AN ADDRESS TO THE FARMERS OF AMERICA
THOMAS, NORMAN
AN ADDRESS TO THE FARMERS OF AMERICA The Socialist Candidate For President Gives His Stand On The Problems Facing The Agricultural Population By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate for...
...Ohio The printed petition for signatures to place the presidential and state ticket of the party on the ballot have been mailed out over Ohio...
...Organization funds are needed so that we can put a dozen or more like Msgin into the various, j^ftea to organize...
...Several Yipsels, delegates from the party and the Workmen's Circle, were called on...
...The speakers will be James H. Maurer, candidate for vicepresident, and B. Charney Vladeck...
...Pittsburgh Local Allegheny will hold its first picnic Sunday, June 10, at Ehlers Grove...
...New members were added to the organization...
...Yet 38,6% of you are tenants and a great number of the rest of you are the anxious slaves'of those who hold mortgages upon property to an extent of more than 40% of the total farm values...
...That's why we think of these ages to get you to come to us...
...A few more letters like the above would be welcomed by the National Office...
...He says that great interest was manifested and that he sold a good lot of literature and secured a good collection...
...Herbert Quick ¦ authority for the statement that not toe patient workers to the tobacco fields at Connecticut but land owners and land sellers have got the bun's ahem of eesh profits ee have.been made out ef the tariff of tobiewo leaf...
...You want honest government and an end of such shame and loss to us all as the oil scandajs have revealed...
...Then la our civilisation itself the prise for which knaves play...
...You are oppressed by taxes, direct and indirect, while Democrats and Republicans have vied with each other in reducing the taxes on great inheritances and Incomes which should instead have been increased...
...Professor Labriola, world-famous economist and Socialist, recently arrived, will be the principal speaker...
...so just before the class ended, he carried a big red apple to the other lad...
...During the La FoDette and Bearak' campaigns be was one of the speakers fox the party...
...A professor opposed to training once rose to prove his case with a tale of his own school days...
...In this connection we may find help in solving the serious problem of tenant Rentals are^aeed on swoUeTlLd'^ah^ Farm tenants in America, unlike hum tenants to other countries, have so security of tenumuaH.no claim on tthe fen...
...Thompson...
...with Comrades Horowlts and Mertngoff in the affirmative, and Comrades Gross and Sanit attacktofths preposition resulted to a draw...
...they have become "men" by now: how do they benefit...
...N.E.C Meets June 10th In Fftchburg, Mass The National Executive Committee of the League meets in Fttchburg, Mass...
...Barry to life he took work outside of school hours and during vacations to help pay for it...
...West Virginia By the time this statement on political work has been printed, the West Virginia comrades will nave selected their ticket in a convention which is to be held in Morgantown on June 3. In our next press letter we will give a full account of the convention...
...He plays the violin and has else composed music...
...Locals or individuals in the state having any party news which they would like printed In The New Leader should send same to Walter E. Davis, 48 Belmont street, Hamden, Ct...
...You do not want a shifting dollar any more than you want a shifting bushel...
...X tell you that when you come back from that camp you'll enjoy obeying...
...Be Joined the Ylpsel circle and became an active member...
...The price is yours—yours and the city workers...
...The Problem of Subsidies Agriculture, at least so far as the chief staple crops are cuuonuod, has to operate on the bases of prices fixed in the world market...
...You are united in toil...
...Your sons, sons of the farmers, like the sons of the workers, enlist in the Marine Corps simply for the sake of a Job or attracted by the posters which promise them an education and a chance to see the world...
...Don't you see how generous and blghearted the government is...
...The hike will end early so that the comrades may be able to attend the Circle Six rally in the evening...
...Trucks and autos will leave N. S. Lyceum at James and Forelands streets, 10 a. m. sharp...
...With this fact in mind 1st us list some of the causes of agricultural depression on which thoughtful men generally agree even though they may not agree as to the order of their importance...
...The profit goes to bankers and other investors...
...It was a great success...
...No problem for the farmers or for the city workers can really be solved by dividing them...
...The speech proper must open, as all patriots know, with praise of our glorious country...
...Has it not appropriated $2,100,000 "to give to you and to your parents, simply to have the sons with us so we can impress on theh- bodies, minds, hearts and souls themselves" . . . That's a little off the opening tack...
...It pays to put organizers in the field, but it takes money to do it...
...Ton have to buy goods, the price of which is set to protective markets...
...Need to Build Our Own Patty In thus addressing you who by your labor feed our great nation the wn^a^ Party has a specific end in view...
...He protested that he was unwilhng to fight (how cleverly the colonel let us see the fellow was really afraid...
...Such successes as have been won, notably in certain of the Northwestern states by fanner and labor cooperation on the political field show what can be done on the national flskt To delay longer in the futile effort to use one or other Of the old parties, both "wings of the same bird of prey", b to throw away your vote...
...Tickets at $1.25 each are obtainable at the Lyceum or from.Reuben McDevitt, 47 Johnston Ave...
...One desperately needed Instrument of our progress is a political party which our progress is a political party which belongs to the people end not to Big Business...
...Saturday night instead of Sunday morning...
...You want coal at a reasonable price mined by miners well enough paid to afford to buy your produce...
...Any plan therefore for giving farmers the equivalent of tariff protection should be regarded as a temporary measure rather than an ultimate solution...
...Be is working for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, which he expects to receive after one more year of study...
...I Bimiji Although the meeting of Emil Herman here had to be adjourned from the hall to the street and the wrong date was announced in the local papers, he held an excellent open air meeting...
...The Military Instructors The question of military training off en easiest analysis, for every year a uniformed gentleman makes his way from high school platform to high school platform touting the Citizens' Military Training Camps...
...183 Park street...
...tJ Socialist Leagae, 13 Tewnseud St, Fttchburg, Mass...
...Louis Rablnovltz was born April 3, 1004, to Boston, where he has lived continuously...
...so long as he does not use the term, he is guiltless...
...Another friend in Ithaca, N. Y., sends $6 and suggests that a short and easily understood definition of Socialism be printed on a durable sign to be displayed at all Socialist meetings...
...In IMS 6% tower farmers produced 10% more food then to IBM...
...they arc reminded that application blanks waiting In the office are already franked, that inquiry postcards, also on hand, are likewise franked...
...Arrangements will be made for the local to attend the State Convention Banquet in a body...
...W. H. Kaufman of the state of Washington has recently reminded bis fellow farmers that the equivalent of stock watering has been practiced on a large scale under our present system by farm owners...
...It was voted to enlarge the committee by inviting Workmen's Circles and trade-union representatives to become members...
...they say: 'It Isn't the right thing to try to elevate the youth of our country...
...six subscriptions for The New Leader were taken: literature to the amount of $8.10 was sold, and the audience contributed $3...
...Various circles will report on industrial conditions in the different countries of the world...
...Candor and friendliness are in his manner...
...Prank A. Andrae and Felix Catalan of Cohoes, Charles W. Noonan and James Folan of Schenectady...
...The federation has printed a large Finnish edition of the party platform which is being widely distributed...
...For this thanks is due to Mac Bfeenberg of Circle Eight, Manhattan, for his unfailing Interest and help towards "»-w"g the first affair of an inexperienced circle such a success...
...Isarto Avenue, corner Howard Avenue, Brooklyn, requests the other Juniors to visit theh- meetings held oa Sunday nights at g p. m. Jean Silverman is the spirited and miHtant leader of this group, which is asssjty but surely growing...
...Comrades wishing to see a nearly model Junior circle are urged to- pay them a visit ones to a while...
...The relative prosperity of America has not been chiefly due to Its protective system— every little tiny country to Europe has that—but to the fact that within our own boundaries the people of the United States have the greatest free trade market to the world...
...Some of the faculty in certain Institutions object to these camps...
...The city of Davenport was a Socialist center some many years ago, and it is expected that a awge delegation from that city will attend the state convention and help In me selection of the ticket and cooper¦sf re-building the state organization, swory comrade who can possibly do so, •bould attend the state convention...
...You want an end of the present tragedy of the coal field...
...EducationalSocial Director, Benj...
...In this country even more than the city workers you suffer at the hands of the private power interests...
...M. Campbell of Pontiac...
...For the past two years he has served as the educational director and the organiser of the New England district Y. P. 8. L In the Socialist party he has also taken an active part and has served to many positions...
...How can I do that, when I don't believe that it is...
...Members in attendance were Arthur and Mrs...
...So do the workers...
...Nomination of State officers will be made at this meetlntg...
...Iowa State Convention 8tate Secretary McCrUUs of Iowa informs the National Office that a state convention will be held at Des Moines on July 4 for the purpose of naming a state ticket and selecting nominees for presidential electors...
...But the questioning spirit Is not always so ready...
...As a scientist he soon realized that something was wrong with modern society and that something should be done to bring about a change in conditions...
...In addition, a miniature "League of Nations" session will take place...
...So complex are our problems that we cannot solve them merely by local political action...
...The convention will also give its attention to organization and campaign plans...
...Lleut.-Governor...
...This remark bridges the gulf between his humor and the sentiment necessary for the close...
...Pennsylvania Beading The Socialists of the first, second, fourth and fifth wards have organized in what will be known as the Southwest Branch...
...They are now concentrating on county tickets, and within the next six weeks they expect to have tickets In seven counties...
...nominee for Congress In the second district, will take the field and cover his district...
...Very earnestly do we ask you, the farmers of America, to consider whether you may not have been mistaken in thinking too much in terms of profits to be derived by sale or rent from an increase of land values and too little in terms of the reward of your own arduous labors...
...A symphony written by him was published last year...
...The plight of the farmers is not due to the fact that there is too much food produced...
...Lester shulman is th organiser of this circle and Irving Ooho is general secretary...
...frankness in his opening words: "Two men to the faculty who have been across are going to help me put this over...
...literature, platforms, etc-, sasy bo obtained from the National Ofl*e...
...For millions of farmers in this prosperous United States electricity is not available at any price and in many well populated parts of the country electric rates for farmers run over 20 cents per kilowatt hour...
...degree...
...Working farmers like city workers have need to face this problem of land values and their control by a Just and equitable system of taxation which should fall on land rather than improvements...
...he remembers that a youth must follow him, and he turns back to build a bridge...
...New York State State Convention State Convention arrangements were discussed in detail by the Capitol District committee on the Convention at a meeting in the State Headquarters, Albany, last Sunday morning, with National Campaign Manager, O. August Gerber, participating...
...Sec., Leo Sanit...
...Horowlts...
...Close riletions between farmers' cooperatives and consumers' cooperatives would eliminate several profits and much waste...
...Montana, nine members in good standing, has moved for a national referendum on the entire constitution adopted at the recent national convention...
...A more persuasive and at the same time Inescapable source of prejudice lies to the opportunity afforded by the high school assembly platform...
...For tins situation obviously there Is no r——**wi We can only hope that in passing from an outgrown age of indivMuaiism to social action, you workers on hasSBj more fhrteanto than your city brothers, will paw into s cooperative ays tern rather than under the dominion of onrporation control...
...California State Convention June 17 The state convention of the Socialist Party will be held in Los Angeles on June 17.1 Thirteen presidential electors and one candidate for United States Senator will be nominated...
...and Mrs...
...In part, upon a careful lowering of those economic barriers,which now divide them, with doe regard for the workem in the period of readjustment...
...To tell merely of the accomplishments of Comrade Rabinowlts in school would give an entirely one sided picture...
...From Northeastern he went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and after a year of study was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering...
...Silverberg of New York, member of the Executive Board of the Workmen's Circle, also delivered a talk...
...So do the workers...
...Cfrele n. Juniors, held elections two weeks ago...
...National Executive Secretary, 2683 Waabingten Boulevard, Chicago, Panola, Information regarding gp«aiiis...
...New Jersey The Socialists of Trenton have arranged a banquet to be held on Sunday, June 10, in the Lyceum Building, 159 Mercer St., at 6 p.m...
...You have lived through the Coolidge prosperity: you have not shared it...
...librarian, Abe Ginsberg...
...The banquet will be a reunion affair for Connecticut Socialists and a jolly time is assured...
...Here also your wants and the city workers' are the same...
...Recently he was elected chairman of the Speakers' Committee of the Greater Boston Action Committee...
...Catching himself, the colonel resumes: "We have one purpose, to benefit you...
...This circle expects to grow a leaps and bounds soon after the sum mer months are over and enjoy the phe nonrenal growth had by the Eighteentl A. D. Kings Socialist Party Branch ti their district...
...For U. S. Senator, Wm...
...Three members at large were obtalnd who paid dues for a year...
...The Implication of his slang is, however, one of his least direct statements, for he proceeds as though his words were intended to win by sound —heeding the thought would stultify them...
...A mass meeting was planned for the Friday evening preceding the convention with Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer as the principal speakers...
...Immigration, an moot social and political points, are unendingly presented si though bit* due' attitude existed or were conceivable...
...Presidential electors and candidate for Secretary of State will be named in September...
...L. Krleghoff of Detroit...
...State ¦ organizer of the Socialist Party, Karl C. Jursek spoke on the coming campaign...
...Circle 13, Juniors, threw a party at the home of its organizer, Beatrice Sapkowits, which was attended by over 48 people, although circles were instructed to send only two delegates each...
...Now the tension must be lessened...
...You pay with your taxes and with the blood of your sons and brothers for this sordid adventure in imperialism...
...They're not used to obeying...
...The Inflated Land Values Finally it is to be observed that agriculture has been the victim not only of a faulty credit system but of inflated land values...
...The active Socialists in Kentucky are few and should give full cooperation in the matter of funds and an able organiser...
...So do the workers...
...Otouhach for the use of their apartment at 230 Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn...
...June lt> and 11...
...But neither you nor the city workers 'can get this from the two old parties, both of which belong to the same general set of interests and receive money from the same contributors...
...Sports of various kinds will be on the program...
...Therefore let farmers and city workers unite in thinking, p»«'""'ig and struggling for the common good...
...We BocMwoi are pledged to do all in our power to encourage sound cooperation...
...It has to do with the purchasing power of town and city workers rather than, with thenneeds...
...Alice Cohen-Altaian and her husband, Conrad Lahrisnn, Joe Kalenberg, Sylvia Glaser, Isidore Ostrowaky and Lester Bhuhnan The affair was attended by over sixty comrades and a great time was had by all...
...The following were elected: Organiser, Junto Mlrengoff...
...V.' Before we examine the leasons for this agricultural depression ft is worth while to fix one fact in our minds...
...Massachusetts Crosswaith Before Boston Forums Frank R. Crosswaith, organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, will speak before a number of Boston forums next winter, including the Ford Hall Forum...
...The circle wishes to extend thanks and appreciation to Dr...
...John G. Wlllert, 3469 West 54th St., Cleveland...
...There we touch the weak point...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Young Fno,lov...
...In abort, no system of tariff or rta> sidy, direct or indirect, can help the mas who raise om* feed unless we inquire mas the question of land values...
...Connecticut State Convention and Banquet At the...
...They hold meetings at 420 Hinsdale Street every Saturday at 0:30 p. *u and^bavc eery interesting educational Circle n. Juniors, of 1468 St...
...Too much of some one crop may be jsiuduced In a given, year...
...Electricity our Servant or Master You live in a time when electricity is ready to be your servant...
...A good time is assured to all...
...STATE TICKETS , The activity of Socialists all over the cation makes us feel confident that we will not only be able to place our ticket on the ballot in every state, but that the enthusiasm will bring about a bigger and better party organization...
...A recent American Legion contest, with a scholarship as the prise, called for essays telling why immigration should be prohibited for the next five years...
...What remedies shall we seek...
...are the pupils, then, forever babes, won by a soothing voice and a bauble...
...Unemployed and underpaid workers cannot buy the produce of the farmers...
...The new wing of Local Berks will meet every Friday night at 8 o'clock at 422 South Sixth street, third floor...
...It has fallen from 23,9% in 1918 to 10,2...
...You will not get it from either of the old parties...
...No class has more to gain from a diffusion of cheap electric power than farmers and their wives...
...A debate, "Bosol vod: That the U. 8. Enter the Leaguf of Nations...
...As the son of a clothing worker he had to work for his education...
...Hamden Local Hamden meets Saturday evening, June 9 at the home of State Executive Committeeman Davis...
...N. Y. Junior Doings I Circle S, juniors, held elections led I week...
...Y. Conference to Aid Mill Strikers June 8th The New York City League held a pre llmlnary Youth Conference last week o. aid the New Bedford strikers...
...All members are urged to be present...
...You want to be delivered both from inflation and deflation...
...Workers' Common Problems Specifically in this year of 1928 let us see some of the issues the farmers and city workers have in common...
...As the pioneer, builder and JesfThf of that great mass movement which shall one day sweep a mighty party of the farmers and workers to victory we Socialists invite the mm and women Of our farms to cast In their lot with us in the great fight for peace, freedom' and plenty...
...Bar low, a striker, addressed the delegates a did Paul Blanshard and Norman Them as...
...New Haven Banquet The English branch of the Workmen's Circle held Its first annual banquet Saturday evening, June 2. Nathan Gandelman acted as toastmaster...
...You are mutually interdependent each upon what the other produces...
...The prestige, if any, goes to the Administration...
...By the boast of the electrical companies themselves they have a lobby behind which stands (17,000,000,000 worth of capital always working to fool you about Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam and every other struggle to make giant power the servant of the people...
...or do these visiting orators underestimate the Intelligence of the boys who endure compulsory assemblies...
...Proposed Referendum Local Livingston...
...provements these may have made asm as leases ma^$yrid...
...West Haven The new local in this town will meet Friday evening, June 8 at the home of the secretary, Louis A. Colombo...
...JACK 1VASSERMAN - EDITOR Published Every Week By The New Leader for the Young Peoples Socialist League Introducing Comrade Louis Robinowitz By SAVELE SYBJALA Comrade Louis Rabinowlts, a member of the Boston Ylpsel circle, has been chosen national director of the V. P. S. L. by the national executive committee of the Socialist party at its meeting held in Newark, N. J. Many Yipsels and party members are not acquainted with the new national director of the Y. P. S. L. and are asking what type of a man he is...
...But it is even more disturbing to perceive the brazen directness of attack employed by the propagandists, their confident expectation of an accepting audience: Is the teacher who assumes a measure of reasoning power in his pupils, doomed by his very premise to failure...
...Neither of the old parties will give it to you...
...It was truly a city-wide affair...
...He looks around as the boys file out, trying to guess how many really believe they have been convinced of the value of military training, how many are already so drugged by constant doses of the sort that they receive it all with shrunken apathy, how many can resist the uniform and rhetoric and can wonder why" such things be...
...These brief remarks concerning the new national director of the Y. P. 8. L. ought to certainly assure all Inquirers that the Yipsels and the Socialist party have secured the service of a competent man...
...It mast be observed, however, that neither the McNary-Haugen act nor any Isaprovoojout on It can he a pane nee In the long run what is desired is lower tariffs on an sorts of goods...
...there follows: "There's no study...
...Henry Sapkowtoi new wad Circle is...
...so with a polite bow to popular taste, the speaker assures the pupils that "for the first three years, so tar as any obligation is concerned, the word military might just as well be omitted: Citizens' Training Camps 1" This obeisance—vitiated by its qualification—once made, the colonel is free to preach whatever militariaic idea he pleases...
...The circle is staging a highly successful comeback...
...by that time your brains will need a rest...
...Indiana Good State Convention The State Secretary of Indiana reports a very successful state convention and says the members are very much gratified over the attendance and enthusiasm...
...Socialism interested him because it offered a solution to the problem...
...The task of getting the required signatures to the petition is almost overwhelming, and every friend should do his or her share in tnia...
...Minds Un Was* But It's time for the direct application to the pupils, "youiajHois" they were when the speech began...
...they remained friends...
...c. J. Lar-' son will circulate the Socialist nomination petitions and guarantees at least fifty signers...
...this ¦ one-sided demand was not proffered by a class-room teacher, but was forwarded by the educational machinery of the city and the state...
...Herman Kobbe of the State Executive Committee, and State Secretary Merrill...
...No benefit the farmers or workers may derive from subsidies can compensate them for what they lose to tariff protected monopolists and the dividend guaranteed stockholders in public utilities...
...Gen Sec...
...Due to the League Hike, Sunday, tta circle will meet at 8:30 p. m, at let Tompkins Ave...
...N. Y. C, held a party in honor of Comrade Henry Sapkowltrs seven yearn of unselfish service to the Y. P. 8. L* last Saturday evening, and presented him with a gift to show appreciation...
...Comrades who can handle one or more should write the State Secretary...
...You want stable money and a wise and democratic control of credit for the general good rather than the power and profit of a few lords of credit...
...I am, indeed, amazed at the shortsightedness of your representatives to not seeing to it mat all of you shall Join to these summer training camps, for this magnificent purpose...
...Louis Waldman of New York and George H. Goebel, of Newark, N. J., are expected to attend and speak...
...It is the consensus of the committee that Comrade Rablnovfli of Boston be the new National Dtrectei and Secretary of the Y. P. 8. L. Tbj N. E. C. will meet with Rabinovits to get things started...
...So the pupils are told that all expenses will be paid, their civilian clothes stored "and perhaps pressed...
...You cannot get it While we leave coal and other great natural resources to the mercy of private profit seekers who wastefully and chaotically mismanage this national heritage...
...In the Yipsels he has served as the local educational director...
...N. Y. City League to Hike To Dunwoodie This Sunday The second N. Y. C. league hike will be held to Dunwoodie...
...Keep your eye on Montana...
...Comrade Rabinowlts can always be depended on to do any Job that is given to htm...
...While attending Northeastern, he organized and conducted the engineers' band...
...It won't cost you even a cent...
...Those not at the League hike should report to Comrade Valenti at 2:16 p. m. Thirty of those who go to the hike will be drafted for service, anyway...
...The country will never be better until the young men and women are finer and nobler than we are...
...Comrade Bernstein, the state secretary, assures the National Office that Michigan will loom large on the Socialist map this year...
...He regrets that it is not $5,000 and adds, "Here's wishing you a glorious success In your Socialist campaign...
...Now it remains for us to give him a- helping hand In his work of carrying the message of Socialism to the youth of America...
...queried one of the students in the high school senior history class to which the assignment has been given...
...Hoverter to Speak William C. Hoverter, Socialist candidate for State Senator, will address the joint meeting of the 6th and 15th ward Socialists next Friday night, June 8, at the headquarters at Green and Gordon streets...
...work...
...Yipsels Needed at Matteotti Meeting in Cooper Union A memorial meeting will be held Sunday, June 10, at 2 p. m., at Cooper Union, N. Y. C, in honor of Giovanni Matteotti...
...He urged the members to give all possible help to the Socialist Party...
...Good will, prueperlty, even pesos among the nations, depends...
...George H. Gotoel is to be toastmaster...
...This neat transition brings us to the purpose for which the training camps exist...
...We need a program for farm relief and unemployment Insurance for the workers, for a more equitable end scientific system of taxation, for the social ownership and democratic control of public utilities and natural resources, tor the better management of money and currency, for the end of Imperialism and the coming of peace...
...Manny Switkes presided and presented the charter to Lillian Drogowitz, organiser...
...He had managed to insult another boy...
...In the last few years more than 3,000,000 or your number, men...
...He held a meeting at Askov in the Town Hall with one hundred people present...
...With bated breath they bear: "your minds now are like wax to receive impressions, and like marble to retain thejn...
...Minnesota Emil Herman reports further on his work in Minnesota...
...Comrade Rablnovltz hat not only studied science but also music...
...You have a common Interest against the exploiters and against a social system which gives such rich rewards merely to owners at -the expense of those whose labor creates the wealth...
...he ends with the poised emphasis of a hallowed hush, and takes his seat amid the applause that always follows the uniform...
...t and II Coaabtae Mm linos Circle 11, Seniors, N. Y. C, ¦'meeting Jointly with Circle 2, Seniors, until over the fall...
...So do the workers...
...Bankrupt farmers cannot produce food for the workers...
...After he had learned more about Socialism he became convinced that the Socialist movement offered the only solution to evil conditions in present day society and was the only movement seriously attempting to use the aid of science to give more happiness and beauty to the working people...
...Kansas Ross Magill makes another short run into a section of his state and brings in twenty-four new members...
...It Is alarming to note, as time toes on and on through the four year rounds of the high school course, that no speaker of liberal tendencies makes those feelings evident to addresses to the students, that military training...
...m thirty days we can make an impression that will not be erased from a man if he live to one hundred and ten...
...Among the speakers were Frank Rosenfarb, Circle' director...
...August 29 is the date for final receipt of seconds...
...One reservation be must make: in spite of continued active military preparation, "militarism" as a word was made unpopular by the war...
...In IMS he was a delegate to the national convention of the Y. P. 8. L. and served as chairman of the second session...
...This branch was organized by Nathan Gandelman one year ago...
...A lighter note having been struck, the master strategist Is ready for a single shot to rout the enemy...
...A larger conference composed of tta original organisation and their subsidi ary groups will be held on Friday, Jam 8, at the Band School...
...Such power publicly owned and developed has infinitely lightened the , labors of the farmers of Ontario...
...At the end of the evening's entertainment, everyone went for a stroll on the boardwalk...
...Then a poem...
...Only to a limited extent have you tariff protection...
...You sen goods, the price of which is set in unprotected markets...
...Here we have only space to remind you that the prosperity of all workers whether in neat, factory or office depends upon the end of special privilege and the extentton ef a wise and sound plan for adding to the well being of individuals by social control in the interest of the workers rather than of the owners...
...The last thing you want is any lessening of purchasing power by the workers...
...LURING THE LADS Making The War Game Irresistible By William Lea "WfRITE S paragraph telling why the Declaration of Independence is one of the greatest documents in the world...
...Millionaire bankers with their inflated salaries and their huge unearned incomes have tried to arouse your jealousy of the city workers...
...However, pupils might refrain from participating in that contest...
...All members and friends of the Socialist party are cordially urged to attend these meetings...
...In which a noble old man is pictured: with great effort he crosses a chasm...
...for men who've never obeyed...
...Overproduction is a relative not an ahoohrte term...
...All party members and friends are cordially Invited...
...Delegates to the State Convention will be elected...
...This conclusive evidence might have convinced the audience of the horrors of military training, had not another professor stepped forward to add one word: "I want you to remember that the boy who got the big red apple was the one who was ready to fight"—the colonel applied the tale with a round "There's the whole subject In a nutshell," and our city high school boys seemed to follow him...
...The circle will meet Sunday at 1338 Lnfotn Place at 7:30 a. m. to go to the Dunwoodie hike...
...Bernard Acker to the new organiser, Murray Solotorowsky, Educational-Social Director...
...To one whose dally work involves a study of the high school boy, the speakers who so often harangue the assemblies, are of double concern...
...Yipsels are wanted at this meeting to show that American youth realizes the Importance of the Socialist movement and secondly, their aid is needed to make it successful...
...This Is obviously unfair and Justifies the demand for some such legislation as the McNary-Haugen set which President Coolidge, friend of the tariff Interests and the profit-guaranteed utility companies denied you in the name of no subsidies I The organised workers of the cities recognise your need and have fevered, or at least not opposed luMstiin uTilssi mar Increase the east of breed to them...
...It was gratifying to observe this symbolic tale was received by the boys With as much pious wonder as now greets the George Washington hatchet legend...
...State convention of the Socialist Party in New Haven on Saturday, June 23, a banquet will be held that evening in Fltzslmmon's Restaurant, 26 Gregson street...
...It is one of the tragedies of our time and of oar system that in a hungry world you farmers should have to destroy part of your crops or sell them at a loss...
...Every effort is made to divide you from the city workers...
...Putting Over the Finale Nothing Is left now but to arrange the details of the journey, still maintaining, wherever possible, the lighter tone...
...Socialist Party Progress And Plans Through The States National Bus diss to unsrganlsed eesmmndHes dashing information en hew to organise local divisions ef the Socialist Party may obtain instructions, las lifts, charter applications, membership earsV application car* and as ether necessary information by ooanaslin William H. Henry...
...But while a large pert of the world goes hungry, while undernourishment is a chronic disease even in prosperous America, too mush food Is not being produced...
...The list of nominees has not as yet arrived...
...The convention did a good job by having a live committee on publicity, which furnished the press with reports on the convention's work...
...After such speeches the thoughtful teacher Is somewhat amused, somewhat saddened...
...There will be prominent American and Italian speakers...
...women and children have left the farms and gone to the towns and cities where all too often they have only increased the number of the unemployed...
...Harry Mallis, Ben Kan tor, George B. Berkowltz, Organiser Tittle Bcihman...
...His work at odd jobs, as a machinist and engineer brough him into contact with the coditions existing to modern industrial life...
...Agriculture, especially in America, is Cpmg through a. difficult period of readjustment to machinery...
...Montana Montana Socialists continue work of placing tickets in the field...
...One is forced to the conclusion that not only at camp does the colonel need an unthinking audience...
...Brooklyn comrades wil lmeet at the Nevlns street station, I. R. T., 8 a. m. Bronx and Manhattan comrades will meet at 242nd street at 9:30 a. m. Bring baseball equipment for the game between the Brooklyn and Manhattan-Bronx teams...
...You are made to believe that you are landowners and capitalists...
...AN ADDRESS TO THE FARMERS OF AMERICA The Socialist Candidate For President Gives His Stand On The Problems Facing The Agricultural Population By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate for President Y°u produce the corn, the wheat, the cotton that feed and clothe not only the United States but a large part of the world outside our borders...
...Whatever may be the particular need for temporary tariffs or other subsidies no fundamental economic ill Is cured by a subsidy system When by tariffs end other methods we ell get subsidies we sbaD be to the position of the famous community where the people lived by taking In each other's washing...
...A full state ticket was nominated and plans outlined for carrying on an aggressive campaign...
...In addition to securing new members, Herman is gathering names of workers who will assist in placing our ticket on the ballot...
...Crosswaith will also contribute a weekly column to the Boston Chronicle, a Negro weekly which has a wide circulation throughout the New England States...
...J. M. Kruse...
...They have subsidised professors and politicians and inwith their deceitful propaganda...
...No Meerlah can save us...
...At present he is a research student in btologj at Tufts College...
...let them stay where they are.'" This fair presentation of the views of those who oppose military training reminds the gentleman of an anecdote...
...we make hygiene, respect, discipline, a habit.'' Theh came the colorful tale of the camper who —there not being enough posts to go round—requested es a birthday favor that he be assigned guard duty...
...Al Greenberg win to eherhnan for the next three months...
...Who or what is to blame for this situation...
...Your proportion of the national income according to experts has been cut In half...
...So we might go on with particular Issues—railroads, for instance, and railroads rates, and the power of steTeiisgst meat packers and mlrVlle men generally But you may say that these particular issues do not touch directly or only touch partially the immediate plight of the farmer in comparison with ether workers and his extraordinary lack of prosperity In this'rich nation...
...You are told of the high earnings of bricklayers and plasterers by men whose dally Income whether they work or loaf exceeds the yearly income of any plasterer...
...Jacobsen of Albany, Edward P. Clarke of Txoy...
...Thirteen states have already made nominations and twelve others have set a date for making nominations or have placed the necessary petitions out for signatures...
...We most have our own party...
...All other states are making preparations for tickets, and this means a full line up, a hustling campaign, and a bigger organization...
...Then they are sent without any authorisation of Congress or the people to kill and be killed In a cruel, stupid, blundering war in the tropical jungles of Nicaragua...
...You want taxation used as an instrument of social justice...
...What Is the prospect for them...
...The colonel recites this with judicious pauses, making us see the eld . . . gray . . . head...
...Social Season to FuD Swing Saturday evening, May 26, Circle One, Coney Island, held its Charter Affair...
...Every reader of this should make it his business to help make this affajr a huge success...
...He has served as the organiser of the Boston Central branch...
...The unearned increment which society creates and individual owners take does not become a blessing simply because In some cases it dees not go to one family like the As tors but to a multitude of smaller owners...
...Every failure to provide stable money confuses issues and blinds us to the real problem of the ownership of the basic wealth of the country of which money is only the measure...
...small or big...
...Over 400.000 votes were cast in this state for the LaFoliette ticket and thousands of these voters will not support the candidates nominated at Houston and Kansas City...
...Finnish Federation Comrade Reivo, secretary of the federation, reports a considerable increase in members for May and that a continuous drive is being made to have a much larger organization by the end of the year...
...You want in the whole United States a public system equivalent to that in Ontario and an end of slavery to the private power interests...
...National Executive Committee At its last session in Newark the National Executive Committee voted to meet •' on July 7 and 8. Baltimore Socialists " and friends are now arranging for a big mass meeting and a dinner when the committee meets in that city...
...The schools are the cradles of our civilization...
...members of the Executive Committee: Joseph Salerno, Joseph spevsek, •nd L Bobrowtta...
...Two Letters A California friend sends $5 to the national office but does not sign his name...
...Athletic Director, Ida Oolomb...
...Only a national party well organised to town and country, hi states and nation, can meet this need...
...At any rate, an adult whose vocation forces him to hear talks meant for high school pupils, may learn much of oratorical tactics-and the methods of mam appeal...
...Kentucky Comrade Thobe, State Secretary of Kentucky, informs the National Office that petitions are out for signatures to place electors on the ballot...
...Since graduation from engineering school he has worked as an electrical and mechanical engineer...
...You are part at the country in which professional propagandists forever raise the property ballyhoo...
...Seniors...
...He has organized a local at Duluth with 18 members and bright prospects of adding a much greater number within the coming weeks...
...Athletic Director...
...He also reports a good turnout of numbers at the Des Moines local meetings and that everyone evidenced a desire to to put Iowa on the Socialist map...
...Completing high school at 16, he entered the Engineering School of the Northeastern University, where he received a B.Sc...
...While attending engineering school he worked as a machinist, and while only 30 years old he helped organize the machinists' union...
...I wish to introduce Comrade Rablnovltz to my comrades in ^the Socialist ranks...
...Ton control neither the prices you get nor what you pay...
...The average rate for domestlp consumers for electricity in the UnifioyStates is over 7 cents a kilowatt hour The average rate in Ontario is less than 2 cents per kilowatt hour...
...Michigan The Socialist Party of Michigan has nominated its ticket, as follows: For Governor...
...Harold Raskin...
...Ouy Lock wood of Kalamazoo...
Vol. 7 • June 1928 • No. 25
