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Top o* The Leader Tower With Readers V Boosters OUR LABOR SUPPLEMENT 11/1TH this 1mm The New Leader issues a Labor Supplement which " we hop* to continue aa a permanent feature. We are bone...
...State Secretary Biggin* of West Virginia sends "congratulations for the Red Vienna edition...
...The revolution was carried out by the Socialists leading, but the republican revolt also contained large numbers opposed to the Church-State of the monarchy, but with that state oat of the way they were certain to part with the working class...
...The Unemployed Citizens League By August Claesseus fJOMING into Pennsylvania I knew that I was in for some surprises in Socialist activity...
...Get it Into the hands of worker* and also let us know what you think of it Remember April 6! Remember that Anti-Militarist number we will publish for the demonstrations throughout the country against war on April 6. We are going to make this a smashing attack upon the black forces that are again moving towards a Mood-bath for the workers...
...The Communists have learned that to their disgust...
...The Red Vienna issue was an achievement of which our whole movement may be proud...
...The Socialists also asserted that the government intended to outlaw the party...
...SUBSCRIPTION RATES...
...We ex...
...N.11...1 taUttoa........SI.at I'm to r.relaa (aaolrl...
...Socialists have succeeded where they have tried to do a good job without asking gratitude or political compensation...
...Sophie Bathhereit, East Rockaway, N.Y.: "May The New Leader grow to be the tremenodus force required these critical days...
...But we have to make way for the following fine article by Gus Claes* sens...
...You can be any one of the officers mentioned by getting applications for membership, 50 makes you a Major-General, and so on up the list of honors...
...It makes a hot attack upon the big bankers, something similar to Hitler's propaganda in Germany before he came into power...
...What is h? A member is required to "stand for capitalism with improved finance," harmony of "Capital and Labor," and all orders come through the Commander-in-Chief...
...Morris Goodlevege, Delaware: "Permit me to express my appreciation of the wonderful informative articles in The New Leader and how you have improved its contents...
...No doubt the authors are profoundly disappointed when their plans do not appear in print and feel that they are neglected by an unkind world...
...Bat only when we see the thing in Pennsylvania do we really sense its importance and possibilities...
...Over what...
...It has not yet been used...
...The Must* crowd and their high powered artists hay* been bounced out of Pennsylvania and are due for the same treatment in Ohio...
...Now I curse my luck in not having been routed through this terrii tory on my way to the West...
...Last week President Roosevelt insisted on a reduction of hours and increased wages while Administrator Johnson hinted that force would be used if the owners of industry do not reduce hours 10 per cent and increase wages the same amount...
...National Secretary Senior writes: "You are certainly to be congratulated on getting out that special edition of The New Leader so promptly and with so much good material itt it The New York Socialists are the heroes of the country for their actions at the Madison Square Garden meeting, and we are going to do all we can here to spread the news of exactly what happened...
...Signed eontrlbiitlona do net nrtmm-rVj rrprwnt the poller vi The New Leader On lb* aibrr hnaO It weJromea a variety of oplnlona eenalsteol with it* declared pnrpoaa...
...Empire, better known as the United States...
...The task is the same as among the trade unions...
...From November 1, 1931, to the end of last October New York State and the cities have combined their resources to feed and house the jobless...
...It is fine...
...Sidney Stark of PitUbargh: "The Leader is improving splendidly...
...The break up of capitalism is, of course, responsible for these mental disturbances...
...The government denied this and Caballero, Socialist leader, declared that if the government attempted this "we will fight in the streets immediately, and a long, bloody civil war will begin...
...He now has the floor...
...A DIRECT' Credits Society has been founded in Michigan with 50 Major-Generals, 200 Brigadier-Generals, 400 Colonels, 600 Majors, 1,000 Captains and more than 16,000 Lieutenants...
...Coatrtbwtara art requested not *» wrtto on Mb *l<le» of lb* paper and not to ma toad pencil or red hib Mannarrtpta thai cannot b* wad wtu Ml ha rrtnrnad onleaa refbrn poataga Is encloaed...
...What Is This...
...Never were there so many money prophets...
...If the Labor Supplement contributes something to this spirit we shall feel repaid for our efforts...
...Be prompt...
...The program for all this investment in mortgages will aggregate 4 billion dollars...
...600,000 families, including 2,500,000 Our New Landlord persons, 1,100,000 of these children, have received aid...
...Unknown but feared consequences of failure to make good...
...Well, I got plenty in Pittsburgh...
...Some are illustrated with charts, diagrams, figures and mysterious signs...
...is doomed to failure...
...One out of every five persons in the state at one time or another has received aid...
...Here and there a new type of Fascism appears, sometimes announced with trumpets, and then disappears...
...Contains the best write-up on the heroic stand of our brave Austrian comrades that I have yet seen...
...All this implies that the industrial situation is far from satisfactory and that the Administration is getting nervous...
...Leoa A. Coasens, State Secretary of New Mexico, in sending Ave subs casually remarks: "I was never more convinced than now of the imperative necessity of pushing The New Leader...
...Meantime, Gil Roblcs, Catholic leader, states that an attempt to "recapture power by violence will force us to take an anti-democratic attitude," a hint at fascism, while the employers' association, with more than 52000 members, threatens to organize fascist vigilance corps to fight strikers...
...I knew the Chicago venture, its rite and fall, and noted the work in Wisconsin...
...Some see God's hand in shaping social destiny over long eras, and they prove it to their own satisfaction by quoting Scripture...
...i Unless the NRA drags capitalism out of the ditch, many homes and farms will eventually come into the hands of one landlord, Uncle Sam himself...
...I am thrilled by the magnificent job Allegheny comrades are doing in organizing the unemployed...
...Watch Spain /}UR readers may well read every news item coming from Spain, as that country has all of the factors that make for a powerful Fascist movement...
...Prophets of Freedom TpHE community that does not have a prophet of industrial redemption today is out of luck...
...Why lias this issue risen ?' Because the codes have not bruoght sick industries out of the hospital...
...The intellectual who looks upon every group of organised workers as revolutionary material is hopelessly licked when eonfronted with this crowd...
...This is a striking example of economic collapse bringing a marked change in property relations...
...Naw Tarb CM* SdMaa M-SS if...
...Socialist pobHeatlon, rapports the Socialist Party and lk« atroulea «f Um organixrd working elaaa...
...The whole tragic collapse is so mysterious to some people that without any training in economic history they turn to brooding and planning...
...The unemployed generally are the rawest of material for organisation and concerted action...
...let us hear from you soon I A Few Letters It's a hard Job to make selections from letters referring to oar two numbers on the Austrian insurrection but well quote a few...
...In addition to this the government has financed and taken over 118,939 farm mortgages at a cost of about 189 million dollars in bonds or cash...
...No privates are mentioned...
...The third Lerroux Cabinet is a minority government, and last week the Socialists charged that a military plot was under way to restore the monarchy and a "state of alarm" was declared throughout Spain...
...Stotorad aa atoaasd Ctoaa BtoMat...
...We are bone and ainew of the working class and know that Labor must be the basis of a satisfactory social order, Capitalism is in decline and Labor must be on the nam, alert and ready to fight in disciplined solidarity against the limitless greed of the exploiters...
...perimented and theorised with bat meager success...
...They are tough beef for a speedy round-up...
...I knew our experiences in this4 work in New York City...
...However, the Socialist Party and the trade unions have the best disciplined organizations and they are aware of the shifting of class forces against them...
...This is always the course of revolution in nations of this type...
...Comrade Porter also makes some inter, esting suggestions for further improvement...
...Not a week passes that The New Leader does not receive one or more "plans" guaranteed to cure all ills...
...Watch Spain, the workers may be involved in a conflict there soon...
...Only the trade unionists among them have an idea of the benefits of solidarity...
...Paul Porter, convalescing in upstate New York, sends this: "As one who has been critical of The New Leader, it is only fair that I should express my enthusiasm for it* steady improvement, and for the last three i sues in particular...
...air ». at tba Paal <)»».«•« ¦tow Tar a ¦aWki art af SJarab S. ISt...
...Milen Dempster of San Francisco: "Congratulations on Red Vienna Special edition...
...Ifaai...
...It is impossible to comprehend this vast sea of misery in one state alone...
...And to think that intelligent and class-conscious action'by the working masses can end this Poverty hmpire when they will it I Nervous NRA Officials TM1E licensing provision of the National Recovery Act will expire on June 16 and it is proposed to extend It one year...
...Look out for it...
...It is within the power of the President to bring a criminal action against owners who do not comply with codes...
...The woods are full of them...
...All this may easily become an American Fascism...
...The government mortgage refinancing program, involving 4 billion,"-40O million dollars, when completed will make Uncle Sam the holder of mortgages on one out of every seven homes...
...The drawing of die new class lines leaves the working class without its former allies and the Socialist representation in Parliament declined...
...Through two government agencies the government already holds mortgages on 223,933 city and iarrn homes, one out of every 62 in the nation...
...SI.S* I Taai to Canada...
...Paal Mintoii, chairman of Local Lodi, Calif.: "I greatly enjoy the constantly improving national edition and wish you every success...
...Want to join the army...
...Not denying for a moment that our hope and aim is to make these THE NEW I HADRB...
...Get your bundle orders in as soon aa possible...
...Remnants of the old nobility, the monarchists and clericals, and a large peasant population provide the background...
...IS Uncle Sam eventually to own most of the homes and send his agents once a month to collect the rent...
...The Anniversary Number A letter has been sent to all party branches throughout the country regarding greeting ads to appear in the Anniversary and May Day number, the biggest we have ever issued...
...The zodiac has been helpful to some in outlining their plans for social perfection...
...It empowers the President to issue licenses to industries and those without a license cannot be operated...
...The outcome of this brooding is pathetic, and we have no doubt that thousands of publications are receiving samples of this output...
...Muste's Communist "United Front" has already broken in the rear and their attempt to capture the Unemployed Leagues as a basis for his new A.W.P...
...That is a possibility...
...He adds that Mark Khinoy's column "continuc* to be the best single feature," whereupon the editor caressed Mark on the nose for being deprived of this eoirtoiiment...
...In New York City nearfv 100,000 families are on home relief and 160,000 persons oa the payroll of the CWA will he tamed over to the city on April 1. Federal allowance to the dry will be reduced several millions a month...
...There is seething discontent throughout the country among the masses and if it were only enlightened it would aim at the extinction of capitalism, the source of all our miseries...
...It it A* most fearful indictment of capitalism that could possibly be drawn...
...In Ohio I heard of real mass organizations and their activities...
...About...
...It is important that we get returns on this letter as soon as possible as our pages have to be planned several weeks in advance...
Vol. 27 • March 1934 • No. 11
