WEST COAST REPORT
MARGOLIN, JACOB
west coast report By Jacob Margolin -#4jgsl.0 for Moscow ^COORl'iNG to reports from the film eapitel, the jbay-WrrUrs MobiHsstion, en oiganixatjon composed ,1 fsrieos unions of writers end...
...The sub-committees on Organisation and Jin the Theoretical Magazine will meet on the same evening at 7 p. m. Tickets for the Angast 5th Excursion will be in the mail to every S.D.F...
...Within the last two or three years, however, her resistance had been giving way, and her death had been expected for several weeks...
...Old comrades will remember her and also her brother, Walter Oswald, who died many years ago after a brave fight against tuberculosis...
...NEW YORK CITY: The S.D.F...
...Spoken commentary will be in 23 languages, On the basis of Ha peat record, the "Mobilisation" can be expected to exert itself to the utmost to persuade the liberated peoples ef Europe and elsewhere that the Four Freedoms caa beat be attained in the muzzled Moscow manner...
...Prominently mentioned in the working committee set fj th* "Mobilisation" is John Cohee, the writer of , esmssMiplace rehash of the news in the I»i Angeles [ ihit Snot known as "War Analysis," and notable chiefly t"i its fidelity to the dogma that the Russians ess do ho wrong...
...Other states arc also being heard from...
...members on the State Executive Committee of the Liberal Party will meet with the 8.D.F...
...e e e UAfL-rAC TREMENDOUSLY encouraged by tap remark a Me showing in the recent primaries, when every candidate which it endorsed waa either nominated or elected outright, the United A. F. of L. Committee for Political Action, created several months ago by Los Angeles County Labor Councils and Unions, has been made a permanent organisation...
...It is chock full of articles and greetings, from every S.D.F...
...member this week...
...train...
...white trash get off," eight drunken Negroes, 15 to 17 years old, terrorised a hundred passengers on a New York subway last week, and when one man told them to be quiet, they knocked him down and shot him twice, wounding him in the wrist and hip...
...The Negroes pushed the white passengers around, and most of them got off at the next station to wait for anolhe...
...Reactionaries are of causae beside themselves with rage, and have begun a campaign of unprecedented abuse against the organised labor movement...
...message at least every month...
...Methodists Favor Loyal Jeponese It ie not always an ease task convincing people ia other' parts of the country that Californians are not all violent oriental-haters...
...The Eighth Anniverssry Journal is now on the press...
...Its pages also contain the acknowledgements for the generous contributions to the Notional $10,000 Organisation Fund...
...A pessfhls source af sreeMe ties ha the local CIO movement, over which the Communists havs a stranglehold, but even that has slipped a few notches lately...
...Another indication of how moat Californians feel on this question was shown when the Northern California conference of the Methodist Church went on record favoring freedom of movement for all loyal Japanese in the nstion, including the right to return to the Pacific Coast Delegates to the conference, meeting in Sacramento and representing some 375 churches from Bak-ersfield north, voted 42b to 76 in fsvor of the belief thst "<*is group t{the Japanese) should no longer he pen-mlized because (heir ancestry or for any other reason...
...And this too with American money...
...Since the primaries, requests.have come in from all over the West from AFL unions requesting information on the methods used, and plans are already being made for similar political action committees in other areas throughout the Pacific Coast...
...Thanks to these funds much ran now he done to build end strengthen the S.D.F...
...City Executive Committee Wed-nssday, June 28th, 8:30 p. m , to discuss ways and means of rendering full cooperation jn the work of the Liberal Party...
...Jacob Margolin is the corresponding secretary of the recently organized New Leader Association of Lot* Angeles...
...Each group supported its own candidates, but with minor exceptions they were practically identical...
...Soon after "Jim" resigned the latter position, they moved to the Pacific Coast, living for a time in l.os Angeles anil later in Stockton...
...However, even this crude camouflage t(jsbrut'tiy thrown aside recently, when the "Mobili-„uga" hastily cancelled a lecture by the famous Ital-14 gasU eecist Gaetase Salvemini, because of his eriti-cuai eiwsdeajUe in a prase interview...
...The large lists from New York are being increased daily...
...Congressman Costello, received in the recent elections should have been aa eye-opener...
...Although by no means a third party, this unorthodox AFL organization has possibilities that point strongly he that direction...
...at 9.46 p. m. h'latbush Central Branch meeting Sunday, June 26th, 7 p. m., at Jane Sniul's, 1000 Albermarle ltd ., Brooklyn...
...ShOUTNIG "This is D-Day for colored folk...
...Buy War Bonds and Stamps...
...With the now more frequent mailings, the increased output of S.D.F...
...But among many embittered young Negroes there is growing resentment, and this is the sort of conduct which will take place again, and possibly cause rare riots, unless the promise of democratic rights for all races, creeds, and colors so frequently mouthed these di.ys is fulfilled...
...The youths escaped...
...Throughout the campaign there was excellent cooperation between the UAFL and similar political action committees set up by the CIO and the Railway Brotherhoods...
...that's the way Negroes are often tieated in the South, which is no excuse for such hoodlumism...
...It is the largest and most attractive Journal ever published by our American movement...
...This wee after Stana Into given hia approval to the ex-Fascist Chief ,f fttaff...
...Oneal's death, which was for herself a release from suffering, marked (he end of a htippy marriage that had endured for a third nf a century...
...James and Ella Oneal resided in Queens Borough, New York, through the long period when he was one of the e<N-tors of the "Call" and then, from 1923 to 1938 inclusive, editor of The New leader...
...ell party Una outfits, it vehemently denies that I „ ecm -iiunist...
...Ella Oswald was one of a line family, well known and respected in the Socialist movement of New Jersey...
...D-Day for Colored Folk...
...Algernon Lee answers questions on current issues every Saturday evening over radio station W.E.V.D...
...The resounding defeat which the rabid Japaneee baiter...
...Clermont to Bear Mountain Park...
...Ella Oneal Dies, Old-Time Socialist Word came from Stockton, Calif., on Friday of last week of the death of Ella Oswald Oneal, the wife of James Oneal, former editor of The New leader...
...Thanks to this fine cooperation hundreds of persons in California, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Maryland will new receive the S.D.F...
...Reserve this dale for our annual outing up the Hudson River on the S.S...
...Contracts' with the "Mobilisation" are being handled ty .Sidney Harmon, representing the documentary film branch of the OWI...
...literature, organisation growth and activity must follow...
...Oneal had suffered from diabetes for more than twenty years, but had been able to hold the disease in check by a careful regimen, including the use of insulin...
...SDF NEWS NATIONAL: The National Office has isoSTcd p splendid response to its appeal for membership end sympathisers lists for the mailing of the "Social Democrat...
...local and branch from coast to coast, from many trade unions, cooperatives, fraternal organisations and friends sf the S.D.F...
...This episode is Jim Crowism in reverse...
...west coast report By Jacob Margolin -#4jgsl.0 for Moscow ^COORl'iNG to reports from the film eapitel, the jbay-WrrUrs MobiHsstion, en oiganixatjon composed ,1 fsrieos unions of writers end artists, controlled and ^lasted >>y "totalitarian liberals" and Communists, Ul pasn r. > rusted with the task ef producing all decn-trr—y films for overseas distribution...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 26
