AROUND CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS
Around Campaign Headquarters News and Notes Picked up at Socj&t National fcwpaign Headquarter -_,_15 E«t 40th Street, »in« Yotk C¥f. _'¦ Socialist Ticket Is Filed in towa DBS MOINES, Iowa.—I....
...Congress, Jesse James...
...12, and nominated candidates for the state Senate (4 districts) and State House of Repre- I <sentatives (2...
...Readers of The New Leader are cor- I dially invited...
...A humorous incident occurred at ant > meeting...
...0 Thomas in St...
...William James, Washington: Elector...
...a ..good fellow and has a lot of ••joe de'vie", to put it in good Tammany French...
...Elector, Veran Arnold...
...Holyoke...
...An appeal by Chairman Karlin for campaign contributions brought nearly $180 into the campaign chest...
...Fourth Tour: New York, "New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, 'Ohio and Connecticut...
...Doubtful, Louisiana, requires three years of preparation...
...During odd moments between trips be has spoken in New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York, Maryland and Washington, D. C. Second Tour: Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio and Michigan...
...Lineville: Auditor, Madison Warder...
...Socialist candidate for Governor, for the coming week are as follows: Chicopa Falls, Sept...
...And certainly would not want to hear many speeches at a country fair on a completely empty stomach...
...As pastor of Elmhurst College he Is in a position to use his influence to good advantage...
...TONKERS Max Cohen of the Socialist Party has an excellent article in a recent issue of the Yankers-Herald, a local daily...
...Comrade Ko| niuszewski...
...1st District: C. W. Bayless, Moselle: 2nd, R. T. Sawyer...
...And then Herbert and some Gjf the staff of "The Nation" might go over and take a look at the cotton mills down there and tell us about the liberalism of their owners...
...Connecticut * New Haven The Socialist Party of New Haven held a large and enthusiastic mass meeting at the band stand on the Central Green, Saturday evening...
...All right, keep it up...
...New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, Missouri, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Kansas, Oregon and California...
...Jet every comrade find his or her place...
...Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, Arizona and Washington...
...Crosswaith Spanks A Youthful Lenin Frank Crosswaith of New York returned to Boston last Sunday and immediately proceeded to the Common where, with^ Alfred Baker Lewis, a good meeting was held...
...The refusal of the two old parties to accept the challenge has created I sentiment favorable to the Socialist | Party...
...A bundle of ten New Leaders will go to Toledo each week I with prospects of increasing the number soon...
...The sale of the Socialist campaign handbook is going well...
...For the love of the late Charles Francis Murphy, why should not those who don't think that Smith is a second Abraham Lincoln bring up his Tammany . connections...
...Incidentally, other LaFollette leaders also repudiate the assertion of the renegade...
...1928...
...Ballots have been sent to State and District Secretaries for distribution to the members in their jurisdiction...
...Pa., is carrying on a campaign in the smaller towns of Berks County with marked success...
...Elector, Carl Moll, ; Des Moines...
...If living in Cleveland you can get tickets from any - active member of the party...
...22, in Worcester at Main and Feaeral street...
...Sixth District...
...j The Polish Socialist Organization is ; also arranging a big mass meeting' for Norman Thomas, which will take place Sunday morning...
...Addresses will be made by B. C. Vladeck...
...14, as stated in last week's issue of The New Leader...
...Lieutenant-Governor...
...They ftr| Dished the greatest number of organ* • j lzers and local campaign managers 'all . over the country and most of the entta' siasm and go of the campaign, i "The whole Progressive ticket of CaB- ¦ foroia appeared on the official ballot oni der the Socialist Party name and em' blem...
...The next . stage of human progress calls for Soelsl. ism...
...Thomas and Maurer, and back of them hundreds of others, are increasing thenspeed in reaching the masses with our message...
...Getting ready with assurances of filing...
...the committee...
...September 23, in the large SchoenhofTen's Hall, on the north! west side of the city of Chicago...
...Comrade Gerber also states that Norman Thomas has spoken or will speak in the following states on his various tours: First Tour: West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and Michigan...
...That's where they had seven candidates running for Governor in the primaries and all seven said that the other six ought to be in the State penitentiary and all seven were dead right...
...Thomas in Ehnhurst Elmhurst, 111.—The Rev...
...The | agitation is going strong, through mail, | circulars, etc., promising to bring a large . attendance of class conscious Polish ! workers...
...Recent issues of Pocatello dailies carry two communications of over a column each by Cammans...
...Socialist tickets have been filed or are about to be filed in all but three or four states which gives the party more state tickets than it had in 1920...
...He was also a member of the National Campaign Committee of the Progressive Party and was in close and active touch with the body of Progressive supporters...
...Secretary of 8tate, Mrs...
...The Local has nominated a full ticket headed by Cornelius Mahoney for Assessor...
...1928...
...Esther Friedman speaks in Dorchester at Blue Hill avenue and Woodrow Saturday evening, Sept...
...The members are active in increasing the circulation for the New Leader and they ask for contribution lists so that a systematic canvass for campaign contributions may be made...
...At previous meetings in Boston Communists have dogged the heels of Crosswaith with the view of breaking up his meetings' and a similar attempt was made last Sunday...
...No one, not even my good friends, I Frank P. Walsh and Frederic C. Howe, can deliver the Progressive vote nor any appreciable part of it...
...Georgia, Mississippi, Minnesota, Nebraska, Washington...
...State Secretary, writes that we have forgotten Michigan in our press notes, but gives us to understand that they are probably doing more than a good number of the states...
...Snider is also gathering subscriptloni i to The New Leader and is receiving s ; hundred copies each week which he disposes of at his meetings...
...J. J. Donai...
...18 is a success...
...Whoever thought up the idea that the 1924 Progressive vote can be 'delivered' to any party or any candidate in 1928 is revealed as the greatest imaginative thinker since Maeterlinck," said Hillquit...
...Newton, and Miss Theo Hamilton, Indlanola...
...More people coming to headquarters asking for literature and other information...
...Socialism means employment for sO, . and his full earnings to every worker,'' i said Snider...
...I would like to have Herbert Croly of "The New Republic" spend a couple of days running around Arkansas, for example...
...M. To- ! waroff and Yale Rosh were nominated I as Representatives...
...manager of the Jewish Daily Forward i and, if possible by Jessie Stephens, mem- | ber of the British Labor Party...
...Alabama John W. Brown, working under the direction of the National Campaign Committee, wryes from Birmingham that the national ticket has been filed with the Secretary of State...
...On Tuesday evening a meeting in Albany was well attended at State and Pearl Streets...
...Cammans...
...But they do seem to me pertinent...
...It never did occur to us that Al was the sort to take so much red-eye aboard' not to know just what he was doing...
...i The report of the several meetings that i are being arranged for Klrkpatrick came 11 ^gjJsa...
...Thomas will speak in Jaffla Hall on "The Real Issues of the Campaign...
...Eleventh District, Elector, Christ Kemming, Ida Grove...
...An effort of a certain renegade La Follette man to give the impression that La Follette voters of four years ago would vote for Smith, appears in one issue...
...Members of locals and members at large in unorganized states will get their ballots from the National Office and report their vote back to the National Office not later than November 27...
...Virginia THOMAS IN RICHMOND The State Central Committee will meet Sept...
...Peters Evangelical Church of this western suburb of Chicago, not adly Joins the Ministers' Committee for Thomas and Maurer but undertakes to do active campaign work iu English and German through the Middle -'West...
...Both j are capable and interesting speakers...
...Many new members have been enrolled and all old ones will rejoin...
...Cammans has been camping in Pocatello for a week or two to, see that the big meeting for Norman Thomas there on Sept...
...For remember this, boys, if you vote for Smith you are votjing for an alliance between Tammany ,on the North and labor-baiting, laborsweating slave owners on the South and Bernard Shaw Says that the most valuable part "of his education was the result of attending lectures...
...Nobody is whispering about such things as these...
...Ark.—Clarence H. Taylor of Baltimore, national organizer of the Socialist Party, now in Arkansas, delivered an address on "The Real Isue of the Present Campaign" at the Pulaski County Court House on ¦ Friday...
...The La' Follettee vote came in large part from citizens thoroughly disgusted with the two old parties and hoping to j found a new political party entirely di| vorced from the dominating bi-partisan j capitalist interests and devoted wholly J and single-mindedly to the cause of economic justice and social progress, to I government for the many instead of the few...
...Please come across...
...First District...
...Numerous appeals for a federal survey of this indatt^aj^vert^^ui^b«»^ma^ Taylor Challenges Old - Patty ftd&efauM Little Rock...
...you don't catch us lighting into Al because of any of his personal affairs...
...6 p.m...
...Fred Reckler, Newton: AttorneyGeneral, I. 6.- McGriJUs, Des Moines...
...22: Worcester, behind City Hall, 5 p.m...
...This work need not hinder propaganda...
...A great deal of publicity was given to his challenge addressed to A. J. Russell...
...Walsh and Mr...
...Former "party members and also members of the LaFollette-Wheeler Club of four years ago will be canvassed with the idea of getting them to join the new Local...
...Louis Labor, the leading Labor and Socialist weekly in the Middle West, issues a special supplement with the edition of September 15 announcing the mass* demonstration arranged for Saturday night, September 22, at which Norman Thomas will speak...
...The comrades expect to keep busy in the district until election...
...New Hampshire...
...although not a publicity man, is also very successful in getting news and articles regarding the party in the Idaho papers...
...Samuel Richardson...
...September 15th...
...Morris Hillquit, Jacob Panken, Julius Gerber and James Oneal and to consider the needs of the campaign in New York City...
...Sept...
...The Jewish Socialist Verband was addressed by L. Arkin, manager of the Boston Branch of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...We must come out of this campaign with a record vqte and a powerful party organization...
...This business of lie-nailing haa gotten to be an awful bore...
...The hBIBllB^fa^B^^^B^^B* «tf '•^B^^S ^^^^^^^^ IB us»uilliig AM Mr campaign two* se saaeh needed...
...Workers of the World Unite...
...West Haven State Campaign Manager M. F. Plunkett has planned a canvassing campaign during the coming week...
...Secretary of Agriculture...
...Members voting on this referendum must have been members for at least six months...
...23 at 3:30 P. M. to map out the campaign for the next two weeks...
...1 Kansas Comrade Magill, State Secretary, sends i for five hundred application for member- ' ship cards to be used in his work and to have on hand at the meetings Kansas will have with George R. Klrkpatrick...
...You can have no idea of how deep or" how far reaching these Siates are until you have spent some time in the state...
...secretary, is providing the j branches with campaign literature and I buttons...
...Except Norman Thomas and Jim Maurer and a few others who can't be swindled by this "progressive" hokum...
...North Adams, Sept...
...We must have more money to keep up the good fight...
...The white man hates the ¦ Negro...
...September 7." The meeting attracted much attention...
...Snider answered: "Young . man, Al Smith is waving a beer bottle > to distract your attention from your teai nomic needs...
...Porto Rico's Misery May Now Be Seen WASHINGTON—Since a hurricane has killed 1,000 people in Porto Rico and has ruined crops, bridges, buildings and even roads over a wide area in the island, American emergency aid is to be rushed to Porto Rico's relief...
...We don't blame him for drinking when he takes a good look at the bunch be is lined up with, but we don't need any lush...
...Although a resident of Boise...
...In California, where capitaBst i terrorism is most firmly entrenched, , 424,649 Progressives voted as Sodalhu...
...Somebody did that in "The Nation" last week and outside of its editorial cn Smith's acceptance speech, we have never read so much bunk in that usually bunkless magazine...
...Balance of October: New York, New England, New Jersey and Pennsylvania...
...It would rob no man, '& . would defraud no man, it would exploit . no man...
...Andrew Engle, Newton...
...They show that the average annual earnings in 1923 of the cotton mill workers of Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina were $C41.97—a weekly average of $12.35...
...We nave urged all our State and Local secretaries to send news of Socialist activity to us weekly, but some forget to send it...
...John South Carolina gets $10.33 a week, while William North Carolina, who represents the best paid of the Southern groups, receives 113.63...
...Vermont, Rhode Island, Arizona, Colorado...
...1 The klansman has carried his hatreds into the labor movement and completely ' wrecked it...
...i Or, if they don't want to make the trip, let them read a* pamphlet by Paul Blanshard flailed, "Labor in Southern Cotton Mills," and find on page 16, the following: "As to annual earnings (of workers in Southern cotton mills) the figures of the Census of Manufacturers of 1923 are quite conclusive onThat point...
...In the evening of the 22nd...
...Seventh District, Congress...
...Nobody has even mentioned them...
...Joseph Pede of the j Cigarmalters' Union was nominated for Judge of Probate...
...to arrange for a big meeting, and to select a committee on arrangements...
...Among the most* active and effecttve ' factors in the Progressive movement ' | were the organized Socialists...
...The Communist chief in this work is a youth from Worcester, by the name of Bloamfteld...
...State Senators—S...
...He asks that The Ne v Leader be rushed to him, since his I own rapid movements delay his receipt of the paper...
...The total contributions received by the National Socialist Campaign Committee from September 1 to September 15 was $5,918.79...
...there will be a big banquet at the Winton Hotel, beginning at 9 p.m...
...the klansman hates the Negro i and the Catholic as well as the Jew...
...State Republican chairman, and J, S. Utely, state Democratic chairman, offering to arrange ^ a three-cornered political symposium in which the speakers' -time and the expenses would be shared equally...
...Maryland j Comrade Neistadt, State Secretary, orders dues stamps and informs us that things look well in that state...
...No charge will be made...
...What other connections has he had for the past thirty years...
...J. A. Dow ling, Biloxi: 5th, J. W. Smith, Vicksburg...
...Congress...
...tgnaVrjltstaaV at :w ¦¦¦atalgwli Mississippi Electors for the presidential ticket have been selected and will be filed on October 20...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...Presidential electors at large: Perry Engle...
...For many years G. B. S. was an inveterate lecturegoer...
...Good feeling was manifested by the audience and the police was very considerate in watching and directing traffic during the meeting...
...Publicity Work of an Active Idaho Socialist One of the very best and most practical party workers in the United States is C. H. Cammans, state secretary of the party in Idaho...
...Treasurer, Ben McLain, Battle Creek...
...All Knoxville comrades : are requested to attend...
...Agency...
...Michigan' Comrade Bernstein...
...National N. E. C. to Meet in Cleveland The National Executive Committee will meet in Cleveland, Ohio...
...Branch secretaries musi^ file their reports with Local Secretaries not later than November 18th...
...Chairman William Karlin spied three members in the audience and ordered them to the platform, an order which they obeyed...
...Sunday, Sept...
...Karl M. Chworowsky of St...
...New York State Albany County Local Cohoes held a very well attended meeting Saturday night at Seneca and Remsen Streets...
...I "It is safe to predict that a large pori tion of tBe La Follette vote win go to Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for President, not because of any tnflu' ence of former leaders of the Progressive movement, but because the Socisl1 ist Party comes nearer than any other party to the principles, ideals, ssptrsitons and concrete proposals which animated the La Follette campaign and because the Socialist Party is the most logical heir to the Progressive vote and support...
...The boys recite this as though they had taken it from a manual prepared for feeble minds...
...i It seems to us that if we had to review a whole lot of militia, we would require some sort of interior fortification to get us through that horrible job...
...at the Labor Lyceum, Miller and Reed streets...
...Plunkett also gave a short talk...
...Yes sir, any man who depends for g large part of his campaign fund on the contributions of Southern textile manufacturers and a large part of oiling of his political machine on the workings of Tammany heelers is certainly a swell claimant for "progressive allegiance...
...The members will vote "yes" or -no" on each section, but before they do so, a careful reading should be made of the ballot which covers the National Constitution adopted at the National Convention in April, 1928...
...As a result of such a conversation, Croly might find a lot of material for what he advertises as an attempt to give a . "full and faithful presentation of what appear to be the rightful claims of Al Smith for progressive allegiance...
...When the campaign ends, see to it that a big party membership is built up for future work...
...Impossible to file, Nevada, too late for filing...
...The Socialist ticket will be on the ballot this year in forty-five states...
...The five million men and women whe voted for the late Senator La Follette in 1924 saw the truth of the statement that the Democratic and Republican parties are two wings | of the same bird of prey...
...talis* party...
...At the end of these important letters, by the side of his name as state secretary of the party, Cammans has the official Socialist Party emblem appear the earth with clasped hands across the Atlantic and with the following inscription: "Socialist Party...
...The next meeting will be held at Comrade Clark's • room in the Catauga Hotel, Friday, : September 21...
...You are not really inter> ested in Smith...
...I wish some of Smith's new aliles would go down South and look—over the 'outfit that is going to bring us "The New Freedom, 1928 Model...
...8th, O. O. Gould, Lake...
...The others will be filled by...
...There was not a semblance i of a. Labor Day celebration anywhere in : the state this year...
...And our answer was and is, "what the hell of it...
...C. W. Smith, Meridian: 4th...
...They go plumb loco...
...Hamden The Hamden town election will be held Monday, Oct...
...24: Fitchburg, Sept...
...Al . Smith and the Democratic party want . low wages and high profits...
...The Workmen's Circle in conjunction with the Socialist Party will conduct an open forum for the winter, commencing in the middle of October...
...He sums up the sit- ' uation by saying, "This state is submerged in hate...
...The work is carried on in strict cooperation with ¦ the Socialist Party of Cook County, 111...
...It shows what happens to good folk when they mess up with the Democratic party...
...Don't Forget to Organize Don't forget to organize while you campaign...
...The work of Comrade Cammans in the field of newspaper publicity shows what one man can do in this work even if he has had no training for it...
...who seems to have been commissioned for this task...
...Tea ssesW togs are made up almost ¦"Imituqj of Wot klu grown and women and the hvssv est shown indicates a Socialist vote hi November that may astonish even the Socialists of this State...
...Now, in 1928, with both parties matching millionaires, they are not likely to forget it...
...Louis St...
...Crosswaith had little trouble in routing the youthful Lenin whose efforts only helped to attract one of the largest crowds of the year on Boston Common...
...Philadelphia...
...That's good news, but the only reason why we have not been adding Michigan Socialist news to our weekly letter is because Bernstein forgot to send it...
...Toledo Organizes An ' _ Active Party Local After years of discouragement and apathy the Socialists of Toledo, Ohio, are getting into harness...
...I Dreadful Whispets Really Loud RoarsA Job For 'Liberals' By Backstairs Spokesman -]VTOW that Al Smith haa gone West to shoot off hi« face to the embattled * ^ farmers, we may have something more edifying from the Democratic spokesman than denials that he was terribly t|ght at such-and-such a military review or had to be carried off the grand-stand at a country fair...
...Third Tour: Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Maryland...
...The sssa-iripsllen of the worker* msfl ^teaefctawe* ky the werktng class ytgftU National Headquarters News From National Office, Socialist Party, 2653 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois...
...J Snider spoke one night in a- colqM tabernacle at Watson to over 700 pSdph) and made a.good impression...
...No sir...
...Sept...
...These who hava.net received collection lists should write the National dress G. Aag-urt Gerber, 15.East 4*th ¦ x7« v»fe rw« Walsh And Howc "Imaginative", Says Hillquit Effort to Deliver LaFollette Vote to Smith Is a Pleasant Pipe Dream |7»RANK P. WALSH, Frederic C. " Howe and Lynn Haines have aet themselves an impossible task by their promise to John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, to swinj the five million La Follette vote of 1924 to Gov...
...They were Louis Waldman, candidate for Governor: McAlister Coleman, candidate for U. S. Senator, and G. August Gerber, National Campaign Manager...
...Des Moines...
...All comrades and friends in and around Cleveland are urged to be on hand...
...Thousands of others are giving their services...
...His subject was "The Present and Future of the Socialist Party in America...
...Norman Thomas will speak in Richmond, probably on the evening of Oct...
...Officials of the Pan-American Federation of Labor, led by Santiago Iglesias, head of the" labor movement in Porto Rico, are hopeful that this disaster will lead the Washington government at last to take a look at the misery of the masses of wage workers down there...
...The speeches left the members with a sense of the great and increasing power of the working class abroad and a renewed desire to match it with a similar movement in this country in the coming years...
...National Referendum "A" National Referendum "A" 1928 is now before the membership...
...Tenth District, Con- i gress, Arthur Munson, Madrid: Elector, | Paul Feliai...
...A young mafi asked, "Boa i about Smith...
...From this time on to election day...
...H. A. Harbaugh...
...This was the life-long ideal of Senator La Follette, one of the two buI manltarian men the Republican party has produced...
...On Sunday he had two meetings, one at Teenrbaugh and...
...t-— Polish Socialists For Norman Thomas - | The Polish Socialist Organization of i Chicago is busy helping to make this j campaign year a success...
...The filing situation is as follows: Already filed, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas...
...Reservations can and should be made by addressing Edna Hastings, 1372 West 16th street, or from the Jewish Daily Forward, Cleveland, Ohio...
...Ready for filing, Virginia...
...The newly elected officers are organiz- , er: Lester Clark, Watauga Hotel, Knoxville: financial secretary, Lynn Hall, recording secretary, Albert Morin...
...Our press notes go to a large number of publications all over the nation...
...James H. Maurer, the vice-presidential candidate, will snatch enough time from his official duties in Reading, Pa., to speak in Maryland, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Chicago, Missouri, and Pennsylvania...
...Motion of Local Livingston, Montana, submitted May 31st for seconds and help open for ninety I days, as provided by the National Constitution was seconded by the re^uirod number of members...
...When you . vote a capitalist party ticket you vote to . impoverish yourself, your family and your ; neighbor's family.'' The reply brought down the house and i there were no further interruptions...
...Cammans returns with a blistering article answering this contention...
...State and District Secretaries must file their reports with the National Executive Secretary not later than November 27...
...I expect a strong party in Maryland," says | the Secretary...
...Permanent under-nourishment, due to low wages, irregular' employment, lack of sanitation and decent housing, is the lot of a majority of Porto "Ricans...
...Greenfield, Sept...
...23, on Boston Common at 4 p.m...
...Hillquit was one of the original organizers of the Conference for Progressive Political Action which^nominated the late Senator La Follette and conducted his campaign...
...To us at any rate...
...they came and shouted in our ear...
...The meetings are generally reported in the local . papers, the Fairmont Times giving >im^ - a column to his tabernacle address...
...Ehnhurst Is preparing for a Thomas meeting for Sunday evening, September 23...
...Halpern, Oneal and Julius Gerber were very brief in their remarks, leaving the main time to Hillquit and Panken...
...The south is still- < the south where the Democratic Party rules...
...That is all they have and all they will ever get in their attempt to sell Al Smith of Tammany Hall to the Progressives as the suceesM of Robert Marion La Follette of Wisconsin...
...Eighth District, Congress and elector filed...
...The meeting was called to hear the delegates to the International Socialist Congress, Julius Halpern...
...This latest bit of Democratic strategy is born of desperation in the General Motors Building upon learning that the Democratic candidates in Maine had been buried under the deepest Republican snowdrift in twelve years...
...23 at 2 p.m...
...Ethel...
...G. August Gerber gave an interesting summary of the work accomplished by the National Campaign Committee...
...Vote closes in Locals and Branches not later than November 15th...
...Elfin Defen, candidate for Congress from the 28th District, and F. A. Andral were the speakers...
...Get application cards from National Headquarters and go after members...
...While the voters are coming to the Socialist standard urge them to become members of the Party...
...The Bureau of Labor Statistics' figures of 1926 are the latest complete ones...
...Taylor has also held meetings at Brinkley and Beebee which have added I members to the party...
...The names are: At Large: Z. A. Rogers, Marietta...
...Party work has progressed rapidly, and we expect a great increase in the normal Socialist vote in the State...
...There were 213 contributors...
...Annie S. Lynch...
...Virginia readers are again urged to make contributions to the State Campaign Fund...
...Reading Socialists Go To The Rural Voters The Socialist Party, of Reading...
...The delegates to the Brussels Congress i gave their impressions of its work, the Labor and Socialist movement abroad, and- the prospects' of the movement in this country...
...You want : high wages and good conditions...
...Snider was given a great ovation...
...1, instead of Oct...
...The kid pulls off all the old stuff about "traitors" and "betrayers" of the working class...
...There are many thousands of-people In New York who regaarry attend lectures and debates...
...25: Gardner...
...Most of the donations were made in small sums...
...In the first place no one ever whispered anything to us about Smith being slightly cock-eyed at one time or another...
...Literature was given out to an attentive audience...
...I wish Mr...
...Speakbat at a reunion in one town...
...The Socialist Party, he said, is the principal heir of the Progressive movement and will get" most of its votes...
...A party local has been organized which starts with 14 members...
...This" . was one of the very best meetings held i and at its conclusion the local organhai tkm accepted sixteen applications for membership...
...September 30...
...Two Jobs are being taken up immediately by the new organisation...
...It would be interesting to see Herbert Croly and the other New Republic "liberals" sitting down with John and William, having a good chat about how the Democratic Party has now become the torch-bearer of enlightened progress to the rest of the country...
...Meet the N. E. C. at the banquet...
...Smith, already carrying Big Business on one shoulder, condescending •friendliness' to labor on the other...
...The minister of the tabernacle at Oraat Town is a Socialist and made a wonderful speech at the Snider meeting...
...It would save i civilisation from anarchy on the one ham and despotism on the other...
...In every town visited the speakers were greeted by attentive and thoughtful audiences who accepted the invitation to ask questions, eagerly read the free literature which was distributed and gathered in small groups to converse with the Socialist visitors at the close of each meeting...
...Howe hx* with their mailing lists...
...Saturday and Sunday, September 22nd and 23rd at the Winton Hotel...
...Tennessee Local Knoxville is on the map again and is going right to work...
...For convenience I will personalize the average wage earner of these figures...
...He is...
...Frank Crosswaith speaks Saturday, Sept...
...Dodge...
...Organizers have been maintained In 28 states, namely...
...National Executive Committeeman Jasper McLevy, candidate for Governor, was the main speaker...
...The supplement carries a good portrait of Thomas while the meeting is announced lm large bold face type...
...It's one of the many reasons why a real liberal will have nothing to do with the man or the collection of mental garbage that is called the Democratic Party...
...State Secretary...
...Banquet In Pittsburgh Local Allegheny will hold a campaign banquet Sunday...
...Sept...
...sive movement...
...And the man who won printed as endorsement for his candidacy a letter from an inmate ol the State penitentiary and another can' dldate for office who had lost his right arm (presumably, he wore it off histing liquor) printed a picture of himself and asked everyone to vote for him because he was a cripple...
...Newton...
...The Socialist Party of New Haven held a caucus Wednesday...
...Others are doing it, why not you...
...Recent issues of Pocatello papers contain news items, communications and articles by Cammans...
...Boston Common Sunday afternoon...
...Smith, declares Morris Hillquit, chairman of the Socialist Action Committee in a statement issued this week...
...Locals must file their reports with their State or District secretaries on or before November 21st...
...Ethel Kennedy, Magnolia...
...vague promises of 'farm aid' in one hand, definite pledges of a continuing high tariff in the other...
...Especially to laborites...
...Even in New York, almost half of the La Follette vote of 467.293 was cast in ¦ the Socialist columns...
...6th, L. N. Trigpen, Laurel: 7th, Mrs...
...6. Local Richmond will meet on Sept...
...In saying that the La Follette voters represented pre-eminently the type of independent voters who win resent the i suggestion of being delivered on bloc to any political party or candidates, is to show the impossibility of this latest pipe dream...
...Not only has it been demonstrated that the success of the party in Reading at the last election has done much to break down the prejudice against Socialism which formerly existed in the mindi of many rural people, but is also evident that farmers and factory woikers throughout Berks have been following the activities of the city administration with keen interest...
...Toledo is a very promising city as it used to poll a I large socialist vote and for several years it sent a Socialist to the City Council...
...They came and said it very clear...
...S. Kahan, E. Silverman and Joseph Freeman...
...One man thrsw his arms around the Socialist ~ndMata saying that he had been a Democrat bug that he had cast his last vote for a ejfa...
...You are Interested in how to obtain your living...
...Publicity for events of this kind fa DC8t accomplished by using The Kew leader for *u * advertising . Socialists Hear Congress Delegates Brussels Cpngress Reviewed—C ampaign Manager Reports Socialist Tickets Sure in 45 States f~|N Monday night of this week Socialist Party members of Greater New York packed the auditorium of the Rand School at a general membership meeting...
...while balancing two apples of Volstead modification and 'Strict law enforcement' on his head, is now promised the Progressive vote, neatly tied, to carry in his teeth...
...Gov...
...one at Grant Town, and both places gave him large crowds...
...There were never any Vares, Brennans or Murphys in the ProgresCampaign In W. Virginia Wins Voterts - j FAIRMOWT, W Ta—ftj a apaafJnW' campaign as the Socialist eaattSg 1st Governor, J. H. Snider is addressing'Ibm an<l sympathetic audiences...
...It will make the forces more compact to put over the "campaign...
...8. McOrilMs, State Secretary of the Socialist Partyf reports that papers have bean filed with the Secretary of State for the following state ticket: Governor, Howard Rose, Des Moines...
...Massachusetts Campaign The speaking dates for Mary Donovan Hapgood...
...Leonimster, Sept...
...When Thomas comes to Richmond we promise him the greatest audience we can possibly get together...
...Sept...
...Special situation, North Carolina and South Carolina...
...Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota...
...T,he Workman's Circle Educational Center of 72 Legion avenue are going to start a drive for a $5,000 fund to pay off a mortgage...
...But it would keep a privileged . and plundering few from grabbing and . holding all the wealth, while the many . are reduced to subjection and to waul, , Socialism is conservative...
...Meetings were held in five towns one night and three towns another night...
...But when his new-found supporters rise and protest that a part of the socalled "whispering campaign" against Smith is his connection with Tammany we stand and holler long and loud...
Vol. 7 • September 1928 • No. 40
