TIMELY TOPICS
THOMAS, NORMAN
TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas b-nched'aa our* fMreptfMfe m UdV^tiw afvEsaa w+SLlZSm* owe year tor Ml BteTTteaaw beXBwtoki The las* mas was burned aft the stake and Governor BObo has bo-time...
...George D. Banter...
...Preparing Suicide STRIVE as they will our militarists cannot explain away their preparations for poisoning whole populations in the next war...
...If Germany's capacity to pay is set too high with little regard to the needs of her own people, their lowstandard of living will reduce their effect Iv...
...Lota of things interest me more than reforming the calendar or revising English spelling...
...It is just plain common sense to say that the farmers and workers of America in terms of dollars and cents now, and greater security against the menace of war in the future, win do far better to think interna UonaUr about the well-being of the German workers than nationally about the profits) governments and individuals may hope...
...Bad appomunents wipe out brave words about state control of water power...
...Jt's fine to know that our comrades are on His job...
...The substance of the story was that Tammany is a kind mother to the distressed masses, distributing substantial aid to them every year...
...At any rate, the Civic Federation has successfully "bored within.'' Do organized workingmen and women want wore of it...
...They only hinted they were Impossible...
...So the grafters go their way unmolested and Tammany continues to do business at the old stand...
...i This is what is issuing out of capitalism all over the world and Socialism is the price of averting this j horrible nightmare...
...The international use of the metric system would save an Immense deal of trouble and greatly simplify the tot of our children in learning weights and measures...
...Boom times for Alabama mining are gone, for years at least...
...The report of the Department of Agriculture present* figures to show that the value of farm land has continued to decline...
...Such is the power of habit...
...We favor freedom of speech and of the press...
...The Woll commission means that instead of .winning the open shop and "welfare" capitalists to trade unionism the latter would be allied with the "company union...
...X look to Portland and to cities the atee of Portland tn ether states to lead the way in a Socialist and labor advance beginning as tax Beading with tagmetoal affairs...
...that the ruilstlsl ptetfccm egteawt eaty ray ef hepa," writes taskJA rrs HABO TO BOSS AN BNB was* en the mere, SHes Bnsabsfrl...
...A few selfish representatives year after year for their own advantage block the Karris amendment...
...The present law allows 64 hours of work a week...
...Moreover, General Fries, before the House Appropriations Committee this week, has admitted that the civilian population face death from gas attacks but he minimizes the danger by citing protective measures being worked out by the War Department The substance of the Fries testimony is that large supplies of gas masks have already been distributed throughout the United States in areas that may be the scene of gas attacks...
...I hope te boost tor our paper sasj at X uve...
...But—and this is the significant point of the experience they did not even try to answer my argument or to say that u would not be a good thing to bring about the changes we Socialists ask...
...How half these boats use oil burners, and this business has dropped to 600,000 tons...
...Woll will consider it treason for members of the unions to resist any plan for fraternak relations with the "company unions...
...If some of our readwsJM are sitting pretty, relatively spsaBtt could read some of the letters te eJM reference is made, they would shew ate pep In boosting the circulation ef W paper...
...New York City is among the areas likely to be attacked by poison gas and Fries tries to soothe our apprehensions...
...Pram Hoover down they are afraid of real Socialism That is why they want to keep the people frightened of some bogey-man they call So Isllll The more reason, then, for us to keep on advertising the real article...
...A LAME DUCK SESSION In the world of politics we are again enduring a teme-duck session of Congress which is a travesty » democracy and an< Invitation to corruption...
...Another Dictatorship ITHIX a few weeks after Roumanian peasants ousted a corrupt Liberal regime which had plundered Roumania for many years Yugoslavia, by a royal coup d'etat, becomes a dictatorship under King Alexander...
...As a matter of fact it has always believed, and still believes, there is room far radical improvement both in our political and industrial life...
...They told stories supposed to be humorous, talked about Lineote Jefferson and human nature and otherwise acted like second-rate preachers...
...Alexaader Crate aad W. t. Ham fllwtfc "BttevAJaBSgT BwBWvfi* praise fee the week Um'tBE^BEbI LEADEB is detog...
...There is no adequate protection against a nation of skilled workers like the Germans slaving away at low wages for the benefit of foreign bond holders...
...White Coal" Displaces Many Alabama Miners BIRMINGHAM— > —Hydro-electric power bus ntclcsd about 3,000 Alabama coal diggers ofr the payroll in the last few years, report reveal The 3.000 miners would be loading- 2,000,600 tons a year more for Alabama power plants and another million teas far use in Georgia if the rivers bad not bean harnessed tor •white coal' Other miners will lose their jobs after the opening- of the 144.000 horsepower Jordan Dam by Alabama Power Co...
...jm Putnam of Philadelphia...
...fBJ ly through our efforts the ctty of BBS win be known wherever books puns'HJ —are reed Not a day passes feat m the orders came in for BmctsBB SB niflcent novel...
...Yet we have small hope for .such a revision in the near future...
...THEY WONT ANSWER The other day I wasted hours listening to a Republican and a Democratic speaker who followed me in explaining the principles of our respective parties...
...I confess that I who see no rational argument at all for our system of spelling am always inclined to be a little Irritated and pustied when I receive a phonetically spelled letter...
...And stai the orders for and THE NEW LEADER r)f*m Here's a couple among the asfE Sam Goldman ef Lymm and...
...Trotsky and his associates in Russia are in exile for disagreeing with the leaders of his part...
...E. J. Mitchetr of Wi***m John Frodtl of Prnnjylvam*, JSJJJ Benson of Jtiinoit, E. A. Pittsburgh, Stanley Marsh °fj>m9 Wm...
...The Shaxjaaartea stem signed up with the union after a Professor Dewey vs...
...There ere lots of arguments for the convenience of such a change in our workaday world...
...Sam A. Postmen, MsanBBBjW jack Holdridge, California...
...The L A. of If...
...Woll is now a member of a Commission of the National Civic Federation that is working out some plan of cooperation between company unions and trade unions' We wonder what members of the trade unions think of this amazing performance...
...BBPABATIOKS AND SLAVXRY During toe neat law weeks or monthi we are going-to bear and see the words, "capacity to pay," over and over again...
...any...
...The eight hour day, five day week, old age pensions, unemployment isnurance, and the "social wage" rule are among the measures the Machinists have specifically endorsed...
...War and compares them with the conflicts and prejudices of today he will be able to properly estimate the job of the peace-makers...
...Men getting only $2.50 to $4-00 a gay far part time work are putting up with about all they can stand...
...R. Gilbert, Milwaukee, ***M that he has enlisted in THE LEADER army for life...
...Life is made so miserable for him that he either surrenders to his persecutors or else he is finally driven out of business...
...Great Britain clumsily clings to her cumbersome non decimal currency...
...One million tons need to be sold to coal burning ships touching at Gulf ports...
...Perhaps the most astonishing revelation made by Professor Dewey is the statement that Mr...
...In other words, they are not likely to allow any margins to satisfy the Just demands of the German* workers for an improved standard of living...
...this January...
...Wen, it's no surprise that a state Hke ties* stands at the too* of the Us* to aQ those respects by which ssctel well being is measured...
...It is a good theme for discussion in their local and central bodies...
...Fascism has imprisoned or exiled every active opponent of it Brookwood Labor College is the victim of the same procedure and the reasons given for its condemnation do not conflict with the reasons supporting Fascism and Communist domination...
...We do not believe that one open shop employer in that organization has been won to trade union organization...
...also public ownership and operation of all public utilities,- he declares, referring to the action of the recent convention of the L A. of M. at Atlanta...
...The state was already getting S3.1 per cent of its electric energy from waterpower, and in adjacent Georgia HJ par cent was...
...WILLING BUT MOT GOOD Mr...
...Certainly not the Republican Party even If tie newly elected President is the most traveled American...
...Been if they get them they cannot save the situation...
...This region is still a storehouse of explosives that may again set the world on fire...
...If the fat politicians must have graft let them look elsewhere than to the street peddler and his kind...
...The poor man has enough to carry without having Tammany grafters astride his back...
...The same thing- is true of tie farmer** votes...
...There is very little evidence, for Instance, that that bright young man, Parker Gilbert, who is a kind of caar under the Dawes plan, has ever thought much about what the workers have a right to ask...
...For Socialist Self-Education 'J'HE attention of party members in New York City is called to an article appearing'on another page under the heading "Rand School Will Help to Build Party...
...Of some 80 million people living in this section of Europe it is estimated that about 60 million have either racial, religious, national, economic, or territorial prejudices of one sort or another against Yugoslavia...
...This grafting continues and yet despite ample evidence of it submitted to the December Grand Jury it failed to make out a single indictment...
...When he retina, hewfl flu In II......11si iillTi tils ¦iiiatiiBiWgsgf tertty...
...Some mines were shut for months and others were on tt?o and three days a week...
...Those who pay property or persons...
...Woll, who spend so much time in denouncing the Bolshevist bogey, themselves embrace the chief tenet of Bolshevism...
...It is...
...Grafting on Peddlers QNE of the most contemptible forms of graft and petty persecution of which Tammany administration has been guilty for many years is that related to pushcart peddlers...
...Alabama operators may cut wages again here in reply, but local labor prices have already been cut to the bone and another reduction might increase labor turnover to the danger point...
...The government, he declares, has developed the most effective gas mask in the world, ignoring the fact that this merely provides an incentive for a more powerful gas to penetrate the "most effective mask...
...For its sins of omission in this case alone Governor Roosevelt should investigate a Public Service Commission which has proved so poor a defender of consumers' rights...
...of experts to, consider Germany's capacity to pay will, be very important to the well-being of I American farmers and workers and, in-' deed, to the peace of the world...
...Even dictators nave store trouble with these matters of custom and hate* than wish weightier qntsttoni, It is reported that Mustapha Kernel of Turkey is having men trouble introducing the Latin alphabet into his country than in an the political changes he has made...
...By sweeping decrees Parliament is dismissed, the constitution is suspended, local elections are abolished, the press comes under a severe law limiting comment, ministers are responsible onlfr to the King who issues laws, appoints public officials and officers of the army and fixes the line of dynastic succession...
...What Tammany does is to assist voters in distress in cases where they either are known to support Tammany in elections or that they are likely to support it...
...And as yet there isnt enough public opinion to force so simple and obviously useful a reform...
...It is not possible to separate them In fact...
...The readjustment between the old calendar and the new would not raise serious difficulties...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas b-nched'aa our* fMreptfMfe m UdV^tiw afvEsaa w+SLlZSm* owe year tor Ml BteTTteaaw beXBwtoki The las* mas was burned aft the stake and Governor BObo has bo-time or money to tavestisate lass people...
...A. W. <¦ ten, Kentucky...
...Which proves, I suppose, how far from Intelligent we are about our own interests...
...The best little truth teBer ever geBl eefc" John W. Mclntyre...
...N* JP letters, talks by AWgfctof Wi salesmen, high-powered pep fjgej quotas, etc., are necessary to awnj the mlert and foresifihted to t«u 4 vantage of the "Bottom"-Mm LEADER offer...
...Lawrence water power...
...The poor peddler or shopkeeper who openly opposes Tammany is terrorized...
...It would pay us over and over again not as a matter of capitalist justice but of good sense to forgive the allied debts if by so doing we could help clear up the whole reparations problem and promote disarmament...
...The -™»T-r—T1- —TUllli ttte ajj —Jamj « f^e-B>a?>'' voters but you cannot prove tt by r^*frw to ntenzqen of the law-aaaaJsa hadham-^ Machinists Editor Calls for Aggressive Policy Daring 1929 WASHINGTON-- (PP> — Editor Fred Hewitt of the Machinists' Journal, in the January issue of tats official organ of the International Association of Msrhtnlrtn...
...has never been classed as a conservative organisation...
...We're too laay...
...demand for American foodstuffs and other materials and win create a dangerous low wage competition in the markets of the world which win hit us aQ...
...Not only do we need more and better speakers, but it is necessary to promote greater intellectual activity among our whole membership...
...In 1928 production fell to 17.500,000 tons, less than any year since the strike and depression of 1930-31 and less than 1911...
...One reason for trade union representatives entering the Civic Federation years ago was on the assumption that they would win some of the big capitalists to a favorable attitude towards trade unions...
...Think of this advice as applied to one twelve-story apartment and the panic of all the occupants to find security "upstairs...
...Now I have bad similar experiences before...
...When we begin to feel uncomfortable we can use a device that will admit air purified of gas...
...We'are a militant organization, and will not hesitate to support our members in an aggressive movement to enforce recognition of their rights, and will back them to the limit in maintaining conditions already gained...
...If one remembers the old complexities of the Balkans before the beginning of the Work...
...Further loss of trade is possible to competing coal fields since the northern wage cuts...
...I cannot do without Bf Sib: gftuflfaitr 1ib«61jk£Q9Bb% ]bs4B) Pbsi* '' ^Jf Alex MeLeem— mt BrMte* OateaM eeadtaaee te keep THE MEW XEBBK Bag Eying...
...Useless the negotiations for the revision of the Dawes Plan which are about to enter the stage of a meeting of a commission...
...Be states the program of the union, tochtoafc certain measures generally branded as radical by A. T. of L. executives at convention time...
...What impresses us is the fact, not stated by Professor Dewey but logically inferred from his article, is that leaders like Mr...
...Waterpower Indeed is not the only factor curtailing the state's coal trade...
...JOsiJ _ee^.-_ .^^eWw> _t eP^S^^^--.* Authority of New York—apyoiitfmrrs)s uLn It-i may be good yoisLKs far Governor Tstootewdk j tBic*/ show no progressive leadership...
...lZtb, eat ef town a* wax egflf Terk Boosters, should keep the d«fi "THE NEW LEADER to one eTfgt< necessities...
...Matthew Woll IT is significant that within a few days after the appearance of The New Republic last week it was difficult to obtain a copy at the newsstands...
...The Rand School's program for this winter and spring terms leaves no excuse for the lack of Socialist knowledge and understanding m our ranks...
...Did you ever think how tremendously conservative we are tn some matters of custom...
...Then there is competition from oil and gas in the southwest, and in common with an regions the sales to railroads have been cut by the installation of tote type locomotives consuming less coal per ton mine...
...t Bf Sib: gftuflfaitr 1ib«61jk£Q9Bb% ]bs4B) Pbsi...
...It is not nearly' so important to develop mat power right away as to see that it is developed under right conditions...
...J| sending in of a renewal means a xp sacrifice to some ef our most loyal ito porters aad the spirit they Sbsw, jB real Inspiration to the staff of THE IM LEADEB...
...Neither of them had thought two minutes to advance what to say...
...8*111 X hope that my grandchildren in the Cooperative Commonwealth of the future win always be able to know which day of the week Christmas oomes on and not have to worry about spelling the a»»g-it«h language as much as their poor old grandfather...
...J^d6ct^..lpnS|Jl r-JVCP jJjC^Bt»*^jB(f...
...Jo something more] congenial...
...moreover disquieting that the Governor should so greatly overemphasize the importance of haste in developing St...
...cans for a militant year of saltation by the entire membership in 1939...
...They Illustrate the extraordinary fact that in capitalist America politicians don't consider tt good tactics before average audiences to openly defend the economic system which they really support...
...Now the reader may visualize all this for the population of large cities and have some idea of the hideous struggle by men, women and children ^ when poison vapor is released...
...Surrounding Yugoslavia are Bulgaria, Italy, Hungry and Roumania, each with more or less appetite for territorial expansion...
...The trick is this...
...In many cases even if he votes the ticket the victim is expected to pay a little graft for the privilege...
...we shall have to think internaUonally about the anted debts to the United' States...
...He has the necessary power under the Moreland Act...
...Nothing seBrJ boosters for our paper are osssaBJ Here's B. W. Van Winkle of ObtoBJ renewing and sending in two newxttoj So many orders for llbcetov% IB] reached us that THE NEW IXA0BM justified to presenting the ctty datej Bean town a bin for publicity work...
...As a corporation dealing in offices, jobs, contracts, legislation and other commodities, it gives back one dollar out of a hundred which it sweats out of the city...
...Bat our marines, ace stiH tn Haiti and Eteeewgaa The Senate apparently is about u ratify a peace treaty which means less ami less the mora tt Is explained And very nkely the same Senate win then pass the but for the bigger navy, though the tetter may be blacked by the determined opposition of its opponents...
...Returns wtt agj» seen to the coming Spring deottens.Bw Ja the time...
...And, as appeared from Professor Karapetoffs illuminating statement of technical problems in the power industry before the L. I. D. conference, the generation of power is much simpler than its proper distribution...
...taxes may use them as offset* to their income taxes...
...Boston" (to 2 voteM| a year's subscription to THE SB LEADER...
...BEPOBJCDIG TBS CALENDAR { Congress is considering a MB to reform...
...St Loute: tBl WtetS, Msamrhusetts...
...Professor Dewey does not confine himself to the case of Brookwood Labor College which he calls a "scholastic lynching," but relates this injustice to other actions and tendencies, with ^Iatthew Woll as a text...
...You bufid tor the gebfj when you take up the tome new iatg offered by your paper, THE HEW IMgjgS The "flu" chased Thn Murphy aw, | Pennsylvania...
...Any branch which does not hove at least a few of its members enrolled in one or another of the classes to be conducted by such men as Comrades Berenberg, Claessens, Hansome> Lee and Stanley will have failed kt its duty to the movement...
...THE NEW LEADEB grows bettered Eleanor Brannan...
...It is passible to separate the two classes of debts logically and diplomatic...
...That body merely recommended a few reforms...
...One thing common to Fascism, Bolshevism and other dictatorships is that each believes that it has discovered a final truth and that variation from it requires a hea>y penalty...
...An attempt is to be made to obtain international agreement on a revtoed calendar of thirteen twenty-eight day months with one extra "year day" to make the three hundred and sixty-five...
...Just a short time remains Is MB advantage of the premium offer, -s-7m THE NEW LEADEB wH ftesteSgf jg Ftftit Anniversary with a dteaar ogBjE star Halt, (Lincoln's Birthday), twam Feb...
...foreign statistical experts are Basely not to allow enough fodder to keep the oow even moderately contented...
...All we English speaking peoples cling to our crasy system of spelling which is an outstanding obstacle to the extension of English as a world language and is said to coat our children years of extra time In school...
...Injunction Hobbles Sine Workers' Strike SUMMIT, K. J.—(F.P)—Organisers age] easgebers of toe Associated 8Sk Workers are forbidden to apeak to employes of the struck BhsnesaTton sfik null in Bwgemtt, to engage la say picketing or to...
...Hoover has come back from taking goodwill to Latin America and bringing goodwill back—maybe...
...We wonder whether Mr...
...On the other hand American nianiiiai turns and workera scared by this artificially forced type of competition win want higher and higher tariff...
...The victorious allies win at least demand from Germany what they have to pay the United States...
...Probably the reason why the Socialist vote was not tergarlast year was because many voters wanted their' votes to count- They are like the union rope maker who «ad happy because the noose that strangled ban bore the iubob ¦ label...
...The proposed measure, to be tabrodaosd to the state legislature in January, would limit the working hoars to 44 a weak...
...On the one band American investors in German stocks sod bonds win want us to receive'more and more goods from Germany...
...These bodies together with the Public Service CuJiBMJMJgn 'Wky furnish the acid test of Rocwevek's ¦ilMiiiHrrtiiai They can rain any system of social control...
...He wffi redoublebis efforts to increase oar markets abroad Erie, toe latter country betog tn bock to of service...
...Now we can have little confidence in Governor Roosevelt's attitude on power distribution so long as he accepts complacently the legacy of a Public Service Commission which permitted the Brooklyn and New York gas and electric merger under terms which about doubled the stock of the new company and have already added an estimated load of $32,000,000 in extra dividends which the consumers must pay...
...J The minute we begin to think Interna- j tionaUy about these German reparations...
...any strike activity, according to terms of a temporary injuncttoa given the firm by We Chanselinr Cbnrch...
...M Wagaoa>j trait...
...That issue carries Professor Dewey's article on * Labor Politics and Labor Education-' and it deserves careful reading by every member of a trade imion...
...This precious law seems likely to be the first fruit of the Hoover landslide to Oregon...
...How long win ww Americans be disgraced by even one lynching in a year...
...That ratfihcs the wage worker and the renting farmer who have no offsets...
...We emphatically endorse Norman Thomas' suggestion in his column last week that the Governor should look into this matter...
...NEW LEADEB a New Teert gW **j§| We receive many tetters ta whtea'M cut respondents say that they are ttoS urns of the "prosperity" that smssBS tie-hold on great masses of worhws...
...George K Geebet (Is there *•**>*¦ who does net knew hess) east...
...The fact is beteg.*j sTttBs time, are certain W/tflg^Ql suite to labor union activates, SaeM Party afgaatotiteaw and other games 1 vSbWbv(C4 pufcjteil^r B^BBW(aBBB\ 4bbba M •aatesUon results...
...pages of our paper...
...For a grand jury to overlook such facts that are notorious is to give free rein to a form of meanness that is disgusting in the extreme...
...to derive from a defeated enemy...
...Just a few more sets of "Boston* J band...
...These poor street peddlers have been hounded by officials and made to pay tribute out of their meager earnings...
...PHILADELPHIA— ( TT) —The Hosiery Workers' Union is taking an active part in the drive to reduce hours of work for women in Pennsylvania...
...Since the victorious Republican party won't hear of that, an that is left is for us to hope that German capacity to pay will be interpreted as Intelligently as possible so as to lighten the slavery of her workers to foreign bond holders and to lessen as far as possible' the terrible risk to the world of enforcing such slavery on any nation...
...Here are the names of tl of the boosters that one day* fl brought to...
...A few months before the election Boss Olvany told a sob story in the Times Sunday Magazine relating to the "charitable" works of his organization in this city...
...Never...
...In the second place...
...The tnjusettoiv may be made wto to a farther hearing before Judge Otareh January la...
...New Leader Gitt-Edged Security By OUR FINANCIAL EDITOR I II.PM was an anarp rtee sa M ar.EjfU^bfto30* dmtoj Oat wi •**» as that whSe moneyls tteh%« are marry prospective 1......mi wbsfj tot that THE NEW LEADER, bring* g tifytog returns...
...But nobody expects the system to be adopted to America...
...Yugoslavia was the creation of the Paris Peace Conference, a concrete example of "self-determination"' as the -victors understood it...
...Stooe they are spotted to Germany joa Germany is far sway, and since the arguments about "capacity to pay" wffl be dtnlrenatift and own and vary statistical, most of as win probably pay so attention to them' and turn over the...
...A NEW TAX GAME A letter from Comrade Strelff of Portland, Oregon, tells me of the good fight some of our Socialist comrades are making against, an extraordinary income tax framed to catch the poor man...
...C. D. Mann, Etonra,E.T« Among the lift of timgUs, »te AH Dr...
...from this source...
...Certainly another strange installment of a world "made safe for Democracy...
...Even if there were no religious opposition to it on account of ttf effect on religious holy days sheer inertia and prejudice would block the change...
...Our Leader and THE NEW XEdBfl are leaders indeed," Is the view ftatS companies the renewal of one ef m waukee's enthusiasts, Arpad Mitoart'l THE PROFS ARE FOR THE COURT five of the profesers in Backned verity sign up for the course in information and knoledge that has What's to a name...
...If Germany is to be treated like a patient cow to be milked as dry as possible, some serious things are likely to happen.1 In the first place sooner or later the cow, is likely to kick...
...He can also imagine the whole population of a city like New York seeking refuge in "upstairs" rooms...
...the calendar...
...Three quarreling nationalities, Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as well as Moslems, Catholics and many of the Orthodox Church," were "united" under one government...
...When the gas alarm sounds we are advised to go into an "upstairs room," plug the keyhole, seal all other air vents with paper, and we will be safe till the oxygen is exhausted...
...Bow out of this curious picture who can shape a program of aeonomlc and political relations with other it***"Bi: which win guarantee peace...
...It shows the present trend in the unions...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 56
