FREE YOUTH
FREE YOUTH Yipsel N. E. C Makes Plans ForG>nvention THE National Executive Committee of the Young People's Socialist League held a meeting in Milwaukee on May 22, after the Socialist party...
...sets the example to others by attending promptly to her correspondence We could add In passing that hi recent months much shinty has been manifested by our young ladies, who have been assuming plenty of work...
...A constitutional committee was also elected and consists of Umanaky, Dancis and Levenateln...
...J. Boxer is the exchange edtlor...
...units...
...BdKh Savlno, the St Louis secretary...
...On the other side of the continent Los Angeles, Cat, informs us of the organization of another circle...
...4. The preservers of law, order and the...
...At Circle Ten Seniors Bronx, for example, we could have heard Aaron Levenstein in the Workmen's Circle school room in the Amalgamated Cooperative Houses, through the courtesy of Circle Ten Juniors Bronx...
...Adele Kochman of Cleveland, who It a fiery outdoor speaker...
...However, If some of us desire to remain Until next Friday we could heat Winston Dancis on the subject of the Socialist convention and the militants at 819 East 140th street, the home oi Circle Five Juniors of the Bronx...
...Having come in a day late, we misted a discussion of the militant program at Circle Two Seniors Queens, at 8503 88th avenue, Woodhaven...
...But if the trouble is taken to recall that very little time is needed to catapult a country—especially of unorganised workers—into war, and even less time for a military dictatorship to be established, then one must be impressed with the realization that the conditions in America are completely inviting for similarly drastic changes, and without the loss of a moment...
...any number of independent groups have expressed a desire to affiliate with the Y.P.S.L...
...12 Police Station, where they were allowed, after considerable wrangling, to call up Alderman Joseph Schubert, the recently-elected Socialist aldernun...
...If the Y. P. s. L. of that city continues Its present rate of growth then the automobile .factorial win be taken over by the league within the next few months...
...sacred rights of property kept them there incommunicado for a while and finally brought them over to the city Jail, where they phoned Alderman Schubert, who came over at 2 o'clock in tho morning, and bailed out the two Yipsels, ¦ The trial took place June 2d In the Montreal Courts, The case was handled by Mike Rubinstein, • young Socialist lawyer...
...Note that we have been fined three months duet for the last observation, a most fitting manner of preventing a statement of the obvious...
...having gone in league with the Civil Liberties Union to make their Mooney demonstration meeting a real success...
...coagulate about the Dyckman street ferry, with lunch and athletic impedimenta, for another exploration of the Palisades...
...Since the complete newt story appears elsewhere, we'll turn to more important business, as their projected fortnightly journal of which if...
...How, comrades, we'll take a peep at the Northerners In Milwaukee, Wis., where the Yipsels were out in force helping the Socialist party to keep the delegates to the national convention from swearing at their hosts...
...The Yipsels have been treated at their study group with two lectures by May Harris Mainland...
...Edna Drabkln, Pearl Waller, the Pettin sisters of Bronx County, N. Y„ and the Bchachner listers of Kings County, Ethel being the city organiser...
...Every Friday night this branch conducts outdoor meetings at Church avenue and East 49 th street, while also helping the party...
...Moving south westward we discover that the Obicagoans had been preparing to tickle the limbs of the law...
...plenty of cities are overripe for effective propaganda speeches by our representatives who could plant circles in almost every place they stop...
...At toon as we receive the letters from those we have omitted, further names will be Hated...
...With such a name.*however, the circle will bear fruit...
...Lou Orossner and Ben Specter were arrested while putting up a poster on a pole belonging to the Montreal Heat, Light and Power Company...
...An Epidemic This pleasing habit of buying dues stamps threatens to become an epidemic I Granite City...
...A complaint has been received that the Yipsel organisers have been skipping past the St...
...What we want to know Is just how many we can count upon for the summer...
...A few paragraphs ago we were stranded In Pennsylvania...
...whose Yipsels are pasting stickers all over town bearing the advice: "Vote Socialist.'' Their picnic next Sunday will be a gala affair...
...Louis stronghold...
...The Reading comrades are ready to tell us that they've called for (and obtained) 100 Junior stamps...
...A situation of a curiously parallel sort exists In Boston, Mast., whence t5 are at hand for stamps, but no membership list...
...Each senior Circle will be entitled to at least one delegate to the Y.P.S.L...
...Many of ua who have become a bit weary of starving at home intend this summer to starve while seeing America at the same time...
...Sometimes we think that the space they consume arises less from activity than the physical room their large numbers of circles takes up...
...But the same trouble exists in Buffalo, N. Y...
...Montreal Yipsels Jailed for "Sedition" Four Montreal Yipsels were arrested and charged with distributing seditious literature and interfering with private property on Monday night, May 23d...
...Already Washington is contemplating a committee that is to function between sessions of Congress...
...Hy Fish reported on his organisation tour...
...J. U...
...Louis, MO., the thriving group,will find added duties because of the growing Interest In the Y. P. S. L. With the assistance of the Socialist party organizer of Illinois, and the Missouri gang over the river, Granite City and East St Louis will be welded into tangible shape...
...Be that as it may, something is actually going on no matter when we scrutinize them, to wit: Sunday, June 12, at It a. m. the Yipsels, Ylptetettsi, friends and families...
...We have a flattering letter from his asking tor a christening editorial, the Invitation has been extended to all of the scribbling Yipsels in the States...
...A Journal will be prepared for the convention, with greetings and articles by prominent Socialists and Youth leaders...
...It may sound fantastic to the young man or woman who reads this to believe that the coming Presidential election may be the last one that the American public will face...
...but we might harken to Winston Dancis tonight at Circle Eight Seniors, in the tame boro, at 10 Avenue C, on the results of the Socialist convention...
...The present leaders in their frantic attempts to bolster up the decaying Capitalist structure have regarded with favor the proposal of Gerard Swope which is an unadorned industrial dictatorship...
...Our Canadian hosts have suffered some casualties, four of th* YlpseU having earned the invidious distinction of becoming the guests of the city, as a result of being charged with the distribution of seditious literature and interfering with private property...
...The organization In this city of red roofs (and full toon a red administration again) la large enough to afford an executive secretary, Roger Smith, who, It may at well be confessed, serves without pay...
...They've just sent for a big batch of membership cards...
...Some of the Yipsels had loft this town to see what other cities there were in existence, and one of them found Detroit, Mich., as well as a functioning circle...
...Among such may be mentioned Pearl Orecoberg of Chicago, who la on the N. E C; Ruth Hasak of afiiwauz.ee, who It the city secretary...
...Well have to forego listening to Gut Tyler in the middle of next week, who win address Circle Three Seniors, Manhattan, this Wednesday evening at 327 East Oth street...
...Some of us win have to be shooting over to 'Toledo, Ohio, soon whether we get the antos or not...
...All we have to do Is to get the Socialist Party official of the district and the Circle officers to forward letters of recommendation, Including a statement of qualifications, and the national office would immediately remit credentials, and would then arrange a series of meetings along any route we choose to take...
...Felix Lazarus and Abe Andrasbnik were arrested In the down-town district, and were taken to the headquarters of the "Red" Squad, Station No...
...We'll send you organizers when the end of July...
...They were taken to the No...
...FREE YOUTH Yipsel N. E. C Makes Plans ForG>nvention THE National Executive Committee of the Young People's Socialist League held a meeting in Milwaukee on May 22, after the Socialist party convention...
...This period of travel could be used very well for the benefit of the Socialist Movement and the Young People's Socialist League directly...
...Tomorrow night, if We oars to stay, Circle Two Seniors of Binge, at 210 Sackaua street, will have a discussion of the Milwaukee convention, following the election of circle officers...
...Comrade Umanaky, National Chairman, opened the meeting, with Comrades Smerkln, Secretary...
...and are awaiting an organizer who will show them exactly what must be done to become active Y.P.S.L...
...The charter application has already been received by the national office...
...Literature, membership cards, dUM stamps land song books have been shipped, and aU we need now are members, whom we expect to collect in neaps just a* quickly as one of our foot-loose Clcvelandert gets busy...
...Fascism which is a form of Capitalism in its death convulsions, must be fought against now through the organisation of every young man and woman coming from the working-class, into a fighting League against Capitalism and the Fascist Danger, and for the establishment of the Socialist Commonnealth...
...Glimartin, the president of the Kentucky Miners' Defense Committee Chicago division, addressed thett meeting...
...Meta Rlseman, who—figuratively speaking—mothers the Detroltert...
...In St...
...The meeting, called by the Montreal Young People's Labor League, . took place Friday evening, May 27th, at Morin Hall, 3414 Park avenue...
...The circle and the Socialist party branch are getting a headquarters...
...The Milwaukee groups have drawn up a resolution requesting that the national executive committee appoint George Smerkln as the national director oi the league...
...Cleveland, Ohio, it awaiting the Yipsels who win hike, ride and fly from all corners of the country, to the national convention of the Y. P. S. L. of America, about the end of July...
...Issuance of a youth paper will be presented by Secretary Smerkin...
...The other two comrades did not faro so well, however...
...C'mon comrades, we need some oars for our ''hiking agitators...
...The arrests came when a squad of Yipsels attempted to flood the town with posters advertising the meeting...
...The dues are still being paid even in the neighboring state of New Jersey...
...The membership of the Montreal unit will soon hit 100...
...When we drop in again it would best he on a Friday because we miss too much otherwise...
...111., has just become affected with it, having received their allotment and also a new charter...
...The "seditious" literature consisted of posters announcing an anti-war meeting called to protest against military training in schools and colleges, war preparations, and the threat of Imminent war...
...Ada are being sought at the rate of $25 per page, and pro rata for smaller space allotments...
...We ask, it this t "pocket borough...
...Graoe Morton, the sseretary...
...Creenberg, McStroul, Danels...
...Editorial It may be sound psychology during these days of darkness to hope jot improvement, but the , increase ounemployment in industry, the destruction of factories to avoid payment of taxes, the slashes in the wages of civil employees, the breakdown of the inadequate relief machinery the ominous beating of the international war-drums, should suggest the unavoidable conclusion that the country is sinking to so low a point that the only alternative,—unless the American young workers deliberatley set about to stave off the impending disaster—wUl be a Capitalist-Fascist dictatorship...
...Wool and Shulman present...
...Doris Lewis ol Montreal, the secretary of the unit...
...Numerous persons have sent in emergency calls for assistants to whip potential groups into shape, and to start circles in most unexpected sections of the country...
...And under such a name as the Commission of Public Safety we may see the workers shorn entirely of what few rights remain to them...
...Or if we don't want post mortem* we could hear Abe Beltky discourse upon the cists struggle, in Circle Six Seniors, at 117 Totnpkms avenue...
...convention, and circles having more than 20 will be allowed two representatives...
...For not very far away Is East St Louis where a new unit Is about to be established...
...J. J. U. See America Starve This fascinating heading arises from a need that has beset the National Office for organizers...
...Circling The Circles "time and distance mean very little 1 to in, and expenses mean even leas...
...Or we might have attended the installation of a new circle, Six Seniors, at 2717 White Plains road, with dancing and refreshments (which teem to be always necessary after Yipsel socials...
...became a circle Is about to be brought Into this lowly world...
...One of the suburbs, West Allls, has sent for 100 dues stamps (and believe it or not, has already received them...
...A committee to prepare the agenda for the convention was elected...
...The day after we could attend the regular Joint meetings of Circlet Seven and Nine Seniors, at U30 Church avenue, at 7:30 p. m. directly after we bad our evening meals at the hornet of the members...
...And If we should show up on Thursday coming, we could have the real thrill of seeing a joint meeting of the Socialist party branch and Circle Seven Seniors, discussing campaign activities and having a joint educational program, a combination of knowledge with power...
...IB the meantime the executive secretary, Herbert Kisteln, has ordered more dues stamps...
...In order to convince our Yipsel readers how Inexpensively, and rapidly we may flit about from circle to circle, we'll arbitrarily hop over to Montreal in the Province of Quebec, Canada, and then swing over the entire continent within a tew minutes...
...He Immediately got in touch with the District Captain, and the two Yipsels were released within half an, hour, testifying to the Importance of having Socialist Aldermen...
...circles are urged to send in resolutions and suggestions...
...The most recent check comes from Orange, N. J., but sad to relate, the heat Is affecting the attendance...
...MO Jamboree is to be held this year due to the calling of the convention in Cleveland, Ohio, for Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24...
...Louise Ougtno of Buffalo, who It answering your letter even before the receives It...
...The last report from the Henry Ford dumping ground gives us the exciting Information Of a second Circle organized to Detroit...
...Seme Helpful Girls nialrsvllle, Pa., has Just stocked up with dues stamps and supplies...
...Then There's New York Well, comrades, The New Leader it about to go to press, and we mutt fly to the printing phut somewhere In the city of New York, but first looking over these New Yawkert, who insist on being at the bottom of the list—at a foundation—so to apeak...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
