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...who was a Fellow in the Adult Education Department of Teachers College, has long been prominent in the American Labor Party...
...10, 8:30 p. m., at 7 E. 15th St., New York City...
...Auspices, Workmen's Circle Branch 537* * * NEW YORK CITY City Central Committee...
...Poll Tax Law By MORRIS MILGRAM National Secretary, Workers Defense League For once silver-haired Boss Crump of Memphis and the liberals of Tenneeee are made happy by the same thing: Tennessee's legislature on February 1 gave final approval to a bill repealing that state's 50 year old poll tax...
...They have looked upon you and your organizations with respect and admiration...
...Few of them earn as much or more than $500 over what Dies pays Matthews or some of his other alleged investigators...
...Jewish Writers Union...
...VAN METER AMES is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati snd a leading writer on the philosophy of aesthetics...
...Judge Jacob Panken and Dr...
...City Convention...
...NATIONAL Regional conferences will be held in the Spring in a number of cities between the Atlantic Coast and Chicago Prominent S.D.S...
...Pear...
...Most prominent representatives of freedom-loving people throughout the world and of British and American labor movements repeatedly requested their release in rain...
...else you...
...Manhattan, Friday...
...Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of innocent and helpless human beings who came within his power have been murdered...
...They are united in' their determination to win, for only thus can they save their freedom, their organizations and their lives...
...Virginia is the only state besides Tennessee when there was any real hope for repeal...
...German workers, do you want to prevent that...
...The labor movement should be blamed for much of what has happened...
...ReinheW Niebohr, of the Union Theological Seminary...
...Willen...
...Rand School Women To Hear Talk on Beveridge Plan The Women's Organization of the Rand School will hold a general membership meeting and tea, Tuesday, February 9th,, 2 P. M., at the Rand School Studio...
...And what can you become if you return to your former great task...
...Bertha Mailly, Mrs...
...Because of the exodus of men from civilian life, the rapidly expanding Women's Division is assuming greater political responsibilities...
...Even today, when you come into their countries in the wake of the conqueror—who snatches the food away from their very mouths, who drags them away from their homes, and kills hundreds of them as hostages—even today, their belief in you has not completely vanished...
...Mrs...
...Repeal will not necessarily prove a blessing to Negro voters of state, for a permanent registration law, passed with repeal, and the Democratic Party's white primary rule* in certain Tennessee counties, will surely bar most independent Negro voters from the "polls...
...Carl V. Stafford, chairman of the Poll Tax Committee of the Tennessee League of Women Voters and a member of the General Board of the Southern Electoral Reform Learut...
...JAMES RORTY, noted author snd writer, is the author of Where Life Is Better, American Medicine Mobilizes, and other books...
...Chips of the WPB whose most dangerous weapon is his set of carpet slippers, and who is considered one of the most expert economists in Washington...
...David Dubinsky...
...Leading Americans Ask for Release of Ehrlich and Alter Fifteen leading American liberal and labor spokesmen hi a telegram this week to Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov requested the release of Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, prominent Polish socialists and anti-fascists who have been held in Russian prisons for several years...
...You were proud because j«pu had advanced from the submissive mass of workers of earlier days to the status of an understanding and thinking working class...
...The telegram read: "It is now more than a year that Henryk Erlich and Victor Alter, two prominent leaders of Jewish masses in Poland were re-arrested in Kouiby-chev...
...N. I. Stone...
...8. 8:30 p. m...
...But all the criticism should not be leveled at Mr...
...Proud, for you had given Germany her best laws, the laws for the protection of labor and of equal political rights for rich and poor alike...
...He could have blocked repeal had he really wanted to, for he controls the state political machine of the Democratic Party...
...PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—James McDevitt, President of the Pennsylvania State Federation of Labor, and John Phillips, President of the Pennsylvania C.I.O., are the speakers in addition to Dean Alfange, Algernon Lee and August Claessens at the dinner symposium, to be held on Sunday, March 24, 6 p. m. Topic: "American Labor and the Threat of political Beaction...
...The liberators of Europe and the world...
...Proceeds of this dinner to The New Leader...
...For over a year now, she has not gained any victories, while the British airfket has destroyed her cities and while the opposite armies are approaching closer and closer...
...Meeting Monday, Feb...
...S.D.F...
...and Leo Krzycki, president, American Slav Congress...
...There was a time, when you proudly marched through the streets of your cities carrying the banners of labor before you...
...Firth Anniversary Banquet, Saturday, Feb...
...see as anything but a business proposition— for Matthews has told friends that he does not believe half the things the committee charges, and know that much more is technically correct but untrue in its implication...
...At the New Era Club, 274 E. Broadway...
...Adolph Held, chairman...
...M. Z: R. FRANK writes on Jewish subjects regularly for the Jewish Frontier and other periodicals...
...there an inquiry on suffrage a year ago by the official Virginia Advisory Legislative Council, buried but fortunately exhumed by President Moss Plumkett of the Southern Electoral Reform League, declared that "the Constitution of Virginia is designedly difficult to amend...
...The big coming event is the Banquet in celebration of Sarah Volovick's 70th birthday, in the Amalgamated Tea Room...
...The labor movements of almost every European country have been crushed...
...Professor of History at Harvard University, is one of the most distinguished Italian anti-fascist fighters in exile...
...Esther Friedman and Mrs...
...6, 7 p. m., for the Amici Club, Jewish Sanitarium, 86 E. 49th St...
...Women's Committee.The Workshop for the manufacture of clothing for the relief services of the American Red Cross, the British War Relief Society which aids allied nations, is now located in Room 505, People's House, 7 "E...
...The second meeting of the month will be held on Wednesday, Feb...
...Saturday evening, Feb...
...He is the author of numerous articles and books including Under the Axe of Fascism, Historian and Scientist, and other works...
...President of the Tennessee CIO, and Mrs...
...German Workingmen...
...8, 8.:30 p. m. 0*ur Forum opened'last Monday with a good attendance...
...at 7 E. 16th St., New York City...
...Albert Einstein, the distinguished scientist...
...And while thus defending their own liberty they are also fighting for yours...
...August Claessens speaks on "Abraham Lincoln, His Life and Humor," Monday,.Feb...
...Germany cannot escape it any longer...
...Dies...
...15th St, New York City., Scores of volunteers are busily it work daily from Monday through Thursday, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and on Wednesday evenings...
...Hedwig Wachenheim...
...G A ETA NO SALVEMENI...
...You were the pioneers of reconciliation and peace among the nations...
...A bin Johnson, director...
...secretary of the Labor Education Service, vice-chairman of the Southern School for Workers, member of the executive board of the Union for Democratic Action, and a member of the Board of Commissions for"" the Study of New Approaches for Jewish Education...
...Why were you the first whom he attacked while his strength was^ still fresh and young?—Because^ you were the bulwark of freedom -and humanity in Germany...
...Only by regaining your liberty will you ever be able to obtain better living conditions and an existence worthy of human beings...
...Flatbush-CentralBranch.—Prof...
...Certainly, all thinking men of labor and liberalism, cf decency among the conservatives as well as the progressives, will realise that Dies is an enemy of those forces seeking social advancement Mr...
...The annual City Convention of Local New York will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 24 and 25 and probably a public meeting preceding it...
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...9, in the A.L.P...
...Dies is so free with publicity on the incomes of Federal officials, many of whom took cuts in salaries to go with the government, why does he not make his own public...
...president, ILGWU...
...Workers' organizations shall rise again all around Germany and they shall again represent the will of free workers and speak for them...
...He has silenced you and robbed you of your right to determine your own working and living conditions, and to take part in the development of your own country...
...Joseph Clark Baldwin's poll tax repeal bill in Congress, by claiming that state by state repeal is thus proved feasible...
...When ten years ago, on January 30, 1933, Hitler came to power, he started by making war against you...
...It contains articles by William M. Fei-genbaum, James Oneal, Vera Hill-qoit, Herman Kobbe...
...Do you still want to continue fighting and working for the tyrant then...
...German Labor Delegation in the"United States: Siegfried Aufhauser...
...novelist and essayist, contributes to many periodicals...
...STAMFORD, Conn.' — August Claessens speaks on "Winning the War and the Peace," Sunday, Feb...
...The telegram pointed out that Congress has "consistently failed to recognize the plight of postal employee...
...Topic: "Labor and the War...
...BORIS NICOLAEVSKY, director of the American Labor Archive at the Rand Behest, is a noted Socialist historian and leader, author of a biography of Karl Marx and other books...
...If the AFL am' CIO together canvassed Congress, warning Representatives that they should no longer tolerate this supemumeras-y political police...
...They shall be free to speak and to write what they please...
...as soon as it was abolished, enforcement of the white primary rules of state and local Democratic Party committees became rigid, and use of terrorism to prevent Negro voting increased, as did discriminatory application of literacy tests and registration requirements...
...And those who are liberated shall be nourished and clothed by America...
...J. B. S. Hardman, labor editor, Amalgamated Clothing Workers...
...Hitler has made you drudging slaves again...
...He has overthrown Europe, has made free peoples his drudging slaves...
...Why put off the unavoidable defeat for one or two years...
...An excellent fight to repeal the poll tax was waged by Tennessee liberal and labor forces, led by Jennings Perry, editor of the Nashville Tiinc&grean, Paul Christopher...
...Dies — Enemy of Democracy (Continued from Page One) still a power in the public utility field, was once a member of a college Socialist society, or that the venerable Senator Arthur Vanrien-berg, too, had Socialist leanings...
...B'klyn...
...Julia Primoff were also elected vice-chairmen...
...MARY AGNES HAMILTON is a leading British journalist...
...SJD.F...
...Sunday, Feb...
...Program on WEVD...
...Henry Smith Lei per, executive secretary of the Universal Christian Council...
...and others who prob-!ih!y d» serve as mu*-h or mere credit, who stuck by the fight for years while the politico* repeatedly refused to carry out their promises to repeal the tax...
...6, 9:45 p. m. Algernon Lee presides and answers questions on international, national and municipal matters...
...Frank Kingdom Joseph Weinberg, president...
...The reason is .of course, that as long as the poll tax existed, Negrophobes relied on it to prevent most Negroes from voting...
...Question J3ox, Room 200, 7 E. 15th St., N. Y. C. Meyer London Reefer Makers Branch...
...Broadway...
...Alfred Braunthal: Albert Grzesinski...
...Coney Island Branch.—August Claessens speaks on "The Jew and the World Crisis," Sunday...
...Stephen Naft, Max Brauer, Elias Tartak are among the lecturers in the coming weeks...
...The Allies do not only fight for their own freedom, they also fight for the freedom of all Europe...
...Harry Paxton speaks on "India —Empire or Democracy...
...Despite the increase in the cost of living dating the past decade and particularly in the past two years, postal employees are still receiving salaries fixed by Congress as 'far bach as 1925...
...Boss Crump is also happy because he will not have to spend about $50,000 each election to pay the poll taxes of tens of thousands of poor Negro and white voters who are controlled by his machine...
...New School for Social Research...
...Clinton S. Golden, assistant president...
...Wherever their armies go, humanity shall be liberated from the Nazis...
...Adolph Held, chairman, Jewish Labor Committee: Or...
...Dies should be fought—now...
...Do you want to stay slaves...
...6, 9 p. m., in the W.C...
...Why do you keep on fighting...
...Copies can be had for the asking...
...MANUEL KOMROFF...
...Other signers included: Rev...
...Dies' committee would soon be starved out of existence...
...7, 8:30 p. m., at the Culture Center, West 28th St...
...New York City...
...Leon Blum Branch...
...Topic: "Abraham Lincoln — His Life and Humor...
...That same report calls for abolition of the poll tax...
...There was a time when you believed in your mission to fight for socialism, and that means for liberty, equality, justice.and humanity...
...Max Brauer...
...Jewish Labor Committee...
...What are you today, and what would become of you if Hitler stays...
...United Steel workers of America...
...would not abandon your distressed fellow workers...
...14, 2:30 p. m., in the Stamford Jewish Center...
...Prof...
...SDF News Persons interested la Social Democratic Ideas and interested In receiving literature about the Social Democratic movement, should write to the Social Democratic Federation, Room 200, 7 East 75th Street/ New York City...
...Monday, Feb...
...These are the enemies of the labor movement, many of whose leaders are close friends am' supporters of The Ne* Leader and know that this statement has been carefully weighed...
...15, in the Assembly Hall...
...Friedrich Stampfer...
...Only after Hitler had complete*}^ silenced you was he able to eiect his state of violence and blood^ persecutions...
...That is excellent news, for instead of only 25 per cent of the eligible voters participating in elections, the proportion will get closer to the 74 per cent figure for the forty non-poll tax states which is revealed by analysis of the 1940 Congressional elections...
...That is why he had to rob you of your freedom of action before he could prepare Germany for his war...
...Mrs...
...We will also be celebrating the Seventh Annb/ersarv of the S.D.F...
...who has done capable work for the labor movement of North and South America...
...Election of officers and other business...
...Young Nathaniel Weyl, who is one of Washington's leading experts on Mexican and Latin-American economics...
...To these millions we say: The workers of the world outside the borders of Germany do not wage this war to make you still poorer than Hitler has done already, or to oppress you, as he has done...
...At this meeting tickets for the Metropolitan Opera Concert on March 7th will be ready for distribution...
...Workmen's Circle...
...8:30p.m...
...Postal Employees Ask Salary Rise The "shocking" fact that postal employees are now being paid the same salaries they received in 1925 was revealed this week in a wire sent to Senators and Congressmen by Louis Schifrin, president of the New York Branch of the American Post Office Employees...
...In addition to being chairman of the Women's Division, she is also chairman of the Southern Committee of Pioneer Youth, Inc...
...speakers will make tours and aid in membership drives and organization work...
...Where does he find time, during this war emergency when even his handful of Texans deserve some representation in Congress, to tour the country on well-paid lecture tours ? If Mr...
...It is no easy matter to secure for any proposed change . . . the agreement by the General' Assembly on two separate occasions and the ratification of the proposal by a majority of the voters...
...German La bo rites Appeal to Reich Workers to Revolt The following appeal to German worker* was made by the German Labor Delegation on Hitler's 10th anniversary...
...Proud, for you had a vision of better world before you and in your hearts the consciousness that you were fighting for that world...
...RALPH DE TOLEDANO has contributed articles and criticism to The New Leader regularly...
...He has smashed your organizations, he' has persecuted your speakers, he has driven them into exile or has murdered them...
...Algernon Lee Souvenir Book.— A handsome 24-page booklet was issued at the recent banquet and celebration in honor of Algernon Lee and his 70th birthday...
...Who are some of the men Dies attacked— or shall we say ex-Communist Matthews blasted: Paul R. Porter, head of the WPB Shipbuilding Stabilization Branch, who has done good work iii keeping the explosive West Coast armament production center from slowing down through protests over wages...
...EARL HARRISON, Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization of the Department of Justice...
...And we, your old comrades in work and'strife, w-e know you too well not to realize, that there are millions among you who hate Hitler's tyranny and do not wish him to be victorious, for that would perpetuate his regime...
...Upper West Side Branch.—Dr...
...justice mat humanity ear request far the release of these outstanding ami courageous fighters against fascism and Nazism, Henryk Erlich and Victor Altar...
...A gala program will be arranged for Saturday, May 1, with a mass meeting in the afternoon and a concert and dance in the evening in the Debs Auditorium, 7 E. 15th St...
...Send questions to the S.D.F...
...and Raymond Gram Swing, widely-known commentator...
...and Mermaid Ave., B'klyn...
...Dies speaks for the forces of reaction anci social retreat...
...L. Widen Re-elected Chairman of the Women's Division of the ALP At the annual election of officers of the Women's Division of the American Labor Party, on Saturday afternoon, January 30th, at the Hotel Claridge, Pearl Larner Willen was re-elected chairman...
...Then William Green and Philip Murray, before they are accused of secret plotting to steal the Washington Monument and the unlighted Capitol Dome, could call for a committee to probe Communist and Fascist-activity, a committee which would not obscure the issues, nor protectSujoa^men as Father Coughlin to keep the backing of special groups...
...Among other matters elections will be held for permanent chairman and vice-chairman of the committee, recording secretary, members of the City Executive Committee and the Grievance Committee...
...B. Hoffmann, president...
...Testimony to the subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee holding hearing on Senator Pepper's poll tax repeal bill last year showed that repeal of the poll tax resulted in a decline in the number of Negro voters...
...The Joker in theTenn...
...Simon Berlin speaks on "Social Security and the Beveridge Plan," at meeting, Tuesday, Feb...
...A. Phillip Randolph, wife of the president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping-Car Porters, was elected vice-chairman of^ the Women's Division of the ALP...
...and, also suggests the likely effect of poll tax repeal by reporting that in North Carolina removal of the poll tax provision "was followed by a marked rise in the White vote, whereas the Negro vote increased little...
...David J. Saposs...
...And what about Mr...
...You would be serfs who must sweat for a pittance so that Hitler may-rule over Europe and the world...
...John Herling...
...The fact is that Tennessee has the only one of the eight poll tax states where repeal could be done easily, by a single session of the legislature...
...And now he has it, his war, has had it for more than three years...
...In his insatiable greed for power he has attacked the biggest nations on earth.- But they are de-lending their liberty and are strong and powerful enough to defeat him...
...August Claessens speaks on Saturday, Feb...
...Dies himself...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses, Bronx...
...Why do you permit that the blood of your sons, brothers and fathers is sacrificed to Hitler's megalomania...
...20, 9 p. m., at Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th St., ' N.Y.C...
...Club Rooms, 250 W. 89th St., cor...
...Rudolf Katz...
...Gerhart Seger...
...He has developed a good, well-paying project which neither he nor Matthew...
...Repeal will be used by some malicious persons, and by others who are ignorant, to hinder passage of Rep...
...Among the signers were Philip Murray and William Green, of the CIO and AFL...
...Center, 254 E. 94th Street, Brooklyn...
...German workers...
...East Flatbush Branch 2. — Frederick Shulman speaks on "Socialism and the Future," Saturday, Feb...
...Today, when universal public opinion unites in condemnation of Nasi criminals who are mvrdering in cold Mood the entire Jewish population of PiilsasL we renew in am aaaae at...
...A feature of the gathering will be an address by Miss Marjorie Fry, head of Sommerville College, Oxford, on "The Beveridge Plan...
...the gentle Mr...
...They understand that you, too, are shackled...
...ISABELLA FEY contributes literary criticism to various magazines...
...You were the first to teach the workers of most European countries how to organize themselves politically and in trade unions...
...Among the charges of Socialism and subversion which Dies-Matthews have directed at these men is the claim that they earn large salaries...
...But there is a slight joker in the matter...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 6
