From a Siberian Dungeon to Bridgeport City Hall
Salxman, Herman
From a Siberian Dungeon to Bridgeport City Hall By Herman SaJ.n.an lINDKR th.- caption, "The Hero of Komanovka or the Chimneysweep of Vilna," the Volk*<.eitiiny, a Socialist daily published...
...In the other three red cities—Tampere, Kotka and Pori— the Socialists increased their vote...
...The author expresses the hope that his hook will serve as a "convenient source book and handy reference work...
...At this pointy Hoopes entered the picture, and by a series'of parliamentary moves after reveral defeats compelled the House, in the white light of publicity, to move to discharge the committee from further consideration of the bill it appeared to be determined to bury again...
...SOCIALISTS MAKE HEAVY GAINS IN FINLAND r-Al'LY papers just received from I Finland bring another story of victory, this time in municip 1 elections...
...in the new city council there will be 23 Socialists against 25 bourgeois members...
...Ia January, 1981, when the two Socialists caaas to Harrisburg, Mrs...
...The last-named party gained two seats from the Fascists...
...Among the qualifications demanded by Mayor McLevy were that the appointee be a friend of the working class, that he l»e free of entanglements with utility or big business interests, that he have a clear record, in addition to being alert, capable and trustworthy, and that he be willing to lead a fight against the public utility interests of the city, a fight the Socialist administration plans to undertake...
...Hue to th< excessive cruelty practiced by thi Czarist police, 59 revolutionists de-j cided to give battle and thus call j the attention of the world to the I conditions under which exiles lived...
...The contention that a democratic, non-violent transition from capitalism to Socialism is not inly desirable but possible is supported by a wealth of evidence...
...At the annual election of the j Bridgeport local, all the officers , were re-elected, as follows: Mayor I Jasper McLecy, town chairman...
...The author pays his respects to the "united front...
...The deepening crisis brought the issue to a head, with realization of the need to limit production added to the humanitarian element involved...
...By that time several other legislators in...
...In the rural sections the Socialists gained partie Jarly In the communities close to the industrial or shipping centers and many such communities are now under Socialist municipal administrations...
...The voting strength of Socialists was increased by 38 per cent...
...8.60...
...Lahti, an important railway lake-canal junction, moved over into the Socialist column, with one seat gained from the bourgeois parties...
...He joined the party in 1906, and has been continuously active...
...Some municipal jobs and departments are being eliminated as unnecessary, and others are being consolidated...
...Harold Morris, executive board member of the local, has been named Police Commissioner...
...In all cities the Socialists are the strongest party, though the combined bourgeois representation outvotes them in many places...
...In numerous communities-Socialist candidates were barred by the bureaucrats a* unqualified...
...While studying for the bar, Schwartz evincd an interest in the workir.gclass movement, taking courses at the Rand School of Social Science, Schwartz is the local legal representative of the American Civil Liberties Union, and he has acted as counsel for the International labor Defense, Communist affiliate...
...v Harry Griffin, I Socialist candidate for Alderman I in the last election, has been apI pointed to the Board of Appraisal i of Benefits and Damages...
...Fascism is defined as "a product of econumic collapse and intense suffering, accompanied by national frustration and bitterness," whose "emergence is improbable except as a result of paralyzing defeat in war or.terrible disappointment over the outcome of war...
...The 22nd Amendment provides that "Congress shall have power to limit, regulate and prohibit the labor of persons under 18 years of age," and further provides that "the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the Congress...
...According to the papers, the local elections bore more general political importance than ever before...
...IDE TRACTION STRIKE IN PHILADELPHA (Continued from Rage One) Haw About a Bonf.re7 Joseph I.i wis of the Freethinker* finds th t quite a number of business men who have stocks of German goods want to boycott Germany and are puzzled how to do It...
...City Clerk Fred Schwartskopf, Socialist, . will also be a Commissioner of the • Department of Public Purchases...
...mittee...
...The author abundantly supports his argument with such citations...
...Page refuses to hold the "blunders" of German Socialist* solely responsible for McLevy Names Labor Lawyer City Attorney Many Useless Jabs filial, sored by Soclo/l.f Admlnisfrafloa—ftfW aa Utilities • e/ng Planaed...
...In Viborg the Socialists gained six new seats but.failed to capture the city...
...RBY PAGE has given us an important contribution to the con temporary literature of Socialism...
...In Abo the Socialists also made notable progress, gaining two seats, and likewise in Vasa...
...From a Siberian Dungeon to Bridgeport City Hall By Herman SaJ.n.an lINDKR th.- caption, "The Hero of Komanovka or the Chimneysweep of Vilna," the Volk*<.eitiiny, a Socialist daily published in Warsaw by the Jewish Bund, a recent article appeared giving the story of Meyer /.ueker, recently elected selectman on the Socialist ticket in Hi Idgeport...
...Wilson's first act was to introduce a resolution for ratification, reopening consideration of the amendment...
...In selecting Sih wart/, Mayor Jasper Mcl«vy those an attorney who, although not a Socialist Party member, lias been allied with the workers' cause ince he became a lawyer...
...There arc valuable chapters i dealing with Socialist criticism of l Communist strategy and with the I menace of Fascism...
...nitlerism...
...For 18 days they -vithstood the seige of the militia and on the 19th day 54 of them surrendered and 6 were left behind dead...
...Against the background of Communist tactics in the alleged pursuit of this objective "there can be no reality to the united front movement, and efforts In this direction are an unwise expenditure of thought and energy...
...When Governor Pinchot signed the ratification, resolution in u New York hospital, he crowned the three-year struggle of Lilith M. Wilson, who never for a moment ceased her efforts to get the ratification resolution passed, and of Darlington Hoopes, whose courage and parliamentary skill foiled the efforts of the reactionary majority to smother the resolution...
...Lewis advises that on a certain day, Lincoln's birthday or Wash ington'a birthday, these merchants should pile their German goods In some open spot and hum there...
...Far more it was caused ' by titanic forces beyond their con• trol...
...bill, expecting that the House would again kill it...
...Philip Magill, veteran Socialist and Workmen's Circle member, has , been appointed to the Important Welfare Commission...
...The Senate passed the...
...Together with others, he was ar rented for "economic terror" (every > trike cinder'the Claris' law was considered "economic terror") and Sentenced to seven years' exile in Siberia...
...i Appendix I consists of the 1932 I nattonnl platform of Hie Socialist r Party Socialist Wins Big Child Ldbor Victory in Pennsylvania (t ..i.turned from Page Oat) I Party is not responsible for his actions...
...Payne says: "The quickest and most certain way to guarantee the emergence of a Fascist dictatorship in the United States is by creating a Communist party that is strong enough to convince members of the middle class that they arc about to be subjugated to a reign of terror under a proletarian dictatorship...
...They were court-martialed, found guilty, and unished, with 12 years' hard labor in the notorious "Catorga...
...In the chapter on "Religion and ' Socialism" the author talks bluntly • to church people, who "must be ' brought to a vivid realirntion of 1 their awful guilt In sanctioning and 1 supporting an economic system which in fundamental respects Is f the direct antithesis of their rcr llglous ideals...
...There is hardly a page which does not contain important quotations and valuable statistical material...
...The Socialist representative on the Building Commission will be Audubon J. Secor, engineer, draftsman, and a i Socialist of more- than twenty • years' standing...
...The group barricaded themselves in the house of one of their members, Ikut Komanovk...
...Despite her brave fight it died in com...
...This is the material of which Zucken is made and the revolutionary school he went through...
...Knur days remained foi him to complete his sentence...
...I found it all of that...
...He could say | with Ben Hanford: "The working class, may it ever be right...
...siderable publicity for the measure...
...By Abraham Kaepler rft-w city attorney is 34-)carold Harry Schwartz...
...BOOK REVIEW By Charles So lorn mi INDIVIDUALISM AND SOCIALISM, by Kirby Page, h'arrar & Hintknrt, Inc...
...He is utterly opposed to violence, but he does not confine his advocacy of...
...Socialists increased their vote and made net gain totaling 108 seats in the municipal councils...
...HI tier Ism is laid at the door of the victorious Allies, with their Treaty of Versaillels...
...t the age of sixteen he led a • trike of chimney-sweeps in Vilna...
...Justice and freedom will not be handed down from above to the multitudes...
...City Treasurer John Shenton, . assistant town chairman...
...Peter P. Brewster, treasurer of the Socialist local, and for many years business agent of the painters' and decorators' union, will become Director of Public Works and will also fill the position of Superintendent of Streets, at $3,000 job, at no extra salary...
...For even long years he lingered in the arctic cold...
...He left for America...
...The special session that just closed was called to enact liquor legislation following Repeal, and again Comrade Wilson pushed her ratification resolution...
...Our author makes no bones about his Socialism—it is that of the world-wide Social Democratic movement...
...Two commissioners are appointed annually on a hi-part isnn basis...
...There are now 18 Socialists against 17 bourgeoisjkeouncilmen...
...Notwithstanding that he whs urged J not '.o participate and advised his comrades to serve out his few reilll'.ining hours, Zucker insisted ii|H'ii joining his comrades...
...In the organization of the workers as producers, consumers and cltisens lies the potential power to effect their own •Mancipation...
...Although defeated in committee and in her move on the floor to discharge the committee, she did secure considerable publicity, as well as a statement by Governor Pinchot calling for the passage of her resolution...
...Within nine years six states ratified, the two old parties in a number of states openly violating their platform pledges to ratify...
...This is a book to be Studied...
...non-warlike" methods to ethical grounds alone, lit- is profoundly convinced that the workers ran end capitalism and build Socialism without resort to violence, although he insists the movement must have a rebirth in militancy...
...However, should the workers resort to violence, he j leaves no doubt as to where , persons with this ethical viewpoint | should be found...
...Me dreamed of his home, his parents and friends, and the warm place he had left seven years lieful e. I'n ¦ - in i, something unu.sual happened in the town of Irkutsk where Zucker lived in exile...
...In Pori they gained one seat, having now 19 Socialist councilmen against 17...
...Pennsylvania rejected the amendment as soon as it was proposes by Congress, and the issue was dead for six years...
...troduced identical bills, in order to secure credit for themselves in the event of its passage...
...In the capital city, Helsingfors, where the Socialists gained one seat, they now have 23 councilmen, ' the Swedish bourgeois bloc 16, the Finnish Fascists 11, and the progressives 6 seats...
...Practically every lawyer in Bridgeport was considered for the post, each candidate's qualifications being subjected to . the closest scrutiny...
...Since there are four commissioners on most boards, the Socialists will not have equal repreveiitatiori until 1935...
...Last November he was on the ticket by Jasper HcLevy, and he is now a selectman...
...The antl-Communlst laws were used to check the rising labor tides...
...Meyer Zucker In IPOS, together with all other Siberian prisoners, Zucker was freed in the general amnesty due to the revolutionary upheaval of that year...
...The Amendment was passed by the House (297 to 69) April M, 1924, and by the Senate (61 to 23) June 2nd of the same year, after two child-labor laws had been declared unconstitutional...
...The workers of Bridgeport can depend that Meyer Zucker will serve them loyaly as he was loyal to his comrades of Romanovka...
...There is no surer way to drive the middle i classes, which the Socialists must win, into the arms of Fascism than by "terrifying* them with the prospect of a bloody seizure of power and the maintenance of a proletarian dictatorship with the instruments of terror...
...This was in 181>7...
...New York was one of them...
...The story is taken from a hook Iiy i'aul Rosenthal "The History of Itoiiiannvka," and it shows the -«•••• »i of which Zucker is made...
...She got a public hearing and aecured eon...
...Then the House voted to ratify, with but a few voting No, even the hard-boiled Grundy itea being ashamed to vote in the negative once they were smoked out...
...Educa, tion Commissioner Jack Bergen, , secretary, and Peter Brew«ter, treasurer...
...Two years later, when taking her seat after re-election, she began again, and this time it was referred to a committee of which she waa a member...
...but , right or wrong, the working class...
...There is not only the frank lecognition hut unwavering insistence that at this juncture lies a basic distinction between the Socialists and the Communists...
...While in jaU, Zucker, together with others, undermined the jail wall and Mime of them escaped, but they were soon caught, returned to jail, flogged, and put in chains for the next 12 years...
...Only a few of the appointments to important posts have as yet been decided upon...
...At the sunn- time, the author bus no illusions as to the ruling class attitude...
...HARRISBURG, Pa, — Pennsylvania has ratified the Child l.almr amendment to the Constitution solely' because of the energy, the persistence and the parliamentary skill of the Socialist delegation of two members of the lower house of the legislature...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 27
