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Drive Started for Daily Paper General O'Ryan Threatens to Quit QENERAL O'RYAN, Police Commissioner, is threatening to resign. He says that in the event of another disagreement with the Mayor...
...His "economy" bill is law, and the next step is the slashing of wages of underpaid and overworked city employees "WHILE THE BANKERS CONTINUE TO COLLECT THEIR LOOT...
...In order to give all parties a square deal and in a sense of fairness, the Socialist Party voluntarily agreed to cut one hour and to close the meeting at 4 p. m. Among the organizations that will parade are all locals of the ILGWU, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, the United Hebrew Trades, the bakers, the leather goods workers, the pocketbook makers, the Workmen's Circle, the cap makers, millinery workers, the I.W.W...
...Arthur Garfield Hays and Roger N. Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union were also present...
...Delegates, Kings County, four be elected: Jack Alt man, Muriy Baron, Sam Block, Isidor ed, Sam Friedman, Joseph iss, Louis P. Goldberg, Harry Laidler, Maurice Miller, Theo*e Shapiro, Charles Solomon, C. Vladeck, Louis Waldman, Iradford Young...
...The Socialist parly, in cooperation with the largest unions in the city and other labor, fraternal and progressive organizations, will stage a gigantic parade anjd mass meeting in Union Square Tuesday, May First, at which the fighters for freedom, democracy and Socialism will show their colors and their great and growing strength...
...But Windels has a certain political importance, and so he, too, went into the administration...
...For he had to take a Windels into his cabinet as well as a Blarmhard...
...Gerber, Jacob Panken and B. C. Vladeck were called to the City Hall...
...M. Feigenbaum, Sam B. Friedman, Max Frankel, JosWh (Jlass, Alex Kahn, Maurice tiller, Martha Safranoff, Evelyn Orne Young...
...The action of the convention followed quickly upon the recent publication in The New Leader of the article by Max Winter of Vienna c>'iiig upon the American Socialists to take steps for the establishment of a daily...
...Socio lint* ineisted during the recent campaign that a city cannot be run by an incongruous conglomeration of elements united only in their opposition to a loathsome Turn many gang...
...Alternates, Bronx County, three B be elected: Alfred Belskin, Harry Kavesh, Aaaron Levenstein J. Sobotka, Sarah Volovick, Her in Woskow...
...Alternate-at-large for the City, me to be elected: Samuel A. DeVltt, Mary Fox, Esther Friedman...
...The remaining candidates are: Alternate-at-Iarge for the State, ¦ to be elected: William 'Low6V of Syracuse...
...And so he was recognized when the im! oitant positions were tilled...
...The committee, authorized to add to its numbers and to set the machinery for fund-raising in motion, promptly met and arranged for an early all-day sepfidn to undcrtaka in a serious way...
...Delegate, Queens County, one to be elected: Anna Bercowitz, •rnes Oneal, Kirby Page...
...A conference attended by representatives from all ILGWU locals in New York City on Wednesday voted unanimously to join the parade...
...There was the greatest enthusiasm over the resolution calling for a daily paper, and the following committee was quickly elected: Henry Fruchter, William M. Feigenbaum, Samuel A. DeWitt, Algernon Lee...
...for a committee to explore the possibility of the early establishment of a daily, the other providing for the election of a committee to study the structure and work of the party in New York and to recommend changes in the structure of the party organization and amendments to the by-laws if found necessary...
...The idea of a progressive like LaGuardia (who though technically f Republican bolted the Coolidge ticket in 1924 to support LaFollette) having anything in common with an Original Coolidge Man is laughable...
...Rirty Members Voting on Delegates rIE members of the Socialist Party in New York are en¦ged in voting in their branch ieetings- on delegates and alterIttes to the National Convention > be held in Detroit, June 1, 2 mi 3. There is one candidate for delefite-at-large for the state, name, Norman Thomas, and one for lalegate-at-large for the city, tamely, Frank R. Crosswaith...
...there are "furloughs" for hard-working civil servants, BUT THERE IS NO FURLOUGH FOR BANKERS COLLECTING IN FU,LL THEIR INTEREST ON LOANS MADE ON THE BASIS OF LUDICROUSLY SWOLLEN VALUATION'S OF THE CRAZY BOOM DAYS...
...and it is true...
...Elizabeth C. th, of Buffalo...
...Anna Bercowitz, Leo Somlo, Sol Levitas, Sol Marcus, Julius Unrtansky, Matthew M. Levy, I. MinkofT, and G. A. Gerber...
...indeed, he ballyhooed Coolidge for President as long ago as 1919...
...Delegates for Manhattan and Richmond, five to be elected: Simon Berlin, Max Delson, Ronald Duval, /alms Gerber, Louis Hendin, Mary BBlyer, David Kaplan, Edwin lappel, Algernon Lee...
...He gave an informing and sometimes humorous account of his experiences on the road, stating that his net impression is that the movement is basically sound...
...The convention will be reconvened within six weeks, to hear reports of the committees...
...And the Socialists, AND THE SOCIALISTS ALONE, pointed the way...
...So be it...
...Irving Alexander was toa master, and among the speakers were Simon Berlin, Louis Uendin, Morris Berman, Louis P. Goldberg, James Oneal, <Jeorge H. Goebel, Julius Gerber, Bertha H. Mailley, Joe Beckermann and George Steinhardt...
...Alternate, Queens County, one • be elected: Robert Koeppicus, I C. Weinfeld...
...Important, if true...
...He has his headache, the civil servants have their furloughs, the bankers have their loot...
...Comrade Claessens received a fine ovation and it was several minutes before he was able to speak...
...Edward Lerinson, Harry Lichtenberg, Amirus Most, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacob haiken, Ruth Shallcross, Ellis Stftonen...
...LaGuardia's Corporation Counsel is an excellent gentleman named Paul William Henry Windels, whose chief claim to (Republican) fame was that he was the Original Coolidge Man in Brooklyn...
...There has been considerable agitation for a daily in New York for several years, but recent events have emphasized its need so greatly that the convention action was Inevitable...
...The Socialist party long ago received a permit for Union Square from 11 a. m. to 6 p. m., but later the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Communists also asked for the Square at the same hours...
...Where the party is a mass movement of workers he found a healthy and stable organization...
...Theresa B. Filey, of Schenectady...
...Simon Berlin Chairman, and Samuel Orr and Max Delson ViceChairinen, heard the report of the City Executive Committee rendered through Algernon Lee, chairman of that committee, and then elected the following committee on structure and activities of the party: George I. Steinhardt, David Kaplan, Alexander Kahn, Leon Gilbson, Harry Kritzer, G, A. Gerber and Bela Low...
...City Convention Enthusiastic Over Plan A MIDST great enthusiasm of the delegates and visitors present, the City Convention of the Socialist Party last Saturday, meeting in Debs Auditorium of the People's House, took the first decisive slep looking toward the early establishment of a daily Socialist newspaper in the English language in New York...
...There are many who suspect that Mayor LaGuardia doesn't like this bankers' agreement, that he would like to revise it downward, that he would like to adopt some of the planks insisted upon by the Socialists, plans that include a municipal bank, revision of the interest rate on the huge loans made from the bankers (on fantastic valuations), steeply graduated income taxes, and elimination of waste, duplicating jobs and graft...
...The May Day Conference held last Thursday, attended by several hundred delegates, started work On plans for the demonstration that will exceed all previous ones for magnitude, determination and enthusiasm...
...CLAESSENS GIVEN WARM WELCOME AT DINNER JT was a fine crowd of Socialists that attended a dinner to August Claessens last Sunday night in the Auditorium of the Rand School...
...The good Genferal has little in common with the peppery Major except their common hatred of Tammany...
...All Out for May Day...
...Alternates for Manhattan and Nehmond, five to be elected: Moris Berman, August Claessens, (ax Delson, G. August Gerber, Attn Gilbson, Wilho Hedman, Edrin Koppel, Margaret Lamont, Id ward Levinson, I. Menkes, I. Einkoff, Amicus Most, Helen Pickbach...
...AND AS USUAL, WE WERE RIGHT...
...And the Socialists have the satisfaction again, for the thousandth time, of being vindicated in a stand that was highly unpopular v>hi:.n they took it...
...The convention, provided for by the party by-laws to meet annually, had before it the report of the City Executive Committee with two recommendations, one calling...
...Over 200 gathered, to greet him and to hear his impressions regarding the party in the states he visited on his recent tour for The New Leader...
...General O'Ryan was named as candidate for Mayor before Major LaGuardia was, anij he withdrew in the interest of "harmony...
...Through Julius Gerber, Mayor LaGuardia sought a conference to adjust the difficulty and after several meetings in the Mayor's office the matter was settled...
...MAY DAY, 1934, will be celebrated with the biggest Labor and Socialist demonstration ever held in New York...
...Each of the speakers paid a warm tribute to Comrade Claessens for his ability and years of loyal service to the Socialist Party...
...and the Communist orga'nizations except the official Com* munist Party, the Socialist Party, the Paole Zion organizations and their affiliates, and many other...
...Delegates, Bronx County, three I be elected: Haim Kantorovitch, latthew M. Levy, Samuel Orr, I. Sobotka, George Steinhardt, ltdius Umansky, Herman Woskow...
...But LaGuardia can move only on the last item of that program no matter how much he may approve of the other Socialist planks, WHICH CONSTITUTE THE ONLY PRACTICAL PLAN FOR MEETING THE CITY'S FINANCIAL PROBLEMS...
...Comrade Claessens concluded with a strong appeal for contributions to the United Socialist Drive and over $40 was raised...
...Mayor LaGuardia is in a tough spot...
...He says that in the event of another disagreement with the Mayor he will not find it possible to remain in office...
...he had to accept an O'Ryan, a Cunningham and a Harvey to get his nomination and election...
...He wanted a fusion of all forces against Tammany, and rejected the idea of a united fight FOR a workable program...
...Plans for preliminary work will shortly be announced...
...Alternates, Kings County, four 10 be elected: Jack Altman, Murny Baron, Sam Block, David Ireslau, Emil Broniberg, Nathan Caanin, Wm...
...ruthsr, we insisted, there must be a unified crowd united IN FAVOR of something...
...The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, through its delegates, urged that instead of a parade a great demonstration be held at Yankee Stadium or the Polo Grounds, but when the majority of delegates voted for a parade they loyally agreed to join their fellow workers...
...And he disagreed most violently with the Mayor in the handling of the taxi strike...
...It is not enough to be against thievery and graft...
...Hall...
...Then the Communists interceded with the Mayor...
...The convention, after electing Dr...
...There is revision of teachers' salaries, and street cli aners' wages...
...Some intensive educational work is required, especially in those sections where the membership is not as largely working class in composition as it should be...
...We must be FOR the masses...
Vol. 27 • April 1934 • No. 15
