TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas ^ Socialist Cmdidttt Tt f»r President ¦ ¦< jn BJS EUzabethton speech Est Hoover said: "We mutt anaabbj army and our navy in such talSS we shan have complete...
...Whatever Sane...
...Ross Magill is still luimmerM^* He sends in 3 more from aaas» 'Fine thru and thru* is of the N. L. expressed by B. son, Peoria, III...
...It seems to be a race between Hoover and Smith as to which can be the most faithful to the ruling interests...
...Archie McDonald, Salmon Springs, Id., renews and says that she would be lost without the paper...
...It is the literal truth for us to say that the only civilized message heard in this electoral struggle is that presented by the Socialist Party...
...He is now numbered among the great of tbe world...
...Gitlow disappeared...
...Two more, aB the way from Portland, Ore, Bead la by Albert Stretff...
...Debs was a mighty force for good among the working folk of the nation...
...He witnessed a tremendous advance in power ot the working class in many nations...
...We are now approaching the close of the craziest political campaign' in the history of American politics...
...It is our job to issue the paper...
...If they do they will to awing not in the interest of wertan mm consumers in America but of fordp Investors whose point of view a at aaa> tially selfish as that of tht etestea protectionists to whom we referred, wtet we need is a party that win teddt tarzT like other economic questions wttk tka Interest of the great bwttarhwi at workers in all lands dear to tts hart The conservative town of MaramOate gave Its wandering Socialist sea s aa«s« ous and hospitable reception...
...J. C Yancey...
...This Indicates that factory employment ta down 14% from 1923, 22% from 1920 and 28% from August 1918, the highest August on record...
...The uniqot thtag about tbe United States ¦ not protsetka from abroad but tbe great extent ef aV free trade market batwam the statet But all this the Democratic Parte ¦ sar to forget chiefly In the interest of a Southern textile industry whim at conspicuously a low wage industry threatening all American waft standards...
...When Harvard professors can get away with this sort of thing, there is certainly most urgent need for such institutions as the Rand School to educate the workers and the League for Industrial Democracy to incite questioning among college students...
...At tens foa m and it becomes clearer that thty sate stand in the way of tcreten treat It ¦ quite possible that Mr...
...He could have traveled the easy road to wealth and political distinction over the backs of millions of voters had he wished to...
...o • • THB WISCONSIN WAY AL BENSON...
...A New York leader of the wets leads a party of the drys...
...Whole pages of their daily organ screamed "plot" and "murder" and "violence...
...Instructions to one of these provocateurs were taken from him when, he was arrested by Reading police in the recent strike against the Noe Equal Company...
...whether it Is better or worse whetbwir not it is feasible at all, may be h^aaaa questions but they are seoondsty...
...preparedness Invites fear and taHau at home and abroad...
...The receipts would help to pay salaries...
...Lewis Miner, Mueeattne, la...
...A couple of suba from tbe Amalgamated Clothing Workers, of Hamilton, Can...
...Geo...
...He saw ancient dynasties crumbled to duet and ruling elaaaea overthrown...
...of free trade or tariff for rewaaab becomes a protectionist party...
...oet the nsw onbs whxlx thb iron ib hot...
...Its thriving IM*** facturing plants were mcaUT the town...
...JaU ideas...
...Louis Earn merman...
...He turns up safe and sound, unaware that any fuss was being made...
...Then Gitlow had to spoil the comedy...
...Hoover band Sowar baa been outlawed...
...The business and editorial staff appreciate this support...
...Before this turn of the argument their plea was for the "South," a South, however, which meant the interests of their class...
...s a a And, let us remind you, the list of singles is longer than the promises of em old party politician before election...
...Apply all this to the Hoovers and Smiths, the easy and greasy opportunists, tbe upper class poliUcs of this year...
...In the election of 1919 Edward F. Cassidy and Algernon Lee were elected as Aldermen in New York City on the Socialist ticket...
...Connolly and his engineer, Frederick B. Seely, have been convicted by a jury of conspiring to defraud the city in the $29,500,000 sewer scandal...
...Tariffs, ewe under the most favorable eireumttaaea, 4* tend to make for taprrtaUzm...
...prove that he's not the kind ef Caew...
...The Saber to talk like that before the war war...
...The two new subscribers for whom i am enclosing check, are - very much Interested in the n. L.," writes Arthur f. Love, Bartonville, m. Yea, and J. Mahlea Barnes who ta doing valiant work in tbe open spaeea of tbe Dakota*, under tbe direction of Tbe Socialist Action Committee, finds time to rawed Bp an ecraetenal sab...
...With equal confidence in the gullibility of his readers, Carver blandly assures them that, while the management of capitalist industry is of course becoming more concentrated, its ownership is becoming more widely diffused...
...Still others wfll yet do it before the next political revolution destroys the present alliance of upper class pontics...
...and that ta part of a eo*"" ^ other words, Marion is P-*^2JI_-1...
...Hoover was charmed...
...It will them...
...I find tbe S. L. quite reliable though i feel allowance must be made for too optimistic expression...
...An written reports of the spies were to be mailed to Post Office Box 793, Philadelphia...
...Last week Hoover met a delegation representing accocdjng to the press, real estate, law, hardware, hides, leather, drygoods and other cotTimodit.es...
...A Quaker of peace traditions is supported by militarist Junkers of blood and force...
...What more evidence would any person want...
...The department employment index shows tbe number of factory woiLcis in August at 8o% if the 19?3 average...
...He was...
...It has never been accomplished...
...chMS asao are driving out local raerehante, aaj Is one newspaper where once !*•» two...
...Wednesday there was gloom in Union Square...
...The goo goo journals approve Smith's candor and his virtuous indignation...
...No traffic in ignorance...
...It ta essentially educational...
...The last words that he wrote, the stirring lines of Henley, might well be his defiance to the dark forces that endeavored to silence him and break his spirit: "It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishment the scroll, I am the master of my fate...
...One year before be wrote in the Coming Nation: "He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all consecrate himself completely to some great cause, and the greatest cause of all is the cause of humanity...
...Ben Gitlow, their vice-presidential candidate, disappeared in the west...
...Tammany had stolen the goods and held on till it was too late to make restitution...
...Punch and Judy ^fOT till about the last decade of slavery did the slave politicians declare that they were representing investments in Negroes...
...And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn...
...Smith never said a word in protest...
...is a tonic compared with the sour mass of capitalistic propaganda in the daily press" is the way that Emerson F, Price, Columbus, 0., sites us up...
...Tbe «L plays havoc with my patience when i ¦ometlmes find that it has net arrived in Friday's mail Above aU I enjoy tbe Feature, "Timely Topics...
...That moans that tbe sab booster wfll fhad tbe harvest riper than ever Before, As the oM copy books ¦aid, "New is the Usee far all good Just a few of tbe many singles...
...If Hoover were to speak he would say the same thing...
...The voters...
...Our Vice-Presidential ca%^^'^t Maurer, sends in a sub forth* of the College Socialist Cht» nell University...
...That was a dirty political job, to be sure, but we have in mind something a little more infamous...
...Bend another bundle...
...As aaaaL be at aaueeaaful and sends la ssJe...
...e o o BX BATS IT WITH SHEKELS Says Saaa Baraatain, New York: "Approetattng the awed work that tbe NXis doing...
...We have heard that on one occasion he said that he must "stand by the organization...
...They are to choose between Punch and Judyl To Our Readers JN THE past few months The New Leader has received many letters of enthusiastic approval from its readers, so many that it is impossible to acknowledge all of them...
...Tbe psycho-analyst weald sat bat Mr...
...TBtJ^l b» of capitalism stiU defends item*, old individualistic arguments wtaB gainsaid by tbe plain facte...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas ^ Socialist Cmdidttt Tt f»r President ¦ ¦< jn BJS EUzabethton speech Est Hoover said: "We mutt anaabbj army and our navy in such talSS we shan have complete debase at homes from even the rear of bbbo» vaster...
...Hoover talks like that to ctart...
...8imllar figures show that tbe factories axe paying about 9% less each week In wages then in August 1928 and 32% loos than In August 1920...
...Lee Mlatnwhis aft...
...Hoover talked like one who was reporting to his constituents and he was...
...that ta...
...They will in turn become its enthusiastic supporters...
...Hasnt Mr...
...Our paper Is a good bottler for Socialism...
...Jim appeared...
...It met, and met, and met, dragging out the proceedings for nine months...
...New reck City...
...The principal akiJli"1*" were also managers of the anW»»» Workers, managers and ttofthMW Uved in the same small city, sa* children to the same schools, kdew saw other familiarly and had the eato ¦» pride...
...As a borough of Greater New York, Queens has always rolled up a Tammany vote although its grafter-in-chief for the seventeen years he has held his job has held Queens as an autonomous province of Tammany Hall...
...Quakers usually are...
...The performance was similar to that of the former representatives of slavery in Congress who would return to their southern districts and report how faithful they had been in serving the planting class...
...son, he talks dangerous notaaaa, what ta tbe more dangerous beoaaat ethb utter failure to discuss Ihoai htmm policies which be says "most sarta directed to the cause of pasaa" Governor Smith's LoubvOls -- ¦ marked tbe definite end of tht Sea...
...Whether he was enjoying California grape juice or assembling barricades for the "world revolution" we do not know...
...Per Ua United States suddenly to Jump to tkt free trade track would be kapgaaav Nevertheless to give up free trios asa as a goal Is a very sobering thtoj Tk» tariff is nothing but natlonaUsm kt sanomlcs...
...Mich...
...It is true of this sad year of bunk, deceit and two-party servility to the ruling classes...
...That is some consolation...
...Two or three evenings would have been sufficient for them to act...
...Hoovers Botes tariff speech was a protectionist doesem, but It was shot through with as absorbing interest in foreign trade...
...He got three more to sign on the dotted line...
...Gitlow did not stay murdered and the "Red Front Fighters" lost an opportunity to oust the government of Arizona with pop bottles...
...August Employment Only 1% Above Bottom Level Factory empliyment increased 1.6% in August over Juiy, according to the U. S. department of labor...
...I am sanding chock for SS, ef which S3 is for renewal, tbe balance to be seed to atatriboto copies of the paper daring tbe campaign.'* o o • Score two mere fraaa she National OtBee of she Socialist Party...
...We do not refer to Smith's taking orders from the sainted Murphy in hurling a governor from office because that governor would not take orders from the same source...
...October 14th...
...By the time that the terms of Lee and Cassidy had expired this committee reported that the defrauded men had beep elected...
...Spies Are Caught Among Hosiery Workers "Kindly return these instructions to this office after they have served yout purpose," runs the brie at the top ot afl labor-spy directions issued to undercover operatives working against the American Federation of Pull Fashioned Hosiery Workers at Reading, Pa...
...STATE SECRETARY of i-HX SOCIALIST PARTY...
...ISM, Eu* gene v. Debs passed from earth after a lifetime of continuous labor in behalf of tbe totting Hot even Oarrlaon and Phillips ever Inspired tbe large numbers that Debs did...
...The Sewer Rats ]\fAURICE E. CONNOLLY is the fourth Boro ? President of Queens County to graft his way into oblivion...
...It never win...
...My business friends," he said, "can cast back over tbe last several years as to the many enterprises and cooperation that we have carried on from the Department of Commerce in the public interest...
...Ralph Cheney, editor of Contemporary Verse, states that Tbe Rebel Poets are going to keep up an inceaaant agttatsen until Mooney and BttttogS laoarve aa gsstondttlonal perdotw...
...In this year of low creatures to high poliUcs it is weU to recall his great services and*, his ideals on the anniversary of his death...
...Others are now doing It...
...ee A renewal and a new eras from Lawrence Van Camp, Battle Creek, Mich...
...IU« *f*f*?j» A. H. Eager, Red Bl*f\C"'£Lvt* '¦ same thing...
...It has been recovered...
...Tar are far less a cause for prcopaita torn to generally assumed Tht Inst paaperoua nations in Europe have niaa lvely high tariffs...
...Horry L. Arnold, Xenia, O., fires in three and is always on the lookout for renewals...
...Like others his spirit was never crushed...
...Hibner, Buhl, Id., thinks the Art Young cartoons are a knockout and says that the N. U grows better an tbe time...
...The Constitution and state rights also served as arguments, but eventually the argument became a frank support of the interests of the ruling planters...
...To Professor Carver JTOR something which is either inexcusable ignorance or sheer intellectual dishonesty or a combination of both, Thomas Nixon Carver of Harvard University takes the prize, even among American professors of economics, whose average standard in those matters is quite bad enough...
...Mrs...
...The old plea was in behalf of the "Nation...
...An Unconqaered Man Eugene V. Debs suffered physically from his imprisonment and it eventually killed him, but Debs the man was never conquered...
...You will get results...
...The "New Tammany" cannot resist the lure of the old graft even when it flows through a sewer...
...Comic Capers of Communists ^jOT to be defeated in the race for staging the most comic campaign our dear friends of the Communist Party leaped to a position in advance of the capitalist parties this week...
...They know that he is not entitled to this approval...
...They have been sentenced to a year in prison and to pay a fine of $500...
...Lovestone proclaims to the universe that unless Ben is surrendered the "Red Front Fighters" "in adjoining states will move upon Arizona...
...Jack Heban, Philadelphia Ylpaei, w. Oollehon...
...It inevitably tends to beast national rivalries and to suss treaty trade between the workers ef dtffera* nations more difftcut...
...Tbe Abolitionist leaders remained a aman and devoted band and in tbe last few years before tbe abolition of slavery failed to adJust themselves to tbe political movement that dealt a death blow to the ruling class Dabs lived to pear through tbe very portals of tbe new world for which he lived...
...During this period the number of subscribers has also steadily increased...
...this change the workers era-— even the protection of labor their own political party...
...danger from a coalition of nettles* the attempt to achieve sash a dsns...
...o • IT'S A BRACER "The N.L...
...There is nothing new in it...
...no one has asked thotn to sabscribo...
...While the trial was pending John J. Raskob, Governor Smith's "Fat Cat," has been trying to patch up the quarrels among Queens Democrats to insure a united vote for the "Happy Warrior...
...Yet I was greatly liiijiiiaad *T •» economic change I found in afatl*S my youth and for years thereafter Masai conspicuously illustrated tbs oMsr SSj of capitalist industry...
...Wasn't Jim Maurer, that "counter-revolutionist" and betrayer of the working class" in the West...
...This history has been repeated in this campaign...
...The abysmal hates, the ridiculous religious antagonisms, the lunacy Into which the actions of the two major parties have snared millions of voters on the liquor problem, the bunk that is peddled, the marketing of Tammany by the boodle of millionaires, the emptiness of Hooverlsm, the wooing of the fanners by politicians and parties that have skinned them, and the housing of the two parties In tbe same kennel by the money bags who own the nation...
...cratlc Party as even nominally thi pert...
...Debs' Views Today Apply these tests to the dominant politics of our time...
...Like many other liberators Debs occupied prison cells...
...Tea, as my swift days near their goat, Tie aO that I implore...
...Kern, est Jeefcaon...
...What an opportunity this would be for the cutting sarcasm of Debs, for his wit, his ' blistering invective and bis contempt for sham and bombast...
...W. A. Johnson, Cleveland...
...o Bdward Thompson, Camden, N. J., never mioses...
...In life and death a chainleas aouL With courage to endure...
...o o • "Doing our best to boost the circulation of the N. L. Here's another sub...
...Here my sub for $2, to the best paper ever", ta the brief measage from O. 8. Upllnger, Sun bury...
...The newe—aara are r as art Nig ta great naaabara...
...What is new is the frank admission that he is serving owners of invested capital...
...What we might call "nutology" is almost as rampant as it was during the world war...
...Hester the Smith plan for a tariff aa^SZ may differ from the Republican pha...
...HOW MANY SUBS ARE YOU ooino TO BEND IN BEFORE THAT DATE...
...e e e Free dollars fee a sweaty ef "The fatilgiai Voters' Otdde is SeeaaUaaa'* and 4 sabs frees Fred Klakte, Alede, SB...
...Texas, M. Kalburg, Milwaukee...
...Tm primary fact is that the DaaHoada Party is on the protectionist bsodeisoi where we long ago prophesied tt wxM be...
...The appeal went to a committee, also controlled by Smith's political cronies...
...It Is stiU possible If tbe two old partas continue that the Republican Party aaa...
...Hoover was a coward when facing thefts of millions of physical values...
...ONLY TWO MORE ISSUES BEFORE SUCTION DAY...
...m Today I find that Merloni "» shovel works have been seal te eaaai Interests, absentee ownership bat aaaw* the rule there aa elsewhere...
...Although this was the largest August increase to & years it failed to bring the number of workers in factories up to the level "of August 1927...
...Socialists may well renew their consecration to the cause for which Debs died and pay their tribute to his memory by Increased service to that,cause...
...And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me ~« la, "Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me nberty...
...The faithful are summoned to a big mass meeting in New York City Tuesday night...
...B wai a particular pleasure to me to —* * many of my old high school eketastea It is a thriving community watte, jtes so many of Its sons sad o^afbtea ep portunlty at home...
...H. Schwartz, Toledo, sends check for SB and says that be is always alert for new subs and renewals, • • • "The n.L...
...Says Dr...
...rhSBa Lattter, Albany, alee orders a treadle ef paeon far a aaaeUag...
...Cobden and Bright thought ft...
...an appeal to intelligence, to manliness, to womanliness, and to all things of good report...
...Homage is paid to tolerance on both sides by those who are intolerant...
...This is no exaggeration...
...move in the dhwabaa ef towar total while the Democratic Party takes thi old protectionist stand...
...However, they missed one opportunity...
...How Debs would have been stirred if be had Uved to participate in tbe campaign this year...
...Imprison a movement...
...Fundamentalist Democrats educated by Bryan swoon at being led by Smith...
...As long as time lasts the Tammany theft can neyer be atoned for...
...They should have appealed for a Gitlow Memorial Fund...
...That cooperation represents a new mode of relationship between government and business.'' Herbert is wrong...
...He must be absolutely true to the beat there la in him, if he baa to stand alone...
...Gty is ranged against the countryside and primitive religious hates burst thorugh a precarious truce maintained for several decades...
...Edward Brisk, Hartford, Cenaw orders a atg handle ef aopars for the Noraaaa — — r _inlliij...
...Meantime the Grand Jury is considering other indictments of the sewer gang while Patten, Connolly's successor, has not been in office long enough to carry off anything that isn't nailed down...
...Tammany thieves counted in two other Aldermen...
...Auburn, Ma., Bam Rain, *ew» ..k iL^LV'' . .vcijf . _ Eugene V. Debs View Great Great Socialist Leader, Now Two Yean Dead, Find Continuous Vindication in Economic and Political Developments fEWrO years asm, October 90...
...Free trade was never tht pasaan...
...Helen B net an...
...WISCONSIN, ORDERS A WISELY BUNDLE A COUPLE of RENEWALS, A NEW SUB, AND CHECK TO COVER 160 BUBS...
...The wealth stolen Jby the oil thieves can be recovered...
...These spies *re on the payroll of an agency which numbers .among its clients tbe Berkshire Knitting Mills, tbe Noe Equal Hosiery Co., David Lupton's Sons Company of Philadelphia and a number of other concerns...
...Here is an outfit that Smith's manager is anxious to get behind the "Happy iWarrior...
...is certainly worth reading—all of it—every week...
...The Department of Justice is held responsible in a long telegram...
...ta a hot one and waking up a lot ot people...
...Rebel Poets" Urging Freedom for Mooney A petition for the freeing of Mooney and Billings who have served Over twelve years of the life sentence imposed upon them, is being widely circulated by The Rebel Poets...
...Thaw toTan make war more likely...
...Both Hoover and Smith over and over again avow their loyalty to big business interests, that is, to the great capitalist and banking powers of the republic...
...Employment this August was 1.6 per cent below August 1927 while the total weekly factory payroll was down 0.9 per cent...
...It has fail-m within 1% of the lowest August...
...Be reports again this week...
...He must learn to feel deeply and think clearly to express himself eloquently...
...I am the captain of my soul...
...it is yours to give it a large circulation...
...It gives you a big sense of satisfaction...
...The Old Stoic Riches T. hold in light esteem...
...It's a sad world but the Communists are at least two leagues in advance of the Republican and Democratic parties in the race for the comic prize...
...Oled to renew...
...Even those who were unable to break the chains of habitual thinking and action in poliUcs paid tribute to his nobility of character, his great earnestness, and his unbreakable win to fight for the laboring class be loved so well...
...Lee and Cassidy were compelled to go to the supreme court and obtain an order forcing the committee to meet...
...Thousands of you can be of enormous help by merely handing your copy to a friend and asking him to read it...
...Today both Democratic Punch and Republican Judy admit.who holds the strings in the great political show...
...Will the New York World please copy...
...Also Joe Stiles, Many of the miners who **£gjj on strike, are glad to rf*^_ Ijjdgfrt Leader, writ— J •km ^'"^^p.jfj Two Notorious Thefts GOVERNOR SMITH'S caustic criticisms ot Hoover sitting in the Cabinet with knowledge of the crimes of the oil thieves and never saying anything in protest is to the point...
...Educate, acquire knowledge, be clean, consecrate yourself, think clearly, and be true to yourself even if you stand alone...
...By s sophistical and unconvtodng chain tt reasoning be tries to arras that teen* barter in goods ta not as direct as tt awl to be therefore tariffs do net itoad h the way of foreign trade...
...Only the ignorant, the malicious and the cowardly think so...
...Without it our problems would be more pressing than they are and these problems have been many since the paper was started five years ago...
...Hooter sad tht ltereata backing ban wfll meet teaari lower rates...
...Writing in the October number of the Current History magazine, Professor Carver has the impudence to attribute to Marx the famous "iron law of wages," which was indeed accepted by Lassalle, but which Marx explicitly and emphatically rejected, pointing out that it was a doctrine of second-rate bourgebis economists, to which Lassalle had merely given a new and striking name...
...Smith was a coward when facing theft of something so priceless that it cannot be appraised in terms of dollars...
...t Debs would have passed into obscurity as the others have passed had he chosen this easy path...
...stage of an Impersonal, rather ----^ stole collect!viat capitalism...
...The only rational and intelligent vote that will be cast in November will be the vote cast for Thomas and Maurer.- This was true of our party in the mad war years...
...A vast gulf yawns between the Socialist ideal and those who ride the comfortable escalator of the two old and too old parties...
...STJB aOOSTZRS NEED not BX RXatTNDBD THAT SOME PAST work IS MMSnDTtD TO BX DORS' on THE homx stretch, sxnd in thi hubs you havb on hand...
...Bars could not confine him He laughed at tbe iockamltha of capitalism...
...Check enclosed for renewal...
...That committee refused to meet for an entire year...
...Camel, Pa-, fa atlBca the bent for sabs...
...OBT xt with SUBS "Tours for Sotdahem now- is the ideal CX...
...I. N. Oohn, Brooklyn...
...Paul Van Allen, Indianapolis, "The NX...
...The voters who voted for them were robbed of their representatives...
...He knew that this century shall not peas without a complete reconstruction of the world on tbe baste of tbe ideals for which be gave bis life...
...Meat of thaw, are "vetaunteen...
...Curiously enough, Socialists were not held responsible for Gitlow's disappearance, yet it was evident that we should have been included...
...And love I laugh to scorn...
...Say It With Subs ONLY TWO ISSUES OP THE HEW LEADER BEFORE SUCTION DAT...
...Deltas, Tex* alee dees that fettle thing...
...KRUBOER8 WELL REPRESENTED Maynard C. Krueger, Philadelphia, sends in tour subs for as many Kruegers In Mo...
...In so far as suffrage cannot be weighed in terms of wealth, so much deeper is the infamy of Smith...
...In a speech delivered in Pabst Park, Milwaukee, in July, 1913, Debs said that the Socialist Party does not "traffic to ignorance...
...J. C. Roe, Homer...
...Our friends who write of their appreciation to The New Leader should redouble their efforts to increase its circulation...
...It realises that education, knowledge and the powers these confer are the only means of achieving a decided and permanent victory for tbe people The campaign of the Socialist Party is a clean campaign...
...Lee and Cassidy appealed to the Board of Aldermen for a recount, a body controlled by Tammanyites...
...Apply it to the "labor men" who bless Hoover or Smith...
...Others have done it...
...Like many others his death-waa due to persecution...
...Of course there la no ana o.i a degree of preparedness ta asy * nation which can remove an etnaae...
Vol. 7 • October 1928 • No. 44
