HE'D SHOW EM!
Fischer, Ben
HE'D SHOW EM! A Study in Election Psychology By Ben Fischer IJIS eyes blazed. He bit hard, i His open palms folded into tightly clenched fists. "I've gone all over. I've gone to the relief...
...You had to quit college a year before you were to get a degree, to look for work...
...One of the union's chief items of complaint was that the company was having some of its work done by nonunion contracting firms...
...A LL class-conscious workers are urged to attend a mass meeting on Sunday at which Athos Terzani will put his case before the people of New York City...
...For weeks the District Attorney's office had fought the granting of Ike motion for the fingerprints on |he ground that the application was •an attempt to compel the prose-cation to divulge testimony in ad-Vance of trial...
...On tho second floor the Workers' Committee on Unemployment has its permanent headquarters...
...15th E. D., P. Edwards...
...Tammany must go...
...All interested communicate with Samuel H. Friedman, executive director, 22 East 22nd St., or Ben Bclsky (graphic arts...
...Fusion won't and should not tax the middle class...
...We must do something...
...On Election Day, twenty-four out at twenty-six districts were supplied with poll watchers, all of whom reported...
...They all clapped...
...Active in the organization are Ida Fox, Jamaica Branch...
...Instead they were going to the rally...
...The straight vote rose 100% in the following districts, a fact due largely to the efforts of the election district leaders who are noted: 1st E. D., Clara Larson...
...Students and Workers House Opens as Cultural Center OTUDENTS, unemployed workers, artists, intellectuals, and unemployed college graduates have joined together and taken over a four-story house at 22 East 22nd Street, christened it the Students' and Workers' House, and launched a variety of labor and Socialist activities...
...Well, if the Socialists had any chance I'd vote for them...
...Eager faces listened as the champion of the Down With Tammany Forces ipoke...
...Sets NRA Precedent THK Joint Board of the Dress-* makers' Union, affiliated with the I.L.G.W.U., has set a precedent in enforcement of the NRA code for the dress industry...
...We'd take a chance...
...I. "Hrlllah Labor Parly...
...When the members are particularly outraged we get ten or twenty down to the relief station and raise hell...
...Where's the money coming from...
...He has too much pride and too much guts to talk about himself while his family is in such misery...
...Fridays, 6:46...
...They don't want to hear any more than absolutely necessary about the misery that has overtaken millions of Americans...
...Pre...
...The speakers were telling of workers, unemployed, of capitalists, Socialism, bankers, LaGuardia and his banker friends, the need for the workers to take power...
...They pay the campaign bills...
...Something will be done...
...Jonath knew, and he nodded...
...They all knew what Tammany did...
...23rd E. D., C. Wipf...
...Well, I don't know," Jack's friend replied...
...The goal Is 60,000 signatures to be presented la the Board of Estimate...
...What can I do...
...Why not build a great revolutionary party...
...Te outrage of such misery, unheeded by so-called charity, unheeded by even the city relief bureau...
...5th E. D., Elizabeth Smith...
...There had been a meeting of the unemployed last night...
...But what can we do...
...Terzani Defense Wins Point On Eye of Trial [JUDGE THOMAS KADIEri of * the Queens County Court signed an order Wednesday directing District Attorney Charles S. Colden to surrender to the defense in the Athos Terzani-Khaki Shirts murder case photogi aphs of all fingerprints found on the pistol which killed Anthony Fierro, anti-Fascist student, in Astoria, L. I., July 14...
...LaGuurdia could win, get Tammany out, and give us better conditions...
...Every week we have a few cases like this...
...Your own family is talking about moving into a smaller fiat...
...Advanced danct, Fridays, 7:45 ;i...
...Election Day, the fourth entered the voting booth...
...Four of them went to the rally...
...It's terrible...
...We start a lot of fuss...
...Damn youl Haven't you got any self-respect T Here Republicans, Democrats, Fuslonlsts, Reformers and what-nots have been handing crumbs to the workers and bread to the bankers and capitalists for generations...
...Ilia auh-ject la "Trends of the Hrvnlutlon In Spain...
...Applause...
...No, Each tells me of another I might go to...
...LaGuardla is a good man...
...He was walking home with a friend...
...Sometimes they give us I something...
...Comrade Andrew Johnson, Aldermanic candidate, also did extremely well, and instead of being knifed in the interest of La Guardia, Charles Solomon actually led the ticket 'n many election districts...
...We send down a committee...
...The other groups will meet according to the desires of those registered for them...
...Then, his jaw set, he pulled down the Arm and Torch levers, right down the line...
...11th E. D., Lillie Carr and Sadie Reilly...
...of thca-pians, daubers, and artists, through meetings of unemployed groups, through seminars in literature and the class war, through songfests and other festivals...
...What the hell for...
...Speaker i Prod lUuderaon...
...Patterson, Pietro Allegra, Herbert Mahler and Girolamo Valenti...
...In a settlement of a strike against the Paris Maid Dress Co., 463 Seventh Ave., announced . by Julius Hochman, manager of the joint board, the company agreed to pay $100 to reimburse the Union for the co«t of enforcing the code...
...The meeting will Our held in Irvine l'la/4 Hall, 15th Street and Irving Place, at 3 p. m Terzani will speak in Philadelphia on Friday night in the Labor Institute...
...m. Potter clam, T'ondayi, 7 to 10 p. m. TAfe class, Thursdays, 7 to 10...
...You'll see...
...One day, with the plants of the company tied up, the Communist-led Needle Trade Workers' Industrial Union supplied the main plant at 463 Seventh Avenue with 12 cutters, according to August Gerber, assistant manager of the joint board, and Charles Zimmerman, manager of Local 22...
...A petition is being circulated kerning these demands...
...Kings ' i*|gSPITE the fact that the rel/cent municipal campaign was I MM of the most difficult under g|«B by the Socialists for many rn, it it gratifying to note that several districts where active ssatpsigning was undertaken the socialists more than held their Bp In the 8th A.D., Kings County, Bm Socialists organized fifteen out sf the twenty-six districts with captains and distributed thousands if pieces of literature in the course sf intensive neighborhood calling...
...Democrats, Republicans, charitable people, good people . . . they're all alike...
...There they would find out what would happen if Tammany was ousted...
...Two fere convinced,- two decided to "oust Tammany...
...On the way home one changed his mind...
...He is a citizen...
...They weren't going to tho meeting...
...Jonath was only one example...
...But It takes more taxes to get that relief, even after waste has been eliminated...
...He said that things would be better when Tammany was ousted, and "we are given the responsibility of serving the people of this great city...
...The company agreed to live up to all provisions of the NRA rode, and to deal only with the joint board in its labor relations...
...But Fusion promises to eliminate waste when it kicks Tammany out...
...He saw the Arm and Torch, then the name of LaGuardia...
...Jack's friend shook his head...
...Wat* man, l#e...
...You never had a job in your life, though you've been out of school now for two years...
...The Socialists won't get in this year, and I wanta see something done this year...
...It is a crime that honest, unemployed men and women of the working class are treated like cattle, rather than decent, upstanding citizen*- of this great city...
...Ihla ahnulil he of apeclal Interest to all Roclallalt and fvnipalhlsers...
...A hard-looking man grown humble is talking about himself and his family at the meeting of the unemployed...
...8th E. D., Sadie Depew...
...On the first landing is Robel Arts...
...Don't forget that he's just as sick as his wife and kids...
...In addition it acceded to the demand of the union to reimburse it for the cost of enforcing the rode...
...1, "The XHA...
...A young man is listening, attentively, excitedly, his fists clenched...
...A copy of the court's order was immediately served upon District Attorney Colden by Harry Sacher, one of the seven volunteer attorneys for the defense, who had argued the motion for the finger impressions...
...My kids get sicker...
...That's what my folks say, too...
...The four were thinking...
...But he didn't answer...
...Nevertheless, the company agreed to the joint board's demands and a settlement was agreed upon...
...Suddenly Jack said: "By the way, who are you voting for...
...Socialism from top to bottom wouldn't even scare us...
...lftth E. D., Elliott Zeitlin...
...They never take care I of these people as human beings...
...That would make too many enemies...
...It has been estimated that there are in the city between 100,000 and 175,000 single women unemployed and many of them homeless...
...This man fought in the World war...
...And you're still worrying about Tammany Hall...
...Lot me tell you, everyone who hears that story ought to vote straight Socialist this year, without even hesitating...
...But don't forget to tell them he's sick, too...
...When the meeting was over the young man who had made this special appeal took the chairman of the committee aside...
...Socialist Party Forum At (In- Saturday afternoon forum at the nand School under party aueplcea, Vliicriim Vaclrea, prominent llallert Jto-rlallut, recentlyJsHurned from Spain, will he Ihe >iMr1pn] aprakrr...
...is regarded as a precedent which the joint board will seek to enforce against all violators of the code...
...Mass Demonstration for Terzani Sunday...
...The group demands temporary relief in cash, for single unemployed women, not less than $40 a month, and useful jobs in non-eaapetitive organizations, with a arinmium wage of $15 a week...
...nosoff...
...While he had a job he worked hard for a living...
...Ho could hardly restrain himself...
...Judge Kadien ruled that Terzani was entitled to ''any reasonable opportunity to prove his innocence," and that •justice demands that this application be granted...
...The curtain closed...
...Fusion can't tax banks, big corporations, utilities...
...Hell do something anyway...
...Walking up the stairs one has to charge through group...
...A silence followed...
...Headquarters are in new Students and Workers goose, 22 East 22nd Street Rend School Scholarships Applications are being received • the office of the Rand School, • last 15th St., for scholarships h the Workers' Training Course...
...He pulled down the lever over LaGuardla's name...
...Helen Pickenlmeh and Anna Caples, Vil-l*gs Branch...
...Jack's face grew red...
...Finally he said, bitterly: "Your own father's been out of a job for four and a half months...
...So fai Rebel Arts groups meet as follows: Elementary dance, Tuesdays, 0:16 and 7:15 p. m...
...12th E. I)., J. Moshman...
...We don't care...
...My wife grows weaker...
...This act they characterized as "open efforts at strike-breaking...
...What can I do...
...Applause...
...The jobless are going to get wise to themselves and vote and fight with their own people, the Socialists...
...Jack was quivering with excitement...
...Last Friday evening the center was officially opened with greetings from Normnn Thomas, Mary Fox, Samuel A. DeWitt, Franz Daniel, J. B. Matthews, Samuel H. Friedman, B. Charncy Vladeck and Joseph Lash...
...Every time my blood boils...
...Tammany that controls the relief stations that turn us down...
...There's nothing we got to lose...
...that the city take over closed resi-eences for the use of such women...
...Fusion promises more and better relief...
...Get wise, why don't you...
...With the increasing need for a Socialist and workers' culture to express Socialist ideals, to serve the Socialist movement and to counteract capitalist "culture," and with the endorsement of Rebel Arts by tho National Executive Committee of the party and the cultural committco of tho Young Peoples' Socialist League, the organization is anxious to make its work more effective and more enthusiastically to enlist the cooperation of party members...
...2nd E. I)., John Surke...
...A big Socialist vote will tell them we want more and better relief, we want power for the workers, we want no ri.se in subway fares and want cheaper electricity and gas...
...You listen to the dire needs of these men and their families...
...The results: Despite an unusually active campaign, conducted by the Republicans and their Fusion allies, the natural tendency for many of the numerous Italian-American voters to back La Uuardia, Bill Beedie, the well-known Socialist labor organizer, [ polled 297 votes, the largest aver-accorded a candidate for the Leg islature in the 8th A.I), on the Socialist ticket...
...This group has been al-atost entirely neglected in city relief...
...On the third floor, In a room painted a deep blue to contrast with tho vivid red of the flags guarding tho fircnlalce, students from all New York colleges gather every evening for discussion and comradoship and song...
...Unemployed Single Women Organizing The Association of Unemployed tingle Women, including white-eollar workers, industrial workers sad professional people, was organized to demand relief in cash or fobs...
...His friend shrugged his shoulders: "Fusion...
...In view of the Hpanlah elec-llona Imt ftumlny...
...A committee was appointed to go to the relief station and demand extra food and milk and medicine for his sick family...
...They filed past the meeting place of the unemployed...
...21st E. D., James Tate...
...The strike ended in a complete victory for the union, as a result of which 700 dressmakers will be returned to work on Monday...
...7th E. D., Thora Kennerly...
...Is there nothing we can do to help this man...
...I've gone to the relief stations, to the Salvation Army, the local churches, and I met the same answer...
...Fusion...
...The "fine" imposed on the Paris Maid Dress Co...
...The lesson: Local Responsibility and Activity in the Neighborhood bring Results...
...The building has been taken over by five groups: Rebel Arts, the New York student groups of the League for Industrial Democracy, the Workers' Committee on Unemployment, the Association of Unemployed College Alumni and the Association of Unemployed Single Women...
...Tonight was a Socialist rally...
...Ht'd thovi theml How Intensive Work in Local Districts Can Achieve Results By David M. Cory District Leader, 8th A.D...
...Spesheri...
...6th E. D., Eric Berlin...
...He rises and a voice full of restrained emotion says: "Is there nothing we can do...
...They agreed...
...And yoifvote Fusion...
...But a big Socialist vote will serve notice on the ruling powers, not only the politicians, but the hand behind them, the bankers...
...Edith Turgcll Friedman (dance), Leo Stein (camera), Bruno Fischer (writers), David Rossi (full length pI»Xf...
...Terzani, who goes to trial on Konday in Long Island City for the killing of Fierro, his comrade, Contends that the slaying actually was done by a Philadelphia member of the Fascist Khaki Shirts at a meeting of that organization...
...i His friend nodded approval of each sentiment...
...A Study in Election Psychology By Ben Fischer IJIS eyes blazed...
...Jack, the young man, still burned inside...
...Pressure . . . serve notice . . . the hand behind the politicians . . . these things were hard to understand...
...Speakers will include Norman Thomas, Carlo Tresco, William I...
...Except in the case of students Hp have began the course within M last two years and have not Iff been graduated, scholarships will be granted only to persons *h» can show at least eight {laths' good-standing membership • the Socialist Party, the Young ifMple's Socialist League, or the .T*inR Circle League, or who are ¦*»bers In good standing of some mm union or of the Workmen's Dressmakers' Union Wins Vital Strike...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
