Debs Drive is Now Under Way
Debs Drive is Now Under Way Tribute to Memory of Departed Leader to Be Paid by Intensified Party Work—Drive on All Fronts— Candidates' Tours Greatest Ever Experienced by Party ENCOURAGED by the...
...It will contain an appeal for $1 contributions...
...6, Sterling...
...KANSAS Students from six colleges will gather at Topeka for Norman Thomas's meeting on Oct...
...Party Meetings Boost New Leader Sales PASSAIC.-John S. Martin addressed a corking meeting last Saturday, almost blocking the street at Main and Passaic Ave., the first open-air meeting since the organization of the new branch with twelve charter members...
...2. Conferences in the more important cities, at which various liberal and labor groups will be asked to assume leadership, along with the Socialists, in a fight for national campaign committee, has issued invitations for such conferences...
...The Republicans were first to discover that the Socialist candidate, devoting his talks to the poverty of the wage workers snd farmers, was making headwsy against the old two-party system...
...The party's candidate for United States Senator, Devere Allen cf Wilton, will be the feature speaker of the evening...
...8, Wray...
...The next brsnch meeting will be held Friday, October 7, in the Workmen's Circle Building, 50 Howe Ave...
...It is hard to finance the work as the workers are broke but the fighting spirit is fine...
...Bright of New York will speak for the fifth district Socialist Club on Friday, Oct...
...Mills was not the only Socialist elected at Easton...
...The state convention at Grand Rapids nominated a full ticket...
...MICHIGAN There yarc over fifty locals In Michigan...
...A hayride is being arranged by the fifth district and the Y.P.S.L., which will carry a truck load of Y.P.S.L...
...Fred Cederholm, candidate for Senator in the 21st District also spoke...
...the state is worth cultivating by the national office...
...9, Yuma and Morgan...
...COLORADO Advance speaking dates for Curie Whitehead, Socialist candidate for U. S. Senator, are as follows: Oct...
...Sunday in Wheeling in the Labor Temple...
...The election was hUd on the day President Hoover made his Dee Moines speech...
...Leo Krzycki, of Milwaukee, executive secretary of the Labor Committee for Thomas and Maurer, 5. A general letter to 76,000 members of organisations known to be sympathetic to the Socialist party will be mailed...
...14, Canon City and Florence...
...4. Over 10,000 trade union organizations, some of whom have declared their sympathy for Socialist principles, will be urged to help build a party of their own...
...7, in Wood Park...
...Mayor Hoan, of Milwaukee, chairman of the CONNECTICUT On last Friday Winston Dancis addressed two meetings in the fifth district in Bridgeport...
...Snow n.oved over the Montana line into Idaho to hold a meeting in Clarks Fork, a small town where the Democrats had held a ••ally...
...Louis, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Chicago and Los Angeles...
...Idaho is a dry stete and \he politicians treat the crowd to watermelons instead of near beer...
...Marx Lewis, treasurer of the campaign committee, reports that at all meetings, between October 1 and' 20, fund raising to raise the 100,000 goal set by tbe national executive committee will be stressed, and appeals for help made...
...The drive was lsunched on October 1, with meetings at Butte, Montana, at which Thomas spoke...
...Members of the Committee of One Thousand, particularly in the smaller communities, are asked to arrange for either home •r public gatherings, at which an •Ppeal made by the Socialist standard bearers for funds will be followed by collections...
...groups, will try to raise the quotas assigned, the more important of them being New York, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, St...
...8. Under the direction of Hannah M. Biemiller, operating from New York City, prominent liberals, members of the Thomas-Maurer Committee of Five Thousand, will address a large number of meetings and dinners in support of the Socialist candidates...
...17, Montrose...
...tary of the Yipsels...
...But in other places he found genuine friendliness, even if there was not always much understanding of what the party is driving at...
...20, s Eugene V. Debs Memorial Meeting is planned...
...In TaHahasee, capital of the state, he was virtually told by the police authorities that he was not wanted and no Socialist doctrine could be preached in the town...
...From the stalwart Socialist eity, Reeding, come seven new subs, sent in by that tireless worker, Ralph Bigony...
...Lists of contributors by States Will be sent to ell State secretaries weekly...
...Joseph Mertinek, editor of the American Labor News of Cleveland, was the principal speaker, and 2,000 people jammed the hall to hear his speech...
...OHIO Nineteen Jewish organizations in Cleveland have organized "The United Jewish Organizations for the Socialist Campaign," which will work with the party in its election work...
...Thursday in the Barbour County court house, Philippi...
...Another Thousand An addition...
...Democratic as well as Republicsn experts in Washington campaign headquarters have begun to concede Norman Thomas at least 2,000,000 votes in the November election...
...18, Delta...
...Friday at Follansbee, where a strike of the iron mill workers is on...
...16, Gunnison...
...NEW HAMPSHIRE Under the direction of Donald M. Smith, national organizer, the Socialist Party last week placed Its candidates on the ballot in New Hampshire...
...A year ago there were only about ten...
...John Taylor is working in the western part of the state...
...Monday at Martinsburg and Berkeley Springs, Tuesday he spoke on the spot where John Brown was hung in 1859 in Charlestown...
...WEST VIRGINIA Murray Baron J)ad good meetings sll through the past week...
...Minnie Cederholm, candidate for Alderman, presided...
...Jim Maurer had six fine meetings in the state, and James D. Graham, tireless state secretary, deserves much credit for carrying on in the face of tremendous financial difficulties...
...Comrade Owens, who arranged the meeting, said that the Socialist meeting was twice as large...
...19, Austin...
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...Struggle to the bitter end" against attempts to organise a Fascist movement among Bohemian-born Americans was pledged by Socialists at a Bohemian antlFascist meeting held in Chicago last week...
...17, on the crest of the Allegheny Mountains in Elk Garden, W. Vs., and Kitsmiller, Md., in the afternoon and at Ridgeley that night...
...Active operations have begun in Texas under Chet Bruington, director...
...All are invited...
...20, Grand Junction...
...Prominent Socialist speakers will also concentrate on the two old parties in the East, speaking at dozens of rallies in every Eastern state...
...Contributions are to be sent to Socialist Party, 649 Randolph St., Chicago, III...
...On Debi Dsy Lewis estimated that between $10,000 and $16,000 may be collected that night...
...Rev...
...Funds raised from the eels of "Letters te Judd," given to the state organisation by Upton Sinclair, have been used to start our organisers...
...MOLEY AT COMMUNITY CHURCH October 11th, 8:15 p. m., Professor Raymond Moley of Columbia University will speak on "Police Lawlessness" at the Community Church, 2 East 70th Street...
...Now the Democrats are taking account of the disgust of many of the unemployed at the non-commltal tone of their own candidates, snd are saying that Thomas will get a big vote .n some of the factory towns and among "busted" farmers in the West...
...members and followed by a number of cars carrying banners and placards with members of the fifth district...
...The Socialist Party will continue its street meetings at the corner of Helen St...
...Twelve meetings were held in the one county of Saunders alone which Socialists have a good chance of carrying in November.* Montana has many of the old-time Socialists of Marxian convictions and...
...Wednesday at Grafton in the Taylor County court house...
...9, at 10 a. m., at 105 Springfield Ave., Newark...
...Univorslty of Kansas, Lawrence...
...An effort will be made to have Thomas spesk on a national hook-up, to be followed by Maurer...
...ILLINOIS Headquarters of State and Cook County organizations has been moved to 32J2 North Ave...
...15, Salinn...
...in Connecticut, where Thomas Harrison is lining up support, and in several other States where directors have been left with the state committees...
...The Democrats had a ton of melons on hand to attract the crowd...
...Thomas - Maurer buttons will be used and sold...
...21, Fruita...
...7, Holyoke and Amherst...
...School* to be represented include Washburn College, Topeka...
...Socialist Selectman Chosen in Connecticut NEW HAVEN, Conn.—For the first time in history one of Connecticut's smsll towns has elected a Socialist Selectman—Edward I. Mills, carpenter and former Republican First Selectman at Easton...
...Le Roy, candidate for Congress in the 11th district, is keeping things going in the northern part of the rower peninsula among the small-town proletariat and the Indians...
...Great Thomas Tour While Thomas continues his western tour, covering Spokane and Seattle, Washington, on the 2nd snd 3rd, Portland, Oregon, on the 4th, and entering California for meetings, radio broadcasts, dinners snd receptions in Berkeley, Ssn Francisco, Bakersfleld, Los Angeles and Hollywood, Hoan worked towards the East, Schenectady 3rd, Springfield, Msss., 4th, Bridgeport 5th, New York 6th and 7th, and swinging back to the Middle West to cover meetings at Pittsburgh, Louisville and St...
...and Circular Ave., Hamden, Friday evening at 8 p. m. John M. Corbett, who has been campaigning in New Haven for the last two weeks, will be the speaker...
...The fight to place the ticket in the field was opposed by New Hampshire mill owners and won by lonely farmers and workers who gathered the thousand signatures that make it possible for terrorised mill employees to vote for Socialism this fall...
...With a goal of $3,000, committees, led by local Y.P.S.L...
...The drive will be stimulated, Lewis declared, by the following activities, climaxing on the Debs anniversary: 1. A series of tag days on the 8th and 9th of October, and continuing on the 16th and 16th...
...contribution of t1,000 was made by the Jewish •ally Forward, while contributions from other sources has swelled the total by several thousands, and raised the smount subscribed beyond the $26,000 mark...
...Ih the cities fine meetings hsve been held in Great Falls, Butte, Billings, Miles City, Missoula, Livingston...
...In order to citify the signatures to petitions...
...The Young People's Socialist League is busy gathering clothes for striking miners and their families, which are being sent in a few days from their club rooms, 298 Wood Ave...
...Thomas May Get Two Million Votes WASHINGTON (FP...
...Although old and suffering from heart disease, Comrade Smith risked his life to do his job...
...and Kansas will direct this appeal, coupled with a request for funds so that labor may finance its own political party...
...Each member is expected to raise $60...
...Louis, Mo., where Maurer delivered the principal address...
...Louis, which will have the third of the msjor rallies of the campaign...
...Fifty New Leaders were sold...
...Icon Rosser Land's address a* the 8 o'clock Fellowship Service at the weekly meeting of the Bronx Free Fellow: hip, Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, near East 172nd Street, Sunday evening, October 9. MATTHEWS ON RUSSIA J. B. Matthews, secretary of the Fellowship for Reconciliation, who has just returned from his sixth trip to Russia, will speak on "Soviet Russia Today" at the weekly meeting of the Eugene V. Debs Club of the Rand Ifchool In the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., Thursdsy, October 13, at 8:30 p. m. Admission 10 cents...
...The tentative list of speakers Includes August Claessens, McAlister Coleman, Eleanor Sehachner, Abraham Lefkowits and Ben Fletcher...
...5, Greeley and Brush...
...Horns and other noises will announce our arrival throughout the city...
...Local Cook County has begun the publication of a monthly membership bulletin...
...Attention is paid to sections where other campaign activities are lagging...
...This will be under the direction of George Smerkin, national secreSocialist victories...
...TEXAS George Clifton Edwards, famous throughout the South for his activity in civil liberties cases, has been nominated for Governor by the Socialist Party in Texas...
...Norman Thomas's meetings In Detroit, Pontiac, Grand Rapids, Jackson, Greenville, Travers City and Saginaw were all great successes, as were the meetings of Jim Maurer...
...Hamden Socialists expect to hold the largest rally ever held by their party on Oct...
...Beginning on Sunday, Sept...
...Leon...
...LAND ON JUDAISM "Humanity's Debt to Judaism" will be the topic of Rev...
...Collee* of Emooria...
...several counties have county tickets in the field...
...Detroit, Mich., where Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, of Milwaukee, opened a ten-day tour that is taking him into the East and back to the Middle West, and Utica and Syracuse, N. Y., where Heywood Broun addressed gatherings at noon and in the evening...
...Saturday at open air mass meetings of the strikers...
...Fivs separate crews of Socialist speakers were in the field last week in this state...
...Bronislaw Bortosik was chosen Registrar of Voters over the veteran Democratic incumbent, John D. Candee...
...Montana is the brightest Socialist prospect in the West and the greatest meetings have been held in this state...
...Urgent campaign matters require the presence of every delegate on time...
...George G rover Mills will address the open-air meeting on Saturday, October 8, at Main and Passaic Ave., 8 p. m. The State Committee meets Sunday, Oct...
...State Teachers' College, Emporia: Baker University, Baldwin, and Ottawa University, Ottawa...
...6.- State directors will assist in the formation of local committees snd in the solicitation of funds...
...FLORIDA J. D. Suyers, national organizer in charge of getting the party ticket on the ballot in Florida, has been meeting with some warm cooperation in unexpected quarters, and in others unexpected hostility...
...Every member of the committee is urged to rsise one-half of the quota by the middle of October, and to raise the balance at the gatherings on October 20...
...On that evening he will speak at Columbus...
...On the following Thursday, Oct...
...The New Leader has been placed on the newsstands in the fifth district and sold at all open air meetings...
...Many of the best meetings sre held among working farmers, sometimes thirty and fifty miles from a railroad...
...Debs Drive is Now Under Way Tribute to Memory of Departed Leader to Be Paid by Intensified Party Work—Drive on All Fronts— Candidates' Tours Greatest Ever Experienced by Party ENCOURAGED by the response which hes come from all parts of the country to the suggestion of the national campaign committee of the Socialist party that Socialists plunge into campaign activities with a will to win, final plans for an intensive drive along every front were whipped into shape for the launching of the drive which began on October 1st...
...A delegation of the Paterson Branch will give us a good start and make acquaintance...
...The meeting will be held at the Town Hall...
...Oh October 20, Thomas will be the guest of Cincinnati Socialists and liberals at noon at a dinner arranged in his honor...
...MONTANA William R Snow, old-time soapboxer and Socialist organiser, is speaking to fine audiences in Montana Since last February he has covered 21,000 miles In a flivver, speaking in the western states, and since July he has spoken at sixty meetings in Montana, two in North Dakota and one in Idaho...
...Organisation of a Committee of One Thousand was brought nearer completion last week...
...A feature of the campaign was the 28-mile biycle ride of Luther N. Smith, of Hancock...
...Everywhere meetings are greater and more interest is shown than at any time since the World War...
...At the request of a number of Socialist locals the period of the drive will be continued until October 20, the anniversary of the death of Eugene V. Debs when the climax will be reached at gatherings in every State, featured by a national radio hookup which will enable Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, and James H. Maurer, vice-presidential candidate, to address hundreds of assemblies...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15
