PA. MINERS' CHILDREN FALL FROM HUNGER; THEY NEED YOUR AID
Pa. Miners' Children Fall From Hunger; They Need Your Aid Cold Adds to Bitter Privations in Villages— Funds, Clothing and Blankets Wanted PITTSBURGH.—At Hastings, a mining camp 2,000 feet...
...During the last year, the Verband has published regularly the "Wecker", a volume of the selected writings, of E. V. Debs and a few pamphlets on Socialist topics...
...The sanatorium was first opened on February 12, 1910...
...Dan Barnett's famous Radio Orchestra will play again this year...
...Prominent artists of the Jewish stage and musicians have volunteered their services...
...At each end of the building on each floor is a large porch equipped with the new Wilcox folding windows which can be adjusted to throw the entire room open to the air, to close it entirely, or to open it partially...
...You'll be at your ease in any costume you please...
...The new pavilion, which combines features of the lean-to and the "standard" pavilion, consists of two main stories and a cellar, with maple space on the roof for sun baths for the patients...
...The "delegates were greatly helped In their discussions by two interesting speeches on the American Socialist movement...
...For months,—In some places for years—the locked out miners In these Isolated mountain camps' have been carrying on their lone struggle in defiance of company violence—blackjacking, shooting, wholesale armed evictions —and slow starvation...
...Throughout the district the limit of physical endurance has been reached among the miners, and the winter is bringing despair...
...Many have already started their winter vacation and many more' expect to come out for the Christmas week...
...He has leapt in close contact with the tabor movement at home and abroad, and with the Russian "'tuatlcn...
...families with nine or ten children as well...
...Where they are exhausted as they are in the greatest number of locals, the coal stops coming...
...Admittance is frae, and the Interest of the subject and dynamic personality of the epsakii are •xpected to brine • large audience...
...Braddock, Pa...
...It is believed that with ir-little effort the hall can be filled to capacity...
...The buildings have been added one by one at the direction of the governing board, or Sanatorium Committee which acts by authority of the national conference of the society...
...The convention passed many important resolutions, among them a resolution on closer cooperation of the Verband with the American Socialist Party...
...There is no allowance for coal...
...Tickets at $2.50 may be secured from the League for Industrial Democracy, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York City, Algonquin 5865...
...2) our branches must cooperate in all work that is undertaken by non-JewBh branches...
...Each member of the organization is entitled to treatment at the sanatorium for nine months—the maximum fixed by the insurance laws governing the organization...
...One by James Oneal, and one by Morris Hillquit...
...Road* to Freedom94 ¦ Holds' Costume Ball On Christmas five A Costume Ball will be given on Christmas Eve...
...Bronx Socialists Prepare For Biggest and Best Ball Yet The annual affair of Bronx Socialists, their entertainment and ball, will be held Sunday afternoon and evening, Jan...
...Judge Panken agreed to conduct the forum again this year...
...Most refused' the offer to have me refund the expressage, saying they would pay that themselves...
...Esther Friedman Available For New Series of Lectures Esther Friedman, well known Socialist lecturer and Rand School Instructress, is available for lecture engagements...
...It will be a brilliantly colorful affair—a color light ball...
...Harry W. Laidler and others...
...The new building is a handsome addition to the colony of buildings on the eminence overlooking the small lake on the Workmen's Circle grounds...
...At this session Ivy Lee,, counsellor of public relations for the Rockefeller and other Interests, will deal with the efficiency of the capitalism system while Professor Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary and author of "The Profit Motive in Industry" and president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will deal with some of the inadequacies of the capitalism system...
...The attendance began with about 80 to 100 and gradually increased from Sunday to Sunday, in spite of bad weather conditions until the forum ended its work with an attendance of about 300 people...
...Dear Comrades: I wish to tell you how I secured donations of clothing for the miners to hones that other, comrades will try the same method...
...They must take part in all party conferences, campaigns, celebrations, etc...
...Of course, this method Is more successful with merchants whom one knows personally...
...That must be squeezed out of local funds...
...They Need Your Aid Cold Adds to Bitter Privations in Villages— Funds, Clothing and Blankets Wanted PITTSBURGH.—At Hastings, a mining camp 2,000 feet up In the Allegheny Mountains, District No...
...The Verband has had five members of Its national executive touring the country...
...She has an interesting list of topics in addition to the course mentioned below...
...There is also an examining room, an interne's room, nurse's room, diet kitchen, four recreation rooms for the patients, four locker rooms containing 36 lockers, four shower rooms, and four lavatories, as well as other rooms necessary for the care of the patients...
...Tickets are on sale in the various branch headquarters as well as at the County Office, 1167 Boston Road...
...The expanding use of the sanatorium resulted in a gradual addition to the number of buildings, until now there are four large lean-to's, the hospital building, the new pavilion, administration building, laundry and power house, new administration building just completed, superintendent's residence, and a number of farm buildings...
...During Its six sessions, the problems of the Jewish labor movement, as a part of the American labor movement, and also the problems of the American Socialist movement were thoroughly discussed...
...Peter H. Odegard, George S. Counts, William P. Hapgood, Justine Wise, McAlister Coleman, Benjamin Stoiberg, William P. Spofford, Solon DeLron, Louis Waldman, Harry A. Overstreet...
...J. Forty-six delegates were present representing about 40 branches of the Verband, (Many more were not directly represented...
...They are so perished-looking with their little old rags of old clothes", said an Irish woman up at Nanty-Glo...
...One of the most interesting of these sessions will be the opening session devoted to How Capitalism Functions...
...Direct representatives came from such far1 points, as Chicago, St Louis, Pittsburgh, Detroit...
...Built of colonial brick, with a large two-story porch on either side of <fhe graceful main entrance with wrought iron grille work, the structure is indeed a striking combination of architectural, beauty and structural soundness and permanence...
...29th, at the Hunts Point Palace...
...3) Whereas there are no other branches, than Jewish, the Verband must make every effort to organize an American branch...
...Is Just as Inspiring as in "Ne summer...
...Each ward opens on one of the outdoor sleeping porches, described...
...Offers the Workers The Winter Sports The Unity House of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union at Forest Park...
...Another feature will be an occasional visiting speaker...
...Each room is equipped with handsome electric light fixtures, socket connections for radio, annunciator calls, etc...
...One of the most comfortable cottages has been equipped with steam, beat and all accommodations necessary for the winter...
...The resolutions state: 1) The Verband is a part of the Socialist Party, and must do everything to help build up the party...
...Families with three or four grown-up miners among their sons get the same...
...The convention instructed the branches to participate in all nominations and conferences of the party, as well as in the campaigns...
...Today, with winter here—10 to 20 below in these parts, hundreds of miners and their families are shoeless and in rags...
...Funds for the miners should be sent to Miners' Relief Fond, Frank Morrison, A. F. of L. Bunding, Wash...
...Come one, come all to the anarchist ball...
...As in former years a fine concert will be arranged for which will begin at 4 p. m. The quality of the program for this year's concert will exceed that of former years...
...Being a part of the American Socialist party, the Verband has actively participated in every action that the party undertook, especially tn the last campaign in New York and Boston...
...Now I suggest that, at your leisure, you gather together these goods, which you cannot sell at any price, pack them, and send by express to this address, (I had made labels with the address* of the Relief Committee typed thereon...
...I will pay the expressage, if you notify me what it is...
...Applications for dates should be made to August Claessens, secretary...
...One large corridor runs lengthwise of each story and on either side of this corridor open the wards and other rooms...
...Ten very valuable prises will be distributed on the night of the Ball...
...Every store accumulates merchandise, which is absolutely unsalable, and also takes up valuable apace...
...These patients are cared for under the doctor's direction by an assistant physician, five nurses, orderlies, and other employees...
...Up at Nanty-Glo I saw children hobbling along through the snow with their bare feet thrust into big cast-off rubbers tied on with rags...
...Unity was opened at the request of many members of the union and friends of Unity -who are eager to see the place In the winter time when Its beaut...
...A good time is in store for all those who come to the big Bronx Ball...
...2. Woman's social status: 3...
...Medical authorities believe that this modification of the usual pavilion idea is due to a growing feeling that often the open air treatment of tuberculosis is too severe and that some arrangement is necessary to regulate the rigors of treatment to individual requiremens...
...The speakers on that evening will represent a wide variety of opinion...
...and hundreds kept at home from school for lack of shoes and clothes...
...By an almost unanimous vote, the membership approved the decision of the convention, proving their devotion to the organization and their deep and sincere interest in the sanatorium and its great work in aiding tubercular members...
...The branches have helped in many instances to organize non-Jewish party branches, and have held, during the last year, a great many mass-meetings and lectures in English...
...Its influence on the Jewish labor movement is far greater, than the numerical strength would warrant...
...J. B. Fish, Medical Director of the Institution, as a result of their extensive experience to the treatment of tuberculosis cases...
...Neither the miners nor the local unions can pay the rent for thenmiserable quarters...
...In every case I was promised that the goods would be sent...
...The fact that many unions, and the Workmen's Circle (an organization of 83 thousand members) were directly represented at the convention shows tho great Influence of the numerically small Verband...
...December Uth, <at 6:20 p. m. at •toeNew School for Social Resesrrh, #B Wast 33rd street, New York City...
...28 to Friday, Dec...
...32X education...
...There are now about sixty patients at the sanatorium, somewhat below the average...
...The plans for the building were drawn by Scopes & Feustmann, pt Saranac Lake...
...Does the world always reward merit, never worship cant, never raise mediocrity to distinction...
...In 1908, the organization bought the Berger farm and erected the first building of what is now a small village with 180 acres of land and a lake...
...D. C. Clothing should be sent to William Hargest 408 Columbia Bank Bid* , Pittsburg, Pa...
...J. Baskin, General Secretary...
...Pa., opened for the winter season, Thursday, December 15th...
...Many of the sessions will be devoted to student discussion...
...In the bitter fight against Communist domination of the Jewish Labor Movement, the Verband, and its weekly organ, the "Wecker", have played a leading role...
...Throughout the sessions last yesr Panken spoke every Sunday morning and reviewed important events of the week...
...The two stories contain twenty wards to accommodate the patients...
...Max Eastman, Communist writer, author of "Marx and Lento", the recent novel, "Venture" and formerly editor of Masses, who has just returned from Russia, will give his slant on the political situation to this country from his particular angle...
...Of great importance are the resolutions on the "Trade union question" on Party Discipline and on "Oar immediate Socialist work", there Is one main note to all these...
...Besides 1 Chess, 46 delegates from branches, many other labor organizations were represented, as the Forward Association of New -York, Forward Association of Chicago, TIM Workmen's Circle, and many unions...
...She has prepared a series of talks on the following subject: "Evolution of the Family and Marriage...
...Bread and black coffee, black coffee and bread, sometimes two, three days coffee and no bread," is the strikers fare, us a Slavish miner puts it...
...There will be a short musical or dramatic program every Sunday...
...I then added a brief word as to the plight of the miner's families...
...Merchant, I am not selling tickets, nor asking for money, but am giving you a chance to do a good deed at no cost whatever to yourself...
...December 24th, by "The Road to Freedom" at the Harlem Casino, 116th street and Lenox avenue...
...There is every indication that the second season will exceed the success of last year...
...The landlords keep on dunning the miners, and some have been evicted for a second time...
...L. Dinerstein, Vice-President...
...Yours fraternally, Mildred Adler...
...The Sanatorium Committee now In office consists of the following members: E. Eberil, Chairman...
...Teachers in these camps tell of children fainting in school from hunger...
...In his recent visit to Russia he was accompanied by his wife, Stanislawa Pictrowska, who will also speak...
...Three dollars pr-r week per family is the maximum relief that miners in Central Pennsylvania are geting...
...Norman Hapgood...
...Built at a cost of approximately $165,000, the new pavilion combines the beet features of modern pavilion construction theories with, several new Ideas worked out by Dr...
...J. Rothman, Treasurer...
...A PRACTICAL HINT ON GETTING CLOTHES FOR THE MINERS The New Leader...
...Senator Gerald P. Nye, one of the youngest United States Senators and one of the most aggressive of the Progressive Republicans, will explain the program of the Progressive Republicans and deal with the conditions under which this group will remain in the Republican Party during the next presidential campaign and the conditions under which they will decide to support a third party movement...
...The 25th Jubilee convention of the Workmen's Circle decided to levy a tax of $3 per member in order to erect modern sanatorium buildings for the treatment of tuberculars...
...And Hall Johnson's Harlem Orchestra, that tony troupe of Terpslchorean toe-tlckling Titans, win provide mirthful music that will move you with the true Christmas spirit...
...If you are near the New Leader office, bring us the clothes, blankets or funds and we will forward them immediately...
...The final address will be made by Norman Thomas, Executive Director of the L. I D. and former candidate for Governor and Mayor on the Socialist Party ticket...
...18, at 11 a. m. in Hennington Hall, 214 East 2nd street...
...According to the report of the National Secretary, N. Chalnin, the Verband has nearly two' thousand members, with branches in every city where there are Jewish workers...
...I. Rothman, recording Secretary...
...It is heated from the central heating plant...
...and J. Miller...
...Funds have given out for coal to heat the cellars and old garages and shacks that the miners are living in since their eviction...
...In order to make the cooperation of the Verband and the party closer, the National Executive Committee of the Verband is Instructed to have its representative at every session of the National Executive Committee of the party, and re-establish the office of the Secretary-Translator, that has been abolished...
...The strength of the Verband can not be measured by the number of its members...
...life a* s|^^jneM»cd by Sanatorium Workmen's Circle Completes $165,000 Structure at Liberty, New York W'ORK on the new pavilion which has been under construction on the grounds of the Workmen's Circle near Liberty, N. Y., since last May has been completed and will give that unique institution one of the finest buildings to Sullivan County...
...18th The East Side Forum started last year by the 6-8-12th A. D. Branch Socialist Party will open this Sunday, Dec...
...Immediately after the membership passed this resolution, the Sanatorium Committee began work on the necessary plans for the buildings of this modern pavilion which will be able to house about forty patients...
...I called on the merchants to my town, principally clothing and shoe dealers, with a speech such as this: "Mr...
...Members of the society are taxed $1.60 a year each to maintain the large plant at Liberty...
...2, a striker's child fell down in the road from hunger and cold the other day, and lay there till someone passed along and carried it home...
...L. Zinderman, Vice-Chairman...
...Verband Has Plans For Re-building Jewish Socialists in United States Hold Large National Convention in Newark rjWK fifth convention of the Jewish Socialist Verband was held in Newark, It...
...4. This companionate marriage...
...The topics are as follows:—1...
...S. B. Dubrow...
...Unity House Opens...
...Judge Panken Forum Opens In East Side Sunday, Dec...
...The time when our work was exclusively to defend ourselves against Communist attacks has passed, now is the time to start the work of reconstruction...
...The chief attractions, arc of course, the winter sports, especially skating on the wonderful, mile and a half Jake...
...Food is higher in the mining camps than in the cities...
...The Workmen's Circle is an organization of working people—a large national fraternal society...
...M. Gplding...
...The convention lasted three days...
...Among the expert advisers and discussion leaders at these sessions will be: Paul Blanshp.,d, Tom Tippett, Rexford ¦ G. * Tugwell...
...Origin of the family...
...the noted editor and author, who has just published a biography of Governor Alfred* Smith, will tell the audience why, to his opinion, progressives in 1928 should support Governor Smith for the presidency...
...It stands on a prominent site and is the first thing to strike the-eye of the visitor entering the grounds...
...Each end of the building contains a steel fire escape of most modern design...
...Judge Jacob Panken will again be the principal lecturer...
...It bad also Comrade Ehrlich, from Poland for a lecture tour...
...For information and registration apply a' the Educational Department, 3 West 16th street, telephone Chelsea 2148...
...The convention asks the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party to Instruct the non-Jewish branches, to work to cooperation wth the Verband branches, wherever it is possible...
...they feel that the place is theirs and that they are not recipients of charity...
...Socialist Party, 7 East 15th street, N. Y. C. Hapgood, Nye and Eastman Discuss 1928 T TNUSUAL Interest is being shown in the Annual Dinner of the League for Industrial Democracy to be held on Thursday evening, December 29 at 6:30 p. m. at Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, and to be devoted to . a discussion of "Political Prospects for 1928...
...Tickets are $1.00 each...
...The dinner will be one of many meetings of the annual student conference of the L. I. D. the morning and afternoon sessions of which will be held to Room 301, Philosophy Hall, Columbia University, Wednesday, Dec...
...Opposite this porch is a large sitting room...
...Robert Morss Lovett will preside and an opportunity will be given for questions after and before each twenty minute address...
...With his usual vigor, eloquence and fine understanding of city, National and international affairs, his talks are Instructive and inspiring...
...The Secretary-Translator shall acquaint the National office of the party with the work ,. of the Verband, and the Verband with the activities of the party...
...Never crowd to hear a donkey braying from a pulpit, nor never taiy Che teatfi edition «t a fool's Speak on Private 1 , Ufa in Russia Robert W. Dunn will talk on "PrivAU CBc in Russia"* Friday afteroo...
...and the construction has been done by the H. K. Ferguson Co., of New York and Cleveland...
...J. Halpero, Chairman of the Medical Advisory Board, and Dr...
...Reds of all tints and everybody of every other color of opinion are welcome at this joyous, jazzy come-together staged by the famous anarchist periodical...
...The incumbent officers are: J. Weinberg, President...
...Dunn la Che Joint author with Sidney Howard of "The Labor Spy", published by "Zhf New Republic", and of "American Foreign Invest ii.isa*s, Contracts and Concessions...
Vol. 4 • December 1927 • No. 26
