Canada's C C F Is Ready For Election Campaign
Blockshaw, Squire
Canada's C C F Is Ready For Election Campaign • y Squire 81ockshaw Montreal. *1*HE Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Canada'a Socialist Party, both leaders and rank and file members, are...
...This is one of many similarcase* fought by teh Workers* Unemployed...
...Morris L. Polin is chairman of the arrangements committee...
...You, however, must begin today to saw year organization's participstis...
...Frank Crosswaith, Negro orator...
...Premier Bennett's reforms have now been examined, found hopelessly antiquated, and utterly inadequately to meet the present-day needs...
...Free Synagogue, and B. Chantey Vladeck of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...The C.C.F...
...Write via at 7 East loth Street...
...Ut at know bow many you expect is tar ajarch, etc...
...MARYLAND TO HONOR DR...
...On Thursday, March 21, Henry Rourke, vice-chairman of Local No...
...Bennett has copied the British unemployed act which is about 25 years old...
...Setack living in a basement, six feet below the street level, the ceiling falling down in the bedroom, i dampness exuding from the walls] and rats overrunning the place...
...If the | njmber of hours worked in Can...
...According to General Organiser Tesoro...
...Kutner's subordinates at the Elizabeth street bureau...
...The C C F . alternatives to Bennett's pseudo reforms are: 1. Finance...
...League for Industrial Democracy, War Re sisters' League, Teachers' Union...
...Union at Home Relief* Bureaus throughout the city...
...Setack that perhaps he would be back in a day or so...
...The C C F . is making a clean-cut issue between his reforms and the C C F . During the days of so-called p r o s p e r i t y , Canada's statesmen spent their time chanting the praises of the capitalist system and chirping about the inexhaustible natural resources of the country...
...Participating organizations are: J Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...3. Labor and Social Service...
...But YOU begin today . sad keep in touch with as...
...S. M. NEISTADT AT BANQUET Twenty-five years of incessant and fruitful activity in the Socialist and labor movement will be commemorated on Sunday, April 14th, when the Socialist Party and a large section of the labor movement of Baltimore unites to honor Dr...
...of 104 Bleecker S t The present walkout is the result of the company's refusal to recognise the workers in the welt department and those in the stitchdown branch-of the industry went out in sympathy...
...FERA Seeks to Club McjLevy Administration Socialists E x p o s e Clumsy Political Trick— Block Bridgeport Armory By Abrameaa K—pier BR I D G E P O R T — A charge that FERA policies in Bridgeport were "a determined effort to build up a political organization that can have no other function than that of trying to thwart the policies of the administration," were made by Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy in ' a letter .to Miss Eleanor H. Little, state FERA administrator, protesting the appointment by Miss Little and the state F E R A commission of John G. Schwarz, Jr., as local FERA administrator...
...He fails to realize that he must think in terms, of 1935 conditions, not those of 1911...
...10 of the Workers' Unemployed Union, went with Mrs...
...t. Arrange for a band of music...
...Lefkowits of the Teacher/ Union, Julius Hochmann and Luigi Antonini...
...4, P r e p a r e banners, slogans, eastumes etc...
...They believe this crazy and obsolete system cannot be repaired, and further that it is not worth repairing' 1 Premier Bennett, after spending five years boasting that "Our system is fundamentally sound," has dismayed his supporters by admitting in his radio speeches that it has failed, and that some of the consequences are "rotten...
...1*HE Cooperative Commonwealth Federation, Canada'a Socialist Party, both leaders and rank and file members, are determined to make the forthcoming Federal elections in Canada, a test of puolic opinion on the question of Reform or Reconstruction...
...Rourke as representative of the Workers' Unemployed Union refused to take that as an answer but was told the interview was ended...
...The FERA commission has not only not coordinated its program with that of the local relief department, but has constantly obstructed the local administraion in various ingenious ways, to place onus upon the Socialists...
...Catherine Setack of 38 Morton street made an application for Home Relief on March 7th...
...The C C F . has adopted a program leading to a complete reconstruction of indust ry on co-operative lines...
...investigator called, found Mrs...
...Socialization of all financial institutions...
...The intent, of course, in increasing expenditures is to increase the tax rate, and to cause the small taxpayers to become enraged at the Socialist administration...
...5. if in any way possible, arrange a pageant...
...Kutner said he would see what he could do...
...The winter of depression found them with no provision for tiding them over until better times...
...to express their protest again.n the evils of exploitation and unemployment...
...SOCIALIST PARTY AND UNIONS JOIN IN ANTI-WAR RALLY •I ABOR oaa crush war" la the " * * slogan ef the New York antiwar mass meeting to ha held Sop* day, 8 p. m., at Mecca Temple, 1*3 West 55th Street, under the joint auspices of many labor unions the Socialist Party and panes and educational organisations, who have come together in the Workers' Conference Against Fascism and War...
...Dress, Joint Board, I.L.G.W.U...
...and to ipaead the 30-bour day, unem|tUI»I nt and social insurance, old H» pension and other vital labor You most immediately establish your ova organization's machinery far a successful May Day- parade of your unit...
...The investigator told Mrs...
...Ton «an telephone to me on any afternoon—ALgonquin 4,2620...
...I hope that the people will not continue us in office...
...Setack had nothing to eat, as she had not for the previous two days, an emergency food order was finally granted her...
...Heary Pruehter, Secretary...
...Socialists have already appeared before the armory...
...z".-- " - nre determined to have a monster paras* We expect over 100,000 asjrkers to march...
...New Deals and Bennett reforms merely prolong the agony...
...2. Agriculture, a. A living income for the farmer as the first charge on has product, b. Statutory reduction of farm debts, c. The forbidding of foreclosures and evictions...
...An intensive campaign among Socialist Party branches as wall as of.trade union membership to bring oat a large crowd indicates a* enthusiastic gathering of worker* against the forces of 'war and oppression...
...When the investigator called, the woman had been a day and a half without food...
...vice-presidents of the International Ladies' G a r m e n t Workers' Union...
...This Is What Social Workers Call a "Case History" Mrs...
...Joseph Schlossjberg, general secretary of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America...
...The time has arrived in Canada to submit a full Socialist program to the electorate and waste no more time discussing measures for this and plans for that, all designed to give the ruling clique, which has made their competitive hog-sty a morass of graft and corruption, another chance to regain the confidence of their all too-willing dupes the workers...
...Where the parade will begin and end, the Mat of speakers, the type ef concert, etc.—these details ai •• being werked out by an Executive Committae...
...During the arguments oa the proposal, Mayor McLevy* said, "If the Socialist legislators cannot bring back more to the City of Bridgeport this year than the Democrats brought back in the ten years they were in the Legislature...
...Rabbi Sidney Goldstein...
...They were, in fact, about as f air sigh ted as the grasshopper that hopped and whistled in the sonshine in the belief that it would always be summer...
...The promises that if he is given power he will reform it...
...Doors will be open at 7:15 p. m Shoe Workers Strike Against Champion Shoe Company For the second time within the past two months, the Stitchdown department of the Boot and Shoe Workers' Union, Local 693...
...We can organize the whole parade, but YOU must organize your owa unit...
...Kutner, administrator of the Bureau at 11 A. M. Mr...
...Since the inception of the C W A and FERA relief programs, those in control of the Bridgeport FERA program have been building a powerful double machine to fight and sabotage the Socialist administration...
...Canadian C C F . leaders realize that capitalist reforms have had little beneficial effects on capitalism in Europe, where the secondhand reform schemes Premier Bennett proposes to introduce in Canada have been in operation for 25 years...
...1 Beet proper committees...
...Canadian -Socialists realize that nothing less than a program leading to reconstruction of the social order will meet the desperate needs of the lower and middle classes, hence their 1935 election program emphasizes the transformation of the profit system into a cooperative commonwealth...
...Pocketbook Workers' Union, Young Circle League, New York Urban League...
...Keep as informed of your program We will publish in the press details of our work of organization...
...We have heard death-bed repentances before...
...d. Encouragement of producer's and consumer's co-operatives, e. Socialization of packing and processing plants...
...leaders believe the time has gone for tinkering and patching...
...Among the organizations participating in the dinner are the Socialist Party of Baltimore, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the Joint Board of the Cloakmakers' Union, the District Committee of the Workmen's Circle, the Ladies' Clubs of the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Socialist Verband, an others...
...Instead, however, the citizens jhave apparently "caught on" to that strategy and are enthusiastically supporting the mayor in his objections to the appointment of Schwarz, and they are backing him in his announced intention of demanding that the federal government make an investigation into the activities of the FERA administration in Connecticut and Bridgeport...
...are on strike against the Champion Shoe Co...
...Pullman Porters' Union, New York Lithographers' Union, Industrial Workers \>f the World, Workmen's Circle, Socialist Party, Young People's Socialist League...
...a da d u r i n g the last four years were.divided equally among the total ryimber of workers, both employed and unemployed, the average per worker per week would not average 24 hours...
...The dinner wHI be held at the Workmen's Circle Lyceum, 1029 E. Baltimore Street...
...The gas and electricity were turned off and she had no fuel for heating...
...On Wednesday, March 20th, a H.R.B...
...Therefore the C C F . is going to submit to the Canadian electorate the question, "Do yon want a patched-up capitalism, or do you want a new cooperative commonwealth...
...Schwarz was the unsuccessful Republican mayoralty candidate in 1933, and has been the recipient of a large part of the local business of supplying materials for FERA projects...
...The fight was continued with a phone call to Arthur McNulty,] Assistant Administrator of the Emergency Relief Division, 902 Broadway, and through Mr...
...At a Common Ciuncil meeting Monday night the Socialist aldermen defeated a democratic proposal that the Council petition the state legislature to appropriate money for the erection of a new state armory in Bridgeport...
...Mayor McLevy warned that he would veto such a proposal if it paased the Board of Aldermen...
...The manner in which supplies' were purchased has also served to increase the city relief budget tremendously...
...who is in charge of the strike, it is 100 per cent effective and production is at a standstill...
...The act insures only the best risks in industry, and leaves out those occupations needing it most, while more than 1,000,000 unemployedjiave been entirely ignored, in spite of the fact they will never work again so long as this idiotic industrial system survives . The "reforms" include a legal 48-hour working week, at a time when one-third of the workers have been unemployed for three or four years, and most of the others i working at reduced hours...
...L Call a conference of your member-, j . See that your workers stop at least a half day...
...K I T ! FOR M A Y D AY C E L E B R A T I O N GETS UNDER WAY r a.I Socialist and labor organizations:— On March 28th ft successful conference on May pay Celebration was held at the People's House in which over 300 daisgates took part, representing flafi •'-'"• labor and fraternal orjsa...
...Sneakers will he Norman Thomas, Ahr...
...Samuel M. Neistadt, state secretary of the Maryland Socialist Party...
...a. A large-scale program of public works, hopsing, etc financed by public credit, b. A national minimum wage which will give a standard of living commensurate with present-day wealth producing potentialities, c. Encouragement and legal protection of Trade Unions, which will have an effective voice in the management fo industry, d. National non-contributory social insurance providing adequate payments for unemployment, sickness, accident, old age, and death, e. A socialized health service, f. A sixhour day and a five-day week, to be increased or decreased according to social needs, g. Abolition of relief camps...
...Setack to the Emergency Home Relief Bureau at 201 Elizabeth street and interviewed Mr...
...In short, a co-operative commonwealth...
...At 5.15 P. M., after an all-day fight, during which Mr...
Vol. 18 • April 1935 • No. 14
