SDF News
SDF News NATIONAL The National Executive Committee is voting on a numhpr d proposals for regional conferences, radio KSM"j3 ^ization drives in various parts of the country A New J^and Conference...
...Refreshments will be served...
...In recent years some 0.000 men and women, stricken with tuberculosis, nave been treated at the Los Angeles Sanitarium and Ex-Patients Home", says a late report published by the New York branch office, located at 145 West 45th Street, New York City...
...The basement of the Rand ol is being converted into a .uge work shop for volunteer workers...
...the Knitgoods Workers Union...
...The toll was appalling...
...Admission is free—all welcome...
...August ClaeBsens speaks Friday, May 23, 9 p. m., at the East Flatbush A.L.P...
...The topic will be "Democracy versus Dictatorship...
...Among the unions represented at the affair were Locals 122, 156, 379, 148 and 143 of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, John Arrufo is business agent of Local 156...
...The ar1 rangements committee were: Jo-t seph Braginskfy, David Braginsky, ] Becky Stern, Leah Neutra, Sarah i Lodkstein, Mrs...
...B%fyn Group Runs j Luna Park Benefit : ForBritain,May29 J ""Shoot the Works for Britain," is the slogan of the Brooklyn Di-' vision of the British War Relief ¦' Society...
...the Bakers Union Local 201...
...May celebration of the Washington Heights Branch on Saturday, May 24, 9 p. m., in the A.L.P...
...It is a citadel, equipped with the most modern scientific instruments to combat the ravages of tuberculosis...
...the Jewish Daily Forward...
...Philadelphia...
...Many of the afflicted, most of them victims of sweat-shops and poverty, had left their homes and hurried to Southern California as a possible remedy for their affected lungs...
...A tremendous amount of money is essential...
...William Karlin, a former legislator and well-known labor attorney, will discuss "Labor's Role in the War Crisis...
...Par- -ticipants in the discussion were James McDevitt, president of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor...
...Regardless of race or creed, patients come, to the City of Hope to regain a foothold in life...
...Subscription, 49tf...
...These tickets will ' be honored on week days throughout the summer if it rains on the ' 28th...
...MP Activities 3rd A. O., Bronx A.L.P., to Hw Barker Discuss Draft '* respective selectees and their families will have an opportunity to participate in a discussion of tie administration of the Se-fective Service Act by John Barker, an important official of the Selective Service Administra-*n, at the headquarters of the American Labor Party, 3rd A. D. *2*b, 914 Prospect Ave., Bronx, «*Friday, May 23, at 8:30 p. m. *: r_____.____ Questions will be answered after the discussion is completed...
...Bruce Bromley, chairman, is located at 161 Pier-repont Street...
...the Bread Salesmen Union...
...Club, 9703 Church Ave., Brooklyn...
...Concert and refreshments...
...the Joint Board of Cloakmakers Union...
...It contributed funds for the erection of the splendid Commissary Building...
...The Hon...
...the United Hebrew Trades...
...2nd A. D., Bronx Friday, May 23, at 8:30 p. m., the American Labor Party, 2nd A. D., Bronx, will conduct an open forum at its headquarters, at 170th St...
...Topic: "The United States and the War...
...Alexander Kahn, .general manager, of...
...the Workmen's Circle School Committee: Workmen's Circle Branches 124, 103, 98, 150, 283, 118...
...Reservations can be made at the City Offke, 7 East 15th St...
...Vocational Therapeutics plays quite 'an important part in the treatment at the City of Hope itself...
...the City and District Committee of the Workmen's Circle...
...clubrooms, 552 West 181st St...
...Leading psychologists have long discovered the essential value of having improved patients engage in various pursuits so as to distract their minds from their condition...
...It is located at Belvedere, within the city limits of Los Angeles...
...Here the .patient goes through the convalescent and rehabilitation process...
...C, on Saturday, June 7. » » * All branches are urged to obtain street-corner platforms, flags and banners at once...
...Flatbush-Central Branch...
...Tel.: Algonquin 4-2620...
...Open-air meetings for the S.D.F...
...Joseph Shaplen, writer, and August Claessens, secretary of the Social .. Democratic Federation, who acted as toastmaster...
...Aside from the Hillquit Memorial Hospital, the ILGWU also erected the Sigman-Schlesinger Library Building...
...Kutikoff...
...The problem became so acute that the ILGWU began a crusade against the unhealthy conditions rampant in the places in which its members were employed...
...Algernon Lee speaks *%t the meeting of the German Branch on Friday, May 23, 8:30 p. m., , in the Labor Temple, 243 East 84th St., Manhattan...
...Hard-hearted officialdom^ indifferent philanthropic institutions and accredited charitable organizations refused to do anything to help these life-seeking "strangers...
...and Boscobel Ave., Bronx...
...More than $300 was raised in contributions at the dinner, held at the Labor Educational Center, 415 South 9th St...
...The boat leaves Battery fere * a. m. and West 132nd St...
...Contact the City Office for speakers, literature, etc...
...Britain gets fifty-five cents on ' every dollar combination ticket sold, the net result is two dollars ' in amusements...
...Topic: "The Defense of Democracy Here and Abroad...
...William Karlin and Gertrude Geltoan will speak at the opening of the 4th A. D. (Manhattan S.D.F...
...Many years ago, leading spirits in the .labor movement in the U. S. became alarmed over the loss of the thousands of its members as a result of ""tuberculosis in the unsanitary factories...
...350 Laborites Attend PJiil.NewieaderDirmer More than 350 laborites gathered Sunday, May 18, to celebrate the Philadelphia New Leader dinner.- Feature of the evening was a symposium, "Which Way America...
...But the Hillquit Memorial Building is today but a part of the contribution which labor has made to the development and growth of the City of Hope...
...Friday...
...will begin in June in various parts of the city...
...The splendid affair was arranged by a dinner committee with representatives from the Labor and Social Democratic movement of Philadelphia...
...At the same time the International joined the Los Angeles Sanitarium, where hundreds of its members have found a cure and returned to normal life...
...Julius Droiscd, chairman of the club, announces that the public is invited...
...Boat Side on Saturday, August 9. -» « * SJ).F...
...the Social Democratic Federation Local Philadelphia, and West Philadelphia branches...
...The patient is taught a light trade or vocation to secure a job in keeping with his health...
...The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has also aided...
...The Debs Branch will open their drive for Aid to British Labor in the 6th A. D., Manhattan, in their clubrooms, 96 Ave...
...Those dependents left behind are taken care of by the Social Service Department maintained by the Los Angeles Sanitarium and Ex-Patients Home Association...
...The Brooklyn Committee of the British War Relief Society, headed by Mrs...
...Similarly, the International Baker Workers' Union has not Stinted' its aid—and from these and thousands of other contributions from individuals, fraternal orders and communal societies, as well as labor unions, the other buildings have been erected to house the laboratories, medical clinics, scientific apparatus and other necessities . for successful cure...
...Tickets are available at leading Brooklyn department stores, including Sears Roebuck, Namms...
...News Carriers Union...
...Thanks to the devotion of thousands of men and women, a desert has been transformed into a life-saving little city, on 37 acres of fertile land with 53 spacious and modernized buildings...
...Watch for the date of tie official opening...
...A New YnrV KfSf ^sierence is planned for at Cold ¦ «5rmg on tne Hudson...
...SDF News NATIONAL The National Executive Committee is voting on a numhpr d proposals for regional conferences, radio KSM"j3 ^ization drives in various parts of the country A New J^and Conference is being called for July 12-13 at the Workmen's Circle Camp near Boston...
...Speakers: August Claessens and others...
...M. Levinson, Morris Levinson, Dr...
...8th A. D., Bronx A.L.P...
...May 23 The East Flatbush Branch of the American Labor Party will conclude this season's lecture program, hearing August Claessens on "How to Defend Democracy Here and Abroad," Friday, May 23, 8:30 p. m., at the club's headquarters, 9703 Church Ave., Brooklyn...
...the Machinists Union...
...The present annual budget runs to about $400,000...
...While the labor unions contribute Substantial sums the bulk of these funds must come from the auxiliaries, fraternal and other organizations spread throughout the nation...
...Karlin Speaks at A,L.P...
...Also at the Progressive Literary Aid Society on Tuesday, May 27, 9 p. m., in the Terrace De Luxe, Pitkin and Hopkinson Aves., Brooklyn...
...Patients may read and study inside or draw books when confined to bed...
...Tickets, at $1, are obtainable it the City Office and at all branches...
...Dress and Waist-makers Joint Board, of which Sam Otto is the head: Dressmakers Local 50...
...It was under such deplorable circumstances that a few socially-minded individuals, including some who had themselves recuperated from the disease, got together and organized the Jewish Consumptive Relief Association, which later took its present name, The Los Angeles Sanitarium and Ex-Patients Home...
...Claessens Speaks at Flatbush A.L.P...
...Behind the City of Hope is a tale of human pioneering begun more than a quarter of a century ago...
...clubrooms, 393 Grand St., as the headquarters for the American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor on Tuesday, ' Hay 27, 9 p. m. This1 is the first of a number of East Side public meetings for British Labor...
...The E. V. Debs Branch meets Monday, May 26, at their headquarters, 96 Ave...
...t-os Angeles Sanitarium Aids Labor Victims of Tuberculosis By JOSEPH M. LEVINSON Down in the picturesque, semi-tropical San Gabriel Valley in California, at the foot of the Sierra Madre Mountains, lies the fortress of the City of Hope...
...Other jiiferences will be announced ihortly...
...To Elect Officers Election of club officers and executive committee members of the Central Club, 8th A. D., ALP, Bronx County, will take place on Wednesday, May 28, at the Paradise Mansion, Paradise Theatre Building, Grand Concourse, at 8:30 p. m. Ballots will be issued only upon presentation of membership card...
...Outing to Camp Eden, at Cold Spring, for Decoration Day week-end, May 30-31 and Jane 1. Accommodations for the three full days at $10, not including transportation...
...Spring festival and get-together, Saturday, May 24, 8:30 p. m., at the home "of Sarah Rutes, 849 Linden Boulevard, Brooklyn...
...From the center of these buildings emerges the Hillquit Memorial Building—a living monument dedicated to the memory of a fighting pioneering spirit in the Socialist movement of this country...
...Boat Ride, arranged by the •oiuea's Committee, to Bear fountain Park, Saturday, June it...
...MEW YORK CITY The Women's Committee will gptr, a workshop for the manu-ire of clothing for the British gle...
...at 10 a. m. Annual S.D.F...
...Martins, May's, Russeks, Loesers and Abraham and Strauss...
...Every one is re-: ceived and treated with no charge...
...C. Many urgent matters will be discussed...
...No greater tribute could have been paid to the man who was ever ready to enter the battle in behalf of the toilers than the erection of the nine-unit building by the progressive International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union a^_ a cost of $150,000...
...The Ex-Patients Home is a counterpart of the City of Hope...
...and that slogan is being implemented by a Luna Pank 1 Benefit for Britain to be held ' May 29 at the famed Coney * Island Amusement Park...
...The New York Joint Board of the Amalgamated has recently contributed funds for the building of an additional hospital wing that the City of Hope may grow and extend its aid...
...However, the ILGWU has not been the only labor organization instrumental in the growth of the City of Hope...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 21
