$100,000 Set as Campaign Fund Goal As Interest in Socialist Party Swells
$100,000 Set as Campaign Fund Goal As Interest in Socialist Party Swells By Hy Fish Ohio Socialists WinPositionon National Ballot vigorous fight by party gets reversal of derUUm banning...
...Admission to Town Hall on Sunday, Sept...
...Morris HJlkjult, national chairman of the party, who may himself then be the candidate in the pending special mayoralty election, will preside at the Town Hall meeting...
...Brown's previous Interpretation of the new election law was that a group which was not a legal party had to have 19 per cent of the voters in the last election sign petitions in order to nominate candidates' for president and vice-president...
...Hillquit, national chairman, declared that every indication pointed to a broadening of the campaign to proportions that could not have been foreseen, and recommended that, to allow for the expansion required to capitalize our opportunity, the goal be set at $100,000...
...Since the Snolallats have already filed the required number (21,000) signatures under the new interpretation, they are practically assured a place on the ballot In November...
...Norman Thomas, fresh from bis speaking tour of the West and middle western States, following his enthusiastic reception In New England, will give his New York comrades their first opportunity to hear and see their presidential candidate in several week...
...treasurer of the campaign committee, reporting on the Socialist Opportunity Drive, one of several sources relied on for campaign funds, stated that approximately $22,000 has been contributed, while collections from other sources would bring the total during the worst year for fund-raising to $26,000...
...IS, will be by ticket only...
...The decision to make that the goal of Socialist fund raising efforts followed a detailed examination of the political situation in every State, and a report from Norman Thomas,' Socialist candidate for President, and a member of the committee, that the growth of Socialist sentiment be found on the two tours he has already undertaken revealed an unparalleled opportunity, to take advantage of which will require a larger budget than was at first anticipated...
...At Its next meeting, of the state executive committee, according to Sidney Yellen, state secretary, plans will be laid for an extensive campaign, not only for an Increased vote but for building a strong organisation so that Ohio can once again be the most highly organised state in the union...
...100,000 Set as Campaign Fund Goal As Interest in Socialist Party Swells By Hy Fish Ohio Socialists WinPositionon National Ballot vigorous fight by party gets reversal of derUUm banning ticket...
...Attendance at his meetings have been from five to twenty times as large as it was in the same cities four years ago, when he was also a candidate, Thomas declared, while the Socialist organization functioned everywhere to a better degree than he has ever known...
...In Sioux City, la., he received a cordial reception from hundreds of farm strikers, while in South Bend, Ind., 10,000 organized unemployed workers cheered him and nominated blm as their candidate for the presidency...
...He rounds out the present week at Metuchen, N. J., where on Sunday he will address the New Jersey Socialists at their annual State picnic...
...Other speakers at Town Hall besides Comrade Thomas will be Louis Waldman, candidate for governor of New York Stats...
...Don't delay...
...The new ruling calls for one per cent...
...A corps of organisers under the direction of Joseph w. Shuts bad already been organised...
...N. Y. State Campaign Socialist rlan Alone Can Fill Housing Need Waldman asiails Roosevelt and housing board for failure to assure good homes at cheap rental...
...The victory has added Impetus to the campaign which promises to be unparalleled in the history of the Socialist movement In Ohio...
...Pausing for a moment in his vigorous campaign tour in the Middle West, Norman Thomas suggested the candidacy of Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the party, for Mayor of New York...
...He concluded with an attack upon Governor Roosevelt and his State Housing Board for their failure to recommend this policy to the Legislature...
...In proof of this assertion he cited the fact that although 528,000 families lived in old law tenements in New York City, only 1789 apartments had been provided in six years by these corporations...
...Dozens of resolutions were sent to the Oovemor protesting against the "virtual disfranchisement of thousands of Ohio voters who would not be given a chance to voice a protest against present conditions and vote for the party of the workers...
...Addressing his broadcast reSocudUu Call City Convention for Sept...
...18, at 2, at Town Hall...
...The two old parties are fully aware of the fact that the Socialist Party is rapidly becoming a force to eontend with...
...on the ballot, Secretary of State Brown has seen fit to reverse his decision to conform with public opinion...
...When the first decision reached the public, the Socialist Party immediately began to hold protest meetings...
...Campaign to Broaden Gratified at the progress made so far, Morris...
...These facts prove that only the Socialist program of municipal and state housing can provide decent homes for these people within a generation...
...The law requires 85,000 signatures and we have not yet obtained this number...
...The decision wodM have been given sooner had not Attorney General Bettman been running around the state fishing for votes...
...national executive committee finds unparalleled opportunity for vigorous party growth throughout the nation IMPRESSED by reports indicating that a tidal wave in favor of the Socialist Pary is setting in throughout all parts of the country, the national executive committee, at the cjpse of a two-day session la Oucaeo last Saturday and Sunday set $100,000 as the anal for the national campaign fund drive...
...14-17...
...Petitions are available to all who will ask for them...
...15 Julius Gerber, secretary of the City Committee, Socialist Party, has issued a call for a city-wide convention to all Socialist assembly district organizations in the five boroughs to be held Thursday at No...
...Fairminded metropolitan papers carried weekly editorials protesting the action...
...The Socialist spokesman also declared that even if rentals could be reduced, sufficient capital could not be provided through limited dividend housing corporations to meet the needs of the workers...
...But all their actions so far have served only as a boomerang...
...Now...
...This construction meets only one-third of one per cent of the need and means that at the present rate of progress 1800 years will elapse before apartments of a decent type can be provided for these 528,000 families...
...Elizabeth Roth, candidate for comptroller...
...After the Town Ball meeting, Comrade Thomas will not be seen or a New York platform again until the final great rally of the campaign at Madison Square Garden on Nov...
...7 E. 15th street, for the purpose of nominating a mayor and adopting a platform for the special mayoralty election...
...Here our candidates, stats and national, will speak on the progress of a campaign which already promises to be one of the moat fateful and significant In which Socialists have ever taken part...
...Marx Lewis...
...In answer to various requests I have received," Comrade Thomas declared, "I want to state emphatically, first, that the Socialist Party stands for municipal socialism, which is different from and much more than 'good government,' and indeed a necessary basis for good government in New York City...
...Important questions pertaining to Socialist propaganda, especially relating to this year's campaign, are to be discussed...
...second, that, in my opinion—which I want to make as strong as possible— the strongest candidate the Socialist party can offer to the people of New York is Morris Hillquit...
...18 MARKING the beginning of an intensive drive tor a recordbreaking Socialist vote in every state on Nov...
...Charles Solomon, candidate for United States Senator...
...An assignment of quotas will be Special Appeal to * Illinois Socialists (Special by Telegram to •The New Leader") CHICAGO, III.—To all Socialist* and sympathizers living In Illinois: There Is grave danger that Illinois win not have Its ticket on the ballot this fall...
...This would amount to approximately $00,000 signatures...
...The party was all prepared, in event of an unfavorable decision, to carry the case to court...
...William Karlln, candidate for attorney general...
...Party members should arrange to gst their tickets early...
...The rawness of the original deal handed the Socialists drove many workers into the Socialist ranks...
...We must not fall to place our name on the ballot and- the only way is to get these required signatures...
...urges public own utilities DECLARING that limited dividend housing corporations under the regulation of the New York State Housing Board had failed to build homes at cheap enough rentals for the workers, Louis Waldman, Socialist candidate for Governor, assailed their request for a $100,000,000 loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for slum clearance...
...extensive organisation drive to be mapped out for Btate r)LLOWINQ a vigorous flgbt on the part of the Socialist Party of Ohio to put the national candidate...
...At a meeting of the Socialist City Executive Committee last night, plans for the city campaign were formulated...
...Comrade Thomas has been carrying the message of Socialism into sections where it has never been brought before, and everywhere he has appeared his audiences have grown greater and more enthusiastic...
...New York party member* are looking forward to the big ratification rally and mass meeting Sunday afternoon, Sept...
...The probable candidate will be Morris Hillquit, chairman of the Socialist National Executive Committee, whose campaign for the mayoralty in 1917 against John Purroy Mitchell brought out a record Socialist vote in the greater city...
...Write or wire to Ben Larks, state secretary, at SOM Roosevelt Road, Chicago, for petitions...
...S. In the Interim, with his running mate, James H. Maurer, candidate for vice president, it Is expected that he wtU havs addressed gatherings in no lees than 40 states...
...Every signature will help...
...He pointed out that the 1780 apartments built in the last six years under the Housing Board regulation rented at $11 a room a month, which was twice as much as families on the East Side were now paying for their old law flats...
...national and state candidates to address the New York City Town Hall ratification meeting Sunday afternoon Sept...
...Every Socialist and sympathizer must Immediately help...
...POAUt HON CONVENTION The United Jewish Socialist Labor Party Poale Zlon-Zelre will have Its annual convention In Baltimore, Sept...
...With over 1,000 Socialist organisations participating, each one raising a quota that will be assigned to it, the remaining $75,000 to be raised between now and •lection day was considered probable, if every group •would take part in providing the quota...
...8, for which the preliminary ground work has siready been laid In the weeks since the Milwaukee convention...
...An average quota of $75, with many raising more than that amount, and some in .the smaller communities raising less, would provide the balance...
...The committee also decided to divide the proceeds from the fund by giving 40 per cent to the locals In which it is raised, 20 per cent to the state office, and 4 per cent to the national campaign committee, provided all collections, no matter how or by whom raised, is pooled into a common fund...
...and Jacob Pan' ken, candidate for chief Judge, court of' appeals...
Vol. 14 • September 1931 • No. 11
