STATE CONGRESS WILL DISCUSS NIRA
STATE CONGRESS WILL DISCUSS NIRA TTHE New York state session of the Continental Congresi of Workers and Farmers, to be held in Albany on Sunday, August 13, will be an impressive rallying of...
...The Socialists were arraigned before Judge O'Dwyer in the Gates Avenue Court, and were released for trial Monday morning under the personal recognizance of their counsel, Charles Solomon, who protested the judge's attempt to set $200 ball...
...Morris Mallinger, of the party branch, was chairman...
...Department of Commerce records show," says Nielsen, "that despite talk of revival, the volume of retail business declined steadily from April to June...
...Marxism is to be studied not to gain knowledge for the sake of knowledge, but in order to apply the knowledge thus gained to the problems of the class struggle...
...STATE CONGRESS WILL DISCUSS NIRA TTHE New York state session of the Continental Congresi of Workers and Farmers, to be held in Albany on Sunday, August 13, will be an impressive rallying of the labor forces to nelp press forward the organisation of labor under the new conditions of the National Industrial Recovery Act...
...The rising stock market and the rising thermometer, together with the grueling pace and low wagea at which the brokerage employes were compelled to work, were responsible for the walkout Those familiar with the situation claim that the strike has paved the way for the organisation of large numbers of workers in ths financial district MARXIST SOCIETY THE Amerkaa Marxist Society has bean srgsalsad by a number of Party and Y.P.S.L...
...NOBIUTY" OF WAR Fascist leaders, says the London . Daily Herald, make pacifist ges- j tures to impress countries other than their own, but continue by voice and pen to glorify war to their compatriots...
...Amicus Most was included among those arrested when he protested apainst the actions of the p " - '"n beating Bertman...
...The project was recognized as being only one more in the series of Communist "maneuvers...
...Marxism is the living, militant philosophy of the working class...
...Eleanor Schachner, secretary...
...The Socialist movement today is confronted with new and baffling problems...
...Max Zaritsky, president of the Cap Makers...
...He was also, from his early manhood on, a convinced Socialist...
...One thousand signed cards at the meeting, and many more since...
...Before our movement approaches these new tasks, it must understand them...
...and Jack Hasson, of the Central Labor Council...
...One industrial plant signed up 100 per cent Speakers were John W. Slayton, Pittsburgh Socialist...
...Brokerage Slaves Revolt A working "day" lasting from nine in the morning until one, two and three o'clock the morning following drove hundreds of brokerage clerks in the Wall Street district on strike last week...
...A call is being .sent out to all unemployed organizations to send their delegates to Albany so that they arrive there the evening of August 11...
...Sollmann, who made an eloquent plea to the Communists just before the Hitler accession to power to drop their idiotic war upon the i Socialists and unite to stem the 1 tide of Fascism, was cruelly beaten, but in his terrible pain he cried out, "The heroic period of German Socialism is now beginning...
...will start it 2 p. m. The convention will convene at 11 a. m. with a discussion of "A Program for New York State," with sub-topics dealing with the unemployed, the farmers and the position of small home owners...
...At its first meeting the following executive committee waa elected: Anna Bercowits, chairman...
...To study, propagate and further activist Marxism, we- organise ourselves in the American Marxist Society...
...The latest reports of the workingmen's purchasing co-operative societies of Sweden show that they have had a steady growth right through the period of depression...
...War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy, and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to meet it...
...A policeman in a radio car interrupted Louis Yagoda, candidate for assembly in the Sixth A. D., while he was speaking...
...Sir Emery Walker, who died in London last week at the age of eighty-two, was not only one of the world's foremost experts in artistic j typography and all the arts that contribute to good printing...
...at the qpen-air conference aftsr breakfast Sunday at the Homestead, Crafts, New York...
...With the support of the largest international unions in the state, incluiing the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, the International Ladies' Garment Workers andthe Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers Union, the Albany congress is expected to rally more than 500 trade union delegates alone...
...Niels Nielsen, who is taking credentials, reports that he has already received over 800 from farmer and labor unions' and producers and consumers' cooperatives...
...New York Pity...
...Clara Lehman, Yipsel from the same city...
...This is the summer camp of the Community Church of New York...
...Joe Glass was taken into custody for trying to speak to Belsky...
...As a result the principal session of the Albany congress will discuss "Labor Under the N.I.R.A...
...Further information pertaining to the congress may be obtained from Edward Levinson, secretary, at 7 East 15th Street...
...By no 'means all the contributors—who are the greatest German writers of today—are Jews...
...1,000 Workers Join NEW KENSINGTON...
...MAN TO SPEAK AT MINN...
...This and other incidents show the need for forceful vigilance and steadfast demands by producers and consumers...
...Living Marxism is activist Marxism...
...Gregory Matatevitch, master of the English acordlon...
...At the Jefferson Market Court, Bertr.-.p.n and Most were convicted, receiving suspended sentences...
...All day, Saturday, August 12, will be devoted to laying the foundation of a strong unemployed movement in New York State . All unemployed organizations in tue State that have not yet received the call please communicate with Jack Altman, 7 F.a.d 16th Street, New York City...
...Karl Renner and Wilhelm Sollmann...
...include Sidney Hillman, president of the A. C. W; David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G.W...
...The ariests did not break the picket line The workers, together j with the remaining Yipsels, re- ! formed their ranks and continued to picket...
...Organizer Abe Belsky was arrested, after being manhandled, for asking the cause of the interruption...
...Reba Pushkolf, treasurer...
...Hitler is disseminating the same i poisonous teaching in Germany, and killing, imprisoning, or driving into exile all who exalt peace...
...Brothe...
...CONGRESS MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—Mayor Dan Hoan of Milwaukee, John Bosch, president of the Minnesota Farm Holiday Association, and Charles Egley, manager of the Farmers Union Livestock Co., are among the speakers listed for the Continental Congress of Workers and Farmers to be held here August 6 and 6. The state conference of the congress will consider means of organizing liberal minorities, farmers and workers' groups into an organisation based on a mutual program for fundamental social change...
...Abe Berg, violinist, honor student of the Curtis Institute...
...members to encourage study and application of Marxism to everyday problems...
...city industrial director 'of the Y1SL., Edward Dawley, Henry Hirschberg, Thomas Wiswcll, Louis Becker, and another Yipsel...
...Among them are Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Jakob Wasserman, Erich Maria Remarque, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Max Brod and Joseph Roth, Lion Feuchtwanger and Egon Erwin Kisch, Georg Bernhard, Hendrik de Man, Dr...
...Renner is the Socialist who was first president of the Austrian republic, and Sollmann is the German Socialist deputy who was so ssvagely and sadistically beaten up by Nazis at the beginning of the "National Awakening...
...ARRESTED ON THE PICKET LINE ; CEVERA* members of the Young *~ People's Socialist League were arrested when they picketed a dress shop at 530 Seventh Avenue, New York, for the International j Ladies' Garment Workers Union...
...Invitations to the congress have been sent to some 1,800 trade unions, unemployed associations, labor political groups, labor fraternal societies and other groups similar to those which took part in the great Washington congress...
...One passage in this article declares that Fascism "repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism—born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice...
...The total membership is now over 600,000...
...i Swift, of the Pattern Makers' Association, Murphy, of the Boftar Makers, and Hirschberg, of the Switchmen's Union...
...Its significance lies in its use, in its application...
...Louis Waldman, state convenor, announced today that the arrangements committee for the congress has decided that organization work by the trade unions is the most important single problem now confronting the workers of the state...
...The weekly is "Dedicated to Spiritual and Political Freedom," and among the contributors are men of every shade of political opinion...
...At no time In the history ef our Party has theoretical clarity been as necessary as it is today," the society's preamble reads...
...At 4:30 p. m. the final session of the conference will consider a program and recommendations for future activies of the New York congress...
...Counting only four persons to a 'family, this means that one-third of the six million inhabitants of Sweden are organized for co-operative buying...
...Belsky, Joe Glass Arrested Two Brooklyn Socialists — one' the county organizer— were ar- i rested at noon Wednesday during one of a regular series of outdoor meetings at Borough Hall...
...Ludwig Sats of the Yiddish stage will be foatured in the Saturday evening program in the pine grove open-air tomorrow...
...There can be no revolutionary practice without a revolutionary theory...
...Almost half a century ago he was associated with William Morris in the , propaganda of Socialism as well as | in the effort to bring beauty into domestic and industrial life, one embodiment of which was the famous Kelm.icott Press at Hammersmith, in which Walker was a partner under the leadership of Morris, j He was knighted by the second Labor government in 1930...
...All-Star Program at Unity For this week-end Unity House is bringing last year's favorites in an all-star program which will include the following artists: Yoichi Hirarvka, Japanese xylophonist, who is now appearing daily on WEAF and a national hookup as well as over Station WEVD...
...The membership increased by 29,000 in 1929 and the same in 1930, by 30,000 in 1931, and by 82,000 last year...
...Charges for assault will be lodged against two policeman, according to present plans...
...Joseph Schlossberg, secretary-treasurer of the A.C.W...
...NOTES FROM ABROAD THE administrative commission of the French Socialist party recently considered an invitation to Join a so-called "united front" against Fascism, and with only one dissenting vote ruled that neither the party as a whole nor any of its subdivisions should participate...
...G. A. Strebel, Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit...
...The others were discharged by the magistrate Leonard D. Abbott | Leonora D. Abbott, noted figure j in radical and literary circles, will speak on "The Place of Rebel Literature in Building the World Tomorrow...
...Shipbuilders Organize NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—Socialists in the state, although handicapped by lack of funds, are in the midst of the fight to unionize the workers in the ship-building company here, of which the "Honorable'' Homer L. Ferguson is president...
...Unless the fangs of dictatorship are drawn, this teaching will one day bear terrible fruit...
...Remarque incurred the hatred of the Nazi, half-wits because his "All Quiet" showed a pitiful humanitarianisra that the followers of Hitler cannot understand, while the Mann brothers are too great as writers to fit into the asylum state of the National Sadists...
...John O'Hanlon, secretary of the State Federation of Labor...
...Joseph Baskin, secretary of the Workmen's Circle...
...Six thousand workers att:nded a mass meeting arranged by the Socialist Party branch here for the purpose of organizing labor in the vicinity...
...Those arrested included Julius Bertman...
...The session on the N.I.R.A...
...i The current "Political Quarterly" contains an authorized translation of an article contributed by ' Mussolini to the "Encyclopidia Italiana...
...GertnaB lolellectuu to Potfol.ABli-NuiP.per IkJEWS has been received from * ™ Amsterdam that a new weekly in German, Frew Preese (Free Press), made its appearance there July 15th, with the most brilliant collection of German writers ever assembled as contributors...
...The W o r k e r s' Unemployed League of New York City, through its Central body, is taking the initiative in organizing a State Federation of Unemployed Organizations represented at the State Continental Congress in Albany...
...The speakers invited to take part in the session dealing with N.I.R.A...
...We believe that the only revolutionary theory of our time, the only theory that can serve as a guide for the working class in its fight for Socialism, is Marxian...
...Hiam Kantorovitch, Phil Heller, Zekor Antonsen, Jack Altman, Jack Berkowitz, Bruno Fischer...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 5
