United Defense For Terzani Is Mapped
United Defense For Terzani Is Mapped United action for the defense of Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascurt accused of the murder of his comrade Anthony Fiero at a rally of the Fascist...
...Monday, Sept...
...24th, 11 a. m., at Town Hall, 123 West 43rd St., John Haynes Holmes will speak on "Religious Recovery: A Code for the Churches...
...An opportunity has been offered by the Rand School, which has invited him to lecture...
...Socialists united with l.W.W.'g Anarchists and other elements that had come together solely for the purpose of perfecting defense plans, to defeat the Communist...
...More than one-half of these apartments rented at $19.50 a room a month or over...
...Solomon to Be Honored at Dinner Charles Solomon, Socialist Mayoralty candidate, will be tendered a testimonial dinner Sunday, Octobers, at the Empire Manor, Thatford near Pitkin Ave., Brooklyn...
...In this expensive group there were 33 times as many apartments as there were in the least expensive...
...Other organizations represented were American Federation of Labor local unions, the American Civil Liberties Union, Communist Party, International Workers' Order, Workmen's Circle, Women's Council, Young People's Socialist League, Communist Party Opposition, Communist League of America, Workers' Ex-Servicemen's League, and Italian Socialist clubs...
...Leon Rosser Land's lecture at Azure Temple, 1591 Boston Road, Sunday at 8. Short talks by Leonard D. Abbott and others...
...Speaker: Harry W. Laidler...
...For information concerning the dinner, comrades and organizations should get in touch with the office of the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St., Ehooklyn...
...Land on New Deal "The New Deal and the Future of the Radical Movement in America" will be the subject of Rev...
...Rents Are Too High The answer is one of simple arithmetic...
...Lecture season will start Oct...
...Harry D.Sizemore of the I.W.W...
...This vote followed an impassioned speech by Terzani urging the gathering to back the amended majority resolution and stand behind the existing defense committee...
...7?i confront, the New York worker pays 20 to 25 per cent of his income for homes horrible to contemplate...
...Naturally everyone was eager to learn his views of the situations ' i the European Congress...
...For a four-room apartment that means $7.50 a room a month...
...Solomon...
...Speakers included Norman Thomas, Arturo Giovannitti, Jack Altman of the Socialist Party, Harry Kelly of the anarchist monthly Freedom, Leon Green, Benjamin Goldstein, Girolamo Valenti of the Italian daily LaStamp* Libera, Herbert Mahler of the General Defense Committee of the I.W.W...
...Until somebody builds decent homes to rent between $20 and $30 a month, the masses of people are condemned to live and die in the old law tenements...
...There are extremely delicate and complicated matters to discuss," said Comrade ,.hai...
...Questions, however, were all parried with a characteristic Cahan smile, and reporters were to.d I L what Comrade Cahan has to say on the affairs of European Socialism he wants to put in definite and suitable form...
...The records of the Tenement House Department show that from 1927 to 1931, only 3,877 of 245,083 new apartments rented under $12.50 a room a month...
...Even in the days of prosperity he received no more than $30 a week...
...5th, will be by Professor H. Parksr Willis, head of tha Department of Finance at Columbia...
...What the poverty stricken city of Vienna has accomplished, New York with its vast wealth can far surpass, provided there is the will to serve the people at the City Hall...
...Now, with the average wage down to $25 i.nd $20 a week, the highest rent should be $5, or $6 a room a month...
...21st, at 8:30, to "hursday, Sept...
...If he is to feed and clothe his family at all adequately, the maximum rental for him should be 25 per cent cf his income or $30 a month...
...24: 2:30 p. m. Town Hall, 43rd St., east of Broadway...
...The windows look out on cheerless, whitewashed alleys and shafts...
...William L. Patterson, national secretary of the Communist International Labor Defense, defended a minority resolution of some four pages...
...Tammany by its record leaves no doubt as to its intentions...
...102, 72nd St...
...Thursday, Sept...
...To them he is their beloved Charlie, not the public figure Hon...
...Close to 2,000,000 New Yorkers are huddled in Old I .aw Tenements...
...A majority resolution offered by the Socialist, I.WiW., and Anarchist members of the resolutions committee provided that the defense committee be empowered to set up 'vhatever agency it chose to obtain mass support from the' workers...
...5:30 p. m. — Young Circle League convention, 3 West 16th St...
...j The annual reunion dance of the New York clubs will take place Saturday night, after the end of the first session, at the newly redecorated Debs Auditorium, 7 East 15th St...
...lie can't...
...United Defense For Terzani Is Mapped United action for the defense of Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascurt accused of the murder of his comrade Anthony Fiero at a rally of the Fascist Khaki Shirts in Astoria last July, will be intensified by the united-front defense committee headed by Norman Thomas, following a dramatic conference last Saturday at Irving Plaza Hll...
...4 Wcdnesdny, Sept...
...has...
...We Socialists, unlike Maim LaGuardia, do not believe in solving economic problems by denying their existence...
...These are laid out around great central courtyards which cover an area three times as large as that of the building...
...BOOST THE NEW LEADER Where the Candidates Will Speak Sunday, Sept...
...1 8:30 p. m., Socialist Party headquarters, 331 Sheffield Ave., Brooklyn...
...There arc no green courtyards...
...Abraham I. Shiplacoff, chairman of the committee, has written to all sections of the Socialist and Trade Union movement to greet Charles Solomon on this occasion for his splendid service these many years...
...Well, let us see...
...This lecture will be the first in a serie: on Current Events...
...Two resolutions were drawn up, and the fight centered about these...
...Sholes...
...125, 47tlt Ave., near 46th St., Woodside, L. I. Speakers: Norman Thomas, Harry W. Laidler, Frank Crosswaith, James Oneal...
...A Code for Churches Sunday, Sept...
...Vienna teaches us concretely what applied Socialism can do to create a new, beautiful life for the common people...
...Even if prosperity should come back, it is plain that the working class family cannot afford to pay the $50 and $60 monthly rentals charged in the new modern houses...
...The Slums of Tomorrow But even the new houses that some of the more highly skilled and better paid workers can afford, are nothing to get excited about...
...The plumbing is better but the standards of light and air are much inferior to the best modern practice...
...The majority resolution was adopted with an amendment authorizing the defense committee to utilize any suggestions in the minority's preamble which it deemed of value...
...He will discuss "Currency and Finance in the New Deal...
...Speakers: Norman Thomas, Harry W. Laidler, Frank Crosswaith, Sol...
...27: 8:30 p. m., New Civic Hall, 113-18 Liberty Ave., Richmond Hill, L. I. Speakers: Norman Thomas, Frank Crosswaith and Jnrhcs Oneal...
...and I must have time to consider the form of my statement...
...Speaker: Charles Solomon...
...This was attacked by various speakers on the ground that it attempted to oppose too many enemies of labor at once instead of concentrating on the campaign to free Terzani...
...23, at 2, at the Young Circle League Center, 3 West 16th St...
...Cahao on the Crisis In International Socialism ABRAHAM CAHAN, Editor of *¦ the Jewish Daily Forward, landed in New York Tuesday after three months in Europe, and was greeted by a large group of friends and comrades...
...The rooms are flooded with sunlight and fresh air...
...The Socialist government of Vienna, for example, has built beautiful homes fortj!50,000 people in the last ten years...
...The Brownsville Saeialists have known and worked with Solomon for over two decades...
...Private builders do not construct decent sanitary and modern homes at rentals that the average workingman can afford to pay...
...8. .Re-house The Workers — By Henry J. Rosner...
...The Beautiful Homes of Vienna One should actually see houses built to serve workers rather than to make money for the realtor to appreciate what this means...
...shrubs, grass and flowers are grown while benches are scattered about so that the workers can rest after a hard day's toil...
...28: 8:30 p. nr., P .S...
...Play space with appropriate equipment is provided for the children...
...Incredibly Low Rents Despite the excellence of the housing, the rentals are incredibly low—$3 and $4 a month for 3 and 4 room apartments which is approximately 10 per cent of the average wage i Vienna...
...The open space receives the treatment of a park and 'playground...
...Freethinkers' Society The Freethinkers of America will hold an entertainment and sociable, Sunday st 8, Stclnwny Building, 113 West 67th Street...
...Fusion candidate for Mayor...
...The vote was 335 to 174...
...This measure was upheld in a speech by Joseph Glass of the Socialist Party...
...He therefore crowds the maximum building on the land that the law allows...
...We pledge ourselves instead to a positive program of municipal building thatwill provide every workingman in New York City with a decent home at a rental within his means...
...25: 8:30 p. m„ P. S. No...
...Speakers: Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler, Frank Crosswaith, Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit, Esther Friedman...
...Resolutions laying down plans for the defense were adopted after a dramatic battle in which Communist delegates, seeking to dominate the conference, were badly defeated...
...Do people live in these dreary homes because they hate the sun and the fresh air or because the risk of being burned alive adds zest to life...
...All this is inevitable under a system of profit-making landlordism...
...was chairman...
...Charles Solomon, Socialist candidate for Mayor, will address the convention at the last session, late Sunday afternoon...
...Clarence Stein, noted New York architect, says, "These are the slums of tomorrow...
...The opportunity to see this beautiful housing development for the masses of people will always be cherished by this writer as one of the great experiences of his life...
...The landlord collects no rent from an open courtyard...
...and Ridge Boulevard, Brooklyn...
...There are no economic issues in this campaign," he says...
...How can the average workingman with a family pay these rents...
...This lecture on "The Crisis of International Socialism" has been postponed from Thursday, Sept...
...These are the dwellings without open space, without li^lit and air,'without bathtubs and toilets in the home, and witii no protection against tire...
...It has no interest in rehousing the workers...
...Four times he led them to victory over fusion candidates...
...The lecture on Thursday, Oct...
...In accordance with this philosophy the fusion candidate for Mayor presents no .dan for rehousing the workers—the most important economic problem facing millions of New Yorkers...
...28th, at the same hour...
...The dinner is to be given by his own branch, the Brownsville Socialists with whom he grew up from boyhood...
...What about LaGuardia...
...THERE are no economic issues in this campaign," says Eiorclla H. I a< itianlia...
...Consider Housing...
...SOLOMON TO ADDRESS CIRCLE CLUBS More than 150 delegates, representing the Senior and Intermediate Young Circle Clubs, will meet in annual convention Saturday afternoon, Sept...
...who had come with their customary assortment of affiliates and "innocents' " clubs...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 13
