A REAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS
CAMERON, JAMES
A REAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS By JAMES CAMERON AT three o'clock thif afternoon (August 22) there open* in the Exposition Building in Marseilles an international meeting of far more...
...Murderers and counterfeiters hid their wanti generally provided by the State, but unless the poor debtor was provided for by friends or charitable societies, he was left to rot in rags...
...In 1816 there were 1,984 debtors, imprisoned in New York City, of whom 1,129 owed less thin $60 ind 729 owed less than $25 eich...
...I take the liberty to drop you a few lines to tell you that the wrapper on my paper is very loose and In handling in the mail the wrapper slipa off, and io I loae the paper, which I miss very much for I im anxioui to hear how the Socialist and the Labor party is growing...
...I have lost three paperi...
...These meetings will be followed by the big convention—the forty-first annual convention of the Indiana State Federation of Labor...
...Ht may subscribe as a personal favor, bet he will renew b*ceus* he wants th* new...
...The Socialist Party, as always, is willing to place its full resources in the battle for the rights of the unions...
...Surely here is ¦ vist army, large enough and eerUinly efficiently trained by experience to do the dirtiest of the dirty work...
...YES, WE ARE COMING BACK, BROTHER...
...wa read the book last week) without cost...
...George A. Rath...
...The ilimy politician who stops •t nothing in his anxiety to remain in the good graces of Capitil...
...Vera Hillquit, Mrs...
...Louis de Brouckere of Belgium will report on unemployment and the conditions of life of the wcrkers...
...The line of march will be west in Ohio street to Third street, north in Third street to Wabash avenue, east in Wabash avenue to Thirteenth street, and countermarch back to the courthouse for the Debs speech...
...For two weeks oar subscription department offered Arthur Morrow Lewie's great book, "Evolution, Social and Organic," with three si* months' subscription cardi to The New Leader...
...THE PAPER AND THE MOVEMENT ARE GROWING IN STRENGTH...
...Two years ago most of the Socialist parties of Europe were still struggling to recover the political ground lost as the result of the war and to heal the internal divisions Jue to attacks by the Communist ^lternational...
...Mike, tht Barber, says...
...in Germany and Austria they form a militant and menacing opposition...
...1 hop* Th* N*w Leader will h* ¦ucc***ful In th* effort to make It a powerful weapon of th* Socialist Party and th* working dale...
...The Terra Haute Central Labor Union announces the parade and address by Debs will be staged "to prove to our Chamber of Commerce that the Labor organizations in the State of Indiana have net been broken" by the open-shop movement '' People ARE Like That LAST WEEK we were asked, bj^the conductor on the train that speeds us homeward each evening, that old, old cht»»nut, "Who will do the dirty work under Socialism...
...Our mpply is exhausted...
...Why not livt with ut with your heads at well as you do your ttomacht" Had he been born a century earlier there is every probability that w» should have spent most of our life in jail...
...Wt don't care about the old country to much any more...
...To give tht names of all the delegates would be like calling the roll of the leading Labor political leaders and theoreticians of the world...
...More *ubarrlb*n means mor* Socialists and a better paper...
...Not that I care for the price, but the information regarding what the laborera are doing for .their wives and children...
...McCarthy proved the beit pokar player...
...The annual State conventions of the plumbers, the painters and the machinists will be held on Sunday, August 23, all of these being one-day sessions...
...Oneal'i book ii well printed on good piper...
...The committee in charge of arrangements expects a crowd of fully 10,000 people aside from the 800 delegates who will represent the various Labor crafts at the convention, to hear the address of Debs, which will deal with Labor and the laboring man's problems...
...Here is an opportunity to secure a most interesting volume (tike our word for it...
...The Chinese situation will also come up, as will the whole problem of coloiaes and so-called inferior peoples...
...In a few day* you will rereiv* a letter from Jam** Oneal all about th* biggest *tunt *rer pulled by a Socialist paper...
...All tht time your tptakert and paper* talk about Europe...
...So hoping the comrades and the paper will grow in strength and elect teveral Congressmen and Senators next year...
...Guest privileges at the Congress were requested for State Senator Joseph W. Padway, of Wisconsin, and Arthur Shutkin, member of the Milwaukee City Council...
...The subscription cards cm be easily sold and are good at any time...
...Meta Berger and Miss Ellen Persons were chosen to represent the Socialist Party at the Women's International Conference...
...There is plenty of work fpr the Congress, which faces the task of outlining the policy to be followed by the leading Socialist organizations of the world during the next three years...
...When I flrit sent In my subscription to The New Leader It was to help a publication that has th* courage to advocate the principles of tht Socialist Party...
...Today there are minority Socialist Governments in Sweden and Denmark...
...Chicago, III...
...You will find a coupon on another page of this Issue...
...Rufua Oiborns...
...MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE BUSHEL, BUT WE LEARN THROUGH EXPERIENCE...
...The Debs address as the feature of the Indiana State Federation of Labor Convention should serve as an indication to both Labor unions and 'their central bodies and to Sociciist locals of the mutual assistance they can be to each other...
...With all these must be placed those who pr xtitut* mind and heart to serve the God of Gold ind help to keep the people In bondage...
...And when the delegates who attended the conference in Bern, Switzerland, in February, 1919, of some eighty Socialists from i score of countriei, where the first feeble efforts were made to revive the spirit of international Labor solidarity following the end of the war, hark back to that his tone event the contrast will be still sharper...
...John S. Stone was unanimously •elected after it was discovered that he is a deaf mute and the only member who did not intend to take part in debates...
...There will be five different State conventions.of Labor organizations in progress here during that week...
...in Great Britain, after a brief experience as a minority Government, the Labor party is back as the Opposition, stronger hy a million votes, although with fewer members in the House of Commons...
...They will not be deprived of that pleasure under a sane system of society...
...Then, too, we have some preachers prating the sacred rights of Capital and forgetting that Jesus, one of the poor and oppressed, died for humanity...
...We quote from this splendid book...
...Corrupt judges and unscrupulous lawyers who serve the plutocracy at ill costs to conscience...
...The debtors' prisons were provided expressly for poor men...
...On Monday and Tuesday, August 24 and 25, the annual convention of the Indiana Building Trades Council will be held...
...ard H. H. Van Kol of Holland, the only delegate who was a membsr of the F;rst International, founded in London in London sixty-onfc years ago...
...For this little gladness we thank our own James Oneal, who wrote "The Workers In American History...
...All these delegates, except Comrades Lee, Maurer, and Meta Berger, are probably now in Marseilles...
...address...
...The Debs speech in Terre Haute will be specially gratifying to those who seek to cement the fellowship of both wings of the Labor movement, inasmuch as is it the first time in many years that tka Indiana Federation of Labor, comidered "conservative," has invited the Socialist Party's spokesman to aid them in their efforts...
...This penalizing of poverty began to disappear in response to the esrly Labor agitation, the last States to abolish it being Connecticut in 1837, Louisiana in 1840, Missouri in 1845, Alabama in 1848...
...in France the Socialists are able to make or break Cabinets, while wisely remaining outside the Government, and even in Fascist-cursed Italy there are signs of an awakening of the masses and a marked increase in Socialist strength...
...People In the circulation business aiy that we hav* a larger percentage of r»«•»«!» than any other publication...
...Karl Seitz, Mayor of Vienna...
...The overbearing employer wha taet only profits and cares nothing for the misery »nd poverty of Labor...
...Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag...
...or two today...
...Many Socialists know more European than American hiatory...
...The Society of Tired Radicals held it« first meeting last week...
...Watch for It...
...One* a reader of Th* N*w L*ad*r, th*y atlek...
...Twelve members desired to speak on this topic, but Mr...
...Morris-Hillquit of the United States, Rudolf Hilferding of Germany and Leon Blum of France will report on Labor's struggle against the danger of war...
...One man in Vermont owed a firm of two...
...Percy Head, President of the Central Labor Union, will call the convention to order...
...DEBS WILL LEAD INDIANA DRIVE ON OPEN SHOP . THE address of Eugene V. Debs, national leader of the Socialist Party, will be the feature of the Convention of the Indiana State Federation of Labor, to be held here during the week of August 26...
...You guy* havt $uch good intelligence that you know all about Soeialitm, to why don't you ute those brains when making more Socialists...
...The Labor hater and itrikebreaker...
...Comrade Debs will address a mammoth mass meeting from the steps of the Vigo County Court House, following the convention parade and demonstration to be staged on Thursday evening, August 27...
...One woman was taken from her home and two children for a debt of $8.60...
...Tom Shaw of Great Britain will report on the Washington Convention and the i eight-hour day...
...amount received by creditors, $295...
...The high spots of the Marseilles Congress are expected to be the debates over the question of Socialist participation in coalition Governments and the problem presented by the French Socialist Deputies' qualified support of the Painleve Government's war policy in Morocco...
...A REAL LEAGUE OF NATIONS By JAMES CAMERON AT three o'clock thif afternoon (August 22) there open* in the Exposition Building in Marseilles an international meeting of far more importance for the peace of the world than the periodical conferences of the League of Nations...
...It was decided to elect a permanent referee for future diicuasions...
...their total debts were $25,409...
...During the discussion it developed that none of the errors made that year were by members of the society...
...By dividing the debt the victim was imprisoned on two counts of 27 cents each...
...The mister of ceremonies will tee to that...
...Many took advantage of thii combination for $3 and already we have several letters from reiden thanking ua for bringing thii splendid work to their attention...
...Since we came within the fold we have heard the same inquiry at least 7,000 times, often from intelligent people, it's »uch a silly quajation because the answer should be apparent to almost everyone past their sixth birthday...
...Israel McCarthy will be the speaker at the next meeting, his subject being: "Why I Am a Better Speaker than Eugene V. Debs...
...I came here eleven years ago and already I talk more about the United States lhan you do...
...But In renewing I And the reason totally different...
...Go after a sub...
...Emil Vandervelde, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belgium...
...SLOWLY BUT SURELY WE ARE RECOVERING FROM WALLOPS GIVEN US AS THE RESULT OF THE WAR...
...It is the Second Congress of the Socialists and Labor International, the worldwide organization born in Ham t irg the lut day* of May...
...The costs piled up to a total of $14.54, for wheih he was held responsible...
...Henry Wiflo spoke on "What I Did for Socialism in 1912...
...Secretary Friedrich Adler will report on an organization and levy scheme and a delegate selected by the'Women's International Conference, held just before the Congress, will report on that conference and its proposals...
...We cannot aeeept any more orden for thii book...
...Among the delegates from other countries are Rickard Sandler, Premier of Sweden...
...M. V. Halushka...
...One man was imprisoned thirty years and a fund of $3,000 was raised 'to pay the jail feea and coats that had accumulated during the long period of confinement.' In Philadelphia—'The City of Brotherly Love'—in 1828, 1,085 debtors were jailed...
...Arthur Henderson of Great Britian will make the formal opening speech...
...As this probably will occur some time during the three days of the convention, there doubtless will be an appropriate ceremony arranged for this evint The parade will form at Ninth and Ohio streets at 7 o'clock Thursday evening...
...Nina hew members were admitted after each had taken oath and pleaded not guilty to a constructive thought or action since 1920...
...If you can't get him for a year, land th* victim for six month...
...Collectors, collection agencies and judgments, are somewhat annoying, but the prospect of years in jail for a tailor's bill makes us glad we were born in the latter instead of the early quarter of the nineteenth century...
...These include the lying editor and newspaper publisher who takes a fiendish delight in serving the interests and whoae hands ire always imeared with mud to blacken Labor and the workeri' righti...
...AND THIS TIME NO POWER CAN BAR OUR PROGRESS...
...1923, form the fusion of the old worn torn S*<ond International with the "Two-and-a Half International," the league o' Socialist partial that had broken away from th* Second International during and after the World War When the Socialist Mayor of tht second city of France welcomes today the hundreds of delegates from forty-three Socialist parties in thirty-three countnei hi will face in sudience filled with confidence in the future of the international Labor movement, rejoicing in the "come -back" staged by the Socialilt parties a) over the world and far rerrtoved frdm the pessimism that w»» only too much in evidence it the Hamburg meeting...
...in Belgium and Czecho-Slovakia the Socialists play a leading part in coalition Cabinets...
...The nimber in debtorH prisons and the magnitude of their 'crimes' are of interest to their descendants of today...
...The low wages paid necessarily increased this class of 'criminals' and they were helpless to defend themselves...
...Sherman, Texas...
...I have been a Socialist for 40 yeara and will die one, so I wish I could get out and work at I did, but I cannot walk any more and I shall be 75 yean old aoon...
...It's bound in cloth and a splendid addition to any library...
...64 cents...
...When they did organize to improve their lot with the opening years of the nineteenth century they were frequently tried for conspiracy and jailed...
...In nearly every country, including the United States, the Communist disrupters have shot their bolt and are now hajsy "liquidating" the various tendencei and factions within their own depleted ranks, while the membership of the Socialist parties ii steadily increasing...
...What's the matttr with America...
...cost of maintaining the prison, $286,000...
...In connection with the Debs mass meeting, announcement has also been made by local Labor officials that a bronze tablet, containing a profile of the Socialist Party's leader, will be pliced In the Labor Temple...
...One applicant was denied admission after the submission of evidence proving he had made an optimiatic statement in the fall of 1923, and two otheri were barred because of their enthusiasm about the coming campaign...
...C. R. Buxton of Great Britain will report on the Attitude of the S. L. I. toward the problems of security and disarmament...
...In Boston—'The Cradle of Liberty'—between 1820 and 1822, 8,402 debtors were jailed which affected 10,000 human beings...
...One man owed 2 cents, another seventy-two cents...
...The State Federation convention will open on Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock'at the Knights of Columbus auditorium...
...Beginning last week we published the first coupon offering lames Oneal'i "The Workers In American History" with three half-yearly subscription cards for $3...
...Our subscription clerk report* less than 400 left Get jours now...
...In 1831, the same city held 40 debtors owing a total of $28...
...I find The New Leader not only the best weekly of the Socialist and Labor movement in America, but the newspaper that publishes th* most accurst* news of th* movement her* and abroad...
...Every one of them would have starved to death but for the kindness of the Humane Society...
...The American delegates to the Congress elected by the National Executive Committee of the Socialist party are Victor L. Berger, Morris Hillquit, Abraham Cahan, Jacob Panken, George E. Roewer, Jr., James H. Maurer, Thomas M. Duncan and Algernon Lee...
...By "dirty work" thfXjterrogator usually means- cleaning the sewers, streets, awWigging t*e ditches, collecting the garbage and geneial scavenger work The people who have proved most efficient in doing the dirty work under capitalism will do the dirty work under Socialism...
...Thousands of people throughout the Wabash -valley ire expected to be attracted by the Deb...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 34
