The Chatter-Box
The Chatter-Box AFTER THE BALL Nothing is more exhilarating than a Greenwich Village Ball at Tammany Hpll, with admission—a week's salary per couple. Every time one takes place Parnassus...
...The American Federation of Labor is the custodian of the funds collected in this country for the German unions and substantial amounts have already been sent to them...
...Armies and navies are their police force...
...We therefore regret that an error appeared in our news story last week regarding this work of collecting funds for the German unions...
...The truth never sought refuge in cowardice and suppression...
...Politics is simply the flag of the governments following in the wake 6f the empire builders: Foreign offices are private bureaus of the empi: e builders...
...Shadow* long and gray and elender, Shadow* broad and thick and black— One like memories so tender, One forbidding as the raek: Shadows soft, like love eare*»ing, Fleeting gleams of life's sweet day} S Shadows blue and brown depressing— " Night, like death, wipes all away/ PRISONER 10609...
...The world war is evidence of the destruction of what the ruling classes build...
...We now have an opportunity to reciprocate...
...All funds for all organizations in Germany should be sent either to the local treasurer, Morris Berman, J75 East Broadway, New York City, or direct to the A. F. of L. in Washington...
...Private graft in housing will then go to keep company with the stage-coach and the waterwheel...
...What is at stake is compensation for the wage workers...
...TAMMANY RADIO IN appropriaing $50,000 to install a radio broadcasting station in the Municipal Building, the Board of Estimate is said to have challenged the American Telephone and Telegraph Company's alleged attempt to m onopolize t he air...
...Tammany by radio is a fate that we would avoid by all means THE EMPIRE BUILDERS ALTER GORDON MERRITT, associate counsel for the League for Industrial Rights, recently declared that "Whether we like it or not, whether it be creditable or discreditable, commerce and industry now rule...
...The ostrich should take its place...
...Mr...
...Or probably the wires were croaaed...
...OUR MUNICIPAL OSTRICHES T is a common belief that the ostrioh buries its head in the sand...
...This story unintentionally carried the statement that any money contributed for the German Unions and German Socialist organizations should be forwarded to the National Secretary of the Socialist Party at Chicago...
...J Northern Call'orjffs Prl*"* THE NEW LEADER A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Interests of the Socialist and Labor Movemeot Published Every Saturday by the New Leader Publishing Associativa Room 507, People...
...These were masked by each ascribing to the other some reason for the opposition...
...The giant structure of capitalist empire abroad generates hates and rivalries all over the world...
...These are facts verified by long and bitter experience...
...Both dodged...
...Such risque costumes, you know...
...AID FOR THE GERMAN UNIONS ONE of the tragedies of this era of a "world made safe for democracy" is the financial prostration of the German trade unions...
...If that fable is true, Mr...
...I'll be there...
...The Tammany gang and their Republican accomplices are supported by the real estate interests...
...Such a technical revolution would not be confined to the United States...
...Break of day i* time for living...
...JOSEPH E. COHEN ALGERNON L a . ™ " CLEMENT WOOD ABRAHAM CAB AN JOHN M. WORK NORMAN THOMAS 0. A. HOEBN LENA MORROW LBWI8 CAMERON H. KING Saturday, March IS, 1924 •»<_>»" ANNOUNCEMENT The New Leader regrets to announce that the stenographer who took the record of Morris Hillquit s third lecture was so overwhelmed with work that she was unable to transcribe her notes in time for publication in this issue...
...American marines have been withdrawn from Honduras which is only another way of saying that Honduras has been made safe for American banks It muet be a bitter pill to MacDonald a fot' lowers that he ha* been Premier for «oaia weeks and aa yet not one of them h a s beta allowed to sack a palace or loot a b f J r j Z I New York Commercial...
...Where they all do think alike or pretend to think alike they are either cowards or slaves...
...Going...
...There are many complaints against this corporation and it Would not be surprising if radio broadcasting eventually became the property of a few great corporations...
...Sol'tude come* ilowly creeping To a world yet full of strife, Roosted feathered things still peeping Bring a eonsciousnees of life: Moaning breezes softly warn us Of the night wind'* chilly breath...
...The Chatter-Box AFTER THE BALL Nothing is more exhilarating than a Greenwich Village Ball at Tammany Hpll, with admission—a week's salary per couple...
...But commerce and industry not only build empires^ They also destroy what they build...
...We would escape from cleverly selected propaganda favoring things as they are only to endure the propaganda of vulgar political brokers...
...It is an indiscretion when the communication smells of oil and the communication becomes known...
...Before the war the German organizations on a number of occasions demonstrated their solidarity with the workers of this country with financial contributions...
...Martin is not confident of the truth of his own ideas when pitted against Trotzky's...
...All the non-wage working interests are just as solidly opposed...
...It would eventually supplant cables, homes would get their light through vacuum tubes, industries would get their power from electrical energy stored in the earth, and enormous savings in fuel would be realized...
...Is it a mere accident that all the latter organizations are opposed to the bill while only the trade unions want it...
...Hopkins he merely says: Those of us who still believe that we have a form of government better in every way than that advocated by Lenin and Trotzky had hoped that the directors of the studies of the minds of the youth of America would be careful of the material' they fed the immature minds of the coming generation...
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...are not interested in the prestige that any organization may get by participating in this work...
...It is all so stupid, so ordinary, so surprisingly common...
...It's all so like Paris, the "boul* Miche," t h e Hontmartre, and all that...
...These remarks are suggested by two men who were prominent in the headlines recently, President Hopkins of Dartmouth College and R. M. Whitney, director of the Washington bureau of the American Defense Society...
...Grover A. Whalen, Commissioner of Plant and Structures, assures us that the municipal plant "means we will not have to take our religion, our politics and our education from the Radio' Trust...
...Commerce and industry will no longer rule...
...It's all wrong, Jerry, all irrevocably wrong...
...M. FfcK.KNBAl'W Manager U. SOLOMON Assistant Manager GEORGE H. GOEBEL Contributing Editors EUGENE V. DElJb UR...
...Yet the Village jollies itself into being an art center and a Quartier Latin...
...His idea of education is to "feed" students, not to encourage them to think...
...It isn't ethics, morals, religion or politics...
...If it is to be a choice between the t lollarized output of a -powerful corporation and- what Tammany will serve, we prefer the former...
...Cynthia Black i s presenting her twenty-sixth annual "Revel of tat Arcadian Fauns...
...Merritt is correct...
...David Hirshfield should have the beaver taken off our municipal coat-efarius...
...I ON THE CHASM'S BRINK Shadow* east their sidelong glances From the towering roeky steeps, Deep to where the river daneee And the willow, drooping, weep...
...These inventors are preparing the industrial structure of a new civilization while they are undermining the o)d one...
...Each side avoided mention of the fundamenta^-and diverse class interests represented...
...These pompous upstarts insult the intelligence of the masses...
...Their report is the voice of the rent hogs given official, sanction...
...Among tr-ag, listed are Borah, Brookhart, Frazier, Ladj, La Fellette, Mahoney, Murdock...
...other business, trade and financial organizations...
...House...
...That's what the .jazz band should play—Snint-Saen* graveyard dance...
...Hopkins is confident of his and is not afraid, for he adds, "I believe that truth has nothing to fear from error...
...The same thing is true of the German Socialist organizations...
...Norrk Pike, Pinchot, Shipstead and Wheeler...
...The real estate interests are satisfied with their high rents, disease-breeding tenements, fire-traps and high-priced apartments...
...Error always has and always will and by this token we know just what the American Defense Society stands for...
...Every time one takes place Parnassus trembles with inspirational tickles, Pegasus gives his wings a trial flignt against time...
...Hirshfield would give us our history and probably Murphy could be induced to lecture on economics and sociology...
...And that's that...
...Hardly...
...It would effect all modern nations...
...The world of song and palette is agog...
...Sura...
...an emancipated humanity will...
...This was an error...
...Even the home brew that these wild revellers smuggle in doesn't stir them to life—the dead trying to rise out of their tethering graves to raise hell in Tammany Hall...
...All of these were ranged in opposition to the bill...
...Remember t h e plank in the Labor party platform which declares: "We demand t h e light of all work, era to sack palaces and loot banks...
...To Albany flocked representatives of the trade unions to plead for the bill...
...I low candidly put I No sycophant at the cotirt of the former Bourbons was ever more anxious about the material "fed the immature minds of the next generation...
...We have seen infinitely more thrilling stuff, more Paris-like, i f you prefer that, at Hennington Hsll when the Jakie Cohen Association runs' its annual with colored flashlights and everything...
...Its secrets could no more jibe kept than England could keep knowledge of the steam engine and textile machines within her borders near the end of the eighteenth century...
...ISAAC A. HOULWICH MORRIS HILLUU1...
...The revolution has possibilities that are now beyond the imagination, a revolution as remarkable in its social, economic and political results as the revolution brought by machine and steam power...
...The crowd, we recognize t h em all—the barbarians from the Bronx Baby Carriage Barricades, the Brooklyn flat-footed Flatbushers, the Harlem strap and paper hangers, the Canal street cloak and suit caterers—even the gallivanting Galahads from Great Kills, States Island, have ventured in...
...A labor man said that the opposition had caused "prolonged litigation, not in the interest of the employer...
...Their economic interests are involved...
...Merritt is also correct in saying that the empire builders are found in commerce, if he will add to it imperialist finance...
...You'll find danein| there, bo, when Crazy Annie and Hymie the Dope do the jimmy-ha-Bhimmy tf\d all the guys grab der darnel and follow master...
...Admission 50.cents for gents snd a quarter for the broads...
...S. A. D s WITT...
...We enter, o n l y after having edged by a dozen living: models for Arrowflax collars and Stick Tight hair tonic ad posters—also by t w o underfed members of the Police Bomb Squad...
...One capitalist representative said that the labor men "think they see an opportunity to get on the state payroll for life...
...The moment these interests become involved these workers are found alone in favor of the bill...
...Understand > Instead of a drop in the bucket it turned out to be a big splash in the teapot...
...There is something fundamental at the basis of this division between the two classes...
...and Cynthia Black jollies them out of the stomach-plundered ten spots—for a Dance Macabre...
...Homer rubs h i s lyre with an extra can of polish, and Phidias sharpens h i s chisel on John t h e Barber's oilstone...
...Or maybe we have been double-crossed...
...Both classes become aroused and their representatives rush to Albany where they face each other over the class antagonism...
...We hope that the trade unions of this country will respond liberally and continuously to this call for help across frontiers and that all others sympathetically inclined will do likewise...
...But, then, we have investigations enough In higher spheres, Don't forget and attend the next...
...Their funds have practically disappeared owing to the decline of the mark...
...The interests of the workers in this matter are at stake...
...Of course, you're going...
...The costumes, the wanton debauchery, the witchery of Pagan rites, the satyrs leaping lustily after aerie nymphs, art bursting through the fences of bourgeois conventions, it all amazes us...
...Yon may ask, Where is Debs) He is omitted, but we also omitted one...
...We shove our ten-spot into the soft palm of Cynthia, and with the magic pasteboard in our hands we art ushered into—tha...
...What these inventions mean is the perfection of industry preparatory to its being taken over by humanity collectively organized for human service and welfare...
...Some day the toilers of the world will boast that the working class are the builders of commonwealths based on Socialist democracy in industry and commerce and that capitalist empires have passed into history...
...The cymbals of Samarkand, the fifes of Psn, the lutes of Orpheus, the viols of Romany, the drums of Fate, the trumpets of Jericho, and the oozy-woosy w e e p y , creepy sexyfone of Izzy Kaplowitz—a nutmeg grater suite—make up the Paul Blackman famous, nothing like it ill the universe, jazs band...
...In Albany also gathered representatives of insurance companies, the real estate interests, the insurance brokers, the railroads, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Merchants' Association, the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New York v_ and...
...J. A. H. Hopkins is on the list of the Committee of 481 Extra...
...Artists) They couldn't draw their breath properlyPoets I Aw, what's the use The only ones who g e t any thrill out of these thrilling I balls are the Cynthias who rake in the shekels snd perhaps a few police—ah...
...We hope that through these agencies the whole working class movement of Germany will be materially helped to avoid financial disaster which might overwhelm it because of our neglect...
...However, as soon as men are permitted to think it is certain that they will not all think alike...
...The whitewash of the real estate interests by a picked committee of Tammany office-holders who "find" that there are no sjums, and that housing conditions are fine, is an imitation of the ostrich...
...They add insult to injury...
...They could easily agree on these matters...
...There will be no genuine improvement in housing until these interests are 6verthrowTH*nd» Socialist program of municipal housing is inaugurated...
...We regret this breaking of the continuity of the series but assure our readers that the remaining two lectures will appear in succeeding issues THE Q.ASS STRUGGLE AT ALBANY EVIDENTLY the recent hearing at Albany on the Workmen's Compensation Insurance Bill must ever remain a mystery to those who subscribe to the faith that there are no classes and no struggles between classes in this country...
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...Hopkins ia fqr Hopkins!I • • i • v. i i. . y Perhaps 'the odor of petroleum rendered Kelvin Koolidge so groggy that he had to explain each explanation of those wires from the White House...
...A TECHNICAL REVOLUTION ANNOUNCEMENT by Nikola Tesla that he has completed a process of ' wireless lighting and transmission of power without wires may be the beginning of a technical revolution in industry...
...In a letter to Dr...
...It would enormously enhance the productive power of modern society and this would hasten the expansion of capitalism into countries in a lower stage of development...
...Since when has it been a crime, or even an indiscretion, for a President to communicate with a newspaper publisher?—Wai Street Journal...
...Life is teeming all about u*— Though we meditate of death...
...What they did others have done in other state capitols for generations and still others will do until the class antagonism disappears in a collective Socialist cociety...
...TRUTH AND ERROR E cannot place the precise date when in modern countries mankind generally agreed that discussion should be free if the truth is to become known...
...A palace for each and each for a bank, and a bowl of hot blood for breakfast each morning.'* The* Committee of 48 is tending out « questionnaire for President...
...Joyous song and hope of strife,— But the shadow* of the evening Prophecy the last of life...
...It is all so different from what the jmy posters and the advance notices said, from what everybody whlsperingly gossiped and winkingly hinted about...
...If there are no slums and no housing shortage then hundreds of thousands of human sardines are living in a world of grotesque imagination...
...Aldea Murrae will somehow manage to discard even t h e stem...
...The solemn asses who make this report kick us in the face and ignore the findings of the State Housing Commission...
...On the other hand the masses pay in profiteering, disease and death for the rule of the rent hogs through these political agents of private capitalism in housing...
...It ends in a bloody welter of destruction followed by the necessity of building again only to again destroy...
...President Hopkins asserted that if Trotzky were in this country he would not refuse him the platform of the college because he believed in free discussion...
...JAMES OVEAL • Assistant Editor . . . . WM...
...It's so different...
...Or possibly he was crossed...
...What abandon 1 What artistic riot...
...That is the tendency of all big business...
...Another Samuel Slater, or a number of Slaters, would carry the knowledge to those countries adapted to a higher organization of industry...
...This is the great contradiction of capitalist civilization...
...Perhaps, but if we have to take these things from Tammany we have little choice between programs filtered through a powerful corporation and those that carry the blessing of Tammany Hall...
...In both divisions will be found plenty of men subscribing to the same ethics, morals, religion and politics...
...A thrtti every tick of t h e clock...
...The empire builders of today are found in the world of commerce and not in the world of politics...
...Tesla is one of the greatest organizers of a future Socialist commonwealth...
...The class struggle yawned before them...
...The useful workers of the world are the heirs of the old order which the technical revolution will help to abolish...
...Geraldin* Collins w i l l come attired only with the stem of a lost fig leaf...
...Their welfare will not guide public housing policies at the Qty Hall until their class is in power by intelligent votes...
...hat-check room, where a dollar tip brings forth a sneer from the erstwhile obsequious attendant Then we are jostled into the throne room of Harlequin and Columbia street A roar of music...
...Jhc capitalist, trader and financier cannot build an empire bearing the label of America without coming in conflict with empires built by the same classes in France, Japan and Great Britain...
Vol. 1 • March 1924 • No. 9
