Board of Ed. Rejected Starr, But Witholds Report on Coughlinites
LEWIS, WALTER K.
Board of Ed. Rejected Starr, But Witholds Report on Coughlinites By WALTER K. LEWIS The New York City Board of Education, which recently refused to certify Mark Starr, educational director of...
...She referred often to Social Justice in glowing1 terms...
...The Public Affairs Council of the American Labor Party protested the Board's actions and Is arranging a mass meeting on April 12 on the Starr case...
...Tbe Board was given documentary evidence of a teacher's permission to a student to utilize the school hours for the sale of Social Jiptiee near a subway station in The Bronx...
...Elias Tartak, "American and Russian Relations — Ehrlich, Alter and Other Incidents...
...Dean Alfange, ofilliam E. Bohh, Algernon Lee and August Claessens will be among the speakers in the symposium on "The Threat of Reaction and the Challenge of Labor and Progressives...
...A high-light of the Spring program will be a week-end conference on "Russia, America and the Post-War World," with a number of distinguished speakers, to be held Friday evening, April 30th, and Saturday afternoon, May 1st...
...History of the Russian People From Peter I to Stalin" by Elias Tartak and two Russian language courses, elementary and advanced...
...Election of City Convention delegates and discussion of proposals for the*convention...
...Youth—Alexander Schwarts, chairman...
...Organization—Jesse Z. SuBsroan, chairman...
...William" Hammond: "What Shall We Call Sacred...
...Among the other courses listed for the Spring term are: "Fundamentals of Democratic Socialism," to be given by August Claessens and Algernon Lee...
...Affidavits support the contention that the situation, stimulated by a bigoted administrator, bad the blessing of the school's principal The teacher in question had received so much adverse publicity' that he was transferred, but not before a teacher who had made the original complaint was dismissed from the system far his persistence...
...Milo F. McDonald is the head...
...Rejected Starr, But Witholds Report on Coughlinites By WALTER K. LEWIS The New York City Board of Education, which recently refused to certify Mark Starr, educational director of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, to the post of Director of Adult Education on the grounds he was a protagonist of the cause of labor, has been withholding a report on pro-Coughlinite and pro-fascist activities within the New York City school system...
...Readers were told to "Scan the eligible lists: meet the people who constitute them, and you will be shocked at what is happening to the school system in this city...
...The Board was informed that in certain sections of Brooklyn, Brighton Beach in particular, separate canteens were being maintained for Gentile and Jewish teachers...
...The teacher knowingly authorised the student's sis wife from school on the grounds thst the latter was going to a health clinic...
...The Board has made no official move either to remove or refuse certification to any educator, whether principal or teacher, who is in 'any way a protagonist of the philosophies of Father Coujrhlin or to the editorial sentiments of the seditious Social Justice, although the evidence is abundant, overwhelming in that direction, and is fairly bulging from the Board...
...Rand School News At the annual meeting of the American Socialist Society, held test Friday, a new Board of Directors for the Rand School was elected for the ensuing year...
...The SJ5.F...
...m. Algernon Lee, "The Menace of Reaction in America...
...Dates can still be made by writing to the 0J, National Office, Room 200, 7 East 15th St., New York City...
...and the Beveridge Plans...
...The Social Democratic Federation issued a statement through Councilman Louis Goldberg, its city chairman...
...April 4—Frida Davidson, Walter Eckstein, Henry Neumanh: Memorial to Dr.' EJ-Iiort and to Dr...
...Assembly Room, 80 Van Cortlandt Park South, Bronx...
...Adler...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses...
...The newly organised Miami Branch of the Verband will keep him busy when he arrives...
...Yes, Russell will lecture on Russell...
...is asking for a date or two...
...Monday, April 5: 9 p. m. Max Brauer,"Germany After the War...
...Calf Made for a Free, Democratic Austria LONDON.—A demand that the Austrian people be told unequivocally that establishment of an independent, democratic Austria with culture and economy secured is a war aim of the United Nations has been voiced in a proclamation >.by the Free Austrian movement here...
...dftiooms', 250 West 89th St.,~N.Y.C...
...Public invited...
...For the first time in many years the Sand School will offer a program of courses to be held I in the spring months of April, May and June...
...in connection with the May 1st celebrations...
...The lists are gup-posed to give a clue to a person's nationality or religious affiliation...
...CALIFORNIA.—H...
...EVENTS OF THE WEEK Friday, April 2: 8:30 -p...
...SDF News MEW JERSEY.—How Social Democrats should act politically in the fall state elections and what part they can play in aiding organized labor's effective power—these are some of the questions before the general membership meeting of Social Democrats, called by State Secretary Gustav Schmidt for Sunday, April 4, 4 p. m., at the W. C. Center, 179 Clinton Ave., Newark...
...Plan should not remain in the lap of Congress...
...Public Affairs—Lous P. Goldberg, chairman...
...Hattie K. Schwartz, and David Shub...
...A.L.P...
...a series (oflectures on "Labor, the War, ana-1944," which will deal with problems of special interest to Labor in relation to the war, the Beveridge and NDPB social security reports, peace plans and the coming presidential election...
...Sese 0l6"workers are much' concerned that the N.R.P.B...
...Sutter Ave...
...files...
...Mid-Bronx Branch has Mm Brauer, eminent'German Social Democrat and former Mayor of Altona, Germany, as its guest at next Monday's meeting...
...Admission is free...
...small fee...
...Louis Reiss, 188 Springfield Ave., Newark, N. J. Phone: MArket 2-8350...
...22nd A.D...
...Make reservations with Dr...
...Nothing has been done about a female teacher in the Rockaways who instructed her current history classes that daily newspapers or textbooks were not accurate...
...Workmen's Circle Branch has set its date, Sunday, WitX . • ^"Baltimore S.D.F...
...Nicholas ' Ave., N. Y- C. Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Sunday morning meetings at II o'clock at the Society House, 502 First St., Brooklyn...
...In 1938, in 1940, again in 1941 and once again in 1943, the Board has been presented with formal charges indicating an effort on the part of the Coughlinite movement to penetrate the school system...
...Algernon Lee presides and answers questions on the '¦Skly broadcast over WEVD every Saturday at 9:45 p. m. . . . Olfier- West Side Branch meets Tuesday, April 13, m the A.L.P...
...Friday, April 2:9 p.m...
...Several sub-committees have been set up...
...Mid-Bronx Branch, S-D-F., at Dr...
...Included in the program, which will begin during the week of April 12th, is a new series by Bert rand Russell, "Philosophy in the Twentieth Century" with lectures on Bergson, Santayana, William James, Dialectical Materialism, John Dewey and Bertrand Russell...
...the S.D.F...
...She was the subject of investigation by the authorities...
...Branches are directed to arrange neighborhood meetings in the memory of the murdered Polish Social Democrats, Erlich and Alter...
...The proclamation, issued in connection wjth the fifth anniversary on March 11 of Hitler's entry into Vienna, said that a declaration along those lines would strengthen the forces of resistance inside Austria'and weaken the Nazis...
...Women's Committee—Hattie K. Schwartz, chairman...
...April 25—Algernon D. Black: "Hope Re-born...
...mince and Promotion—Harry Kritzer, chairman...
...Maggins, 1235 Grand Concourse, near 167th St...
...4 goodly batch of new members' applications were passed upon...
...Seating limited...
...Lin Mousheng, editor of "Contemporary China," on "Politics and Ideas of China...
...Election of City Convention delegates and" arrangements for public meetings on the East omK...
...Noah Raskin, former "member of the Upper West Side Branch, Manhattan...
...Branch in the.-'Amalgamated Cooperative Bouses, Bronx...
...In 1940, the Board was apprised of a vicious anti-Negro, anti-Italian and anti-Semitic situation in a Bronx vocational high school...
...Association for Democracy may have him...
...Tbe Rand School Women's Committee will hold the closing gathering of the season on Tuesday, April 6th, 2 P. M. A feature of the meeting will be a lecture by Dr...
...Committees have been elected for the April 24th City Convention...
...Both were modest characters who We happy doing the chores of the branch and intensely devoted ft our movement—we will miss them...
...Club, 971 Sutter Ave., Brooklyn...
...Atlanta TQa...
...B. V. Deb* Branch meets Monday, April 5, 8:30 p. m., in the club-roans, 746 East 5th St., N.Y.C...
...Jhe City Executive Committee has adopted a comprehensive plan of organization recommended by the Committee on Organization...
...Solomon Maggin, Abraham Miller, Dr...
...A hush-hush policy has persisted...
...v'jflW YPfcK CITY.—The City Central Committee, the highest governing body of the S.D-F., meets Wednesday, April 7, 8:30 Tvl, at 7 East loth St, New York City____All S.D.F...
...SOUTHERN STATES.—Interest is being aroused in the tour «TAugust Claessens, acting National Secretary of tbe S.D.F., down South during May----Philadelphia wants him____Wilmington Del...
...Following this meeting, at 6 p. m., in the same building, the annual New Leader Supperette will be held...
...Henry-Neumann, leader...
...No official data have been released...
...Rudolph Katz, Mrs...
...Social Democrats occurred last week—Paul Beck, former atjsber of...
...Following are the members: Abe Belsky, August Claessens, Louis P. Goldberg, Algernon Lee, Marx Lewis, Dr...
...New Era Club, 274 East Broadway, N.Y.C...
...August Claessens, "Abraham Lincoln-J-His Life and Humor...
...Friday, April 9: 8:30 p. if...
...said: ". . . The interests of special privilege seek to create disunity by the rejection of Mark Starr...
...Greetings are pouring in from all over the country fbr tbe 7th Anniversary Journal, published by the S.D.F...
...August Claessens, "The Jew and-the World Crisis," Workmen's Circle Branch 2, 1250 St...
...Another sore spot which the Board has never acted on publicly is that of the American Education Association of which the principal of Bushwjck High School Dr...
...Two deaths among Dr'.Y.C...
...A report on the recent Metropolitan Opera Concert will be given and refreshments will be served...
...April 11— James Hornback: "Must We Hate Our FoesV...
...S.D.F...
...Sidney Hook: "Today's Flights From Reason...
...Protest Labor and liberal groups in New York are pouring protests into the Board of Education denouncing its rejection of Mark Starr as director of Adult Education, because of his labor record...
...Education and Literature—Algernon Lee,' chairman...
...Monday, April 5: 9 p.m...
...Sheanin of Xos Angeles writes that the Jewish Socialist Verband has pledged ?50 towards the Algernon iieFund and has arranged a concert for that purpose on May 2. : *!$)NNECfrlCUT.—August Claessens will speak to the Shop Delegates Council of the Shirt and Clothing Workers Union, Local i^lCWU., in New Haven, Friday, April 16, 7:30 p. m., on ifecjal Se^tirjty—the N-R.P.B...
...April 18—Prof...
...In The Signpost, the official organ of the Association, in October, 1940, there appeared an attack on a group which seeks "to bring America -rarer to an anti-Christian atheistic bias...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 14
