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NEW LEADER MAILBAG THE PROGRESSIVES. SUitor, The New Leader: Herbert M. Merrill's letter in The New Leader is worthy of Interest and attention. In brief, he warns Socialists who participate...
...Now shut up and listen tome...
...I said: "HeUo Tele...
...Of course, Mr...
...I have ejj| ten bat esa barely get *telte |9 _Mw...
...The Canadian program would build a wall not only against western farmers but against the importation of farm machinery, the total American trade affected being $800,000,000 annually...
...Last week \vc showed how it is throwing workers on the scrap heap...
...Well, along come the scientists sad create me...
...of the Seelasst rU*/^ j Indiana, makes the feBewtajranSau' "The difficulties that ajSlEjH •or work seem very greotes^n^aSHoS^i we cannot always nreaat whs* aumf we will meet with...
...X hope they will remedy this and make themselves clear in the controversy between Brookwood and the A. P. of L. FRANK #. MANNING...
...How can we»Uve without working and how can we work if you are going to scab us off our jobs;'' "I ain't scabbing!'' he screamed...
...Fascism will breed the avenger and expire in convulsions like all of its s?od-An hispiriiig Victory ¦J*HAT the South is not a bulwark against organ...
...We are to import nothing but other nations arc exjiected to import surplus goods we produce but cannot buy...
...walls down abroad.'' This is the intelligent slogan of our tariff statesmen...
...England is not the only plsostSBSt women arc working for the osmejtJjB K?.rl BUeis-writes: "The West ffflP men's Branch of the Socialist MM Milwaukee, voted $10 for sanejMB to be sent to the list of nanus .sanM| Lois E. Newton*, the wse^tSsjjSt State Seey...
...AU this thing about you men 'working for work's sake' is hooey, aad you know it...
...What ails you all, anyhow...
...Treated right and used with cemmon sense, I'll be the best friend labor ever had...
...Why did this pensulcus company get n $16,000,000 franchise...
...Merrill is a trade union official and a member of the Socialist Party his remarks merit serious consideration____ It Is my opinion that the Socialist Party must act fearlessly and speak without equivocation in the presint crisis which confronts the American Labor Movement...
...At isamaroneck, N. T., the grand Jury questions the mayor, clerk and two brothers ia a graft inquiry...
...or, shall .we take the lead in building a Progressive labor Movement...
...But if you don't put the hsrneri on me and get deed end UUe to me se is fitting and proper, IH make "earth a bsU for you...
...not .that I can remember right now...
...Prof...
...a IPS er, New York...
...Among the»l| the following: —m^L^mW Al Benson...
...Isn't it jx>ssiblc that the same law applies to the "best minds" of capitalist politics...
...AU of our leaders have commented again and again on the spiritual bankruptcy of the labor movement and have stressed the need of a new spirit...
...Five hundred girls have the honor of having led the revolt against intolerable-conditions...
...As a program of political science this measures down to the level of a feeble minded person polishing a toy pistol under the illusion that he is a bandit preparing for a raid...
...the less you worked the better you liked it...
...Sure enough," I said, "and what you been wanting to see me about—how to evade the Jones law...
...I said, "I never thought of it or you in lust that light before...
...The Progressives must make heroic, persistent and intelligent efforts to bring about the necessary changes in the American Labor Movement...
...It is up to us to clarify our stand and to get into the battle for a real labor movement based on a sound social and economic program...
...The New Leader has supvuttonl Brookwood in an towdngeot and cumsgeous way...
...The remaining 3,000 yoikcis will undoubtedly come into the union now...
...Samuel Orr, R. Cjg Don M. Chase, New York, H. B*IK< Wisconsin...
...Barkm...
...Fascist dictator builds a Clerical-Fascist coalition to dominate Europe...
...St EVEK TBINR...
...France is ready to retaliate...
...AU right," he says, "and if they'll let me join and handle me right, paradise wont have anything on this little green planet...
...I aln," done nothing to you yet, have I?" - "No...
...The workers of the nation can be organized...
...Extra dividends have been declared by five big coqx>rations...
...He bluffed and hacked down after each bluff...
...The Equitable may be expected ha aaa np a farther fight in the courts, aett the transit commission has undoubtedly killed the corporation...
...With the renewals roes *J| sub and a copy of McAHster...
...All I been saying is that you ought not to scab on my friends in so many other trades, 'cause, if you keep it up, there wont be any work for them to do...
...And while these and other important questions are being probed,'it might be worthwhile to find ant who paid for the highly expensive six-weeks party Mayor Walker threw for his friends all over Europe soon after the Equitable franchise was rushed through by him...
...Since Mr...
...Walls up at home...
...declare that corporation "earnings" went up 17 per cent that year...
...Our ideals and traditions demand that we work with the progressives in accomplishing this mighty task which so vitally affects the future of the world...
...DltnfltosJB Peach, P. Dinkelman, Chicago...
...I stid...
...So is "England...
...It is also true that these masses can not be organized by those who say...
...Society Notes...
...Reports from Federal Reserve districts show industry and trade expanding widely...
...Well, I'U be darned...
...He has merely sought to evade all criticism by shouting that horrible epithet 'Bolshevik...
...Fascism has reached the apex of its power in Italy but that this ferocious thing can live forever is unthinkable...
...The Standard Oil companies report new high record dividends...
...AU right," I and, "shoot...
...Loots Wrfl of New York, fires SI.jjK sees regmlarly...
...That righteous company waa perfectly willing to enter into a partsa ¦ ship with this fraudulent bus corporation...
...In the prnceea of attempting a deal with the B.M.T., the Equitable tried to cash in on more than $500,000 of obviously fraudulent expenWith these facts to light, Mayor Walker was forced to simulate an antagonistic tone toward Ids pet corporation...
...In Louisiana impeachment proceeding have been taken to remove the Governor...
...Simply raising barriers against every agency of trade, fostering national suspicions and hatreds, and accomplishing nothing useful .whatever...
...The capitalist class is more and more prosperous while the working class faces an increasing number of jobless and homeless men...
...into the United Textile 'Workers Union...
...There's no...
...Western agricultural provinces are demanding that a Canadian tariff wall be built "brick by brick" as the American wall goes up...
...Ernst & Ernst, accountants, after an extensive survey of corporations for 1928...
...The most elemental principles of decency and fair play were ignored by the A. p. of L. "Executive Council in their outlawry of this institution...
...10,000 for an incorporation fee which never coats more than $500 at the stiff est price...
...We bear nwe*ME| again this week...
...The - stnrjr told :4*ft;a 'WM^eapomhmt *on--<as**nw§ page in this iseuc shows that with toe fighting spirit, aroused even ¦nt'n/f^a^ba^npt - BB^.;-;nuuntar wjth trade -union c^gamzatJeu va^*a» against considerable odds...
...As, for instance, the sum of $37,000 for the rental of desk space...
...The financial section of the New York Times last Sunday is an example...
...German workers have made substantial gains, however, and these arc due to their more powerful organizations and the fighting spirit of their members...
...We shall be judged in the future by the stand we take now...
...The Ti —nil Cosaunisaion hilled the corporation, not Mayor Walker...
...fo?nnjBj^ tial victory...
...We can not remain true to our ideals and stand aloof from the group of progressives within the ranks of organized Labor who are trying to build on solid ground for the future happiness of Labor...
...Who get the hauaaVede of thousands of dollars which the Fsjuilslili says it spent, but which common seawe indicates was "Blush" money...
...Germany has been going through a similar revolution and despite the powerful trade unions, including labor organizations in the basic industries, the German workers have been unable to obtain all the concessions which increased productive power warrants...
...That wider and more extensive organization of workers is necessary in this country, to meet the new problems is evident...
...Benj...
...JM The singles amble to...
...You hated work so much you actually said your Creator banded it to you as a curse for your sins and, if he didn't he ought to...
...Moreover, no one will deny the truth of the statement that conferences of labor leaders with employers will only be effective when the might of organized labor is solidly behind their representatives...
...f«j Brtcker, Louisiana...
...j Whatever may be said of the faults of Brook wood, it has been condemned without a bearing...
...We so hoas .aa) ever, that success is largely anosjjjjl^j open the building ap of ear sreuv^fc building ap of a strong area to net "I read The New Leader with the lap est interest," writes Alice N. HvmM& California...
...Herb Hoover declares that men of "training, ability aad character' win ia the heavenly paradise, the Usatad ntitisTsri anns mm at .. ¦¦¦¦——=Televox Sets Up A Howl By Adam Coaldigger k'fa^JNG sort of blue lately, I went ardund and-had a talk with Televox, the mechanical man...
...The voter could vote either yes or no oa the whole list...
...It should be remembered, however, that the killing of the corporation, waa mat Walker's accomplishment...
...As this is written the press carries news of powerful French organizations demanding similar retaliation against the United States...
...WoU will not answer the charges madb by The New Leader, Prof...
...The search for the real facts on the Equitable must ssaw begin in earnest...
...Our New Feudalism r£,HE conquering march of mass production and creation of an army of jobless men by invasion of industry with new machines are the chief features of the present revolution in industry...
...Why don't you let me do all the wqrk as I with to do and can do, and you all take a long vacation with pay earned by me...
...At Ocean Ctty, K. J, the mayor and twenty police have been indicted, charged with conspiracy and protection of vice...
...famous institution...
...The government at Washington is a coalition of great banking and capitalist enterprises and their political leaders...
...Televox, trying very Women's WoM Has Just Begun T9ERNICE WILLIAMS of fimnSVSBO in another nc~ sub...
...How arc you and how's business...
...An agreement affecting Labor Is as strong as the organized power ready to demand Its enforcement...
...And then where will I be at...
...Dewey in the New Republic, and others...
...The Fascist "Election" •"THE sJave state of Italy has gone through the motions of a national election and 400 of 5Tr)ssolini's bandits have been fent to the robbers' roost which he calls a "parliament...
...Mussolini will probably find allies in some of the little Balkan states but the whole trend of modern times is against a march back to medievalism...
...It was started Ihiiiagh courtesy of Tammany at the city's i ipi inn It found it could not operate a single beta, and then attempted to sell its rights in Diaehljii and Manhattan to the Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Company...
...What has been accomplished in this feudal town of Tennessee can be accomplished in other sections of the country...
...ration of the working class is evident from the msriring" story of the admission of 2,000 of the strikers at Elixabethton (Term...
...Why don't you use the top of your spines for something else besides a ha track...
...What will be the net result of this American policy...
...If Tammany Hall thus hopes to end the strarh of the Equitable scandal, it is too opti¦Asi* It haa been proven that the company which Mayor James J. Walker arbitrarily granted a franchise to operate a $16,000,000 bus system waa a "phoney" corporation, without lands and without standing...
...AU right," he said, "I will...
...You are the very guy I've been wanting to see," he rtpUed, not at aU cheer - ily...
...The current tariff idiocy goes so far as to urge an exclusive tariff on bananas, which we do not raise, in order to increase the consumption of apples...
...scheme you haven't tried in your anti-work crusade...
...and, $375,000 for "managesanal" fees for which no managing was done aad for which no new data was reported except three years old engineering plane previously drawn ap at more than $25,000 expense to the city...
...So a regime that came into power after perpetrating thousands of murders and that tortures its imprisoned enemies gets a "unanimous"' chamber...
...Goodbye, here comes a customer...
...The Communist Movement in the United States has been reduced to a farce...
...However much they may be blessed by sycophants and supported by brute force, they create the human dynamite that evermtalh/ destroys them...
...We are glad to chronicle this victory and give it special mention in the hope that it will inspire others to follow the example of these Tennessee workers...
...Nothing but intelligent, aggressive leadership, men and women imbued with the spirit of crusaders, can raise the labor, movement out of its present depth of degradation...
...This leaves a clear field to Progressives...
...To bear you tell it...
...j> Fifty-eight students in the ****** course in Bucknell University WJB fJjjSij Th...
...State Secy...
...The unemployed will fight for jobs and this struggle will menace standards of wages and hours...
...3m Boston is sUU in the mnelight m book of that name Is ordered with *tH| sub, by A. Sanderson of Michigan...
...In brief, he warns Socialists who participate in conferences whose object sj to reform the A. F. of L. "to watch their ?c?ps" and not to get the impression that the teaching staff of Brook wood has been lily white...
...These workers, Eke nearly all in the textile industry of that section, are drawn from the countryside...
...I'm no scab...
...Restrained criticism is not enough...
...What I want to see joa .about, is to ask why you labor -fellows keep on knocking nie 'all the time...
...Why did Walker fight for it...
...Charles asnt^H Brooklyn, k in the same dose...
...Norman Thomas remarks: "It is very sobering to observe how among young intellectuals in the colleges and among the workers themselves both organized and unorganised, it is accepted as almost a foregone conclusion that no great ^eOSstrQcttte leadership in any social tasks eon possibly be expected of the men in control of most of the A, P. of L. unions...
...Soft heads do our thinking and the blind lead us into a ditch...
...If you had, you wouldn't be publishing such Utter things about me sad my creators...
...I ain't no scabr he blurted out...
...j^j...
...Heaven^ forbid...
...Here I. come, after aeons of evolution slave and, instead of' letting me do all the hard work for you, you get scared stiff and threaten to murder me if I don't quit...
...C. H. Bloom...
...You do not...
...Certainly, the Progressives are right in their assertion that only Industrial Unionism can" reach the unorganized masses in the basic industries without whom no real progress is possible...
...However, some of our Socialist unions are not as definitely committed la favor of Brookwood as they might be...
...They- gave courage to the men and the success will encourage workers in other feudal towns to follow their example...
...Stockholders of leading American copper companies have an added dividend of $75,000,000 during the past year...
...Mittlebusclier, California...
...Jajian has acted by passing a tariff act which raises the duty against American pine, cedar, spruce ami hemlock and affecting an American-Japanese lumber trade of about S40,000,000 annually...
...Instead yoa say aB sects'at nasty and would-be fanny things about me and threaten" to mrcEhet the best friend you ever haft -That's what yoa do, you .men...
...Agricultural organizations, chambers of commerce, fruit growers and political parties are agreed on the program of retaliation...
...The German movement has the advantage of a fighting party in the Reichstag while here the organized workers have no such group in Congress...
...As I said, you've been trying to invent ways to get out of working ever since you quit being monkeys—if you have—and became men...
...They faced a lockout, an injunction, a company of state militia, and the power of an influential corporation that dominates the life of the town, yet they won...
...But what do you mean by you all being our benefactors...
...As our tissues weaken and arteries harden in old age our mental powers decline and we revert to childhood...
...The Bus Scandal Begins rJUE Hew York Transit Commission has found h*df unable to accept the make-shift financing plan submitted to it by the Equitable Coach eCmpany...
...That's, so," I granted...
...In this policy he comes into conflict with France which does not propose to sit idly by while the...
...Morris HUlquit has said that the present craft organization of the A. P. of L. is obsolete and must be discarded before effective work can be done...
...The comrade from Schenectady also says he is as amenable to what Matthew WoU has to say in the official Journal of his International Union as he is to the charges made against WoU in the New Republic by...
...V| Jmt while we were wenatriag yjg^ we ha4 failed te hear frost antgj Baker Lewis for a week or so, totSeUW U sabs...
...Many of the latter favor a hermit nation with a Chinese wall of high/aj/Stoms duties...
...They .never had much schooling and factory life with its problems is new to them...
...As for you, you have no scientific outlook...
...No," he replied with dignity, "you forget that I neither cat nor drink...
...I've told you tint once already...
...WhUpw Wm...
...Maybe you are right...
...I apologize, and, I'll t;ll you what 111 do—111 bring up what you my ia the very nest meeting of my union...
...Then what happens...
...All this is typical of the industrial revolution...
...Only Fascists were on the ballot...
...Having removed the governor, tne Oklahoma Legislature reported 32 charges against three supreme court jurists...
...Ia New York Ctty Mayor Walker's dofl charges that a justice gave a gun tea dead gangster killed last year aad another sewer grafter wfil go to trial...
...You don't read anything I write...
...of New BrtjWp found too subscribers who ws»US| renew...
...Here we .have been working eight and day to relieve an mankind of the necessity of back-breaking labor, something all humanity has been trying to get away from for centuries and ages, and you act like you don't appreciate anything we do...
...Political power is as much necessary to cope with the situation as economic power, as the German experience has shown...
...Shall we merely criticize in a general way while the Labor Movement approaches the rock of destruction...
...OF DBOrTlNO ifffl T eat swt intend to renew a»/jH I am a coal aaaar aad the stofl worked ss two years...
...Meantime Mussolini' is active in linking up with the medieval brutes who rule Hungary and seeking allies elsewhere in Europe in the hope of making the dub and the castor oil bottle ruling emblems in other nations...
...Our Soft Head Statesmen J>ERHAPS old age affects a-social order as it does human beings...
...W. H. Henry, Nsrtjgp ocialist Party S. Slavko, Pennsytaej Akmzo Warner...
...It can't be done' and with this reflection sit back and take it easy...
...The financial ]»ges of New York papers day by day show this...
...Their v.-ay in handling the tariff "reads us to thin!: so...
...If, however, it is found that the autocratic power of the present leadership has become so great and oppressive that democratic changes within are impossible, then, we should not hesitate to encourage and support independent organization of workers and the creation of new Workers' Educational Machinery...
...He is not entitled to the respect' and consideration of intelligent men and women until he explains his conduct—if he can...
...And X bold out the greatest promise jet given that man will hereafter be relieved of the 'curse to labor.' Aad do you greet me with cheers and open arms...
...New*Leader lor a few anaBnjMj result of an order received fronds...
...Having created festering sores all .over the world the irritation will end in war...
...So have Socialists, generally...
...A new feudalism is rising in the United States and it is a challenge to the whole working class...
...Dewey...
...Moreover, the history of all such Tegimes shows tint they eventually crash, carrying with them supporters of every type...
...As exile or death faces one who is known to oppose Fascism it is not surprising that only 137.000 votes were registered against the bandits...
...At the top of society the great industrial and financial kings are reaping the gains of the,revolution...
...Co I left Mr...
...Internecine strife, on issues wholly irrelevant to this country, will soon finish them...
...Well, that's what you've been doing.fee ages and ages—trying to dodge work...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 11
