The Vote Will Reach 850.000
The Vote Will Reach 850.000 gHIATED official returns from various states indicate a national vote for the Thomas-Maurer ticket that will certainly reach 850,000, and that will in all...
...Of the remaining draught animals twothirds are undernourished and because they still supply four-fifths of the power on the farms the effect on agriculture is very grave...
...It is certain, however, that the vote was far greater than that officially reported...
...The dispatches of Walter Duranty of the New York Times from Moscow show that these conditions have become very grave in recent weeks...
...But it is a good, substantial vote, and it is a challenge to the Economic Situation in Russia Causing Acute Apprehension T H E economic situation in Russia is causing apprehension...
...In ten small towns in the county, where the highest previous vote was 23, the vote this year was 383 In Massachusetts, Alfred Baker Lewis, candidate for Governor, got 24,503 votes...
...The S.L.P...
...The Communist vote is well under 100,000, and the S. L. P has virtually vanished...
...An expected, New York showed up best, and again as expected, the official tribulation showed a vote substantially larger than that reported by Tammany canvassing boards Election night...
...The vote for Thomas in the county wss 15,988, to 61 for Foster and 4 for the S.L.P...
...without due reason and depriving him of hia food and goods ration book and his living quartersIf they ara provided by the factory where he works...
...The party never polled more than 165 votes there, or st least, there were never more tb,an that number recorded...
...Mayor, 249,887 (248,126...
...they also were written in by voters determined not to permit themselves to be disfranchised...
...Newspaper correspondents are subject to the censorship and Duranty's stories indicate that the Soviet leaders are willing that the various phases of the crisis shall be known to the outside world...
...monkey" trial of 1925...
...The fall of world prices also forced the Soviet Union to increase the exportation of foodstuffs to obtain needed materials, while the Japanese war threat made necessary the stocking of a reserve for any war emergency...
...Official Canvass The New York vote, as officially canvass.'d, is shown herewith, with the vote as rtported Election night in parentheses: President, 122,565 (120,486...
...Socialists who knew the task before the party realized the difficulty of reaching a large section of the population with the Socialist message, let alone leaving sufficient organization to capitalize the good impression left by the fine meetings and the splendid personality and campaign speeches of our Presidential candidate, and did not expect too much...
...The Soviet press places the blame on the kulaks in the villages and speculators in the towns, to mismanagement ^ and sabotage, shirkers and floaters among the workers who "flit from factory to factory collecting food and clothing tickets and dislocating labor discipline with no return in honest toil...
...In 1928 Thomas polled 2,560 In the entire county...
...Underfeeding and overstrain, as well as "inefficiency, duplication, bureaucracy," according to Fischer, were evident on all sides, although he believed that the Russians were accomplishing more than ever before...
...Crops are far below 1931 and the live stock has declined more than 50 per cent from five years ago...
...Scopes for Congress In Kentucky Thomas polled 3,863, snd John Thomas Scopes, C S n d i d a t e for Congressman at large, received 8,273...
...The table shows a vote of 82 for the Presidential ticket in South Carolina...
...The vote in rural Onondaga County outside t In' city Is larger than ever before...
...He declared that "we have not carried out the task as regards increasing the productivity of labor in industry" and the harvest yield was equally disappointing...
...Not on the Ballot The ticket was not on the ballot in five states, due to stupid election laws or reactionary interpretations of the law by higher courts...
...It is interesting t< note that in almost every case the official vote Is considerably highe than the unofficial report printed in this newspaper immediately aftei election...
...The accompanying table shows 844,200 votes for Thomas in 47 states—including the written-in votes of Oklahoma, Louisiana, Florida and Idaho—as compared to 267,420 in 1028 U P I 910,709 for Debs in 1920...
...Comrade Thomas told us also that it ]• a matter of common repute that even Republicans are terrorized, shamed or otherwise prevented from voting, and he told of the boast to him of a South Carolinian in 1028 who admitted that Hoover would carry North Carolina but proclaimed that no one would dare ask for Republican ballots in the Cavalier State...
...Duranty gives examples of how red tape delays the transport of necessities, also resulting in spoiling perishable commodities...
...And the r e sults are showing in organization...
...received 770 votes...
...The Anal returns will show that the vote increased almost in direct proportion to organisation snd intelligent appeal to the working class...
...In Idaho, Florida, Nevada A N D Louisiana a few hundred votes were counted...
...4,351 South Carolina ' 28 47 28 ?outh Dakota M46 443 ----ennessee 1.785 631 2,268 T ' " . 722 8,121 Utah / . " M I L " " " 4,087 054 3,159 Vermont" 1.533...
...In 1931 Norman Thomas polled 48,461 votes for Manhattan Rorough President (or at least, that was the vote credited to him) in n total one-fifth smaller...
...There are heavy penalties for this offense but hungry workers are willing to take a chance, although such thefts reduce the social stock available for . the masses as a whole...
...And everywhere the vote is solid and is accompanied by organization of the right kind...
...Scopes Is the hero of the tragi-comedy of the Dayton (Tcnn...
...The Duranty dispatches state that all Russia is now suffering a shortage of food and that supplies are dwindling...
...Due to the food shortage another evil has sprung up, the pillage of food shipments by hungry workers either at local freight stations or in cooperative warehouses...
...Herewith are given the state totals thus far officially reported with the Presidential vote for 1928 and 1920 given for comparison STATE 1932 1928 1920 Alabama 2,030 460 2,369 Arizona 2,618 222 Arkansas 1,269 429 5,111 California 56.576 19,595 64,076 Colorado 9,707 3,472 8,046 Connecticut 20,439 3,014 10,350 Delaware 1,503 329 988 Florida 879 4,030 6,189 Georgia 461 124 415 Idaho 618 1,308 38 Illinois 67,258 19,1.18 74,717 Indiana' 19,344 3,871 24,703 I 0 w a 12,719 2,910 16,98, K a n s a s ' ! " " " " ! " - 18.276 6,205 15r 'i Kentucky 3,853 ^ 837 6,409 Louisiana 400 Maine 1.843 1,068 2,214 Maryland 10,489 1,701 8,876 Massachusetts 34,305 6,260 32,269 Michigan 39,325 3.516 28,947 Minnesota 25,476 6,774 56,106 Mississippi 683 1,639 Missouri 13,301 8.739 20,242 Montana 7.896 l.Cfl" Nebraska — 9,876 3,434 0,600 Nevada - 1,864 New Hampshire « 947 455 1,234 New Jersey 43,257 4,897 27,385 New Mexico . 1,610 New York 176,045 107,332 203,201 North Carolina 5,599 446 North Pakota 1.855 342 8,282 Ohio * .64,091 8,083 67,147 Oklahoma"" 17,896 3,924 25,726 Oreiron...
...Writing in June from Moscow/ Louis Fischer in an article in "The Nation" of July 22 wrote that while nobody starves the entire country suffers from "insufficient food, from the poor quality of food, and from lack of variety" and that food takes all the money...
...In this issue of The New leader is a table of the vote as officially reported to date, compared with the vote for 1928 and the record Debs vote of 1920...
...ote thus far tabulated shows a total of 844,200 for the ThomasMaurer ticket, and in the states reporting close to 10,000 precincts missing...
...The tangled Farmer-Labor situation makes it impossible to estimate a state vote, but it is reported that F. H. Shoemaker, elected to Congress B S a Farmer Labor ite with 817,100 votes, Is a Socialist party member and was named for Congressmanst-large as a Socialist The official count of votes In Berks County, Pa...
...Texas has no't yet reported, and the vote is incomplete in New York, California, Michigan and other important states...
...while in the same year Ilill<|uit polled 22,380 votes in Manhattan and 34,783 in the Bronx for Supreme Court...
...Despite the widespread talk of a Socialist vote running into the millions no responsible Socialist made any predictions of the size of the vote...
...In Minnesota Thomas polled 25,478, to 6,101 for Foster...
...For example, Morris Hillquit is credited with 40,011 votes in Manhattan and 68,980 in the Bronx...
...And yet in Oklahoma 17,896 voters wrote in the names of Thomas and Maurer, despite the outrageous decision virtually outlawing alt but the two eapitaUat partial...
...The votes show it...
...An example of peasant resistance la quoted from an editorial In "Economic Life" of Moscow: "On scores and hundreds of collective farms of the North Cancasus part of the harvest la ""reaped, and grain haa bean left i to rot In the fields " Because of the food shortage the labor turnover in industry amounts to 100 to 200 per cent annually, according to "Pravda...
...14,538 2.720 9,801 Pennsylvania 65,638 18,647 70,021 Rhode Island . 2,306...
...Pennsylvania stands at the very top of the list of states, with the heaviest increases and the most solid vote for the entire ticket from top to bottom...
...If necessary they will import foodstuffs either on credit or by drawing on the Soviet gold reserve...
...It is not the vote some of our enthusiasts claimed, nor is it what the party had a right to hope for...
...U. S. Senator, 111,025 (100,883...
...Norman Thomas himself took care never to make a definite prediction of the vote, either in public or in private, and The New Leader preferred to err on the side of moderation than to claim too much at first, and then be obliged to let down Socialist enthusiasm...
...One measure adopted la a decree that permits the dismissal of a worker for one day's absence in a month from his job...
...The reason for the poor showing is •that all voters mue/ go out of their way to ask for ballots of the party they want to vote for...
...Duranty endeavors to explain "why a country where food was plentiful five years ago is now so short pf food, despite favorable climatic conditions during the Whole harvest period with few exceptions...
...And there is also no way of telling how many hundreds of thousands of voters friendly to Socialism were disfranchised for inability to pay a poll tax...
...In county after county and town after town the party hung up records far above its highest previous vote...
...We have not carried out," he added, "and day by day we realize our failure to carry out our task with regard to transport, especially on the railways...
...It is impossible to estimate the missing Texas vote, nor is it possible to determine what the complete vote will be in New York, California, Colorado and other stules that ii•port with thousands of voting districts missing...
...The big vote is by no means confined to a few centers, but is spread over the whole atste...
...Chief Justice Court of Appeals, 152,020 (150,315...
...It is not likely that there is a heavy Socialist sentiment in that unreconstructed commonwealth, but it is likewise certain that there should be a vote of several thousand...
...The Vote Will Reach 850.000 gHIATED official returns from various states indicate a national vote for the Thomas-Maurer ticket that will certainly reach 850,000, and that will in all probability exceed that figure...
...The year 1931 was considered the decisive year in economic planning by the Soviet leaders, but the new year brought the report of Premier Molotov in February which expressed dissatisfaction with results...
...While the situation is serious, Duranty writes that the Soviet leaders believe that they can cope with it and that they do not intend to make any important change in policy...
...No one in his right mind will believe that the reported figures have more than the remotest relation to the actual vote cast...
...It is safe to claim that from 50,000 to 75,000 votes—possibly many more—were lost to the Socialist Party because of the disfranchisement of Socialist voters in those five states...
...Here's hoping that your list ef subscribers will continue to grow," writes Geerge F. Comings, Wis., BS he sends la *.»• new nebs...
...Norman Thomas has told us of a man who found no Socialist ballots at the polls and who tore a printed list of Socialist electors out of a newspaper and compelled the board to accept it as a vote, according to an obscure provision of the election laws...
...The New Jersey vote was a revelation...
...everywhere it la made hard for Socialists to vote, and every Socialist voter is compelled to overcome considerable inertia—or worse—before his vote is cast...
...Hia answer is the rapid collectivisation of the peasants who are opposed to i t In retaliation t h e food stock declined as the peasants killed their live stock and refused to produce foodstuffs above their own needs...
...2,382 250 807 Washington ^ . - 20.574 ' • 2,616 : , 8,913 West S n i a . , §.382 1.313 , 5,618 Wisconsin • *2,2O0 18,213 85,041 w f f i F ; : : : : r : : _™ T p U | 844,200 267,420 919,799 I INCREASES SHOWN IN EVERY STATE OCPPLEMKNTING the table of votes by states, detailed votes from various parts of the country show healthy and substantial increases in the Socialist strength...
...As a result, Duranty states that "there is no talk in Moscow today of a mightier second plan" but the leaders hope to hold the gains made in Industry and other fields...
...The vote In Syracuse (Incomplete) is 4,050, as compared to 1,719 for Waldman in 1930...
...the Republicans usually cast from 1,000 to 2,500 In the entire state...
...Reading), confirm the remarkable Socialist gains...
...VirgtahV...
...Any important change of polfcy, he believes, will come only if the working masses and peasants "fall to respond to the stimuli now being applied...
...Official Returns Show Close to 850,000 Votes The official election returns are being slowly compiled and re ported by the several official boards of canvassers...
...Lieut...
...Systematic Disfranchisement What happens on a systematic basis there happens to a considerable degree everywhere...
...Socialists have every reason to be satisfied with the party's showing, when all circumstances are taken into consideration...
...Florida has always had a good Socialist vote, and Idaho would have been good for 10,000 to 15,000 if the ticket had been on the ballot...
...All of which is confirmed by Duranty, but it is his opinion that these defects are due to red tape, bureaucracy and rapid collectivization of hostile peasants, while the Soviet press contends that there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the system...
...Oovernor, 169,523...
...The remaining vote for all offices varied from 17,000 to 19,000...
...the scandal in reporting the written-in vote for McKee as 97,000 LESS than the vote actually canvassed has placed every single election figure reported in New York under a cloud...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 23
