An Editorial
An Editorial the New Leader Comes of Age THIS paper started publication on January 19, 1924. Volume I, Number 1, was filled with enthusiasm far the coming power of the British Labor Party. The...
...We support President Roosevelt, bet along with the labor movement our support is not Mind, but constructively critical...
...They have faith in the aseple of this country, the working people, the farmers, 1st decent, intelligent people of all classes...
...The an-l*11 W pluralistic...
...And in the forward movement which must **¦ N resumed, this journal will play its full part...
...The first is the labor peeeraent...
...We cannot move overnight into •V'Welalistic Utopia...
...At present unorganized, undirected, the, constitute a potentially powerful, progressive fsree...
...Our 1944 problems cannot be reduced to any simple •sever...
...The present confused political setup d the second one...
...In this year of 1944, the editors look out upon a far Afferent scene...
...But it is far more powerful < ¦in aver before...
...The editors are liberals and Igsorratic Socialists, with great emphasis on "demo-ejeltV...
...They work for a socially controlled snd na-tipally planned economy...
...Fascism and Nazism hate plunged us into global war and changed the face of the earth...
...But the way to this better future seems longer and more complicated than it did twenty-one years ago...
...And now, at last, it shows signs of waking up to its political possibilities...
...It is still divided...
...I" this tough and complicated American world there tre two sound bases for hope...
...The American economy has gone through the depression and the New Deal...
...Only through slow and uneven through reforms, not revolution, can we the perils of totalitarianism...
...It is their Mvirtion that if the majority of these citizens ran at reached, informed, organized, galvanized into action, we can produce wealth in abundance and distribute it »itK equity—so that in rich America there need be Blither want nor insecurity...
...These things cannot be wiped **• The habit of moving forward cannot be reversed, "•coterie of politicians or industrialists can turn back *• dock...
...The trade ¦•ion movement was reduced to a mere skeleton and then expanded in its present dual form...
...It is still unready for •sited political action...
...But it *»»t be remembered that in the meantime we have bee1 enacted into law a vast program of labor and "tod legislation...
...In many respects, this nation has notable progress...
...The New Leader has the same basic faith ax during it past two decades...
...Instead of finding ourselves in s period of labor control with expanding regard for iaaien welfare, we are deep in an era of such human arisery as mankind has never known before...
...JJP there is no simple, doctrinaire, programmatic to all our complex social questions...
...And there is, ••», an enormously'increased number of independent fat critically-minded citizens scattered through all Uriu of society...
...The war is the first and most powerful dis-turbing influence...
...It is true that the present political campaign opens *ith far less promise than did that which engaged the ¦ttention of this paper during its first year...
...Over much of the world, Labor appeared to be on the threshold of power...
...By preserving the benefits of demo-°apitalism and rejecting as sharply as may be t*N» of monopoly, we hope gradually-to extend of socialized and cooperative industry...
...The next practicable •* » this direction ts a new New Deal...
...By JW™* '"""ward with eyes wide open to the dangers ( *,***"m> we may be able eventually to achieve an tt!»i *nt*d social democracy...
...The peat theme for the first year's succeeding numbers was the campaign for the election of Robert M. I » Toilette on the Labor Party ticket...
...tk* editors and contributors were filled with hope and Ulsld Mice...
...Our post-war •JPJWy will be a "mixed" economy, neither free enter-nor Socialism...
Vol. 27 • March 1944 • No. 12
