NOW WE ARE FOUR
NOW WE ARE WORK The New Leader Staff Makes A Birthday Pledge IJOCN years, sjbort encssth in the history of most newspaper enterprises, bat to have kept head above water and Cast ear giuund...
...DAVID P. BEBENBEBG...
...aad ssoaSaoi the wise...
...The Mew Leader has done...
...It is for you to answer...
...A. Wat was toastmaster...
...Only we would be inclined to substitute for "infuriated wildcat...
...The Staff of The New Leader...
...The purpose of the burses hffi provide professional service to elected tM edaliat -f*-*-1- to tbe'form of advice sat latiaiiiiienrtstlnno ' At lta recent session tbe Stats Xsaesi tfve Committee adopted a reaoiuttosf iiWatfiliiiiiiltiw that tbe national assess...
...Tears for those who have made the New Leader one of anxieties, perplexities, even heartbreaks at times...
...He worked as a mechanic and became a disciple of FUipe Carillo Puerto, who then ruled Yucatan...
...It is a rather dirty mess no matter how you may look at it and an interesting prelmiinary...
...If you and the thousands of other renders of Tbe New Leader, reaming that this la In very truth your paper, speaking your language, and putting youi cause before the American people, do here and now resolve that you will be ol substantial service to Tbe New Leader by asndSag to subscriptions and advertisements, then Indeed we can go fun steam aheadJoin With Us fat The Crnnade Never wastaere a greater need for an aggressive...
...It was Oscar taisilisjin who said...
...All this she knows...
...We have in mind the business of saving the republic from mystic Bolsheviks...
...Almost 40 out of the 60 yean of Comrade Shapiro's busy and ussfsl life have been devoted to the service of the Socialist and Labor movement...
...4. The National Executive Secretary may act as secretary of the Bureau, or may provide it with a special secretary as required...
...But as M. H. Badges recently pointed out in a brilliant article to Tbe New Leader, all the devices which capitalism is bringing to bear for tbe subtle oppression of the workers— company unionism, group insurance, service buttons, company-bestowed old age pensions and the like—cannot at any time of crisis take the place of that service to human needs and Interests which Socialism offers...
...Aw well...
...with city-planning, building codes, public bnfldlng construction, eta, a paving expert, a sewerage expert, as electrical engineer, a telephone expert, an authority on relations with public service corporations, a teacher or person with school-board experience, an export on financing and accounting, a statistician and expert on office organisation...
...All across America men and women are writing to The'New Leader commending the paper for its stand against capitalist hypocrisy, and urging that the fight be carried on with even greater vigor...
...Here the office boy interrupts my own musing long enough to remind you that Brother Ralph Cheyney has organized the Rebel Poets, a society of those whose verse can help sing in the New Day, when poets and artists, and artisans will ply and Indulge in their craft as their true selves will move them The dues are nominal, only $1.00 per year, and all of you who write, not for money but for self-expression...
...t£ ________ 9, A* DeWhV - New York Socialist Technical Bureaule commended to N.E.C The state office of tbe Socialist tafl of New York State has for a —-n.iij years maintained a Technical BwbsjI HsisliUisj of men who are expert) I etty planning and municipal aflkks Jjj general...
...He is one of the rawest deals that the Republicans of Illinois have put over on the people of the state, and that is saying a lot...
...Soliloquy "Dancing the blues away—" Snoring phonograph I Why do they always play tinned music When I want silence...
...Four years...
...Eight thousand .dollars for two hours on the fiddle, did you hear...
...Cone, perhaps, not as effectively as we aught have wished, but done at any rate to a manner that makes Its future assured so lone as there Is a Socialist and labor movement worth the chronicling...
...The Torch-Bearers ALTHOUGH by an oversight we are a week late in paying our tribute to two New York comrades who were the recipients of testimonial dinners by their friends, we hasten to make amends tor the omission...
...Given to these larties it may mean the commission of suicide...
...Three thousand five hundred seats, and five hundred standing, four thousand in all...
...Funny tale, and so fraught with sadness...
...Everything will be sacrificed to feed the furnace of war...
...Dancing the blues away—" —THE OFFICE BOY...
...We realise- that we are editing a paper which is being read by working men and women in America to ISM, and that the cross-section ef America which we reach is not so much interested In the One shadings of social philosophy as in everyday, bread and butter problems, .tad to those watt may object that our special stories and features are not profound enough, la that tbe Hew Leader is "highbrow...
...Did you know your arts Would be used In such derision...
...Each will have a carcass to throw at the other during the campaign, for Mrs...
...Heifetx today...
...Frank &St &U Story, of one party, headquarters in Chicago in 1924 calling tip the headqtarters of the rival party in New York a few day* before the election and arranging for a gin party of both in the latter city following receipt of the election returns...
...To do this, it has taken on its staff and for its contributors men and women who have proved their fundamental Integrity, and who possess expert and apaciaased knowledge of the Socialist and, labor movement...
...It was- easy plucking and many charlatans lived a happy life...
...Certainly, no lover of music ought to understand the sordid machinery of trial, error and bitter endeavor behind each glittering recital...
...Feels they -in—*rh...
...In many parts )f the world American investments come in contact with British investments...
...Augistlno Sandino, rebel leader in Nicaragua, served in Mexico with Pancho Villa and was a member of that leader's raiding' party at Columbus, N. M...
...In many respects this banquet was unique...
...The Ousting of Smith CONSIDER for a moment Illinois and die barring of Frank Smith, the Senator-elect from that unhappy state...
...Shaking 'Em Down QN'E of the essential industries spawned by the World War was a peculiar form of graft which for a number of years paid handsome dividends...
...Dead Cats WHEN the State of New-York is represented in the National Republican and Democratic :onventions and the brokers choose candidates to x>lice us for King Capital, it will carry to both auctions the smell of big graft...
...Governor Small announces that he is deeply affronted at the action, of the senate m excluding Smith, because the latter was indiscreet enough to spend about half a million dollars on his primary elections...
...Well, to be sure, if we have succeeded at an, thrift and hard work have lertalnly had something to do with it, and abstinence from dissipation has been our part perforce, as one does not lead a double life on the income derived from publishing a labor paper...
...Sandino attended his meetings and became a fervent convert to the Governor's theories...
...Every time I listen to tbe perfect sob of a violin, or the pretty trickle of treble chords on the piano, my pleasure at the music's Insistence is dulled by the thought of the wearied hours and days and years that dragged alone...
...Whether highbrow or superficial, at aO events give us credit tor having carried on during days when tbe stoutest hearts nave weakened, and tbe "What's-theuse...
...The latest instant w/oo*r of...
...Indifferent turnouts...
...them as such, snaptog a record of tba education and qualifications of each member, which record shall be open sat available to all elected Socialist eaV clala whether National, State or Mam...
...Another case is that of a woman who recently died in Middletown, Conn...
...la cruel monotonous r.\9tition of stroke, and touch and fingering until the pure mechanics of playing the instrument were perfected...
...With proper support Its future Is indeed bright...
...Do not let the prosperity ballyhooers get away with the old hokum regarding the millions of workers who have savings deposits...
...Tbe New Leader Is In an unusually advantageous position to become tbe rallying-point for those who would build up in this country a labor press of genuine service to Its readers...
...Mrs Eva Dann rendered some songs and tbe quartet of too choir of the Vladecc Forum sang some beautiful Jewish folk songs...
...A sensation mad pubao is poinring Uiousaoda upon thousands of dollars into his guardian's purse...
...All this, of course, is aside from the merits of the refusal of the Senate to seat Smith...
...If one Is sensible, on his birthday he struts a bit, sticks out bis chest, gives Interviews to visiting newspaper correspondents, on rules for success and bow be achieved his end by thrift, hard work, and abstinence from any sort of dissipation...
...For many weeks the 'New Tammany," the Tammany that has washed its ears, wiped its nose, and is preparing to move to i more respectable neighborhood, has had the Queens sewer graft of a few million dollars staring it in the face...
...All that the blood of man When man turns beast, Can brand upon her soul...
...But there is neither mind nor spirit in the flesh, the pale, wiry fingers, nor the set visionless eyes above the instrument...
...the-Jong antagonism with Great Briain over her practice of impressing American seanen for forced service in her navy, the Oregon xmndary dispute with its jingo cry in politics of '54, 40 or Fight", and any number of other disputes which will serve the gang who want another jolly var...
...When the courts recently decided that the governor would have to refund a cool million dollars which was strangely missing from the state treasury, the Governor complied by levying an assessment on all»State employees, including the scrubwomen in the State House at Springfield, naively explaining that it would financially em harass him to pay the money back from his own pocket...
...The United States has become the leadng power of the world...
...Nobody knows how many depositors there are but it is certain that the number is much smaller than the number advertised...
...the employment of Inlians on the frontier to scalp farmers, trappers and heir families...
...Muse of Greece...
...I must confess to a great love for music, yes to an unconquerable passion for its soul lifting joys...
...Of course we will not fan those of the Inarticulate producers of the country's wealth who have placed then- faith In us...
...30, tbe Williamsburg Socialists, Workmens Circle members and trade unionists tendered a banquet to William Shapiro at the Philip Morris Mansion, to celebration of his SMS birthday...
...Ship" is a type of Soctalirt and trade unionist whose idealism has never become tainted with that cynicism that has afflicted some of the old idealists in the unions...
...The Savings Bunk IN a recent issue we called attention to the bunk regarding the number of savings depositors in the United States...
...Brown dress with flare sleeves— Oraceful as the willow reeds— Swaying—blending—disappearing— ' Ta-ta-ta-da-yo-do-do— Nasty anise box...
...Berman is of another type, one who has won leisure for himself and family and might easily retire from the'Socialist'movement and pay homage to the altars Babbittry, but for him life is joy in the old human struggle for a better world...
...Sandino Nicaragua...
...A recent output of his is a seven-column advertisement in New York .papers showing a skeleton with a seed bag sowing seeds and carrying a scythe to reap the harvest...
...Many comrades spoke glowingly of Comrade Shapiro's life and erainplo...
...When man is least...
...THE story runs of how once after a recital by Jascha *¦ Heifets, the eminent young Jewish violinist, a father brought his boy before the box office of tbe theatre to listen to the following conversation: Father to the man behind the grating:—"Mister, please tall me and my son Mischa how many people came in to hear Mr...
...Your votes are priceless this year...
...If the jresent drift continues The New Leader will be able :o reprint this editorial as a prediction of the accuracy of Socialist forecasts...
...According' to Nicaraguans who knew him in Mexico, Sandino first came to this country in 1923...
...And we can do this with your help...
...Music through its own magic gives itself a soul...
...To reach more of them with our message of constructive radicalism is our fondest hope...
...Considering that each party- has a. dead animal on its hands there may be a quiet agreement between both to bury the bodies...
...The faith that buUded France— And killed the Maid...
...Bine • Printing The New Capitalism It Is true that there sire times when It seems as though the so-called "New Capitalism", which with all the powerful lnfhsenees for submission which It can rally, has won the victory...
...Death and Disaster Ahead WORK_RS who supply the human sacrifices in war might as well make up their minds that we are on the road to another war...
...The bomb squad clubbed some heads and tbe National Security I-eague appeared in the headlines to save the republic...
...Like a man dragging a dead cat at his' heels, this has been very embarrassing to Tammany...
...f course, it will be necessary to wipe the slate lean of all the words of affection spoken when the United States was allied with Great Britain in the World War but that can be done and it will be done...
...boy 'kith an unpronounceable' name, played a difficult Bach concerto with the pease sad technique of a Fritz Kreialer...
...elpel...
...To the distress of somcr comrades who still believe that anything which is understandable is necessarily superficial...
...The seed sown is Communism and the soil is the United States...
...Your musing gives our Newer songsters Plots and themes To bold above your graves— To mock you in your sleep To show you laughter is A sword ( i "Dancing tbe blues away—" Her body is a bended bow...
...Here you find one of the thousand reasons why I am a Socialist...
...We pointed out that depositors generally place their savings in two or more banks yet each deposit is counted as a depositor...
...This seeks can do...
...Now anything that can affront Governor Small of Illinois is in the nature of a miracle...
...Did you know what later Gods Insulted your decision...
...The Administration program of naval armament and the shouting of our naval jingoes who are talking in terms of a billion dollars program make this inevitable unless the masses send representatives of their class to Washington to avert the disaster...
...In revolt against the prwSent day money madness ought to sand in royf applications, to Ralph Cheyney, ear*- of the Hew Leader...
...But I must further admit to a subtle shuddering every time the perfection of sound pours into my ears...
...There was the case of one woman who had deposits in 34 banks but in census returns she appears as 34 depositors...
...Here are two depositors alone'who appear in official figures as 67 depositors...
...the violin, a Jsyi...
...A few others are involved in the dirty mess and if the State recovers nearly $200,000 illegally spent it will have to bring action in court...
...The Conservatives had regained power there, and Sandino was advised he would find Nuevo Segovia more healthy than the southern part of his country...
...Fust of all it was a rare tribsN to a comrade who bad seldom made s speech, written on article, or was 0*01 In tbe limelight and whose 40 years was one of service as platform carrier, literature distributor and all round Jimmy Bh> gins...
...Everywhere there are signs of an awakening to the grim reality of the life of a worker In America today...
...Villa had been assassinated two years before...
...Behind her prison bars What you have known, All that the^souls of man...
...Swaying—blending—disappearing— Swerving like green wave rearing— Beauty— Her hair Is like the aureole of light Around the infant Jesus on the night That wise men came to pay their homage— "Dancing the blues away—" O Terpsichore 1 O Clio...
...The Governor himself is an affront to decent citizens everywhere...
...We can say that throughout tour years The New Leader has been faithful to the larger ideas- and Ideals of the Socialist Party/that It has never consciously favored any cliques within the party, that It has shunned all manner of factionalism which might weaken the movement, and that to the best of its ability It has constantly held before Its readers the goal of us all—namely the creating of a cooperative commonwealth here and abroad...
...He's studying violin and I want him to hear this for his own Inspiration...
...Who knows but that four years from now we may be celebrating an anniversary of the founding of a daily labor paper of Incalculable benefit to the entire Socialist and labor movement...
...Neither party organization of rapitalism reveals opposition to this fearful catastrophe and when we are dragged into it all opposition will be made a crime...
...The investments and loans jf its ruling classes extend all over the world and a >ig navy is their police department...
...We predict that within the next few years this propaganda will begin to take shape so that the nasses may be fitted for the slaughter...
...There are he old stories of British1 employment of Hessians in he War of the Revolution...
...Because ft presents In non-partisan fashion the significant news of tbe labor world, free from tbe bias of factionalism...
...Crasee...
...The challenge to British naval power is easily understood...
...Every time I hear of a young prodigy and his success on tbe concert stage, this story bobs up before my mind...
...3. Any technical problem referred ta the Bureau shall in turn be referral to the particular Director to whom it is most familiar, and he may pass It along to Bureau members deemed most competent to advise as to its best solution, or may furnish the required advice hintself...
...That The Now Leader has played its part in this awakening is evidenced with the arrival of every mall In our office...
...Two men more worthy of such testimonials could not be chosen than Abraham Shiplacoff of the Pocketbook Makers and Morris Berman of The New Leader Board...
...to the'eampaigfi this year...
...Now it can rejoice that the other political firm of capitalism will drag a dead cat into the Republican convention this year...
...Carillo Puerto held advanced Socialistic views and promulgated them vigorously...
...May they carry the torch to old age, their tribe multiply, and inspire many others tQ follow, their example, THE CHATTER BOX Prayer to Joan — (For Milk a, the Maid of the Colorado Strikers) Joan, look down on her, She Is alone...
...eight thousand dollars...
...Sandino left Merida for Tampico, and after a few weeks returned to Nicaragua...
...NOW WE ARE WORK The New Leader Staff Makes A Birthday Pledge IJOCN years, sjbort encssth in the history of most newspaper enterprises, bat to have kept head above water and Cast ear giuund In these dokbjum - days Is oomfUilisy, of an achievement for any labor paper...
...William Shapiro Honored Friday evening, Jan...
...Old ladies fainted and the Union League Club mobilized its members for an air attack...
...The upper range of our Babbitts invested millions in it but the industry declined despite all efforts to keep it a going concern...
...Among the charges are forgery, false audits and certifications and abstraction of public records in taking the census of 1925...
...Yes, I believe the total receipts were something over eight thousand dollars for the recital...
...In our opinion this sets.a bad precedent...
...Freddie has few competitors in this industry for we have not for a year or more seen any advertisements or documents of this kind and all of them found their way into The New Leader office...
...We of Tbe New Leader greet you...
...You might as well have the coin of the illiterates who do not know any more about the Third International than they do about the fourth dimension...
...Sandino, they'say, settled down to live at Merida, the capital of Yucatan...
...Fred R. Marvin of the "Key Men of America", is one of the few^survivors of this rosy era of easy graft and he is still "shaking 'em down for the long green...
...While we are thinking jf wages, hours, democracy and more freedom, here is a monster that will throw everything dear to us into the ditch...
...Tbe adventure started on four years ago Is now in full swing, with every indication of »™ttiny and colorful days ahead...
...If there are those who think that our rulirfg ilasses cannof put over hymns of hate against the British people as they did against the German people hey are mistaken...
...They seethe the grieved, the staseora they chastise...
...A political revolt of the masses ran avert death and disaster, death for millions and iisaster for human freedom...
...sation of tbe party establish a 'inaiilgsj bureau to render similar service to Socialist officials The substance of tks recommendation is contained to the fallowing escerpt from the resolution wtuea has been sent to the National STetaLiai Committee of the party: 1. The National Secretary of tin ga_ clallst Party shall from time to than communicate with men and women qo*_> Ified tor membership to the Technics* Bureau, and shall have power to ones...
...Her cool lips balm Tbe burning to my eyes— Tbe perfume of her hair is sweet...
...Oh, for a world where children may grow into their art without the hunger of their parents driving them out of their due as children...
...The pleasures of boyhood, play, study, reading-, companionship are all denied the child...
...And even while Mischa was nodding his head a broad paternal hand whacked itself resoundingly across his pale little face, and a hoarse familiar voice thundered into his dazed brain . . . "NOW WILL YOU PRACTISE...
...and this, thanks to yon, and the other loyal readers this cuuuUj over...
...Florence E. S. Knapp, ex-Secretary of State for New York, is the subject of a report and recommendations by Randall J. Le Boeuf, Jr., who charges her with "criminal intent to defraud the State...
...Hundreds of vain parents are urging their own tots onto unbearable inhuman labor with the vision of this success before their greedy senses...
...The Accomplishment At this period, we can point with pride to certain accomplished facts...
...A fine gift was presented to Mr...
...The Man at the Window...
...At times it has seemed like that to us on The New Leader...
...Patriot, Follower of Carillo, Martyred Mexican Socialist Mexico City.—The statement by Major Gen...
...Her suppleness answers The rigidity of time...
...j 3. The National Executive BBBwaij, with the advice and consent of the National Executive Committee shall appoint a Board of Directors for tbe Technical Bureau, which Board may be TitHiilei of eleven or more' Directors ss follows: A lawyer familiar with corporauoa counsel duties, a physician familiar with public health requirements, an arch!test lajnflhw...
...Joan, look down on her, Por in her glows Tbe faith of children, great And unafraid...
...and Mat Shapiro as a token of tbe affection of Kings County comrades A musical program was rendered by 81dney Schwarsk and Frieda Kirscb...
...Do you bear me Mischa, PRACTISE...
...But years nevertheless filled with the soulsatisfying sense of doing a piece of work well worth the doing, and of being to the van of a fight for a world where happiness shall have a wider distribution, and the creative instincts of man a freer range...
...He was next heard from, his friends say, in the San Albino mining region, He was a military liberal and enthusiastic about introducing some of CarBio Puerto's ideas into Nicaragua- He began organising a following when EmlHaao Chansorra deposed President Solozano, and with this following joined the Sacasa revolution...
...Shake 'em down, Freddie...
...Graft returns on this should be considerable despite the fact that Communism has been reduced to a few street "nuclei" in New York and Chicago...
...Hundreds of organizations appeared and marketed the new product...
...Of course, our burlesque bolshies at the beginning of the industry, when the stock was selling at a premium, occasionally hurled a few bristling documents from high buildings...
...During the de la Huerta revolution Carillo Puerto was Imprisoned and executed...
...It is also reported that it will probably cost $100,000 to meet the cost of investigating the sewer grafters...
...If they can laugh over gin there is no imni why the party brokers cannot sign a treaty to bnry their respective cats for the odor is of no service to either...
...But birthdays are no times for dragging up unhappy recollections...
...The Father: "And the average price was two dollars a seat, no...
...All that is necessary is to go back to the literary nitput in this country from the period of the revoution down to the Civil War, bring this stuff up to late for modern consumption, and British "Huns" urill take the place of German "Huns...
...Wans and touching tributes were paid htm by his comrades and tbe delegates from various organizations...
...Hundreds of "patriotic" organizations sprung up like mushrooms and the mails were filled with frantic appeals to millionaires to come across with funds...
...A few firms are still at work and turning out the routine article but the demand is not very brisk...
...It raises a warning signal...
...Oh, for an age when music will pour forth out of strings animated by souls within the bodies that play upon them...
...Never discouraged, faith in the ultimate redemption of the working class unshaken, a keen interest in every phase of Socialist activities, serving when asked and giving of his means without ostentation, Morris Berman is a living rebuke to the cynic, the pessimist «nd the shirker...
...Bar this atone: they give New views to life, and teach an bow to live...
...Father, turning to little Mischa...
...Intelligently oondueted labor press to combat the mighty flood of capitalist propaganda that appears to overwhelm tbe workers today...
...If ever labor becomes strong enough to elect its own Senators, it may find them barred by action of the conservatives within the Senate, who take it upon themselves to pass on the qualifications of the elected official...
...pack has been In fun cry...
...He has had to contend with the adventurers who have nearly destroyed some unions in the needle trades but in fighting this poison he has not ceased to hold aloft the banner that inspired the organization of the needle trades, the Socialist banner of a working class organized for political victory...
...Years, dull years later, a mannlkin appears bowing the strings or tripping over the keys with dsrrltng precision...
...There can >e no fight unless there is hate and the jingoes will jrovide the hate in order to get the fight...
...Men like these aid humanity in the long struggle for a better world...
...afore and more the workers are beginning to understand the devious ways by which they are being defrauded out of their share of the products of industry...
...the burning of Washington in the War of 1812...
...Oh, for a world of music without managers, press agents, stupid critics, and sensationdrugged audiences...
...Send all inquiries to htm...
...Friction and rivalry lead o jealousy, then a contest for mastery, and the final tage of the struggle is the hurling of British and Vmerican farmers and workers into the hell of war...
...The Socialist Partyjs an" evangel of peace...
...This propaganda is essential in infer to snape the minds of millions in this country 'or war against England and it is a very easy job...
...He began his political career by taking graft derived from the sale of blankets intended for the inmates of the insane asylums of the state, and since then he has risen to greater and greater heights...
...Muse of Rome...
...Lejeune, commander of the American Marine Corps, that Gen...
...And when In further thought I think on how few succeed to popular acclaim and monetary reward after horrible years of preparatory cruelty, I question the value of being able to think at all...
...An inventory of her estate shows that she had "deposits in 33 banks...
...The shouts have been heard in England and have been played up in the headlines of British newspapers for it is apparsnt that our jingoes are challenging the British navy...
...The Man at the Ticket window...
...is denied by Sandrno's friends here...
...In a rare moment of despair, "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wild-cat...
...Comrades, on this, our fourth birthday, give you our fraternal salute, and bid you come along with us up the road which leads to the dawn...
...The New Leader has encouraged Its writers to present their matrsaal to the most Interesting and readable mannner possible...
Vol. 7 • January 1928 • No. 6
