CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED!
CAMPAIGN IS LAUNCHED! 600PartyBranches Aid Drive for Funds Marx Lewis Hope* for Subscription of $30,000Within the Month ASSISTED by the rapidly-developing Socialist sentiment all over the...
...Having almost doubled their quota of $500, Philadelphia Socialists, led by Simon Llbros and Hannah M. Btemlller, are now working toward a fund of ,$2,000...
...J in the United States by nex January, is tbe declaration . of the executive council of the American Federation of LalAr, made through its Monthly Survey of Business, for Juno 23...
...They range from 25 cents to $2,000...
...78 C h i l d r e n Go To Pioneer Youth S u m m e r Camp Seventy-eight children left this morning for the Pioneer Youth National Camp, one of the largest opening registrations In recent years...
...With what has already been paid, Maryland, Socialists will have raised almost the entire amount...
...The event attracts Socialist workers from other parts of the state...
...Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Illinois and Maryland are running a close race for third place, with subscriptions running from about $1,000 to $1,500, while Connecticut leads California, New Jersey, Ohio and Rhode Island in the order named...
...Massachusetts Socialists will hear Heywood Broun speak at their first state picnic at Framlngham Sunday, July 17...
...Goldberg will treat of trade unionism In America...
...Refreshments will be served after the meeting...
...o— Mailings to selected groups of prospective contributors in an effort to build up at least four classes of contributors, in amounts ranging from $5 to $100, to supplement the returns on subscription lists containing smaller amounts, j Formation of special committees for the conduct of the fund raising drive in organizations regarded as sympathetic to the Socialist movement...
...People do not starve by tens of millions when they see plenty all around them...
...Pennsylvania comes next, with about $2,000 subscribed...
...Special radio, organization, publicity and advertising and literature funds will be established, and contributions will be applied to the fund indicated...
...Aided by the subscription list campaign conducted by more than 000 Socialist party branches and locals, It Is expected that the amount already subscribed, which exceeds $15,000, will be doubled before the month Is over...
...Thomas at Camden The first two picnics will be held on Monday, July 4. Norman Thomas will be the . principal speaker in South Jersey, at Camden...
...Duval will speak on the political situation...
...Lewis announces that 38 states and the District of Columbia have responded to the appeal with subscriptions...
...James H. Maurer will speak on the same day at an outing of the Socialist and Workmen's Circle branches of Baltimore to help provide the $1,000 subscribed by the Maryland Socialists...
...The .Workmen's Circle branches have donated the use of their "beach near Baltimore...
...600PartyBranches Aid Drive for Funds Marx Lewis Hope* for Subscription of $30,000Within the Month ASSISTED by the rapidly-developing Socialist sentiment all over the country, the formation of new branches' and locals, aa unprecedented demand for literature, and an appeal for speakers and organizers, plans'for an intensive fund raising campaign, to provide national and local committees with funds have been completed by Marx Lewis, national drive director...
...It Is estimated that the profits will be in the neighborhood of $500...
...The camp staff, under the direction of Alexis C. Ferm, has been in conference at the camp since Monday discussing questions of educational procedure and preparing for the children's arrival...
...The Workmen's Circle camp, twenty miles outside of Boston, will be used, and part of the proceeds will be applied to the national campaign fund...
...Britten and Mayor Cermak of Chicago when they sought a loan of $153,000,000 to relieve the temporary bankruptcy and starvation In the second largest city of the country, this Federation threat is uttered In order to arouse Washington to the probable violent results of further delay of help...
...These picnics will be followed on Sunday, July 10, by a picnic of Philadelphia S o c i a l i s t s ^ which J. B. Matthews, director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, and August "CTaessena, organizer'of Local New York, will be the principal speakers...
...This la'the first threat of food rioting yet published by the A. F. of L. Like the warning given Congress 'on June 21 by Rep...
...There will be many held by smaller groups, while the two largest will be held in New York City and Milwaukee...
...Beginning July 5 the drive will be conducted from the national headquarters, 549 Randolph street, Chicago, where Lewis will take charge of fund raising activities...
...Socialist party locals and branches undertaking special affairs for the benefit of the drive are requested to write to Lewis at the national office...
...Appeal Sent to 5,000 In an appeal sent to 5,000 sympathizers, contributors are asked to indicate their preference for various forms of campaigning, and to make their contribution for the method they prefer...
...The affair will be used to raise the Wmi<*,Vm,Pm*» Count subscription to the national cam-, paign fund, of which ahout one half has already been paid in...
...The government is practically Ignoring • the greatest business depression of all time,1 ' it charges...
...Admission Is free...
...Eighteen teachers and mature college students left this morning for East Bank, W. Vs., where, under the direction of Agnes Sailer, Pioneer Youth will conduct a play school for the miners' children in five coal camps...
...In tbe face of this crucial problem of life and health or starvation, delays by Congress In passing relief legislation are sickening...
...The problem has outgrown local resources...
...ty A series of conferences in cities where trade unions, Workmen's Circle branches and other liberal and radical groups will form working committee for the joint direction of the campaign, under Socialist auspices...
...Since the first of the year, 1,400,000 workers have lost their jobs...
...Everyone is Invited...
...Fischer will take up the cultural aide of the American scene...
...There are still a few vacancies for children going on July 5 when It is expected that the camp's capacity of about 100 children will be reached...
...Many contributors having views on how to best take advantage of ou"r opportunties will feel more inclined to help...
...Debs Claris Will •feet Wednesday Three Rand School students will discuss "The American Scene in 1032" at the weekly, meeting of the Debs Club, Wednesday night in the Rand School, 7 East 15th street, at 9 o'clock...
...New York state leads the nation with approximately $5,500 subscribed...
...From the Marlon, N . C , camp come reports that a capacity enrollment of 39 children has beer reached at the camp which Pioneer Youth started last summer with strikers' children there, William Reich, last summer's camp director and a teacher at Commonwealth Collage, will direct the camp this summer, A camp will also be conducted during August i-arv Danville, Va., where Ploneei Youth conducted a play school last summer AJF.oiL.k?emrs Jo**le*u Arm* WASHINGTON — ( F P )— That unemployment in industry has been Increasing since January at the rate of 280,000 persons per month, and that if this tread continues at the prctent rate there will be more tii&n 13,000,000 un employ...
...If relief Is not provided, women and men will be forced to return to primitive ways of getting food for themselves and their children...
...The exact position of the states will be determined later...
...This to a breakdown of economic Institutions which calls for federal action...
...A number of other picnics will be held during the month, not as part of the drive, but helpful to it because of the opportunities they will afford for fund raising...
...Picnic at Reading Reading Socialists will hold their annual picnic on their own grounds on Sunday, July 81, when Thomas will be the principal speaker...
...Plana for July include, Lewis announced at tbe drive headquarters, the following: • A series of picnics, more than a dozen of which will take place before the month is over, at some of which Norman Thomas, candidate for President, and James H. Maurer, candidate for Vice President, will speak...
...They will remain in the Kanawaha Valley for eight weeks, where the, organization conducted one experimental play school last summer...
...The speakers will be Ben Fischer, Ronald Duval and Louis Goldberg...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 1
