By Big Majority; Answers Bolters
Steinhardt, George I.
Bronx Socialists Rally To Party By Big Majority; Answers Bolters By George I. Steinhardt Chairman, Socialist Party, Bronx County - —' "THE war bulletins of the secessionists that have...
...indebted "to Tftsi outstanding Italian labor leader, comrade Luigi Antonhiv First V^Prosident of the I.L.G.W.U., for the success of Modigheni's tour in the United States...
...The gym gjpups include seven men's and sevWi "•women's basketball teams, who are now beginnfaf to play off the first matches forth* Hochman and Dubinsky trophies...
...Bolters Beaten In Final Count In New York I ATEST figures of the vote on |? the secession Issue ?ml Local Maw York of the Socialist Party show' the collapse of the AltmanThomas attack on the ; Socialist Party...
...He said the'pn* weuJi perpetuate the island's economic feudalism, enabling bossul to control the pontics of the tfM panto of the apartments and impede the work of labor 6!"g*nb...
...and Organizer Leon Gibson was warmly complimented by the members upon his work...
...in pit* of their large membership -ever played an important role in county affairs...
...dramatic ymsm orchestras and choirs, and th* mandolin orchestra and the contra...
...Among the five are the two vary large branches—the Lower 8th and Jewish Branch 1. These two, includng the smaller branches, will east leclsive majorities against secession, s ¦¦¦ When the totals are finally in, ''here will be no question as to vhere the Bronx stands...
...He is an active and prominent Socialist, and his firm, Goldberg ft Solomon, of which Charles Solomon was a member until his appointment as City Magistrate, has represented many labor and radical organizations...
...The funeral was held from the Forward building Tuesday, a large throng of comrades atending to do honor to his memory,- Representatives of the Socialist 'Party, the Workmen's Circle, the Forward scores of unions and cultural organizations spoke...
...It it therefore apparent that the ex-chairman's gfjjgatoant is slightly exaggerated...
...Some of the cases display not only lawlessness on the part of judges but are also, in many instances, ludicrous...
...Comrade Geliebter, who would have reached his 50th birthday en February 1st, died of double pneumonia at Mount Sinai Hospital after a brief illness...
...Early in his life he became active in the Socialist movement, participating in the work of' the Bund...
...The Upper West Side Branch of Manhattan, one of the largest and most important of the city's sub-divisions, long considered a "militant" stronghold, by a decisive vote reaffirmed its loyalty to tiie Socialist Party and sternly repudiated its delegates to the Central Committee that had participated in the theatrical bolt of December 4th...
...choir (150 voices) are new actiet% preparing for a big public ssicert in the Town Hall, New Ys* City, January 26, 1936...
...Generally we had to flnOftelhttt es*pi'gm and maintain far them their headquarters...
...of efficiency For a long time he was editor of its official monthly publication, "Friend...
...Boon they discovered that the situation in the United States is not like they would like it to be...
...For instance: There is the case of the barber who was /fined 8200 for exhibiting a sign stating "No scabs wanted here...
...and Jewish (ranch No...
...the normal sized class is about 20...
...Was A.-R...
...The cases include the Sacco-Vanzetti, Tom Mooney, Debs, Haymarket, I.W.W...
...That we adopt the report of our delegate to the County Committee, Meyer Diamond, on the regular meeting of the County Committee held December 12th, at 540 Southern Boulevard, and approve of the unanimous decision of the committee in repudiating the resolution ef the County Executive Committee, passed.at s meeting December 6th, which supported secession from the party...
...Of the 28 branches whose delegates watted out three branches have repudiated their action and removed them...
...It should also be noted here that, with few exceptions, those members who for years have been acive in' building and maintaining he party organizations and initiations in the Bronx, remain steadfast at their posts in the party...
...This . information is contained in a statement by Algernon Lee, chairman of the City Executive Committee, just as The New Leader goes to press...
...Porte ftrcos Labor •refesfi j Agointt Unsound HoasJsf SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico.—ftl Puerto Rican Reconstruction $M ministration's decision to start slum clearance in San Juaa if constructing an apartment hoSSI housing 216 families has aross...
...64 —* j*-— j 114 188 Allowing for a discrepancy of 6 votes hi the 3rd and 5th A.D.—the secessionists claim their total that much greater than the information available to me—the figures already indicate that a majority of the members have put themselves on record as loyal to the party...
...Chiefly, in the order if their importance, these are: the " ower 8th A.D...
...Ten years later, because of the great growth of the educational work of the Workmen's Circle, he was made Educational...
...A shop' keeper in Miami was fined for anBolters Loose Their Stronghold: Repudiated by Bronx VBTTBISK the past week the bolting "militants" " of New York have suffered severe defeats in Socialist Party branches in which they had claimed a substantial majority...
...g Written in a popular, free reading style, with a punch, it is a book written primarily for the layman...
...Also the branches that were the uainstay of the county organizaion remain solidly in their posiion todaj...
...Among the members of the branch was the County Chairman who had announced in the Communist -and the Capitalist press that the Bronx was going with the secessionists...
...Among the 24 (now 1) members of this branch who emained loyal, are included many >f those who were largely respon:ble for such activities...
...Impressive Program ef * Education by ILG.WJI, f\VER 270 groups are now being conducted through the Educational Department of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, according to a census taken at the end of November...
...Nevertheless these figures serve as an accurst guide of the numerical strength o the organizations...
...Alonzo ridiculed the RecOBStMI| tion leaders for the revivy^ Fourier's phalanx plan for heagMj his followers...
...We still exercise our influence among the Italian masses organized in trade unions...
...cases, and Communist persecutions...
...Goldb6rg's Book on ' A sensational pfeturc of the dictatorship set up by judges and the use of such dictatorship to curtail the rights of labor and minority groups is set forth in "Lawless Judges," a hook issued by the Rand School Press (price $2.50), by Louis P. Goldberg and Eleanore Levenson...
...One communique of the former Bronx County chairman claims six of the seven branches...
...Our comrades are greatly...
...Our Federation has elaborated a plan of action for an effective revival of our Socialist activities among the Italian masses in the United States...
...denounced| tat project as hygienically and sociaay unsound...
...the Labor Federation, whose'ssaS tary, Rafael A ton so...
...in which the deposed County Chairman is a member, secession was defeated by a vote of: 13 to ft The Bronx, prior to the days of the Declaration of Principles, was always known as an independent borough of the Socialist Party...
...Upper- 29 7th A.D...
...Philip Geliebter Dies at 49...
...In the 4th A.D., Bronx, the splitters were overwhelmed, only two members voting for the bolters...
...Eleanore Levenson, his wife, is also a active Socialist as well as a journalist...
...A short-lived United Front was attempted with the Italian Communists...
...In another instance miners were forbidden by injunction to sing hymns in a church...
...As an expression of loyalty to the party the branch members raised $225 for party work...
...We, therefore, will go on along the path of the Socialist and labor movement of this country and will decline any further invitations from those elements who, after having split and ruined the labor movement in Italy, Germany and other countries, are now trying to convince us that the hast way to ^ave ourselves from that fascism, for whose success they are largely responsible, is to unite with them...
...The other branches, on the seA.B„ tkS* may hJ^elaiMf as of some consequence, are the 3rd and 6th A.D.'s...
...Burial was in the Workmen's Circle cemetery at Mount Carmel in Queens County Despite "Saviors Plotting, Italian Socialists Firm Secretary*'o^tj^^Socialist Federation Special to The New LtaAer ?HICAGO—In spite of alFdifficahies and of all attempts on the part of the "Saviors of the Proletariat" wlio have periodically tried to split our ranks, the Italian Socialist Federation ai< the Socialist Party has remained...
...Upper - 12 Amalgamated Branch- 68 Jewish Branch (1) - 85 Jewish Branch (4) - SO Jewish Branch (6) - 19 Jewish Branch (6) - 17 SECESSIONIST 1st A.D...
...In 1916 he became Executive Secretary of the Workmen's Circle, and helped build that organization up to a high state...
...L.- 42 3rd AD.-_ U fth A.D...
...It had to be short-lived, as it conflicted -with the best interests of our Socialist movement...
...Director, a post he held until the time of his death...
...In addition the work of the educational department included sending lecturers on cultural, labor and Socialist subjects to every part of the United States and Canada...
...20 6th A.D...
...f*eat- in^a^ ^ ; ^ our movement by the propaganda tour of mat beloved Grand Old Man, Comrade Giuseppe Emanuele Modigliani, lastwinter...
...43 8th A-D...
...i , 81 6th A.D...
...Comrade Lee declares: "The two weeks within which the City Central Committee instructed branches to replace bolting delegates have now expired and the reports received from the branches indicate complete collapse of the bolt and the failure of the seceding delegates to receive endorsement in their own branches...
...The book deals with the topic of the usurpation of power by Supreme Court justices and the use of that power to curtail the rights of labor to strike, picket, boycott, and to use other weapons in the struggle of labor against economic exploitation...
...Answers Bolters By George I. Steinhardt Chairman, Socialist Party, Bronx County - —' "THE war bulletins of the secessionists that have appeared in the Communist and capitalist tfress give the uninformed reader the impression that the party in the Bronx has been annihilated...
...Lower- 79 8th A.D...
...The following table shows the lineup of the branches and the total membership of each branch based on does stamps, including exempt stamps purchased durjng the first eleven months of 1935: LOYAL 4th A.D...
...Some of the gym groups number 60...
...Five branches definitely loyal are yet to be heard from...
...It should also be noted that ALL of the secessionist branches, with the exception of Jewish Branch 2, have voted...
...Their activities were mostly of a negative character...
...The Educational Departmenthat directors in towns as widely «§*• rated as Houston, Texas, and T»ronte, Canada—and San Frandsm, Cal., and Boston, Mass Other unions and labor are being assisted by the servftw of the I.L.G.W.U...
...He has had his experience with .them, when he wis organizer in the Bronx...
...Lower- 11 Jewish Branch (2)-- 31 . _ ~147 j , DOUBTFUL Jewish Branch (3) - 2F The actual membership of all of the above branches is proportion ately larger than the totals, a computed from the dues stamp' purchasers indicate...
...Next week Comrade Steinhardt witt teB the story of a majority of experienced members two years' ago trusting the "militants" with the Labor Center and how they wrecked it...
...the Amalgamated branch, the 7th A.D...
...On 0* rttar hand, which in the past was almost evenly divided between the "militants" and "non-militants," showed its reaction" against secession by the onesided score of 28 to 6. And in the 4th A.D...
...This branch has a small membership...
...In addition there are many educational meetings, week-end institutes and organised visit* for adults and children...
...These range from classes in Economics, Story of the Union, American Labor Movement, Public 1 puking and Parliamentary Law to classes in dancing and callisthenics...
...Some of our comrades thought that such an experiment would be possible here because of what the KaSan Socialist tarty, in exile, with headquarters in Paris, did as regards the so-called United Front with the Stalinites, in furtherance of underground work in fascist Italy...
...That we approve of the action of the County Committee in vacating the office of the County ' Chairman, County Organizer and the four other members of the Executive Committee who voted for this resolution and that we pledge our sapport to the new County Administration headed by George I. Steinhardt, Chairman, and to the new County Executive Committee...
...I do rat deny the secessionist claim to six branches, but the Bronx has brandies...
...The largest class is one of 190 students dealing with Psychology and Social Life...
...They always voted for delegates: irrespective of theoretical differences, were active in Bronx affairs...
...Siegfried Lipschitz were elected delegates to the Central Committee...
...In the remaining 42 branches of the city the vote was 10 to 1 in favor of sustaining the action of the Central Committee, 23 of these branches being unanimous in their vote against the Thomasite Left Wingers, In these branches 2,160 members have affirmed their loyalty to the organization while only 205 have joined the bolters Thus in tiie whole of New Yorl City at least 2,461 members have indicated their intention of remaining loyal to the Socialist Party while only 597 have gone with the secessionists, and many of these will soon return to the party...
...Almost from the first moment of his arrival in this country he was active in the labor and Socialist movement, participating in the work of the old Jewish Socialist Federation, and tr the publication of a number of Jewish propaganda papers...
...The Upper West Side Branch was one of the 27 the secessionists claimed when the coup d'etat was staged, and it includes in its membership several of the most active of the "militant" leaders...
...intact for more than 27 years1 and is still keeping the torch of Socialism and of the Socialist Party burning among the Italianspeaking masses of this country...
...Louis P. Goldberg has been a lawyer for twenty-five years, and has achieved a fine reputation at the bar...
...The other branches, all small, contained only a total of 693 members, and of these 301 have voted to remain loyal to the Socialist Party, have reorganized their branches and replaced the bolting J Jala, aa*delegates...
...Educational Director TTHE Jewish section of the Socialist movement, and especially", the ^Vorkmen'$ GrrJe, suffered a great loss Saturday when PHflip Geliebter, educational director of that great fraternal organization, died...
...In their own terriory, however, they were active nd effective...
...Simon Berlin and Dr...
...The book is based upon actual cases in which judges have expressed in decision or opinion their judicial bias against labor and minority groups...
...The groups include 1W study classes, 88 athletics, 28 gym, 34 music, 14 dramatics, and 12 dance groups...
...Under his direction were scores of schools in every part of the country in which children of members of the organization received instruction in different subjects...
...Philip Geliebter was born in: Poland, February 1st, 1886, the son of a merchant...
...Whatever alignments may have existed in other sections of the city, members In tins section voting for delegates to the Central Committee or to State and Na-i tional Conventions, never grouped themselves along factional lines...
...We still have our weekly, La Pafoie del Popolo, published at 1011 Blue Island Ave., and bur own.house and bur own printing plant...
...L-- 8 2nd A.D...
...must admit this...
...Primarily they were occupied with passing resolutions and passing the bock...
...With only two votes in the negative the branch passed the following resolution: "BE IT RESOLVED: That we adopt the report of our delegate to the City Central Committee, S. Maggin, on the regular meeting of the committee held December 4, and approve the decision of our delegate to remain loyal to the City Central and City Executive Committee ef Local New York with headquarters at 7 East 15th St...
...at the meetings of those branche that polled their membership or the question of secession: For Secession Against 1- 6 V 2__ 42 24 3_ 20 7 A- 2 18 5- 15 6 6 Upper_ 14 27 6 Lower_ 8 8 7- 6 28 8 Upper — 0 11 Amalgamated 0 --4...
...But these two branches have for years been a liability to the Country OitaHUaUeH...
...Now let us examine the vote ca...
...1. The 2nd A.D...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 51
