N.J. SOCIALISTS IN STATE CONVENTION
N.J. SOCIALISTS IN STATE CONVENTION TP HE largest state convention of the Sodalist Party ever held in New Jersey was held in the Labor Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark, on Sunday, with 172...
...Here is what actually occurred...
...I am a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat but if you will answer this question satisfactory yon will make a deeper-dyed Socialist of me than I have ever been a Democrat...
...Party branchea increased from 30 in 1931 to 59 in 1932 The convention re-elected Mrs...
...A "United Front" The second ballot at Grenoble for the seat in the French Chamber of Deputies rendered vacant by the death of Comrade Mistral took place on November 20th...
...Several requesta of this kind have been received...
...Support of the monthly state paper, the New View, was endorsed...
...By Earl G. Panisse I am a disabled soldier and consider the letter by James Oneal to the Committee Against Prepayment of the Bonus very valuable...
...question Would the Socialist Party (in power) heed the cell of graft...
...Peter Detlefsen of North Arlington state treasurer and chose Eric Ross of Kearny as state secretary...
...Petitions will be circulated at Once to the state legislature to amend the election laws to permit minority parties to have tepresentation on election boards...
...John Martin of...
...Traoafering Ownership I notice in the World Telegram a letter inquiring about the meaning of the word "transfer" in the Socialist Party platform...
...But that of course, will not prevent the Communists from continuing to talk about the "United Front...
...A full eport of this meeting was published in The New Leader by Louis Stanley...
...The report of state secretary Andrew P. Wittel showed an Increase in the presidential vote from 4,300 in 1928 to 48,197 in 1932...
...San Diego, 8,108...
...In the Socialist Party a dishonest man always faces the menace of expulsion and he will either not join or, if he slips In, we nail him if he trlea to do wrong...
...San Joaquin, 1,137...
...He says: "As for example, the occasion when one of our comrades read off a part of the Democratic plank on Unemployment and gave the impression that what he read was alt of it, whereas there was a great deal more, and thus gave the chairman of the council the chance to accuse the Socialist of being dishonest...
...Steps will be taken to secure the cooperation of the American Civil Liberties Union and the minor parties, and delegates pledged themselves to secure 100l000 signers...
...Past and Present...
...I am curious to know the contents of Senate Document 259 of 1920 which you state is hard to get...
...Can a Working Man Save Safely ?'5 Modesto.—Joseph.' d writes that Local Modesto was launched several months ago and already has 45 members...
...I read from the Republican, Democratic and Socialist State platforms their position on that question, merely indicating that the position of the Republican Party is that "industry must be maintained in a healthy and prosperous condition," the Democratic Party merely called for "the creation of a commission to make a scientific study of unemployment," while the Socialist Party made specific demands: the immediate launching of public works, the establishment of additional employment offices, the six-hour day and five-day week, ratification of the child labor amendment, old-age pensions at sixty, state insurance against unemployment, etc...
...Socialist Party Progress Arkansas A mass meeting for the unemployed was held in the county courthouse auditorium at El Dorado by the Socialist Party Unemployment Committee of Union County...
...Newark presided...
...Socialist Musicians Will Meet Monday A meeting will be held Monday night at the Rand School, 7 East 15th Street, of all musicians who are members of or affiliated with the Socialist Party, to form a musicians' section of Rebel Arts...
...Wast Is yoar answer...
...An Inquiry Robert Shosteck, 91t F Street, N.E., Washington, D. C, writes to say that a group of Socialist nature lovers are anxlone to get In touch with frienda of nature with the object of forming an organisation In Washington...
...Applications for charters for branches in Princeton University and in Montclalr were approved...
...Bronx, N. Y. A PERSONAL STATEMENT By David P. Berenberg Permit me to make the following atatement...
...IK, there will be only one hike, leading to AlpineUpper Palisades...
...J. G„ Brooklyn, N. Y. The word means precisely what is meant If the transfer is made by law or in a periou of social revolution, with compensation or not, it will be a transfer of ownership from the exploiters to the masses...
...The reactionary candidate, Colonel Brocard, received 10,466 votes, the Socialist, Martin, 10,399 votes and the Communist Champiglia, 587...
...Sacramento, 978...
...Orange, 1,577...
...Kern, 962...
...Socialists hsve held many offices In this and other countries and it has been extremely rare that one has been guilty f this offense...
...The Socialist local of this city unanimously adopted resolutions condemning as "unwise, unjust and unnecessary" the proposed sales tax "which would place a burden on the poorer classes out of all proportion to their ability to pay . . . and we condemn in particular the temerity oi joha J. Raskob's pre-election proposal to lower the present income and inheritance taxes in the higher brackets while at the same time suggesting the imposition of the sales tax...
...Herman R. Ansell, State Chairman, Thomas Stone and others, spoke with Tomkin at a protest meeting...
...but this should be remembered—graft Is part of a peculiar ayatem of politics In this country and the grafter grafts with the full knowledge of the professional politicians of his party...
...Thomas MacCarthy assures me that I was mistaken when I said I had seen him at Archibald Stevenson's office some years ago...
...Whether there will be compensation one cannot say in advance...
...Virginia ' ~MchnwHid<*-'A united' fsont was presented in Richmond this week by Socialists and Communists, against a capitalist attack on free speech and civil liberty by Mayor J. Fulmer Bright (Democrat...
...There are only a handful of Communists here, but have been engaged in organizing an Unemployed Council and Hunger March section.' The organization, through Abe Tomkin, Communist, secured the city auditorium for a meeting to welcome the southern contingent of the "Hunger Army...
...West Virginia The state convention in Union Labor Temple, Fairmont, Dec...
...NmntiBiffl constitutional changes were made, including the provision for a probationary period of two months for new applicants for membership...
...Ssfn Bernardino, 1,502...
...22 by Dr...
...No compensation was paid slave owners yet the "final price paid exceeded the real value of the slaves, and this does not include the deaths and the hates that followed the Civil War and the destruction of other values in the South...
...I take his word for it and regret that I have caused him any difficulty...
...Herman Epstein, noted musician and composer of the music of "The Revolution," will speak on "Music in the New Social Order...
...3, Emmerich Steinberger calls attention to the need of tact by our comrades in the Central Trades and Labor Council...
...Who was tactless...
...A committee was selected to attend sessions of the state legislature and another committee selected to draft an unemployment Insurance law...
...At the meeting of the council on Oct...
...At that same meeting, following my demand for Waldman's endorsement, James Holland, former President of the N. Y. State Federation of Labor, accused Comrade Waldman of "h ving done all In his power to obstruct the passage of labor's legislation" when he was a member of the State Legislature, and when this accusation was made, several members of the Socialist Party sat there and didn't say boo, leaving it to me alone to rise again . nd show that on the contrary Waldman introduced much legislation that was beneficial to labor...
...17, the Nature Frienda will hold a Winter Frolic and Dance at the Manhattan Lyceum, 66 East 4th St This is an excellent opportunity for comrades to get acquainted with the Nature Friends movement A great program will be presented, including Mildred Tanzer of the Denishswn Dance Group, who will present the Ravel waltz, Mexican hat dance and Negro spirituals...
...A good case can be made for outright confiscation based not only on Socialist grounds but also justified by American bourgeois precedents...
...Tel.: Topping 2-2366...
...Public opinion was mobilized, the press came acro.<s for Jeffersonian democracy, and the newspapers published the Socialist resolutions...
...I have circulated it among ex-service men...
...J. Auslandar on "Health Problems of the Workers...
...It refers to the "transfer" of the Industries and natural resources from privste to social ownership, snd the writer asks whether Socialists propose to compensste the "robbers" who have possession...
...3-4, was an immense success...
...Kid Taylor with his Negro band will play modern dance music...
...Sunday Hike Sunday, Dec...
...Margaret Larkin, author of the book "Singing Cowboy," will sing cowboy songs, accompanied on the guitar, and she will explain their social background, for many of them have become I.W.W...
...We may in a few weeka make a digest of the Msnley pamphlet for the use of our readers...
...This he did privately, indicating at the s me time that I was there as a delegate of a union and not as a representative of the Socialist Party and therefore had no right to demand the endorsement of the Socialist ticket Let me point out a case of tactlessness...
...California San Francisco,—Speakers scheduled on the December program of tha San Francisco local are Fred Rivers on "Cooperative Movements in the Bay Region": Joseph A. Murphy on "The L W. W...
...21, at 8 p. m., by L. Lozowick on "Development of Art" Manhattan Section, which meets Thursday nights In the Labor Temple, 248 Eaat 84th St., will have a lecture on Dee...
...Los Angeles County leads in the size of vote .-si*!, ¦ 27,518, followed,, by Alameda, 6,598...
...and the sale of dues stamps at 14c...
...On that basis I demanded the endorsement of the Socialist Party, Its platform and ticket...
...congressional candidates in 13 out of 14 districts in the state received 16,934 votes as compared with 3,979 in 1930...
...San Mateo, 982...
...Hundreds of millions of values in Negro slaves were also confiscated in the Civil War...
...a provision for a state labor committee...
...The resolution also congratulated "the American Federation of labor upon its acceptance of two important planks in the Socialist platform by demanding a 5-day 6-hour work week and by declaring in favor of compulsory unemployment insurance...
...However, it is possible that an individual Socialist holding office in the future may prqve dishonest...
...M. Mulborn, "A Municipal Bank and Housing Program for San Francisco," tnd Austin Lewis, who will pose the question...
...Contra Costa, 811...
...Sam Sandberg, who served as state secretary during the past campaign, left last week for Washington to participate in the Hunger March...
...Otto Fredericksen, fraternal delegate from Commonwealth College, and Edwin Gore, delegate from the Polk County Holiday Association, are in Washington with the protesting farmers...
...TiiE CENTRAL TRADES COUNCIL By Herman Waskow In his article on "How the Nonpartisan Policy Works," issue of Dec...
...However, It Is obvious that, had the slave owners been paid for their slaves, the destruction of slave property would have been accomplished at a smaller cost than the actual cost of the Civil War...
...Because I didn't read all of the Republican and Democratic blah, I waa then severely taken to task by Comrade Steinberger...
...The convention voted to form Unemployment Councils throughout the state...
...and the vote for U. S. Senator increased from 4,615 in 1930 to 1J,060 this year...
...23, 1930, I demanded the endorsement of Louis Waldnvan for Governor and the whole Socialist ticket...
...Newport News...
...Santa Clara, 1,377...
...Fresno, 1,211...
...Delegates from every section of the state were present...
...All musicians are Invited to attend...
...The maintenance of the perfectly hopeless candidature of the Communist hss thus once again helped a reactionary of the worst type to victory...
...I stated at that meeting that 11« test of lubor's allegi e should be the attitude of the political parties towards the unemployment problem...
...Dance and Frolic of The Nature Friends Saturday night, Dec...
...and furthermore we invite labor as a whole to hereafter vote the Spcialist ticket rather than depend on force to secure, from government and industry, the adoption of these and all other measures which the American Federation of Labor embodied in its 18 demands, most of which were ignored in the recent campaign...
...The accomplishments of unemployed councils all over the country were reported and organization argadi The El Dorado local seems bent on rivaling the accomplishments of the Old Potter local, which is functioning militanlly in the hills of Polk County...
...In the American Revolution much landed property, colonial residences and slaves were confiscated from the Tories...
...assembly candidates in 11 out of 21 counties received 18,336 votes ss compsred with 5,614 in 1931...
...In the city elections, March 29, the El Dorado socialists expect to contest for aldermanic seats and also may have a candidate for mayor...
...SENATE DOCUMENT 25...
...New York City...
...SOCIALISTS IN STATE CONVENTION TP HE largest state convention of the Sodalist Party ever held in New Jersey was held in the Labor Lyceum, 190 Belmont Ave., Newark, on Sunday, with 172 delegates from 59 party branches present...
...The members are working for 1000 members by spring...
...songs...
...Socialism and Graft I have read with much interest tha late issues of The New Leader and a doubt arisen in my mind...
...David George, State Secretary, issued a statement assailing the Mayor as a would-be czar...
...Would like for you to get me one or state its contents...
...Brooklyn Section, which has Its meetings in Queens County Labor Lyceum, 785 Forest Ave., will have a lecture on Wednesday, Dec...
...Buffalo, N. Y. It is practically Impossible to obtain this document The material we quoted was from a pamphlet based upon tha contenta of this document and written by Basil Manley...
...At all lectures free admission...
...The Socialist Party is controlled by Its members who do not hesitate to expel a member for conduct that disgraces his membership, whether he holds a public office or not In the capitalist parties there is no popular membership control and for that reason the grafter can ply his trade unmolested...
...The reactionary candidate was therefore elected by a majority of 67 votes...
...Sah Francisco, 5,802...
...Meet at Van Cortland Park station at 8 a. m. Fare, 80c Leader: Walter Schumann...
...William Robinson of Plainfield was secretary of the convention and Edward L. Klump of Irvington, assistant secretary...
...Socialists csn stress the justification of confiscation and yet not insist on it under any and all circumstances...
...Tickets will be 38c in advance through Ruth Matthes, 1381 Franklin Ave., New York...
...J. B. Orr, Camp Baldy, CaL The evil of graft Is a conspicuous by-product of American capitalist politics...
...The Mayor revoked the permit, and, upon Tomkin's'approaching him with a protest resolution, ordered him arrested as a vagrant I Immediately the Socialist Local swung into line...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 25
