The Socialist Party's Clarion Call To Action
THOMAS, NORMAN
Socialist Campaign Hitting Front Pages Because of the interest among the masses throughout the country in the message of Socialism, the party's campaign and the speeches of the national standard...
...more than ever you need the kind of a party we can make it this year—strong and invincible...
...Reproductions of a few of the headlines are here shown...
...North, South, East and Went are responding alike...
...SHARK THE BURDEN Many cotnrades have already responded...
...There are still many thousands of party members and party sympathizers who have not helped...
...NATIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, Daniel W. Hoan, Chairman...
...IN YOUR HANDS If ever, certainly in 1932 our destiny and our fate lie in our own hands...
...But they need reinforcements...
...Many have given and are giving freely and without limit, of their time, their talents, and even money...
...Marx le« s Treasurer...
...speakers must be toured to sustain the remarkable beginning that has lieen made...
...Give as much as you can—as soon as you can—to make 1932 the turning point in the history of our party...
...With all of their heroic efforts they cannot carry this burden alone...
...literature in millions of copies must be poured into every state of the union...
...The next few weeks will be the most critical of all...
...Tremendous meetings—millions of pieces of literature printed and distributed in a few days—400 new branches and locals—a ticket in at le*9t 44 States—thousands of requests for information on how to serve the party—all reveal that om day has arrived, that the rebirth of our movement is at band, that Socialism is to become a Iking and vital force in the political life of our nation...
...We appeal to you to make a sacrifice, if it is a sacrifice, so that our cause, for which you have done so much in the past, and which you can now help more than ever, may triumph...
...A dollar, five doHars—ten dollars—means more this^year than ever...
...party who can help, if not with the larger then with the smaller amounts...
...More than ever, the party needs your help...
...Every meeting addressed by our national standard-bearers is larger titan any that has been held in those cities in a generation...
...Most of them, we know, cannot help much—yet if they each helped a little, the fund necessary to clinch the victory which lies within our grasp can be provided...
...Their assistance has bean largely responsible for what w« have been able to do so far...
...They need them now—in a month from now the character of our campaign will have been determined...
...It will not be easy for many of them, but the task of building a movement that will give a larger measure of security and comfort to our children and to generations unborn is not easy...
...Throughout the nation masses of working people, poverty stricken and exhausted by the ravaging effects of the depression, are responding to thr Socialist message to a degree seldom witnessed before...
...Fill out the subscription card printed on this page...
...Newspapers find that Norman Thomas' meetings, for instance, are big news wherever he sneaks, and are featuring his addresses under first page display headlines...
...Volunteer help will enable our committee to do for a dollar what in the old parties will require hundreds of dollars—and each dollar spent this year will do several dollars' worth of work...
...A series of radio broadcasts nmst be contracted for immediately...
...But most of them are in distress...
...If we fail, it will be because we ourselves have not measured up to the occasion...
...the number of organizers in tbe field must be increased...
...To the Members of the Socialist Party: r]'HT, Socialist Party enters the campaign of 1932 confident that the opportunity confronting h not only for a phenomenal increase in the national vote, but for the building of the organization aa a powerful political factor, is better than it has been at any time in a generation...
...Socialist Campaign Hitting Front Pages Because of the interest among the masses throughout the country in the message of Socialism, the party's campaign and the speeches of the national standard bearers are getting widespread publicity...
...We dare not fail—we will not fail if the devotion and self sacrifice and the enthusiasm which has enabled our movement to survive every onslaught and every attempt to destroy it remain with us...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 12
