Candidates Met by Vast Crowds
Candidates Met by Vast jCrowds Thomas Greeted with Wildest Enthusiasm in Milwaukee, Madiion and Other Cities.—Mayor Hoan Leads Parade with Thomas Through Downtown Streets. —Sledge-HUunmer...
...Although labor spies, provocateurs and even murder were resorted to by the copper barons to discredit, disrupt and destroy the Socialist movement in the days of Mayor Lewis J. Duncan and to smash the labor movement, hope has never completely died among the rugged workers of the city often described as tho greatest mining camp in the world...
...With a motorcycle escort the procession marched to the hotel, where George R. Kirkpatrick called on his old colleague and fellowagitator of many decades and they talked of the battles of the past and the hopes for the future...
...Roosevelt and the Democrats want is hard to say except that they want office...
...Certainly nothing tha tgoes to the root of the matter...
...Dean, instructor in biblical languages, presided...
...Candidates Met by Vast jCrowds Thomas Greeted with Wildest Enthusiasm in Milwaukee, Madiion and Other Cities.—Mayor Hoan Leads Parade with Thomas Through Downtown Streets...
...His recent swing to redbaiting labels him as a political racketeer...
...Thomas also paid his respects to the two old parties in the following words: "What do the old parties offer...
...but his greatest desire is that the workers organize and fight for this New Day...
...He was dressed in a white suit," Maurer writes, "and looked well and seemed cheerful...
...Speaking in every part of the country, Maurer has been met with great crowds, addressing labor meetings, college student bodies, outdoor and indoor ireetings and even dinners...
...In<Milwaukee he said, "If Milwaukee and Wisconsin are to keep their place of leadership in the Socialist movement they will have to hump themselves...
...There were other speeches during the day, at the State Teachers' College, at lunches and elsewhere...
...In Rare Form Thomas was in rare form at all his meetings...
...President Hoover and the Republicans at last have come to a point where Bthey offer immense doles to business...
...The greatest impression made upon Maurer was by these young enthusiasts, growing in numbers and eager to do everything that the party require* to be done...
...Chappie won hbi nomination in a campaign in which he resorted to "red-baiting" of a nature unheard of in this country since the days of Palmer, Lusk...
...J^l'TORTS from every section of the country indicate that James II Maurer, rugged Socialist and lalior leader and candidate for vice president with Norman Thomas, is winning countless stip|>orters fur Socialism as a tesult of a triumphant campaign tour that took him to the Pacific Coast...
...Wisconsin won't live up to its record unless it votes a straight Socialist ticket this fall...
...Jim Maurer's Tour of the Country a Triumphal Procession ; the Labor Warrior Speaks at Great Meetings in Butte, Spokane, Seattle, Portland, and Many California Cities.—Labor Cooperates with Party.— Yipsels Doing Magnificent Work...
...Indeed, the whole quality of this campaign on both the Republican and Democratic sides attests the truth that both old parties belong to the same set of interests, that they are merely glass bottled with different labels and both of them empty of any medicine for the sickness of our times...
...nomination for United States Senate over the LaFollette faction of the Republican Party...
...Outside of Soviet Russia no man has ever put so much government in business as has President Hoover...
...Maurer was the Labor Day speaker in Butte, Mont., long a labor stronghold and for a number of years a Socialist city...
...Maurer Finds James II...
...Fine meetings were also held in Portland, on the eve of the American Legion convention, and at, Seattle...
...As a result of Maurer's visit, the Trades Council elected a committee to act with the party local in arrangements for the Thomas meeting, October 1st...
...Hope Born Again With Maurer's great Labor Day address there were definite signs that there is a revival of hope among the miners and that means that the Party is coming back as the ideal for them to work for...
...The meeting was held in an outdoor garden, and through an arrangement of loudspeakers a vast throng heard him...
...At the station a large gathering of Yipsels met Jim early in the morning, dressed in brown trousers and skirts and red ties, and singing Socialist songs...
...Mooney Still Strong In Fervent Idealism, James II...
...Thomas came to Milwaukee from Madison, the state capital, where he had addressed a capacity audience of 7,500 in the University of Wisconsin stadium...
...Other speakers were Frank Metcalfe, Milwaukee Socialist candidate for governor...
...Sweet and W. J. Bums...
...Maurer, immediately upon his arrival in Kan Francisco, called upon Tom Mooney in Kan Quentin prison, meeting him in the Warden's office...
...At Spokane At Spokane, the next stop, Jim was met at the station by about 500 Socialists, mostly former "Wobblie*,'**- a fine, higburpirked group of men and women, who paraded with .heir candidate to the hotel, and later held a meeting in their headquarters, which was jammed to tho doors...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan and Frank W. Metcalfe, Socialist candidate for governor, marched on either side of Thomas, and in the guard of honor was Sheriff Al Benson, one of the popular Socialist office holders of this city...
...The parade was more than a mile long, and its members made up the bulk of the crowd at the meeting in the park...
...Tom Mooney is a fne, upstanding character...
...The Maurer speech was the feature of the Labor Day celebration of the Trades and Labor Council, and he carried the vast crowd with him...
...Thomas arrived at 11 A. M, and* was escorted by his comrades to the Fourth Ward Park, where he addressed more than 5,000 people standing in the drizzling rain, and at night he addressed a colossal mass meeting at the Eagles' Club...
...From Madison, Thomas and the speakers motored to Beloit where, after an informal reception by Socialists, he spoke in Forest White Park at 8 P. M. At the latter meeting, Prof...
...Farm- Something is to be done for silver, but the gold standard must stand secure...
...Meetings, attracting vast and cheering crowds, were held at Pasadena, Santa Monica, and Los Angeles...
...What the amiable Mr...
...Tho sentiment is growing, according to reports, and it is a Socialist sentiment, not merely a sentiment for the candidates...
...The procession was one of the most remarkable political demonstrations ever seen in this city, wholly spontaneous and an outburst of genuine enthusiasm for a great cause and its notabh spokesman...
...For this ideal he Is willing to suffer and die...
...Leads the March Thomas, his tall figure looming considerably above the men and women about him, headed the procession that marched through cheering crowds, walking directly behind the color guard bearing the American flag and the red flag...
...towns and cities in the Bay District...
...This idea of electing a man here and there just won't get us anywhere...
...Roosevelt's "Pious Hopes" "For the • most part Mr...
...The real slogan of the democracy was expressed by those senators who selected in a prize contest these thrilling words: 'Hee, haw, we're coming back.' Imagine a party in this tragedy which takes such a slogan...
...The harder he works the fresher he appears to get...
...The Milwaukee meeting was followed by meetings in Chicago and Racine, and before entering the Badger state, the Socialist leader spoke at Snginaw and Jackson...
...Hi i Socialist message is always to the point, and appropriate to the city he is speaking in...
...Committees are visiting all local unions soliciting contributions to make the meeting a success and are meeting with a hearty response...
...Speaks in Beloit Glenn Turner, Socialist candidate for district attorney in Dane county, presided at the Madison meeting...
...Kmil Seidel, Milwaukee, Socialist candidate for the senate, and Clarence Senior, Chicago, national secretary of the party...
...MILWAUKEE—Greeted with wild enthusiasm by vast (rowels of people lining downtown streets, Norman 1 homas, Socialist candidate for President, marched into Milwaukee like a conquerer at the bead of a jjarade made up of thousands of men and women who bad come to the Northwestern station to greet him...
...A Racketeer "Chappie came back from Europe after the war a Bolshevik for whom the Socialist Party was too conservative to consider joining...
...Hut the purpose for which he puts government in business is always for the sake of the business man in the hope that if the business man prospers something may splash over to the farmer and the worker...
...Everywhere were banquets and lunches, and everywhere were Yipsels...
...And all the while the talks rugged individualism and the American plan...
...Railroads are to be better regulated and it will be less expensive to get receiverships...
...Sledge-HUunmer Blows at Capitalism and Political Racketeers...
...Stitt Wilson, former Socialist Mayor of Berkeley, Cel., and now candidate for Congress there, met Maurer at Oakland, and accompanied the vice-presidential candidate to splendid meetings at San Jose, at the University of California, San Francisco and other...
...The enthusiasm at the Maurer meeting was in sharp contrast with tho chilly reception given Governor Roosevelt there...
...In Madison he paid his respects to John B. Chappie, who won the G.O.P...
...Rut hack of everything he said one could detect the great hope that the working class would keep up the fight to establish his innocence...
...Then on to the oil town of Bakersfield, and then to Los Angeles...
...Everywhere he has been wildly acclaimed, everywhere repaid the compliment Implied in his reception by delivering straight Socialist propaganda, straight from the shoulder and in bued with the homely, salty philosophy that has made Jim Maurer one of the colorful figures of this generation...
...Meanwhile workers are to get the most the railroads can pay, which is exactly what the railroad executives say except that they add that they can only pay 20 per rent less than they are now paying...
...he has an ideal, to free the working class from exploitation...
...Rooseers are to get tariff benefits without having overproduction stimulated, without danger of dumping and without unduly raising prices, velt deals in pious hopes...
...Following the meeting Maurer met the local Socialist), in a heartto- heart meeting at Socialist headquarters...
...Otis J. Bouma, Racine, was among the speakers at the Beloit meeting...
...There was a luncheon meeting, and again an evening indoor meeting, all of them highly successful...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 14
