Executive of the Socialist Party Calls For Big Anti- Fascist Demonstrations
Executive of the Socialist Party Calls For Big Anti- Fascist Demonstrations Jobless Workers Must Fight Hunger and Unemployment At its session in Chicago early thit week the National Executive...
...This crisis differs from the many others in American history in that millions of people have finally Income convinced that "rugged individualism" has gone forever...
...The municipal platform, upon which the candidates are running, insists that the party "cannot lift the city out of its present deplorable financial plight at a single stroke, or in a single term...
...At the Nov...
...In addition to Plettl, Thomas and Hoan, and the local candidates, the speakers will include B. C. Vladeck and Louis Waldman, who will preside...
...But the menace approaches, danger signals are appearing on the horizon...
...ted Clothing Workers and the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for a coast-to-coast lecture tour on conditions in Nazi Germany, was happy to accept the invitation to add his word to the words of Norman Thomas, Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee and Representative Lilith Wilson in the New York campaign...
...Our country is not alone in the misery of mass unemployment, every nation controlled by an owning class has its millions of jobless men and women...
...Members of the late Labor Government aided the campaign at Swindon, where a municipal bank, lower electric rates, and a bold housing scheme were urged by tabor candidates...
...In Stafford, where the Labor Party has been making steady gains, the housing problem was also a campaign issue...
...Workers of America: the threat of Fascism hangs over us as it did over our European brothers...
...A leading Bridgeport daily is taking a poll, and up to the close of last week 23,149 had been polled...
...In reply to McLevy's statement that he was attempting to inject the religious question Into the city campaign, Alderman Dunn challenged McLevy to renou.co the principles of Karl Marx, the patron laint of Socialism...
...Indiana has missed one election and may miss more and set an example for other states...
...The trade union and Socialist movements of the world have voted a boycott against German goods...
...We reaffirm our allegiance to the National program of the Sclallst Party and maintain that only through the socialization of the collectively necessary means of production, transportation and distribution of wealth, and through a democratic administration of them by the people for the benefit of all can the ills of the present system be eradicated...
...Leaders of labor are brutally beaten...
...Our weapons against Hitlerism must not be the armies of the predatory capitalist nations who themselves helped bring Fascism to Germany...
...Our pledge to stand by them will be their strength in this hour of trial...
...Generally speaking, it is unsafe to make positive predictions, but the signs this year are so unmistakable that it is conceded on all sides that McLevy is "in...
...other thousands are driven into exile in starvation...
...In Italy and particularly in Germany today, the forces of Fascism have shown what lies in wait for the workers of other lands who fail to be forwarded and prepared...
...He never misses a meeting of the council and he is a regular attendant at the .Central Labor Body, of which he has been President...
...Further to refute the charge that the Bridgeport Socialists are waging a strictly personal "good man" campaign, the comrades Sunday morning distributed literature, placing in the letterbox of every voter in the city the National platform of the Socialist Party...
...Denied the right to work, which should be their birthright, capitalism is showing more clearly than ever before that it is incapable even of feeding its people...
...1st local and municipal elections hel'd throughout England and Wales (except London) the Socialists won important gains, largely at the expense of the Conservatives...
...Hitler has sought to divide it by turning racial groups against each other...
...The Liberals gained 5 and lost 33...
...Taken together With heavy Labor gains in Parliamentary bye-elections, these polls •re considered significant of the •teady turn of public opinion to "Labor and revulsion from the MacDonald "National" government...
...McLevy, long the leading spirit of the party here, is a roofer and during the day works at his trade...
...THE workers of America face a fourth winter of starvation...
...Dunn, the Democrat, 30.5 per cent, and the Republican a mere 13.7 per cent...
...But McLevy has failed to answer these charges...
...To more than ten million workers and their families the NRA means nothing...
...Indeed, the Central Labor Body resembles a Socialist local, most of the delegates being Socialist Party members...
...The local Socialists are waging a straight Socialist Party battle, and on that issue are winning the city...
...The "Silver Shirts" and "Khaki Shirts" arc drilling men who may form the storm troops of a dictator...
...President Roosevelt was swept into office on a wave of disgust with Hoover's reactionary individualism...
...At this time the workers of the United States must speak for the workers of Germany who, in silence* of • death, slavery, and prison camp, commemorate these dates alone...
...The manifesto follows...
...Several important cities will gain •leer Labor majorities, to carry on toe party's program of municipal Socialism...
...Doors open at 1 p. m., and the meetings begins at 2. Election of Jasper McLevy In Bridgeport Indicated BRIDGEPORT...
...And for the masses there remains only the right to starve and slave in a nation which has become nothing but a vast prison, under a reign of terror...
...In the United States we are not yet ruled by Fascists...
...In order that their sacrifice may not have been in vain, we must learn from their tragedy...
...Unless all signs are deceptive this industrial city of 150,000 population will have a Socialist mayor after January 1st...
...The Bridgeport movement is wholly proletarian...
...They are still without jobs and dependent on a humiliating and inadequate relief system for their food, clothing and shelter...
...British Labor Makes Big Gains in the Cities BRITISH Labor is continuing to win...
...In Northampton, Labor candidates contested the seats of the twelve retiring members, four of whom were Labor men...
...Executive of the Socialist Party Calls For Big Anti- Fascist Demonstrations Jobless Workers Must Fight Hunger and Unemployment At its session in Chicago early thit week the National Executive Committee of the Sociatitt Party sent a manifesto to the party members, reviewing the economic conditions facing the working class after nearly six months of the NRA, and calling for mass meetings throughout the nation on Sunday, November 12, to combat Fo.scism at home and abroad...
...Every night, however, he is on the job as a Socialist...
...Alderman Dunn declared that In every country where the Socialists got a foothold they took the word of God from the text books of school children...
...Trade unions and labor parties are outlawed...
...There is every indication that Jasper McLevy, member of the National Executive Committee, will be swept into office at Tuesday's election, and with him a Socialist city administration...
...Injustice to German workers at home Mass Meetings Against Fascism Called'for November 12th has been confused with the issue of unfairness from abroad, so that the workers, bewildered and misled, may be herded into another war against workers of other countries...
...The subhead reads: "Bolsheviks, Socialist cranks and agita' ton hope Soci*Hst candidate will win so that Bridgeport become refuge in the East of disgruntled elements...
...At the same time, other publications are waving the red nag and are shouting that McLevy's election will spell the downfall of religion and the home...
...Our weapon for the overthrow of Fa*Ism, and for world peace, must be our solidarity with the oppressed German toilers...
...We must support this boycott...
...In spite of the friendly words flung to labor, strikes are being met with violence, which is supported by the government...
...For hatred of the capitalists has been substituted hatred of the Jews...
...The government, however, supported by a Urge proportion of the bosses, wants to replace this old individualism with something which Would be even more dangerous...
...To ward off the menace of Fascism, to rally the workers that Fascism may be thrown back, and to send our message of solidarity to the masses of Germany, Italy, and other fascist nations, the Labor and Socialist International has called for mass anti fascist demonstrations to be held the second week in November, the anniversary of the German workers' revolution of 1918...
...thousands are thrown into vile concentration camps...
...The Socialist Party calls upon the workers of America to make November 12th also a day of demands for peace...
...Two thousand Labor candidates J*» for office In 800 towns in Engand Wales, everywhere batHw«-'<or a more progressive policy of social development...
...Workers and government alike are agreed on this...
...Fascism is the title given this type of controlled capitalism in its later stages in Italy and Germany...
...The size of his majority indicated the strength of sentiment behind change of some sort...
...In accordance with this decision, the Socialist Party of America calls upon the workers of the nation to join hands during this week in gigantic anti-fascist demonstrations...
...The capitalists are playing one race of workers against another...
...So great is the interest in the meeting that large delegations are coming from neighboring cities j and states to join in the historic' demonstration for the great Solomon-Laidler-Crosswaith municipal ticket...
...The swift tide of Labor party Victories is of national importance, •specially considering the heavy losses of the Tories...
...Realizing that a united working cjass would remain a constant menace to his regime...
...Message from Victims of Nazis To Re Heard at Garden Rally MARTIN PLETTL, German Socialist and labor leader, head of the International Federation of Garment Workers and the first German labor leader to escape from a Nazi prison to freedom, will be guest speaker at the great Madison Square Garden rally Sunday afternoon at the monster wind-up of the great New York municipal campaign...
...We must send word through Hitler's prison walls that the masses of America want no war against Germany, We must give material effect to our expressions of solidarity...
...Labor there is demanding the ending of the deficiency of housing accommodations, caused by opposition to the Labor Party's slum clearance program...
...Socialist victory," screams one headline, "will prevent progress of Bridgeport's Industrial recovery...
...The international labor movement has created a Matteotti fund which strives to succor and aid the victims of fascist savagery...
...We must organize the trade unions, the farmers, the Socialist Party, into fighting units defending their rights and helping each other...
...Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee speaks at Central High School Saturday, and party candidate* broadcast every day over WICC...
...We must build now a movement that will be able to witshtand a Fascist movement when it comes...
...Under the British political system one-third of the borough councillors retire annually...
...Alderman Dunn," says this paper, "the Democratic candidate for Mayor, challenged McLevy to say that the Socialist Party principle* are not un-American, unpatriotic and anti-religious...
...Crippled, murdered by the score...
...The Coun«ils conduct all local government, and select executives to carry out . their policies...
...We must build them clean, aggressive, militant, ever•ready to strike for new advantages, never compromising in their steady battle for our goal, the Socialist workers' world...
...November 9th marks the date of the German working class revolution of 1918...
...Contributions to this fund, from individuals or from collections taken at anti-fascist meetings, should be sent to the American section of this fund, the League Against Fascism, 7 E. 16th St., New York City...
...Of that number, McLevy had 12,930 votes or 55.8 per cent...
...There are 55,000 registered voters in the city...
...November 12th is the day fixed for the new German "elections...
...With only scattering returns available at this moment, in 105 cities and towns the Socialists Made 180 gains and lost only 7 •eats previously held, while the Tories gained 9 and lost 12...
...Comrade Plettl, who has been brought to the United States by the Amalgam...
...The local press is divided, some of the newspapers insisting that McLevy is just a "good" man, due to win the mayoralty, after ten candidacies, on his personal character and popularity...
...He has made political capital of the sentiment to set up the machinery for a controlled, well organized state capitalism . Run by the bosses for their own benefit, all the workers have received from the New Deal are empty honors and empty stomachs...
...But, after outlining the program It will carry out when In office, the party declares, "SOCIALISM TUB ONLY HOPE...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 19
