Socialist Party Progress
Socialist Party Progress MICHIGAN Detroit, Br. No. 1, is sponsoring ¦ .lance and card party Saturday • vening at 69 Erskine St. WEST VIRGINIA State Secretary J. P. Higgins is circularising...
...E. L. Harding, 170 Lancaster St., Cohoes, is the acting financial secretary...
...Bufale.—Local Buffalo will hold a business meeting on Thursday, March 88, at Room 19, 18 East Swaa St...
...Peterson.—Party discussion meeting at 66 Washington St., March 18...
...Claessens also speaks Saturday at tbe same place on "Our Social Environment...
...and secure your list...
...367 as Branch 1047 Sunday, Mar...
...Richard L. Johnson, Michael Hell anger, Ira C. Wenti, Carl P. Spaeth and Raymond E. Brothers...
...Oratorical Contest...
...3 West 16th St...
...Kniffln, prominent banking authority of Naseu County, and Vladimir Kazekeviak of the Research Department tt Columbia University...
...A recommendation has been made that it is for the best interest of the county organization to transfer the Mineola membership to the Hempstead branch...
...Assoclat ion with branches of the Workmen's Circle and with bona Ada unions of organised labor is to be encouraged, but the pleas of Communists for unity celebrations with them should be disregarded and ignored...
...Three locals were unable to send delegates but sent assurances of cooperation...
...snd 23rd St...
...The candidates ware nominated by acclamation...
...Cox made several addresses to assemblages of workers, and was enthusiastically received...
...Socialist class Thursday led by Lawrence Rogin...
...Sunday at 3 at 865 Bergenline Ave Rutherford.—Comrade and Mrs...
...Henry J. Cox of Rutherford have just returned from an interesting visit to Puerto 'Rico, where they were guests of honor of prominent officials of the Insular Government While on the island, Mr...
...WEST VIRGINIA State Secretary J. P. Higgins is circularising all locals, urging them to boost The New Leader, •specially emphasising the Robert Kerlin articles that begin this VIRGINIA Richmond, Va^-Iii a three-day session tha Virginia Socialist convention, Feb...
...PENNSYLVANIA Philadelphia will commemorate the Paris Commune, together with the fiftieth anniversary of Karl Marx's death, Friday evening, March 17, at the Labor Institute, 810 Locust St Tableaux and the German Mannerchor will be followed by France* Hartshornc, dancer...
...G. Glynn...
...at home of Comrade Janeway, 241 VViest lOsth St., 8:15 p. in...
...Tha local adopted resolutions urging socialized banking, and denouncing .Fascism in...
...L, Afros will sddress s membership meeting of Branch 315, 315B...
...19th...
...It is our aim to obtain one million signatures...
...August Claeuens will be the speaker...
...Canvasser* are needed...
...19th...
...Concert, March 24th.—Jacob Feuerring, youthful American pianist, will appear at the Debs Auditorium, 7 E. 15th St, Friday evening...
...Elisabeth 41 Roth of Buffalo, members of the State Committee and former candidate for State Comptroller, will speak on "Industrial Democracy" Friday evening, March 24, in the lecture room of the Public Library, auspices Local Dunkirk...
...Most of tha resolutions wars likewise pessed by acclamation...
...Nassau County.— The central committee has constituted a special committee to determine territorial Jurisdiction for each of the branches...
...About SO resolutions elaborated upon tha Socialist platform._ YOUNG CIRCLE LEAGUE NEWS Installation, llie Marxian Young Cinlt Club will be installed l>y Hr...
...Books and material will be furnished...
...Saturday, Mar Uth, at the YCLA Center, the League Oratorical Contest will be.held...
...Discussion oa "Banking Under Socialism...
...Those who want more are urged to get in touch with the city office, 7 E. 15th St...
...Morris Traubman of Newark has been named chairman of a board of trustees in charge...
...The closest veto occurred on a resolution condemning "revolutionary violence In tha United States under present conditions...
...William E. Duffy of Now York, 1932 State Campaign Organiser, will be the principal speaker...
...marm and Chopin...
...Two of them era'members of the faculty of Vassar College...
...Call Mrs...
...NEW JERSEY Newark.—M...
...The Cohoe* local, Albany County, has been reorganised...
...David Fellman, the principal speaker, discussed "Karl Marx in the 20th Century...
...17th...
...Mar...
...Hempstead Forum...
...12th A. D.—Enrollment lists sn ready...
...all reported holding study classes which are well attended, and also increasing their membership...
...The branch has a membership drive In progress...
...Plans for regular meetings and continued activity will be formulated...
...Sunday, Mar...
...Local nominates for School Committee, Council and Aldermen on March 23, and starts open-sir raUies March 25...
...Lawrence County.—Members of the Socialist Club in St Lawrence University, Canton, are endeavoring to organize a local of the party organization, it is reported...
...Passaic—Alter E. Fischhof will speak at a Karl Marx Commemoration Meeting, Friday, March 17, at 8:30, at the Amalgamated Clothing Worker*' Hall, old People's Bank Building, Passaic, under the auspices of Passaic Branch One Friday evening, March 24, G. Herbert Ekin* of Belleville will speak on "The Present Function of the Socialist Movement" On March 8th, the City Council organized an Italian Branch under the guidance of Giralamo Volenti, editor of La Stumpa Libera, and an attempt will be made to organize a Polish Branch Saturday night, March 18, at Maciag's Hall, 40 Third St...
...Herman R. Ansell was re-elected ?tate Chairman and Ira C. Wants lea-Chairman...
...at the City College Auditorium...
...Cohees...
...The stats committee/was altered to provide for a central executive committee of fifteen, elected by the convention, as follows: David G. George, J. Luther Kibier, W. F. Billings, Herman R. Ansell, John B. St ten, John C. Davis, George Cary White, Lucy Hancock, A. J. Royal, Isabel Giles...
...It is imperative that these lists be typed at once because oi numerous meetings being planned and canvassing and organization being undertaken...
...Dunkirk.—Local Dunkirk, organised during the campaign last year, continues to be very much alive...
...Local Casadea, which probably ha* as many irons in the fire at one time as any local in the country, and manages to keep them all hot, has now arranged a weekly broadcast by Frank J. Manning, who will apeak every Saturday at noon from Station WIBG, Glenside, Pa...
...A lease has been signed for new and more spacious quarters at |085 Broad St, Newark...
...Germany...
...26th...
...nd 14th Ave., Brooklyn...
...The important thing now is to secure county home rule, sfter which Sroportional representation would eve e better chance of adoption...
...March 24th...
...The resolution carried by a vote of SO to 14, with several abstentions...
...Several sub-committees wart formed, including an executive sub-committee consisting of Ansell, White, Billings, Giles and George...
...Young Circle Organisation.—J...
...New Rochelle.— An enrolled voters' meeting will be held in New Rochelle en the evening of March 22nd...
...Cox-end two set* of resolution* were handed to Comrade Cos, one from the Federation of Labor and the other from tbe Socialist Party...
...New Britain, preparing for municipal election On April 11...
...George Cany White was elected State Organiser and will give full-time service In bis rsca for Governor...
...42nd St...
...MANHATTAN Grecnwkk Village (52 Watt tkh Street).—Resolution sddptcd at last meeting criticised conduct of last labor conference...
...Dunkirk...
...On the basis of these new lists sn intensive membership drive will soon begin...
...at 2:30, at the Rand School Auditorium, 7 East ISth St...
...to the people, and such an innovation, it is argued, would probably defeat tbe proposition...
...The aubjeet of the month "Literature snd Social Chang...
...Mrs...
...The winner of this contest will dtHver Ms speech over WEVD...
...E. Michael White of the Ck> Affair* Committee addressed * meeting of the Freeport r'orina Wednesday evening at the homt of Minerva Friedman, Freeport, on "The New Proletariat...
...Hart Walker has resigned as county organizer and tha position is filled by E. H. Kaempf of Irvington, who is also organizer for tbe Irvington Branch...
...Unemployment Insurance Petition*.—Every Party branch and all allied organization* now have petitions in circulation...
...at the Boro Parlr Educstional Center...
...Local Poughkeepsie added three more new members to its roster last week...
...N. Y. Nomination Conference.—Candidates for the Senior Central Committee of New York City will be chosen at the Nomination Conference at the YCLA Center, 3 West loth Street, at 1 p. in., Sunday...
...Women's Committ**.—The class in Socialism and Public Speaking with instructors, Esther Friedman and August Claessens, will continue its sessions every Monday afternoon st 2:30...
...West New York.—Walter E. Peek will speak on "Why Starve...
...11th A. D.—Branch meeting os Tuesday, March 21st...
...Canute*.—Tht Y.P.S.L...
...Volunteers can do this work at the city office, at home or elsewhere...
...lvth...
...Mew Vork City Branch Secretaries are urged to scud branch news to the city office no later than Wednesday noon oi each week...
...Lexington Ave...
...Sunday, March 18, at 8:30, Henry J. Roiner on "The Banking Situation," Odd Fellows' Hall, Ellison St CONNECTICUT New Haven,—The Karl Marx anniversary was celebrated by Local New Haven with a symposium on Marx's life and work...
...On their departure, a bouquet of rose* was presented to Mrs...
...Petersen.—The local adopted resolutions to be sent to President Roosevelt urging the socialisation of banking...
...Tuesday evening, March 81, 8:30 o'clock, at Odd Fellows' Hall, South Franklin and Front Streets: A discussion of the present banking crisis between William Tfc...
...This Forum, which is held bi monthly, is sponsored by the Southeast Nassau Branch of the Party...
...and 355 to organize a Young Circle Club Friday...
...30th...
...Bohemian Night.—The Educational Comittee Is sponsoring a Bohemian Night Social at the YCLA Center...
...It was voted to organise a Southeastern Federation of the Party Branches and,Locals along the Cape...
...Volunteers for Typing NeededAll enrollment books oi the five counties are at the city office, and volunteers are needed to begin at once to type some 35,000 names and addresses of enrolled Socialists...
...The Stats Legislature must psss on the hew charter before It Is submitted...
...David George resigned as State Secretary but was unanimously re-elected...
...MASSACHUSETTS James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, will be the principal speaker at a Mara Memorial meeting in Dorchester, Sunday, March 10, at 11 a. m. Tha Eastern Federation of Socialist Clubs met Sunday, March 18, twenty-one delegates being present who- represented eight branches and locals...
...Tompkins County.—To the extraordinary session of Congress: Whereas tha present economic crisis proves, beyond doubt, that our nation's bankers and industrialists are unfit for the responsibilities vested in them, thst they are unfit any longer to be the ruling class In society, and to impose their conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law, and whereas Socialism offers the only orderly alternative to the existing disorder...
...Unemployed League has handled 30 relief case* successfully in the last two weeks...
...The Idea was well received, but It was decided not to Insert such a clause at tha present time...
...Dramatic...
...Herman J. Hahn of Buffalo will be the speaker at a meeting to be held on the evening of March 81st Ponghkeepsie...
...will celebrate their first birthday March 22nd at headquarters, 812 Market Street...
...Another public meeting was held Friday night, with Elisabeth C. Roth of Buffalo as the speaker...
...George Cary White of Petersburg was nominated for Governor, J. Luther Kibier of Newport News for Lieutenant-Governor, and John C. Davis of Norfolk for AttorneyGeneral...
...for the benefit oi the Rand School and the 6th A D. Branch, Manhattan...
...Local Nassau.—Edward Marks and Erie Do Marsh, representing the Public Affairs Committee of Local Nassau, appeared before the Nassau County Village Officials' Association, which is working on a new county chatter, and argued for proportional representation...
...The meeting decided to use The Now Leader and American Guardian mailing lists to canvass for new members snd renewals to the papers...
...Material for organizing a local ha* been supplied by the State Secretary...
...Corning.—Local Coming, Steuben County, is to meet at the Hewitt Studio, 186 Pine St., next Wednesday evening, March 22...
...Ashland 4-9100...
...243 E. 84th St...
...The platform was greeted with enthusiasm and was published In the Richmond press...
...Port Chester.—The Finnish Br...
...Therefore be it resolved that we, the Socialists of Tompkins County, in the State of New York, hereby petition the extraordinary session of the United States Congress to take immediate steps toward the socialisation of the entire banking system as the first logical move toward the socialization of our nation's entire economic structure...
...A special declaration against Fascism was adapted...
...Other resolutions extended greetings to Soviet Russia, to the Socialist governments of Sweden, Denmark and elsewhere and to the German Socialists...
...under joint auspices of the dermis Branches of the Socialist Party, Workers' Gymnastic and Sport Alliance and Workingmeu's Singint Societies, Male Chorus "Egalite" New York State Mar Day.—State Secretary Merrill is advising all locals and branches to take the lead in tha arrangement of May Day demonstrations...
...of Port Chester is to hold a Karl Marx anniversary meeting on Mar...
...Processional" by John Howard Lawson will be this year's presentation of the YCLA Dramatic Studio, to be produced Sunday...
...Fifty-two delegates attended, representing ten branches and the membership at large...
...German Branch—Friday) March 17th, 8 p. m„ Karl Mar\ Memorial meeting at the main hall of the Labor Temple...
...Hi* program will include tbe works of Bach, Brahms, Handel Scarlatti, Schu...
...86-27, nominated a full state ticket, adopted a short flatform proposing a "Four-Year Ian for Virginia * over fifty resolutions dealing with Party policy, tactic* and principles, revised the State Party constitution and adopted a four-year plan tor Party building in harmony with tbe National Party plan...
...The job must be done...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
