Now for the Big Garden Rally
Now for the Big Garden Rally Jobless Units Plan Big Demonstration Oct. 6 'A CITY-WIDE demonstration of unemployed, including a march to City Hall to protest cuts in relief and to demand...
...Campaign Is Launched At Enthusiastic Rally CINGING and cheering, thou** sands of men and women turned out last Sunday to ratify $he Socialist candidates at Town Hall and formally to launch the 1933 campaign...
...Fusion or confusion, Tammany or McKee—the Socialist workers of the city see through the farce...
...Send or bring your contribution today to the Socialist party, 7 East 15th St...
...They have as ihei...
...Pupils may sit forty and fifty in a class, thousands of teachers trained by the city may sit and wait vainly for appointment, health work, relief work, libraries, night schools and lectures be starved for lack of money, but the backers of LaGuardia want only CHEAPER government, and LaGuardia himself DARE NOT speak of what he himself knows are the economic issues...
...If you are a grafter, or if you want a city contract, a favor at the expense of the city, something you are not properly entitled to, YOUR PLACE IS WITH TAMMANY...
...No more standing room or seats available...
...Contributions to aid the fight to free Terzani should be sent at once to Herbert Mahler, treasurer of the united-front Tersani Defense Committee, 94 Fifth' Avenue, New York City...
...LaGuardia, no economic issues in the current mayoralty campaign...
...It was Loscalzo who on the night of the tragedy in Columbus Hall, Astoria, held Terzani for the killing solely on the word of "General" Art J. Smith, head of the Khaki Shirts, and permitted another man who was accused as the murderer by two eye-witnesses to leave the state...
...Under the leadership of Jack Altman the Socialist Vanguard was there, fine, clean-cut looking uniformed bdys and girls with red flags, marching in perfect order to the platform where they stood at attention during the entire meeting...
...Thus the defense Is put Into the position of having to ferret out the evidence necessary to substantiate its contention that the identified Khaki Shirts member, known by name and by sight to the police and the prosecution, is the guilty one...
...The cheers and songs of the Socialist vanguard drown out the doubts of the cynics and faint-hearts...
...There Are, Says the Major, No Economic Issues . By William M. Feigenbaum THERE are, says Mr...
...Solomon, Crosswaith and Laidler, flanked by Thomas, Waldman and scores of other speakers have flung themselves into the light...
...The schools are being starved, as are all social services...
...The tax program ae it now remains will hardly leave SI,000,000 a month for the unemployed, in the opinion of the unemployed leaders, while $25,000,000 of the sum raised during the next six months will be used to pay off bankers for past relief...
...Town Hall, Sunday, the official opening of the campaign for Solomon, Crosswaith and Laidler, and for Socialism...
...There are but six weeks to reach 2,000,000 adult workers with the message of the Socialist party...
...Bankers must have their huge salaries and profits, utilities must have their swollen profits, manufacturers, real estate speculators—all, all must save their money no matter whether or not relief dries >ip, schools are overcrowded, hospitals starved for funds, woi king employes underpaid...
...Until the night of election day there will not be an hour of rest for them...
...The fight is to be a short and swift one...
...If you are a worker, or jobless...
...And as always the Socialist party comes to the workers for its sinews of war...
...About nine years ago Mr...
...Obviously, Loscalzo is on the defensive and Intends to oppose every effort to clear Terzani...
...And beyond that, at the tail-end of the campaign there will be the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, November 5th...
...And they want cheaper government TO SAVE MONEY FOR THEMSELVES, not to serve the people who do the useful work...
...There were wildly enthusiastic young Socialists cheering and singing and leading the oldsters on to greater and greater enthusiasm...
...Ed Cassidy spoke as a mellow sage of Socialism, and the feast was con«°<led by magnificent addresses by J-Jarlea Solomon and Norman "tomas...
...if you perform useful service in shop or office, classroom or laboratory, on utilities or in the field, IF YOU ARE NEITHER GRAFTER NOR EXPLOITER, your place is in a party that serves YOUR INTERESTS and no one else...
...The meeting halls must be paid for, the literature must be paid for so that more literature may be bought...
...relief is shockingly inadequate, and even that is in danger of being cut off...
...LaGuardia got into a scrap with the Republican party—his principal backer for Mayor—and denounced "The small group which now controls the party locally...
...but to SERVE ALL THE USEFUL PEOPLE...
...the audience itself must take a hand—and the audience did...
...They must be financed...
...The forces supporting LaGuardia, putting up the funds for his campaign, gave him as his runningmate one Cunningham, ONE OF J. P. MORGAN'S BANKING AGENTS, and they want one thing above all else: They want to clean out Tammany SOLELY TO CUT DOWN THE EXPENSES OP CITY GOVERNMENT...
...Tammany wants to spend a lot of money—for strictly Tammany purposes...
...The need for mobilizing the unemployed and employed in support of a $15,000,000 relief appropriation has been strengthened by the collapse of the Untermyer tax program and the city's retreat from taxes on stock transfers...
...Each furnished the audience with countless Weapons for the battle that lies just ahead...
...At the same time the plundering goes on, millions are thrown to exempt positions, grafters are kept on the payroll, and the city approaches bankruptcy...
...The masses are suffering...
...The plans for the October 6 demonstration include mobilization of unemployed at each local of the unemployed groups throughout the city...
...LaGtiardia does not want to find himself sitting uncomfortably at the end of a limb...
...Harry Laidler, candidate for controller, was in .are form in a brilliant and eloquent speech setting the tone of the meeting...
...As Norman Thomas said in his splendid speech a demonstration must be more than speakers talking at an audience...
...LaGuardia is supported by the Republican party and a lot of silk-stocking Democrats...
...he says (forgetting that once he ran as a Tammany candidate in a deal to keep Socialists from election...
...Here once more the Socialist army will mass its strength and pack the city's greatest arena in a new Inspiring demonstration of Socialist determination...
...but after all, the principal performers were the audience...
...Tammany ia a curse to the city, and Tammany is the cause and the beneficiary of terrific and criminal waste—and worse...
...7 THE New York City Socialist • fight is on...
...Campaign to Be Waged Furiously Until Nov...
...Where do you stand...
...The cutting of home relief, the mounting number of evictions, aa well as the continued neglect of unemployed single men and women has created intolerable hardship among the unemployed, according to the leaders of the joint group, and a winter of terrible misery and privation face a million people...
...The two latter threw themselves »*o an analysis of the situation *Mronting the city, eaeh in his characteristic manner, and each scored heavily with hammer blows and with rapier thrusts at those who are quarreling over which would receive the assignment to run the city for the next four years in the interest of the exploiters...
...Not to throw away money like a drunken sailor for the benefit of the Tammany crew;, not to save money SO ' HAT BANKERS AND UTILITIES MAY BE BENEFITTED...
...LaGuardia is concerned about nothing except being elected...
...The Socialist campaign in New York City will be what you make U. Funds Needed for Terzani Defense By John Nicholss Beffel WITH the setting of November 27 as the trial date for Athos Terzani, young anti-Fascist accused of killing his comrade, Anthony Fierro, the need of funds for the defense becomes acute, particularly for investigation to develop conclusive proof that Fierro actually was killed by a member of the Khaki Shirts of America while defending a friend who was being ejected from a meeting of that Fascist organization...
...Tammany must go...
...Literature is ready by the hundred-thousand...
...Those who arc backing LaGuardia want AS LITTLE MONEY SPENT AS POSSIBLE, in order to save their precious bank accounts...
...6 'A CITY-WIDE demonstration of unemployed, including a march to City Hall to protest cuts in relief and to demand a minimum of $15,000,000 monthly Irom the city, is planned for October 6th by the Workers' Committee on Unemployment, the Association of Unemployed, .Workers' Unemployed leagues, and the Industrial Workers' [Unemployed Union...
...As Claessens said, the old parties way well envy us for the army we have, people whose devoted services cannot be bought at any price...
...In characterizing them he said: "The platform of the Republican party makes no appeal to the hope of the people whom I represent...
...Platforms, handbooks, leaflets, single-page flyers— all driving home the message of the Socialist party...
...The support of the Socialist Party and the Young Peoples' Socialist League branches has been pledged...
...Despite assurances by District Attorney Colden thst his office would make a new investigation on the strength of evidence put before him by the defense, Assistant District Attorney Loscalzo told Judge Kadien that the prosecution ought not to be obliged to disclose any of its evidence in advance of the trial...
...Let us look at the set-up...
...The doors open at 1 p. m. and at 2 p. m. they are closed...
...There had better not be, if Mr...
...To prepare for the demonstration a mobilization conference has been called for Monday, October 2, at 8 P. M., at Greenwich House, 27 Barrow Street, by Julius Hochman, Joint Board, I.L.G.W.U., Abraham Miller, Secretary-Treasurer, Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers, and other labor leaders...
...There were Yipsels and Falcons and Circleites...
...Frank «. Crosswaith, who received a wild mtion, literally outdid himself in » speech of superb eloquence...
...Esther Friedman, calm, lucid and ™ty, wt.s roundly cheered...
...If you are a banker, a utility stockholder, a real estate speculator, an employer or a corporation lawyer, YOUR PLACE 18 WITH LAGUARDIA, for there you may be served...
...And every contribution, large or small, will be worth the sacrifice it entails to the donor...
...There were fine speeches—clear, eloquent, inspired...
...Friendly trade unions and fraternal bodies have been canvassed to send delegates to the conference and support the demonstration...
...There you may be properly served...
...All these campaign plans are made...
...hang before August Claessens called the meeting to order by introducing Harry W. Laidler as chairman the large hall was jammed to the doors, with every inch of standing room permitted by the fire department occupied, and thousands more outside vainly clamoring to get in...
...And when he was asked then if fie would run on the ticket of the party he excoriated so savagely (and whose support he is accepting today) he replied, "The people of my district will see to it that I am renominated and reelected, and that, for the time being, is all that 1 am concerned about...
...We cannot rest on the laurels of the Town Hall rally...
...They, will not be led up the blind ally of banker-sponsored "reformers...
...and the Madison Square Garden rental must be raised at once to take up the option on the hall...
...VOTE TO TAKE OVER THE CITY FOR THE PEOPLE...
...hero and their spokesman a man to whom nothing matters except getting office—he has said so himself—and who insists there are no economic issues...
...There are no economic issues in this campaign only if Mr...
...To redeem the city for the workers, to make the city a fit place to live in for those who do the useful work, to BUILD A SOCIALIST CITYVOTE FOR SOLOMON, LAIDLER, CROSSWAITH AND THE WHOLE SOCIALIST TICKET...
...The delegates who appear before the Board of Estimate will report to the mass meeting the answer of the city officials to their demands...
...Bankers, corporation lawyers, brokers, real estate speculators, chemical manufacturers and employers of all j kinds are contributing to his campaign funds and are rooting for him...
...It was a stirring, ringing call to action, and after the meeting was over the hosts inarched out into the warm September sunset singing Socialist songs, waving their red banne i i and cheering for their candidates, their party and their sense...
...It must devote energy and cash to a task which it declares properly ought to be done by the state...
...Incidentally, the same group, Tammany's silent partner in many elections, selected him to run for Mayor this year, only to be displaced by a parcel of silkstocking aristocrats, bankers and other assorted "friends" of the people...
...Ho denounced "The corruptiontits and grafters in Washington," who, he declared, were "the inevitable result of the 60-50 policy of government control in Washington whether Republicans are in power or the Democrats control...
...It was a glorious meeting, its ¦access far exceeding even the most sanguine expectations of the most optimistic and completely dissipating the doubts of those few who had privately been inclined to be somewhat pessimistic of the outlook...
...The Meeting, huge as it was, was only the neucleus of the Socialist army, the core of the Socialist strength of the city...
...No contribution can be too small...
...Each local group .will proceed to Battery Park at 11 A. M., march to City Hall through the Wall Street district, thence up to Chrystie and Forsythe Streets for a mass meeting...
...And that is all...
...And meanwhile the needs of the people, the schools, the civil service and the social services, are starved because Tammany will sacrifice none of its loot...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
