A.F.L. Fight For Mooney Will Go On
A.F.L. Fight For Mooney Will Go On |L Denies Charges KurtrayaK" Cites Lrf of Federation ILpjfljrojf _ ( FP i — wnL^Green, president of the Csjfrderation of Labor, dethe Federation win ,...
...Kings Under the leadership of Sophie Axelrod, assisted by Harry C. Davis, a new junior group has been organized at 1121 Blake Ave., Brooklyn...
...Socialists have used The Unemployed to focus popular attention on the problem om unemployment...
...and how the group can do its bit for the cause...
...Over 150 turned out...
...Socialist branches and individual Socialists, where branches do not act, are urged to communicate at once with the League for Industrial Democracy, 112 East 19th street, and make arrangements for handling the magazine in their communities...
...The group then assembled at their meeting place, 1121 Blake Ave., Brooklyn, for the business meeting...
...Newark and New Bedford are also active...
...President, of the University, Glenn Frank, presided...
...23, the circle had a well attended meeting...
...A Four Months Flan was adopted...
...3. Two hundred fifty subscriptions for Free Youth to be secured...
...William Busick who has become nationally known as a leader in Los Angeles unemployment demonstrations, has spread The Unemployed by thousands in Los Angeles, and nearby...
...At the next meeting the members will have a discussion on Capital Punishment...
...On Sunday afternoon he lectured to an interested audience in Pottstown, getting "a write-up" in the local capitalist sheet...
...On Thursday he organized a circle in Lancaster, Pa...
...MILWAUKEE Milwaukee Yipaels will have six baseball teams in the field this year...
...William Coleman of Milwaukee has begun to make his city additionally famous by an intensive drive to distribute The Unemployed...
...The honor roll grows...
...TORONTO, CANADA The League of Youth of the I. L. P. have been in touch with the National Office and after being told of our activities were convinced of the wis-i dom of affiliating with the Young People's Socialist League of America...
...2, had William W. Busick...
...The current issue contains articles by such well-known Socialists as Morris Hillquit, Upton Sinclair and Relnhold Niebuhr...
...On Monday, Feb...
...They expect to bring a winning team for the Annual Jamboree and to beat the best in the League...
...Edna Rye la Thief River Falls, Minnesota...
...There was some interesting discussion...
...O. Sunday, March 1, will find members of the two senior and one Junior circle out in the wide-open spaces...
...in others party branches have undertaken the sale with the proceeds going to meet deficits and the cost of expanding activities...
...A Youth Rally was held Friday, Feb...
...27, at the Amalgamated Temple, 11 Arion Place, Brooklyn...
...The members are selling tickets and want the date broadcast as they expect a crowd from across the river...
...Thomas Olsen la Troy, N. Y., and Robert Shosteck and I. P. Dinowltzer of Washington, D. C ; all are exceedingly active...
...Several other circles have been organized that have not yet been chartered...
...The wide activity la behalf of "The Unemployed'' is an unmistakable evidence of "Socialism Forward in 19ST...
...On Tuesday, Feb...
...ksars pamphlet, telling the jd Ike hostility of conserva- Ptdon officials toward • he understands it, I circulation throughly...
...In LouisviRe, Kentucky, John Renneissen and Thomas Murphy have begun to make the labor movement of the south interested in the magazine...
...Fifteen thousand of the first issue was distributed...
...Tickets for the first annual dance were distributed...
...Kings The meeting of Circle One, Sr., on Sunday, Feb...
...Phil Zeigler, editor of the Railway Clerk's magazine, has been the trade-union center of distribution for Cincinatti...
...2. Each member devote at least three hours per week to Socialist Activities outside the circle meeting...
...25, Circle No...
...RACINE, WIS...
...Joseph Sbarts, as weH as Oscar Edelman, have been caring for the arsenal of radical literature in Dayton...
...R. C Fuhrberg la Seattle...
...The list continues...
...Second Issue of Free Youth The second issue of Free Youth was Issued today...
...Denver has A. A. Heist, Detroit, Ted Healey, Erie, Samuel Baker, Houston, P. Lorenz Peterson...
...SYRACUSE, N. Y. The monthly issue of the mimeographed bulletin issued by the Circle, "Red Youth...
...The University of Wisconsin socialist student club, our Madison circle, had Norman Thomas at their meeting Feb...
...Other circles please note...
...Helen Biemlller, recording secretary, and Beatrice Shapiro, financial secretary...
...for every inch above 5 cents extra...
...Executive Secretary, addressed the group on the general functions of the Y.P.S.L...
...Pittsburgh,, after scoring a signal victory over the conscientious cops, is working hard, while Sarah Limbach turns the wheels...
...NEWARK...
...They already have a crowd practising...
...This March 1 issue will be sent to all subscribers and all circles who have placed bundle orders...
...A baseball game was played between two pick up teams...
...The socialist members of the Legislature will attend a dinner in honor of Thomas...
...In some cases only the Jobless of men and women have been the only salesmen...
...The state organization of Oregon...
...Nine members of the Garrent Biblical Institute have applied for and have been granted a charter...
...Philadelphia, under Franz Daniel and Andrew Biemlller have done a tremendous job in the hitherto placid land of Pinchot...
...24, the Reading circle had a talk on capitalism which was illustrated by slides...
...The demand is still on the increase with scores of requests coming in for a third issue...
...In over fifty-two cities, men and women have with enthusiastic energy been spreading the publication...
...Helen Elise Biemlller in Syracuse...
...Rolph...
...Young to offer him a k'U was Green's view that tap bad accepted this parole Eg ksve put himself in the ! ESkie position to secure ulstatement was delivered msf regret that the famous kakW had ventured" to criE'fsjl Scharrenberg, John bsjksi and other conservative I gft jiii in California who | hH ki(n appointive offices swuaors who have kept •w k San Quentin...
...On Thursday, the Boyle Height's circle, or Circle No...
...EVAXSTON...
...Among the cities actively engaged in distribution are: Albany with Herbert Merrill In charge...
...Williamsburg District At the last meeting the Council plans were completed for the organization of two new circles...
...Cann on "The Church and Socialsm" which was delivered at Dr...
...N. J. The social event of the season will be held by the circle on March 7 in the form of a dance...
...Sunday night found him in Allentown making a plea for the organization of a Young People's group...
...MADISON, WIS...
...M e w York City ' Yipsel Hike One of the finest hikes held in New York was the one on Washington's Birthday at Hunters Island...
...LOS ANGELES, CAL...
...FREE YOUTH \alional >otes The National Office issued four charters last week...
...Echoes are common headquarters in Inquiries and resoluSocialists Push "Unemployed" In the Nation •• • Branches Help Carry Sales to 200,000— Organisations Urged to Handle Magazine THE Unemployed, the magazine devoted to unemployment and published by the League for Industrial Democracy has reached nation-wide recognition as the vital radical expression on capitalist hard times...
...At the last meeting election of officers were, Cyril Kidman, organizer...
...A flat charge of 35 cents was made for Jhose 5 ft...
...Sol Larks has organized a circle at Evanston...
...Green's opinion that in |T«r BB heavy contributions Hkier anions had made to tftkaej committee's work, Ijfla past 14 years, and in Mftht regular action of Fedki eosveotions on the resolutssMHed by friends of the m, the Federation spokesissrred credit as helpers of ss> Green's statement is, in i, Oct in spite of provocation Motion chiefs will seek a Is tea Gov...
...Yipsels from practically every circle in New York came out...
...In Buffalo there is Comrade H. J. Hahn, while Chicago has been the leading city in the number distributed under Ethel Senior and Karl Borders...
...Last Wednesday, National Secretary Switkes, spoke before the party branch of Pottstown, getting a batch of subscriptions for Free Youth, selling quite a. number, and getting a promise to help in the organisation of a circle...
...At the next meeting, at the home of James Oneal 9516 111 St., Richmond Hill, a talk will be delivered on the history and significance of the SaccoVanzetti ease...
...Fight For Mooney Will Go On |L Denies Charges KurtrayaK" Cites Lrf of Federation ILpjfljrojf _ ( FP i — wnL^Green, president of the Csjfrderation of Labor, dethe Federation win , to work for a pardon J. Mooney in spite of JJf«gentation of labor's ISliilI h i l T c a s e ' " M pubin his recent pamE | 0 f that hundreds of ^^LMTtfict edollars had been de- organizations affili- Kt A. F. of L-, to the ' jgfr"«» and to the effort 2»lss release from prison JjJJJrstion president brandthe argument made by ^a»t the chief labor offiBcsJtfoniia had consistently • d keep Mooney in poson, Kg Their success in inducing agii...
...CLEVELAND...
...Next Sunday, March 1, will be devoted to reading and reciting poetry, original and otherwise...
...They will meet at the party headquarters, 305 Prospect—4th Building, from where they will go on a hike...
...Jams Ira Group At the last meeting Abe Belsky...
...15, was started in a i novel manner...
...The Yipsels netted $82, part of which they promised to the • National organization fund...
...is at hand and we learn that the members helped in putting over a fine meeting for August Claessens...
...At the last meeting the comrades had the pleasure of having the Mayor of Milwaukee, Daniel Roan, at their meeting...
...The Educational program consisted of a talk by Dr...
...Jennie Axelrod was elected permanent chairman...
...All present signified their desire to help in furthering the cause of Socialism...
...5. A baseball and track team to be organized...
...Socialists in many cities have been eagerly distributing "The Unemployed...
...The following points are included: 1. One hundred and fifty active members by June...
...The magazine offers probably the most profitable and effective avenue for Socialist activity that can be taken at this time...
...Emanuel Switkes, In Reading...
...Circle Three, Jr...
...Harry C. Davis, educational director, delivered a talk on the Life of Debs...
...He traced the early struggles of Debs and how he emerged from darkness into the light—Socialism...
...Hundreds of requests poor in from out-of-the way places for small orders...
...1, listened to a talk by Nev...
...Sales of the two issues thus far issued, the first in December, the second during February, have reached the 200,000 mark...
...The circle win meet every Sunday at S p. m. Bernard Kugfeld will deliver a talk on the "Social Life of the Bee" next Sunday...
...Admission was by height...
...Thomas' subject was "A New Social Philosophy...
...Alfred Baker Lewis and Kay Bennett have electrified staid old Boston with the magazine...
...On Wednesday, Feb...
...or under...
...Another hike is planned for the near future...
...The members are busy preparing for a one act play to be presented in a couple of weeks...
...Cambell, a short story writer...
...who spoke on "Outlines of Socialism...
...He got the party branch to subscribe for Free Youth and to put it in the local library...
...Several people joined...
...Circle One, Sr...
...4. A' dramatic group to be formed...
...Sidney Yellen state secretary of Ohio, has been' exceedingly active in galvanizing Cleveland into being unemployment conscious...
...Nassau, N. Y. is being covered by Heline Kolbe...
...READING, PA...
...Cann's church...
...The circle has secured Benjamin Drubin as director...
...Baltimore where thousands have been distributed under Joel Seidman, the Johns Hopkins Liberal Club and Morris Polin...
...BOSTON An innovation in running a sociable has been started by the Yipsels...
...Those who haven't sent la their subscriptions are urged •to do so at 50 cents per year...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 9
