Michael Zametkin, Socialist Pioneer, Dies at 76
Michael Zametkin, Socialist Pioneer, Dies at 76 ¦ WITH the death of Michael Zametkin last week at the age of 76 another of the thinning ranks of pioneers of the Jewish Socialist and Labor...
...Red Falcons to Print Maqaxine Marking another step forward In Its ell..'Is to ImhIiI n great working class children'* movement, tlie R''il Falcons of Aiiii'i-ii-ii have announced that the Kulroiy Call will appear In a printed form, bef" glnnlm...
...You will want to clip these articles and keep them a» a guide to your thinking snd your work for Socialism...
...For further Information write to Red I Falcons of America, 7 P...
...There is an active branch in that district (9th A. D.) and the comrades transferred to that branch, whence most of them came, could do much better there...
...Italian Branch, Manhattan...
...These branches were not suspended but were dissolved and the members are to be transiirredta.other branches (so that no one wilTIose membefshipr...
...and while one or two comrades arm trying everything to carry on acl tivities, worked hard, etc., they dkfl not succeed vev much, and these...
...This branch has about 10 members on their roll of whom about six are in good standing...
...Michael Zametkin, Socialist Pioneer, Dies at 76 ¦ WITH the death of Michael Zametkin last week at the age of 76 another of the thinning ranks of pioneers of the Jewish Socialist and Labor movement passed away...
...Republican Virtue Monte* iiulcii...
...They have not gained a member...
...What Italian meetingswere held were arranged by the American branches...
...Incidentally, not all the branches are militant...
...AiIIit...
...The Bay Ridge Branch was orfanized in 1932 with about 20 memers, and for a while it was active and grew, but for about a year it lacked activity, dwindled to 8 members, has no meeting place and as at present constituted will not and cannot grow...
...They are the Greek Branch...
...Did they speak of it as a repudiation of democracy...
...3rd-7th A.D., Kings...
...15th St., X. V, Lecture Notes The Department of Social IMiilosophy I of Cooper I in.iii aunouiirei the followIng lectures: March 15: F.vrretl Demi M 111i11...
...The Sheepshead Bay Branch was organized about two years, ago...
...three at least are non-militant...
...Comrade Zametkin was a native oi Odessa, born in January, ihm>, and as a university student waa known as a brilliant mathematician...
...It would increase the membership of the former Sunn...
...He early joined the ranks of the Jewish Socialist pioneers, and soon became known as one of the ablest and most fiery of the Socialist speakers of that period...
...Sheepshead Bay Branch...
...In addition to his lecturing in every part of the East, Comrade Zametkin was a trenchant writer and contributed to all the Jewish Socialist publications...
...and they are raising the same cry now...
...Socialist and fraternal organizations to send May Day Oreetlngs...
...He remained associated with the staff of the Forward until his death...
...Bay Ridge Branch...
...Jewish Williamsburgh Branch, Kings...
...The Jewish Williamsburgh Branch is composed of 8 members, and these members would be more useful if transferred to an active, large branch...
...Surely, the City,' Executive should have a right to dissolve branches which decline to from 4 to 8 members, and which do not send reports to the City office, itor carry on any Socialist activity, particularly as the dissolution does not deprive members of tneir membership and may give'them an opportunity to do active work...
...The National Constitution empowers the N.E.C...
...Ridgewood Branch, ana Woodside Branch, Queens...
...What was their conception of the state form necessary for the realization of Socialism...
...He rarely missed a meeting of the Forward Association, often attending when he appeared too ili to leave his bed...
...comrades may find more encout age»| ment in another, lar-er and morfi active branch...
...with May Day...
...He came to America in the first great wave of Russian-Jewish immigration of 53 years ago...
...In order to enable the magazine to n |i fiear regularly In Its printed form, the Ird Falcons have published an appeul to all labor...
...The 19th-20th A. D. Branch is several years old, but has dwindled to 5 members in good standing of whom the majority belong to one family...
...Whatever work is done in the territory could be done by the same comrades, and was done, when they belonged to the Downtown Branch...
...You cannot afford to miss these articles from the pen of the clearest thinker in the international Socialist movement...
...later he was a teacher in the public night schools...
...Thosebranches were not deprived of lepresentatton in the Central Committee...
...Turf Issue was devoted to the heroes of the Austrian revolution...
...Why New York Branches Were Dissolved ly Julius Gerber RUMOR has been spread over the country that Local New York suspended nine branches to secure s majority in the Central Committee...
...March 10: l'mi Mortimer .1...
...The Woodside Braneh was 'Sffl ganized about a year and a half'',1 ago...
...It does not work for Socialism, its membership has dwindled to four, and it has bought no dues stamps since September...
...Lately the Sunnyil side Branch moved to Woodsidwl and the two branches share head-" quarters...
...The funeral Friday morning was attended by a large gathering of Comrade Zametkin's old associates...
...They practically carry on no activity and whatever work is done in the district could be done if these few comrades belonged to a larger, active branch where new members can be encouraged...
...Chance mid l'rrsuasion in I'olitirul Life...
...March 1": I'rof...
...To the very end, however, he retained his interest in the party and its activities, and in the Forward Association...
...Orthodoxy and Tolerance...
...He was one of the founders of the Jewish Daily Forward, and for a brief period was its editor...
...Their delegates were sealed pending action on the Executive Committee's report on the dissolution...
...side Branch, which is losing mem* ' Incidentally, I brought the matter of these branches before the Exec- * utive Committee six months ago, and at that time the militants raised the cry that it meant gvrrymandering, depriving them of delegates...
...He early associated himself with the revolutionary movement, and had to ll'av«' Russia to escape the Czar's police...
...What is our road to power as defined by Marxism ? How are we to apply the Marxian conception under conditions confronting us today ? These and other questions of equal import are dealt with in a aeries of articles on the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, written by KARL KAUTSKY, greatest living exponent of Marxian thought, in a jeries of articles that will begin in these columns March 23...
...The 3rd-7th A. D., Brooklyn, has been organized for about 9 months...
...The Greek Branch was organized about two years ago with about 12 members, and since then has dwindled to about four...
...Here he worked in a shirt factory for a while...
...They do not even meet in their territory but miles away...
...Is the "dictatorship of the proletariat" as preached by Communis®" ah^advSnced -er a primitive conception...
...The Ridgewood Branch is quite 613, has only 4^ members in good standing, had 6 the year before...
...The Italian Branch is in a similar position...
...Since Its inception, the Hfd Falcons of America both through lis orgunlr.rd clubs and lis literature have reached thousands of children and brought them nearer the Socialist movement...
...It never made any progress, has only 6 members and even the militants in that branch agree that it has no right to exist...
...They may as well be one • branch...
...One or two comrades are willing to work, but the branch is small, too poor even to afford a meeting place and meets in the residence of a comrade whose family furnishes most of the branch members...
...It has not met in months, has bought no dues stamps since September, and to all practical purposes is dead except for the delegate to the City Central Committee...
...THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT mHAT did, Marx and Engela " mean by the dictatorship of the proletariat...
...19th20th A. I)., Kings...
...The lust Issued of the Fulcon (ill, although In a mimeographed 11.i in...
...sold .'-i wiiil thousand copies...
...The iniignzinc will help' spread the network of Falcon groups throughout Hie country...
...Mortimer .t...
...Why were these branches dissolved...
...During the last campaign when the local employed an Italian speaker they did not even arrange a single meeting...
...Brief addresses were delivered by Jacob Panken, Abraham Cahan, B. C. Yladeck, and Joseph Weinberg...
...Adler...
...to revoke the charter of a state when tis membership drops below 75 during a period of 6 months or for failure o send reports...
...l*——HW ship, but for quite some tlajfl shared headquarters with the Sun- 1 nyside Branch...
...But the best joke is when the militants who want these 4 to 8 member branches continued, object to the organization of new branches with 25 to 50 members, and with proSpects of growing and doing some real good for the party...
...Few, indeed, tit left- of- the- gaUaut-- Jjasd of idealists, mainly immigrants from Russia, who came to the exploited and sweated Jewish workers in the congested (ihettoes of New York and other cities, brought them the inspiration of Socialism and organized them into great trade unions, Michael Zametkin's services to the Socialist and Labor movement ¦panned half a century in this country, although in recent yean illness had kept him largely inactive...
Vol. 18 • March 1935 • No. 11
