THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK It is. fortunate for the Miners Out miners' that every worker To Win about a miae is taken into the union. Otherwise we would observe the old divisions that have too often...
...P. F. DELANEY...
...Your reply is expected by return mail More news on this subject next week...
...fair competition.'' 1 OUR MILLIONAIRES SPEAK THE Chicago Daily News is making a survey of the opinions of millionaires to learn what is required to make us all happy...
...It has done this before, will do it again, snd there is no likelihood of It ever coming under the dominion of Communism...
...For a time it looked as if the common people would swallow, this program...
...One great prince of American capital makes an addition to the program, but insists that his name should not be mentioned...
...Our boasted "democracy" is as frail as a spider's web...
...o- r The death of Rene The Passing Viviani, once Premier of Viviani of France, removes from French politics a man who was representative of a type that often appears in the Socialist movement...
...Hsve I been loved so well, thst you remain Amid the wreckage of my frailties...
...The long struggle of the Chinese workers and their victory at Shanghai is certain evidence that a modern Labor movement has come to China...
...The irrational character of the color complex is further revealed by the fact that the dead Negro was almost forgotten by the correspondents when he was taken to the cemetery, but no so the dead white girl...
...This gentleman thinks that there will be more happiness to go around if we reduce wages, especially wages in the higher paid trades...
...We expect all his friends to join us at the Theatre Guild some night during the week beginning with Monday, September 16th, to see Shsw's "Arms and ths Man," which performances are in the nature of a benefit for Ryan...
...He turned to capitalist politics and became a thorough chauvinist and reactionary...
...Hirshfield, Hylan and Company remind us of the devil who whan eick a monk would be...
...As for avoiding a strike, the negotiations clearly revealed the refusal of the operators to consider any proposals that implied an increase in wages...
...V Then the American primary system is praised as providing an effec* tive political instrument for Labor...
...Cooperation with them on a Labor program is Impossible, yet primary action means such cooperation and often trading...
...But When I failed them all, you did not flee Into the trite retreats of injured pride And blasted faith and righteousness betrayed You find a newer need now at my side...
...It calls to the workers in the railway service: "Wake up...
...Solid as the miners are organized in the present strike, railroad workers do not feel themaelves under any obligation to not haul scab coal...
...Knowing thst the springs thst bind you Are less rigid than their brsins...
...As though the organized workers would be merely a "tail" to an organization if they formed it...
...The brilllan', and slashing advocate of public ownership, the target of incessant attacks by private power interests, was not a^ Labor man or Socialist, but for years sat in the Provincial Parliament as a Conservative...
...The tarifl and other indirect taxes are not to be touched except as the present Tariff Commission will raise rates upward...
...I read his letter and plan with great interest...
...11 was unauthorized by any union and the union men remained at work...
...It is an assertion that requires proof and that proof is not available...
...Moreover, if the trucks get the business it means that they are able to haul milk cheaper than the railways do...
...It therefore appears to be a fight [ to a finish...
...Jim Oneal is in charge of the ticket selling, so communicate with him at The New Leader office right away...
...The remark is apt...
...The working-class has the suture of China in its' hands, not the alien upstart, who have ruled and robbed .this unhappy country...
...American correspondents in London apparently do not know the difference between cabbage and Communism, which accounts for their fairy tales...
...Here it is: "Oneal'a plan to place 20,000 Socialist books in circulation and at the same time increase the subscription list of The New Leader is a wonder...
...Sit Adam Becks life atory was, in part...
...HIRSHFIELD TURKS VIRTUOUS / t WHEN crooks fall out honest men do not always get what is due theryi, but they often get the truth...
...W. J. Brown one of the supporters of the minority program, said at the Trade Union Congress on Tuesday, regarding statements against his group, that "To say this Is a Communist arttack is to see Communism where others /See cabbages...
...Nor know you're judging, weighing, scorning, While you're swaying, swinging, turning...
...Price per sale may be obtained at his office...
...As for the assertion that "American Labor is as influential in Congress as British Labor is in Parliament," we can only say that this is absurd...
...British troops fired into the crowd, injuring three...
...Had he survived and been found he would probably have been lynchVd by crazed whites...
...We do not know whether this steel master is a Republican or a Democrat, but he probably shows his affection for both parties...
...He went to the extreme of abandoning political iiesfon, becoming a Syndicalist, and urging social revolution thrmgh a general strike...
...MelIon's plan for keeping his rich friends in mellons won't go through so easily, o Sir Adam Beck is dead...
...All of it now concentrate In the hard gleam Of business bitterness Glinting from the Aegesn blue In the eyes of the noble Greek Of a florist who holds My $2.60 bunch of dead roses^ And shrivelled carnations: Nick Constantinopoulos...
...All the magnificence of dead Athens, All the hauteur of vanished Sparta, The sacrifice of Icarus, The heroism of Heracles, The loves and feasts on Olympus, , All the fine witchery that still plows The ineffable perfume of romance Into our boy and girl dreams...
...His life presented some interesting paradoxes...
...Now that Tammany has decided that Hylan and bis cronies are to take the count, knowing the methods used by Tammany in getting what it wants, Hirshfield turns virtuous and talks ethics...
...At Kongmoon, near Hong Kong, a general strike has been declared and a British gunboat has left for the scene of the strike...
...It never occurred to Hirshfield, Hylan and Company in past elections to object to "voting gangs Of thugs" when those thugs delivered votes to them...
...snd baggage to the support of capitalism or completely giving up the good fight...
...Alien and native exploiters might as well reconcile themselves to this new phase of history...
...Come and laugh with us that Ryan may laugh with us again...
...Get busy and crush this unfair competition...
...It is said to have "stalked forth" at the Scarborough Trade Union Congress, in the street demonstration against Princess Mary, preparations for breaking windows and ersapunters between Communists and Fcscist organizations...
...The members of trade unions are not only divided into many party primaries but within the primary they are thrown into intimate contact wfth the enemies of the workers...
...New York Gty...
...The British Labor movement i - marching forward after its own peculiar fashion, making ita mistake*, courageously criticising them, and slowly advancing to more sound positions...
...If you did not as yet receive the Editor's letter, or you have not as yet noticed the advertisement, make immediate inquiry by any of the modern means of communication—of The New Leader Circulation Department...
...The check-off has been established nearly twenty-five years and it has been a powerful aid to the union...
...From now on the mail will be unusually heavy...
...It includes capitalists, bankers, rent hogs, open shoppers, and so on...
...We understand that Hillquit failed to equip himself with a Workers' party "thesis" on the "Organizational Problems of the Immediate Task of the Soviet Revolutionaries of Borneo...
...A few years from now we will find the Chinese workers linked up with the International Labor movement and their delegates sitting in International Congresses and making their contribution to the abolition of capitalism in all countries...
...Gl°be, ha* lost "the greatest eon itructive mind in the public life of the country...
...In the present strike press opinion, appears against the check-off, while it also stresses the alleged fact that the miners could have avoided a strike by more intelligent generalship...
...This type has become so numerous in the United States that it ia impossible to record all their names...
...The Majestic arrives in New York...
...What is really proposed Is not "fair" competition, but higher taxes j on trucks to drive them out of busi...
...One of the most forceful indict-, j ments brought against the trucks Is] that they have eliminated milk trains in the Middle West...
...This is like the chap who built a scaffold for another party only to drop through the trap with the noose tied to his own neck...
...o The murder of a, Negro taxi-driver and a little white girl by an insane youth in New Jersey was followed by intense feeling against the Negro before it was known that he was a victim rather than a killer...
...o- ; Prologue for a New Iliad So obsequiously he stands, My bought bouquet of dying roses And starved carnationa In hand...
...It is an old cry...
...That a strike to resist this program would be regarded by him as impious is also certain...
...Trucks and busses, of coarse, will not replace the raflways, butthey will take over considerable business which the railroad* have hnd...
...Just before leaving a British port a number of the crew of the Majest ic declared a strike...
...Moreover, the primary is not a matter of workers alone...
...My songs have fallen into furtive sighs...
...o"FAIR COMPETITION" JUST what the Benefit Association of Railway Employes .is, we do not know, but its official journal is waging a crusade against trucks and busses engaged in tl i business of transporting freight and passengers...
...Where are great spears of Ajaxt The slashing swords of Agamemnon...
...Delaney must have shot his reply right to the post office...
...The minority movement is dissatisfied with some conservative tendencies in the trade unions .and the Labor -tarty and seeks more aggressive policies, but it has no organic connection with British Communism or with Moscow...
...His eyes, blue as the heaven Hanging over Ithaca, Hold glints of Ulysses Scheming for life against Circe And Polyhemus, Planning a steed of wood To trample Illium into dust Only, that the walls of Priam's pslsce, The web of the enchantress, The cave of the monster herdsman, Are all contained in the sign On the window of the flower shop Across the street: "Italian-American Floral Co., Fresh-cut flowers at lowest prices.** Ah, where are the myrmidons Of the invulnerable one...
...but thev I arw -vnected to null . riestnuts out of I th- fire for that great abstraction...
...China...
...The head of the Commission which built the greatest hydro-electric power plant in the world and organized a system of distribution in which 386 local governments were partners with the Province of Ontario was not an engineer but a manufacturer, originally in a small way, of wood veneer and cigar boxes...
...Is it...
...ness...
...But first President Green"of the A. F. of L., threw a bomb by asking some rude questions as to why the high tariff textile industry : should be reducing wages...
...oProminent in the news Cabbages and this week is the alleged Communism tremendous development of Communism in the Labor movement of Great Britain...
...Commissioner Hirshfield...
...His grievous bereavement of last month when he lost Maude Walker, his life-mate, and his illness during the last few months, have strained his economic condition to the breaking point...
...What is proposed in organizing a Labor party is not to be a tail, but to be that p&rty, to organize it, control and finance it...
...LABOR'S POLITICS LABOR, the organ of the railroad unions, must be receiving inquiries regarding the need of independent party action...
...He sadly adds that he dreads the "grief that everyone will ge) through" before we "will have a permanently prosperous condition...
...For a number of years Viviani headed a Left Wing in the French movement on the ground that it was not sufficiently revolutionary...
...That means less workers in the railway service...
...THE Chatter-Box Semper Fidelis Through all my wasm professions aad vows You thrilled sad lived in reverent sympathy More sacred than close comradeship allows...
...British capitalism seems to be mare uncompromising than its Japanese snTry...
...Whether I he railroads or the trucks pet the business j mn^es litflf* HIS'—•"i"e jnf workers ! will remain Wrw "'0rker...
...Hillquit will be more!careful next time and his fate is L warning of what may happen to offers who ere not prepared for such An emergency...
...Thank you...
...Sensation...
...Comrade Ryan Walker is one of the few we know and love...
...The ship picked up a crew from a tngv while oh the way out of the harbor...
...See to it i that they are compelled to pay their | fair share of our taxes...
...No boasting mien could show me less afraid, For what was laughtsr once, now leers . with pain...
...The finest tribute Ontario can pay to Sir Adam Beck will be to carry on...
...DE WITZ JAMES ONEAL'S letter mailed last night to every subscriber brought its first reply this afternoon just before going to press...
...The working class betrayqd, sold, again { It's terrible, just terrible...
...Scotland Yard is said to be "alarmed" and the military authorities are fearful of agitation in the army...
...Naturally the first reply was from New York City...
...No one who has ever come in contact with his genial being, with his idealistic optimism, and his limitless sympathy can ever remain cold and unappreciative...
...In the first place It scatters the members of the unions into as many primaries as there are parties...
...But with this difference...
...the life story of, dozens of successful selfmade men...
...Here is mine...
...How can the workers have unity by scattering their members and how can power come by this division of forces...
...Recently it again paid some, attention to this question, affirming as a fundamental premise that "American Labor refuses to be the tail to the kite of any political party...
...It is a temperamental type that is unstable, afflicted with a mental twist, indulging in bombast, charging opponents with being "yellow" and of making peace with capitalism, and ending by going ever...
...Toronto...
...He Used his extraordinary power not primarily to build up his personal fortune or to obtain paternalistic control over his fellows, but to create effective machinery for the public ownership and operation of an immense public utility...
...To An Electric Fan Withiji your sphere you, swinging, Swaying, swirling, go— Staring roundly, coolly, Looking blankly, smoothly, on the surfacing Of men...
...What radium is to our physicsl well being, they are to our mental health...
...With jthe certain prospect of Tammany putting Walker across in the primary as the Tammany candidate for Mayor, the Hylan forces are hinting that they may be counted out and the nomination be stolen from Hylan...
...Far many years the Socialists have been the victims of stolen elections perpetrated by "voting gangs of thugs...
...Delivery o/ goods guaranteed...
...Had he obtained one he would have been able to throw it overboard, use it as a raft, and floated into New York and outwitted the "United Fronters...
...Quite a number of them who split the Socialist Party in 1919 have since made their peace with ;a[ 1t ill in...
...These examples show that American trade unions hsve much to learn in the matter of solidarity before they render full service to their members...
...The miners are not likely to give it up because the owners oppose it and some comfortable editors echo this opposition...
...Otherwise we would observe the old divisions that have too often contributed to the defeat of a strike...
...But only for a few years...
...Everyone with a spark nfcj radicalism will cooperate...
...It leaves only*one alternative and that's to comply...
...As matters now stand with the non-, partisan policy, the organized work...
...My deeds are mistier thsn towers in Spain, And all my burnished truths are lies...
...CAUGHT IN THE ACT ANOTHER victory has been won for the "revolution" and another "counter-revolutionist" has bit the dust...
...The burden of the answers is a reduction of taxation...
...Bates reasonable, "United Pronters" demonstrate, announce, declare, proclaim, decree, affirm and charge that the said Hillquit deliberately and with malice aforethought took passage on a scab ship...
...ers are as many tails as there are parties, each tail trying the impossible task of wagging a particular dog...
...It is one if the most hopeful developments it...
...After doing as much injury as possible to the Socialist movement all three went over to the support of the enemy...
...He is said to be a "multi-millionaire iron and steel producer" and onr guess is that he is our old friend, Judge Gary, baronial ruler of several hundred thousand serfs...
...Why should you follow his example...
...There is a minority movement, in the unions and the Labor party, but to assert that it is linked up with Moscow or that the latter Inspires its program is ridiculous...
...Gloris Goddsrd...
...S.A...
...Although the strike oi Victory of the Chinese workers in Chinese Labor the Japanese mills in Shanghai has been settled by recognition of the union, disarming of mill foremen, and »finarcial reparationa for strikers and their families, the British continue to follow a brutal policy towards the Chinese workers...
...1—¦——o ¦ . .. The Mellon plan, endorsed Mellon Plan by President Collidge, is Hits Snag to reduce the income tax, especially for the very rich...
...j But it also means there are men in the truck service who were not in that service before...
...A Great Canada, to quote the Public Servant...
...While they, eating, drinking, Talking futilely of things Lip-known, Are dumbly, dully, consciousles* Of you...
...one of them being the philosopher and leader of the Left Wing...
...The demonstration overflowed into British territory after passing through the French settlement without any disturbance...
...Briand was of the same type and so was Hcrve...
...September alwsys finds us at the typewriter- banging out on the idle keys the age-old sentence for all who would lssrn typing: dig* is the time for sll good w«n to come tTUe aid of the Party...
...These libraries will not •last a fortnight at the rate subs, and inquiries are coming in...
...It is a dangerous type, yet one that alwlys grins sufficient following to almost wreck a movement before it reveals ita true chareater...
...There are a few souls left in this soulless world...
...The exhibition of impotence that has been presented of a number of unipns in an industry with one on strike and the rest remaining at work is the aaddest in American history...
...On the other hand, if the railroad workers were striking the miners would not cease to mine coal...
...Why pay more for a necessary article if it can be obtained cheaper...
...Except your stirring, swirling, lifting Of the air...
...Our exchanges from England show that all this is the result of impressions b'y American correspondents in London who dt not understand the Labor movement of England...
...So is Morris Hillquit, nptorious "counter-revolutionist," who makes a living by selling...
...Should the tariff on woolens be kept at its present high point...
...Maybe Mr...
...The world has lost the most versetlle and successful advocate, builder, ...id admiuistrstor of s publicly owned superpower system to be found In any nation...
...Effective unity is impossible...
...Justus few singers of pure song, a few dreamers of high dreams, one or two painters of the inviolate...
...It i unlit to be repealed before the super-tax >n big incomes is reduced...
...Then on the heels of President Green's statement the Automobile Association points out that the tax on automobsVe parts falls hardest not on the rich but on the farmer, to whom the automobile is s necessity and rough use inevitable...
...Well, we hope that the "grief" that threatens to overwhelm the steel oligarch at the proposal to take from others' pockets artd put into his own will not prostrate him, but that he speaks the mind of our leading masters of finance and industry is certain...
...As for arbitration, Thomas Kennedy, Inte n.aionnl Secretary-Treasurer, said on Labor Day that the miners djo not care to l risk the sort of "arbitration"' they got in l 1920...
...He Includes the coal miners among those who should part with a portion of their magnificent incomes, and then, to take the curse off his proposal, he calls it "readjustments...
...We must conserve them for our intellect and our spiritual reaches into sublimity, by securing unto them a length of happiness and useful living...
...He asserts that he has reliable information that Tammany will resort to "the old method of voting gangs of thufrs in the names of decent citisena entitled tfl kefs) and assaulting at the pedis these wiho insist upon voting for their pwn choice...
...Ars you all ready for your bit...
...Hylan's official jester, is specific in making this charge...
...o-If you don't take advantage of our latest subscription offer, in which The New Leader offers you an entire library of brain books with every two half-yearly subscriptions sent in—all for the minute sum of $2.90—you are really hopeless as a bargain finder...
...Government serves them all right, but they want It as cheaply as possible...
...out the working class...
...Demand that these trucks and busses be forced by law to compete with the railroads on equal terms...
...We are sure that the railroads are not interested in merely increasing taxes on trucks to give the Government additional revenue: they want the milk business and all other business they can get for themselves...
...It war heard when j the sailing vessel jrave way to the | steamship, when the ox-cart was re-1 placed by the railway...
...United Frronters" are on hand...
...In swift arcing, Knowing that the breeze you're stirring Is more supple than their sluggish , minds...
...Workers snd students organized a great demonstration on Monday, the crowd being estimated it 2,000...
Vol. 2 • September 1925 • No. 37
