New York's Socialists Face the Future with Confidence
Friedman, Samuel H.
New York's Socialists Face the Future with Confidence » —. ...... ¦ ¦ America's Largest Socialist Party Subdivision Made Notable Progress In Year Just Ended By Samuel H....
...Three demonstrations were held to call attention to the plight of the jobless and to give point to their demands, these demonstrations being run in conjunction with other working class organizations...
...This honor goes to a little village called 'Hottentot' in thu Philippine Islands...
...About fifty hall mass meetings were held, culminating in a magnificent Madison Square Garden rally addressed by the national leaders of the party...
...Constituencies In Spain, he explains, art very large, containing hundreds of villages and small towns...
...The textile man pointed out that the tax rate in Snelby is only $13 per thousand, while in Milwaukee it is $25.96 per thousand...
...If we make claim for i restige among cities, it is b. cause we give more public service for a dollar than anj other city in the country...
...A municipal campaign was fought against insuperable odds, with one opposing candidate representing a "fusion" and "Sweep Tammany Out" sentiment that proved insidiously sweet to the New York workers...
...Harry W. Laidler—with a host of other vigorous comrades running for lesser offices, made an Outstanding and straightforward Socialist campaign that was impressive, especially in view of the fact that there were no funds on hand...
...The Labor Committee, aided by the City Office and the work of innumerable comrades who volunteered their services as pickets, leaflet distributors, strike aides, speakers, clerical helpers, lawyers, publicity men, and Jimmie Higginses generally, did yeoman work in the labor field...
...The only tax collected there -is an ounce of tobacco from each inhabitant, to pay the yearly salary of the chief...
...tammany hall might learn from spain About 100 seats were stolen from the Socialist Party at the recent Spanish election, according to Senor Cabellero, president of the Spanish Socialist Party and Minister of Labor in the last Government, who alleges that there was shameless buying of votes and forging of the electoral rolls and certificates of the poll...
...So Local New York faces the new year confident of increased growth and activity and enhanced usefulness to the working class and the cause of Socialism...
...Civilization may be judged by the amount of service which the people in a community demand and what they can afford to pay for, not by .ow low a tax rate they have...
...Hia only function is to preside, as chief potentate, in the annual beauty contest and the hulahula dance...
...Our job is to help organize workers to win in their struggles against the employing class," the party said in effect, and to that end all its activities were directed...
...That important work constitutes one of the most vital jobs of the party...
...Hoan Gives an Answer to 'Economizer' (From Labor, organ of the Railroad Brotherhoods) ATEXTILE manufacturer of Shelby, N. C, recently wrote to Daniel Hoan, Socialist mayor of Milwaukee...
...When the local NRA administrator invited the Socialist Party— whose usefulness to labor he had encountered in connection with strikes he had been called upon to mediate—to join in the job of "organizing consumers for NRA," the party's executive committee declined the invitation...
...Fight Injunctions The fight against Fascism and terrorism was sharpened in Local New York...
...The past year was one of the most active in the history of the party...
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...In spite of terrible hardships, the campaign was a stirring one...
...Special issues of The New Leader were sold by the hundreds of thousand at the thousands of street meetings, which amounted to 20 a week starting in May but totalled over a hundred a week by the end of the campaign...
...In many such places no polling took place, and the whole of the electorate was credited to the Right Coalition, or when polling did take placa the actual results were faked...
...and added, with the offensive air common to economy howlers: 'I would not want to have our plant located in your town...
...Workers in and out of unions, eager to take advantage of some of the opportunities for organization in the early stages of NRA, counted on the work of the party members and the Yipsels, who were of immeasurable service in organization and educational work in the many strikes that were waged...
...The Campaign Over a million and a quarter leaflets, presenting the Socialist message forcefully and picturesquely, were printed and distributed by volunteer workers...
...One noteworthy demonstration, held in cooperation with the labor unions, protested against a particularly vicious injunction issued against the bakers' union, and was successful in focussing public attention upon the bosses' constant use of this weapon against the workers...
...Milwaukee cannot boast of first place in the matter of tax rates," Mayor Hoan wrote back...
...The Socialist Party, headed by three sterling comrades and notable campaigners—Charles Solomon, Frank R. Crosswaith and Dr...
...The May Day parade and demonstration, conducted jointly with the bona-fide labor movement of the city, was the largest held in years...
...and the vote attained, though low in view of the appeal made by the "fusion" nominess backed by the press and other agencies of public opinion, and the apparent opportunity to rid the city of the Tammany incubus, represented a solid Socialist strength—the real and unfluctuating voting strength of ;he party—for which comrades had no reason to apologize...
...Neither can Shelby...
...America's Largest Socialist Party Subdivision Made Notable Progress In Year Just Ended By Samuel H. Friedman (In last week's installment Comrade Friedman, an active I party worker, sketched the orI gamzational makeup of local New 1 York, outlining the peculiar problems facing the local, the herculean task of the city office, the function ' of the Executive Committee and j Central Committee, and the nuture of Socialist democracy...
...In this installment, he continues the picture of the organization and sums tip its work during the pat' year...
...Tens of thousands of workers belonging to the Socialist Party and to unions like the International Ladies' Garment Workers, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and many others marched through the streets of the city in colorful array...
...Aiding Labor Time and again the Socialist message was presented to the people of the city through newspaper releases by the Public Affairs Committee, by leaflets an* letters and by statements from the Executive Committee, through The New Leader, and by parade and demonstration...
Vol. 17 • January 1934 • No. 2
