WOMAN LEADER OF INDIAN FREEDOM REJECTS SYMPATHY, ASKS FOR JUSTICE ALONE
Klein, Gertrude Weil
Woman Leader of Indian Freedom Rejects Sympathy, Asks For Justice Alone Madame Naidu Urges America to Use International Influence By Gertrude Weil Klein MADAME SAROJINI NAIDU, who...
...The members of the unions may provide the answer...
...Our young fighters to India are prepared to suffer, are ready to die...
...continued Madame Naidu...
...She cannot accept a gift which she cannot return...
...Moreover, a sweeping attack which includes all the men in the sen ice is absurd and unjust...
...1 should be glad to keep them informed of our meetings, should there be any from St...
...The paper is admirable It seemi » me that you must know how good It I without being told...
...The working class suffer from two vast machines, the machines in industry and the machines in politics...
...said Madame Naidu...
...He has not been sentenced to idleness because of having violated the law...
...He should get them from other members and their friends...
...When it was first proposed in the party it was theoretically a good plank to insert in the platform, Tbe idea advanceo was that instead of a violent revolution tbe taking of wealth on a sliding scale say $9000 and increasing tbe amount until it reached the larger amounts, would tend to equalise the distribution of wealth, but experience has shown that the effect is to tbe exact opposite...
...Tickets »t The New Leader, tbe Rand School Office and the Civic Club...
...Please send a bundle of RBI LEADERS for the $3 enclosed...
...We have plenty of ideas but they are useless unless we have workers to carry them out...
...My sub enclosed...
...The monarchs of capitalist enterprise have revoked his citizenship because he has (passed the age of forty...
...Your denunciation t wrongs committed to and dlsregardc under our present government, are sUr ring Your editorials arc conviaetai McAllster Coleman fascinates and lwl< the attention, no matter what lu* topis And Norman Thomas' "Timely Topta —well, they are what might be expect* from Norman Thomas What more ca I say...
...s A Stupid Demonstration rJ1HE parade of New York police on Saturday was the occasion for an asinine demonstration by the Communists...
...IN A NUTSHELL In Dallas, Texas, a bright chap has been elected mayor by making his appeal to those who favor hot -dogs in their diet.: Hot dogs offered to poor fish in a city election: It is now up to some one to try the virtues of pop corn as a vote-getter...
...I believe the party should go on record for the absolute repeal of that law in so far as the party is concerned...
...He i* learning or should learn that there are two sovereignties in this country, one residing in the great dynasties of organized capital and the other in the government at Washington., There was a time when the workers were disfranchised in politics...
...Governing power is an excellent thing when vuu have economic interests at *takc...
...When a leading labor chief uses an anti-union agency, when company Union and anti-union firms use a trade union publication of which he is editor—well, what is the answer...
...The Government admits arresting "only" 30 persons...
...is not between England and India, but is a quarrel with Great Britain and the principle of foreign domination which is embodied in the Foreign Office: and in this quarrel my much too patient and humble nation, must, for her own soul's sake, refuse your help...
...However, the fight of the printers has been a conspicuous one and it has been waged upon a national scale...
...Admission SI...
...Tbe Quarrel With Britain Madame Naidu went on to tell that at present there are actually only 100 political prisoners in India...
...Give us the workers and we will give you the ideas...
...Is this just...
...Firstly, refusing a gift which the Club had wanted to send by her as a token of its sympathy with the oppressed people of India...
...My best wishes for the building a of a great national paper, which is wis The NEW LEADER deserves to be...
...If they were they would lia\e a majority of six in the Supreme Court, for llutler who did not participate in the decision belongs to the majority...
...The conflict of economic and social opinions involves a huge stake of 20 billion dollars...
...From the character of his office the head of the A. F. of L. is a very busy man and he cannot be expected to remember everv phase of the labor struggle at a moment's notice...
...Cos* rade Remmcl was one of tbe oldest as* continuously active Socialists in "luM^ Co., Pa...
...We select a sample from die bulk...
...Income tax legislation vitally affects the interests of our powerful ruling classes...
...Is India.' She is tied by a piece of blue wool, and Instead of snapping the wool, she lifts her voice to heaven, holds out her hands to all the world, and bowls for pity...
...It seems as though there might be readers of Tbe New Leader who would be interested in such a club...
...The social philosophy of each member influenced his decision...
...In the tirst place, it may be observed that the three judges who di - sent from the majority represent the more progressive members of tbe court, Reading the opinions of the majority and the ininoritv we get the impression that tt is not so much a difference of leyal opinion that account...
...In the present instance we have the recognized head of the trade unions speaking under an agreement with an anti-union publication^ .On the other hand we have been astonished that the American Fcderationist, the official monthly of which Mr...
...This man and many like him are disfranchised in industry...
...There are patrolmen who have ivM lost their sympathy for the workers and a policy of Halting them displays a bovine intelligence...
...This ethical blindness has another angle...
...J. A. GONSTtAD...
...Like the Labor Party in England, we have not the funds to give such facts a wide circulation...
...The Mew Leader: What is the attitude of the Socialist party today on tbe Income Tax...
...A New Type of Alien PCONO-MIC changes are bringing to the fore a new type of alien...
...The New Leader: Some progressives in Minnesota got together at a New Year's party and formed a club whijh they named "The 1930 Club.'' They hold meetings the first Fridaj' of every month at members' homes...
...A huge provocative banner displayed from their building carried an inscription calculated to enrage the marching men...
...It does not really matter that thousands die, if the Indian people can be awakened...
...has asked the State Department a request the recall ot the Italian Vkt Consul at Los Angeles According b documents in their possession, tbe Itattaa envoy summoned a group of Amertesi citizens to his office and tried to influent...
...One day I took a piece of blue wool and tied it about tbe dog's neck...
...There is no reason in equity why large incomes should not be taxed for public purposes and no reason why tbe rate should not increase in proportion to the size of the incomes Those who complain of the taxing ot lower incomes which should be exempt may also indict the rdmlnistration ol the law by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon who has followed a secret policy of returning vast sums to the super - rich...
...The agent will be the "key man" for the Local or Branch...
...Occasional letters to newspapers by men airwomen over forty unable to obtain employment rc veal the new alien...
...Who can say that control of governing power in any of the department* at Washington does not involve vast economic interests...
...Unc decision affects the huge values mentioned...
...The stupid dcirionsiration in Union Square shows that Communism is a pathological *-disease to be avoided...
...The British I-abor Party and the trade unions provide an interesting and humiliating contrast with the labor movement of the United States...
...The best way to prevent war is not to prepare to make war...
...of a kind that ad De lasting anc" effective in our tat* activities...
...The Xcw Leader is presenting some illustrations of this art to its readers in this and coming issues and at its dance in the Rand School Auditorium on May .^0 The .Yew Leader will have on exhibition a display of a collection of these remarkable posters...
...PorUand, Me...
...He of course was well ts»w .md highly rr.*rr*ct*d by the romradagte 'his district...
...It is hoped that similar clubs will be started all over the state, so that Progressives may play their part in the 1930 Campaign...
...Lithuania Jails All Socialist Party Heads (By a New Leader Carrespondent) Paris.—On April 2nd, nearly all the leaders of the Social-Democratic Party of Lithuania, including Comrades Galinis, Beilinis and Katries, were arrested at the editorial offices of the Social-Democratic paper "Sozloldemokratas...
...If one man is not chosen for this all will likely neglect it...
...For the less humble we are, the sooner we will become free...
...The adherents of this faction do not seek to weaken but to enrage the capitalist.'' This policy is all the more inexcusable considering that Police I ommi*sioner Whalcn is runring amuck...
...That there are inequities in the income tax laws may be conceded but this fact docs not render the principle of tnxing incomes unsound...
...I am indeed thankful for Tbe KM LEADER...
...Had one of the eminent five changed his mind the decision would have been four to four and the Interstate Commerce Commission's method of valuation woulrLhave been upheld...
...The interdependence of nations, of which you speak In your more lucid moments, is an actuality...
...it rises out of the policy of foreign domination...
...Milwaukee...
...India cannot afford to hold out her hands for help to any source outside or her own country'- Only through her own strength, her own determination, her own integrity will India ever gain her freedom...
...They are a revelation of what Socialist* can do in the way of modern effective campaigning...
...hrcd Sander, Sy*ocine...
...STRIKING, startling, original, artistic ejection posters have been gotten eat by the British Labor party...
...says Mr...
...There the movement relies upon its own initiative, capacity, inspiration and "power while here it too often seeks to placate the conservative opinions of our Upper classe* In great Britain there is a labor press and jabor journalism which, for wide information, brilliant comment and aggressive presentation of labor's interests, are equal to the best on the Continent...
...This offer applies to a** subscribers only...
...Wc want an army of "key men" on this job all over the nation...
...Madame Naidu, about whose glowing earnestness there is something indublt- ably feminine, despite the apparent vigor of her pronouncements and the manliness of her achievements, surprised her audience as she must have surprised all her audiences in these parts, inured as they are to begging missionaries, espousing causes of one sort or another from all quarters of the globe...
...If you have a Socialist Local why not have a Xew Leader Agent...
...Their approval ranges all the way from prompt renewal of their subscriptions each year to active gathering of subs during the year...
...Instead of that, duty and honor weighed more heavily in fayor of the agreement than they did in favor of the trade unions...
...Then he will constantly ask for names and addresses of prospective readers...
...Woman Leader of Indian Freedom Rejects Sympathy, Asks For Justice Alone Madame Naidu Urges America to Use International Influence By Gertrude Weil Klein MADAME SAROJINI NAIDU, who was formerly Mayor of Bombay and President of the Indian National Congress, and who is a poetess of note as well as one of tile foremost fighters for India's freedom, has recently left, the country, leaving behind a unique message for the American people...
...We would like to double our circulation within a year...
...Fthics vanish in the face of this fact...
...for the division but of social and economic views...
...they are dragged into it.—J...
...The conservative group is inclined to favor the view of the raitroads and the progressive group is not so inclined...
...THE 1930 CLUB Editor...
...Eight sua* tt*4ks)| with more to follow soon Ham, mtt hear from some of the branches afto* charters are beginning to show thassso* of age...
...W e want more in the second class...
...This sort of exposure is oozing into the consciousness of many labor men...
...Our quarrel...
...to visualize it with pictures...
...Dayton, Ohio...
...To vote and devote one's leisure time to agitating and urging a penalty on one self soon kills any spirit one may have for a social legislation...
...According to the statement of the police they arrested a secret meeting in the editorial rooms of the "SoEtaldemokratas...
...Ultimately, you will be forced to stand for the fundamental principal of liberation regardless of what it will cost you in the enmity of the rest of the world...
...Elect your Agent and send us his name and address...
...He is an industrial alien and there is no way by which he can acquire citizenship under capitalism...
...He has...
...a SUBSCRIBER...
...They like the paper...
...Get their subscriptions...
...Rubin Bunas...
...Certainly not.—Editor...
...If you are a saV scrtber, we will send the set of boon to you and the paper to one of yoar friends...
...Because factory acts of many slates for Ule protection cf workers in industry are also too often emasculated by capitalist politicians in office is no reason for wiping out all such legislation and leaving workingmen and women to the mercy of the exploiting class...
...That the labor Party is solidly rooted in the life and struggles of millions of workingmen and women, that it expresses the soul of the British underclass, that it is the agency by which the workers are destined to ascend to political control of Great Britain, and that it accounts for the almost religious fervor that inspires the labor movement of that country are apparent to all who have observed its growth...
...bulked so large in every way that it certainly is .(One that would l>e remembered by an executive conscious of his duties...
...My sub expired and I misted t« copies...
...He stood and howled and bowled hut made no effort to break the leash, which be could have snapped by Just the slightest pull...
...To understand what the next general war means for mankind expand that Cleveland hospital disaster to include the whole United States and then figure how many people will be alive after the gas has spent its force...
...The economic revolution is abolishing the distinction and the person whose ancestors may be traced back to the colonial period may be listed as an alien so far as industry is concerned...
...he writes, "that is denied me and 1 mu-t shortly vacate the rooms 1 occupy because 1 have not the means to pay the necessary increment due for them...
...What w-e must do, is shame India that she acquiesces in this foreign domination...
...Should any intelligent human being be surprised that an administration that represents that class is favoring it in the administration of the law...
...Bs» maim...
...at the New Leader Dance and Celebration^ to be held in tbe Rand School, 7 East 15th Street...
...Socialization of industry will recover citizenship for millions of workers who arc losing it after passing the age of forty...
...I have talked with those who have had to pay an income tax...
...Certainly a majority of them are Socialists, active men and women who would rejoice to see their paper going into every household...
...The Social Problems Club of Oolusv bia University regards this as a (Urea violation of the principle of acadssdr freedom...
...Yes, "Pioneers of Freedom" to sU a active demand...
...That of itself looks bad enough but the reasoning he employed to justify bis making the speech after being informed of the facts merely adds try our astonishment...
...As for the legal arguments involved it", the decision we are not concerned so much as we are in its economic consequence...
...President of the Ohio Federation of the Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks, Freight Handlers, Express and Station Employees...
...of Baltimore, takes tbe same count The University of Michigan Ws brarim...
...Lately the Club has been a forum for city candidates in Minneapolis...
...We will write them...
...Rut to our surprise Mr...
...Slay ~3ttS...
...For tbe benefit tt recent subscribers, attention is caM to the fact that tbe novel that tali to receive the Pulitzer prise only localise of its "socialistic trend," asJkt award judge stated, is offered a* ¦ premium by Tbe NEW LEADER, seal in 15 for "Boston" and year's stk» scription...
...time in the S. L. P and part in* S. P. He was candidate tor Vice dent on the 8. L. P. Ucket In 1100...
...The railroads win this big stake...
...Report to The Xew Leader as a "key man...
...a. Mini...
...Three eminent judges learned in the law dissent from this view...
...Isn't it remarkable that no human being ever caught this bright idea ? From thee NEW LEADER MAILBAG THE INCOME TAX Editor...
...If there is a big propaganda meeting he will have a supply of papers...
...For it is cowardice, fear and ignorance which makes India weak," continued Madame Naidu...
...The Stalinite generals appeared to enjoy it and were prepared with photographer...
...The common people do not enter into war...
...This admission is an astonishing one to...
...At the same time the sss> rade sends in a new sub...
...Bishop,"<mi beg to assure you that they are Mji welcome...
...They have spent 17 million dollars on this tight and the struggle ha...
...As Katitsky pointed out mam years ago...
...So do you...
...Join the army of The Xew Leader field brigade and roll in the subs...
...The Social Problems Club wither* warn you...
...Cooperation...
...By publicly owning the former and scrapping the latter the workers will cease to suffer and not before...
...His activities began in tbe ¦ and contlnied till his death, park Of tt...
...Until then, until India is thoroughly awakened to her own degradation and her own potential strength, she must in her extremity refuse your gift...
...Not that he alone should gather subs but that he will bring up the matter at every meeting...
...But because I am 56 years old it is denied me...
...A concentrated drive...
...Xow thev are being disfranchised in industry...
...The American Friends of IteBaa Freedom construe this as a dehbsrak breach of international law on part 4 the Vice Consul...
...When the masses get it thev will also get the decision...
...Tou will be compelled to justify your position, for with power, as wc know, comes responsibility...
...By 1932 we can get many issues clarified by continuous plugging...
...A man 56 years of age writes to the Brooklyn Daily liaulc tliat he is a descendant of an ancestor who came to Philadelphia in...
...Further the law is a good club to have, to keep native Americans from political activity...
...Moreover, in the ]ioster campaign being carried on by the Labor Party this art is being carried to the highest point of achievement...
...Yet with an "an honest and earnest desire to obtain a situation to enable me to live as an honorable citizen...
...Here a comparison establishes a contrast...
...You want company and workers will gather around you if they get The Xew Leader...
...Every new reader is also a new recruit for^-our Local or Branch...
...The complaint of your friends should not be against the income tax as a principle but against the capitalist politicians who pervert or nullify the social benefits of what, in competent and sincere hand*, is a sound principle in fiscal Iegisla:ion...
...LIKES EASLEY EXPOSURE Editor, The New Leader: Permit me to congratulate you in your reply to Ralph M. Easley...
...If there is no Socialist Local in your city or town you as a "key man" are all the more necessary...
...the famous Bs> torian...
...Sniping For Subs THKRE are older branches ta tat fJ cialist Party than the WaaahJ Branch of Queen's County, New Takj but few of them are doing as MSjh W Tbe NEW LEADER...
...Does Not Want Sympathy "Do not let a single Indian who corr.es to you with a begging bowl receive any help...
...Green and the Printers ^'F ARE not inclined to dra\^ hasty conclusions regarding those with whom we happen to disagree but the action of President Green of the American Federation of Labor in speaking over }1ic radio under the auspices of an anti-union magazine in spite of the protest of Tv|xjgrapliical Union Xo...
...A. J. Scllingham of New BampahBt orders "Pioneers of Freedom" with 4 year's subscription...
...Police Commissioner Whalcn's disregard of civil rights does not justify provocative and futile methods of retaliation...
...was a Marxian student, a Ann beacN in the materialist conception of nbaM and most of his activities were gives I teaching classes and giving lectures, new of a light and enthusiastic nature aa deep and scientific...
...It appears to us that the first consideration was the duty and honor he owes to the trade unions and that would have required that he cancel the engagement to speak...
...I am lost without The Kfl LEADER...
...He will have sub blanks always at liand...
...It requests the recognition d the Liberal Club, and the immediate and unconditional reinstatement ot AMrtson, McDowell, and Woltman...
...Fanners and wage earners arc not railroad...
...Madame Naidu asked the donors to please put the gift "back in your pocket and keep it warm.'' and secondly she asked Americans to refuse to give to any who are holding out the "begging bowl'' on behalf of Indian freedom...
...By middle class is meant those who earn their living belabor and receiving interest on their lnsurance or Investments...
...Valentine Remmcl Valentine Remmcl of Pittsburg, TU "fi years of age, died Thursday, May I ana was buried Sunday, May 13tb...
...Hitherto the alien has always been considered the person who came here from another country...
...Paul or Minneapolis...
...Whatever may he the outcome of the British election we may be sure that the Labor Party will emerge from it stronger and more confident than ever and to the Socialist party of this country is due the credit of having initiated the move to obtain financial assistance for our British comrades...
...Dancing by the Colony Crab Dance Orchestra...
...BOSTON IS STILL ON THE MAT "Boston," the great two vetaaM naval by Upton Sinclair, goes to C N. Bar of Pennsylvania...
...Xo law has been enacted to deprive him of his industrial citizenship...
...British Labor Marchins QNF of the most inspiring struggle* in the history of the world labor movement is the electoral campaign of the British Labur Party...
...We are very glad imdtti to haze these...
...Green is editor, has become a channel for advertising some powerful anti-union aad company union firms ! One may easily verify this by turning to the advertising pages of any issue of that publication...
...said Madame Naidu...
...Some day she may come to her American friends and say, 'Give me so much and so much, and on such a day it will be repaid,' but until she can do that, your contribution to the cause of India should be an attitude of shame to the coward!' rather than sympathy to the victim...
...them against holding meetings at otSEt the principal speaker was to be Piotsr sor Gaetano Salvemini...
...Masses of men and women would welcome The New Leader if it were brought to their attention...
...and it can be done...
...but to prepare to make war impossible...
...He was terrified...
...6 i* »o extraordinary that it is worthy of special comment...
...WANTED: AKEYMAN IN EACUH TOWN Circulation Tafia With The Editor THE NEW LEADE* has readers in every one of the 48 states...
...profound assurance that his insurance insures...
...Sincerely and fraternally yours...
...A Railroad Victory FIVE eminent judges learned in the law decide that the Interstate Commerce Commission must consider cost of reproduction in computing tlx: value of railroads...
...Then let us hear from you...
...We state the facts...
...That is your job...
...She spoke at...
...That,' I told my children...
...Bowman, that the libera) college students of America will net tolerate the petty academic dictatorship at the University of Pittsburgh, and ii renr statement Is not immediate, they vffl take such steps as will place the atlfc in pub be prominence.'' Anti-Fascists Demand Recall of Italian Consul The American Friends of Italian Fur' dom...
...Send them to us...
...Green declares that he did" riot even know of the controversy between the printers and Collier's Magazine...
...president of the Columbia Social Problems Club, hat forwarded a letter to John G Bovmaa president of the University of Pittsburgh, which concludes with these paragraph...
...Woll is going to solve, all social problems with his insurance company...
...reports He's one of the regular oj regulars Columbia Club Protests Pitt Expulsions Liberal students of Columbia Uninrsity have joined with collegians at tie University of Wisconsin and at Hsrvtrt in protesting expulsion of two student) and an Uistructor from the University at Pittsburgh because of their interest ¦ the Mooney and Billuigs case Nathaniel Weyl...
...Team-work...
...Having agreed to speak, he feh "a deep sense of duty, of obligation and honor" to do so...
...As I see it all the efforts of the radicals in urging Congress to vote- for the Income law has simply been to increasethe ill will of the middle class against all such legislation...
...In the disturbance which accompanied the removal of the banner by the police, a few Communists were clubbed and some wholesale arrests were made...
...an informal luncheon at the N. Y. Civic Club before sailing for India...
...between the time they spend to keep their account and the lawyer's fees, it cost them approximately 26 or 30 dollars aside from what they pay the government...
...220 S. E. Bedford St., Minneapolis Minn...
...A country which rules another country must, in the interests of its own self-preservation oppress the country which it rules...
...By a majority of one vote we have a decision which, according to some estimates, will enhance the value of railroad pn_>i>ertics about 2Q billion dollars...
...Among recent arts*, we find the name of M. Larena of was Virginia...
...The newspaper buildings were surrounded by officers of the criminal police, who arrested all those present in the editorial rooms an dall persons found in the building—In all over a hundred...
...F. M. KIBKENUALL...
...W. Bishop, thanks TV SEW LEADER for the set ef M0 paign cartoons drawn for us bylUt Young...
...Bring this up at your next meeting...
...Cam Sarah 3. Brown, Oregon...
...I) dia Wentworth, Brookllne, Mass...
...Unfortunately, most of our readers are in the first class...
...They, of course, are suffering a most foul oppression, ignorant of what crime they are charged with, and unable to secure a trial or a chance of redress But Indian oppression is a natural thing...
...a faction often appear* in the labor movement "which takes as its must favored task, next to lighting the Socialist Party, -the provoking of a policy of violence...
...make...
...When my children were little, wc had a dog which was never kept on a leash...
...The day is coming when you will be compelled to help, not with your money but with your support as a great international power...
...You cannot have an oppressed and degraded India without being harmed yourself...
...1748...
...Today I don't believe that those same members would favor such a law...
...That this is a victory fur the railroads must be admitted...
...I ask for nothing more than the opportunity to work at a living salary...
...Keir Hardie...
...Mr...
...It is ours to hold their attention when they are on the list...
...Mare than ie of tat—ˆ targe posters win be place* onpubtu exhibition for the first time and only time Thursday night...
...We want them to get subs...
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