Socialist Party Progress
Socialist Party Progress WASHINGTON.—A $50,000 " Socialist Expansion Fund [or 1933, to take advantage of |h> magnificent opportunities rffered to the party to grow in lumbers and in...
...The school, one of five of its kind in the United States, was arranged by the state committee at the suggestion of Sarah Limbach, state secretary...
...Many students worked with the strikers on the picket lines of sweatshops in Reading and Leboton...
...This week, August 1, August Claessens will talk on street meetings...
...organizer, will address this local's first openair meeting in twelve years Saturday i night on the Mall...
...state* ment, the front page has space for branch events and the back page a list of all the branches...
...Plans were discussed to hold a state congress of the Continental CongreRs late in November after election...
...five Socialist summers schools , iitabltshed, locals growing up ' iverywhere, and literature being , Hurerly sought throughout the ( country, the movement has begun to take on new life and momentum, j [a order to be able to ride the tide, money is needed—needed badly, and at once...
...Bincbnmton.—General Organizer I Duffy spoke at three open-air meetings at the corner of Court and Collier Sts...
...Jacob Panken...
...The second and third leaflets have gone to press...
...important Events at Camp Tamiment Striking competitive events will feature the sports tournament this week at Camp Tamiment, Tamiment, Pa., the workers' summer resort whose profits go to the Rand School of Social Science...
...Especially because of the depression, working-class children are less able than ever to secure jobs after leaving high school, and it is highly desirable that Chicago should continue with the Junior College and should extend the term to four years...
...The Socialist candidates for Assembly and Freeholders will also speak...
...Opposing a sales tax and favoring old age pensions, unemployment insurance and state control of liquor, the party will wuge a vigorous fight...
...Maynard C. Krue**i Edward Levinson, secretary •f the League against German Fascism...
...The 40 students were from 17 to 71 years old and represented diverse occupations...
...David H. Felix, secretary •t local Philadelphia...
...and Y.W.H.A., 315 Bellefield K\e., Oakland, Pittsburgh...
...Norman Thomas will be principal speaker...
...ATTENTION, ORGANIZERS!— Every organizer is expected at the Party Office every Tuesday for one hour, from fl to 7 p. m., bringing branch notices for The New Leader and the list of open-air meetings At every meeting a short talk will be given and discussion will take place on some subject vital to organizers...
...If the organizer cannot attend, he must send a representative, or else the branch will remain ignorant of many important matters and thereby become, ineffective...
...Utica.—Samuel Scidman of New York addressed two excellent meetings at Steuben Park...
...Councilman at Large, Frederick N. Michels...
...There must be lot)' , attendance...
...Economics of Socialism...
...With the demand for speakers mt organizers growing daily...
...statement on the N.l.RA...
...There is no longer any excuse for any member to lose good standing because of illness or unemployment...
...The following municipal ticket has been named: Mayor, Blaine Benedict...
...Passaic.—Next out-door meeting this Saturday evening, corner of Main and Passaic Aves...
...Pittsburgh...
...All contestants are urged to send in their plays at once to Jack Altman...
...Warning Notice Party branches and Yipsel circles throughout the country should be informed that Milton Singer and Morris Yousman, former members of the Socialist Party and Young People's Socialist League, are still in possession of their red cards and may attempt to pass as Socialists outside of Hartford, Conn...
...American Delegates to Paris The National Executive Committee has selected the following six delegates to represent the Psrty at the special conference of the Labor and Socialist International to dlscusa new policies ¦Sd tactics: National Secretary Clarence Senior...
...His subjects were: "The Depression — Its Causes," "The Roosevelt New Deal," and "Socialism—The Only Way Out...
...national head- i matters at 549 Randolph Street, Jucago...
...Darlington Hoopes and Lilith Wilson, Socialist representatives in the Legislature—"Socialist Program for Socialist Legislators...
...Haim Kantorovitch, lecturer at Rand School —four lectures on "Philosophy of Socialism...
...1 ¦Jib...
...Elect your representatives to the local advisory committee at once and send In the names...
...Henderson will arrive in this country about October 15th and will stay until the week before Christmas...
...If there is a problem that you need solved immediately, get in touch with Jack Altman or Abe Belsky any day between 5 and 6 p. m. Send in Your Plays...
...Every branch is expected to order large quantities...
...Virginia Norfolk.—The State Committee meeting here Sunday voted to put candidates in the field for the, coming elections for the state legislature wherever possible and to support the efforts of the unions to organize the workers...
...Illinois Chicago...
...Police and Fire Commissioner, John F. Speil...
...Sunday will be divided between "w»ike Strategy Under PresentDsy Conditions," with Leo Krzycki and Frani Daniel on the platform, and "A Socialist Policy in the Unions" carried by a three-cornered combination of Emil Rieve, Powers Hapgood, and Joseph Schwartz of the Labor Institute...
...Street meetings i ;very Friday evening at corner of iiittle Main and Front Sts...
...Committee for Total Disarmament and former candidate for Lieutenant-Governor —"Disarmament";' Jesse Holmes, Professor of Philosophy at Swarthmore—"Idols and Ideals...
...Socialist Party Progress WASHINGTON.—A $50,000 " Socialist Expansion Fund [or 1933, to take advantage of |h> magnificent opportunities rffered to the party to grow in lumbers and in service, has been ajunched with Norman Thomas is chairman and Marx I^ewis as ; krector...
...The first of a series of regional Socialist conferences on Socialist activity in the labor movement will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Labor Institute here...
...This committee consists of an equal number of representatives from the Party, Yipsels and the local Falcon Local advisory committees should consist of one delegate from the Party, one from the Yipsals and the local Falcon group leader...
...Beginning ! his year, and doubling each sue- , essive year until i936, we propose j 0 print and distribute 85 million genets, add 150,000 new members, eld 200,000 propaganda meetings ad lectures, contact 150,000 fra- 1 irnal, labor, farm and cooperative 1 rganizations, and through a series ' f national radio broadcasts reach sgularly millions of people whom m may not reach in other ways...
...Pennsylvania Philadelphia...
...Dunkirk.—P...
...As a working-class party," says the Socialist statement, "we are primarily concerned with the tremendously harmful effect of the so-called economies on our children...
...The evening session will be devoted to the topic "Toward Amalgamation and Industrial Unionism," with John Hthnan of the hosiery workers •nd veteran Jim Maurer leading <j...
...G. Gary White of Petersburg, Va., candidate for Governor, attended the session, which drew members of the State Committee from all sections of the state...
...James H. Maurer— "My Personal Experience in the Socialist Movement," and August ^laessens, Rand School—six periods nf public speaking instruction...
...The first session Saturday will discuss "Labor Under the National Industrial Recovery Act," with David Schick speaking on the gowth of established unions, and William Beedie of the American Federation of Radio Workers on Building New Unions...
...State and regional congresses ire now being called to enlist the J •operation of others...
...Fourth session of Class in Socialism, led by, Andrew P. Wittel, Friday evening (July 28) at 585 Main Ave...
...It will take $50,000 to finance i liese activities...
...The make* up of the leaflet is an innovation...
...The organizers will get all the information for the branch for the following week...
...Favoring repeal, the party advocates the state manufacture, ownership and sale of liquor at a small profit, the proceeds to go to education against the use of alcohol...
...The annual picnic is the largest event of the year planned by the county local of the Socialist Party...
...Delegates from branches and circles competing in the Labor Drama Festival being run by the Party and Rebel Arts will meet Saturday, August 5, at 2 p . m., at the Rand School...
...LEAFLETS READY The first of a series of leaflets to be issued by the City Office has just come off the press...
...Besides the N.E.C...
...New York City To Party Branches The executive committee of Local New York, at a meeting on Wednesday, by unanimous motion instructed the party branches and members not to participate in the anti-war demonstration arranged by the Communist Party for August 1. This demonstration has nothing to do with the congress for ut ited action against war to be participated in by the Socialists...
...Geneva.—Monroe M. Sweetland, Tr., and two Syracuse University | students recently visited here and I formed a local...
...Under the tutelage of Mark Starr, faculty member of Brookwood Labor College, class periods were divided as follows: History of American Socialist Movement...
...I have been asked ' t help raise it...
...Reading.—The Socialist Summer School, conducted at Socialist Park, terminated its study period after a fortnight of well diversified activities...
...Locals sre urged to see that every member who has become delinquent on account of unemployment is put in good standing...
...Falcons Advisory Committee The constitution of the Red Falcons of America provides for an advisory Committee to guide and develop the Falcon movement...
...Where a Falcon group does not exist, the joint S.P, and Yipsel committee should lake steps to organize a group...
...New York State Hempstead...
...Present plans are for a tour reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific...
...He has been in Rome, Oneida, Cohoes, Scotia, Schenectady, and iJlens Falls...
...The lighter fare of camp life will be varied this week-end by a series of drama' ic lectures by Haim Kantorovich, noted Marxian scholar, who will speak at Camp Tamiment on "Socialism During the World War," "The Russian Revolution," "The Rise and Decline of NeoCommunism" and "Fascism—the Last Phase of Capitalism...
...The party asks the workers to demonstrate with the Socialists and join the teacher-led i groups in their protests...
...A. Wingblad of Brocton is candidate ir the 2nd Assembly District of Chautauqua County...
...The State Secretary has advised locals that although the limit to the number of exempt stamp* allowed has been removed by the adoption of the second proposition submitted in National Referendum "A", 1933, such stamps will be supplied only on request and strictly in accordance with actual needs...
...It is a reprint of the N.E.C...
...The Socialist Party of Cook County has undertaken a vigorous fight against the bankers and other financial interests of Chicago who are carrying through an economy program at the expense of the school system...
...The committee in charge of the open-air series, besides Ormsbee, includes Louis L. Rottenberg, chairman, and Charles Emcrs...
...A Socialist picnic will be held in conjunction with a State Committee meeting at Che.sapeake Beach, near Norfolk, Labor Day week-end which will be the occasion for a statewide Socialist rally...
...Elmer Hamm of Pawtucket, and Joseph M. Caldwell, veteran Socialist...
...Another in nova ion is the price, which is only $1 per 1,000...
...National Chicago.—Fred Henderson, Lords* correspondent of The New Leader and author of "The Case far Socialism," will be toured jointly by the Socialist Party and the Social Problems Lecture Bureau for over two months this fall...
...Socialism in Action...
...and Herman Kobbe...
...Other speakers will be Earl Ormsbce, chairman...
...The Continental Congress on , Economic Reconstruction, which the Socialist Party, in conjunction ' with farm and labor groups, initiated, brought together over 4,000 lelegates in the most inspiring and ' instructive demonstration I have 1 leen," writes Comrade Thomas...
...John C. Davis of Norfolk, the candidate for Attorney-General, presided over the sessions...
...Prizes, trophies nnd free week-ends to the camp will be awarded to winners in tennis, handball, swimming and other sports contests...
...All of this is part of a four- , 'ear expansion plan...
...Professor William E. Bohn, Rand School, will speak on "The Industrial Recovery Act and Labor's Opportunity...
...Franz Soukup, Sunlay, August 6, at 6 p. m., at the i\M...
...It will not be « Sty, but I don't think it will be npossible—if everyone will help ' est a little...
...Abraham Csktn, editor of the Jewish Daily "orward, and Paul Blanshard tied, *sd another vote will determine will be first alternate...
...The party is Bringing a dinner and reception in lonor of Dr...
...Rhode Island Providence.—Fred Siems of New York, national Y.P.S.L...
...An application for i charter will be made shortly...
...The subjects are "City Platform" and "What Is Socialism...
...New Jersey Newark.—The Socialist Party of Essex County will hold its annual picnic on Sunday, August 6, at the Speedway Park 16th Avenue and Speedway, Newark...
...EXEMPT STAMPS...
...The students also marched in -he labor parade organized by the federated Trades Council...
...The price will also he $1 per 1,000...
...Eastern headquarters J ire at 907 Fifteenth Street, d.W., tliis city...
...Councilmen from 1st, 2nd and 4th Wards, Ludwig Sysol, Minnie Cutler and Peter Kucjewskl...
...Organization and Public Speaking...
...The curriculum included: Mary Winsor, Penna...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 5
