Socialists Sweep Bridgeport
Socialists Sweep Bridgeport McLevy and Whole Slate Swept In with Twelve Aldermen Out of Sixteen BKlDGEIpRT, Conn.—Jasper McLevy, Socialist workingman, is the next mayor of this important...
...and all three City Sheriffs and Selectmen an Socialists, George Pnyda, Solowon snow and Isadore Kraveti whining the first mentioned posts aad David Widdo, Meyer Zncker had Kiev Liskofsky the latter...
...The Geneva election Is the sixth important poll since the advent of Hitlerism to power in which the I Socialists won Impressive victories, I I largely on the Issue of Fascism...
...Jasper McLevy, old-lime Socialist »nd trade unionist, member of the ^mHst National Executive ComPJtoa, was elected mayor of -NHriditr-port after a streunous *»pnlgn wages) hy himself and Bstrong Bridgeport Socialist 1 This was the tenth time he run for the mayoralty...
...Since, however, the four main nonSocialist groups cannot agree among themselves, a Socialist Cantonal government is forecast...
...The Democrata polled 99 votes for School Commissioner and had do candidal* for Supervisor...
...In N«w York, faced by almost insuperable difficulties, the party polled 63,450 votes for Charles Solomon, candidate for Mayor, and maintained a strength of close to 75,000 for the local ticket...
...John S hen Ion, Treasure fack...
...The election gains added importance from the fact that on Friday militarists are to petition for a popular referendum for a heavy appropriation for increased armaments...
...The vote was remarkable in its solidarity...
...The Communists never polled as much as one per cent...
...Detail* of the New York voto are given on page* 2A and 'III...
...Following a Magnificent campaign in which...
...Fusionists made the Bible and the American flag the major issues in the election and argued that the Socialists were unpatriotic because they refused to joia i in an NRA parade...
...Now Geneva Is Swept by the Socialists QENEVA.—The tide of Socialist success is sweeping everything before it...
...The old stand-bys were trotted out, the borne, the flag, religion—but the workers rallied to their own party and turned the city oVer to their working-class comrades...
...The lowest city-wide vote was 20,766, and the highest, except for McLevy's, was 20,954...
...Comrade McLevy's victory has been well earned...
...Those voters form the basis of a powerful and aggressive Socialist organization...
...complete victory is the fact that ¦ana holdover Democratic Aldermen and three Republicans place the Socialists in a minority of four —12 to 16...
...He has run fourteen times For office, this late victorious campaign included, four times for gov(Continued on Page Right) Heavy Gain Is Scored In Olean (Spillal to The New Leader) OLEAN, N. Y.—Jonn 6. Cooper, indefatigable propagandist, leading Socialist worker in this far western part of New York State, scored a striking success in Tuesday's elections by polling a vote of 1,474 for Mayor out of a total of 6,622, or 22 per cent The city baa a population o f 22,000...
...Socialist principles were constantly hammered home ke was swept into the mayoralty by a vote of 22,726 to 16,584 for Dunn, Democrat, and 7,529 for the Republican...
...The one flaw in the otherwise...
...The most desperate efforts of the Democrata to stem the Socialist tide were unavailing...
...Their reward was a reduction of representation in the Cantonal council from 15 to 9. The Socialists rose from 87 to 45 seats, while the total of all bourgeois parties fell to 55...
...The Bridgeport results, of course, quite overshadow everything else, from the Socialist standpoint, but everywhere, except in places where special conditions prevailed, there was a steady, or even a sensational advance...
...The vote shows an irreducible minimum, not of Socialist voters or of sympathisers, but of convinced and unshakable Socialists...
...The following Socialists were elected: Burgess, Howard M. Moser...
...The 'combined fusion vote| for Reading city councilmen was about 11,500 while the Socialist vote was slightly less than 9,000...
...The fact that there Is a similar story to tell In other countries—* in Great Britain and Norway, la Finland and Switzerland, in Scotland and even in the Antipodesindicates that the menace of Fascism has aroused the workers everywhere to rally around the Socialist banner and build a strong defense of liberty and democracy, as well as of their class Interests...
...Under the conditions that obtained in the metropolis this year the showing of the party is considered remarkable, and a tribute to the superb campaign waged by the splendid ticket headed by Solomon, and Including Harry W. Laid ler and Frank R. Crosswaith...
...was in everyone's mind, ran about 1,600 ahead...
...In the last three elections Geneva gave the Socialists 25.4 per cent of the total, 31.5 and 40 per cent...
...GOOD NEW HAVEN VOTE NEW HAVEN...
...This was an Increase of 250 per cent over the vote recorded in the last city election...
...Support for the ticket la counted as solid Socialist support...
...With 136 precinctE out of 318 reported the vote was 14,477 for Klota to 13,658 for Thacher...
...1le ha also run four times for the governorship...
...Socialists pi-: A ding...
...In Young Township, Jefferson County, F. S. Godthwalte, Socialist, polled 150 votes for School Director, and T. B. McQueen, Socialist, received 243 votes for Supervisor to 257 for the victorious Republican...
...The city election is expected to result in a Socialist sweep...
...In Reading, Pa., the Socialists faced a fusion of both old parties, and made a vety excellent showing, polling more votes by thousands than either of the two old parties, but succumbing by a small margin to the combined vote of the supposed political foes...
...TOLEDO, O.—In the mayoralty election here, Solon T. Klota is leading Mayor Addison Q. Thacher by a slender margin on incomplete returns...
...K«ne, William S. Neil, Harry A. Williamson, Angelo J. Canevari, Clifford A. Thompson, Everett E. »*«ry, John M. Taft...
...He has lerved as president of the Central Labor Union, as president of the International Slate and Tile Jtoof-TH, «nd as vice-president of the State Federation of Labor1...
...After the brilliant Socialist victories in Zurich a few weeks ago come magnificent Socialist triumphs in the Canton of Geneva, seat of the city of Geneva and of'the League of Nations, where the streets ran red with the blood of workers in the massacre of November 9th, 1932...
...Cooper's method of propaganda was to appear before every possible organization and preach strslght Socialism...
...J Fusion Beats Reading Pa...
...Reading Does Well Against fusion IN widely separated sections of the country the Socialist Party acquitted itself creditably in the elections of last Tuesday...
...McLevy was born in Bridgeport in 1878 of Scotch parentage...
...The election was a clean-cut contest between Socialism and reaction, with the Fascist Union Nationale waging the sor* of antiSocialist campaign that Fascists wage everywhere...
...In 1900 he found himself, through lis convictions, in the ranks of the hen rapidly developing trade union, ind Socialist movement...
...Solomon Polls 63,450 In New York...
...Richard Schultze, T»»i...
...Councilraen, Lester S. Himmeiberger, Charles Smith, Clarence Searfoss and George ii...
...The elections are nonpartisan, but Klotz made his campaign as a Socialist...
...Leon Nicole, Socialist deputy in Parliament and editor of the Socialist daily, Travail (Labor), has just been" released from jail, and his welcome is an election that will probably result in the formation of a Socialist Cantonal government and the promise of a Socialist municipality after the city elections in three weeks...
...Justice of Peace, Theodore Gensemer, and Auditor, George Moycr...
...He has been a party member for a quarter of a century...
...The twelve Socialist Aldermen g* Henry A. Costello, James II...
...Socialists captured all Kenhorst borough offices with the exception of tax collector, which was won by a fusion candidate...
...But all his interests have been tvershadowed by his political activity...
...Ticket splitting waa small, there being a difference of only eleven votes between the high and the low man on the slate...
...Stoudt...
...McLevy, despite the fact that his nam...
...Climaxing a vigorous campaign, In which unemployment relief was mad* the main issue, local Socialists rolled up a vote of 1,880 in the municipal election here Tuesday...
...Bergen, President of the Hoard of Education...
...The winning candidate polled 3,060 votes and the Democrat 2,128...
...Cooper ran second in three warda of the city, and was less than 700 votes behind the Democrat...
...Socialists Sweep Bridgeport McLevy and Whole Slate Swept In with Twelve Aldermen Out of Sixteen BKlDGEIpRT, Conn.—Jasper McLevy, Socialist workingman, is the next mayor of this important industrial city...
...In Laureldale the complete Socialist ticket was also elected...
...A Pennaylvania Return PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa...
...In Toledo, it appeara that a Socialist, running In the city's "nonpartisan" election, is leading la the race for mayor and on complete returns may bo elected...
...He attended the public school until he was 14, and then became an apprentice to his uncle, George McLevy, a slater...
...It was a Socialist vote...
...The Socialist vote in Reading was approximately 3,000 votes more than either of the old parties singly, but not sufficient to beat the fusion which, in every community where Socialist power grows, becomes inevitable...
...Soma small successes were won in other Pennsylvania towns...
...Clerk...
...Since in every ward the \funionists were victors by very slight majorities, the Socialists ire confident that by carrying on their campaign throughout the year they will be victorious at the next elections...
...He was erected by a stunning majority in a Socialist tidal wave that swept the city...
...The Socialists will point to the elections in Zurich and Geneva in opposition...
...Despite vicious lies circulated by the Democratic machine of the city, the Socialist local waged a strong, clear-cut working-class campaign on issues of municipal ownership and with the Socialist ideal constantly itreised...
...Charles "ottram, William Hutton, John F ^eerin, and Andrew K. Auth...
...The Socialism | dubbed the present fusion administration at city hall as "Do-Nothing' and waged their campaign on basic Socialist issues...
...Pa.—The Reading " Socialists re-established themselves as the strongest individual party in the city and as the second strongest in Berks County in Tuesday's balloting for city and county offices...
...The election of the rugged Socialist workingman resulted in the biggest and most deliriously enthusiastic demonstration in BridgeBft's streets since the Armistice teen years ago...
...However, the twelve koldovera drop out under the new dty charter ffi a year, when the talve Socialists and four Democrats elected this week will constlhjts the entire Council...
...Running against a fusion of Democrats and Republicans, however, they were unable to win more than a few offices...
...With McLevy were elected 12 Socialists out of 16 aldermen, and the following Socialists also were wcted: Alderman Fred Schwartakopf beernes City Clerk...
Vol. 26 • November 1933 • No. 20
