Orr Sentiment Sweeping District
Friedman, Samuel
Orr Sentiment Sweeping District Campaign for Bronx Special 1Election Is Winning Much I Support Among Workers By Samuel Friedman H|/HY are Socialists all over " the city—with a sprinkling from...
...Formerly editor of the Daily Worker...
...Next Sunday morning, again at 10 a. m., it is hoped that hundreds more will come to plant the leaflets in every house...
...Hundreds of arms were lifted in Socialist tribute, and thousands of workers who had never seen the salute he-fore followed the example of the Yipsels...
...It should mean a lot to the workers as well...
...Its widespread observance is illustrated by The New Leader Leader report oi the funeral of our martyred German comrade, Johannes Stelling: "A shout was heard (from the crowd) of...
...Sunday's debate against Scott Nearing will be the fifth event sponsored by the Brooklyn Forum at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lafayette and Flalbush Aves., Brooklyn Nearing is considered one of the ablest and most popular theoretical exponents of the communist position in the United States, and Thomas, of course, is —Thomas The debate is expected to be one of the most sensational ever held in radicals cirales and, Abe Belsky, secretary of the Brooklyn Forum, reports, there has already been a tremendous advance sale of tickets...
...But I also find it most Important to fight against the individuals calling themselves Communists who, under the guise of Marxian activities, maneuver their petty rackets...
...and Hrook Ave...
...and Morris Ave.i l.'iNih St and St...
...and others...
...This election m ant something to them...
...Wednesdays- 167th St...
...I'rliUy...
...The old parties aren't going to let any bets slip by...
...I deem it my duty to fight against Hitlerism, Mussolinism and all similar reactionary movements...
...Remember that 8ubscsiption list of yours and keep it going around and around...
...The leaders and speakers in the party are actively engaged in the campaign...
...Ann's Ave.| 141st St...
...Socialism, with Samuel Orr...
...and Cypress Ave.— Speakers i Thomae, l.iilillri...
...His opponents—and no one can be certain till the last legal trick is satisfied Who his opponents are, although there is no doubt what they are •nd what they represent—are concerned only with office and service to their machines...
...and Walton Aviv...
...which authorized it on instructions from the Beading convention let me explain Its meaning: The salute is intended as another symbol of working class unity...
...and St...
...and Morris Ave ; 13*th SI...
...Every night that the temperature is above 40 degrees, there is a street corner meeting—and that's going some in the dead of winter...
...So I am a Fascist...
...The complainant, a one-time Communist, based hii charge on the contention that the union representatives had "forced" him into signing an a? eement with the union against his will under "threats" of strike and "ruin" to the business of the employer...
...22nd, despect-ively...
...STRUCT MKkTINGS Mondays- 170th St...
...I/niii St...
...170th St and Mxrrlii Ave.—Speakers...
...Our simple gesture is already hallowed in our eyes...
...in fact, there is nothing they would not do, even to advertising the German steamship lines...
...Ann's Ave.| Mitili St...
...The Communist V j Elore is always open to unscrupulous advertisers and gladly accepts their share of the spoils reaped from these ads...
...Tuesday, Dii...
...That's what they're complaining •bout as more and more citizens ¦nd workers in the two assembly districts affected, sick to death of •Id party politics, disillusioned •bout "Fusion" and ridiculing "Recovery," are beginning to turn to the Socialist candidate...
...Thomas also debates Hamilton Fish at the Bronx Labor Center Friday night, December 15th, on Capitalism vs...
...Thomas will debate different opponents, but in each case he'll put in a lick for Orr and then whirl over to the indoor mass n.ee'ir.g and bat another homer for the Socialist candidate...
...ttvth St...
...Clarsinont I'arkway and WnslilnKton Ave...
...and St...
...23rd...
...senatorial candidate in the 21st District, as chairman...
...and Walton An- i iiwtip St...
...They called upon all "good Communists" to do so through fieir party organs and leaflets...
...At home, in H ni.ary, I have been on the editorial staff of the Nepzava, official organ of our party...
...170th St...
...As • matter of fact, our' use of a salute antedates theirs...
...JO, P. S. 7(1, 173rd St...
...ami Weeks Ave...
...Norman 'i'lii.inns, i I link Crosswillth, < Iniilil Solomon, .in.<,h I'siiken, Jasper Mi l.rvy and Samuel Orr...
...One of my endless tasks is to wngc a ruthless fight against the lying group gathered around the cheap Communist publication Vj Elore, who are forever ready to join hands with any real estate swindler and other racketeer, robbing the unsuspecting Hungarian workers...
...The Bronx Forum will hold a Morris Hillquit Memorial meeting on December 29th, when Hillquit Hall, the meeting place of the Center, will be dedicated...
...Its use is confined to the singing of the last verse of the chorus of the Internationale...
...Speakers are urged to report at headquarters, and others must come along too, to give out literature and to engage in the vital work of canvassing...
...Saturday, Dir...
...The Yipsels respectfully differ, believing that hand as well as heart should serve the cause, that in every phase of our being, by symbol •nd by act, we should represent our Socialist character...
...and Morris Ave.t 141ft St and St...
...Solomon argued that the union representatives had dono nothing more than is done by unions in similar circumstances, and that if tho defendants were guilty of criminal coercion because they "compelled" the employer to "sign on the dotted line" under threat of strike and Its probable consequences, the entii a labor movement was, by implication, an outlaw...
...Of particular interest in the campaign is the rumor reaching Socialist Party headquarters that considerable Fusion sentiment will be in back of Samuel Orr, both because of Ins noteworthy record in the State Assembly and because voters who consider themselves "genuine Fusionists" arc disappointed at the failure of Fusion to nominate a candidate of its own...
...and Cypress Ave...
...The club condemns a society that permits filching of large fortunes from exploited workers and that provides an incentive for kidnaping, and condemns the Governor's uspport of lynch law as a remedy for kidnaping...
...His work in the assembly is remembered by the toiling and jobless men and women whom he represented there...
...an, P. K. S6, MM St...
...and Courllandt Ave...
...and Courtlsndt Ave...
...Plenty...
...That's what the capitalist parties are asking as they trade and jockey and pull wires and scratch backs in an endeavor to make gome arrangement whereby the ¦eat of former State Senator Schackno, elevated to a City Court job in the last election, can be assured them with a minimum of exjwsure and bad smell...
...snd llrook Ave...
...Then union men wore represented by the firm of Goldberg & Solomon, through Charles Solomon...
...Remember the debates at the forum of the Bronx Labor Center this Friday and next Friday night...
...What a chance for the workers' voice to be heard at Albany—in behalf of the tenants, the consumers, the straphangers, the small depositors (if any), the teachers, the civil service employees, the unemployed, the farmers, the workers and the children of the state...
...Speakers, representing the Socialist and Labor movements, will be Algernon Lee, Haim Kantorovich, William M. Fcigenbaum, and Julius Hoch-man of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...XI, starting...
...Seven hundred watchers will be needed to man (or woman) every polling place...
...Minor was Communist candidate for Mayor in the recent election...
...lstth St...
...Ann's Ava.| 141*t St...
...More details will be printed next week...
...Thursduys -1701b St...
...A special edition of The New Leader, devoting four pages to the Bronx campaign, will be issued, I. is expected, and 100,000 copies distributed to the voters there...
...Come to watchers' meeting and get ready to do your bit on election day right on the battlefield...
...I For myself, I shall never forget the spectacle that I saw in the tragic hour of our loss in America, when the hearse carrying what was mortal of our beloved leader, Morris Hillquit, passed between the lines of young Socialists on its way to the waiting flames...
...Meetings in the Bronx Campaign to Elect Orr Wednesday, »ce...
...He has a record of sincere, devoted, Untiring service to the workers of the Bronx...
...Spenkrrs: Vlwleek, Chimin, Halm Knntorovltrh, Herman Siil/riuiii ami Su in ml Orr...
...In addition, the fact Is being made clear that the state senator to be elected December 28, will hold the balance of power in a legislative body evenly divided between the harpies of up-state Republican reaction and the vultures of Tammany-Flynn-McCooey corruption...
...The Hungarian Communists called a mass meeting in front of my home...
...Ann's Ave.j 14Sth St and iimuiip Ave...
...ftaturduya noili St...
...While the Socialist Party, of course, makes no overture to those voters and is interested only in genuine Socialist support, it calls on all workers to support the workers' candidate and welcomes all who express that support by voting for Orr...
...Orr Sentiment Sweeping District Campaign for Bronx Special 1Election Is Winning Much I Support Among Workers By Samuel Friedman H|/HY are Socialists all over " the city—with a sprinkling from the metropolitan area outside—making so much fuss over • single State Senatorial district fo the Bronx...
...and Concourse | Featherbed I«ne and Shakaspear* Avt.i Hlit St...
...Through my newspaper, the "Ember," I am continuously fighting against Horthy, Hitler, Mussolini and all the other despots...
...Thomas' debate with Robert Minor is equally important...
...Condor 1" read their manifesto...
...Charges of "Criminal Coercion" Brought by Ex-Communitt Dismissed A unique labor case resulted] favorably for tho union side in Williamsburgh Bridge Plaza Magistrates' Court when the Magistrate dismissed charges of criminal coercion brought by Israel Kiaen-stcin, secretary of the Erasmus Laundry Co., Inc., of Brooklyn, against Samuel Rosenzweig, general manager of Local 810, Laundry Drivers' Union, and Morris Schoenweather, shop steward in the Erasmus plant...
...and Willis Ave, 141st SI...
...Minor is one of the chief figures in the Communist movement...
...Come to the indoor rallies, a list of which appears elsewhere...
...This debate will be held next Friday at the Bronx Labor Center, 809 Westchester Avenue, Bronx...
...Comrades, Yipsels from all over the city are alive to the opportunity in the Bronx...
...Tickets may be secured during the week from Jack Altman at the Socialist Party office, 7 East 15th Street, or at the Bronx Labor Center...
...I, who have single-handed fought against Horthy's butchers and exposed their atrocities before the entire world 1 In closing I wish to state that, in spite of all their efforts, the demonstration turned out to be a complete flop, for no sane worker was willing to pay any attention to the Communist manifesto directed against me...
...YPSL LEADER DEFENDS CLENCHED FIST SALUTE By Aaron Levenstein COMRADE WALDMAN'S criticism of the official Yipsel salute helps to publicise it As a member Of the Yipsel N.E.C...
...17th, and on Friday, Dec...
...Samuel Orr is making the run tor the Socialists in the Bronx...
...I WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO BE DONE...
...Automobile and trurk |Mii.-iilr and demonstration...
...And when we say "reached," we don't mean what the old parties dot) Money must be raised...
...Then don't forget to turn it in as soon as possible, 'cause campaigning means money...
...Needless to say, that never In my life have I done anything of this sort...
...Hungarian Labor Exile Protests Slanders Against His Record By Ferenc Condor THE last thirty years of my life have been spent in behalf of the poor, the ' ngry, the oppressed...
...from SOt Westehesler Ave...
...Students Condemn Rolph's Approval of Lynching The Socialist Club of Columbia University has sent a slinging letter of protest to the Governor of California for his justification of lynching...
...Our Socialist fervor, says Comrade Waldman, "should be in our hearts and not in our hands...
...The club adds, "You have consistently refused to release Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings, convicted, as the world knows, on perjured testimony, and certainly innocent of the crime with which they are charged...
...and Morris Ave...
...Last Sunday morning, in the bitter cold, over 150 of them rallied to the Bronx headquarters for the mass distribution of the special leaflet explaining what Orr's candidacy meant...
...Hannes, du bint nicht Ml' Then the crowd responded with 'Frexhext' as they raised their fists high in •the Socialist salute...
...This week they urged their follows to stone or, better yet, lynch me...
...Remember the automobile parade starting from 80S) Westchester Avenue at 7:80 p. m. on Saturday, Dec...
...23, Klsinere Hull...
...Communism," Sunday evening, Dec...
...and Cypres* Ave.i lliilh St...
...Comrade Waldman states that Fascists and Communists also have a salute and therefore urges that We give up ours...
...Since they also nave a flag, shall we abandon oursT Or shall we rather seek to elevate Mr above theirs...
...Let me add that the proper manner of executing the salute is to raise the righ arm forward at an angle of 45 degrees, the fist clenched as if holding • torch...
...Every voter mast be reached...
...and Cypress Ave, Tueadiiys -14*th St...
...and (.mini Ave.| I.win St...
...Fridays- 141st St...
...The election in the Bronx is doubly important: it's another chance to .present to the workers of the Bronx the clear-cut issue of Socialism versus the importance •nd chnos and evil of capitalism, •nd of the Socialist Party versus the discredited parties of the capitalist system...
...Every comrade owning or having acces sto a car, truck or vehicle, whatever its vintage, is urged to appear, get his banner and join the parade which will fur ther publicize the Socialists' campaign und candidate...
...He is making the fight oh-^clear-cut So-tialist issues, and the party and the Young People's Socialist League are backing him with an enthusiasm that recalls the years when he wa$ elected...
...Ann's Ave...
...and St...
...For the last fifteen years I have been a homeless exile, having been driven from my native country by Hortlv's hordes, and today, r. spite of numberless hardships, I am the same old militant party soldier I ever was...
...They charged that I am in favor of Hitlerism, Horthyism and th«j lynching of Negroes...
...Of course, my opposition enrages them, and there is nothing they would not resort to to bring me bodily h .rm...
...Norman Thomas in Debates with Two Communists and Hamilton Fish MORMAN THOMAS will debate *^ Scott Nearing and Robert Minor on "Socialism vs...
...Communists, whites and colored demonstrate against the Fascist...
...like the Red Flag, it represents a bond of solidarity between Socialists...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 25
