ROMANTIC SOUTH AMERICA
Romantic South America feaatfcof Smtene Also Jkmrnn the A wlttic of tmttni UtojjM W30MANTJO starts* ef the haV sawsge Clenches of the Pampas of Argentine or strange experiences assent *h»...
...Why should one'squander a dollar on vaudeville when this show is free...
...The efforts of President Coolidge to constrain the Senate to give him or rather his successor a free hand is a shocking commentary on the Insincerity of the Administration's promises that it was only keeping the Marines in Nicaragua until an honest election could be had...
...We urge our readers to post the first page of this issue of The New Leader in union halls and every other place where it is likely to be read by those most affected by wretched housing...
...Capital in the tropics does not, however, limit its cruelties to the native racea Early last year the Wood-workers' International published a pamphlet which east a lurid light on the suffering of the im« migrant and other workers of mixed race who are employed In lumber work...
...The city is controlled by'the Socialist Party and supported by several hundred thousand u'orkers organized in trade unions...
...Happily, the military intervention in the Isnd-worksrs* strike in the Argentine The Bvtog rwtdhnsw of wse^^Q Not onhr ass wages terrBto.tssjtJsj workers see deprived of sajtjS wages kg bstog paid ta ehssjsTIl are only payable by the essatssanssi keepers of thedhtrtct <tt»tossfc*jS Daring the harvest season, wssssg] over poise, or tn a shatter >sgj3_ out of paraam Una...
...Well, they had an honest count— more honest than Socialists got In lots of states at home between the only two parties our military would permit to run...
...yet responsible for the elaaghtw sshl gonla...
...Yet, knowing America as only an American stock can know it, I can not justly blame it for Its profound stupidity...
...PXONESR8 of FFjaDCOT «*1 ALX8TSR coleman and * *J subscription to THE kb, for S3...
...I am toe prosperous to read it...
...Citizens would be op in arms against legislation so hazy as this if it applied to them for no person could decide what his rights are under its provisions...
...Do the reader* ef Tail Leader know a good thing when thf It...
...rTr5i*WDwawfT#*^7^M^sF 3555l§g|§ TTfryt^^^Pjy2Ty^?vTisi^g,rTTt*«^s What couldn't we do on legislation of this sort with even a few able men of cur own in the legislature...
...Trotsky is in exile, leaving a secret movement in Russia behind him...
...New York City ha> its sewer and bus deals, the former being accompanied with a number of mysterious deaths...
...Not solidarity with the bosses in getting-higher tariffs at great cost to ourselves as consumers but greater solidarity with the workers In all lands is the way to abolish poverty, give security against unemployment, and reduce the menace of war...
...Civil Liberties Denounces Whalen Lawlessness in N. Y. A protest by the Civil Liberties Union against his own lawlessness as New York police commissioner greeted Grover Whalen, ex-department store head, on his return from several weeks' vacationing in Florida...
...Less than 13 per cent have baths and only 13 per cent have central heat...
...New York City...
...We would be more impressed by the arguments of bankers and capitalists against Socialism if they did'not have so many millions at stake in the preservation of capitalism...
...J. Edward Stake, O* W. R. Davis, Kansas...
...Hoover will tell us something about "rugged individualism" in his inaugural address and that will help some...
...at the Town Hall Club...
...But little paper ballots In the hands of fools do incalculable harm...
...A VfcfcHM Anti-Alien BUI JTOR years Congressman Johnson has been pressing snti-alien legislation before Congress which practically makes every irrrrrrigrarft a criminal suspect and provides harsh pens tries for minor offenses...
...Soon machine guns were In action, and soldiers: and peasants were slain...
...I am happy to inform you that I am now working in a rooming house for my room and board and an occasional dime for spending money...
...He proposed to ask the Government: "what consequence* the coup d'etat te Belgrade might have on Franco-Yugoslavia relations...
...Trotskyites are in prison or in exile in Russia but their fate is\the fate of the Stalinites if the former came into power...
...on fear that every immigrant is a potential supporter of violence...
...Mohammedan and infidel elbows rub together on the same Job...
...The health, comfort and lives of the workers of the cities are sacrificed to profiteers and rent hogs...
...Market Invites Plunging By Oar Financial Kener 1 SUBSCRIBERS of The Mew lei were not caught in the iwaatsj market Jam...
...Texas...
...Reader, like to share the burden of telling the difference between Republican aad Democrat^ speeches and platforms...
...Everyone at all acquainted with the American Labor Movement knows that tt Is passing through a severe crisis the result of which is very uncertain...
...Vigilance committees and lynch law were the only alternatives...
...The other recourse of our unions is to join in the scramble of the bosses for higher tariffs...
...a governor on trial In Oklahoma...
...Nothing funny about it and our sympathy goes to the Tribune...
...A babel of tongues confuses it, and it is blinded by racial and religious prejudices, instigated by capitalist knaves to make the business of plunder safe and easy...
...We should have unemployment with half our population under the system we now tolerate...
...IF TOP Egg TELL THE TRUTH, THE feW THAT BE WOULD NOT WMg CLOSING TOC UP...
...As matters stand the President can do as he pleases and trust Congress to furnish the money...
...Associated with these vendettas are the grafting and plundering of the cities...
...The singles are too long to tot a* them we find W. R Henry...
...So nations abroad are outlaws that must be watched by an American cop...
...19, the Socialist Deputy, Grumbach, gave notice in the French Chamber that he wished to put a question on the events in Yugoslavia...
...Office holders have been known to pay their respects to murdered gangsters by attending their funerals...
...Population was scattered and primitive conditions made banditry possible...
...You will understand, I feel sure, why your sheet is so impossible...
...11 B. MOraldL Philadelphia: J. A Be Wetertown...
...Troops were then seat tect the workers...
...In that respect the blues are yellow...
...In this country for weeks not columns but whole pages of their daily organ have been devoted to dull polemics bewteen two factions thai are struggling for control inside the "party.'' It is a triangular struggle, two groups inside and the Trotskyites outside with verbal bootjacks hurled in all directions...
...We recently celebrated the birthday of Washington who led a revolution but be careful not to mention the revolution if you want the good will of the professional patriots who glorify Washington...
...The A. F. of L. political policy may be alright but it is well to ignore injunctions when you try to prove it » • * The only thing that woman suffrage has proven is that women can be Just as wise and Just as stupid as men in politics...
...Last year, I registered as a Socialist for the sake of the possible slight effect my regis tratkin might have on the campaign...
...Romantic South America feaatfcof Smtene Also Jkmrnn the A wlttic of tmttni UtojjM W30MANTJO starts* ef the haV sawsge Clenches of the Pampas of Argentine or strange experiences assent *h» sBeTans of the primeval forests of Brash must socaetheea bedsaaJe the reader when placed alongside the sober reports which from time to time reach the public ear concerning the hard fate of the inhabitants of these districts, tn reality, the natural freedom of these peoples has long smoe given place to- slavery In the service of foreign capitalists The many risings of Indians m Ecuador...
...The dogma of dictatorship is working its own logic by devouring its devotees of all stripes...
...Los Angeles, Calif...
...A sab aad asp at this time...
...I have always been a citizen—I could not help myself...
...DeanweaJ employers aad workers laid thskssj ttve cases before President tsasj known as the "Father of the two...
...la sdgjW] workers are robbed of their ssttpsjsj professional recruiters ceOed ^wssssal dores...
...To skin 'em as usual...
...But, if a citizen has a vote, let him vote...
...Eventually, these little Job combinations will rneige into a huge national labor trust that will grow and grow until it covers the earth, capable of withholding the labor supply, at will, to force increased demands...
...Bawl MBter, CwJahoeaa...
...Chicago seems to set the pace...
...A BABEL OF TOKOVES...
...Ton ought to receive special credit for the had which other Kberal and labor Journals hke the "Nation, - "New Republic" and "Labor Age" have followed...
...Whenever possible they cooperate with the legislative representatives of organised labor...
...Again the Senate of the United States had betrayed the people and abdicated Its own constitutional functions by reversing Itself on its previous vote refusing more money to keep the marines in Nicaragua...
...The above a birthday gift from Anna TAw* Orders for Upton Slawadrs'Ito novel...
...And not one Socialist holds office in Chicago...
...Now it seems to us ss clear as daylight that we can absolutely exclude all immigrants and all foreign goods and not diminish but rather increase unemployment...
...It is the will of mass production magnates which Congressman Johnson would invest with the character of law...
...Asaong the eewers ssrws" is one frees Wa O.* StseafSS* mi gtana...
...Gang and Graft Politics QNE can understand the early days of the raw West when horsethieves and outlaws plied their trade...
...At the last election, at a time when wide-spread involuntary idleness, wholesale misery, pauperism and crime stalked the country, thirty-six million fools used those little paper ballots to continue this appalling condition, mistaking adversity for prosperity 1 What a commentary upon the political intelligence of the American people this vote was...
...I esaasti along wttheat the paper...
...This applies *»•*] scribers only...
...He write: 1 paper has come to me through ttVk ness of Mrs...
...Well, we can do a lot that Is worth while even without these representatives and we can work harder to get them another election...
...The records of the United States District Court for the northern district of California will show that since October 1918,1 have no more vote than a Jack rabbit...
...Even as this is written the New York Times gives publicity to a report of the United Neighborhood Houses which investigated housing in a half-dozen working class areas ranging from the Bronx to Long Island...
...Many of the Los Angeles rats are running to cover...
...There followed disturbances and...
...America is in a second dark age, and several centuries must roll by before criminal capitalism can be throttled by the new power, now in its infancy, the power of industrial unionism...
...White, black, red, yellow and brown elbows, Jew, Christian...
...In view of steel corporation profits Its action was indefensible, as the Council well says...
...He ¦ to** again thai week...
...It is based...
...It Is the natural result of a capitalist system where the workers never have enough to buy back what they produce or its equivalent...
...Yes, voting is worth while...
...We east find that the first 100 copies art mi est—to dispose of...
...Good tuck a S "AH jtewer to The New UawRfl are Saeag • great ware...
...There are signs of mental improvement, for we are beginning to notice that there are no racial or religious dlscriminaUons on the Job...
...5S J55Be5E£5...
...Valentine's Day members of one gang constituted a firing squad wtych„eexcuted seven other gangsters with machine ancKsawed off shot guns...
...If I had a vote, I would vote...
...Boston...
...Unemployment is not caused by our present low rate of Immigration or by healthy trade with foreign nations...
...Some of them stand "high in the business, professional and political world" who are "squealing as they run...
...That little paper ballot may do a little good, but that is extremely doubtful We, the overwhelming majority of the American people, spend the greater part of our lives on the job...
...John Bergsaan ef Breach* Hi other esse ef the eU guard wae teal bit tar the paper...
...For example, in Section 1 an alien who "attempts to conceal or harbor" another alien who is "HaWe to deportation" may be deported...
...In that ciry the profits of the exploiters arc of no concern to the municipal administration...
...The primitive West is no more and yet some of our large cities are scenes of banditry and gang wars unlike anything known before...
...On St...
...The motives back of this proposed legislation are psychic and economic...
...1 HHXMAN M. BISHOP...
...A BETRAYAL OF THE PEOPLE...
...IT KEEPS ojot1 ¦ ON REAL ISSUES...
...Even under the handicap of having no legislators of their own they have been able to get some bills introduced and they have taken part in hearings for good bills and against had ones...
...In view of the intimate relations between the French Oinsr—isnt aad Yugoslavia, this action on the part of the Is of special Importance...
...Many sections of the bill are so vague that the alien is at the mercy of- officials who enforce the law...
...In the large cities, especially in the working class quarters, thousands of workers inhabit fire traps and kennels that are a disgrace to civilization...
...Dark rooms, dark and damp halls, falling plaster, filthy halls, rats, and failure of landlords to make repairs are typical of one section...
...The trouble in America is not lack of room for more population...
...In conclusion I would hke to call the attention of your New York readers to the coming luncheon on the "Crisis in American Trade Union ism" which the New York Chapter, of the League for Industrial Democracy is holding Saturday, March 3. at 12:30 pjn...
...What a picture of American society and its ruling politics just as Hoover takes the oath of office and reads his inaugural sermon on "rugged individualism...
...E. W. FITZ WATER...
...If the hundreds of thousands of farmers who still face economic distress will only be patient a few more days everything will be all right...
...That is tantamount to letting him declare war for it is only the weakness of Nicaragua that makes the operation of our Marines In a foreign country intervention not war...
...We must, or starve to death...
...ay si ing $3 you secure both—a savior a! g. The first 100 copies are autografts] the author...
...a • • Muzzling free speech has become such a big industry in the United States that it is -time for the tariff hogs to raise a customs wall against any ideas that were born abroad and to execute those who have acquired any new ideas at home...
...Forty thousand people lest their hard earned dollars in one of his dirty deals...
...The Battle of Fourteenth Street CTUDENTS of the occult will find much to interest them in the present phase of the Communist movement all over the world...
...Pardon me, I am going to talk politics...
...Old Age Pension Bill Gotten Out Of Committee SPRINGFIELD, HI...
...Otherwise, blind fury will motivate action and end In sterility, with reaction stronger than ever.— Editor of The New Leader...
...Civil war is waged between Stalinites and Trotskyites in all countries...
...They try to do to each other what both have tried to do to Socialists and trade unionists when the two factions were together...
...A speaker for the National Security League declares the Kellogg peace pact and the cruiser bill to be like the policeman who commands order at the point of a revolver to "protect his life from outlaws...
...Tuesday night the Trotskyites attempted to hold a meeting in the Labor Temple in Fourteenth Street and two dictatorships clashed...
...a*S Brouer, Utah, and many ethenv j An increasing number of nsesB are ordering bundles of The Mo* If OMFWYPCMFW IMP W. O. Kitchen is able to plat ay* even in Arkansas...
...The remedies or the palliatives for the situation are a national system of employment exchanges, a carefully worked out scientific program of useful public works in dun times, unemployment Insurance and the five-day week...
...It makes no difference to the second alien under this section if he is ignorant of the fact that the first alien is "liable" to deportation...
...Have a hat From The NEW LEADER MAILBAG CREDIT TO THE NEW LEADER Miter, The New Leader: * i want to command yon for the splendid articles on Matthew Woll sad the National Civic Federation which yon have been running...
...awsTTrTTT?r?n^sy^Msr^^^yTffrsasi SEgSEEg SIS...
...one thing is certain, however, and that Is that the American growers roughly refused the vary modest demand for an extension of accident and sickness insurance to seasonal wethers, aad are thus reaponswle for the disturbances...
...Cyril Memke at Brooklyn wfE sata edty become a booster...
...SIGNS OF SPRWO . "Confident that with your h* THE NEW LEADER will thriv*** In immensity...
...I Tlsmsrs ef Freedeas" aad si frees tress Edwta W. WMesene...
...We believe they do...
...Having sweated the immigrants in the great industries Johnson and his kind would now terrorize them by a vague statute that leaves them at the mercy of prejudiced officials...
...e • • Seven men executed in Chicago and criminals running amuck...
...The Illinois State Federation of Labor and local labor bodies have been very active m supporting the bill, which was defeated last sssaVm by the Chicago USEFUL SOCIALIST ACTION It was a great satisfaction to me on a recent trip to discover the intelligence and energy with which socialists in Massachusetts and Connecticut are trying to educate the legislatures of their states on matters like anti-injunction legislation, old age pensions, unemployment insurance, etc...
...BEBT BPING THE TRUTH IN...
...Across the continent comes the news of the i onvictiorr of a District Attorney in Los Angeles who receives a sentence of from one to fourteen ¦•ears Tie marketed his office for rearestate...
...This it seems Is the drastic action of which President Green solemnly warned employers who turned off men over forty...
...With every by-election for several weeks being won by the British Labor Party it must make some of our trade union leaders fear that labor will have no power in Parliament if this continues...
...graft oozing in Philadelphia...
...It is stupidity and malice written into a bill which, if enacted, would make liberty for every decent and law-abiding alien a farce...
...Who won the Battle of Fourteenth Street we dont know but when the drama had ended some of the unterrified gathered to sing "Solidarity...
...eenUnw* M eeived...
...A dispatch to the New York Tiwtes states that "a job lot of conspirators, actual and alleged, some convicted and some ripfe for conviction, crowd the garbage wagon on its way to the dump," And who are these rats...
...Human welfare is the first consideration...
...There are other sections as vague as this one...
...It does not cost him a copper cent to vote, and that little paper ballot may help to make this part of the world a little better...
...Colombia, Brass and other countries of South and Central America are nothing...
...a state swss^wad clared, union offices were eks»sv3 dissolved and leaders arrested "2 pressure of the military, the *wbs*sl in many places forced to abases) W most important demands, sad to J work...
...About the cleverest thing some people can say of Socialists is that they are "Reds" but the blues have not yet started a movement to strip the flag of its crimson stripes...
...Certainly no subject could be more timely for those who are concerned about the situation within the A. P. of L, the Brookwood case, etc...
...The mere fact that the visitor is "liable" makes his host an accomplice and subjects the host to deportation...
...sewer and bus swindles In New York City, and oil steals at Washington, yet no Socialist votes are found in all this muck Big fruit corporations at Washington now seek a tariff wall against the importation of bananas...
...The strike however was suppressed, and work resumed under military supervision...
...We call attention of our readers to the story ou another page regarding the wonderful achievement of the city of Vienna in this matter of decent housing of the masses...
...Yes, but not immediate, nor through political action...
...The A. P. of L Council made a very good point against the United States steel trust for lowering wages in its sheet and tin plate plant...
...Vienna is today leading the world in this field of municipal administration...
...On the contrary, they hi take long chances...
...It is alsc fundamentally necessary as a channel through which intelligent and peaceful action can be taken when the masses recover from the drugs administered by tht parties of capitalism...
...have also at different times published much concerning the misery and legal defencelessness The wwrhaafsd Booth Ssnsrinsym never target the mess slaughterJn^ Pi 11 parts to ChDsv where saittaws were allowed to work their cruel wfB m driving to death m the last two months of last (year there haws again been happenings la Booth America which hase recalled to memory those past atro cities The violence of the Oolombtaa Government towards the strikers an the banana plantations of the "United Rait Company- in North Cotobsa is yet another proof ef the Incredible brutality and ruthleseness of the rulers of this ceontry...
...How would you, Mr...
...From Chicago comes the report that for more than a year an average of one bomb has been thrown every other day in that city...
...This isn't law...
...The second man could be held for deportation under Section 1 on the ground that he bad "harbored" the first man in his home...
...In this country it is a prey of the profiteering motive which produces every abomination imaginable...
...The politics of capitalism has never sunk lower and the need of such a party has never been more necessary in our history...
...Time after time the police have had to intervene in a number of large cities to keep the dear "comrades" out of each other's hair...
...I did not vote...
...It is thanks to the enerssSJea of the "free" trade union cental g| Argentine that another asassaessssj that of Patagonia has been sstrkel TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas SOLIDARITY—A POOR VISION rpHE A. F. of L. Executive Council proposes a complete ban on Immigration for ten years as a cure for unemployment...
...New Bedford...
...Even before the War Sir Roger Casement called attention to the abominable treatment of the Indians by their British masters in the rubber forests of the Amazon: and from the same cause there has recently been a rising in Northern Brazil, which has been suppressed with bloodshed...
...graft In Los Angeles...
...In response to the Bret asaMSSw of the o«or of "Pioneers ef ** and THE NEW LEADEB is*** for 93, orders are cemtnf to Coleman's book lo eorteln *** received by radicals and sBeeah One of the eta guard, of Ctdeage, who to a eaawMshP Socman, to another booster sg the lookout for oaks...
...FP) —Though bitterly fought by big business and its various disguises like the Civic Federation of Chicago, the Illinois old age pension bfO was favorably reported te the lower house of the legislature by the Judiciary eonsmlttea The vote was 16 to 9. If finally approved it means that under certain restrictions people over 70 years oM win get $330 a year paid weekly by the State...
...They are not aba plunging...
...But the Marines are still there, and trouble is still there and even progressives or erstwhile progressives hke Senators Dill and Ships tead and Wheeler won't so much as press their former demands for Investigation...
...Is there need of a Socialist Party, a party of the masses to sweep this offal into the gutter where it belongs...
...Vote If you want to, out Is it really worth while...
...The press reports of the LP.T.U...
...and exposes our lives to unnecessary hazards...
...but desperate outbreaks of tnhnmanly sweated workers...
...But today we have more large ciiies than any ether nation...
...The "revolution" was postponed for the more important work of caressing each other with fists and missiles...
...you cae *j"1 vantage op this offbr#«W wo for the book and cawl ub TO bend the hew LasBBH friend...
...Isn't it also indefensible for this same company, in view of its profits and the size of its foreign trade, to be among those seeking higher tariffs on some of Its products...
...And what couldn't we do to the run away Jimmy who has gone to a Florida prise fight to dodge his own fights at home if we had a lew aldermen in New York to show up the rotten mess of graft and Inefficiency which Tammany has given us...
...Now how will you explain that...
...Editor, The New Leader: Stop The New Leader at once...
...The report shows that 80 per cent of the families inhabit old law tenements "at least a fourth of which are really unfit for human occupancy...
...What's the big idea...
...It will be a genuine tragedy for America If the bosses can direct the attention of the workers from these things into a rush for the tariff trough...
...What is said of New York may be said of Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston and other large cities whose housing facilities are fashioned after the capitalist philosophy of the Republican and Democratic f>arties...
...movements of troops...
...Is there hope...
...For a number of years machine guns have spit death in the city's streets...
...The speakers will be Morris Hillquit, A. i. Muste, and John Dewey and we confidently expect this to be the finest and most interesting- luncheon discussion which the LI.D...
...R Blumenf eld of tbk I Please enter my sub...
...To this may be added the economic fact that mass production in recent years is throwing so many workers out of employment that capitalism is no longer in need of importing masses of workers from abroad...
...We are, even, beginning to mimic the combinations of the boss against us by forming like combinations against him...
...Unemployment today is augmented by Improvements In machinery or the use of machinery for which the under-dog pays...
...VFA8S IT Of*-"7*3l Harold R Packert of Jersey* The New Leader" passes PJ shoot tt, so sand the paper «Vffl yea know wall appreciate ^awstsawMswIa"* Housing, Here and Abroad JF THERE is one social responsibility of modern society and its upper class politics which exhibit a woeful failure it is in providing decent housing...
...As we grow In experience and strength, We will grow in intelligence, gradually becoming expert In twisting the so ew of labor monopoly which will squeeze more production for use...
...Sometimes these gentlemen are altogether too modest in their demands and In their desire to "be practical" and "stand in with the politicians" forget the first principle of practical politics which is that if you ask little you get less...
...The workers made their petition in due form to the competent minister, but the Americans were eager for "more energetic" measures...
...We are an imbecile, mongrel horde, but, pomchow, we know when the boss rawhides us through his efficiency experts, and underpays us...
...Recently members of the United states Senate were amused because the New York Herald-Tribune in ah editorial lifted a ssatence from a speech by Senator Borah and ascribed tt to Senator Reed...
...Make the most of this page and the wonderful story it tells of the statesmanship of intelligent workingmen and women...
...The number of striken was variously given as 12,000 or 33,000...
...Again the police, who had much difficulty in separating the combatants...
...It is lor IBs i son that they are "investing" h at luring offer made by The New In Reference Is made to thexOfler dtp subscription and a copy of "Passes Freedom" by McAUster Colenaa 1 price of the bosk to $2 JO and at a boy and girl knows (you're nfht, ] said it), the price of a year* saw Uon to The New Leader Is ta...
...1 Scarcely bad the workers ssssssj their demands, when the sssSsaeaj busy sounding the alarm ta Bs wa which they had bought...
...automobiles, radios or any other merchandise he could get...
...Articles like these should serve to arouse the progressive forces within the Trade Unions which seem to have lost heart for the struggle...
...Suppose an alien is visiting another alien in his home and the first alien is wasted for deportaton...
...Of course, if a citizen has a vote, he should vote, no matter how he votes...
...THE NEW LEADER IS bwb1 OF BUNK...
...A. L *1 Lima: Public Library, MassfflWT 0 Samuelson, Kansas...
...has held In a long time...
...The gang wars have occasionally extended to the New York sector...
...Signed by It prominent local attorneys, the Civil Liberties Union's protest scored reported statements by Whalen that "there Is enough law In the end of a nightstick," that "crooks and gangsters have no constItitUooal rights," French Socialists Question Gov't, on Yugoslavia (By Win te The Be* Leaser) Paris,—On Jan...
...I was born that way...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 7
