Top o' The Leader Tower With Readers 'n' Boosters
Top o' The Leader Tower With Leaders V Boosters THE NEW LEADER ASSOCIATION A NUMBER of times in recent months rumors have come to tai staff of The New Leader that it is a privately owned...
...The lyrical muse, thereupon, fluttered ever the National Secretary, and he was delivered of this fine nine-pound effusion: The roie li red, the violet blue, ThU little bill Is overdue...
...I'LL SAY WE DO I It being springtime, Comrade Steinhardt looked out of the window, listened to the gentle zephyrs, Inhaled the odor of the crocus and went into a tranoe, with this disastrous result: The rote It red and you are blue You need the dough, we know It's true...
...Every Man a King" is an inspiring slogan which "conveys the great plan of God and of the Declaration of Independence...
...Nice for the owners—if you get what we mean...
...Pennsylvania Socialists should note that this politician may be the Democratic candidate for Governor...
...Working people from the farms and factories, mills, shops, stores and mines are expected to serve in this role...
...Whose lives are expected to fertilize the fortunes of this class...
...Here is a winner...
...The salaries—when paid—aw moderate, less than is paid it many of the skilled trades...
...In other words, The New Leader is published in the same way that the New York Daily Call was and the Milwaukee Leader is published today...
...We will not hear where we are at— So come across, we nerd the dough...
...Annual meetings of the members are held and full reports are made to the members by thi business manager and the editoi Special meetings are also hel| when they are considered neces sary...
...rne ceruncaie iuimer proviues< that, "No person may become or continue to be a member of this Association unless he is a member of the Socialist Party of JChe United States, and when any niember of this Association shall cease to be a member of the Socialist Party of the United States, he shall thereby cease to be a member of this Association...
...Social revolution by the masses in every nation that is hurled into another rvar...
...It is as old as steel mills, railroads, oil companies and other Capitajist enterprises...
...Workers should protest against it wherever it is proposed...
...Thus The New Leader is completely controlled by a publishing association whose members are members of the Socialist Party...
...Every prominent revolutionary who carae to this country was greeted with great receptions and often these refugees were invited to address Mate legislatures and even Congress...
...The capitalist nations are like monsters pf the jungle facing a final struggle and yet all wasted by an incurable disease that will eventually destroy them...
...Politics and Poodles ll/HO represents you in a law-making body...
...Jehovah, the Kingfish, the Declaration of Independence and the Three Tailors of Tooley Street, famous authors of Magna Charta...
...Sir Robert Hadfield translated {he bloody pelf into piety in his annual address to his fellow slayers...
...For If you do delay it thus No violet will bloom for us...
...A Board of Management constantly supervises the business and editorial character of the paper...
...The birds will sing, but what or that...
...Maw Tark City Edlriee...
...What is the answer to them...
...Your Jingles tell a plaintive tale But the Jingle of coin will end your wall...
...During the recent Holy Week, stockholders of two chief British armament concerns met in London and rejoiced that their profits were increasing...
...Signed contribution* «• not necessarily yepreaent the policy ¦ The New Leader...
...Silk Hat Slayers WHILE the big imperialist powers are arming to the teeth 110 intelligent person seriously considers the prospects of arms reduction at Geneva...
...PAID IN FULL TTHE National Office of the So* cialist party in looking over its records found that Comrade George I. Steinhardt of the Bronx had made a pledge that was not yet paid...
...So pay It now—don't wait till when The row' and violet bloom again...
...The editorial and business staff considers that its primary duty is to help build the Socialist Party and to represent and defend the declared principles of the Socialist Party...
...One of the first evils attacked by the early trade union movement in this country was the public lottery...
...Today wt loo often liave the bootlicker of which George H. Karle, 3rd, is a type...
...Top o' The Leader Tower With Leaders V Boosters THE NEW LEADER ASSOCIATION A NUMBER of times in recent months rumors have come to tai staff of The New Leader that it is a privately owned publication...
...The certificate of incorporation expressly provide the following: "The Association shall at all times adhere to am propagate tlx principles of Socialism and shall support the politics party known as the Socialist Party of the United States...
...You, the workers, we mean...
...If a'member of the party is expelled he also at the same time ceases to be a member of the Association...
...There are certain statements made by the Kingfish, however, that give us a thrill...
...Entered aa jtoggal Class •>¦"**«' .at...
...His correspondence with agents of power interests indicates that he represents gas and electric power...
...Should it ever produce a surplus it would be used to expand and improve the paper...
...On the other tan* wnu Utt nwin IHtl «M WW i—r~ not to use lead pencil or red Manuscripts that cannot be used not be returned unleat return i>osi is enclosed, SUBSCRIPTION RATKfli lTtar...
...P.S.—The National Office, i» consideration of the P.S., decided not to sue for breach of the (poetic) peace...
...lYeer...
...Resigning as Minister to Austria, Karle on arriving in this country repeated the slander that Otto Bauer fled the country as soon as the fighting began and paid homage to the Little Assassin by saying that he is a "devout Christian...
...He recently parted with Chancellor Dollfuss, who is guilit of the killing of men, women and children of the workers in the Austrian civil conflict and is now Fascist master of that unhappy country...
...Gambling for Capitalism COME states are considering lotteries as a means of raising revenue and a committee of Congress will hold hearings on a proposal for a Federal lottery to raise a billion dollars...
...The New Leader Association is not a profit-making institution...
...In practice, it meant taxation of workers who could ill afford to part with even a fraction of their wages...
...The shareholders responded with a chorus of "Aniens...
...Enclosed find chtci for |50...
...Their views ere not exclusively British...
...The members elect the memben of the board and the latter bodj elects the editor...
...Th< main burden of making up deficit...
...There's a combination that cannot be beaten but the following leaves us intoxicated: "Three Tailors of Tooley Street drew the Magna Charta of England...
...They are also German, American and Japanese...
...The certificate of incorporation of the New Leader Association expressly provides that, "no member shall be entitled to or receive profits...
...Now that the system of capitalist production is decaying, this indirect form of labor-sweating is revived...
...Better that and fail, than to be' led to the slaughter pits to die for the glory and profits of scoundrels who pray to their God for tvhat "we art about to receive...
...Tens of thousands of workers lured by the prospects of a prize purchased lottery tickets from their meager wages...
...There are details, hut as our readers know the aim the rest isn't important...
...Before the speaker concluded he expressed the opinion that it is difficult to uttderstand "the prejudice which appears to exist in a small section of the public against the so-called armanient firms...
...No person can join it unless he or she has a membershi| card in the party...
...It is too bad that diplomatic courtesies did not permit Karle to participate in the Fascist shelling of the homes of the workers and thus share in the "devout Christian" butchery by Dollfuss...
...We hope that this statement will dispel any misunderstanding re< garding the publication of Thi New Leader...
...The New Leader itself carries a standing notice that it is a "Socialist publication which supports the Socialist Party and the struggles of the organized working class...
...In choosing boar* members an effort is always madi to get the services of comrade who have some knowledge of jour nalism in its various aspects editorial, news, display, adver tising and circulation...
...This bird now sings 'tweet, tweet...
...Senator Thayer could not have been elected in upstate New York without working class votes...
...They tie their Christ to the projectiles of capitalist imperialism, to disease germs, machine guns and poison gas, and say prayers over rivers of human blood...
...Are these silk hat slayers conscious of the dirty trade they follow...
...To add to the value of this series for readers who wish to follow it up as a study course, The Ncm Leader has arranged with thi Band School of Social Science to correspond with sucn readers, helping them to solve questions that may arise in their minds, directing, them to sources of information, and advising them as to additional reading...
...we greet...
...No member of the Socialist Party in good standing has ever been rejected when an application has been received for membership in the New Leader Association...
...The privately-owned paper is primarily a profit-making business...
...IV0 were mdeed devoutly tliankful for present mercies, but way I add that for what I hope we are about ta receive, may the Lord make us truly thankful...
...Drifting to the butcher pits, the professional slayers of mankind, the armament gangs, mix religious piety with expected profits from future killings...
...He referred to the "shadow of the depression which was over us at our last meeting" and then followed with this note of piety: "Happily a favorable turn of ei'cnts has followed,, with much more hopeful results...
...The New Leader has never paic the expenses of publication...
...Al Capone is a civilized exponent of the highest ethics compared with them...
...We want to make this the very best educational series ever published...
...In plain words, this means legalizing gambling, a return to a practice common before the Civil War and running back to the colonial period...
...tweet, tweet...
...Get Your Share Now...
...Not In the spring, but now, you know...
...The final P. S. came several days later...
...This week wi run his review of Norman Thortua new book...
...THE NEW LEADER, ¦ Socialist P...
...Its a nice thing to own big corporations, collar some political poodles, have them nominated by a party that you finance, and then have the workers send them to a legislative body to represent the property...
...As the mania spread thousands of workers returned home from their jobs with a substantial part of their wages invested in tickets...
...Next Week i We have postponed the first inj stallment of the first article in thi series on the fundamentals of thi Socialist philosophy to next week David P. Berenberg's first contribution on "The Class Strugglt" will then appear...
...The New Leader Association is an organization of Socialist Part) members...
...Bronx got a letter with the) picture of an easily recognizable bird and the following couplet: "Your letter with loud thanks...
...Is this something new ? Not at all...
...Unless you pay, the rote will rest Upon a fair and manly chest...
...UcaUon, lupporti the Socialist Parw and the struggles of the organue" working class...
...1 Tear to P.relgn Caaatrlea.....JJ-JJ 1 V.er to Canada.......„¦•••• *i...
...A man inHy be sent to the Federal Senate from a Western State and represent big banking interests in New York...
...has always fallen upon comrades in New York City and near-by territory...
...At one time in the eighties it was a by-word in Pennsylvania that when the Legislature adjourned the Pennsylvania Railroad had completed its legislative program and the legislature could go home...
...So we tend you money to cheer your heart...
...Sir Hadfield's prayer was followed with a description of a new projectile so powerful that it will penetrate the most hardened steel plate and the munition pietists roared "Hear, Hear...
...If they ere not they are the lowest type of morons spawned by capitalism...
...N.U.a.1 Edltlaa...
...On several occasions at meetings outside of New York City the question has been asked of speakers at educational meetings of the party, For these reasons we shall explain to our readers what is known to t| Socialists in New York City...
...The rose it red, the violet blueDo we need cash...
...LlUEY P. LONG, Kingfish Senator from Louisiana, is organizing a "Share Our Wealth Society" which will limit fortunes "to such a few million dollars as will allow the balance of the American people to share in the wealth and profits of the land...
...We'll get our share of the wealth or bust...
...It goes to a cause of which wt are all ¦ part Then as an afterthought lit added: "P.S...
...Licking Dollfuse' Boots IIKFORE Hie Civil War there was a genuuje international sentiment among the masses in tin- country and even among-politicians in general...
Vol. 27 • April 1934 • No. 15