National Campaign Fund Nears $15,000
National Campaign Fund Nears $15,000 $1,500 Voted To File Ticket In 48 States Success of Drive Heartens N. E. C in Plans for Great Presidential Campaign iHew Leader...
...repeal of the Primary Election Law...
...Local Conferences Called Returning from the national convention with authority to arHBfe a series of conferences In the more important cities where Socialist, trade union, liberal, and •uother forces in sympathy with the Socialist program may unite for effective action, Lewis began °* work of calling such conferthocs...
...A mailing to approximately 100,000 members of Socialist organizations will be undertaken as soon as lists that are now being gathered are complete...
...Receipts since have brought the total close to $11,000...
...B. W. Roberts, secretary of the local, has been kidnapped and beaten up...
...Such gatherings will be utilized both to raise funds and to build the organization for the campaign...
...Formation of special committees to solicit funds in organizations that are sympathetic to the Socialist movement is under way, and the names of those agreeing to serve on those committees will be announced at an early date...
...State Auditor, Rose Bauman, Livingston, Montana...
...It la largely because of the work of Amicus Most and Murray Baron that the Socialist Party of Watt Virginia is in a position to cooperate actively with the Union, and the near future may again seo both the party and the union powerful, as they were before tho war, because of this co-operation...
...atate oil refineries...
...for the preliminary organization fund...
...They are helping the local aa well aa too national campaign funds...
...State Treasurer, George Lambert, Miles City, Montana...
...the doing of all highway and road work directly by the state and counties...
...Leon Roster -Land's address at the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, near East 172nd Street on Sunday Evening, June 5th, 1982...
...William A. Curtis oj Kalispell, John F. Maas of Kalispell, C. L. Williams of Butte, and Mrs...
...W. Va...
...tho exemption of taxes on homes to the extent of two thousand dollars ($2,000), and on farms to the...
...continuation of and unalterable opposition' to tho repeal of tho Federal Agri-1 cultural Marketing Act to pronoto tho effective merchandising Socialists Name Ticket In Logan County...
...Lieut...
...Norman Thomas read the telegram to the convention and Amicus Most, who had just come back from West Virginia, Introduced a resolution which was passed unanimously pledging the party'a moral and financial %ald to tho union...
...The following were nominated and elected to be the representatives of tho Socialist party on the state ticket: Congress, first district, A. N. Brooks, Trout Creek, Montana...
...Several thousand miners have already been enrolled and there is every promise of tho building up of a powerful union there...
...For the fund raising part of the work, a quota will be set for each city, and a series of suggestions for raising the quota will be submitted in addition to any that may be proposed by the local groups...
...At a mass convention which was held immediately following the state convention the state platform of...
...Superintendent of Public Instruction, Daniel McCorkle, Conrad...
...of agricultural commodities in interstate and foreign commerce, and to place agriculture on a basis of economic equality with other industries...
...Money .Worth More Now 1 Beginning next week, a list of the contributors will be published In the New Leader and other Socialist publications...
...Congress, second district, J. H. Matheson, Billings, Montana...
...It was also decided to place several organizers in Industrial centers Immediately, to begin organ-' izlng for the campaign, and that more be sent into the field as soon as they can be obtained and as rapidly as funds will permit...
...payment of the soldier bonus to the veterans of the World war, in full, by the issue direct to them of United States currency...
...H. R. Schneider of Flathead county was unanimously elected chairman, and S. H. Rivln of Missoula county was elected as secretary of this mass convention...
...With tho growth of the union the terrorism grew...
...Katherinc Held of Sanders County were named presidential electors for Montana...
...Governor, Harry Haselton...
...liberalization of tho State Workmen's Compensation Law...
...At the meeting of the national executive committee, Lewis announced that by the end of June fund raising activities will be directed by him from the national office of the party.- in Chicago, thereby insuring complete coordination of campaign work from one central headquarters...
...Members of the cam- j paign committee volunteered their -{ services to help do the organization work required to place the ticket In the field...
...Logan County is famous for the Hatfleld-McCoy feuds and for the armed march of 8,000 miners in 1920 who invaded the county to open it up to the union...
...In the meantime, the drive to secure a contribution from every party branch and local during the month of June, so that there will 'be no lull In the activity upon which the Socialists depend to make this a banner year for Socialism will continue...
...In addition to the eight cities which have already made plans to holds dinners, others will be requested to make similar arrangements...
...Party branches and locals are reminded that fifty per cent of the proceeds of the drive will be returned to them for their local needs...
...extent of three thousand dollars ($8,000...
...amending of the state "prevailing wage scale law," so as to make it effective...
...Another organizer has been shot...
...At the nine o'clock Open Forum, Norman Thomas, Socialist Candidate for President, and Charles C. Webber, will speak on: "What Price Liberty...
...To FUe In 48 States The first step to insure a campaign that would reach into every State was taken when, after a careful review of the election law requirements in the various States, the committee appropriated $1,500 to cover expenses for the filing of the Socialist ticket In every one of tho 48 States...
...charge of the arrangements...
...In the last month the West Virginia Mine Workers Union has been persistent and courageous in its efforts to unionize the county...
...We have done well so far, but we have a long distance to go In a short time...
...It hat been Impossible for any union to enter that field since...
...the Socialist party was adopted and nominations for various state offices were made...
...To Mail 100,000 Letters During the summer picnics and other outdoor activities will constitute one of the sources from which most of the revenue Is expected...
...It was declared by Clarence Senior, national secretary of the Party, that special work will have to be done in only 18 states...
...establishment of a state printing plant...
...Your attention is called to the complete failure of the two old parties, whose Incompetently has brought this state and nation to the verge of bankruptcy...
...In the case of the larger cities, the call will be issued first, since it will require more time in which to enroll and mobilize all available forces...
...A few hours later another telegram was received from President Frank Keeney stating, "The Socialists of Logan County are putting a full county ticket up for election...
...state ownership and operation of cement plants for tho noeda of the public works in the state...
...may bi expected, and ample time allowed to enable organizations to bo represented through their accredited representatives...
...The announcement that the drive had elicited a response sufficiently large to enable the national campaign committee to proceed with its plana-gave impetus to the work of the committee when it met in the office of Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee...
...This was the fourth of a series of terroristic acts against union and Socialist Party workers, and there is every*posslbillty that a new Harlan County outrage Is in the making...
...On the report of the platform committee and their recommendation, the following principles were accepted aa the basis on whu'i the Socialist party would appeal for support from the electors of the state: PREAMBLE We, the Socialist party of Montana, in convention assembled, reaffirm our allegiance to the principles of Socialism and to the Socialist party of America and pledge ourselves to work for the complete abolition of Capitalism...
...In every city having a populate* of 50,000 or over, and in industrial cities where the populate is smaller, an effort will be made to hold a conference, and a local director, who will be a member of the national committee, will iy...
...In each city a committee will be named to take charge of the fund raising, and to solicit all sympathizers...
...This Is their answer to the operators' terrorism...
...Governor, Christ Yeggen, Billings, Montana...
...All sections of the state were represented by large delegations, and the work of , forming an aggressive Socialist movement in Montana at the coming election went forward with harmony and dispatch...
...Tho telegram to the convention announced that two more men had been kidnapped...
...Railroad Commissioner, Charles Brown, Whitefish, Mont They were later released...
...Realizing that a complete collapse of the economic system Is Imminent, we present the following at a partial plan for immediate relief and reconstruction: The platform goes on to demand a federal unemployment insurance law, to be met by a federal tax on incomes in the higher brackets...
...Keeney Wires Milwaukee Convention of Coal Operators9 Terrorism {By a Neio Leader CorrtepondtHt) MILWAUKEE.—One of the most dramatic momenta of the Socialist national convention was caused by the receipt of a telegram from the West Virginia Mine Workers Union stating that two of their men had been kidnapped because of their activities in organizing in notorious Logan County...
...In an appeal addressed to all Socialist party members, Lewis requests that branches and individuals that have funds available for the drive should mall them to him at 907 Fifteen Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. / "It will depend mainly on what we do now, not on what we do during the last few weeks of the campaign, as to whether we shall make the most of our opportunity," Lewis declared...
...Free medical care and hospitalization in maternity for the workers...
...It will include contributions from Socialist party branches, and from individuals, regardless of the amount...
...National Campaign Fund Nears $15,000 $1,500 Voted To File Ticket In 48 States Success of Drive Heartens N. E. C in Plans for Great Presidential Campaign iHew Leader Correspondent) WASHINGTON — The total amount available for the national Socialist campaign as a result of the drive authorized by the national executive committee of the party will be soon In the neighborhood of $15,000, Marx Lewis, director of the drive announced here this week...
...Socialists of Montana in StateSession Largest Convention Since the War Meets in Helena—Platform Drafted (By a New Leader Correspondent) HELENA, Montana.—The largest and most enthusiastic convention since the war was held by the Socialist party of Montana at Helena May 17...
...Secretary of State, Charles Payat, Belknap, Montana...
...A dollar now may count for as much as several dollars later on—it may help bring several dollars later on...
...abolition of all convict labor when in competition with free labor...
...fore the date is set for the con¦|hce a survey will be made of ¦s9 MUroat from which support Thomas at Bronx Fellowship Sunday "How To Live a Richer Life," will be the subject of Rev...
...a six-hour work day and a five-day week...
...Subscriptions totalling approximately $10,300 were reported to the newly elected N. E. C. at Milwaukee by Lewis on May 20th, at the conclusion of the fifth week of the six weeks' drive...
...If we can properly prepare the ground now, the campaign will continue to gain momentum, bringing us both funds nnd votes later on...
...These subscriptions do not include the funds collected by branches and locals, returns on which will not be made until the end of the first week in June, nor two subscriptions from organizations totalling approximately $2,500...
...Attorney General, John F. Duffy, Kalispell, Montana...
...steeply Increased Income and Inheritance taxes on higher incomes and estates...
...a federal appropriation of five billion ($5,000,000,000) dollars for public works, ; roads, reforestation, alum clearances and other necessities for : the relief of the workers...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 23
