Socialist Party Progress
Socialist Party Progress Utah Salt Lake City.—The local has adopted a memorial resolution on the death of Charles Thomas Stoney, a comrade who gave many years of service to the Socialist...
...The new branch in this j district has elected the following officers: Ixiuis Present, chairman...
...Make your reservations at once and mail check or money order to G. August Gerber, 7 East 15th St., New York City...
...Prog-am will he games, dancing, sports and refreshments...
...When the executive committee was formed, the members who had represented the old Federation refused to run...
...This data will be presented, in chart form, to Waterbury consumers at a public meeting...
...approves the decision of the N. K.C...
...Camp Eden is located high on a mountainside overlooking the Hudson River...
...Neil, Financial Secretary, and Myer Zucker, executive board member...
...The Committee met at Peoples House, New York, on Friday evening of this week...
...Instead of a federation of central oiganizations which could cooperate in working for goals commonly accepted, the Communist group and its Muste-ite catspaws set up a constitution based on geographical location only...
...A. Sweden, Treasurer...
...In cities where more than one central organisation exists, no notice would be taken of differences in philosophy and program, but a city or county central committee would incorporate neighborhood groups Of all types...
...A pending motion for a new trial for Herndon will be argued late this month...
...Branch organizers must get in touch with the city office at once and send Organizer Claessens a list of corners, dates, etc...
...of New I York City...
...The Continental Congress report of Louis Waldman, New York State convenor appointed by the Congress, was the principal matter considered...
...People's House...
...national execu tive committee held in Washington, D C, and Dancis was elected | to the vacancy The action haa been ratified by the national exec-utive committee of the Socialist party, which employs the Yipsel j secretary...
...Four breaches of Socialist dis-rip me were charged against Smer-' kin, according to Julius Umansky, j Yipsel national chairman...
...circles on the Mooney Congress after he had been suspended as national secretary...
...Thanks to cooperation of 8th A. D. Branch, the new committee organized a series of ten lectures at headquarters, 144 Second Ave., attendances ranging from 25 to over 100...
...Indiana A Socialist state conference vas held in Indianapolis on Sunday, May 21...
...Is there an iron law of wages...
...s-Tbe Crisis and the Universal Demand for Action—What Remedies Do We Propose...
...Crises...
...Philadelphia...
...Auditorium of the Mohegan Colony, Friday evening, May 26, on 'What Socialism Is and Is Not...
...LOCAL NEW YORK CITY Is arranging a two-day outing and conference at Camp Eden at Cold Spring on the Hudson...
...Pennsylvania Pottstown.—Farmers who hailed a mortgage foreclosure in Ducks County, auto mechanics, tinsmiths anil hosiery workers will on June 1 enact the rebol drama, "Can You Hear Their Voices," in Moose Hall They are the Hoe and Hammer I layers whose first plav excited possibilities of a working class culture The play, written bv Hallie Flanagan and Mary Kllen Clifford of the Experimental Theatre of Vassal College, Is based on the uprising of the farmers of England, Ark., who in 1031 marched upon the town and helped themselves to food...
...The charges were deliberate refusal to abide by the decision of the Cook County Socialist party as to participation in non-Socialist May Day demonstrations, attendance at the Mooney Congress April 80 under fraudulent credentials, making a public address at the Mooney Congress as national secretary without authorization or knowledge of the Yipsel national executive committee and in direct violation of its ruling, and the dispatching of an unauthorized letter to YPSL...
...Peekskill.—Charles Solomon will speak in the third lecture of the course in the Schoo...
...3 minimum rate without transportation...
...Must unemployment always be with us...
...Semi-monthly business meeting at headquarters, Thursday, May Jobless Federation Split By "Left Wwxf Wreckers CHICAGO -The Federation of Unemployed Workers' Leagues of America, brought into existence last November to provide an organisation through which the jobless workers of the country could Coo|>erate on a national program, has gone on the rocks...
...Organization of a Class in Social-I ism will take place on Friday, June 2, under the leadership of Andrew P. Wittel...
...New officers elected: A. G. Alexeeff, Secretary...
...This information must be in the party office no later than Tuesday of each week as the schedule is always made up a week in advance...
...Ixila Odell, Corresponding Secretary...
...Leon Rosser Land will participate...
...An interesting program is being arranged and printed announcements will soon be sent to all branches...
...4—'The Unrest of the Youth—How Can We Appeal to them...
...Paul Porter of the L I, D. is now county organizer...
...and St...
...Stamford...
...Waahingtoa Height* < io4« Broadway).—First auto ride and picnic Sunday, June 8, to Lake at Harmon, N. Y. Charge $1 for transportation both ways...
...In its place has risen a new organization...
...It has the most beautiful location and grounds of any camp in the East and is owned and managed by Socialists...
...On Saturday evening an entertainment, social and dance will be arranged...
...MANHATTAN 13th A. D. will open it* outdoor campaign Thursday, Jane 1, a* 31st St...
...New Jersey | Passaic— Noah C. A Walter will speak for Passaic Branch One ! Friday evening, May 26, at 685 I Main Ave., on "A United Front...
...S a t u rday and Sunday, June 17 and 18...
...After business meeting, Tyrell Wilson will speak...
...Upper West Side (100 West 72nd St...
...BRONX 1st A. D. (262 Cypress Ave...
...5th District—The new 5th District Club meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday nights in its club rooms at State and Lesbia Sts...
...and 2nd Ave., by Albert Weis-bord from May 31st and August 1st...
...NEW YORK CITY CITY CENTRAL COMMITTEE...
...Local Philadelphia will call a conference of labor and unemployed organizations to demand socialized medical service and will also participate in the Mooney united front committee unless N. E. C. negotiations with the Communist Party on specific issues fail...
...All j charges were admitted by Smer-kin...
...Uie play is under the direction of the Pottstown local of the party...
...A course "Das Kapital" will be given at the Labor Temple, 14th St...
...Workers' Committee Out Election of officers found Karl Borders, retiring chairman, declining nomination.' Robert E. Asher, retiring secretary, likewise declined...
...Danbury.—Well attended meet ings are held each Friday night at V. F. W. Hall, 268 Main St...
...Will appear next week...
...4th A. D. (126 Delaneey St...
...The Communist-controlled Unemployed Councils were not invited, but applied and were accepted as delegates...
...Russian Branch...
...The symposiums for the two dsys will be on the following topics: I—"New Tendencies in the Trade Union Movement snd Their Lesson for the SeetaHm Party...
...Herndon was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in the chain gang on a charge of "attempting to incite insurrection," based on the fact that he organized blacks and whites together in a local Unemployment Council...
...Unemployed League meeting every Tuesday at Y.M.H.A...
...Bach discussion will be led by a prominent speaker and the symposium will be opened by a number of comrades well informed on the subject, after which there will be a general discussion...
...159th St...
...Nyack.—The next educational meeting will be held Thursday, June 1, at 8 p. m. in the home of John B. Karrell, Haverstraw Road, New City...
...New York State State Executive Committee...
...Following the address he was the guest at a luncheon at the Park Hotel given by the Lycoming County Socialist Party...
...Plans being discussed for open-air meetings in Russian, also in cooperation with the 8th A. D. Branch...
...in appointing a committee for the purpose of studying the possibilities of united front activities with the Communist Party...
...Thu Chicago Workers' Committee on Unemployment voted unanimously to remain out of the Federation, Appeal Herndon Case An appeal will be taken shortly In the Georgia Supreme Court against the conviction of Angelo Herndon, 19-year-old Negro, who received tho longest sentence imposed since the war for political activity involving mere opinions, the American Civil Liberties Union announces in a new pamphlet entitled "Twenty Years for Free Speech...
...H vw are the workers exploited...
...G?orge Smerkin, formerly national secretary, was removed by j unanimous vote at a special meeting of the YPSL...
...will be the topic of the debate between Hugh Cembrook and Thomas Wright in the Pythian Temple, Sunday at 8 under the auspices of the lngersoll Forum...
...Winston Dancis YPSL...
...BROOKLYN Downtown (122 Pierrepont St...
...Meeting of Propaganda and Membership committee Thursday, June 1, at 160 Claremont Ave...
...This arrangement was enforced for tho benefit of the wreckers by a provision that "united front" action could be proposed by any local group to any other unit, and that if the proposal for united action was turned down, pressure could be brought to bear on the declining body by public criticism, or even by criticism of visiting representatives of the first group in the meetings of the second...
...The topic is, "Class Struggle, Pro and Con," A. Batton and T. W. Davis leading the discussion...
...Interesting meetings are being held...
...Ohio Cleveland.—The 26th Ward Br...
...Connecticut i Bridgeport.—The fifth District branch charter has been revoked 'and the action has been approved by the state executive committee...
...every Wednesday night...
...LECTURE NOTES "Is the Nordic Race Superior...
...Street Corner Platform s.— Branches requiring the regular else step ladder street corner platform, take notice thst these can be obtained at the city ofhceTf East 15th St, for $6...
...In an official statement the com-: mittoe declares that branch mem-j hers aired their grievances in the j capitalist press and incorporated [ the branch as another political I party...
...Socialist Follies" are planned and it is expected that the Bronx Symphony Orchestra and the Flushing Branch Socialist Minstrel Show will also be on the program...
...The Scott shorn Case" will be the subject of a symposium at the Bronx Free Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple, 1591 Boston Road, Sunday evening at 8. Elmer Carter, editor of "Opportunity," Arthur Garfield Hays and Rev...
...and Third Ave...
...Leave headquarters, 4046 Broadway (170th Si I. at 10 a. m. Anyone with car and those desiring reservation communicate with Morris Miller, 569 West 192nd St., Wad...
...J. A. Vil-iatzer...
...Executive Commit, tee meeting Monday, May 29, H 30...
...A smaller group of organi-sationa, led by the Conference for Progressive Labor Action, wished to sabotage the existing organization in order to form a new one which they could dominate...
...The local meets at 53 Spencer Ave...
...National Secretary . i CHICAGO—Winston Dancis of , New York this week assumed the i duiiee of national secretary of the Young People's Socialist League, j Dancis has been city secretary of I the fast growing YPSL...
...Branch meeting Monday, May 29...
...Local Stamford meets each Thursday night at 1 Bank St., Room 409...
...The two elements combined to force through the convention a program Which would ride roughshod over tin- opinions of any groups which taught refuse to accept Communist goals and tactics...
...Nicholas Ave., 8:30...
...WilliamsporL- Norman Thomas addressed a large noon-day audl-enco at the Majestic Theatre, Wednesday, May 17...
...The accommodations snd board are good and there are facilities for swimming, boating, tennis, hiking and other sports...
...delegate to the Central Committee...
...A Mooney mass meeting was held on May 22, and David H. H. Felix, labor attorney, was recently elected by the Continental Congress to assist Clarence Dar-row In the defense of 150 striking Iowa farmers...
...Subjects to be treated are: Can wages rise...
...Rates: $5 for the two days, including bus or auto transportation, from 7 East 15th St...
...His speech was enthusias-1 ticslly received and some criticism ion local labor conditions are already producing results...
...Special meeting to consider unfinished business, Wednesday, May 31, at 8:30...
...Bridgeport, 9th District.—A picnic is to be held at Helmerich's Grove Sunday, June 4. Free transportation will be furnished from the end of the Ox Hill Bus line to the picnic grounds...
...Street Meetings and Outdoor Speakers.—A letter has been sent to every branch organized that all party speakers have been requested to volunteer for outdoor meetings...
...Henry Jager speaks Wednesday, May 31 at Broome and Clinton Sts...
...Frank (irandel is ar ranging a mass meeting of the unemployed to be addressed by Francis Henson of New Haven...
...Irwin Nussbaum elected organized following the resignation of Julius Green...
...I—The Revolt e* the Farads—What Pro-gram Can the SeetaHsltParty Offer to Them...
...Claiming the same name, but Steer-d by the fatuously self-styled "left wing" groups who can cooperate only when they can dominate A delegate convention of unemployed workers' organizations was held in Chicago last week-end...
...Branford...
...Waterbury.—Prank Barringer, a trained electrical engineer, is compiling data showing production costs and selling prices of electrical current in privately and publicly owned plants throughout the country...
...Out of doors Sunday afternoon forums will be resumed in June at Pesner's HobNob in Nanuet...
...Report arrived too late to be printed in full...
...Socialist Party Progress Utah Salt Lake City.—The local has adopted a memorial resolution on the death of Charles Thomas Stoney, a comrade who gave many years of service to the Socialist movement...
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Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 21
