Norman Thomas Calls for Big Vote for Solomon and Entire Ticket
Norman Thomas Calls for Big Vote for Solomon and Entire Ticket Accepts Place on the Campaign Committee NORMAN THOMAS, presidential candidate of the Socialist ¦ Party in two campaigns, accepted...
...The Mellonowned Aluminum Company of America took a vote at the New Kensington plant on the question of whether or not the workers preferred a company or a free union...
...14, at 7, and will continue for seven weeks, lie will cover the whole subject...
...Where the Candidates Will Speak CHARLES SOLOMON Monday, Sept...
...Hut we went farther and pointed the way out...
...From every point of view save possibly an immediate and very temporary victory at the polls, the hope of redemption of New York from Tammany and all the forces of special privilege who usually stand behind it lies in the Socialist faith and effective Socialist organization...
...Inevitably the Socialist vote will be one index of the* degree to which the workers in every useful walk of life are •ware1 that only their own intelligent organization, political as well as industrial, can make the elaborate machinery of the New Deal an engine of genuine progress rather than the weapon of the letvile state...
...station, Flushing subway...
...The enthusiasm for the Solomon-for-Mayor campa(gn is developing so enormously (hat all previous plans were discarded by the campaign committee In favor of plans that lead directly to the Garden Rally...
...Solomon to Open Rand School Year jpOK several reasons the Hand School expects its twentyeighth year, opening Septembei 11 th, to be the most successful in its history...
...We are proud of men like Solo-4 mon, Crosswaith and Laidler," lie •aid...
...This year it will offci njore lectures and better lectures than ever before...
...Harry Kritzer, who was in charge of last year's Garden Rally that was the biggest and most enthusiastic Socialist meeting ever held in this country, was placed in charge of the mooting...
...It is highly significant that the incongruous dements which "lake up the Fusion movement— don't forget thn they include such efctraoHinnry 'reformers' as President Harvey of Queens Borough •nd Sam Koenig of Manhattan— mti r.ct'yct been able to work ill •ay program except opposition to Tammany...
...That was all O.K...
...Put he had his idea, and you know how reporters are...
...One course in a social science will be given to any app icant who joined the l'arty between Sept...
...MELLON'SWORKERS WANT REAL UNION PITTSBURGH...
...on Ave ., Bronx...
...J • The formal conditions for eligibility remain as heretofore...
...The growth of the Socialist movement dining tinpast year and the tremendous upswing of the labor movement increase tremendously the demands being made upon it...
...Courses Offered in 1933 The fundamental courses in Socialism and Labor Unionism are much the same as for some years past...
...Lee said rather sternly: "The most important things are not new...
...It, 0 p. m., at Burnside Manor, Iturnside And Hairison Aves., Bronx...
...IIAURY W. I,AIM.Kit Thursday, Sept...
...Crosswaith, the city candidates, Norman Thomas, Louis, and others...
...That way out is not a matter of electing a few good men amid the many incompetents or worse who now are designated for the Fusion, or rather the Republican ticket...
...Union...
...including "Th* Possibility of Plannjng under the Capitalist System," "The Effect of NltA on Hi" D.ppresi ion," and similar topics, Dr...
...Wat program have (be Fusion hit* W the relief'oT the unemployed °f for prop-T lousing which will not antagonize the 're: ¦>, ,.| Ode' r**r"st" they n„lst dene to colli vaie...
...Thcro will be twenty-eight lectures covering the entire field, including a consideration of all the conflicting schools and their various contributions...
...L. I. City (near the Bliss St...
...Saturday, Sept...
...Tim Inrcrn number of applications for free courses asked for by new Party members makes it necessary to define more clearly the offer which brought so many new students into the School last year...
...1, 1932, and Sept...
...Otto Li.than's course "The F isines.x Cycle and the Capitalist System...
...crowded in slums and *fly apartments, get so little f the real wealth which they create...
...or other bnnnfidc labor group: will be accepted if they give -<o* (fence i ibal they will ¦ their...
...So he asked: "What will you have that is new besides new paint, new rooms, new lights, and a lot of new students...
...The number will be drastically limited this year...
...Workers' Training Course Prospective .students who desire scholarships in the Workers' Training course have been warned by President Algernon bee to apply immediately...
...1, 1933...
...And Thursday nights, too, will be tilled with stars...
...from imong hem only lb" mo 1 | promising w ill he taken...
...with the reporter...
...Moreover, the vital character of the program which has been announced and the improvements and enlargements of the physical equipment of the School insure a greatly increased attendance...
...1 [Airy Fruehlcr, I [Joseph Tuvim, and other labor| I i.....i...
...The year will be ushered in with a house-warming...
...The services will be held at the monument erected by Ihe union nia'kmg his grave at tin Mont'cfiorc Cenie1 t. IV...
...He will be followed on succeeding Thursdays by a line-up of real experts on the various phases of our national and international life...
...Even if the average of these designations from aldermen to Board of Estimate were higher than it is, it would not be enough to turn them adrift with no other mandate than to 'soak Tammany.' What is required is effective organization behind a plan inspired by principle...
...Our chief emphasis will be, as it has been for twenty-seven years, on Socialism, Economics, Labor Unionism...
...Morris Ilillquit, National Chairman of the party, is chairman of the committee and Meyer (J ill is is treasurer...
...In accepting the viee-chairmanehip of the campaign committee Thomas made public a letter defining the issues of the campaign...
...hi I liliea Ave., Brooklyn...
...training'' in It • inle e I of the Working eta...
...These things it will be our supreme task to further...
...at 'the i•.•!•<• me Jfnrrls I'Vin lnne,1 I Secretin ,\, (ff I'nitcd Hebrew Trade •: j ' |)nvid Dillon I..V, I'liC illent of Hie j ' LL.C.W...
...Joseph Jastrow, formerly head of the Department of Psychology at the University of Wisconsin...
...We shall serve the Socialist Party and the labor movement better, but in the old way...
...Secretaries and organizers of branches are asked to bring the program of the School to the attention of members...
...Norman Thomas Calls for Big Vote for Solomon and Entire Ticket Accepts Place on the Campaign Committee NORMAN THOMAS, presidential candidate of the Socialist ¦ Party in two campaigns, accepted membership in the Solomonfor-Mayor campaign committee, and declared that the vole finCharles Solomon for Mayor and his colleagues upon the Socialist ticket "will be one index of the degree to which the workers in every useful walk of life arc aware that only their own intelligent organization, political as well as industrial, can make the elaborate machinery of the New Deal an engine of genuine progress rather than the weapon of the servile Mate...
...f ,i.lie Workmen's Circle, of ihe Youtlg Circle League, of labor ,n- j ion...
...I RANK C, ROStOV A IT W ,. Tuesday, Sept...
...13, I) p. in., Savoy Mansion, 0322 20th Ave., Brooklyn...
...Members of lite Putty of lb' Y.PS.L...
...Wednesday, Sept...
...Otto Nathan, formerly economic adviser to the German Government and recently appointed Profasaor of Economics at Princeton, i'r...
...His series will begin Thursday evening, Sept...
...station, Flushing subway...
...Yet even on the basis of personalities we Socialists challenge comparison man for man between the Fusion ticket and our own...
...August Claessens, whose reputation in thin field is growing, will give seven lectures on Social i'sychology beginning in November, and in January and February will come the all star lecture course called "Psychological Views on American Life...
...Nathan is recognized everywhere as one of the real experts on everything connected with Ihe subject...
...GREAT NIGHTS AT THE RAND SCHOOL TPHE other day a reporter for The New Leader found Algernon Lee iu his fine new office on the second floor of the Rand School and had an idea, lie would write a story on New Things at the Rand School...
...The studen's and friends, especially members of the Socialist Party, are invited to attend, on the evening of Sept...
...It, 9 p. nr., Burnside Manor, Iturnside and Jlai ri...
...I2r9 p, m., at...
...For public utility magnates, landlords, bankers, who arc temporarily discontented wit'i their usual broker, Tammany Hall, and who identify good government with thtap government, or for the workeft who...
...There will be only one speaker, Charles Solomon, our candidate for Mayor...
...The vote on the question, taken on a recent ballot, showed 2805 opposed to a company union and SKI in favor of a company union...
...The course is called "Approaches to Psychology...
...s. Hut Ihe Pfhl o] . a.inot' poi llily a. pept .ill applicant...
...Tiifi I in1, it'd to ;,pi ik...
...II a great Socialist rally...
...Jastrow on Psychology Psychology is so closely lied up ,i,ii|i the major problems dealt with in n Social...
...The chief innovations are in the nature of lecture courses on current social and political problems, among them "Nation, Race and Class," Current Events, and Dr...
...Otto Nathan on "The Business Cycle" One of the most important courses ever given in New York— and one especially asked for by Socialists—is that on "The Business Cycle and the Capitalist System," by Dr...
...There is no reason under the •un why this year will be an exception to the uniform failure of conventional 'good' government as recorded in the history of NewYork to • ake the kind of city which the masses of workers, employed ind unemployed, will find food...
...Thursday, Sept...
...I i-h'tol that I he Rand ScJiooJ Ijnsulway: given it a prominent place...
...11, at 0 p. m., Rand School opening', 10 p. n> , Village Uwtiich, at Greenwich House, 27 Barrow St., N. Y. C. Tuesday, Sept 12, at 0 p. m., Elmhurst-Corona Branch, 4022 • National Ave., Corona, L, 1. (near Alhurlus Ave...
...He finally dug out the fact that the Rand School is offering five or six remarkable lecture courses...
...These lectures will bo given Tuesdays at H:30 p. m., beginning September 12th...
...I f!n . , v ill proceed lit the i em • i.|ry from union headquarters, " 1 \\ i I lllth Street, at t o'cloi.l, n ' Sm 'lay...
...It is of the utmost importance that the Socialist ticket should poll not only its full strength, as that strength has been in the past, bat increase its vote...
...After the address, all will be invited to look over the new People's House—for it is truly a new building with new and beautiful rooms for the accommodation of classes...
...10, at !t p. m., 22.19 Church Ave., Brooklyn...
...Thursday, Sept...
...This vote shows the result of the work of Socialists in^is district...
...Butchers to Hold Silver Memorial The Hebrew Butcher Workers' Union, Local 234, will hold the fifth annual exercises Sunda) in memorial of Harry Silver, who was stabbed and killed while on picket doty mi September Kith, l!i2K...
...It is unsense to say that a municipal lection has nothing to dc with these great issues and that it is solely a matter of 'good government.' Good for what and for whom...
...Thomas' letter follows: "I accept with pleasure the post ot vice-chairman of the Socialist campaign committee for the coming election and shall take as acti 'e apart in the campaign as my other duties and my necessary absences from the city will permit...
...Here and there is a new class, and it is felt that the set-up is more logical and nearly complete than before...
...The meeting will be held at Madison Square Garden Sunday afternoon, November tith, two days before election...
...The campaign will be formally opened at a mass meeting at Town Hall, September 24th...
...4^, - "We have a program based on a philosophy which we are proud to assert, a program which we have insisted can only be carried out as part of a larger program for mankind In the light of our principles and our program long ago we relentlessly attacked Tammany, making the very charges which a large section of the Fusion forces only listened to in adversity...
...On Sept, 21st, at 8:30, Abraham Cahan will open the exciting course on "Current Events" with an address on "The Crisis in European Socialism...
...The campaign will officially open on September 24th with a mass meeting in Town Hall at which the speakers wii1 be Thomas, Solomon, Harry W. Laidler, candidate for Comptroller, Frank Crosswaith, candidate for President of ihe Board of Aldermen, Morris IIillquit, the Parly's mayoralty candidate in last year's special election and Louis Waldman, state chairman...
...We are proud of men like Solomon, Crosswaith, Laidler and their associates...
...Following the action of workers at New Kensington, the company union plan was abandoned at the Mellon compny's plants in Niagara Falls, Buffalo, Massena, N. Y., and Edgewater, N. J. Campaign to Close With Garden Rally T1IK great Socialist municipal campaign of 1933 will close with * a mass meeting and rally at Madison Square Garden, it was decided by the Campaign Committee on Monday...
...14, 0 p. m„ Monroe Court Community Hall, 4313 Carotin St...
...Mondays evenings right through the year a succession of distinguished speakers liko Charles Solomon, Franz Hons and Hendrik Willem Van Loon will discourse on the great questions of the day...
...To fate Tammany or U covet its pDiovr voi enough...
...Speakers will be Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler und Frank It...
...But the greatest novelty in this field is a complete and systematic treatment of the subject by a really great authority, Prof...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 11
