Organizes for Elections
HOLDERMAN, CARL
Organizes for Elections "Third Party" Now Might Cripple Liberal Forces LABOR'S NON-PARTISAN HAGUE DRIVES TO DEFEAT REACTIONARY CONGRESSMEN IN NOVEMBER—CONVENTION MAY 21 TO PLAN ELECTION...
...It isn't difficult for me, as an advocate for establishment of a Labor Party in New Jersey, to see the necessity for a broad national Farmer-Labor party movement...
...These are set for May 22, May 29 and June 12...
...We pledge to unite the people of New Jersey behind President Roosevelt's progressive program and to give the President congressmen who will help him realize that program...
...His effort to revolt, to marry a girl net of the "best families," ends in failure and all but breaks the young man...
...We must organize more and more ward-clubs, especially in those congressional districts where reactionary representatives must be defeated and where progressive representatives must be elected...
...His people wen rich and getting richer...
...the columnist spoke ef the French tradition of literary courage and independence which has made France the country of Voltaire, Zola and Anatole Franet, Some readers saw an inconsistency in the two opinions, others disagreed with the columnist's lack of enthusiasm for Zola's novels...
...We are convinced that this is the time for complete unity...
...ffyat of-0 -possible 21 voted against the proposal, which defi-niteH^iauashes pro-popular front rumors...
...By CARL HOLDERMAN State Chairman, Labor's Non-Partisan League of New Jersey IAM happy that- the people of New Jersey are beginning to realize that their democratic liberties are being crushed under the ruthless rule of a half-pint dictator and his menacing horde of thieving ward heelers...
...Over 1,000 meetings are-scheduled for May 21 and 22...
...But the p'ost-war problems, the new generation, his own, nee adult children, Freud, labor troubles,—it is all too difficult to seem...
...What is the mate ter with Boston ? On the evidence of the American novel, the Bostonian of good family is a capital fellow, but for his own goal he should have been bom elsewhere...
...Shall we endorse the La-Follette third party...
...This is-about five or six times what was spent by all nations prior to .Great Britain has already spent over 17 billion dollars, Nazi Germany has disbursed nearly 16 billion, the United States some 12...
...and the A. F. of L., employed and unemployed, professionals and middle class elements, against those forces that are planting the seeds of fear and fascism here...
...The Bostonians are good, but Boston is a hate and gloomy city...
...We of New Jersey believe that this isn't the time for further division of our forces and strength...
...The play running at present successfully at the Morosco Theater...
...There is...
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...Little, Brown and Co...
...We know...
...There is many a delightful comedy iirrthe novel, e. g. the discovery that Apley's revered and deceased father may have had an "illegitimate" son...
...READERS DEFEND ZOLA TPHIS column has readers...
...We must unite, workers and farmers, C.I.O...
...Labor Gets Set to Oust Mayor Hague THE WORKERS ABROAD By DICK REYNARD LONDON.—Although supporters of the "popular front policy in Great Britain are whooping it up h all their publications in an effort to simulate widespread backing in labor circle*, there i, no truth in the-rumors that a large proportion of the National Executive Comtrrftse* of the Labor Party is in favor of uniting with the>«*erals and Communists to oust the Tory Government...
...On May 14th...
...THE LATE GEORGE APLEY...
...Rumania is vitally important to the Nazi's Drang Nach Often policy, beside having huge valuable oil and other mineral deposits...
...It is about time we all realize that there is a difference between Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Democrat Frank Hague...
...4...
...The realities of "Our TunsF and the vaster presence of the beyond are fused in a puzzling set refreshing whole...
...Ail...
...Jaksch has found that the Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, British, French and Swiss Socialist and Labor Parties have rapidly come to the assistance of the Sudeten comrades...
...Do we want to prolong the reign of Hagueism ? Or do we want to smash it...
...Wilder has scored a double triumph...
...Funds are being raised, while the parties in other countries send prominent delegations into tha'trouble sector...
...THAT'S why Labor's Non-Partisan League is * engaged in an intensive campaign to organize the people of New Jersey into political units...
...We know that the exploiters of the wealth of the nation are determined to deal a decisive blow to the New Deal...
...Books . . . and Writers By Elias L. Tartak Two Pulitzer Prize Winners r[IS year's Pulitzer Prise Awards must have provided a jliwnaiit surprise for the judges themselves: everybody was r^inf, even the critics...
...When the green-shirt troops' leader was seized, lie had on him and'in his apartment secret State documents, and other plans which indicated that he was being subsidized by Berlin and was ready for war on Carol the moment the Czechoslovakian situation cleared up favorably for Hitler...
...Readers of The New Leader are invited to participate...
...Hrtttt LOSING OUT IN RUMANIA PARIS.—One of Hitler's most expensive investments turned sour *oV*im when King Carol of Rumania persisted in bringing the handsome but maniacal leading Rumanian fascist, Codreanu, to trial...
...His hero is a Bostonian, an excellent fellow whose only ads-fortune seems to have been to be born in Boston...
...Holderman hits the problem of "third party" support from the inside of the worst political situation any labor leader has faced in many campaigns...
...The progressive people of New Jersey must unite on the political front...
...qut of Hague's domain, where tee Jersey City mayor kas established a 1939 fer da i manor, ruled by tke blackjack and mob violence, comet fee third discussion of the La-Follottos' "national Progressives.' Carl Holderman, who kas directed too difficult lob of industrial organization for fee C./.O, in Now Jersey, is faced with tee nest violent fascist drive against civil libortiet since two fete and unmourned Huey Long perfected his political machine in Louisiana...
...A NOVEL ON BOSTONIANS THHE wrong way to read J. P. Marquand's "The Late George...
...World powers—please note...
...There is little time to waste on theories...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League appeals to the people of New Jersey, workers and farmers, organized and unorganized, employed and unemployed, professionals and middle class elements, to unite with the league, to join the league and march forward together to a free, happy and prosperous America...
...To achieve our progressive aims let's unite with those who stand for progress...
...And Apley is lovable...
...Iceland...
...That is our answer to Frank Hague...
...In the meantime, Wenzel Jaksch, newly chosen leader of the Czech German Social Democrats, is pushing a magnificent fight against Nazi terror, money, and organized political machinery, to roll up as high a vote as possible against the Hitlerites in the coming elections in 10,000 towns and cities "throughout Czechoslovakia...
...With Goga dead and Codreanu in jail for any length of time, the terrorism of the Iron Guard, Built on Hitler's money, will die down and with it the danger of a coup which would oust Carol...
...If we are to safeguard our democratic institutions and our very lives, then we must be determined to pursue our struggle until the gangster government of Jersey City is crushed...
...Our job, there-^ fore, is a positive job...
...In reading, tat play is both moving and original...
...He has coar-age...
...t • » * On "Our Town" •"THORNTON WILDER'S play, "Our Town" (**), has elements tf/ * quiet realism, together with a whimsical and wistful mystiehna, somehow reminiscent of James Barrie at his best...
...Our job is to go out among the people to tell them what we know, to clarify the issues of the day, to organize support for the things we're fighting for...
...What method should we use in our fight against this terror ? This question is put up to us by a number of people...
...This column is pleased with its readers' critical independence demonstrated in their disagreeing with our views on Zola...
...Constitutional rights mean something in the United States...
...by John P. Marquand...
...The bant clubs and prospects for the young man, presently a young lawyer...
...The difference between New Jersey and the United States is the difference between Fascism and Democracy...
...Can we wage a successful struggle against reaction by saying indiscriminately that there is no difference between Democrats and Democrats and between Republicans and Republicans, and that therefore we steer clear away from both major parties...
...For all his deft irony towards his hero" and his set, the anther loves his George Apley...
...To defeat barbarism let's unite with those who are opposed to barbarism...
...billion and France about eight billion dollars...
...Coward MeCoa*,^ New York...
...Boston...
...I am fully-aware of the fact that organized laboT must be in the forefront.of the battle to save America from the Hitler of Hudson County...
...Of the 1.000.000 anti-Nazi Germans in the district some 22,000 are Jews, who are beginning to suffer the persecutions •{their German and Austrian brethren, while the Government, in its efforts to avoid giving Hitler the "incident" necessary to ¦tart rolling Nazi troops into Czechoslovakia, dees little...
...Without the green-shkted young terrorists bloodying up the streets the tense anti-semitic leeling, which broke out so vehemently under Goga some months back, will also ease up...
...So it is that Mr...
...This writer finds nothing to quarrel with in connection with the two books considered in this column...
...Harvard in the early eighties...
...I am not so sure, however, that the time is opportune to launch a new political movement that may divide the liberal and progressive forces of the country into two camps and permit the reactionary groups to regain the power that will permit them to wipe out the gains that labor has made...
...THE question before the citizens of New Jersey-is not to what party we should belong, but on what sode of the fence we should camp...
...Regular army divisions are still encamped near the Czechoslovakian border, ready for-an instantaneous march into the Sudeten area...
...And while we fight Mayor Hague's reactionary program, we support President Roosevelt's recovery program...
...i » » * austrians jam germah * _ Concentration camps ¦DARIS.—At least 40,000 Austrian political prisoners—Social-* ists, trade unionists, supporters of the Catholic regime and •Specially Jews—are now authentically reported lodged in concentration camps in Germany...
...Not all Republicans swear allegiance to the swastika, and not all Democrats sail under the black flag of political piracy...
...t nazi TERROR through sudeten PRAGUE.—Nazi terrorism continues to sweep through the '•Sudeten area as Konrad Heinlein's storm troopers are being organized along lines closely paralleling the official German brown shirts...
...Philadelphia is a friendly city...
...Following the visits of Swedish and British comrades, the president of the Swiss Party, national Councillor Hans Oprecht, and his colleague Bringolf, representing Swiss Social Democracy, visited Sudeten towns where the Socialists have had organizational difficulties...
...Leagues of Youth are organizing poster parades in all districts...
...He recovers, "settles down," is properly married, and becomes a very solid and, to all appear, ances, a successful and happy citizen, a credit to Boston...
...He has civic conscience, is almost liberal, almost a reformer...
...The purpose of this column is not to compel the readers to agree wftl its opinions, but to stimulate the reader's independent judgment Let us disagree without being disagreeable...
...An independent third party at this time might lend aid and comfort to the already powerful bourbon blocks...
...CfPURRED on by the urgency of the Loyalists' military situation IKe' British Labor Party willvconduct nation-wide demonstrations in every big town in the British Isles...
...Codreanu goes to trial in a few days, probably under charges of high treason...
...in the name of Armed Dtace...
...If you like Hagueism, injunctions, violence, slums, low wages and high taxes, then your place is with Hague, the Chamber of Commerce and the Manufacturers Association...
...by the standards he came to accept...
...Frankly there are many methods, but the best way is the way of unity...
...I'm convinced that the best way of helping Frank Hague extend his poisonous ideas throughout the nation is to lump all the Democrats and Republicans for indiscriminate condemnation and to pursue the path of political purity...
...Arid while we , fight against slums, we fight for low-cost housing projects...
...The who]* book is an expert and intelligent piece of literary workmanship, It is wise and sad...
...New points of view will be printed in succeeding editions...
...Constructive criticism, eh what...
...Over $13,350,000,000 were spent in 1937 for war machines and what goes into them...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League will meet in convention in Trenton on May 21st...
...He is the descendant of the puritans at his best, at his most refined...
...URS is a positive program...
...I am happy in the knowledge that the people of New Jersey are awakening to the need for immediate action to exterminate the venomous Nazi insects from American soil...
...We know that he has been doublecrossed time and again by his own party...
...It is about time that we all realize that there is a difference between Republican Fiorello H. LaGuardia and Republican Harold G. Hoffman...
...Together with many readers, this reviewer feels grateful to the Pulitzer Prize judges for bringing the two works to his notice...
...Do we want low wages and long hours ? Are we satisfied with needless jobholders and excessive taxation ? We must answer these questions before we can decide on what side of the fence to camp...
...Zola was not a great writer, but he was a great personality and a courageous fighter for justice: the Dreyfuss case...
...OUR TOWN, a play by Thornton Wilder...
...Journal Square episodes must have clearly convinced the country that Hague has borrowed Nazi tactics and is using terror to keep New Jersey under his control...
...Labor's Non-Partisan League* is determined to work for the defeat of the enemies of the people on Election Day...
...Boston is too strong for him...
...International support from European Socialists is not lacking...
...Things go satisfactorily enough until 1914...
...We are organizing for progress and for eventual establishment of a Labor Party...
...Do we want to live in germ-infested slums...
...If, on the other hand, you would rather have better homes, good government, higher wages, lower hours, and your civil liberties, then your place is with the pro* gressive people and workers of New Jersey, who are rallying around the banner of Labor's Non-Partisan League...
...Shall we support President Roosevelt ? What shall we do about Mayor Hague...
...Marquand knows nfe Boston, his Bostonians, and knows how to say much while pretending fj say nothing at all...
...Apley"(*) is to read it in a hurry . It is such an expert pica of malicious irony that the slower it is read—the more it is enjoyed...
...We know that there is an organized movement afoot to sabotage his entire program...
...They are, each in its owi way, original and significant books...
...Last March the Socialist cabinet member resigned when Parliament provided for compulsory arbitration of labor disputes in Ifte eoontry s most important activitv—fishing -•Although the Socialist Party threatened to withdraw its eamport and topple the cabinet, lengthy negotiations led to an agreement on the basis of which the Socialists promised to con-tnroe their support...
...I knq,w it is a difficult job, but I also know that Labor's Non-Partisan League is making rapid strides in all sections...
...leeland has no navy, no army, no deficit and no unem-m^rment, and its Parliament—the Althing—is the oldest constitutional assembly...
...Definitely not...
...From a military angle Rumania is the pivotal point in warfare between Germany and Russia, since it can provide a corridor for Soviet troops marching against Nazis in aa altercation over Czechoslovakia...
...Those people who would want to follow this path can be classified into two categories, the honest but confused workers who cannot see further than their own noses, and Hague and his henchmen...
...They don't mean a thing in New Jersey...
...The communication from Philadelphia was particularly friendly and fair...
...On May 7th, this«columnist agreed with Engels's opinion on tat mediocrity of Zola's novels...
...TThe sentiment* of all the Labor Party's leaders were expressed by parliamentary leader Major Clement AtUee when he said: t 4 4 "F«V tan'aVf sacrifice our Democracy and Socialism for any kfnd of an alliance...
...f AN we accomplish our aims by organizing a small narrow third party...
...Holder-man, who Is also State Chairman of the Now Jersey Non-Partisan League, and bis political nontenants, falls tee job of smashing the Hague machine which is sot to fight for its well paying fobs and city contracts the way any "mob" would Ught to keep going...
...I'M inclined to believe that both categories welcome the LaFollette third party movement...
...Among the latest arrests is Robert Danneberg, who was the leader of the Vienna Municipal council before February, 1934...
...Such a policy would spell disaster for liberalism...
...The arrests continue on a large scale, no longer in the haphazard fashion which characterized Gestapo activity before the plebiscite, but in a horrible methodical unrelenting steadiness designed to wipe out every vestige of Austrian resistance to Nazi-fication, -Today it is sufficient for a Nazi to inform against an Austria* to get him dragged off to Dachau, the terror of all concentration camps...
...Authentic reports reveal that Jew-baiting and boycotting have forced Jewish businesses to liquidate their stores and industries at huge losses...
...German troops and Reich Commissioners are still in Austria, destroying all hopes of even the neutral Austrians that Hitler would open the way for a milder form of Nazism in Vienna...
...All sections of the party arc concentrating on one thing—the raising of funds to provide food and medical supplies for the Spanish government...
...tgag swb'saeaaitttr- consisting of Arthur Greenwood, Hugn Dahon ffertert Morrison and Professor Laski, was appointed to draft » statement to be issued shortly amplifying the reasons for the ssajority decision...
...Although no longer represented in the cabinet, they have agreed to support the coalition of the Progressive and the Agrarian parties...
...Governor LaFollette's announcement of the need for^e national third party is based upon the assunrmjjl*n that there is a definite need for a third party...
...That's why Labor's Non-Partisan League is establishing a network of county committees and ward-clubs throughout the entire state...
...social democrats play major role in iceland gTOCKHOLM.—Anyone who doubts that Social Democracy hasn't preached into every corner of the world and set up successful political movements would be agreeably surprised to learn that the democratic Socialists play a very important part in the government of...
...This column welcomes further communications from readers...
...thirteen billion for WAR preparations* DKUSSELS.—Actual figures of money spent by the nations of "the world in war preparations, released recently by the Labor and Socialist research bureau, are appalling...
...Such seems to be the lesson of Henry James, of 'The Last Puritan," and now of "The Late George Apley...
...Among the visitors was Paula Wal-Hsh, widow of Soloman Wallish, Austrian leader who was killed by Dollfuss after the 1934 revolt...
...Organizes for Elections "Third Party" Now Might Cripple Liberal Forces LABOR'S NON-PARTISAN HAGUE DRIVES TO DEFEAT REACTIONARY CONGRESSMEN IN NOVEMBER—CONVENTION MAY 21 TO PLAN ELECTION CAMPAIGN...
...We know that President Roosevelt is trying to do a good job under difficult conditions...
...Upon Mr...
...This is the time for actioa —for positive action for the people...
...It will be circulated in every branch in the country...
...Do we want to tolerate injunctions, state troopers and violence...
...While we condemn WPA patronage at the expense of the unemployed, we demand increased WPA appropriations and more projects for the benefit of the unemployed...
...JJut somehow he feels his life to be a failure...
...But that famous sense of responsibility, the puritan conscience, gets him soon enough...
...He pulls hit load willingly, but there is occasional yearning for possible wfif...
...The remarks on Zola made by the »* columnist in the two previous issues of The New Leader (Hey 7 land May 14, respectively) evoked several communications fraa readers...
...George Apley was born almost to the purple...
...pastures...
...It is full of sly twinkles...
...But the problem of paramount importance confronting us today is: what shall we do in the congressional elections in November ? » » * SEEDS OF FEAR AND FASCISM 'THERE is no need for me to elaborate on the * history of Labor's Non-Partisan League since its inception less than two years ago...
...I mean organized labor, and not the leaders of the Hudson County Central Labor Union who through paralyzing fear or rank corruption, have sold several hundred misguided workers for a mess of Hague pottage...
...We are resolved to help elect to office men and women who will represent the people and not the Chamber of Commerce or two-by-four dictators...
...The letters of the Apley family, first of the hey to his parents and vice versa,—later Apley's correspondence with his own children, are masterly in their shrewd humor...
...Anyone who* has ever sat on a prize awarding "jury, be it only for the best costumes at a ball, knows that a judge's lot is not a happy one...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 21
