Your Help Is Needed To Keep New Leader Going
Your Help Is Needed To Keep New Leader Going A S you've already noticed this edition of the N"ew Leader has eight pages. It means that wc can cover more completely the stories which break every...
...At beaN ten-page apologia bods down to a shamefaced approval Of 8ts|^ chamber of horross -as the lesser evil compared with the Hltfe chamber of horros...
...Evidently Stalin has accepted as inevitable tbtp posed Four-Power Pact or some other all-European settMH that will rule out Russia...
...Mussolini, it is true, is shocked by the bloody Umnaj ness of Stalin's homicidal methods...
...Chamber of Com* merce which warned that centralization at Washington may lead to "totalitarian government...
...If a New Leader correspondent isn't on tMe^imot, the etlitorscan gather sufficient in-fo?#|ation to interpret for you what has happened...
...Once thtw| epithet against enemies...
...On the other hand the military clique tries to Woo these soldiers by urging heavier taxation of the big capitalists and bankers...
...IF YOU WANT THE NEW LEADER TO RE IX A POSITION TO FIGHT LABORS BATTLES, GET BUSY THIS WEEK-END...
...He prefers the worker at the age of 35 because he is more vigorous and adaptable than the man of 40 to 60...
...2. Tbe corollary of such isolation of the Soviet regime abandonment, as fast as it can be done without excessive let* face, of tbe People's Front policies...
...It's a proud feeling that one gets when there are others in the fight with you...
...It continued into the New Year and now into March with the Chinese still heroically fighting...
...S. man-ufacrnrers...
...Here I merely wish to underline the simple fact imam Stalinist press is obliged to make use of a letter such u 1 Clair's, whose entire purport and inherent apologetics are* la tajl an attack on Stalinism...
...The buyer doesn't think of right in the transaction...
...The English conservatives have no particular love for the French People's Front...
...he is thinking of a good bargain as the housewife does when she is shopping at the grocer's...
...Some of you haven't done a thfhg...
...LOUIS SCHAEPPER, who has been the country's first Labor theatrical producer, writes on Labor Stage and its successful Musical— "Pirfs"arI7T~Xeetllcs...
...Tbe trial was announced a few days after ChamWM victory over Eden in England, and the testimony has been stnsd anti British...
...It took' htm a long time to realize that Leon Blum's emphatic refusal and the tepid enthusiasm of the great majority of his own party, made a pipe-dream of his most cherished hope...
...The eight pages mean more pictures, more cartoons and a better looking, more impressive newspaper...
...Comrade Stalin's political houaecleaning...
...If we buy a hat, or a pair of shoes, or a chair we are buying commodities...
...Or rather Chamberlain will not let that : menace disappear before reaction i has gotten tbe upper hand in j France...
...Back of all these differences and struggles is the fact that the war on China, decided by the military clique, has not gone the way the clique planned...
...WE MUST HAVE THEM FROM EACH OF YOU...
...Those policies were nn urn than a manuever for acquiring foreign allies as a eaunterasst to Hitler and tbe Mikado...
...If labor power isn't a commodity in capitalistic production, those who disagree will have to explain the survey of the State League of Economics at Buffalo which reports that the average maximum age at which employers in New York State will hire new workers is 35...
...Some of you have made all this possible...
...One statement by Baruch is basic...
...Is a fraction of one per cent la repulsive than the Nasi state...
...Let's not quarrel about the logic of the deduction...
...WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS CEVERAL weeks ago I ran In this column an ope* Utb» Upton Sinclair, commenting on an article of bit ta tM& cenain Progressive...
...w| ' "i THE Moscow trial under way at this writing may go dsjjM history as a turning point in the development of the set...
...The implications of tbe lunatic proceedings are- issji than appears on the surfaee...
...JJf] General Denfkin...
...A & '.sjet*a***&* risfrrran sar i * isT 11 ¦iste...
...You've read these sincere, and sometimes desperate appeals, said "something ought to be done," and then turned to another page...
...GnUgS argument's sake that anyone favorably commented upon In Csa» lie literature is thereby revealed as an agent of the ('barefe--«^i of Old Bolsheviks in Moscow have been shot on less cofftatH dence than that...
...Your Help Is Needed To Keep New Leader Going A S you've already noticed this edition of the N"ew Leader has eight pages...
...Some details are submitted but this main fact towers like the Empire State Building in the report...
...In return we arc ready .to send FREE OF ANY CHARGE a copy of\ . . SOSCQW CAROU9BEL by Eugene Lyons or IT CAN T HAPPEN HERE by Sinclair Lewis, to every one-of you.who sends us those subs...
...If the purchase and sale of labor power corresponds with the purchase and sale of any other commodity then labor power is a commodity no matter how many laws may declare otherwise...
...The same thing is true of the labor power purchased of < the worker by the employer...
...That act, however, would have provoked a ; civil war—the recent discoveries .of hidden arms throughout the country furnish ample proof—and would have brought the inevitable intervention of France's Fascist neigh bors...
...foreshadows an effort to reach an understanding with reaadtSfl Czarist elements both inside and outside Stalinland...
...very muddled totjS was then my turn—and still an obligation I promise tajum fulfill...
...their' own agitation...
...Bonnet, who is vanity personified, believed bia day Of glory had surely ijSglR-When the president of the Ite-SfiBSiS^sated him t* form the a?s>, government...
...If the same class in Germany and Italy could throw off Hitler and Mussolini, fascism would probably collapse and its ape-like imitators in little nations would also be thoroughly discredited...
...His role to-day, assigned by the Msjij stage directors, is about the same as Rafael Abramovicb't f»M tbe Menshevik trial tn 1931...
...In June 1937, Blum could have called on the people to manifest its will once again...
...In buying we will want to know the durability, texture and utility of the article, whether it will give us the' maximum use for the price paid for it...
...T»» - dore Dan...
...It makes it easier to plug along and pet out a lively', newspaper fighting for democracy and civj.1 liberties...
...They lost no time in tak lag advantage of Chautemp's show Of impatience with the Commun lata...
...IN NEXT WEEK'S EDITION ZONA GALE, America's famous novelist, writes on Child Labor...
...4. Contrasting with the attacks on Mensheviks...
...For instance: 1. It may mark the f»nd of the Kremlin's obscenp pretasfiS that it belongs on the democratic side of the world's mm> ledger...
...Sinclair responded |B prompt, voluminous and very earnest tf...
...its issue of March 7 that sheet reprints in full, under a basal four column headline, an article in a Catholic newspaper paHj the communists and their work in the C.I.O...
...Because'Mr...
...Issues came to a head in the Diet when the military clique pressed a bill that would place all industry, finance and labor under its control...
...ijj...
...Barney sayeth not...
...As for the Socialists, they were heartily glad of the...
...Because of unemployment, the "labor market" is overstocked with this com-modify and just as the purchasers of potatoes Will pick the best speciments at the groeer'a, so the capitalist in buying labor power will pick the best physical specimens to be found...
...regsrsW who occupies the throne room' in the Kremlin...
...In the eight pages we can cover stories which we couldn't have considered touching last week...
...J Paris...
...world...
...i Let us not forget tnat capitalism's best weapon with which to combat social progress is not warfare, tlaeh* but the , everlasting threat of...
...The Socialist ministers knew lit tie' Or, nothing more of real value could be accomplished as long ax Bonnet held the purse-strings...
...Coupled with the new Russian nationalist patriotl...
...A larger paper means more influence and the first step towards the ten and twelve page editions which may some day presage a daily sheet...
...TRAGEDIES OF CAPITALISM '7 rpjfE long extinct Clayton Act of 1914 declared /that ''The *¦ Labor of a human being is not a commodity or artiele of commerce" and a legal abstraction was substituted for glaring economic facts...
...Some time ago a Jesuit orgasttgsj] m«de an attack on the communists in which it (quoted tfl sentence out of my book of 270,000 words...
...the sentiment ex pressed by many prominent .Socialists...
...Labor power is today a drag in the market...
...With the hope of such alliance* m* rupt, the Kremlin will no longer have any need for uniteeS...
...3. Any doubt on this matter is dissipated by the clear isolations both in the testimony and in the official indictment uat« attack on tbe Second International Is being launched...
...ALL WE WANT FROM YjOUNOW IS A BATCH OF THREE YEARLY SUBS AT $1.00 A YEAR...
...The New Leader pointed out several weeks ago that powerful capitalists and bankers were increasingly apprehensive of bankruptcy because of the enormous cost of the raid on China and the strain on Japanese resources...
...using M» * far vacuum cleaners, intervened to monopolize my attentioltv" Meantime the Stalinist press here pounced gloattagrrij-the Sinclair answer, reprinting it with a great beating or fcg, and clanging of cymbals in the New Masses and other tataM** journals...
...England can eliminate without I too great an effort the danger of ' war that hangs over Europe...
...In other words, the militarists are in a bad way in China as well as at home...
...This eagerness in the Stalinist camp for anything ¦ proximately "respectable,"' no matter how weak and worsjJj camouflage their political poverty and moral bankruptcy srqs elently pathetic...
...DAVID 8AP088 continues hi* startling series on anti-union activity of TJ...
...Whether it is a commodity or not is not determined by a statute but by the actual situation facing the worker in industry when he selb labor power...
...Moscow assuredly would not te* launched a new war against the Second International if it m the slightest hope or intention of maintaining a People's Frest» which that International is of necessity the chief ingredient...
...If it gets out of the pit will it plunge in again...
...taking over the press, schools, radio, and publishing houses...
...The, leading psrtres and leaders oppose the bill despite1 the fact that opposing the will of the militarists in the past has occasionally invited assassination...
...Social «*" lutionaries and other Left groups in this trial, is the tender** sidt-ration shown for garden-variety White Guards...
...But i It ts not to her advantage...
...ITf*i "ft nt=Aasv*far It ~: - - ** Letters to the Editor Europe's Bankers "Block French Progress B4,ltor «/ The Xew leader: Marc JChlnoj kas ably sum mar Ized the political situation in France is his-article "What Forces Smash ed the French People's Front...
...The same thing is true of the assertion that labor power is not a commodity...
...But granting that much, where (low it sm the official organ of tbe Communist Party, the Daily Worses...
...Moreover, the ruling capitalists and bankers know what has happened to their class in Germany and Italy and want no fas* cist noose about their necks...
...It is a commodity and he buys it fur the same reason that he hoys coal...
...Chamberlain, like his predecessor Baldwin, is intent on saving the capitalist system, even at the risk of endangering the British empire...
...Tn June 1936, a healthy fear of arous tag the ire of the masses forced the senators to accept the proposed reforms...
...the Russian emigre Social Democratic leader, has W singled out for vituperative attack add odious charges of (SeM revolutionary complicity...
...It means that wc can cover more completely the stories which break every day hero, in Europe, in South America or on any front...
...IRVING B. ALTMAN, Editor of Dynamic America, discusses Taxes and the New l>eai...
...perhaps a little- envtoa»b But in Italy tbe good old custom of indiscriminate butchery#| so deeply planted as in Russia...
...Perhap* Benito Mussolini has glv^n the ansvsr | his recent editorial recognizing Stalin as a fellow Fascist sat« gratulattng htm upon the "clean sweep"' being made of comawts in Russia...
...Poets...
...shall not go into the tragic absurdity of that arcwMpl thi- uiouieni...
...it also quoted is* tence or two from Emma Goldman and Max Eastman...
...The Soviet stampede uwartli clsm is so rapid, and increasingly so frank, that the taaaisj argument turns into gibberish...
...In the nakedness of their ssm over what is transpiring in Stalin's prison-state ihey reeei»*fn...
...The eternal intrigues of the Finance Minister, who represents the big banking interests, prevented any progressive governmental action...
...If France goes too tar to the left to please the English bankers, then she will be left te fight it out alone with Germany and Italy...
...To be sure, this ia tragedy, but capitalism produces human tragedies in broken hopes and bodies, failure*, and suicides, and until the victims of the system socialise industry and cease to be human merchandise in a glutted market, the tragedy wi!3 continue...
...It aims to establish some form of fascism In fact a fascist march on the Diet was attempted by the militarists but it proved to be a fizzle...
...fully any old rags of arguments a Sinclair or a Corliss Lass or any overly charitable fellow-traveller may offej...
...5. The whole trend, therefore, is toward tbe political iw>W* of Russia and its rebirth along traditional nationalistic ** racially conscious lines, the renaissance of Holy Mother WtM The Communist International may linger on a while longer-*f 'only as a curious, eclectic sect that ia little more than a tattw subdivision of international Fascism...
...To you our feeling is something more than gratitude...
...pretensions...
...but has given, It seems to me, greatei importance to the Communists in the events of last December and January than they really merit The Communist Party tried, as ueu 3.1, to exploit to its own advantage —adroitly or not, as you wish—a confused situation due to much more'.profound causes than...
...If the powerful capitalists and bankers have opposed the arrogant militarists it is also true that young workers and fanners taken into the army resent the sacrifices their families have to endure while the capitalist class reap rich pickings...
...JAPANESE MIUTARISTS CHALLENGED AN unexpected struggle has been waged in the Japanese Diet for several weeks and a decision may be reached ere this appears in print but it is important to understand what is occur...
...IF YOV WANT THIS SIZE PAPER TO CONTINUE...
...Had the committee said that centralization might lead to the ruling party crushing all other parties...
...j TV7HILE I am on the subject—and with apologies to readsSi] such trivia—I shall allude to another exemplar of that gM nakedness oi the Stalinists...
...cotton or other raw materials to work up into a finished commodity to be sold in the market...
...iggSukJ...
...In another, brighter day a dozen ago the Communists would have torn a Sinclair limb tisssS for bis admissions of Soviet atrocities, tor his plea that the mm state, repulsive as it may be...
...And now the New Masses and tbe other Moscow mesajgjjj publish sucb things with glee...
...White Guard is not even mentioasji present...
...The German, Italian and Russian models are evidence of what the totalitarian state means snd yet a collection of stuffed shirts f^aw^^|^glm^ilM statement...
...The principal obstacle that pre vents the People's Front from trans lating its will into law is the Sen ate, and behind that institution ia the tory English government, i , Thesis no legal way of over-Coming' senatorial opposition...
...The point at issue was whether the biu^i critical acceptance of Soviet,horrors and Stalinist coSMwrwl tion by American radicals and liberals—as typified by S|t $2 bimsel$-lf ta- be recommenced, Ifr...
...This la not only my personal Impression but...
...He declared that if it becomes clear that "America has definitely chosen her traditional profit system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment.- * Sot The system was perfectly clear before 1929 and yet it released forces that plunged it into the pit for .more than eight years and it ia still there...
...DISHONEST LANGUAGE TTOW loosely language can be used is evident from a recent . report.of a special committee of the U.S...
...It was like a starring man insisting that he had the "right" to live and yet' continuing to starve If he could transform the "right" into the economic substance of food, clothing and shelter, it would mean something, but as a •right" abstracted from these material things it remains only a phantom of the brain...
...excuse offered then -to get out of the Chautemp:: Cabinet...
...of that Catholic document were thereupon published in tbtjp Masses to "prove" that the three authors cited by tho .lecultta in cahoot.* with the Pope...
...commander-in-chief of the White Guard enS* forces, has indicated his readiness to defend Russia...
...BARNEY BARUCH'S BULL "DRESS opinion of Barney Baruch's solemn bull last week on *¦ how to get out of the depression pit appears generally to approve it...
...establish concentration camps for all opponents i shoot, imprison or exile all prominent leaders, and confine the whole population within the national frontiers, it would have evoked roars of laughter and yet that is what totalitarian government means...
...Sinclair, when all is said and done,' MsM even attempt to deny the cumulative horrors to which ! r«ta>M He merely accepts them, tearfully, apologetically, as lafSE "What else could we expect from barbarians," he says tn sg^ •with whom kilting has become a fixed custom...
...There was to be a jolly war to eh& in a November victory...
Vol. 21 • March 1938 • No. 11
