A KINDERGARTEN MEASURE
A Kindergarten Measure The Tariff Hogs Would Tell Us What To Read IhJO'/" content with filing fresh tariff atrocities upon old tariff extortions, the House tariff makers have gone heresy hunting...
...Slave owners in this country followed the same policy...
...Even officials cannot lawfully import revolutionary literature, and an exception in trieU favor would be an insult to the citizens* of the United States...
...We have tried to be "practical" and we hare failed...
...Many, a man has faced death without compulsing...
...of course, the looting at tat CUy Trust Company by men Mgh la tat confidence of the leaders of Taauneay Hah...
...It would take a lot of persuasion and proof to make me believe that the citizens of New York care a tinker's dam...
...It means, if it means anything: "Let us stop talking about the Class Struggle, and Socialism...
...By Zechariah Chafee, Jr...
...He is one of those sacred creatures known as District Leaders who are running our town these days...
...But people who have reason to know the inside have their own thoughts...
...Woll favors "bringing world labor together without disturbing .national tendencies and philosophies...
...In -the matter of Russia he appears to be losing ground...
...Then_workingmen are being driven from industry into the streets by iiew machines and processes...
...Cotton drops in price to a low level...
...While the agents of capitalism at Washington are drunk with power the farmers face further economic degradation...
...but this second return to office of" the Labor Party is of vast importance...
...Some at least of the customs officials to whom the reading of the books is entrusted would be sure to act on this interpretation of the law...
...A book may not be devoted to this theme yet if a paragraph can In: construed to advocate a fundatn -ital change in tlie social order the hook is denied admission to the paradise of capitalism...
...Why should we snow such books to come into the country or be put on sale...
...This limitation is interesting because it is alien to a growing labor movement...
...1 have fee...
...After the French revolution nothing of the sort was attempted for many years, and in consequence, all collections of documents of thst period are very imperfect...
...division...
...The Board of Assessors of which he is s member assessed a building of that bank at tirT.ooo when its owners assessed it at $375,000...
...Digging deeper, there is even better reason for objecting to such tactics...
...ILLINOIS TO CONVENE SEFT- » J ROCK ISLAND...
...But Mr...
...I could not attend, and so I cannot criticize what was said there...
...But I have before me the letter that accompanied' an invltattoo to attend the Institute...
...It is evidence of the rise of the working class to power...
...This is no invention of my own...
...The late Ferrsri was the prize crook of the lot...
...It seems almost certain that this clause is not limited to books and pamphlets which specifically refer to revolution in the United States...
...John J. Raskob has a cheering message for the millions of unemployed and the fanners who have surrendered their farms at sheriffs' sales...
...To awaken interest is not enough...
...Two ryHE NEW LEADER at not private property...
...It would seem so...
...He is going to save the middle classes and endow enough workingmen and farmers with enough stakes in a poker game to make them happy aud contented with the rule of the Raskob class...
...Persuasive Bit Nonsensical This sounds very persuasive, yet it contains enough nonsense to destroy a stronger Socialist movement than ours...
...The gospel of Matthew is the dead hand restraining all progress...
...Every such discussion is an opportunity for every reader to introduce The New Leader...
...They will not serve to attract attention to the fundamental purposes of the Socialist Party...
...This question comes with better grace from Mr...
...The Goenel of Matthew ^MAfrHEWW&LL, cstttane, lis sretaous h-^*"S5rs of saving ihe" republic,eroding the...
...It is a little matter that has been overlooked...
...A proposed change in Sec...
...He recognizes tliat owners of small capital and the middle classes in general are being driven to the wall by his class...
...He held large sums of it in the savings department, and gave Interest only when the depositors asked for it...
...Here ore his views on Section 30...
...Not because-the Hoover Administration favors Communism but because it is not a fool...
...Another big power merger is announced which will unite a number of corporations in a higher unity...
...been .-out of sympathy wtth the campaign tactics of the Socialist party...
...A Kindergarten Measure The Tariff Hogs Would Tell Us What To Read IhJO'/" content with filing fresh tariff atrocities upon old tariff extortions, the House tariff makers have gone heresy hunting and have brought home a new sedition wild cat...
...305 ef the proposed tariff act closes the gap...
...The Labor Government may not last to <he end of the year, as a ToryLiberal vote can oust it...
...The British Labor Victory THE results of the British election have thrilled the T-abor and Socialist movement of the world...
...provided her with rouge and a monocle, has turned to philanthropv...
...So would you if you were ta their place...
...What has been accomplished by mif»l"g tactics "that have always seemed to me snort-sighted and even stupid...
...I think we can do it...
...It was a compound of political intrigue, avarice, log-rolling and class conflict between northern capitalists and slave owners...
...This paper brings mformation that I don't get anywhere else and because of this I can't get along without it," writes one reader...
...Just how deeply more Tammany oScials are involved remains to be seen...
...So Raskob will organize a national gamble and when he gets it going "we may truly say that we have buried all chances of Bolshevism...
...Bakuxuh, or 8timer...
...Marx and Basisll Binned This clause creates an effective censorship over foreign literature...
...Of course, any eati-socialistic bosk which gives an adequate historical account of its opponents will fall under the same condemnation...
...Their attitude toward municipal corruption is.expressed in the current cynicism: "They're setting theirs Sure...
...He is unscrupulous, treacherous, a demagogue, and is willing to play any game that will advance his personal ambitions...
...From s party standpoint this is a campaign to double our votes...
...Level ef Politics" Even from the tow level of practical politics, the tactics indicated by these letters is mistaken...
...The middle class man who has surrendered his small capital to the great overlords and the unemployed workers displaced by machines have no funds to play the game...
...The policy is to keep farmers and workers ignorant while they are being exploited through the measureless greed of our ruling classes...
...left...
...John Purroy Mitchell...
...The Harvard Library is avoiding such a toss in the case of the Russian revolution, which everybody, no matter what his opinion of it may be, recognises ss one of the important events in history...
...Especially the labor organizations —' don't they know any other way to play pontics other than to tie up with lbs thieves and burglars of Union Square...
...At times I have made my protest vocal, only to be shushed last critictam fire comfort -to the enemy on the right and the enemy to the...
...One particular instance will show the evil of such a statute...
...A sac boost to SU at a day a fort cart WANTED AN ARMY OF 10,000 Circulational Talks With the Editor—No...
...The next time he runs for some office the voters of aa district wiU be treated to tearful tabs of his philanthropy and what he does for the children...
...The proposed law would necessitate the seizure of most of any further material of this sort on its arrival from Russia...
...The Post Office Department already has power to exclude any foreign literature it deems either treasonable or indecent...
...Hew to the Line" Is it necessary, to remind Socialists that a city administration may be upright and honest, and yet deeply hostile to the working class...
...We need facts, NOT GENERALITIES...
...As a rule...
...Of course, I shall be asked: "What has Marxism to do with m municipal campaign...
...Tammany Loots A Bank By Win...
...And to the average citizen that protest will sound like the undignified sqwauk of the "outs" against the "ins...
...The New Tork Times reports that the corn belt is calm over farm relief...
...Brancati, the dope traffic, Arnold Rothstein and Tammany we have no way of knowing...
...The contrast between the barren and hopeless political methods followed by the trade unions in this country and the power being gained by the British workers from their independent party poficy is so marked that its lesson is obvious to intelligent people...
...But the few facto thus far cited gjvel something of an idea of the great principle of government of 1929:— If yen want to do anything crooked, Ss ap with Tammany Hail and yea assy ft* away with it...
...Better yet, give setae insider a abet «* the swag, aad yea will be aeuttei *** It aad be allowed to give partita to tat park...
...He took their money for deposit, snd what became el it win make interesting reading...
...He also sent him fowls snd fine Italian wines...
...that they forget too easily the many crimes committed against them...
...He also served as a Director of the looted and defunct City Trust Company, st $4,000 a year...
...There la the plundering of thoasands of Italian working psopto of their life's savings by highbinders who tat they had protected themselves by gins of automobiles and rugs and cash to pashe officials There are other signs...
...Whether Congress will adopt this amendment considering the storm of criticism that is rising remains to beseem...
...Otherwise be neglected to credit them with interest He knew his New York, for he plsyss ball with the crew of Tammany overlords of the city...
...There is not a week, often there is not a day, that you do not discuss some economic or political question with an acquaintance...
...Yet he gave us so glaring a "class administration" that even Tammany Hall was able to put up a "working man's protest" against it...
...Are you on the march ? Then let us hear from you...
...HI.—(FP»—TheJ$M mial convention of the niinois State,re*J| eratton of Labor will open to "j^,5 land Sept...
...Have we...
...Ferrsri wasn't quite so generous with his depositors, though...
...IN A NUTSHELL While the Secretary of War is announcing- ins program for universal conscription of labor the Executive Council of the A. F. of L. celebrates the occasion by reviewing the cadets at West Point...
...1 Ic wants a dual organization1 He would have the Tan-American vested with exclusive jurisdiction in the Western Hemisphere, a "Monroe Doctrine for all the Americas," with the European labor movement "brought imo agreement with this...
...The private Rothstein files ware in the hands of the "right" people jo* long enough after Rothstein't sbootias to make it possible to clean out the papers...
...Cheer up...
...The Italian workers who knew nothing of banking had to take the ward of such men as Mancusco and others that the bank was all right...
...If there are object lessons to be learned from events in the city, the state and the nation, in strikes, panics and wars, in industrial unrest, in the effects of new Inventions, in race sjaflicts...
...His salary b $15,000 a year...
...The aim is to pen us in with a tariff wall and then loot the masses of any spare change they may have in their pockets...
...Brooklyn, ;K...
...Do they want to be plundered and disgraced, do they like it—or don't they know how to stop it...
...By implication this is a claim that we, the class conscious Socialists, have better memories...
...Wc often complain that Americans are short of memory...
...Let us hope members of the unions will begin to insist on a political policy that will bring power instead of following a fruitless and humiliating policy of begging from parties of their enemies...
...A dead liaixl restrains it...
...So far as we can ascertain, the l-abor victory is having a good reaction in the United States...
...New readers would be awakened and turn to the job of also ending a discussion by introducing The New Leader and permitting your paper to take up the argument where you left off...
...I have been assured that my attitude was Utopian: that the policy I was criticising was 'practical' and that- it alone would bring results...
...The censorship amendment to the tariff bill is referred to as a "joker...
...Graft in the schools...
...That makes it all right...
...It will not to enough to displace the burglars with capitalist exploiters and their attorneys...
...Maybe we never wiB learn...
...His great work, "Freedom of Speech'' is standard...
...But these are not the only indictments against tlie-«srtortioners...
...Professor Choffet, of the Harvard Law School, is a great legal authority on the law and history of suck legislation...
...It nearly led to civil war...
...Francis X. Mancusco is a Justice of the Supreme Court, placed on the bench by Tammany to help round up the Italian vote...
...To follow it up with an invitation to subscribe should be the conclusion of every discussion...
...It is a naked scramble of capitalist firms whose office boys are Congressmen...
...Let us not -exalt the object lesson to the status of an aim, and so forget the aim...
...He is, therefore, too frequently the victim of the piratical and parasitical elements of society...
...Is it necessary to point out that all the evils of which Tammany is guilty can be corrected, without benefit to the worker...
...The clause appears to include any general advocacy of revolution as a means of social change since such a doctrine would naturally extend to the United States as well as to other countries...
...We could fill a page with such letters and they are a big compensation to all who are associated with the publication, of The New Leader...
...He surrounded himself with men and women of high repute...
...It improves relations between the two nations and all our information indicates that it lias made a good impression upon workers in this country...
...It cannot move...
...Caps mine...
...It would be more appropriate to call it a "choker...
...Here and there the writer is so impressed with the hopelessness of legal "ehange in the present system that he advocate* resort to force if nothing else serves...
...He is also a member of the Board of Tax Assessors, salary, $7,000 a year...
...Is it necessary to state that while there is nothing unMarxian in a clean city government, there is certainly no need for a Marxian party to desert its fundamental purpose to fight what is a single manifestation of capitalist society...
...It must be remembered that a book falls under the forfeiture provision If only a part of it IS revolutionary...
...Why not have a big power merger of labor organizations in a party of their own and do what British workers have done in the recent election...
...A Kindergarten Measure This law is a kindergarten measure which assumes that the American people are so stupid and so untrustworthy that it is unsafe to let them read anything about revolutions because they would immediately become converted...
...In Season and out of season we ought to teach Socialism...
...The further importation of this book would be forbidden because of its extracts from the communist manifesto of IMS and tram anarchist songs...
...Cotton shows a heavy slump with a net loss of 7 to 10 points at the end of the past week...
...The financial angel of the Democratic Party deserves a garland of clover blooms as a reward for his social vision...
...Vet the Raskob program enables us to measure the intellect of the vulgarians who have swincd their way to the top of the heap...
...Mitchell was what is called a "clean" man...
...He is working out a scheme so that they can invest their savings la corporation securities...
...DISPATCHERS' GET INCREASE...
...The contract expired May 31...
...Even if we could wisely dispense with these left-wing books, much toss radical publications wfll be excluded...
...It is becoming increasingly evident to me that -the longest way round is the shortest way' home...
...Our time a coming—If a*, care enough...
...Wendell Phillips once said that given enough hearts to beat in unison they would in time wear down the pillars of any giant wrong...
...Hot stuff...
...This nation cannot pass its existence tor the next score of years like some Lady | of Shetott, abut off from the turbulent life of European mankind...
...What role Lloyd George will play is a matter of conjecture but one thing is certain...
...A letter, dated May 23, reached me, urging me to join a Conference for speakers...
...I use the term here, not in its historical sense, bat as«tt falls from the Ups of those '"practical leaders" woo have tod the party close to ruin...
...Just what relations will be remiss to have existed between Ferrsri snd ins bankrupt and looted bank, the vanished Dr...
...Just as we arc isolated behind American walls he would isolate all labor organizations in this part of the world and insist on fixed 'tendencies and philosophies...
...TRYING MEANS GETTING THE GOODS ON TAMMANY HALL...
...let us teach these object lessons,, but let us not lose sight of the forest for the trees...
...In another matter he is equally absurd...
...Was that not the teaching of pastors in the South in relation to slavery...
...He proposes to organize, an investment trust for them and help them to play the game...
...If this legislation is to be enforced with any impartiality, it must necessarily cut us off from the economic and political thought of Europe and the rest of the world in our own time...
...What people will listen to is talk about corruption In office...
...There are many foreign books and pamphlets which for the most part contain elaborate discussions of social and economic questions, which it is very desirable to read...
...The power to decide whether such printed material shall be forfeited is given to the customs officials without a review before United States district judges...
...At best they will serve to add the Socialist voice to the feeble Republican protest sgainct a highly organized "official corruptness...
...There was the last example of the 'honest' administration.' , Mr...
...It may be asked, wby should anyone honestly want to possess a book which urges revolution or oven the violation of law...
...Let us now try to be" Utopian for a change...
...Yon are petting out each week a journal that is the best of its kind in America," writes another...
...Lewis Watt in a book on "Capitalism and Morality" declares that it is the moral duty of stockholders in corporations to see that "excessive profits" are not accompanied with bad labor conditions...
...The pillars of capitalism are the absurd ideas that are pumped into the heads of its victims...
...Sewer graft...
...It would seem that they are'so swollen with power that uwy cannot imagine that a stop wfll ever to part to their rule...
...P People are talking about Tammsnj * and its foul record more than for yeais...
...Our readers would share in that power and we want them to help realize, it...
...The Labor Party knows him for a politician whose word is worthless...
...The New Leader will then continue the discussion rthat you started...
...V he Customs can exclude what it thinks "obscene...
...In taking over the government it does so without having a majority in Parliament but it has the prestige of huge gains in that body...
...Within a few years this army of 10,000 would batter down thousands of prejudices...
...Answering the Labor Bureau of the League of Nations which criticises the American Federation of Labor for its failure to cooperate with the International Federation of Trade Unions, Mr...
...In fact, he was chairman...
...Recently there was held an Institute of Municipal affairs...
...It is the honorable task of the Socialist j party to lead the battle against the plundering of the city...
...Harvard University has been collecting in its library books, pamphlets, posters, and other material relating to the Russian revolution...
...the censors without even an appeal to the courts...
...It is not enough to rob further our own people, intensify international ill ¦will and sow more seeds of 'war...
...That official a an active member of Tammany Basin fact, a district leader...
...It is not published to nuke profits...
...n»#* men who make up the active tosdanaa of the strtog of district dubs that esastttutes the city's- actual govafbsa« think that no one win ever step 39 Or do they thing that the stegawfc, majorities they have been given ay tea voters to the tost eight elections Si ticket to go crazy...
...That a wide construction of the proposed clause to keep out weU known books win probably be adopted by many customs officials is indicated by the recant exclusion, under the obscenity clause, of "Candide," a French classic, printed a century and a half ago...
...If a movement concludes that tendencies and philosophies are fixed, tliat they are beyond the range of discussion, it isn't a movement...
...He bought him two cars snd sent him costly rugs...
...Now if the British workers had only foUowvd the wise counsel offered by so many A. F. of L. leaders haw much better off would they not be...
...These tendencies are dangerous to the upper layer of capitalists and financiers and Raskob wants to direct the attention of the skinned from their economic problems to a gambling game...
...With nearly eight and a half million votes the I^abor Party has become the leading party...
...Now, it doesn't need any argument to prove to me yiat the government of New York City has been corrupt...
...But one hears the question, nevertheless...
...We must be made the laughing stork of the civilised world by giving our custom officials power to exclude from our shores such boots as Bertrand Russell's Proposed Roads to Freedom on the grounds that it it "treasonable" fust as they now exclude Voltaire's Candide as "obscene...
...Saturday that leader gave a party to 50.000 kids in Central Park and passed out 5,000 gallons of ice cream...
...His plan gives us a better close-up view of the man...
...It is not the * organ ol a group...
...J< has advanced so far on the road to its aim that the .©Id order of two-party capitalist politics is doomed...
...They will not serve to increase the vote...
...M. ^--sridiifl A BC the rotors of the greatest ctty g **¦ the world running amuck...
...People don't want that sort of talk...
...These things are too vague and general...
...Have the people of the city had enough, or do they want still more...
...cannot be a battle of the merely honest and the merely good...
...We would rather see the council reviewing the labor soldiers on strike in the South and hope that this opinion will not be considered sedition...
...Are You With Us...
...A Tariff of Abominations THE notorious tariff act passed in the first administration of President Jackson became known as the "Tariff of Abominations...
...Wheat follows the downward slump and is accompanied by other grains...
...but it has no power over so-called "seditious" matter...
...Graft in the Board of Health...
...The New Leader will destroy them and help to recruit the forces that will rebuild as well as destroy...
...Low...
...Not long ago it was discovered that ! from S25.0O0 to $10,000 had been Uriel i from the till of the office of a pasttc j official in Manhattan...
...Anyway let's try...
...CHICAGO (PP).—The American Tram Dispatchers' Association announces a tio a month increase on the Hucalug Valley road for its members, making the monthly rate $296 for six of the jobs and iiss for three others...
...That atone win reader totpsetettoa- of the whets best linanaelah Many of the classics of modern economics win be put on this new Index Expnrgatortus...
...The solution of economic problems in a glorified poker game and gambling as a protective agency for ruling classes could only have its origin in the United States...
...long...
...For example, one of the sanest discussions of contemporary thought, which has had a large tale to this wintry, is Bertrand Russell's "Proposed Roads -to Freedom...
...Imagine at least 10.000 readers following this course...
...One wet Institution that has not been affected by the Eighteenth Amendment is watered stock...
...Let us have that army of 10.000, an army that is on the march, that fights to destroy prejudices and to encourage thinking...
...He also served on the board of the defunct bank...
...about Exploitation of Lvbor and the disappearance of the Middle Class...
...It belongs to the whoseSocialist suovemetU in the United States and every'active reader is regarded as an agent...
...They are getting about fed up with tttf grinning, smirking, idiotic face of the new old Tammany...
...Bootleg graft...
...Y. CHICAGO—(PP)—Plasterers in Chicago win continue at work while their officials dicker with the employers over the $1 a day wage increase demanded by the union...
...One of the paragraphs reads: "Socialists in other cities who have met with any measure of success hare found that better results can be achieved by discussing concrete issues immediately before the people and affectins their local needs...
...Glorified Poker JOHN J. RASKUB who took over the Democratic Party last year and pumped financial juice into the withered veins of the old hag, dressed ' her up...
...This law win not merely prevent the importation of important books printed abroad, but it will also Indirectly stop the reprinting of such books by our own publishers since they win be unable to obtain the necessary sheets of the book from abroad for use in setting up the type here...
...rWOtftts of hankers ff»r eafitafots, an* litotrwtiag ^ the organized workers here and ¦¦mad...
...oll!s "world"' movement isn't a world movement...
...Destroy these ideas and capitalism will crumble...
...H. Warren Hubbard is a high official in Tammany Hall...
...With such minds thinking for American labor it need surprise no one tliat in organization we trail behind peasant nations like Poland and Spain...
...Warder, the disloyal aud disgraced public servant, took it aU for years, while he was sn underling, and after Governor Smith had elevated him to the head of the department...
...There is...
...Meantime a Congress called to relieve the farmer finds wheat and other grains selling at the lowest prices in year*., Wheat sank to a lower level than in any year since 1915, with a slight recovery on Monday...
...So it is "division" and dual unionism that is desired in the international labor movement...
...Walter Lippmsn...
...Have the sponsors of this program forgotten the administration of the late Mr...
...Democrats and Republicans alike bear the collar of an owner...
...On the whole I permitted myself to be overcome...
...It is aimed against literature suggesting social and economic clianges in society...
...reader, are one of that army...
...The value of Hoover votes has also sunk to a low level...
...You...
...The law win prevent a loyal citizen from obtaining from abroad the work .of Marx, Prondhon...
...I quote from the letter: "It is pretty clear that only we Socialists sre going to tell the people the real truth about the way they are robbed and misgoverned in New York...
...h; the atBy season...
...says Raskob regarding each prospective player, "he has little opportunity of getting in touch with.legitimate brokerage houses...
...We may be sure that whatever may be the decision of the Labor Party its responsible leaders will pay no attention to any proposals tliat may be made by him...
...Raskob certainly will not provide them with stakes...
...From the NEW LEADER MAILBAG The municipal campaign is approachins...
...Their patience lacracking...
...10,000 intelligent men and women as effective agents working for their paper...
...The measure taking shape at Washington is likely to be paired in infamy with the former act...
...And all the time be also, secretly and illegally held ten shares of the bank's stock...
...Bat now I rise to ask "Where are the results...
...They could ssast.a lobby to Parliament, receive some kind words, aad than resign themselves to a good kicking...
...He helped one of Warder's underlings to get a car at a big discount...
...SECTION 305 of the Proposed Tariff Act of 1929 adds to the exisUng prohibition against the importation of obscene books, etc, a clause forbidding the importation from any foreign country of "any book, pamphlet, paper, writing, advertisement, circular, print, picture, or drawing containing any matter advocating of urging treason, insurrection, or forcible resistance to any law of the United States, or containing any threat to take the life of, or inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States...
...The Western Pacific also gave a flO raise with the $3*9 rate for dispatchers...
...Immense contracts obtained ly American corporations from the Russian Gcrvrrnment forecasts the - recognition of that government .within ;* year or two...
...DAVID P. BEJUENBERG...
...The pending tariff bill carries an amendment which would establish a complete censorship- over the importation of foreign books and would* make customs ulhrtals...
...It is no accident that trto-c who want to pen us up in a stockade for thorough skinning, also want to inspect any literature tiiat might reach us...
...W pea recognition comes it will 4eave Woll a sorry figure...
...After having established ce 'sors at the stockade against imported literature it is-only another step to ren oring literature written and published in this country...
...My answer is this: It is the function of the Socialist Party to hew straight to the line...
...No exception is made In the bill for universities or other libraries...
...than it does from Socialists...
...It wss--fcr some people...
...Only by sccident cud the dirty mess come out...
...Rev...
...Mtegovernment...
...There's a perfect picture of •what the people of New Yortt have allowed to happen to them...
...The new Michigan Central rate a s3s7.&0...
...One thing the great man overlooks...
...He was ingenious, anyway He paid the rent ($275 a month) for the man that Al Smith bad appointed to look after the people's interests as State Superintendent of Banks...
...What a Small Army Could Do We think you will agree that if we had an average circulation of not less than 3,000 in each of the 48 states The New Leader would be a great power to reckon with in this country...
...Harvard Importing the Stuff...
...It must be s battle of the producers...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 21
