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...Christ born and Chrht crucified—a story that in its every bW-ing shred criea out against the age-old exploitation of the meek and the disiSMM hat been so craftily turned into a gw*" cation of that same exploitation—* •* commercialization of the godhead...
...The Socialist Party has adopted a program for-a capital levy and will fight for it in the Chamber...
...o THE WARRING DEMOCRATS __t NOT even the sainted memory •of Jefferson can harmonize the Democratic party...
...would compel "owner and employes to continue business on terms which are not of their own making...
...Trade unions and benevolent organizations, to say nothing of many other private organizations, are just as Mich entitled to instruction in the schbols favorable to them as private relgious organizations are...
...Calhoun was anti-bank, anti-tariff, anti-internal improvements and a nullifier...
...But we shall curtly come to a decision before the month'* over- so the |25.00 will just come ia gesjy for Msy Dsy celebrating...
...Capitalism must have another pen into which the voters may be herded when they get tired of the gang in power, but the Democratic pen is a precarious structure...
...oContest closed on April 1 for ths Ant quarter—which meana it is now...
...The assumption that modern industry cannot stand generous increases in wages without first sweating still more surplus values out of the workers simply is not true...
...gutter politicians the Bureaucrats State Department snapped at tht heels of Michael Karolyi as he disappeared from the free soil of Canada, Speaking for that Imperial bureau, the New York Sun reported that Gladys Vanderbilt's husbsnd, Count Ciechenyl, Horthy's Ambassador at Washington, was responsible for the gig imposed on Karolyi and that the State Department admits It The stupid bureaucrats are also said to regret that they had made the "-mistake" of admitting Karolyi, as in this case the publicity given- him would have been avoided...
...Not more than u dozen men really determine the legislative program...
...Nathan Margolii, Earth Earth, think not I am unaware...
...M. A. Goldzieher, Professor of Psthology st Budapest Uhl-.versity, states...
...jj|J Pick op their ads...
...The indictment grows eft of Senator Wheeler's investigation and Mposure of the notorious "Ohio Gang" that, cams to Washington with the late President Harding...
...Like the fool who mistakenly places a noose sround his neck only to find thst it hurts, the Stat* Department spokesmen can only whine because of their own folly and usurpation...
...They should not e made worse...
...The big Socialist gains in A Socialist Belgium are followed by Cabinet in 1resignation of the Belgium Theunis Ministry and Emile Vandervelde, one of the leading Socialists bf Europe, is called upon to form a Ministry...
...French bankers, capitalists and profiteers ar* likely to wage a stiff light against parting with any of their loot,, even to save their sacred country...
...Centralization appears in Congress itself in the conduct of its business...
...It does not occur to him that economic centralization carries with it political centralization...
...It it a good dtsl likt working out a» ess gram to arrange and set in place thi mT fusion and confusion of adjectives tat great names that tumble out of a* thoughts...
...One only has to con-pare the prices of a pretty dress, or * h«t> or a pair of shoes, or a Spring coat, or tht hundred lesser necessities of js*tsta\~ adornment, as they insolently atsounc* themselves to the hungry eye of th* worker, to the little bundle of wages that lies in pocket or pocket-book...
...The Democratic party has competed with its opponent for the favors of the greater magnates but has not always been successful...
...Gheorgieff, for example, was one of the'leaders in the movement that ousted the Peasant Premier Stambouliski and who murdered the latter while a prisoner...
...The memories of Madison Square Garden still rankle and meat axes are concealed under the coats of a number of leaders...
...As for the illiterates who are sent to Congress by the centres of Babbittry, they do not think at all...
...Their party never adopted a political program, for the very good reason that the many conflicting views made it impossible...
...Last February tho American State Department permitted the sale of arms and munitions to Honduras to suppress insurrections...
...Probably no other incident in recent years hss provoked the satire of the cartoonists and colyumists a* thi* action of the State Department ***** It isn't necesaary to ss-Bulgarian sume that the assassination . Politics of General Gheorgisff and the attack on King Boris in Bulgaria ar* tht work ef Bulgarian Communists...
...What tho' I see through your ditguiu— I love your pretty, wanton lis...
...The fact Is, that w hat It asked is a cleverly dlaguiatVi subsidy...
...For the first time in generations the party chiefs and brokers have been unable to eat together at a Jeffer-sonian dinner and the National League of Progressive^ Democracy was compelled to abandon, the feast...
...It will be remembered that.Vandervelde, in anticipation of being called upon to organist a Ministry/said that thi* matter would be up to the party to decide...
...Wheeler art Important and m-On Tried ter**ting trial Is iched-uled for thi* w*tk In •MonUlni...
...The standard of living of the worker, has improved, but the rate of improvement has lagged enormously behind the increase in production...
...They put him in the cooler...
...Senator Burton K. Wittier w?[ answer an indictment charging thst Ihflhad illegally appeared before the De ptMment of the Interior aa counsel for etEsin oil interests...
...This case arose out of such a combination, in California which I has carried out the policy of refusing to sell building material to ./ersons who maintained union shops...
...Thi* scuttles another exeuie offered by the State Department for it* action...
...Now to invoke such a law against a peaceful meeting publicly advertised to be held in the Paterson City Hall is to pervert the intention of its authors...
...Sparkling toftly as you slept, While in your heart dull maggots crept...
...Capitalism is a sponge that sucks up the larger portion of increased production, while the workers get a sop...
...In,Colombia it is reported that a military-revolt was planned during the absence of President Nel Ospina, but his unexpected return and arrest of a number of military officers foiled the attempt...
...When society appears to follow certain tendencies they car...
...Wt» FtUowt, we have lots and lot* ef tflk about Gene—how we love him, hawed honor" him, how we jo at eould not do maf out him, but those word* just cannot aa* tripping off the tongue like boyhoodhjfcZTJ lets over violets...
...only "deplore" it, not understand it...
...The Communist movement has its chief following among the peasants and its leaders have often issued proclamations in the approved Zinoviev style...
...He failed...
...oMost of our contribs...
...The public schools are bad enough because of Eolitical control...
...On the other hand, if inflation is continued, the French Government will have to hang up a sign of bankruptcy and^btcomt another sick child for the international bankers to take care of...
...Hoover has much to learn about the economics of the present order, but whether he wants to learn is another matter...
...We are to continue facing elections where the thief and the thug are important factors...
...VOTING MACHINES BECAUSE the bill to install voting machines provided that in case New York City does not install them by May 1 the Secretary of State should do so, and pay for them out of city funds in possession of the State, Governor Smith vetoes the bill...
...more important sections of it* worsisj I class program...
...Truth is, we just have not get dowa t*u evening of clear-headedness and unbitesj judgment when we could fairly deliver the bacon to tho most worthy...
...Ptattt ti the earth tt*Mt*pM when wt<t,r tl.e snow S let pi th* volcano, Wrong t Itt phantoms glow...
...Mr...
...With tbe meanness of Karolyi vs...
...It is either a case of inflation or levying a tax on capital and this issue is still before the new Cabinet and any other Cabinet that may succeed it Herriot pointed out the sins of those who preceded him before he resigned...
...Clancy, 6 days, 116.68...
...Should the religions allies succeed la getting it, th* question would then arise), What kind of religious instruction shall it be...
...m Perhsps wo are a little too hard on "J world, on business, on Christmas s*s EMt"n Am nrtt See you in the Fifth Avenue partde Wf Sundny—whstT I S. A. DE WITT^ CENTRALIZATION SENATOR BORAH is disturbed because of the tendency to centralize power at Washington ¦which he regards as a "subtle revolution...
...The General Council of the party has ealSJd a special Congres* for Sunday to decide whether the party will accept respo* sibility for organising a Mini*try snd, ¦ the answer is favorable, what the G»v«* mtnt't program ahall be...
...The Court holds that the law is in conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment, that it "infringes the liberty of contact and rights of property" and that it...
...I know that underneath your bloom Is but the granite face of doom, And that your perfume ie a spell To lure me laughing into hell...
...The tortuous provisions of ths vetoed bill were aimed at Tammany's stronghold, but the Republicans have no idea of honest elections in their rotten boroughs up-State...
...CIVIL RIGHTS IN PATERSON THE address of Roger Baldwin, which he was prevented from delivering in the court of a Now Jersey judge and which appears in another part of The New Leader, is an inspiring presentation of the issue of civil rights...
...If the Department had not consented to take orders from Horthy the publicity of which it complains would not have occurred...
...A number of Communists have contributed to the list of the dead...
...Invention and scientific management are squeezing more out of the workers every year, anyway, regardless of whether the workers consent to more "efficient" exploitation...
...In other words, private religious organizations complain that they have failed to reach the children and they ask that the public schools be turned over to them...
...But it is not a crime, and thanks to this challenge of police usurpation, we believe that an installment of civil rights has finally come to Paterson...
...Wets glare fiercely at drys...
...The Peasant party has never forgotten this and it i« probable that some of its prominent members have been nursing their grievance and waiting for an opportunity to retaliate...
...We need more stimuli, -o The Rebel ___ Once there wot a young fellow, Who rebelled against his ruler...
...Therefore, Tammany will remain the voting machine to "properly" record the votes...
...have been kept n the uneasy list awaiting news of the pras award for the first quarter of the ytu...
...Meantime, the trade unions of New York and New Jersey would be faithless to their duty if they permitted Roger Baldwin to go to prison without making their voices heard...
...Despite the excellent gains of the Socialists in the recent election It will be no esay matter for Vandervelde to organize a Ministry that will be atable...
...THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Two revolt* trt rt-Revolts in ported in Latin-Amor-' Latin-America ica this week, each following the military model that has been fashionable for,hundreds of years...
...One is the product of the other...
...Let us all turn out and feel great-eat tht thrill of meeting the one man of E inhuman years...
...Clay held opposite opinions on all these questions, yet both were Whigs...
...The fall of Herriot, Organizing a the French Premier, French Cabinet followed * h o r 11 y after the announcement that the Bank of France had exceeded the legal limit of note issue by more than 2,000,000,000 francs...
...Before the Civic Federation he observed that the fund from which increased wages are to come must be the result of more eflkient»,j)ro-duction...
...The Democratic party survives only as a necessity for dividing the voters...
...Jules Treemss -oThere is nothing that so crushes us with its pathos and tragedy than' the glittering Christmas and shimmering Easter shopping among the workers...
...The military cliques in these little nations present a "problem" for American imperialists...
...Upon the announcement that the prosecution would not call Lockwood and Coan to appear at the trial, Wheeler's attorneys said that they will demand their presence...
...On Wednesday, the Socialist Party Council decided to parti -.ipatc in the Painleve Ministry, but on Thursday it was doubtful whether any Socialists would be offered posts...
...He does not want to "sandbag" the city funds...
...RELIGION IN THE SCHOOLS ONE of the curious alliances of our time is observed in ths coalition of numerous religious organizations to enforce religious instruction in the public schools...
...If it is a crime for organized workmen to peacefully meet to consider their grievances then it is a crime for them to organize in the first place...
...Perhaps we sre waxing a bit too tw matic—perhaps we are a trifle hard on* poor business man, perhaps, oh...
...But I must view you from afar, Because you are so singular...
...We shall be glad to aee these two worthies on the stand under cross-examination...
...11 ir the por-chasing power of the millions of *JsfJJ that is appealed to from a thousand anglei of advertising cunning...
...His owji party has been the exponent of ,that higher capitalism of big business that is a typical product of the twentieth century...
...It is a matter of common knowledge that George Lockwood, then Secretary of the Republican National Committee, had sent Blair Coan to Montana to "get something" on Wheeler...
...There is every reason for believing that the trial is a political one, for there is no other reason than politics for Lockwood to come to the defense of the "Ohio Gang...
...The present solidarity of religious organizations would be resolved into quarrels aad th* whole school system would become involved...
...The situation is a product of the old age of American capitalism and it will not disappear until an informed Socialist working class falls heir to the whole works...
...What promise* to b* Sen...
...As though to make our bureaucrats the more contemptible, Dr...
...Watch them as we have watched then, pouring in and out of the great departffltn stores, where thousands like them*»W| wait on them, and all of them P0***?* with the same faith and madness...
...It is like the Whig party of the '30s...
...Limited as the provisions of the bill were, it should have been spproved by Governor Smith...
...The Theunis Ministry was a precarious coalition of Clericals and Liberals, with the Clericals divided into two factions...
...Protestants and Catholics cannot agree on what Bible to use, while Mormons and Christian Scientists each have their own...
...And tho' I eould not sleep last night, You lay there dreaming, still anittki...
...But things became so hot for him...
...Physical assaults and m»r ders srt as normal ia Bulgaria) politics ts Tammany theft ef ballots is New York City...
...That your beauty it a snare...
...Coan Is said to have worked up the case against Wheeler...
...Often they do not even get the sop and sometimes-wages are reduced while production is increasing...
...It is asserted, upon the basis of figures quoted by Justice Cropsey, that of 189,000 children between twelve and eighteen years old in Brooklyn, fewer than 35,000 are receiving religious .instruction of any kind...
...TREATIES Pemt Cham the fiert* degt ef tsar, end still the* tWeVl/ Art y* disturbed...
...As a matter of fact, both parties want no honest count in elections...
...Its complete collapse would be a blessing and if it goes t<> tho junk pile we will not mourn...
...The word "progressive" is ^musing, especially in the mouth of the medieval Bryan...
...The rest are rubber stamps who follow orders, vote as they are told by the party brokers, and are rewarded by some distribution of "pork...
...Although the strongest r**i* Belgium, the Socialists are still a minorw and a Ministry for which thty srt* «•»<»¦ tlble would bt untble to carry eotJ...
...If a tool of American imperialism is in power he is regarded as the "legitimate" executive and is helped to stay in power...
...However, there are many who hang on his words a. the gospel of Buddha...
...The new Ministry is certain to encounter the sSme antagonism that faced Herriot, while Briand...
...Judaism, Catholicism, Protestantism and lesser divisions of the latter forget their differences for the present to unite in a common crusade...
...The latter still scores "reactionary" Democrats while seeking to bar science from educational institutions...
...This is true of even men like Borah, men who are capable of thinking but hot in terms of historical change...
...Our statesmen and politicians do not appear to have any knowledge of social and economic evolution...
...It is for then more than for the thousands of the SPP*' classes that Christmas is so inaistently glorified snd Easter ushered in with thundering hosannas...
...A conviction would mutt imprisonment for not more than two y*A*, -vacating his seat in the Senate, and aflne of $10,000...
...As the mouthpiece of Koo Koo sentiment in the South, he is ranged against the Irish Democrats of northern cities...
...reported as nursing a grudge because of alleged "secret intrigues" against him by Herriot...
...For should I come somewhat too near You would at once become severe, And take me to*your stony breast, To crush me for my eager quest...
...or go through tftw spacious salesrooms and, after sep*rs»"l value from shoddy, figure out for yew selves how much of a decent Spring _ow fit Mary Clancy could buy for five vm» her aix-day stipend of $16:63...
...The history of capitalism has been a story of the multiplication of the powers of production...
...Meantime the voters may be sandbagged by Tammany thugs...
...HOOVERS ECONOMICS JU8T why Herbert Hoover should ,be rated as a great economist because of his work in saving Belgian children during tbe World War passes our comprehension...
...In permitting this transection Herriot had simply followed the course of his predecessors...
...The decision ends the hopes of those in other States who have desired to conscript wage workers for capitalist combinations...
...It is said that this Is the thirty-eighth political murder in Bulgaria since last August, which simply Indicates .hat politics is thriving in this little mountain autocracy...
...The proposal is unsound, unwarranted, and is in conflict with th* principle of no union between Church and State...
...To imprison a man and to fine others for arranging such a meeting is a usurpation of power and an atrocious injustice...
...Moreover, there are arrested sections of industry in which wages and general conditions are aa bad as they were fifty yearB ago...
...The fact-that the two capitalist parties have wooed big business shows that the tendency of centralization is inevitable...
...Outrageously overcharged in season for Big-chandise that will go begging two sfttr Easter or Christmas, they givMg month* of toil and self-denial for s WL comforts or indulgences...
...And we hear a distant knmmtng Like a mtlUon baa tongues *trw*mwk±md] Till it tats our hearts adrummingZ^ Gone is coming—Gene is earning I Thai's just how y* editor felt dfifju wee ffivited to attend the Debt DtS April 2...
...The Socialists and Flemish Nationalists constituted the opposition...
...Even the word-' ing of this statute Indicates that it was intended for application to assemblies which are glaringly violent in their conduct...
...Will it be long Before tk* ilutnber tttutf Net still tk* wrath of tht crater hat dud May right and peace abidt...
...This recalls that the Monroe Doctrine, originally burled against the "legitimate" pretensions of European monarchs, has been so changed that today it is a doctrine of "legitimacy" favoring American financial imperialism...
...JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY...
...ssnd perhapaes—but, with all that, wjhlw peered into their homes, we have lived tsar lives, and only today we picked up an *W pay envelope reading: "Macy's...
...Stems to no the tun it brighter And ths lasy dandlings whiter...
...One gathers from the language of the decision, however, that it is property interests that constituted the most important consideration in making the decision...
...On the whole, the American policy is one favoring "legitimacy...
...Another decision announced on the same day gives judicial approval to the enforcement of the open shop by agreement of capitalist organizations so long as they (-online the agreement to a State...
...umn since then are eligible to the new cot-test...
...In its eagerness to support the textile masters of Pater-son the Police Department went back to the eighteenth century for an old statute that might be used against striking workmen...
...Reports from Honduffaa are that General Gregorio Ferrer* MS* started a revolutionary movement and thaC\ the Government has declared martial law...
...Tat yellow fern*), Ik* throaty growl— Art thty kgitry embed if once thty gem rtitaut When tht helthomdt of lemtat an tkw, no fed, Ye may loot ahead...
...The Democratic Wing of capitalist politics has only one slender thread holding its factions together—the hope of office in 1926...
...Even so, conscription of Labor in the Interest of capitalist corporations is not a method sanctioned by the Supreme Court...
...The renegade Briand wooed the Socialists in the hope of getting them to enter his proposed Cabinet...
...Senator Wheeler's contention is that he did not appear before the Department of the Interior in the case mentioned, hu had' appeared before Montana courts, a perfectly legal transaction...
...They want "stability" for American investors but where a native ruler attempts to prevent American domination a revolution is looked upon with favor...
...Out of ts* Deputies in the Chamber the Swish** hsve 79...
...The colonies had just passed through a stage of civil conflict between Tories and Whigs and other factions and such statutes were intended to curb assaults by individuals and mobs...
...Why noihave a drive by all these organizations for such favors rather than rtiavAlicriniia hnrlin.q alone...
...that the Italian Premier, Bonoml, in 1921, admitted that Karolyi's expulsion from Italy was a in.stake...
...The Court holds that the agreement is purely a "local matter" which does not interfere with interstate commerce...
...on /or thi second...
...The big capitalist leaders of the East detest the agrarian radicals of the West...
...Practically all of the TlVO Court powers of the Kansas Decisions Industrial Court have been nullified by a decision of the United States Supreme Court and former Governor Allen's remedy for wiping out the class struggle goes into the discard...
...All poema published in this col...
...Send them in...
...Compulsory arbitration is therefore outlawed...
...Whether Congress is controlled by one party or the other makes no difference...
...A representative of the State Federation of Labor and Chairman Voorhis of the City Board of Elections ppposed the bill on the ground that a voting machine may be tampered with and votes may be improperly recorded...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 16
