TIMELY TOPICS

...Therefore, the stronger I am in my affection for national tradition, literature, language and sympathies, the more firmly rooted I am in my "opposition to that capitalist class which in its soulless lust for power and gold would braze the nations as in a mortar Reasoning therefore from such premises, this war appears to me as the most fearful crime of the centuries...

...The Textile Workers TPHE textile industry was the first great industry * to use power-driven machinery...

...We shall miss him sorely...

...of the party and tat V.l'.s.I,, nattlonal cultural committee as cultural wing of the movement...

...UaM versity of Pennsylvania Press...

...Since the bloody events in Austria and the death of Hindcnburg, Hitler has seized the executive power of Germany and is now playing the role of cooing dove in foreign affairs...

...In other words, the real reason for an expensive policy of subsidies to private profit-making interests, who don't hesitate to hold up the American people for all they can get, is simply the war bogey...

...The intellectual bankruptcy of liberalism was never better shown than by the fact that the curiously assorted list of his backers take pains in their statements to disavow sure agreement with all his program...

...Cagney made an abject denial, and now it appears that movie stars are safe from the law, though maybe they'll have to look out for the box office...

...It proved to its own satisfaction that the extra money foreigners might get would not help our trade and that we could not afford to injure our Merchant Marine...

...that party which is the most perfect embodiment of patriotism is that which most successfully works for the conquest by the working class of the control of the destinies of the land wherein they labor To me, therefore, the Socialist of another country is a fellowpatriot, as the capitalist of...

...It has always been an industry peculiarly exploited with long hours, an excessive load of labor and low wages...

...If and when a general strike is declared, it will be of concern to the whole company of workers in America that that strike should be won...

...Here and there the author gives evidence of Communist sympathies, and in one respect he distorts the facts...

...In the name of Americanism, California officials and the California ruling class are again trying to kill all that is best in the American tradition, and apparently our old friend, Upton Sinclair, is singing soft and low about it...

...His Epic Plan is not Socialism...

...Herr Rosenberg's Secret International fosters the organization of the Nazis in other countries, and the extent of his work is really surprising...

...The whole cost of preparation for war is not included in the Federal budget for the army and navy...

...I think it is no sentimental devotion to the past which makes me think that all of us will miss The World Tomorrow...

...On the other hand, that more than four million votes were counted against Hitler shows that the spirit of liberty and of justice is not entirely dead in Germany...

...It will be a strike against the blacklist, against chiseling, against low wages, against the stretch-out system...

...Now he is gone...

...Artists and writers are urged tosend in poems, stories, articles, cartoons, sketches and ideas...

...Naturally, when Hitler came to power the three-fold contradiction in the movement continued...

...THIS is a very informing book...

...It will be a strike of fair-handed workers without any expensive financial backing...

...It may lie the first industry to conduct a general strike of cotton, silk, wool, rayon and hosiery workers...

...That which is good for the working class I esteem patriotic...

...Their argument seems to be: Let's put a good man in office...

...Our especial sympathy goes to his family...

...Remember if you are told that this is not a good time to strike, that there is no good time to strike in the midst of depression...

...He is building no effective and aggressive organisation of workers with hand and brain for the capture of power, and his inevitable failure to be able to deliver the goods which he has promised to his followers in the event of his election will react not only against him but, it is to be feared, against a. true Socialist program and plan of action...

...California, yes and the United States, needs stronger medicine than that...

...Say what you want by way of explanation or mitigation of this enormous vote, there is nothing in it to warrant any hope for a successful revolution against the Nazis in the near future...

...I am willing at any time to testify that Caroline Decker did a grand job last fall in her work among the cotton pickers who struck against intolerable wrongs...

...But against the patriotism of capitalism—the patriotism which makes the interest of the capitalist class the •upreme test of duty and right, I place the patrotism of the working class, the patriotism which judges every public act by its effect on the fortunes of those who toil...

...It will be up to the rest of us to do all that we can to help our brothers and sisters among the textile workers...

...never have done...

...He gave his whole heart and whole devotion to the Socialist cause and brought to it a wealth of intelligence, loyalty and energy which we shall Sorely miss...

...In the upper range of the movement were the exploiters and reactionaries with vast funds to finance it...

...The author has a journalistic style that is gripping...

...A highly sensitive Social Democracy in those countries has for a longer continuous period of time recognised unemployment as a national, governmental problem that is trot elsewhere," he says...

...Merchant Marine QECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE WALLACE proposed that the United States stop paying subsidies to American ships and let American goods be carried on foreign vessels without subsidy...

...In it the working class are to be sacrificed that a small group of rulers and armament makers may sate their last for power and their greed for wealth...

...There was much that was thrilling about the United Textile Workers' convention in New York...

...He declares that Communists take the leadership in the underground German movement and that the "world power of the Third International" will play a decisive role...

...The magazine, which will be non-fa> tional and non-controversial wi'bin the movement, is to be published by Rebel Arts...

...New the workers, men and women, North and South, are on the march...

...Sinclair's election might embarrass ' and annoy them, but in the long run it is we, not they, who would have cause to mourn...

...The first issue will contain greetings...

...Membtrt are invited for the association which will act as official publisher' and will be incorporated...

...since AHISB Is the organ of . cbel Arls, endorsed by labor and w both the N.E.C...

...but what gives this book special interest is the author's detailed story of the inner history of Hitler's connections with the big capitalist interests of Germany, and especially with Thyssen, the Rockefeller of Germany...

...I MAKE no war upon patriotism...

...Ill iKlilltton, notes on the cultural front of the class struggle will M Rrintcd...

...but a death pall hangs over Nazi capitalism...

...Evidence is presented of a NaziThyssen plan for a Nordic-CentralEuropean Nasi Empire that would eventually make Nazi Germany a great power...

...Sympathetic persons and organizations are urged to rush them to the board of editors...

...Upton Sinclair's Campaign A LETTER from California tells me that probably ** I will he "chagrined" to hear that the reactionaries are quoting what I have said in criticism of Upton Sinclair and his Epic Plan in order to defeat him...

...Simon and Schuster...

...National Socialism" lured the deflated middle classes, many of the professionals, despairing workers, the criminal elements and a large section of German youth intoxicated by the "revolutionary" bombast of Hitler and his associated demagogues...

...my own country ia a natural enemy...

...This point of view, he adds, "which is merely one aspect of the general collectivism of these smaller nations, stands in sharp contrast with tw social mentality in the United States...

...It was a well-edited paper which will be sorely missed...

...It let the cat out of the bag byits final argument, which was to the effect that in war we must have a Merchant Marine...

...Herman Salzman /"VNLY about forty-eight hours before Herman Salzman dropped dead I had seen him at a Socialist meeting in the Bronx at a corner where it would be of use to Local 306 of the Motion Picture Operators...

...In plain language, the Scandinavian workers enjoy a high degree of economic security because of the power of their trade unions and Socialist parties...

...So far as I could see, that was as legitimate and well run a strike as one could wish...

...Our Own Terror ftilEANWHILE our own semi-fascist movement rolls merrily on in California...

...The New Leader Book Corner THE HITLER CURSE ¦y Jomoi Oneol HITLER OVER EUROPE...

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...The youth were to be drilled for cannon fodder, and preparations for this has proceeded on a fairly large scale...

...The Patriotism of the Working Masses ly Jomes Connolly Forward, the Socialist weekly of Glasgow, reprinted the following from its first issue after the outbreak of the war twenty years ago from the pen of the martyred .1it in es Connolly, great Irish Socialist shot by the British for hie participation in the Easter rebellion of 1910...

...Rebel Arts will soon announce an ambitious program of activity for the fall, including its dance, dramatic, writers', music snd graphic art groups...

...The whole program for Nazi domination of Europe is the most astonishing and ambitious of any in history...

...Yet it is a strike which can be won if it is called...

...It was considered front page news in papers as far away as Boston that James Cagney and some other movie stars were under suspicion for having written letters expressing sympathy with Communism or with Communist-controlled strikes...

...He was as active as a younger man in helping both the meeting and the pickets...

...German capitalism could not be cured by such methods, and the inevitable conflict developed within the Nazi party which was followed by the bloody purge...

...Ratzlaff does not elaborate on the social forces which have brought about the program he analyzes...

...It favored industrial unionism...

...S. H. First Issue of "Arise" in September HPHE first issue of ARISE, So* clalist and labor cultural magazine, was definitely set for September at a meeting of the editorial and business committees...

...How long he can retain power is a matter v f conjecture...

...The criminal .•-> ndicalism law has been dusted off again to get indictments against Communists and Communist sympathizers...

...Social Insurance in the Scandinavian Countries THE SCANDINAVIAN UNEM-S PLOYMENT RELIEF PRO...

...Hitler, Goring and Gobbels were mere dummies of the Ruhr magnate...

...He declares that "the Nazis have learned rao*t of their art of propaganda and their system of organization from the Communists (they even sing Communist melodies with Nazi words...

...The working class was placed in bondage, while the Storm Troopers were kept quiet with special privileges, circuses, mass propaganda, and moronic ceremonials, but this could not continue forever...

...A special club subscription with Th New Leader coats $1.50 per year for bow ARISE and The New Leader...

...Socialists who have followed the development of the Hitler movement will find their views confirmed...

...I regard each nation as the possessor of a definite contribution to the common stock of civilization, and I regard the capitalist class of each nation as being the logical and natural enemy of the national culture which constitutes that definite contribution...

...Well, I certainly have no desire to help any reactionaries...

...it can't do any harm...

...I am ho Communist, but I have all the sympathy in the world for California strikes, in some of which Communists were active...

...Mark Sullivan, the Washington correspondent whose specialty is viewing with a laugh, need not worry about Sinclair's making the Democratic Party in California Socialist The Democrats have already made him merely progressive...

...The freight charges would give foreigners more money with which to buy American goods...

...Maybe some of the workers, both Socialist and Communist, are waiting to say it with something else" than ballots and something more effective under the circumstances that prevail in Germany...

...The New York Herald-Tribune broke out into an editorial entitled: "The Parmer at Sea...

...It polled a big vote, though not a majority, in favor of a general strike to prevent war...

...P. COR the first time we now ha«f * in one handy volume a com-1 plete and well-organized study of what has been done about unemployment in Sweden, Denmark and Norway...

...By Ernst Henri...

...By C. J. Ratzlaff...

...Now the delegates have gone home to the great task of leading and inspiring their fellow workers...

...The fact is that, except in Prance, the Communist movement is no longer a real factor, and in France it has been compelled by the nationalist policies of the Soviet Union to make truce with the labor and Socialist movement of that country...

...It was the first industry to which a code was applied...

...The first number will contain stories, articles, comment, cartoons and reviews...

...This book will be an eye-opener to those who regard ' Roosevelt's program as radical or even progressive...

...He is, however, aware of them...

...Hitler was in Essen, Thyssen's headquarters, the day before the murders in Berlin and Munich, and there is reason to believe that Roehm and his associates died by order of Thyssen...

...Thyssen had paid for power and he became the real power...

...It adopted a resolute demand for a genuine labor party...

...There is nothing that I know of to take its place in a field which it had made peculiarly its own...

...Scarcely had he said this when a howl of pain went up from all lovers of tariffs and subsidies in and out of the Democratic Party...

...The subscription price is $' I"'1' v*ar' 10 cents a copy...

...Its frank championship of Socialism had cost it the support of some of its backers...

...The fact that according to American ' correspondents there was a greater negative vote in some middle class sections than in the working class sections of Berlin, which used to go Communist, doubtless has a certain significance, but a significance that can be exaggerated...

...The enormous cost of Storm Troop uniforms and weapons and mass propaganda was paid for by powerful capitalists, Among the ill-informed lower sections of the masses there was sincere expectations of a new Germany of a "socialistic" type, while the middle and professional classes expected to recover their lost stakes in a decaying capitalism...

...When the alternative to a strike is worse slavery, brave men and women have no choice...

...There is reason for the individual voter to be afraid to stand out against this mass terror of Hitlerism...

...Having promised something to every class regardless of the class antagonism which makes fulfillment of such promises impossible, the cleavage found expression not only in the party but in the Storm Troops as well...

...Publication has been held up by unexpected financial trouble...

...The American edition was on the press when Hitler executed the June massacre of some of his.most intimate associates, and the author cabled a foreword on this bloody episode which was published as an insert in the book...

...Students of social security know that the Scandinavian countries have always led in these matters...

...The World Tomorrow IT is a genuine calamity that Kirby Page has found * it impossible longer to keep up his gallant struggle to support The World Tomorrow...