A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES "RAVINGS IN DELIRIUM" Ec k*** J0"* recelvf^ * notice of a hook called, "Ray¦V, |g Delirium, end O-her Poem*." Puhliahed by |<weooce says the book la 'something...
...Now then, think of what Lincoln said of making capital supreme in the government and what George W Olvany leader of Tammany Hall, says of the selection of Raskob...
...What a vast gulf yawns between thii crowd and Lincoln who said that "Laboi Is the superior of capital, and deserves the higher consideration...
...He observed the effort to enthrone organized capital...
...T the time they have hollered off all this informatt an audience the room is just filthy with figure* "iovtry body is a bit groggy and gor-s home stepping ^th imagining that somehow, he rr she has a lot of ta*J around somewhere that is on"y waiting to be "fleeted...
...So it has come to this...
...Burton and Bowman has succeeded in obtaining a speaking place for the Socialist representative...
...If he belongs to yea way sboaM yea be with these...
...Vote for your candidates, Thomas and Maurer...
...Hoover was when he said that Presidents' campaigns were great educationrJ opportunities...
...He replied plainly, that the old leaders had given the rebels, the leftwing leaders, jobs in the union...
...This has been a legal and orderly strike.'* A Night hi Jan, An Inevitable Detour A police whistle shrilled and the pudgy hand of under-sheriff Donaldson, who had been standing on the fringe of the meeting went up into the Spring sunshine "Clean *em cut," he shouted to the gunmen and then to a deputy who was toting a small arsenal "Lock that bird up...
...N. BryOlon Fagin The other night while campaigning tn the Bronx, a young left-winging lad tried to disturb the meeting by shouting at the top of his larynx . . "You middle class fakers . . . you betrayers of the working class . . . why did you take the words "Cla*a Struggle" out of your fake platform . . ." etc...
...Hi went on and on about his mother and left his otaee firmly convinced that he and his mother got ¦ lex fine...
...Remarkable aj that statement is he followed it with this one: "To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor...
...He referred to it over and over again as the "mudsill theory" of society...
...It i« tertkoufhtful of the Democratic speakers' bureau to Kjtksse gentlemen into our town from Louisiana, MLtttppl snd North Carol na_ It gives us a good line ¦^constitutes the real back-bone of the DemoKbePsrty...
...Large Dance Hall Converted SAYRB, Pa.—After overcoming great obstacles...
...In the meantime Vote-for-Ma...
...to the trust magna** and the wage worker: to the textile masters and the textile strikers...
...Is there a party that subscribes to all of these views of Lincoln without reservation...
...jUe shaving in the morning you can hear them ?*j«n!y assert that the mean rainfall of the State of ^•jBwler a Republican administration was two and ¦Mosrter inches or that the fairies danced the day * wee tot was born on tumble Oliver Street...
...The Repub'lcan party paying its homage to great capital and Big Business...
...Be certainly' cannot belong to the international banker end the stricken farmer...
...There began a hunt for Thomas an over the nearby countryside...
...But the pledge to great capital is not enough...
...Lincoln was a member of Congress in 1847...
...J, my how they do slim...
...This puts th...
...Ther must be a test of this tyranny and Thomas was the man tot the testing...
...Welsbord went away to start a campaign of orgr.ismg the unorganized in other cities, in the course of which he followed the Communist tactics of denouncing Socialism and Socialist leaders after the most approved Moscow technique...
...A long call this from the Presbyterian parsonage in Marion snd the quiet ol the Princeton campus...
...City workers are harrasied and beaten by Government by Injunction...
...eminent politician* claim him...
...question squarely before every useful worker of the nation...
...The tight to assemble and discuss affairs of vital importance to the workers was at stake...
...ts7/TTH the coming of Spring the operators, seeing their markets drifting away, made desperate efforts to run the looms with imported strike-breakers...
...To my mad way of reasoning, this is a pretty low state of affairs for such professed and self-advertised Idealist* as the Communist elements to fall upon...
...and that where there were no official posit'ons to be had new ones were created...
...You jjst sit hack and close your ¦mi tad figure that you are on the front lawn of the ¦id plantation with the slaves rushing ju'tps up to you lad the Confederate cavalry gallumptng along aome^ liter* off stage...
...Republican and Democratic Judges serve Big Business by injunctions in Industrial disputes...
...And inasmuch as most good things are produced by labcr, it follows that aU such things ef right belong to those whose labor has prod need them...
...In a beaqtlful folio...
...o » • The other night, I spoke to an lnsirVr of one of the largest clothing trade-unions that has auccessrfuuy survived the internecine strife of the last few years...
...Such an arrangement was desirable, because many people were attracted to the ball at such evenings and thus a wider audience could be reached...
...In ills message to Congress of December 3, 1861, he said that there was an attempt to "place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of the government...
...Of a* nearly as passible...
...These "guards" armed with 'high-powered rifles and plentifully supplied with liquor swaggered up and down in front of the mills and with the approval and indeed the hearty cooperation of the local police and the various sheriffs started right in to show the strikers "where they got off...
...writing a speech now which I think will fill the J*'•wiled "From the Sewers of Queens to the Tex™j JOB* of Georgia" and some of it is so lovely you m Pwy it on a piccolo...
...The toilers of the world have the same -tatms and Interests and they form a universal brotherhood...
...You know they dont...
...I rm one of these boys pulls out all the stops on the L« and cuts loose about "the man from the aideEkiof New York," "The Thomas Jeff arson of NtneKg ud Twenty-eight, mah friends," you just bust Ksi tad the sound of sobbing is immense...
...He warned the working people to beware "of surrendering a political power which they already possess, and which If surrendered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities upon them till all of liberty shall be lost:" Let us pause for a moment...
...Bankers doff their hats...
...Well bet you didn't...
...n are the basis of all .governments...
...Your vote alone can rive aa effective answer...
...Next Week: Thomas Enters Bis Greatest Battle...
...To whom does Lincoln belong, to that crowd or to you...
...aad kindreds...
...Be obtained the dancing hall for any evening that a dance waa in progress...
...I want to urge upon the workers here that they continue their fine record of peaceful endeavor to win their just demands...
...The Socialist party strives for the democracy In government and industry which Lincoln so ably championed...
...He might arrive at that state of disgust with his leaders, that once brought a certain unhappy husband to court for separation from his wife "What's your complaint...
...By the time that Thomas's lawyers got to him, it was too late to arrange bail so Norman spent the night in a dirty cell in the Bergen County Jail...
...THE CHATTER BOX Song for Next November Iny, miny, meeny mce, ' What win happen, do you knew...
...We have come here to test our rignts as American citizens to hoi da peaceful meeting for a legal and legitimate piKposc Yesterday, Thomas Jefferson was bom You may have heard ths name...
...He shouted, gestured, puffed and heaved against the unhealing ears of the audience and the all too distant moon...
...But much can be said...
...In tins age of censors hlr of the radio, of cowardly Intimidation of opinions that offend Big Badness, H is refreshing to note that there were no limits to the uiUversal democracy of Lincoln and the rights of the toiling masses...
...It will show to the people," said Olvany, 'that business is with the Democratic party, and that it is not going to be afraid of the Democratic party when we have its affairs in the hands of one of (he biggest business men in the world...
...who* president, received a dalegation of New York workmgmen sad te them he made this remarkable statement: -The strangel send ef knasaa svsapatay, swtssss ef the fazaSy rotation...
...Jj*"st we got to get a lot more sentiment and go ¦* Quest to keep up with thla sort o* thing...
...None of the Civil Liberties group could find out where the cops had taken him...
...Tall as Thomas is, those in the rear could not see him and there was no platform...
...Rah-rah, rah-rah, rah-rah-rant What a year, oh sweet papa...
...The rule of capital i...
...Lincoln had some'lilng to say about trade unions and strikes...
...and indeed these brief, scuffling, undignified if you ".ike, hours, wrote another and a fine chapter in the history of the fight for freedom in America...
...Republicans ana Democrats...
...No item of his philosophy Is accepted by them...
...On his way to Washington be will announce that Big Business is safe in th* hands of his party...
...It must be awful to be married to one of these old 1 Wy speakers...
...Rerbert H. Lehman, powerful Wall Street banker...
...25 cents per set...
...IgsMsuv, some of them are too good to be true...
...Jail, however, seems to be the Inevitable detour that murt be taken by one who starts out towards the goal which Thomas had chosen...
...Let us summarise them...
...They detest such views, yet Lincoln returned to a consideration of these views as President...
...It is the party of the toiling masses whom Lincoln loved...
...Lincoln had profound contempt for those who desired great wealth to rule the government...
...His birthday is being celebrated in Passaic by a shameful desecration of the cause of liberty for which he atrived so valiantly...
...It is significant that Thomas was never brought to trbu...
...The last his friends and reporters who were present saw of Thomas for many hours was his lanky figure in the back aeat of the speeding cat, almost submerged In a wave of armed men...
...wiggledy-dee...
...I - I M when the hired men from the South are in the last of their stuff, there isn't any us - trying to make ¦nd> sense out of it...
...And I even venture-1 tn suggest that perhaps it were all a low selfish battle royal for swivel chairs and salaries between the ertintlate ones who were entrenched, and the speedmakers who were on the outside...
...In New Haven he said: "I am glad to eee tha...
...At that early period he wrote this: "If we except the light and air of heaven, no good thing has been or can be enjoyed by us without having cost labor...
...Strike headquarters were raided, papers relating to relief work were thrown out of the window and young Welsbord was thrown into Jai' under the ridiculously high ball of $30 0O0 At the same time Robert Dunn and other active leaders were averted and all such trivial matters as fres speech and assemblage and the rights of American workers to join unions of their own choosing were officially declared null and void...
...Torre isn't much you can say in answer to this exsi to assert that you too had a mother and maybe rot folks in the audience had mothers too...
...two souls with but a single thought—how to serve Big Business...
...Into the crowd went the guards, swinging rifle butts and clubs snd out of the throng came Thomas to be hustled away to s waiting police car...
...The industry in New Jersey had been so seriously crippled that there was very little work, and as yet Passaic carnot be called a union town...
...To guard these scabs they called in the gunmen of detective agencies in New York, about as hard-boiled and irresponsible a crew of professional killers as has been asembled In any recent labor struggle...
...The Civil Liberties Union had hired LAUGH WITH ART YOUNG Now out...
...The two great parties are alike in the service of Big Business...
...The Judge hesitated a m.-mei t to recover his stern demeanor, and bolted out . ." 1 can understand somewhat when you just say "everybcVy...
...Lincoln stop ;>ed on his way to Washington to be inaugurated...
...You've" got religion, but you're not in the rig^t church . . ." And from what I learn as I go on there are hundreds of these raw-minded boys and girls in the Communist ranks who have swallowed at a gulp all that their ridiculously Inept and grossly 1-sincere demagogues have handed out to them . . . The mental Indigestion that ha* ensued a* a natural sequence, coupled with the energy and enthusiasm of youth, has created thla outbreak of idealistic rabies against our meetings...
...They are fundamental...
...Turn to the Democratic party...
...And during the short silence he encountered, my heckler must na"e heaid 'Us own voice...
...No weasel words, no bunk, in these statements...
...There is the fundament...
...This Campaign In Cartoons...
...What do the Republicans say...
...It is quite difficult to argue and ad vis* these unfortunate Messiahs on the grief that lies under all their apparent virtue...
...Reduced rates .for ten or more sets -Order today, from The New Leader, 7 East 15th Street, New York City...
...side either, save that It goes to prove what has long been the contention, that the issue has never been anything but jobs . . . jobs . . . Jobs...
...Millionaires pay homage to him...
...This is the first stump speech I've ever made from a stump...
...In this way, and no other, peace was preserved...
...Dayou know that under a Republican rtgime the unawporated villages of these United States had ina***o" ia population 4%per cent...
...I hope my young heckling friend comes upon this column in some manner...
...Lincoln emphasized the claims and Interests of the working people as being prior to any other claims...
...Long ago, I said in this ^pace...
...Do these geotiemen know the man...
...and would there were a way of letting the bier ting lambkins of the lurid Left know what their leading shepherds have gone and done...
...Labor is prior to capital...
...Capital is only the fruit ol labor, and could never have existed li labor had not first existed Labor is th* superior of capital, and deserves the higher consideration...
...ABRAHAM LINCOLN, farm laborer...
...SO cents by mail...
...Men and women have been persecuted in this country for asserting stellar beliefs...
...Sing a song, tra-la, la-la, SiDf and hope, America...
...Useful labor should be the master of Its products...
...an empty lot ad the testing ground and there went Thomas with workers who had been driven off the field by the operators' gunmen cheering his progress When he arrived, there were but a few daring spirits who had stood their ground before the threats of rifles and clubs.----x Thomas's aptparance was the signal for the reforming of the audience which came from over the hills up from the railroad tracks, factories and houses where they had been driver by the guards...
...Bis answer to this tn the message was this: "Labor is prior to and independent of capital...
...And I only tell this half-ii- elevant tit-bit just to conclude that the Communist leeders have *eea gall*venting about for their own petty ends using every means save those of a disinterested idealism And how cruel for their 'oUower* to dad at a later day, that aU is wen, now that a tew of thrm have union jobs . . . Yes, shake your leads slowly and repeat, "There is no Santa Claus, and mrely no common honesty left...
...Trade unions and farmer organizations are necessary...
...Think of being waked up in the middle of the night "and your husband pacing the floor doing a mammy J*f or mumbling over the statistics of the exports of ¦sep manure in 1924...
...To organize and strike are essential to the welfare of the masses...
...To whom does he belong...
...and that the authorities did aU in their power to softpedal the case...
...If the samples they send up m any indication, the whole Southland must be KjgsgnUteent tremulo these days...
...Man, man...
...Lincoln said that the masters of mankind believed '".hat capital shall hire laborers, and thus induce them to work bj their own consent, or buy them and drivt them to it without their consent...
...At Cincinnati and other cities be returned to his fundamental views Mark what Lincoln said at Cincinnati or February 13 1851: "THE WORKTNGMEN ARK THE BAbTS OF ALL GOVERNMENTS...
...Do you subscribe to the vlewi of Lincoln or to those of the Hoovers, Mellons, Butlers, Smiths, Raskobs, Lehmans and Olvanys...
...The strike, to be sure, drifted into a stalemate, while some of the operators ollered the wirkers union recognition, after Welsbord htd vo'un^arily withdrawn, and the old-line organization, the United Textile Workers of America, had taken over the strike...
...Candidates will come and go...
...S. A. de Witt...
...Neither party has any use for the fundamental views of Lincoln...
...Where So yoa stand...
...18 cartoons by Art Young, all 10>/2 by Vtyz inches...
...The imwson has been created thet only th* Southern genua is nice to his mother and that ail Socialists beat mr mothers terrible...
...system of labor prevails in New England urder which laborers can strike when they want to . . I like the system which lets a man quit when he w.-nts to, and wish it might prevail svsryw*ere" He offended the mm masters of Bea England Hat words are today aa offense to the master* of rnflhena and the Jnnaas nf bnth psrtlr* trhn 11 n m* riisliiia Urtcoln...
...Supply is Limited...
...It worked...
...Norman sued the police for false arrest soon after he waa liberated, and the story of his fight for free speech was earned on an the press wires of the country...
...Holy vows in every shast Sweeping freemen off their feet...
...You see *w right Mr...
...He is still engaged In this today...
...Mot course, after awhile when you begin to realize lytiBtbi* heart* and flowers stuff is about Al Smith Martgain your composure...
...Is a worthy object of any good government...
...Becoming mor» aggr-srive in the courts, the lawyers for the workers obtained injunctions against police interference, and those who ruled Passaic suddenly found a new respect for law and order...
...But Lincoln was noc satisfied with even thesj fundamentals...
...to the millionaire and the laborer...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist party candidate for President, rind James B Maurer, candidate fcr Vice-President, represent the trad'tkns, the views and the fundamental democracy of Abraham Lincoln, himself a son of the tolling masses...
...80 when we say that we know all about ravings in ""'taw you see we speak from expe-ierce...
...Hi mlgh' see a new light on the source from which his silly phrasee spring...
...Campaign funds wtl) vanlab-O Higgledy...
...When he called us "fakers" and "betrayers of the • working class" and "bourgeois cowards" because we had deleted the words "class struggle" from our platform snd preamble, he felt he was shouting no insincere accusctions against us...
...tot isn't you believe it...
...Nit why* be so sacrilegious and mention Sax ta Claus tn this scandalous mftter . . Why not Santa Claus sir . . . ?" The plaintiff stared into -he sir for * moment, aad then shook bis head in abject despair, a* be said slowly, "Because Jedge, I guess the-» ain't no Santa Claus...
...Consider the old party leaders In the ytar of 1928 The Republican Mellon, one of the richest bankers In this country: Butler th* Republican millionaire textile baron crushing the worklngmen and women cf the New Bedford mills...
...Weasel words for farmers and city workers ir the platform and a pledge to great capita] and big business that they have nothinj to fear from that party...
...Word was sent out that no more meetings could be held in Garfield and when that word reached the offices of the League for Industrial Democracy, Thomas reached for his hat...
...You strikers have shown a wonderful spirit of self-control The violence in this strike is not of your making You have had nothing to do with violence except to be victims of It...
...dangerou* to human .liberty and working peoule should not surrender to this, rule...
...It occurs to me that even in this col'imn it were not the wisest policy to constantly rasp over old sores aad disturb ancient wounds...
...this is the life and When I* (it this last julep we arc going out on a right cute, ¦die lynching bee...
...He made some speeches...
...They were consistently sent off on false clews and when finally, after many hours, Thomas was discovered, it turned out that he had been secretly arraigned in r remote office of a Justice of the peace friendly to the operators, charged with disorderly conduct and held in $10,000 bail...
...for he suddenly ended hi* harangue and left us to continue in peace...
...It was one of the most worthwhile days I eve*- pu in," says Thomas now...
...The Republican and Democratic parties have V°r.e into the complete service of great capital aad Big Business...
...Who would attempt to reconcile this great beBef in the universal brotherhood of the toilers of the world with the Hoovers snd Smiths, the Raskobs and Butlers, the Vara* and the Olvanys...
...Causing them to bleat and blast...
...to the coal barons and starving famlUer of miners Let's go back to Lincoln himself, consult his views, and draw our own conclusions...
...Although most ef the listeners seriously objected to the intrusion, and several of my comrades ware in favor of a direct action method of removal, I pretended a great tolerance, and asked that he be allowed to blow off to his heart's content, and relieve my own voice tor a few minutes...
...Proration goes like this, "And when the eventide eJ~* *PProaches on slow and solemn feet and all Z~*J *be Western skies there is the rare flush of the ^Painted by the brush of the Great Master, then ,vyends let us take counsel together ard refusing to ¦» astray by the subversive doc Tines of alien agita2 *° on together shoulder to shoulder in the creative 5 w building here the ship of state of which it is so J? •ritten, 'Eeeny, meeay, miney mo,' or in the jr* °* that peerless leader of this yeie democracy, ™ get the money.'" I thank you...
...It is the road to power and victory...
...They evidertly rehear-e their stuff and 1 wives who pay and pay and pay...
...So he swung h'mseif up onto the limb of a disconsolate apple-tree that stood in the tenter of the field and began...
...Do you...
...He spoke with but litUe accent, and his choice of word* was indicative of study...
...sboaM he esse sauting aU ssiitng nasals, of aB nations, anal tongaai...
...Garfield, a little industrial town just across the river from Passaic, was turned into a battle-ground over which gunmen and deputy sherifls charged upon masses of unarmed wo-kers...
...He toured the New England spates in March, i860, when the shoemakers of Lynn, Mass., were on strike...
...Did you bjow that under a Republican regime our exports of Pavs Jelly to the island of Malta increased twenty-two °s one-third per cent ? Of course you didn't...
...There is...
...asked the jurist . . . "Aw, nothing, Jedge, 'cept my wdfo's runrir' aroun' wid everybody in town . . "Be more specific, sir," admonished »he Judge, "what and whom do you mean by ••verybodyT" •Well, I reckon wid moet eve»yb*1y 'cept Santa Clans," replied the hapless nusband...
...The people have the fundamental right to completely change the government and all its lnstlrtuiors when they think it is necessary for their welfare...
...In short, he waa of those enthusiasts, against whern Social Democrats can only point the finger of admonition and say . . . "you're all wrong, my lad...
...To strike for better living condition* becomes ever more perilous...
...flat-boatman, rail-splitter, son of poverty...
...Life will come like Chauve Snoria, Singing, dancing clownlshly To the tune of Wait-aud-See...
...Especially at a public campaign meeting, one has enough wash to hang out belonging to th* plunderbund, without confusing the display, by stringing up all the sad rags that belong to the civil war among the unions...
...Whose Lincoln Is He...
...Our most recent Democratic opponent made a striker point when he brought up the fact that he had a ¦other...
...figures around...
...Is made chairman of the party's Finance Committee...
...McAlister Coleman...
...Editors acclaim his greatness...
...I asked him how it was that they had succeeded in keeping their organization intact, while the other unions were pretty well shattered by ant) and pro-Communist war...
...Democracy in industry agriculture, transportation, and government can only be realised by acting on Lincoln's view that "the working...
...The upshot of It was that tram then on the strikers were onmolested at their meetings...
...Do the eminent politicians, bankers, millionaires, party leaden and great editors subscribe U> this...
...issue for those who toil and all who would make this republic a democracy Instead of an oligarchy of great capital...
...It ian't very pretty on the otbc...
...After the meeting, on my way home, it occurred to me that a calm analysis of these Communist baiters of Socialist speakers might disclose some interesting sidelights on human behavior...
...Comba, boomba, boombsleet, Light and talk in every street...
...the Republican convention turning down the plea of poverty-stricken fanners and lniunctton-rldden workers of the city...
...Puhliahed by |<weooce says the book la 'something entirely oat ¦ pj, M m it out of the common Wo have been I aaafcer of triangular debate* with Republican and ¦La***6 speakers of late and we know all about WTZ, t> delirium, lye are for example a whole lot of extremely Laaar Southern Colonel* running- about New York B^lipeakers for the Democ-ats who are telling us a*t what sort of a man Al Smith is...
...My heckling friend was young, with an intellectual cast to his face, and a sort of frenzied honesty in hi* eyes...
...This Is Norman Thomas" 9—Calling The Textile Operators' Bluff By W. E. Woodward Author of "George Washington, The Man and The Image," "Bunk," "Lottery," and "Bread and Circussee...
...I AtsHfbt that the pre-General Grart school of oraEt sad gone out with antimacassars, glass flowers Ekxse-balr sofas...
...Suppose either Hoover or Smith is elected...
...In his First Inaugural be also laid down thla fundamental principle of the right to alter the government* This country with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it Whenever they shall -row w*sry of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending It or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow If This is the Lincoln which the old party leaders and their Big ¦astoesa keepers pretend to revere...
...that *\he union office jobs lay quite at the heart of the Left and Right split in our movement...
...Be was opposed to this...
...piggledy...
...John J Raskob, master of hundreds of millions of capl^u, director in s dozen great corporatio'is, chairman of the Finance Committee of General Motors, director of a great New York bank, is made chairman of the D-mocratic National Committee...
...fa-you do know something about Al Smith—almost Bianco perhaps a* they knew about him in Louisiana ¦sd Mississippi and it's pretty hard *o reconcile Al's Ed Thomas Jefferson's philosophy which was that of K trricultural democracy with the farmer supreme lei ths city dwellers relega'ed to the back seats...
...Os, they do statistics...
...President of the United States and Martyr...
...The brave struggle of twelve weeks on the part of the strikers was in the balance...
...Whoever is In charge of Resworn speakers must be an expert accountant or at ej rate an insurance salesman out of work...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 43
