No 'Stuffed Shirts or Brain Trust Needed by Workers
With Which U Combined THE AMERICAN APPEAL founded by Eugene V. Debe BlXVII.-No. IS In Two Sections—Sec. 1 SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 19.14 N Y C. EDITION Price Five Cenls (action Gains Are...
...Foui Socialists were elected rnty supervisors in Sheboygan, e Board going Socialist for the jt time in the city's history...
...In others the or majorities were increased no ewe did the Labor Party control of a council...
...The successful ididaies for the supervisors n Hugo Froelich, Adam MuelHenry Drube and Richard Iter...
...It is necessary to carry on the collective expenditures if we are to maintain our institutions...
...They will enroll "discredited economists and financial writers and oracles of editorial wisdom who helped to inflate the bubble prosperity that burst in 1929...
...THE KINGFISH CONFESSES Next comes Senator Huey P. Long (Democrat) of Louisiana, also speaking on taxation: "I heard a Senator state the other day that he was afraid we ¦hall have a revolution of blood and murder...
...That is the issue between the ruling gentlemen...
...He declares that the Stuffed Shirts failed...
...So the old capitalism is identified with low-grade brains and NRA capitalism is identified with high?rade brains...
...The well-informed persons, "so long as they remain sane," know that we cannot return to the old capitalism "operated by a lower grade of political brains...
...For this there will be no admission charge...
...There will be a complete history of the Socialist press in the United States, from more than a century ago to the present time, illustrated with photographs of Socialist papers going back to far before the period of the Civil War...
...ist gains were particularly r In the' rural districts, TTHE decay of each class order brings with it a * divided ruling class...
...The, other group insists that if the patient is left alone it will get on its feet...
...i Kenosha the party captured out of three aldermanic seats...
...April Ifth, from I te lilt p.m...
...Although "economic recovery now seems assured," below the ruins joy and despair alternate with "delusions that the millennium is at hand or that the world is about to dissolve in chaos...
...As I looked at these audiences who did me the honor to listen to my speeches, and who were trying so hard to be patient and loyal and forebearing, I wondered how long they would remain in that state of mind...
...and now is the time, not a year from now, to levy the taxes...
...In a single week elections were Id in 1,830 district council areas d in hundreds of parishes Krywhere Labor has won great 'lories, In many cases winning ist had been hitherto hopeless |ry strongholds...
...Juet why the ragged, joble*» and hungry masses should be interested in whether the lotcgrade or the high-grade gentlemen should rule them Richberg dors not explain...
...There will be an entirely new feature, however...
...Wartchow, appoined by an to fill the vacancy caused tile death of William Coleman, I defeated by 2,775 to 3,015...
...One group favors the salves, bandages and opiates of the NRA to restore capitalism to health...
...The quarrel over the Brains Trust at Washington brings this conflict to the surface...
...In i same election Morris Stern, nilng for a newly created circuit Igeship, lost to a non-partisan rfidate by 79,985 to 41,835...
...Underneath the ruins of capitalism are "enormous masses of people with hysterical emotions and erratic leadership...
...There (Continued on Page Bight) •THE NEW LEADER, proud of its ten years of existence of service to the Socialist and I-abor movement of the United State;, will hold a record-breaking birthday party Sunday evening, at which the largest crowd ever gathered for such an affair will celebrate with the staff and management of this newspaper...
...Whether the Stuffed Shirts or the Brains Trust have the contract of ruling us and fooling us is an issue between the exploiters who live on our labor...
...The Brains Trust regard their opponents as a Stuffed Shirt League that is thoroughly discredited becauVe capitalism went to pieces in their hands...
...Out of the Mouths of Senators The System is Condemned -By Observer' QUT of thine own mouths will I judge thee—and thy system," the Socialist might say, paraphiasing the noblemen's judgment in the parable of old...
...When you know the power you have you will end the old and the new capitalism and build a civilization where work and wealth, leisure and security, will be yours...
...1 SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 19.14 N Y C. EDITION Price Five Cenls (action Gains Are Scored in West ly Gertrude Cohen "HE spring municipal elections in the Middle West showed rgang Socialist victories in a imber of cities...
...NRA capitalism "requires a higher grade of political training and intelligence...
...I saw sights that would melt a heart of stone...
...Richberg now presents the claims of the Brains Trust...
...ti« ttat star...
...Malnutrition and inanition were getting in their deadly work on the innocent and helpless...
...There will also be historical articles on Socialist Institutions and the larger trade unions, the writers including Theodore Debs, James Oneal, Nathan Fine, Harry W. Laidler, William E. llohn, William M. Feigenbaum, Gertrude Weil Klein, Samuel H. Friedman, and many others...
...fte only two Socialist candies in West Allis, Wis., run I for the school boaord were lied by wide margins...
...at a time when we slaughter pigs to dispose of an unsalable surplus, little children have not enough to eat...
...They are the business men, bankers and politicians who have begun to conspire" against the Brains Trust...
...Little kiddies out there were deprived of milk, fruit, and vegetables because their poor daddies had been out of a job for two or three years, and the bodies of these little ones were suffering and their bones were becoming afflicted with a disease strangely akin to rickets...
...Wllllom M. »ol»tnhttoj, oooorUto •dlter tl TlitNtw Uadtr, - PrMar, A»m ml...
...I contend that it is more fraught with danger to the institutions of this Republic than any war or any combination of wars in which we have been engaged...
...They need the Brains Trust...
...It is a quarrel as to who is to rule the masses under the ruins in the interest of the gentlemen at the top...
...Friday...
...Why they should throw their caps in the air for the old capitalism or NRA capitalism is also a mystery...
...The ialists were defeated by the paganda of the power trust...
...Their quarrel is not ours...
...All our genius and our wisdom could not devise a scheme which would get that fruit and those vegetables over the mountains to those hungry little mouths on the WEVD New Leader Speaker tftn Blamtnbtrg of Tht Now Uadtr •Uff will bo the npr.ker tf Tho Now LMdrr period of Ntttlon WEVD <13«t Kc...
...It considers the Brains Trust as a collection of quack doctors...
...Sty electionss in the West are •rally on a non-partisan basis, in Madison, Wis., the party up a full ticket and made ery speech a speech for Soism...
...Workers of mill, mine, shop, factory and farm...
...Out in the State of Washington during the campaign of 1932 I talked to thousands of people, and I want to tell one or two things I saw in that campaign because they constitute In themselves an unanswerable indictment of this game as it is now played...
...For listening to the words of the representatives of the Republican and Democratic parties in Congress and in official life, the Socialist hears damning indictments of the present system on every1 hand...
...There will be special articles by Emile Vandervelde, Raphael Abramowitsch, Karl Kautsky, Santiago I g le s I a s, Jacob Panken, Daniel W. Hoan, Clarence Senior, and others...
...The dinner will be held at Webster Hall, 119 East 11th Street, New York, and large delegations will attend from Socialist Party units and affiliated organisations, labor unions and fraternal bodies...
...And hfcre is Senator Robert M. LaFolleltc (Republican) of Wis consin as he urges taxes in ac cordance with the ability to pay: "Every person recognises that this is a crisis worse than war...
...Results were the most tifying in years, with the Soitt candidate for Mayor polling 10 to 10,000 for the winner, a third of the total votes...
...t Socialist victors were Edward ¦ton and John Martin...
...Details are printed elsewhere in this issue...
...m Socialist won a seat in the itt Council...
...The dinner on Sunday evening will be one of the most interesting discussions in recent Socialist history...
...The dinner, and the symposium to follow, will be a curtain-raiser to a two-weeks' celebration of The New Leader anniversary...
...Washington is a beautiful state When the harvest comes on it Is a veritable cornucopia of plentyand yet in one county 60,000 people were being fed the bitter bread of akldtad nut lit commissaries: being Our Washington Correspondent fed dry, farinaceous foods poorly suited to the needs of children...
...For the first ¦ rince the war important Mes were captured in Sheop n and Kenosha, Wis., while dties where Socialist candites were not elected their taring was remarkable...
...In the upper range of power and security the ruling gentlemen hurl unkind words at each other...
...I make that statement in the hope that Senators will not be led astray upon the question by a false sense of security or an illusory hope that the enormous burdens confronting the treasury have abated...
...My God, Senators, we have a revolution now...
...The climax will come In two weeks, when The New Leader will publish the most remarkable issue of its career...
...Ran Campaign Prom Jail...
...Donald R. Richberg, general counsel of the NRA, states the issues that rage in the tents of the mighty...
...Richberg thinks the Brains Trust is competent for the job...
...at a time when men complain that they do not have decent covering on their floors, the rug and carpet factories are silent, the wheels stand still...
...Colonel Marmaduque Grove, who ran his Senatorial election campaign from a jail, was Indicated recently aa practically assured of victory over his Conservative opponent, says the Associated Press...
...The task of the working class is to obtain power so that we can take over the capitalist structure and reorganize it on a Socialist basis...
...Mrs...
...Well-informed persons, enjoying the benefits of the present system" are opposed to the Stuffed Shirts...
...Ignore this dispute of your masters at the top and think of your misery in the depression hell below...
...The reservations already received have broken all previous attendance records, there is, however, room for a few more...
...Witness first Senator Homer T. Bone (Democrat) of Washington, as he rises to defend higher taxation of big incomes: "At a time when our factories can turn out foodstuffs in a prodigal fashion, babies go hungry...
...H'e need no Stuffed Shirts or Brains Trust...
...You are many and they are few...
...A hundred miles away in one of the most beautiful valleys fh the United States I saw thousands of tons of foodstuffs—peaches, pears, tomatoes, cherries—rotting on the trees and on the ground...
...Carl R. Hem pel, Socialist, was i-elected justice of the peace by 1177 to 55,764...
...Those comrade* unable to be guests at the dinner proper are cordially Invited to attend after the meal and hear the discussion...
...Records to Fall at New Leader Dinner west side that were watering for the cherries and peaches that were never to be theirs...
...Socialists now conJut* a full half of the County nd composed of thirty memn. Other aldermanic candidates n defeated by margins of from to 100 votes...
...The anniversary issue will, for the first time, be combined with the May Day issue...
...The prediction I am about to make may shock some Senators, but I venture the prediction, nevertheless, that the direct-relief load will be higher in April and May than during any year of the depression...
...So much for the Stuffed Shirts...
...All city districts plus several rural districts gave 20,829 votes to Grove and 28,188 to bis opponent ' (Jrove waa a Socialist candidate...
...Continued on Pag* Bight) No Stuffed Shirts or Brain Trust Needed by Workers Irituh Labor Continue* h» Big Gains » following the great victory of s British Labor Party in capring control of London, the local d council elections continue to ow great gains...
...Fred Kneevers was elected ¦man...
...Milwaukee also the power trust at huge sums to defeat John irtchow, according to Mayor in...
...Large delegations will attend from cities and states within a large radius of New York, many of the guests having signified their intentions of coming from distances of hundreds of miles...
...Socialist Wine Sena tor ship SANTIAGO, Chile...
...Many of the knells have Socialist majorities the first time...
Vol. 27 • April 1934 • No. 15
