ROOSEVELT DODGES RELIEF PLEA
ROOSEVELT DODGES RELIEF PLEA Socialists Make Plea In Albany Demand Special Session of Legislature in July to Assist Jobless LOUIS WALDMAN, state chairman of the Socialist party, and...
...All these protests are based on one-aided and inaccurate information, and in order to forestall further spreading of misleading rumors the Board of Management deems it necessary to make this statement...
...The tremendous attendance on Decoration Day has been followed by the annual outings of the People's Institute and the Young Men's Hebrew Club of Newark and the summer conference of the 1 League for Industrial Democracy which is now in session...
...The Socialists in every case supported Communist candidates In the second election where there was a straight fight between a Communist and a reactionary...
...It should be at least $75,000,000, they contended...
...It was recognized at the time that this figure Was low and it was conceded that not only were many In need of assistance not receiving any but that the condition was bound to grow worse...
...Frederics' Klessler, Willi Noell and many, others will present a daily spectacular program of symposia on modern art, prise contests, plays, dances and other features which these artists will stage...
...Longuet writes, "Not a single one of the Communists elected on the second ballotwith the solitary exception of CI am an us and perhaps Jean Renaud would have been elected were It not for the votes of the Socialists...
...LABOR'S DIVIDENDS HARLAN, Ky...
...On at least three previous occasions within the life of The New Leader it has been deemed necessary to make changes in the editorial or the managerial staff, displacing good comrades with years of service to their credit...
...omon conferred with Governor Roosevelt at Albany Wednesday afternoon and demanded of the Governor that he Immediately arrange to call the Legislature into special session some time In the month of July to act upon the problem of unemployment relief...
...The gala Sunday evening concert will present among other artists, Stepan Kozakevlch, baritone, in his program of Russian revolutionary songs, and Dorothy Mints, solo violinist with the Bamberger Little Symphony Orchestra, with Mercedes Bennett at the piano...
...The Socialists, who have 131 seats in the Chamber, were cheated out of 12 additional seats solely because the Communists preferred in second elections to secure the election of a reactionary, or even a Royalist candidate rather than a Socialist...
...Kohan and DeLima, feature dancers with Albert DeLima giv« ing also Spanish songs...
...James Oneal, Editor of The New Leader, had for some time been increasingly dissatisfied with the services of Comrade Levinson...
...M. Bolotin, vlollnst of the Russian orchestra, will plajrthe cello in the Theremla (bowless) method...
...The International Ladies Garment Workers Union owns and operates Unity House and la motivated by the Idealism of service rather than profit...
...Deputy Jean Longuet, elected May 8th, writes in detail explaining the curious Communist "strategy...
...Taniiment Offers Varied Programs, In spite of rain and depression the season at Camp Taniiment, Forest Park, Pa., the camp whose profits are devoted to the scholarship fund of the Rand School, has opened with unusual promise...
...What the "strategy" is expected to net the workers in their struggle for emancipation from capitalism the Communists may be able to explain, but it is a fact that in Scotland and in France, as well as In this country, the wild fury of that element is directed almost solely against the Socialists and the trade unions In which the Socialists are influential...
...In Its light it Is opposed by the Century Air Lines, headed by E. L. Cord, president of the Cord Corp., which controls a notorious collection of open shop firms...
...Union members pay a proportion!*¦ ' re...
...There is, therefore, no possible chance of labor that Is inexpert in handling crops . coming from the city and making a living on the farm...
...It was pointed oat by the committee that while . this money would not be collectable until next year, under the laws of the state, the state controller may borrow against it...
...Disrupt Scottish Meetings According to "Forward," the fighting paper, of the Independent Labor Party In Glasgow, "Communist hooligans succeeded in breaking dp for a second time the regular meeting of the I. L. P. in Exchange Square...
...Efforts of back-to-thefarm enthusiasts to deepen the agricultural depression by sending (thousands of city workers to deserted farms struck a snag when John A. McSparren, Pennsylvania secretary of agriculture, denounced the scheme as "of no value except to make the depression deeper...
...So the first pilots' strike resulted...
...The delegation contrasted the income tax rates In Great Britain and the United States and showed that they were much higher there than in this country...
...The primary concern of the Board Is to get out the best possible paper...
...The organizer is David L. Behnke, who is now president of the union which is attempting to cut down the mortality rate of two a month by having companies Install safety appliances, and to protect wages and working conditions...
...To speak of its action as a ".summary discharge" ia untrue...
...This could be done by the Legislature in special session...
...On June 6 he reported to the Board that he felt it impossible to continue the relation with justice to the paper...
...In order to get out a good propaganda and educational Socialist paper, we must have a staff that is both capable and harmonious...
...An additional feature has been the sum* mer school of the Avukah, the Zionist Students Organization...
...Air Pilots Union - Fights Open Shop CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (FP). Although there were only 750 pilots employed on regular air lines, the Air Line Pilots' International Association enrolled two-thirds of them In a brief campaign...
...the well known Complnsky Trio, and TaJ mlrls in dance program, every dream of a glorious vacation la fulfilled...
...The experiences of Socialist speakers in this country with hoodlums calling themselves Communists who seek in every way to break up their meetings and render their efforts ineffective are duplicated in Scotland...
...Longuet gives in detail the story of each of the twelve districts in which a Socialist contested for the seat with a reactionary in the second election and where the Communist votes were solely responsible for the victory of the reactionary...
...The usual Rand School lectures will open on July 11 with Peter T. Flynn, writer, on the subject, "Economics and Speculation...
...Changes in New Leader Staff Are Explained qpHE following is a statement by the Board of Management of The New Leader concerning changes in Editorial staff: "The Board of Management of The New Leader has received letters from H. M. Doujty, McAlister Coleman, Louis Stanley and Norman Thomas, and from the Chelsea Branch of Local New York protesting against what they term the "summary discharge*' of Edward LeVinson as assistant to the Editor...
...Vacations at Camp Tamimeat are now aided by the low railroad rates on the Dataware, Lacks"".nu and, W»i»ern fU"r«*d Back-to-Farm Movement Hit As Worthless HARRISBURGH, Pa...
...In France the situation grows out of the peculiarities of the election laws...
...Communists Benefit Under the election laws, any candidate securing a clear majority on the first election is "In...
...It was further urged upon Governor Roosevelt that be declare an emergency to exist which requires the reduction of the work week to not more than 36 hours so that jobs may be made available to some of the unemployed...
...The Board considered this an opportune time to make changes in its editorial office without injuring Comrade Le Vinson, as he was assured of employment for four months...
...This could not be done with highly strained relations between the two members of the staff...
...About 25 per cent of this money, said the Socialists, could be realized by effecting substantial increases in the income tax rates...
...The money thus raised could be used to finance the state's program of unemployment relief for the next several months...
...Though a vast crowd had assembled to hear the Labor speakers," says "Forward," "a little band of organized shout era, not more than fifty strong, managed by sustained interruption and yelling to force the abandonment of the meeting...
...Unity Hoarse Offers July 4th Program A vacation resort which offers such accommodations and faculties as Unity House at the current low rates is bound to cause quite a stir...
...In the second election the Socialists systematically supported the more radical or the less reactionary of the two survivors of the poll In which no one polled a clear majority where the Socialist was not one of the two...
...He warned the Governor that that suffering was not only extensive and acute but that dire consequences were threatened unless relief was promptly afforded...
...Need Growing Steadily It is* admitted In the last report of the State Emergency Unemployment Relief Administration, submitted to the Governor and the Legislature several months ago, that 10 per cent of the*state'S population is receiving relief under the Wicks law...
...The Fourth of July program will offer rich artistic events...
...A program for extensive slum clearance and the building of workers' homes was presented to the Governor...
...Three members for Insult's Black Mountain Corporation received labor's dividends when an unprotected part of the mine roof fell on them, killing two Instantly and fatally Communists In France Aid Reactionaries Present 12 Seats to the Right as a Means of Weakening Strength of Socialists NEWS comes from two countries confirming the charge that Communist parties everywhere are working along Identical lines not so much to battle against Capitalism as to injure, and if possible, to destroy the Socialist movement...
...The following week the unusual event of a full staff of "Americana" artists consisting of Alexander King, Art Young,1 George Grosz, A. Arroyito...
...This season, in keeping with the general trend, Unity House has added free boating to Its list of features, and at the same time reduced its weekly rate to $26.50...
...The Governor seemed Impressed with methods of financing the suggested program of the Socialists, according to whom not less than...
...One farmer in ten, or 682,000 farmers, have lost their farms during the depression, and it certainly would not seem to be a wise plan, to attempt to send farmers out to these farms who know nothing about the business, when those who have spent a lifetime at it are not able to hold the proposition in this depression...
...I.r«n-« v.- - ' .*.» demanding that a special session be called and outlining the program of action proposed by the Socialists...
...In 1923, when the New York Call was changed to The Leader, the new editor, who was Comrade Thomas, dismissed Comrade Oneal, who had for several years been editorial writer on the paper...
...In none of these cases did the comrades dismissed raise.a protest, nor did any branches do so...
...Neither Comrade Oneal nor his friends tried to make a party issue of it...
...This is what, we believe, is called "revolutionary strategy," and it may be that there are some people who understand what It la designed to accomplish...
...Similar situations have presented themselves in the past...
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...The Board accordingly dispensed with the services of the one whom it considered leas valuable...
...This is provided for -in the state constitution and constituted one of the reasons the Socialists urged that the special session be convened not later than some time In July...
...Cord announced a 40 per cent wage cut and ordered the pilots to sign yellow dog contracts...
...In the, first election, May 1st, two Communists were elected...
...The Governor replied inviting WaJdman to call upon him for the purpose of discussing the financial aspects of the Socialist proposals...
...The conference with Governor Roosevelt, which lasted about one i .- jrrpw ,,* 0f the sending to r...
...The reavent the election of reactionaries, and in pursuance of these Socialist tactics the Socialists deliberately presented seven seats to the Communists, who otherwise would have had but four, the extreme Right winning the other seven...
...It is convinced that In the present case the changes that have been made will have good results...
...FP...
...Satur* day evening a cabaret will feature Mme...
...the Hall Johnson Sextette in a group of Negro spirituals...
...Won't Commit Himself The Governor said that a special session would probably be called for after election day, but when pressed by Solomon for an answer as to whether he Intended to call one in time to act on the proposals of the Socialist delegation, the Governor refused to commit himself, notwithstanding the fact that he expressed agreement with practically all that the Socialist representatives said...
...Speaking for the delegation, Waldman presented to the Governor the facts with respect to the extent of unemployment in the state, particularly in New York City, and the distress resulting therefrom...
...In order that the amount to be voted on may be raised, a period of at least ninety days must elapse from the time of the authorization of the amount to the time of voting...
...The food of this nation," stated McSparren, "ia today selling in most cases around the cost of production and is some cases below the cost ol production...
...The Board already had before It .a request from Comrade Le Vinson for four months' leave of absence, in order that he might take up work for the National Campaign Committee...
...It believes that Its readera and the comrades generally will agree that the quality of the paper, and not the question of who shall be employed, is the important question...
...Forward" says that this has been going on for eighteen months...
...20 per cent of the population of the state are in need of relief from public sources...
...There follows a detailed account of the tactics of hoodlums that reads almost exactly like a story of experiences of almost any Socialist speaker in New York, except for differences in names and locations of meetings...
...The weekly also quotes the British "Dally Worker" in defense of the tactics, adding, "It is almost incredible that people who wrote that sort of stuff can believe it...
...When in addition the weekend program includes "Shades of Blue," an intimate revue...
...ROOSEVELT DODGES RELIEF PLEA Socialists Make Plea In Albany Demand Special Session of Legislature in July to Assist Jobless LOUIS WALDMAN, state chairman of the Socialist party, and Algernon Lee and Charlee Sol...
...The committee of Socialist leaders told Governor Roosevelt that not leas than 100 million dollars must be raised promptly to take rare of the situation and to avoid widespread starvation and bread riots...
...and in France, It is reported, the Communist "strategy" has resulted in a clear gift of twelve seats In the Chamber of Deputies to the reactionary Right...
...Ask Special Session The Socialist delegation discussed with the Governor the $30,000,000 bond issue to be voted on next November and insisted that the amount was entirely inadequate...
...Nicollna, soprano soloist...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 26
