A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES OBITUARY OF A PROGRSSIVE it was William Jennings Bryan. _ ^ ti,e man for you! "You shall iafrC aankind upon a cross of gold." I**TKb peerless Leader." "The Boy...
...But on the outside, on the street, a horde pell-mells and gathers around the crushed bleeding bundle of flesh and bone...
...X am the master ex my sue...
...There shouldn't be a boss For to scare us when he's cross...
...One touch of reality, • re-toe contact with the facts of life, one "BtStont Tm that day our patient grew steadily worse...
...The mob is the problem for all of us dreamers to solve, if ever our dreams are to become realities...
...or composed another "Aida," or hewn gigantic things of Imperishable glory out of insensate granite...
...The New Freedom," quotha _lese*4 s miracie...
...And a day later, at a huge meeting of workers hi New York...
...The lecture was carried on by means of the question and answer method which was very stimulating...
...straight into Tammany i|?*0B'teenth street—and never comes back...
...And there must not be a slum...
...You do not, however, tulld up a political party in this country in the short months from July to November...
...That siia-r*non La Follette's whose corpse must tVstoSL^rning ln its grave at the thought ^""Wege being committed in his honorable |^*"*stvurm walk...
...Dances, theatre parties, donations, and the like, were to be the means for procuring the necessary capital...
...Of course, if they- were asked, all of them would volubly express great sorrow for the unfortunate, for his still more grieviousiy stricken family, and all that.' But it is in their tensed silences that they express to me a sort of morbid glee, that they are sail alive and unhurt, while there below lies a shattered shape...
...That means either money or advice from Yineel Circles in various cities, and advice plus money from other sources...
...They had not compromised for an instant on their fundamental principles...
...A shriek of warning, a clatter, a shrill gasp of despair, a swish of a body hurtling through space, a sickening bump on the way down, then the brutal crash...
...A real at, t Bghter ^trough and through, the greatajtji l« Follette, who knew very well indeed BhsjawJsness of both old parties, the crying id tor » party to stand up and fight for the sastasn...
...Oh, there'd be no need for slums...
...Rest on Sunday, a black cheroot, and a walk with his dear ones down.the street One might chide" him for his lack of revolt against his struggle...
...Li***** gone, the old familiar faces of Fred rmift wm Durant and J. A. H. Hop(J**be gracious, but a bit too optimistic ~ 7* ^on rest in peace...
...Without him and his multitudinous kind all this sky-lined pride and grandeur would still be lying in crude ore and untouched mountains...
...The speakers who have volunteered are Abe Kaufman of Circle One, Bronx...
...Every other day or so, a two stick item ln the public press tells the dull tale of another ironworker or bod carrier who tripped and fell to his terrible doom from a horrible height...
...Circle 8 at 167 Tompkins avenue has pledged two dollars a month to WEVD and is holding a Package Party, October the 6th...
...The difficulties that are concomitant with an enterprise of this nature prompted the Board of Directors to request the New Leader to allot some space for a regular "Free Youth" section...
...While he Is not easily irritable, the very mention of the words "tired radical" makes him sore and angry Certainly ha had reason enough to be tired He had seen one pet project after another go to smash...
...The business meeting was consumed ln the discussion of a plan for a leaflet devoted to the Ylpsels and the campaign containing an appeal to young people who think...
...He had helped build the sabways, repaired the sewer systems, and labored at lowly tasks in re-building a metropolis...
...as their eonrace dribbled sway, and they sulked behind their Inferiority complexes While Thooau -agreed heartily with their doleful premises...
...He pointed the yam* finger of scorn at Tammany and said KT Tammany's Governor - Al Smith was as left Qua-in the corrupUorr vat as any Hall Stat happened...
...Pretty hot speeches telling folks m enoked and corrupt both old parties were ad tow the only way out was a party of opposite both old parties...
...Jennies, and Jimmies, and Jose and Sadies...
...Bur the point is that you wsnf1 along thaf Thomas went along, and with ban went a few, very few who natty refined to admit they were licked...
...Nor the bloating of the rich...
...There is only one Lindbergh, or Babe Ruth, or "Peaches" Browning...
...and that is bow a fellow looks who has fallen from fifteen or twenty storeys...
...This Is Norman Thomas" 8—The Liberals Fall By The Wayside By W.E...
...The fellow workmen have learned to be silent during this swift tragedy...
...Brooklyn Circle Two has elected a Campaign Committee, with William Seldenberg as its Chairman, to assist the Socialist Party in the district with its work...
...fistwas the last gasp...
...Please go away...
...They were not as were so many of the social uplifterr bowled over, either by growing promises of a LaPollette landslide, or the last-minute defection of such labor groups as the Central Trades and Labor Council ol New York...
...In the meantime Tony lies broken and dead...
...the fell clutch of a bad attack of po**S taaernia...
...In the other by-plays of living his emotions, his senses, and his dreams were one with all men...
...The usual questions from the Lett were asked and dealt With patiently...
...shipping clerks, stenographers, salesman, elevator runners, peddlars, and button-bole sewers...
...he saw no reason for their despairing corclualona...
...mjtSB be puts us in, once more mere was luii—1"" shirt-tearing, once more there was Lmbb in the liberal Gilead...
...THE CHATTER BOX Rhymes For Election Timei...
...Ben Goodman, Mac Elsenberg, Herbert Schaeffer, and Irving Newman of Circle Eight Manhattan...
...14 matters art how strait the gate...
...life.--Ht^gj ^Uon-wide funeral services for the neld at the polls on November 6th •Hstt-T...
...He was watching his own party split up under the desertion if the lndlfterentists and the attacks: almost religious tn their bitterness, of the Communists...
...But they had stuck, and they were willing to build, on that 'oundation of five million, somethlrg of real permanence...
...1^21?* s*osts of battles long ago must rise K*J*ttem, these Autumn nights...
...A Social has been scheduled for tonight at the Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street for which a Jazz band has been obtained...
...9.00 Mt at the Nevlns street station...
...All Ylpsels who can spare an evening are urged to become part of the bureau...
...taw»f0UbtfUl " thev wnl &nd much peace '•aihJ* Uwy bftve eTone...
...Gone J**jUen> too, the attacks on "special priviw «M the "litUe group of greedy men...
...And there shouldn't be a dubb, Always scared to lose bis Job ..., We can easily own our jobs, If we pull the magic knobs ..., By the arm and torch we mean, On the baUotting machine...
...One might scold him for the drab content that he found ln still more drab reward for his endless labor...
...At the Funeral mt Gene Debs Thomas went back to his desk at the L. I. D.—his hundred and one activities and the tedious Job of putting heart into the too easily downcast optimists who had felt that with the nomination of LaPollette there would be *«aew order of things ln this country 'The sons of Hell have the upper hand," they told him...
...But he was just plain Tony, living in a rear flat oa . First avenue in Harlem...
...Each welds into a sort of composite beast, unconsciously licking its chops over a brutal feast...
...It takes at least half an hour for the futile ambulance to come, for the still more futile verdict from the doctor...
...You do not, most certainly, form a real opposition when your ranks are divided as to purpose and philosophy...
...A large meeting was called after an indication of tremendous sentiment favoring such a project...
...Out of the ashes rose the 0K»m Progressive and went Woodrow Wile «ttb s vengeance...
...The bad naughty mans IMsj again...
...All that would be frail against the solid fact that he was...
...Then the inertia of the end...
...And the mob remains to stare: so let me write these LINES FOR TONY GIACOMO "Yes, he is quite definitely dead As the hard walk, that couches him...
...Thus was commenced a system of monthly donations of one dollar for the period of a year, to be given by those people who could help ln such manner, whether they were members or not The Young People's Socialist League of New York arranged a city-wide dance which netted the Association one hundred dollars...
...And the saddest part of it all is...
...For himself, he asked so little...
...And he spoke not of Debs dead but of the spirit of him still living, and some day triumphant And in truth Use death of Debs served rather to rally the Socialist fences than to disperse them still further...
...workers I mean...
...First x leave the hall were the railroad Brotherhood chieftains, who wished the ass*»mblagd luck, but informed the gathering *nat they could no longer stray from the Republic©-Democratic fold...
...Manhattan Circle Eight at 96 Avenue C held one of the most interesting meetings ln weeks...
...Thomas spoke at the funeral services in the little Terre Haute home...
...This way sltfg, watch Bill Bryan bust Bis...
...McAlister Coleman...
...Yon went alone with you from ambush...
...It is then that I hate the cruelty of the mob most...
...The Boy OraERj^piatte...
...He loved bis mate and children aa passionately and with perhaps finer devotion than they do in the higher spheres of wordly wealth and comfort Ten hours a day he gave of his emremitting effort to feed and clothe and give comfort to his loved ones...
...A regular meeting will be held on Sunday...
...Although the drive was started in New York, it is the intention of the YPjl to make the proposition of national dimensions: The official organ of the Young People's Socialist League of the United States...
...you have been surfeited With the crushed shape, the twisted hmb...
...and an organization resulted which is known now as the "Ytpsel Publishing Association...
...So approximately one-tenth of the distance has been covered to date...
...If you are a member and read "Free Youth," then inquire for the special rate...
...Other circles are invited...
...Here lies the body of Tony Giaeomo, $26.00 a week, dead by fearful accident Had he flown the Atlantic, or batted fifty home runs in big league baseball, for whole days and by oceans of ink the world would have known his life, his family, his work and Ha dreams...
...Now there was none of the exaltation that comas from fighting with your back against the wall, as in the war days, and the days of terror thereafter...
...Conrad Labelson, of Circle Two, Brooklyn...
...So there is this song to sing, When we go out baUotting: "Let us all be very well-to-do . . .or Let us all be very poor...
...And then the liberals discovered a isasssflgsj for their old isolation, as clitics tn general of everything that Is, including the labor movement And the Socialists, wttn Gene Data* speaking to them, with his revolutionary flame still leaping up, were left to carry on the work of giving the producers of this country's wealth some sav as to it* distribution...
...3111 who was a bust and licking his 5?4«ir hero sulked in his liberal tent until ss*JT«tv»ri the horizon the inspiring vision *r*Tsf deeming teeth beneath a ten-gallon Me and the Rough Riders...
...Comrade Winston Dands delivered an informative and Interesting talk on the Kellogg Treaty...
...This wa...
...There was a vast sh'rt-tearlng on the part of those who had looked tor a sudden and easy victory To the Socialists, who since 1900 had been doing thl° sort of thing year ln and year out until finally one million Araerl'siis had cast their votes (or Debs, it seemed an enheartening thing indeed that five minion men and women should vote for what they had been press-agente to believe was\tantamount to a political 'evolution ln America...
...PMj&tie while our Progressive was all afire...
...The weekly meeting wil ltake place ln the evening when Dora Wolinsky will speak on "Aspects of the Class Struggle...
...You fought the good fight ^* once is hardly enough...
...The meeting was, as is usual with first attempts, highly enthusiastic...
...Alone •"vjnio went up San Juan HUT on a great, °£Lij Who rallied the disheartened Pro(**?,nd uned them up at Armageddon...
...for the funeral oraUon wiU be sjwj* "Wnty-second chapter of Jeremiah, *erse...
...Hlllqult and Thomas, victor Berger, and, among the liberals, Arthur Garfield Hays and Walter Frank and others with their feet on the ground, understood this very well...
...H jure here and there the liberal heart jj-j 4 beat" or so, the progressive eye brlghtLjjjt the spectacle of William ltandolph Hearst __ t yellow lance at the hosts of "special ' jg Hit said to our Progressive's credit that tem»j hot a temporary discontinuance...
...Iglflam after all these set-backs, defeats and gsafltpfmrntT came something real...
...A building contractor once told me that there is not a big building in the city that has not claimed the life of one or more workmen during its construction...
...The Immediate plans were for the raising of a thousand dollars before the first issue of the magazine which was to be called "Free Youth...
...There must -be something lrradicably savage id most of us, to permit outwardly civilized folk to stand in low curiosity before the bloody grief...
...It was Indeed an Invigorating talk, and when the members adjourned they certainly had a definite conception of what kind of a world they wanted to strive for, and that is a world of "Peace, Freedom and Plenty...
...JJURINO tbu time...
...Within the pale of the horde, each loses his consciousness of what he really is...
...There is ¦^•¦¦wrtting on the walls of all their bedg^ltaclaimlng in letters of flame: l**Jf both Republican and Democratic conEJJJ***0 adopted thorough-going, progressive C^s, the American people have learned that u Urty can be trusted to keep their pro(l^^^gtostly hand traces the above...
...How charavd with punishment the scroll...
...Does one of them give a moment's thought on the worker himself...
...not true of the other groups...
...The body may 1 toe conscience lingers on and all hvely consciences...
...A sad case...
...Without him all this sickly-curious mob would still potter about in crude huts on lonely hillsides and in dingy villages...
...the proceeds of which will go to the radio station...
...He kept us out of War," riBSss gods of peace and broi*jrly love...
...Woodward other of "Georee Washington, The Max and The Image,** "Bank," "Lottery," and "Bread and Ciremsees...
...Thomas <u« yeoman work In hU campaign for Governor of New York on the Socialist and LaPollette ticket Almost rvery night he was speaking vanewhera, from the Battery to the State border-line, and always He found that his hammering away at the need for> labor party caught the warm interest of his audiences...
...But by the twist of circumstance be might have sung arias in golden tones from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House...
...I am the captain of .-ny souL" . Then Xugene Viator Dibs, writing with feeble -Band but with spirit that still flamed the words of Henley's poem, "Invlctos" left the fight forever...
...One point should be borne ln mind by Ylpsels who read the Free youth: that the columns of this section are open to any and all members of the Young People's Socialist League of the United States and anyone is permitted to subscribe to it...
...Organisation Education Solidarity FREE YOUTH Tseng restart SI Bases: Stress, JACK WASSERMAN EDITOR Publisher Everuy Week By The New Leader for the Young People Socialist League SOMX months ago a movement was set afoot ln New York by some active Ylpsels for the purpose of recreating an interest ln a magazine for Radical Youth...
...And no need for being bums, If we'd pull the proper knobs, And just vote ourselves our jobs . . • « We don't want the pauper's itch...
...OTHERS is a little song x We should sins: the whole day long "Let's all be very rich .. .or Let's all be very poor And there shouldn't be a bom...
...a man looks tike after he has Fallen twenty storeys • . • 8. A. de Witt...
...farewell...
...All the countless comforts of our day came out of his toil...
...When the sl> utlng and the tumult had died, and It wai> found that LaPollette had received five million votes (though only the votes of Wisconsin were cast for him in-the elector?' college), the political novice* at once lost hope...
...that the mob itself is ln the main composed of hundreds of Tonys...
...A worker, a builder, a maker of useful and precious stuffs, the houses, the comforts, the great needs of a civilization...
...Membership was open to all Ylpsels in good standing, throughout the United States...
...Hearst ait kg too much...
...if you merely read the New Leader you must pay the regular price of two dollars per year...
...In this way a channel was conceived for the thoughtful expression of Young Radicals, as well as a bulletlng for their activity, while the real magazine was ln the making...
...To the mob, he is-just another Wop that tripped and fell...
...To many of us it seemed that with his passing the party which he had helped to form bask in 1901 would drift off the American political map...
...M****' he's dead, defunct, kaput, spiirlos, 3-***° ratUe comes in the shape of a ¦**shon from Prank Walsh and Fred Howe Jtoosdway Headquarters under the sha¦ nta General Motors Building saying that J** up the "Progressives" for Al SsfSf" 4,1 019 &nt' flne' careless raptures, "«b denunciation of Al and Tammany and yj^^t* such as General Motors...
...Busi*\ .v...
...Of telling neighbors you had really seen Wha...
...Take t home for gossip and the glories...
...Altogether, now...
...t when they were all lined up, who ml^m- in the back...
...Big Chicago Meeting Friday evening, September 28, tile Chicago Ylpslls had their club-room filled to capacity with Idealistic youth who came to hear Meyer HaJushka speak on the "World We Want...
...Theodore Roosevelt, **** fjjg^ time he told them to take their [f^i and their social justice dolls and be Sins boys and girls and vote the straight OS ticket ujtbst was that And there was more sulkJgf wW»M>-uckinK- ----H tbsa there rose a voice in the New Jersey ^ata, a nicely modulated, sweetly articuSmSsbj speaking "large, divine and comJJfc, wards...
...You'feB into unexpected pitfalls, strrrnhtad over carverty (ajMUlT^barrtera...
...They scared all our nice voters swarm the polls and now that we didn't win ¦ 9t first shot out of the box, we just ain't sex Is play any more...
...The dues were a dollar a year...
...The fallen head quivers a bit...
...At a depressing post-mortem convention held in Chicago, the national LaPollette organization wit to pieces with a dull squdge...
...Every time I see a foundation being shoveled out and poured for one of the ever-sprouting obelisks of steel and stone, I wonder whose unwritten monument win arise there...
...Fair weather ^ssanner patriots, in these times that try ^•jjfc you are found in the camp of the 5 ¦»*• up with Open Shoppers, Tammany boiled textile employers of sweated •si*?1 ^Wren, the Westchester banking ~ *¦» scum of the Fundamentalist South...
...But the crowd hangs about and grows ln number...
...Only a few orders hurriedly given find some scampering down...
...W&fgA about and sat in on campaign comrtsavsnd wrote long, boresome letters to everyMj toft sold, buttons and made himself a geneitBSssDce to his friends and relatives and made mwm too...
...Unless all of us are buns And % i all live in the slums...
...Just this: expecting an oversJKSktory, a short-order revolution, our Propane went to bed the day after the 1924 Ma and sobbed his little heart out...
...Now the Socialists were ready to pick up and go on with the formation of, a genuine labor party They had preserved their revolutionary integrity throughout thz campaign...
...Ok, tear, oh, dear...
...The folowlng day wfll find the circle hiking to Hunter's Island...
...All we want is none to rob Us of the profits in our Job...
...Often pushed to one side by the more ardent and less experienced LaFnUettites, they had been forced to watch a good deal of plain mismanagement and obvious blundering...
...All circles are asked to cooperate to the formation of this leaflet Circle Six at 62 East 106th street announces to all members to be present at headquarters tomorrow morning at 9. Campaign literature wil be distributed...
...It is this same beast that can tear aa empire down, or murder a god come for its salvation...
...In spite of the rain there was an attendance of thirty, including a visitor from the Left The circle organised a Ytpsel Speakers' Bureau, the members of this bureau to speak at party campaign meetings, and to make a vigorous appeal to those members of the audience who were of Yipael age to join the organizations...
...m K toto the Democrats just as he did the Issstasss in these speeches...
...Not enough red corpuscles in ¦ssssmlc blood...
...There are —'I™*-—like Tony Giaeomo, laborer, $26.00 a week...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 42
