Pennsylvania Socialists Raise Their Quota
Pennsylvania Socialists Raise Their Quota Three Days Before Socialist Drive Opens Reading, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Push Stale Oyer the Top—Massachusetts Raises 40 Per Cent of...
...Leading the list of branch^ Is Branch 1, Workmen's Circle, which helped commemorate recently Its 40t*t anniversary by subscribing $00 to the campaign fund...
...They are also soliciting subscriptions...
...Branches are requested by Lewis to no* tify him of the action taken by their branches, and thus avoid the expense of repeatedly writing...
...Morris Polin, Baltimore representative of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...While Pennsylvania and Massachusetts led the Socialists of the nation in the first major undertaking of the 1032 campaign...
...Among the polished practices of Krueger was the falsifying of balance sheets and the forging of bonds...
...At the same time, Elisabeth Oilman, of Baltimore, accepted an invitation to serve on the Committee of One Hundred to raise Maryland's total quota of $1,000...
...Socialists throughout the county responded . with a unanimity that both astonished and inspired those in charge of the drive work...
...Assigned a quota of $1,500 for the first half of the drive, Massachusetts has subscribed and paid in 40 per cent of it...
...It Is reflecting itself In the response which Is coming from all parts of the nation, from all shades of opinion, from Un poor as well as the wealthier Comrades...
...What has been done so far has been a revelation to those who thought that the depression will pre* vent the Comrades from concentrating on .the campaign or in raising a campaign fund...
...Now—more than ever-help...
...arrangements are being made for a series of dinners to be he l late in May and early In June, while delegates are traveling to and from the national con* ventlon...
...more than a week before the date set for the opening of the drive, when the Cleveland branch of the Jewish Socialist Verband held the first special meeting for drive work...
...Like Lord Kylsant, member of the British House of Lords and head of the Royal Mall Steam Packet Co., who got a year In jail recently for deluding the stockholders of his company, Krueger juggled the assets of his several companies so as to make their position appear more favorable than it actually was...
...It is equally important that other branches should know, and that the movement should know...
...With a number of conferences to be held in various parts of the State within the next week, Socialists there > feel that they will retain second place, and perhaps be the first State to complete the quota for the entire drive...
...The response is equally encouraging in allied organizations, such as the Workmen's Circle...
...Branches Urged to Art Dally additions to the personnel of the various committees, state, local, and national and special committees which will operate in sympathetic organisations, have delayed the publication of the complete list It is expected that the list will be complete for publication In the next issue...
...It Is not sufficient to do the good job that many of the branches are doing," Lewis declared...
...Individual Quotas Raised Ruth Standish Baldwin, of Connecticut, heads a group of workers In Connecticut, and as a result of her activities part of Connecticut's quota has been raised...
...It is our call tp all...
...In addition it subscribed $500 towards the balance of the quota to be raised following the na' tlonal convention...
...There would be too much graft...
...Other branches are responding with equal enthusiasm...
...But further, he earned lor himself the title of one of the greatest forgers In history when 42 fake Italian Treasury bonds, each with a value of nearly $2,500,000 were discovered in bis safe...
...S. M. Neistadt, state secretary...
...Active Soclalis'ts on the Job New Jersey, Virginia, California, Connecticut, Wisconsin, Cheyenne, Wyoming, Houston, Texas, Ogden, Utah, Schenectady, N. Y., Illinois, and Ohio were among the cities and States that took part in the formal opening of the drive on Apri :: Ignite reports of the decisions made are not available as The New Leader goes to press...
...Pennsylvania's achievement, remarkable for many reasons, not the least of which Is that It Is one of the hardest hit by the industrial depression, is declared by Marx Lewis, national drive director, to be one of numerous examples of the determination of Socialists everywhere to leave nothing undone to make this year's campaign historic...
...A series of deceptions dating back to 1925 had apparently been practiced on unsuspecting stockholders...
...Now—more than ever • do they see in the building of the S >c...
...In Ohio Joseph, Sharts...
...Many non-party members, but la sympathy with the effort to roll up a tremendous Socialist vote, responded equally well, accepting invitations to serve on the Committee of 100, forwarding their own contributions, and requesting an assignment of work...
...Philadelphia Socialists, with Franz Daniel, county organizer in charge, met on Monday night, matched the subscription of Reading and Pittsburgh, and gave to Pennsylvania the distinction of being the first State to complete the pre-convention quota...
...Thus runs one.of the stock answers to the Socialist argument that the Industries which the people need for the necessities of life should be owned by the people and run by them...
...Henry Turk, secretary of the Jewish Verband branch of Baltimore, announced that the branch subscribed $100 to the fund, one-half of which will apply to the pre-conventlon fund...
...Every large city will be visited, and In many of the smaller cities superettes will be held, at which re'umln< delegates will bring the news of the convention and of the plans for the, most vigorous campaign conducted by the Socialists since the war...
...In Illinois Ben Lark and the State i Executive Committee are working to insure the success of the Chicago dinner on May 25 when part of Illinois' quota will be raised...
...Led by Reading, Pa., which started off . the drive with a $500 subscription, announced by Ralph O. Bigony, county organizer, Socialists of Allegheny County, meeting In Pittsburgh last Sunday night, matched Reading's subscription, and completed two-thirds of the quota...
...The check was forwarded through Sol Waaler and S. Nesine...
...of Dayton, and Sidney Yellen, state secretary, are in charge...
...It Is also charged that a $14,000,000 item was entered twice u an asset...
...100 From North Carolina In some of the States where the organization has only recently begun to function the drive has taken root with surprising rapidity and strength, Lewis announces North Carolina and Virginia, were among the first to respond with subscriptions, Among the subscriptions is one for $100 from North Carolina...
...Other States Swing Into Line Massachusetts runs Pennsylvania a close second...
...The rededlcation of Socialist organizations in every State to this task began on April 13...
...Three of the directors of one of his companies have been arrested and the Indictment charges that at least two of his supposed match monopolies—the Polish and the Spanish—were based on fraud...
...Krueger's manipulations were rendered simpler by the complicated system of holding companies which he had established...
...But the government,—"Oh, you can't trust the government, etc...
...I'ist movement an end to the suffering and misery they witness wherever they turn...
...Business is supposed to be something clean and efficient, something above graft and corruption...
...Well then, here Is the revealed and undisputed record of one great business man, one of the biggest of the world,—the late Ivar Krueger, Sweden's leading businessman and close associate of the American firms of Lee, Hlgginson and Co., and J. P. Morgan and Co...
...In other Massachusetts cities special committees are being organized to solicit funds...
...At the national drive office, 907- 13th street, N. W...
...They are stated to have been forged under his personal direction...
...In Massachusetts, Joseph Bearak, Alfred Baker Lewis, and Leon Arkin, are among those who have agreed to assist In raising Boston's quota...
...Krueger Is charged with having established fictitious banks and appointed personal friends as their dummy directors...
...Oh, But You Can't Trust the Government" "rvH, but you cant trust the government to run In* V-^ dustry...
...Milwaukee and several New York City branches held special meetings on the 15th, Marion, Indiana, on the 17th, Jewish Socialist Verband of Baltimore, and 6th A. D., Bronx, branches on the 18th, Meriden, Conn., on the 19th, and 5th A. D., Queens, N. Y., on the 20th...
...Pennsylvania Socialists Raise Their Quota Three Days Before Socialist Drive Opens Reading, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia Push Stale Oyer the Top—Massachusetts Raises 40 Per Cent of $^,500 Total—Socialists in All Organized States Mobilize Into Action for First Half of Campaign Fund ¦ i> ¦ ¦ < WASHINGTON.-Leading the nation, but followed closely by Massachusetts and several other States, Pennsylvania Socialists completed the quota assigned to them for the first half of the national .campaign food drive three days before the drive was formally launched throughout the nation...
...Morris HlUquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, Is directing part of the eastern activities...
...In New York, Norman Thomas, James Oneal, Adolph Held, president of the Amalgamated Bank, B. C. Vladeck, manager of the Jewish Dally Forward, Nathan Chanln, secretary of the Jewish Socialist Verband, Morris Berraan, and Kirby Page are among the members of the committee...
...Charles Bernstein, and William Toole will cooperate to raise the quota assigned to the State...
...Each member of the committee has agreed to raise a quota assigned to them, and in several Instances the quota has been fully subscribed...
...With several others she is visiting and writing her friends and forwarding contributions almost dally to Lewis...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17
