SDF NEWS
SDF NEWS NATIONAL Philadelphia. Pa.: The public meeting scheduled for Sunday, Sept. 23, haa been postponed to a later date. Plana are being made for a Debe Day Banquet late in October. . . . Debe...
...Kavesh is S.D.F...
...August Claessens speaks at the same place on Saturday, Sept...
...It is the largest of its kind snd contains greetings from S.D.F...
...s good Catholic, and an active and effective worker for the public good...
...SIR NORMAN am6ill ON ?RITISH LAROR VICTORY At a meeting catted by the Social Democratic Federation in Town Bail on Sept 14, Sir Norman Angoli, prominent British LaborRe and Nobel Prise winner, suggested that the triumph of the Lsbor Party constituted perhaps the greatest victory .for real democracy in modern history...
...or to the Eton boy to go down the coal mine and work underground, down he wentThree features were to be noted about those powers...
...When President Roosevelt began his administration, this men became one of his most trusted advisers...
...Here was a Socialist Party, based on organised labor, coming to power in a country of ancient tradition, still preserving at least many of the outward forms of feudalism—monarchy, hereditary House of Lords, and so forth—and still in so many respects conservative...
...For six years every soul in Britain, including the children, had been at the orders of a working-class trade-union official...
...Yet Socialism has there achieved its victory, without violence, or hate, or purges, or concentration camps, or liquidation of anybody or any class...
...thirdly, that the Parliament which granted these powers could rescind them from one day to another, could at any moment compel the official and his Prime Minister alike to give an account of their stewardship in the use of such powers, and could turn out the government from one day to another if the account was unsatisfactory...
...This surely is a test of civilization, of political maturity, revealing a spirit, on both sides* of the political fence, which gives good hope for the postwar world...
...The book in which the addresses were reproduced— though more than 30 years have passed —is still on sale and still enjoys a measure of popularity...
...Branches are organizing campaign work for the reelection of Louis ? Goldberg to the City Council...
...During the various campaigns he gave President Roosevelt effective support...
...Bronx: Victory celebration dinner on Sunday afternoon, Oct...
...the newt wan Msgr...
...As educator and writer he had much to do with consolidating and leading the liberal Catholics in the direction of what .is now called New Dealitm...
...Jehl A. Ryan had ended kit d...
...East Flalbush Branch 2: Opening of the remodeled clubrooms at 264 East 94th St., Sunday, Sept...
...William Karlin Branch, Brooklyn: Meeting and social gathering at the home of Sarah Hutes, 849 Linden Boulevard, Friday, Sept...
...The Ninth Anniversary Journal is now in the mail...
...Brooklyn S.D.F...
...22, at a Victory Celebration...
...Many features of the New Deal can be traced directly to his thinking...
...Sir Normen emphasized the fact that the British Labor Party had won, not hy virtue of class war but class cooperation, if indeed "class" was a word to use in the case of a nation which had been turned by the needs of war into an army, partly in, partly out of uniform...
...6, 2 p. m., at the Rand School...
...W omen ? Committee: Afternoon tea and social, opening of the season's activities, on Saturday, Oct...
...If he, or his department, issued orders that the Duchess was to scrub canteen floors, she did so...
...Locals, Branches, Trade Unions, Cooperatives, Workmen's Circle Branches, and individuals from many states...
...First, they had been granted to a trade-union official by a Parliament predominantly composed of Tories, of the Britain brand of Toryism...
...Louis P. Goldberg, August Claessens and others will speak...
...But despite his theoretical opposition to Socialism, Father Ryan was very cloee to the leaders of labor and in sympathy with the practical programs of the Socialists...
...Debe Day and Briti** Leber Party Victory meetings are being arranged in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Los Angeles, Boston, Psterson, Newark, and other cities...
...7, in Workmen's Circle Schoolroom...
...City Executive Committee meets Saturday afternoon, Sept...
...Program for meetings and work in campaign of Harry Kavesh, Liberal Party candidate for Justice of the Municipal Court, First District...
...and J.S.V...
...Branch in Amalgamated Houses...
...Work is in progress for a successful affair, with a tableau, concert and speakers...
...These features of government end social organization were perhaps peculiar to Britain and were a guarantee that the Socialism which Britain might develop would slso be "British"—having little of violence or extremism, gradualist, tolerant, compatible with full cooperation with nations which might give a larger place to free enterprise snd capitalist organization...
...second, that the working-class official who applied them was part of the cabinet presided over by a Tory Prime Minister, who was the grandson of a Duke...
...He ranked so high in his own denomination that he probably had an important influence on various Papal Encyclicals...
...Since that world will possess plenty of atomic bombs, it is consoling that the country which is the center of what is still a great empire, should reveal the steady political maturity of which the Ijtbor Party has given evidence, both as part of a coalition and as the holder of powers of government...
...Claessens-East Bronx llranch meets Friday, Sept 21, at 862 East Tremont Ave...
...As a teacher of ethics it was his prime contention thst moral theories are Useless unless they are tried out in action...
...NEW YOKK CITY I Mm Day Banquet, Sunday, November 25, at the Park Central Hotel...
...S.D.F...
...And in this country be did more than anyone else to see to it that the most advanced statements of the church became known to the people and were given liberal and intelligent interpretation...
...28, 8:30 p. m. . . . Bensonhurst Branch: Meeting Monday, Oct...
...Few American ation have had as much te do with making this county a better place than Father Ryan...
...City Convention of the J.S.V., October 12-13-14, at the ?lotel Diplomat...
...ATNRR RYAN DUS Sunday, September ie...
...Many Socialists—especially in the New York area—will recall Father Ryan as the opponent of Morris Hillquit in the famous Cooper Union debate on Soci?liem—Promts* or Menace...
...He was ? good Christian...
...State Secretary and a member of this branch...
...1, 8:30 p. m., at the Liberal Party Vladeck Club, 6416 Bay Parkway...
Vol. 28 • September 1945 • No. 38
