Garden Rally Breaks All Records
Garden Rally Breaks All Records "Capitalism Must Go," Declares Solomon Chairman Makes Eloquent Plea for Solidarity of Workers in Madison Square Garden Address. CHARLES SOLOMON, Socialist...
...This is a day of peril to you and yours...
...Their power is in bits of paper title deeds...
...By William Karlin A GALL TO ARMS Socialist Candidate for Attorney-General Calls for United Action at Garden Rally...
...From His Garden Address...
...Strike HARD, HARDER STILL...
...To these friends I want to reply: We are building a party...
...They say, "You can't win...
...He continued that the Socialists also presented the only adequate program of proposals for the immediate relief of the unemployed...
...He will speak over WEVD from 11:15 to 11:30 Sunday morning' By Devere Allen We're Waiting for You...
...No foreign enemy has ever effected by a state of siege misery such as the American people now suffer...
...that power was kept in the hands of a few...
...If you doubt it, look at the great increase in new locals organized this year already as contrasted to 1931...
...And if there have been those among you who have wondered whether we can push over the mountain and become in 1926 a serious contender for the presidency of the United States, remember that we're waiting for you...
...He said, the Socialists alone faced with intelligence, understanding, courage and an adequate program, the great twin problems of depression and unemployment...
...Even now, with tht prospect of tha largest Socialist vote in history, you can occasionally hear the ?olees of defeatism...
...Solomon said that the primary reason for the existence of the Socialist Party was expressed in the demand in the party's national platform for the transfer from private to public hands, to be democratically managed on the basis of production for social use instead of private profit, of the principal industries of the country...
...Are you with us...
...You are many, they are few...
...Now in the midst of the emergency we must adopt direct relief measures...
...When the revolution came, the caciques were swept away forever...
...Y^li are virtually in a state of war...
...ELECT your own president, NORMAN THOMAS, and the rest of the National administration...
...that the interests of the community bosses were adequately served...
...Whereupon the engineer looked at him in astonishment and replied, "Why, my dear Senor, we're waiting for you...
...The laborer must become a warrior...
...But just as in Spain a union of workers, farmers and intellectuals overthrew the caciques and wiped them off tht map, so we have been organising a rebellion that will purge our state and set its feet upon the path toward Socialism, There is just one factor in the Anal days of the campaign which we cannot afford to overlook...
...But if they cannot make a profit they will let you starve...
...it will take a long time...
...Will yoa allow yourselves to be vanquished...
...ELECT your own governor, LOUIS WALDMAN, and the State administration . ELECT your own mayor, MORRIS HILLQUIT...
...Senator in Connecticut Tells a Story and Draws a Moral...
...We have declared a war on capitalism, death to the old order...
...It was the function of the cacique to see that the traditional institutions of the country were preserved against change...
...There YOUR NUMBERS COUNT...
...They discarded you because you produced too many things...
...OUST THEM...
...SPREAD THE ALARM...
...Tomorrow labor will be free...
...CHARLES SOLOMON, Socialist candidate for United States Senator^ sounded the keynote of the great Socialist mass meeting at Madison Square Garden in one of the most eloquent Speeches of his career...
...Some of you may think you know what reaction is...
...The capital system, with the richest natural and cultural resources, as well as technological equipment in all human history, has proven itself incapable of using these reThomas in Final Broadcast Norman Thomas will make his final local broadcast over the air before leaving for his whirlwind conclusion of his campaign in Milwaukee on Sunday morning...
...This was the cacique, a kind of glorified local Tammany leader...
...It is at this point that the Socialists are fundamentally distinguished from their Republican and Democratic opponents, said Solomon...
...If you want to see how a political realignment can be effected, look at the city of Bridgeport where last year the Republican Party was relegated to a bad third place, or the little town of Easton in our state, where this October wc wiped the Democratic Party out of existence...
...Socialist Candidate for U.S...
...The enemy has built a vigorous blockade which has separated the people from their food, clothing and comfort...
...Now that the purchasing power of the people has been reduced to a minimum they will bring only a small portion of the harvest and of the manufacturers to market...
...They have refused to reduce the work day and the work week...
...WHEN I was in Spain during the revolution a year and a half ago I came across an institution that had been the bulwark of the monarchy for generations...
...When the train came to the foot of a mountain, they stopped to let the engine take on water...
...While a large vote is important Jn this campaign and will undoubtedly be cast for our national standard bearers and other candidates, Solomon stressed the basic importance of building stronger the fighting organizations of the workers by hand and brain, economically, culturally and politically, stressing the last named...
...Will you submit to such disgrace...
...Yours is infinitely greater, in the voting machine...
...It is only thus that they can maintain profits...
...After several times looking to see why the train tiid not start, at the end of half an hour he strode up to the engineer and exclaimed, "Why under the sun don't you pull up the mountain and get out of here...
...Even the peaceful and fruitful earth turns to war under capitalism and devours humanity...
...To the polls and strike at capitalism...
...We are in a state of war, and the National, State and City administrations have sided with our enemies...
...And we are counting on you I at the ballot box next Tuesday...
...Let our solidarity make us strong today...
...Yesterday we were weak...
...This was a chance for the passenger to get some fresh air, and so he strolled for fifteen minutes up and down the platform...
...but you have heard nothing yet unless you have witnessed the operation of our Connecticut caciques...
...To fight capitalism is a duty...
...Some of you remind me of the story I picked up in Spain, about an American traveller who was riding on a Spanish provincial railroad...
...They were too hard-hearted to give attention to social legislation...
...We proposed to face it if and when it came...
...We foresaw the present emergency...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 19
