THOMAS RECEIVES WARM RECEPTION IN MARION, OHIO
Tomas Receives Warm Reception in Marion, Ohio Home Town Hears Leader of Socialists OUo Gty Told "Peace, Freedom and Plenty" Are Real Issues of the Campaign Or.» K«w Leader...
...The town has grown fee a dry...
...Scoffs at Smith's Claims "It has been declared that la FoUette progressives should vote for Smith...
...Order TODAY from THE NEW LEADER 7 East Fifteenth Street, New York City (Write for reduced rates for 10 or more net*) Get Good, and Mad Entertain Your Friends Vanderbilt Grandson Joins The Socialist Party...
...2) Instead of the present political lineup, there is needed a party that will understand the economic and social movements of our time, rather than parties that grow eager in behalf of the people one month before election every four years...
...Organizes Thomas League A LEAGUE of new and first voters is being organized in behalf of the Socialjat candidates for president and vice-president, Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer...
...we have decided to vote for Norman Thomas and the Socialist ticket...
...Obssr these circumstances you will ¦ssilliill me when I say that eagerly sn at I am of the present and appresbb* of your greeting it is the voice of saury which speaks loudest to me...
...Toe nearly seventeen years Marlon was 0 home," Thomas said...
...Marlon as to short, a large part of my life in swifts years...
...Yet because these workers in restaurants and cafeterias are given their meals In addition to the low wages, they count themselves luckier than gUs In stores or Injunctions Is Tuvim's Main Issue rjphe second assembly district in Brooklyn is spread over an area .within which live thousands upon thousands of trade unionists...
...The Keel Issue" Tt ii with the problems of this matte sgs that any constructive political sdotopby must deal...
...Today I est to s sense ss a stranger to my bbs toon, not to praise it and Its recrt tat to expound a political philosophy sen to Marlon, though by no means a lb* world at large, to a philosophy of 1 Oar minority...
...There • m longer any excuse for bitter poverty as sjoalld ugliness...
...Tammany insiders have cleaned up an transit speculation while Tammany has gone through...
...The Democrats, however, while not having so much experience In valeting, seem now to be in hopes of doing their best...
...This is not the to* which the old parties discuss...
...Much comment has been caused by Field's joining the Socialist cause...
...You who have followed with delight hur stirring cartoons In "The New Leader" may now have a complete set of them for your very own...
...Utter poverty and ugliness...
...What's more they are the best sort of propaganda to use on your hesitating friends...
...The Republican and Democratic parties are equally the tools of the money power...
...Iton streets are peopled with the boys aifirb of my school days...
...AU young men aid women interested should send their names and addresses to Michael B. Scholar, 1214 Spring...
...George to slay the dragons of poverty, tyranny and war...
...Girls and older women employed in cafeterias where there are no tips are told by their bosses that $50 a month will be their wage, whether they remain one year or five...
...Hence arise waste and paraatoa...
...The hard ssi independence of a pioneer family *at grew its own food and made its m clothes is gone forever...
...He is a great-grandson of the financier and railroad man, the late William H. Vanderblit whose least love was his regard for the Socialists...
...I come to you with no emotional appeal as the son of Marlon...
...Yet stqr thoughtful man knows that if we start learn to manage our mechanical MBtotion with its physics and its chemBrrour science may be our doom by rearn at the dreadful power of destruction ttB put In our hands In the event of a tor world war...
...tX^dil awv-i-*^ - ' ass?a'- iassfttaff' al 4* . Have a Hearty Chuckle A Swift Glimpse of Reality There Is one man in this country who ksowi his political onions, who can get right to the heart of the real iasaea of this campaign...
...By an overwhelming majority the district to made-up of workingmen and women...
...The rival pasta) for Bryan and McKinley back In Net uon a part of Marion to me than to taty traffic of your streets...
...Garden St, Wula, Pa...
...There are no essential differences beWlth equal justice the Republican party could tell the La Follette followers to vote Republican...
...The supply, is limited...
...At any rate, we cannot be saved by men but only by our own party representing the interests of the producing masses...
...If conscience Is a matter of herd instinct, all you need to do is to put your head out of a window and follow the crowd...
...Our dissatisfaction is not merely literary...
...Nevertheless, the district has never been represented by on* of its own people in the state legislature...
...On the Prohibition issue,-how absurd to think that Smith can do anything to bring about a change In the 18th Amendment...
...v You can have «ll sixteen for the low price of 25 cents (by mall SO cent*) if you act immediately...
...The league had its birth under the direction of John Herling and Frederick Vanderbilt Field...
...o The prints are 10y...
...The use of injunctions to break legitimate strikes of labor to a practice that endangers the potential liberty of every member of the community, unionists as well aa non-unionist...
...No one atftnad that the age of the airplane ws upon us...
...Our potential Independence of poverty totem won at the cost of necessary inbsbtm»Vlui.u among people...
...It was for a time a political km to the United States...
...Russell For Thomas...
...Within the Shadow Of the White House WASHINGTON—Women and girls employed In stores, cafeterias, hotels and laundries in the District of Columbia, lost their $15 a week minimum wage law five years ago at the hands of the Federal Supreme Court...
...Women and girls In stores compete for jobs paying $14...
...New York city and concurrently one of the moat vigorous and intelligent fighters for progressive trade imtmlm "What is the main Issue in your campaign," Tuvtm was asked...
...There Is all the old party hokum shown up lay withering style with compelling arguments for voting the straight Socialist ticket...
...The real issue is whether this country is to secure a democracy or pass under the heel of the money oligarchy: whether the government win continue a plutocracy or begin to be a country controlled by the people...
...And I came from New York and am In a position to answer in detail the effort to make out of Al Smith and the Tammany tiger a modern St...
...First they gave us the ignorant Hylan, then they gave us the wist tracking...
...In a letter to The New Leader, Herling and Vanderbilt this week wrote: Editor, The New Leader: We who are writing you this letter are young men that are about to cast their first vote...
...Mao the duPonts and General Motors aposrt both parties they cant lose...
...We believe that since that dissatisfaction Is not confined to a small group but is Common to a large section of the nation, you might care to give it expression In your columns...
...I would urge every radical, every progressive, every forward looking man or woman who is not ready to attach a corporation cord to his neck to cut loose from the old parties and to vote for Norman Thomas If for no other purpose than as a protest against the parties of privilege...
...Neither need I point out how little comfort either party platform has for any progressive...
...Walker...
...New Pork City...
...If the country is to be run by corporation high-binders, the Republican party might be preferred, on the ground that it la more experienced...
...In them lies the possibility of making some order out of chaos...
...That is the Socialist Party...
...We are fighting on a platform that Is clear and explicit, a platform which gives our position on social legislation, taxation, nationalization and democratic management of coal, super power and the like, the abolition of Injunctions in labor disputes, the Increase of civil liberties and the winning of peace...
...JOHN HERLING...
...natural resources and great aggressor* of machinery are the gift of God a v or a social creation...
...It as bom estimated that each of us has to sjurrslsnt of the labor of more than Stir ilsves in mechanical energy...
...Among these prints are the famous "Farmer Among the Fat Boys," 'The Pillow Fight," "Pig Business" and "The Tammany Medicine) Show...
...They BStouUly evade It Why not...
...Big Business Insures a two companies...
...still less did anyone dream fhersdio...
...There Is only one issue before the American people in this campaign," declared Mr...
...In the discussion of the political situation, one thing stands out clearly In our minds and that is, a dissatisfaction . with the way emphasis is placed in our present political and economic life...
...SseaBs Boyhood Scenes "shot my family left Marion I have **y Been here...
...Field is a member of the Socialist party...
...Yet I have received durst the campaign from Marion people sis of Badness and cheer which I rto tot sure highly because I take them a i tribute to the place my father and sator earned In the confidence and afferffco of the community...
...All of which a Interesting for the politicians but toast matter much to Big Business...
...It rides in two cars, tastily the Republican to the preferred at Bat this year salesman Al Smith **: "Boys, try our car, it's recommended fcf JUjfcoc who knows all about cars and I Ml s pocket on the side where you can tok your rip pocket flask Instead of asfctag It under the seat...
...No man throws his vote away when he follows his conscience...
...The ordinary person to left out in the cold...
...by IS i/i Inches and they constitute a lasting and fascinating memento of this remarkable campaign...
...In response to a widespread demand we have printed sixteen of Young's cartoons on durable white paper and bound them in an attractive art folio...
...A vote is for the purpose of expressing your judgment and desires and the purpose, of voting is nullified if...
...12 and $10 a week...
...Do not Mb of them belong to that one per cent C* tar people who own one-third of the ¦skoal wealth...
...Here I and sj joanger brothers and sisters were m. In it* schools I received the most seslsnt part of my education under ¦dsn, some of whom are worthy to sat in ability with any whom I have ss la aiany years of contacts with all ob of educational institutions...
...If all the people who think Thomas' way will have the courage to vote this way, Thomas will get a whale of a vote...
...These are the more dramaIk ktnmkms which have profoundly totged the conditions of our common to...
...We have today, as taaaoos of generations of our ancestors ad not, the means to produce plenty and' a span for all the children of earth...
...Yet how cmtod that moment has been...
...We are all dependent on coeastlon yet ws try to mange this coassttft world by the law of the jungle, tad...
...The recent migrations and counter-migrations of industrial capitalists between the parties and the great emphasis laid on those movements prove quite definitely that both the Democratic and Republican parties are equally safe for Big Business...
...Under both the transit situation has gone from bad to worse...
...Hits Old Parties Former Socialist Leader, Says Party Is Only Political Force For Progress pharles edward russell, a former Socialist party leader, who won the Pulitzer prize for the best biography of the year—on Augustus Thomas—and who was appointed as a member of the special mission to Russia by President Wilson, has endorsed Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President...
...These are our reasons for voting for Norman Thomas and the Socialist ticket...
...Hence ato tyranny and the constant menace of •tt Bo fast does machinery move that «j tor* not caught up with them...
...These are only smoke screens which the old parties ose to hide the realty vital issue...
...Phila...
...Unemployment Plagues Hard Coal Diggers LANSFORD, Pa.—Raising of member' ship dues was one of the expedients hi' upon by District 7 of the United Mini Workers, convening in Lansford, to alleviate critical conditions of unemployment in the hard coal Industry...
...What difference is there between the platform and candidates of the old parties...
...These offices ei starts are tenanted stni for me by mi and women, some of whom have ¦of stats found rest after the dust and has of life's busy days...
...Among our reason tor the decision are the following: 1) We believe that the political alignment existing at present between the Republicans and Democrats represent no genuine distinction in our political and economic life...
...A vote for Thomas is the one vote that will be counted for progress...
...OHIO.—A one-time news™h» {or the late President Harding's ¦Aden Star" returned to his home SSI tor* Friday after 27 years' absence, ¦ St Vender of the Socialist party and nsmastote for President...
...The ludicrous mishap tf Carlos Qreen and His Flying Machine es s stock recitation in school...
...Wi lire in an age of machinery rtseh indeed was well begun by the end i St nineteenth century but which has pbtn with breathless pace In the twenMa...
...tor shall we in the United States use aaraaent more effectively to help us ¦a plenty, peace and freedom for ouratos and our children...
...The Socialist party in the 2nd A. D. King provides Itself on being on* of the most vigorous branches in the city Socialist organisation...
...We believe that such a man and such a party might fail to wake a response in our fathers and mothers who perhaps have grown complacent in their existence under the present system But to the men and women who are out of the schools and colleges we especially address our remarks...
...4) The Socialist party alone undertakes to teach the working men and women of the country exactly how their condition can be bettered...
...FREDERICK V. FIELD...
...The abolition of injunctions," waa his immediate response...
...1 ,- Defeats BeUgton As Is*** I f»j» partus wffl not discus* ami issues those three R's—Rum, Race and Religion—have crept into our national party and the way out In regard to them I have stated so often that I need not dwell upon it here...
...namely, through an understanding of first economic principles and the formation of a strong, militant organization...
...Russell...
...The Socialists of that district have chosen as their candidate for the assembly, Joseph Tuvha, for many years one of the mainstays of the Socialist organization in...
...Instead of following your own Judgment, you find out what your neighbors think, and O. Kay their judgment...
...Flvi thousand miners are out of work in District 7 alone, the smallest of the three anthracite districts...
...Here, then, is the real political*issue...
...Tomas Receives Warm Reception in Marion, Ohio Home Town Hears Leader of Socialists OUo Gty Told "Peace, Freedom and Plenty" Are Real Issues of the Campaign Or.» K«w Leader Correspondent) uiaton...
...Today girls In ten-cent stores are working 48 hours a week for 110...
...It can be proved from Smith's record and Smith's speeches...
...Yet both abound...
...A large proportion of them are now "stabilised" at $50 a month...
...1 Waitresses In restaurants must rely more and more upon tips...
...They should a smelly controlled for the common 8*1 They are privately owned for prist) profit...
...3) The Socialist party emphasizes platform and not personalities, even though in Norman Thomas it has an outstanding leader of courage and of principle, who has been unafraid to discuss frankly the Negro problem In the South and the farm problem in the Middle West...
...On petition i sen than 150 local citizens the audican of the Central Junior High School as thrown open this evening to Norna Thomas who delivered an address ass* forth his party's views of the assst campaign Issues...
...This to Art Young...
...It is to build that party that we Socialists are fighting...
...Tba Democratic party has been stalling and bluffing on the five cent fare," he say...
...Some progressives try to comfort themselves in the personality of the candidate, Herbert Hoover and Alfred Smith...
...If I am elected to the state legislature I will strive to have Injunctions in labor disputes completely abolished," Tuvtm is equally emphatic about other matters . Transit to one of them...
...Both are able men...
...Altor all, the twenty seven years since I kft Marion are leas than a moment In to sit long span of history...
...That change, if any, will be brought about by a different set of circumstances...
...That can be proved from Hoover's record and Hoover's speeches...
...The issue is not Prohibition or Religion...
...The Republicans have had more training and experience as valets tor the interests...
...neither Is a progressive If the word has any meaning...
...Ifetfls* set a precedent tor presidents booje-comlngs when he told the stowing of Marionites that he had not ¦a** to praise" his home town...
...There is but one party that stands against the subversion of democratic principles...
...Study Groups Planned PHILADELPHIA—A group of young educators and journalists are planning to form several informal study groups in economics, sociology, Jterature and journalism In the City of Philadelphia...
...Every day's tot and the most common articles of masks us debtors to men of all nations at nets...
...Injunctions are important not only to trade unionists...
...I come to you to bid you as citizens of Marion, of the United States and of the world to examine our philosophy and our program and then to say whether If you desire a better world for yourselves and your children you do not owe it to your own self to cast in your lot with us not merely for one campaign but for a crusade which shall never end till free men In fellowship learn to use the marvelous machinery they have had the wit to create...
...When I aft Virion the occasional automobile as s source of enormous curiosity to the caloossr snd of more profanity than pd* to the owner...
...Remember, that there are only four "aaore weeks left in which to make effective use of these Art Young Cartoons...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 44
