Socialists Helping Draft New Charter for N. Y.
Socialists Helping Draft New Charter for N. Y.??
THE Socialist Party Committee * on New York City Charter con-, fitting of Julius Gerber, Joseph Gists, Harry W. Laidler, Algernon Lee, Samuel Orr,...
...After all, I am primarily concerned with getting the women interested and active...
...Not that I'm different on this question of the new Declaration of Principles ; far from it...
...State Auditor, Lawrence Piercey of Lyons...
...or maybe the B.M.T., and we are free to go to bed...
...Now, I don't think we're dying, though we may be pretty sick, but I do think it's silly at this time U> insist on answering the riddles of...
...Morgan's Standard Brands Coffee...
...Eleven candidates in all have been nominated...
...store a priest came to administer the last rites...
...Comrade Pauli has organized several "Women's (Hubs" onjy to find them gone te pieces because of "bossy" women, "smart aleck" women of the old-fashioned militant feminist type p/ "overly nice" women...
...THIS ENLIGHTENED AGE...
...theatre, and later on dance until our Melville shoes hurt...
...The whole business reminds me of the boy who was run over...
...Finally, he says, "Women must be approached as jthey are, not as we would have ihem be...
...Chicago, Philadelphia, Valley...
...A section suggested by members of the Socialist Lawyers' Committee would outlaw race and religious discrimination and discrimination against union workers...
...State Printer, Jesse Reeve of Wichita...
...I have received quantities of mail from many parts of the country, containing first-hand lessons and experiences of people who are interested in doing the ground work for the building of our movement...
...Do you believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost...
...Rockefeller's or Harry Sinclair's gas, tear along the General Asphalt road and arrive at our place of employment, which, no doubt, Is run by one of the above mentioned...
...For breakfast we drink a cup of Mr...
...But I don't think it will make a partic!e\of difference (outside the party) whether it is adopted or not...
...2) that in the elimination of city employees, those ^securing appointments without passing civil service examinations, be first eliminated...
...We hop into Mr...
...But all this has been Improved...
...In the matter of food,, for instance, he showed an appalling lack of flreRse...
...For instance, on tliu question of Socialist wdmcn's groups—one of my recent obsessions—I have received a fourteen page letter from Karl Pa'uli, state organizer of Ohio, which is i«< full of excellent material that it would require at least a page to discuss it properly...
...Another day of freedom begins...
...This method, briefly, is the getting together of friendly diplomats to decide that henceforth ships shall sport a hundred five-inch guns instead of a dozen ten-inch 'affairs...
...3) that the civil service in the city be extended to all non-policy making employees, and (4) that every effort be made to keep the pension funds, on a sound and solvent basis...
...massed resistance, dictatorship, and so on, when our generation may not even be on deck, much leas at the helm, when the time comes, and when the situation when it does arise may be so different that it won't fit into it with our declarations, AND, most important of all, when there are so many riddles right on our doorstep waiting to bs solved...
...He hacks up his remarks with an analysis of the machine age which is a wow...
...State Treasurer, Max Austin of Dodge City...
...clever...
...Attorney-General, Waldo McNutt of Topeka...
...adequately represent the"" various sections of the city and that it was dangerous to impose such great powers in the hands of a comparatively few men...
...I tell you, we're pretty damned...
...He emphasized the position of the party in behalf of a system of proportional representation permitting the use of party labels...
...C. S. Bendure of Baxter Springs, 3rd District, and Barney McCartney of Wichita, 5th District...
...One thing puzzles me...
...The committee wit that tuch a council would not...
...He knew nothing of our methods whereby a farmer can grow wheat and ship the part that isn't dug under, or something, to Battle Creek...
...Comrade Glass urged in behalf of the party (1) that in all consolidations under the new city charter, civil service employees and their pension rights be duly protected...
...Funds have been raised to start Clayton M. Crosier as field organizer July 1. Negotiations are also under way to purchase a truck with loudspeaker equipment...
...where said wheat is shredded, puffed, hypnotized and shot from cannon so that the chap who grew it may buy it (if he has the money( in a form that is quite unrecognizable, in spite of the fact that it is wrapped in transparent cellophane...
...And in this respect, to my happy sui pi ise, 1 am not alone...
...pRIMITJVE man had no five-foot bookshelf, fib 'dollar-down encyclopedias, nor how-to-speak - and - write - shorthand...
...Whiteside for Governor of Kansas...
...Several members of the Socialist Party committee are speaking ovei WEVD and other radio stations an the Socialist attitude toward the city charter and are conduct ing a general educational campaign in behalf of a model charter...
...When he was hungry, he ate...
...has left he buys new seed, pays off the mortgage, and sends his lovely daughter to Vassar...
...the coordination of various departments on a city-wide scale and a city council, the members of which were elected by a borough-Wide vote under the system of proportional representation...
...11 y avais une fois when a Roman soldier would sneak up behind an enemy, heave a javelin, and run like hell...
...Superintendent of Public Instruction, Pearianna Briggs of Wichita...
...A day of absolute and total freedom, a condition possible only in a highly enlightened age...
...Commissioner of Insurance, J. S. Keller of Winona...
...On the question of American psychology versus Marxian interpretations, I have a letter from Marshall Mills in Boston, in which he opines that were Marx alive today he would "shake his head, pick up lovingly his three volumes, shuffle down the cellar stairs and throw them to the fire...
...against the idea of a small •wncil 6f nine suggested by some **lai reformers...
...Besides Whiteside the others are: Lieutenant-Governor, C. R. Ingraham of Yates Center...
...The day's work done, we might call a free woman on Mr...
...Stream, Long Island, and other points north, east, south and west, full of ideas, suggestions, criticisms and comment— which I haven't had a chance to assimilate yet—and all of which merit discussion...
...The committee likewise expressed itself in favor of ,a section permitting the city and the contractors for the city to a policy of collective bargaining...
...He was, let me assure you, a painfully stupid creature who lacked ideas with a completeness so thorough that it was beautiful...
...Since he gets about a buck a bushel for the stuff, it is eaty to see that friend farmer Is in a position to buy back all of the ten-ounce packages at ten cents per package...
...In connection with the legal status of Socialist Women'H (Hubs, he has prepared a charter or constitution...
...He then goes on with his experience in working with women's groups, some that failed and some that succeeded, and I'll relate those too, as soon as possible...
...We are free...
...Candidates" for Congress are Arthur Roberts of Kansas City, 2nd District...
...The city may by purchase, lease, condemnation, construction or otherwise acquire, establish, own or operate within or without its territorial limits any public utility plant or service and may purchase from any public or private corporation any service or commodity, for the purpose of furnishing to itself or for compensation to its inhabitants, water, gas, electricity, steam or any other service tor commodity, provided the Council shall deem such plant, service or commodity to be affected with a public interest, whether because free compensation does not prevail in the furnishing of it or because the operation of private enterprise does not provide an adequate and safe supply to the inhabitants of the city with low incomes, or because the conditions in the furnishing of It constitute a menace to the health, safety, morals, welfare and comfort of the inhabitants of the city or for any other reason, provided that no local law, ordinance, or resolution under this section shall be valid unless approved by the council after a public hearing of which due notice shall be given...
...THE Socialist Party Committee * on New York City Charter con-, fitting of Julius Gerber, Joseph Gists, Harry W. Laidler, Algernon Lee, Samuel Orr, Charles Solomon, Norman Thomas and Louis Wald-mtn have, • during^ the last few weeks, done notable work in formu-ltting the Socialist position on problems of charter reform and in pretesting their point of view before the sub-committee of the charter commission...
...This, according to Aristotle, or Jest Willard, or someone, is predicated on the theory that enlightened people should...
...State Supreme Justice, 2nd position, H. M. Perkins...
...Later on man lost his freedom, becoming what was known as a slave and having to work for a person of superior brawn, brain, or what is now known as enlightenment...
...On the battlefield we have done equally well in the matter of enlightenment...
...We are an enlightened race...
...With the money he...
...It accepted the offer of the Socialist lawyers to continue their cooperation in analyzing some of the constitutional points involved in granting additional pawert to the city and appointed Joseph Glass and Samuel Orr,, a committee of two, to present a -brief for the extension of economic powers to the city and for the reorganization of the Board of Aldermen to the sub-committee of the Charter Commission on Plan and Scope on July 9...
...I think it's a most unsatisfactory document from many points of view...
...Harry W. Laidler, acting chairman of the Socialist Party Charter Committee, urges all who oelieyed in proportional representation to make their belief known immediately to the members of the Charter Commission...
...On Tuesday, June 19, Joseph Glass presented before the charter sub-committee the position of the Socialist Party regarding the extension of the civil services and the preservation of pension funds for city employees...
...State Supreme Justice, 1st position, Alvah J. Graham of Winfleld...
...Some of these letters make better reading than anything I can write (oh, wHl, just as good anyway...
...We jtfmp out of our Simmons, bed to turn off the Waterbury clock...
...Secretary of State, Clayton M. Crosier of Lawrence...
...Morgan's General Foods Coffee or, since we enjoy freedom of choice, some of Mr...
...Is my column read exclusively by the men, or don't the women find it interesting...
...ly Gertrude Wtfl Klein...
...Now we are enlightened...
...A/vigorous campaign is in prospect...
...Crude, no doubt, but they had no Mr...
...Lawrence has been tentatively chosen as the site...
...While the Boy Is Dying They Ask Him Riddles...
...I get a great kick out of the men's point of view on my stuff, but I would like to hear from the women...
...Alfred E. Smith, the chairman of the commission, has in the past expressed his opposition to proportional representation, and Norman Thomas and others have a hard tight before them in urging that this principle be embodied in the city law...
...The state convention of the party will take place August 26-27...
...Forsooth, and egad, we are living in an enlightened ag...
...Or maybe you're unfortunate enough to own your own small butfhets...
...shoot one another more gently, but [ more frequently.1...
...he asked...
...TPHE heavy artillery is thundering a!l around me, hut I'm still sticking to my knitting...
...At best it requireitcin darn much explaining...
...At the last meeting of the committee on Tuesday, June 26, the committee decided to advocate the insertion of the following section in the City Charter giving posiUve powers to the city to engage Jn various communal activities...
...Unfortunately," sayt Comrade Mills, "that rite would hardly terminate the matter because zealous Socialists would gather the ashes into an urn and worship the urn...
...in-ten-casy-lessonS schools...
...It derided against the city manager plan...
...We are now in a position to blow up more, kill more, wound more, disease more, in fact do practically anything, as long as it's more...
...As they were carrying ham into a drug...
...By John Pier rev...
...Then there's the matter of war...
...Before the sub-committee on Proportional Representation, of which Norman Thomas is chairman, Algernon Lee presented the "party's case for proportional representation...
...Bell's telephone, meet the date at an R.K.O...
...That's why, comrades, I think I'm doing the right thing to continue my studies of geography...
...In the matter of work and play, Adam had what might be called (by unenlightened people) a racket, having only to sit back and listen to reptillian suggestions re the whereabouts of the choicest fruit...
...We no longer build triremes, but .rather employ a method of constructing battle-wagons that is called "disarmament...
...DuPont to enlighten them in the fine art of blowing your neighbor to bits...
...The boy whimpered, "J/rok, I'm so sick, I'm dying, and they ask me riddles...
...I get mail only from men—two letters In a year maybe from women—and I'd like to know why...
...Then there are letters from comrades in Lynchberg, Va...
...General Motors' 1928 model, step on Mr...
...Our soldiers can now spread diseases that they can't even pronounce 1 During the World War we overlooked countless opportunities to malm, mutilate, and murder...
...By Carl Bensen...
...LYONS, Kas.—With Goorge M. Whiteside of Mineola heading the slate as candidate for Governor, the Socialist Party of Kansas has filed the most complete ticket for the forthcoming state elections that it has had in many years...
...This fact alone proves that he was artless, unenlightened and, in general, persona non poopwi...
...something else we must keep in mind not only in regard to work with women, but with people generally...
...The committee in general favored the elimination of county governments...
...Ford's car, or, since this enlightened age enjoys freedom of choice, Mr...
...Then we hop a General Motors cab, kiss some Coty's lipstick goodnight, pick up a. Hearst morning paper which is sold in the evening (his evening papers are sold in the morning), grab the I.R.T...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 26
