of the barons to power...
...Those who are able to pay for substitutes, do so, and no discredit attaches...
...He urged the Canadian workers to be prepared for the future and compared the Socialist workers of Vienna with the early Christian martyrs who perished for their bei'eff...
...One of the features ef the new paper will be a special farm section...
...The aftermath of depression and iecay, the paralysis of the economic structure they control, the nillions of outcasts who hunger within their baronial domain, are eft to the imagination of the eader...
...Representative Lindbergh asked in his book, and answers, "I prove herein that it is impossible...
...Many leaders of the ' farm organizations have promised to contribute articles...
...third, the consolidation of vast empires of capital and finance by the victors...
...H. Rosen, Hartford, 76...
...MAX WINTER THRILLS MONTREAL WORKERS By a New Leader Correspondent...
...Poor girl, if she stays in the retail selling game she'll find out the boorish attitude* of her superiors wiil be the least of her worries...
...An immediate step, he suggested, might be taken by encouraging new service activities, such as window or house-cleaning groups, lawn cutting and gardening, light catering and day wanning...
...Or are we all quite crazy...
...The battle of Vienna was not the last battle for freedom," he said...
...The retail merchant wants only people who can sell wooden nutmegs to housewives and rayon neckwear to men who think they are buying silk...
...Have they so soon forgotten the embarrassing bill of goods which was sold to this same Mr...
...Hymn of Hate Against Th^Things That Peeve By Gertrude Weil Klein CPRINC the old bromide, is hack again, making it ditto nit for me to work, or to worry—expert worrier though I am— about the perfectly hopelessness the world generally seems to be in, Wednesday is my regular day for worrying about cosmic problems except in the spring...
...While the worthies mentioned above were, in the North, scooping riches into their (offers, Huntington, Crocker, Stanford, Hopkins and others were gathering huge stakes in the West and by, the same methods...
...As the elder Mellon of Pittsburgh put it: "It is only greenhorns who enlist...
...Burlingham know that it is obnoxious to have him snap his fingers at you...
...And the New York American is printing the stuff...
...Build the Socialist Party and get subs for The New Leader to help build it...
...ALLEN HEADS POLL IN CONNECTICUT VOTING SOUTH NORWALK.—The voting in Connecticut for delegates to the national convention resulted in the election of Devere Allen- of Wilton, who headed the^flst with 308 votes...
...Martin Plunkett of Wallingford, 245...
...THK author of this book has written an amazingly popular story of American conquest by a handfull of Robber Baron.s and if placed into the hands of plundered workers and farmers it would deBtroy many of the intellectual props that sustain the system...
...It is a gripping book, one hat destroys some powerful myths, >ne that should be in demand at 'very public library by those whom he Robber Barons have stripped if the price of a copy...
...Sr., could turn out to be such a stuffed shirt, is more than I' can understand...
...The seeds of war find fertile soil in rotten conditions at home...
...I'll start with Col...
...Elmer Krahn, and Carl Ham pal, secretary-treasurer, < "VERY TRUE"—THREE YEARS IN JAIL The special court at Brunswick ha*i sentenced Otto Thielemann, former Social Democratic Reichstag Deputy, to three years imprisonment...
...During his trial for this heinous crime Thielemann courageously and openly professed his Socialist convictions which he said he would never abandon or deny...
...There are plenty of other lirett lean valuable or others ready to serve for the love of serving...
...Jack Bergen, Education Commissioner of Bridgeport, 75, and R. Farber, Hartford, 56...
...B. B. WISCONSIN LEADER TO MAKE APPEAL TO FARMERS KM 11, W A U K E E.—W i scon s i n Socialists have launched a new weekly paper, The Wisconsin Leader, to be the official organ of, the Socialist Party of that state...
...From the prison library he borrowed a Nazi book...
...Thielemann had been for a year in "preventive custody," after having been barbarously maltreated on several occasions by Nazi storm troopers, and shot at "in an attempt at flight...
...Walter E. Davis of Hamden, 210, and Carl Rhodin of Meridan, 143...
...The address of the paper is B8G W. Juneau Ave., Milwaukee...
...The members of the Board of Directors of the new weekly are...
...And that'll about conclude our hymn of hate for today...
...State Secretary Arnold Freese of Norwalk, 249 votes...
...I don't know whether he ever knew anything about social and economic forces, but surely since, his marrying into the money and prestige he's lost sight of everything else...
...Do two thlngB...
...Capitalism is reducing millions of us to a level of perishable merchandise...
...There's only one way I can hope to get any satisfaction out of this—and I hope no one begrudges me a little satisfaction once in a while — and that is by being contemptuous about a lot of perfectly odious people...
...The hall was' filled to capacity, the Yipsels wearing red neckties and greeting Comrade Winter by singing the "International...
...It reveals the elder Lindbergh as an outstanding economist and fighter for the expropriated worker...
...Churches and colleges received part of the plunder and in turn rendered homage to the bourgeois kings...
...Roughly, the narrative is divided into three periods...
...The vulgarians emerged as copy-book heroes of American youth...
...The evils of war are largely the evils of peace brought to the surface...
...It appears that Socialists are, after all, only thinly disguised fascists and are really blood-brothers to the Nazis, ready to throw off the mask any day now...
...The author leaves the Robber Karons at this stage of their history, secure in their fortress of pelf and profit...
...huge hulks of brute power dominating the regions where they hunt and prey...
...A. Perlstein, Hartford, 93...
...An Anti-Militarist Book Ancient man went to war: war ¦omen to the modern man, says Ashcr Henkin in "Must We have War" (Bruce Humphries, Boston), i well-knit and logical analysis of the biological psychological and institutional factors making for war...
...How any man whose father was such a prince as Charles A. Lindbergh...
...You can't be too particular about ethics in a department store...
...the treatment meted out to citizens at home, but let one of them charge that he has been harshly dealt with by a foreign power and sabre-rattling starts...
...Incidentally, the elder Lindbergh's book, "Your Country at War," which was banned during the World War and the plates of which were destroyed by the United States Secret Service, has now been re-published...
...But the Daily Worker unfortunately explains just a little too much...
...Following the Civil War these vulgarians swarmed into New York with their piles of dollars, crashing the gates of (he old aristocracy who gradually let down the bars...
...Once the capitalist secures a footing in a foreign country, he considers it his domain for exploitation...
...It contained a sentence referring to the year 1918 which ran: "Never was a nation so imposed on by lies as the German nation...
...Lord, if it makes Uiuse women only a small fraction as mad as it makes me there ought to be a revolution there right away...
...Raul Gauitt...
...The other day in one of our better department stores I averheard a salesgirl with lots of dash and obvious breeding, with rage in her choked voice, say to a .riale employee, "How does one go about letting Mr...
...The paper will carry news of the unions, the farm organizations, the organized unemployed and the S.cijlist Party, in addition to Socialist propaganda and special features...
...He took a special interest in the Falcons, shaking hands with each member...
...In giving judgment, the court declared that as Thielemann had not been "improved" by "preventive custody," this improvement 'must be attempted by means of a lengthy term of imprisonment...
...The following night Comrade Winter again spoke on the Vienna b.'dtle, the Red Falcons attending in uniform and with their banners...
...In this period the reader is introduced to methods by which original accumulations were gathered by the founders of the later dynasties — Jay Cooke, John D. Rockefeller, J. Pierpont Morgan, Jay Gould, Daniel Drew, Henry (lews, Jim Fisk, Commodore Vanderbilt, and others...
...Some like Morgan bought art by the carload ami estimated its utility by its bulk...
...The superintendent of public instruction gives them some advice...
...The budding barons served In the marts of money and trade, reaping vast profits out of the agony of those who died as cannon fodder at the front...
...The vulgarians must have appreciated the humor of this transaction, for Frick, liai 11111,111, Morgan, Stillman and others were the largest contributors to Terrible Teddy's campaign chest that year...
...The more passive and submissive a people the less critical towards its governmental policies, the more readily discipline can be imposed upon the mass...
...first,' the early struggle of the barons to strip the lesser fry of their valuables...
...Says "Lindy" at the airmail service hearing, "Use of the Army Air Corps to carry the airmail was unwarranted and contrary to American principles...
...Lindbergh...
...Governments are callous to...
...The battle for freedom and Socialism has just begtin...
...Is the social and business policy of our country such that it is im|>os.sible for the masses to secure their industrial rights...
...The alternates in order are: J. J. Kennedy, New Haven, 95...
...It is "an historical fact that a state may prove militarily aggressive for the very reason that it is inherently passive and submissive...
...Socialism would abolish this degradation of human beings by guaranteeing employment and ample incomes, work performed in healthful surroundings, and forever abolish the nightmare of insecurity...
...But the serious problem, he said, should be considered as a long-term proposition, with retirement'of older people one of the major responsibilities...
...The first period begins before the plantation masters had been destroyed...
...second, the conflict between the giants for the control of vast stakes...
...Ralph Easley of the Civic Federation...
...Most of them were within the draft age during the Civil War, hut they had no ambition for martial glory...
...j^lONTREAL.—Max Winter, for"* mer Socialist vice-mayor of Vienna, lecturing to raise funds for the relief of widows and orphans of Socialists who died in the Austrian civil war, spoke here at a meeting arranged by th» Y.P.S.L...
...In each of these struggles claw and fang, tooth and nail were employed...
...The paper will be staffed by1 men and women expert in farm and labor journalism who will interpret the news frcm a Socialist' point of view...
...Dogs to Wash for College Graduates Out in California there are about 150,00 high school and college graduates who have never held a job and cannot find any...
...The parvenues paraded their bedecked females and engaged in other forms of display...
...The boss squeezes the merchandise manager, and the merchandise manager drives the buyer and the buyer doesn't want any people around who may be fastidious...
...His "youth" and sincerity impressed everybody...
...Easley shortly after the war (and which cost the Civic Federation some $200,000) by that notorious swindler Gaston Means, now in the penitentiary for swindling a southern society woman by claiming to have contact with the Lindbergh baby kidnappers...
...Strikes were crushed and strikers blacklisted...
...Drew was equal to saying prayers before going out to skin a fellow baron, while John D, could sayi from his pile of loot, "God gave me my money...
...In the margin alongside' this sentence Thielemann wrote: "Very true—just as in 1933...
...Easley is doing his best to whip himself up into a fine frenzy about the "red menace" again...
...AI Benson, vice-chairman...
...they are printed in different colors, and that is the main difference...
...In one part of the country we're destroying 40% of the cotton crop and in the other we're teaching poor famers' wives to wear gunnysack dresses...
...And out in South Dakota the Red Cross is asking for donations of gunnysacks that fertilizer is bought in, to make dresses for the wives of down-and-out farmers...
...Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridgeport, who followed with 262 votes...
...Economic power brought with it social eminence, enormous political pressure and proper .respect by those in the seats of governing power...
...After consolidating the plunder into giant organizations under their control, the main task of the ruling class has been to stabilize the regime by shaping opinions through "public-relations counselors" and other means of propaganda and information...
...ut I'm beginning to think maybe Borne of our campus products are going to raise a good stiff fuss...
...Maybe the Jews who won the Nazi accolade are, in effect, antiJews just masquerading as Jews to make the waj» clear for the Nazis to begin their pogrom against the Jews...
...Or are those poor women S* completely licked thai they're grateful to the Red Cross even for dresses made of fertilizer sacks...
...Next on our list is Mr...
...NOW IT'S ALL CLEAR In reporting the curious incident of the unwanted (and immediately repudiated) endorsement of certain Socialist Party candidates by a Nazified German organization in Pittsburgh, the Communist Daily Worker has an explanation all ready...
...Here's what his dad said back in the days when he was a Farmer-Labor representative from Minnesota: "No one dares to suggest that the mail service should be turned back to private control...
...The second period reminds one of the dinosaurs of the ancient world crashing through vegetation, crushing weaker forms of life...
...Vulgarians all, some half-illiterates to the day of their deaths, exuding religious piety, swining their way upward out of obscurity by devious practices, they and their heirs became the masters of the republic...
...James J. Hill chuckled at this decision, saying, in private: "Two certificates of stock are now issued instead of one...
...K. Liskofsky, Bridgeport, 83...
...How can Easley ever forget his shame-faced admission that he had been duped by this man Means who sold him information about an arsenal of arms that was supposed to be stored in a warehouse in Baltimore and which turned out to be crates of lettuce...
...Readers not in full accord with the author's peace proposals will nonetheless find that "Must We have War" is a provocative book, one that will make militant pacifists proud of their stand and increase their irrefutable arguments in the fight against mass slaughter...
...They have been educated and then thrown upon the scrap heap...
...Daniel W. Hoan, cbairmaa...
...Excessive appetites at one time brought protests and the restraining hand of President Theodore Roosevelt, who ¦obtainecj the decision against the Northern Securities Corporation in March, 1904...
...For it reproduces in facsimile the Nazi sheet in which the unwanted endorsements are recorded and it appears that several of them bear unmistakably Jewish names...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 20
