For 10,000 Rarty Members Win Good Standing by 1934
Gilbson, Leon
For 10,000 Rarty Members Win Good Standing by 1934 faties of an Organizer; a Disciplined Mendbership; Planned and Well-Organized Branches. By Leon Gilbson ifHE success or failure of any I...
...Now thst the campaign It over, let us show the tame spirit and devotion to our ideals by starting In preparation for the day when the hosts of enlightened labor of all races and creeds will sdvsnce Irre-tlstably snd victoriously upon the citadel of capitalism as a necettary atep in our determination to recapture the world which labor has built with its tears and pains...
...The committee has examined the remarks attributed to Comrade Cahan that appeared In the press and declares that tome of them are not consistent with the position of the Socialist Party...
...Here again the fault does not lis with the principle or with the committee, but with the organisers, who have net given it their fullest cooperation...
...until Socialism sweeps off the face of the earth capitalism— that pyramid of pain for the workers of the world...
...wnry Rosner, Research Secre-¦ntf the Socialist Party, and Hp E. Yavner did magnificent throughout the campaign In ¦king exact facta regarding Hfclpal problems and placing Km/ tee* ** d!Bp08Sl °* thC Illy feel, and am sure les Solomon and Cross-t with me, that the ) research staff should i continued under the rship of Henry Rosner trything should be done ty tot strengthen it It would have been absolutely Impossible for the candidates to have discussed the constructive issues of the campaign from day to day as they did during September and October without the splendid aid Of the Research Department...
...3—Louis Untermyer, "What Americans Read and Why...
...Season subscriptions may be secured at either the Brooklyn Academy of Music or the city office, 7 East 15th St...
...Theodore Shapiro and Bradford Young (Friedman, secretary...
...17—Norman Thomas vs...
...Fred Henderson, "British Labor Today...
...The City Central Committee, on receipt of a protest by ten party members, eight of whom had heard the remarks, elected a committee of six to Interview Comrade Cahan and prepare a statement for the Party and the capitalist press...
...McGrady is assistant to General Johnson as Administrator of NRA and is also Assistant Secretary of Labor...
...He must strer play the role of a politician, for thus one becomes the center of factional disputes, which often •roves fatal to himself and to the kanch...
...The organizer in a lunch fulfills the same functions as the manager in a bust-Bess...
...25 — Alexander Woolcott, "Soviet Russia's Drama as I View It...
...Prof...
...The program follows: Nov...
...To all of you who fought so nobly and so well In the campaign I lift my hat in comradely admiration...
...Admission Is free...
...The Propaganda and Organization Committee has nothing to do with controversial matters, but concerns itself primarily with organisation problems...
...Forum Season Begins With NRA Symposium on Sunday "THE Brooklyn Forum opens its 1933-34 season this Sunday, Nov...
...Let ut, therefore, continue to organize and educate our clan, confident that no wind can drive the bark of Socialism astray, nor change the tide of destiny...
...9th at the Labor Lyceum, 219 Sack-man St...
...The new committee can be made the natural connecting link between all the branches and the central office...
...In our movement the spirit Sfjpnradeship plays an important ¦Land it is up to the organizer jttselop it...
...Strong branches make , a strong party...
...The creation of that committee was a splendid move...
...The candidates of three groups, representing basically things as they are, studiously avoided sny discussion of the really important problems underlying the campaign...
...In addition it will undertake to print and supply branches with literature, and to act as a training school for organizers...
...Charles Edward Russell, a good newspaper man, won fame in the early part of the century as a "muckraker" along with Lincoln Steffens, Upton Sinclair and Ida Tarbell...
...Feb...
...T'.ie concert wiil start nt 8 p. m. and will, Le given by PalockolTs orchestra...
...18—Prof...
...We are confident that time and events will prove the short-sightedness of those who voted for LaGuardia and Fusion, believing they represented something fundamentally new in socio-economic and political thought...
...For the effective campaign of enlightenment waged so decorously by the Socialist Party, great credit ia due our standard-bearers, Charlea Solomon and Harry W. Laidler...
...The dsyt of capitalism are numbered...
...A Mib-commlttee (Dclson, Friedman, Young, Julius Oerber (cx-offirlo) was named to confer with Comrade Cahan...
...21—George Gordon Battle vs...
...8. He denied absolutely having said (as quoted in the Herald Tribune) that "if anybody is entitled to membership in the Socialist Party, President Roosevelt is...
...10,000 members in good standing by 1934 is an objective which should prove easy of attainment under this sew plan...
...14— to be anounced...
...Sidney Hook, Louis Boudin, Haim Kan torovich, symposium on Marxism...
...The organizers are becoming aware that they are the backbone, the builders of the party...
...The other members of the committee are Henry Kritzer, the director, Paula Arnaud, Dr...
...Local New York's Stand On Cahan's Garden Speech AT a victory celebration meeting held October 4th by the Dress makers' Joint Board, I.L.G.W.U., in Madison Square Garden, Comrade Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward and long a Socialist spokesman, made a speech greeting the 26,000 garment workers in the hall "as a Socialist" and congratulating theA on their gains...
...If he U wideawake, Bpessive and blessed with pod judgment, the business H prosper and develop...
...The speakers are outstanding experts...
...The system It doomed to go the way of its predecessors...
...Since the organizer must super-Tit* all branch activities and be in isMS with other active comrades Vpr at times may have to be dis-dfluied, it is necessary to be level-ktsded and persistent...
...2. Comrade Cahan denied that he had intimated in any way in his speech that the NRA was Socialism...
...Tickets for individual events are on sale at the Academy, the city office and the Rand Book Store...
...William E. Bohn, Herman Rivkln, Sarah Rules, Norman Thomas and Louis E. Yavner...
...It was indeed sn honor to have fought by their side in the campaign...
...Letters were sent to the newspapers which had printed them calling atten" i to this fact A full report with the committee's action and recommendations was ordered presented to the City Central Committee...
...March 4—Norman Thomas, "One Year of Roosevelt," The first symposium, on the NRA, is expected to draw s capacity audience...
...It plans to strengthen poorly functioning branches, to coordinate the work of the various branches, and to create new branches in localities where none exist at present...
...if not, | is bound to fail, and that is mm true of a Socialist Party pinch...
...Ht Bust be in constant touch with the movement through the Socialist press, and never allow himself to Krusty on current events...
...and Local New York on the NRA before sneaking on It It hopes thst In t'.ie future Comrade Cahan, recognizing his party responsibility aa a beloved and honored veteran of the movement will be more careful to inform himself on the position of the Party on vital matter, before addressing his fellow comrades and workers on such subjects in his role at a Socialist Party member...
...The sub-committee conferred with Comrade Cahan for three hours, and got his consent to issue the following statement in reply to the committee's questions about his speech and about the newspaper reports of his .address, especially la the Herald Tribune and the News: 1. In his speech at the .Garden, Comrade Cahan prefseed his remarks by saying that ho knew very little about the NRA, having been out of the country for s considerable time...
...B»»u»h the initiative of Henry Fruchter, member of the City Ex-excutive Committee, a Propaganda and Organisation Committee has been created aa a sub-committee of the City E: ecutive Committee...
...Results of Campaign Will Emerge in the Near Future Our Vote Was AH Out of Profwrtkm to the Reel Strength of Socialism in New Yorh—Praise fog the Ypsels for Their Work By Freak R. Cmmntk DY general consent New York City never witnessed a municipal campaign with so much surface confusion as that just ended...
...Instead they sought to turn the election upon unrelated moral and meaningless abstruse issues...
...4. He affirmed that, while expressing doubts as to the success of the NRA, he had congratulated President Root tvelt for having tried to bring order out of chaos, for tackling problems ordinarily considered outside the function of the state, and for compelling certain industries to accept the principle of collective bargaining...
...28—to be announced...
...11 —Max Eastman vs...
...Roy Clark Hanaway, "Resolved: That Socialism Is Superior to Capitalism...
...That our party to stronger as g result of the campaign is admitted by all who aes beneath the surface...
...B. Charney Vladek, "The Workers' Triumph Cannot Be Achieved Through Democracy...
...4—to be announced...
...In this cause I am enlisted for life...
...In 1910 and 1912, he was Socialist candidate for Governor of New York, and In 1913 he ran for Mayor...
...in which Edward F. McGrady, Charles Edward Russell and Louis Waldman will participate...
...The vote received by our ticket by no means reflects the constructive force we represented...
...at the very least he Mid possess a sense of humor, litre is no room for a grouch in ¦tt a position in the Socialist »Jbce our party is composed of Inches it is obvious that its sfngth is dependent directly upon the strength of the individual Rhea...
...The demeanor, stability, spirit and unselfish devotion te the lofty principles of ear Socialist Ideals which the comrades everywhere showed ¦ especially the members of the Young People's Socialist League-gave me a great thrill that neither time nor years will erase...
...19, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with a symposium on "Is NRA America's Way Out...
...Jacob Panken, "Resolved: That the Democratic Party Expresses the Hopes and Aspirations of the American People...
...JKl organizer should be a psy-¦Mflst...
...I salute you and say: Together let's fight on until labor reaps ths full social value of its efforts...
...Louis Waldman is New York State Chairman of the Socialist Party and a member of its national Public Affairs Committee...
...They also understand that, to be effective, they must carefully plan their work...
...Above the din and confusion the scholarly, dignified and p welcome relief...
...and the Local New York resolutions...
...The sooner the organisers realise the importance of this committee the sooner we win be able to begin our onward march...
...Its members are the organisers of all the branches of Local New York, and they meet every Tuesday from 6 to 7 p. m. in the Rand School...
...The season consists of fifteen events on successive Sunday nights, ending 4, 1934...
...The committee consisted of Comrades August Claessens, Max Del son Samuel H. Friedman, James Oneal...
...By Leon Gilbson ifHE success or failure of any I organization depends to a ugt extent upon the ability of fimanager...
...Dec 81—New Year's Eve Frolic...
...authority...
...With this in mind the committee is about to begin a Survey, Research and Statistical department When the necessary material has been gathered—material concerning the problems confronting each individual branch and locality in the city—plans will be kid and the job of systematic organization begun...
...The committee has given this statement to The New Leader for publication and recommends to the Central Committee the sdoption of the following resolution: "TO City Central Committee Is glad to have the statement by Comrade Cahan as presented by the special committee correcting the reports of Lis speech st Madison Square Garden October 4. It notes that this unfortunate Incident was partly the result of Comrade Cahan's failure to inform himself adequately on the position of the N.E.C...
...Harry W. Laldler is vice-chairman...
...Although the rstsjuaatis and Organization Committee baa bean in arltteiwe fee more than six months, so far it cm scarcely be credited with great aaaaaasitsh meats...
...In the course of his extemporaneous address he made certain references to President Roosevelt and the NRA to which many comrades took exception as inconsistent with the position of the Socialist Party, as expressed and made clear in a statement of the National Executive Committee of the Party and by Local New York...
...He admitted also that at the time he did not know the party position, since he had not road the statement of that position as expressed In the N.E.C...
...26, debater-Frank Crosswaith vs...
...Scott Nearing, "Which Way Out—Socialism or Communism...
...He can make or break a fefcs a successful organiser a comrade must possess s thorough aaderstanding, not only of the So eialist philosophy but also of the history of the Socialist and labor movement at home and abroad...
...Workers' organizations are ask.'d to aid the Brownsville W.U.L...
...HE RESEARCH STAFF YfaV Harry W. La idler In behalf of the three city-wide tost tot tea on the Socialist city f*«t in the municipal campaign, **/1 express, through the columns •Itbe New Leader, our very greet •PPreciation to the many hundreds J* workers in the Socialist Party mm York City for their splen-¦I support during the campaign, 'fw I take this opportunity par JBtorly to express our thanks to ¦fmeutive and Research staff ¦•Party...
...7—to be anounced...
...I am of the •Stolon that at least a part of the HP is with the branches them-¦tott...
...weak branches MSB an impotent and ineffective one of those who believe Hp all blame for inefficiency, lack Inactivity or mismanagement ¦¦tot justly be placed with the astral party office...
...Resolved, that a eopy of thle resolution be sent to Comrade Cahan and the Jewish Dsily Forward...
...While it is still in the process of formation, I feel certain that it wQl play aa ha porta** part m tsar mcvsment aa time gees eta...
...Russell is now Washington correspondent for important periodicals, and a noted biographer...
...They are its engineers and architects, upon whom the burden of creating an effective organization falls...
...The people voted against Tammany, exactly as the nation a year ago voted against Hoover...
...B. Charney Vladek is chairman of the Brooklyn Forum Committee and Dr...
...Of course, V| agree with ¦He comrades who say that, in ¦*» to function properly, the ¦Baches must be guided and their ¦thrlties coordinated by some centos...
...Brownsville W. U. L The Brownsville Group of the Workers' Unemployed League Is holding s concert and raffle Dec...
...On every occasion we presented to the people the real and vital economic and social problems upon which politics is predicated...
...It was the candidates of the Socialist Party alone who brought into the arena of discussion light and sanity...
...and all members sre invited to sttend the concert and participate In the raffle...
...There to every reason to expect that the undertaking will be a success...
...10—Fenner Brockway vs...
...This i first requirement, it is true, 1st it is by no means enough...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 21
