SOCIALIST OPPORTUNITIES IN ARIZONA

...The field where the best Immediate results will ensue from Socialist propaganda is without question among the miners, of whom there are thousands...

...Comrade Snow is giving attention to preparation for the regional convention and demonstration to be held in Chicago August 29-30...

...NEW YORK STATE The meeting of the State Executive Committee, held at Peoples' House, last Sunday, concurred with the arrangements made by the.Nlw York City Committee and the National Office of the Party as to arrangements for holding the Regional Convention, including change of dates from September 19-20 to October 10-11...

...Surely the Governor must have known that such would inevitably be the fate of such a proposal, yet he would not champion instead the far more scientific plan for old-age pensions to apply to all workers...

...It needs to be moulded and brought together into a fighting, militant movement The high schools, colleges, snd the University present striking contrasts...

...They will go in their "Henry" and will alto take along their canoe, guns, and fishing tackle...

...i ' Dutch Unions in a Come-Back j At last the decline in membership of the unions affiliated with the Netherland Federation of Trade j Unions has been halted and.a real | : increase in numbers is reported in the Dutch union papers On April' 1 the Federation had 187,839 mem-, 'hers, against 188,673 on January...

...Local Berks Picnic Local Berks is planning a monster picnic in Black Bear Grove on Sunday, August 23...

...The members purchased all the American Appeal cards on hand snd made plsns for reaching ill other former members of this branch...

...District Organizer Birch Wilson is down to business in the Scranton and near-by territory...

...Comrade Snow reports having more encouraging success in rounding up dues-paying members than at any other time for vearB past...

...Then his route will run: Bay City, faint, Jackson, Battle Creek, Kaltmazoo snd Detroit...

...In the last Presidential election...

...That one thing is just a reasonable amount of cooperation...

...William E. White of Local Hamden returned home a few days sgo from' England, where they have bean visiting for the ls«t year...

...Reading merchants have contributed a large number of prizes which will be distributed...

...Comrades and Mr...

...The only thing that Governor Hunt haa ever done for Labor," a Phoenician ssid to me some time ago, "wss to refuse to speak on a platform that had been built by scsb Isbor...

...But a few people have been made to think in new channels leading toward a clearer view of the forces ui^king for social change...

...Henry | has lost his brakes and his low-gear [ combination can't stop him...

...Ours jdojld be a period of reconstruction, of bailing Is 1916 Comrade Benson polled jn Arizona 3,174 votes, or 6 4 percent Of the total vote cast in this gtate for Presidential nominees...

...MICHIGAN District Organizer Joseph F. Viola has organized a healthy Locat in Pontiac...

...crtaie, As before the war, the wi|*J of the textile workers are •Bong the lowest in Russian industry...

...August 21, and will make plant for the town election which will be held the first Monday in October...

...Speaking to an audience of miners previous to the last election, when he was holding before them j ' rosy dreams of a home exclusively 1 for old miners...

...Unions Gain in Memel At the second congress of the Tftde Union Federation of Memel, tat former German port district BOW in possession of Lithuania wifh jj» permission of the League of Nations,' it was reported tfhat, dtapite terrible economic conditions Mo general uncertainty, the membership was materially higher than •sen the Federation was founded, Ming well over 2,000...

...The National Office would be glad to have any Comrade anywhere in in unorganized locality send to this office the names and addresses of from a dozen to three dozen comrades who might be induced to attend an organization or reorganization meeting, to be held in an ineipensive hall or, preferably, in a srfvste home...

...Henry | has some temperature when it comes I to the American Appeal...

...The main attraction will be an address sy President James H. Maurer, of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor on "The Real Facts of the Threatened Coal Strike...

...But there is no organization, no directing force...

...Thus it was when the 1920 elections were held, when Comrade Debs secured a vote of only 222 This is the low mark in Arizona Socialist activities, amountinj, as it did, to only 38 per cent of the vote cast...

...1 They also expect to have Birch Wilson for ten days, Esther Friedman for two weeks, Ross D. Brown for three weeks snd to arrsnge meetings for Comrades Smith and Henderson, Labor members of the British Parliament...

...His very latest performance is a local al South Bend which has been considered hopeless for a long time...

...It is an open secret among well-informed people in the capital that Hunt again at the helm of the State Democratic ticket would be an unknown quantity—but perhaps of better-understood quality...

...From New Castle, at the other end of the State,, two good letters have come to the National Office, ! asking for and offering cooperation Now that is what we like...

...The Federation's income was 54,724 litas (at 10 cents per lita), of which it spent 11,702 supporting strikes, 9,445 for unemployment benefits and 658 for death benefits...

...Give him that one thing, and a new Local is inevitable...

...He thinks if we had our American Appeal going now every new Local would be far more easily organized and would surely add to its membership more rapidly and snap into the propaganda business j of a real live Local at once...

...Most of these alleged 1. W. W. were in fsct American Federationista...

...He was full of his oldtime good cheer, jubilant over the work in California, eager to return there, full of fire and fight, -eady for the Chicago convention and demonstration and for the trip East...

...The great Chicago rally will take place in Riverview Park, the afternoon of Sunday, August 30...

...Snow is neglecting nothing necessary for the success of the contention and rally...

...He has taken full charge of the work of preI paring for one of the greatest meetings ever held in eastern Pennsylvania when Comrade Debs speaks I in Scranton, October 16, Every I community for many miles around I will be prepared to contribute in I every way to the success of that i great rally...

...Chicago, III...

...It is Local Attlehoro in tot Southern part of Massachusetts...

...And that, pethapa, ,.- one of the most difficult things in the world to do...

...BAYONNE—Broadway and 23rd street...

...Camden County has formed an organization committee, has contributed f 15.00 to the Organization Maintenance Fund, and has plans and purposes for real cooperation...

...We also held two excellent meetings in Attlehoro, and Comrade Lewis ortwtited a fine local there...

...The writer has seen these things at first-hand, having lived among Arizona college students at one of tham...

...He asks for, i deserves and must have, coopera' tion...

...They are going to route Alfred Baker Lewis for five days in Westmoreland County, five days in Lawrence County, three days in Fayette County, two days in Butler County and about fifteen days in Allegheny, ' Greene and Washington Counties...

...THE SOCIALIST PARTY AT WORK NATIONAL All inquiries regarding orfaniiatioa in nnorgnniaad States, speakers Methods of organization, nation al leaflet* and books, the American Appeal, and other mailers of this kind, should bo addre.ejfcl to the Natnaal Oftce, Socialist Party, 2653 Waskiniton Blvd...

...Whitneyville, Friday evening...

...His bugle cell to the comrades throughout the State to rally for the great business of making the movement move again in the old-time fashion is a most effective address to the mem bership...

...The Italian comrades !are especially active and co-operaItive with Comrade Wilson...

...The local papers estimated the crowd at 2,000...

...But even the miners, who have considered him I their hero, are tiring of his empty promises...

...last year, when Hunt was almost defeated by Dwight B. Heard, newspaper publisher and capitalist, many of them turned i from him...

...Branch New Castle has appointed a committee composed of Comrades Crawford, Strayer and Coates to manage the organization work in that town...

...They will presently have Comrade Esther Friedman for one or more speeches...

...Wonderful Mlfonse at the meetings...

...The membership of the next 1 j strongest of the other six national1 (federations in Holland, the Roman...

...A word about Socialist propaganda in Arizona...

...Noticing that the dis-1 tinguiahed English Comrades Arthur Henderson and Rennie Smith are presently to be in this country and likely to speak in Pittsburgh, the New Castle comrades are on their toes in negotiations for one or both these English omrades...

...Yet the waitjme slump came to us here w u surely as it did to other disej^etiTalthoujrh it was largely due w i »h f ting working-class populat)0)1, But condition* have again cMogt4 the mines are once more prttsfft* and the necessity for SoeiaJttt otsnizatlon work is greater lits it hat been in years...

...Speaker Richard Boyajian...

...Governor Hunt said, "We'll get something better than the Socialists ever thought of...

...Eight calls made on August 9 resulted in seven new members...

...branch of Boston will hold an out- I injr at Weymouth Landing, Sunday, i AiiRust...

...meeting on i Boston Common was such a remark I able success that the Boston comrades are planning other meetings on the Common to be held in the near future...

...NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT Comrsde Claessens, second to nont is a propagandist, writes of hil ttetnt Boston meetings: "Thsaks to the splendid work of State Secretary Fitzgerald and District drganizer Lewis, the last few dive I have had opportunity to address the largest outdoor crowds held here in years...

...I - j Southwestern District Items Local Westmoreland is plsnning to hold a picnic on Labor Day but has not yet announced where it is to be...

...f The San Francisco Labor World very properly estimates the two regional conventions and demonstrations as a very great help to the State movement...

...WEST NEW YORK—Bergenline and 14th street...

...Out of this number, sixteen attended and two sent regrets that they were unable to attend...

...Comrade Herkml has been so successful in this work that he will take it up for ether branches...

...We should be glad to have such Comrade name the place, the date and the hour of inch meeting...

...This new Local has already purchased a quantity of American Appeal sub cards- has sent a hurried call to the District Office for speakers -has prepared a program I of activity which includes an orjganized and systematic literature I distribution campaign, and has hr.d the foresight to select a live wire, R. C. Fisher, as its secretary...

...Comrade Debs, accompanied by his brother Theodore,' was in the National Office last Saturday, on his way home 'rom California...

...Proportionately, this was pnly slightly over four times aa much as the State had given Comrade Benson in 1916...

...However, j Herman, in far-away California, i sets a hot pace when it comes to taking subscriptions...

...And precisely that is what every district organizer needs, deserves— and murt have if our national movement is to get upon its feet again to stride forv trd in the greatest work in the world...

...There srs slements of libersliam and rampant 100 per cent, ism...

...They present great opportunities for Socialist recesv strucUon work...

...il, 1925, and 188,642 on July 1,1 ! 1924...

...The Italian branches in conjunction with the English-speaking...

...The Southwestern District Committee met in Pittsburgh on Sunday, August 9, and decided to put on a genera] organization campaign...

...Karl C. Jursak of I,'Mil Hamden expect to start on a ten day vacation in the Maine woods...

...This and two others in the last week...

...One thing Comrade Herman needs...

...Last Sunday I spoke from the bandstand on Boston Common to a hupe crowd (estimated by local papers at 2,000, snd the following eveniniy another great audience on the street corBlr near the Common...

...SOCIALIST OPPORTUNITIES IN ARIZONA Problems and Prospects for Party Work In the State Notorious for Bisbee % COLIN OILS McEWEN NORMALLY, Arizona castt, a comparatively large fete for Socialist candidates, ggftjcularly in the national Satests Previous to the War...

...Local Hamden will meet at tha home of W. E. Davis, «8 Belmont street...

...Speaker, Leo Harkins...

...That is the kind of activity that counts...

...This office will then prepare a letter of invitation urging each person in the list to attend such meeting, and we will mail these letters from this office direct to the periods named in the list...

...Speaker, Charles Kruse...

...Speaker to be announced...

...I INDIANA I District Organizer Wm...

...Good campaign material, and that is all...

...The j congress decided to build a central : office of its own...

...Senator La Follette polled 17,210 votes, or 23.2 per cent of the total Arizona vote...

...Speaker, Frank Crosswaith...

...Tho Socialist movement of the whole locality is being roused to the cppoitunity thus presented...

...News items concerning PennayI; vania Socialist activities should be I sent to that address...

...Lunches will be served, and the best of music provided by the Philharmonic Band...

...snd Mrs...

...District Organizer Alfred Baker Litis has added another Local to Wlcredit...

...Organizer Leo Harkins canvassed twenty-two former members of the Twelfth Ward in Jersey City this week to attend the branch meeting...

...At that time, the mines were all pro dating The bulk of the vote came from the mining districts, but Maricopa County, almost entirely agricultural and urban, contributed 574...

...He, with others simiIsrly inclined, attempted to direct the Socialist sentiment, smell and groping as it wss, thst wss found there...

...IgeJaJigt strength was inrreas jag yearly, and there was ap parent reason for anticipating farther gaina...

...snd in his letter is this: "We shall certainly have a new Local right off at Hemet...

...He is now working ' in Saginaw, with the expectation of orgsnlzing a Local...

...I have always proposed it as psomised, but those darn legislators killed it...

...All of the large properties are now producing at r good rate, and the State, as a whole, is rapidly growing Meay of ths miners are now Socialists of at least have vague tendencies it thst direction...

...George W. P Hunt, now serving his fifth term is Governor, though loud in his praise of Labor when spesking to laborers, and profuse in offering his sympathy for them, has in practice rignally failed to bring about much Labor legislation...

...And the I New Castle >ds I are not afflicted | with timidity...

...Hudson County Meetings, Saturday Night HOBOKEN —Washington and Fifth streets...

...The membership on January 1, was 828,088, against 896,763 on January 1, 1924...

...Will this branch live, You can't kill it...

...The Reading Italian Branch has arranged a meeting at Spsrtacus Hall, Chestnut street, above Fourth, which will be addressed by Vincenzo Vacirca, a former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, who was forced by the Fascists .to flee I from Italy...

...For most of them, it was necebsary to leave the State...

...ILLINOIS Comrade William R. Snow has again been elected State Secretary for Illinois, Comrade Florence S. Hall having resigned...

...PENNSYLVANIA T« PENNSYLVANIA READERS Information concerning the Sr...

...NEW JERSEY Lao M. Harkins, District Organizer, reports sincere and energetic activity in New Jersey...

...and that was a long Urns ago...

...Bergenline and Gardner...

...August Claessens...

...Then came the war-hysteria, the Bisbee deportations, and other I. W. W. troubles...

...Finally, the market for copper having become glutted, the hiines were closed by their owners, the workers themselves finding homes where best they could...

...but the spirit of 100 per centism in the business men's vigilance committees could hardly be expected to sanctify truth...

...CONNECTICUT Mr and Mrs...

...UNION CITY—Summit and Cortland street...

...There were i ten wage actions and eleven strikes land lock-outs during the past year...

...I Catholic , Federation, on April 1,1 was 94,173, a gain of 35 since January 1. Austrian Unions' Income Gaina In the report of the Austrian Federation of Labor for 1924 it is noted that, despite economic troubles and unemployment on a huge scale, the Federation's income last year was 65 per cent above that of 1923...

...How much success has been achieved, he does not venture to ssy...

...The Committee unanimously adopted a resolution offered by Willism M. Fetgenbaum tenderLABOR JOTTINGS from ABROAD Amu...

...It totaled 14,936,214 schillings (at 14 cents apiece), while expenditures were 10,454,795...

...They hsve practicslly demanded that the State Secretary assign Alfred Baker Lewis to New Castle...

...He is rejoicing over Viola's husky new Local at Lansing CALIFORNIA Score three for Comrade Emil Herman, District Organizer for California: a new Locsl st Riverside, one at RedUnds and one st Ssn Me i nardina...

...The vote for Socialist gubernatorial candidates in Arizona has seldom gone over 3,000, due Isrgely to the unmerited esteem in which the Democratic nominees have been held by working people...

...r ven in Mancops County, agricultural and urban, there is considersbla Socialist strength...

...riajlat Party of Pennaylvsnis may he obtsined from the State 8eej retary, Darlington Hoopes, 415 I Sweden street, Norristown, Pa...

...State Secretsry Charles Robson is tireless in his cooperative efforts with Comrade Viola...