Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters By the Editor The Boston Dinner . "THE NEW LEADER dinner last * Sunday night was • fine affair. Scats were arranged for 120 comrades, and...
...Not hopeless by a long shot...
...A German economist once said that the ''Worst form of equality is equal treatment of unequals," but here is unequal treatment of unequals...
...As it sometimes happens in the best of movements everything went wrong...
...Glassman, who housed and fed me handsomely...
...Also spoke in Battle Creek at the local's forum and spent a delightful couple of hours with Comrades Deland and Baker...
...Where are the capitalist dandies who once recoiled with horror when they forecast a Socialist State where government would feed large sections of the population...
...Well, at last we have a "Socialist" publication that is pink and red and blue by turns frankly declaring for a middle class movement...
...Fine Cooperation Our appeal to our readers for copies of old Socialist publications and pamphlets is producing fine results...
...Many thanks, comrades...
...We presume that if the children of the worker* serve God and tlie manufacturers the youngsters will be strengthened...
...Louis, 81, February 1-2-8-4-5...
...I came in willing to work, to do my best to help our movement, but I simply wasn't given the chance...
...Therefore we urge all readers who can help to finance this appeal to send in their contributions immediately...
...Where are those who chanted their dull sing song against "destroying human incentive...
...George E. Roewer served as toastmaster, and Joe Bearak made an impressive speech in support of a virile Socialist press...
...there are many fine comrades in it, but it is floundering about with little idea as to purpose, tactics or goal...
...He adds that when he visits prospective Socialists he leaves The New Leader with them...
...Here are a few samples from the bulk: John T. McRoy down in Miami Beach tops the list with ten subs this week...
...Before t'tparture of their ships they rolled their eyes to 1 ven and invoked the blessing of God on their enterprise...
...Readers are informed that 400,000 pounds of pork and butter and more4han 200,000 loaves of bread have been distributed to families in Brooklyn and Queens in December...
...More power to you...
...I carried away with me fond memories of many appended Michigan comrades and their fine hospitality...
...I kept myself busy meeting many comrades during the day and conferred on organization matters and in the evenings I visited and spoke at party branches, Workmen's Circle and other organizations and put in a good lick for The New Leader...
...A denunciation of capitalism Is necessary, news about Soviet Russia is enlightening, but our comrades do need a paper, and need it badly, that proclaims the principle* and program of the Socialist Party without fear of alienating its readers, a paper that inspires its adherents to join the Socialist Party and make it a living, active and fighting instrument for the achievement of Socialism...
...The latest and, in many ways, the best economic history published is Kirkland's "History of American Economic Life...
...That the dairy farmers have faced desperate conditions t'»r years, is not disputed, while it is also true that, the distributing companies have been making "unusual profits," as Secretary of Agriculture Wallace said this week...
...Claessens' Tour Meetings for Comrade 'Claessens continue as follows: Minneapolis, January 18-14-15...
...Where . . .? But it isn't necessary to continue...
...I sat in on its State Executive meeting in Lansing and heard the preparations for the State Convention to be held this month...
...Meyer Halushka of Chicago forwards copies of a number of publications, including "The Bugle" of Oklahoma City, "The Labor World" of San Francisco, the "Debs Magazine," the "Chicago Socialist," the Toledo "Socialist" and "The World" of Oakland, Cal...
...9rdcr what you want...
...The news dispatch carrying this statement also added that "Cardinal O'Connell left today for a month's vacation in the Bahamas...
...Stow* City, 18-19...
...He has read "not only the superficial meaning of the measure, but the spirit of it" and he is convinced that it would "weaken the rights of the states" and the "rights of parents over their children...
...Send contribution to Julius Gerljcr, Socialist Party, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...Piety and Pelf AN interesting united front between piety and pelf is revealed in a case before a Brooklyn Federal Court...
...Stranded in Michigan By August Claessens Y^S, I was almost left high and dry in this State during the last week...
...Indianapolis, 16-17-18...
...The racial prejudice against Nc;ro workers has not been wiped out by the NRA...
...For other valuable studies consult Coman's "Industrial History of the United States," Jennings' "History of Economic Progress in the United States," and Bogart's "Economic History of the American People...
...Scats were arranged for 120 comrades, and each was Ailed...
...We must raise funds to appeal the case...
...Pitiful unemployment and poverty, no funds and little organization to do things and no machinery properly to educate our new converts and direct their energies along fruitful channels...
...We hope that four weeks in the tropics will ml weaken the godly man and that he will come back strengthened for the war against Satan and all hit impious works, so there...
...The background is' also impressive...
...Into this situation comes a Federal Court which has issued an injunction under the Anti-Trust Act against the farmers...
...Paul, 16-17...
...Partly the blame can be placed' against the New York end of my tour...
...Kansas City, 26-27-28...
...V ----A Great Man Speaks CARDINAL O'CONNELL, in a profound spiritual moment, again affirmed that he is opposed to the constitutional amendment to abolish child labor...
...It recalls the pious old merchants of New England estimating their codfish and shillings, molasses and rum and Negroes kidnapped in Africa and sold to southern planters...
...In this case its stock is ideas ranging from Populism to parlor Bolshevism with a middle class "leading article" to attract purchasers 1 of the other goods...
...A drive will be made to extend the circulation of The New Leader...
...Others ranging from 4 to 10 include M. Rosenkrantz of Newark, James D. Graham of Montana, Andrew Biemiller of Milwaukee, B. Stegment of Allen, town, Pa., A. Saranow of St...
...E. Elkin of Miami, Fla...
...By merely citing the predictions the author could point out that they have come true because capitalism beat us to it...
...For agriculture to the end of the Civil War two splendid studies have appeared...
...Under the recovery program, Negro workers have been displaced from former jobs and have been discriminated against in wage rates, the difference ranging as high as 30 per cent...
...This conviction is a serious challenge to Socialists not only in this state but in others...
...This is only part of the picture...
...After the blessing he was induced to invest $50,000 of his own funds...
...Our Michigan comrades suffer from every "infantile" disease...
...Forecast That Came True AN item in New York dailies this week is nt doubt being repeated with some variations in many other cities...
...Whether it would weaken the children, the holy man d'd not say...
...The Dutch government also kicked Adolf in the slats and forced the Big Mouth to concede full interest payments to Dutch bondholders by threatening to deduct the interest due from money Holland has to pay for delivery of German goods...
...Ohio, to March B. An Urgent Appeal 1 AST week we reported the conviction of two Socialist comrades in New York City, Jack Altinan ;m(l Al Ret/kin, under the anti-red flag law of this state...
...Omaha, 21-22-23...
...Adolf Changes His Mind LIITLER is not only having a difficult time in placing the Fascist noose about the necks of flic German Christians...
...South Bend, 18-14...
...A corporation in desperate need of funds issued $2,0000,00 of preferred stock and then invited a Lutheran minister to bless the stock...
...The State office, which should have routed me, was not consulted...
...It would be a miracle to find a healthy and growing organization under these hard circumstances...
...Dayton, 21-2228...
...Springfield, February 6-7...
...What a need there la out here for The New Leader or some other genuine Socialist Party paper...
...he is learning that the Dutch and the Finns in their respective countriei know how to answer the German windbag...
...He sent out a score of telegrams and letters to the locals, but the element of time, which was altogether too short, and the lack of enterp ' 3 in our locals here defeated him...
...A fine collection of origin il documents that cover the period from the colonies to 1915 will be found in the single volume by Bogart and Thompson, "Readings in the Economic History of the United States...
...A Few Compliments Theodore Debs, brother of our late 'Gene, renews his sub and writes: "You are getting out a most excellent paper...
...In a class society white workers are consigned to a low level, but the Negro workers inherit the fruits of chattel bondage in traditions, prejudice and...
...Who will be next...
...Francis King, State Secretary, got on the job immediately to get me at work through the state...
...Comrade Malone of Local Philippi, W. Va., says that the local comrades "art mora satis* fled with The New Leader every issue...
...Our party in Michigan—well, let me be brutally frank—appears to me a chaotic and leaderless mess...
...The Finnish Government has placed an embargo on a large number of German products in retaliation for Adolf's drastic restrictions against imports from Finland...
...Now the great corporation combines of the nation are immune from the Anti-Trust Act under the terms of the NRA...
...Jefferson City, 29-80...
...Columbus, 24-25...
...Bring the question up in your branch and do so without delay...
...hopeful youngsters who expect the whole capitalist system to collapse any bright morning and fall into our laps, and also those who are seeking any short cut to the social revolution—against all these, our few comrades who are well-informed in the history, philosophy and tactics it our party are going to have a hard battle at the coming State Convention...
...The farmers are going to a hard school, but we hope that they are learning some lessons about "equality before the law...
...He might wake up some morning in an ash cant The White New Deal "THERE is no New Deal for the Negro, declares Walter White in his annual report to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
...I had two fairly good meetings in Lansing, hastily and inefficiently arranged...
...Here again are "impossibilists" who propose to eliminate the immediate demands from our platform...
...F. of L. element who are busy organizing "Chambers of Labor...
...This union of piety and pelf has its modern setting in the cleric blessing the stock of a modern corporation...
...an anti-A...
...I picked up a record collection of subs...
...King is a level-headed and efficient secretary and a prince of a comrade...
...and Mrs...
...Devoting himself unsparingly to our cause, with no compensation and plenty of criticism, he puts in his spare time after a day's work for a living giving himself whole-heartedly to the tough job of keeping the many Michigan locals in the fold...
...A Lesson in Equality y^FTER the breaking down of the Federal atenipt at price control of milk in the Chicago area, 18,000 dairy farmers organized as a Pure Milk Association, struck this week...
...As I dropped in on these meetings unexpected and unannounced, naturally 1 could reach only a limited number of people and everybody concerned felt so apologetic about not being able to get out a better crowd...
...Our locals are mostly small groups scattered over a large territory and are only occasionally visited by some speaker or volunteer organizer...
...Cincinnati, 18-19-20...
...I was booked to spend the week in Flint, Lansing and Grand Rapids, and up to the last moment no definite arrange mcnts had been made for meetings in these cities 0 r anywhere else...
...It is of national concern to the comrades everywhere . We cannot let it go by default...
...Jacob Panken of New York was the principal speaker and cave his impressions of the Paris International Socialist Congress and followed up with an impassioned appeal to build up The New Leader and the party...
...Chicago, 8-9-10-11-12...
...Where are the gentlemen who were frightened at the prospect of Socialists reducing human beings to a "dull dead level...
...The supplies were provided by the Federal Surplus Corporation...
...We are inclined to the view that if some informed Socialist were to consult the books and pamphlets circulated against us down to the beginning of the World War and simply selected the dire predictions of what would hapi>en with the abolition of capitalism, he would make a very effective pamphlet...
...too often, hate...
...Nearly all present are readers of The New Leader, but about 30 subs were taken and the comrades contributed $75...
...To the extent thet white workers help te break down these prejudices will they serve their class as a whole, including the Negro workers...
...H. N. Daniels of LaGrange, 111., sends the first number of the "Chicago Daily Socialist' and also the "Daily World" that succeeded it...
...Comrade King is one of the finest in our party...
...we j have it," is the slogan...
...My nine days' stay in Detroit involved no expense to The New Leader, thanks to my newly acquired brother-in-law and hia good-hearted wife, Dr...
...It is suspended, so far as they are concerned, but the farmers get it in the neck...
...Many families are reported without milk, but the farmers are supplying fresh milk to hospitals, orphanages and other like institutions...
...Questions and Answers L. G., Chicago.—Yea, American economic history is important, so important that no Socialist is com* petent to understand and interpret our economic history without such a study...
...Louis, L. Majowsky of Chicago, A. Silver of Los Angeles, and Mrs...
...Lincoln, 24-25...
...We have no finer heroes than these brave comrades who carry on against great odds and who give themselves so nobly to this difficult job...
...Howe D. Higgins of Maine sends a fine collection of pamphlets, including Eugene V. Pebs' "The Federal Government and the Chicago Strike...
...It is like a ten-cent store where a large variety of goods is displayed...
...So here I was in Detroit and I had to shift for myself...
...Thanks, comrades...
...Bill Levenburg writes it waa one of the best affairs in years...
...We miss Autolycus but like Oneal's discussions.' The Sub-Getters The holiday season has not much affected the work of The New Leader boosters and we could fill these columns with their work if we had the space for it...
...They are Gray's "History of Southern Agriculture in the United States to 1860," two volumes, and Falconers "History of Northern Agriculture in the United States, 1620-18(0...
...In this isolated part of the country our comrades must have a paper that also brings them from week to week the fundamental philosophy of our party and the thrilling news of the progress, problems and accomplishments of our great move* ment in many parts of the world...
...Supplement these studies with a knowledge of the Marxian interpretation of history and the evolution of American capitalism becomes clear...
...Well, I didn't loaf much...
...Adolf may defy the lightning, eat barbed wire for breakfast and wash it down with a bowl of blood, but when he offends ruling classes in other countries he will have to be careful that he does not sin against the "eternal laws" of capitalism...
...Until they get that information they will flounder and blunder and our party can be only a collective headache...
...Jacob Drachler of Brooklyn is especially pleased with the issue last week which was "crammed full of news, international and local" .and Leon Gilbson's article on organization...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2
