AMERICAN LABOR PARTY ACTIVITIES
Claessens, August
AMERICAN LABOR PARTY ACTIVITIES By AUGUST CLAESSENS HB^program °* tnt American' Labor Party will be presented * Si the Constitutional Convention at Albany. The A.L.P. x/^rtt e]ect a...
...The committee consists of F. Passovoy, M. Polin, D. Gertler, M. Seskind, S. Regensberg, Fay Cohen, N. Pesch, and S. Shapiro...
...received 600 votes in the municipal elections at Peekskill recently...
...In the following year the city would set aside one par cent of the budget for this purpose...
...The new city charter, backed by the A.L.P., was adopted...
...Nevertheless, several A.L.P...
...Paris and First Deputy Comptroller McDermett conducted extensive researches into the prevailing wage scales in the building industry...
...i^ghmUive Committee, headed by | fehlesmger...
...CHICAGO S.D.F...
...candidates, **iabtT Samuel Perlmutter ia the Bronx and Meyer Weiss in ortjoklvn...
...tenements which still have imarirmr of the Tenement House Um," said Mr...
...came within a tew hundred votes of election...
...Tab unfair practive has been oateeed by the Minkoff law...
...vote here in 1937 was 17...
...The work done by Mr...
...chairman, and j. saoaaaation with the thres fjfP...
...2r*li nther hand, several Dro-<s>H-mlTT Democrats and Republi'S* ware elected with the A.L.P...
...The meeting also elected a special New Leader committee to foster a citywide campaign on behalf of The New Leader...
...It will be ready in a week...
...With contributions in the form of Federal loans and grants, state aid, and the release of- the fund as part of the loans ere paid off, this arrangement might well bring the money at the disposal of the city for low rent apartments to half a billion dollars...
...TjlIT— prepared by the A.L.P...
...Elaborate plans for a great May Day celebration have beep made...
...Zseaatent and ran on the A.L.P...
...The new schedules, published by Comptroller McGoldrick, were set after Mr...
...Vladeck estimates that 34 ] per cent of the money spent on j housing would be paid out as wages...
...of slum clearance and low rent homes...
...jt includes: The creation of a ^gjftment of the consumer...
...x/^rtt e]ect a representative in the'last election because the i**jgjujes had to carry a State Senatorial district which com^ilies at least, three Assembly districts and in many instances '"Entire county...
...Morris Paris, assistant deputy comptroller and member of the A-L^P., played -an important part in revising the pay schedules under which workers in the building trades employed on city jobs received substantial increases...
...Gsseroor Lehman's signature to •¦Kjfakoff Bill, barring rent ihaemss ?* almost all of the 65,0.00 mWkW tenements, was hailed by jmx Rose, state executive seerems of the American Labor Party...
...the afajkop of an article empowering jbste, or its political subjhjJM«M> to own and operate pubjje-atilKiae...
...With this staggering sum a real dent could be made in the problem...
...Paris will bring home to union men the quality of the service which a Labor Party can give them without requiring them to go to district leaders to beg for favors...
...JOINS ILLINOIS LABOR PARTY CHICAGO, April 20.— ?he Social Democratic Federation of Chicago decided tonight to affiliate with the Illinois State Labor Party...
...Rose...
...Do two things: Build the Social Democratic Federation and get subs fer The New Leader to help build it...
...and a change in the ZSfaiea limiting the election offi5_Tto the two-party system by fcajjm?ins...
...members of the Governor's !?mary Committee on the ConM0til—' Convention—Eiinore M. Sadat, Morris L. Ernst aad Louia fAJOasa— will he presented...
...a plan to finance low rent hou^¦tetuch would provide homes to at Jaw income families of our city sd which would benefit both bu^iJB and industry generally was ajaduced in the City Council this .JH by Majority Leader B. C. ¦ffhe bill provides that the city must set aside one-half of one per cent of its budget in 1&39 to create a special fund to pay the interest charges on bousing loans...
...broadening the home (Sb) rises* to give municipalities its right to engage in economic m^arJses, such as housing, coal ggkhaaking...
...civil service requireasBj> sad opening the positions to mmbers of any political party j2ag 15 per cent of the vote in am ejsmty or New York City...
...New .Leaflet.—A four-page illustrated leaflet telling the important points of our program is at the printers...
...The interest fund would eventually pay for loans of $200,000,000 at 3 per cent...
...This new Sr.is a tremendous accomplishmat The acute shortage in low .nabd apartments has been used taefsaezc higher rents out of the pasmt people ic our community...
...Tjtan than 1,000,000 persons in fJaJpp income families' will be kmXed by the approval of As¦"30pi" Sat M Mink°ff's bm to mjBg rent increases in the oldm...
...The beneficiaries 6T the new pay schedules are members of the A. F. of L. building trades unions...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 17
