"Nothing Succeeds Like Success"
Fruchter, Henry
"Nothing Succeeds Like Success" By Henry Fmchter THE United Smialist Drive in \eu NUrk (.ily started raliier late Inn, :i- tlimigli jeal(ni> (if the slinuiiif; made by other, section-of the...
...While all this was going on within the county, Bronx comrades did their share in supporting outside financial drives...
...John land Lalhrop will be the clialrinaii...
...The class iiresented their instructor, K.-ther Friedman, with eighteen red roses-—one for each week dt'' the mutually gratifying term...
...Comrades Eliot White, Henry Fruchter and Matthew M. Levy delivered short addresses...
...Attendance of all (Juides compulsory...
...Bertha Mailly and Mrs...
...nevertheless, the repercussions of that activity has no doubt influenced the thinking of many thousand.s within the party organizations and outside its ranks...
...ANOm HOPE OF THE WORLD This time the Yipsels want to raise money for themselves...
...Comrades from all Queens branches came in heartening numbers, and between singing and sandwiches and general good fellowship, $37.65 was raised in cash for the United Fund Drive...
...At 10 a. m. Sunday, Ajiril 29, Van Cortlandt Park was the scene of our impresxne parade from the station—through the parlt, to (;ur gathering place...
...Guides' Council meeting Saturday, May 5, 5 p. m., 22 East 22nd St...
...Jamaica Branch, $7.50...
...A police lieutenant told Julius Gerber that there were at least 80,000 in the Socialist parade in the presence of many newspaper leporters, and the lieutenant is conceded to be an experienced estimator of crowds...
...The Drive was started only four weeks ago, with lists widely distributed and quotas established for all branches...
...To say that only 25,000 marched in the Socialist parade, is hardly doing justice to the marchers...
...The books were signed by all comrades present...
...It is a well-known fact to ^bW Socialists that the National Office of the party is seriouslsy hampered from lack of funds, and at the present time, with the impending national convention, flnancid help is desperately needed...
...The reason for this is not far to .seek...
...Julia Primnfr, one of the students, made a charming (hiiirman, Kstlier Friedman and Kloiinore lirannon delivered short addresses on the im-portanc...
...Village Branch, $61.50...
...The dinner is forty-eight cents...
...Michael C. Arcone, financial secretary of the YPSL, will be Mussolini...
...Flatbush Branch, $6...
...Remember the following—Parents' meetings...
...The Ben.<onhurst unit also celc-briited its successful class work at Bunsonhurst head(iuarters on Apvil 2lst with an excellent entertainment and buffet lunch...
...Astoria« Branch, $50...
...Within a few days of the inauguration of the Drive, three branches succeeded in raising their allotted quotas at single branch meetings...
...Branch 1, 22nd A. D., Kings, $10...
...What comrade does not know that all year long Yipsds are raising money—for the Austrian workers, for the party campaign chest, for this strike and that strike, for this fund and that fund...
...VITAL STATIC FROM THE BRONX AN important death and an even more important birth were announced last week at the May Day banquet of the Socialist Party of Bronx County in Burnside Marwr...
...All noble causes...
...Charters were presented to three new Flights — Friedrieh Kngels Flight 11...
...Of course, most of the burden of this activity ha.s fallen upon a comparatively small number of active workers...
...No subscription lists were sent out, no money was received from dues, and no subsidies of any kind were forthcoming...
...Following la.st election a large number of undertakings—political, economic and social—have occupied U8 from day to day at a breath-taking speed...
...We are hoping that all readers of The New Leader, all officers of branches of the party, will make this Drive their personal responsibility from today on...
...Brighton Beach Branch, $7...
...The feat was occomplished...
...The New York-Times has always enjoyed an enviable reputation for its reliability, and the truth of its printed statements...
...Special mention must be made of the women who prepared the buffet lunch...
...Flushing Branch held a May -Night Jamboree at their headquarters in the Terminal Building after the parade...
...Volovick, tireless organizer, not only had arranged for a very attracti\*e table loaded with many goodies, but, determined to keep the group together all thiough the summer, Hnnounce<l plans for a trip to Ellis I.sland...
...This dobatr is under the auspices of tlie Uroiix Free F'ellowshlp...
...The May Day banquet was attended by more than 300 persons, who cheered Comrade Steinhardt's report, knowing to what extent he was personally responsible for the accomplishment...
...There will be a fine entertainment and also short speeches, from the budding orators...
...The parade held in Madi-.son Sfjuare was a magnificent demonstration of working class unity, of course, not to the liking of newspapers like the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, the Hearst papers or the tabloids...
...In addition to the death of the deficit and the birth of the surplus, the county aided materially in the establishment of the large and well-equipped new Bronx Labor Center at 809 Westchester Avenue...
...Several hundred Falcons, most of the members of the 22 Flights represented, marched in lieautifully orderly ranks, each Flight behind its flag...
...David Rosenblum (list), $5.05...
...Comrade Steinhardt, declared that the mass meeting held in Hunts Point Palace during the last campaign was the only affair of its kind in the city that yielded a profit...
...Ten reservations get a table...
...THE CAPITALIST PRESS AND MAY DAY By Jean J. Corone...
...The Amalgamated group of 35 women celebrated with a tea party on April 2Uh at the Amalgamated tea Kiom which, by the way, has real ntmnsphere...
...Notes ¦ Uniforms will arrive this week 't—80 hurry up and place your torder...
...Everyone ought to be there to help build the Young People's Socialist League...
...of women's jiigitution ?gainst war and the profit system, «nd joininit the Socialist Partv to do so...
...Florence Jaffe and Sarah Volovick were presented with copies of Morris Hillquit's "Loose Leaves from a Busy Life'* in appreciation of their services to the party...
...And that's why May 19th is the night for all comrades to trek to the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackmmn St., Brooklyn, at seven in the evening, to have our Yipsel-prepared dinner, the atmosphere that only our Yipsels can provide, and to hear a symposium...
...Nevertheless, it was felt that with the enlivened interest in the Socialist Party as an organization and the awakened spirit of loyalty on the jiart of our large membership, the lai.sing of a few thousand dollars should not prove an impossibility...
...FALCONS CELEBRATE MAY DAY, TOO By Edith Sarhere Second only to the huge May Day parade and demonstration itself, we insist, was the Falcon May Day parijde...
...It was lavish, both in quality and quantity...
...In the afternoon in the delightful setting that the park affords, our May Day program was impressive...
...Several Falcons gave .sh(trt talks on what May Day signified to them, and one original i)oem was even recifed by a little girl...
...And here in New York, too, thel urgent need for literature, meetings, work among the unemployed is a matter of daily discussion among all active workers...
...Gathered in a huge circle, with the flags massed at one end, the hundreds of Falcons, torches held aloft, recited the Falcon Pledge, sang the International and other jabor .songs, and resolved anew to build up the working class children's movement...
...at llic Coniniuiilty Church t'.fiiltr, jriO West lioth St., Friday fveiling, Miiv 11...
...Mor-ningside Branch, $75...
...B. SokolofT, $10...
...VIGILANTES FIGHT LABOR HAVERHILL, Mass.—A citizens' vigilance committee—all who know their labor history will realize what that means—has been organized here to rid the city of "foreign" strike leaders, following the close of the six-weeks' strikes that involved 6,000 shoe workers...
...He asks that no one chisel in on his domain...
...A full report will he given at the Council—but it all depends on the theatre tickets—so push them ftir all you're worth...
...Bronx County was pulled out of the red of indebtedness by making a financial success of all its undertakings...
...After a full day of organized games and eats, the tired, happy • and resolute gang marched back hio the station^ agreeing that this May Day celebration, despite of or because of, they were not quite ,aure, it had not been broken up by th* police (we had a permit) — was even better than last May l>«y...
...Sunnyside Branch, $27.75...
...The subject, "Fascism — The Hope of the World...
...We in New York City are justified in feeling a 'sense of pride at the ((uickened tempo of our movement during the pa~t few months...
...And Moish Cohej^ will be the Official Heckler...
...The party office and its army of loyal workers handled such 9 variety of activities as the special' Bronx election, the Forward ball, the Madison S(iuare Garden meeting, the Carnegie Hall meeting, I the picketing of Macy's and other .stores, intensive work among labor organizations and unemployed group.s, the International Bazaar-all within a period of a few months...
...Total, $330.30...
...AniiTiiiiii ixponent of I'usoisni, will ilchiilc "Is riisiLsni the \V»y Out for ,\iii<'rliu...
...In addition, over a quarter million piece.s of literature has been printed and distributed in various sections of the city...
...All the capitalist newspapers with one notable exception, the New York Post, misrepresented the numbers marching in the Socialist parade...
...Eddie Dawley will be Herr Hitler...
...George I. Steinhardt, Bronx County Treasurer, announced that Comrade County Deficit had passed away and that the party had given I birth to Comrade County Surplus...
...Red May, the month of our membership drive, started off with a bang when a group of girls, not then Falcoiis but a neighborhood club, who had come along, decided that above all el.se they wanted most to organize their club into a Red Falcon Flight...
...Fritz ^ Eisner, formerly of the Austrian Schutzbund, will / be Chancellor Dollfuss...
...Comrade Steinhardt pointed out, despite the fact that the county gets no income for outside sources...
...The result was the raising of $.30 on the first occasion of the branch's meeting and the releasing of the branch from further responsibility...
...Athletic Tournament, Handicraft P^xhibit and Party—and the membership drive of Red May...
...The four clashes will meet Saturday, May 5th, at 1 p...
...WOMEN'S CLASSES END FINE YEAR'S WORK The women's afternoon classes in Socialism, held for eighteen weeks at the Amalgamated Houses in the Bronx and in Benvonhurst, have come to a successful close...
...Nothing has ever happeij^d in New York City that so ck^'ly deniujistrates the utter "unreliability of the capitalist newspapers when it comes to printing working-class news...
...Mis...
...Last but not least— the camp...
...nth A. D., Manhattan, $9.50...
...Flushing is setting its own quota at $150, several times its authorized quota...
...Far Rock-away Branch, $25...
...Tickets at YPSL, 7 Ea.st 15th Street, N. Y. City...
...made by other, section-of the ccfUiitry, the brancii organizers of ih( <lrivf have attacked it witii \ij4iir aiKi deter-ininati(Jii...
...We are all very much encfouraged by a last-minute flood of donations from the following branches...
...4th-14th A. D., Kings, $10...
...A settlement calling for a 10 percent wage increase and provision for arbitration of disputes...
...Otto Bauer Flight 28, and Matteotti Flight 29...
...Lecture Notes .lotin lliiynrs llolnics iiml I.iiwrcncc Dennis...
...Reservations must be in Tuesday, May 15th...
...But now the Young Socialists must raise money for themselves...
...A successful drive, yielding fifty per cent to the National Office and fifty per cent to the city and state organizations will contribute substantially to a strengthening of our organization and an enhancement of our work along alt avenues of expression...
...m., at (he class luncheon to take place at, Mrs, Thomas' restaurant, 71 Irving Place, New York...
...Between May 1st of last year and this year the county \Vas able not only to meet all current expenses but also to wipe out a deficit of $900 which had been kicking around in the party's ledger as long as anyone could remember...
...Also bring down your reports...
...23rd A. D., Manhattan, $16...
...From the station, lo(jk-Ing north, one could .see the line stretching unbroken for almut three blocks, with red neckerchiefs and red flags making a colorful spectacle...
...2nd A. D., Bronx, $11...
...In attacking the task of raising the allotted $7,000, New York's (juota in the United Socialist Drive, we fully realized the difficulties involved at this time...
...An intermission was voted in the regular business of the branch, special donations given by the more well-to-do members, with a follow-up collection from the entire rank and file...
...Fine were the guest speakers...
...Those Bensonhurst women can cook...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 18
