George Steinhardt, Veteran Socialist, Marks 50th Birthday
George Steinhardt, Veteran Socialist, Marks 50th Birthday His hundreds of friends in the trade union movement, the American Labor Party, and the Social Democratic Federation, this week are sending...
...The World War found Steinhardt an active fighter against U. S. participation...
...It makes it possible to include many thousands of friends who could not be included in plans for a dinner...
...The Convention will open with a public meeting on the evening of May 6 at -which the speakers will be United States Senator James M. Mead, co-chairman of the ORT Congressional Committee...
...Supporters of the Rand School and members of friendly organizations are asked to plan their house parties as far in advance as possible...
...In the same year and for several after that, he took a leading role in a drive to oust the Ku Klux Klan from Bell, California, where he resided at the time...
...Fought KKK In 1924, Steinhardt played an active part in California in the campaign for LaFollette and Wheeler, in accordance with the decision of the Socialist Party to back the Progressive slate...
...George Steinhardt, Veteran Socialist, Marks 50th Birthday His hundreds of friends in the trade union movement, the American Labor Party, and the Social Democratic Federation, this week are sending their heartiest congratulations to George Steinhardt, veteran Socialist campaigner, on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday...
...Stanley M. Isaacs, Borough President of Manhattan...
...National officers of the organization will address the assemblage and the Young Circle League will offer a demonstration...
...Workmen's Circle to Mark 40th Anniversary The Workmen's Circle will celebrate its fortieth anniversary...
...Steinhardt will pass the half-century mark Wednesday, May 1. His 35 years in the labor movement have brought Steinhardt into intimate contact with many of the most famous figures in American Socialist higtory, including Jack London, Morris Hill-quit and Daniel DeLeon...
...WOMEN'S ORT TO HOLD ANNUAL CONVENTION Marking its growth in the thirteen years of its existence from a;few small auxiliary chapters to its present status as a national organization, Women's American ORT will hold its first annual convention at the Hotel Astor on May 6, 7 and 8, it was announced recently by Mrs...
...Sunday, May 5, at 1 P. M., in Madison Square Garden...
...In '36, he became Bronx campaign manager of the American Labor Party...
...Rose Gisnet, national president of the Women's American ORT, will open the meeting...
...Returning from the west coast in 1928, Steinhardt threw himself into Socialist Party work in New York, directing the financial activity of the New York and Bronx SP branches, and succeeding in placing both organizations on a sound financial basis...
...A pageant, depicting the hisory of the Circle, will be presented with several hundred children taking part...
...Culture Society...
...When America entered, he continued to support the anti-war movement and was jailed on Blackwell's Island as a result of speeches he had made...
...Friends who have not yet made their donations or pledges¦¦ are asked to get them in by ..the date of this ceremony, May 5. The subject of the broadcast will be: Social Progress—1906-1940...
...As the announcements of contributions are made from the studio, groups gathered everywhere will telephone in news of their gifts...
...The speakers will be: -President Harry A. Gid?ense of Brooklyn College...
...Coming into contact with the fight for Socialism through a clerical job in the office of the New York Labor News Company, publisher of Socialist Labor Party books and periodicals, he was at first violently opposed to Socialist principles...
...Eugene-Lyons, editor of The American Mercury, and Dr...
...New Low-Rent Units House 740,000 People...
...W*itiiout any strain or inconvenience, in the comfort and gaiety of friendly homes, they will listen to the addresses and hear the' announcements...
...The tributes will be in the form of contributions which will make possible the continuation and expansion of the work of the school...
...Henry Neumann,'leader of the Brooklyn Ethical...
...Today be continues tirelessly his service to the Labor Movement as a worker within the ALP, a member of the New Leader Board of Directors, and a member of the State Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—More than 140,000 persons will have been removed from slums into United States Housing Authority-aided low-rent public housing projects by June, housing officials announced here this week.- Approximately 20,000 new dwelling units in projects constructed in the present USHA slum-clearance program will have been completed by that date...
...The announcement of this ceremonial over the air-waves'" has been received with- the greatest enthusiasm...
...Among his best-known reportorial accomplishments were his covering of the Battle of Juarez which overthrew the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Diaz...
...W. C. choruses from New York, Philadelphia, Toronto^ Paterson, and Passaic will participate in the festivities...
...Rand School Drive to End Via Radio The Third-of-a-Century Drive of the Rand School will be brought to a climax on 'Sunday evening, May 5, in a radio broadcast over the facilities of Station WEVD which will be carried to groups of supporters and friends of th school gathered in homes all over the metropolitan area...
...Jacob Greenberg, Associate Superintendent of Schools in New York City, and Edgar Salinger, Chairman of the Greater New York ORT Campaign...
...Steinhardt's interview with General Alvaro Obre-gon in 1915, and articles on America's hoboes, which he wrote after discussions with Jack London and actual travel with the hoboes in freight cars...
...Delegates are expected to attend from many cities particularly throughout the East and Middle West...
...The occasion will, of course, center round the tribute to Bertha H. MaUly and Algernon Lee, two educators who-' have given their lives to the Rand School and to the cause ef workers education for a full third-of• a- century...
...While in prison, he was drafted into the army but continued, in camp, delivering addresses for the Socialist ticket at meetings of the soldiers almost every night...
...The success of such a city-wide form of celebration made possible by the use of radio depends 'upon participation' by the?greatest possible number of persons...
...Anne R. Rorenberg, chairman of the Publicity Committee...
...While his early determination to fight for the preservation of civil liberties led him, -at the age / of 17, to join the Socialist Labor Party, he soon was alienated by the internal bickering of the SLP and became a member of the Socialist Party, which was then a powerful^ hard-fighting organization...
...Tickets to the affair may be secured by W. C. members on application to their .branch secretaries...
...With others, he formed the Bell Post of the American Legion which vigorously fought the KKK...
...The frame-up of Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone, on a charge of murdering Governor Steunen-berg of Idaho, aroused the then 14-year old Steinhardt, who began to participate in Socialist activity, attending frequent lectures by such figures as Daniel de Leon and Frank Bohn, and reading avidly about Coeur-de-Alene, Ludlow, Haymarket, the Molly Maguires, and the Pinkertons...
...From his earliest days within the SP, Steinhardt was one of its most active workers, traveling throughout North America and writing for the Socialist press...
...Florence R. Dolowitz, chairman, and Mrs...
Vol. 23 • April 1940 • No. 17
