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Through the States NATIONAL Ths Literature Department of the National Office ia maintained for just on* purpose, the promotion of propaganda. A vast work has been done through this department We...
...It is as follows: Socialiats Total Seats...
...wolpert, and of course their little boy...
...Everybody must be at our Anneal Ball at Bunt* Paint Palace...
...Auspices, Socialist Party, Friday, Feb...
...At the last meeting of the General District Committee, George Roewer, Jr., and Warren Edward Fitzgerald were elected as delegates to represent the Socialist Party at the C. P. P. A. Convention...
...Circle 2. Juniors, have Just received a director In the person of Comrade C. Cumminge of the Socialist Party of Kings County...
...51 294 German S. P...
...In Norway there are 24 Deputies belonging to the Labor party, a group representing Communists who seceded from the 100 per cent Moscow party before the 1924 election, and in Sweden a similar group, led by G. Hoeglund, has one Deputy...
...All members are requested to attend...
...Argentina, with 20 out of 120...
...8 78 Norway...
...Plans will be adopted for the Youth Rally to be held Friday evening...
...Addresses were delivered by Morris Rice, Joseph Freeman, and Karl Jur-sek of Hsmdcn...
...riot takes a more radical stand ths Socialist Deputies, upon whose support his Cabinet depends, will have to leave him to his fate, they will be able to rejoice at Secretary Paul Faure's report of steady gains" in dues-paying, members, the total now being almost 74,000...
...All Yipsali are cordially invited...
...Walter S. Hutchlns, of Greenfield, Msis...
...20 100 Hungary...
...The Norwegian Labor party sent an "'observer," but th* Hoeglund group in Sweden did not show any interest in the scheme to create an international home for the little parties considered "yellow" by Gregory Zinoviev and regarding themselves as too "Red" to line up with the London International...
...CONNECTICUT New Haven At a social held by the American and Jewish branches of New Haven Sunday, Feb...
...31 100 Lithuania...
...Germany, 45...
...Ben Goodman will act as chairman...
...Great Britain, 1; Finland, 18...
...Every effort I* being made for a real big night...
...Besides the elaborate program of dancing the committee has arranged for a Beauty Contest and two waltz contests...
...I The play, "When Will He Die," is 1 written by a member of the Forward staff, C. Gottesfeld...
...1 436 The number of Socialists in the Upper House of the various legislative bodies is not given in the London Bureau's table...
...The branch will meet at Feigen baum's home this Friday evening 1746 East 8th street Plans will b* mad* for a Forum in Kings Highway section...
...Arthur Garfield Hays, member of the Commit tee of 48 and champion of free speech, will speak at the Brownsville Lyceum Centre, 219 Sackman street, on Friday evening, Feb...
...Circle 1, Manhattan, will hold their Third Annual Reception and Dance on Washington's Birthday Eve...
...6, at 8:30 p. m., on the subject, "Why I Am atlberal...
...On Thursday, Feb...
...25 636 Latvia...
...6. ___ MoaUcelle...
...7 408 Sweden............................104 230 United State...
...On the same day, Dec...
...Leon Jouhsux was mad* to say that there was danger of ths Amsterdam Bureau being footed by Communist talk about ths united front, while what he did say wss that there wasn't any such danger...
...It is possible that the recent outlawing of the Independent Labor party, the successor of the Yugoslav Communist party which was dissolved several years ago, and the arrest of Stephen Raditch, leader of the Croatian Republicans, and the dissolution of his party, und r pretext of its being tied up with the Communist Peasants' International, may indirectly help the Socialists, although Dr...
...A special Stste convention of the Socialist Party will be held at Machinists' Hall, 99 Temple street, New Haven, Sunday, Feb...
...With a few of these leaflets you could double the membership soon...
...FRANCE Socislist Victories Continue While the delegates to the national convention of the So:ialipt Party qf France when they meet in Grenoble next week may have to thresh out some serious political problems due to the growth of the feeling within the party that unless Premier Her...
...Austria...
...7, at the home of Joseph L. D. Scheen, 1725 State street Comrades and friends of the Socialist Party who wish to contribute toward the convention delegates' fund will please send their checks and money orders to Martin F. Plunkett, Room 2. Wallace Block, Wallingford, Connecticut, as soon as possible...
...They are not talking...
...Just now a very wide .uae should be made of our leaflet, "Four of a Kind" (by the late Comrade Branstetter) and^ "Why I Joined the Socialist Party" ( v Mrs...
...Harriot Stanton Blatch...
...N. Y. Claessens will lecture on "Incentive and Ambition," at the Labor Lyceum...
...Darrow in the negative, Nearing in the affirmative...
...IE, Circle 6 will hold its Annual Banrjuet at the Finnish Hall, 2068 Fifth avenue...
...Charles Solomon will speak from the .Socialist viewpoint Tickets may be obtained from Comrade Viola...
...8, at 2 p.m...
...BROOKLYN This Sunday night, Feb...
...The speakers will be Louis Waldman and Morris Novik, secretary of the League...
...The State Committee will meet at State Headquarters, 266 Central avenue, Jersey City, on Sunday, Feb...
...Address Literature Department, Socialist Party, 2653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago...
...14, will report...
...On The International Front "Worker* / the World, Unite I You have nothing to lot* but your ehaini end * world to gain...
...The lecture wilt be held at Cameo Palace, Surf and Stillwell avenues, Coney Island...
...Tha topic for discussion will be "The Need For a Progressive Movement...
...Australia, with 29 Labor-ites out of 76...
...Auspices, Workmen's Circle, Thursday, Feb...
...Socialists and radicals of Brooklyn are cordially invited to attend...
...The arrangement committee for the entertainment and dance on Saturday, Feb...
...11, the 1st A. D. will meet in its newly decorated headquarters, at 642 East 145th street...
...A monster rally arranged by Circle 8 of the Greater New York League will be held at the Amalgamated Building, 207 East 10th street, on Friday evening, Feb...
...11, members of Local Kings will hold a theatre party at the Jewish Art Theatre...
...Auspices, Workmen's Circle, Tuesday, Feb...
...No New InternationsI As Y'et ' According to a report found in the Paris Humanite, the attempt to form a new political international at a conference held in Berlin the first week of January was a failure and definite action was put over tt, another meeting to be held within a couple of months...
...A platform will be adopted and plans laid for an energetic campaign...
...There were 238 delegates in attendance who represented 158 branches, surpassing all previous records...
...Comrades of the Bronx are looking for Comrades Mr...
...On Wednesday, Feb...
...The conference revealed a marked increase in the number of branches organized in the past year...
...Comrades and friends: The 7th A. D. has a record of making its affairs very pleasant Don't miss th* opportunity for a real good time...
...Furthermore, at the Berlin conference on unity held in April, 1622, the representatives of the Communist International objected to a clause in the Joint declaration calling upon proletarian parties to work for the immediate release of all political prisoners in their own countries and forced the spokesmen of the Second and Two-ana-a-Half Internationals to leave it out...
...Labor's Parliamentary Strength Among the New Year tables issued by the London Bureau of the Socialist and Labor International is one showing the number of Socialist and Labor members in the various «a tional Parliaments, including the Communists...
...NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT The delegates to the National Convention are Joseph Bearak, of Boston...
...Please report wherever you are...
...France, 29...
...30 260 Czechoslovak ia Czech S. P...
...The Secretariat advises the International Red Relief to ask the Communist International to allow agitation for the freeing of politicals to be carried on in Russia, as elsewhere...
...About 100 people attended...
...8, the Yugoslav Socialists hopo to make substantial gains and materially increase their representation in the Skupshtina where they now have only two Deputies out of 313...
...YIPSELDOM I August Claessens will speak Saturday evening for Circle 7 at 2a Ridge street...
...Local Bronx has mortgage en you for March 10...
...Corrections Through typographical errors in The New Leader of Jan...
...A vast work has been done through this department We have books, pamphets, leaflets in great quantity, waiting for you...
...Among the groups represented at the Berlin gathering were the Ledebour and Theodore Liebknecht Socialists of Germany, the Left Wing of the Russian Social Revolutionaries, the Paul Louis near-Communists of France and the Italian Maximalists...
...The Bureau gave two Socialists in...
...Hsmden Comrades from New Haven and Bridgeport will attend the party that Local Hamden will hold Saturday evening, Feb...
...14, a special election in the Canton of Aubln (in Aveyron) for member of the General Council made necessary by the death of the Socialist incumbent resulted in the triumph of Comrade Gervais, the straight Socialist candidate, who received 2,283 votes, against 855 for the Republican Socialist and 409 for an Independent...
...Tickets are $1 for the banquet and dance, and may be had from the organizer of your circle or from Circle 6 direct The Central Committee of tht) Junior Y. P. S. L. will hold its regular meeting on Saturday, Feb...
...8, at 2 p. m. Bridgeport Banquet The Bridgeport Socialists opened their Winter season of party and social activities last Saturday night with a banquet, which was attended by almost 100 comrades from Bridge-.i...
...and of numerous local victories since the general elections of May 11, 1924...
...Send for samples and price list...
...YUGOSLAVIA Fair Prospects In Elections Despite the reign of terror instituted in Yugoslavia by the reactionary Government headed by Nicolai Pashitch, the 80-year-old 100 per cent Serb, to insure the success of his party at the general elections for the.nationsl Assembly scheduled for Sunday, Feb...
...There are some other branches that will have to wake up to keep pace with this branch...
...8. Owing to the unusual amount of business which the committee will have to handle, the meeting will begin at 2, instead of 8 p. m the usual hour...
...Although the Spanish Cortes is listed, it has not been functioning since Dictator Primo de Rivers and King Alfonso put over their little coup d'etat in the fall of 1923...
...31, the number of Nationalists in th* Diet of Prussia was given as 190 instead of 109...
...Circle 8, Brooklyn, will meet this Sunday evening at 167 Tompkins avenue...
...BRONX On Wednesday, Feb...
...NEW^JERSEY Lecture On Anatole France Professor Harry W. L. Dana will lecture on "Anatole France, as a Revolutionist," Thursday, Feb...
...Jersey City A convention to nominate five City Commissioners will be held by the party Monday evening, Feb...
...30 Ruthenian S. P...
...11, at Clinton Hall, 161 Clinton street...
...A good program of classical talent has been arranged and an excellent band for dancing has been secured...
...A State convention pi the La Follette clubs will be held at Fraternal Hall, Elm street, New Haven, Saturday, February 7, at 2 p. m. Delegates to the C. P. P. A. convention will be elected...
...14, at 219 Van Sicklesj avenue, People's House, Brooklyn...
...Two referendum* are before the membership, one for national convention delegates, which closes Feb 11, and for executive secretary of Local King*, which close* on Feb...
...9, at 8 o'clock, in the headquarters, 266 Central avenue...
...the United States Congress, doubtless including Representative La Guardia, who has since objected to being classified as a Socialist, although elected on a combination Socialist and Progressive ticket, and it failed to list the three Farmer-Labor members...
...On Sunday afternoon, Feb...
...INTERNATIONAL No Prisoner* To Exchkng* When th* proposal for an exchange of political prisoners between Russia and European countries where Socialists were holding influential positions In the Government, put out by th* International Red Relief and mentioned in The New Leader of Dec...
...All members are requested to attend and bring a friend...
...1 Asid* from th.es* little thing* everything seemed to be all fight...
...It is expected that Locals Hamden, New Haven and the Jewish Branch of New Haven will hold a get-together meeting in the near future, probably when the delegates come back from Chicago...
...Members will be conscripted from every part of the Greater City for a Teal reunion...
...They meet every Thursday night at 1167 i Boston road...
...1, 165 was raised toward paying the delegates' expenses to the Chicago Conventions...
...Comrade Fitzgerald Is a delegate due to his position as District Secretary...
...The class In Socialism started by Harry Bordman a week ago, will be the feature at the meeting of Circle 3, Manhattan, Sunday afternoon, at 267 East 10th street...
...George Roewer, Jr., of Boston, and Warren Edwsrd Fitzgerald, District Secretary...
...As was pointed out in the Secretariat's report, which was unanimously indorsed by the Executive Committee, in Sweden and Denmark, the only countries where Socialists ere in the Cabinet, there arc no Communists in jail to swap for Russian Social Democrats and Social Revolutionaries imprisoned in Soviet Russia...
...In their campaign proclamation the Socialists point out that the capitalist parties nave done nothing much to improve the economic conditions of the country, but have merely been fighting for political power with no regard for the interest of the masses, to whom the issue of Federslism, as advocated by Raditch, Davidovitch et al., or centralization supported by Pashitch and his Pan-Serbs, Is of secondary importance...
...Members of the party...
...Every Friday night, August Cl»ei-sens lectures at 1167 Boston road...
...Mountaindale, N. Y. Claessens will lecture on "The Distribution of Weslth," at the School House...
...1 369 Spain...
...The meeting, to be held under the auspices of Local Essex County, will be presided over by Rabbi Lewis Browne...
...In a statement given out in Berlin by representatives of practically all the Russian opposition parties and groups the prisoner exchange idea is derided, it is emphasized that in countries where there are political prisoners, as in Germany, the Socialists ars constantly working foi" their release, and it is urged that the campaign for the liberation of the Russian politicals be waged more vigorously than ever...
...Circle 1, Juniors, are holding* % danct and entertainment on Satur-day, Feb...
...66 149 Great Britain ................161 616 Finland...
...The remaining flv* lei Hi...
...Ticket* at 167 Tompkins avaau...
...The Bureau gives the Communist Parliamentary strength as follows: Bulgaria, 9; Czecho-SIovakia, 29...
...8, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman street, th* 2Srd A. D., Kings, will hold another of it* monthly entertainments and dance...
...they are taking in new members and reinstating others...
...Comrades Roewer, Bearak, and Hutehins were elected by referendum...
...4 to 6, it was treated as a mere propaganda stunt and got no serious consideration...
...Th* record of branches since 1922 is shown by the following figures: April, 1922..............148 Brsnches April, 1923..............167 " April, 1024..............225 Jan., 1925..............295 " Delegates were present from all parts of the Scottish area...
...Following the example of the Williamsburg branches, the Bi-owntvilte and East New York branches have elected delegates to meet Sunday at 3 p. m,, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum and organize a central committee...
...Real surprise will top our program...
...Labor Lyceum L*cture Mr...
...41 444 Rumania...
...Admission 26 cents...
...Coney I*l*nd Coney Island Branch will welcome Rafael Abramowitz at a lecture to be delivered to its members and friends Sunday, Feb...
...The Tsankof reactionary Government in Bulgaria has outlawed the Communist party...
...Illinois...
...60 200 France..............................102 548 Germany..........................131 493 Holland...
...The many new faces, mostly of young people, showed that the I. L. P. is winning the youth of Scotland...
...Holland, 2; Italy, 17...
...French Senators are elected indirectly by members of various local legislative bodies...
...We want to see more of your sons and daughters join the Y. P. S. L. This is not news, but a gentle reminder...
...9, at the East .Side Socialist Center, 204 East Broadway, New York City...
...Codet, the Right Radical who died several months ago...
...The Central Committee of the Greater New York League will meet Saturday afternoon at the People's House, Room EOS, at 6:30 sharp...
...T, at 1:80 p. m., at the Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman etreet...
...NEW YORK 1st-2nd A. D. Next meeting of the branch will tske place on Feb...
...68 166 Belgium...
...A fine musical program is arranged and an interesting discussion will follow the lecture...
...Voting for delegates to th* national convention, to the city convention and for an executive secretary will also be held...
...The meeting it doubly important aa ¦ meeting ef tha paper staff will immediately follow...
...24* 248 Italy...
...Circle 8 meets this Sunday at 207 East 10th street, at 8 o'clock...
...Members who have not voted for convention delegates should get a ballot from their local secretary without delay...
...Zivko Topalovitch, the party's secretary, and other Social-ist leaders say they don't care for that.kind of Government aid...
...and in the report of the meeting in Brussels of th* Buresus of the Socialist and Labor International and ths International Federation of Trad* Unions...
...Final preparations will beeViade to make the affair a memorable on...
...Among the countries not covered by the International's figures are Switzerland, with 43 Socialists out of a total of 198...
...It cast 60,000 votes in the elections of 1923...
...Members surf Priced...
...and Mrs...
...12, the 7th A. D. will meet at its headquarters, Third and Tremont avenues...
...The District Office has secured the services of Clarence Darrow and Professor Nearing for a debate March 24 in Symphony Hall, the subject to be "Is the Human Race Worth Working For...
...12, at 8:80 p. m., at the Berwick Hotel, Bread street, Newark...
...at the Labor Lyceum, Auspices, Workmen's Circle, Wednesday, Feb...
...the statement wa* made that by staying outside the German Cab-inet the Social Democracy would retain the freedom of action and criticism that "it would have had to some extent" if it had entered the Government, whereas the phrase as written read "would have had to sacrifice to some extent...
...The Branch shows what can really h» Hnn« in the way of building up a branch...
...Among the latest of these was the election of Deputy Bctoullc, Mayor of Limoges, as Senator from the Haute Vienne in place of Dr...
...Comrade Betoulle got 340 votes as a straight Socialist candidate, against 274 for tho candidate of the National Bloc and 33 for the Communist candidate...
...8 150 Poland...
...Besides the short business meeting, an Educational Program has been arranged for the evening...
...Norway, 6; Poland, 2, and Swed-en, 5. In Italy there are 22 Deputies belonging to the old Italian Socialist party, known as Maximalists, who occupy a middle position between the Communists and the Italian Unitarian Socialist party (the croun affiliated with the S. L. I.) . In Poland it has been reported that four Ukrainian Socialists and six White Ruthenian Deputies have lined up with the two Simon-pure Communists, bringing the strength of their Parliamentary group up to a dozen...
...Socialists are looking forward to th* campaign which ends in May with much interest...
...uL.Mit I'omranes Schwartzkopf, J a s p a r MacLevy, Plunkett and William M. Feigen-baum of New York were the speakers, _ New York Activities I CLAESSENS LECTURES Bronx Claessens will lecture on "Selfishness, Its Nature and Social Control," at 1167 Boston Road...
...Entree at 8 p. m. Following the banquet a Spotlight Dance will be held in the Auditorium of the hall...
...Woodridge, N. Y. Claessens will lecture on "The Measure of Progress...
...ENGLAND Scot I. L. P. Bars Communists A proposal in favor of Communist affiliation to the Labor party was rejected by 127 votes to 86 *t th* ' delegate conference of the Scottish section of the Independent Labor party, in Glasgow recently...
...20, was laid before the Executive Committee of the Socialist and Labor International at its meeting in Brussels, Jan...
...A Lincoln's Birthday dinner will be held by Brooklyn Progressives with tiie co-operation of Executive Secretary Viola...
...A letter has been sent to all party members regarding the convention...
...1 Denmark...
...e» ar* very interesting...
...68 186 Bulgaria...
...New Zealand, with 17 out of 80, and Canada, with 2 out of 234...
...The last report showed the dues-paying membership of ths Yugoslav Socialist Party to be 6,000...
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