The Party Forges Ahead
The Party Forges Ahead 22 Gatherings Arranged To Raise Campaign Funds Hannah M. BiemiUer in Charge; Conferences with National Leaders Planned; Quotas Assigned, Directors Named, Tag Days Set...
...it is preparing for a big overflow crowd to be addressed by various Socialist candidates including Louis Waldman, for Governor, Morris Hillquit, for Mayor, August Claessens, for Congress, 14th CD...
...9, at 8 P. M. sharp...
...Plans made so far provide that most of the affairs for which comStudenls Touring Maryland Get Enthusiastic Greeting BALTIMORE.—Finding everywhere they went a tremendous interest In Socialism, a group of seven students returned to Baltimore Sept...
...In addition to the candidates and national leaders of the Socialist party, other well-known party speakers are being.asked to tour the various states in which most of the funds are sought...
...As a result of these contributions, Socialist campaign managers hope to be able to provide him with an assistant during part of his transcontinental speaking tour...
...While no party won a clear majority, the Socialists, with 104 members of the new Riksdag, constitute by far the largest party, the Conservatives, with 38, coming next...
...The Swedish Socialist movement is one of the strongest and beat-grounded in the world...
...Waldman outlined a plan for preparing releases incorporating definite facts gathered by the party's various research and information bureaus, to be sent to all speakers, while Thomas, making his first appearance in New York iri several weeks, spoke from his recent campaign experiences of various problems, opportunities and dangers before the party in 1932...
...7, to do honor to both Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee and Morris Hillquit, New York veteran and beloved leader of Socialism, who la the party's candidate in the coming special mayoralty election, at a dinner at the Park View Palace, 110th street and Fifth avenue, Manhattan...
...He stated that he found workers all over the country thoroughly disgusted with the false promises of the Republicans and Democrats and beginning to wake up to the necessity for a strong party of the working class...
...Every woman Socialist is urged to make this first joint meeting the basis for a permanent alliance of Socialist women for a stronger party...
...3. The Socialist standard l»earers, Norman Thomas, Louis Waldman and Morris Hillquit, will make their fina] appeals to the voters of the metropolis at a meeting that is expected to he the greatest Socialist ]»litical demonstration in the history of the continent...
...With their votes, the Socialists come within four votes of a clear majority of the Chamber...
...Arrangements for these affairs will be directed by Mrs...
...1, Plalnfleld, N. J., where Broun will be the guest speaker, Los Angeles, where a state-wide affair Is being arranged on Oct...
...Quotas, which have been made after consultation with local Socialist officials, most of whom think that with an intensive effort that will carry the appeal for funds into every community of their respective states, the goal can be achieved, have been apportioned to various cities, and local committees, acting under the direction of state directors, will be advised daily of the standing of their cities, as shown by mall remittances and other responses coming to the national headquarters of the drive...
...If we do the popular thing and attack Hoover exclusively, we shall merely be making votes for Roosevelt...
...6, 8 p.m...
...The trip was made in "The Red Special," a truck painted a fiery red and adorned with appropriate signs, posters and banners...
...Speakers at the dinner will Include, beside the 'guests of honor, Louis Waldman, candidate for governor...
...Assistant for Thomas Newspaper reports widely circulated, to the effect that a shortage of funds compelled Norman Thomas to begin his transcontinental tour which ia to take the Socialist standard bearer Into 17 States, without an assistant, brought a number of contributions from friends of the Socialist leader who were* fearful of the strain that be Is exposed to...
...4 BRONX COLISEUM.........Sunday, Nov...
...17, and Cincinnati, Ohio, Oct...
...Since the death of Branting, founder of the party and twice Premier, he has been one of the outstanding Socialists of Scandinavia...
...6, 8 p.m...
...Quotas Assigned, Directors Named, Tag Days Set Aside...
...Women's Organization* To Hold Joint Socialist Demonstration Oct...
...1, the opening date of the campaign week, every locality, by daily appeals, tele-grama, and news releases will be asked to raise at least one-half of the quota before the campaign week comes to a close...
...Socialists Win in Sweden ASOCIALIST, Per Albin Hansr son, member of three previous Socialist ministries of Sweden, has been called to be the next Premier of Sweden, as the result of the smashing Socialist victory in the parliamentary elections Sunday...
...The D. A. R. also helped by sending the mayor a telegram of congratulations...
...Directors Being Named State directors in every State where the quota assigned to the State amounts to $1,000 or more are now being selected, and when the machinery, consisting of local committees to do soliciting, arranging of affairs, etc., Is fully organized, which is expected to be prior to Oct...
...One man, reading an announcement of the trip in the papers, came thirty miles to attend a meeting and Join the party...
...Reservations for the dinner may be made now through Julius Gertaer, secretary of the city committee, 7 East 15th street, at $1.50 per person...
...Elizabeth Gllman, prominent Maryland Socialist, Is planning a dinner In Baltimore, and Alfred Baker Lewis, of Boston, Is arranging a dinner in Boston, the exact date of which will be set within the next few days...
...Sunday, Nov...
...20, where Thomas will be the guest of a group of liberals and Socialists during the day...
...mittees have already been set up will be held during campaign week, Oct...
...Dinner to Hoan and Hillquit Fri., Oct...
...Philadelphia, Oct...
...Special Bulletin A special bulletin enumerating the activities of each State, and the progress made, will be Issued from the national headquarters...
...The mayor of Frederick helped the college campaigners get publicity by refusing them a permit to hold a street meeting...
...The party divided during the war on the usual questions that caused Socialist dissensions in the war years, and later the Communists broke away a large left party...
...21st CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT (Place not yet determined...
...hero of the historic Lawrence strike of 1912, in an interview In the BalUmore Post predicted the great est Socialist vote in American history this fall...
...Committees of trade unionists, Yipsels, members of the L. I. D., women's organizations and others are being formed...
...He was noted for his anti-militarist propaganda In his youth, and a book of his, "Comrades in Uniform," was suppressed by the government in 1909, the year of the great Swedish general strike...
...MUSTE TO ADDRES8 '* DEBS CLUB A. J. Muste, Director of Brook-wood Labor College and chairman of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, will speak on "Meaning of the Recent C. P. L. A. Convention," Thursday, in the Rand School Studio at 8:30 P. M, under the auspices of the Eugene V. Debs Club of the Rand School Fellowship...
...Giovannitti Sees Big Socialist Vote BALTIMORE...
...other party speakers and writers attended as well...
...The full roster of meetings in the great wind-up follows: MADISON SQUARE (JARDEN*....Thursday, Nov...
...The liarden meeting, however, will l>e but the first of a series of live wind-up meetings that will bring a historic campaign to a close in a blaze of glory...
...Conferences with Leaders Included in the affairs will be a series of conferences which Norman Thomas and J. H. Maurer, Socialist presidential and vice-president in] candidates, Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, B. C. Vladeck, manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, chairman of the national campaign committee, Hey-wood Broun and others will have with party members and sympathizers while visiting the cities where they are scheduled to speak...
...The Women's Section of the Socialist Party will hold the first joint demonstration under its auspices of The Pioneer Women (Poale Zion-Ztere Zlon), The Socialist Consumers' League, The Workmen's Circle Women's Branches and the Women's Union Label League to ratify the Socialist nominations The date Is Thursday, Oct...
...The place: Debs Auditorium, 7 East 15th street...
...Hoan to Lay Flans Mayor Hoan, who will visit II cities during ths campaign week, will confer with the Socialists in each of the cities prior to the meetings he will address, and appeal ¦ for local assistance to raise the quotas assigned to those cities...
...8, with several smaller affairs within 100 miles of Los Angeles, at which Norman Thomas will speak, Denver, Colorado, on...
...We are not fighting Hoover...
...Harry W. Laidler, candidate for Congress in the 6th Congressional District, Brooklyn, and Paul Blanshard...
...The tour wound up at the Washington Socialists' picnic...
...Socialist Growth Spurs Worh of Collecting Needed Money TENTATIVE arrangement* for a series of 22 fund raising gatherings, mainly dinners, have Beared completion during- the paat week, Marx Lewis, director of the s.m idlist Opportunity Drive, announces as the New Leader goes to press...
...With Hannah M. BiemiUer, of Philadelphia, assuming active charge and general supervision of the gatherings, local committees are being set in all of the cities, with local Socialist organizations furnishing the initiative and enthusiasm necessary to get the affairs under way...
...Candidates and Speakers Hear Issues Discussed MORE than 260 active party workers who gathered in the large lecture hall of the People's House to plan a unified campaign, listened to fruitful addresses by Norman Thomas, Louis Waldman and Samuel Beardsley...
...Harry Kritzer was selected by the city campaign committee to organize the five meetings, and he promptly issued a call for volunteers to co-operate in all the manifold functions required to make the great meetings successful...
...He said that oustide of New York there is little Communist hoodlumism to disturb the party's meetings, but he added that indiscriminate Communist attacks upon the labor and Socialist movement have contributed to a cynicism among workers that lead* to a distrust of political action...
...It is-expected that Missouri and Colorado will be able to raise $1,500 each, with Minnesota and Texas providing $1,(100 each...
...At every meeting an appeal was made for party membership, and as a result twenty-nine people signed applications for membership...
...Thirteen meetings were held by the students, and the total number of persons addressed reached 2,000...
...The foreign minister will probably be Bo Oesten Unden, professor of jurisprudence at Upsala University, the leading university in the country, and long Swedish representative at the League of Nations, and Foreign Minister in the Sandler government...
...He also urged that the party's speakers avoid the easy opportunity of attacking Hoover exclusively...
...3! npilE local Socialist campaign, operating on three fronts for city, state and nation, will come to a climax at a great mass meeting in .Madison Square Garden Thursday evening, Nov...
...The Party Forges Ahead 22 Gatherings Arranged To Raise Campaign Funds Hannah M. BiemiUer in Charge...
...In cities where permission for tag days can be obtained Socialist groups, acting generally under the active management of the Young People's Socialist League, will be stationed on the corners of the leading thoroughfares to raise funds through the sale of buttons...
...18 after touring western Maryland for a week under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins Thomas for President Club...
...Beardsley, as chairman of the party's trade unon committee, outlined the situation among the motion picture operators and said that the party's position in defense of union conditions in the movie theatres has nothing whatever to do with approval or disapproval of the internal affairs of a particular labor organization...
...BiemiUer from 112 East 19th street, New York City...
...Cities where dinners have been definitely arranged are Syracuse, where Heywood Broun will speak on Oct...
...7 NEW YORK Socialists will turn out in force on Friday, Oct...
...Wichita, Kansas, Oct...
...Prepare for Final Meeting at Madison Square Garden Nov...
...The women's section will not be content, it announces, with merely packing the hall...
...Hansson is 47 years old, a product of the Socialist youth movement of Sweden, and for the past seven years acknowledged leader of the Swedish party...
...Illinois, New Jersey and Ohio with a $8,000 quota each...
...The Communists held their 8 seats...
...Sarah Drager of Baltimore, and Joel Seldman and Leo Alpcrt of Johns Hopkins...
...During the same period a mailing of between 75,000 and 100,000 will reach as many sympathizers throughout the country with an appeal for a dollar subscription...
...About 120 responded...
...Reports received by Lewis from various, sections of the country during the past week Indicated that collections, mail responses to appeals, and contributions made to the campaign fund through the Thomas-Maurer Campaign Committee, of whioh Mary Fox Is the secretary, swelled the total subscribed to the fund by about $2,000...
...While the non-Socialist parties have a majority of four, they cannot make up a government, for they have no grounds of agreement, and none was attempted...
...Charles Solomon, candidate for United States senator, will act as toastmaster...
...Among Hansson's colleagues, Zeth Hoglund, long leader of a sort of left opposition in the party, and former Communist leader, Is mentioned, as la Sandler...
...The Socialists gained 14 seats, the Conservatives lost 15, and the Liberals, Agriculturists and People's Parties are now mere fractions...
...The Communists are strengthened by their proximity to Russia, but the usual activity of attempted disruption of the Socialist party la less successful than In most countries...
...Jessie Wallace Hughan, for Assembly, 10th A. D., Manhattan, and Helen Pickenback, for Assembly, 5tto A. D. Esther Feldman, candidate for Congress, 24th C. D. wlH be chairman...
...Following the collapse of the general strike of 1909 the labor movement became strongly political, without diminishing its industrial activities...
...Information received from the various cities in which he and Maurer are appearing, indicating that the Socialist party is rapidly forging to the front, with all the straw votes showing the Socialist candidates increasing their margin each day, baa given impetus to the fund raising work...
...Those who made the trip were Elisabeth McBlng of Ooucher College, Miriam Seldman of Peabody Insttiute, Hannah BiemiUer, Vassar '28...
...Admission ten ^n\s...
...In California, where Ethelwyn Mills Is In charge of all the Thomas dates, Including several dinners at which he Is to speak, It la considered certain that one-half of the $0,000 quota assigned to the State will be raised during Thomas' visit...
...3 STATEN- ISLAND (Place not yet determined)...........Erklay, Nov...
...6, 2 p.m...
...Connecticut, Maryland, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin with a $2,000 quota each...
...BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC.................Sunday, Nov...
...The Communists were under a cloud in the recent elections, for it was shown after the suicide of Ivar Krueger that the late international racketeer had been giving money to Communist papers to wage war upon Socialism...
...In Brunswick, Hagerstown, Lonaooning, Westernport and Midland locals of the party will be organized as a result of the tour...
...They were joined for brief periods by Murray Barron and Andrew BiemiUer, organizers for the Socialist Party...
...The government headed by the veteran Socialist Hjalmar Brant-ing and the later Socialist government of Rickard J. Sandler rested upon the support of the Radicals, a party since vanished...
...The meeting was the result of a call by the7 state campaign committee for a conference of all local candidates for office...
...6 NON-POLITICAL radical women's organizations are coming to the Socialist colors in this critical year 1932...
...This phase of the drive, to be known as the "Pin-a-Dollar Drive" of the national campaign fund, will be under special supervision of a director to be named by Lewis...
...1 to 10, the period which the national executive committee has set aside for a concentrated drive along all the battle-fronts of the Socialist campaign, and particularly to raise about $70,000 to reach the campaign fund goal of $100,000...
...Md—Arturo Oiovan-nlttl...
...Miss Elizabeth Oilman, candidate for Governor of Maryland In 1931, and Charles S. Bernstein, chairman of the campaign committee in Baltimore...
...The Communists, however, have been steadily splitting, and the Social Democratic Party has more than regained its great hold upon the masses...
...Hansson's government will probably be an all-Socialist ministry, supported by enough left-wing non-Socialists to insure it a stable majority...
...we are fighting capitalism and both old parties," said Thomas...
...States in which the quota assigned exceeds $1,000 include New York, which is being asked to rai.se $15,000, or one-fifth of the balance repaired to reach the $100,000 goal set for the nation, California, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania with a $5,000 quota each...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
