All Out For Town Hall Rally!
All Out For Town Hall Rally! Great Socialist Vote Only Hope for Suffering Masses Hillquit Accept* Chairmanship of City Campaign Committee—Enthusiastic Over Solomon-LaidlerCrosswaith...
...chief speaker, Norman Thomas...
...Mailly or Geo...
...Friday, Oct...
...The platform is fine and the ticket is splendid...
...It will be an indispensible aid to all party workers in campaigning, and it likewise makes fine propaganda material to be sold at all meetings...
...Three Dangers There are three distinct sources of grave and immediate danger for the working class that lurk behind the NRA...
...The Town Hall meeting follows upon the hearings on unemployment problems held two weeks ago when the evidence of the breakdown of relief and of the grinding poverty in which workers of New York City and their families are mired was dramatically presented to a Citizens' Jury, called together by the Workers' Committee on Unemployment...
...The vast majority of the seven million New Yorkers are primarily interested in being fed, clothed and housed...
...In his Labor Day address in Memphis, no less an authority than the general counsel to the National Recovery Administration declared it to be the meaning of the act that "no labor leader has a right to represent a single man unwilling to accept his representation...
...The Right to Strike Another source of real danger is that the NRA will be misused to curtail or abrogate Mie right of workers to strike...
...Jn the landing campaign for the coming election in the great American metropolis it is of the utmost importance, that the Socialists wage a vigorous and relentless fight for the rights and liberties of the workers on a clear-cut and undiluted Socialist ptatiorm...
...For there is no difference between Tammany and Fusion except on externals and petty issues...
...Tho first meeting will be hold Saturday, Sept...
...Passaic, Passaic High School...
...It is of vital importance to the workers in these industries because it protects them against the infamous "company unions" and against fratricidal divisions within their own ranks and the resultant slashing of labor Standards...
...Bronx Theatre Party Bronx County, together with the Upper West Side Branch, plans to run a series of performances of Herman Lieberrnan's new play, "The Nayder," starring Jennie Goldstein, at the Prospect Theatre, Oct...
...22—Trenton, W. C. Hall, Mercer St...
...We Socialists cheerfully admit that there are possibilities for good in the New Deal...
...By Morris Hillquit I ACCEPT with pleasure the >M)st of Chairman of the Socialist ¦ Campaign Committee...
...For further information get in touch with either Jack T. Matlin, 66 Powell St., Brooklyn, or Jack Altman, 7 East 15th St., New York City...
...It is not possible to remove the poisonous fangs of capitalism without hurting the body of the monster...
...chief speaker, Norman Thomas...
...And there are definite indications that the NRA may be officially declared to have just that •feet Already the coal barons, on the advice of their counsel, have jwclared that under the new act an employer may not lawfully contract with a given labor union to employ none but its members" ¦•cause such an agreement would prevent an employee to join a rival union, i. e. 'a labor organization of his own choosing" in the language of the act...
...Saturday, Sept.30—Camden,New Moose Hall...
...Election time is near and the band will be able to give invaluable aid to the campaign...
...The reports were followed by a spirited discussion, and the meeting did not adjourn until past midnight...
...For the "New Deal" is a dangerous deal as far as the working people are concerner1...
...If this be so and the choice of a majority of the workers in any industry should not be binding on all, then manifestly an agreement to employ none but members of a given union is entirely unlawful...
...Major LaGuardia may be person ally more capable and progressive than Mayor O'Brien, but the latter rcpresentsTaminany, and the backbone of the former is the locul Republican machine, a demoralized Tammany affiliate...
...26—New Brunswick, W. C. Institute Hall, 53 New SL...
...They are emphatically both...
...And what has the city campaign to do with all that...
...Sometimes only 3 children in the family, sometimes 7. Slowly r.s if ripping the words from their wasted bodies, the workers told the same story of unspeakable suffering, slow disintegration, no relief, or not enough relief, no electricity, rlo gas, evictions, tha street...
...TOWN HALL MEETING ON RKL1EF PROBLEM •TMIK Citizens' Committee on Re* lief and the Workers' Committee on Unemployment have joined in a call to a mass meeting in protest against present relief policies, and to press their campaign for $15,000,000 a month for relief for New York's unemployed...
...In addition to a substantial collection about $250 was raised among the audience as loans toward the rent of the Garden...
...22nd— Paterson, Central High School...
...Thtgmeager results of the frantic efforts under the National Recovery Act Justify the fear that the same ruling classes will prove themselves just as impotent to extricate the country from its tragic plight under the new Democratic regime...
...The speakers will be James Myers, Helen Hall, Fannie Hurst, Kabbi Sidney Goldstein, Norman Thomas, John Lovejoy Klliott and Heywood Broun...
...In Frank Crosswaith, our candidate for President of the Hoard of Aldermen, we have a splendid champion of the rights of the, most exploited section of the workers, the Negro...
...Both are engrossed in the same picayune questions of securing paltry reductions for the suffering taxpayer...
...And on these vital questions there is only one real division line in the coming election...
...neither can claim to speak for labor or care for it...
...Levinson spoke in defense of the position of four of the bIx American delegates, and defended the so-called minority resolutions that the majority of the American delegates supported, (These will bo printed In subsequent Issues of The Now Leader...
...Tammany and Fusion on one side, the same side, and the Socialists on the other...
...Both tickets are supported by persons and interests of the same general type...
...30, 2 p. m., at the Rand School...
...Thomas Speaks for Rand School Drive The Save the People's House and Rand School Drive committee arc showing their friends in various cities how to eat their cake and still have it (a rather difficult achievement these days) with their plan of meetings in the various cities for the benefit of the drive, but in cooperation with the local party groups...
...And, finally, there is a suhtle menace to the fundamental institutions of real democracy in the hroad and undefined powers which the act confers on the Chief Magistrate, the danger of a powerful oligarchy taking government out of the hands of the people, particularly the working people...
...We need brass and woodwind instruments...
...The Friday meeting was remarkably successful despite the terrific downpour of rain...
...The second psrt of the meeting consisted of reports on the Paris International Conference by Edward Levinson, David Felix and Jacob I'anken, three of the American delegates...
...The Socialist Party not only has a detailed plan for tackling every important municipal problem, but it...
...Without such organizations the NRA will infallibly be whittled down point by point and turned into an instrument to suppress rather than to help labor...
...Julius Gerber and Ha~ry Kritzer reported on campaign plans, end Nornwn Thomas and Charles Solomon delivered brief and enthusiastic addresses on the prospects of the campaign...
...A SOCIALIST BAND The Socialist Vanguard announces that a move is afoot to organize the Vanguard Brass Hand, a band that tho Socialist Party can really cnll its own If it cares to...
...It give3 the workers a chance to raise wages, reduce work hours and increase employment...
...One is the outlawry of the "dosed shop...
...With every party member on the job, the campaign, I am sure, will be successful in the full, true Aid lasting meaning of the term...
...I am far from charging the President with lust of power or dictatorial inclinations, but (he recent sudden and crushing d o elopmenls in Europe should make us hesitate before deviating a hair's breadth from the straight path of democracy...
...The meeting will be held at the Town.Hall, 113 West 43rd St., on Wednesday, September 27th...
...Meetings already arranged are as follows: Friday, Sept...
...Inspired by good intentions as it undoubtedly hat* been, its fundamental weaknses lies in the fact that it has set out to accomplish the impossible...
...in securing proper education for their children and conditions of healthful living for themselves...
...The ticket was officially placed upon the hallot in the Primaries on Tuesday, and the machinery of campaigning was perfected at the general party meeting Friday night at Finnish Socialist Hall, and at the Campaign Committee on Monday...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...The NRA offers the working people of America a great opportunity to form and extend powerful organizations on the economic and political field, ever vigilant and aggressive, ever ready to assert their just claims and to fight for them...
...CAMPAIGN HANDBOOK READY SUNDAY The campaign handbook, crammed full of facts, figures and arguments and prepared by the research staff of the Campaign Committee, will be on sale at the great Town Hall rally Sunday afternoon, it is positively announced...
...chief speaker, August Claessens...
...The details differed but all the stories were alike...
...speakers, Thomas, Solomon, Dr...
...And "courts of justice" in our own state and city are already found supporting the revolting contentions of these employers...
...In addition, rank and file workers from locals of the Workers' Committee will tell in their own words of the disasters which they face...
...I t is silly and idle to say that the issues in our campaign are neither economic nor political...
...The Socialist Message This is the message, the warning and appeal of the Socialist Party to the workers of America...
...If such agreements are prohibited by law, it will be a SOary blow to the whole organized labor movement...
...EVERYTHING...
...In Harry W. Laidler, our candidate for Comptroller, we have an economist whose researches have won him the respect of students of every shade of opinion and whose training eminently qualifies him for the office that he seeks...
...The handbook, prepared by Henry J. Rosner and Louis E. Yavner, contains contributions by Morris Hillquit, Norman Thomas, Charles Solomon, Frank Crosswaith, Harry W. Laidler, Louis Waldman and others, and covers all the municipal issues...
...Last Sunday night, for example, at Plainfield, through the cooperation of Comrades Bond and Simmington, such a meeting was arranged on less than three days' notice, August Claessens gen?rously giving his services as speaker, and the result being not only an interesting meeting that helped the local work, but also a substantial sum for the drive...
...It facilitates collective bargaining with employ-' ers, tends to check the fraudulent "company unions" and outlaws the infamous yellow dog contracts...
...This institution, unider which the employers agree to employ only members of a specified union, is in force in most of the well-organized industries of the country...
...Workmen's Circles, Women's Committees, Socialist Branches, Yipsel or other Ycth groups, willing to arrange meetings of this sort in their community should write Bertha II...
...It is not possible to reconstruct the industries of the country on a buis of planned production, elimination of ruinous competition, fair treatment of labor and assumption of public duty and responsibility, while these industries remain in individual ownership and are carried on for private profits...
...The most amazing and alarming fact, however, is that the National Recovery Administration has not only failed to refute this dangerous interpretation in clear language, but on the contrary, seems to have adopted it, at least by implication...
...Rut all these possibilities can be utilized and developed for the benefit of the workers on the sole condition that they light to assert and maintain them...
...Frank Kingdon, Bertha H. Mailly, Geo...
...also offers candidates of whom the party can well be proud...
...H. Goebel, Room 201, 7 R. 15th St., New York City...
...Four years of industrial chaos, bottomless misery and general despair under Republican adminiitration have amply demonstrated the pitiable incapacity of the ruling* classes to prevent a catastrophic collapse of their much boasted economic order...
...Sunday, Oct...
...In Charles Solomon, our Mayoralty candidate, we have a man whose 25 years of brilliant and devoted service to the Labor and Socialist movement as a lawyer, lecturer and writer is difficult to match...
...Two weeks of preparation by members of the various locals of the Workers' Committee which included Anna Caples, Robert Smith, Vivian Smith, John Herling, Mary Fox, David Lasser, George Pappastratis, and Elvin Alx-Ies, went into the matter of assembling the families which told to tl,e Jury and representatives of the press the bitter facts of the tragedy of hunger, desperation and frustrated lives...
...in getting opportunities to work and earn a livelihood...
...chief speaker, Augu.H Claessens...
...Thomas was particularly applauded when he referred to those "who talk left and act right," a clear reference to a former member of the party who had always talked of "left wings," and who accepted a position with one of the capitalist parties in the campaign...
...Great Socialist Vote Only Hope for Suffering Masses Hillquit Accept* Chairmanship of City Campaign Committee—Enthusiastic Over Solomon-LaidlerCrosswaith Ticket...
...6—West New York, W. C. Hall, 17th and Tyler...
...neither of them has offered a comprehensive and effective program for the million of unemployed workers in our city...
...0 10-11-12...
...Under the hypocritical slogan of "industrial harmony," employers who do not hesitate to circumvent or violate every provision of the act in favor of the worker* seek to suppress the defensive fights of the worlers and to deprive them of the most effective instrument of sclf-preservatibn which they conquered in generations of suffering and struggle...
...Goebel...
...Please bring your instruments...
...Felix followed him, enlarging upon his position, and I'anken spoke In defense of the majority resolutions (printed here two weeks ago), that had the support in Paris of himself and Herman Kobbe...
...Campaign Gets Under Way With Big Meeting on Sunday WITH the Town Hall rally Sunday the city campaign of l'J3J gets under way in earnest...
...From now on tlvre will be no let up until the (inn' grand rally at Madison Square Garden ihe Sunday before elee'.ion...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 13
