WAR ON SLUMS IS LAUNCHED
War on Slums Is Launched New York's Banks Gang Up By William M. Felgenbaum MAYOR LAGUARDIA made a satisfied report to the people the other day, giving an account of liis six months in office....
...No wonder they considered the eity a "good risk" again, and were willing to lend money to it...
...James Oneal and Sidney ¦wwberg were elected on the wlutions Committee, and Comm>n Louia Schaffer of the} SoPJI«t Party and Guisman ol the ywifn.kers were on the Noml«ing Committee...
...Louis SadofT for State Senate In the 7th District, Brooklyn, at a Joint meeting last Monday of the 5th, (Hh and U.'lrd Assembly District branches at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum...
...for the appropriation of federal, state and municipal funds at a low rate of interest for the purpose of building homes: for the employment of strictly union help, and for the Adoption of lawn to curb the real estate owners and speculators from charging excessive prices for the lands which will be required for the building ol modern homes...
...At first, both sides were Ither skeptical as to the possiility of cooperation of the Central rades with the Socialists...
...v SeesLansbury as Next British Premier GEOKGK LANSBURY, veteran leader of the British Labor Party, remains the idol of the rank and file of British labor and if an election victory were to put that party in.power in the near futurw Lansbury would undoubtedly become Prime Minister, That is the message brought American Socialists by Hannan Swuffer, distinguished British journalist and Socialist, who ii on a brief visit to the United States...
...If New York had a Socialist government...
...and he had kept the Bankers' Agreement...
...The Glasgow bunks are as avid for profits as are the New York banks...
...Compare that with the offer of over FOUR per cent by the arrogant New York, banks...
...Comrades DaE p fif2 M **ta»tot Party J* Polsteln ei the Painter* were on the Credentials Committee...
...A complete program of education, discussion, entertainment and sports, prepared under the direction of Michael C. Arcone, will fill the .two and a half days of the Jamboree...
...Friedman, Labor Editor of The New Leader, was nominated for Congress in the 10th District, and Dr...
...Most important of all were the resolutions adopted as proposed by the committee...
...the world doe* not/ particularly need what Is known as clever men...
...An intensive campaign Is1 being planned...
...Following the administrations of O'Brien, McKec, Walker and Hylan, it was not difficult to Ite self-satisfied, even smug...
...i On July 4th lie attended the In-* dependence Day rally at UnionSquare, and he expressed himself as being greatly impressed by the speeches of Norman Thomaa and Junius Oneal...
...They call for the socialization of the building industry...
...Leave 242nd fn...
...This was amply proven throughout the conference...
...A huge Socialist vote will be the most significant political event fh the lives of the people in many months...
...Every one excelled himself...
...The* two districts cover the same territory...
...The Jamboree will wind up with a hottly contested mushball game between New York and Pennsylvania Sunday afternoon...
...The delegates did not stop at urely expressing a wish...
...Mayor LaGuardia ran into the stone-wall of the greed of the bankers, in whose interest, it appears, the city is run...
...Here's Glasgow, with a population of well over a million, the second city in the British Empire...
...New York went to "Fusion" "good-government" saviors...
...The tommittee of the Socialist Party that originally rented the school *d issued the call for the conference practically turned agar the nrtire arrangements to the Central Trades, and the leaders of that organization showed that if a sinttre attempt is made to work with them they are ready to cooperate...
...The •me spirit was shown in the Ippointments of presiding officers Jid the committees...
...Ht*>* ¦->•-" ii'.' , «¦ ">•:-,, if-* "SSI.'*ii...
...And they show their good faith by ''ganging up"—again LaGuardia'* expression—and shoving up the interest rate to over four per cent when LaGuardia thought it ought not to be above .1.9 per cent...
...Whajt is the reason for the difference between the two cities...
...Winston Dancis' report on the growth and activities of the league during the past year will preceed skits to be presented by New York, Reading, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Yipsels Saturday night...
...Norman Thomas, Assemblyman Darlington Hoopes, National YPSL Secretary Winston Dancis and others head the list of speakers who will lead the discussions on the building of a mass revolutionary youth organization and on its program...
...A man like Lansbury a*/"-' serts a fact like that, anVypu need the faith of a lot of slmpiiTfolk who agree to that general ethical principle...
...A campflre and songfest, lasting until the early hours of Saturday morning, Friday night will start the activities under way...
...Kohn and Alfred Peabody of the Executive Board of the Central Trade's and Labor Council...
...Why does the powerful bank of one city make an offer that is, in effect, a gift of $375,000 a year...
...to carry out the details of the general plan," Comrade 8warier was particularly interested in the possibility of accomplishing great thing* for Socialism through the new Labor majority of London...
...But within less than a day of the delivery of his radio address...
...It's a great system . . . for the bankers...
...LaGuardia had broken his campaign promises to the masses to keep the wages and salaries of the city workers intact...
...Comrade SadofT is one of the pioneers of the Socialist movement in Brownsville and has often led this district in campaigns, both as candidate and campaign manager...
...New York votes this year for a controller...
...That city needed money, just as New York does...
...Bring a dry leach and a hot supper, Iiwtruc*, tlen In camping, cooking, etc...
...Staffer, considered the leading British dramatic critic, is a daily contributor to the London Herald, Socialist and labor organ, and is an active Socialist...
...The high point of Sunday's program will be Norman Thomas* speech on "Youth Marches Forward," "The United Front" and "Work with Outside Youth Groups" will be the topics for discussion groups for Sunday...
...Youth Faces War, Fascism and the New Deal," with Darlington Hoopes as discussion leader, will share with swimming and other •ports the afternoon program...
...Seminars on High School and College' work, work among Young Workers and Unemployed Youth will take up Saturday morning...
...BUT THE TEMPER *OF THE PEOPLE OF GLASGOW IS DIFFERENT — FOR THEY VOTE SOCIALIST...
...Thej loo voted to create a permanent )dy to stimulate the movement Vr public housing, and to see t< ¦ that all building and main ¦¦nance after completion should be rL a strict union basis...
...A great Ml of tact, therefore, was needed torn the leaders of both sides to uke the "trial marriage" successid...
...ORGANIZE FOR IT NOW...
...at 8:30 a. m. »harp...
...The bankers, who nobly rallied to the rescue of the city when it was on the verge of bankruptcy, permitted the city to go on, on the understanding that they would get theirs, about $226,000,000 a year in Debt Service—some $120,000,000 annual contributions to amortization, the remainder in interest...
...The London County building I* at the oppeelte tide of the bridge...
...of the United Hebrew Trades, Maude Swartz of the Women's Trade Union League, Isidor Nagler of the I.L.G.W.U., and B. C. Vladeck, Julius Gerber and Louis Schaffer of the Socialist Party...
...The eity is planning to float a bond issue of $72,000,000, and had invited bids from banks to handle the transaction...
...Meatiy, Wm...
...Labor Joins the Socialist Party In Drive By a Staff Reporter uoflWKK eight hundred delegaterepresenting the most im * Ditarit labor organizations ol jj k city, gathered at the recen (I abor Conference .for l'ublii [ousing and Slum Clearance h nd unanimously decided to in ol lilute a campaign for the inline x ate erection by the city ol lodem homes for workers a: loderate rents...
...The spirit of the gathering and its decisions were excellent...
...Comrade Friedman is the organizer and guiding spirit of the Rebel Arts movement...
...It is now up to the Executive Committee to carry Una ©fn in lite.: ,i YPSL Jamboree Dance At Camp Hoffnung 'THREE hundred members of the * Young People's Socialist League from every state and almost every large city in the eastern section moved into Camp Hot'nung, Pipergville, Pennsylvania, during the...
...Oneal'i speech, fn particular, Impressed him, he said* because it gave him a new view of American history and the background of the revolution that he had not hitherto understood...
...On his visit to the United States he sought to discover the workings of the much talked of New Deal, and also to get in touch with the labor and Socialist movement here...
...The situation was quite satisfactory—for the banks...
...When we won the county government I told > Herbert Morrison, leader of our Party in the Council, to use hi* position of vantage to thro* bombs into the Tory majority on the other side of the river," The Falcons Fahftin guide hike to Alpine, Sunday, July 15...
...last week on foot, in cars, in busses and by the "hitch-hike" route for the Third Annual Eastern District Jamboree of the YPSL which is holding forth there this week-end...
...almost anything would he an improvement, and almost any failure of the present regime can plausibly l>e chalked up against the failures, the stupidity and the corruption of those earlier administrations...
...The housee of Parliament," he laid, "are on one side of a bridge...
...The bankers had recently declared that the city had become a "good risk" again, after the LaGuardia administration had slashed wages and salaries, curtailed sociul services and in every way had done their bidding...
...Swaffer said that the I-abor Patty is back to its 102U strength, or even far beyond, und that in addition to winning London, Glasgow, .Sheffield, Leeds and other cities in recent municipal elections, It is doing splendidly in all parliamentary by-eleetions...
...I believe Lansbury is a man of the general type of your Debs," he said...
...The district has a large number of Yipsel Circle* active within its boundaries and, several atroag party branches...
...The speeches delivered by all the principal speakers deserve a separate article, as it is impossible to do them justice in this limited space...
...He was deeply interested in stories of the late Socialist martyr and took notes oil detail* of his life and work...
...They got what they wanted...
...Speaking of Lansbury as pot-, sible Premier, SwaltVf ">ald that...
...James F-Qulnn, secretary of the Council, *.* J*CT«tarJy the conference, lJ™ Julius Gerber was assistant y^Ury...
...The most important speech, however, was delivered by George Meany, secretary of the Building Trades Council who, although not very prominent outside of his organization, has shown himself to be of very promising leadership timber...
...indeed, if New York had a Socialist on the Board of Estimate with three votes AND A VOICE, the banks would sing a different tune...
...In that city the Glasgow Savings Bank, the biggest bank of' its kind in the world, went out of it* way to offer that city £5,000,000 (or about $25,000,000) at TWO AND ONE-HALF PER GENT...
...In every case •rty representatives or trade tnionists knewn to be sympathetic rith the party were given repreWntation...
...Sam Friedman for Congress in 10th Samuel II...
...Glasgow has a Socialist government...
...jjThe conference, originated by 3i Housing Committee of tht Socialist Party, was turned ovei I the Central Trades and Labor ouncil after B. C. Vladeck, a ember of the party's committee nd of the New York Housing tuthority, enlisted the cooperation I the New York central laboi ody...
...LaGuardia might grumble a bit, and complain that the bankers had a "stranglehold" on the city, that the quarter billion more or less each year in debt service was a "first lien" on the city, but what of it...
...For example," he skid, "war la wrong...
...Why do the banks of New York virtually holdup the city to the tune of what is, in effect, loot of one million a year on that one transaction ? The answer is easy to And...
...Seminars i'or educational directors, organizers and on cultural work will also be added to the program to complete the discussion on all phases of Young Socialist activity...
...Then, of course, you can hire experts and specialist...
...Morris Finestone...
...Jack Altman is candidate in the 23rd A. D. and Bill Gomberg in the 5th...
...John P. Mulholland, vice-presi*nt of the Central Trades and ebor Council, was selected chairKan, and the vice-chairmanship [*« given to Morris Finestone of p United Hebrew Trades...
...JThe gathering was significant ir Jb.kt for the first time in many *«rs all shades of opinion in tht iitimate labor movement joined Xids in a common cause...
...On the permament Executive Committee the following were elected: Joseph P. Ryan, John J. Mulholland, James C. Quinn, Geo...
...To begin with, the Council had invited, in addition to Uayor LaGuardia and Tenement !ouse Commissioner Post, Corrodes B. C. Vladeck and Jacob 'anken as principal speakers...
...The results were gratifying...
...Upon its success depends a •ore permanent union...
Vol. 17 • July 1934 • No. 77
