The Party Forges Ahead: National Office Plans After-Election Work
The Party Forges Ahead: National Office Plans After-Election Work CHICAGO.—The Socialist Party is holding- a series of regional conferences to discuss campaign tictics and to lay plans for...
...Larry Rogin who was almost a one-man show in Elmhurst-Corona...
...Why Do They Vote Tammany...
...Along with this zeal for continued activity, every evidence points to a keen understanding of our memberhsip of the difficulties ahead of us in building the Socialist state, and the intelligence and energy that must be thrown into that task...
...If we cannot do this, we have failed...
...Rockaway did its bit when, with the help and inspiration of Comrades Friedman and Treves, a successful banquet was held with 800 in attendance...
...Lists of these people will be compiled and sent to the various branches in the city to follow up...
...The Decline of Capitalism" will be the subject of Scott Nearin's lecture under the direction of The Community Church Center, 110th St., east of Broadway, Nov...
...16 on "Physical Basis of Character...
...15, Prof...
...A general meeting and reception of the Socialist women of Greater New York will be held on Saturday evening, Nov...
...Extern" rigid civil service protection to all city employes, devise a system of safeguarding the civil service from political influence—and you have dealt a greater blow to Tammany than all the anti-graft crusades in the history of New York put together...
...The intelligent, socially-minded voter who believes that the city should offer not only free schools and colleges, but free universities, —who believes in the gradual socialization of the medical profession by the city,—who believes in a multitude of measures that would make life more secure and civilized,—must overcome the taxpayers' objection to anything that costs money...
...19, at 8:00 p. m., in the studio of the Rand School...
...but the Urge taxpayer is a crusader for reaction...
...LECTURE NOTES -¦ Rennie Smith, former Socialist member of the British Parliament now touring this country, will speak on "Russia in 1932" in the Labor Temple, 14th St...
...What couldn't we do if and when our newly created organization in Queens will have greater financial resources to wage its future fights...
...The other speakers to address some of the larger audiences were Nathan Fine, Sam DeWitt, and J. B. Matthews . The greatest surprise came in Flushing, where Hillquit addressed the largest audience assembled in Queens County...
...Book review, "The Sheltered Life," by Mrs...
...Hillquit, Solomon and Waldman addressed two of these rallies and Jim Oneal spoke at every one of them...
...two with Norman Thomas as the main speaker...
...P. Clarke...
...Election of officers will take place, alio a fine HOW QUEENS COUNTY WAGED ACTIVE CAMPAIGN ON $200 DACK in August, when our So*-* cUJist comrades in Queens launched the campaign with a picnic in Edgemere, there was hope and enthusiasm, but few of us expected such widespread activity as followed...
...Wednesday, review of play, "Success Story," John Haynes Holmes...
...Everywhere our locals are laying plans for intensive educational work right on afterthe campaign...
...On Tuesdsy, Nov...
...17, Scott Nearing...
...Leon Rosser Land's address at the Bronx Free Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, near East 172nd St., on Sunday evening, Nov...
...State meetings have also been planned for several states, the first of which will be at Owosso, Michigan, Sunday, Nov...
...The graft-hunters take the side of the large taxpayers who object not only to graft and corruption but also to any social service that Is placed on the tax bill...
...Frederick Barry wiU lecture on "The Scientific Habit of Thought: Elements of Inductive Inference...
...The Community Church Center, 660 West 110th St., has the following program for the week: Monday, Miss Jean Conklin, "Astronomy...
...Most of its strength lies In job-control...
...in Cooper Union, Friday, Nov...
...Hundreds of these people arc being written to, sent applications and urged to send their lees to the city office...
...Tammany is an obstacle to progress...
...Last but not least, the individual branch activity which never let up despite the increased efforts demanded by the county campaign...
...Questions and discussions and a musical program by Genevieve and Zelma Kaufman will follow...
...The campaign has brought in a very large increase in membership...
...ji*_ New York City Applications for Membership.— During the last weeks of the campaign the city office was swamped with a large number of blanks filled out by people at various meetings throughout the city expressing their intentions of becoming party members...
...The success of our 1932 campaign," Clarence Senior, executive secretary ,states, "cannot be gauged by the number of our votes, however large that number may be...
...of privileges to business and industrial interests enjoying or seeking special favors...
...13, starting at 10 a. m. in Fattal Hail...
...But every word we receive from our organizations throughout the country indicates that our members have not enlisted just for the campaign...
...Special mention must be made of Henry Doering and Robert Otto, two of the finest comrades in our movement, whose present residence is Astoria, but who have come in answer to the call whether it was in Woodside, Sunnyslde or Flushing that they were needed...
...Women's Section...
...20,000 pieces of literature were distributed to advertise this meeting, and In this task a word of praise is in order for Tim Daly, Gilbert Sackman, Pliskin and the several Yipsels in that district who helped materially...
...The Chicago Workers' Committee on Unemployment, the Unemployed Councils and the Workers' League joined forces in directing the march, which was approved by nearly 100 liberal and radical organizations, Including the Socialistand Farmer-Labor parties of Cook County...
...Six indoor rallies were held...
...This is a form of graft that seldom is reflected In the city budget and even suspicious taxpayers seldom observe it...
...Is there arjr remedy ? Once understood, Tammany is no longer the terrifying monster that it appeared to be, and its vulnerable spots are visible to the naked eye...
...When Tammany's control over scores of thousands of jobs is curtailed, it will become possible for an organization such as the Socialist Party with a program of municipal Socialism to appeal to great masses of voters who have become politically open-minded because they have been released from Tammany's job-pressure...
...If we can hold these new organizations together and develop our membership, old and new, in understanding of Socialist ideas and methods, the campaign will have proved itself tremendously successful...
...New York needs a government with a purpose—a labor purpose...
...An average of fourteen open-air meetings a week for over two months of the campaign in the county...
...George H. Swasey will lecture on "The Clerical Profession" under the auspices of the Ingersoll Forum, Pythian Temple, 186 West 70th St., Sunday at >8 p. m. The Institute for Advanced Education will have as its speaker Dr...
...Curtail Tammany's power by removing the city's army of jobholders from Tammany's domination...
...11, at 8. p. m. Sunday evening, Nov...
...The "reformers" too often align themselves with reactionary purposes...
...About 80,000 throwaways which were distributed through the foot-work of the tireless comrades wherever an indoor rally was to be held...
...In other words, the "progressive" citizen is confronted with two evils, one worse than the other...
...Were Tammany free of graft, the city would still need to destroy Tammany, The organization is a parasite...
...Those who want real progress must realize that the large taxpayers sre their most desdly enemy...
...Bertha Sullivan Papazian...
...Nathan Fine, James Oneal and J. B. Matthews who always said "Yes" when asked to cover a speaking date...
...Harry Slochower will speak on "Marcel Proust, the Past Recaptured," in the Roerich Museum, 310 Riverside Drive...
...LECTURE on MUSSOLINI The postponed lecture of November 4th, on "The Worker in Italy Today" by Vinccnzo Varcirca, biographer of Mussolini and Socialist member of the Italian Parliament in exile for his activities against the Fascist Dictatorship, will be held on Friday, November 18th, in the Rand School, 7 East 16th St., at 8:80 P. M. The meeting is under the auspices of the Eugene V. Debs Club of the Rand School Fellowship...
...17, at 8:15 p. m. On Nov...
...Tuesday, election night, most of the branches in the county held their celebrations...
...Under the leadership of George Field as Campaign Manager, who gave his time without compensation, every available worker and speaker was mobilized to serve without pay...
...And nothing can be said about Queens which does not include Edw...
...Grant the civil service employes the right to organize into labor unions to deal collectively with their employers—the voters of the city as represented by the Board of Estimate, the Board of Aldermen and the State Legislature—and you have deprived Tammany of all job-control, placing it entirely in the hands of the voters as a whole...
...The second day will be spent in outlining future work, with two sessions on Socialist Tactics and Recommendations to the National Executive Committee...
...That we have been able to add 600 new party locals and branches during the campaign .i the outstanding accomplishment of our party...
...The Party Forges Ahead: National Office Plans After-Election Work CHICAGO.—The Socialist Party is holding- a series of regional conferences to discuss campaign tictics and to lay plans for building a strong organization for future party work, following the record-breaking campaign just closed...
...All this, as Sam DeWitt, the campaign treasurer, could tell you, on about 1200 for the entire job over a period of two and a half months...
...The hoped-for victories did not materialize...
...Frank Strawn Hamilton will lead the discussion on "Logic Old and New" at the Muhlenberg Forum, 209 West 23rd St., Friday, Nov...
...P. H...
...First, precedent was against us, as never before in that county had a unified campaign been tried...
...The solution was obvious . . . man power...
...Socialists Join Chlcage Unemployment Demonstration Thousands of jobless citizens of Chicago made themselves hesrd Monday (Octcber 81) in a parade and mass demonstrstion against a 60 per cent cut in rations...
...18, John Erskine will lecture on "The Present World In the Light of an Historical Perspective...
...Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee will close the conference with a summarizing address...
...All national and state organizers within easy traveling distance of Chicago are meeting at national headquarters of the party this week-end to start off these conferences...
...Thousands upon thousands of city employes must "deliver" to Tammany...
...Robert Koeppicus and Jeanette Glassner in Jamaica...
...Second, the half-dozen branches had no funds and the county treasury was very low...
...the more indifferent citizen is not interested even when a Seabury investigation brings home glaring instances of this form of graft to light...
...Tammany, on the other hand, welcomes the opportunity-to spend money...
...12, at 8:80 p. m , Dr...
...Samuel D. Schmalhausen, Thursday, Nov...
...At the nine o'clock Open Forum, Boyan Petckoff Choukanoff will speak on "Balkans: the Tinder Box of Europe...
...Wisconsin Vote Not Up to Expectations MILWAUKEE~The Thomas and Maurer vote will probably reach 45,000 or 60,000 in this state, a heavy increase...
...17, at the Irving Plaza Branch of the organization on "Communism versus Fascism...
...It Is difficult indeed to be allinclusive in a brief survey...
...Reformers" have placed too much emphasis upon graft...
...18, G. F. Beck...
...The distinction must be clearly understood if well-meaning people are not to continue to go astray...
...Where Liberalism Fails" will be the topic of Rev...
...then, confront the emancipated city employes snd the whole people of the city with s program of progress toward municipal Socialism...
...Bernarr Macfadden will speak on Nov...
...Plans are being laid for carrying on for Socialism in the future...
...These new people have been assigned to branches in practically every part of the ^ity...
...18, G. F. Beck will speak on "We Cudgel the Scapegoats...
...There was the picnic where over a hundred of our members used the facilities offered by Comrades Humphries and Treves at Edgemere, which wound up with a torch-light parade and a gettogether at the Socailist headquarters in In wood...
...Everett Dean Martin will speak on "Plato: The Republic—What Is Justice...
...On Saturday, Nov...
...The comrades in Sunnyside, Flushing and Jamaica got together to rejoice in victory and accomplishment...
...The conference at national headquarters will spend one day discussing experiences of the campaign, with four sessions devoted to the topics, "Creating New Organizations," "Developing Existing Organizations," "Financing Organizers," "Party Failures and Corrective Measures...
...and Second Ave., Sunday evening, Nov...
...But the socially-minded citizen, if he be Intelligent, must know by this time that Tammany's soul-lessness will discredit any progressive experiment that is not conducted under Tammany auspices...
...The vote for Sheriff Al Benson increased 30 per cent, but not enough to withstand the Democratic earthquake...
...From the very start, the number of comrades who were willing to help was encouraging...
...It is now planned to inaugurate a series of county activities, to keep that spirit alive and the beginning will probably come in the form of a Queens County dinner...
...The two Congressional districts in Milwaukee were not carried, and the party won only three Assemblymen...
...13, at 7:45 p. m. The lecture will be followed by discussion...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 20
