Michigan's Capital City Reports Socialist Growth
Michigan's Capital City Reports Socialist Growth LANSING, Mich.—In thii city, where only a few months ago the Socialist Party was practically unheard of except as a national organization...
...Foster one vote...
...84,641 89,624 28,705 Queens...
...Then we will get the official vote east ia Rhode Island...
...8,198 6,585 4,914 3_______ 196 200 217 4_______ 618 947 552 5_______ . 693 654 451 6_______ 985 1,813 1,168 7...
...A very impressive ceremony was held...
...416 491 691 13------ 188 690 737 14_______ 406 600 603 16_______ 685 689 630 16------- 607 604 641 17_______ 496 886 220 18_______ 444 641 409 19------- 704 865 427 20_______ 282 867 827 21_______ 819 502 429 22------- 945 690 623 23------- 1,698 1,682 1,627 Total---- 18,861 15,083 18,093 Bronm A.D...
...The total In the entire state is expected to reach 10,600, or even more...
...The party received 140 votes in thst wsrd...
...Iglesias was born in Spain 60 years ago...
...1928 1930 1932 1------- 122 494 609 2...
...In many districts, especially ia the coal and iron areas of Kladno, they have representatives in the local government authorities...
...Wednesday, Nov...
...Harry W. Laidler, lecture...
...VOTE IN THE CITY The Communist Party, centering its fire upon the Socialists in New York, and carrying on the most intense propaganda within their power, polled about 24,000 votes in New York City, while the Socialist Labor Party, after its most intensive campaign in thirty years, polled something over 7,000 straight votes...
...ON WEVD - Station WEVD, the Debs Memorial radio station, announces among other features for the forthcoming week the following: Tuesday, Nov...
...Votes from outside the city are scattering, but they show good increases...
...1,304 4,289 3,920 Total____ 8,258 23,117 19,090 King* A.D...
...8,097 7,253 4,301 19_______ 400 045 640 20_______ 889 743 709 21_______ 1,813 2,092 1,027 22...
...The party, which on December 31st 1930, numbered 277,017 members, had 296,507 on December 81st, 1931, and ha* now well passed the 800,000 mark...
...The only Polish SocialDemocratic Deputy in Czechoslovakia is a member of the Czechoslovakian Social-Democratic Parliamentary group, as also are the two Jewish Social-Democrats (Zionists...
...607 409 405 11...
...Although the party was not well enough established to offer a county ticket or a congressional candidate in the sixth district, plans are going forward for the campaign of 1934...
...274 Socialist_________ 11 Prohibitionist____ 4 Industrial_______ 1 Communist______ 1 Panken Polls Big City Vote The highest vote for a Socialist candidate, excepting that for Mayor, was polled for Jacob Panken, as candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals...
...in 1928, 64...
...2,459 11,089 Richmond___ 256 1,296 Total___ 68,055 109,883 COMMUNIST AND SIP...
...The dissolution of the Trotskyist group hss mesnt another step towards the unification of the labor movement in Czechoslovakia...
...1928 1930 1982 1------- 877 408 880 2------ 820 402 220 8------- 418 898 541 4------- 890 896 226 6------- 831 225 227 6...
...In 1928 the Socialists polled 61 per cent of the revolutionary vote In 1982 the Communists and th< S. L. P. slipped to 14 per cent ol the revolutionary vote, the Socialist party receiving 86 per cent...
...MOYLAN, Pa.—The Thomas snd Maurer vote rose from 318 in 1928 to 1,938 in 1982...
...Tributes to his memory as a pioneer organizer were made and his activities in the Socialist, Labor and fraternal movement were remembered and extolled...
...MARYLAND SCORES HEAVY INCREASE IN PARTY VOTE BALTIMORE, Md...
...Several college graduates and students are lining up In the movement, and it Is the prediction of one of the youifger leaders in the movement that within a year the membership will pass the thousand mark, which compares with a hnlfdosen members who hsve been meeting from house to honse during most of the current year...
...11 Democrat _______ 385 Socialist_________ 5 High vote for a Socialist: 18...
...Halpern and other pioneers...
...311 865 412 2...
...10:15, Dr...
...For many years Iglesias was the representative of the American Federation of Labor in Puerto Rico...
...FEIGENBAUM IS LAD) TO REST A LARGE throng of members " of the Socialist Party, Workmen's Circle, Trade Unions and other organisations gathered at Forward Hall Sunday at noon to pay their last respects to the distinguished Socialist pioneer, Benjamin Feigenbaum, who died last week...
...One speaker, Harold McFarland, professor of economics at the University of Michigan, pictured the present depression as the "beginning of the end of the capitalist system...
...The singing of revolutionary songs by the chorus of the Workmen's Circle made a touching and beautiful impression...
...W. Adams, Judge Sup...
...East Vandergrift Borough, for President: Republican...
...Without being given the names of the parties, the students were asked to listen to a summary of the platforms of the various parties...
...Hoover is the Forgotten Man...
...Foster received 444 and the S. L. P. got 849...
...Oswald Garrison Villard...
...candidate, received 451...
...These two had addressed meetings here...
...1928 1980 1932 1...
...What Is happening here is being duplicated throughout Michigan, and there are demand* for new locals la every city and town wher* the party is not yet established...
...761 9U 794 8...
...Those who, by name, sincerely set a cross next to the old party candidates will often discover, if only they consider ideals that without knowing it they are Socialists...
...When the votes were counted It was discovered that a large majority voted for the principles expressed in the platform of—the Socialist Party...
...In the 14th Ward, one ol the two carried by Hoover, Roosevelt might have won If he had drawn 96 votes from Thomas...
...Faced with a fusion of both old parties, he polled 150,815 in the Greater City...
...1,226 2,478 1,783 8...
...In 1926 he waa chosen secretary of the Pan-American Federation of Labor A KANSAS REPORT DODGE CITY, Kas.—Thomas' vote 230...
...In about two week* there will be an official recount of the entire state rote...
...Local organised in July, 1982...
...FOR U. S. SENATOR The following table ihowt the vote for Chariot Solomon, candidate for U. S. Senator fa New York City, at compared with the vote for the Socialist candidate in 1928: County 1928 1932 New York 14,531 16,323 Kings...
...Since the war the Czechoslovakian Social Democratic party has absorbed the following groups: the Czech Social-Democrats (Centralists), the Progressive Socialists (Cooperative Socialists), the Left Social-Democrats, the dissident group of the Communist pari y of 1922, the independent party of the Magyar Social-Democrats, the independent party of the Ruthenian Social-Democrats, and now the Trotskyism, the last of the small party groups...
...8:15 to 8:45, Ilendrik Willem Van Loon, "The Making of Tomorrow...
...Court, 232 votes...
...Manhattan A.D...
...Meetings will be held every Sunday afternoon and a lecture coarse is being planned for next year...
...VOTE FOR GOVERNOR The following table* show the vote for Louis Waldman, Socialist candidate for Governor, by counties and districts for the past three elections...
...717 1,229 704 9------- 789 918 820 10......_ 604 666 883 11......- 681 090 689 12...
...SWEDISH PARTY GAINS STEADILY Following the imposing electoral success of the Swedish SocialDemocratic Party comes a report of substantial increase in membership...
...there was no organization and no votes in any previous election...
...The party had worker* at every voting precinct In the city on election day handing out literature and urging voters at the la*t minute to east their ballots for Norman Thomas and the entire Socialist ticket...
...1,069 4,066 3,981 7...
...Thursday, Nov...
...They are not represented in Parliament, or ia the provincial councils, and at the last Parliamentary elections they mostly voted for the Social-Democrats...
...The Party possesses its own worker*' homes snd in Kladno a printing works...
...81 451 683 Total---- 208 945 1,292 Recapitulation 1928 1930 1932 Manhattan 13,851 15,033 13,093 Bronx...
...2,825 6,989 4,477 17_______ 818 1,024 670 18...
...8,258 23,117 19,096 Brooklyn...
...In the Granite State - DOVER, N. H.—Thomas and Maurer got 16 votes...
...All other county candidates scored gains of from 12,037 to 21,510 over the record vote of 1930...
...High ward vote here: sixty of a total of 664...
...Republican ______ ?706 Democrat________ 1,692 Socialist...
...In Baltimore alone there were 6,835 votes, a gain over 1928 of 620 per cent...
...We did not get on the ballot 4 years ago...
...North Vandergrift Borough, for President: Republican ______ 115 Democrat...
...The Czechoslovakian and German Social-Democratic parties work together in complete and loyal harmony...
...200 Prohibitionist____ « Communist ______ 2 High Socialist vote: Dr...
...450 802 811 8------- 104 176 176 9...
...22nd, 6:15 P. M., Michael Strange, dramatic and poetry readings...
...AI Benson was defeated for reelection as sheriff, but he polled 78,188, a gain of 29,244 over 1980, when he was elected...
...VOTE BY PRINCIPLES At the Junior College in New Rochelle a novel straw vote was taken...
...WISCONSIN REGISTERS . HEAVY INCREASES MILWAUKEE.—While the -Socialist Party lost msny of its elected officials, the actual vote east ahowed heavy gains over the beat ever cast in the past In Milwaukee the following votes were cast: President ____.....— 80,01* (to 48,448 for Hoover) Governor .........„ 41,291 U. S. Senstor_______ 48,911 (to 62,490 for Chappie...
...there had never been mors than 50 there in any past year...
...1,945 2,282 2,167 10...
...Gov._________ 7,414 Mayor...
...24th, 8:80 to 10 P. M., National Negro Forum, directed by Carlton Moss...
...The highest Socialist vote ever east in Baltimore hi th* past was •,272...
...He also founded the Socialist Party in Puerto Rico in 1889...
...23rd, 5:16, The Nation hour...
...A conference of the * Communist "Opposition" Party, the Trotakyiata, took pure in Prague on October 16th and decided on the basis of previous negotiations to join the Czechoslovaks Social-Democratic Party...
...The Communist vote in the city follows: President ___________ 24,018 Mayor______________ 24,222 Governor ___________ 23/192 Lieut Gov._________ 26,881 Chief Justice...
...BENJ...
...TROTSKY PARTY JOINS CZECH SOCIALISTS pRAUUE...
...The election campaign has contributed much to the latter advance, particularly on the countryside...
...A messsge from Morris Hillqo.it was also read...
...vote follows: President ___________ 7,178 Governor __________ 4,793 Lieut...
...The Socialist gains were mainlj at the expense of the Republican party...
...1928 1930 1982 1------- 892 964 1,068 2------- 1,198 4,001 8,363 3_______ 880 2,192 1,620 4------- 1,017 1,969 1,882 5------- 1,182 8,209 1,979 6...
...Then they were requested to vote, according the principles, for Party A, B, etc...
...203 945 1,292 Totsl----- 48,546 86,774 71,628 Rhode Island Gains PROVIDENCE, R. I.—Thomas and Maurer polled 2,300 votes In this state...
...12,016 A MISSOURI VOTE SLATER, Mo.—The vote here was 46...
...25th, 4:15, Women's forum...
...The funersl was an impressive demonstration of the regard and affection of the many comrades and co-workers of our late Comrade Benjamin Feigenbaum...
...673 1,098 676 15_______ 220 187 167 16...
...The hall was crowded to capacity, and a large number of people who were unable to get In gathered outside...
...It can also question the right of the Communist Party to the ownership of the house in Prague Karolinenthal in which the Communist centre, editorial offices and printing works are situated...
...Van Essen, U. S. Senate, 249 votes...
...801 844 750 12_______ 694 676 670 13_______ 867 467 831 14...
...Maryland polled the highest Socialist vote in its history for the Thomas-Maurer ticket...
...A number of eloquent tributes were rendered by Comrades Vladeck, Abraham Cahan, S. Yanofsky, J. S. Baskin, N. Chanin, Algernon Lee, Adolph Held, Joseph Weinberg, and others...
...The Txotskyists have from 6,000 to 10,000 membera and numerous followers...
...The Congressional candidates scored gains of 100 per cent over the highest previous votes In their districts...
...Michigan's Capital City Reports Socialist Growth LANSING, Mich.—In thii city, where only a few months ago the Socialist Party was practically unheard of except as a national organization concentrated in large metropolitan cities, the party was unable during the campaign just closed to obtain halls large enough to hold the crows eager to join the movement Two meetings during the last week of the battle attracted overflow crowds at halls in the north and south sections of the city, and speakers were enthusiastically received as they outlined the Socialist program and assailed the Old political parties...
...Westmoreland Co., Local Vote for President: Vsndergrift Borough, six wards, 8,532 votes...
...1,991 2,884 2,095 23------- 1,226 1,900 1,158 Total____ 24,641 89,524 28,705 Qutent A.D...
...27,805 51,290 Bronx______ 12,914 29,879 Queens...
...1,593 8,155 9,342 Richmond...
...1928 1930 1932 1------- 239 876 1,141 2------- 269 1,061 1,490 8------- 268 1,217 1,633 4_______ 819 2,092 2,282 6—---- 847 1,994 1,719 0------- 171 916 1,077 Total____ 1,598 8,155 9,342 Richmond A.D...
...In 1928, one...
...He emigrated to Cuba in 1889 and left there for Puerto Rico when General Weyler ordered all labor centers closed in 1896...
...17,859 The S.L.P...
...This ia the first time In 12 years that we have had a chance to vote for a Socialist candidate for President in Rhode Island...
...He organized the Free Federation of Workingmen of Puerto Rico, which was chartered in 1901 by the American Federation of Labor...
...Friday, Nov...
...The Socialist campaign in the state waa strictly working class, and the results show it W. Z. Foste r polled 641 votes and Reynolds, the 8. LP...
...The campaign is on...
...832 1,663 628 7...
...Following the services several hundred comrades went out to Mt Carmel cemetery, where the body wss laid to rest beside Meyer London, Max Pgine, Dr...
...Iglesias Will Represent Puerto Rico in Congress SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.— Santiago Iglesias, leader of the Puerto Rican trade union and Socialist movement, was elected Resident Commissioner at Washington by a large majority...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
