Campaign Closes With Great Rallies
Campaign Closes With Great Rallies TPHK Socialist campaign in and * around New York closed Sunday night with the greatest meeting ever held in Brooklyn, with a capacity audience in the...
...Philadelphia...
...Pennsylvania An important victory was won by the Party in Pennsylvania when, on Oct 19, Judge Wm...
...this yean we hope to have twice that number...
...Henceforth, according to Sarah Limbach, State Executive Secretary, the Party will zealously protect the rights of the Socialist electorate...
...Those workers, the most outraged of the capitalist system, need our message of hope and a new inspiration for the immediate future...
...The second part is in all likelihood paid for, but has been given aa collateral for a loan of $355...
...17, Milan Dempster will review the book by Thomas and Blanshard on New York City...
...Julius Gerber and Harry Kritzer, in passing out credit for excellent work well done, realise the impossibility of mentioning every worker by name, but especially deserving of credit yiere the members of the Y.P.S.L., under the leadership of Winston Dancis, and the Young Circle League under the leadership of Jack Afros...
...The party office contributed the invaluable and tireless services of Dora Fassberg, Kate Lapilus, Moselle Fraimen and others, while Ben Kaufman and Jack Altman likewise did yeoman service...
...New Jersey State Committee.—The commit tee will meet Sunday, Nov...
...Garden, Bronx Coliseum and Brooklyn Academy of Music Jammed in Final Meetings—Over 50,000 Attended Thomas' Rallies—Party Newt from All over Country...
...When inquiring whether it was not bordering on moral criminality to deprive him of his furniture after such a large percentage of the bill was paid the creditor replied, "The last $65 is as sweet as the ."ret $65...
...His personal debts for food, clothing and medical services are out of the picture...
...They are becoming the backbone of the Socialist Party In this section of the country, with a virile and revolutionary class-consciousness that surprises the old party members...
...At the Garden there were more than 11,000 paid admissions at 25 cents and one dollar, and in addition the audience contributed $3,750 following Charles Solomon's eloquent plea, a record collection and the more remarkable considering the times...
...and business i* business...
...The Academy meeting was the culmination of a final drive that began with the meeting in Madison Square Garden, one of the greatest political meetings ever held in the cou.itry, and continued with meetings in high schools in the various boroughs, anr1 that reached one of its high points at the meeting in the Bronx Coliseum Sunday afternoon...
...10, "The Meaning of Our Election Campaign," by Morris Green...
...The goodstanding party membership in New York State is two and one-third fold greater than it was in 1928...
...in lots of 100 or more for $3.00, cost of shipping prepaid...
...Girls are working in tobacco factories or laundries and earning from two to four dollars per week...
...There is destitution among 20,000 families, representing one-third of the city's population...
...No one who was at the Garden will ever forget that meeting...
...The number of local organizations has been increased 50 per cent, and upstate membership nearer 100 per cent...
...Cleveland now has twenty branches and five in the process of organisation...
...The efforts are beginning to show signs of success...
...On the other hand, the American Tobacco Company earned last year in net profits $56,000,000, and it* president, Mr...
...One such worker showed me his account where $288 was borrowed, and after paying the interest of $120.96 he still owed the legal extortionists at the end of one year the original sum advanced...
...Campaign Closes With Great Rallies TPHK Socialist campaign in and * around New York closed Sunday night with the greatest meeting ever held in Brooklyn, with a capacity audience in the Academy of Music and with thousands turned away...
...All delegates are urgei to attend Passaic.—lames Oneal editor o The New Leader, will lecture oi "The History of the Socialist Move Et in the United States" Friday . 11, at 8 p in, in the Work's Circle Hall...
...Ths Party will still maintain neighborhood headquarters at 10511 Pasadena Ave., 8467 East 147th St., 4732 Broadway, 6409 St...
...Los Angeles.—The Y.P.S.L...
...Considering the fact that close to 1,000 young men and women worked in various committees, and the fact that all the work was on a volunteer basis, the meeting waa a marvel of organization...
...The worker having been without a job for almost two years converted his kitchen into a bakery and sells bread from door to door...
...The meeting was particularly successful in view of the fact that it was so well managed...
...will hold its third annual banquet on Sunday evening, De 4. This will mark the end of its greatest year of organizational, educational, and propaganda work...
...Campaign Promoted Party Build Ing.—State Secretary Merrill reports that during the campaign 13 new locals and branches have been organized outside New York City, and four inactive locals reorganized...
...It is undoubtedly true that the rally, coming as it did at the psychological moment, five days before the polling, was enormously valuable in crystallising sentiment in the city for a huge Socialist vote...
...50 Howe Ave...
...25, lecture by Samuel 8. White, Bakersfield labor editor...
...Address the State Office of the Socialist Party, 7 East ISth St, New York City...
...Jean Jacques Coronel was a host in himself in selling New Leader subscriptions...
...To open his bakery he purchased sn oven upon which there is due a balance of $300...
...M. Hargest, of the Dauphin County Court, sustained objections to the substituted nomination of Nathan Asbel for State Senator from the 85th Senatorial District in Cambria County...
...Thomas was everywhere greeted with delirious enthusiasm, by tens of thousands of people who came to cheer, to aing and to demonstrate their solidarity with the cause of Socialism...
...This piece of literature is a popular consideration of incentives in a Socialist society as well as an answer to some of the criticisms made of the distribution of occupations and the alleged lack of incentives in such a society...
...With the 19S2 election already history, the Solid South, the nest of the brutal bourgeois Democracy, will discover that its structure resting upon s false psychology, ignorance snd prejudices will rspidly give wsy to a new and inspiring social outlook, s recognition of the rugged class struggle, and s hops for ths near future of a world whero ths useful producers of wealth shall enjoy ths fruits of their labor...
...The unfortunates are also the miserable victims of the small Loan Companies, whose rate of interest is 42% per annum...
...The party was held in honor of the Yipsels, whose fine work enabled the Socialist Party to put on the livest campaign in many years...
...Installment Systems Enslave (Continued from Page Nine) in the capital of Virginia there are no less than twelve thousand totally unemployed and twelve thousand more enjoying the privilege of working two or three days a week...
...There were speeches, entertainment and refreshments...
...Their unorganized cry for help is distressing, yet the city administration, since the first of February of this year, has donated for charitable purposes only $151,000...
...Here is a typical example of what a home consists of for the free-born American worker of the cities of the South...
...The speakers—Thomas, Maurer, Waldman, Hillquit, Crosswaith, Solomon and the others—were in fine fo.m, but the real performers were the cheering and singing members of the vast throng...
...He is the proud possessor of an automobile, an old Ford, not paid for...
...The pamphlet retails for five cents a copy...
...A large and enthusiastic crowd attended...
...The traction company showed a net income of $7,773,000, which is the highest in the course of the past ten years...
...Well over two hundred thousand pieces of Socialist literature were passed out During the spring and summer, two Yipsels made a 7,000-mile tour of California, spreading Socialism among thousands of people who had never heard of it before...
...Then the next day came the fine meetings in various schools, as well as ths Thomas rally outdoors in the 21st Congressional District, and rinally on Sunday the miracle of the Coliseum meeting, and at night, in the driving rain, the vast crowd that stormed the doors of the Academy...
...I had the occasion once to investigate a serious case, where a worker after paying $300 in small installments upon a suite of furniture which cost him $365 was unable to pay the balance and the furniture was repossessed...
...Apparently the first is the recent purchase upon which there is a balance due of $130...
...Newark...
...Thanks Tendered to All Workers for Garden Rally TTHE Madison Square Garden * rally, held Thursday night just before election, was the greatest and moat inspiring Socialist demonstration ever held in the United States...
...A Free Cltisen Adding the figures, ws find s total indebtedness of $796, exclusive of the debt on the Ford car and debts contracted for necessities a family is most urgently in need of...
...At the first of the year there were two circles, now there are six...
...More than 22,000 people were jammed in the vast arena—absolute capacity—and tens of thousands were unable to enter for lack of room...
...At the Coliseum every one of the 10,000 paid a ten cent admission, and the collection was $500, while at the Academy, after 2,000 of the people present had paid 25 cents each, a collection of $335 was taken...
...George Wathington Hill, receive* in salary and bonuses the turn of $1300,000 per year...
...Norma...
...More New Branches Upstate.— The Jugoslavs of Gowanda, Cattaraugus County, and of Little Falls Herkimer County, have organized branches of the Jugoslav Socialist Federation and have been granted charters by the State Executive Committee...
...The court held Asbel's nomination was illegally secured and without the authority of the Socialist locals comprising the district This court proceeding instituted by the State Executive Committee of the Party ia ths first of a series planned to prevent the Socialist electorate from being imposed upon by old party politicians seeking to secure Socialist nominations...
...His suite of furniture ia divided Into two parts...
...Watchers brought reports, and returns from other cities were received...
...California Weekly meetinga at 1141 Market St, 8 p. m., Nov...
...Clair Ave., and the various ward meeting places...
...The small and valiant band of Socialists in this territory are agitating and proselyting among them...
...Laat year wo had over two hundred people at our banquet...
...Asbel had filed substituted nomination papers after the withdrawal of the regular Soialist candidate, Henry Dyson...
...at 105 Springfield Ave...
...Nov...
...Party members and sympathizers were called to attend a rally and party on election night, 9:30 p. m., at the Labor Institute, 810 Locust St...
...meets every Friday evening at above headquarters, and Socialist classes meet Monday evenings...
...13, a 10 a. in...
...New York State Warren Atkinson of Rochester has contributed several thousand copies of his pamphlet, "Pay and Place Under Socialism" to the state office of the party which is also the publisher of the pamphlet...
...Roger Cornell, Herman Volk and Abe Belsky handled difficult assignments well, and the hundreds of ushers, collectors, literature-salesmen and girls and others added their mite...
...Men with families earn seven dollars per week...
...The Y.P.S.L...
...Ohio Cleveland.- The rapid increase in membership and activity has made It necessary for the Party ia Cuyahoga County to open downtown headquarters in Room 402 Prospect - Fourth Building...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 20
