FROM THE NEW LEADER MAIL BAG
Reviving an Old Industry sf"%NE big industry that thrived following the ^'end of the World War was based upon frightening gouty old millionaires and wealthy old maids. Hundreds of...
...We are sure that Sinclair...
...American opinion, even opinion in reactionary circles, was against this policy...
...B. A. JAVTTZ...
...Now Jim has leisure, is well dressed, studies, reads and writes and is really a respectable citizen...
...Longshot and everybody is happy...
...He would then be afflicted with the blues because of the increase in reds...
...The government adopts the attitude that it can not tolerate any Interference with law and order...
...Every program which is put forward I Judge by the test of Its relation to Socialism...
...The New Leader: Irj his article "American Socialists and 'he Class Struggle...
...They want $10 as an* initial contribution and $10 for every three months thereafter for ten quarters...
...There are others like him but not •nough to provide the dynamic sower that makes a movement move...
...It was not...
...It isn't now...
...Each of these organizations was to hurl the Red Hosts back in defeat but money was needed and lots of it...
...and Mike Flaherty, financial secretary of the painters union...
...Ouggenbehn's secretory sent out an announcement of the munificent project bjr which the au—Biibolm family will spend millions of dollars in buildins dental clinics for the post- people of the city...
...He is going after ten more...
...Its chief industrial development has come in connection with production of copper and nitrates, both of which have come under the domination of the Guggenheim interests representing the U. S. capitalist empire...
...Then some of the load'tnouthed saviors became involved in one shady transaction or another...
...Propaganda Material For Bolshevism May Day, 1989, In Berlin flfotenkraker, Amsterdam' From The New Leader Mail Bag Edtor, The New Leader: The Emergency Committee for Strikers' Relief has since May 1 transmitted more than $6,000 for necessary relief to striking textile workers in the South and striking shoe workers in Massachusetts...
...T. H. K. REZMIE...
...Guggenheim's charitable moment to issue a report on working conditions in one of the Guggenheim provinces...
...Nygaard...
...If present economic trends in agriculture continue we may expect something like this to occur...
...The key man a *» essential to the continued ditcuS...
...The Mayor of New York, never caught wearing the wrong bat or saying the wrong thing, thanked Mr...
...Their only right is to obey...
...In short, Jim lives in God's country...
...Sheer self-preservation will require this action...
...Another Jim in Chicago, a worker in the clothing trades, a few years ago ventured into real estate...
...It is this play with words that in an otherwise clear analysis and forecast leaves the Senator confused...
...He made some winnings but now he is broke...
...When voti make Tim's acquaintance "you begin to realize that, so far as the masses are concerned, they are already in the mid*t of what virtually amounts to an economic millennium...
...It was Unthinkable down to our entrance into the World War...
...That this revolution will have important results is certain...
...to other words many a building trades mechanic hi the TJnKed States earns as much per boor as the Chilean makes by a foil day's work...
...Thus far the number of capitalist farms is not large but hardly a week passes that does not bring news of further conquests by the banks and corporations...
...The farmer with his individualist outlook on life will, as a wage worker, think in terms of the workers of the cities...
...He is the chap who used to strike and throw brickbats...
...Labor Party victory...
...Already there are growing signs of discontent and resentment over the aggregation of corporations and monopolistic organizations...
...There is to be...
...Never neglect this again...
...Th*' literature agent who would neglect his job at one meeting would est...
...Yes, any great capitalist enterprise...
...The book belongs to the Pollyanna literature of our time...
...it was the service of every living person to whom the service could be brought...
...IN A NUTSHELL We wish that Senator Watson, representative of stocks and bonds, told the truth when he said that radical weeklies circulate in millions of copies...
...That is...
...70 Fifth Avenue, New York City...
...Looking Ahead XT IS possible that the revolution in agriculture ¦*¦ may within the next decade or two transform American rural life on a capitalist basis...
...it is desired to preserve throughout as consistently as may be, Gandhi's own attitude of giving freely in such measure as has been given to him...
...Make Everybody Rich— Industry's New Goal," I was somewhat disappointed in the fact that whoever wrote the article did not give me the benefit of quoting those constructive passages of the book which I am sure you are interested in...
...Chile is still chiefly a mining and agricultural country...
...He has instructed Wllham Henry, the new organizer, to do likewise in each city he visits...
...A Perplexed Senator \ STATEMENT made by Senator King last week shows unusual comprehension of the mighty economic forces that are destroying the old American order...
...It was regarded as exclusively the policy of the old world militarist states...
...For a Senator of the United States to offer this analysis and to forecast Socialism as a possibility is a rather remarkable performance...
...And that will be the dawn of a great laborpolitical movement in this country...
...After the war was won, it was supposed that we could go back to the profit principle...
...Guggenheim for providing through charity what his party should have proyears age But the D. S. Department of Commerce was for ones out of step...
...To realize their aims they will have to organize unions of their class and these organizations will inevitably fraternize and affiliate with the trade union movement in general...
...The financial pages of the dally papers and the business and financial magazines have been filled with evidence of these enormous corporate returns...
...Crosswaith Wins A Big Ovation On Boston Common rBy a New Lester Correspondent) BOSTON.—A well attended Sunday afternoon meeting on Boston Common marked the beginning of the Mass...
...It chose this period ot Mr...
...It occurred to the writer that there may be others, whether in New York or elsewhere, who may care to share study of this nature: they can do so by writing to P. O. Box 26, Station F. New York City...
...Crosswaith will be in Massachusetts for the next four weeks, speaking in New Bedford, Springfield, Worcester and other places where there are good chances of building up a Socialist local...
...The average for skilled labor Is about $1.44 a day, the department reports...
...In the farming regions of the West we learned that he is walking the streets of cities looking for work and had no time to read or study...
...The Need for Socialist Propaganda "Perhaps I shall never at my age gtve way to the Inclination to gtve up politics and go back to ay old Socialist propaganda days...
...Well, 1 must earnestly dissent from that posititon...
...We are thrilled by the Brits...
...Freddie Marvin next came under a cloud...
...The textile masters...
...Wage workers themselves are being displaced by machines and so economic forces are increasing the number who belong to the wage working class...
...If these tendencies continue, the-Senator declares that "the very form of our government will be changed...
...Senator King wants the anti-trust laws enforced in the hope of checking the drift toward Socialism and he thinks that the "natural laws of trade and commerce and supply and demand" should not be set aside...
...The more they received the more was the "red menace"' advertised...
...Fran* R. Crosswaith was the principal speaker...
...as a horrible example of universal conscription for this is what this judge-made law means...
...In general, wages have rided through decency and justice many not risen as fast as the cost of living...
...Noting a proposed huge merger of corporations in the manufacturing and distribution of foodstuffs he* declares that concentration of capital jeopardizes economic and political freedom...
...Doheny...
...In the bituminous coal fields of a half-dozen states we are told that he is living on charity...
...Jim was caught with quite a number of others who are known among the financial magicians as "suckers...
...It became an essential industry...
...Have you attended Socials* meetings where The New Leader, has not been displayed or eves announced...
...It abo assumes that the United States is a holy nation and that whatever it does cannot be wrong...
...The business rapidly declined and only a few here and there continued to work the game...
...As soon as he began the Communists started their usual side-show...
...PHILADELPHIA.—<PP>.—Preparatory to a wide organization drive, the American Federation of Pull Fashioned Hosiery Workers, meeting in convention in Philadelphia, is considering the adoption of a national agreement to stabilise working conditions of knitters in the industry...
...In plain words, this is bunk...
...enough to reach the Monday nwrnmg papers, Mr...
...Socialists' drive for a larger membership...
...These problems will be shifted to the capitalist owners of the farms who will have less difficulty in solving them because the owners are allied with finance and capital...
...What is natural to one stage of industry is not necessarily natural to another stage...
...Many years ago Graham Taylor used to tell a story of a blacksmith be knew...
...be tolerated...
...He made a modest pile and then the market slumped...
...Tenn...
...We want more New Leadtr workei* who will follow the essmple of Graham Taylor's blacksmith, key men who, whatever their trade may be, will make Socialism thfir mipTetne interest...
...The Prussian policy was pointed to...
...Competition is natural to small industry but not to great industry...
...Hundreds of organizations were formed to guard the nation agafnst an impending revolution...
...The agreement has already been approved by committees representing the Federation and union hosiery manufacturers...
...Here they meet the small business man who is being crushed by the chain stores...
...Again: "Business is not a game of profit-chasing...
...At first some of their denunciations attracted some of the hearers but as one after another of their speakers continued In the same vein, their audience began to melt away until all but about twenty were listening to Crosswaith...
...Joseph A. Weil in so many words attempts to prove that class-consciousness, class-feeling, classpride and class-solidarity, are a necessary condition for the class struggle...
...Capitalism or Socialism...
...Whoever gets any of another's time for nothing has that much of a slave.—Equitiet...
...Fall, Burns and Elder Hays will contribute...
...In the past few years the dividends have been rather lean but certain high mandarins of the Republican Party are now trying to parade the old scarecrow...
...At any rate, an attempt is being made to revive the old industry...
...Milwaukee has a good Socialist daily but Benson knows that The New Leader also has its place In our educational work...
...I have faced coal Iron police and state constabulary and have seen miners treated like beasts and killed...
...He had been playing the market for several years...
...The money is needed to repulse the Red Army which is still just around the corner...
...They never fail in any "patriotic" emergeno . Judge-Made Conscripts \ NOTHER applicant for citizenship has been ¦*¦*• denied citizenship because he declared that he could not agree to support any war declared by the United States...
...John Wright, Socialist city councilman of New Bedford...
...Competition was once natural to the postal business...
...This woufel be to revoke the citizenship of those who insist on thinking and whose thought may take the form ot believing that a given war is wrong...
...It was the winning of the war...
...We could single out quite a number of key men but two will suffice for this week...
...If the author had used the words "serve us" for the word "service" the sentence would square with the facts...
...Millions of people believe that the old Prussia was destroyed in the war...
...Finally it dawned upon some of the thick-head millionaires that they were being held up by a lot of sharpers...
...The farmers will be interested in wages, hours and general conditions...
...They are not Socialists with a parochial vision...
...181...
...Yosr paper continues the argument tor months after the speakers haw been heard...
...Another step will be logical...
...New York City...
...His analysis is sound...
...Asked what his occupation was the blacksmith replied with intense earnestness "By trade I am a blacksmith but my business is Socialism...
...Young India...
...Chile, whose copper mines ana sweated labor pour millions into the Guggenheim coffers out of which every once in a while come a few for charity...
...The change has been going on since the Civil War...
...The announcement was greeted with applause...
...That workman was a key man...
...182...
...He writes: "You asked for a key man in each town...
...Ole Hanson retreated in disgrace and Senator Lusk was found with some silver spoons that were embarrassing...
...On the other hand, the government attitude is one of protection, both to the laboring classes and to the industrialists...
...We looked for happv Jim in the New England textile mills but he could not be located...
...Considered in relation to the displacement of labor and the small business men the ruling classes are unwittingly recruiting a wage working class that will have every reason for taking independent party action...
...The farmers either become wage workers or they drift to the cities to become wage workers...
...They have changed in industry as well...
...the basic causes of unrest—miserably low wages, long weary hours, and industrial feudalism—still remain...
...Millions of dollars were poured into these organizations...
...The book does not say that industry at this moment is making everybody rich, but that the general trend of American industry and the ideology which prompts American business leaders is to make everybody rich...
...So we are puzzled, but our inquiry has led to a bright idea...
...We accept the analysis and forecast bat now call attention to two other matters he mentions...
...Comrade Levin e, an old Socialist of Los Angeles who happened to be in Boston, amused the crowd by his witty and apt answering of questions...
...Meet Jim Smith ONE full page broadcast in the daily press last Tuesday introduced Jim Smith to us and incidentally informed us that we can learn much more about him in True Stories Magazine...
...and $50 to the textile strikers in Gastonla, N. C. through the Workers' International Belief This relief, has been of inestimable importance, but is not sufficient...
...In addition to the circulation of accurate information, it is planned to meet occasionally for discussion and conference...
...Karl...
...He has placed The New Leader on two newsstands in that city...
...Their interest expands beyond their immediate circle...
...We wired friends to look for him in the southern mills and there he was on strike...
...of course, no expense or obligation entailed either in reading the material circulated or In co-operation with any activity of the group...
...John Streetcleaner and Mr...
...Philip Snowden...
...Common labor to Chile gets only about S4c for a day's work while the highest paid mechanic makes about lies a day...
...Among the speakers were Alfred Baker Lewis, state secretary...
...The masters of oil and steel...
...Comrade Nygaard still remains a member of the Executive...
...Executive of the . S. I. Zurich.—Up to the present the SocialDemocratic Party of Denmark has been represented on the Executive of the Labor and Socialist International by Th...
...The great capitalist organizations of the country liave wallowed in the greatest dividends in all history since the end of the war...
...It la the grand game of supplying human wants...
...Chancellor of the ffti hasps...
...His "rugged individualism" which Hoover glorified in the Iowa town of his birth last year will pass into history together with his-independent farm...
...Your local branch needs a key man...
...the weekly paper to every issue of which Gandhi writes at some length on current events In India, has been subscribed for: his autobiography and other works have been purchased, and it is hoped to circulate these as widely as genuine Interest in firsthand knowledge develops in these matters—matters which If not entirely ignored in our newspapers are almost invariably misrepresented...
...We are calling the roll Are (be*, other key men to make The tWPl Leader their special work' i JAMBS ONSaU...
...Since the end of the war it is the farms that have been passing into such control...
...Notice that one city is not sufficient for the activities of these key tnen...
...He is back at the old job...
...I am willing to undertake the Job for Detroit and probably for Michigan...
...THE WORK OF GHANDI Editor, The NEW LEADER: An Increasing interest in Gandhi, especially in relation to the political and social crises now pending in India.' has suggested to a number of thoughtful men and women the value of studying that situation and possibly also other problems nearer home, as nearly as may be from Gandhi's own point of view...
...You have...
...He has just completed a highly successful one week's tour of Connecticut...
...Approximately 5000 operatives in and near Greenville, S. C, are now striking in protest against the "stretch-out" system, and now strikes are occurring weekly The "settlement" at Elizabethton...
...He then hazards a forecast of what is possible as a result of these changes...
...Now the Prussian policy has become the American policy for it assumes that the moment the United States declares war we are all soldiers...
...Room 931...
...84c Day's Fay In Province of Guggenheim* nr/HIUE Hew York City's millions " sweltered fat tropic heat Sunday, Mr...
...185...
...NORMAN THOMAS...
...Our editorial was confirmed by McAlister Coleman in his observations regarding this book which appeared last week...
...Having in my time listened to exponents of will power, new thought and the power of mind, I believe that Comrade Weil's position on the class struggle is truly a good/ Christian science doctrine...
...It may not be as successful as the other but we think that Jim will recognize himself in our literary output and that he will not get drunk on the millennium...
...The class struggle is the result of class division in society and such is not the case in this country...
...He will then not be interested in railroad rates, marketing, storage or credit problems...
...And this is also natura1...
...That condition is lacking among the workers in the United 8tates, hence there is no class struggle...
...Murray Guggenheim, creases' in his yacht and felt charitably inclined...
...They fear revolution far more than Invasion.—Henry Thomas Buckle...
...When Crosswaith finished, the audience was so enthused he had to come back and speak for another fifteen minutes after he had spoken for over an hour...
...Contributions to the relief fund should be sent to Forrest Bailey...
...Abraham Kalish of the Yipsels...
...The chattel slave owner got all the slave's time for nothing...
...We have reached a stage in this matter that was unthinkable in this country thirty years ago...
...We are going to start the Blue Stories Magazine...
...It is emerging in the United States...
...Tenn.: 11.000 to the textile strikers near Greenville, S .C: $500 to the United Shoe Workers in Boston...
...Those who serve in the army are not permitted to think...
...Lurid advertising in the newspapers and sensational circulars gave the impression that an American Red Army was just around the corner...
...But I do try never to lose sight of the Socialist aim aad vision...
...Over in Detroit, the feudal barony of Henry Ford, is Ma urn* DeJong, formerly of New York...
...There is Al Benson of Milwaukee, the Socialist Gibralter oi the United States...
...Thousands of small capitalists are thrust aside, and they find no place in our economic life...
...In keeping with this position it opposes equally strikes and lockouts...
...Douglas Macintosh had served in the Canadian forces in the World War but a pledge to support all wars impressed him as a humiliating surrender of his judgment...
...New York City OBJECTION AND REPLY Editor, The New Leader: After reading your editorial comment on my book...
...The author goes on to say that the new aim of the ruling classes "was not merely the service of the hundred thousand or the million...
...efcrn as the microphone * to broadcasting...
...He writes that "it is indlspensible to any one who wants to keep abreast with what labor is doing in this country...
...In conclusion I want to ask: If the struggle of the textile workers and lumberjacks is not a class struggle, then what the hell is it...
...We were in a new social order, and it was an order m which the profit principle would not work...
...Profound sociologists and students of political economy foresee the rise of Socialism when indi*^rW are owned and controlled by a limited number of integrated organizations...
...But we could not...
...As for vesting supply, demand and competition with the prestige of "natural," what is more natural than the concentration that limits and destroys competition...
...I think It would be fair to your readers to have a full and complete criticism made of the book, rather than a hurried editorial comment...
...This idea through two judicial decisions is made a law of the republic...
...and the one great necessary rule of business is that it must be carried on in the public interest...
...Mass rSfoduction destroys the smaller economic units aad individual initiative is wiped out...
...Specifically...
...Fear is entering the heart of the working people as well as the small business man...
...Chile is passing through a moderate industrial revolution similar to that which took place in England in the 19th century, according to a U. S. Department of Commerce report...
...A prison is a prison If the prisoner is conscious of the fact, but if he Is not so conscious and thinks that it is a palace— well it Is a palace...
...The governing classes distrust and suspect the future, and know that their real danger is to be found not abroad but at home...
...As Stauning has taken up the Premiership in the new Danish Cabinet, and according to the Statutes of the International must therefore leave the Executive, the Executive of the Danish Social-Democratic Party has elected in his place Alslng Andersen, the Party Secretary...
...Shifting the inquiry to the steel centers of western Pennsylvania we learned that Jim's life is still one of living in a suburb of hell...
...THE CLASS STRUGGLE Editor...
...It is useless to argue...
...Great Britain, to a speech JMb> before b**i tVMBt cftoctivn...
...John D. will sit at dinner with Mrs...
...Mass...
...Well, we met Tim on lower Broadway last week...
...That army endangers the oil politics of the G. O. P. perhaps the fanners who have been stripped of everything but their shirts may turn their attention from their own troubles to that mythical Red Army...
...So speaks the Civic Federation...
...ANDREW REGALDL New York CHy...
...When Socialists speak in that mode I begin to feel sick, but bosses, landlords, bankers and capitalists feel pleased, for that's what they want us to say...
...In war time, the recognized goal of industry was not profits...
...4,550 has been sent to the rayon strikers in Elizabethton...
...Conditions have changed...
...We are rapidly facing the issue of industry owned by a few great empires of capital or industry owned by the people...
...Before the outbreak of the World War practically every paying phase of farming had already come under the control of big corporations...
...This is judge-made law and it square^ with the imperialist trend of the American . republic...
...Their range of work Includes their respective states...
...As-a laborer working for wages he will be placed on a factory basis...
...Bat there Is a need for man, sad for an organization who wffl resect the temptation of politics, and devote themselves to the study and propaganda of Socialism and provide the people with vision without which they will surely perish...
...We think that thirty years of the anti-trusf laws show that they are absurd...
...Here are a few quotations of the fundamental views of the author...
...Labor laws' are designed to exclude class warfare...
...Stauning arid Wilh...
...The labor organizations have not become sufficiently powerful to impress their will either upon capital or government...
...The coal barons...
...is at best a truce...
...TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas (Cowtteaet rrta Page 11 We Are Calling the Roll -pHE NEW LEADER has asked for key men in a crusade to increase its circulation...
...Go where you will in Great Britain to any meeting of the Labor Party or affiliated Socialist organisation.' There the London New Leader, the Glasgow Forward, and the London Dally Herald, will be found...
...Tea* meeting is a partial failure even though you have a large audlenesj if you neglect The New Leader...
...What of the super-power crowd...
...Javitz's letter has not changed our opinion of the book...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 24
