AROUND CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Around Campaign Headquarters News and Notes Picked up at Socialist National Campaign H eadquarters . 18 East 40th Street, New York CityOklahoma Planning Dollar Donation Drive A "Dollar...
...Young Donald Thompson is first, a fair-haired Yipsel from Ronton, who has discovered unknown posmbilities in himself as a speaker and organizer in his services to the strikers of New Bedford...
...And we must help them to win their struggle by sending in food and money...
...There was to be a mass meeting at Kansas City, Kansas, on the 28th, where Henry was billed, but some misunderstanding as to who was to attend to the arrangements made a failure...
...The National Office and the National Campaign Committee have contributed almost all the funds so far spent by the Idaho organization and Idaho Socialists and friends are now asked to help...
...5,000 copies of the Appeal adopted by the Idaho State convention and ether literature to a selected list of the more than 50,000 voters who voted for LaFoilette In 1924...
...Tenn.—Leonard C Kaye announces many new contacts in Tennessee...
...per dozen, $14, carriage prepaid...
...Members of the National Executive Committee of the Verband will also make visits to nearby points in New...
...As far as we have been able to" ascertain labor opinion in the forty-eight states, the organized workers are incensed with the Democrat's presumption in asking the openshop advocate...
...Kaugatock Valley The State Secretary...
...Buie has traveled several hundred miles over various parts of the state...
...It sells in hotels through bell boys, at selected gasoline filling stations and other places...
...were also given an enthusiastic welcome by the delegates...
...Nevertheless, the County Democrats selected their own followers and Republicans...
...We are out to make Socialists even more than to get votes," Organizer John A. Aulenbach declares...
...Thomas To Idaho As Socialists Plan Literature Drive Idaho Socialists are completing thenarrangements for a great meeting Tuesday evening, Sept...
...Hoover, who says he opposes 'excessive' injunctions...
...State Secretary of the Socialist Party of Wisconsin, and Marx Lewis...
...Names and addresses of the officers of such committees should be sent to the National Office...
...These have a large blank space on which the names of state, city and local Socialist candidates are to be imprinted...
...Socialist Candidate for President, will address...
...Posters will be used in the smaller communities and dodgers will be distributed from door to oor in the boroughs...
...and do a bit on the public roads, but the supply of liquor remains abundant at $1.00 a pint...
...Secretary of Local Omaha, writes that they have opened headquarters at 313 South 19th Street, in the Lyric Building...
...Admission is free and Socialists and...
...The Local expects to take in two new members at this meeting...
...sympathizers in all parts of the borough are Invited to come and bring their friends...
...Buie, the state secretary, has already been booked for talks in ten towns outside Oklahoma City and Tulsa...
...They are men and women of high intelligence and with a comprehension of the meaning of their struggle that is an inspiration...
...Some tell the visitor that the law was not intended to apply to the white man but to the Negro...
...Here Is the Law Section 2 of the act to which Hoopes referred to reads in part: "The names of two suitable persons to be registrars shall be suggested to the county commssioners, by petition duly signed for each precinct or ward, by the party representatives of the two leading parties of the precinct or ward...
...Do it now...
...This edHion also contains the last and best ohotograph of Debs and other illustrations relate to the three prisons where he was incarcerated...
...National Headquarters News From National Office, Socialist Party, 2653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...Kansas Kansas Socialists met in conference, drafted a state platform and complied with the laws so the ticket would be placed on the ballot...
...Secretary to Congressman Berger...
...Va—David Lidman joyfully proclaims the appearance of The Virginia Appeal, the new Old Dominion's weekly dedicated to Socialism...
...18, in Recreation Hall...
...The Platform of the Socialist Party," will be printed in a week or two...
...This pamphlet will be issued in twenty - five thousand copies and spread throughout the country...
...New Jersey and New York go Dixie a little better...
...Women's Committees Lillith M. Wilson, chairman of the National Women's Committee, has sent a follow-up letter to all locals and branches in the country through the National Office...
...their victory will be ours...
...He reports the number of anti-Smith Democrats and antiHoover Republicans on the increase, t O. E. Enfield, Covington Hall, George R. Kirkpatrick, w. W. Moore, Robert E. Lee, and possibly two or three women speakers will be sent to various points in the state to give talks...
...They are of all ages—these little ones—and in varied degrees of cleanliness and dress, but all adorable as they file past you so solemnly, their tiny faces grave, one little hand outstretched so confidently for the loaf of bread that yeu hand to them...
...Virginia Appeal Out PETERSBURG...
...Sometimes the bootleg joints become public nuisances...
...This convention of the young Jewish folks, which organization always supports the Socialist Party ticket, showed the determination of the members to give their full support to the nominees of the Socialist Party...
...The smallest crowd so far was 200 people...
...His tour includes about thirty-two states and cities...
...There, is one of the standard campaign size with pictures of Comrade Thomas, another with pictures of Thomas and Maurer...
...Nevertheless such action is in no way indicative of the way labor will vote...
...Queens Comity, N. Y., Campaign Under Way Branch Jamaica...
...They are enthusiastically for Thomas and Maurer...
...Cheers for Miss Donovan...
...The old gang has clearly violated the law and the Socialists will certainly make this a conspicuous issue in the campaign A campaign of two months which will extend to all sections of Berks County will be launched Saturday, September 8, with meetings in Bernville, Rehrersburg, Hamburg, Strausstown and Blandon...
...Connecticut News Hantaan The Socialist Party of this town will hold a meeting at the home of Cornelius Mahoney...
...Send your contribution immediately to the following temporary address: C. H. Cammans, General Delivery, Pocatello, Idaho...
...They respond immediately to the love and sympathy for them which flows from her entire being...
...Mary Hapgood Helps Relief Work In Mass By Helena Turitz 1VEW BEDFORD, Mass—A long queue of children waiting for soup and bread, extending for more than two blocks beyond the Workingmen's Club...
...Hoopes said: "The Socialists complied with the law in presenting petitions...
...Make that sixty days count in activity for our great cause...
...Socialist workers hold great hopes that this novel method of financing a political campaign win bring good results...
...Thousands of strikers, men and women, young boys and girls, seated on a wooden grand stand around an open space on which stands a long wooden table reserved tot the speakers...
...He asks all friends of the party to "send their mite, from a dime to a dollar, to pay for publicity matter, postage, typewrit-tng- mimeographing and stationery...
...Get Your Posters National Campaign Headquarters has made up a large supply of bill posters in all sizes with excellent pictures of Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer...
...of the United States and Canada, held a big convention in Milwaukee during the past week...
...All the while the citizen* who yield to the noise of this controversy are forgetting the more fundamental issues that challenge all thoughtful persons in the South:—to wit, the gouging of the power companies, the denial of the right of workers to organise in the manufacturing- industries and on some railroads, and the price fixing practiced by the'"Big Five" tobacco companies who buy one of the 2 chief money crops of the fanners...
...Conn., Friday evening...
...Jewish Socialist Labor Party The Jewish Socialist Labor Party, Poale Zion...
...A large audience listened to him for two hours, a large amount of literature was sold and given out...
...Sixty days more to "reach the millions of voters with our message...
...Order your quantities immediately: Rates supplied by Campaign Manager Gerber at 15 East 40th Street, New York City...
...Reports showed tltat their organization is growing nicely...
...If our western comrades will do their duty in arranging meetings and advertising them well, our cause will get the best results from the big meetings...
...National Secretary Henry attended the conference and also spoke in the City Auditorium on^he evening of August 27 and secured eight signers to form a party local...
...Al Benson...
...The party's position of leadership was unquestioned...
...Petitions from practically every district in the city had been presented tos the commissioners...
...This last contains the slogan, "For Your Children's Sake, Vote Socialist...
...A man named Ritchie, for many years In government secret service, is reported to be Hoover's closest confidant and head of his private information service...
...Socialist* of Cleveland are preparing a happy welcome...
...Some of it will be given away free at the close of each meeting and more expensive books and pamphlets will be sold at cost prices...
...Local Berks County, Pennsylvania, likes the book to the tune of an order for 500 copies, and promises more orders to come...
...He leads his audience with him to the mines of England, Germany, France and China...
...James Oneal, just returned (ram the Brussels Congress of the Socialist and Labor International, will talk on what be saw there and the lessons to be drawn from the congress for the Americar...
...Sixty Days More...
...or even the beach-pail full of hot, nourishing soup...
...Local Hamden has disposed of its first order of Thomas and Maurer campaign buttons and has ordered a new lot...
...These workers of New Bedford are splendid...
...Socialist movement...
...Rival politicians who are beating the prohibition drum both assume that the South is pretty dry today, when as a matter of fact it 's pretty wet...
...Two writers on the press car returning from California with the Republican nominee arranged to carry on a "framed" talk in the bearing of a third man who was close to Hoover's ear...
...Naugatuck and Waterbury within the next two weeks...
...Locals and Branches are urged to add this book to their stock of literature...
...Smith's 'Labor Support Worthless, Gerber Says Governor Smith's "labor support" tat declared "unreal, meaningless and worthless" in a statement by O. August Oerber...
...We advise all party branches and friendly organizations to do the same...
...West Virginia State Secretary Higgins reports much good work being done...
...Socialist Registrars Rejected Old Gang in Reading Violates Law in Attempt to Recover Control in City READING...
...For a moment the visitors stand watching, then Mary Donovan Hapgood...
...Bishop Cannon of the Southern Methodist Church is storming at the voters in behalf of Hoover, who will keep the South dry, as though it were dry: and Josephus Daniels, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and ex-secretary of the Navy, is asking for support of Smith on the theory that he will not make the South and the rest of the country wet...
...The sun sends down unmercifully hot rays...
...Before the arrival of Comrade Mary Donovan from Hazlewood Park, where she is speaking to another group of strikers, Mrs...
...Dry South Sells Booze Cheapest Liquor Issue Serves Only To Becloud Vital Economic Problems of Section By Art Shields' ^SHEVHXE, N. C—(PP)—Nowhere in the United States, probably, has the prohibition issue brought more bunk into the political campaign than in the Southern states...
...M. P. Plunkett, will arrange a number of street meetings in Derby, Shelton, Ansonia...
...Many of 'the women are on picket duty, and are forced to leave the meeting early to get down to the mills in time...
...the commissioners ignored the spirt of the law, in which it states that registrars shall be representatives of the two leading political parties of the precinct or ward...
...Your heart contracts quickly with a mixture of emotions—of sorrow that the line should be necessary...
...Governor Pinchot, May 14, 1925...
...Harriet Wolff, candidate for Congress from the Second District, will act as chairman...
...Comrade Cammans also expects to get Comrade Thomas on the radio while there, giving him an opportunity to reach the voters over Idaho and several of the adjoining states...
...State Secretary C. H. Cammans presents as excellent literature campaign to Socialist sympathizers in the state...
...One of the members of the Workingmen's Club tells us that the loaves of bread-are sent down every day by the National Jewish Alliance and the Hebrew Bakers' Union, and some $200 a week is received from the Textile Council, the money being spent entirely for food, as everyone, from cooks to servers, is a volunteer helper...
...Not only does he have all of the newspapers read and all criticisms of himself and his program, reported to him for "correction," but he hears about many private statements which may be considered hostile...
...N. E. C. to Meet in Cleveland The National Executive Committee will hold a meeting in Cleveland...
...B. Botwlnick's leaflet...
...The individual benefit is less than 15 cents a day, but in spite of their hardships, their sacrifices, their spirit is high, enthusiastic...
...Put a Thomas and Maurer sign on your car and you thus become a traveling Socialist campaigner without further trouble...
...He asks for literature and supplies, which have been furnished...
...The best known Jewish-American Socialist writers will contribute...
...Besides these leaflets the executive committee issued a special pamphlet devoted to the new policy of the Communist Party of splitting existing unions...
...powers Hapgood Speaks A large open field in one of the parks of New Bedford—Brooklawn...
...Kantorovitch's leflet...
...Try to make the meeting in your city the best one of the trip...
...Firemen at some risk repeatedly rescued a drunken male guest from his burning room, but each time he would plunge back into the smoke like a stubborn old horse in a burning stable...
...not a breeze arises to lessen the acute discomfort...
...Some frank Southerners will say that the South is as wet as the North: others argue that Pennsylvania...
...For almost an hour he tells the strikers of the efforts of another group of workers, the miners, to better their conditions...
...The Rand Book Store sells more than 108 a week, and is stocking up for a big rash during September and October...
...The publication date is *Hedn1«Way...
...New Haven The Local held a very successful street meeting Saturday evening, September 1st which was addressed by John Carrabine, a former state organizer, now of Springfield, Mass...
...Quantities may be obtained at a price which will permit a fairsized profit to branches on the re-sale...
...The reception of Comrade Donovan is an enthusiastic one...
...The names presented were all those of qualified electors, men and women who had been born and reared in Reading...
...liquor sells plenteously through the state of North Carolina at $1.00 a pint, and I am told by those who ought to know that it can be bought in some parts of South Carolina at 50 cents a pint...
...Josephus Daniels' own town, was amusingly indicated in a recent fire in an old hotel...
...a third with a strip which would look good an fences, boards, countryroads, etc...
...What is desired Is to print and send out 5,000 copies of the state platform...
...In addition to the speakers, party literature has been prepared for distribution wherever the speakers hold forth...
...Gerber declared...
...The price per copy is *1.50...
...The Biographies of Norman -Thomas and James Maurer" is already out of print and will be sent to the branches next week...
...They ere urged to act without delay in organizing women's committees and political clubs to carry on special propaganda among women...
...Other larger boroughs to be visited before the November election are Gibraltar, Monocacy and Topton, and, in addition, many of the smaller rural communities...
...They are holding their ranks solid, unbroken, and they will continue to do so until they win—but they must have help, both moral and financial...
...New York City, and are just waiting to be stuck on your "Lizzie," Pierce Arrow, Marmon or Lincoln...
...Meetings In Tennessee KNOXVILLE...
...Next day they were approached with a demand to know why they had taken the unfriendly tone indicated in this private talk...
...On August 31 and the 1st and 2nd of September the annual convention of the Verband of the New England States will be held...
...Comrades Magill and McAlister will attend to the final organization work...
...Get hi touch with campaign headquarters immediately on these...
...Tammany has cultivated a few strat3*ic leaders with jobs and other favors...
...He will also cover the New England states...
...Single copies sell for 35 cents (45 cents by mail...
...Every penny contributed goes to feed the hungry children, to buy groceries for the strikers' families, for most of the assistance is volunteered...
...There are some large posters good for use on billboards, fences and what-haveyou...
...Never before has a more arrant use of the spoils system been made by any local group in power...
...Daniels' Town Wet The wetness of Raleigh...
...Around Campaign Headquarters News and Notes Picked up at Socialist National Campaign H eadquarters . 18 East 40th Street, New York CityOklahoma Planning Dollar Donation Drive A "Dollar Donation Drive" with which to secure funds to carry on the Socialist Party rnmpalgn in Oklahoma Is now under way...
...Powers Hapg-ood is next...
...When Comrade Thomas hits Pocatello on September 18, he expects a big crowd...
...The two day picnic add rally staged on the occasion of the tlsit of Norman Thomas to Oklahoma has resulted in renewed activity on the nsrt of comrades all over the state.* Thomas L. Buie, state secretary of the party, hopes to be able to arrange several return dates for the Socialist "~t'T*' standard bearer if arrangements can be made with the National Office of the partySubscription lists are being circulated, handbills distributed, and subscriptions for Socialist periodicals being taken in all parts of the state...
...The writer, while camping at an auto park near Durham, was kept awake several nights by numerous joy parties that emanated from the filling station close by...
...Big Insurers Squeeze Little Auto Owners BOSTON.—Insurance gouges demanded by private companies handling compulsory automobile insurance have tamed into a prime political issue in Massachusetts...
...Finally, brought to the police station he was released by the cops who saw the joke...
...A special number of The Wecker will be published on the 27th oftOctober...
...Louis and the entire South...
...Preparations are being made for an outdoor noonday meeting at the railroad shops at Custer...
...of joy that the workers themselves are taking care of their own...
...The sale of literature went beyond expectations and a very good collection was taken up...
...Frederick Cederholm spoke and acted as chairman of the meeting...
...The New York Federation of Labor hat been closely allied with Tammany Hall for many years...
...Bridgeport The State Campaign manager, M. P. Plunkett, addressed one of the largest attended open air meetings held in this city in years, Saturday evening, September, 1st...
...Give your fullest support, comrades, all along the line...
...Pa..'—Snubbing the Socialists of Reading in every precinct of the city, the County Commissioners ignored the party's petitions for the appointment of registrars and named Democrats and Republicans in the face of last year's landslide which made the Socialist party the leading political group in the city...
...Traveling through Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and even through Canada, she found people tremendously interested and sympathetic to the New Bedford strikers...
...Ohio, on September 22 and 23...
...H. Rogoff's leaflet entitled...
...their refusal to accept not a 10 per cent wage cut, but a 33 1-3 per cent cut...
...In this regard, labor feels that he has not offered one bit more than Mr...
...September 7th for the purpose of nominating a town ticket to go on the ballot for the town election on October 1st...
...Hoover Keeps Tab On Critics, Is Rport WASHINGTON.—Resentment is expressed by some of the newepeper correspondents assigned to travel'with Herbert Hoover during the campaign, at what they describe as his private espionage system...
...who will tour from New York to St...
...John J. Raskob, to organize a committee of labor leaders...
...She feels honored to be permitted to speak to them...
...Smith opposed 'unwarranted' injunctions...
...B. Maiman will cover Pennsylvania, New Jersey and the southeastern territory...
...That the people love and approve of him is shown by the hearty applause with which they punctuate his remarks...
...Hoover, Smith and Their Platform^' was distributed throughout the country and 3 second edition is contemplated...
...It is figured that $40 will pay for the whole cost of this literature campaign...
...Labor's opposition to Smith is based generally on the weak quality of hh Injunction remarks in his address of acceptance...
...Endorsement by the New York Sfcte Federation of Labor of Governor Smith was to be expected," Mr...
...Mary Gordon Thompson of the Women's Trade Union Leaeaie tells us a little of Comrade Donovan's history...
...The action of the Commissioner was in violation of the spirit, if not of the letter,, of the law governing such appointments, is the opinion of Assistant City Solicitor Darlington Hoopes...
...The intention is to maintain The Virginia Appeal as a weekly for all southern Socialists...
...Socialist national campaign manager...
...L. I. Socialist Party, will open the campaign Tuesday evening, September 11 with a joint meeting with the Jamaica Branch of the Workmen's Circle in the Workmen's Circle clubrooms at 8909 161st street, two blocks north of Jims ins avenue...
...With this big affair on hand...
...Pocatello, which Norman Thomas...
...the Socialist candidate for governor of Massachusetts, takes her place among those who are handing out loaves of bread to the children of the strikers...
...800 Francis avenue, Whitneyville, Hamden...
...There are also three other posters...
...Higgins sends for price lists f»r literature and expects to get considerable propaganda out of the locals...
...Nevada S. Lerner...
...When Insurance Commissioner Monk announced a jump in rates from $20 to $53 for insuring Fords and other small cars in Boston, the resulting storm from thousands of wage worsen and others brought the possibility tost the raise will be postponed until after the primaries, Sept...
...A number of Socialists outside of Reading have volunteered their services to attend to the advertising and assist at the meetings...
...Her shame for Massuchusetts because of its murder of Sacco and Vanzetti was put to rout by her pride in the fine spirit shown by these men and women, these boys and girls, in their twenty weeks' defiance of the textile barons of Massachusetts...
...Cars would load up at the filling station with something that looked like gasoline but was derived from corn, and turn Into the side road leading td the camp for a few large hours...
...Idaho State Secretary Cammans reports his work in that state...
...Local Omaha is in the fight and will come through with a good organization and a big vote...
...Will you help...
...Bootleggers get convicted, it is true, if they are not in with the right crowd...
...Comrade Snider is holding big meetings nightly...
...the other, clutching carefully the can, or the pot...
...The women's committee should be elected by the Local or Branch and they in turn should organize women's political clubs in support of Thomas and Maurer...
...National Secretary Henry of the, Socialist Party was given a- hearty welcome to a full house on August 31...
...Basing his contention upon an act of Assembly signed by...
...Thomas starts his western tour with that enthusiasm for which he is noted...
...The meeting will be held in Recreation Hall...
...Jewish Socialist Verband The National Executive Committee of the Verband has arranged campaign tours for the following comrades: P. Dambitzer...
...But these frank people, it must be explained, are not the politicians who are so convenently using the liquor issue to becloud economic questions...
...Walter E. Davis, Secretary of Local Hamden and a member of the state executive committee has been elected a delegate to the Machinists Convention which opens at Atlanta, Qa., on the 17th of September...
...It should be noted that precinct and ward are recognized as districts, and not the city, county or state...
...The petition shall be signed by five electors of the district, and shall set forth the names, addresses, occupations, and political affiliations of the persons suggested...
...A weather-beaten old weaver industriously plies an accordian in the ba/:k yard of the club, where the huge kettles of soup are being dispensed, and the solemn faces of the little break into smiles as they come within hearing distance of his cheerful music...
...Our disappointment is lightened somewhat by our discovery that the rest of our group had succeeded in picketing the mills in another section of the city...
...Auto Signs Are Ready The automobile signs we were talking about are now ready at Campaign Headquarters, 15 East 40th Street...
...But no xine moves as that splendid worker, Joe Harrison, President of the New Bedford Textile Council, introduces the speakers...
...The investment, however, will be a total loss as far as this campaign is concerned...
...Our party separates after the meeting and some of us hop on a street car and hurry down to the Wamsutta Mills, but find that the handful of scabs have been dismissed more than an hour early to avoid the picket-lines...
...and the rest of the state candidates will attend the meeting, thus making it a big state Socialist demonstration...
...Third Edition of Debs Book The National Office has brought out the third edition of Eugene V. Debs's last book, "Walls /and Bars...
...Local newspapers at Topeka, where the conferehce was held, gave reports of the work...
...Her fine work as a labor inspector in Massachusetts and her unremitting prosecution of violaters of the child-labor and women labor laws had earned for her their hatred, and her efforts during the Sacco-Vanzetti case was a good excuse to get rid of a too-efficient (from their point of view) worker...
...The Socialist candidate for Governor, Thomas J. Coonrod, the candidate far U. 8. Senator, C. J. Lundt...
...Their fight is the fight of all working-men and women...
...Handbook Going Fast The first Urge edition of "The Intelligent Voters' Guide," the official Socialist campaign handbook, is practically exhausted...
...Help the National Office to sell this entire edition before the end of the campaign...
...He describes the fearful conditions prevailing in the textile mills of China, and shows how intimately the interests of the workers are bound up all over the world...
...Seattle Is Ready SEATTLE, Wash.—Ruby Herman reports that arrangements are being made for a successful Thomas meeting at Spokane...
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