NEW LEADER FORUM
NEW LEADER FORUM THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM By Elias Herzog With ail due respect to Comrade Thomas I beg to disagree with his 'Socialist Immediate Program" as outlined in The New Leader...
...Business and pleasure to be combined at a meeting to be held at G. DeYoung's farm within next two weeks...
...That is, these deflated soldiers could talk liKe Socialists, agree to hunt them out of their ranks, express willingness to take over the banks and industries, an I yearn for a "break" that whiM bring them to the "top" with our Babbitts...
...4th District, Irwin Nussbaum...
...Shall we now advocate the utilization of idle labor and material for the accumulation of new profits (interest, which any renumerative enterprise must pay is of course another form of profit) or shall we recommend it for the use of pure social welfare...
...On the whole these soldiers displayed admirable discipline and the Administration charge that many were criminals was worthy of bourgeois cads...
...Tfiey were men uprooted by the depression, bewildered, angry, some desperate, hsting big capitalists and bankers, lacking in any consistent program except payment, of the bonus, and pledging faith in the flag and the Constitution...
...The Party voted to be represented on the Scottsboro Action Committee headed by G. J. Murphy of the Afro-American...
...sack espy ia difflrnlt to edit.' New Organisations Illinois: Pocahontas (Y.P.S.L...
...Watnick, A. Schaffer, Diener, David, Klar, Levitin, and M. Waldmar...
...Leonard Bright, candidate fo* .City Councilman, spoke briefly...
...It will either be brought about legally with all the benefits and blessings of peace, if the people in high places have any sense, and make up their minds in time, or else it will be a savage and terrible irruption with hob-nailed boots and destructive convulsions...
...6th A. D.—panes is rendering splendid assistance to the Bakers' Union in their fight Committee has been elected to work with the Bakers' Strike Committee...
...6th A. D.—Albert Breslow snd Irving' M. Knobloch nominated for Alderman...
...Socialists are circulating a petition to the State Park and Forrest Commission asking that a pavilion be built in the Sleeping Giant State Park to serve as a place of shelter...
...July 16 was set for a conference at Blue Ridge, N. C, to consider a Southeastern Continental Congress...
...Following Tuesday, M a e Laughlin will discuss British Trade Union Problems...
...When he came up for reelection, therefore, he did not secure the Labor-Farmer endorsement...
...New Jersey Passaic.—Second lesson in Class in Socialism, led by Andrew Wittel, wiy be held on Friday, June 30, at 585 Main Ave., at 8:30 p. m. Every one invited...
...Cooks, Waiters Make Gains The Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and Beverage Dispensers' International Alliance have extended their organization campaign to July 31...
...Minnesota Two new locals were formed last week, one in Dalbo township and the other in Golden Valley...
...Next regular meeting Thursday, July 6, 8:80...
...To doubt the soundness of these collaterals would mean giving up hope that all these men would ever return to work and would only convince the people of the folly of the capitalistic system...
...i Sheepshead Bay (2321 Ave...
...On July 11th Heywood Broun will participate in the lecture series...
...and Barrow St...
...Socialist Party Progress Special Request Correspondent* are arged to avoid COMMENT In sending news...
...Proceeds will go towards the campaign...
...All willing to offer to drive their automobiles on that day in order to take on additional people should let us know...
...Alderman, 22nd A.D...
...Plans are under way for organisation of a Yipsel circle ia Bakersfield...
...F.-L...
...Westchester County...
...Maryland James Oneal of New York will be the main speaker at the annual Socalist picnic at Workmen's Circle Shore, July 4th...
...New York State The State Secretary urges on sll locals the importance of organization of the workers, and urging members to assist those who desire to take advantage of the Industrial Recovery Act to organize unions...
...A weakly allowance of $10 for every unemployed family and $5 for single unemployed, what Comrade Thomas demands, is "to live too little and to die too much " I realise that with this minimum he hopes to master enough public support to wrench out of the owning class some relief for the unfortunates...
...Secretary Bob Hesketh says: "We appreciate the support being given us by the weekly labor jress, and in return are strongly urging our locals and members to do their duty by subscribing to the labor press in a body...
...The branch has been conducting three to five outdoor meeting per week Washington Heights (4046 Broadway).—^Executive session on Monday, July 3, 8:30...
...Myles Horton lectured on the "Class Struggle in the South...
...BRONX County Automobile Outing on Sunday, July 16,9:30 a. m., in front of headquaters, 9 west 170th St., west of Jerome Ave., to the Fruchter Estate, Mohegan Colony, near Peekskill...
...Seventeen new charters were issued during April and May, with expectations of as many more during June and July...
...X ) . 1 —Branch meeting 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF The Bonus Army By James Oneal E E.F...
...then I already hear the echoing found of distant feet...
...also two guarantors might be required...
...A battle is being waged to force the new Rent Commission to hold public hearings rather than accept written complaints of high rents and then investigate...
...Anderson had vetoed a measure legalizing the sale of beer, with the result that a working class ward that usually went from 5 to 1 to 13 to 1 for Farmer-Labor candidates rejected him by over 4 to 1. But the bitterness of his former Farmer-Labor supporters against him for his alleged high-hat attitude is believed to have been the deciding factor...
...Revue at Tamiroent Week-End AUNIQUE 4th ef J*Jy week end is promised at Camp Tamiment, the workers' summer resort whose profits go to support the Band School of Social Science, with a program of theatrical advertisements, sports and intellectual fare under the direction of Mac Liebman...
...Esther Friedman, chairman of Women's Committee, will speak over Station WEVD, Wednesday, July 6, 4 p. m., on "Socialist Women and the New Deal...
...BROOKLYN Downtown Branch (122 Pierre pint St...
...Toscha Seidel at Unity Toscha Seidel, celebrated violinist, will appear in concert at the open air Pine Grove theatre at Unity House, Forest Park, Pa., Saturday, July 8, and Sunday morning during the Jewish Hour...
...About 60.000 to 80,000 were in this army at times...
...It will come in the one way or the other...
...NEW LEADER FORUM THE SOCIALIST PROGRAM By Elias Herzog With ail due respect to Comrade Thomas I beg to disagree with his 'Socialist Immediate Program" as outlined in The New Leader of February 18...
...Loans to be limited to, aay, 60 per cent of one's earnings before the depression and not to exceed $60 weekly...
...These loans to be repaid in weekly rates as soon as employment is found, employment bureaus to be established in connection with these loaning institutions...
...Topping 2-6556, or by mail...
...Helen Pickenbach was named for Assembly in the 1st District...
...we want to make room far MORE...
...Comrade Thomas would meet with disappointment when he hopes that his scheme, if adopted, would alleviate conditions to an extent that after six months ho further relief might be necessary...
...Candidates: Assembly 22nd A. S., Max Delson...
...There was scarcely a man, says Waters, who believed that If he only got a "break" he would soon "be up at the top, along with -the successful Americans...
...Socialists, hell...
...Here is one group that wants to take the banks and industries from the ruling classes...
...If yon send superfluous comment yea are likely to CROWD OUT other items...
...and Msin St., New Rochelle, Saturday evening at 8:30...
...Over 2,000 members were added during May alone, and they are still coming...
...of the California Yipsel Rebel Arts Road Show in Bakersfield, June 17, was a decided success...
...Monday evening will be devoted to an amusing cabaret and floor show...
...of Lea Angeles County presented the show...
...With mere essential things the people are supplied at present—be it through charities, begging, stealing or through share the misery plan, and there is no demand for the present ten to fifteen million street walkers...
...August Claessens spoke on organization last Tuesday...
...Saturday evening the Tamiment Players will present "Words and Music," a new revue written and staged by Mr...
...18th A. D., Branch 1 (1686 President St...
...We're Americans," cams the answer...
...Everything ia free...
...near Crown St).—No meeting on July 4th...
...Action will be taken for special work on their behalf...
...Branch meeting, Monday, July 3, 9 p. m. August Claessens will be present East Flatbush, 2nd A. D. (486A East 93rd St).—Meeting Friday, June 30...
...New York City Street Corner Platforms...
...They despised Hoover and Mellon...
...A three months* tour of the state will be made this fall by the Rebel Arts...
...William Gomberg and Samuel H. Friedman nominated for Assemblyman snd Aldermsn, respectively...
...City Councilman, Wm...
...Mayor of Elmira, Daniel D. Hungerford...
...Fifteen members of the Rebel Arts of the Y.P.S.L...
...The narrative ends with a vivid account of the brutal dispersal of ths bonus army, the gassing of men, women and children, the flight of the unfortunates as their shacks and tents were put to the torch, the temporary flocking into Johnstown and final disbanding of the army...
...Upper West Side (100 West 72nd St).—Thursday, July 6, special meeting to ratify nominations...
...Organizer Perry la engaged In the organising campaign ef the Central Trades Council...
...DO NOT aead items on postal cards...
...Waters is right...
...The following evening the Players will present a three-act comedy, directed by Richard Gaines, with a cast including Florence Cooper, Morris Klein, Mary Wagner, Elss Fried, Msrty Raphael, and others...
...Joint West Side Committee...
...Jamaica (9218 Now York Boulevard).— The branch will hold automobile outing Sunday, July 10...
...Bathing, tennis, baseball, followed by frankfurter roast under the moon...
...The Sound of Marching Feet In 1862 Ferdinand Lassalle Wrote: ' "I am convinced of the approach of the Revolution...
...Y.P.S.L...
...The great crusade of the labor movement Is to transform politics, to moralise industry and commerce, snd to divert science from bsse and destructive uses to human ends.—Canon Donaldson...
...That the beer question had something to do with Anderson's defest is conceded, but Farmer-Labor Party leaders are unanimous in declaring that the main cause of the overturn was the fact that the Mayor refused to consult with his party and virtually turned his back on the organization that elected him...
...Branch planning moonlight dance and entertainment evening of Friday, July 7, oh the roof of the Greenwich House, 7th Ave...
...2nd District, David Meyer...
...Close to 100 people attended the outing at the farm of Comrade Dobin June 25...
...Uth A. D. (901 Washington Ave...
...Composed of delegates from the branches of the West Side of New York city, has been formed for greater efficiency and effectiveness in the exchange of speakers, running joint forums and classes, mutual aid in political campaigns, joint action in work among the unemployed...
...At next branch meeting, Thursday, July 13, they will address the members at the clubrooms In the Burnside Manor...
...8th A. D.—Candidates for Alderman in the three districts in the 8th A. D.: Louis Painken, Alfred Belskin and George McMullen...
...then, oh...
...You guys are Socialists," says one...
...At branch meeting Monday plans were made and committees elected to build up district Canvassing in progress and enrolled voters' meeting in every election district...
...Economics of Amherst College...
...And, I think, Comrade Thomas is mistaken: The bankers upon whose aid every capitalistic government depends, will certainly reject any subsidy...
...Joseph Massidda, organiser of the National Leather Workers' Union...
...City Central Committee meeting, Wednes, July 5, 8:30 p. m , People's House...
...Selection of three more Council candidates and candidates for Supervisor was deferred...
...What most of them wanted was a "break...
...They chanted the following rhyme with pusto: "Mellon pulled the whistle, Hoover rang the bell, Wall Street gave the signal —And-the country went to Hell...
...Forum committee will make its report...
...As for the bankers: The ledger sheets would show no deficits, as every million dollars advanced to the fifteen million unemployed would be covered by promissary notes having forty-five million endorsers...
...California The preview showing...
...District of Columbia Washington, D. C—The Party has obtained permits for 32 btreet meetings...
...Round trip 50 cents...
...28rd A. I)., Fred Hodgson...
...If the "chiseler" was found in the ranks It is also true that the disciplined ex-soldier was the general rule...
...These entertainments will be interspersed by a water carnival and other sports...
...Remember, Sunday...
...One reported to General Glassford that Waters had "signed the Third International in BLOOD...
...they will find full support by the so-called taxpaying citizens as it would mean a direct loss to the government which would have to be covered in some way of taxation...
...All branches requiring regular size corner stepladder platforms take notice that these can be obtained at the city office...
...Now York: John Day...
...Special busses from 3 Joy St and 780 Blue Hill Ave, leave at 10 a.m...
...De NOT aead fall lists of candidates nominated fee public ofSce...
...Speaker, William M. Feigenbauml Entertainment and Social, Friday, July 14...
...New Jersey: Camden, 5th Ward Branch, 12th Ward, 13th Ward...
...C. Perry...
...Two plays ware preseated, "Risen from the Ranks" and "Adventures in a Telephone Booth,** and the Rebel Chorus presented several songs...
...Amicus Most...
...Comrades Wahsel and Moskowits elected to City Conference on Unemployment, Dr...
...An all day program of games, baseball, dancing and music will be provided—rain or shine...
...Several of the most active workers la the county ind Organizer Claessens will speak...
...The group was addressed by Yona Finkelstein and Fred Manning of Camden...
...In condemning the capitalist system, we Socialists point out that the profit system makes industrial stagnations unavoidable...
...Unemployed Party and Yipsel Members.—Each branch and circle secretary should supply party office with a list of unemployed members...
...The convention will begin Saturday for its business session...
...Greenwich Village.—Jessie Wallace Hughan was nominated for Assembly and Edward Levinson for Alderman hi the 10th District...
...This committee has recently figured in demonstrations for the Scottsboro boys...
...The signers el the convention call represent unemployed organizations, trade unions, edftators and women's organisations...
...40,000 pieces of literature have been ordered...
...They were ready to throw Communists into the river and were suspicious of Socialists...
...Disputes and suspicions arose over the command but on the whole the men were orderly...
...Maggin and Bob Wahsel elected to serve on Bskers' Committee...
...Waters aptly retorts that in the whole bonus array there was a less percentage of criminals than in the Harding Cabinet...
...July 16, for auto ride and picnic...
...Campaign Committee: Joseph Leventhal, Finkelstein, Wm...
...Not only would the fifteen million unemployed and their dependants be secured against want, but also all others—now at work—who at the present time tr, to economise in every conceivable way out of "fear for tomorrow" would raise their standard of living and so create a demand for labor...
...The curious amalgam of conflicting ideas in the heads of these unfortunates is of extraordinary interest...
...When, far from the noise of the day, I shut myself up in history...
...Each branch and Yipsel secretary is to supply party office with list of all members who are members of any unemployed organization...
...579 Dumont Ave...
...they were poverty conscious, not class conscious...
...Epstein will speak on "A Century of Progress in Music," "Wagner Fifty Years After" and "Die Meistersinger...
...A class based on Berenberg's "Socialist Fundamentals" was led by Cary White of Richmond, Va...
...Later in the season Hendrik Willem van Loon, Sigmund Spaeth, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Chicago Grand Opera Company, Charles Weidman and leading actors associated with the Actors' Dinner Club are scheduled at Unify House...
...Constable, Louis E. Wolf...
...Jewish Branch, 2nd A. I...
...August Claesseni of New York will apeak at North Ave...
...Branch meeting Thursday, July 8. Nominations for Assemblymen and Aldermen...
...Bankers, as we know them, understand to look at the ledger sheets and to find the Eassiva not exceeding the activa...
...Cicero Codina in the 2nd District...
...MANHATTAN 4th A. D. (126 Delancey St...
...4th District, Abraham P. Conan...
...Turned Back on Party MINNEAPOLIS...
...Comrades msking a house-to-house canvass of entire neighborhood, manning the picket fines, and speaking at street meetings...
...THIS is the story of the Bonus Expeditionary Force that camped in Washington last year and that was driven out by Federal soldiers...
...A committee will invite Socialists of Maryland and Virginia to participate in a conference on Socialism on Labor Day at the Workmen's Circle Camp...
...Alamogardo, Farmington, Las Cruces...
...Indiana Marion.—Local Marion announces the expulsion from the party of Samuel S. Condo and Harry Kline tor violation of the party constiPennsylvania Beading, — That the Socialist Park at Sinking Spring has lost ¦one of its popularity as a summer resort was demonstrated Sunday, June 18, when a erowd of 8,000 persons visited the park and enjoyed the full day's program which marked the opening Socialist picnic of the summer...
...Weekly Saturday street meeting July 1, at Main and Passaic Aves...
...4th A. D. (904 Prospect Ave...
...Frank Crosswaith five Wednesday nights in August will deliver a connected series of lectures near Washington Square Park...
...Send name ef leading candidate, NOT complete list as there is met resas for it...
...Send reservations to headquarters...
...The need for investigating and exposing local sweatshop conditions was emphasized...
...City Recorder, James S. Barber...
...This is one of many features at the House which marks the beginning of a season of the finest programs in Unity's history...
...Why fight for something that even if victorious we would stand defeated...
...Special lectures were given by Zilla Haawes on the history of the American labor movement...
...2nd District, Isidore Corn...
...and White Plains Road...
...Candidates will address meeting of the branch Tuesday, July 11, 9 p. m., Pelpark Palace, Lydlg Ave...
...New Mexico...
...A comprehensive series of lectures has been planned, beginning with three lectures on music by Herman Epstein from July 5-7, inclusive...
...H. E. Glazier is our delegate, and Raymond Van Sloten alternate...
...23rd A. D. (219 Sackman St...
...Coroner, Israel Putnam...
...Waters declares that they were not class conscious but "poverty conscious...
...This would undoubtedly stimulate business activity...
...Young, Mrs...
...Locals participating are Jamestown, Dunkirk, Fredonia and Silver Creek...
...entertainers, Bob's Bavarian Band, August Claessens...
...The school was led by Clarence Senior, executive secretary of the Socialist Party, and Hannah Morris of Milwaukee...
...Hamden.—Socialists have nominated the following delegates to the State Convention: Walter E. Davis, Gustave Berquist, John Lindquist, Swen Ottoson, Ernest Castiglioni, and N. Shapiro...
...Colston E. Warne, Prof...
...New Brunswick...
...There were spies and provocateurs in the bonus army...
...Abraham Wisotsky for Assemblyman...
...Chautauqua County.—An unofficial convention to select county candidates is to be held at Dunkirk Sunday...
...The Federal Government should authorise the B.F.C.—or establish s special body—to advance weekly loans to every individusl who can prove that he earned his living before the depression and that he is willing to do so now...
...Make reservations before July 2 at state office...
...It is a gripping narrative told by the commander of these jobless veterans...
...Meeting Monday, July 3, 8:30, at headquarters...
...At joint meeting held with the Downtown Branch the following were nominated: For Assembly— 1st District Alex Fenster...
...XI Elmira.—In an unofficial Chemung County convention last Monday the following recommendations for candidates were made: Member of Assembly, E. Marshall Bush...
...Liebman...
...Will conditions change merely because these means of subsistence will come through grants from the Federal government...
...man happiness and human misery have no definite value, therefore no place in the bookkeeping department...
...The book is done with restraint and one gets the impression that these disillusioned ex-soldiers may go any way in some important crisis, the direction depending upon whether some demagogue or enlightened workers and leaders become the dominant influence in their ranks...
...A meeting of these members will be held in the near future...
...Organizer E. J. Squier and Secretary Fred J. Smith of Local Jamestown were invited guests of the central labor body last Wednesday, speaking on the "Continental Congrees...
...Connecticut The reorganised Fifth District will hold a joint picnic with the Third, Sixth and Eighth Districts on July 25 at Columbus Park...
...T. Barton Akeley, and Prof...
...Some politicians sought political capital in this misery and the charlatan turned up, One "Master Mind of the World" sent a different plan each week to get the country out of the depression, and "America's Greatest Genius" planned to end it in a week...
...Massachusetts Springfield.—The state convention of the Continental Congress will convene Saturday and Sunday, July 8 and 0, at the Municipal Auditorium, according to Raymond Dow, State Convenor...
...Bellamy Club (904 Prospect Ave...
...23rd A.D., Edwin Koppel...
...In the evening a mass meeting will be addressed by Frank R. Crosswaith, of New York...
...By W. W. Waters, at told to William C. White...
...For Assemblyman, George I. Stein hardt...
...Make reservations with Comrades Knobloch or Diamond, 9 West 170th St...
...Rent Party, Wednesday, July 12, 9 p. m. Entertainment, dance, refreshments...
...Be BRIEF, not be cause we de not wsat year items...
...The first Socialist organizers' school held in the South opened on June 11 at the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, with thirteen students, representing seven southern states...
...Mayor Defeated...
...On July 2nd Isa Kremer and the Compinsky trio will give a joint concert...
...Socialist Members of Unemployed Organizations...
...For Aldermen— 1st District, M. Goldowsky...
...The general topic was Socialist organization and the program of the local branches...
...William A. Anderson, the first Farmer-Labor Party Mayor of this city, was defeated for re-election by a vote of 63,704 to 74,140 for A. G. Bainbridge, after two years in office...
...Hannah Morris taught Publie Speaking...
...1st A. D. (262 Cypress Ave...
...Old Ripley...
...AU roads lead to Babson Park, Wsllesley, to the July 4th Picnic of the Eastern Federation of Socialist locals...
...New Rochelle.—William E. Duffy of New York City discussed the Roosevelt "New Deal" at a successful street meeting last Saturday...
...QUEENS County Nominating Meeting.— Friday evening, June 80, there will be a general membership meeting of Queens County at headquarters of Branch Sunnyside, Monroe Court Committee Room, 43-13 Carol in St., Long Island City, to select county, aldermanie and assembly candidates...
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