SDF News
SDF News NATIONAL August Claessens is meeting a fine resnor,OQ ™ , *?J' England. Last Friday hesjokeWbiMv*0" May Day meeting in Springfield, l&S TheWork' Bin's Circle Center was crowded,...
...and 81st St., at 8:30 p. m. Henry Fruchter will speak on "Events of the Day...
...Boodles of New Leaders were distributed...
...The Upper West Side Branch meets Tuesday, May 13, at the Hotel Endicott, Columbus Ave...
...On that question, during campaign time, his column was discontinued by mutual agreement...
...Pinner To Be Held May 18 Suzanne LaFollette, noted editor and critic, Alex...
...He was his party's candidate for the office of governor of New York in 1910 and 1912...
...In the year 1927 a contribution to the field of American musical history, "The American Orchestra and Theodore Thomas," won the Pulitzer prize.as the best biography of ttie year...
...In journalism he stood at the very,top—having served as Ctty Editor of The Worlds Managing Editor of the New York American, and publisher of the Chicago Examiner and the Chicago American...
...In the course of his eighty years he produced thirty-four books, many of which were" of high merit and great popularity...
...She was a pioneer in suffrage work before the organization of the Socialist Party, edited the Montana News for a number of years in the early part of this century, and later became a widely-traveled national organizer for the labor and Socialist .now men is...
...Charles Edward Russell A Man Who Kept Faith Charles Edward Russell's autobiography, published in 1933, has as its frontispiece a photograph of Wendell Phillips...
...Frisco SDF to Hear Aid Allies Speaker Monday, May 19 The San Francisco section of the Social Democratic Federation will hear Mr...
...F. B. Sherman, of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, at its meeting Monday, May 19, 8 p. m., at the Alcazar Book Shop, 284 O'Farrell, San Francisco...
...The decisions and resolutions of the last City Convention will be reported by the delegates...
...C. Plans will be made for work in conjunction with the American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor...
...SDF News NATIONAL August Claessens is meeting a fine resnor,OQ ™ , *?J' England...
...Ida Crouch-Hazlett on March 23...
...Ida Croifch-Hazlett...
...When the Nazi war machine moved ahead in 1939, Russell was one-of the first to call for America to void her neutrality laws and plead for aid to the Allies...
...Both were held in the fine'Workmen's Circle Hall...
...The .City Central Committee meets Wednesday, May i4, 8:30 p. m., in the Sand School...
...Russell was one of the founders of this group...
...The dinner will be held Sunday, May 18, 6 p. m., at the Labor Educational Center, 415 South 19th St., Philadelphia...
...To the day of his last breath he belonged to a score of organizations dedicated to the help of underprivileged and downtrodden - groups...
...The death of Mrs...
...His position on the war and for collective security was unswerving-For many years^, he berated Chamberlain and other spokesmen for appeasement, calling for vigorous action to halt Nazism...
...She was within a few months of 80 years of age at her death...
...And toward the end of hsi life he reaffirmed his Socialist faith by joining the Social Democratic Federation...
...Into his efforts for the party's success he threw all of his enthusiasm and all of his talent...
...They were merely professional journalists -using this human-interest material for the purposes of their craft...
...The general topic is "Which Way America...
...Last Friday hesjokeWbiMv*0" May Day meeting in Springfield, l&S TheWork' Bin's Circle Center was crowded, deleratinn., # Work" J23*ng towns came in for the--— Qe,e»atl0ns from surHarry Fieldman was fa New Haven on Saturday, ifceol a hundred were present at t May Day banquet and the 20th unversary celebration of the Socialist Branch...
...In books like "The Stories of the Great Railroads," "The Greatest Trust in the World," and "The Uprising of the Many" he went way beyond the pattern made . familiar by his fellows in the field...
...His disagreement* with The New Leader came only over the third-term issue...
...A New Leader dinner committee, with representatives from the labor and fraternal movement of Philadelphia, is arranging the affair...
...As a personal creed he could record: "Nothing pays so well as enlistment in a betterment movement...
...Kahn, General Manager of the Jewish Daily Forward, and August Claessens, executive secretary of the Social Democratic Federation, will be the chief speakers at the symposium at the annual Philadelphia New Leader dinner...
...Noted Woman Socialist, Dies at 80 A belated message from Pueblo, Colo., announces the death of Mrs...
...Sherman, an extensive traveler in Europe, will speak on "America's Stake in the Defense of Democracy...
...Hazlett was a frequent candidate for variou.s offices in New York City on the Socialist ticket during the first World War days until the late 20's...
...In his accounts of this period, written later when he had kit the party during the split which resulted from the attitude e^snaned toward the first World .War, he suggests, clearly certain shortcomings which he recognized, but he sets down his deep appreciation hf the intellectual honesty and the Idealistic devotion of the Socialists which whom he worked...
...The meetings in Worcester on Sunday and in Brockton on Monday were the .largest held there ffi » decade...
...New Leader Phil...
...He was active in organizations ranging from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peoples through the League to Abolish Capital Punishment to the Johnstown Flood Correspondents Association,, an organization of reporters who covered the Johnstown Flood...
...Claessens will visit Boston, Boxbury, Lawrence, Lowell, Re-tere and New Bedford during the week...
...The E. V. Debs Branch meets Monday, May 12, 9 p. m., at 96 Ave...
...It pays—not in simoleons nor in kudos, but in one's right to be on good terms with one's self, which is about all there is in life anyway that amounts to a hoot...
...subscriptions were obtained and much literature told...
...Sponsoring organizations are the United Hebrew Trades, comprising many local AFL unions in Philadelphia...
...The Amalgamated Cooperative Branch dinner and entertainment will be held on Friday, May 9, in Shifre's Tea Room, 3975 Sedgwick Ave., Bronx, at 6:30 p. m. David Einhorn, author, poet and lecturer, recently returned from Europe, will be at the diner...
...NEW YORK CITY ATTENTION...
...Hake no conflicting arrangements...
...Delegations came from Bridgeport, Ansonia and Wslerbury, Conn...
...Annie Geller, member of the Amalgamated Cooperative Branch, is regretfully announced...
...Admission 75 cents...
...Russell was passionately pro-democratic and anti-Nazi...
...Since her return from England, some five years ago, she had been a patient at the hospital at Boulder...
...She died on Tuesday, April 22...
...Eliaa Tartak speaks at the Women's Committee gathering and tea to raise funds for British relief, Monday, May 12, 1:30 p. m., at 7 East 15th St...
...the Philadelphia City and District Committee of the Workmen's Circle, the Debs School of Social Science, and Local Philadelphia of the Social Democratic Federa...
...The Russian Branch meets on Monday, May 2, 8:30 p. m., in the Rand School...
...In the distinguished gallery of the muckrakers he stood out preeminent both because of his greater talent as a writer and because of his deeper social in-> sight...
...This fact furnishes the key to the man's aims and life and work...
...It was natural that such a man should turn Socialist and should play a prominent part in the Socialist movement of America...
...In the office of The New Leader, to which he was a regular contributor during his last decade, his copy would arrive typed on the letterheads of all the leagues and committees and associations set up to defend and succor suffering mankind in every segment of the globe...
...Mrs...
...Make reservations through Sarah Volovick, 74 Van Cortlandt Park South, or phone KIngsbridge 6-364...
...Annual Boat Bide o{ Local New York up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain Park wiB be held on Saturday, ¦August 9. Remember this date...
...At" the con-cjusi-m of his address, Claessens presented the New Haven branch „jtb a charter for a branch of toe Jewish Socialist Verband, ^abated with the S.D.F...
...Geller was a lifelong member...
...Charles Edward Russell's heart was in the cause, and he was burning with zeal to see that things should be set right...
...And at the end, after all his labors and all his disappointments, he wrote: "The world slowly grows better...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 19
