VANZETTI SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM
VANZETTI SENT TO INSANE ASYLUM Brooding Over Frame-Up Caused Mental lllneas of New England Radical. BOSTON__Afirtolemeo YanMtti has gone to the lunatic asylum. The alienists report his demented...
...Sherwood Anderson at the Rand School Sherwood Anderson, wall-known novelist and literary critic, will begin a course of lectures on the "Modern Impulse in Writing" on Friday evening next at 8:80 p.m...
...Both of these innocent workingmen have cried out many timea that they desired liberty or death to end their painful ordeal...
...Friends and sympathise™ will have an opportunity to demonstrate their support of the strikers by bringing bundles of old clothes which they mmj bo abla to spare...
...tickets may be had in Boom 411, ] 70 Fifth avenue, New York City, or the box office of the Greenwich Vil-laga Theatre...
...Sharing all the immediate aims and ideals of the trade union movement, the Socialist Party tights for them as well...
...In addition to Coleman and Hays, the speakers will be Harriot Stanton Blatch, Neal J. Ferry, General Executive Board member of the United Miue Workers, who will come from Scranton specially for this meeting, former Congressman Meyer London, B. C. Vladeck and Joseph D. Cannon, who will preside...
...Comrade Harsen said: "I have heard several farmers ex-' press the sentiment, 'Leave us alone.' They said: 'We were robbed under the Czar a.id now we are robbed under the Communists...
...There are a number of reasons for the failure of the Soviet Government to win the unquestioned loyalty of the peasants...
...The shame is hi poii those who have tortured this gentle spin) The shame Is upon those who, knowing of this injustice, have remained silent...
...at the Rand School, 7 East 15th street...
...that witnesses committed perjury...
...At one time ht was organizer of Local Newburgh...
...It urges the Socialist voter to join the Socialist Party...
...We do not expect aid from this source...
...That was the view expressed the other day by Ernest Harrsen, recently returned from Russia, where hs spent two years and eight months in the Government service...
...Finds No Communism In Russia "I find there Is no Communism in Russia...
...we are taxed now...
...Its support must come and has come from working-class institutions and workers in the field...
...On Saturday, Jaii...
...On Wednesday evening, Jan 28, at 8:30 p.m., B. Charney Vladeck will speak on the Conditions ot the Political Prisoners of Russia In his "Topics of the Times" course at the Rand School...
...That fundamental purpose is the declared aim of the Socialist movement in all countries...
...Workers and Socialists of New York City and vicinity will have an unusual opportunity to get firsthand information of the West Virginia coal strike, now in progress, at a meeting to he held this Sunday afternoon, January 25...
...The New Leader will do its utmost to merit the conditions of this support by earnest service to the cause and ideals of the advancing army of Labor, and we are sure that our friends will help it to reach more readers in the months ahead...
...This delicious little opera is as frolicsome and witty today as the porjod Jn which, it was written when all;,England sat up in aurprlse...
...It urges the unaffiliated worker to join a union and share in the joy of the struggle...
...Hear The West Virginia Miners' Story ThU Sunday...
...The shame will be stamped indelibly upon American Labor if It doe* not now raise it* voice in mighty and heroic protest against any further delay in granting a new and speedy trail to Sacco and Vanzetti...
...If these are "delusions'' they are shared by hundreds of thousands of workingmen everywhere...
...It takes this opportunity to thank all its loyal supporters for the aid and encouragement they have given, especially those in the field without whose cooperation it could not have succeeded in establishing itself...
...The realization of every Immediate aim brings nearer the ultimate Meat...
...Passing Our First Milestone WITH this issue The New Leader celebrates its first anniversary...
...We would welcome any Government that would let us develop our own cooperatives and not tax us a...
...No other enables men and women to live so intensely, to enrich their lives with human service that counts, to so enlist their services as to make them conscious that they are important factors in changing the world from the basis of a decaying capitalism to one of socialized production for human welfare...
...The alienists report his demented condition is a result of brooding over what millions of workers I* lieve to be a "frame-up" against the Labor leader engineered by New England industrial interests...
...Its first year has been one of experiment and change with the view of increasing its service to the workers...
...The New Leader has faith and confidence hi the toilers of field, factory, workshop and mine, and all others in useful vocations...
...Dr Abraham Meyerion, retained by the defense to examine Vanzetti, says I "I believe he is suffering from a prison psychosis of temporary nature brought on by the extraordinary situation in which a man of intense mental life'finds himself...
...On Saturday, Jan 24, at 1:30 p.m., Scott Nearing will speak on the Transit Situation...
...30, at 8:30 p.m., Clement Wood will begin a course in science entitled "Our Expanding Universe...
...The training, knowledge and discipline obtained by the organized workers in their struggles all go to fit them for the time when they will eventually administer industries as the socialized inheritance of society...
...The New Leader is not what it was in the first few weeks of Its existence and we hope that other improvements to be made will make it as much better a year from now as the present Leader is better than the Leader of a year ago...
...The New Leader has in mind the accomplishment of one purpose—bringing nearer the day when the useful workers will have reorganized the present archaic social order on a new and more equitable foundation...
...McAllster Coleman, brilliant and popular American journalist, who has just completed an investigation of the bitter coal strike, will speak...
...Labor should answer "Liberty for Sacco and Van-xettL"__ League for Mutual Aid To Have Theatre Party For Tuesday, January 27, at tha Greenwich Village Theatre, the League foe Mutual Aid has arranged a theatre party to see "Patience...
...of the Soviet Socialist Republic Only If the principles of Radek and Trotzky are adopted and the Third International smashed will Russia be able to take its place among tha nations of the world to which it Is entitled by immense natural resources and an Industrious peasant population...
...At 3:30 p.m...
...Tickets are now on pale at the Rand School office...
...Lows Waldman and a member of tha Mayor's Transit Commission will speak on the Transit Situation at the Camaraderie meeting...
...Because of this faith it is maintained...
...One Is the unwillingness of the p • ant to take any interest in politics outside of his own village "There is a growing feeling among the leadera of working class opinion that the tactics of the Third International have furnished the capitalist governments o* the world with an opportunity to Aght the radical movements of other nations...
...Harrsen was f< many yoara a member of the Socialist Party in this State, and was often a candidate for public office...
...that prejudice operated against him as a foreigner and radical mprkingman...
...On Friday evening, Jan...
...Every program for increasing its membership, for promoting education of its members, for more effective organization of industries, for larger concessions from the owners of industry and every other struggle for improved conditions have the support of the Socialist Party and The New Leader...
...In this country the Socialist movement has suffered with the trade union movement...
...The long legal battle, the bombardment of attention on the part of the press of the world, and of international organizations, the impending sentence to death, prison discipline, confinement with lack of outdo.,is, have brought on a transient paranoid stale In my opinion he would be better off in a hospital than in his present environment" It is no hallucination for Vanzetti to believe he did not get a fair trail...
...Another of the speakers, Arthur Garfield Hays, is also familiar with the West Virginia miners' struggle through personal observation, having been engaged in numerous free speech fights there...
...thelte is nothing quite like it in all t ho world's music...
...It is ho hallucination for Vanzetti to believe himself in the shallow of the electric chair...
...After almost three j ears In Russia, I find that there ia no Communism in Russia...
...Warm clothing of all kinds are sorely needed by tho miners and their families...
...It urges all other citizens who are conscious of the need of fundamental social and economic changes to give of their time and resources to advance the aims and ideals of both...
...Many European governments have far more Socialist legislation than the Communist Government of Russia under the high-sounding nam...
...Jt is a {Trim reality...
...The meeting will be held in Cooper Union, Fourth avenue and 8th street...
...Whether the Socialist Party is independent and the organized workers Bupport it, as in some countries, or whether It Is an affiliated section of a Labor party, as in others, its purpose is the same...
...No other movement is worth while...
...31, at 3:30 p.m.,'Elmer Ri#e,i*la^wlight and author of the "Adding Machine" and "Close Harmony," will speak at the Saturday Afternoon Camaraderie...
...Also on that evening, at 8:30 p.m., Joseph Wood Krutch will speak on "Realism and the Drama...
...Such a publication with such ideals will not be endowed by those who live on the labor of others...
Vol. 2 • January 1925 • No. 4
