SDF NEWS
SDF NEWS NATIONAL The first inn* of the "Social Democrat" will appear July 1. It will be a foui-page paper designed for free distribution. Bundle orders will be solicited from S.D.F:...
...The declaration was circulated by the Jewish Labor Committee, 176 East Broadway, New York City, over the signatures of the worker-delegates from 24 countries...
...Hundreds more Social Democrats will be there as representatives of Lib• i .ill .ill...
...from National Executive Committee members David A. Eisenberg, of Boston, and Yale Bosh, of New Haven...
...A unique gift, consisting of a leatherbound volume containing a host of letters written by his friends, was presented to The New Leader manager by Matthew M. Levy, president of the Board of directors, anil Ben Joaephaon, 'chairman of the committee which arranged the affair, Mr...
...from the Downtown Branch J.S.V., Meyer London and B. Schlesinger branches of New York...
...Don Sturzo, in accepting honorary membership in the Foundation, has transferred to the Foundation's Endowment Fund all personal gifts received from friends during his stay in America...
...The fiftieth anniversary banquet tendered by the New Leader Board was as much a recognition of twelve years' work with The New Leader as a celebration of his birthday, ILO Worker-Delegates Call for Rescue of Jews A DECLARATION, calling upon the governments of the United Nations to repeat the warning to the Nazis that they will be called to account for their crimes against innocent peoples...
...Debs Branch, W. ('.: Social and card party for S.D.F...
...Other members of the Board of Directors are the Rev...
...B. Ford of Columbia University, Professors Robert Pollock and Mario Einaudi of Fordham University and Miss A. I.<> Grasso of Bryn Mawr College...
...Better social conditions were held to be necessary to the eradication of bigotry from which racialism springs...
...Upson of the Amalgamated Houses, Bronx, and A. T. Silver of Los Angeles head the list of most active solicitors...
...Fund, Saturday, May i!0, at 7 Fast 15th Street...
...Levitas, including many contributors to The New Leader, participated, in the affair held at the Hotel Brevoort...
...Forty representatives of the S.D.F...
...and Newark School of Social Science...
...Flatbash-Central Branch meets Sunday, May 21, 7:110 p. m., at Dr...
...and, calling for the immediate establishment of Free Ports in the democratic countries to provide temporary haven for Jewish and non-Jewish victims of Fascist barbarism, has been signer...
...by the worker-delegates to the conference of the International Labor Organization in Philadelphia...
...A warning was adopted against the growing danger of anti-Semitism in New York and the nation...
...The retention of the five-cent fare on subways was advocated...
...During the past week, excellent responses have been received from the Finnish Social Democrats and Cooperatives of Fitchburg, Mass...
...Mayor LaGuardia was criticized for his "intimidation and gagging" of teachers aiul for playing politics with public education...
...Branch in the Amalgamated Houses, Broni, mourns the loss of Charles L. Leighton, its financial secretary, who died last Saturday...
...Simon Berlin at the banquet last Saturday, following the City Convention...
...Arrested by the Czarist police for his revolutionary activity, he spent several months in prison...
...Chicago, III: Symposium with August Claessens and others postponed to a date early in June...
...After the downfall of the Czar, he returned to Russia via Siberia and served for a time as Vice-Mayor of Vladivostok and as editor of the Social Democratic paper, Labor's Voice...
...In 1923, upon his release, Levitas again went abroad and came to America...
...About 176 personal friends of Mr...
...Upon his release he went abroad to continue his work...
...Don Sturzo, who is well known as a leader of the Italian Christian Democratic Party, has already indicated his* intention of returning to Italy which he left twenty years ago...
...E. Thetford, 180 Linden Ave., Belleville, N. J. Tributes from those unable to attend may be sent to Dr...
...Since Ms first days with The New Leader, Levitas has participated actively in every phase of the paper's work and has initiated a number of the changes in the paper...
...N Cohen's home, 1089 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn...
...It will contain articles of a Social Democratic character and news ef S.D.F...
...Bundle orders will be solicited from S.D.F: locals and branches and espies mailed to members throughout the country...
...Get tickets (Sue) from Wm...
...Levitas Honored at Banquet SaMUSL M. LEVITAS, General Manager of The New Leader, was tendered a private, dinner and celebration last Sunday by the Board of Direr tors of The New Leader on the occasion of his 60th birthday...
...The National Executive Committee will shortly anBOUDce the call for the conference and the apportionment of delegates from the Various states...
...Child Labor Increasing . . . During 1939 and 1940 the number of working minors between 14 and 17 years of age rose from 1,000,000 to 2,750,000, an increase of 175 per cent...
...11 Clubs, trade unions and W. C. branches...
...National Conference: Philadelphia, September 8-9-10...
...Because of this activity, be and a number of other Socialist leaders were arrested in 1922 and brought to trial, following a typical Bolshevik trial, he served nearly six months in a Cheka prison...
...Testimonial banquet to Harry SwirnosT, May 27, 8 p. m., at Clinton Hall, 897 Gates Ave., Brooklyn...
...In 1932, Levitas was elected manager of The New leader and has continued in that capacity...
...Born in Kiev, Samuel Levitas entered the Russian Social Democratic I jiImu Party in his early youth...
...After the defeat of the Whites, levitas and other Social Democrats renewed their agitation for democracy in Russia...
...After the Bolshevik seizure of power, he continued his activity in the Social Democratic movement...
...Auspices—of S.D.F...
...urging that the remaining Jews of Hitler Europe be recognized as prisoner* of war...
...Levitas' fiftieth birthday also marked nearly thirty-five years of activity in the Socialist and labor movement...
...In 1916-17 he was in America, speaking before labor groups and organizing help for the Russian revolutionary movement...
...East Flatbush Branch 2: Banquet and activity celebration, Saturday, May 27, 9 p. in., at Schor's Restaurant, 123 Second Avenue, New York City...
...from New York City, Buffalo and Syracuse will attend the convention of the new liberal party Friday and Saturday, May 19-20...
...Cleveland, Ohio: Friday, May 26, 8:30 p. «, lecture by August Claessens on "After the War—What...
...Various educational reforms were proposed, to reduce juvenile delinquency...
...The National Child Labor Committee has urged Congress to appropriate adequate funds for the coming year...
...Branch 1, Bronx: Symposium ami lianquet, Sunday, May 21, 4 p. in, at 1581 Washington Ave., Bronx...
...Newark, N. J.: Tribute to Lena Morrow Lewis on her half-century of service to the Socialist and other movements will be tendered at a supperette' .en Wednesday, May 24, 8 p. m., in the Workmen's Circle Center, 170' Clinton Ave...
...Algernon Lee answers questions on current topics every Saturday evening over Station WEVD at 9:46 o'clock____August Claessens will speak on "The Liberal-Labor Party" at the Women's Clubs Council, 2075 Clinton Ave., Bronx,* Tuesday, May 23, 9 p. m. . . . Annual Excursion up the Hudson River to Bear Mountain Park, Saturday, August 5. Note this date...
...The purpose of the Foundation will be the encouragement of the study of Don Sturzo's historical sociology and of other related theories...
...From 1924 to 1932 Levitas was the national organizer of the Jewish Socialist Verband, and in that capacity traveled across the country at least once s year on extensive lecture tours...
...President of the Foundation is the Most Reverend Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
...Philadelphia, Pa.: Algernon Lee, August Claessens and others in a symposium on "Tasks Ahead far Social Democrats in 1944," Sunday, Marfil, 7:30 p. m., ""Workmen's Circle Labor Lyceum, 416 S. 19th Street...
...City Executive Committee meets May 24...
...National $10,000 Organisation Fand: The Eighth Anniversary Journal, in which these contributions will be acknowledged, will go to print in June...
...activity, and it will work for M increased circulation of the The New Leader...
...George...
...During the Civil War, he remained in Kiev and was arrested by the White Guard...
...But appropriations for the enforcement of child labor laws by the U. S. Childrens Bureau were reduced 27 per cent 1" this period, although the number of firms violating these laws increased 469 per cent...
...fsrob'ico Lu'gi Sturzo Foundation The establishment of the "Luigi Sturzo Foundation for Sociological Studies" was announced yesterday on the 60th Anniversary of Don Sturzo's priesthood...
...that the gates of Palestine be kept open for Jewish immigration...
...Full support of the new liberal-labor party was pledged by the convention...
...Louis Reiss, 188 Springfield Ave., Newark, N. J. NEW YORK CITY Warm tribute was tendered to Dr...
...Social Democrats Hold City Convention A NEW YORK CITY convention of the Social Democratic Federation, meeting on May 13 and 14, urged that the term of office of Judges of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals be shortened to five years, and their nomination in the primaries instead of by conventions of the parties...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 21
