AMALGAMATED BANK OPENS NEW BUILDING
Levinson, Edward
A MALGAMATED BANK OPENS "NEW BULIDING" By Edward Levinson, IK the old Tiffany Building, where New York's elite of some decades ago came to purchase ha fine jewels, today come workingseen and...
...Meeting In New York City, the bank's board of directors elected the former Bast Side boy...
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...The largest crowd of Bronx Socialists and their friends ever gathered, together will meet at this affair...
...aad Btealsy X> ing'the plans With its salami ¦ eav rfacity far bnetassa the *Tf'S"rr>rt Bank wtn go oa to an ever larger reeord at oervtoe for ftp pstrnsrs to'eS walks ef Bfa...
...Hfiiquit to Lecture ha . Bronx Friday Night ¦"A most Interesting lecture on international relations on what, if any...
...Need tor jSkeger quarters became a pressing wisblom almost from the first...
...At" tho Fellowship meeting, at' 8 o'clock oa the same evening, Leon Rosser Land win speak on "The Agnostic and the' Religious Liberal—Wherein They Agree and Wherein They Differ...
...Other officers elected this week were the board of directors, consisting of Sidney Hillman, chairman...
...Tb* Amalgamated Bank, otnulnd by the' Amalgamated Clothing Workare ot America, has grown to aueh an extant that it has been forced to seek sew quarters...
...ef the Amalgamated Ctethlns Workers, declared recently...
...The number of depositors were 12.303...
...Including the following artists: The Workmen's Circle Mandolin Orchestra, the Rand School Dancers, with Richard Blecbschmldt.tn folk dances...
...Local Bronx Will *Make Merry Jan...
...The dance will begirt nts p. m. The popular Bronx band—Dan- Barnett's— will render the Jars...
...Solos by Genevieve Kaufman...
...Short and'not imposing ot stature...
...The concert win begin at 3 p. m. A bazaar with many charming attractions will hold sway all day and evening and a buffet will cater to the hungry and the thirsty...
...Potetsky and Harry Horwits were elected vice-presidents...
...The entire Tttfaay beildiag ha* been leawdeled with Murr B. Mutflken ae tb* arehiteet...
...Damxkng . ~ fRmetric Sign , Those who trudged through Union Square Park Monday, whfle tho heavy fog, the rain and the smoks belched forth from furnaces burning ooft coal had their attention caught immediately by the hew Amalgamated Building...
...Max Jxmwnthai...
...The amount of the loaas coming under the .classification of» "small loans" run from $54 to $300...
...FirsJ is the special small loan service...
...exSocialist member ot the Board ef \ Aldermen, to the position of president...
...The affair will take place at the Schogl Settlement House, at 120 Jackson street, Brooklyn...
...Bach of these reflect the labor character of the bank, proving the maintalnanoo of the Ideal of service for tho workers la the man's clothing industry as well as in any other pursuit...
...role ;*hs United States Is to play In the world...
...Bow York's,First Labor Bank," the gigs proclaimed, lighting up jrjhion Square through the fog and rain...
...Joseph Sclossberg, Jacob S. Potofsky, August Reliance, Adolph Held, Leo Wolman...
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...Phil Orlofsky, Joseph CattaSontie, Fred R. Maeauley, Abraham Miller, Joseph Gold...
...A MALGAMATED BANK OPENS "NEW BULIDING" By Edward Levinson, IK the old Tiffany Building, where New York's elite of some decades ago came to purchase ha fine jewels, today come workingseen and women depositing their toads in a labor bank...
...The bank has rendered inestimable oervioo in cutting away the red tape and uncertainty Involved hi eeading7 money Ae needy, ones abroad...
...AS a large audience is expected, twdars are advised to come early if toey wish te secure seat...
...Bronx, tSll Thint avenue, corner of Tremont *v*~ As...
...Important business will be transacted...
...Um doors in the jg$to&,vflttf with resources a little •ear 1*90,600...
...The price of admission is 60 cents and each ticket entitles its holder to a chance on $1,000 worth of prizes, including a Hardman Playstone Piano, an Atwater Kent five-tube radio and a beautiful parlor floor lamp...
...Harry W. Laidler win proside...
...Though the now building of the Amalgamated Bank is an accomplishment ef which every member of the " Amalgamated and an bf their officials may foe) proud^each having done their fett to make the institution the huge snooass it has become, thp accomplishment tein a sease a badge of .honor for Adolph Held...
...An excellent program has eeen arranged...
...ape we to be represented in the "deposed World Court, or shall we Join the League of Nations, and other Phases ot this most Interesting problem before the people in tho country, bill be analysed and systematically and Methodically presented hi the lecture hr Morris Hillquit this Friday evening SB "Europe and America" at the bead* Starters of the 7th A*D...
...34, at 8:30 p. m. His subject will be "Voltalre^-the Oreat Emancipator...
...j HeW Mad* Prtmdant Since Hold's connection' with the Amalgamated Bank Its growth has boon little short of phenomenal...
...Th* knar oervioo %*tm demonstrated empty that the Amalgamated Bank has a oouL The other feature of the beak which has endeared ft to thousands ef working class men and women to Me for* etga remittance oervioo...
...Dierant sit Free Fellowship Sunday Br./WiU Durant win address the Open Forum of the Bronx Free Fellowship, 1301 Boston Road, Sunday, Jan...
...A famous Jaxe orchestra win supply the dance -music Journeymen Tailors Meet January 25th The Journeymen Tailors' Union of America, Local One, wiU hold a regular meeting Monday, Jan...
...Southern Boulevard, Sunday, Jan...
...fsbgay at fan wha*e*ve^b-T^usIratoanf' n hTfar, keeping them eat of the ofuhahag at She wan sharka and th* '§MOmg sb> staSmeat dealora "Our only excuse for gedas bees the banking business la that'we ran a bank with a peal...
...Tickets are obtainable at Socialist Party Headquarters, 11M Boston Road, and at the Rand School, 7 Bast 16th Street...
...Held'a reward came this week when the Bank had occupied its new quar. tars but three days...
...Hymen Blumberg, vice-chairman...
...ijijrSs hash aaanod...
...This service was started as a result of the "loan shark" methods of small loan agencies who have long been notorious for the methods by Which they mulcted workers in need who were forced to apply to them for aid...
...The success of the bank •mU immediately assured...
...31 Y OCAL Bronx...
...erae ef the ftaeet tn the eousrtry...
...When 9m bank opened for business at its new building .Monday morning the total resources, totaled almost $7,000,008...
...At the close ot the business year, 13*5, the/bank's total resources were %t,it*^M.St...
...Norman Angell and Jessie Wallace Hughan Next L. I. D. Lecturers NORMAN Angell, author of "The Great Illusions...
...Two special oervlceo of tho bank have served to make it distinctive...
...Greater New Tork, this Saturday evening, January 23...
...and one Of the foremost students of international problems in the world today, will speak on "International Organization and the New Social Order," in the Peoples House auditorium, 7 Bast 15th street,- on Tuesday evening, January 23 at 8 p. m. This meeting win berths fourth In the series of "Problebts ot the NOW Social Order...
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...An unusual feature of this service Is Fetor ^J^^IlSm^timStZt tte-isen l uinm...
...Where had formerly sparkled the precious Jewels of Tiffany's, there now Shone from the roof a tremendous and beautiful electric sign, visible for a halt a mile away...
...Socialist Party, wfll I hold *lts annual affair at the Hunts Point Palace, 163rd Street and...
...Jessie W. Hughan, author of **A Study of International government," and "American Socialism in the Present Day," will lead the discussion...
...john herman randall will preach In the Community Church, Park avenue and 34th street, Sunday, 11 a. m...
...Sinoe April U. 1333, the bank has bandied WUJU foreign reVsb AaaojtgaaeaBsB BBafJt vaaa^ Bae Bras BaeaaaT^rWweaal oTUssVoss* be seen* when the great depsWAatton ed* *aekjbia -.Sot la eH, the $¦ iTsamatiB bask to hoe atteaded «- The new banting Ssor...
...The Community Forum rev...
...Mew York's first labor beak long age outgrew its quarters on jraarteenth Street and Fourth Avenue Casting around for & location which Would continue to keep it in the heart at the men's •clothing industry, but which would give it the added space njheessary, the bank's officials decided gauthe building at the corner of Union Bquara West and Fifteenth Street, a block from the national.headquarters ef the union itself...
...Tickets at 7S cents rohy be secured from League for Industrial Democracy, 70 Fifth avenue or at Peoples House auditorium on Tuesday evening...
...Amalgamated Bank...
...All memhem are urged to attend...
...President SUney Hllhnaa...
...In the afternoon an excellent concert will be given...
...the male chorus of the Finnish Socialist Federation, Genevieve Kaufman, soprano, and ^tan ley Day, composer, at the piano...
...held under tho auspices of the New York Chapter of the League for Industrial Democracy...
...At night the sign is the most prominent one on Union Square which boasts, of ¦Scores of hngh electric advertisements...
...Held yet has personality and ability which has brought him to the front in'the labor world...
...Paper Bag Workers Dance This Saturday The paper bag workers1, of New York City win enjoy a surprise and package party which has been arranged by their anion, the Paper Bag and Paper Plate Workers of...
...subject, "Shall the Youth of America Be Militarized...
...25, at Bohemian HaJD, 321 East 73rd Street...
...The deposits totalled $5,Nl^rSll...
...Among the bank employes, as well as among tho many thousands of depositors who have come in contact with -Held there are none who do not stag bis praises...
...Murray Welnetein, Peter Monat'and Max Zuckarman...
Vol. 3 • January 1926 • No. 2
