New York Socialists Gird far National Convention Battle
New York Socialists Gird far National Convention Battle Rand School Auditorium Jammed to Capacity as Party Members Enthusiastically Cheer Waldman's Statement That Unless Convention Repudiates...
...A bomb was thrown in the crowd by some unknown person killing several policemen...
...She devoted much of bar time to the I.W.W...
...Called "Surging Forward," it tells the story of the garment workers' struggle to win a living wage...
...No "Sweepiag Victory" "The primary system," said Lee, "is the outcome of bourgeois good government movements and three-fourths of the enrolled voters are not party members and it is to these uninformed voters that the 'militants' appealed/to after failing to win the party members...
...The people cheer what they like to hear...
...Some are filled with shooting stars and colored lights that look grand for a couple Of minutes...
...Widow of Hay market Victim Dies CHICAGO.—Only one month before the BOth anniversary of the famous "Haymarket Riot," which caused her husband to be hanged on a framed-up charge of murder, Mrs...
...We like to see the animal* jump through hoops of fire and we like to hear the old calliope go whistling down the street like a steamed-up madhouse...
...Chairman Lee extended greetings to several Wisconsin comrades who were in the hall and presented Marx Lewis who reported on the arrangements being made for the May Day celebration, incidentally mentioning the "militanf'-Commu-nist united front headed by Norman Thomas which is maneouver-ing for a place in the celebration...
...Some go pf-tt-tt and thus go out...
...Waldman mentioned the work of the Socialist Interstate Conference and of its intention to hold a national conference in Cleveland a day or two before the national convention...
...April 27...
...We don't read...
...Spies supported herself* by operating rooming houses...
...there will assemble in this city delegates from automobile workers* local anions throughout the nation in response to the official convention call issued by General President F. J. Dillon and General Secretary-Treasurer E. Hall, with the approval of President William Green of the American Federation of Labor...
...Ho was hanged several days later with George Engel, Louis Fischer, and Albert Parsons...
...Instead of tide the Debs Auditorium was so jammed with party members a half-hour before the meeting was opened that it was seriously considered whether it would not be 'well to make hasty- arrangements to go to Webster Hall...
...Chairman Lee paid a fine tribute to the grinding work of Julias Gerber for many weeks in the primary fight and the members twice rose in a cheering tribute to tide party veteran...
...Louis Waldman, Algeraa Lee, B. C. Vhvdeck, Julius Ga4* and James Oneal, New York, am Emil Limbach of Pittsburgh, ttc-retary...
...The Thomas jobless organization formed a aJB p(l front with Stalinitc and Trotdj unemployed organizations in IKfE ington last week, this alliance At lowing a similar united front between the Thomas student organisation and the Communist student organization a few months ago...
...This statement, overheard as tike general members-hip meeting of the Socialist Party in the People's House last Sunday adjourned, expressed the fine feeling of solidarity and invincible will that was displayed at the meeting...
...The riot occurred* before they could gat married...
...in 1919 the left afef was proud to call itself ContmoaM but the left wing today is a Ydfct Communism...
...The Workers' Education Bureau of America, under the supervision of Dr...
...we don't watch...
...Let's hope this one is a good one...
...Well, since it is so, keep your eyes and ears open and DON'T BE FOOLED., Garment Workers Will Hold Pageant in St...
...AUTO WORKERS IN CONVENTION ON APRIL 27th SOUTH BEND, I rid.—On Monday morning...
...Paul L. Vogt, will conduct a series of programs between the convention sessions which will be addresses by many outstanding educators, economists aad labor leaders.- -, Arrangements are being made to have the United Automobile Workers' male choir, under the direction of Professor Charles W. Chylinski, perform at the convention...
...i > Fur International Makes Big Carnpay...
...Ok hooey, what an institution thou art I However, let us take pause...
...In New York we will continue to function as the Socialist Party and the united front begun by Thomas for May Day With the Communists will continue from now on...
...So, ladies and genmun, we are about to have a campaign...
...Delegates elected etyi representing in excess of 25,000 active does-paying members will consider the many important and complex problems confronting the organisation...
...It is assumed that he will interpret die meaning of the Federation's Executive Council's decision to terminate its probationary period of control over the international union- The most important business of the convention will be the election'of international officers...
...Oa May 4,1886, a demonstration was held in Haymarket Square, Chicago, for the eight-hour day...
...Why the necessity for ballyhoo...
...But why does a campaign have to be so much like a big murder trial, in which the foxiest lawyer wins out...
...Sticky goo, dapper deception, the imperative command...
...In New York City the rant j Thomas party organization is aht gathering in splinter Communis...
...The issues between the Socialists and the holy alliance in the party have become more acute since the conference met in New York last January...
...It is expected that a number of other states opposed to the "militant"-Communist set up in the party will also be represented at the Cleveland conference...
...Oneal closed the meeting wits* few brief remarks...
...A Sticky Goo Campaign Begins By Cheater M. Wright Political big guns are blazing away and a good many of them turn out to be loaded with blank cartridges and some with wet powder...
...They think they are cheering their own thoughts!* That's really the secret of it all...
...But of course too many people don't follow events and there are a lot of events that are very difficult to follow and anyway we do have the ballyhoo and the devil of it is that a lot of people like it...
...And the clever politician makes people think they are merely cheering their own thoughts...
...Old Guard...
...The meeting adjourned about | o'clock in a fine spirit of nriliiiiij and with confidence that thefjH belongs to the Socialists IClH party throughout the country...
...We like a good show...
...They stood for about three hours and then adjourned with their fighting spirit at a high tempo...
...It's our fault...
...Then the sky goes black again aad by morning nobody remember* anything more than that there was a show...
...Unless the national convention seats the New York delegation and the party eaases to be a wing of the Communist movement," he said, "our conference will be the beginning of a new Socialist m o verm e n t." This Was greeted with resounding cheers...
...Teems won a "sweeping victory" and tha announced he would not run f*> President...
...Instead of a "sweeping victory" for the control of the state committee, the "militants" lead was about to 3, while of the five county committees fonr belong to us...
...Louis Lirmg, also condemned to death, committed suicide in jail...
...As a people we are simple minded a lot of the time—and we don't even know it...
...August Spies, her husband, who was one of the speakers and therefore could not have thrown the bomb, together with four others, was arrested and sentenced to death...
...William Vm Essen and Simon Libros, Peaar/t-vania...
...In six dramatic episodes it portrays the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union...
...If he is a clever politician he is telling' them all the time how to vote...
...It is also planned to hold an interstate conference a day or two before the convention, this conference to be held in Cleveland...
...will be no place to leave it...
...Maybe some time all of us wUl be alert enough every day to make unnecessary all this tripe called a campaign...
...Interstate Conference Executive to Meet Here Will Gather in New York Sunday...
...Local committees are new busily engaged making detailed arrangements for the entertainment and accommodations of all who attend the convention...
...Why can't we demand that we have a scholarly review of the facts and then why can't we pass a dignified judgment...
...Well, part of the answer is that tcr still love the circus...
...And so-o-o, with, election just a few pages further along on the calendar we are having our ear drums banged at and made to transmit everything from dulcet wacky woo pleading to thunderous raucous hippodroming...
...G. August Gerber then presented a review of the known results, the complete official returns not yet being in...
...Every seat on the main floor and gallery was occupied while near the platform, in the two side aisles, the rear of the hall and the balcony were packed with party members...
...The International Fur Worses' Union is now preparing a refer** dum ballot for a $2 tax oa esal member to provide the finance...
...Some fins and splutter...
...Their appeal was also unsocial istic in that it pleaded for support of a 'leader' and yet the result is not the sweeping victory claimed by the Daily Worker, the Preiheit, the liberal Nation and the Call...
...After the execution of her husband, Mrs...
...Political big guns and pop' guns are put-putting away and the populace—as the rest of us are known —is expected to rise up, cheer, line up and jine up and get all set to vote up...
...We have to be...
...The members of the executht expected to meet here on April % are Joseph Bearak and Willisa Reivo of Massachusetts...
...President William Green of the A. F. of L. will be present to address the convention and to confer with the officers and delegates...
...The only remaining widow of those executed is Mrs...
...And you cant take it or leave it...
...One thing is sure," Waldman WuMiHiail "Wisconsin cannot re-mam with Krueger and and if Mc-Levy and Stump leave, Wisconsin cannot remain...
...Cahan said that within the past week he had to guess what to write regarding the fight but now "I e«a speak in your name...
...Louis ST...
...we let things go on and go by and then when campaign time comes we have to be informed by others...
...They like to be told how to vote, it seems...
...The speaker made the effective point that upstate where Communism is weak the "militants" were badly beaten while in New York City where Communism is relatively strong the "militants" were relatively strong...
...They had been cheeked and were known to be ridiculous...
...He said tat one distinction between the sum gle in the party now and the sum ele in 1919 is that, while the istaa are largely the same, there is .flat difference...
...April 26, to Fonnukte Pbns Preliminary to Meeting of Full Conference is Cleveland Immediately Prior to National Convention Other States to Join Conference, Reports Sfc$| TME executive Committee of the ¦ Interstate Conference of the Socialist Party will meet in the People's House, 7 East 15th St...
...Gerber presented some sample returns in a number of election districts that are absurd on their face...
...Algernon Lee presided and drew a humorous contrast between Thomas' bombast of a "sweeping victory" and the actual results of the primary which were so close that it was yet undecided...
...Spies came to Chicago shortly before the riot, met Spies and fell in love with him...
...The Furriers' International ft now busily engaged in mekhf preparations for a vigorous organisation drive to reach every fa center in the United States sai Canada, in accordance whh fhd> sions adopted at the sessions <lfm> General Executive Board Jpgl International Fur Workers' Use* recently held in Atlantic City...
...And up to this year 1936 a lot of them do just What they are told...
...Lucy Parsons...
...Alexander Kahn reported on the increasing party activities undertaken since the "militant" saboteurs bad seceded from the party and the fraternal relations that have been established with the organised working class...
...Now why shouldn't every voter in America follow affairs closely enough so that he could and would make up his own mind on the record as known to him...
...In a short and spirited speech August Claessens called for a collection which netted nearly $300 "Lead Me a Dollar" Abraham Cahan, editor of the Jewish Daily Forward, and James Oneal wore the last speakers...
...It was thought that the braggart and exaggerated statements - by Norman Thomas and his stooges in the press regarding the Socialist primaries might dampen the ardor Of tile members and keep down the attendance...
...SaroaV Neistadt, Maryland...
...Mrs...
...Thomas wants % loan of a dollar," Cahan lamented, which brought a rear «* laughter...
...The These* "sweeping victory," he said, nv minded him of a person wk* wtc a million dollars during the po«t-war period of prosperttJS*T^j|j next day the millionaire asked a friend, "Loan me a dollar...
...Pns Scbwartxkopf, Bridgeport...
...There...
...He also paid his respects to the faction which had violated an unwritten law of the party since its origin that the membership organisation, not outsiders, should determine party policies, principles and con-' trol...
...It is ashamed a properly tag itself...
...Picturesque scenes with 200 dancers and a chorus of 80 voices are features of the dramatic presentation which has aroused a considerable stir...
...Waldman's uncompromising speech was enthusi-aiticany received...
...f» the coming campaign...
...LOUIS, Mo.—Locals of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union in this city will shortly produce a pageant in the Opera House of the Municipal Auditorium...
...continued in power it would wage civil .war against the seal Socialists of New York State...
...They have the spirit of eternal youth...
...After Spies was sentenced, she married him in "Jail...
...New York Socialists Gird far National Convention Battle Rand School Auditorium Jammed to Capacity as Party Members Enthusiastically Cheer Waldman's Statement That Unless Convention Repudiates Communism and Seats New York Delegation, the Interstate Conference Will Become Rallying Ground for inauguration of New Movement Based on Democratic Socialism, 1VOU cannot wipe out the * youthful...
...He pointed out that in Reading, Bridgeport and Milwaukee it was not "militant" muddledom that Won victories but the Socialism of the Old Guard...
...It seems to be part of the burden of citizenship...
...But that tune hasn't come—and so we have campaigns...
...The decisions and policies adopted governing the future activities of the organization in the nation's great automobile industry are of great importance for the entire labor movement...
...New York City, Sunday, April 26, at 9:30 a m. The last conference had decided that the executive should hold a meeting before the national convention of the party meets in Cleveland late in May...
...Instead of this some twenty or more chairs on the stage were passed down to make another front row...
...Nina Van Zant Spies, 74, died ifter a long illness...
...Waldman States Program Louis Waldman was greeted With rising cheers* He declared that even if we were to win the primaries not one principle or issue in the party would be settled and if the "militant" majority of the N.E.C...
Vol. 19 • April 1936 • No. 16
