NORWEGIAN LABOR MAY JOIN INTERNATIONAL
Scotch Can Do It Why Can't We in New York? Botch «M«fa>M*r «ft'j f What virtue hw SciHLuf#»j, the second largest eft) l^icftMh Empire, is wres. Spfer York City—and every feltr in the world....
...he can only be sure of $1,700, and so, since he wouldn't dream of accepting as low as 3.4 per cent on his investment he sock* his dough away in bonds, and Jones doesn't get a job...
...i Why should the masses give a hoot in hades whether M. B. Brown makes his fat profits or not...
...Up to 1933 she led the quiet life of an assistant curator of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad...
...Do you like the idea of their enormous, their dominent, influence In business, in finance and fh politics...
...The committee ocsires to report the work-cpf the branches in securing speakers and organizing forums is progressing...
...Tony Sender will speak i German...
...Anil therein we read that Smith wants to build a house, but hs can't...
...That would give Jone« —in fact, a lot of Joneses—jobs...
...for huge deficit* in the city'* tubyacjOi" The Cisisem' Budget darn ad aslant might have added if It had thought about U; for kooMemly- hsa da funis relief for those thrown ent •/ esse* iy the damnable system •/ arsaaaa *xploitattsm the Cassavas' JNaVit Cammieeion supports and profits /rem and Mate to awp psfapt...
...This," the leaflet aays, "is what Smith will have to pay for city employe* who are not needed...
...Stewart Reid, member OpiCorporation (or city gov* Eajpt) moved that the city OK a department of printEnid stationery, he started jR^BV kointwd out that the city BlllffMil hin BiK'h a municipal LpltoMHt and that it offered to » Glasgow *t « saving of 22 » Mat 'All they had to do was is tatw tlie middlemen's profits...
...The item about Glasgow caught our dye in a British paper, and it occurred to us that now is as good a time aa any to drive home the lesson tashoditd bifWj little item...
...study it, turn it' over in your minds, and reflect that WK, THE WORKERS, BY OUR CONSENT SUPPORT A SYSTEM THAT SPAWNS UP SUCH AS THESE I Do you like the picture presented by these gentry...
...What profits are made on pencils and erasers, on rubber bands and ink, on school textbooks and the City Record, and all the huge amount of printing the city doet -can only be guessed at...
...After two a'nxlous months in which the editors made heroic efforts to overcome the financial obstacles in the way of publication, ARISE hsa finally gone to press, Advance Information indicates that this issue, the third si nee the magazine's initial appearance last October, is better than ever...
...The Vast profits that are made toy M. B. Brown, the city's preferred printer, can be guessed at by the huge saving when the city in an outburst of economy awarded the contract for printing primary ballots to the Brooklyn Eagle job plant one year...
...it would be large enough to give a hint of what the city could do if it were run, not for the grafters, not for the real i staters, not for the employers—BUT FOR THE MASSES...
...By the Iway, do you recall the Hon...
...JOIN US W CASTING OUT , SUCH INFLUENCES AND1 ENTHRONING HUMAN WELFARE AS THE HIGHEST GOOD IN SOCIETY...
...We print a voluminous, largely circulated and horribly dull daily newspaper called the City Record, thai sometimes runs into hundreds oi pagaa an issue, and that contain...
...l,^"'HI>u>ff- B- C Vladeck will iZ^Bte>Conceit and reception...
...Naturally, business doesn't like the idea of a municipal venture into a big enterprise...
...The Educational Committee h further calling p. meeting of a! party sneakers for Saturday after noon, Jan...
...And 1,5'lfr...
...JPtay, January 22, 1:30 p. in...
...This is one in a series on Rusterature which Mr...
...It was there that Madam Tchernavin wrote the book which centered the attention of the world upon her and upon the fate of the intellectual classes in Russia...
...itf-saflMft, if the Scots go in (w'tratHP us enlightened New tfrtHnt ia/lpt leads us again to the I—flat, «mY CANT WE DO New York does, an enormous amount of printing every year...
...Topic: Kltteri,m LnBt-" Chairman...
...Small admission fee...
...Then read on...
...jL 26 cent.it...
...There is the little "matter of school textbooks, a fruitful source of private profit...
...Admission only Hftfalliat Party membership Hi Tony Sender will speak S*ately on the status'of the g*™l Democratic Party in **»Pe and the tight again...
...Read It...
...Only Increasing financial support from every friend and comrade in the movement can gusrantee its future publication...
...Poor Old Jones Is Out of a Job — and Here's the Reason Why By William M. Felgenbaum OOOR old Jones...
...such fascinating itemc as bids on .Mibway construction, Hsts of votere, the budget and lists of civil service employees...
...24, at 8:30 under the auspices of the committee...
...The double-distilled, triple-riveted ftnest flower of predatory bankerci...
...And whose fault is it...
...Healy, Tammany district leader, who was on the payroll of a textbook publishing company at $150 a mi nth, in addition to all his other enterprises, peddling books to school principals ? And how it was brought out that he was hired not for his profound knowledge of books or his high pedagogical ability, but because of the influence that he wielded...
...FOR A SOCIALIST ORCHESTRA DARTY members, Yipsels and * sympathizers who play musical Instruments are urged to attend the.meeting of the Rebel Arts Orchestra next Friday night at 27 West 15th Street, when plana will be laid for expansion of the organisation...
...Price including tip Hfrfo cents...
...Why should anybody care except M. B. Brown and the fellows in his own l'ne...
...But Smith needs the assurance of |2,000 a year above expenses, Oi 4 per cent on his $26,000...
...Otherwise h« can't go en, and the Joneses won't get their jobs...
...What, you don't believe this...
...Kantorovitch Lectures A »n«»' series ni flyr Iri'lurr* on "I'robIimh ill the Aiim-i-Ii-hii HArlnllcl \tttYt~ until" will I* kIvii \iy Halm Kmilorovlti h iniili'i llic iiimiiIi'm) uf Ihr Murxlxlt Ifciiii'Mllon Miirriiii UxIiimIiik TburMlsy, Ant, 17, hI S.:«i p.m., «l 'U K. Xfnri St...
...An early meeting of the Educational Directors will be called...
...And that would permit their wives to spend, and release more and ever mere industrial activities...
...15, at 2:45 p. Km L. Tartak will talk on (Ttky and Tolstoy in the ef the Rand School...
...Her schedule of iWMWjnce follows: haiiy, January 20, 2:30 p. m. labor Temple, 248 East 84th St...
...Here is a little leaflet entitled "Bricklayer's Pay," with a picture of a disconsolate workingman on the outside cover...
...Well, we don't, and you should not...
...Will Lecture on Experiences 'Tatiana Tcharnaviit, author of "Escape from the Soviets," reached New York Jan...
...The splendid response accorded the two previous issues should be surpassed when the February number appears...
...A program of music and readings with very short speeches will be offered and the last of the afternoon will be dl-voted to getting acquainted...
...19, at the Rand School Tony Sender will address a spe cial meeting of party members or Thursday evening, Jan...
...we wouldn't know about that...
...Those who had the privilege of meeting Madam Tchernavin upon her arrival were more than impressed- by-the-drawatie quality.of the events which have catapulted this modest museum expert into a position of international fame...
...for if it is honestly conducted and if all private profits and graft are eliminated, the results will be too pointed a lesson to the people the next time an election comes around...
...Tartak ing for members of the !s Committee...
...The saving for the city in a municipal printing and stationery plant might not be large enough to pay the interest for six months on the funded debt of the first Rapid Transit subway...
...ARISE for February Out Next Week fKK February issue of ARISE, * Socialist cultural organ published by Rebel Arts, Is coming out Tuesday...
...It will take more than accolades of approval, however, to continue ARISE...
...Auspices: (iernian Hms of the Socialist Party, wKgftlktirituvii, etc...
...which means that stores can't sell them goods, which means that garment workers and food workers can't get work, which meanssthat their wives can't spend the money they haven't got, which means that more goods are not sold, which means that more people can't get work . .. You know how it is...
...12, at 3 o'clock, in the Studio of the Rand School...
...Thersday, January 24, 8:80 General party meeting, P» Auditorium, 7 Eaat 15th Manhattan...
...Well, it may be interesting to recall that Sheffield has long had a Socialist government, and >that Glasgow has just re*elected a Socialist majority after a year's trial...
...Stnxli uiIiiiUhIoii X'ir, fur Ihr Mirln 11...
...But he can't be sure of that $2,000...
...Sir Gould's Restaurant, 344 *«t 57th St., Manhattan...
...We use unbelievable quantities of stationery...
...Martin...
...No use arguing against it, because even a calm and collected individual like the author of those Inspired thoughts is subject to apoplexy on ] provocation...
...The linen's Committee of the Rand Hp'will hold a luncheon -in ]**H Of Tony Sender...
...Possibly tfeay- ftl»fBt U> «dd that ^ new that it has been called to their attention they may (or may not)1 add it in the next edition of ttitir literary masterpiece...
...With about 3,000,000 qualified voters we print millions of sample ballots, and more millions of primary ballots every year...
...Her message to America will be delivered in the form of a lecture at the Town Hall, 113 West 44th Street, at 8:30 Saturday evening, Jan...
...Every New Leader reader is urged to read the February number and to help rolNip a huge subscription list Among the contributors in this issue are: Eugene Lyons, Powers Hsngood, Florence Lesser, Prances Leber, Robert Whltcomb, Reginald, Marsh, Harry Hertog, David P. Berenberg, Louis Yagoda, Abraham Plotkin, Joseph P. Lssh...
...Why isn't New York thinking about all this, and why is Glasgow...
...It seems that it Is all the fault of a city that treats its city employes too well...
...23, H:3(l p. m. ttatgamated Ccoperative Houses, HtAuditorinm, 74 Van GortHjhrk South...
...Her appearance is sponsored by the Rand School of Social Science and the Society for the Relief of Rusian Socialist Prisoners and Exiles...
...To New Party Members All new members of the Socialist Party who have joined within the last six months are invited by the Educational Committee to a social meeting on Saturday afternoon, Jan...
...We print colossal Annual Reports (that nobody reads...
...pM»y, January 25, 2 p. m. jfjfit of Dressirakers' Union, p. m., Savoy Me.nsion^04th HKlOth Aye., Brooklyn...
...but it would be large enough to restore pay cuts to cruelly exploited street cleaners, for example...
...TONY SENDER'S NEW YORK CITY MEETINGS Ttoj Sender, brilliant journalist t*ispeaker, fugitive from fascism «Bd former Socialist memfl^H| Cerman Reichstag, will speak at a number of meetings in New rork City .lining the week HHpry 20...
...12th...
...That $300 must he paid in taxes...
...And in the schools we use millions of textbooks...
...Already it is evident that her address, which will be a Himple statement of facts, will attract wide attention...
...but what of it...
...for unfair and exorbitant contribution* to unsound pension fundi...
...for city employee who yet more pay for their work than any private employer could affojd to pay for like work...
...The fBten will take place at 1:30 mm and will be followed by a «*al program and talk by Comytender...
...He would like to go to work at his trad* as a bricklayer, but he cannot gel a job...
...Gertrude Well Klein, Samusl H. Friedman, Bruno Fischer...
...TatianaTcbernavin Arrives...
...we print the amendments and proposals we vote upon at referendums...
...Mttttan...
...She has just finished a four months' ' ten* of France, Belgium and England...
...It is prepared by the Citizens' Budget Commission —you know that gang, don't you...
...10th to begin a lecture tour that will take her across the continent...
...The same is true of a lot oi other Joneses who are hod-carriers, carpenters, plumbers, draftsmen, masons, plasterer's...
...that aspect of the city's work can also be a •fruitful source of graft as, for example, during the happy days of Boss Tweed, when he incorporated himself into a stationery supply company, and bought a toy newspaper to get thetdty's printing jobs...
...And how does he know he will )nly get $1,700...
...Well, that's the argument...
...As Rebel Arts It will move seen to new nd enlarged head qusrterV a broadening of aH Its raltarsH warn hi expected...
...Every time Jones doesn't get a job there are several Missis Joneses and Junior Joneses who thereupon haven't the wherewithal to purchase food to eat and clothes to wear...
...The leaflet, however, gives a perfect picture of the capitalist mind in action...
...Smith has 125,000, and he can sorrow another $50,000 to give him :he capital to build a house as an nvestment...
...c All right, then...
...That leaflet was handed out to every depositor and every visitor at one of our big banks, And possibly at many—or all banks...
...Pardon, If our metaphors are mixed, hut that's how the leaflet affects us...
...DWuili-il liiffiriiMtton at Mnrxlen Hdueslion Hud in...
...Comrade kder will speck on "Socialist "w»n's Movement in Germany HI the Hitler Regime...
...All this has happened because this quiet art expert ;wd her husband, a biologist and expert in the fishing industry* were forced into high adventuri' in their successful effort to flee from a Russian labor camp...
...Tony Sender will speak jSfiiah...
...Do m »M«, **• •»»»« Elias L. Tartak to Address Rend School Women's Committee iPaeaday, Jan...
...Why has Sheffield a public printing plant, and why haven't we...
...Now great audiences crowd the places where she appears to speak, and wherever she goes, she finds herself the center of violent controversy...
...this is a Socialist campaign argument, and there won't be a campaign for many months to come...
...PukiHKing...
...And that New York got excited over Tammany graft and threw out the Union Square crooks and put in their place a crew devoted to the ideals of "honest" graft—or husinca...
...Topic: "What fjypening in Germany...
...The Women's Section of the Socmlist Party, though their committee of Jennie Goldman and Clara Rothstein, will serve refreshments and help the getting acquainted process...
...Wluuutla.v, Jan...
...for longer vacations and ehorter hour* than private luminals can afford...
...They can't get jobs, Iwcause houses are not being built—but we'll get anmml to that in a minute...
...The meeting night was changed from Tuesday In the belief that more players will be able to attend...
...There is more to this textbook business than at first meets the naked eye...
...After weeks of lonely struggle through forests and swamp.when it was often touch-and-go as to whether they would be recaptured or would die of starvation, they finally reached safety in Finland...
...Reservations must "HP* in advance...
...Mid.hi SIS, II l!nl>ui Square...
Vol. 18 • January 1935 • No. 62
