A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities /JOViikNMKNTAL costs of the city of Milwaukee, where Dan I loan has been Socialist mayor for 17 years, are below the average of other cities of its class in the ccuntry— and...
...A. Savnow, Secretary Branch 60, Workmen's Circle, St...
...Ethel Sckachier New YJ\S1 Secretary The Central Committee of the Young People's Socialist League has elected Ethel Schachner executive secretary, to serve until next January...
...We call upon all levers of liberty and fighters for peace to join us in eur attempt to raise funds for the overthrow of Fascism...
...Hoan Calls for Aid in The Anti-Hitler Drive Under the slogan "Halt the Hit* ler Hangman," Mayor Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee, Chairman of the League Against Fascism, 7 E. 15th St., N. Y. C, announced the launching of a national drive for funds during the period Sept...
...Charles JU VsIL TPHK sharp-shooters are send* ing in singles, doubles and triples...
...We must stop him before he sacrifices the German nation and the entire world on the altar of his insanity...
...This is, for the present at least, the only medium of appeal for funds...
...Among the features will be an International Soccer Game between Windsor (Ontario) workers representing the Canadian Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and Detroit players representing the Socialist Party...
...Chicago boasts of its slogan 'I will,' yet its incompetent politicians and the house organs of Big Business, n their efforts to explain their endeavors to establish a dictatorship and their evident disinclination to take action against unwarranted wage cuts, their hostility toward adequate unemployment cash relief—unless, like the Illinois sales tax, it permits of legalized graft as a side-line— their support of ruthless foreclosures and evictions being equal to their vociferous denunciation of the 30-hour week with increased wages, all peace sentiment being labelled 'treason' because it threatens the profit.-, that war and preparing for war has always netted them—these fellows turn loose a line of sophistry that terminates in a pessimistic wail of 'We Can't' instead of the more truthful 'We Won't.' " That's what Chicago labor thinks —and says—about the second largest city on the Western Hemisphere, home of the Century of Progress and bailiwick of Democratic mayors who succeed Republican mayors and vice versa...
...Miss Mollie Brettscheider," we read, "presided at the meeting with dignity and charm...
...In New York City the drive will take the fdrm of tag days under the direction of Jack Altman in the Socialist Party office, 7 East 15th Street...
...The first girl ever to occupy this office has been active in the So cialiat Party in addition to her activities in the youth movement and is a well-known figure on the soap-box...
...We must remember also that and Fascism are a menace not only to Germany but to the peace of the entire world...
...It consists of a large store room and a five-room flat...
...The report of the research engineers comes as a fitting answer to a movement recently set on foot by business interests in Milwaukee to recall the mayor because "he is out of harmony with the current movement to reduce public expenditures" by curtailing social services A mass meeting was called by these interests and Hoan was invited to participate in the conference "to cut taxes and recall Inm...
...Still another spoke of a "silent, insidious campaign...
...Comrades who have made donations to the Party are urged to forgive the state office if they have not received receipts...
...1NGERSOLL LECTURES "Economic Aspects of Religion" will be the subject of a lecture by Sam Sklaroof under the auspices of the Ingersoll Forum, at the Pythian Temple, Sept...
...Details will be given later...
...Furthermore, the large outlay for recreation is offset by the saving resulting from the fact that Milwaukee's police cost is the lowest of the l.j cities in Milwaukee's population class These figures are given by the Chicago Federation of Labor in comparing Chicago's "political imbecility, senility or just plain privateering" with the consideration shown the wants and needs of the masses of Milwaukee by its mayor...
...Nearly all the correspondence files, mailing ll^ts, records, and account books of the Virginia state office of the Socialist party have been destroyed...
...3rd, at 8. Sept...
...From Charles Rabiner, an officer of the Joint Board of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers: "Please renew my subscription to The New Leader, I don't want to miss an issue...
...We read in a local newspaper that a foe of "Battery Dan" says "It is up to you now to help rid the neighborhood of the yeggs who have been terrorizing the people of this district...
...John Petrich, Youngstown...
...The army working for the success of the national edition of The New Leader is just getting under way...
...Readers should ' send to George all names of interested persons in Virginia they know...
...Despite the prediction of a Yipsel slump at the beginning of the summer, our organization has grown healthier from day to day as more of our members took their place in local labor struggles...
...A Tale of Two Cities /JOViikNMKNTAL costs of the city of Milwaukee, where Dan I loan has been Socialist mayor for 17 years, are below the average of other cities of its class in the ccuntry— and this dtspite the fact that Milwaukee has been first in health service and first in fire prevention and fire safety work throughout the nation and second in recreational facilities for the masses...
...She said: "More than two hundred of our members are helping the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, and others are giving of their best to aid workers of other trades...
...He was too busy doing the city's work, however, to attend, hut enough other people did to vote down the proposal overwhelmingly...
...This will be urged on educational grounds and also because It will take a good many thousand youth out of the overcrowded labor market and will give employment to a considerable number of teachers...
...Louis...
...Full-time offices will be functioning efficiently very soon, with the support of our members...
...The Federation backs up its comparison by quoting a com t'prehensive report on coats for...
...10th, Timothy Murphy will speak on "Newton or Einsteirr— which...
...15 to 23 inclusive...
...He rules the district with an iron hand but rules only for the benefit of the few...
...The League was set up by the National E. C. of the Socialist Party to raise funds to fight Fascism in Germany and to carry anti-Fascist activity in this country...
...The coming fall season will find a larger and stronger youth organization whose major activity will be centered around the Socialist municipal campaign...
...The speaker will be Charles Solomon, our candidate for Mayor...
...Those wishing to help in any manner are asked to get in touch with him...
...She was elected by an overwhelming vote...
...Campaign Goes On Despite Looted Office RICHMOND, Va...
...Another said: "Prince Dan inaugurated an era of rapacious greed...
...It's just practice, preparatory to the work of sending in large lists of subscribers...
...No settlement, however, can restore the mailing lists, containing thousands of names...
...New state and city headquarters have been opened in Richmond and volunteers are decorating this "Peoples' House...
...Hitler is preparing for war...
...Please note the new address...
...eperation and maintenance of cities of various population groups made by a firm of nationally known research engineers (Ford, Bacon ? Davis...
...The picnic will be held at Mound Park, Mound Road...
...One of Our Leading Parties Discusses Its Private Affairs It appears that one "Battery Dan" Finn is a big shot in the Tammany fold, as wag his father before him...
...Another 1200 came out to hear David George...
...But some of his subjects in the First Assembly District are revolting against his leadership, and at a recent meeting told each other what they think of him...
...Socialists Raise School Age Word comes from Copenhagen that the Socialist ministry is about to introduce a bill raising the age of compulsory school attendance from fourteen years to fifteen...
...Solomon to Speak At Rand School Rally •XMIE twenty-eighth season of the * Rand School will open Sept...
...Everywhere the response is magnificent and interest high...
...The young Socialists of New YoTk mean business...
...Readers of The New Leader are also urged to submit their names...
...This occasion will give him an exceptional opportunity to discuss the futility of mere progressivism in a way that will be impossible in other campaign meetings...
...Send names and donations to David G. George, State Secretary, Socialist Party of Virginia, 819, W. Cary Street, Richmond, Va...
...The Chicago Federation of Labor's statement then turns its attention to its own fair city...
...The loss is heavy and proves very troublesome when the Btate campaign is just getting under way...
...11th...
...We are outraged by the barbarous methods used by Hitler in his treatment of Jews, Socialists, Communists and others with whom he does npt agree...
...The organization must appeal to comrades everywhere to help...
...He is referring to his own party comrades in Tammany Hall...
...SPY AND SNEAK A certain Heinrich Mueller, who pretended to be a refugee from Hitlerite persecution, fell under suspicion and was arrested in the Saar Valley, which is still under an international administration, pending a referendum which is to decide whether it shall belong to Germany or to France...
...The loss of our lists strikes a serious blow to hopes for the state campaign, unless comrades everywhere respond...
...His subject will be "Liberalism and Socialism in the United States...
...Finding that the authorities had sufficient evidence against him, Mueller made a full confession, stating that he was an agent of the German government, sent to the Saar for a double purpose—to spy on the military defenses and to plot the murder of three prominent Social Democrats, Huseman, Sollman and Max Braun...
...Mound Road is east of Van Dyke...
...We gather the speaker was not one of the few...
...PATON RESIGNS The resignation of John Paton from the secretaryship of the British Independent Labor Party is the latest sign of reaction against the schismatic attitude which this once strong and useful organization has assumed...
...Over 300 farmers came to Louisas-Court House to hear White and George last Monday...
...In issuing the statement about this meeting, Algernon Lee, president of the School, has laid stress upon the fact that Comrade Solomon has a notable record as a student of American history and American political institutions...
...U is believed that the destruction of the property was malicious...
...All comrades are also requested to forgive the failure to answer letters, etc...
...it M a scientific philosophy, and rest* upon an historical, economic, sad scientific basis.—Rev...
...George Cary White, candidate for Governor, spoke to over 2,000 people in Danville recently...
...Speaking to the entire student body of the School, Comrade Solomon will issue a statement to the Intellectuals of the city on the issues of the municipal campaign...
...The philosophy of Fascism is nationalistic and breeds warfare in both its domestic and foreign policies...
...Special transportation will be furnished to the picnic grounds at regular intervals...
...This activity will not stop...
...In announcing the drive Mayor Hoan said: "The task of freeing Germany from Fascism is not one only for the Germans...
...They mean to have Socialism in our time...
...The occasion will be made memorable by the holding of a Socialist rally which may prove to be the first important event in the coming campaign...
...All Psrty members are invited to be present to hear their candidate and to participate with the staff and 'students of he School in his auspicious event...
...It can certainly be proved that it was wholly unwarranted...
...Besides her new position she intends to continue her work as vice-chairman of the Intercollegiate Student Council of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...Norman Thomas will be the main speaker...
...State Secretary David G. George has placed the matter in the hands of attorneys, and plans to enter suit for damages unless a satisfactory settlement can be quickly arranged...
...Her first act on assuming office waa to issue a call to all members urging them to intensify their Socialist activities...
...Yes, indeed, it was a lovely affair...
...The Socialism of today is not a scheme or device of anyone...
...The soundness of Milwaukee's policy of investing in public recreation and saving the money that would have to be paid for additional police, courts and jails is amply demonstrated," was the mayor's comment...
...Among those heard from in the past few days are the following: Robert A, Hoffman, Buffalo...
...THOMAS AT DETROIT LABOR DAY PICNIC r\ETROIT workers will gather in the thousands to celebrate the biggest picnic ever sponsored by the Socialist Party here on Labor Day...
...The rally will take place in the Debs Auditorium at 8:30 on September 11th...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
