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We Still Need Those Subs To Keep New Leader Going WE'RE not crying wolf. There's almost nothing more that we can say that we haven't at some time in the past few weeks printed in this...
...Too many of the Swedes, Poiaks, Jews and otfeer "hunkies" whose brawn and spirits are built into the America* nation cringe under the attack...
...If you want The New Leader you'll go out and get those subs now——never mind waiting for the week-end...
...1* immigrant, the alien if you please, owes to America...
...The forces of Democracy and Labor need all the help they can get...
...Entire races today are being turned into hunted ouUso* Hundreds of men and women are being killed—"purged" is the current slang for it—because their political views are unassessable to enthroned maniacs...
...As the "God-like Daniel" is now known to have secretly received over $200,000 from Massachusetts manufacturers to keep him in Congress and that even the Barings, British bankers, were generous in sending him money when he* was short, we figure that the Stalin boys have selected a 3 per cent idol...
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...D» the Bishops who congratulate Hitler upon his "bloodless" achkw-ment of the Anschluss—even while the blood of Jews and Catholio and Social Democrats flows in rivers—really speak for our epoch' Do the "liberal" professors and clergymen and intransigest "revolutionaries" who explain and justify Stalin's blood pnrf* speak for all of us...
...Not a day passes without some asw outrage against the conscience of mankind being perpetrated is some part of the world...
...The New Leader is appealing more and more to all those who appreciate truth in news and sane views pungently expressed...
...The first is life...
...They all have large sums of money and securities deposited m foreign banks...
...I aat week we commented on the fate that has befallen the Catholic dictatorship of Schuschnigg in Austria at the hands of the Pagan dictatorship of Hitler, and that the Austrian Bishops had urged Austrian Catholics to approve the Pagan dictator-snip in the plebiscite tomorrow...
...Fine I But this efficiency' has thrown industry into convulsions, beggared tens of millions who are jobless, heaped enormous fortunes into the hands of a few and made it impossible for millions to get the products of "efficiency...
...And I will take the ditches which we hast dug and the towers reared against the skies...
...prisoners (even in Russia...
...I will tab* the railroads which I and my fellow foreigners have set dowt across your prairies...
...The editors and the business manager have done all they could...
...In Germany the Catholic co-Bishop of Fulda has urged German Catholics to vote Hitler's Willi In Germany the Protestant Lutheran Bishops have also urged their followers to vote Hitler's will...
...Now that all Europe is threatened with barbarism, Hoover advises that we do nothing except hurl "moral forces" at Hitler and other dictators...
...Our bodies are cemented into the foundations of your bridga and your skyscrapers...
...Without your help we can't do any more...
...I cannot believe it...
...And to* little has been said concerning our debt to the stranger WSSM oar gates...
...LIFE AND DEATH |N the same week the legislative bodies of England, France, and the United States were scenes of physical encounters by members...
...The best that the great man could offer is to "organize and join in the collective moral forces to prevent war...
...The organ of the Vatican disapproved the course of Innitzer and the Austrian Bishops, but they have not recalled their statements...
...We consider, therefore, that we belong here, that we may preach and organize and agitate...
...Such demonstrations are exploited in the fascist countries...
...From one futility to another...
...Hoover said nothing about this...
...The^ leading articles have given a sane —and honest and uncensored—interpretation of the vital affairs of every-day life...
...By a freak of history these aliens, in their lives and their martyrdom, became a touchstone of elemental principles of justice and humanity for their new country...
...There is no such issue...
...Broun mMA paragraph: * m -i "Too much, I think, has been said about the debt which...
...We know from what you've told us and written to us that our readers have found in The New Leader the ideal fighting newspaper, ready to hit with everything it has, any drive on civil liberties— or any attempt to keep labor from organizing...
...Had he remained at home his advice regarding American responsibility in the present world crisis would have been no more informing...
...The shelves of our libraries are crowded with books by new Americans, some of whom have achieved greatlyjmd been rewarded greatly in wealth and honors, justifying their America existence and strangely unaware that they have given as wefl as taken...
...They become part of "the anonymous millions of mm and hunkies and poiaks and squareheads and greasers whs IB the steel" mills and dig up coal and burrow tunnels—tbe nwet overworked, underpaid and intimidated workers in America'' And I added: "Only a comparatively few among the millions of immigrant...
...These few hold fast to their human dignity, They insist upon their right to fight against oppressive conditions, everuoppressive conditions in America...
...He opposed a "mutual undertaking for protective action" against the dictatorships, although he recognizes the barbarism their triumph implies...
...We think The New Leader is the country's best labor newspaper...
...WHAT PERCENTAGE AMERICAN...
...What does all this mean for the laboring masses...
...SOME AMERICAN "EFFICIENCY" JpOR three months the "United States News" has each week run a story on "American Efficiency," each installment showing that in the production of gas, or electricity, or automobiles, and so on,, the volume has increased, the service or commodity has been improved and the price has declined...
...He is against an alliance with Britain and France, although no one here proposes it, but he also opposed "building up- of a war between government faiths or ideologies" as it would combine democracies against the autocracies...
...he has a legitimate and unanswerable retort He has every moral right to respond boldly, and Mr...
...The real issue is one of democracy against all forms of dictatorship...
...To oppose it is the duty of workers of all faiths...
...Though they were Itasas immigrants, not yet at home in the American language, their names today mean "America" to the whole world...
...FROM FUTILITY TO FUTILITY IT was appropriate that Herbert Hoover's' speech last week should appear in the press on All Fool's Day...
...But the rival ideologies are here despite our wishes, and being here it is necessary to take our stand for one or the other...
...JL When the immigrant who fights for what he considers aeebj justice, for his rights as a worker and a bomsm being, mestejL Know-nothing slogan "If you don't like it here, go baek when you came from...
...MR...
...Broun^sa written the speech for him: fjfSl "Yes, but let me stata-the stipulations...
...These include the infamous Julius Streicher, the strutting General Goering, the unspeakble Goebbels, Hitler's intimate, Rudolph Hess, Von Papen, and Bruckner...
...writer in "Ken," the new magazine, shows that top leaders in the Nazi hierarchy are not betting on a long reign...
...The ex-President had returned from Europe after several months of travel...
...GET BUSY NOW.' DEMOCRACY vs...
...i * • • WHATEVER practical results may or may not be achieved tt ™ Secretary Hull's gejture of hospitality to German, Austria and other refugees of facial and political persecution, his wtjP were stirring...
...We cannot emphasize this too much or too often in this period of chaos and confusion with various types of dictatorship presenting their claims for support Organized Labor and Social Democracy have everything to, lose and nothing to gain by the success of any type of dictatorship, whether' it be Pagan or Catholic, Atheist or Protestant...
...N their eagerness to be "100 per cent American," the Communists have singled out Daniel Webster for approval...
...They evoked memories of that traditie«/'h America and other countries, which made asylum for the pens-cut ed a matter of course...
...It's an easy thing to do...
...They seemed like an echo of an earlier, healthier, more humane age...
...It was said that hen was the melting pot and in this crucible men and women of assy countries have poured not only their sinews but their souhwjjji I go back in company fwith my fellows, give us that flesh ami blood which we dared to fisk in the great experiment...
...THEY LOVE HITLER—BUT...
...There's almost nothing more that we can say that we haven't at some time in the past few weeks printed in this spot...
...Communist or Militarist...
...At the same time we must "keep peace with the dictatorships as well as with popular governments," and yet the dictatorships will not let us keep peaee because their agents are active in all nations and they wage "undeclared" wars against some...
...Last week's appeal brought some response—not much...
...More thu that, because our fellow-immigrants suffer most severely frev the inequalities of the economic system and the hypocrisies if the legal and political systems, it is especially our right and •» duty to agitate and to organize...
...Feeling the urgency of the times, The New Leader enlarged its size and extended its news and feature gathering facilities...
...THIS IS A QUIET BUT URGENT AP-PEAL —WE NEED SEVERAL THOUSAND SUBS NOW, OR THE NEW LEADER WILL CUT DOWN TO SIX AND PERHAPS FOUR PAGES IN THE NEAR FUTURE...
...Has the moral sense of mankind really become atrophied...
...1 mm* week Austrian Protestantism, the Austrian Evangelical Church, took the same course that Cardinal Innitzer and the Catholic Bishops did by urging Austrian Protestants to vote for Hitler's Pagan dictatorship...
...That truth is summed up by Mr...
...caught and held fast under this mountain of contempt sad abuse manage to squirm out...
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...It is the old isolation of Coolidge and Hoover which helped to bring the crisis in Europe which, in turn, brought Hitler to power...
...I will go back wheat I came from, but in all fairness I have a right to ask the prr*0ag« of taking with me the things which I have created...
...Capitalism is very efficient in preventing us from enjoying the fruits of its "efficiency...
...Simply that our primary statements above are sound...
...v What about using our enormous economic resources in the interest of the democratic countries and against the dictatorships...
...The issue, we repeat, is not between any one form of these dictatorships as against the other, but of democratic freedom against all dictators and dictatorships...
...We have dug your coal tat1 iron...
...ALL DICTATORSHIPS THE interests of the working class are the same, regardless of race, creed, color or nationality...
...They all love Adolf—but...
...XJOW secure is Hitler's dictatorship...
...And perhaps it was not as freakish ss it seems...
...We have done the hardest work and i* ceived the smallest pay...
...We Still Need Those Subs To Keep New Leader Going WE'RE not crying wolf...
...humane treatment for outlawed rsesJ and classes—could and should be founded to make the cons«eB» of the world articulate...
...Informed Negroes will even reduce this figure, considering that Webster pleaded for the Fugitive Slave Law in his Seventh of March speech...
...These are important times...
...One type denounces the other as atrocious...
...that is Hoover...
...To complete the picture, note that the Catholic rebel Franco im Spain has the active support of Pagan Hitler, Catholic Mussolini, and the Mohammedan "infidel" Moors...
...Their combined strength should mate itself felt...
...Even more thai that, if I depart you must permit me to retain within- my baggage the hopes and aspirations and the ideals which I took with at when I came to you from across the seas...
...If each one of you sends us one new sub we'll double our circulation in two weeks...
...They go through thir days apsis, gising for their ri^it to live, labor, and suffer in their adOfaoj country, pathetically "grateful...
...Each of these types is seeking support...
...For fifteen years The New Leader has been in the vanguard of the war on reaction...
...Economic, political, social and cultural democracy cannot and will not compromise with dictatorship no matter what banner it flies...
...Dictatorship is dictatorship, and despotism is despotism, no matter whether it bears the cross or crescent, the swastika or fasces, or the hammer and scythe of the Bolsheviks...
...In describing the first years of these two immigrant wqiismih in America, I indicated the hardships of adjustment for mm-eomers...
...It has not occurred te them that America was not brought ready-made on that ship, but has been imported piece-meal in a hundred thousand skips through three centuries...
...all yield to an obliterating despair., In every country there aw thousands and tens of thousands whose human instincts are »* yet twisted out of shape...
...BROUN addresses himself primarily to the "Aryan" American of earlier or very earlist American immigrant stack But no one needs a realization of that truth more urgently thu the alien himself...
...It is a struggle between slavery and freedom, and slavery is no less slavery when it flies a religious banner, as in Spain, than it is in Russia, where it flies an atheist banner...
...Just one new sub from each of you—it'll take 15 minutes of your time and add years to the life of The New Leader...
...the second, death, j WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS f*HWERS tor Heywood Broun...
...In the current issue (Aprfl U ' ^ of The New Republic he has written a magnificent nioefM aliens in America—the Swedes, Irish, Slovaks, Jews, Italians sal miscellaneous "hunkies" who generation after generation aanf brought their strength and their hopes and their ideals to Amorist, He has put into eloquent words a truth we once thought indefchle, but which is becoming blurred and may even be erased ausssjpj brutal friction of racial propagandas and Fascist inciteinea||||| our land...
...All would have us believe that the issue is a choice between these several types of dictatorship...
...They are the apologetic aliens, frantically humble because they did not come on the Mayflower...
...meek, self-effacing...
...As the latest arrivals, representative of newest of est national ingredients, and as symbols of the most exploited greni in the American population, Saceo and Vanzetti provided the most dramatic challenge to the country's decent instincts...
...We have built ye* roads and laid your rails, they say...
...Eleven years ago I wrote a biography of two aliens named Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti...
...Discouraging as they are, we prefer the uppercut aimed at an opponent rather than the wooden figures in the, hands of fascist leaders...
...And we must not believe it, or we ska...
...It is especially our duty to fight it where our own religious leaders support it...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 15
