National Socialist Drive for $50,000 Opens
National Socialist Drive for $50,000 Opens Fund Is Sought To Begin Fight In the Nation Marx Lewis to Take Charge of Campaign From Washington Office (By a New Leader Correipondtnt)...
...The depositors would get 3 per cent...
...George Steinhardt presided...
...Abraham Lehman...
...Hlllqult's topic will be "Europe's Struggle for Survival...
...It has the tentative approval of the Mayor, who has asked the committee to ascertain all the legal obstacles which the plan might encounter...
...The Milwaukee Employers' Council, rabid anti-union employers* organization, has endorsed five nonpartisan aldermen and four nonpartisan supervisors...
...Hoan Proposes Milwaukee Open a Bank (By a New Leader Carre-pendent) MILWAUKEE.—A movement to put the city of Milwaukee In the banking business was started this week...
...Due to the short time remaining, every party local and branch can make their affairs doubly effective by getting an early start on arrangements...
...Detailed plans under each of these headings are being prepared at the Washington headquarters, and will be announced in the Socialist press next week...
...Branch One, Pioneer Workmen's Circle Groufft To Celebrate Its 40th Birthday Thin Sunday ONE night in a dismal room in Delancey street, New York City, forty years ago a group of Jewish workers met and founded a movement which no one present anticipated would become a nationwide organization...
...Hillquit to Speak Tuesday For Rand women' s Group Morris Hillquit will be the speaker at a special meeting of the Women's Committee of the Rand School next Tuesday afternoon, April 5, at 2:30 p. m., in the studio of the Rand School...
...May Day Fete Procession and Union Square Demonstration Will Be Held on Saturday TWO hundred delegates of more than 100 Socialist, labor and fraternal organizations met as the May Day Conference Monday and adopted plans for the celebration of May Day as submitted by Julius Gerber on behalf of the Socialist party...
...Henry A. Pearlman, Mrs...
...Adolph Held, Mrs...
...Investment of the city bank's deposits would be limited to bonds of the city and county of Milwaukee-, under the plan proposed...
...The committee asked the State Banking Department today if the city would need a bank charter...
...The New Leader extends Social...
...National drive headquarters have been opened by Lewis at 907 Fifteenth street, Washington, D. C., where a corps of volunteer assistants will be drawn from the local Socialist group to take care of the detail work Involved In arousing party branches throughout the nation, and other sympathetic groups, to the need of a united, nationwide and concerted effort to leave nothing undone that will make 1932 a year of historic significance for Socialism in the United States...
...Hammered together by persecution abroad, this sense of solidarity brought them together in this new organization to help each other in sickness, unemployment and death...
...5. Special drives In sympathetic organisations, conducted by committees to be named for that purpose...
...Bertha H. Mallly, chairman...
...Such a bank is being proposed as "the safest bank which human ingenuity can devise...
...Circle has also expanded to a national organization...
...Norman Thomas, Harry Rogoff and James Oneal...
...The suggestion comes from the advisory committee of the Socialist Mayor, Daniel W. Hoan...
...One half of the total fund will be raised by the time the national convention adjourns in Milwaukee in May, and will be used to place organizers in strategic areas prior to the opening of the campaign, to gear up Socialist machinery everywhere, make available tons of literature for distribution both in industrial and agricultural sections and to get branches throughout the country prepared for the national contest...
...In the afternoon the members will gather in the National Theatre at Houston street and Second avenue to witness a Yiddish play...
...Sophie L. Turbow, Mrs...
...Labor Temple The Sunday program at the Labor Temple, 14th street and Second avenue, will be as follows: At 5 P. M., Dr...
...Jacob Blaufarb, co-chairman...
...Forty yeans have passed and American capitalism has witnessed a profound revolution but in the" meantime the Workmen...
...at 8 o'clock, Dr...
...3. A series of regional conferences In the more Important centers, at which party leaders will speak to local groups about the need of providing the quota set for those sections...
...In the meantime Socialist branches desiring to conduct affairs with prominent party leaders as their speakers are asked to communicate with Lewis...
...That night there will be a banquet in Central Plaza Hall, i l l Second avenue, beginning at 7 o'clock...
...Ben Josephson, Mrs...
...4. A series of dinners and other affairs to be held immediately before and Immediately after the national convention, so that prominent delegates to the convention may visit enroute to Milwaukee every city In which there Is an organization...
...Eliot White will apeak on "Can We Be Too Radical...
...A meeting of the committee will take place this Saturday at 2 p. in in the Rand School...
...2. Mobilization of more than 700 branches and locals of the Socialist party for the undertaking of affairs by which the quota of each will be sufficient to provide the total sought in the nation...
...Members of the Women's Units of the Socialist Party are particularly requested to come...
...As May Day this year falls on a Sunday and there Is an ordinance against parades on that day, except for the military and the Salvation Army, Gerber proposed that the parade should be held on Saturday, April 30, to be followed by a mass demonstration at Union Square...
...The plan of campaign, as outlined by Lewis, and approved by the national executive committee, provides for the adoption of the following methods: 1. A nation-wide personal appeal to all who have stood by the party during past emergencies, and will now want to help take advantage of the opportunities...
...That first branch organised In Delancey street will celebrate its fortieth anniversary on Sunday, April 8, with an elaborate program of festivities...
...The Mayor believes the city broad enough, basing his opinion on a Supreme Court ruling that Wisconsin cities have authority to invest municipal funds in railroad securities and other private enterprises...
...B. Charney Vladeck, manager of the Forward...
...Louis Waldman will be the toastmaster and the speakers will Include the following: Abraham Cahan, editor of the Forward...
...Marx Lewis, director of the United Socialist Drive of 1929, has been authorized to conduct the drive...
...This was the first group of the Workmen's Circle which today has branches throughout the nation and 70,000 members...
...The usual bank rates of interest would be paid, and money might be withdrawn virtually on demand...
...Municipal and county bonds ordinarily pay interest of 4 to 4.75 per cent...
...Alexander Kahn...
...By the unanimous vote of the committee, a drive for a $50,000 campaign fund, to be divided equally between the nation campaign committee and local committees, has been authorized...
...This committee is to obtain the cooperation of the Workmen's Circle schools, the Socialist Sunday schools, the Young people's Socialist League, the Young Circle League, the Rebel Arts and other organizations to help make the demonstration colorful...
...It is expected that several thousand children will march and sing and that many attractive banners and posters will be on display...
...The discussion showed great enthusiasm for the parade...
...National Socialist Drive for $50,000 Opens Fund Is Sought To Begin Fight In the Nation Marx Lewis to Take Charge of Campaign From Washington Office (By a New Leader Correipondtnt) WASHINGTON, D. C —Impressed with the existence of an unprecedented opportunity of making the 1932 national campaign the most telling in which the Socialists have ever engaged, the national executive committee of the Socialist party has taken the first step to insure the success of the campaign...
...Lilly Shore, Mrs...
...Louis Waldman, Jacob Blaufarb, Mrs...
...Bori, Tibbett, Jagel To Sing at the "Met" Rand School Benefit With a program including Lucrezia Bori, Lawrence Tibbett...
...Adolph Warshow, Mrs...
...William Karlln, Mrs...
...Bond issues in Milwaukee are restricted to 5 per cent of the assessed valuation of property...
...Tea and refreshments will be served after the address...
...iat greetings to Branch 1 of the Workmen's Circle...
...Requests for speaking dates are expected to begin to pour in within the next few days, as a result of a letter which has gone to various parts of the country...
...On Sunday at 4:30, the distinguished actor, Leslie Howard, now appearing In "The Animal Kingdom," will speak on "Some Aspects of Huge Parade To Mark N.Y...
...The committee which has been very active In promoting the endeavor consists of: Mrs...
...Nannette Guilford, Frederick Jagel, Ezlo Pinza, and many other prominent stars of the Metropolitan Opera House, the Sunday night concert which Is, being held on April 17 for the benefit of the Rand School promises to be an unusual event...
...Anni Weiss, Miss Kate Waranoff, Charles Shapiro, Mrs...
...E. G. Beck will apeak on the Plays of Susan Glaspell...
...Ladies Garment Workers Union and Julius Gerber were elected chairman and secretary, respectively, by the executive committee...
...Early Drive Dec riled On The decision to make an earlystart was prompted by the realization that funds made available early enough to get off to a flying start will be doubly effective, and will make funds obtained during the campaign count for several times the value they would otherwise have...
...Tickets are now on sale in the office^ of the Rand School at the very reasonable scale of 50 cents to $3.00...
...Alderman Samuel Soref, non-partisan, Sixth Ward, whose name headed the list of the endorsees, begged newspaper reporters to publish a repudiation of this endorsement on his behalf...
...Here were gathered Jewish workers from Russia, Roumanla, Poland and other nations, workeri who fled from racial discrimination and economic exploitation...
...An executive committee of 20 was elected, with instructions to spare no effort in getting the support of labor organizations so that tens of thousands of workers shall march in the parade...
...Several pointed out the necessity for dramatizing unemployment and the demands of the party and the progressive labor movement...
...POWYS AT THE GROUP John Cowper Powys, famous novelist and critic, author of "Wolf Solent," will speak on "The Enjoyment of Literature," Tuesday evening at 8:30, in the Audltorulm, 150 W. 85th street, under the auspices of The Group...
...Sol Polakoff of the Internationa...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 14
