OHlO AND CONN. PARTIES MOVING INTO ACTION TO RAISE THEIR QUOTAS IN SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN DRIVE
OHIO AND CONN. PARTIES MOVING INTO ACTION TO RAISE THEIR QUOTAS IN SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN DRIVE HE second week of the Socialist Opportunity Drive, to raisea 1082 campaign fund comes ta close with...
...A number of members weradded to the Committee of OnHundred, selected in localitiewhere there are prospective contributors...
...Mil- time to strike against the tottering structure of Capitalism Is at hand...
...Despite the intervention" olFrances Perkins, State IndustrialCommissioner, at the request ofGovernor Roosevelt, and MayoiWalker, the steamship officers refused to budge...
...The total for the statfor the first hulf of the drive i$1,500...
...The only thing it lucks IsBi>(|iiat'e ORGANIZATION and MONKV withwhich to carry on its educational campaign...
...The City Central ComraUt -etermined to raise a $5,000 ando that the >nrly may shake offhe deadening grip of povorty andntc r the campaign with full steamn...
...Announcement baa been made . Y. Longshoremen Return After StrikeThe longshoremen employed onthe piers of three coast-wise shipping lines in New York City whowent on strike two weeks agoagainst a wage reduction have returned to work without gainingthe immediate object of theirwalk-out but with the possibilitythat they have established a unionamong themselves...
...Then\tho fight against thecruelty of capitalism and the hyp-ocricy of its two parties will beon in earnest...
...The union hen made him honorary ?enerai cretary for the rest Of bid life...
...Frank Wilson, Presidentof the union, refused to accept aruling of the referee that theunion submit an audit of the organising committee's finances tothe plaintiffs...
...Fred Gendral, organizer ofBranch Wilkesbarre, Pa., writesthat the branch has subscribed$30 to the fund, and that he, Ernest Carey, secretary, and Benjamin Fox, treasurer, of thebranch, will circulate the subscrip tion lists among the members...
...Non-Party Members Are Aiding Charles E. Griggs, secretary ofLocal Pottstown, reports that ameeting and supperette are beingarranged, and that it is expectedthat $100 will be made availablefor the national campaign fund...
...If you believe in Socialism, enlist your services;get others to do likewise, and contribute as muchas you can to help the cause...
...Several others haveagreed to contribute their quota.Of the New York branches, thsfirst to respond was th • Amalgamated Cooperative Branch, which,Sarah Volnovick reports, subscribed $20 to the national campaign fund...
...brought aboutbecause of the lack of funds...
...Marsh showed that the organizing committee of the union has spent Inexcess of $1,000,000 in six years.One thousand new members hadcontributed to the committee Inthe form of initiation fees $250,-000, another $283,000 came froma special strike and lockout assessment that had been turnedover to the committee and $589,-209 more had been derived fromtransfers of general funds by votesat union meeting, although theby-laws of the union made noprovision for such disposition ofmoney...
...In Northampton, Mass.Mrs...
...OUR years ago the New York Socialist movement turnedthe road...
...In the campaigns held In Racine one year ago, and In West Allls and Milwaukee, It waa a frequent occurrence to have as many turned away as were able to get iuto the packed halls...
...Girard, Ohiowas the first of the Ohio branchesto respond...
...Finally, the menvoted to return to work...
...While these and other statewere steadily climbing towardthe quota assigned to them...
...We are certain to poll a staggering vote for Norman Thomas if we have the funds to get on the radio and put up a vigorous campaign...
...Lewis addressed a meeting in Baltimore last Wednesday evening, and was encouraged by the progress there...
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...S. M. Neistadt, Miss Elisabeth Gilman...
...For many months nohe comrades in charge of the Citffice have faced their tasks withe grip of poverty hamperinheir every effort...
...and M.Polln are in charge of the arrangements...
...The Socialist Partyhas a definite program...
...At first concessions weremade to the deep-sea lines withwhom the union hod a contract bywhich the union longshoremen that a group of electrical contractors have re-established aemployers' organization to rivathe one that at present conductcollective bargaining with Local 8 were permitted to handle freightfor railroad lighters, although thelatter had been doing businesswith the steamship lines againstwhom the strike hod been called.The second step was In releasingthe union truckmen from theirbligation not to move freight toor from the struck piers...
...He came to this country the early 1"' and went ' t work s a button maker...
...Rose Levin, assisted by memers of the Socialist Club, haundertaken a personal solicitatiocampaign...
...But the Socialist party is notbuilt that way...
...The sweeplug Socialist victories achieved In Milwaukee anthe neighboring cities of West Allls, Kacine,Beaver Dam, Manitowoc, Iola and other communities, prove that the pesple are beginning to recognize that Socialism offers the only way out ofour dilemma...
...The West*- j Philadelphia Branch has named aspecial committee to raise itsquota...
...The dinner wiltake place shortly after the na Several Ohio locals have sent intheir contributions...
...The party's election campaigns have caught the invagination of the city and registeredsteady gains in votes and parlymembers...
...I" ,t unless every Socia list responds It will not onlyhave Its hands tied but will face even more serious alternatives...
...If possible bring youro'' Unit Km to the city office.therwise mall It at once to'theocialist Party City Office, 7 East5th street...
...Joseph Bearak, of Boston, Is soliciting funds in BostonMaryland and Pennsylvania cided to climax three weeks activities at a mass meeting Sunday, May 29...
...This Is our chance to register a mighty protest against the do-nothing policy of Wall Streetond Its Republican and Democratic puppets inWashington...
...PARTIES MOVING INTO ACTION TO RAISE THEIR QUOTAS IN SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN DRIVE HE second week of the Socialist Opportunity Drive, to raisea 1082 campaign fund comes ta close with Connecticut and Ohitaking* their places alongside ofPennsylvania, Massachusetts andMaryland as pace-makers in th«campaign...
...The following day, SamuelSchacht, secretary of Local Stamford, requested an additionalsupply of subscription lists...
...Sidney Yellen, Ohistate secretary, believes that$1,000 will be raised for the campaign fund in Cuyahoga County.Dinner Planned In Dayton Dayton, Ohio, will arrange dinner at which Dayton's quotwill be raised, Paris E. Wooleryin charge of drive wo*, has informed Lewis...
...In a number of places, lists ofenrolled voters are being circularized by local committees, and reports, meager as yet, indicate thata substantial part of the fund willcome from those who are notparty members, but who are determined to help make the Social*1st campaign of 1932 more effective than any in many years...
...he funeral is to be hell this Friay from the Forward Building...
...The New York Socialists will also fight a state election as well a- irry its crusadeInto every district of the city...
...It has the lenders < n>•>•of carrying ft out...
...several hundred Socialist partybranches throughout the nationwere circulating 1,000 subscription lists, members of the Committee of One Hundred organizedto raise funds by personal appealsand 3,000 letters sent to selectedgroups, were each contributing tthe progress of the drive...
...Later h» t -ame a ca...
...Individual subscriptions to thsfund are reported by Lewis to be coming in as the work of the special committees develops...
...Bron 'way, at noon...
...While several Ohio locals havsubscribed their quotas, LocaCuyahoga County, which includeCleveland, deferred action untilthis week, when a special meetinof the County Central Committewas to be held to plan for Cleveland's part...
...This Is a direct appeal to, every Socialist and Socialist sympathizerin New York City...
...CaliforniaWashington, and Illinois, aramong the states that respondeduring the past week...
...In every state the drive ibrought nearer the goal each daySome of the subscription lists havalready been returned to Lewisoffice, fully subscribed...
...Reports from other Connecticut locals are expected tshow before many days that Connecticut had fully subscribed itquota...
...Electricians Spent Million in 6 YearsOne of the major disputed pointsin the factional dispute in Electrical Workers Local No...
...The hearing therefore could not continue...
...The failure of the strike waaforetold In the gradual letting upof the rather vigorous strike tactics that the International Longshoremen's Association had employed...
...Every Socialist, every branch,very Socialist sympathizer must,ct today...
...The responsibility rests witvery member of the Socialist pay, - ung and old, veteran or neomer...
...It is feltthat the wage reduction may havean adverse effect upon the negotiations later In the year betweenthe union and the deep-sea lines,because the differential betweenhe longshoremen in 'he coastwise and those in the oooan-goln^trades has been widened...
...Yet the hard work and the gains of the last four years are in grave danger today of being wiped out.The City Office of the Socialistparty, the nerve center of themovement and its organizing anddirecting staff, is faced with a situation which threatens completeparalysis...
...Wherever this message of practical Socialism has been carried to the masses of workers, it has brought a gratifying response...
...ere is no doubt the returns InSocial!1-' strength will exact ourInvestment in work—and cash ..The City Office musf not be hamstrung r.t such a criticalperiod...
...An unbroken decade of apathy came to an end and theparty started Its upward climbagain...
...Zuckerman was 64 years it hh eath...
...It wasfor the purpose of narrowing thisdifferential that the union threwItself Into the strike ax Zuckerman Passes Away at 64 The ,abor movement of New ork learned with aadnc aeek of the death of Max Zuckrman, veteran lender of the Capakers union—Zuckerman diedednesday, after a year's Illness, the Park East Hospital wher* e was operated on ">r cancer...
...Connecticut Nearing Its Quota Connecticut, in one-third of theperiod the drive is to continue,has subscribed one-half of thepreliminary fund, which is to beraised by June 1. The largest subscription was made by Local Hartford, which, at a special meeting,April 28, subscribed $100, whichis one-fifth of the state's quota,raised part of it immediately, andappointed a special committee ofseven to circulate 50 subscriptionlists...
...nold E. Freese, of Local Norwalkis In charge of the drive worthere...
...Thremendous May Day dem^- 'rions, the branch organizatioork, strike rallies and relief worhe heavy mailing for primar day, the staggering task of collecting nomlna'ing petitions—all thesethings have been accomplished bythe City Office in the midst of --cumstances that would have mademany people throw up the spongin despair...
...Itmust conquer this crisis...
...Soon the Milwaukee convention will have named our standardbearers and drawn up our platform...
...ArBy Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee N ull my thirty years experience as a Socialist speaker, i have never seen such §rent crowds eager to attend Socialist meetings and to read our literature...
...It has surmountedcrises before, crises prodr ' bythe forces of reaction and apathyas well as crl...
...Thethird move was to stop the picketing when the union offered to accept an hourly rate of 70 cents,a cut of 6 cents, Instead of the67 cents proposed by the companies...
...The number of branches havebeen climbing steadily to the 100mark...
...The backer bubble of"prosperity" hastened the process.Today the Socialist party of NewYork City stands closer to Its prewar strength than ever before.When more than 15,000 Socialistsparaded in Saturday's InspiringMay Day parades and twice thatnumbered rallied at Union Square,concrete evidence of this was given...
...The Jugoslav Socialist Federation announced that in spite ofthe hard times, it would make aSpecial drive to raise as much asit did in the 1928 campaign.Charles Pogorelec, national secretary of the Federation, in ordering 200 subscription lists to beused among Jugoslav branches, informed Marx Lewis, director ofthe drive, that every branch ofthe Federation would do its utmost...
...Jane W. Talt, county secretary, is directing drive activitiesthere...
...3 wasclarified when evidence presentedbefore Referee Robert McC...
...maker and took up the b of building what later became ne of the molt powerful unions L. e country...
...Pittsburgh Socialists expect tohold a dinner Sunday, June 5.Several committees have been organized to cover Allegheny County until then, soliciting contributionsfrom about 300 Socialist partymembers and sympathizers in that section...
...Thereforethere is no need of mincing words.The City Office of the Socialistparty most have financial assistance and at once If funds arenot forthcoming immediately theparty will be unable to fulfill Itsfunction at a flme when It has Ito greatest opportunity In ten years.And at a time when the workersof the city need It more thaa over efore since the war...
...In 1904 he was chosen eneral secretary of the capmakrs international union and held e position until 1927 when Illness rced his retirement...
...The last four yeirs havebeen years of growth...
...Mrs.Ruth Standish Baldwin, one ofthe first to join the Committeeof One Hundred, is one of themost active, and has almost completed the quota she had agreedto raise...
...The general membership of tharty has not realized this...
...At a May Day meeting held at Jeannette, Pa., Oscar Simpsonmade a collection for the drive.Anton Zornik, of the HerminisBranch, Pennsylvania, states thatthe Herminis Branch has subscribed $30 to the fund, and thata special meeting of the Westmoreland County Committee hasbeen called for May 15 at whichthe county will organize for theconduct of the drive...
...This IN Ihe experience everywhere whenSocialists get busy with real vigor and demonstrate that they are In a real fight Tor our cause and register a protest against the undescribable suffering due to the breaking down of the capitalist order...
Vol. 13 • May 1932 • No. 19
