THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
The News of the Week Ksas^^ atr'esrts jit &3ntmmn>3fiim#wmm Us tufas *a-*ent- uV-tau^gisat uiiuw*srfiu> •as f«»v aud-thu.truah» ot sMJKmiSnrton ¦pat ¦sears -spSt Area wr four «a*a,. eta...
...SMrth...
...Massachusetts, this last week-end...
...aye,, the girls and boys spoke ol a ringless, ceremonyless marriage...
...You know tbe type—the kind that can tell a smutty story with the same...
...Even the women gathered in a national convention of die Women's Board of Foreigajdisskms have adopted resolutions against compulsory -military training in the colleges and against conscription...
...When the cortege, led by Deputy Turati, entered the cemetery it was attacked by a sans of black shirts, who snatched the ribbons from the wreaths on the hearse, threw the flowers to the earth and trampled upon them, hurled Insults at Turati and finally used their clubs on a irumber of thi marchers so vigorously as to cause blood to flow In torrentsi Only' the discipline of the workers prevented s battle, as the police did nothing to control the Fascisti...
...Since the coming of Harding and Coolidge our Jolly pirates have had...
...eta cfcanos .tor radical propaganda kr better then sfcsce the setting up.or the White Terror by Regent Korfhr in the taU of ims...
...Be it remembered that the ivory soap candidate for President in 1920, Leonard Wood, is the Governor GeneraL of - the Philippines...
...The exceptions refer to rents of $20 a room a month or more in New Yckk City, and $15 a;room a month or more in Buffalo and Albany...
...We know how bitter were the) numerable moments mat came in oar days of kwf self-addressed envelopes coming back to tbe tern addresser, and then the cruel printed rejection siijs We remember, so bow cwure forget...
...It sacrifices the life, health and safety .of the men, women and children of the workers while making the lot of those Who can afford jhe higher priced apartments 'comfortable...
...cUents' money quite freely in various Hungarian enterprises of late, 'and it is possible that they, tog...
...While we will not at the present moment say anything about the quality of' -the verse, not having read the book through, we must commend Mr...
...It contends that "the administration of this law has completelytbroken down in the city of New York...
...ration is over and keep oompany wtth DeMahoity, Pall, Denby and others...
...There was a sort of superior resignation when they rose to an invitation...
...Those words of wisdom, thia consuming heats The martyr's pose', this "Here I take my stand Until the world conies humbly to ray feet...
...all thit in *Cal Cpolidge's New England, from whence came the Lodges sod the Cabots—those familia who were the only ones in America, allowed tt hold direct long distance wires to God...
...Welt J loved them, tosh Their rolling grandeur, their seductive ring,- < The old is tarnished, lovely is the new, * New ways-to build, to rule, to live, to sing...
...The American .Appeal has a special field and a special' mission to fulfill...
...We congratulate the editors of The American Appeal for their promising beginning and extend heartiest good wishes for a long' and valuable service to the great cause in the United States...
...The scepter molded—new is tarnished then...
...Consequently, Premier friend Trill probably bo aide to maintain his position for a little while with tbe aid of the moderates and reactionaries, as* the Lett Bloc without the 180 Socialist Deputies, is not strong enough to put biro oat...
...mass of workers...
...aa Blteole Democrat...
...And there you are, Paguia a prisoner of Wood in the Philippines and Francis headed for a jail in the Virgin Islands, -one having said something Wood did not like and the Other having-said something not complimentary to a policeman...
...attaeaed' HusobMsI before the Horns Commfttoo consWertog the Italian debt sett!rat sat...
...Men found no more Inreytn the physical charm, hidden or exposed...
...While French business men are clamoring for a "strong man" at the head of the government to saddle stfll mere taxes upon tbe masses, the Socialist Party, in the words of Leon Blum at thp Paris convention...
...4 '."" .> "T* > Siexico is Sgaht Slate Deportment ' before the bureau Threaten* Mexic* ot trusts, finance i : vend .investments, sometlofea called the Department of State, which has sent a note objecting to new petroleum and land laws in Mexico...
...In the absence of a labor'party fighting for ithe claims of the .workers the Socialist Party has raised the standard of revolt against tijis point 'of view, but because, of the weight of tradition, habit, lack of information and sheer inertia the masses have supported those who eaerirVce them to the profit itch of rent hogs...
...The imitation Mussolinis here have no...
...Tbe Socialists hare got very tired of the dodging by' their temporary antes of the tstt on the capital levy and the wars in Syria and Morocco, so they are apparently, determined to force soneral elections as soon as poeelfle...
...V World Without End How well I, know-those phrases round and bland...
...Francis, is charged with having libeled a policeman...
...believe that Premier Bethlen would serve their interests better unhampered by horthy...
...a glorious time at Washington, but not without an occasional exposure...
...opportunity to place the mine owners on the defensive...
...mw ^^Jjj^**""*^™^eeSnhd sqyeeet...
...Undei their seven ounces of siHrand cotton garb •ant their soft skins, we probed into little hearts she souls, and found the usual little desires...
...It is enacted and either ignored or...
...a freedom of act and thought borderjng on the pagan...
...Otto, for...
...From all this it is easy to probe the minds of its members...
...is likely that a settlement will be reached withinVa few weeks...
...We wish to acknowledge here receipt of a New* Anthology of Verse—Fifty Poems by Americas' Poets, which has been collected and printed on a co-operative basis under 'the editing plnme of Joseph Dean...
...The miners' representatives did right not rb accept this proposal, but on the other hand we believe that they have missed a big...
...What modi* 0cations may have been made ta tha petroleum and land laws, they certainly cannot be more restrictive than those which have been enacted in California wtth regard to Japanese, ownership, Aaron Saenz, Minister of Foreign Re-, latlons, says that "the Mexican jpeopte have the complete right to pass such legislation as they eee fit aa aa hidependent nation and to exercise tbe fuO lights of sovereignty...
...Tbe* through tbe nake-$Ued air, clairvoyance came...
...Their talents sported them into* the light of jazz piano playing, the latest step in the Charleston, or just play pipe-purring and erudite listening...
...These laws are based en Section 1 of Artfew 17 of the Mexican Constitution...
...Despite the increase in pppulation and the number of tenements, there are fewer inspectors than there' weYe twenty years ago, while penalties for violation of the law "are rarely exacted J1' In this: connection one recalls the tenement house fires in this period in vuKich men, women and children have lost their lives...
...There Rothschild Francis, Negro editor of the Emancipator and organizer of the, American...
...The law is regarded with "contempt" by many landlords and courts have been very lenient with these gentlemen...
...All other nations have potential Fascists...
...Perhaps the -young men were as a class denser and less energetic in the world of pale, thought and bloodless intellect...
...Paguia was charged with saying that Wood was "a big" tree without a shadow...
...becornja^^husbands...
...We'll tell Tbe Our Covamment World tbkt it did By Great Capital a good jbb when...
...the Hungarian throne, and the Regent and tke other Hapeburg pretenders, such as Archdukes Albert and Joseph-' -For some thne -it has been known that Regent Horthy's methods of terrorism were regarded as erode by the* Entente Powers and that he was slated to go...
...Federation of Labor, is appealing from a sentence of sixty days in jail and a $100 fine imposed By Rear Admiral George Washington Williams...
...The last move of to* kind waa made on Dec...
...misapplied with the view of not disturbing "the economic and social structure," jhat is, the interests of the great property ownters...
...However, Italy is not the only nation with this type of the human animal...
...The Capper-Johnson universal conscription bill has been introduced in Congress, one item prohibiting strikes in time of war amoving military authorities power to deal with them...
...There is, therefore, no rivalry between the two publications...
...Landlords are able to continue known violations for an almost indefinite period without fear of'penalty...
...m tsar, en .Taipamaefle ffW iseauM of his more toward beooBMWnVaa Amoiisoa imiapn htdttB on...
...The news of this outrage is said to have roused, more resentment among the masses than even the murder of MatteottiT Mussolini has warned aU officers and men, as 'well as civilian employes, of the Departments ot War, Navy and Aviation to auit an...
...We always put down an unavailable bit of verse from a contributor with a sincere sjetvof regret...
...They could have dramatized the anarchy of managemehr^and made it a conspicuous indictment of the iftine owners...
...Of the 3,000,000 Italians in the United States it appears that only 3;500 are enrolled, or about one six-tenths of 1 per cent...
...opportunity has been lost and .the suffering miners should see to it that this should not occur a£ain in any other struggle they may be forced to wage...
...careless langour they assume when listening to one...
...The girlt looked for hfisbanda and the young men were at tempting to have wires without the respousibilitj of...
...The sbtfy^wnnd gsrb of the young ^ eightiaa^a^ wnetic^ amceiit] ^ hfa| Kf^HrStQH|^pt m^imm*lm1 'had brought greater frankness—and more summer bathing...
...Dean on initiating what we consider a most desirable and novel method of publishing the unpublished poet...
...David P. Benenberg...
...Then in our faces radiant is flung ,. A The blaring challenge of the newer men...
...but they surely were hospitable...
...WORKERS PAY THE PRICE IN a report that,is remarkable for its wavering between fear of disturbing, landlord interests and knowledge that property interests must*be disregarded to some extent, the State Housing Commission recommend**, extension of the rent emergency laws, with Certain exceptions, to June 1, 1927...
...There must be a readjustment of the law to conations, says the commission, but "this adjustment must be accompanied with as little disturbance of the economic and social structure as possible...
...Mussolini's Fatcism Reaches henchmen in MiThe Lowett Depths l*n are entitled to a special medal frpin< "it duee" for having touched the lowest depths ot self-degradalkm...
...future and the parent type will certainly pass in Italy, leaving only a foul memory behind...
...It irfSn the administration of the tenement house, laws that the commission ventures to offer its strongest criticism...
...as they are warning the ma—ta not to be...
...To one of the Fascist 'bullies in Rome the Fascist League recently cabled its "fidelity to the fatherland and the Savoy dynasty...
...Tbi* nattoaad weekly is intended .as M .etrnteyitary propffe ganda publication arid the fitH-two i»*Ue*: make a creditable1 beginning., With Eugene V. Debs as Chief Editor ind JrfutTsy if/Kinf...
...It has been ignored and thus a strategic advantage has been surrendered by the"* miners' representatives...
...The result is a "menace to the comfort, health and safety of tenants in New York City...
...On the contrary „ each will co-opetpte with the other to the fullest extent possible in the team work of Socialist education and party building...
...Pooh, pooh, you worriers about our youth...
...There is a marked tendency on the part of the press to create a "public opinion" condemning the miners' leaders for refusing the Markle arbitration plan but the plan itself would have* placed the miners' claims in the hands of Charles E. Hughes and three others ' appointed by him, requiring the miners to go back to work.at the current wage, stocking the market with coal and thus surrender their present advantage, with the possibility of the award of the arbitrators conceding no wage increase...
...secret societies before February 10 or face the penalties...
...The big problem in the mining industry is to bring system and order into a miserably managed industry...
...We liked their Menckenese attitude towards such poor dubbs as Shakespeare, Milton and Tennyson—*their Yellow Ninety pale lily approach toward the Wildes and Dowsons of that period, their great strides toward perfect anarchic freedom...
...Never turn, the evidence been so conviadiar that government, in our time is an agency to care for the interests ef.the<capttattst class...
...3 And aU we sneered at, mocked, and cast aside That has become their new, their truth, thesf pride...
...Is oit far the capture of the government, preferably by the ballot, but by other rneans if necessary, and it evidently feels that It has the bulk of the people behind It...
...Less we embarrass the gentlefolk who were our unfortunate hosts, ve will retrain from mentioning their names or their exact -location...
...The Department of State will please take notice and be prepared to regard that section of the world as a colonial province of the American empire...
...ottco of the .l7;>.-5otjia^ point in the Socialist movents...
...For this reason the law has been blind to the disease and fire hazards which claim the lives of workers alone...
...Stories Of boudoirs, tales of brothers, the suppressed, the inhibited, the repressed—all found freedom and a glorious tolerance here...
...This decision*- was • taken at a special, conveatioa in Paris to dedae the panty'a position in the political mix-up which has kept France more or leas excited for many months...
...only a few* days before .the counterfeiting plot "was exposed by French detectives...
...flappers seemed more interesting than their male prototypes...
...We'll show the little brown peoples.what real "democracy" is with special emphasis * on the . mock...
...Antonio Dj Paguia, a member of the Manila GHy Council has been sentenced to two months in prison for having "used insolent language" toward wfood in the political campaign last June...
...These twenty-year-old virgins actually spoke about birth control...
...Jletton end.8aa>i gent may hgveto go before tbe Invent...
...This scheme is likely to be balked, however, despite the reactionary support assured to tbe one-time Socialist politician...
...the program has not been advanced...
...They would offer their carcasses willingly to " be carved into profitable gains for a ruling class...
...and beneath the intellectual masks of the girls, w< found their, universally well known faces...
...He was denied a jury trial by the Admiral who himself constituted the jury that tried and sentenced Francis^ Be in known, 'ye glorious American freemen, that the Virgin Islands is governed by a few naval officers...
...Each takes an oath to "maintain alive the veneration of Italy, which is the fatherland or origin and the beacon eternal >of civilization and grandeur...
...THE GLORIOUS EMPIRE Tt*y"0 iterns of hews from the crown colonies of the American empire are of unusual interest...
...they are just a whole lot more honest with themselves than you dared to be in your hypocriWcal youth...
...Each member of the Italian boobery contributes $13 a year "tospread Italian culture and ideals" in the United States...
...We also had the opportunity of viewing a cross-section of Scotty Fitzgerald's New Youth, since this particular town boasted among its elite ot the unemployed quite a number of graduates and undergrads of Boston's collegiate purlieus...
...Solemn judges do not permit their, sleep to be disturbed'and landlords do not have to pay physicians' bills and funeral expenses, . Unwittingly !the report brings out this class character of the administration of law...
...The New.Leader Welcomes this valuable addition to the Socialist Party press...
...deceived by Preo^er^aeOuan's apparent seat hi running down the fabricators pt rrenoh i.tet franc notes an* not to take toe seriously ma Sght for power going on between tke premier, who ie a supporter of ex-O^ieeif SJta'e boy...
...Time after time these protests have been sent to Mexico, and almost invariably bandits have staged setae spectacular atrocity at tbeHtme the protest is made public...
...N Not to all the .tenants, however, unless an epidemic of disease* should spread to higher rertt apartments...
...This is to be an annual matter with him, and lover Of good poetry that we "be, yet weewould rather s^s new number of Dean's Anthology .than a new cml lection of vera* from-an* of »h* Immortals...
...Daugherty of the "Ohio gang" had to trek bock to his province in disgrace...
...They are of the type that militarist swindlers always find available for cannon fodder, using their minds and bodies as stairs on which to mount to power and ease...
...There is to our mind never a poem written that should not see the light of day, however poor the poem or gloomy the day...
...Think of how many "sediticmists" the late Woodrow Wilson failed to jail...
...aad said ho would start an mwatry toto the aeUtrtHas ot faeeissn kera,' -*-' The SjgemMst Fremck Sacis< party ef France...
...A big...
...of tt...
...Then Fall, having been caught under the back stairs negotiating a little oil deal with Doheny, left Washington as '^Pfr e*Sms> taV ehe ^Saaa^ -*fiasSy hooajss ;»^^f^<^^v^s^ag ewt told-^lau^isruin'j'^^tsgniag tmmw^mfmm^me^rmmuwmm t *hj Safe*) end Their ieattegs get them'huw the totkc Vow Jta9sa.wha.imly wantt the 4aau*loa'ak.hia'H«aW reduced.^ nlceadjuatment of tartft rates to oasj pryjna^htte?«na Xecrots of hie aba t mil prise, to undur>d^4as«ent.tlae Artery ney general, auatefcmed about aSeeu Uoaato treataaant of the aluminual truat'hy his Separtmoat...
...And what with.marriage becofning more and more ^ luxury beyond the income reach of the struggling student or business man, the girls have become hard put to catch the wary groom...
...as his assistant,' organised Socialists have 'reason to expect .that The American Appeal wiM acquire a substantial circulation and play an importamVpart in building the Socialist move- . ment of tins country...
...hesitated iBnj a schoonwy...
...WHAT THE MINERS MISSED ALTHOUGH the New York conference to negotiate a settlement of the coal strike broke up it...
...seeing this coming, occasionally .would spring some great "Communist plot" upon the European public, make a lot of arrests, thus "saving tbe wSrntry from Bolshevism," and Stay on the Job...
...It grants the right -of ownership to Mexicans of birth or by natura1fataUon,to tends, mines, etc and to foreigners, -provided they agree before the Department of Foreign Affairs to be considered Mexicans in respect to sucb property, and accordingly teot toy Invoke the protection ot their govern* ment* introspect to the same.** That av prfclaely the policy of the Dnltad, States Government regarding alien bvn vestments in this country...
...Horjhy...
...The miners have in several conventions approved an intelligent' plan of nationalization that would, go a long way towards realizing this aim but...
...This has occurred again, and it suggests snsmL mysterious cooperation between these bandits and tbe,- mercenary American Interests who would like to annex Mexico to American i ¦iiHsIIqsji Sua" to not care two whoops In the infernal regions for Americas dollars in Mexloa and are opposed tojfpm bullylog that my lead to war...
...according to a report of the funeral of Anna Kuhaciof/ the noted Russianborn collaborator of Fillppo Turati, tent via Lugano ¦ to n Nuovo Mondo, the New York Italian labor daily...
...It is this outlook of capitalist parties and their agents that renders much social legislation ineffective...
...That is why we take so long in returning contributwos that we cannot use...
...They are empty head chauvinists' and monarchists ready to fight for useless idlers to rule Italy through Fascist squads...
...They may now contemplate this interesting ^report, count up the terrible cost to themselves, and decide whether they wish ta cony Jn*nemm*Lmh'" ak*a«*aaM ammassoW iai sBfemmmasa «HK canaxaj ara%* posuv ' \\T\TH.km tjajtHrinre jeCSsir, Asteocsm, r W Ajtpeal by the n*tio<<el...
...RsprtoaatanW "* Rateny...
...American bankers have been investing their...
...OUR FASCIO HEROES MUSSOLINI'S American branch of castor oil heroes is a petty thing, sTccording to a survey made of American Fascisti by the New York World...
...They danced only when called...
...who bare their knees, distend their hips, roll their own, and disport themselves socially up to the last thin line of propriety as it is generajly accepted, even among the higher cla\yses...
...Our Puritan soul, our bouregois consciousness and our hope for the future of the human race made shiver and tremble in a palsy of fear...
...Today it is...
...Br land is planning to do away with the' nemiproportlonal system of representation and substitute the American plan...
...The comfort, health and safety that are imperilled affect the...
...A coal famine is a prospect a| the near future zpd this will force other negotiations sqjon...
...AVe trembled at the prospect of a childless world...
...They preferred their posfurings, their pot-pourri pouting, their literary surgery, the cigarette, and the'sine sheathed exposition of applied pediatrics...
...Those girls scared us proper...
...The Stfctaliata are evidently, taking ad**antage...
...May it last...
...The flappers flapped continually...
...actually ' knew what they spoke about...
...An adventurer like Mussolini would not have td conscript these brainless things to serve him...
...Seventy German, monarchists have signed a asnufesto saying dm they wast a dkastorajun Noth^wc^aaasn as aaore happy than is THE CHATTER' BOX We were snowbound in northern...
...What is evident in this report is that conditions have improved in these higher class apartments while in the lpwep rent levels for tenements inhabited by the working class there are some aspects of housing worse than twenty years ago...
...Republicans and Democrats subscribe %b Jhis philosophy...
...The American State Department pays lip service to the same view, but In practice it Insists on acting's* a Supreme Court in regard to Mexican laws...
...We leave this Filipino in the hoosegow doing pennace for his awful sftl -while the scene shifts to,the Virgin Islands...
...The bill is sponsored by the American Legion just to show that the lock step of a chain gang.does not conflict with its idea of "democracy...
...Q And when the house is built, the song is song...
...So has The, New Leader...
...How well I know them...
...It smoked out Secretary of the Treasury Ufellon's aluminum trust, which bas lea to an inquiry .into* the relations between the trust, the Department of Justice, tbe Federal Trade Commission and Mellon himself...
...Such a proposal, if it had been accepted, would subject to dangerous risk everything the miners have asked and the btg sacrifices they have made for several months might have gone- for nothing...
...Which delectable incident afforded us much time for riotous high-thinking and ultra plain living...
...that all poets and poetry lovers get m touch witt Joseph Dean, 1715 Holland Avenue, Bronx, N. Y% City, and co-operate withjihra in his project...
...He dhthrt hnow> nothls* about' nofhto...
...Fm tidtptniatu ,after a dtoeuaatoa testing from Sunday afternoon to Tuesday morning, decided, by a vote of l.TM to l.nt...
...It's a darn sight more interesting "from the viewpoint of a lover of life as it should he lived, even if beneath all this painted veil still shine the husband-hungry eyes of Instinctively' home-loving, child-desiring mothers to., come...
...Brother Cbolidge will now .chant the lovers' litany dedicated to the aluminum trust while Wood expounds the virtues of ivory soap...
...It so happens that a few years ago the.peculiar post-war conditions in Italy provided a culture medium for the rapid spawning and development of the type until like a vampire it fastened itself upon the throat of Italy...
...Boeing this possibility and fearla< tha gains likely to be made by the Socialists...
...The principal iron ^and steel industries in the Ruhr of Germany are being organised into a great trust which is to be largely financed by American capital...
...and we shivered at the prospect of free love, and a world ol immorality...
...We do wis...
...Some yoang Fascisti In Mmwowm^e* ^^mmm~_ ewmmumt«prj»» ^pwg way...
...with seven abstentions, against participation la any kind ef a bourgeois government...
Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 1
