City Rallies Swell Socialist Campaign Fund
City Rallies Swell Socialist Campaign Fund Mayor Hoan In Phila. and Baltimore Thomas and Hillquit to Address Several Rallies TJiis Month (By a Veto Leader Vorretpondmt) WASHINGTON.—Led by...
...As the returns pour in, the campaign committee will be in a position to begin issuing the national campaigner and to send additional organizers into new territory for campaign work...
...and Baltimore Thomas and Hillquit to Address Several Rallies TJiis Month (By a Veto Leader Vorretpondmt) WASHINGTON.—Led by Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, chairman of the Socialist national campaign committee, Socialist forces mustered their energies during the past week to provide the national campaign committee with the funds necessary to enable an Immediate launching of the national campaign...
...The election of a new State Executive Committee, the formulation of a specific state platform to govern the present Socialist members of the Pennsylvania legislature as well as potential legislators who may be elected from the close to two hundred legislative candidates which have been placed on the Socialist ticket by efforts of the state and local organizations...
...The letter was sent on behalf of the state executive committee of the Socialist party...
...Plan for Convention The state executive committee met at People's House, New York City, Saturday afternoon...
...Minneapolis, St...
...Sarah Limbach, State Secretary, in announcing the date of the Convention, said that although state conferences of voluntary delegates were allowable under rules of the Keystone state organization, the State Executive Committee had decided that the time had come to carry out the state Constitution's real Intent that the Party be ruled by a properly elected State Convention...
...Waldman suggested a state-wide system of unemployment Insurance...
...The first of these, June 22, was immediately taken by Philadelphia, where a series of gatherings will be held on that and successive evenings to raise funds for the campaign...
...Locals and sympathetic organizations wishing to have "Jim" Maurer apeak should get la touch immediately with national headquarters, Socialist party, 54f Randolph street* Chicago...
...L. N.) How, generously the labor admlnlstrn* tion of this city Is promoting the sport and athletic movement among the workers, despite 130 economic difficulties always at hand, is brought out by a few figures recently given out here...
...James H. Maurer, Norman Thomas and Clarence Senior have been invited to be speakers at the Convention which will have as its main business the laying down of a plan for organization and later of campaign...
...Duluth, Mm bing and BomidJI, Minn...
...Jrmjfll and Jamestown, N. D...
...In Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and St...
...Missoula, Kaliapell and Billings, Mont...
...Lewis has assured Mayor I Hoan, chairman of the committee, that funds will be available to begin this work immediately...
...Sessions of the state convention will be held at Hotel Martin, Utica...
...The return trip will be decided after requests for dates have been received from tbe cities between* Los Angeles and Chicago...
...Arrangements have also been made by Philadelphia Socialists to formally launch the campaign in that city with a rally to be held on July 8. Committee of 100 Active Boston and Newark Socialists are planning for conferences in their cities, with Hillquit and Thomas as the speakers...
...Open air meetings will be held on Friday preceding the convention and on Monday, July 4, at various points in the city of Utica and at Rome, Sherrlll, Oneida, Little Falls, Herkimer, Lion and other nearby cities...
...Waldman stated...
...Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and otjsn Washington points, and will then travel down the coast through Portland, Sacramento, San Fsgst* Cisco and Los Angeles...
...The Workmen's Circle of Baltimore has donated the use of Its bathing resort and shore on July 4th, the income to be used entirely for the national Socialist campaign fund...
...At a similar affair held last year for the local fund close to $500 was netted to the local campaign fund...
...Philadelphia Rally July 8 Elisabeth Oilman, a member of the Committee of One Hundred, organized by Marx Lewis, director of the fund drive, reports that Baltimore subscriptions are coming both from Socialist and non-Socialist sources...
...Louis conferences are being called for the purpose of uniting all sympathetic groups under Socialist leadership for the national campaign, and to raise funds for its conduct With renewed activity in various industrial cities gotten under way, the results of which will become evident when the preliminary organization work Is completed, Lewis is completing the organization of the Committee of One Hundred In an effort to have representation on the committee from every State and every industrial city...
...Official notice has been sent to the ninety odd branches in the state to immediately proceed to the election of delegates according to their enrollment...
...In Philadelphia, where Hannah Biemiller is active chairman of the Finance Committee, the $500 originally subscribed by Local Philadelphia, has been oversubscribed as a result of contributions raised at several private gatherings and at the meetings addressed by Hoan...
...Members of the Committee, many of whom have already raised the quota assigned to them at the beginning of the drive, are being requested to renew their efforts with a view to duplicating what they have already done...
...Finally, Mr...
...An even hundred and fifty del...
...August Claessens of New York is to have general supervision of the mass meetings to be held...
...Socialists Meet July 4 At Reading 150 Delegates Will Attend—Thomas Maurer, Senior Asked to Speak (By a Netv header CorreipoH&ent) FTTSBURGH, Pa.—A delegate state convention will be held by the Socialist Party of Pennsylvania at Reading the week-end of July 4th...
...He will speak in Madison, Wis...
...Dti$ lng the last ten yearn Vienna has spent about $1,266,000 In teyttg out 33 athletic fields, 22 swimming pools for children, In building one of the finest stadiums In the world at a coat of about $025,000, and in the construction and maintenance of many other institutions connected with the physical development of working class youth...
...Comrades from all over the state are urged to attend as in past years but business will be transacted only by the delegates...
...Tbe breakdown of local relief activities due to shortage of funds should lead the state to provide families of unemployed with at least $10 a week, the letter states...
...Returns during the past week indicate, Lewis declared, that his prediction of subscriptions totalling $16,000 before the month is over will be realized...
...The Socialist state chairman also urged that the Legislature Impose a shorter work-week upon Industry and that the state provide funds, through Increased taxes of large Incomes and inheritances, for public works which tbe municipalities have dropped...
...Mailing of 100,000 The first of the extensive mailings by which an effort will be made to get 100,000 Socialist sympathizers throughout tbe country contribute to the campaign fund will be issued next week, Lewis announced...
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...The plan of private gatherings, adopted by Philadelphia and found to be successful there, will be recommended to other cities, so that all who are interested In the conduct of the campaign may be brought together for private, Informal conferences preliminary to the organization work that is being undertaken...
...Speaking at one mass-meeting in Baltimore last Tuesday evening, and at two meetings in Philadelphia on Wednesday evening", one of them a general membership meeting, Mayor Hoan succeeded in attracting additional supporters for the Socialist ticket, and in raising in each city additional funds for the national campaign...
...The convention will formally open at 110 o'clock Saturday morning, July 2. On the evening of the same day there will be a banquet at Hotel Martin, and on Sunday evening, July 8, a mass meeting is to be held at one of the largest auditoriums in the city with Norman Thomas, candidate for President, and the state candidates as the principal speakers...
...Waldman presided...
...The state executive committee also took up the question of organizing work, and arrangements were made to have Monroe...
...James H. Maurer, Socialist candidate for Vw President, will shortly start «1 first speaking tour of the esjS pafgn...
...report as to their amount, immediately, to Marx Lewis, 007 Fifteenth street, N. W., Washington, D. C, where drive work will be continued until the end of the month, when Lewis will establish his headquarters at the national office in Chicago* N. Y. Socialists Plan For Stafe Convention Roosevelt Urged to Call Special Session on Unemployment Relief DECLARING that "constructive action by the Legislature is imperative if men are not to starve, steal or riot," Louis Waldman, State chairman of the Socialist'party, Tuesday made public a letter he has sent to Governor Roosevelt requesting the calling of a special session of the Legislature to deal with unemployment distress...
...Before the week is over it is expected that most of the $500 subscribed by Baltimore will have been paid in, while contributions from other parts of the States are expected to furnish the balance needed to complete Maryland's quota...
...I Athletics fat Vienna VIENNA, (W...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, and Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, have placed themselves at the disposal of the committee in charge of the drive...
...egatea are expected to be present when the Chairman calls the Convention to order at the Immense pavilllon in the Socialist Park at Reading on July 2nd...
...Mayor Kalr Seitz and the Socialist majority in the Board Of Aldermen contend that these investments pay big dividends in health and happlneaa...
...The committee considered at length arrangements for the state convention which Is to be held at Utica July 2, 8 and 4. A committee of five, Waldman, Lee, Solomon, Laidler and Karlln, was elected with Instructions to prepare a state platform for submission to the convention...
...Waldman placed the voting of $50,000,000 to be expended in Immediate relief...
...The actually paid subscriptions are rapidly approaching the $1,000 /nark, while Socialist workers there are setting as the goal of their efforts the sum of $2,000...
...Jim Maurer To Make First Campaign Trip Vice-Presidential OqM date to Tour MUUH West and West Early (By a New Leader Correevtndent) . CHICAGO...
...Thomas has given a series of dates the latter part of June...
...Branches having funds collected on subscriptions lists are urged to mail them, or to...
...Members at large coming to the convention from unorganized counties will have voices in the proceedings, but the voting power will be confined to delegates regularly elected as provided by the party constitution...
...It is expected by local Socialist workers, led by Dr...
...The week-end fare and one-tenth rate for round trip will be available to all convention visitors patronizing the New York Central Railroad...
...Julius Gerber and the state secretary were constituted a committee on convention rules...
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...M. Sweetland, Jr., do organizing work in Onendaga C6unty up to the time of the state convention...
...Socialist branches and locals that have not as yet sent in their subscriptions to the fund will receive a letter this week urging them to make the record of Socialist responses 100 per cent by mailing their subscriptions Immediately...
...In the forefront of the Socialists' four-point program for consideration by a special session, Mr...
...Each branch is entitled to one delegate for every twenty-five or fraction of twenty-five members In good standing...
...City Rallies Swell Socialist Campaign Fund Mayor Hoan In Phila...
...At a general membership meet-of Local Alleghany on June 5 four delegates to the National Convention gave enthusiastic reports...
...S. M. Neiatadt, state secretary, that despite the depression, that amount will be exceeded this year...
...Paul...
...At the campaign committee meeting to be held In Chicago June 18, plans will be made to assign Immediately a number of organizers who begin work In sections where the Socialist organization requires additional building to make it effective for the campaign...
...The unemployment aituation is at its most critical point since tbe inception of the depression, Mr...
...A new branch is reported at Breckenrldge and a steady gain throughout county...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 24
