THE Chatter-Box
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...or on tome *K*§rM Winging the foaming flying tea-~ Thee* cannot bo her real home...
...The difference in treatment is so marked as to constitute a glaring contrast...
...lillity, be**** we feel it will make most of you stow breadwinners feel that your foiblei *»• practiced a times by the great...
...In that audience there were many men and women who have been sympathetic with Russia...
...Coolidge enjoys his breakfast and does not have to dodge his grocer at the end of the month...
...cried the guard, "this guy It tm ing to get away with some of the rompse/i coal...
...Hillquit was not whether the Socialist Party would dissolve but whether it would nominate candidates of its own if a Labor Party was organized...
...La* Spring we had a load on o r shelves, will snow still on the housetops...
...We need seat pronto—so won't you scribes please husHt what you have ready along...
...Many thousands of postal workers are still below a decent standard of living but they can console themselves that Mr...
...He went on to state that the Socialist Party would not nominate candidates of its own but Would participate in the nomination and support of Labor party candidates...
...The yokels of the hinterland, the peons on the public highways, the proud wage servants of the new rich, will generously pay the cost of the Government for the exempt hoarders of American dollars...
...On April 1 we hope to announce the winner or winners of our Quarterly Poetrj...
...HOPKINS WE have no doubt that Mr...
...to the future...
...Wc know of no living thing mm wanton and more deliciously irresponslbli than a Bronx married man or woman at t Socialist Ball...
...This became noticeable during the war when both parties united in pass-, ing legislation providing savage penalties for criticizing the Washington bureaucrats...
...And well ye know, oh, ray W low husbands, that there be no Kre,''r,*' fraction of the set rules of marital «s* ence than to miss the evening meal by stf, excuse lighter than losing your best 1*1" * a subway sruashup, or plain suicide...
...Vladeck has had his experience in Czarist prisons and is able to speak with authority...
...Goody, We must add this: Miner Arrested ta Bowery for Sniffing Up Coke...
...We accept tMj sum as accurate in the belief Mat Join would not lie because of a dollsf orjtwo...
...The Communist movement iq dying here as it is dying abroad...
...The Anaconda gang that has ruled Montana as a feudal barony for a generation got away with $50,000,OOQ...
...The Socialist contention that increasing economic mastery produces a re-shaping of government in behalf Of a ruling minority is verified by this tendency...
...fThe Mount Vernon Negro accuses 01 selling bonds to be redeemed **" twenty dollars each in 1960 to fln*JJJ at airplane service through the s* System must have studied the lions returns last November **» thought his game as worthy ss aw*", ¦ng cool with, Coolidge...
...Over the teiephon...
...At the same time Congress voted for and the President signed a bill giving an increase of salary to members of Congress, an increase amounting to more than the average wage paid to postal workers including the $300...
...jcj Wej came home...
...Like flies attracted by a honey vat our millionaires are hiking for Florida...
...It remained for our financial barons to find in Florida another paradise, exemption "forever" from taxation...
...CORRECTING MR...
...The State Constitution was recently amended to provide that no income or inheritance tax shall ever be levied by the Legislature...
...It was evident when a Democratic Senator introduced a bill embodying Coolidge's ideas regarding Muscle Shoals...
...i Seems like our usual atock delivajtt Spring Pomes is delayed somewhat* V> tween this office and the factories...
...Mak«|fj»j headline for Broadway Brevities...
...They have raised their voices aginst reaction in stifling opinions at home and abroad...
...It reads: In the course of the discussion Mr...
...Clement Weei -0-- I A Mine Boss in Pennsylvania was fast getting ready to leave for the day, this, ing what a perfect evening of poker I ahead of him at the club...
...However, there is one paragraph in this statement that is misleading...
...The Communist movement has taken over this thuggery and Monday night gave another exhibition at Town Hall...
...This one bit of swag alone is nearly sufficient to have paid the increase in wages which underpaid postal workers have been asking for...
...Owing to a favorable ruling in the" Treasury Department at Washington, many millions of dollars in tax returns of big corporations have remained in corporate hands...
...As a general rule our vulgar rich cultivate a veneration of Government and law and underwrite any ignorant sharper who specializes in anti-radicalism...
...For ah, my sweet, unto my night Sone lovelier may be-" "There,are prettier ladiee for thee to Thu jingles to," quoth she— _ "So j\ »t come home for supper fo-««ss+* Or never again-" quoth she...
...It is a curious fact-that quite a number of delegates at Chicago could not understand how a Socialist Party could function in a Labor party despite the British experience...
...roared the boss...
...Said I to my mate, "I would inditt A poem fair for thee...
...1-0-j—> .Mayor Hylan returns to Gotham with the statement that there is one bill/on dollars waiting for his eneiuisi if they defeat him...
...Wonder if that wasn't the real i*aW for the recent earthquake...
...It's quitting time, and bj'i caught a cinder in his eye...
...That a Socialist Party could continue its existence as an educational organization affiliated with a Labor party, just as affiliated trade unions would still carry out their special purpose of fighting for higher wages and shorter hours, is evident by the experience of these organizations in England...
...All change from the monotonous vista of baby-carriages, Ydonne's, garages, and Brou booster signs, we recommend your joinine the hilarity, ribaldry, Rohemianism ami pagan revelry of our domesticated citizenry...
...A SINISTER AMENDMENT JN the evolution of capitalism Its professional keepers rarely think out a course looking...
...The President's fundamental point of view was not whether the postal workers could live, but whether Congress would vote for higher postal rates to enable them to live...
...Any movement that attempts to bully and gag its opponents, any movement that fears the free circulation of ideas, simply signs its own death warrant, It isn't fit to live...
...Alas and alack, we were expected new for supper...
...Every man and woman of this type at the Town Hall meeting came away with nothing,but contempt for those who broke up the meeting...
...What...
...When Ponce de Leon set out in the sixteenth century to discover the fountain of eternal youth to restore his shattered health, he stumbled upon Florida...
...The Communists lost many who had sympathized with them in their persecution and henceforth they will get little aid from them...
...Other huge sums that were lost to the Government would easily, take cart of increases which thousands of clerks in departments and bureaus should have...
...A Kentucky statute that has tracted some attention provides pj* alties for persons who circulate fa* rumors...
...It is apparent now in the bi-partisan drive in favor of an amendment that would make it almost impossible to amend the Constitution except through some great social upheaval...
...The organized workers of the nation should watch the propaganda for the Wadsworth-Garrett proposal and be ready to mobilize all their forces to defeat it should it reach the stage of being referred to the States for ratification...
...They also think in terms of a social order which they think will endure forever...
...Sot bleak and dim—but bright at tU' Soft burning kiet of limb to limb, .4 Sot beauty blown aerote the mooAV...
...Its agents act as dying ruling classes act when they feel that their dominion is to disappear...
...They may tear a passion to tatters over an item in a tariff bill, but both join in striking blows against fundamentals of economic and political freedom...
...1 , 0 — We are going to let you in on » uWt of our own domestic intranr...
...i#v -'-0New» Items Bronx Socs...
...Geel 'I'll about the thrill that comes once in a Oft-time...
...But forever is a long time and a century hence the hunter of historical curios may read a Constitution as amusing to them as the quest of de Leon is to us now...
...poet, trssf and Village enfant terrible, haa started I movement on foot to move the Village salt to Avenue A and 10th street and environ, Wc made a sagacious fracture as fettofi: "Why not into the river, Harry, when it would be quite apropos to invite Bar friends to drop in and see you...
...Moreover, the assault on the Town Hall meeting, following assaults upon other meetings, shows a desperation born of despair...
...But, night or noon, in you alone...
...We wanted so to go to a show with •osw-body else...
...0 ¦ - The Nation pays a tribute to the late Paul Hanna, citing his services from the San Francisco Call to the London Daily Herald, but curiously ignoring The New Leader...
...A stamp which they are selling to raise funds bears the caption: "No Prisons For Ideas...
...Suddenly |g door flew open, and a trusted nasi dragged a coal-miner into the office...
...They had been conspicuous in protesting against the attempts of the imperialist powers to intervene in Russia...
...They have the support of some of the most reactionary organizations in the United States...
...But the same rich Upstarts are equal to repeated looting of the Federal treasury and because of their contributions to capitalist parties the way is open to rulings that enable them to filch these millions...
...And your opportunity to view this comej once a year...
...Accomplices in this sport are often found in public officials who are entrusted with the collection of taxes...
...They plead for the right to be heard and then proceed to meetings in 1 lacks and prevent others f rort being heard...
...President Coolidge did not call any members of Congress Into conference and warn them on the score of "economy" not to vote $2,500 extra for congressional salaries...
...It seems that the copper nobility has played for high stakes in this game and won...
...The tickets had been procuf* by the somebody else...
...Hillquit was asked whether, in the event of a new party being formed, the Socialist Party would dissolve, and he stated that he could give no assurance to this effect, but if his resolution carried they might refrain from actually nominating candidates at every election, but nevertheless continue as an organization...
...He did not find this fountain...
...Boss...
...That this simple matter was not understood by some at Chicago is one of the curious phases of that gathering...
...Perhaps our neighbor's receiving set is disturbed by...
...The Socialist Party, he added, was primarily an educational organization and it would serve the Labor party in the same' way that the Independent Labor party serves the British Labor party...
...Prize...
...PRESIDENT COOLIDGE SIGNS IN the closing hours of his fifct term President Coolidge signed the bill increasing the salary of members of Congress $2,500 a year...
...We're just in need now of wait Frank, our Elevator Genie, calls a ntrnaj doctor...
...Well, that evening, we thought of a new one...
...What is also significant of the proposed Wadsworth-Garrett amendment is that it has the support of a considerable number of representatives in the two leading parties...
...They instinctively act in response to prevailing' conditions and their fears of change...
...He did not succeed in uttering more than five words of this speech when the Communists created a tumult which continued until the meeting was adjourned in disorder...
...One of the big items of news this week is the exposure of this sport on a very large scale...
...Well, no one can say that Mr...
...It is men of this type of mind who propose the constitutional amend Ynent which is analyzed by Mr...
...oHarry Kemp, the well-knowi...
...That crowd has a checkered career that would make Captain Kidd blush with humiliation...
...J. A. H. Hopkins of the Committee of 48 intended in his recent press statement regarding the Chicago conference of the C. P. P. A. to give an accurate account of what occurred...
...A statute of this kindsij Klied to many newspapers IW rins...
...flfjfjh and Olympus are still shaking with lftsgh-ter...
...Coolidge does not serve his class even if he does not save his face...
...But beauty here in quieter view Bodied in you, eager and dear...
...Sot beauty bar* on a loot peak, a Whom all mi seek /•», •eeryidkejeifl Sot beauty flipping through the grm Hour before dan...
...a trlut in the wood pulp nV...
...One" aspect of this meeting the Communists did not count upon...
...The New Leader is printing on another page the remarks which B. C. Vladeck of the Jewish Daily Forward was prevented from making at the Town Hall meeting...
...It is fitting that the copper gang should lead this pack...
...o——— Clement Wood has advised us that E. P. Mutton will shortly issue a book, 'Toeta*} America," which Clement has gotten to-gether and edited, in which " e are treat*) as really one of the gang...
...S.A.DEWITT...
...The question asked of Mr...
...Jud-son King on another page...
...He remembered the late campaign slogan and kept cool...
...Curiousjy enough, this incident occurred at a time when the Communists were mailing out thousands of circulars pleading for funds to protect some of their kind from prosecution because of their ideas...
...Difficult as it is now to amend the Constitution, representatives of both parties in Congress would make it still more difficult...
...And since it MM good show—what could have been «M» delectable...
...The charming realtor with his swindles is giving way to the greater investor of New York- Florida promises to become the habitat of millionaires who are invited to locate there with the assurance that they will not be molested by the tax gatherer...
...static MARVELOUS FLORIDA INTO "The New Empire," as the State of Florida is called, is pouring Northern capital...
...are all enthused over th« annual ball and dance to be given ant week—as per ad...
...This union of the two parties on matters of fundamental importance becomes more striking each year...
...Not even the "best people" can with all their capital decree forever that they shall rule and force all others to* pay the bills...
...in inside column...
...The postal employes finally received an increase of $300 a year, an increase which they would not have received with the consent of Coolidge if the postal bill did not carry a clause for increased revenue...
...0A DYING COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IT has been no unusual thing in the development of the Labor and Socialist movement to encounter disturbers and thugs who either volunteer or who are paid to break up meetings...
...Yes, sir...
...0-THE TAX-DODGERS * FAVORITE sport of our Amer-r\ ican nobility has always been * tax-dodging.* It is notorious in every city and State...
Vol. 2 • March 1925 • No. 11
