Win New York for the People!
Win New York for the People! Norman Thomas, for Mayor, Heads Socialist Ticket— The Platform on Which He Will Stand THE coming campaign in New York City, (and to a less degree in the State)...
...In addition to this program for tha primary and secondary schools we also pledge ourselves to work for the establishment of free public colleges ang universities both by municipal and State action...
...Our struggle is with the apathy of those who have become content with the filth of the slums, t he danger of the transit mess, a nd the inhumanity of the degrading industrial system...
...We will p u t back into harness t h e political wing of the Labor movement—the Socialist P a r t y ." The committee covered itself with glory when it presented the nemo of Mrs...
...Despite the announcement of withdrawal, the Communist delegates continued to occupy seats in t he center of the hall and began to obstruct...
...Direct representation shall also be *" to employes on the directorate...
...Thomas' health—made him prefer some part in the campaign less taxing on his resources...
...These should be of a sort for which r*»»l should not exceed Sft.OO or $10 00 s room I* "onto...
...tunity to make their Government their servant in the struggle for better life...
...On this inspiring note, Norman Thomas closed the Socialist and Labor Convention in New York City near midnight last Saturday...
...They were then seized, some of them roughly handled aa t h e y were hustled to t h e exit, some being pitched down stairs...
...They demanded complete freedom of Chinese and Mexican workers from Amerlibertip...
...The committee, after due consideration, recommended t h e non-seating of delegates sent by t h e Alliance of Lithuanian Workers, t h e Slovenski Robotnicky Spolok, the Czechoslovak Workers' Central Union...
...health and morality...
...A reorganization of our system of marketing in aeeordance with this principle cannot be accomplished in a day...
...Thomas, an inspiring orator - a nd a lovable personality...
...On the other hand, the Republican program, as developed by the Transit Commission Wider a camouflage of greater public control over operation, delivers us up more completely to the mercies of the same transit interests which have Outrageously fleeced us in years gone by...
...The new building which will house the Daily Forward is located at the c o r n e r of Kedzie and Ogden avenue and was erected at a cost of $250,000...
...Among those seated w e n probably a dozen Communists...
...We will fight this campaign with the old-time spirit of the Socialist Party...
...To this end we pledge ourselves: 1. To t h e maintenance of an adequate police force, adequately paid, throughly disciplined and free from graft, favoritism, and political control...
...The mjmm.iAty for ttiis rep«(M»tfon» of « solemn JflMge belongs equally to Governor Smith and the Republican leaders...
...The only guarantee of freedom is the enlightenment and strength of the producers organized in their own political party as well as in their own economic organizations...
...In the opening afternoon session the Communists offered frequent points of order, each point demons t r a t i n g their ignorance of parliamentary procedure...
...Comrade Thomaa, when hii voice could finally be heard above the din and racket, told the Convention of his feelings cn the m a t t e r . " I doubt tf I was ever more r e luctant to run fbr Mayor than at this moment...
...4. To a building program and an administrative policy that*will curb the present inordinate size of school buildings and classes, and provide sufficient space and healthful conditions for all children...
...We favor the State development of hydro-electric power and the rapid creation of a publicly owned super-power systsm in which city, State and nation must cooperate...
...Abraham Cahan, editor of the Daily Forward of New York, and I B- Charney Vladeck, business manager, will speak at the celebration Sunday...
...46 came from 441 i n t e r n a t i o n a l , central and local Labor unions...
...On Senator La Follette's ueath, this resolution was adopted...
...By efficient "•nsgement and the elimination of private profits P| the present unnecessary rentals, the five-cent »f« can be maintained...
...to a speck...
...F i n a l l y brawny t r a d e union ists a n d o t h e r delegates decided thai the time had come to end t h e farce The Communists were approached • n d s t e r n l y commanded to leave tht hall...
...About ten Communists were refused seats for a number of reasons...
...City Employes THERE is a b u n d a n t evidence in t h e Fire Departs ment alone, to say nothing of other departments, that the civil service system is consistent with a high degree of morale in the city service...
...Algernon Lee's election as chairman, after Comrade Nathan Fine had called the Convention to order, set the wheels In motion...
...4. The reorganization of the Board of Health charged with enacting the rules and regulations of the Sanitary Code...
...It was adopted...
...t. The consolidation and rearrangement o functions of the Health Department into four bureaus...
...maining bueii.ess with dispatch...
...With the exception of a short recess for supper, the Convention had been in session almost nine hours...
...In recording its own sense of loss the convention especially sends sympathy to Mrs...
...We pledge ourselves to maintain the New York standards...
...its field is industrial as well as political...
...The g'avei and t h e voice of the chairman could not be heard...
...Practically we have Mayor Hylan's program which gives us no unified system, little hope of adequate building of new Uses and less hope of maintaining on the new lines f five cent fare...
...William Karlin started the ball rolling...
...As' an aid to this task there should at once be sat aside a small sum for an experimental creative activity school similar to those no* so highly successful under private management...
...To release large sums of money within the city's ¦fit limit now invested in the old subways for the yniediate construction of new subways, we favor ">st this unified system of transportation be self•*t«lning...
...Nevertheless, in the conduct of many city departments there is evidence of political interference, bureaucracy, and stagnation...
...At least gwvo apartments should be built yearly to remedy ^'ituation...
...Bofore the conference was called to order they had d i s t r i b u t ed a circuit...
...s e e The one untoward incident of tha Conference was t h e forcible ejection of a group of < oiiiinut 1st delegates who had decided to disrupt it...
...6. That similar commissions similarly constituted be set up to deal with the supply of milk and ice...
...Therefore we demand the following measures from city and State: 1. Housing to be dealt with as a public utility...
...No sooner had Chairman Algernon Lee restored order than "Bill" mounted the platform and called for three rousing cheers for the Socialist Party...
...Housing yp: New York City housing situation menaces the hi hapP'nMB...
...Anothei half-hour passed with the disturberi confident t h a t they would succeed it breaking up t h e conference...
...and that it equip them with the most modern storage, refrigerating facilities and other conveniences for farmers and dealers...
...Over 70,000 unsanitary Z«>m,ents containing some 300,000 bedrooms withflireot access to the open air are not only in Eto but in con«tant use in the city...
...We pledge ourselves to this protection of free speech, free assembly and free press in city, State and nation...
...The tremendous amount of routine, the more inspiring work of drafting a platform and resolutions, ths task of selecting a roster of candidates for public officers, the innumerable taking of votes on committee elections and motions — these tasks were but a few that the more than 300 delegates had put behind them...
...The Communists displayed satisfied smirks and wen enjoying their success...
...Only by an extension of this principle can we find relief from our present wasteful, chaotic, competitive system of private distribution of all food products...
...ican financial domination...
...Private profit seeking capital will not build houses at the price desired...
...New lines shall ™ financed partly out of monies available and B»de available under this plan, partly out of fares W partly out of assessments against property dir«Uy benefited...
...2. To obtaining and retaining the most highly competent teachers through better training courses, better facilities for study and rest during active service, an adequate salary scale, which means ultmjate equalisation of pay for teachers in the lower grades, and tha rigid extirpation of the spoils system...
...The existing lines shall be acquired by Wrchase or forfeiture and all existing contracts, •MM* and franchises cancelled...
...State and Federal Governments and the encouragement of consumers' and farmers' cooperatives ss well ss of municipal enterprises...
...There is the old-time spirit in the Socialist Party these days, however — there is the spirit of "do or die," with the added conviction that this is certainly no time to "die...
...They should knitted together with the existing lines, transits being given at appropriate points...
...E, To set up an educational commission composed of school officials, teachers, outside experts and citizens with special representation for Labor, to inquire into our school system and propose an educational program and method better adapted to the needs of the children who must : face the building of tomorrow's world...
...8. To the effective maintenance and development of continuation schools...
...2. State and Municipal bonds to be issued- to provide for the public construction of tenement houses or for loans at a low rate of interest •for the building of tenements by trade unions, by bona-fide cooperative societies, or fay families for their own occupation...
...Further to free the transportation system from bureauOrscy and partisan politics, we advocate the rigid application of the merit system for all grades of tfsnsit employes...
...Utter cover of a barrage 0t deliberate falsehood* tfeovt the amendment circulated by the employing fSslteth parties reversed their positions and began Jbfgcritteal controversy as to the date of a referMONa the amendment...
...If the workers by hand and brain desire to control their ewa government they muit build their own party...
...We suffer from two t h i n g s . One is the 'revolutionary' order who want to break things up, no matter what they break...
...Then came the reading of the platform by Committeeman August Claessens...
...Thus an hour of the uproai passed...
...The directorate of this public tnjnsit corporation shall be chosen by the representatives of each political party in the Board of Aldermen in proportion to the total vote of each Jsrty jn the mayoralty election, choice to be made »* the executive committee of the party in any JJ* where a party is unrepresented on the Board j» Aldermen...
...Not even tt»A P8'd work«rs and professional groups can P*d proper homes...
...Chicago Socialists will also participate in the exercises...
...Courts and Police U NDER the Hylan-Tammany administration, crime has increased, life has become unsafe for the people of t h e city...
...Resolutions on "China and Mexico, similar to those of Local New York reported in The New Leader last week, were adopted...
...We pledge ourselves t o the principle of adequate pay for city employes, recognition of ability in promotions, democratic machinery for adjustment of grievances and consultation with the workers through their own organizations on the conditions under which they work...
...Rather the desire of the employing class for snd jingoistic patriots for potential soldiers is givdocile workers, of party bosses for docile voters, ing us a standardized) mechanical system to grind out standardized, mechanized citizens trained to read but not to think...
...l i t i s display of t h e "white feather" was a fitting clima...
...The Labor Fusion Convention In New York City records its grief In the death or Robert M. La Follette...
...We pledge ourselves to restore the public schools to the great purposes for which the Labor movement and other pioneers of public education intended them...
...Yet it took the nominations committee b u t ten minr.tes to cause him to yield • g a i n to the party'* call...
...now consists of the Commissioner of Health, the Police Commissioner, and a physician appointed by tha Muyor...
...The committee and the convention believed they desired seats for no sincere purpose...
...Numerous committees were then elected, following which the convention took an adjourmcnt for supper...
...W« pledge ourselves to work for the adoption ef the Federal amendment as the only effective means of dealing with a problem that is essentially national...
...5. The creation by Act of the Legislature of a State Housing and Town Planning Commission with power to investigate local conditions, to take over the rights and duties of local commissions when they fall to act, and to control all State funds intended as loans for housing purposes...
...challenging the sincerity of the delegates i nd asserting t) a t unleaa the Workers' (Communist) Partj was taken in there would be "no real unity" of t h e working class...
...The delegates and visitors responded with cheers that brought all in the large hall to their feet...
...The Chicago paper is the successor to the Labor World, a struggling Yiddish paper which had been published for a number of years...
...To this we pledge ourselves...
...There is no democracy in education but an appalling bureaucracy in which the teachers have less direct voice over the conditions of their work than union agreements give the workers in any well organised industry...
...And all three priceless Socialists of the first water...
...2. The election of magistrates by popular vote instead of being appo' ited by the mayor, as they are today...
...All to no avail...
...It refused to spend itself...
...in most instances they a re appointeu through the recommendation of their d i s t r i c t leaders,' thereby owing allegiance to t h e organization instead of being free to administer the law f a i r ly and impartially...
...Tha Police Commissioner now is inactive and should not be a member of tha Board...
...Cheers again resounded for more than fifteen minutes...
...Food and Markets THE people of New York have successfully solved their water problem by treating it as a matter of public concern...
...1 thought I would content myse'f this year with running for Alderman...
...Thtreama at the and of Stat hours of intense work in committees and on the floor...
...The big thing •• that the workers, those who might stand up and make the city theirs, are content with a few crumbs from the tables of the politicians...
...This belief was later fully borne out...
...Comrade Cahan will return to New York for t h e dinner that will be given him by the Forward Association Wednesday night, July 1. He will sail on the Majestic on July 3 for Europe...
...1 say that we can only produce the auspicious moment by working for it all year round, year ii and out...
...That would have been enough to dishearten any Convention...
...The Forward has established dailies in many of the large cities and t h e Daily Forward of Chicago, under the able management of Benjamin Schlesinger, has become successful financially and its circulation is constantly growing...
...The statement was ignored...
...I t is t r u e economy to eliminate waste, graft, and inefficiency...
...There St today definite and well understood steps that an efficient and progressive administration in the City and State could take to abate the evils of unemployment, lighten the burdens of old age for the workers, give better education to our children, assure us decent homes, and in a hundred ways bring to the tolling masses, both as workers and consumers, a, larger share of these good things of life that our scientific progress makes available...
...V • The Resolutions Committee report opened the) evening session...
...Even when out of deference to public clamor one or other of the old parties advocates a progreasive measure of public ownership, it can be trusted to betray the real purposes of such a measure by graft and corruption...
...6. Industrial and mental hygiene should receive more adequate recognition and support...
...Other delegates tried to help therfi...
...2. That the City work out a plan for the development of belt line railroads for the more economic transportation of food products to markets and dealers and for the establishment of secondary terminal markets along the routes of the railroads...
...This great Service will not an<i cannot be performed by the old parties, both of which hide behind loud pretenses ef devotion to the people a rynical determination to um Government for the benefit of party politicians and for the protection of special privilege...
...Higher rentals are bovend the reach of the B9 per cent of our population with familyincomes below $2,500...
...The platform framed by the committee proved to be a finished work of art in its all-inclusive and straightforward treatment of the problems that weigh down the workers of tha city...
...to t h e bullying which the conference had endured for an hour...
...it must include the nation as well as the city and State...
...people...
...But if we do a thing, we do it right...
...more clinics should be established where needed to deal with the growing need for cancer diagnosis and the cafe of heart diseases...
...Nathan Fine took the floor to announce the recommendations of the committee on candidates for public office...
...They apparently thought ,that they had cowed the delegates, who were displaying infinite patience...
...When it dawned upon t h em t h s t they would be forcibly ejected if necessarj they displayed the physical cow...
...A program of proper housing also must include provision for conveniently located parks and playgrounds for the people...
...No single victory can be more significant or h e a r t e n i n g than a great vote a t the next election in the metropolis of America for the candidates and the political alliance pledged not merely t o the specific measures of relief set forth in this platform, but to the forging of a milit a n t political party as an i n s t r u m e n t for our emancipation...
...I though they had forfeited their r i g h t to sit in the conference by t h i s statement, no delegate raised the point against those entitled to seats...
...direct representation of teachers, and in appropriate esses of the oidc pupils to provide a larger measure of self government...
...Alto rise again to join in t h e shouting...
...Taxation and Expenditure ECONOMY is not parsimony...
...Comrade Thomas had come to the Convention determined not to accept a place on the City ticket...
...They whined like puppies and pleaded not to ba harmed, one offender insisting, as he was being hustled out, that ha had acted " a s a gentleman...
...For an hour tha Convention had been in a turmoil...
...This is the preliminary condition of true progress )b dealing with transportation, housing and alt specific issues.e Child Labor TIE utter worthleasness of the promises of both parties was never better shown than in the case of the Child Labor Amendment...
...8. That the City thoroughly reorganize its public farmers' markets, in cooperation with the Port of New York Authority...
...Some of you may r e member that last year I ran for Governor...
...In opposition to both these programs we favor tte establishment of a unified system of transportation to be managed and operated at cost and without profit by a public transit corporation entirely controlled by the people and the transit employes on the lines, in the shops and in the offices...
...D Support and affiliation with Tammany Hall h as secured for a large section of the criminal element of this city protection against adequate punishment...
...I. Cost.-'), claiming to represent Branch 160 o f t h e Workmen's Circle, was denied a seat as he is a member at large and not permitted by t h e constitution of his own ofganization to be a deleg a t e to any body...
...Harriot Stanton Blatch for Controller 1 What • formidable ticket...
...14 delegates came from women's and progressive organizations...
...It acknowledges the common debt of thoughtful Americans to his gallant and Incorruptible spirit snd his Intelligent leadership In behslf of freedom and peace...
...Few, however, realized the great sacrifice he was making...
...it must be remembered that the transit ftoolem is bound up with housing and zoning...
...the appointment of the Commissioners of Health and Hospitals by the Mayor from a list approved by the Academy of Medicine on the basis of especial, fitness and experience...
...In all 303 delegates were seated...
...The credentials committee recommended t h e s e a t i n g of delegates who came from organizations cited in t he call for t h e conference...
...If all the Communists had been seated they WDUU still have been a small minority ftj t h e conference...
...3. The enactment of necessary legislation to establish a bureau of public defense in all of the criminal courts to afford the people equal protection under the law...
...Both partie . entailed it in their platforms in unequivocal fashion...
...Daapita continued demagogic denomination of "RockofellerGaryism" we have In many schools tha Gary plan under another name...
...Such lines shall be built as rapidly ¦ Possible for the relief of the...
...Health RECOGNIZING the immense importance of toe public health service to the life of New York and the value of what has been done, we pledge ourselves to the reorganization snd maintenance of the hospitals and the Department of Health along the following lines 1. The consolidation of municipal hospitals now under thrta departments, under one Medical Board composed of a Commissioner of Hospitsls as chairman, the Commissioner of Health, and a third member having experience in hospital administration...
...ardice which those who hunt in packs always display...
...6. That a Food Commission on which organized Labor, technical experts and housewives, are adequately represented be immediatly appointed to prepare and on approval to carry out a plan for zoning the city'and setting up such wholesale and retail markets and food department or unit stores as may br> required to supply the consumers of thr city.with food in the most scientific, economical and inexpensive manner...
...3. Such legislation as will legalize under proper restrictions use of savings banks, compensation and other funds for housing loans...
...At the same time we call to the attention of our fellow ritliens that the decision once more proves the folly of depending upon courts for the protection of our Following this the Conventioi heard and approved a reaolutioi commending the efforts being mad« to organize the Negro workers int< Labor unions...
...We can make New York City glorious* and yet we endure the unspeakable Blums...
...To remedy these evils, we favor the vigorous enforcement of criminal law, meting out quick punishment to the guilty and r e n d e r i n g fair and impartial justice to the innocent...
...As steps to this end we shall appoint to the Board of Education as fast ss vacancies occur men and women committed: 1. To democracy in education...
...Board consisting of the First Deputy Commissioner and tha Directors of ths Medical and Sanitation Bureaus, thus relieving the Board of Health from routine detail and eliminating more completely political favoritism...
...4. The condemnation of property in congested districts so as to promote a municipal program of progressive slum clearance...
...Two other delegates, one because of his irregular membership in t he organization he claimed t o represent and the other because of his disruptive activities in t h e Labor movement, were non-seated on the committee's recommendation...
...This statement announced that the Communists with seats and those without seats "record themselves as not participating further in this conference" on the ground that it was not a Labor conference...
...Confident t h a t they would succeed in t h e i r aim, t h e d i s t u r b e r s refused to leave...
...Nothing was done...
...Henry Fruchter, who with Julius Gerber undertook the laborious work of organizing the conference, was elected Secretary...
...After the ousting of the Communists the conference proceeded with its work in harmony and disposed of the r...
...Then for fifteen fast nynutes there had been a rough aad tumble battle white the impatient delegates, refusing to be further bold in check by tha Chair, took H upon themselves to clear the floor of the distuAfrs...
...adequate support of hospitals and rigid scientific nnn political administration...
...Then Comrade Thomas' tall frame appeared in the back of the hall and, urged on by the comrades on the floor, he slowly made his way to the platform...
...They maintained that high standard when they presented the name of Samuel A. Beardsley se the candidate for President of t h e Board of Aldermen...
...that it make these markets readily accessible both to the railroad terminals and the consuming public...
...Of these, 88 came from 43 Workmen's Circle branches...
...The atraggle I* which we enlist tha people of New York," tha platform declared, "Is a struggle for complete economic freedom and social justice...
...8. The appointment of the deputy commissioner and directors of the Health Department under civil service...
...Its t e x t follows: "The decision of the Supreme Court by a vote of 7 to 2 in the Gitlow rase particularly nullified the constitutional guarantees of free speech hy leaving to the Judgment of reactionary courts derision as to the possible dangerous tendency of public uttersnces...
...He will visit Germany and also attend the International Socialist and Labor Contress which rreets in Marseilles on August 23, t o which he is a delegate...
...For this situation forces, far stronger and more permrnent than the Hylarf administration or Tammany Hail are responsible and no mere change of administration will give us relief...
...They had planted themselves as a campact group in t he center of the conference, having returned to it with another statement which they began to distribute among the delegates...
...I.s Follette and others of the bereaved family...
...But the chief thing is net t he situation of which we had such • disheartening picture tonight...
...Neither the educational program nor method is adajled to the need of training thoughtful, independent ntlzens...
...The committee had set a high standard with the nomination of Thomas to head the ticket...
...The struggle in which we enlist the people of New York is f c r complete economic freedom and social j u s t i c e ; its field is i n d u s t r i a l as well aa political...
...Transit THE people of New York, forced to endure the , indecency and actual physical torture of daily journeys in our shockingly overcrowded privately managed transit system, have long cried out for relief, only to be answered with a torrent of charges and counter charges from politicians of both patieimore interested in keeping transit as a political issue than in serving the people...
...We, of the working class, have all the power...
...This took the form of ins i s t i ng on being heard...
...During the excitement on the floor these braves had frequently used the word "Yellow...
...A resolution protesting the Supreme Court decision on Benjamjn Gitlow, the Communist, followed...
...Boardsley, tried and tested for years an inveterate and indefatigable defender of Labor's cause...
...Therefore we favor a plan similar to t h s t in successful use a t P i t t s b u r g , Pennsylvania, for progressively putting a higher burden of taxation on land than on buildings and improvements to the land...
...At the night session it became evident that at t h e supper recess they had caucused and decided to break up the conference...
...Norman Thomas, for Mayor, Heads Socialist Ticket— The Platform on Which He Will Stand THE coming campaign in New York City, (and to a less degree in the State) gives the people of New York a new oppor...
...He will also visit Palestins and wlU »s abroad three t f four months...
...6. The creation by act of Municipal and Town Planning and Housing Commissions with power to carry through town planning, to condemn and purchase land and other real property to the end of wiping ont alum districts and preventing real estate being made for building fiurposes, to build tenement houses and control oana made for building purposes...
...Personal affairs—the serious condition of Mrs...
...Lee appointed two committees, Credentials and Permanent Organization...
...They should be operated in accordance with the principles we have set forth with regard to transit...
...Its j22fB requires an end of congestion or working ffJJP of the people in comparatively small places •* Manhattan...
...Blatch, with her brilliant Intellectual attainments, h e r long record in t h e movement for human freedom...
...Personal reasons, matters of health, were ao strong t h a t only the most presaing reasons set forth by the committee made me decide to accept...
...121 delegates came from Socialist Party and Farmer-Labor party branches...
...To t h a t we pledge ourselves...
...There was no mistaking Thomas' great and deep popularity...
...In t he levying of taxes we believe that the S t a t e and city as representing the people are especially entitled to claim the rental value of land—a value created by the community r a t h e r than t h e individual owner...
...and that it eliminate the graft, inefficiency and discrimination now found in many of our market places...
...Under the Hylan administration the school system has been demoralized by disregard of the merit In favor of the spoils systsm in filling positions of the utmost importance...
...The adoption of the platform without a dissenting vote cleared the decks for what to Socialist conventions is a ceremony of love and affection and to old party conventions a sordid scramble for spoils...
...We propose the foregoing planks as the immediate steps to be taken in order to make the government a means of emancipation rather than exploitation...
...it will require cooperation between the city...
...Chairman Lee rapped for order time after time...
...Labor's right to s t r i ke and picket has been reduced in a large number of cases ^to a special favor which must he bought fromff politicians affiliated with Tammany Hall...
...Comrade Beardsley showed his mettle with a short, fighting speech of acceptance...
...From time to time t h e whole group of Communists was on t he floor, shouting yelling, hooting...
...Education NOTHING is more essential to a progressiva democracy than its schools...
...Bona fide cooperatives are doing something and should be encouraged, but they cannot handle the situation...
...We deplore the action of the court...
...In a futile but desperate attempt to throw a monkey wrench into the Convention and bring the arduous efforts of the delegates to nought, alien influences—ruffians and fanatics calling themselves Communists—had served to further try the patience of the gathering...
...Some Communists would sit down only Forward Opens Chicago Building A mile-stone in the history of the Jewish Daily Forward will be reached Sunday, J u n e 28, when its Chicago building will be dedicated for its Chicago edition...
...The building progrsm has been for display and personal aggrandizement rather than for the needs of the children...
...THERE was never a time X more ripe for a crusade for freedom...
...Of these delegates, most were Communists...
...For example, the Alliance of Lithuanian Workers, whose letterhead revealed its affiliation with the Workers' party, was denied representation...
...When Fine capped an inspiring short speech with the presentation ofjftie name Norman Thomas as tits party's candidate for Mayor the ^delegates came to their feet in a wild outburst of joy...
...We will roll up a tremendous vote...
...The Inspiration of his peraonslity and career are part of our heritage...
...It is a false saving t h a t is a t t h e expense of service to t h e people...
...The sergeant-at-arms could not induce them to take their seats...
...I will get i n to this fight with all t h a t is in me," h e told the convention...
...The emergency rent laws are useful and should!be continued, but they will not build houses...
...Then followed • short adjournment, following which the committees brought in their reports...
...It is not likely that this brigade of boasters will ever again attempt to row another conference of workingmen and women, in New York City at least...
...No offices will be . rented, as the paper requires the e n t i r e building...
...Each time there seemed to be such a possibility, Comrades who had paused to rest for a moment took up the cheering agBin...
...As first steps we demand: 1. That a modern, well-erjuir ped central terminal market be at once established for the handling of perishable fruits and vegetables and other commodities reaching the city from the various railroads entering the city and its environs, with a view to the elimination of the wasteful congestion snd speculation now taking place at the terminal markets, and that in establishing this market on one or more of the piers of the city due consideration be given to the proposaln of the New York Port Authority...
...4. That the public officials compile and give publicity to the conditions and 'demands of the markets so as to prevent both gluts and scarcity of commodities and be authorised to purchase and either store or sell at auction any food that otherwise might be wasted or be subject to speculation...
...The struggle is long and hard but the future will bring its reward...
...Gas, Electricity and Super-Power WE favor the municipal ownership of Gas and Electric Companies to ba brought about as rapidly as existing franchise* permit...
...A half-hour passed and the dist u r b e r s continued...
...But this is only the immediate part of our program...
...medical, statistics and health education, sanitation, laboratories, each under a director: a deputy commissioner to serve as general business manager under the Commissioner, This rearrangement would mean a reduction of administrative heads under the Commissioner from nine to five ar.d would permit a considerable saving even if larger salaries were paid to attract the ablest men...
...Some may say that the time is not most auspicious for a great energetic campaign for Socialism and freedom...
...Tammany Hall in control of Mr transportation system would merely deflect the profits of transit, from the pockets of stock owners (to whom the Republican Party is devoted) to the pockets of the politicians of the Machine...
...But this is only the immediate part of our program...
...The schools have been made tha football of partisan and religious politics...
...In Conclusion WE propose the foregoing planks as t he Immediate steps to be taken in order to make the Government a means of emancipation rather than exploitation...
Vol. 2 • June 1925 • No. 26
