Union Contributions Opens Drive to Raise $1,000 for Oneal Publ. Fund
Union Contributions Opens Drive to Raise $1,000 for Oneal Publ. Fund At the banquet and farewell gathering: recently tendered to James Cneal by the Social Democratic Federation of New York City, an...
...and Townsend Ave., Bronx, 8.30 p. m. Speakers: A. Jaffe, Mitchell Rosenblatt...
...Altman will be opposed in the primaries by Stalinite Lewis Merrill, of the "Rebuilders" Committee...
...The Fund Committee shall keep the City Executive informed of its actions and shall make regular quarterly reports...
...Fenwick declared that these steps would have an heartening effect upon Latin - American nations, which, he said, need reassurance that this country has the power to make continental solidarity effective, if the British Fleet should be destroyed or lost...
...Corner Coney Island and Brighton Beach Ave., Brooklyn, 8.30 p. m. Speakers: August Claes-sens, Louis Epstein._ ILG Elects Minkoff Sec...
...17 Primary election...
...Elias Tartak will speak on...
...Latin American statesmen, he added, would take a "realistic" view of the proposed transfer of over-age United States destroyers to Great Britain in return for naval bases in the Carribbean...
...The following list of donors are the original contributors to the Fund: International Ladies Garment Workers Union-_.$100.00 Jewish Daily Forward____100.00 New York Joint Board, Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America___ 50.00 United Hatters...
...Latin Americans, he said, see international law lying prostrate, they see neutrality violated, they see their own future threatened by the aggressor...
...in the Sept...
...Fund At the banquet and farewell gathering: recently tendered to James Cneal by the Social Democratic Federation of New York City, an announcement was made of the foundation of the James Oneal Testimonial Fund...
...The City Office is instructed to inquire and report as to the desirability of incorporating the James Oneal Testimonial Fund...
...Admiral William H. Standley, chief of Naval Operations from 1933 to 1937, and...
...An appeal is being made to complete the fund of $1,000 which will be sufficient to achieve the purpose of this fund...
...Friday, August 30 Corner Burnside and Walton Ave., Bronx, 8.30 p. m. Speakers: Gertrude Gellman, Eli Rosenblatt...
...1. ? * * The Upper West Side Branch meets at Hotel Riverside Plaze, 251 West 73 St, on Tuesday/ Sept 10...
...Altman is an effective campaigner, and it is expected that he will carry the primaries and have a strong chance for election in November...
...The City Executive Committee of Local New York, S.D.F., at its meeting- held, on August 14, 1940, adopted the following- statement: The City Executive Committee directs that the moneys which have been or may hereafter be contributed as a testimonial of esteem and affection for our veteran comrade, James Oneal, shall constitute a permanent revolving fund, to be known as the "James Oneal Testimonial Fund," which shall be "used exclusively to finance the publication of pamphlets and books deemed serviceable to the Social Democratic movement...
...The new Vladeck Educational Cata, a three story building ovrned by the Jewish Socialist Verband, will be officially opened on'Sunday, Sept...
...of A..- 10.00 Adeleh Held____________ 10.00 Abraham Belsky________ 5.00 Dr...
...4. • « * Frederick Shulman speaks on "Education for Democracy" over WBVD, Sunday, August 25, 10.15 p. m. Dr...
...The City Executive reserves the right to alter or rescind the foregoing provisions...
...Current Events...
...August Claessens, Adolph Held, Algernon Lee, Bela Low and Bertha H. Mailly are hereby appointed as a standing committee of this City Executive Committee, which shall have charge of the Fund and administer it in accordance with the following instructions: "Upon its own initiative or upon recommendation by the City Executive 'or the Rand School of Social Science, the Fund Committee shall consider the desirability and practicability of publishing new pamphlets or books of of republishing such as have gone out of print...
...Pointing out that England is "dangerously short" of destroyers, the two naval experts stated that if we drift passively, a greater peril faces us in the loss of Britain and her fleet to American defense...
...Louis Epstein...
...Rear-Admiral Harry Yamell, commander-in-chief of the Asiatic Fleet from 1936 to 1939, in a joint statement released through the Aid Allies Committee, warned of the imperative necessity of releasing to Britain the over-age American destroyers now engaged in patrol duty 300 miles at sea...
...The new secretary-treasurer of the Dressmakers Joint Board has been associated 'with the ILGWU...
...S. Ingerman speaks on the program Sept...
...White'Group Cites Britain *s Need of Ships Concentrating its efforts on arousing public opinion towards ' the need for the sale of fifty American destroyers to Britain, the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies this week released statements by prominent authorities on the legality and the need for these sales...
...C, Manhattan, 8.30 p. m. Speakers: August Claessens, Gertrude Gell-man...
...Professor Charles G. Fenwick of Bryn ?dawr College and an authority on international law contended that the Hague conventions of international law are no longer binding in the destroyer matter because Germany, by her invasion of neutral countries, has swept away a basis for neutrality...
...Corner 208 St...
...Thursday, August 29 Corner 4 St., and Ave...
...This figure represents an 8.?'<-increase over the number of dwellings built in the corresponding period last year...
...If its findings are favorable, the Committee shall lend without interest to the Rand School Press or a»y other publishing agency approved by the City Executive, such sum as it deems right, provided, however, that the amount so lent for any one project shall not exceed one-fourth of the whole' capital of the Fund, and provided further that the publishing agency shall give satisfactory assurance that the loan will be repaid within an agreed time, in no case to exceed one year...
...NEW YORK CITY City Executive Committee meets Wednesday, August 28, 8.30 p. m. The City Central Committee meets Wednesday, Sept...
...Nathaniel M. Minkoff, Executive Secretary of Local 22 of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, was unanimously elected to succeed Phillip Kapp as Secretary-Treasurer of the Dressmakers Joint Board, it was announced this week by General Manager Julius Hochman...
...Minkoff was elected secretary-treasurer of Cloak Finishers Local 9. In 1919 he was appointed by the late President Schlesinger as director of the union's department of records and statistics...
...jfThe Committee also went on record as supporting the candidates endorsed by the State Committee of the A.L.P...
...for thirty years, since the famous cloak strike of 1910...
...NATIONAL ANEW leaflet will be on the prfess within a short time on "Why Social Democrats Support Franklin D. Roosevelt god Henry Wallace for President and Vice-President" State and local organizations sfcould order quantities at „n«> Local Baltimore, Maryland,-&**ifae first to respond with an order of 10,000...
...1. This will be a gala event for Los Angeles Social Democrats and others who will come from other parts of the state...
...Speakers: Sam Bo-browsky, Eli Rosenblatt...
...Each is to be considered on its own merits, with regard to its us'efulness to the movement, its initial cost, and its probable saleability...
...Local New York S.D.F...
...In a later analysis of the current negotiations by the United States for new naval bases, Prof...
...Street Meetings Friday, August 23 Corner Brighton Beach and Coney Island Ave., Brooklyn, 8.30 p, m. Speakers: Algernon Lee...
...Minkoff served in this capacity until 1926 when he became Executive Secretary of Local 22, a post he has held to date:-------------------As a leader of the American Labor' Party, Mr...
...Corner Burnside and Walton Ave., Bronx...
...S. Maggin__________ 5.00 Matilda and Algernon Lee 5.00 August Claessens......5.00 William Karlin__________ 6.00 Sarah A. Ginsburg ._____ 3.00 Samuel Schwartz________ 1.80 Collected by Lena Morrow Lewis from friends throughout the country'- 22.00 Collected at the Banquet...
...The selection of Mr...
...Monday, August 26 i...
...14, passed the following motion: "That the City Executive Committee heartily approves the National Executive Committee's endorsement of the candidacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace and u^ges all our members and friends tq-:-work for their election through the American Labor Party...
...Germany's conduct, he declared, outdated the neutrality law of 1917 and recourse must be had to Congress to take, account of conditions and to repeal the law...
...Pending organization of the Fund Committee, Algernon Lee and Adolph Held are hereby designated as its acting chairman and treasurer and are authorised t? take charge of the moneys now at hand, to open a bank account, to receive and deposit further contributions and" to draw checks as instructed...
...23.00 $459.50 SDF News...
...Cap and Millinery Workers____ 26.00 Joint Board Cloakmakers, I.L.G.W.U.____________ 25.00 New Leader____________ 25.00 Morris Berman__________ 25.00 Bertha H. Mailly________ 15.00 Local 169, A.C.W...
...Tuesday, August 27 Corner 170 St...
...of Dress Bd...
...8 Per Cent Housing Gain in '40 Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced this weekTV, that in the first half of 1940 more than 240,000 housing units were built at a cost of $«25,000,000 in non-rural areas of the country...
...Minkoff followed Mr...
...and Jerome Ave., Bronx, 8.30 p. m. Speakers: August Claessens, Morris Bein...
...A souvenir Journal has been published and a fine program of speakers, concert, etc., will mark the dedication...
...iieetings, conferences and the organization of campaign committees will be arranged in many jjtjes Immediately following September 1. Los Angeles, Calif...
...Minkoff was spokesman for the ALP As-semblymeir in Albany during the 1938-39 term of the legislature...
...ALP Runs Alt man For Congress Irving B. Altman, editor of "Dj'namic America," one of the nation's leading financial economists, a member of the feature staff of The New Leader, author and radio commentator, has been designated by the American Labor Party as its Congressional candidate in the sixth district in Brooklyn...
...Youth Banned The Australian Youth Council was outlawed this week, by the Commonwealth Government, on the grounds* that it was a Communist-dominated organization...
...Kapp's resignation to accept a position on the staff of David Dubinsky, president of the I.L.G.W.U...
...It pledges itself, however, not to divert any portion of the fund to purposes other than those stated in the first paragraph hereof...
...City -Executive Committee at its meeting Wednesday, Aug...
...In 1913 Mr...
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