Socialist Campaign Sweeps State
Friedman, Samuel H.
By Samuel H. Friedman Socialist Campaign Sweeps State PACING the last week of a campaign that has been unprecedented in its sweep and fervor and in the response which it has evoked among the...
...Eighty New Leaders were sold and four yearly subscriptions were taken...
...His special attention is being given to organizing branches among second and third generation Finns, not as s part of the federation, but as English branches...
...On Sunday he will be in Port Chester...
...1., Dr...
...Time has been arranged for over KGFW every Tuesday Thursdsy and Saturday from 6:80 to 6:45 until election...
...Entering Virginia at 3. P. M. from Washington, Thomas spent T/i busy.hours in the state, and left Richmond by train for North Carolina at 10:30 P. M. with the cheers of over a hundred who had accompanied him to the station in his ears...
...Monday, Nov...
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...Norman Thomas will deliver the main address and there will be one-minute speeches by Silas Bent, LeRoy Bowman, Paul Brissenden, George Britt, Morris R. Cohen, Elmer Davis, Edward T. Devine, John Dewey, W. E. B. DuBois, Irwin Edman, Morris L. Ernst, Henry Pratt Fairchild, Henry Hazlitt, B. W. Huebsch, Paul U. Kellogg, J. P. McEvoy, Paul Sifton, Reed Harris and othesrs...
...He showed that a member of Lehman's firm has just been elected a director in the B. M. T., which is now negotiating With the city regarding the terms of a purchase which may reach, together with the I. R. T., half a billion dollars...
...Grant...
...Both Candida ts, in the past week, delivered telling blows at the system, and especially at their Republican and Democratic opponents...
...everyone was handed a leaflet as well as a platform...
...J. Edward Oser, Republican...
...Several neighborhood meetings were held last week preparatory to forming branches...
...Wolf Adler will lecturs on "Back to Materialism," Sunday, 8 p. m., In the Pythian Temple, 185 West 70th St Miss Jean Conklln will give a lecture on astronomy In ths Community Church, 650 West 110th St, Monday svenlng at 8 o'clock...
...H. Wilson, candidate for Lieut-Governor, is head of the local unemployed committee...
...Members of the branch were enraged at the conduct of the Communists...
...Communists made enemies in trying out this "manouver...
...He showed how there is no adequate foundation for most of what is being claimed for Wagner...
...The court house was filled to overflowing when Uerling, Paul and Staley spoke...
...North Platte.—C...
...Especially effective has been the work of the two candidates at symposiums and debates, where Waldman and Solomon, by their eloquence, their manifest sincerity, their command of the facts, and especially by the way they have been able to present the Socialist indictment and to sketch the Socialist solution, have been able to win over audiences which have never before heard the message of Socialism...
...He further charged that the election of a candidate directly interested in the profits of busihess subject to regulation by a commission responsible to him Would be a danger and a menace to government...
...Active in making a success of the affair are many well-known figures in the theatrical, literary and artistic world and groups from many of the colleges...
...29, at 8:80 p. m. The Ingersoll Forum announces that Dr...
...Arthur F. Stearns, candidate for Congress, and Frank A. Barnett, candidate for State Senator, spoke at the court house Saturday...
...Lincoln.—A student Socialist organisation has been formed with Charles Edward Gray as leader...
...F. Stearns, F. A. Barnett and H. V. Lerner held an excellent meeting...
...H. H. Hester reports Socialist sentiment rspidly crystallizing and S strong local practically assured...
...John Hezekish Levy, Democrat...
...Net result...
...The intention was to take up all of Oneal's time with these questions but Oneal turned the tables...
...Donovan also anxious to corrall Tammany votes in the city, had been careful not to attack Tammany in the city...
...6th, at 12:80 P. M., under the auspices of the Thomas and Maurer Committee...
...Each robot arose with typewritten slips containing from one to five questions directed to Oneal, forty or fifty in all...
...The State Supreme Court has set aside the Virginia Redistrlcting Act, and the ballot will Instruct voters to "vote for nine," and there are five Socialist candidates...
...7, Scott Nearing, "The Outlook for America...
...Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday he will also spend upstate, helping consolidate the gains the party has been making north of the Bronx...
...Alfred Adler on "Whither Education T" Thursday, Nov...
...George M. Btockdals, chairman...
...LECTURE NOTES The following lectures will be held in Irving Plaza Hall, 17 Irving Place, under the direction of The Institute for Advanced Education: Tuesday, Nov...
...James' Church, 126th St...
...Over 8,600 people filled the theater for the largest political meeting held in Richmond for many years...
...Kearney.—John M. Paul spoke against Republican and Democratic representatives Oct...
...Chester Hunt, editor of the Cotner College newspaper, is actively supporting Norman Thomas...
...The Omaha College Club heard the Republocratic and Socialist sides presented at its last meeting...
...Local Grand Island has begun organizing the near-by towns...
...PENNSYLVANIA Allentewn.—James Onoil, editor of The New Leader, spoke to a large audience here last Saturday night and hold tho crowd for an hour and a half In an exposition of Socialist fundamentals...
...SOCIALISTS...
...His most effective blows, outside of those delivered in the general presentation of Socialist aims and demands, were against the ballybooed "liberalism" of his opponent on the Democratic ticket, Senator Wagner, about whoso head, as around Roosevelt and Lehman, the Democrats haye been partially successful in picturing a false halo of "progressivism...
...Much favorable sentiment has been aroused...
...Dannebrog.—Local Dannebrog is holding public meetings regularly on Friday nights...
...Waldman opened the week with a slashing attack on Colonel Lehman, "liberal and humanitarian" candidate of the Democratic Party, the grave impropriety of whose candidacy he challenged in a way to reach even the non-Socialist but thinking voters throughout the state...
...Vithalbhal J. Patel, formerly Lord Mayor of Bombay and President of the Indian Legislative Assembly, now touring ths United States as tho Envoy of Mahatma Gandhi, will speak on the "Nationalist Aspirstlons of India" at ths Bronx Free Fellowship, Asuro Temple, 1591 Boston Road, Sunday, 8 p. m. Rev...
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...Fremont.—John M. Paul, candidate for Governor, and H. H. Uerling spoke here and a local is expected to result...
...Grand Island.—Hundreds of pieces of literature are being passed out here...
...He revealed the hitherto unknown fact that Roosevelt's financial "right-hand man" is now a special "silent" partner in Lehman Bros., a firm which, through its control of the Lehman Corporation, owns large blocks of utility Corporation stocks and bonds, whose values would be affected by the action of the Public Service and the Transit Commissions, BOTH OP WHICH ARE APPOINTED AND DIRECTLY CONTROLLED BY THE GOVERNOR...
...Leon Rosier Land will act as chairman of this meet* Ing...
...OHIO Mandamus action has been introduced in the supreme court of Ohio by Joseph S harts, Socialist candidate for Governor, to compel the Department of State to print the party's arm and torch device as an emblem over the Socialist ticket on the ballots...
...He put a number of questions to them, asking why they had nominated a warbond salesman for President, why they had not accounted for $500,000 they claimed to have raised for Sacco and Vansetti and a number of other embarrassing questions...
...Heywood Broun and B. C. Vladeck will be the masters of ceremonies...
...By Samuel H. Friedman Socialist Campaign Sweeps State PACING the last week of a campaign that has been unprecedented in its sweep and fervor and in the response which it has evoked among the workers and voters of the state, Louis Waldman and Charles Solomon, candidates for governor and for United States Senator in New York state, are preparing to spend that week in last-minute whirlwind tours of the state and the city, addressing mass meetings, rallies, forums, symposiums and audiences of every kind...
...Attendance is steadily increasing, with a corresponding effect on the local membership...
...Idaho, H. H. Freedheim, Box 1022, Twin Falls...
...MINNESOTA David Rinne, representing the Finnish Socialist Federation and the Socialist Party of America, is now in Minnesota organising for the party...
...NEBRASKA Blair.—Rev...
...In all cases where both Waldman and Solomon over and over again challenged their opponents to declare themselves on these and other state issues, the Republican and Democratic candidates both avoided dealing with these controversial questions...
...Rev...
...He had called for a record vote for Surrogate O'Brien, Tammany's new white-headed boy, as candidate for Mayor, and had fawned before the boss of both me O'Brien and Tammany Hall, John Curry...
...An effort to form a local will be made here by Glenn Griffith, candidate for railway commissioner...
...andMadison Ave., Nov...
...Andrew S. Leitch, veteran 80year old Socialist, who lives in his ancestral home near Fredericksburg, built in 1630, and keeps a red flag flying over his home, presided temporarily at the Fredricksburg meeting...
...Ths candidates are: Herman R. Ansell, Winston F. Dawson, David G. George, Angie M. Norris and Albon James Royal...
...Solomon, in the course of his addresses during the week, called for cancellation of war debts, drastic disarmament and the recognition of Soviet Russia as a means of a achieving world peace and world economic recovery...
...bis only handicap is lack of funds...
...If you live in Florida, Idaho or Louisiana, and have not yet received instructions in regard to the proper method to use in voting the Socialist ticket November 8, write at once to your state secretary for this information...
...MASSACHUSETTS Boston.—Morris Hillquit spoke Novel Rally and "Picnic" for Thomas A novel campaign rally and "picnic" will be held in Mecca Temple, Saturday, Nov...
...He will then shoot back to New York in time to speak at the monster Madison Square Garden meetings, Bronx Coliseum and Brooklyn Academy meetings...
...Oneal declined and insisted on his questions and walked out laughing at his opponents...
...One by one, as the days went by, Waldman dissected the pretensions of the Republican and Democratic candidates and the claim* advanced by their spokesman...
...Waldman did not concentrate on Lehman alone...
...In another address, Waldman made plain how the "liberal and progressive" Lehman had surrendered completely to bossism and Curryism...
...Today Louis Waldman is speaking at Vassar College...
...Richland.—Fred Hoppe, member of the state committee, serves notice that an application for a charter may be expected before a week is over...
...Louisiana, W. F. Diets, 1100 Common St., Lake Charles...
...2, at 8 p. m. Speakers: Prof...
...The Bolshie robots became enraged and the chairman, a Communist, tried to force Oneal to go through with the Communist maneuver...
...New locals are being organized everywhere...
...Reservations for the affair should be sent to the Thomas and Maurer Committee, 112 E. 19th St Phone, Algonquin 4-5866...
...The negotiations for the city, Waldman pointed out significantly, are carried on by the Transit Commission, responsible to the governor 1 This attack was called to the attention of Lehman upstate by newspaper men there...
...At 4:30 P. M. Thomas spoke to over 300 people who jammed the court house at Fredericksburg, while many were unable to get in...
...Red Cloud...
...Under new election laws, the state plans to print only the name of the party at the top of its column...
...He promised to anawer it Speaking later sn the utility question, in an address in which he attacked his Republican opponent, Lehman aarefully avoided all mention of the exposure of his own financial Involvements...
...When the two speakers had spoken 80 minutes each, the Communists proceeded with a prearranged "maneuver...
...VIRGINIA Norman Thomas swept through Virginia October 21, in the most successful and inspiring tour ever dreamed of by Socialists of the state...
...DO NOT LOSE YOUR VOTE...
...Ten copies of the local paper were sold and 100 of America for All...
...The Communists planted about 15 of their robots in the audience...
...Hastings.— Peter Uerling, candidate for Congress, is given a fighting chance to be elected from a muddled field of Communist Trick in Queens Debate Proves to Be a Dud James Oneal, Socialist, snd C. A. Hathaway, Communist, appeared at a symposium arranged by the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Fund, Wednesday night, at 4126 68th St., Queens...
...From Fredericksburg Thomas and the welcoming group sped to Richmond for a meeting in the Mosque Theater...
...Leon Rosser Land, Socialist...
...The picnic part of the'rally will include the serving of a lunch...
...He has called attention to the fact that the Republican candidate is well-known as a friend of the utilities...
...Here are the secretaries' names for these states: Florids, M. E. Edton, Route 1, Seffner...
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...Gretna.—A...
...seven candidates...
...8, Samuel D. Schmalhausen, "Freud, Marx, Lenin and Russia...
...Harry Slochower will lecture on Gasset's "The Revolt of the Masses" at the Roarich Museum Branch, 810 Riverside Drive, Nov...
...Socialists must scratch out the names of the 0 Democrats, 6 Republicans and 4 independents, and rote only for the 6 Socialists...
...Omaha...
...Ell B. Jacobsen, Communist...
...War Resistors League "How Shall We Vote for Peace T" will be discussed at St...
...Charles Solomon also has a feverishly busy time ahead, except that his aggressive and effective campaigning will be carried on in the greater city, where he has been speaking to big and attentive audiences...
...His editorial in the Collegian attracted considerable attention...
...Robert Dullea has been appointed permanent state organizer of the party...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
