'Student and Politics' Theme Of Symposium
'Student and Politics' Theme Of Symposium ^ COMMUNIST youngsters and some " a old enough to know bettor (but they got their orders, too), gave lots of out aiders $,„•(, (aW . who had never...
...attempting to spread—he was the last speaker...
...Amter, rebutting as the Anal speaker, and himself compelled to answer questions, tried to evade some of the more pointed- ones...
...February, "Rise and Development of the American Labo...
...THE PRINTING OF THE ABOVE ARTICLE, WRITTEN SOME TIME AGO, WAS UNAVOIDABLY DELAYED...
...Who among our readers will contribute to a fund to send this bundle of New Leaders each week to West Virginia...
...Let us hear from you at once...
...He was particularly effective in answering the ludicrously wild misstatements Indiscriminately hurled by Amter and his crowd—misstatements, however, which are taken as muscovite gospel by the younger revolutionists...
...CIRCLES DEAD OR SLRRPINO: Pittsburgh, Lancaster, York, Nee) Castle...
...The J. 8. F. report* that while II has no objection* to dual circle*, it feel* that the due* burden will be toe great for the members concerned The dual circle affair will be taken up la detail at the Oct...
...The first meeting of the new Central Committee will be held this Saturday at 3 p. at...
...Movement...
...Helfand was one of the pioneers of the Jewish Bund in Vllna and was long active in the Russian revolutionary movement, suffering imprisonment, as did most of his comrades...
...November, "The Effects of the Press on Social Change...
...When revolutionary booing was at It* fiercest, young Socialists started singing The International The booing continued until the singers realized the sacrilege they were committing and stood silent or open-mouthed, aghast at such use of the words and tune they had arrogated to their own use...
...SOCIALIST FUNDS—Bronx Yipsels are urged to cooperate with the party In their tag-days this weekend...
...Ill, there...
...Gua Tyler will speak there this Sunday at 8:30 p. m. CIRCLE 3 SR...
...Jack Herling spoke for the educational and industrial program of the L. I. D...
...BRONX Is running a dance at the Bellamy Club, Mi Prospect avenue and are charging 20c for admission...
...Is it true that William Zigzag Foster sold Liberty onds during the war while Debs, Hillqult, Thomas, Solomon, Waldman and most other Socialists were persecuted by the patrioteers because they spoke against the war...
...May, "The Cooperative Movement...
...Rings and their affiliated Junior groups are going on a hike this Biuv day and will meet at Nevlm streetl station of the I. R. T. at 9:15 a. in...
...New York City Yipsel Notes CENTRAL COMMITTEE...
...IS state executive committee meeting...
...Instead of meeting on a He mate Thursdays and Friday*, Circle 8, a rural Motion of the Reading-Berks group, will meet every Friday at lbs Lincoln Homestead...
...4, Irma Kraft will apeak on "Startling New Fiction...
...Meet at IN a. m at 242d street and Van Cort* landt Park South...
...He was a member of the staff of the Jewish Daily Forward for several years...
...Nevertheless, Charles Solomon, having the opportunity of following Amter the Actor and Anally quieting even the portion of the audience that was resolved not to let him speak, made a great impression on those who came to hear the discussion...
...Other Ytpsel* are Invited FALCON LEADERS—Hike this Sunday to Dunwoodle...
...A. Litwak Dies npHE Jewish Socialist movement 1 both in this country and abroad sustained a serious loss in the death this week of Jacob Helfand, known by his pen name of A. Litwak...
...This query especially stuck In his craw, as why shouldn't it...
...March, "The Effects of Literature and Drama on Social Change...
...and inglorlously the speaker was compelled to make the fatal admission, which his followers for many years have denied: "Yel, our great leader did make mistake*.'' He did sell bonds...
...Philadelphia is coming to life again after a summer of inactivity We bona that this will be the last season that the comrade* of the city of Brotherly Love hibernate...
...Incidentally, what a significant commentary It is on the character of Communist polemic in the past few years that the mere knowledge that their party's leader supported the World War should prove so devastating...
...A gala dance and package party will be held In the Rand School Studio and Circle t Sr...
...December, "Causes of Crime and Treatment of Criminals...
...From the time when Israel Amter— one' of the four brave heroes who ordered the workers assembled at Union Square one March flth "to march against the police and storm City Hall" while they themselves took a taxi and were safely driven there— strutted on to the platform and stirred the first tumultuous applause from his worshippers, and derision from the rest, by taking off his coat and revealing that he was now a ••walker" (for the former jazz composer came In proletarian uniform, a blue denim shirt, to show what stuff he was made of) till the end of the meeting, the object of his followers seemed to be to give no one else a chance to be heard...
...He got more of a rise when he turned on Amter and asked him whether, speaking of violence, he had ever actually been around when men were Impaled on bayonets and disembowelled He also, like his confrere Sirovitch In congressional campaigns, stooped to pick up and hurl at his Socialist antagonist some of the mud flung by the Communist protagonist...
...Clubs have also been asked to set aside another meeting the same month for a general dkv.s»ion of the project by the members, led by one or two members who have prepared by reading a book, pamphlet or article on the subject...
...As usual, reporters for the capitalist press, from which Communists quote gleefully when It suit* their own purposes, got the thing all wrong, All they were looking for was manifestations of riot, stupidity and intolerance, and the young r-r-revolutionlsts gave them plenty to write home about...
...I n tercolleglat* Council of the L. I. D. on "The Student and Politics...
...VILLA RD TO ADDRESS GROUP TUESDAY The Group will open Its fifteenth season In the Group Auditorium, 150 W. 85th street, next Tuesday at 8:30 o'clock...
...Lltvak was considered one of the ablest, as he was one of the most popular, of the Jewish writers and lecturers in the Socialist movement in recent years, and his passing Is deeply mourned Japanese Labor Parties Combine TOKYO...
...A Social Mass Party has been formed by an amalgamation of the Social Democratic Party and the Japan Mass Party, both labor parties...
...From all over the hall came the injunction: "Quit stalling--did Foster sell Liberty Bonds...
...He pleaded for confidence in the Great Engineer, who led us out of the depression . . . but enough of that I Post had no difficulty In convincing his auditors that Hoover was hooey and that the Republicans were repugnant...
...Here the young Socialists, tired of the regime of patience and tolerance which they had enforced for long years upon themselves, decided to give their opponents a taste of their own medicine, especially since no one else would have the chance to blow away the cloud of poison gas the speaker was Youg Circle Dance Sunday On Sunday afternoon, at the Hotel ¦dteon, 47th street, west of Broadway the Hew York Young Oircntes will hold a reunion dance, with music by Ben Beroie* band and a prise contest with suitable awards...
...He merely wandered all over the map trying to defend the "revolutionary record" of the head of his ticket...
...Student and Politics' Theme Of Symposium ^ COMMUNIST youngsters and some " a old enough to know bettor (but they got their orders, too), gave lots of out aiders $,„•(, (aW . who had never f.K'w 1«n !•*"»' before attended jajQi a radical meetlng the chance •" to aay "ahat f~\ ^YJ nuts these guys i«r» J^»4a»^l are" at the iL^Cj* tg-.h » y m p o slum wiLJgj ¦ conducted ree/w 'Tar.* cent)y bv tne ^* *» *TT...
...Who Supported the War...
...let no stranger get the chance to hear Socialist rebuttal of Communist slander...
...KINGS.—Meetings Pennsylvania Y. P. S. L. Metes TUB Allen town Yipsels, in cooperation with the Socialist party of that city, heW a highly »ucce»»ful picnic Sunday...
...He didn't read aloud to the audience the last part of the question, nor did he comment on the charge that the leader of the French Communists, Cachln, also upheld the war...
...He came to the United States just before the revolution...
...Circle 2 Junior* of the Rt ding-Berk* Y. P. S. L. baa moved :ta meeting to the Paine Memorial Hone at 1311 North Ninth street...
...Fox spent all his time trying to convince an easy-to-convince audience that there was no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties...
...New Leaden** for West Virginia rE New Leader has received a request which it is compelled to pass on to its readers...
...They are unable to get enough food, to say nothing of purchasing literature...
...A Tuesday evening group has not arrived at definite plans...
...Those that have never danced before are Invited to the studio of Felicia Sorel, io» West 58th street on Sunday* at 1 p. m. Another group, under the direction of France* Leber, is practicing on Sundays at 11 a. m. in the Rand School, The first lesson for both group* will be given this Sunday, at 11 a. m. at the Rand School studio...
...Each circle must file a complete census of Hi membership SOCIAL AFFAIRS.—Comrade* of Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn have planned local socials this Saturday night...
...Solomon took occasion to explain Socialist philosophy and tactics in terms so simple that even an old party candidate—yea, even an innocent club dialectician—could understand them...
...Ten cent* will admit one...
...The William* burg DMriet Council will hold a dance at their headquarters, 167 Tompkins avenue...
...January, "Youth and the Family...
...Oswald Garrison Vlllard editor of The Nation, will lecture on "A Program For A New America...
...Members and friends are urged to attend the dance by the sponsors and by the senior central committee of Greater New York...
...are now being held In the new headquarter*, 0731 Bay Parkway, on Thursday* at 8:30 p. m SUNDAY HIRE—Circle 1 and 7 Sr...
...Address The New Leader, 7 East 15th street, New York City...
...April, "The United States and Its Neighbors...
...Comrade Helfand, who was 58, died of heart disease in the Israel-Zlon Hospital in Brooklyn, and the funeral was held at Forward Hall Thursday noon...
...On the committee are Morris Ud-kow, chairman, Felicia Shpritaer, Ann Katz, Victor Plavin, Jack Zukerman and Joel Rheins...
...Manhattan Is planning to collect 26c from all and sundry...
...The New Leader will send it for bare cost...
...He halted the Incipient "boos" by asking "Can even a chronic kicker object to this presentation of revolutionary aims and tactics...
...After the revolution, however, he took an anti-Bolshevik position, and upon his return to Russia after 1917 he was imprisoned by the Soviet government...
...Collection cam are being distributed from » West 170th street...
...Each club ha* been asked to designate one meeting each month for a lecture on project...
...On Oct...
...When he was released he returned to the United States, and spent the last ten years In the service of the movement, as editor of The Weck-er, organ of the Jewish Socialist Verband, and as lecturer for the party and the Workmen's Circle...
...The Republocrat Speakers Perhaps because they knew that the real fight was between the other two representatives, Alan Fox, speaking, mind you, not for the Republican Party but for Herbert Hoover, and Langdon Post, a militant Democrat who was willing to shoulder the burden of his party as well as of Roosevelt, did rather poorly...
...and Joe Lash, chairman of the council, presided...
...In the area reached by the West Virginia Mine Workers' Union there are thousands sf Workers hungry for a Socialist paper...
...Educational Project* Educational projects for the fall an 1 winter, which were initiated by the New York senior central committee and approved by the national youth committee, follow: October, "Parties, Politic* and Politicians...
...Valued cooperation is being given by tne Workmen's Circle branches...
...CIRCLE 2 SR...
...MANHATTAN.— Meetings are now being held at 4044 Broadway, near 170th street...
...Tr«t youngsters followed the example of their elders: let no opposition word—especially Socialist word—disturb the simple surface of Communist intellectual innocence...
...Frank Keeney, president of the union, will distribute 500 copies of The New Leader each week if he can get them...
...CIRCLE It SB...
...He went on to explain that the Great Rebel did what he did because he was actuated by his belief that a revolution was imminent, but the palliation was drowned in the roars of laughter...
...However, that sort of muck usually sticks only to the hands of the debater who tries to throw it, as he found out...
...The platform asserts that capitalism Is bankrupt, as proved by the fact that there are at least 25,000,000 unemployed, and pledges the new party I to protect the standard of living of workers in Industry and on the farm...
...DANCE GROUP—Two classes have been organised by Rebel Art*, in cooperation with the YPSL...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
