SOCIALIST PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE STIRS THE WEST IN A NOTABLE SERIES OF EARNEST ADDRESSES
Socialist Presidential Candidate Stirs The West in a Notable Series of Earnest Addresses Vast Audiences Greet Socialist Candidate In West Undercurrent of Socialist Sentiment Surprises...
...At the conclusion of the meeting, Thomas had to remain for almost an hour to shake the hands of his countless well-wishers and supporters...
...There is something in each issue to appeal to all varieties of readers...
...14, between file junior Senator and the North Dakota Republican national committee01 an and committee woman—Judge Fred Graham and Mrs...
...Smith's New York record shows," said Thomas, "that the Governor neglects the transmission end of the problem...
...City or Town...
...And whether they do or don't won't make much more difference to the farmers than who wins the next World Series...
...The outside world did not deserve a Socialist president, he said...
...2. If you have a regular meeting place for your branch post a copy of The New Leader in i a conspicuous place with a prominent placard with the announcement, "Subscriptions Taken Here...
...Is this to be the *J* agriculture, at least as far as growing is concerned, or will the small homesteader win ? The an¦**r will make a profound difference " our social life...
...Jobs Scarce for Women Over 35 While Increasing hordes of men...
...In ett» after em...
...This muddled political lineup was canvassed at a conference -in Nye's °®ce at the capitol, Sept...
...For all his outward i. physician during which he took nothing but water...
...The average wage in America iccording to Mr...
...The meeting took place in Trinity auditorium and was one of the greatest political meetings that Los Angeles has had in a long time...
...Advocating creation of a coordinated nationally owned water power system.which is what the Socialists are advocating, managed by non-partisan authorities representing consumers and producers, Mr...
...One thousand people heard Thomas in Seattle last night where the organized Socialist movement is slowly recovering from the war terror and a variety of unstable political ventures into which the former membership was drawn irr the past five or six years...
...Schmidt has been jailed because of an alleged part in the famous McNamara case in Los Angeles...
...Thomas said: "Hoover has been a constant apologist for the power industry...
...If two or more subs can be gathered by the dollar approach, attach another sheet of paper with the other names and addresses...
...Only great ideales of justice a great sense of wrong, a great hope of true right can stir American workers out of their apathy...
...Here io Portland the movement is rooted deeply in the labor movement which seems to be the best organized of any American city...
...These commissions are unable to reach holding companies and to do anything to regulate the big payments made to inside bankers for underwriting, and nominally for supervision and engineering services...
...Neither are they gaining la moral or spiritual power and the confidence of the unorganised workers...
...This situation is a challenge to us Socialists...
...There is something that is templing to one who is asked to pay a dollar...
...Solidarity of organized workers, organization of the unorganized and nationalization of coal under Democratic management are the essentials of dealing with the tragedy of the coal fields...
...In the **> to $100 lists is one reading Pierre i DeNio, of Manchester, N. H., and it Should read from Local Manchester...
...It has lost its power for straight thinking...
...Though Thomas had never before visited San Francisco he received an ovation from the audience which brought them to their feet with cheers...
...veteran League leader, now running for reelection, has endorsed Hoover...
...Q Thomas gave some attention to J the claims of Smith as a "progressive" and he was repeatedly cheered as he I unfolded the record of Tammany and the relation of Smith to it...
...Al Smith :ia= become a 'big-timer.' His new-found friends of industry and finance have taught him things that the old-line Tammany leaders could not have hoped to know...
...Help The New Leader and you help every other activity of the Socialist Party...
...I Here as at other meetings in the West the young element was conspicuous at the meeting...
...fbjr_ unions have a noble history of sendee to the workers...
...If you are a member of a trade union, post a copy in the hall at each meeting...
...Schmidt complimented Thomas on the fact that he would probably not be eiectedVto the presidency...
...Soviet Russia has j*nt men to study the Campbell sys••ra to apply it to state farms...
...The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, . New York City...
...The visitors were not prepared to find two men, "lifers," who had been behind prison bars 11 years and 13 years, convicted of crimes of which they are believed innocent, in such a balanced and even cheerful frame of mind...
...It is the educational ! cannon that never ceases to fire...
...Butte is a jumbled city of steep streets, modern buildings, shacks and nrine mouths...
...It cannot be denied...
...You help The New Leader and The New Leader brings our message week after week lo those whom you desire to reach...
...What part Lewis thad in the riot I do not know...
...In 1927 they almost tricked ! Judge Panken out of an endorsement...
...A Correction Wltor, The New Leader: I am writing to ask you to correct a """take in last week's Leader, in the "ews relating to contributions...
...Disfranchisement of Negroes has created an oligarchy in' the South, he points out, which has thrown the whole political order out of balance, and, he thinks, has made a third party Impossible...
...It is this low level of idealism, solidarity, and energy for organising the unorganised that Is the saddest sight in America for those who know that to labor we most look for the vital power that shall bring to being a new and happier social order...
...The Pittsburgh police-splayed their usual repressive role...
...The , only hope I see is if from the rank and file strength can arise to throw out all leaders of any and all factions who oppose unity and effective organization...
...From that fact even the workers themselves are often deluded nto assuming a degree of well being for the men and women in mine, facory, mill and shop that does not exist...
...Perhaps if he had given signal of being a broken man the State of California might have persuaded itself to free this man who has been declared Innocent by his trial judge, his jurors and others connected with the case...
...Here is the blank...
...tossed out of Industry at the deadline of 4ft, boost unemployment figures into the millions, the woman over 35 is finding herself In the same predicament...
...It gives Jobs sad' favors to so-called loaders who will coddle up to politicians...
...Saturday when he spoke to Thomas the others In the reception room at San Quentin he looked well...
...We are alone among civilized nations in our complete lack f social insurance for the unemployed and the aged...
...The result is that ! the A. F. of L. and the railroad unions are officially neutral...
...Following the -meeting, Comrade Thomas left for Salt Lake City...
...If several thousand readers follow this suggestion—well, we will have to get a host of Yipsels to help us make a record of the new subs...
...Senator Lynn Frazier...
...Nye followed suit...
...As Owen D. Young (head of the General Electric Company) said: •• 'The cost of energy developed from falling water is determined very largely by the cost of capital employed in the development...
...Seattle did fine considering its history and the meeting was a big help to the movement...
...Thomas Visits Mooney SAN FRANCISCO, Sept...
...The New Leader brings to you each week the story of the Labor and Socialist struggle all over the world...
...Important leaders in the unions were caught in bad with Mayor Thompson of Csdcsgo and...
...Court decisions fixing a non-connscatory rate of 8 per cent on inflated costs still further tie the hands of the commission...
...That is j that the Socialist sentiment in the j country is strong and awaiting only i the impetus of organizing effort to whip it into an effective and functioning every day political party...
...If your prospect does not have the money pay the dollar for his sub for six months and tell him you will collect later...
...Socialist Presidential Candidate Stirs The West in a Notable Series of Earnest Addresses Vast Audiences Greet Socialist Candidate In West Undercurrent of Socialist Sentiment Surprises Even Veteran Party Worker**—Young Generation of Voters Breaking Old Party Affiliations By Edward Levinson SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Tuesday, Sept...
...That is the very Same thing that Al| mm WtHd do ******* if* me quote Smith's own words, as published in the New York Times, March 5. 1926: " 'When we speak about furnishing cheaper light, heat and power we mean that we will furnish it cheaper to the distributing company than such companyis now able, to bay it from the privately owned and operating generating plant...
...The Smith-Tammany connection is too plainly a matter of record...
...Thomas was accompanied by...
...Minnie D. Craig, member of the Legislature...
...Thomas in turn assured him of the full support cf himself and the Socialist party...
...Claessens, who preceded Thomas, drew round after round of laughter and applause when he described the famous Albany ouster of 1920 and the part played in it by Governor Smith and the Demo-' cratic members of the state legislature...
...The audience was very generous in contributing to the campaign fund and every piece of Socialist literature was sold...
...Nevertheless we hare oome to s point where we can scarcely have successful organising work without wresting the terrible weapon of the injaactkm from the bosses and substituting social ineusance for the poor bribes of group insurance and pensions offered by open shop empolyers to keep their workers ttsd more closely to them...
...f Assails Use of Injunctions When we turn from bread sod security for the workers to freedom our showing is even more disquieting...
...A public corporation whose securities would be exempt from taxation under the Federal Law and the State Law should produce, if properly set up...
...He quoted Hoover as having made a speech before the National Electric Light Association in Los Angeles in which the Republican candidate said that the utility companies of the country were not earning more than six per cent on their investment...
...We favor a lawmaking it impossible for public service commissioners and employes of the...
...But where there are ten thus working there should be hundreds...
...The meeting in the Labor Temple and the unrestrained enthusiasm of the audience was an inspiration...
...The enthusiasm was extraordinary...
...To awaken the desire for that party, to show labor what is and what might be, to sound forth again the trumpet call that shall never sound retreat, that is the purpose of the SoI cialist Party in America as in every country, in this as in every campaign...
...15.—The two days spent by Norman Thomas in San Francisco were eventful ones...
...11.—Invading territory which for ten years has not known Socialist organization, Norman Thomas tonight again found a large and enthusiastic crowd awaiting him...
...One gets the impression that Mooney'a virility, his determined and sustained interest in the labor movement la what.is keeping him In prison...
...PIERRE DeNIO Even our university engineers, receiving: *» than the wages of a fitter, dread **• Socialism that would raise their in***¦*¦ to the level p$ a common' filter**Waldman Turns X-Rays On The 'New Tammany' Of Smith Leadership Socialist Candidate for Governor Shows Smith Eager to Give Manufacturing Corporations Cheaper Power As Aid to Business Rule By Philip Hochstein s »NK of Al Smitns great annoyances in his maaiy ambitions race xor we * White House has been the constant reproach for his Tammany Hall origin...
...There was not enough literature to supply the demand...
...Undoubtedly he needed, too^for the mien of the two famous labor prisoners was a cheering contrast with that of the other convicts who appeared beaten, broken and listless creatures who had once been men...
...Shall we give Al Smith credit for integrity jyxd nobility of character just because, Charles Murphy died...
...Spokane A Promising City SPOKANE...
...The city despite the dear mountain air lies under a cloud of smoke...
...Witness the fate of labor's demands on the subject of injunctions sad the five day week in this year's conventions...
...They had driven forty miles to tell Thomas that a few months ago a new Socialist local has been organized in that city where the black-list, the company union and company terrorism has ruled unchallenged for many years...
...Our circulation can be trebled before election day if we get this cooperation from our readers and with the cm* teres* in the Socialist campaign now evident Do YOU want to help...
...Everybody knows that wages in America are higher than in the European ountries...
...Sorlie -is only the last of a series of complications that have attended the 1928 campaign...
...Perhaps we do...
...His first act was to make Raskob, the open shopper, his national chairman and to seek the support of all Wall Street...
...Many of those who attended had traveled a hundred miles or more to hear the one candidate who speaks for the underlying population of workers...
...Mooney spoke to Thomas whom he had never met before but whom he immediately addressed as "Norman," of his1 plans for carrying ofl his fight for freedom...
...How can the exploited so meekly accept the favors of the exploiter...
...Montana is the home the great Campbell wheat ranches...
...j Thomas and Jiis party were sur- ' prised and pleased to find a delegation of young lumber workers from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, waiting for him...
...To the lover of labor's dignity it is a sickening spectacle to see Raskob appointing on Smith committees labor men whom he would throw out of his office If they came to talk to him about organizing the DuPont industries or General Motors...
...Smith labor votes will cancel Hoover labor votes and big ' business which owns both old parties 1 will win...
...Hencefo'ih...
...He refuses adamantly to ask for a pardon, else he might have been freed before this time...
...It r*l»es,some of the finest wheat in the •ortd, and the time may be near when not copper but crops will doml¦*te its life...
...Every country in the world that has a powerful Socialist and Labor movement has a powerful press...
...Murphy...
...It's a joy to meet the comrades who often drive hundreds of miles to our meetings...
...Every piece was sold and more could have been disposed of...
...Under a program of rewarding its mends and punishing its enemies In the old parties labor has sold its birthright without even getting a good mess of pottage...
...What Al Smith gave the workers of New York was directly proportional not the praise of the Federation leaders but to the strength of the Socialist movement...
...If the subscriber thinks at all he will renew when his subscription expires...
...And then, after dark, below us out of the (feat loneliness came the lights of Butte...
...More than any Len Small gave -the workers of Illinois out of favor he or any other politician would have given them out of fear...
...What has not been done under this j i ignis shows its tragic inadequacy...
...Thomas said that neither Hoover nor Smith had advanced a plan for power control that would be of satisfaction to the general public...
...Hits Non-Partisan Policy The official answer la the mi isles...
...This is the judgment of Senator Gerald P. Nye, non-partisan leaguer and progressive Republican, just returned to the national capital from the Northwest...
...But we get less than we would get by scaring the old party politicians by independent political action...
...We depend on you to shower us with subscriptions and we know you can do it if you try...
...C M. Daniels and Fred Kelley who made athe journey from Gold City aave this distinction...
...There Is no tree of any size in sight...
...7'hc press helps the movement, the movement helps the press...
...Mooney is working Incessantly for his freedom...
...Thomas replied that he would do his best to find ouL 3,000 At Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Sept...
...state regulatory commissions to practice before such bodies for two years after they have severed their connections with them...
...But life in tfr'» marvelous setting where men dig for copper in mines J.600 feet deep is no thing of beauty...
...But I know that his tactics have provoked this general revolt and that on ! < even more than on the Communis, leaders must fall the blame for this tragic split id the forces of the miners when they most need unity...
...That means political action...
...Waldmr.n ha...
...Schmidt, almost entirely forgotten by all but a loyal few, proved himself as- much a philosopher ss Mooney...
...The large quantity of literature brought to the meeting proved inadequate to satisfy the audience...
...The deepest impression an me ss a remit of thousands of miles of travel and years of study in my own country to the sat* verasitty of fear and the lack at trssdasn among...
...Fill it anil mail it in...
...Wease correct this, as the comrades there *°«M feel that I might be trying *> use teem and I don't want that to happen...
...In New Haven recently a labor leader as alder* man voted with the private water work*, gang...
...But education must precede organization and activity, and the New Leader is a weekly courier of education and organization...
...Even the General Electric Company can be friends with Smith so long as he talks only of state developing power and leaves to private companies the profits of distribution...
...This was no ordinary political meeting as at least one-half of the audience consisted pf copper miners from nearby cities and towns...
...Kate Crane Gartz of Pasadena...
...All day we had been traveling through the state: past the fantastic bnttes of the bad lands, through the...
...I cannot accurately measure responsibility for what happened > at the anti-Lewis miners' convention in Pittsburgh...
...The Socialists of Los Angeles are getting ready now to receive the Socialist vice-presidential candidate, James H. Maurer...
...It stffl has progressive feeling...
...Business of Smith's Tammany •'This is an era of business and industrial consolidation and concentration...
...Over $1,700 were collected for the campaign...
...He will get the paper for several months after the election and if he is not interested then he is a hopeless case...
...Bargaining for favors yet set men's souls on fire to win plenty, peace and freedom for themselves and their chidren Heroic organizers of labor were never political hucksters...
...They will never have a better opportunity to interest prospective readers than they have now...
...Governor Maddock, who has been elected lieutenant-governor by the League farmers four or five times, now chooses to run against Shaffer, and on the Democratic ticket...
...Comrade Mahlon Barnes is stirring up real interest in North and South Dakota (I was delighted with Fargo's meeting), Comrade Jimmy Graham, a man of influence in his state and in the labor movement, is on the job in Montana and gives me encouraging reports...
...We may easily have a Muscle Shoals and Boulder Dam repetition on a larger scale of San Francisco's experience at Hetch Hetchy where the city develops power and then sells it for an inadequate price to a private company which charges the consumer the same old sum...
...And what do they propose to do with it...
...There is nothing at all, I learned, in the actual personnel of Tammany Hall to indicate very much change...
...As I once heard Jimmy Walker say, "Tammany knows just how much to give the people" and the size of the Solcalist vote is the best barometer...
...ll has a twofold advantage...
...said Nye...
...No more was expected in Portland as the recovery from a similar experience here began later than in Seattle...
...to those who appreciate good humor...
...They content themselves with pleasant generalities...
...But the trouble does not lie in the physical condition of the city so much as ihi its slavery to the Anaconda Copper Company...
...the required money substantially cheaper than a private corporation could obtain it...
...It will help them in the work of their localities and help The New Leafier as well...
...So we lost our strength...
...explains Mr...
...The small business men must either be- j come • a big business man or go out af business...
...If one is weak, the other is weak...
...To counteract the common recollection of the piratical, unprincipled, bullying Tammany of fact, the "best minds" invented the myth of the "New Tammany", i And to Al Smith (they give credit for the imagined achievement of having transformed the admittedly crooked and filthy Tammany of fact into the clean, uncorrupted "New Tammany" of their resourceful fancy...
...The interest of the young people and the new generation of voters in the Socialist message is pronounced...
...Here as everywhere, the Socialist literature and papers were in great demand, particularly The World, the western campaign organ, now enlarged and published under the able editorship of John Kenneth Turner...
...Water Power, you must realize, is the greatest undeveloped natural resource in the world...
...A bit thin, but sun-burned, clear-eyed, and vigorous...
...Wash., Sept...
...to the trade unionist on the firing line...
...18.—What is generally believed to be the largest audience assembled at a political meeting here in years greeted Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, in the First Congregational Church tonight...
...Maddock, it happens, Is a Catholic...
...they are Indispensable' to their weU being...
...Our question th— becomes: how beat can labor use its political power to get what it needs far the workers both as producers sad consumer...
...For a time Mooney was not well, at one time In fact he was In a critical situation...
...That is the meaning of the "New Tammany...
...to those who must be awakened, to those who follow the sorry scene of a civilization mismanaged^and drifting in the hands of its ruling classes...
...The workers have their own passionate desires...
...No less than 2.500 people jammed the big Labor Temple to capacity...
...They started with a big meeting in Eagles Hall, San Francisco, Saturday night, and were followed the next day with a visit to Tom Mooney and Mathew Schmidt in San Quentin penitentiary, a radio address broadcast over the six largest stations in the West, a meeting in Oakland Saturday night and, on Sunday morning, a flight by air over 500 miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles...
...Walter Maddock, a lifelong Republican and one oi the most ardent of the Non-partisan Leaguers, to accept the Democratic nominations for the gover.-iorfhip to which he recently was elevated through the death of Gov...
...The platform continues: "We also favor more strict regulation of all public utilities...
...Why, the very same thing that the eld, admittedly crooked Tammany did with the transit situation in New York, The City invested all the money for transit development, built the subways and turned them over to the private transit interests, guaranteeing them profits and conceding that the city should have no interest in its own property except t* pay artificial deficits...
...As one of the old labor warriors put it: "Anaconda owns Butte with a fence around it—and much of the state besides...
...And that shows the relative importance of big business and of the labor-liberal crowd in his campaign...
...In Memphis, Tennessee labor otV ncials leaders are Tammany first and labor a i long ways afterwards...
...First, let us remind you of the importance of a periodical that goes into the home every week...
...More by good luck than by any fear of labor's wrath the ; old parties nominated men who are too clever to be labor haters and who have what by labor's modest standards are 1 counted good records...
...The librarians are said to have been ordered to make a thorough search of their stocks in order to see if It is true that they still have books written by Socialists, or treating or Socialist subjects, at the disposal of the public...
...More than three thousand people turned out for the demonstration...
...As for the rest of the personnel of Tammany Hall, it remains practically unchanged, except for an occasional succession to replace a leader who has died or become too aged or ill to continue "at his duties...
...At least a thousand people jammed the building and gave Thomas a hearty reception...
...to the scientific Socialist...
...Fascists Bar Radical Books From Libraries The Fascist ban on "subversive" books has been widened considerably through K circular sent to the managers of the Public Libraries of Italy by Signor Belluzzo, the new Minister of Education, says a report dated Milan...
...Apparently a new dual union has come to violent birth...
...It does your | work while you sleep, when you are sick, when 1 other matters occupy your attention...
...They must have their own party to fulfill them...
...Not one of hers would divide or weaken our unices or criticise them in any sense, ss an outsider...
...Neglect it and you fail to use the weekly firing that goes on after the battle and after the votes are counted...
...Thomas On Big Hook-up In Frisco Broadcasts Issues Over Six Stations — Pillories Hoover and Smith for Evasion on Important Power Problems CAN FRANCISCO, Calif .-Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, while broadcasting over six western stations on the lines of the National Broadcasting Company, tackled a subject of close interest to all the communities hereabouts...
...Thomas characterized as "an absurd falsehood...
...Leaders who hang on to big business coattails in politics cannot fight big business in unions...
...Al Smith's resourceful kitchen cabine* at Albany was equal to this delicate task...
...If you have confidence in you* paper you know that the reader will respond...
...More free speech here than there is outside...
...To be elected, he/held, would be a disgrace...
...Clip it and pin a dollar to it and mail to us with the name and address of your subscriber...
...Tammany leaders will not be tolerated if they allow themselves to be caught at petty pilfering...
...This is no justLQcatrbn of Communist politics...
...The whole business of regulating utilities has proven too much for the various utility commissions," said Thomas...
...Montana is a fascinating state...
...Already there is much that is encouraging...
...The non-partiaaa lsagau is virtually dead...
...Ultimately, it will substitute coal power, gas power and much of man power as the great servant of industry and household convenience...
...Lucien Shaffer attorney general of the state and leader of the foes of the Nonpartisan League, won the Republican nomination for Governor...
...Without a Socialist local in or near this city, the audience that turned out at Thomas meeting was as large as any addressed, by the old party candidates in more than a month of campaigning...
...So sure are Smith and Hoover that labor will not function effectively that they do not even take the trouble to make a real clear cut appeal on injunctions, the five day week, social insurance or any fundamental issue...
...In dollars and cents, the future scope of the water power industry is almost beyond calculation...
...Herbert Hoover is a Californian," he said...
...Comrade Sorenson presided and other active members who contributed to the success of the meeting were T. C. Stoney and E. G. Locke...
...Here is a program: 1. If you are in charge of a Socialist meet\ ing display The New Leader and arrange to take subscriptions...
...August 30th, appearing In the German press...
...I refer to the position of organized labor in America and its •rograrn especially with reference to political parties...
...We favor the public development and ownership of all water power resources, in the stale and the public distribution of hydro-electric energy to the people at cost...
...Besides Thomas, Lena Morrow Lewis, Socialist candidate for Senator, spoke...
...been one of our most successful Socialist campaigners...
...Both are Non-partisan Leaguers...
...Hoover's expert is only $1280 a year...
...It is one of the most hopeful Signs of this period of American politics...
...fertile valley of the Yellowstone borteed with the brown and almost treeleu foothills of the Rockies, then to the higher peaks, some of them lightly covered with new fallen snow...
...Comrade Thomas and his party made a hurried trip from the famous San Francisco ferry house Friday evening to Eagles Hall where the meeting was already in progress, with Cameron H. King as chairman...
...Campaign literature disappears after the elecj lion...
...The visit to Mooney and Schmidt the next morning was a revelation of the character of the famous victim of the Preparedness Day frame up of 1916...
...They are evidently cronies, Mooney works as a gardener, while Schmidt is a first class engineer...
...Contrast this with the clear cut -tatement on the subject in the State Socialist platform: "Under the leadership of the late Charles P. Steinmetz, one of the world's leading engineers, the Socialists for years have fought for the conservation and development by the State of the water power resources...
...to the lover of poetry and good literature...
...Shipstead of ^r+Trsflta, nominally a Farmer-Laborite, ii "lying low and ain't saying nothip'" about the presidential candidates...
...16.—Flying five hundred miles by airplane, Norman Thomas arrived today from San Francisco, and addressed a large gathering...
...You lose nothing by making an approach and you gain much when it is successful...
...j Labor's "Neutrality" Let us turn instead to the present national situation...
...We favor making it a felony for a public service commissioner to solicit political contributions o fany kind...
...Iccording to the very careful reckoning of our own Comrade I. M. Budish, ditor of the Headwear Worker, American workers receive a smaller share f the total product than in England where the total output is much less han ours...
...There are really tjijr things in store for Tammany if Smith ever gets to the White House, and Tammany ruffians must learn table manners or they'll not be in on the big feasts...
...uses the latest machinery and can •Jtord to let his unirrigated land lie **Uow every alternate year as the Proper method is in dry country...
...He reports that sU through the West he has held large and enthusiastic meet...
...A lot of farmers, justly angry at Coolidge and Hoover, are threatening to vote for Smith, not that they t£in« he offers much hope but as one of them put it, "to chastise the Republicans...
...We do not want unions run by any party...
...A fine group came over to Spokane from our local in Coeur d'Alene where, let me tell you, it takes plain old-fashioned guts to be a Socialist...
...From fragmentary reports in Western papers...
...Modern processes of recovering by-products and the removal Of smelting operations out of the city have taken the arsenic out of the air and carefully tended patches of grass and shrubs have some chance...
...However, the Portland meeting was a complete surprise...
...Name.............................•.•-.ro Address...
...Now, with private transit interests earning enormous sums out of the city's property and with the city standing millions of dollars in "losses" placed upon the books by the crooked manipulation of stocks ,the people are asked to pay a seven cent fare...
...Matt Schmidt in his more than score of years behind the black walls of San Quentin had worked out quite a unique prison philosophy...
...Very well...
...The circular concludes with the admonition that, "Such a scandal must cease at ones and all such books and pamphlets must be removed from the sight of the public and from use by visitors of the libraries...
...This is one way of making that meeting extend its influence over twelve months...
...That's why there Is so little sentiment on the part of many prisoners to get out of here,—the world is too lousy," Schmidt declared with a smile...
...I have not the heart to multiply illustra[ tlons...
...There are men and women who never fail to get new subscriptions...
...I wonder what he thinks about my case...
...1 believe that he owes much of his .success to his penetrating studies of the inner workings of Tammany's blu-ider schemes and his ability to expose them in clear, arresting manner to the people...
...Tames Oneal has compiled figures to show that it is lower even than In Spain or Poland...
...Al Smith 's on record then, as confessing that he favors the General Electric Company's scheme to provide public funds for private operation of the water power development.—the very same scheme which, when applied to New York City's transit years ago earned for the Old Tammany the reputation of crookedness throughout the nation...
...Thomas said that the consumers of electric power pay $500,000,000 yearly excess charges...
...But we cannot have strong unions without a philosophy and spirit which will find its own expression on the political field...
...Consequently, as a matter of practical politics, it must be explained and white washed of some of its ugliness...
...2a.no other political democracy la the world today wouu the Saoco Vanwttt esse er the Mooney and HUllnfs east have been possible...
...Olvany was selected to fill the place of the late Chas...
...Such meetings show the enormous Socialist sentiment that prevails and which only requires persistent work to harvest in a strong party organisation...
...What You Can Do For The New Leader In An Earnest Drive For Dollar Subs I £)NE phase of the educational work of Socialists and their friends during this electoral struggle should not be overlooked...
...She gave $1,000...
...to the party worker...
...Just by way of illustrating the "New Tammany", let me point out Al Smith's stand on the water power question...
...The most outstanding change since the days that Al Smith confesses to be ashamed of is in the elevation of George Olvany to the leadership...
...He I "oriainly didn't...
...The appeal for campaign contributions brought a liberal response from the audience...
...You try it...
...Wheeler, who in 1934 told all over the United States bis famous story to prove there isn't i quarter's worth of difference between the old parties is on the Democratic band wagon...
...Temporarily labor after its heroic battles is defeated...
...Governor Smith, the darling of New York labor leaders in eight years has made no fight against injunctions and none for ! unemployment or old age insurance...
...We need say little about the character and contents of your paper...
...Mooney and Schmidt felt that they had found more solidarity in jail than outside...
...The large crowd gave Thomas a thunderous ovation...
...Ii we are to ansuma,ths...
...The Socialist candidate said that in his opinion while Governor Smith might be more explicit in regard to his water power program than Hoover, he was still vague as to the method for putting it in force...
...The meeting with Comrade Thomas has given a great impetus to the Socialist movement here...
...It is a recognition of facts...
...They have a right to be resentful...
...As Thomas and his party were leaving, Mooney threw out a suggestion...
...We are not concerned, however, so much for immediate crumps as for the soul of labor...
...It takes real courage for these young men to declare themselves Socialists in Coeur d'Alene and these comrades have plenty of it...
...Speakers are heard only occasionally...
...The wrecked and abandoned miners' hall is mute but elo1 fluent testimony to that fact...
...Thomas spoke in our state last week, and it is evident that he will get a vote up there that will surprise the country...
...As a reporter, I went in search of facts to learn what manner of creature is this "New Tammany...
...3. Make an investment on your own account and get your money hack...
...Labor can no more trust an old party political Messiah than a benevolent boss in industry...
...Would "Scare" Politicians But, some honest labor men say, we are not strong enough yet to organize a winning party and by choosing the less of two evils we get something...
...But I do not think Smith will be able to cash in on their discontent...
...New York City alone, asm-' TIMELY TOPICS _»By Norman Thomas Socialist Candidate fot President fOlONG from the east into Butte, -Montana, at evening time is an experience not soon to be forgotten...
...No one •on even apply for work without a "rustling card" and no one gets a oord whose name is on the elaborate black list of the bosses...
...He jjjros men at regular wages for what /*°ok» like real money to these hardProssed farmers...
...the workers...
...The report in the German papers adds that for a long time no Italian booksellers have been allowed to -handle the works of Jean Jauree, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, H. Ok Wells...
...Quite a number of hustlers are successful in gathering subscriptions this way...
...When it was all over a large part of the audience cheered Thomas on his way to the train that would take him to his' next meeting...
...Just as significant of the drift of sentiment is the fact that many new members were obtained for the local Socialist organization...
...non partisan program of labor...
...Nay, there should be thousands gathering subscriptions during this campaign...
...Portland A Big Surprise PORTLAND, Oregon, Sept...
...How the Gouging is Done "Al Smith and the 'New Tammany' would like to control the destiny of this gigantic water power development...
...In proportion to the productive power of American labor it gets miserably inadequate return...
...The Spokane meeting again proves what was first shown in Fargo, North Dakota, and Butte, where there is also no Socialist organizations...
...A great many farmers vow they Wont vote at all on the presidency, while many others say they will support Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate...
...They cannot take the place of the basic work of organizing unions on the industrial field...
...This was water power...
...State Thomas Emphasizes Labor Issues In Western Address Average American Wage, Injunctions, and Futile "Non-Partisan" Political Policy Discussed by Socialist Candidate From an Address by Norman Thomas, Socialist Candidate for President, on uur in the II 'rst...
...Mr...
...the "New Tammany" really exists and is on a higher, level than the disgraceful machine of old, we must, as a corallary, assume that Al Smith has been a sort of miracle-working evangelist in Tammany Hall, — that he has, by the charm and magic of whispered exhortations transformed the thieves and cut-throats of the real Tammany into saintly workersfor sweet charity: Yet, it cannot be denied, a change aas come over Tammany Hall since A.1 Smith set his eyes in the direction of th :¦ White House and gathertd about him some of the best minds of the electric power trust and the transit trus: and the union-smashing emph>y.njr interests as advtears...
...Senator Nye I Concedes Big Thomas Vote Senator Reports a Big Desertion of Voters in North Dakota to Socialist Candidates That "Will Surprise ' Country" WASHINGTON - Farm revolt and religious differences have cut squarely across party lines in North Dakoto, and may result in giving a Norman Thomas, Socialist Presidential nominee, a surprisingly heavy vote in that state...
...labor feeders, so called, are tied op to the political machine...
...We neve a tragic preeminence la the oppressions of coal and Iran pottos, cossacks and constabulary, sad above alt in the coercive power at injunctions...
...They had brought word to Hoover that the farmers are still in revolt...
...Du Bois Fears for American Democracy >-America, scene of the greatest experiment in democracy, may also be the greatest failure, writes W. E. B. Du Bois in the current Crisis...
...Use the blank below for the dollar approach...
...The New Leader appears week after week and year after year...
...Of ] the majority in the state conference of the Non-partisan League Republi- ; can committeemen which voted down ! an endorsement of Hoover, only half a dozen are definitely for Smith...
...We favor the recapture of all public utilities...
...There is more freedom in jail than outside," he said...
...In an inside page it said the liberal "New Republic" was for Smith...
...14.— The mass meeting addressed by Norman Thomas last night in this city exceeded all expectations of local Socialists and their friends...
...Comrade Thomas arrived on primary election day here with the most bitter fight in years being waged at the polls...
...The Workman's Circle furnished musical program...
...As in Butte, Montana, yesterday, Spokane workers turned out to cheer the Socialist presidential candidate and donate liberally to the campaign fund...
...Albert StreiflT, leader of the Portland movement, presided...
...r"et the candidacy of Frazier on the Republican ticket will hurt Maddock, and vice versa...
...They talk of a , non-partisan policy but by an eleventh < hour trick in 1924 the executive com,: mi t tee of the Central Trades and Labor Council withdrew its endorsement of LaFollette...
...Waldman...
...This statement Mr...
...When some workers sent Meyer London to Congress and later sent Socialists to Albany and City Hall, both the old parties began to talk welfare legislation...
...Our unions are net ssdnfcsg la strength or political influence...
...Comrade Parsons, who was formerly connected with the Farmer Labor Party, Is the campaign manager...
...We like this idea of the dollar sub...
...We have fine locals at work in Duluth and Minneapolis...
...The old story of voting against something, not for something...
...Thomas cited the case of Ontario water power where a publicly own*?d system charges the consumers less than 2 cents a kilowatt hour as compared with 7 cents in the United States...
...Nye and Frazier ol North Dakota, who couldn't find words hard enough for Hoover have endorsed him...
...Tammany Hall has not gone out of business...
...King, Claessens, and your correspondent...
...If you cannot get a sub for a year get one for six months...
...r AM very grateful to you for this greeting and for the chance you give me to speak on a subject more important than the events of any one politcal campaign...
...Governor Small of Illinois when the popular wrath overtook them...
...He was elected lo the State Legislature three times, twice over a fusion of both Republicans and Democrats...
...But speaking with one another we must admit oar profound camera that the percentage of organised worked in America falls below 16...
...The worst of it is that this bargain* ing program puts all the labor hucksters and fixers in clover...
...To study the problem, $25,000 has bees iet aside by a New York philanthropist, who estimates that every year 80,000 Wong girls are graduated from business tchaoJs in...
...and tumbled rocks, gorgeous in the coloring of the setting sun...
...Time after time we have been assured that in variety of appeal and interest it is equal io any weekly Socialist publication in the world...
...Our farmers are angry and resentful over what they have failed to receive from the Republican party in the past seven years...
...The trouble with us" a local West Virginia leader of the Mine Workers told me, "is that we lost our Socialist ideals...
...He threw confusion into the Smith ranks, Incidentally, when he said that Smith would do even less than Hoover for farm relief...
...Prince Rjvpotktn, Romain RoUand, Henri Barbuase, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Upton Sinclair...
...He has worked out plans for a new jute mill which the prison expects to instal...
...Only the other day his principal newspaper supporter, the occasionally liberal New York World, published on its front page the news that one of the Jersey McCarters was out for Smith and might bring the notorious Public Service Corporation of New Jersey with him...
...We receive thousands of letters each year commending The New Leader...
...The decision by Gov...
...The largest contribution was gives by Mrs...
...Nevertheless unless the Republicans pull some awful homer or Smith works miracles they'll win through in these states as in the Middle West...
...T.":miany leaders I interviewed vv.-n'.M i-':'1'- '¦" liyhl on the n.-l'.jfc ->f this thnnyo...
...Nobody expects Frasier or Nye to show any enthusiasm for their old enemy Shaffer, in his race against their old friend Maddock...
...it has not formulated a courageous program of demands and in the end It hag not got the little price it asked...
...Olvany's rise does not represent a*'--------- - - - ----— ' conscious change or any effort to improve Tammany...
...Clearly, then, the praaaimg**m of success Is not on the side of all the official tactics of the labor smwrnsat Tonight we are especially concerned with labor's political tactics...
...Nevertheless there ¦I the memory of the past and discontent with the present to stir men into action...
...These things suggest an inquiry Its the numerical strength, the program sad toe policy of ATrr<~*n aaasng...
...Late in the afternoon we went over the Great Divide through jogged mountain...
...There were two men in the audience who came 150 miles to the meeting...
...He expects to run against Nye for the Senate in 1932 if elected this year...
...Individual progressive leaders are looking after thsii own fences...
...k TSUI whole north, and ^K«thwest country has achieved some progTsssive legislation...
...The chairman of the meeting was the well known American writer, Upton Sinclair...
...Enclosed find one dollar for subscription for six months...
...Several Tammany :><lic:-holders were utterly silent, except for impressions of indignation, it my question, "Is it true that Tammany Hail today is less crooked than it ii^ed to be'.'" It is to Louis Waldman, Socialist candidate for Governor.— he has long been a close observer of the innei workings of Tammany Hall, as a Socialist leader in the heart of the Tammany Hall stronghold on the lower East Side, -that I am indebte.!'for a verv clear exposition of the real change that has jumfied the label, the "New Ti'.mniany...
...This is the second tour of the country which Thomas has made...
...What the hell would they do to me in here for talking my mind ? Put me to Jail...
...Then their state conference turned Hoover down...
...It was the first big meeting held in many years and proved to be a revelation to even the local Socialists and their friends...
...A reporter *0W us frankly that he couldn't pubU»h anything in my speech reflecting on the company and its goods...
Vol. 7 • September 1928 • No. 40
