Strike a Blow for Socialism! All Roads Lead to the Garden
Strike a Blow for Socialism! All Roads Lead to the Garden The Only Vote L That Counts Is Ours It has been a tangled, a crazy municipal campaign here in New York, and only one party, one...
...The Socialist Party abhors graft snd corruption In public life...
...Sunday morning early the march begins from every part of the city, and by two o'clock, when the speaking begins, not a seat will be vacant in the vast arena, and tens of thousands are expected to be outside the Garden prepared to listen to the speeches through amplifiers...
...FOR HUMANITY, FOR LIBERTY AND FOR PEACE...
...For every James J. Walker, there is s J. A. Sisto...
...it is a single moment in the neverending battle of the w o r k e rs against capitalism...
...For every George ON vany, there Is s Fred F. French...
...Than objectives, important **o«i7» they are, are only the byproduct...
...The Socialist Party entered the campaign with its eyes open, knowing full well the difficulties that would beset it...
...For every Vsuse, there Is s United Shipping Line...
...from New Jersey and Connecticut, and from as far off as Boston the thousands will eagerly stream to the great focal point of the municipal campaign...
...Only the Socialist Party has earned the right to the support of the workers and jobless in this : - rible year...
...His effort is not so much to reform Tammany as to transfer the center of political power from Union Square to the Bronx, from Carry to Flynn...
...Let us strike a blow for a workers' city...
...For every Dr...
...STRIKE A BLOW AT THAT WHICH HAS ENSLAVED THE WORLD...
...As long as they are cast in the negative role of the opposition, Fusion is united...
...Our ticket, headed by Solomon, Crosswaith and Laidler, has made a gallant and vigorous fight for the regeneration of New York City along So* cialist lines...
...Vote for Decency and Socialism • By Louis Waldman State Chairman, Soeialiet Party T H E vote of the Socialist | Party next Tuesday will bej the measure of the idealism and the devotion to social progress of the citizens of New York City...
...We know full well that for every Jseaon, Duffy snd Pulgrsff, there is a Iske Bhsrp...
...The Socialists alone met the issue created by the lives of men and women and children...
...Every vote for Solomon, Laidler and Crosswaith is a vote for n better world, for justice and liberty, Every vote beside the Arm and Torch is a message of comradeship, of fraternity and of hope to our tortured comrades in Hitler's hells...
...It can be nothing else...
...The Socialist movement was not winched only to prevent New York from falling into the clutches of Wall Street bankers, nor was it organised only to protect victims •f an economic collapse...
...If we sre to strike at the source of this miserable stream of graft and corruption which pollutes the life of our city, the private ownership and operation of these economic activities must be transferred into public hands...
...Comrade Martin Plettl, German Socialist and trade unionist and victim of Nazi terror, now In the United States, will proudly stand upon the platform and give his first message to the workers of America...
...Martin Plettl to Add His Word to Those of Thomas and Hoan for Party Ticket ALL Roads Lead to Madison "™ Square Garden...
...THE SOCIALISTS ALONE PACED THE P A T THAT THE WORKERS MUST mKKE OVER THEIR CITY AND REMAKE IT TO SERVE THEMSELVES...
...And now comes an announcement that will add to the meaning of the great meeting...
...There is but ons mora duty: That is, to see to it that every single one of the seats In ths reserved section is sold and returns msde, so that in addition to ths magnificent moral and political success confidently expected of the meeting it will also be a source of financial strength to the campaign...
...But, if elected, they will constitute S discordant administration, disunited on every major measure to come before the Board of Est Imate...
...The Socialist Party presents to the voters a platform which is intelligent and constructive, offering a real solution to the great socialand municipal problem...
...All Roads Lead to the Garden The Only Vote L That Counts Is Ours It has been a tangled, a crazy municipal campaign here in New York, and only one party, one ticket can look back with satisfaction at a cleanly waged battle on issues that matter, only one can be proud of its record in the weeks just past...
...ncy and social progress...
...of the movement...
...In this dsy of blsckness and misery, amidst the gathering thunderclouds of Fascism and war, there is but one hope in the world...
...But such a program of action is to be found only in the Socialist platform...
...Mayor John P. O'Brien represents Tammany, sulky but unrepentant...
...A great vote for Solomon and the rest of the ticket next Tuesday will bring new hope into the Socialist movement...
...And the I message will be a plea for 80I cialist solidarlt}, a demand that all workers stand together under the flaming red banner of Socialism net only for the New York election but for the emancipation of the whole working class...
...The real fight for the cleaning of our city life must go hand in hand with the fight for the reorganization of our economic life...
...ALL OUT FOR THE GARDEN FOR THE MEMORY OF MORRIS HILLQUIT AND FOR THE SOLIDARITY OF THE WORKERS OF THE WORLD...
...For the spirit of Morrie Hillquit will brood over the Garden and inspire the comrade to give their all to the eause to which he gave his great and beautiful life...
...A BLOW FOR SOCIALISM...
...Bach sn administration, and It cannot be anything else, will drive the city back Into the arms of Tammany Hall...
...Doyle, there Is • realtor who pays him for influence...
...It was a difficult task the Socialists aet themselves, but fired by the idealism of their cause and inspired by the memory of tr.e incomparable Morris Hillquit, the candidates and all other party Workers flung themselves into the battle with a zeal that only the Cause of Socialism can inspire...
...But it is net satisfied with merely exposing corruption, it desires to strike at its source...
...Mayor O'Brien docs not conceal that he recognizes and accepts these bosses as his master and leader...
...For every Willlsm H. Illcklin, there is s North Ger* man Lloyd...
...e e e Nor can the voters tarn to Fusion to ssvs New York...
...Vision Is Needed What New York needs is not merely HONEST government but a social vision that will return the eily to the people who make it up...
...The Socialist campaign of 1933 " l""t one skirmish of the worldwide hnttle of the workers against Maity and hunger, against eeoN»ie insecarlly and exploitation, •gsrfist unemployment and child *a*r . against tyranny and oppression against war and Fascism...
...As long as the Wiggins, the Mitchells and the Marcuses manage our banks, the Dahls and Mendens manage our subways and buses, and the powerful real estate interests will own and operate for private profit the offices, the buildings and the homes of our people, as long as these conditions exist permitting great econoir I • ilege and graft to these economic masters of our day, there will also exist in our politics the same moral codes of private profit and privileges, of graft and corruption...
...Bat the whole world is watching to see whst the Socialist strength will be...
...He frankly is the candidate of Curry, McCooey, Rendt and Theofel...
...Fusion has no program, no cohesive principle, no common ground for affirmative action...
...From five boroughs, and from nearby counties...
...A vote for the Recovery Party or the Americo-Spanish Party (candidate, Abdull Haraid) means nothing...
...LaGuardis will pull In one direction...
...For Socialism Solomon, Laidler end Crosswaith did not become Socialists only because Tammany Is a thieving or Sanitation or because an economic collapse brought millions to destitution...
...Ham id (if there is such a man...
...But more than that: STRIKE A BLOW FOR A WORKERS' WORLD...
...Cunningham, in another...
...LaGuardia heading Fusion, repre I sents s strsnge mixture...
...the Socialists alone treated the condition* under which millions of human beings lire and have their being as more than an opportunity to devise rote-catching schemes of alleged amelioration and relief...
...There are many parties and socalled parties on the ballot this year, but that doesn't matter...
...The Socialists alone stuck to the main issue before the tortured masses: that no natter how honestly or incorruptibly the city might be run, MERE HONESTY IS NOT ENOUGH...
...Every vote for the Socialist Party is a vote for the liberation of the human race...
...But Important though these Considerations ere there is even greater importance to the camfagin...
...SOCIALISM IS THE HOPE OF THE WORLD...
...In the midst of the confusion, political chicanery, deals, internecine party strife and mudslinging, the campaign of the Socialist Party, lead by Charles Solomon, stands out as a clear and convincing battle for civic decency and social reorganization...
...McKee presents woeful mediocre opposition leadership within the Democratic Party...
...From the sad day four weeks ago when word came of the death of the incomparable Morris Hillquit, the party workers determined that the meeting is to be a memorial to the memory of that great and inspiring comrade, and so it will be...
...Let us strike a blow at corruption and exploitation, at government by grafters and by bankers...
...cares what his vote will be, nor will there be any particular interest anywhere in the following gathered by the FourLeaf Clover or the Sunburst, the Rooster or the Bull...
...Harvey In a third...
...no one outside of Mr...
...His only argument is that they don't ask him to do anything "wrong...
...And the long and tortuous municipal history of cortorturous municipal history of corruption sgain, will continue...
...O'Bricn'i candidacy represents the political standards of Tweed, Croker, Murphy, Olvany and- Curry...
...It has slways been Its deadliest enemy...
...VOTE IT STRAIGHT...
...Only the Socialist Party, and the splendid ticket headed by Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler and Frank Crosswaith, have had anything to say to the troubled and suffering masses that has had any reality...
...It will be the only intelligent expression lv the electorate in favor of civic dec...
...The giver as well as the receiver must not only be punished, but he must be driven from the position where he can give or receive graft...
...The backbone of Fusion is the discredited | reactionary Republican machine, eager to rebuild and strengthen that machine, not for any progressive or liberal action but for the advancement of the philosophy and interest of the rich and powerful...
...Not to exchange grafters' rule for Bankers' rule, but to cast out both grafters' and exploiters' rule FOR THE RULE OF THE MASSES...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 19
