International Socialist Bazaar A Call for Help !

Fruchter, By Henry

International Socialist Bazaar A Call for Help! By Henry Fruchter WHEN 3,500 workers at Car" negie Hall, with hearts full of emotion and soul* stirred to their depths, rose as one being to...

...A few books, a fountain pen, a few pillow cases, a radio, perfumes, neckties, novelties, canned goods, anything...
...REBEL ARTS Rebel Arts, at 22 East 22nd St, announces the following new activities: Round table lecture discussion on the modern revolutionary dance, led and illustrated by Frances Leber, Friday at 8:30...
...1 After some months the Workers' Unemployed League and the Work 1 era' Committee on Unemployment have merged to form the Workers' Unemployed Union of Greater New I York, with headquarters at 22 East 22nd Street...
...Genevieve Kaufman sang a num ber of Russian songs, accompanied by Zelma Kaufman on the piano, "The Worms Turn," by Elvin Allele* and directed by Nadya Aheles, was produced by the Rebel Arts Players, and the Rebel Arts Dancers, directed by Frances Leber, put on an amusing satire on "Handsome Adolf," the "bonfire" and the swastika...
...The Maskg of Dictatorships," a reprint of part of an article in the "Sunday Times" by Simeon Strunsky, and "Bits of History" by George Tucker...
...The subject will be "Education for a New Social Order," and the speakers will be Professor William H. Kilpatrick of Teachers' College, Sidney Hillman, president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and Algernon Lee...
...Lawyers, dentists, doctors...
...Admisson is only 65 cents this year...
...Director, Nadja Alleles...
...That remark furnished the only humor of the afternoon...
...Cashman...
...That argument is being constantly used —together with others equally silly —with good effect before various legislatures, and the audience last Saturday looked for a repetition of them, but they were disappointed...
...The contents, besides a number of editorial notes, include "A Plea for Consistency" by Harry Rogoff...
...Chorus, Saturdays at 8. Instructor, Samuel E. Weintraub, Registration for new One Act Play Group, Thursdays at 8:30...
...You can help us with a donation—of merchandise...
...The United Front" by August Tyler...
...A joint central committee meeting of the Workers' Unemployed Union was held Saturday, Feb...
...P.S.—You could, of course, send us a cash donation, too, Women's Day Meeting an Inspiration rE Women's Committee of the Socialist Party of New York held an inspiring meeting last Sunday in the Debs Auditorium to celebrate International Women's J)ay and to commemorate the heroism of the women comrades who fought in Austria...
...Wednesday at 7; Fridays at 7; Life Class of graphic arts group, Thursdays at 8:30, Instructor, Jack Sobol...
...A German chorus concluded one of the very best affairs that women comrades live arranged in many years...
...Lovejoy, deprived of the usual arguments advanced by the opponents of the amendment, was compelled i to shadow-box and refute arguments that were not made...
...He added that the proposed amendment would create many jobs for social workers as secretaries and administrators...
...Cashman made his plea on the ground that the Constitution is no place for such legislation, that if the amendment is passed the Constitution will have to be scrapped in a few years, and that the A. F. of L. wants it ratified because by removing children from industry many jobs will be created for members of the A. F. of L. He then said that there are in the United States exactly 416 children under 14 employed in factory work...
...Bring your instruments...
...Mail your credentials to The New Leader office at once...
...24, at which officers and an Executive Committee of the amalgamated organization were elected, including David Lasser, chairman...
...Elihu Root, aged 80, is opposed to the child labor amendment because it would enable Congress to dictate to parents how they should raise their children...
...Rebel Arts will put on a full dress floor show during the evening...
...Education Next Symposium Subject The next and last of the series of luncheon-symposiums under the direction of the Rand School and the Education Committee of the Socialist Party will be held Saturday, March 17...
...The large gathering, however, was not content to agree with Waldman and Lovejoy and disagree with Mr...
...At the door, tickets will he 88 cents...
...But I am poor, property-Itux," you uihihI...
...Following the discussion, Comrade Max Winter was introduced and he spoke briefly and movingly on tlie condition of the children of Vienna...
...By Henry Fruchter WHEN 3,500 workers at Car" negie Hall, with hearts full of emotion and soul* stirred to their depths, rose as one being to testify to their solidarity with the Austrian victims, you and I witnessed a spectacle of extraordinary drama...
...Yes, in a sense...
...With a unified organization there is in prospect an intensified drive for organization and for increased pressure for the demands of the unemployed...
...Are We a Party of Extremists...
...Bronx Ball March 17 The 22nd Annual Dance and Entertainment of the Socialist Party of Bronx County, one of the oldest and most enjoyable of Socialist get-togethers, will be held next Saturday night, March 17, at Burnside Manor, Burnside and Harrison Avenues...
...Hut —take inventory of your household possession*: Can you not spare an ash tray, a set of books, a carved chair, an antique, an attractive shawl...
...Although guests at the luncheons had been promised that no collections would bs taken, a large number of people left contributions for the Austrian fund in the Rand School office on their way out...
...There were originally four job low organizations in the cite, the Association of the Unemployed and the Unemployed Councils, In addition to the two newly united groups...
...The absence of such arguments robbed the symposium of much of the color and hilarity that many of the audience had expected...
...You need not be a manufacturer or dealer...
...Your Carnegie Hall raised fist of protest, your Caranegie Hall applause, song, dedication — can they be translated into a greater day-to-day activity in the cause of Socialism...
...by Y. Z...
...The gathering selected Charles Solomon, Algernon Lee and Mrs...
...Yes, check up on your aunts and uncles, and, possibly, a father or mother-in-law...
...The Tory majority, therefors, In this predominantly Tory and Nationalist district, in which the Labor Party never had a chance for victory in the past, Is rat by Labor mors than 60...
...Upon motion from the floor, a recommendation was presented urging the Legislature of New York to ratify the amendment, calling for a message to that effect, and appointing a committee of three to go to Albany to lobby for ratification...
...The meeting was packed and the audience contributed 8133 for the Austrian comrades...
...Imagine my standing before you, »appealmg for your cooperation, and you, looking straight into my eyes, pledging: "I will do my share, Comrade Kruchter...
...The organization now comprises 80 locals in Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, with a long record of militant and successful struggles in the interests of its unemployed members and of the unemployed generally, The demonstrations in which the organization, though previously disunited, have participated have made working-class history in this city...
...Obviously the amendment should Include a clause prohibiting the labor of those in their second childhood too...
...JOBLESS UNITS ARE FINALLY UNITED The unification of the unemployed organizations of New York ' is at last an accomplished fact...
...Band and Orchestra, all instruments invited, Sundays at 1 p.m...
...Visit them for a change) And do your stuff...
...B. Waldman to speak for it in Albany...
...I Cannot reach you through branch meetings, speeches or general appeals...
...I am reaching you NOW, through this letter...
...Your share, indeed— that is all I ask...
...The meeting Is also to have the purpose of nutting forth demands for cash relief or unemployment insurance with specific reference to the State Legislature at Albany, which now has proposals before It in these directions...
...Esther Friedman presided, and the speakers included Max Winter of Vienna, Bertha M. Mailly, Kthei Schachner, Elsa Cluck, Lina Linhart, Jessie Wallace Hughan, Tamar Schulz, Gertrude Weil Klein end James Oneal...
...One side is certainly being heard, more than amply," he writes...
...Continuing groups are: Writers' Croup, Mondays at 8:30 (magazine being prepared...
...cloakmakers, bakers, neckwear makers, clerks, stenographers, bookkeepers—all have sonic contacts which can be utilised...
...Groceries, drug supplies, optical goods, tools, anything from a dozen pencils to a grand piano I The article to you may be a thing of routine possession—at an International Bazaar it may appear of priceUss value 1 What more can I say...
...Hear the Other Side," Pamphlet Issued "Hear the Other Side, a Symposium of Democratic Socialist Opinion," is the title of a pamphlet of 71 pages published by Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward at 175 East Broadway, New York City, and to which he contributes an article...
...ShiplacofT Memorial March 16th A memorial meeting in honor of our dear and late-lamented friend and comrade, A. I. ShiplacoA*, will be held at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St, Brooklyn, Friday evening, March 16, at 8 p. m. Speakers will include Norman Thomas, B. C. Vladeck, James OneaJ, William M. Feigenbaum, Charles, Solomon, Louis Waldman, Louis P. Goldberg, as well as several representatives of trade unions and similar organizations...
...All' those who are Interested in the organization, and especially in doing organizational work, are urged to communicate with Saul Parker, organizer, Workers' UnemRtoyed Union, 22 East 22nd Street, tew York City...
...Cashman, when he began to speak, asked anyone in the large audience who opposed ratification to raise a hand...
...And he proceeded to rest his case for defeat of ratification upon strictly constitutional grounds...
...Sources of Information and Spokesmen for the Other Side" by Walter Tield...
...Owen R. Lovejoy, for many years a militant foe of child labor, argued for ratification, and Louis Waldman as chairman and toastmaster, showed his impartiality by making a stirring plea for ratification of the amendment...
...Director, Jack Cohen...
...In reality, they are all links in the same struggle for emancipation...
...T« All Workmen's Orel* Branches in New York A VERY important confer** ence of sll Workmeaa Circle Branches of Greater New York will be held Thursday, March 16, at the Rand School...
...Copies may be obtained at the address above or at the Rand School Book Store at 25 cents...
...Brendan Sexton, secretary, and Saul Parker, organizer...
...An Austrian battlefield, a Carnegie Hall Memorial Meeting—these may see far, far removed from, say, an International Bazaar which the Socialist Party is running at the People's House on March 23rd, 24th and 25th...
...Lur cheon Gathering Moves for Child-Labor Ban Ratification •"PHE preservation of the Consti* tution, and by implication the survival of the sacred institutions of the United States, demand the defeat of the proposed amendment to the Constitution authorizing anti-child labor legislation in the states, according to Joseph T. ('ashman, militant reactionary, who argued against ratification at the luncheon discussion att he Rand School last Saturday afternoon...
...Poster and Sign Class, Mondays at 7:30 to 0. Instructor, John Lovinger...
...That is the side of Communism or of something next door to it...
...The Association of the Unemployed merged with the Workers' Committee on Unemployment in the latter part of last year...
...A mass membership meeting of the Workers' Unemployed Union has been arranged for Friday, March 16, so that the members may come in contact with their fellowmembers from all over the city...
...At the last election the Tory candidate detested the Socialist more than two to one, winning by 14,140...
...What can ! dot" you otfc...
...What a miracle of achievement we would witness on March 23rd if each comrade would only do his or her sharet Write me that you will do your share, or, possibly that you want somebody to come to your house to pick up something, or send the name of a manufacturer, dealer or craftsman to whom your name will serve as a recommendation...
...There was not a hand, and he exclaimed: "Perfect...
...Dance Groupa, Tuesdays at 6:30 and 7:30...
...Admiral Sir Roger Keyss, the strongest candidate the Tories could get for the navy yard and Ship-building constituency, was elected ovsr E. T. Humby, a Socialist, In s straight right by 17,582 to 11,904, a majority of 6,678...
...Another Labor Party Advance LONDON.—Another by-election this time st North Portsmouth, shows the steadily dwindling hold the "National" government has on the people...
...There was no hint in his speech of the arguments anti-ratiflcationists have been using before various legislatures, that the anti-child labor amendment would destroy the home and the family relation by destroying the authority of the father over his children and substituting that of the state...
...This conference is called in the interest of The New Leader The conference will be addressed by Charles Solomon, Louis Waldman, James Oneal, Joseph Baakin, and Philip Geliebter...
...The latest merger, forming the Workers' Unemployed Union, leaves outside this organisation only the Communist-controlled Unemployment Councils, which have declined to little more than a paper organization...
...Every branch should be represented by their delegates...
...Burnside Manor can he reached easily by taking the Wood lswn subway on the Lexington Avenue line and getting off at Burnside Avenue...
...Stop and recall your friends, neighbors, associates...
...Now I can say whatever I want...
...Anyway, do your share...
...Ed Welsh, vice-chairman...

Vol. 17 • March 1934 • No. 10


 
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