HOAN SPEAKS AT TWIN-CITY PICNIC JUN. 24
Hoan Speaks At Twin-City Picnic Jun.24 Signatures For Noministing Petitions Ready Soon — Electors To Be Named IB* a Mew leader flimisiuHuO WUJMng* M3WW.—Wttfa interest in Socialist...
...Thus they have given proof that they are still capable of losing seats...
...Down with the bourgeois bloc" was the war cry of this election compalgn...
...This measure was backed by 400 of the 435 members of tbe House, but because be need not fear punishment from his constituents Snell dared nullify the will of the House...
...Thte will presumably occur only after Whitsuntide...
...Sirovich seems to share their view...
...Even prior to the dissolution of the Reichstag, Socialism made known through the medium of Comrade Wels that it was aiming at-a defeat of the bourgeois bloc and would then be conscious of the responsibility resting upon it...
...In a short time it brought the organisation of the Greensboro Central Labor Union, now the largest to tbe State, with 24 local unions...
...For the first time the Centre has heavy losses to show...
...Mabel Glttelaon, soprano, Lillian Rebhtrg, centst, Harriet Mason, plan iste...
...Reynolds workers from Winston Hi Ism were freely represented among the Council delegates...
...Particularly do they want to keep in toneh with the progress of the Presidential campaign...
...Others, that their subscriptions are paid two or'three years in advance, unlike the reader who refused to take that "risk," saying that in that length of time we might have Socialism and there would be no reason for tbe existence of Tbe New Leader...
...The Piedmont Organising Council Is n union-booming movement...
...The "Volkische Aktlvlsten" who relied entirely on agfwion against Jews and Socialists lost 3 Seats...
...This signifies a reinforcement of the strongest pillar of the German Republic...
...The Democrats will be reduced to only 25 members...
...Without Socialist co-operation there would have been no democratization of the Prussian administrative service, which used to be the stronghold of reaction...
...But Sirovich is the first Democrat to do it...
...There are no longer within German Socialism any who oppose on principle/the policy of coalition...
...They are asking other Socialists up state to Join them in this pilgrimage as the big affair Is regarded as a reunion of Socialists all over the state...
...It requires no effort to follow a well beaten path...
...He called for a united front against such disgraceful conditions...
...Especially do we marvel at the courage and determination of those who laid the foundation for our press and included in that number were those who put into action the call, NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE...
...urging them to desert the old party politicians and rally to the Socialist Party standards...
...Whatever bis motive, he helps move the ponderous legislative machine nearer a humane end...
...He has taken the excellent bill drafted by the American Association for Old Age Security—a measure that provides for federal aid to the states in establishing and" financing' a uniform system of pensions for the aged destitute...
...It is now taking the offensive in the open shop textile and tobacco industries...
...The loss by the German People's^Party is not due to tbe foreign xriicy of Stresemann, but to the reactionary social attitude of his party in domestic politics...
...Once on the mailing list, he is certain to receive the paper regularly...
...It is also important that readers going on- vacations should arrange for the , paper to reach them regularly...
...June 23, at 8:19 p.m...
...As soon as the complicated count of the votes will have been completed and the residue alloted first to tbe associated districts and then to the list of the Reich, negotiations toward the formation of a government will be started...
...Paul will also meet the following Friday evening...
...Rep...
...A final word of advice is offered to those who sign the nomination' petitions...
...Thus throughout the whole of the Reich a sharp move toward the Left is noticeable...
...There was no "Eventually" about it...
...However...
...Notwithstanding this, the whole of the-bourgeoisie is astonished at the triumph of Socialism...
...Well, there's quite an army, a growing army, too, of loyal subscribers who are carrying on with the spirit of the old pioneers...
...It is the textile workers and the second generation tobacco workers who are physically dwarfed by Industrialism...
...I intend to keep up the work by soliciting everyone to subscribe to The New Leader...
...But not that alone, for the Socialist victory is evidence that the masses of men and women electors do not misapprehend the difficulties under which our party is compelled to conduct politics in the German Republic...
...A score of representatives of organised labor have been trying to get this measure to a final vote, but Snell has blocked the way...
...So it happens that Rep...
...The grounds for the big Socialist picnic at S3rd street and West River Road, Minneapolis, have been engaged far Sonday, June 34, and arrangements for this big gathering are going ahead nicely...
...By 'Way et Centimes Contrast the effect of working-clam pressure in this downtown radical constituency wtth the effect of hardboiled indifference in the 31st New York district, whose congressman is Bertrand Snell...
...The Polish comrades already have sold ISO tickets for this event and probably win sell twice that number before <ftme 10th...
...Receiving and reading The New Leader regularly becomes a habit and a potential hustler for our paper is made...
...This T-ny and another full -fashioned company to Oreenaboro sign up their emplayea 8a a yellow-dog contract that pledges than) to avoid the union...
...This Is by far the largest session of the organising body since tt was formed fat Durham last winter...
...W, Koniussewski of Chicago, the Chicago branch "Forward" is cooperating with the Cook County Socialist Organisation to make the Norman Thomas mass meeting on June 10th a great success...
...Sirovich Expects Defeat Introduces Old Age Bill Meyer London Proposed Test Years Ago -Snell Offers a Contrast j By Laurence Todd j WASHINGTON.—whenever a congres atonal district in an American industrial city begins to register a heavy Socialist vote, indicating a determination of large monies of workers to protect themselves by political weapons, the Republican and Democratic organisations in that district swing to the left in selecting candida tea...
...The occasional newsstand purchaser Is the best kind of a prospect for a sub...
...Its gain will not be enduring, for it is no unified party...
...Duluth Socialists, now in a growing organisation, have decided to make a holiday of the Socialist picnic and they win attend In a body...
...In nttaSS tion good labor men and their friends are «m«Mng no Camels...
...By the electoral success of May 20 there Is assured to the existing Prussian Government under Otto Braun a stable majority which hitherto was not present...
...In front sat girl cigarette workers...
...Local St...
...The way to accomplish this is to secure subscriptions of year friends NOW...
...In back were five Negro man from tbe same company...
...Even, if we reckon with them the Land League and the Ckuastian UmUamiMm -tho» stiu haw onlj a strength 0$ »i, compared with 1u hitherto...
...The matter of securing a subscriber is often tbe matter of having sab cards with you when a prospect Is approached...
...It lost 7 seats and 10 per cent of the votes, and will amount in the coming Reichstag to only 62 memben...
...Practically every reader has one er more friends interested In news of the Socio Met and Labor movements...
...No falsehood was too jross, no pretence too Impudent for the German Nationalists in the electoral struggle against the Socialists in particular...
...The organ of the German Agrarians referred after the Socialist triumph to a general bourgeois reverse...
...The capitalist phrties are using deplorable methods In arousing nationalistic sentiment amongst the masses of Polish workers, baiting the local tickets with few Polish "names of minor -candidates...
...Let a Republican or Democratic rumgn—insn know that he may become an ex-congressman, and that a radical may replace him at Washington, and he discovers that be can become almost as radical as the best of them...
...but the company Is hitting back...
...Without them, there would be no New Leader...
...baeco Open Shops I By Art Shields "1 {GREENSBORO, N. C.—Caught Wtth the new Interest that has entered the labor movement hi the near South, soma 350 delegare* attended the sixth monthly ¦mifcjn of the Ptedinont OiganMng Council...
...According to this decision it is a certainty that the bourgeois bice will no longer possess a majority in the new Reichstag...
...Soma of them are proud of the fact that they have never missed a copy of the paper...
...Fear of Socialist Makes Progressive of Congressman...
...Jobs is, and consider that among other matter...
...This district consists of the four counties in the northeast corner of the state...
...The organs of the Right parties are already declaring that in consequence of the failure of the electorate one crisis after another may be expected hi the coming Reichstag, and an early dissolution of it would be the result Such was not the win of the men and women electors who have brought about a perfectly clear decision...
...this state, the new...
...There is not a reader of The New Leader but what can secure a subscriber for the paper NOW...
...Slrovich's attention, he has gene farther...
...Long noun are now reaching into Sunday, be revealed...
...Camels Under Ban Many members are being taken Into the Tobacco Workers' Union, reported Edward L. Crouch, international viewpresident and former Reynolds worker...
...Hitler's National Socialists saved 12 seats...
...The Diet elections simultaneously with the elections to the Reichstag have cut the ground from under the feet of the governments of the Right there also...
...Stan that It follows that it is essential to lay the foundations for a foreign policy tending toward tbe pacification of Europe and a hams' policy serving the social interest of the ssaanav It vui Strive to use us tilumnh, .,"7" Polish SocialistsIn Chicago Aiding tnomas Chicago.—The Polish Socialist Organisation of America, in its First pf May bulletin, published a strong appeal to the Polish worklngmen...
...This bill provides that the federal employes in civil service may retire after 30 years, of employment by the government, and that tbe maximum retirement annuity shall be gl.300 in place of the present maximum of $1,000 a year...
...Several delegates eaid that Camels sales ham faUan to less than half in their towns...
...Companies Moving South Southern hosiery knitters In the fullfashioned stocking trade get one-fourth to one-third the wages of Northern union men, said William Smith, general secretary-treasurer of tbe Hosiery Union, in a speech that lashed the labor methodi off the mill owners...
...for in the new Bavarian Diet Socialism win hold 34 seats out of 128, as against 25 hitherto...
...they were in the van of the bourgeois bloc, and have got notice accordingly...
...sfetlBjgna T» Be Ready Plenty of-petitions for signatures .to the OcanlnaUan papers for Socialist electors will be on hand at the picnic grounds...
...This result gives expression to the marked discontent with the policy of the Centre felt by the workers and employes organized in the Christian trade unions...
...Similarly the Bavarian People's Party retains no more than 16 seats, which means a loss of 3. The German People* Party will be represented in the Reichstag with 7 seats less than before, and now numbers only 54 members...
...With them anas five other Negroes, big,* stalwart fallows, members of the Laborers' Union nt Wanton Salem...
...It win meet Wednesday evening...
...Indeed...
...Under their own colors they have saved only 73 seats...
...The Socialists believe they have a good chance of electing a congressman from the 14th district this year...
...Friday...
...Charlotte, WinstonSalem...
...As far as the hustlers and pi aggers are concerned, the socalled...
...The program will include such numbers as Wagner's "Dlch Teure Halle," Grieg's "Asa's Death" and "Anitra's Dance," Grieg's "Concerto in A Minor...
...In a tour of Greensboro that morn ling with Alfred Hoffman, his Southern representative, and «~?*!wr knitter, he found a concern operating over the' week-end...
...As informed by the secretary of the P. 8. O., comrade Dr...
...All the bourgeois parties have suffered loss...
...Summer slump" is a state of mind—a "psychological condition.'' No Carolina Labor Takes Offensive Piedmont Organising Council Spurs Trade Unionists Against To...
...At every time in every particular case it must be estimated whether a policy of coalition is demanded by the interests of the policy of European understanding, and of service to the workingclass socially and economically...
...German Socialists Ready To Enter Govt...
...The picnic will also be a center for planning more local organisations in the state...
...WoB is supposed to have some influence with Tammany itself—and still the osnarananan chooses to Unb up wtth the mrth-sh an this issue...
...Back of htm...
...Hoan Speaks At Twin-City Picnic Jun.24 Signatures For Noministing Petitions Ready Soon — Electors To Be Named IB* a Mew leader flimisiuHuO WUJMng* M3WW.—Wttfa interest in Socialist railj imaiilmllisi rapidly reviving as a result of tbe work of Emfl Herman in...
...A general organiser of the American Federation of Labor, O. a Woodbury, has been assigned to North Carolina by president Green...
...Voters in bis district do not send him Instructions of civic decency and humanity...
...The high proportion off big men m the hall struck a visitor...
...The Socialist Party will hold 152 seats out of 492...
...North aatnMna was settled by a husky breed, and those workers, such as bunding .tradesmen, who have not been stunted by the worst child labor conditions and the lowest wages, retain the strength and stature-of the original stock...
...Bums 800 have been let out, though a few off these were later reinstated...
...Arbeiter-Saengerbund *of America will complete their i festivals with a picnic in Rlvervlew Park...
...True, Victor Berger, Socialist, has introduced an oM age pension bill each year since he reached Congress That is a matter of course with any Socialist elected to a legislative body...
...In Bavaria, where they came forward most brazenly, Socialism achieved i. particularly marked success...
...They got in the whole country not more than 65,000 votes and no seat...
...It ones had 14,000 Reynolds members and an agreement with the company that lasted until 1023...
...It is likely that tbe negotiations will not be straightforward...
...workers singing societies to hold festivals in chicago The - Arhelter ¦ Saengerbund of America win hold their 10th National Singing Tournament in Chicago on June 22nd, 23rd and 24th...
...The Economic Party has benefited by the losses of the bourgeois parties, taking in this campaign the name "National Party of the German Middle-Class...
...Ledebour bad urged his Independent Socialist Union to vote Communist, because he did not wish to number his few vassals any longer...
...I. e., 31.1 per cent, compared with 131 seats, or 26% per cent, in the last Reichstag The German electors consist of 70 per :ent of working men and women...
...Socialist voters and workers interested in getting a good working organisation in the state will get what information is needed at tbe reunion...
...There were men and women unionists from Raleigh, Durham...
...On going back to their communities they are expected to gat all who are interested in Socialist organisation lined up in branches so that they can work effectively for the Socialist presidential candidates Thomas and Maurer...
...At the close of this session be has pocketed the unanimous vote of his *yntn"Arf to have a vote of the House on the federal employes' retirement bill...
...It desires to please everybody...
...William Sirovich of the 14th New York district, a Tammany man, has made a fight hi this session for a federal and state system of old age pensions for discarded and destitute workers...
...This policy is merely a tactical question...
...Two-thousand signatures of voters are required...
...Any voter can sign regardless of whether he or she votes in the general primary on June 18 and all signatures must be sworn to before a notary...
...Hitherto It has had no part in responsibility...
...The first concert has been arranged at the Medinah Temple, Case and Ohio streets, Chicago, III...
...Waicba tbe East Side But as the unrest and tbe pinch of unemployment and poverty in Ins downtown district has been borne in upon Rep...
...to blase the trail, to be a pioneer, that is a different matter...
...Since the war and inflation, Germany is composed more fully of workers than any other State of the world...
...Henceforward the Council of the Reich will consist in an overwhelming majority of representatives of republican provincial governments...
...The "Volkische Frelhelts" party was wiped out altogether...
...Snell is chairman of the House rules committee—the dictator of what measures shall be permitted to come to a rollcaU...
...Dedicated To Peace and Social Progress Party Does Not Oppose Coalition on PrincipleResults of May 20th Poll Analyzed By Hermann MullerFranklen I> ERLIN.—When in March the government of the bourgeois bloc broke down over the non-settlement of the Behoof Act, a victory for the Left was prophesied oh alt*'hands...
...the canny reader who would not risk paying his subscription a couple of yean fat ad ranee succeeded In convincing many others that "NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE," illustrating that It takes all kinds of hustlers to build ap a subscription Bet...
...There followed from that a readiness of Social Democracy to participate in government, provided that the requisite foundations for an acceptable government policy could be secured...
...Active supporters of the paper always have sub cards handy, and sell them, too...
...in the cities they suffered everywhere heavy leases', whilst in the country parts tbe terrorism of the large landowners has on occasion stood them in good stead...
...Enough papers will also be on hand for Socialists and friends to take back to their localities and get the work of gathering signatures completed as soon as possible...
...Local at Minniepr"n nut take the initiative in electors...
...The success which Socialism has achieved in Prussia by participation in the government are beyond dispute...
...An attempt to secure power was made from Saxony by the so-called Old SocialDemocrats, who disseminate a poisonous blend of Jingoism and Socialism...
...Similarly 20,735 votes and no seats were obtained by the Independent Socialists of Theodore Liebknecht...
...This Instance may be studied wtth advantage by workers In other districts than the 14th New York, and In other parts of the country...
...The monarchist idea no longer draws in Germany...
...Submitted as the best simile of the year: "AS REFRESHING AS A COPY OF THE NEW LEADER AFTER A STEADY DIET OF THE PROFTT-MONGERING PRESS...
...If there are any farmer small town residents living in New York, and we suspect that there are, they will recall the ever-recurring slogan of their local newspaper, "NOW IS THE TIME TO SUBSCRIBE...
...He has also Introduced a measure based on one offered ten years ago by Meyer London, the only Socialist ever elected from New York, providing for an investigation by a federal commission into the need for old age pensions and the best type of legislation to establish such relief...
...The Polish Socialist Bulletin exposes this political fraud, preaches working class solidarity regardless of nationalistic division and appeals for unreserved support of Socialist candidates...
...Greensboro and other leading North Car"""* towns, and from Danville, Va, an Important manufacturing centre over tbe border...
...Thomas E. Latimer, former state secretary of the party and a prominent Minneapolis attorney, will also speak at the picnic...
...Tbe performers win include a festival chorus of 1500 singers...
...The triumphant advance of Socialism demonstrates that these workers and employes in an increasing measure recognize in Socialism the champion of their Interests...
...The orchestra la made up of 43 members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and is under the direction of Carl Reckseh...
...No 'Eventually' In Vocabulary Of New Leader Sub Hustlers jjk>UR yearly subs from Comrade Samuel Orr, with the comment: "It Is very important that you keep up jour campaign to give The New Leader a wider circulation...
...The middle parties associated in the bourgeois bloc with the German Nationalists shared the costs of the defeat...
...The Socialist poll has risen since December, 1924, from 7,886,261 to 9,111,43a...
...The second concert is planned for Saturday, June 33rd, 4 p.m...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee will be tbe principal speaker...
...It Is felt, are Coolidge, Mellon and Budget Director Lord, offering applause...
...In Bavaria likewise the influence of Socialism has moved upward...
...But their electoral lies no longer possessed any magnetism...
...He has risen in the House and attacked as "unfair, unjust and unAmerican" the National Civic Fedexa' tlon's recent report which seeks to discredit the idea of federal or state pensaawnaass the lien Hi sennas of this mow by the Civic Federation, in spite of the fact that Matthew Watt, acting president at tbe organisation, is also the most active va»a president of the American Federation of Labor...
...The German Nationalists have suffered a heavy defeat...
...Chicago, HI., beginning at 1 p.m...
...To aid the drive of the International Tobacco Workers among the employes at the R. J. Reynolds Company, the nasi session of tbe Council will be held tat Winston-Salem, where this company manufactures 135.000.000 cigarettes a day and Prince Albert smoking tobacco by the mUlions of cansfuL The union seeks to recover Its post-war strength...
...It -was the Socialist Party that would stand to gain moat from such a victory, as the' elections to the Diet and other local bodies in Brunswick, Hamburg and Bremen had already clearly shown...
...We may hope that this will give food for thought to the party if manufacturing industry...
...Often when we reminisce about the trail blazers, 'the daring pioneers of the labor and Socialist movements, we thrill and glow—and, the vision becomes a bit blurry...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 25
