SDF News
SDF News THE National Executive Committee will meet this Sunday 1 August 11, in the Hotel Astor, 44th Street and Broadway! SeSSi°f3lw1YORKCITY *'m' S°ntinue a11 afternoon. A great crowd is...
...Street Meetings t Friday, August 9, 8:30 p. m. Corner of Bay Parkway and •6Sth St., Brooklyn...
...ALP, Rand School ToTrain Speakers As the campaign warms up aspiring speakers will have a chance to be trained in a new sort of course to be carried on by the Rand School in Co-operation with the American Labor Party...
...Corner of 170th St...
...Speakers: August Claessens, Julia Primoff...
...I i Corner of Brighton Beach and Coney Island Aves., Brooklyn.— Speakers: Morris Waldman and -Louis Epstein...
...Corner of Burnside and Walton Aves., Bronx.—Speakers: Eli Ro-,-senblatt and Sam Bobrowsky...
...Thursday, August 15 : East 22nd St...
...A great crowd is expected on the second S.D.F...
...m.—Speakers: August Claessens and Gertrude Gellman...
...We shall watch with profound interest and high hopes the possible development of a hemisphere-wide plan of production and distribution—a diversified, coordinated and truly social plan —through which, as a result of a general increase in purchasing power, there will be a general rise of living standards in each and all of the American republics...
...From seven to eight there will be discussion of campaign issues led by leading members of the organization...
...Buses leave 11 a. m., Saturday, August 17, at 175 East...
...Claessens' supervision*- _ " The fee for four evenings of instruction and practice will be only one dollar...
...Every recreational facility is on hand at Camp Eden, located in the heart of the highlands of the Hudson, a beautiful location and camp owned and operated by the Jewish Socialist Verband...
...C and 4th St., Manhattan, • 9'p...
...Deakin Fills Kevin's Posf In Trade Union Congress Ernest Bevin's post on the Grand Council of the Trades Union Congress has been filled by Arthur Deakin, who is also substituting for Bevin as acting General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers Union...
...The cost per person is $4.50 for the two days and it includes bus fare...
...Testimony at the union trial brought out the fact that every member of the Communist Party owes his allegiance to the Party, exclusive of all other interests...
...Pan-American Labor Backs Havana Program NEW YORK.—Matthew Woll, secretary of the Pan-American Federation of...
...Xbe conference is arranged by the Jewish, Socialist Verband, and many prominent men of the labor movement will participate...
...Woll, jwho is also third vice-president of the American Federation of Labor, declared that the trade-union movement, particularly in view of the threat of Fascist, Nazi and Communist activity in this hemisphere, would support a "practical and positive" program...
...Broadway, and at noon at Woodlawn Station I.R.T., Bronx...
...From nine to ten - they will be trifidi" out in street meetings under'Mr...
...Tuesday, August 13 r ; Ave...
...Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, with aggregate expenditures of $10,000,000 in WPA funds...
...X, | Brooklyn, 9 p. m. — Speakers: ¦ August Claessens and Joseph Tuvim...
...Included are 47 projects for the Army, located in 21 states and the District of Columbia, which call for expenditures of $7,260,-653 of WPA funds, and 23 projects for the ""Navy, located in 14 states, the District of Columbia...
...9:45 a. m. at West lS2nd St...
...Beginning on Tuesday, August 27th, the training class will meet for its first work-out— and the program will be about the same for three following Tuesdays...
...The...
...Labor, in a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, expressed wholehearted approval of the objects of the Havana conference of American Foreign Ministers and their desire for the development of hemisphere-wide plans of production and distribution...
...Students are asked to register in advance at the Rarid School, 7 East 15th St...
...The boat leaves 9 a. m. at Battery Park...
...Tickets are $1 for adults, 50 cents for children nflder 12 years...
...WPA OK's 77 Million Work Projects for Army and Navy WASHINGTON, D. C—Final approval of more than $17,000,000 in new WPA projects for construction work at Army and Navy posts in many parts of the country was announced here by Colonel F. C. Harrington, Commissioner of Work Projects...
...Brighton Beach and Coney Island Aves., Brooklyn, 8:30 p. m. — \ Speakers: Alexander Schwartz and Louis Epstein...
...Hundreds of Social Democrats, trade unionists, Workmen's Circle members and friends will enjoy the four-hour sail on the steamer Claremont up the Hudson River to one of the finest state :parks...
...All eighteen men were found guilty of the thirteen specific charges against them...
...We fervently hope that this is a practical and realistic move to develop a hemisphere hegemony, a spiritual unity and a joint social and economic system in which each American nation's individuality is the more strongly assured," he wrote...
...Friday August 16 Burnside and Walton Aves., Bronx, 8:30 p. m.—Speakers: Eli Rosenblatt, August Claessens and Sylvia Orr...
...and Towns-end Ave., Bronx, 8:30 p. m. — i Speakers: Matthew Metzler and Abe Jaffe...
...and Ave...
...The majority of the projects call for the construction or improvement of buildings, utility systems, roadways, rifle ranges and airplane landing fields in line with the rapid expansion of training facilities for the nation's armed forces...
...boat ride to g^ar Mountain Park, Saturday, August 10...
...Building Service Union Expels 18 as CPers 18 members of the Building Service Union Local 32E, charged with being members of the Communist Party, and thereby owing allegiance to an organization hostile to organized labor, were tried and expelled from the union this week...
...Bevin temporarily relinquished the General Secretary's position and the Grand Council position to serve as Minister of Labor in the war cabinet...
...City Executive Committee meets Wednesday, August 14, at 8:80 p. m. * * » A symposium conference on "American Defense and the War Against the Dictatorships" will be held at Camp Eden, Cold Spring on the Hudson, Saturday and Sunday, August 17 and 18...
...Matthew M. Metzler speaks on "jig War—Little Men" on station f/BVD, Sunday, August 11, at 10:15 p. m. August 18, Ludwig H_ Gerber, speaker...
...From eight to nine the students will by trained in Public Speaking by August Claessens...
...It was therefore ruled that the members on trial were incapable of performing their duties as loyal trade-unionists...
Vol. 23 • August 1940 • No. 32
