Italian Socialists Call for Civil Disobedience Against II Duce
Italian Socialists Call for Civil Disobedience Against II Duce The fall text of a asnasml aiaiiaTiti, of taw underground Italian. Socialist Party, on s Call to Civil Disobedience has teat bee*...
...around him there will arise spontaneous ties at* friendship, of fraternity, of solidarity, living cells of the free society to which they aH aspire...
...But, if practiced by a large number of persons, civil disobedience is a political weapon of great potency...
...And perhaps nothing proves in a cruder and more frightful way the corruptive, debasing result of twenty years of Fascist dictatorship than the striking contract in which the Italians privately talk and think and their public behavior...
...21, m the Amalgamated Tea Room, 6 p. m.» • * » Midtown Cutters Branch...
...He was a delegate to the Paris Congress of the International in 1900 and to Russian Social Democratic conferences at London and Stockholm a few years later...
...PHILADELPHIA, Pa...
...To disobey means to work badly, if Oils work has any relationship to the state of the war...
...sfcoald write to 'aVsaafan1^2a&22?tc m, Boom 200...
...jdeals of Internationalism and Social Democracy...
...Club, 971 Sutter Ave., B'klyn...
...the students and teachers refuse to participate at the Fascist ceremonies in the schools, or to courageously express their sentiment of freedow: the officers to refute to serve with theif troops in the maintenance of public order, or to talc* up the defense of the crowd against the aggression of the militia or of the Fascist police...
...Ingerman Was a valued member of the medical staff of the Workmen's Circle Sanitarium at Liberty...
...Bronx...
...Algernon \jtt, member of the National Ex-eeutive Committee, speaks in Pittsburgh, Pa., Sunday, Feb...
...55 Years in the Movement The Social Democratic movement has lost one of its most loved and respected veterans in the person of Dr...
...Sunday, Feb...
...9 p. m. at The Group, 150 W. 85th St., New York City...
...fore all a revolt of the seal, a rsfoaai of solidarity with a regime which reasea and consoieticc condemns...
...23, 8 p..m., at the Workmen's Circle School, 1579 Dumont Ave., near Alabama Ave., BTclyn...
...Sarah Voloviek, organizer of our, branch and life-long active Social Democrat, will be honored on her 70th birthday at a dinner arranged by the branch Feb...
...The political talk of this hour is: that the anti-Fascist majority reveal itself...
...and when Bolshevism began to split the party in 1919 he had but to continue the fight against that tendency which he had waged for fifteen years ia the Socialist International...
...Alex Rose, State Secretary, and Dean Alfange, recent gubernatorial candidate of the American Labor Party, wffl inaugurate on February 25 a new series af weekly Broadcasts, entitled "Political Forum of fhe Air," aver Station WEVD on Thursday evenings, at 19:15 o'clock...
...NEW YORK CITY The newly elected City Executive Committee consists of the following members: Dr...
...FELIKS GROSS is general secretary of the Central and Eastern European Planning Board...
...Contributors MAX EASTMAN, distinguished critic and essayist, has recently been interested in the Culbertson plan, and talk tear article is the resuIt, M. H. HEDGES is research director of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers aad an active latter JcwuaBst far many years...
...When the Socialist Party was split by the expulsion of the resolutely democratic and "orthodox" elements at the Cleveland convention in 1996, Dr...
...25, 9:30 p. m., W.C...
...Civil disobedience is net yet insurtectior , it4s not yet the general strike...
...May 1 mass meeting and concert wiH be arranged to celebrate this International Social Democratic and Labor holiday...
...Ingerman attended a di lectins' meeting of the Rand School on Monday \ evening, and exposure to the bitter cold on his way home probably hastened Ins end...
...wtric: "A' Year tfi the City Council...
...Raphael Abramovitch, Abraham Cahan, Victor Chernov, Algernon Lee and Friedrich Stampfer will speak for different branches of the movement...
...They will recapture their misled courage, their faith in the efficaciousness of conscientious action the joy of behaving according to the iHctotto of their conscience...
...Civil disobedience is, above all, a fact a# taw individual conscience: every honest eitieen mast feel the mi restrained repugnance of coatinutag to collaborate with a regime which it hates aad for an infamous war...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses...
...and her husband, Bela Low, and their son, Francis E. Low, now a volunteer member of the United States Army...
...Bernard UfleAtoem, Alexander Schwartz, Sttfie K. Schwartz, Fred Shul-m«n, Theodore Schapiro...
...His loss came as a shock to his New York comrades...
...Branch 402, 2 Bay 31st 9t~, B'klyn...
...Question Box, 7 East 15th St-, New York City...
...August Claessens speaks Friday, Feb...
...The ¦aanttote is released here by Vannl Montana, Secretary of the Italian Socialist PeaViStlan...
...etery one of you be an organizer of civil disobedience...
...The workshop for the manufacture of clothing for the relief services of the American Red Cross, the British War Relief Society, which aids the allied nations, is now located in Room 505, People's House, 7 East 15th St, New York City...
...Fifth Anniversary Banquet, Saturday, Feb...
...The next day he was Very ill and by Wednesday morning he had passed into a coma from which he never awoke...
...The Socialist Party asks of the Italians seme-thing unusual, but not impossible Civil tnt> obedience wiH reveal the Italians to themselves...
...To disobey means, in other cases, to apply to the letter the laws, the decrees, the official regulations, if their literal observance amy have a* a result the contrary of what the authorities had intended...
...22, g:30 p. m., at our Forum, Club Rooms, 844 Utica Avenue, Brooklyn, near Church Avenue...
...20, 9:45 p. m. Send question* to the S.D.F...
...175 East Broadway, at 11 a. m., on Sunday...
...7 • * • (% Convention...
...21, 4 p. m., Women's Clubs Council, 671 Prospect Ave., Bronx, Dedication of a Service Plaque...
...Monday, Feb...
...A founder of the Russian Social Democratic Society, Dr...
...19, 8:80 p. m., at 22nd A.D...
...Meyer London Reefer Makers Branch...
...While always busy in their profession, they were also intensely active in the Socialist movement throughout their lives, and did much to link the Russian, German, and Jewish immigrant groups with the native American element...
...Return to Russia Was of course impossible, and the young couple came to New York in 1891...
...Branches should get a quaitity of tickets at once from Sophie Turbow, Chairman of the Concert Committee, or from the S.D.F...
...ftd< fa racelv/ng War orara oboaTfaVsLi-i n!" 55* Svi-aaf...
...he will no longer fed himself alone...
...the railway mem and the motormen to retard their transports...
...This section completes aa article on international sovereignty written for The New Leader...
...office...
...t Through civil disobedience the individual will come out of the fear in which the dictatorship keeps him...
...28, for the S.D.F...
...Sergius M. Ingerman, of 418 Central Park West, who died at Beth David Hospital early Thursday morning after an acute illness of only two days...
...March -, Elias Tartak: "Russia and America—Friends or Eene-mies...
...Flatbush-Central Branch...
...and Branch news...
...Branch 1049, 14th St...
...Program to be announced soon...
...S.D.F...
...To disobey means not to pay taxes, the electric light, gas, or to pay with retardation, or to pay at a false address...
...William E. Bohn, editor of The New Leader, will address the forum of the Tremont ALP Club, 862 East Tremont Ave-, Tuesday, February 21, on "The Underground Movement in Axis-Controlled Europe...
...and Broadway...
...Notice to Branch Organizers...
...Barnes jjeDevitt, 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 14, 6 p. m. Topic: "American Labor and the Threat of PonucaJ Reaction...
...7 additional members...
...The end of Fascism wiH not be illusory, and we will avoid the danger of going from on* dictatorship to another, from one cammorra to another, from one maffiia to another, and we will really be the masters of our destiny, in the measure in which we fight and we sacrifice ourselves for our common freedom...
...Louis P. Goldberg speaks Friday, Feb...
...if the prisons overflow with political prisoners, it is because the majority of them were arrested for having distributed leaflets, or for belonging to underground associations, or for being suspected of false denunciation...
...The way and the goal are marked oat...
...C. WRIGHT MILLS, of the Department of Sociology at the University of Maryland, has written frequently for The New Leader, and contributes frequently to scientific journals...
...George Plekjjenev and Vera Zas-suliten in 1884, which later became the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party...
...4 - • Women's Committee...
...Sergei Mikhalovitch Ingerman was bom in Russia 74 years ago...
...Ten years later' he actively opposed the Anarcho-Syndicalist "deviation...
...He is survived by his daughter...
...A democracy realized by a eovp de main gives an audacious vanguard, not a true democracy...
...Fred Sender was a life-long Socialist, active in the old S.L.P., one of the founders of the Socialist Party, an able speaker, and a frequent candidate for public office...
...it is not yet th*teases* offensive that will have to overthrew the Fascist dictatorship...
...Eugenia Ingerman...
...Civil disobedience is ee...
...Ingerman also edited a German weekly paper to carry on the fight against DeLeonism in the later nineties and actively promoted the union of the Social Democratic Party, founded by Eugene V. Debs, Victor Berger, and others, with the insurgent element of the older Socialist Labor Party, which resulted in the formation of the Socialist Party in 1901...
...his opinions are his own . and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of bis department...
...To disobey means to advance claims, protests, admonitions on every occasion, to pat in motion without necessity firemen, the police, judges, and for futile motives...
...The funeral services will be held in the Forward Hall...
...the majority of Italians secretly sigh for a renewal of beloved freedom, but to date, it seems, they have deluded themselves into thinking that they can receive it sa a gift...
...The Socialist Party calls upon aH free and strong Italians to immediate and general action for extreme civil disobedience...
...Counts, Rose, Alfange Open ALP Radio Forum On Station WEVD Dr...
...He was one of the founders of the Rand School of Social Science in 1906 and was a member of its board of directors for several years before his death...
...SYRACUSE, N. Y. — Fred Sander died on January 12...
...At Berne he met Anna Sem-yonovna Amifina, a fellow student of his own age, whose intelligence, character, and identical interests as well as her beauty and personal charm captivated him...
...S.D.F...
...Oar country is on the eve of grave and decisive events...
...Faithful to the end, Dr...
...Meeting Tuesday, Feb...
...Socialist Party, on s Call to Civil Disobedience has teat bee* received here by Luigi Anteniak President of the Italian-American Labor Ceeneil...
...Admission free...
...When the movement of civil disobedience will reach the great masses, it will be an irresistible force that will destroy with fury the dikes of dictatorship...
...and A.L.P...
...19, 9:30 p. m., for the W.C...
...the public employees to work in such fashion as to sow confusion in their various departments...
...it- is a weapon eapaMe of paralyzing the repressive apparatus of the dictatorship and capable of hastening its collapse, and it is a form of bloodless straggle, accessible to all...
...T. SWANN HARDING contributes frequently to these pages oa agricultural problems...
...X. Y...
...SDF News persons interested fa Social Democratic Idee...
...HERMAN SINGER, former associate editor of "The Modern Quarterly," lives in Washington, D. C. i...
...from its inception...
...Branches are urged not to arrange affairs to conflict with this date...
...The episodes of revolt remain rare aad sporadic...
...Max Brauer, former Mayor of Altona, Germany, will lecture on "Who Will Make the Peace...
...The Committee meets Wednssday, Fei...
...There he met other exiles, and was one of the fitst of fhe very young men to be admitted to the "Emancipation of Labor" growp, founded by Ps«l Axerrod, Leo Deutsch...
...THE ITALIAN SOCIALIST PARTY PROMULGATES TO ALL ITS FOLLOWERS, TO THE ANTI-FASCrSTS OF ALL CURRENTS, TO THE ENTIRE PEOPLE, THE WOB© OF ORDER FOR CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE...
...7 Cast IStk StrooVeU^7!rlTlt\ ^ NATIONAL Locals and branches throughout the country are ureed to arrange mass meetings on or around itW i «Li...
...A.UP...
...To every category of citisen cirfl disobedience presents itself under diverse forms: The workers sabotage war production-, the peasants refuse to give up the products of the soil to the government agents...
...branches...
...It is useless to delude oneself...
...Joseph Kessler, Algernon Lee, Joseph Leventhal...
...The Annual City Convention of Local New York will be held on Saturday and Sunday, April 24 aad 26, with probably a public meeting preceding it...
...Scores of volunteers are busily at work daily from Monday through Thursday, from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m., and on Wednesday evenings...
...20, 9 p. m., Webster Hall, 119 E. 11th Street, New York City...
...Topic: "The Jew and the World Crisis...
...that every Italian overcome the contradiction between his private way of thinking and his public mode of action...
...The knowledge of this total failure of Mussolini's dictatorship is now widespread: The workers, the peasants, the students, whom Fascism had artificially subdivided into coercive organs tied to the state chariot, now already smell the odor of burning and of a corpse, and already they depart, binding together ties of spontaneity, of spiritual affinity, of friendship, recovering consciousness of oneself, of one's personal dignity, of one's honor as a citizen, of one's natural rights...
...State Chairman...
...Algernon Lee presides and answers questions on international, national and municipal affairs, Saturday evening...
...The example of the Socialists Will give courage to the rest of the people...
...of *Fe# Ydfk State, the State Bitciftivc Conrmittee of which he was a member, and many other organizations mourn his loss...
...Our liberation cannot be the work of anyone but ourselves...
...and, on the other hand, there are also many who were at one time effiicacious upholders of the dictatorship and of its profiteers: hierarchs of the workingmen's syndicates, Catholic directors, military career men, Nationalists, dignitaries of different sorts now flee in a great bustle as they would a ship about to sink...
...George S. Counts...
...He is Senior Information Specialist of the Department of Agriculture...
...He was among the founders' of the Social Democratic Federation and the American Labor Party and its candidate for Congress last Fall Fred Sander was a machinist, an active trade union-bit* a native of Missouri and a resident of Syracuse since 18§i Surviving is his wife, Alms L. Sander...
...Thursday, Feb...
...Socialists, heirs and contianaters of Gtaceme Matteotti: Be an example to all the people...
...24, 8:30 p. m., and will ?led...
...The Italian Socialist Party believes that the moment has arrived to sound a grave and public alarm to all its followers, to the entire opposition, and through these to the entire country...
...Topic: "Abraham Lincoln — His Life and Humor...
...These programs will subsequently be arranged by the Women's Division, the Legislative Committee, the Public Affairs Council and die Trade Union Committee of the American Labor Party...
...Ingerman unhesitatingly took his plaee in the new Social Democratic Federation...
...To disobey means to ignore the laws, the decrees, the official regulations, to act as though they did not exist...
...A handsome four - page printed monthly paper is being published by the branch...
...The attachment was mutual and even before their admission to practice they began an exceptionally happy married life which ended only with Anna Ingerman's death hi May, 1931...
...Let us advance towards liberty and peace...
...A. I. Shiplacoff Branch...
...PITTSBURGH, Pa...
...Jonah A. Vihatxer, Morris Waldman and bring Aatrow, Recording Sec'y...
...Full cooperation nvust be given to the Rand School Women's Committee, sponsors Of the Annual Concert at the Metropolitan Opera House, Sunday, March 7, 8 p. m., for the Rand School Scholarship Fund...
...Sergius Ingermon Dies...
...William Bohn Spooks at Tremont ALP For am Dr...
...The February issue contains a number of articles on the War and Peace, biographical sketches of Gompers, Daftinsky, Sehlesinger and Sigman...
...Simon Berlin, Max Brauer, Morris Gold-ner, Louis P. Goldberg, Rudolf Katz...
...One targe section summing up Maawolini's farluree and several senafl sections have been deleted.—Editor's Note...
...We regret that we cannet print the fall text far lack of space...
...A freedom imposed by foreign arms is not a true freedom...
...The S J).F...
...Proceeds of dnt dinner to The New Leader...
...As a youth he became deeply interested in the revolutionary movement and also in modern scientific thought...
...Program on Station WEVD...
...will be sent by the National Office wherever LhSftS practical in the absence of or in additio^T^Skerl These meetings will promote the---b*xsaa:ers...
...At an early-age he went to Berne, Switzerland, to study medicine...
...Military defeat is on the horizon, but, with it, millions of Italians also ardently await the end of the hated, corrupt and oppressive Fascist regime...
...Important business...
...GAETANO SALVEMENI is the distinguished historian and leading anti-fascist fighter...
Vol. 26 • February 1943 • No. 8
