GOP Assembly man Goldberg Joins Communists in Pro-Nazi Peace Drive
BELL, DANIEL
GOP Assembly man Goldberg Joins Communists in Pro-Nazi Peace Drive By DANIEL BELL Strung across Avenue C, on New York's lower East Side, floats a drooping banner which proclaims. "Wendell Willkie...
...Republican Assemblyman Goldberg, along with Joe Corran, Michael Quill and Vito Marean-tonio, sponsored this demonstration and was listed as a speaker...
...The list includes Eli Kriger for justice of the City Court...
...Note to Editor: The omission of Soviet Russia is not mine, but Reid Robinson's...
...Gertrude Gellman speaks on The A.L.P...
...The Morris Hillquit Branch will meet Monday, Sept...
...In the nearby 4th Assembly District, Sam Schnee, for twenty-five years a member of the Clothing Cutters Local of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, is opposed by Communist Leon Strauss of the Fur Floor Boys Union...
...He was told that there were Communist elements hiding in the Labor Party...
...Speakers: Gertrude Gellman, Molly Weingart and August Claessens...
...On stroUing onto Ave...
...plus the combination with the Willkie-Simpson-Koenig Republicans, imperils his election...
...candidate for General Sessions Judge, represented Miss Gellman...
...Due tc support given to Willkie by the Italian Fascist groups...
...Among Goldberg's cam- j paign managers are Abraham 1 Unger, who was a member of the Board of Directors of the Daily Worker, and Ruben Shulman, oft-times a Communist candidate and, laughingly enough, Goldberg's opponent three years ago...
...Goldberg's lawyer was Alfred Tanz, who was present at the Communist Chicago demonstration, and who signed a telegram to President Roosevelt protesting aid to help the British fight Hitler...
...22nd...
...If anyone approaches you and tells you he is from the American Labor Party, there are three question...
...New York State, with its 47 electoral votes, is the balance of power...
...Kogos - 1.00 Mitchell Loeb - 1.00 Sarah Rutes - 1.00 0. Gosh_____1.00 Dr...
...The disheartening factor about the whole situation is thai on the one hand, through the Republican deal, the Communazis have a front for their Fifth Column work—and Goldberg and others of his stripe are aiding them— and on the other, both the Communists and the Republicans are working together to sabotage the election, cf President Roosevelt...
...A conference of labor organisations is being called for the Organization of an independent campaign committee for Roosevelt and Wallace, Sunday afternoon, Sept...
...Corner of 208th St...
...8, at 10:15 p. m. a » * The Upper West Side Branch meets at the Hotel Riverside Plaza, 253 West 73rd St., on Tuesday, Sept...
...The first pledge came came from the Watson Committee of the American Labor Party, and the second contribution was from CurraVs Maritime Union...
...Speakers: Eli Rosenblatt and others...
...Chicago SDF Parley for FDR Set for Sept...
...When Mayor LaGuardia was elected on the A.L.P...
...Yavner_____1.00 Max H. Horowitz__5.00 Morris L. Polin, Chicago— 1.00 James Oneal-------- 5.00 Mr...
...Supreme Court Judge Walter threw the Communist case out in one day...
...The Daily Worker took a gleeful pride in this acquisition and ran a splash, story that Assemblyman Meyer Goldberg was a sponsor of this (Cenrmunazi) "peace" demonstration...
...In return the Republican are supporting Vito Marcantonio...
...Goldberg's running mate for Congress on the spurious Labor Party primary ticket is Samuel Burt, vice-presidenj of the Communist Fur Workers Union, who was recently sentenced to one year in a Federal jail for conspiracy...
...and 50th St...
...11th, at 8:30 p. m. * » * Conference of Jewish Socialist Verband, Workmen's Circle and fraternal organizations' to organize aid for the coming campaign on Wednesday, Sept...
...Friday, SepL 13, 8:30 p. m Corner of 208th St...
...Outside one of the buildings there is a crude sign which reads "The Yanks Are Not Coming" and other signs which indicate, here is a Communazi headquarter...
...Ir, Manhattan they are supporting Republican Harvey Schamm...
...test: 1. Is he J'or President Roosevelt " 2. Will he condemn the Hitler-Stal.n pact which gave Hitler a free hand ir Europe...
...Townsend added old age pension to the fight for peace...
...Invitations, numbering over fifty, have been sent to cooperative leagues, fraternal organizations, youth groups and progressive trade unions...
...This young, earnest, dynamic woman has been in charge of the American Labor Party of lower Manhattan since 1936...
...Sept...
...He wanted the election badly enough to ( work with the Communist Fifth Column...
...Goldberg joined the Communist fraternal International Workers Order, whose president is William Wiener, at the same time treasurer of the Communist Party, and who Was recently convicted in Federal Court of passport violations...
...Goldberg is not the only Republican being supported...
...Oneal Fund Reaches $530 A splendid response is being received towards the completion of the James Oneal Testimonial Fund, which will be used exclusively for the financing of the publication of books and pamphlets for the Social Democratic movement...
...15, immediately ^flowing the address of August (flgessens in Krueger's Auditorio», Newark, under auspices Jf?ocal 279, A. C. W, of A. — Object of meeting: To plan cam-pxign activities...
...Reid Robinson of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, was the opening speaker...
...STREET MEETINGS Friday, Sept...
...Roosevelt's lead is in danger...
...10 From the Chicago Bureau The New Leader CHICAGO.—At one of the most enthusiastic general membership meetings held in many months the Social Democratic Federation of Cook (Chicago) County made final preparations for the labor conference to aid the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket...
...This opportunist Italian politician as far back as several years ago was supporting both the Fascists and the Communists ?n various causes...
...Speaker: Alex Schwartz...
...England and Wall Street...
...10.00 Total-._$531.75 Bronx A LP Set to Sweep Primaries The Bronx division of the Liberal and Labor Committee to Safeguard tne American Labor Party, with Hon...
...The list of speakers is headed by Matthew Woll, vice president of the American Federation of Labor, and will include a number of other nationally known trade union leaders...
...which form the vita...
...C and 4th St., Manhattan...
...Congressional candidate, is Bernard Harkavy of the misnamed Jewish People's Committee...
...and Jerome Ave., Bronx...
...and oifaier it, in equal size, one reads "Meyer Goldberg for Assembly...
...She has "been a member of the New York State Committee of the A.L.P., is a member of the City Executive Committee of the party, and is also a member of the City Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Federation...
...The Mid-Bronx Branch meets Monday, Sept...
...J. Soskin- 1.00 Mr...
...The "good" Republican became the bad politician...
...JS, 14 and 15 in the Labor Lyceum, 415 South 19th Si...
...The Federation of Jewish Trade Unions which has held a similar conference enlisting the support of Jewish working class organizations will send official delegations to the meeting to insure complete cooperation of the two committees...
...Frank R. Crosswaith and Jack Altman for Congress in the 22nd and 23rd districts...
...Petitions have been filed designating a full list for all offices to be filled...
...William Karlin, former East Side Assemblyman, famous labor lawyer and A.L.P...
...Newark, N. J. ? August Claessens speaks on «labor and the Campaign" at conference of - Cleaners, Dyers, Pjessers and Solicitors Union, loesl 279, A. C. W. of A., on Sunday, Sept...
...Speaker: August Claessens...
...Some placards denounce Roosevelt's aid to Britain, some call for delegates to the Chicago (Communist-Nazi) "Peace" demonstration...
...The group which supports Goldberg is the group expelled from the American Labor Party because they refused to condemn the Hitler-Stalin pact—because they are Communazis...
...If you continue walking towards 7th Street, you «an pause outside the Federal Club and read a similar sign...
...Senators Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota and D. Worth Clark of Idaho, the headliners of the Stalinist rally, witheirew from the conference...
...Only Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas-and Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado failed to repudiate the Communist Party front...
...Congressman Vito Marcantonio, the man on the flying trapeze...
...NEW YORK CITY The City Executive Committee peets Wednesday, Sept...
...aptly titled by Luigi Antonini "The Man on the Flying Trapeze...
...Oscar Ameringer, editor of "The American Guardian," who was to pinch-hit for the senators, also stayed away...
...Philadelphia, Pa...
...To further their anti-British activity, the Communists organized several "peace" organizations, whose sole function was to stop the fight against Nazism...
...and John Cadden, Emanuel Minkoff, Israel Pos-nansky, Anthony P. Congino, Nathaniel M. Minkoff, Edward H. Molisani, Robert Fleitman, and Gertrude Wei...
...After the Hitler-Stalin pact, when the Communists were forced into the open, and it became apparent that they were going to knife President Roosevelt, Goldberg began playing ball with them...
...Speakers: Matthew M. Metzler and Eli Rosenblatt...
...Opposing Rachel Panken, the regular A.L.P...
...His program to stop the march of Hitler was to abolish the poll tax, block conscription and pay no attention to propaganda from Germany,' Italy...
...9, 8:30 p. nr., at 40 West Burnside Ave., Bronx...
...This is the incongruous picture emerging as the result of the deal made by the Willkie-Simp-son-Koenig machine with the Communist-Watson-Connolly fake American Labor Party group...
...The Communist sabotage of the American . Labor Harty...
...The left-wing, Communist-dominated American Labor Party hates Roosevelt for his vigorous aid against Nazism...
...The former president of this committee is the same William Wiener of the I.W.O., the Communist Party, and now the Federal jail...
...Stalinist Chicago 'Peace' Rally Flops After months of preparation the Stalinist Committee to Defend America by Keeping Out of War failed to fill the Chicago Stadium at their opening rally of the Emergency "Peace" Mobilization...
...Primaries" over Station WEVD on Sunday...
...The campaign is to be pepped up at a dinner conference to be held in Rosoff's restaurant this Monday evening, with David Dubinsky, Eli Oliver, Jacob Potofsky,, and Max Zaritsky among the speakers...
...Speakers: August Claessens and Eli Rosenblatt...
...Boston, Mass...
...Saturday, Sept...
...James M. James---- 5.00 New England Bureau...
...has been a heavy advertiser and contributor to Communist causes...
...The I.W.O...
...Elias Tartak will speak on "Current Events...
...15th, 11 a. m., in pager's Auditorium, 25 Bel-B«mt Ave...
...and Mrs...
...6, 8:30 p. m. Corner 181st St...
...This was a build-up for the recent demonstration held in Chicago, and exposed by The New Leader and later by the World-Telegram as a Communist front...
...11, 8.-30 p. m., at the Hotel Capitol, 8th Ave...
...14, 8:30 p. m. Corner of Ave...
...Corner of Burnside and Walton Aves., Bronx...
...s In addition to the contributions and pledges so far received the following donations are acknowledged: Previously acknowledged._$436.75 Charles Edward RusselL- 5.00 Local 102, I.L.G.W.U___5.00 Raivaaja Publishing Co., Fitchburg, Mass.--5.00 Fred Spitz________ 5.00 Workers' Credit Union of Fitchburg, Mass.__5.00 Julia Primoff---1.00 19th-19th A. D. Br., Kings Co., Jewish Soc...
...Jewish Socialist Verband 5.00 Local 66, I.L.G.W.U...
...As all loans made from it must be returned within a specified time, the fund will be kept intact for continuous aid...
...New Jersey The State Committee will meet gonday, Sept...
...and Walton Ave., Bronx...
...Thursday, Sept- 12, 8:30 p. m. Corner of 170th St...
...The Federal Club is bossed by Sam Koenig, deposed Republican County Chairman, and one who is notorious for the local deals Be made with the " old-time Murphy - Olvany - Curry Tammany machine...
...Klein for the Assembly in the first to the eighth district, respectively...
...She is a featured speaker over Radio Station WEVD this Sunday at 10:15 p. m. In an effort to throw Miss Gellman off the ballot, the Communazi crowd brought up a court suit...
...The S. D. F. conference for the Roosevelt-Wallace ticket will take place on Tuesday evening, September tenth, at eight o'clock, in the Morrison Hotel, Clark and Madison...
...And under ail of them are pasters which nominate the same Meyer Goldberg for Assembly...
...in Brooklyn the fake group, using the Labor Party name, is supporting Johnny Crews, twin-brother of the notorious Republican Boss Crews...
...The speakers who followed, Jack McMichael of the American Youth Congress...
...Francis Townsend of the Old Age Pension movement, stressed the same program...
...Many states failed to send delegates but their sections were filled in by Chicagoans...
...B and 6th St., you see a curious spectacle...
...National convention of the Jewish Socialist Verband, NSept...
...ticket two years ago, Meyer Goldberg tagged along...
...Wendell Willkie for President...
...The complaint was served through the steward of the Republican Club...
...In a wire to temporary chairman Reverend John B. Thompson they stated that their participation could not aid in keeping America out of war...
...Verband 4.00 Marie B. MacDonald__5.00 Anna Weiss- 1.00 Wm...
...Rand School Calls Labor Conference for Oct...
...Regular • classes of the Rand School will start during the week of Sept...
...3. Ii' there is i. Republican or his ticket, it if not the genuine American Labor Party, SDF NeWs fH?CAGO, DI.—S.D.F., frade Union, Workmen's Circle V Conference to- organize People's Committee to conduct H independent campaign for the election of Roosevelt and -Wallace, Tuesday, September 10th, in the Hotel Morrison...
...Corner of Burnside and Walton Aves-., Bronx...
...4-5" "American Labor, the World War, and the Armament Program" is the subject ?f a labor conference to be held at the Rand School on October 4 and 5. The chief topic of discussion will be the protection of labor's gains during the present crisis...
...9, at 8.30 p. m., in the Workmen's Circle Center, 129 Brighton Beach Ave., Brooklyn...
...Organizations- wishing to help in this work should communicate with Nick Pesch, secretary of thi S. D. F., 3500 W. North Avenue Chicago, 111...
...The American Labor Party of the 6th A. D. has nominated against Goldberg, Gertrude Gellman, a well-known neighborhood figure...
...Joe Curran of the National Maritime Union...
...Shulman signed Goldberg's petition this year...
...Louis Silberstang, John Hertz, and Herman Weinkrants for State Senate in the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd senatorial districts...
...Speaker: August Claessens...
...This Goldberg deal is not an isolated instance, but a combined effort by Communazi-Republican forces in this state to insure the defeat of President Roosevelt...
...Vito Marcantonio, in his talk, kept shouting there was absolutely no difference between Hitler and Great Britain.John P. Davis, national secretary of the National Negro Congress, made the collection appeal which was met with a poor response...
...The printing of the two booklets by the Rand School Press will be made possible shortly, thanks to this fund...
...In New York the big Communist demonstration was held August 4th at Randalls Island...
...and Dr...
...The goal set for this fund is $1,000...
...Matthew M. Levy as chairman and Max Bloom as secretary, is making every effort to make a clean sweep at the primaries on September 7. defeating every aspirant put forward by the Communist element...
...and Jerome Ave., Bronx...
...L. Sabloff____1.00 Gertrude W. Klein____ 1.00 Charles Grossman---- 5.00 Esther Friedman - 5.00 Jacob Blaufarb___— 10.00 Dr...
...and Wadsworth Ave., Bronx...
Vol. 23 • September 1940 • No. 36
