SOCIALIST NATIONAL COMMITTEE DENOUNCES WAR IN NICARAGUA, DEMANDS AID FOR UNEMPLOYED
Saturday, March 24, 1928 ,A7>SOCIALIST NATIONAL COMMITTEE DENOUNCES WAR IN NICARAGUA, DEMANDS AID FOR UNEMPLOYED (A ststamerrt faaaad fay National Executive committee of the Socialist Party. In...
...For wern't you gone...
...I did not buy that day...
...It is taking testimony and ere long another report will be printed to accumulate dust with many others...
...The If Usnal lmmUw Committee of the SocialM Party, saaeting in New York City, M)n greetings to the mem-ken and ah those encaged In the struggle far a better world...
...I'm still thinking of this Christmas and other holidays, This year and the years gone...
...An informed, active and wen ar-ganised working class akme can brlsg idealism, knowledge and sUtesmarssaf into our government, ana retire gj, degraded politics of our T~~<«rn hfc-tory...
...I once worked with them, long, long ago...
...The big test came in 1920 when Cox was endorsed...
...He declares that there is an average of one stockholder to each family in industrial corporations, so that it may be said "that in the most essential sense American industry has already been thoroughly nationalized...
...That was long ago...
...Members of the Cabinet have bartered great natural riches to notorious grafters...
...Some have become wanderers and others have crowded into towns to compete with the urban work-en for Jobs...
...That backbone would not bring a dime for fertilizer in the market...
...While you were in Palm Beach, or Europe, or making patriotic Speeches, and I'm still trying to figure out how TOW thousands Of employees have managed to keep living on...
...From all this one may understand the capacity of one head to carry conflicting ideas...
...Portions of the theft have been traced...
...In 1034 the Socialist Party of the United States endorsed the La Follette party...
...Many of them were tortured to death by this clique during the post-war years...
...the next moment the great corporations, now "nationalized", are a menace because within ten years "the government will be helpless to control them...
...EDITOR...
...And we all, salesmen, salesladies, checkers, packers, Drivers, cleaners, sweepers, elevator men and women...
...The net result is that every member is in favor of virtue and opposed to vice...
...Two days before you died I wandered into your place I And shopped for a suit of clothes And sundries...
...The comprehensive powers of the national and state governments that might be employed In public works to relieve distress remain Inactive...
...I think it should be placed in the bands of as many tradi unionists as possible...
...Karolyi...
...To me a millionaire is a monstrosity while he lives • • • He is something pathetically funny when he diss...
...An estate of seventy five million dollars Is enough significance To give a fellow passing notice Even in so opulent a land As ours...
...The parties of capitalism are hopelessly tied to the masters of industry...
...ALEXANDER NOT A SOCIALIST Editor, Leader-Appeal: Penny, me to correct a statement appearing in the Leader-Appeal dated March 10th and written by Murray King to the effect that Morton Alexander of Arvada, Colo., editor of Humanity, is a veteran Socialist writer...
...James D. Graham, Men tens...
...Here is a serious thinker and we have no doubt that he measured up to the intellectual capacity of the...
...I think you have an excellent paper...
...who would avert tfta dangers of a ruthless policy of BUV ltary conquest abroad, to Join with m in securing labor representation hi si legislative, executive and political bed...
...Merer before to tile history of the American people since the Clrtl War have dear vision, devotion to Ideals, and willingness to sacrifice been so necessary as now...
...The ads...
...It's all a puzzle* to me anyhow...
...The democracy of the old era is not even a shadow...
...These nobles represent their respective provinces on the National Committee and the ATteiv York Times has taken the poll...
...Millions for a war against Nlcaraguans...
...Oil Vice and Sewer Virtue LIKE a herd of rats in a dark cellar into which a strong light has been thrown the national party brokers are scurrying about, the Republicans showing panic because of the smear of oil and the Democrats fearful that some of it has smeared them...
...His fear of the greater capitalists is recorded in the statement that at the present rate of the concentration of capital, "it will not be ten years before a few corporations own the nation, and our government will be helpless to control them.!' But he must also attack the radicals and Socialists and when he reaches this stage in his argument the big corporations undergo a wonderful transforma-' tion...
...Yet for many years this political policy has made the unions, so far as formal endorsement can make it, a tail to the Democratic kite...
...The bribes of oil swindlers have debauched men In public office...
...Morton Alexander Is not a Socialist but represents one of the two factions of the so-called Farmer-Labor groups in Colorado...
...With pious declarations of good will for the people of Nicaragua, American bombing planes and machine guns have destroyed the lives of Niearaguaas...
...TO EEPRINT EDITORIAL Editor, The New Leader: Your editorial on the "Spiritual Sa> cadence of Trade Unionism" is exoaU lent and to the point...
...Our capitalist politicians deliberately choose despots, monarchists, low brutes and medieval cliques for favors...
...A poll of the Democratic party nobles in the various states adds to the humor...
...He was re-elected by a narrow margin because for the first time there was a real issue—war or peace...
...Denver, Cola...
...The political policy of the A. F. of L. has no influence whatever on national elections...
...we all going home too tired For rest...
...yours a me solemn duty, and the Socialist Party to your agency through which to work, The National Executive Committee...
...And your father made his minions by selling good goods cheap, -And buying good girls and boys cheaper...
...those who havt a. sincere desire to fight the bankrupt parties ol capitalism this year, will inarch with us...
...It is these scoundrels who were given passports by the State Department to...
...Our eyes were almost blind, our arms half paralysed, Our feet numb...
...Now that the two-party alliance of the ruling classes has been re-established the revolters of 1924 . find that both the Republican and Democratic parties are smeared with the graft of the oil thieves...
...his lips while in this country while the Magyar 'scoundrels were .permitted to speak at the foot of Kossuth's statue...
...His class has often been referred to as trie "backbone of the nation...
...Those who carry on the best traditions of Kossuth's liberating creed are still hounded by this "ruling gang of Hungarians...
...The conclusion is obvious...
...Comrade King should find out hereafter who the veteran Socialists are before boosting them In the columns of the Leader-Appeal...
...Also, if I should grant that the negro has advanced far enough" now to entitle him to suffrage,, you won't mind acknowledging that .tins advancement has come in very Teflept* yean...
...You might nave gone ~ f To the Great White Way and night-clubbed the fortune away On gold diggers and such...
...Since the election four years ago most of the non-Socialist elements have given up the struggle...
...You and your millions . . . you dying and leaving thsm behind you, That is pitifully comical...
...There is something hard, and cruel to me In every emporium like yours...
...LABOR- SOCIALIST...
...All are shocked, properly shocked, because of Sinclair's sin...
...The Magyar Despots ^DMISSION of white Hungarians to dedicate the monument to Louis Kossuth last week in New York City is no ordinary event in our history...
...exceptional cases...
...New Yen...
...People bustled, and merchandise glittered All over the stores and floors...
...We are sure that Tammany Hall will add its solemn resolutions in support of virtue...
...Our correspondent, however...
...I have been a dues paying member of the Socialist Party for more than 25 years past and I believe I know who the real Socialists in Colorado are...
...3rd, entitled : "America's 8 Mllhon Voteless Citizens...
...T. J. BROWN...
...But if that lid blows off...
...danst Party In creating a real as...
...We stepped back to a hesitating army in 1924 to march with il and in the hope that it would make more advances We shall not retreat a single inch...
...Republican vice appears to be shaping out of the politics of capitalism...
...without a whimper, Without even laughing at the joke you tell them ¦ your wilL...
...Have yes shaved yenrsehT* Tea...
...If attorney Steuer will only keep the lid on the New York sewer till after the votes are counted in November virtue will come into its own...
...Sellgman's article in your issue of March...
...THE CHATTER BOX Atlantic Ocean Anthology Rodman Wanamaker Y"OU left just enough money To deserve inclusion In my book of In Memoriams...
...We were mistaken and here's hoping we will never permit ourselves to be deceived again along that line...
...Wilson was elected because the Republicans were split, not because of union endorsement...
...He wants cheap government for his class and cheap labor for the establishments owned by bis class...
...William R. Snow, IUlnota...
...There Is no hope from these parties for the tollers of the nation...
...Paralysis faces the unions...
...You might have been a Pharaoh dead And buried these three thousand years For all you really mattered here in your own place...
...Uttcal opposition to the parties as* serving the banking and capftabStts oligarchies...
...Both party organisations are kept by the great interests and they are owned by those who keep them...
...And we all the time Shoveling up a heap...
...when the kite falls the tail falls with it...
...I once tottered through a Christmas holiday season With them, once long, long ago...
...The political policy of labor is tested not when sentiment is swinging to the Democrats but when it is turning against them...
...Here, I must break down with laughter . . loud nasty" Laughter...
...The place is aglitter with wares And a-bustle with folks...
...And always I am tMnlH^g of the thousands of doefls weaklings Who have stood behind your counters, these rnillloss of hours, Sold and packed and delivered your goods...
...So everytime I think of the seventy five million dollars You left, I think of the fourteen dollars sad sight* seven cents You once paid me for standing on my feet fourteen...
...Capitalism is again facing one of its periodical breakdowns with consequent suffering for millions who feed, and bouse, and clothe the people of this country...
...Morton Alexander was one of those whose name appeared on a dual La Follette ticket in Colorado at that time...
...It must be borne in mind that in some parts if the South the colored man Is numerically stronger than the white man, therefore under universal suffrage the control of local government would accrue to the colored man...
...8. N. RICHARDSON, A Subscriber...
...Harris HulenK...
...a - And you kept up the policy, and It made those millions for you...
...there, there was the end Of a great Department Store...
...While they were piling up the millions of dollars You now leave so foolishly behind...
...The Nrzv Leader sincerejy wishes that there were a growing movement of the working class outside of the Socialist Party for independent political action, a movement which Socialists could co-operate with, but there is no such uprising...
...No party as such, except our Socialist representative and the representatives of the Farmer Labor Party.has raised opposition in Congress to this dangerous usurpation...
...Socialists have seen this movement, once so promising, disintegrate...
...Kossuth represents everything which the Magyar murderers oppose...
...too irreverent for even you ...••* your kind...
...local manufacturers who heard him...
...Have yea scashsd year t—thf Tee.w yV » - ."And meju\n*as$ year hands T* Tse...
...I hardly ever buy in a Department Store anyway...
...Not at all...
...I'm thinking how thousands of us stood And shoveled from over and under the counters A heap of gold that now measures seventy five million...
...Did the union endorsement stay the tide...
...hours overtime for each day...
...There are details of these tortures that are so foul and beastly that they are unprintable...
...A Senate committee has visited the Pennsylvania fields...
...Sunday, March lath...
...But your employees still at it, shovelling the rnilnoRf higher And higher, for your heirs...
...The SoeaflsV Party appeals to the men and wosan of the working class and to all othsa who would preserve economic freesa* and civil rights...
...We understand the difficulty which Mr...
...Crisis Foreseen For years western farmers have endured terrible hardships and have lost their homes...
...When the trend is for the Democratic party the union endorsement does not help and when the trend is against that party this endorsement does not stay the avalanche...
...When the kite soars it carries the tail with it...
...you the genius of industry, You the brains of it all, you the bread-giver to so many Thousands on thousands of men and women...
...Really you were a smart fellow...
...For years the millionaire corruptionists have eluded punishment...
...If Tammany's prize, exhibit can be slipped into office before the sewer stench mingles with the oil stench virtue will have had its reward...
...Members are asking questions, but another year is to be wasted in the role of a tail to the DeinocratKldtet From The New Leader Mail Bag NEGROES AND THE SOUTH Editor, The New Leader: Reference is made to Mr...
...Yes from out of your grave...
...We are inclined to think that the game is to keep stalling and dodging in order that disclosures will not lie made public till after election day...
...The tide was turning against the Democrats...
...Another labor man has Just told dm that .he would be glad to send you a dollar for this purpose...
...Our ruling classes are cowards...
...Mo fundamental Issues divide the parties...
...Even Borah the alms-gatherer will be forgotten...
...The Socialist Party raises no sectarian banner, but its quarter-century of service in which it has kept its organization intact, in which it has inspired nearly a million voters to desert the corrupt parties of capitalism, is a record of loyalty to principle that gives it a moral leadership in any independent political movements that may appear...
...Economic...
...The liberator of whatever type is a suspect in this country...
...Shoveling up money for you that you could never spend...
...Indeed, most of them have returned to the parties of capitalism...
...yours Is the opportunity...
...Meantime the go-between In this plot has for yean served as the censor of the movies to insure that the "morals" of the nation will not be corrupted...
...Pennsylvania...
...nothing for the welfare of those whose useful labor makes civilisation possible...
...One moment we have nationalization of industry and the Socialists are sent flying in defeat...
...These facts are ominous.' They register the views of the ruling class* and their politicians in this country...
...Joseph Sharts, Ohio...
...There is wide dtssattsfacUsa, g%' unrest, and a growing desire for a sag political change The awaktnktg fc the most hopeful sign to many Fast, We appeal to the thinking weeks* tf the United States to join with the is...
...It wasn't that by half when your father died And left you his fortune...
...The two-party machine of capitalism which roles at Washington was never before so supine in serving the corporate oligarchies that rule the republic...
...A numl>er of them courageously assert that "Al" Smith is the boy for us this year and that the issue is "honesty in government...
...Even while the third party movement in 1924 was hurling its forces against Coolidge and Davis certain leaders in various states were secretly writing bargains with capitalist politicians...
...The insurgent farmers and workers find that they have returned to their old homes only to find them filled with filth...
...Was this union endorsement responsible for the result ? The vote shows that Wilson received 100,000 less votes than Bryan did four years before...
...Here and there a little band raises its voice for a third party alliance against the capitalist parties but this voice is not the roar of 1924...
...Edgerton objects to the increasing cost of local government just as he has for years barked for the "open shop...
...Your loyal employees...
...All the time not forgetting to buy cloth And flesh as cheaply as you could...
...We shall move forward and those who think at all...
...The crusading spirit Is gone...
...You paid me exactly fourteen dollars and eighty-seven cents For eight-days work with six...
...The visit to the Republican convention is merely formal and everybody knows it...
...Since the year 1922 when the Socialist Party initiated the movement which finally culminated in the LaFollette movement in 1924, the party did its utmost to gather the revolting forces into a permanent movement of the workers for independent political action...
...You being dead, I thought then of your living employees, And the seventy five million dollars you left...
...profiteering industry and no hope to the wretched miners and their suffer* tog families This stark picture of debauched politics, of a two-party alliance in Congress, of war on an Inoffensive people and indifference to the suffering of our own sjbrken In a basic industry has a dark background In the millions of the unemployed...
...The Socialist Party I. Your Party Our organisation is rapidly extsasV ing into every state...
...The result is stagnation, lack of influence, sapping of morale and the departure of the crusading spirit...
...William Van Bssea...
...V Our Socialist Policy TPHE story of Emil Herman on another page in this issue confirms what we said in these columns two weeks ago regarding alleged third party movements in the West...
...The government officials at Washington know these ruling Hungarians...
...les...
...He is muzzled if he is admitted and if he has.been here for years he is likely to lie deported because of his views...
...While millions of dollars are squandered and human lives wasted in an Illegal" war against another people, men, ¦ women, and children In one great section of a basic Industry, starve, frees* and die...
...That should make the oceans and the consteflatJoSS roar With some sort of cosmic haw-haw...
...But you are dead now, so why talk about bygones...
...come to New York where they desecrated the name of Louis Kossuth by paying homage to the Hungarian Liberator...
...In a lifetime, or take with you to the tomb...
...High public officiate of both old parties accept proceeds of the attempted oil thefts...
...Richardson stresses and we are firmly convinced that it would Immediately arise in any community in the North tf Negroes were in a large majority...
...What I wanted to say was, that two days later You died, and your place closed up...
...Instead you ware s> patriot, And a philanthropist...
...And then besides the mere possession Of money, you were a patriot During the war, a philanthropist After a fashion, and the head of America's Finest Department Store...
...He is really serious about it while those who appreciate genuine humor are enjoying a huge laugh...
...Could you arrange to reprint this editorial in the Cam 3f a leaflet...
...A Serious Thinker address by John E. Edgerton of the -National „ Association of Manufacturers at Jamestown is characteristic of the middle class mind hatched m the period of the 'eighties...
...Fundamentally, therefore, the Negro Is discriminated against because he is a Negro...
...This performance is about the most ludicrous thing that has ever been staged in American politics...
...William Henry, National Execsttve Barratry...
...The small financial contributions collected from the unions for many years in support of this policy also show tliat it does not/invoke the spirit and enthusiasm of the members...
...And it is because it rs a tail that the trade unions of this country have no influence in politics...
...Others are yet to be disclosed...
...Corporation lawyers, bankers and capitalists through the Civic Federation have led it into a dark alley on old age insurance...
...To this distress Is added the Increasing millions of unemployed in the cities...
...At any rate, the issue of Tammany virtue vs...
...Senator Borah stands cap in hand pleading for alms in the hope that he will get enough contributions to wash the smear away...
...By long usage the American Federation of Labor has become a humble follower of the Democratic party...
...Old Parties Silent On Nicaragua While this aarruptton has dragged Its slimy trail through the courts and investigation pocamlttsea, the Administration, without the consent of Congress, has been waging war on one of oar neighbor republics...
...In course ot time, neither of us may live to see It, the white man and the negro will cast his ballot equally, JJpwever until that time, shall come it behooves the colored man to bend his energies toward the enlightenment of his race and to prepare himself for the privilege of the franchise when it shall be extended him...
...Congress will bring no relief to this disorganised, anarchic and...
...For nearly a year the miners m the bituminous coal fields have been forced to live in" tents and in sheds erected for animals, reduced to starvation rations, by judicial decrees denied the right to make their cause known, and assaulted on the highways by hired mercenaries of the mine owners...
...announced "Special Sale of Mfen's Wear...
...The South does not,4lt Is true, accord ihe negro the franchise...
...One of the difficulties in telling the full story of the rule of these brutes is that the tortures are so horrible and disgusting that descriptions cannot be sent through the mails...
...They have enjoyed the killing of Jews and the tortures to which their political opponents have^ been subjected surpass in atrocity anything done in the Middle Ages...
...Never before has the republic been degraded to the low level It has reached In recent years...
...Its members have been duly shocked...
...James Oneal, New York...
...The New Leader will be glad to man is many copies of the editorial as can* Lributions permit...
...The Northern press may say a lot about the way the South treats the Negro, however I am of the opinion the South after all Is the best friend of the Negro, you may extend him the opportunity to cast his vote but we will without fail provide the means to fill bis stomach...
...There would be a transfer of offices but no change of program or of policy...
...Yea, you left Just enough money To be included in my book - Of In aaetnoriams...
...It is more led than leading...
...If so, I would be gM to contribute a dollar...
...But behind the counters are girls, And white collared lads...
...There are several perfectly good rsssons for this disfranchisement, that uV>the way we Vopk at it...
...Three days later, the place opened up again, The advertisements offered Bargain Sales again...
...This awful situation is allowed U> drift Seven months passed before Congress took notice of this tragedy...
...too dull for work again . . . with just enough In our pay envelopes to pay last week's bills, • And to-morrow's rent...
...Even more shocking than this demonstration of the power of predatory wealth, is the cesspool revealed by the investigation of campaign contributions...
...Tou pay more now, I understand...
...I was one of those who worked hard for the La Follette party at the time, thinking as many otlftr conscientious Socialists did that at that time that it might open a way to bring the workers together for the first time...
...Notwithstanding the enormous increase of the electorate due to women's suffrage, Cox received only 20,000 more votes than Wilson did in 1916 while Hardine received over 16 million...
...Karolyi had to wear a gag or...
...The lives of American boys have been saertned In this adventure in the service of American bankers and investors...
...Meantime New York City is staging, or trying to stage, a probe into a Tammany sewer graft mounting into millions and sewer rats have scurried to cover in New York as oil rats have in the other case...
...Add these facts to your political .philosophy Without them you are not likely to understand this world "made safe for democracy...
...The nation drifts...
...Cashiers, office help...
...And I surely thought...
...No more Bargain Sales, -No more bustle and glitter...
...The Socialist Party is the only national political movement of the workers with its record clean, its banner untarnished, its purpose unchanged, and with nothing to apologize for in its conduct...
...Heart and brain just sick with work...
...One is that J* has only come to pass within very recant yean that the Southern Negro has displayed much desire to vote, except to...
...There are hundreds of thousands of illiterate, whites who vof* without being molested and they are considered "advanced enough" to thus exercise the suffrage...
...A shift to the Democratic party would be to turn from one party of capitalism to another...
...His organization represents chiefly the lesser manufacturers/vho fear the working class below them and the big capitalist kings above them...
...The two-party alliance in Congress sees no call for statesmanship in this national economic tragedy...
...In politics it awaits the pleasure of the Democratic national convention, takes what few crumbs the Democratic brokers may offer and then offers an endorsement which carries no weight and which delivers no votes...
...who in his ideas an4 personality represents the Kossuth tradition, is an exile from Hungary...
...Their retainers do not think and they hate everybody who does...
...The Democratic Tail JT cannot be said that the American Federation of J^abor leads in any conspicuous issue...
...You kept paying your hate as little As public decency allowed, and you kept selling good goods At a fair price...
...Victor L. Better, Wtoeensbs...
...Wilson was supported by the A. F. of L. in 1912 and was elected...
...There are even those who favor continuous police espionage and registration of those who come here to make the United States their home...
...hours a day For eight days during the Holiday season...
...It is compelled to fight both in an endeavor to make government and society represent the interests of its class...
...There is nothing to be gained by Ignoring this fundamental fact and in asserting it we also declare that many northern communities would react against the Negro as the South now reacts If they faced the same relative population between whites and Negroes...
...Is mistaken In the view that the Negro is discriminated against because be has not "advanced enough...
...Thus far the sewer grafters, thanks to a clever attorney, have been able to avoid having the case come into court...
...They must know that in all history there has been no more cruel and bloody despots than these Magyar brutes...
...In B—Ion in New York City...
...Men of the same class are sought by Matthew Woll to discover some magic formula by which Labor and Capital may treat each other as brothers...
...We have no illusions regarding northern Cairness in this matter...
Vol. 7 • March 1928 • No. 14
