Workers in Free Nations Hail May Day
Workers in Free Nations Hail May Day GOP Set to Spring New Attack on All Labor Legislation Republican Propaganda Campaign Seeks Destruction of Wage-Hours Bill, Wagner Act, and...
...And the secret JWK_ SDF to Celebrate May Day at Rand School - Wis WeUtaan, Abraham Cahan, Max Brauer and Algernon Lee Among Speaker*—Sponsor* Include Jewian Socialist Verband, S.D.F...
...But not so...
...He ought to be—if indeed he is in- haste to see the world' made Fascist...
...The ideal has been occasionally stricken down...
...Msnopolies...
...M a i s in Westchester Another danger in ignoring the illegal acts of the Nazis became obvious when the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League announced that its members will apply for pistol permits if lno action is taken against Hitler's agents...
...THE NEWS REEL '-By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL THE Associated Press reports President Roosevelt as in general: well satisfied with the workings so far of the embargo against means of defense for the Spanish government...
...This spectre of division and mutual frustration will hover over every May Day celebration this year...
...The large corporations, despite the "business leader's" promise of cooperation, will do everything to defeat the wages and hours bill and every other effort to beat the current sharp depression...
...i yi vi sevnw* Mussolini is now learning Just how much trouble a well-organised, well-subsidized minority can make...
...That, unfortunately, is what we face in the United States today...
...One thing is sure: Hitler's stooges will not terrorize their way to conquest in this country as American workers have no use for this pathological spawn of Nazi Germany...
...William Karlin...
...Nonet harkened...
...members, sympathisers and readers of The New Leader in Greater New York are urged to attend this celebration of Labor's international holiday...
...The beating of Dr...
...Passive resistance has been dumped overboard, and active propagandizing for«4nclusion fat the Reich is the order of the day...
...The utilities will refuse to borrow to finance expansion because of the government's T . V . A . plans and the rise of sentiment tKroughout the nation for municipally o w n ed plants...
...President Roosevelt, acting under the tax laws, has authorized the Senate lobby committee to inspect all income, excess profits and capital stock tax returns...
...Conant's claims to pre-eminence in the great work sfeSsJtmg humanity was the discovery that diseases can be cured by tartaring degs, his views on higher standards in journalism must have ssas received with a breathless interest...
...ti*nit sponsors of the celebration*— gtaar the Jewish Socialist Ver2*4 the Rand School of Social...
...Information conies through that secret afar bases literally cover the area, revealing the character of the demonstration of force and the tactics which Will be used by the Nazis to smash Czech resistance...
...Some journals, while denying the superiority of the Borah logic, rah to know the difference between licensed and unlicensed monopolies...
...After leaving leadership against the Administration policies to Congressmen who were elected on a New Deal platform and who then sabotaged all social legislation proposed by the President, the G.O.P...
...IpCfNTI/ftr "JOURNALISM" jp^tEASANTLY humorous feature of the national convention of A newspaper editors, meeting last week in Washington, was the reissssrsnce there of the grand old plea that editors should raise the standards of their journals and pursue only the loftiest ideals...
...It is now expected that - many trade unions, aware of the danger they face, will join in the demand (hat the public-authorities take action that will make a repetition of these acts impossible...
...He was assaulted in his office by four Nazis who p'amted the Nazi emblem, the swastika, on his body and cut another with a"knife on his arm...
...SDF Urges Probe of Armed Nazi Bands Hot indignation swept labor circles last week as the Nazi brutalities committed by 200 uniformed Storm Troopers at a meeting in Yorkville on Wednesday, and the beating up of Dr...
...Edith Summer-skill, Laborite candidate, in the recent by-election at West Fmlham...
...Inasmuch as there is in the making of newspapers exactly as much gjetlisni as there is in the making of hams and as journalism is asthiag on earth but salesmanship, these eloquent exhortations struck i sow of comedy only too painfully absent of late from the world's sfsjrsand as refreshing as the well-spring in a desert land...
...Workers in Free Nations Hail May Day GOP Set to Spring New Attack on All Labor Legislation Republican Propaganda Campaign Seeks Destruction of Wage-Hours Bill, Wagner Act, and Civil Liberties Committee, By EDWARD LORING Special to The New Leader WASHINGTON, D. C—Strategists in the Republican Party are planning to celebrate May Day in their own peculiar, and sometimes effective, way...
...The spending program pushed by the administration will probably be passed but hamstrung by the reactionary die-hards who want to earmark all funds...
...Hedwig Wachenheim, former member of the Prussian Diet...
...All this despite the former strict bah on pro-German activity and propaganda...
...Such ribald remarks should be suppressed by law...
...But this can emkf be remedied at the next convention by a discussion of the really fits/ problem oj journalism, which is, of course...
...Reports from that sjafma* sent via Switzerland, ralHrato that the Germans are literally thurabing their noses at the Italian authorities...
...Britain tribes Italy Instead the British Tories are a0 set to finance Italy and pull tt oat of the hole into which Mussolini's orgy of re-armament and military expeditions have thrown his country...
...Even when- passed the spending program will be sabotaged by big business controlled local governments which will refuse to borrow to finance more public works...
...The Hitlers, Mussolinis and Francos represlnt only a black interlude in the long struggle of the masses for the May Day ideal...
...I overlooked that deep ahker...
...The speakers include Louis Waldman, state chairman...
...Liberals here know that any "cooperation" offered by such men, as Owen D. Young, chairman of the board of General Electric, and Winthrop W. Aldrich, chairman of the world's largest bank, the Chase National, who is also a close associate of the Rockefellers, is cooperation bought at a price which the man in the street, the factory hand and the office worker will have to pay...
...Dedicate Labor Holiday Here To Peace in Union Ranks 1\T0 theme ever inspired a greater ideal or more *^ nobler sacrifices than that of May Day...
...Message also pledges "our T**(Mu4 devotion to the great •Pwstoat of Organized Labor, to promote its unity and to strengthen and inspire the industrial and craft unions to greater fraternity, militancy, hope, and achievement...
...Roosevelt's tactics keep driving even his staunchest supporters to political distraction...
...Tffe" ^^jr^^^A^^^^l^^^^^^^r^^dy for our economic StagnopoUe>^Jj||i^ t0 ,K Just timi that...
...every man and woman who reads this dispatch should send a letter or a telegram urging that the neutrality ban on Loyalist Spain be lifted...
...Sttt I mutt confess that upon close analysts these exhortations timid the higher life to be reflected in the columns of our leading jtenem teemed to lack a little in practical application...
...As must be indeed a genius that thought of this device...
...Well, then, but don't abolish the monopolies, don't redrain them, don't make laws against them,.above all, don't urge a system in which there will be no monopolies...
...Simple, efficient, grand...
...Karlin's Utter Citing these amazing acts of the Nazis in his letter, Karlin listed other well known offenses, of Hitler's agents, their terrorizing of citizens of German origin as well as Jews, providing uniformed armed guards at meetings, racketeering in the sale of arms, banners and uniforms, flaunting the swastika, and swearing allegiance to the Berlin terrorist...
...gUf TO DECENCY •MfE President is said by the same authority to be somewhat dis• contented with the Neutrality Act because it does not confer suffljjt power open the Administration...
...But do it on the •W^Teid off with our own...
...iM ' 4*8 who gets the profits...
...thai eminent philosopher, that perspicacious leader, that Ant lofty ofWow and prehensile of tongue, William E. BoraL and Sm and signal has been the demonstration of my blunder...
...licensed" a word of tod two...
...They will attend the same meetings, they will fraternize with each other, applaud the same sentiments, and renew their devotion to the ideal of international fraternity so well put by Lincoln...
...latVname all the treaty-breaking nations...
...If Vandenberg decides to go into the Democratic fight in Indiana, Van Nuys will run on an independent ticket which will be the first sign of concrete results of the G.O.P...
...BORAH FINDS A REMEDY WITH contrition I confess that in this column last week, when speakW jag of fibs prevalence of the dumb-bell and the invertebrate in the fjih of Congress, I made a grievous error...
...Let's go » it and begin with this: •<to August 29, 1916, the United States of America entered into » eoTenant with the people of the Philippine Islands to give to those ixaple the complete independence and sovereignty of their country "P0" the fulfillment of one condition...
...The seed sowed by the martyrs will in good time be reaped as a fruitful harvest even in the nations of fascist despotism...
...It became not only a holiday of enjoyment but a day of taking stock of our victories and defeats , * * • *I*0 these celebrations came men and women of •* all nationalities and creeds, the Jew and the Gentile, black and white, immigrants and native born, to assert a truth which Lincoln himself once declared to a committee of workingmen in the dark days of the Civil War...
...Geoghan also said that he was willing to p r o s e c u t e anybody charged with the attacks which he had read in the .newspapers but that so far no arrests had been made in Kings County and that no cases had yet arisen out of the assaults reported in the press...
...II Dace's financial weakness is the ace in the hole in Chamberlain's hand, especially since Hitler is in no position to help Italy on that score...
...His attitude entirely negates the Chicago "quarantine" speech...
...W?a peculiar satisfaction I note that one of these persuasive upgfters of the coldest-blooded profit-mongering in the world—next to ie Stock Exchange—was Dr...
...F.DJK...
...flirtation with the old guard Democrats...
...IN the nations of dictatorship May Day has been -* prostituted to serve in fascist brothels and in those countries the pessimistic lines of William Morris, the great British poet and artist, have a tragic setting: "We've toiled and failed...
...How to Make Two fhlsrsf of Ladies in Bathing Suits Grow Where Only One Grew ¦SSBWM^ ill...
...Weiss, a cripple and infantile paralysis sufferer and anti-Nazi propagandist, was especially cowardly...
...Following their offenses in New York City the Nazis held a demonstration in the Westchester County Center at White Plains where armed Storm Troopers stood guard, thus giving evidence of their intention to expand their activities outside the city...
...This new* aggressive brain-child of John Hamilton and the new Republican Party publicity director, a former Washington columnist, is a high explosive propaganda bomb aimed at the total destruction of the Wagner Act, the recent liberality of the Supreme Court, the LaFollette Civil Liberties Committee, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the government plans for seven "little T.V.A.S," the Social Security Act, and the chances for the passage of the wages and hours bill, now backed by both, the A. P. of L. and the C:I.O...
...And tell why and how...
...Weiss was taken to the hospital...
...Police Commissioner Valentine also wrote Karlin that he was referring the matter to the proper police authorities for appropriate attention...
...Abraham Cahan, editor of The Forward...
...His turning the -heat on Congressman O'Connor to force the wages and hours bill out of the Rules Committee where anti-New Deal crowd hopes to stifle it, has rallied pro-labor circles to the Administration...
...And the bonuses...
...it is quite another thing when we divide and fight each other...
...So far the workings of the embargo have been to violate all international principle, custom and tradition, to set up a precedent invaluable to all future aggressors, to annihilate democracy in Spain, to give that country over to a ruthless Absolutism, to complete the suffocating circle around France, to force it to surrender to dictatorship, to help to terrorise the few remaining democracies and to dishearten democrats everywhere...
...to crash the Loyalists is to she* down the French border and they're turning the heat on Deladhn* and Bonnet at the "Paris-Load 1I Js!i" talks this week-end...
...It is still pursuing this style * hypocritical side-stepping—for the sake, this time, of a group •^•njar barons, that extract their profits from the horribly exP*mM workers in the Philippines and from the advantages of wtotrade with, the United States...
...Plans of the Republicans include backing anti-New Deal Democrats in this fall's elections...
...men and women in many cities will celebrate May Day...
...Lobby Fund Probe Ohe of the most important events in Washington in the last f ew "days has passed almost without notice...
...With French Premier Daladier and Foreign Minister Bonnet m London to take order* from the Tory leaders, the predictions made last week, when the contents of the now famous secret Schuschnigg dossier were revealed, an being rapidly borne out...
...Obviously, Hitter doesn't plan to risk the less of men, munitions, time and the myth of his invincibility by pushing a trench_ and artillery warfare earn...
...Benjamin Gebiner of the Verband, and Harry Kavesh, state secretary...
...A3 among Dr...
...Just license, that's all...
...We could not dedicate this May Day to a better purpose than to resolve that this shall be the last Labor holiday of inter-union division and strife...
...is sensitive to public opinion...
...He said: "The Strongest bond of human sympathy, outside of the family relation, should be one uniting all working people, of all nations, and tongues, and kindreds...
...A F. of L. and C.I.O...
...Joseph Baskin, secretary of the Workmen's Circle...
...Max Brauer, German Social Democratic exile...
...dumb we lie...
...Unlicensed" is a word of three syllables...
...If we can get along with the masters of industry through union agreements why can we not get together and work together in the common struggle...
...Geoghan W i l l i n g to Prosecute City chairman Karlin received a letter from Kings County District Attorney Geoghan this week in which he declared that he was in agreement with Karlin's statement in "reference to foreign propaganda that is being carried on in this country" which disturbs the peace...
...James B. Conant, president aTld chief ayjbeer of America's peerless snob factory, Harvard University...
...Instead of the old inspiring call of "Workingmen Unite," it is now "Workingmen Let's Fight...
...Eventually the organized working class fell heir to the custom and May Day became an international holiday celebrated by working people in all nations...
...That condition was fulfilled in less than twelve months...
...The civil war which this would bring is what Nazis apparently favor...
...But his position on the Neutrality Act, which is direct aid to those murdering democracy and a working class movement in Spain, Jias aroused the bitterest opposition even in the ranks of fervent New Dealers...
...J*N D«v Message •-¦ay Day message issued this ?g announcing the celebration aP fraternal greetings to the 2|* •* other lan^s and pledges iftorlty to "our 'comrades in the Jj™*8 and concentration camps Igftmist Italy, Nasi Germany, Kiaiia, and other countries TOthtess dictatorships have *U liberty...
...A decision on this proposition will be made as soon as Senator Vandenberg of Michigan finishes weighing the potential consequences of supporting Democratic Senator' Van Nuys of Indiana...
...Its origin goes back to the twilight of civilization when primitive men celebrated the awakening of Nature in ceremonial dances and feasting...
...Our hope is dead, the seed we spread "Fell o'er the earth to die...
...branches, a*«sen^ Committee, the S.D.F...
...The Social Democratic Federation will celebrate May Day Ktbe Dens Auditorium at the Rand School...
...In the meantime, progressive circles here are amazed atsthe statement of the 16 big business leaders...
...CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME A NOBLE PLAN is afoot in Washington to require the State Qe¦ panment to make public mention of nations that violate their ammants...
...we spake the word...
...Monopolies:" What causes the high cost of living, stagnation in trade, dust storms, floods, chilblains and infantile paralysis...
...tifc© Abandorrment of LoTaEat Spain and Czechoslovakia Special to The New Lsmier LONDON.—Momentary peace in Europe is being bought by the Chamberlain government at the expense of French and Balkan, tht well as British social progress...
...TORY CABINET TO FIGHT LABOR IN BY-ELECTIOM LONDON.—In an effort to stem popular opposition to the Conservative policy of conciliating the dictators, the Government this week lifted a six-year-old rule to allow its ministers to take active part in the coming campaign far the Lichfield by-election which will be held May 5. The Government is determined to prevent smother such show of public opposition as was revealed by the victory of Dr...
...German S.D.F...
...Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School of Social Science...
...Esther Friedman for the Women's Committee...
...I • *V twenty-two years, the United States, on one greasy and vmg pretext after another, has been evading the carrying out . •f this plain...
...That might seem inadequate to Julius Caesar, perhaps, but it gjsns enough for the peoples now due to be exploited—enough with sihnsssure...
...All S.D.F...
...The New Deal forces are gunning for the Hoosier Congressman because of his fight on the court reform bill...
...Prepare for 1940 The next few months will see the beginning of national moves for re-alignment preparatory to 1940 presidential election action...
...It is one thing to be impotent because of an overwhelming adversity which has destroyed the Labor Movement...
...In war it has been temporarily blotted out by despotism1 under the stress of emotion and hysterical working people themselves have occasionally forgotten it...
...They know the one sura war...
...Despite Italian and Nazi protestation to the contrary, German Gestapo sweats are active in the Tyrol area of northern Italy...
...In other cities they have prepared to desecrate May Day by holding Nazi demonstrations on Sunday...
...toth Federation, Meyer London 2«fcr Makers, Midtown Cutters, gfBUP Scfalesinger Cloak FinSffK Dressmakers and Cloak¦jPW S.DJ...
...Both efa he expected to follow firmly and si* lently in Chamberlain's footsteps despite the sentiment of the French people, the danger of complete isolation on the continent and the quartering of German troops in the Pyrenees...
...Still others have climbed the scaffold or faced the firing squad in .its defense...
...leaders are launching a new publicity drive on May 1st against Roosevelt's policies which will make previous propaganda campaigns look sick...
...The Republicans are' looking on with glee as the New Deal and the Midthose who will try to carry on his the rift widens in the Democratic and' New, Deal ranks, the chances for-a Democrat-Republican antiliberal coalition in 1940 becomes so much stronger...
...7 East 15tht St., Itnhatran, Sunday, at 11 a. m. Doors will be open at 10:30...
...branches, and others...
...city chairman, will preside...
...Men have gone into exile and others have rotted in prison cells fighting for this ideal...
...unequivocal covenant...
...Swastika* are spread all over the sector while the Hitler salute keeps the Fascist police on the jump...
...Two other lines of Morris might well be our inspiration tomorrow: "Ahf come, cast off all fooling, for this, at least, we know: "That the Dawn and the Day is coming, and forth the Banners go...
...e British Cabinet members are almost hysterical in their demands that the Spanish war be liquidated into an immediate Franco victory...
...It has enabled the Administration to be deaf to every appeal f«r justice and decency toward Spam and be blind to the immeasurable disaster the coarse of the United States has brought sssa the free institutions of the world...
...That ought to be enough to •please nearly anybody—that believes in the autocratic form of government...
...A_ The Social Democratic Federation on Saturday, through "William Karlin, city chairman, immediately sent letters to Police Commissioner, Lewis J. Valentine, New York District Attorney, Thomas E. Dewey, and Kings District Attorney Francis X. Geoghan, protesting against] tile brutal outrages and urging that I action be taken to suppress the illegal activities of Hitler agents in the city...
...Charles Weiss of Brooklyn two nights later by four Nazi bullies, became known...
...And then . . . ? Shall it be fraternity, tolerance, peace and reunion here at home ? If not at home what is there of the May Day ideal left...
...Britain's drive to bring Italy lata her orbit again means that the fervent pleas of Czech ministers will have little effect on Downing Street, despite the pre—as Mate) of^^rem^g^f^te^sti^' plajpd Chamberlain is taking no chances on the possible effects of Hitler's promises to II Due* hi return for united Italian-Nazi action in a feasible Czech invasion...
...Armed guards in uniform at meetings is a usurpation of the powers of the Police Department and it is expected that they will be banned...
...Any reasoning Upton, any Right-Minded Person, any person not harboring subversive doctrines carf see instantly what is the difference...
...Youth Federation...
...For what causes unemikyment...
...Heartened by the Summerskill triumph, the Labor Party is meanwhile actively working to win at Lichfield and thus strengthen its claims that the majority of the British people is opposed to the pro-fascist stand of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Czech War Danger Throws Europe hrto Two Armed Camps Chamberlain Stalling far Time, Calls in French Premier Otetxi&x)de...
...But despite war, despotism and hysteria the ideal has again and again been asserted and so it will be Until the working masses of all countries have reached the goal of human emancipation...
...In the meantime as Congress prays for an early adjournment chances for any more real legislation die...
...Many of his supporters here are tired of the President's speeches while nothing concrete is being done...
...Plans Civilian Sleuohfar European correspondents loosing for hints of what Hitler plans next are finding plenty to base advance stories on in the military —lltHf in and about Dresden, seme thirty or forty miles from the Czech's northwestern border...
...Most of the dailies gave prominence to Karlin's letter to'the public authorities and the Post ran an editorial that correlated with his statement...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 18
