HOAN SWAMPS OPPONENTS IN PRIMARY POLL
HOAN SWAMPS OPPONENTS IN PRIMARY POLL MILWAUKEE.—Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist, who has served aa Milwaukee's Chief Executive for the last twelve years, polled 13,000 more votes in Tuesday's...
...It was an inspiration to find so many comrades paying their own expenses to attend the convention to reorganize the Socialist Party of Oklahoma...
...The Socialists of Reading are cer- I tain that their chances are unusually bright for the election of a State Senator this year...
...At present it is the meetings of the antiLewis factions of the miners which are being broken up and it is their speakers (including Brophy himself) who are being arrested by the police without any protest from the Lewis machine...
...a number of mass meetings are being planned, the first in Cooper Union on March 26 on the transit'* situation and another on April 13, the day before the national convention is called to order...
...The decision to contest so many constituencies results from the majority resolution passed at the last Congress of the Party requiring each local branch to furnish a candidate at the General Election unless absolutely prevented from doing so by financial reasons, and even then only to abstain from direct participation In the election after consultation with the Party Executive...
...ousted last November...
...With it should go a definite scheme of parks and playgrounds...
...One of the surprising features of the election was the fact that Mayor Hoan, a Socialist, carried the Eighteenth ward...
...Harry W. Laidler of the eommittee on Outside Groups...
...In Potsdam Another good sign for the coming Reichstag elections in Germany was registered last Sunday when the Socialists made gains of about 200 per cent in the municipal election in Potsdam, one of the Berlin suburbs counted as a reactionary stronghold...
...Since his purchase of the ID- , tools State Journal, that paper has painted Smith as pure as a lily and is actively supporting him for re...
...It ought to take more than Borah's protestation, more than any other signs of faint-hearted, belated, and forced contrition to cleanse the party of "prosperity" from these stains...
...Copley la reported to have been a contributor, along with Insull, to the gigantic Smith campaign corruption fund...
...Tola time it cornea to the guise of the "power trust bandits...
...Even cooperative housing is not likely » solve their problem...
...A dinner ¦ of Socialist workers in the trade unions will be held March 27...
...W. L. Russell, Box 303, Mount View...
...Yet these men °> varying degrees havenot only set toe government of their country at Bought but have cheated their own ¦tockbolders in the Continental oil deal Such are the morals of capitalism...
...HOAN SWAMPS OPPONENTS IN PRIMARY POLL MILWAUKEE.—Mayor Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist, who has served aa Milwaukee's Chief Executive for the last twelve years, polled 13,000 more votes in Tuesday's primary than Sheriff Charles Sehallita, who was nominated to oppose him at the election April 3. The third candidate for Mayor, Edward Schubert, waa eliminated...
...They appreciate the spirit of Hoverter's stand and will listen with interest to what be has to say as a campaigner this year...
...Even the pious Rockefeller who as a Philanthropist and patron of decent boosing has many admirable qualities has not used his power and influence to force Col...
...This is believed to be the first time in Milwaukee's history that a Socialist has carried the so-called "Silk Stocking" ward...
...No man of Mr...
...Only members in good standing are counted in this report...
...But will it...
...In New York City it would have these elements: (1) Extension of the rent laws as a matter of permanent protection to low income groups...
...l-aaMsurisf;* Power Trust' Buying Up Calif...
...We did not expect so many to attend...
...A number of delegates promised reorganisation of locals in a number of places as soon as they could get back to their homes...
...A. Stan wood of Stroud...
...There may be Communists among them but to want to organize the unorganized workers and to nationalize the coal mines is not Communism...
...Would that j» an improvement ? Don't make me J...
...All trades unions and allied radical organisations in Essex County are Invited to send two delegates to this conference which wffl meet at Socialist Party bead¦.iiaiters, .as So Orange avenue, Newark, Sunday, April 1st, 3 p. m. Win the Senate inquiry into the deplorable condition* m the striking coal mine area result in the usual investigation for the benefit of the investors...
...tools Waldmen of the eommittee en Public Mass Mestlnsa.,v, Topping all this BUBdl vision Into committees is their union In an Executive Committee, of which each chairman is a member, and the election of an Executive Secretary, August Gerber...
...Be received 28,427 votes to the 41,991 polled by Mayor Hoan...
...is about to he-havaded by an* other sort eg...
...Fall of the oil scandals, so far saved from jail by smart lawyers...
...They elected a State Executive Committee, consisting of seven members, as follows: L. A. Stan wood, Route 1, Stroud...
...the Socialist movement in other states...
...The Socialist organization will ergaulse a bag mass meeting in the Oaahatini Theatre Sunday where laayafr J. Henry Stump, James H. Maurfk- sad George W. Snyder will speafc At this meeting the Socialist officials win report their work to the cd tisane, a policy which they will continue* These meetings not only provide an opportunity for the Socialist officials to answer attacks but to also reveal many delinquencies of the oh) gang...
...Each of these communities will be called upon to vote for bond issues to meet the cost of transmission of municipal water and power...
...The emissary of Samuel Insull, "Colonel" Copley, recently Is said to have made an offer of $2,000,000 for the Los Angeles Evening Express, , which was at one time partly under the control of Fred W. Kellogg, later owner of the Kellogg string...
...French Socialists To Contest 500 Seats In Coming Election Saris.—Over 500 Socialist candidates will be presented at the forthcoming General Election in France in a total of 602 constituencies...
...Weeks, Secretary of War, who consented to be one of the dummy contributors...
...A motion waa made and carried that a temporary secretary be elected to serve until a meeting of the State Executive Committee, which will be held at, the call of the temporary secretary for the purpose of selecting a permanent State Secretary, and also to select electors for the national ticket and candidates for state offices for the state of Oklahoma...
...What position do you think, will this man Copley take, when the campaigns for these bond isues are launched...
...And when they are aroused they will have to have a new party with ideas and principles as the weapon not alone of their wrath but of their constructive purposes for the future...
...No reform is without value...
...The emergency rent laws are to be allowed to lapse because the State Housing Board says that technically there is no longer an emergency In the sense of a shortage of rooms...
...The Socialists increased the number of their Aldermen from five to fourteen, while the Nationalists,, their principal opponents, had their nineteen Aldermen reduced to sixteen...
...of Indiana or to keep Sinclair *nd Doheny off the board of the Petroleum Institute...
...several leaflets are being written...
...Y. Schools, Head of Board Says Morris Ernst, counsel far the American Civil Liberties Union, argatnc before a sub -committee mt the Bear*' of Education of New York City ea the matter of free speech m the schools, brought np the matter at a passage hi one ef the Colon's peaaaalets which was a paraphrase ef a letter written by Thseaaa Jefferson orrhis...
...Nobody to Lea Angeles doubts for a moment where the-v Los Angeles Express stands on public ownership, and its acquisltiop.'' by Copley, if it is acquired, win ia aD probability further entrench the asailanta of the city's publicly owned water and light department...
...these Sinclair contributions behind the dummy contributor...
...What every great American city needs is a comprehensive housing plan which none of them has...
...These steps toward proper housing should all be carried on with a view to the .decentralization of the city and the end of congestion of business, offices and factories on Manhattan Island...
...TouiaA surmise' the motive...
...It must be said that as yet the public is not boiling over with indignation...
...To the operation of such companies when carried on with intelligence and good faith we should have no objection...
...This measure serves aa an enabling act to pave the way for these suburban communities to secure their own water and power from the Colorado River, 'amen the Boulder Canyon project is completed...
...timely topics by norman thomas /"HDNSIDER my friends the Grand ^ Old Republican Party, the party, ¦ to be sure, of Abraham Lincoln, but also and more recently, the party of those eminent patriots who constituted the Cabinet of the Illustrious Warren Gamaliel Harding...
...At Albany and the City Hall the Master's voice is the voice of the real estate board...
...2) Passage of a comprehensive dwellings act more rather than less stringent than the one which the Legislature has buried in committee...
...Abraham Shlplaooff of the Pocketbookmakers is chairman of the committee on Trade Unions...
...The Springfield Republican lists 14 other prominent Republican officials indicted or convicted in the Hoosier state...
...It seems that the people of New York City who need housing protection most are to get none at all...
...Copley paid,, it is said, gl,000.000 for a paper, thai as estimated to b* worth about>ffiQ01- . 000...
...Hays, the eminent Presbyterian and purifier of the movie Industry, who committed perjury on the stand about the Sinclair contribution to the party deficit and concocted a neat little scheme of hiding...
...Springfield owns its , own water and power plants and Copley's first editorial promise was that he would "take a live interest in the city's affairs...
...only contributes to wide pobheity for the Socialist administration, wider than the Times anticipated...
...Having gained control in Reading, the party is now ready to devote mora activity to the rural districts to the end that not only two assemblymen from Reading but a senator and at least one county member of the...
...To which I replied yes...
...It will be a stiff fight but the Socialists are optimistic about the result...
...Schubert received 7,381...
...There Is no doubt but that Oklahoma will soon have a good fighting organization...
...Newark Socialists Call Conference On Unemployment Local Essex County, Socialist Party, New Jersey, has Issued a call for a conference on the unemployment situation...
...All those who were not yet members of the party signed application cards and paid their dues...
...But neither the New °™ Tribune nor the World has •aythlng about the far grosser extensive frauds which deC*2Jacob Panken of reelection as -¦""••Hal jBdge, He una Socialist...
...One Ira C Copley, commonly known aa "colonel'* in TlHnota, about a "five termer" in Congress from BBnots, is leading the procession...
...Copley, upon taking over the San Diego papers, again promised to "take a live interest" to San Diego's affairs...
...A tribute was paid to Max Pine who for many years had been an active soldier in both fields of - the labor struggle and who recently died...
...Meantime the Beck County Executive Committee as proceeding with campaign and organization work in the county and systematic contributions are being solicited from all members and friends Funds Betag Raised The raising of funds is the first step necessary to put across the kind of a fight for legislative offices which Is being planned by the Socialist executives...
...The convention also passed a motion empowering the State Executive Committee to fill any vacancies that might occur, and then elected two delegates to represent Oklahoma in the National Convention...
...We can't stand for what Jefferson said, in the public schools these days," remarked Chairman gesasra ef the school board...
...5) Municipal housing under a nan political authority using public credit to provide decent housing at cost...
...Sam Flint, Route 2, Lamont...
...Well, they are playing the game and they know what cards they hold...
...Of course we have the Democratic «rty to fall back on...
...Reading Times which professes to* have discovered a "secret govenbhent at the city hall...
...It is good that the Senate Committee is calling public attention to the :ragic conditions of Western Pennsylvania...
...The Communists lost one of their three seats on the Board...
...Senator Gooding of Idaho, chairman of the Senate's investigating sub-committee, has an anti-Red complex going back to the days when he was Governor of Idaho during the Moyer-Pettibone trial...
...That organization work is proceeding hand-in-hand with campaign preparations is indicated by a report In the Berlin Vorwaerts of Feb...
...We can visualize that, too...
...B. Charney Vladeck, of the Jewish Dally Forward, heads a committee on individual contributions...
...Copley then purchased the Springfield, I1L, State Journal,, a staunch supporter and white-washer of the notorious "Senator" Frank I* Smith, who "failed to take his seat...
...Then there is "Hell /and Maria" Dum, now Vice President of the Catted States and candidate of the ~bankVra and second choice candidate of many farm organisations for president It is a matter of court record that he was Implicated In the Lorimer bank scandal in Illinois and the only argument has to do with the degree of his moral guilt in the matter...
...Sheriff Schalliu carried only three of the twenty-five wards...
...As dessert for this menu, August CJaessens read a dispatch from an evening paper announcing that JkCayor Hoan of Milwaukee had swept the primary election with the biggest majority ever given to a Socialist candidate in Milwaukee primaries...
...The voters have not forgotten that he "volunteered to reduce his salary of upwards of $20,000 to $6,000 per year when.it appeared that he was elected to the office of city treasurer...
...4) Steady encouragement of the cooperative housing which is the one reasonably hopeful feature in the present situation...
...These included electric, gas, heating and street railway companies...
...W. W. Moore, Route 1, Box 328, Henryetta...
...Me lion's intelligence could have failed to suspect that thtse bonds were somehow connected with the oil scandal and no public official and leader of his party can decently argue that his moral obligation was fulfilled by not taking...
...This announcement was made at a meeting of the enlarged Executive of the French Socialist Party...
...The price was said to have bean to* jj high for the alleged unsatisfactory earnings...
...After a general discussion by the delegates, it was the unanimous opinion that a state organization be formed at'once and work begun...
...That's the way the old parties take care of the children of the city...
...Buys Three Papers The next step by Copley was to purchase three San Diego papers— the Tribune, Union and Independent...
...That may help to explain the very rhetorical passage In his report denouncing what he calls erroneously "the 'Ohio and Pennsylvania Relief Society...
...Only a few days ago, press dispatches announced that the San Francisco Bulletin had mysteriously changed hands, tentatively...
...August Claessens, Executive Secretary of the party, presented a brief resume of plans and expectations and then presented Morris HiUquit, Chairman of, the committee...
...his comments on that organization whose efficiency in relief he admits, came close to Inviting the police to appresslve action against it...
...Of the capitalist press through the...
...Socialist Vote Jumps 200 Per Cent...
...If this program requires a constitutional amendment, let's go after it...
...Copley Is reported to have made an effort to purchase the Illustrated Daily Newt of Los Angelas...
...a banquet and dance April 14...
...Copa*y was a large owner of private u tin ties in northern Illinois up to about four months ago...
...The committees have been at work several reeks and reports made by them Wednesday night evoked hearty applause...
...Each of these Kellogg papers is to a city that win be affected .by the operation of the afetrooplitan Water District measure passed by the last California Legislature...
...In addition, he owned a string of newspapers in tike same area, which included such citasV as Aurora, Joliet and Elgin— one Chain to protect the other...
...The comrades were enthusiastic and were glad to have the opportunity of getting together again and start reorganizing the party in Oklahoma...
...It looks as if no indignity, no number of discharges of its men for the crime of unionism, could force the Amalgamated to call a strike on the I. R. T. in New York...
...Jacob Panken of the committee on Organisation and Membership...
...One Governor has just got out of jail and the present Governor, Jackson, has just escaped jail hot by reason of innocence but by reason of the statute of limitations...
...Hlllqult observed that the time is propitious for this work as there is marked evidence of old time activity and spirit...
...Ha probably will...
...He is said to have paid $3,000,000 for the first two and 935,000 for the Independent, which later he Junked* It's a long jump from Illinois to CaJ> if oral a. Copley's appearance an this section that will be vitally affected by the passage of the Swing-Johnson bin for the development of the Colorado River, is also a significant bit of evidence...
...Transit Rally March 23 DEPORE an audience of Socialist Party members that filled tie Debs auditorium of the Rand School Wednesday night, was unfolded the plans of the Committee of One Hundred which is engaged in strengthening the party...
...Comrades Thomas, Karlin, Berman and Panken reporting for their groups...
...J. This backfire, tjowevoi...
...Only if the union officials count very heavily on political cards they may be fooled...
...Indeed the morality of the party is the morality of the business world...
...a souvenir convention journal is rapidly assuming shape: a number of debates and entertainments are on the program for this year, and a systematic drive to enlist all enrolled Socialist voters in the party organization is unfolding...
...Mellon is still the hero of the average Babbitt who wants nothing more than "to be a little mellon and with the mellon stand...
...the comrades are determined...
...and last but not least, the great Andrew MelIon himself who knew all about Hays' attempt to use Sinclair and kept still...
...A. C. Jenner, Durant...
...By some men close to the newspaper fraternity of California, this deal is believed to Have been made with the knowledge, consent, advice or money of Copley, using a bunch of dummies to take his place aa the purchaser...
...Once more we repeat that while :hese tragic conditions may be alleviated they cannot be cured without taking the chaotic, overdeveloped bituminous Industry out of the hands of its private owners...
...instead...
...Bat that is practically what Jefferson said," exclaimed Ernst...
...The next brilliant move of this partner of Samuel Insull, purchaser of seats to the United States Senate, was to buy a long chain or group, of suburban papers to Los Angeles' Conty, known as the "Kellogg group,** which step carries additional' evidence of his sagacity...
...The fact that he scrapped the Independent, the only morntog competior to San Diego that stood for the principle of public ownr ership is more interesting...
...Since the ' Krt£!L(iav8 of A- Mitchell Palmer we Demoratic Party has had few j"*™*" *t national graft but ask ™» Borough of Queens, how well it 2"*°* locally...
...States, for $23,000,000...
...The report of chairman Hlllqult revealed the moat ambitious and extensive enterprise in Socialist organisation work that has been offered in this country...
...The delegates are Dr...
...lower bouse wfil be Socialists...
...31, 1927, as 868,581, against 823,520 on the same date the precedingyear...
...I am told, Copley was permitted to audit the books of the Express, with the purpose of securing it at a "fair price...
...Norman Thomas of the committee on Publicity and Literature...
...What else have the old parties to offer instead of this Socialist program...
...Prior to dickering with the Express...
...The National Secretary made an address, pointing out the necessity of organization and giving an optimistic report of the development of...
...On the other hand, it is recognized that the old parties will make a stronger effort than ever before to diminish the prestige of the Socialists in Reading...
...any af the bonds himself...
...Thomas Jefferson is Banned in IS...
...There had been an immediate response to the plans of the committee and as at took up its task, its work grew and the committee divided Into sub-committees, each under a responsible chairman...
...the suggestion of rhalrnawi Bftt...
...With William F. Hoverter as the party's candidate for that offices, there is more hope for a county victory than ever before Hoverter gained favorable comment from all sections of Berks and also received the commendation of liberals and lahor groups in all parts of the nation for his stand against the fee system in city hall...
...The dwellings house law in spite of amendments for the worse will not pass...
...23, showing the dues-paying membership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany on Dec...
...the right of revelation...
...Both men are lifelong residents of this city, both have clean records in private and public life, and both are splendid campaigners...
...This offer is said to have been decHnod...
...That is one of the things that John Brophy and other opponents of the Lewis machine in the United Mine Workers of America want to do...
...We must insist that there is no evidence here or abroad that they can or will solve the situation for those who most need help...
...This was to he expected as the Socialists have BO desire to obtain the support of newspapers that could stand for the old sane...
...they can win without a strike, God bless 'em...
...A new local was announced in Oklahoma City...
...But no reform will get Very far until the wprkers are thoroughly aruosed to conditions...
...The reports show that $10,000 Is already pledged and the committee on individual Contributions promises $10,300 more before the end of the campaign...
...Papers Copley, Agent of Insult, Capturing Public Prints To Fight Government Ownership h By Lew Head ^ T OS ANGELKS.—The Pacific Coast...
...The convention was not only an enthusiastic one...
...election to the Senate...
...The members stood in alienee, for a minute, at...
...3) Slum clearance by the city beginning with the oldest and most unfit of the old law tenements...
...Stewart out of the presidency of the Standard Oil Co...
...Corruption hhe this cannot be cured by the services of a few great fcrvestigstors like Thomas Walsh or by the rise to power of more decent or more circumspect men within the old parties...
...that he was a fool...
...ra^z ^--jl...
...Surely there are some Senators who will see that civil liberty in the coal fields is more than a matter of liberty for the Lewis machine...
...Socialists of Oklahoma Re-Organize Forty, Attend Convention In Oklahoma City — Permanent State Body Created <By a New LmIu Cir—»l»4"t) /~WKLAHOMA CITY.—Some forty ^delegates from all parts of Oklahoma met in state convention at Oklahoma City, Saturday afternoon, March 10th, at the call of the National Secretary—the National Secretary being present...
...What connections he may have bad with campaign contributions or the Continental Oil Company or some other phase of the unsavory mess of the Harding Administration profits is yet to be seen . Next consider Jim Watson's and the Ku Klux Klan's state of Indiana...
...There is Dougherty, corrUptionist extraordinary, saved from jail by one juror...
...The committee is so confident of its plans and prospects that lt^ias decided to recommend its organisation and were to Socialist organisations throughout the country, especially In the larger cities...
...Large Party Meeting Hears Campaign Plans...
...As a matter of fact, it is understood that be daf not sell his utilities, but merged them with the Insull Interests, accepting aa executive position with the Insull out* fit...
...This purchase was less than two months ago...
...The meeting of the State Executive Committee was called to meet in Oklahoma City on April 15th, at the office of the temporary secretary...
...M. Weinberg of the committee on Sympathetic Organisations...
...Ask Tammany Jhether it has forgotten how to elections...
...Copley is said to have paid $4,000,000 for about a dozen papers, a sum believed to ha far to excess of their real value...
...The sentiment is ripe...
...He ts ' said to have sold these utility interests to Samuel Insull, the largest private utility owner in the United...
...Armstrong, Oklahoma City...
...Miss Myrtle Blackwell, 507 N. Hudson street, Oklahoma City...
...i Whether he meant to or not...
...Comrade Freda Hogan was elected secretary of the convention...
...National Secretary William Henry was elected chairman of the convention...
...Reading Socialists Draw Fire Socialist Administration Calls Hog* Voters Meeting To Mike Reply (Br * uno b»ii.....i) DKADfflO, PA*—The Socialist ed1*- ministration sjf ITaadlng has already drawn the^lt...
...Even the New York SmSt Trlbune and the New York "otm1 discovered with pained surrjf* ™at the "new" Tammany knew V*w election tricks in the 17th SenDistrict where a Republican ¦aiithevicUm...
...With Jesse George, business agent for the Plumbers' Union, and Andrew P. Bower, one of the vice presidents of the State Federation of Labor, as the city candidates for general assembly, the Socialist and labor forces feel that they will go into the fight against both old parties with candidates who will command the confidence and respect of Reading's voters...
...It has also been proposed that certain changes be made in the housing law for the greater encouragement of limited dividend companies...
...that toe atmosphere 6f the Republican «rty was tainted with oil and that « the Democratic Party, at least in ««w York, with sewer gas...
...M. Shadid of Elk City, and L...
...S. C. Thompson, Elk City...
...Denby, Secretary of the Navy, who complacently gave Teapot Dome to Fall to loot and who can be acquitted of knavery only by iraaina...
...The Walker-Heckscher plan for new housing for the poor amounted to nothing but pre-election talk and the Smith Housing Board plans have been little more effective...
...A well known editor in Boston recently told me that there waa • * difference in atmosphere between toe Republican Party and the Demote...
...His vote in that ward waa 250 in excess of that of his.two opponents...
...Thai passage, the Board of Edaeattea wanted the Union to "recant...
...Mayor Walker, for Instance, may prove a Joker in more senses than one...
...crime wave...
...We must add municipal housing...
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