THRONGS CHEER THOMAS IN NEW ENGLAND AND JERSEY
Throngs Cheer Thomas in New England and Jersey 1,500 Hear Socialist In Northampton Xwo Large Meetings in Boston — Attacks Bigotry at Overflow Meeting in Springfield rfTr 4 Hew LrnSer...
...How, for instance, does the tariff help our highly paid building trade workers whose wages be cites...
...Rachel Psnken busy for an hour answering questions...
...Would Ignore Religions Issue In criticizing the religious issue, be declared, that despite the public clamor over intolerance and bigotry, bigotry is unfortunately not the monopoly of any particular class or group...
...At Ford Hall a capacity audience cheered his presendflnn of the Socialist views...
...Two full houses greeted Thcmas Tuesday evening in Boston...
...New Hampshire, which had not beard a Socialist speaker in many ¦jars...
...I have always known not only that you were not a Socialist but that you were philosophically a disbeliever to party government...
...The retention of undeveloped water sites by the government will not of Itself break the vicious and extortionate power of the growing private monopoly...
...We do not believe that any national group of workers can permanently prosper at the expense 'of, other workers...
...it is not merely an aggregation of houses, banks and railroads...
...Now there is a group of young Socialists in this high school and Marshall will have sympathetic backers to the debate which will take place two days from the time this is being written...
...The subject was, "Is Socialism Practical Today in the United States...
...We must elevate humanity to the first place in the national mind...
...Students from the colleges and high schols were present in noticeable numbers...
...Darrow stands on the same platform with them and speaks to the name of tolerance and progress...
...Hrlua Keller...
...Comrade Parsons informs me that every high school in Los Angeles has a Thomas and Maurer Club...
...QUESTION:—Do you see any fundamental difference between the k two old parties...
...8mlth stands fur contented poverty, while Mr...
...That is a reflection on the American people All he ever did lure was to get a Job ai food controller, telling as what not tt eat...
...Well, that's a fact—but it is not mentioned by anybody excep* the Socialists...
...I appreciate that your long fight for Muscle Shoals, at first stogie banded, makes that one issue of peculiar importance to you.: White we Socialists admire your service and share your resentment of President Coolldge's pocket veto and Mr...
...It has organized an effective distribution squad which has already distributed approximately a quarter of a million pieces of literature...
...Distinctly and clearly a large element of educated youth are headed in our direction throughout Southern California, and in this development the old Socialists see great hope for the movement in the future...
...After he was forced to leave to nil his engagement in Princeton, the crowd kept Mrs...
...Recently the Negro forum indorsed Thomas and Maurer...
...Smith, on the other hand, is a very different person He is all emotion and sentiment He means well, but be has no program, and he is to the hands of...
...In Springfield, the audience of more than 1,000 overflowed the halL Sands...
...Be hasn't had mind civllizatiji reaches its highest expression in a directors' meeting, where encouraging statistics are displayed and the dividend 's increased...
...The Governor himself ha* prostituted the Public Service Commission by using Commissioner Van Namee as turn own pre-convention campaign manager,'* Mr...
...We cannot reasonably hope to live to an interdependent world wherein we maintain the prohibitive rates for which the hide bound protectionist yearn.' on everything except raw materials which cannot be produced at home...
...Waldman Meets Darrow In Debate On Candidates fLARENCB DARROW came to Brookryn the other night to ten why he preferred Governor Smith over Norman Thomas and Herbert Hoover...
...What do we reed prohibition for...
...This time he argued that life was not worth living...
...rhlty House is especially beautiful now, "*m the trees and bushes seem to rest •tor an "exciting and busy summer" •"•n they entertained so many thousands " visitors...
...All these elements, old and new, united In a rare ovation to the national candidate, his manager and the local Socialist candidates...
...Comrade Parsons reports fine meetings in the Negro districts...
...Smith dropped his advocacy of the child labor amendment after the Massachusetts referendum...
...That may be another reason for his voting for Smith...
...to support of this charge he cited Cardinal O'Connell's bitter attack upon this measure during the course of*that campaign...
...About 400 attended the meeting...
...Any commission must start out committed in principle to high tariffs or low, to protection or an approach to free trade...
...Recently another such club was organized in the Whittier College by Comrade Parsons...
...He was willing fa 1430 to take either or both nominations Now he is running with a good chance for election if bis money holds out...
...It would be a splendid thing for the country if we bad a strong minority party with a wholly different outlook...
...3.—Finally we know that having got so far along on the protectionist track the United States cannot Jump to another, even if better, track without a wreck...
...The speech aroused the most intense interest, was vigorously applauded and drew from a high representative of the Edison company the following remark: "Mr...
...lu-ireds of oldtime Socialists from all parts of Los Angeles county who had been inactive since th...
...The Springfield Republican carried an Interesting two column account of the Thomas meeting In that city...
...After the speech the students and teachers almost carried the Socialist candidate off his feet as they crowded around him to shake his hand, congratulate him and express their sympathy and support, "We are with you in your work," said one professor, "and I mean what I am saying...
...It was a chef's job...
...Thomas charged that Governor Smith's Public Service Commission to New York has been a "notorious failure" to service to the consumers...
...Believe me, with personal regards, "Btocerely yours, "NORMAN THOMAS...
...That means that we must know who will make the contracts to case Oover- - nor Bmith is elected...
...It has arranged a most enlightening series of debates and meetings the outcome of which has caused intense jubilation among the local Socialists...
...Wsrking men everywhere are bee oral f aware that they are being exptottoa tor the benefit of ethers, and that they canBet be truly free amtaes they own tbesnsetves and their latMr...
...But there has been too much bigotry on both sides...
...We Socialist are Internationalists...
...Hoover's evasions of the issue, we cannot give Muscle Shoals the decisive place to our thinking that we give to building a party with a plan and a program for super power in general as well as for the other Issues that concern so vitally the interests of the farmers and workers with hand and brain...
...Another Socialist debate was won a few days later by Mrs...
...It's Hoover that rm against...
...At the former meeting "every member of the Executive Board of the City Club was present...
...Look at his record...
...Democracy simply means a sun*** deal, not only for every man and wo—an, bat also for every baby, that all children fh.n hay* eajmal rights to be bora well...
...Norman Thomas has spent his life to the betterment of the lives of the people Of his community His ideas are about two generations ahead of anything that revolves In the minds of Mr...
...The audience rocked with laughter as Waldman concluded: "A few years ago I heard Mr...
...We know that the striking thing about American "prosperity", such as it is, Is not our protective system—every tiny country of Europe has that—but the fact that to our own territory we established by the wisdom of our fathers the greatest internal free trade market between our states to be found to all the world...
...The Labor World, and many copies of The New Leader, were distributed...
...Newer elements, who have been attracted toward the movefnent by the present campaign were there in force...
...This question is the more pertinent because of the notorious failure of Governor Smith's own public service commission and transit commission to New York State to function efficiently to the service of the consumers...
...Mr...
...Raskob and Governor Smith between them have definitely gone beyond the Democratic platform In making the Democratic Party a high tariff party...
...It has increased the party membership in Los Angeles county from approximately 25 to about 500...
...The California Socialist campaign registers the high mark attained by Socialism on the Pacific coast since the World War in several respects...
...Tolerance deserve* better at -the bands of Clarence Darrow...
...Hoover's recent table attributing high American wages to our tariff is mostly bunk wholly unworthy of his reputation as an ecoonmist...
...This Is elementary, I know, but It has to be elementary to be understood clearly...
...Smith For Pious Poverty, Hoover Glorifies Wealth, Woodward Says In Quiz JOT...
...Darrow and the Social* ists is this: He believes to fighting for freedom to the courts, but forsakes the cause of liberty on election day...
...At the conclusion of the debate Darrow graciously congratulated Mrs...
...It was largely a meeting of trade unionists...
...Among its achievements are the following...
...All the forces ol intolerance were for Hoover, he said...
...Turning his attention to racial prejudice which he characterized as worse than religious bigotry, the Socialist leader indulged in another bit of reminiscence, recalling that in the South his attacks upon Rhflous intolerance bad been roundly applauded while his attacks upon racial bigotry had been greeted with profound •Hence...
...The guests are busy picking •Wes and other fruits, fishing, and hlkfc...
...This is a distinctly plutocratic body embracing representatives of the Firestone company, the Southern California Edison electric company and other big corporations...
...visit comrades and effect an organize tion for party and literature distribution purposes in much territory that had never known organisation of any kind before...
...They converted others...
...Darrow in another debate...
...Thomas spoke along the same line to a meeting at the New Jersey College of Women in New Brunswick in the afternoon...
...Since that time he has lived away from he United States, sweating cheap mine labor to Australia, China and South Africa...
...Forums Open Doors^d Party As a result of the good work in Los Angeles, evidences of Socialist growth are developing on all sides...
...In the course of his letter, Mr...
...the Democratic Negro-haters of the South, the Democratic party of the wartime espionage acts...
...This, he said, was the chief factor in the defeat of the proposal in this state...
...The Governor himself baa prostituted the Public Service Commission by using Commissioner Van Namee first as bis own pre-eonventJea manager and now as Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign manager...
...Any tariff change, up or down, produces temporary dislocation of the demand for workers...
...Irene Smith representing the Socialist party in a contest with Republican and Democratic speakers in Pasadena...
...John J. Raskob...
...It is noteworthy that Gov...
...Cottages have been equipped for the Pall •hd Winter...
...E. WOODWARD, the noted author, was recently cross-examined by The Jew York Telegram, on his political views...
...Do you know that every depend-nt person over the age of SO to the United States could be given a pension at a total cost lest than the interest on the war debt...
...These activities have opened every forum in Los Angeles county to the Socialists...
...Big Labor Audience Addressed Following the park meeting Maurer addressed more than a thousand persons in the Los Angeles Labor Auditorium...
...Think of old age insurance...
...Perhaps he is supporting Smith because be wants to prove his thesis...
...3 W. 16th street, Telephone, Chel•» »148...
...That was not a statesman's job...
...After condemning Protestant intolerance he turned his attention to Catholic bigotry and charged specifically that Catholic pressure of a type which is not legitimate brought atoat the defeat of the child iabor amendment in Massachusetts in 1924...
...They are using the question of prohibition as a smoke screen to keep other and more vital issues out of the public mind...
...Marshall, then a Democrat, and a young Republican were appointed to defend the Socialist party...
...Hoover denied it with a "•soon that he never used in denying ?bU he sat down to dine with Mr...
...At Brookside Park, Pasadena, Maurer's first meeting drew fully 2.000 enthusiastic, cheering listeners...
...New Yoik Is aupposed to be the most progressive city in the world...
...Hoover or Mr...
...Darrow espouses the cause ol Governor Smith and the Democratic Party to the name of tolerance," Mr Waldman declared...
...Thomas said in bis letter ti Senator Norris...
...a. **"*th never yet fell dead to the streets...
...Thomas said...
...I am not against the Catholic Church,—May God forbid...
...At one town, for Instance, she found quietly seated at a corner the'seUconstltuted nucleus of a street meeting which later attracted a good crowd...
...The Socialist candidate illustrated the struggles of the worker in modern capitalistic America by telling the significant and erecting story of his own struggles from boyhood up...
...Thomas found a Thomas for President Club" under the leadership of George Chalk In active and oa the job...
...Interest in Socialism is developing among the negro population...
...Darrow should know of the Democratic National Committee's recent statement that 'Governor Smith does not have, and never has had a Negro stenographer* and that hi the employment of Negroes by the Stats of New York, Governor Smith has employed Negroes 'only to fill such Jobs as they are given in the South, to wit: porters, janitors, charwomen, etc "It is but a few years since Mr...
...This nation is composed of people...
...If it weren't for the babies we'd never hsve beard of him...
...In the presence of these magnates the Socialist vice presidential candidate mercilessly lashed the inefficiency of big business government and explained the alms and work of the Socialists at Reading...
...He referred to the recent denial * the story that Mr...
...The students and instructors were completely won...
...We are not, however, old fashioned tree traders who believe to free trade as the sure cure for our economic ills...
...Through the insistence of the Socialists and her own good management she became the last speaker on the program and came off with flying colors before a large audience...
...2.—In particular we recognize that a high wage standard country, especially one moving toward social control, may have to protect some industries temporarily against capitalist assaults from low wage standard countries...
...Darrow was plainly taken by surprise by the vigor of Waldman's presentation...
...He hasn't voted since McKintey ran for president...
...That means revision downward...
...Students Interest Aroused The most significant .meeting of all was the one he:d in the University of California...
...At another town she was enabled to represent the Socialist party at a political meeting of all parties at the county fair...
...That was in Northampton, Mass., where more than yoo of the townspeople and college population turned out to hear Thomas...
...He lit- ' eraUy had to fight his way out of the crowd when he was through...
...Thomas recalled appearing on a local platform back m 1(19 or 1920 to plead the cause of selfdetermination for Ireland...
...I on the contrary believe to party responsibility...
...That same mntnr Thomas spoke in Dorchester, the action of the city where Joseph Bearak nude such a spectacular e»mpc*en last jeer...
...agencies to the leasing of publicly produced Power...
...because it has the tallest buildings, the most expensive hotels, and a larger crowd of wealthy idlers than any other community on earth...
...Early Tuesday...
...Later, I heard Mr...
...Their political th'"H"g runs on identical lines...
...Marshall's story is most Interesting...
...Especially prominent among these elements that are carrying away our literature and devouring it are teachers and students and members of the professions...
...The majority of the audience traveled more than fifteen miles to attend the c-.e-'.ing...
...This meeting was a triumph in two respects...
...But Mr...
...His conversion and the conversion of others came about in this way...
...Darrow has been through enough labor battles and free speech fights to know that the right to think, and not the right to drink is the big Issue for liberals...
...one of the most thoroughgoing and unscrupulous political gangs to America...
...Because It has more money then any other city...
...Somehow the American mind has become so entangled to delusions that it considers money and machinery more Important than men...
...Smith...
...Smith that if elected President he will not resort to similar policies...
...Steam heat has been in•taHed and other conveniences added to "* comforts of the guests...
...Los Angeles is demonstrating gloriously that the youth of the land today who are being educated and trained to think are the most fertile soil of Socialism...
...Hence our conclusion that peace and prosperity are to be promoted by lowering, not raising, economic barriers...
...Streak of Insanity* There is • streak of insanity In the whole idea of what is called modern progress...
...In the state-wide drive Lena Morrow Lewis, Cameron King and other . state officials have collected a "list of the citizens of California who registered as Socialists this year, and are making magnificent use of these names and addresses in a great campaign of circularizatlon, literature distribution and in the arrangement of meetings...
...have made the Democratic Party a high tariff party...
...The Socialist local campa'gn manager, Carl O. Parsons and his aides, were not able to get Maurer before the general body of students, but they arranged a meeting of the students and professors of the two principal classes in economics comprising an audience of over 200...
...His letter, as made public at the Socialist National Campaign Headquarters to New York City, follows: "My dear Senator Norris: "I have read with interest your statement to support of Governor ***"'th Mr own deep respect for you and the proprieties of my own position prevent me from challenging your Judgment...
...1 —What, If any, is Governor Smith's program for the super-power Industry as a whole...
...That was a nurse's Job...
...PaU or •fr...
...Waldman, who preceded Darrow, cleverly took Mr...
...Well...
...The Socialist candidate's question dealt with Smith's plan for the control of the entire super-power industry, with the absence to the Governor's speeches on water power of advocacy for preferential treatment for municipal power distributing agencies to the leasing of publicly-produced power, and with the problem of regulating transmitting companies to which Governor Smith would sell the publicly-generated power...
...He said hi was for Smith because he liked bis face and disliked Hoover's...
...have been able to almost entirely bar Socialist propaganda since the War and where they have even abandoned "nonpartisan!: in" and have become a part of the Smith machine in the present campaign...
...WOODWARD :-^-Not a bit...
...Ill tell you It has come about because American civilization is on the wrong track...
...At last reports it had 80 members...
...He should know that the Democratic Party is the party of racial intolerance to the South, the party of fundamentalism, the party of the Ku Khix Klan and of the war time espionage acts...
...Today we in the party headquarters had a magnificent Illustration of this fact...
...They are bringing to the Socialist headquarters every day representatives of the newer elements now being attracted here to Socialism...
...John M. Marshall, formerly of Reading, Pa., a young high school student of San Bernardino, came here for literature to aid In a three-sided debate on the respective merits of the Republican, Democratic and Socialist parties...
...The trouble with a good many of our liberals is that they never think of liberty until they think of liquor...
...Darrow should know that Governor Smith is the candidate of the open ahoppers like John J. Raskob and the Anaconda Copper Company...
...Waldman placed the •following bigots In the Democratic column behind Governor Smith: the bigots of the Fundamentalists south "who still think that the earth is flat and that the whale swallowed Jonah...
...QUESTION:—Of the three candidates, which fits your picture of * desirable President most completely f WOODWARD:—We have bad only three Presidents whose first thought was for humanity—and they were Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson...
...Los Angeles is undoubtedly the most active Socialist center in Californ la...
...Darrow battled the fundamentalist Democrats of Tennessee who bad made the state a laughing stock with its law against teaching evolution...
...cy —Why does Oovemor Smith say nothing about preferential treatment for municipal power distribuUns...
...j "Later be became a candidate...
...Ryland of the Church Federation here has come out for Socialism and is spreading the message among church people...
...on Monday, Thomas had a meeting in mnehester...
...I do not write, however, to tell you this but rather to ask your help to get from Governor Smith that clarification of his stand which he has refused to give to reply to my questions...
...It is seldom that I am Interested to nothing, but I am now...
...Just now I am not writing a manual of political science, no I shall limit my answer to what I consider the chief essential quality that a man should have to make a good President...
...On this latter program I need not dwell since it is specifically set forth in our platform...
...Maurer's speech was one of the most enlightening addresses I ever listened to...
...Daugherty...
...Norman Thomas doesn't...
...That is one reason why I intend to vote for him...
...The report, said, in part: Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate fcr President, spoke out plainly on "the three pernicious R's of this campaign— "ram, race and religion" before a capacity crowd at the State theater in the first appearance of his New England tour...
...This organization has since grown to more than 250...
...Palm Beach and the Riviera...
...Heckler, high school instructor on public debates...
...Hot for any one or Job or one party, but far any i job and amy party...
...Waldman, in reply, enumerated some of the bigots in Smith's camp...
...1 think the importance of these questions warrants me to making public my inquiry as it will certainly warrant you in making public your answer...
...Prominent In bringing about these encouraging conditions are changing economic conditions—the tightening of the colls of private monopoly—and the good work of the national and state Socialist parties...
...A downward revision should be accompanied by our full program for the prevention or relief of unemployment and the positive improvement of labor conditions...
...Moreover, we are economists...
...It is running backward Instead of forward...
...I write to ask your help to get fra Governor Smith that r 1? ""IratVm cX his stand which be has thus tar refused to give...
...Hoover had once ••need with a Negro woman, saying: "I ¦ouldn't regard it as any deep disgrace if had...
...What guarantees have you been able to get from Mr...
...Thomas addressed a well-attended meeting of the Harvard Union, there his pointed sallies at liberals who nt voting for Smith or Hoover drew nond after round of laughter and applause...
...It has aroused greater public interest...
...He argued that the world is growing worse instead of better...
...Maurer's powerful address on the labor movement and the true road to labor emancipation created a profound impression on his fellow trade unionists...
...Two of the most wildly enthusiastic meetings of the campaign greeted Thomas in New Jersey...
...It has carried the Socialist message to some thirty of the most progressive unions and to numerous shops and factories in noon day meeting and literature distributions and to many' progressive and civic organizations...
...He spoie of the Socialist work in Reading, analysed and exposed Ihe sham fight between Hoover and Smith, explained the present destructive tendencies' of capitalism, particularly the displacement of labor and the growing unemployment problem and climaxed his remarks with a clear and forceful definition of Socialism, whicb^ drew wild and prolonged cheering...
...And Mr...
...The enthusiasm of the audience and the applause and cheering amounted to an ovation...
...Here are the questions and answers: QUESTION:—What qualifications should a man possess, according to you, to be the most effective President of the United States...
...N.J.Meetings Hear Thomas On Tariff Wildly Enthusiastic College Audiences Greet Candidate at New Brunswick and Princeton f*T a Hew Leader OMTsepanaent) TJRINCTSTON, N. J.—Governor Smith and his national chairman...
...A provision for this was, as I recall It, an important feature of your bilL "O —It is, of course, vital that the transmitting companies be property regulated by .^eri tract and regulatory commissions union we want to repeat the experience of San Francisco at Hetcb Hetchy and make private transmitting companies the sole beneficiaries, of government economy to production...
...evening came one of the finest nettings of the campaign...
...Ideas would circulate, people would begin to acquire some social knowledge and a social conscience...
...Maurer end Goebel spoko at four meetings In and near Los Ange'.es, all of which were successful beyond expectations...
...President NeUson of Smith College opened the meeting and introduced Mary Donovan Hapgood, Socialist candidate for governor is Massachusetts, as chairman...
...Thontas continued...
...A larger love or a larger loyalty is the best remedy for this sort of thing, Mr...
...Darrow debate...
...Throngs Cheer Thomas in New England and Jersey 1,500 Hear Socialist In Northampton Xwo Large Meetings in Boston — Attacks Bigotry at Overflow Meeting in Springfield rfTr 4 Hew LrnSer (VrWH«lt>fl pOSTON—Norman Thomas entered the 0 yggt Up of his campaign as Socialist gmdldate for president with a series of prge snd enthusiastic meetings in New garland...
...1 have just returned from the South and from what I have seen there I am convinced that this action was one of the sorriest things Massachusetts ever did," be declared...
...We have been fortunate enough to have had three Presidents of this type...
...The difference between Mr...
...Unity House Ready For Winter Guests The Unity House of the International ladles Garment Workers' Union, Forest Is being enjoyed by guests who •Jend their vacation or week-end there...
...nich affinity with the seal of man, g —»» however broadcast will catch g**""f *»d produce Its hundred/old., Paataav.- .-J Maurer Visit Caps Record-Breaking Socialist Campaign Students and Labor Men Aroused to Intense Interest in Movement—Vice-Presidential Candidate Addressed Four Enthusiastic Meetings By Murray E. King mjja angeles.—The most interesting and promising Socialist campaign in Southern California since the T'irid War has just been galvanized into renewed activity by the visit of James H. Maurer, vice presidential candidate and bis able manager, George H. Goebel...
...Darrow concluded with the gloomy reflection that the United States "mighl outlive Hoover's election...
...Most important of all it has developed an interest in Socialism amopig college and high school students, such as has never been known before, even in the palmiest days of Socialism before the World War...
...Chairman Raskob and Owen D. Young as Cabinet officers make contracts with companies with which Raskob and Young as power magnates are naturally sympathetic...
...After the meeting the club sent to New York Socialist headquarters a hurry order for large quantities of literature...
...On the following day Maurer addressed the League of Women voters at the headquarters of the Los Angeles City Club and a meeting of students and professors at the University of California...
...Hoover stands for glorified wealth, polo matches...
...Everybody who wants liquor, can get It, and the bootlegging Industry has greatly improved in efficiency in even the last two years...
...The first requisite to a President is a feeling for humanity...
...Darrow's principal arguments away from under him He spoke of bigotry—against which Darrow has a brilliant record of combat...
...Maurer's personality and bis speech completely captivated the audience...
...However, that teems perfectly natural to him, for the thinking he has ever done has been to the terms of politics...
...How did all this come about...
...He Is undoubtedly well qualified to be rice president of the United States...
...The Socialist party alone is free from this stigBa...
...tr^e only solution k to ignore the religious issue, the speaker asterted...
...Here are some of the points that I wish tor the sake of the < country you would help clear, up...
...And that was not a statesman'i job...
...And this for three reasons: "I.—We know that something more than free trade within a nation or between nations Is necessary for the social control of the world's economic resources...
...The ashtevetaent of such economic free doss steads to.prospect—and at no distant date—as the revatetienary etomax of the age...
...They said he fed the Belgian babies...
...But New York City Is not fit to live in...
...He opened his talk by saying that he had nothing against Thomas...
...The audience of students of the large New Jersey College for Women and of Rutgers College Mitch he addressed in New Brunswick early in the afternoon was saatched by the capacity crowd in Alexander HalL Princeton, where Thomas was graduated with honors years ago...
...Sunday, the Socialist candidate had two (aS bouses...
...The intelligent leaders among both the Democrats and Republicans all realize that clearly enough...
...WOODWARD:—Tour newspaper must be extremely generous with space to expect a full answer to that question...
...Discussing tariff for the first time, Thomas said: "Let us frankly face the fact that the tariff question can never be submitted to a commission for abstract scientific determination...
...The established contact with Comrade E. N. Richardson, a veteran San Bernardino Socialist and the resulting study of Socialism converted them both...
...Consider Mr Hoover...
...It has established contacts with a greater number of old-time Socialists...
...He is a sort of adding machine that has learned to talkMost of the American people do not exist to his consciousness...
...Lewis On Campaign Trip State Secretary, Comrade Lena Morrow Lewis, in a recent organization trip southward from San Francisco to Los Angeles, ; found the possession of this list of registered Socialist voters of supreme imporM»Vt»W, b« »° smote aMtjttogs...
...Last week 45.000 copies of the state Socialist paper...
...and the Democrats of the North, including Governor Smith, who had betrayed the national child labor amendment...
...We have seen high tariff rates help the monopolists at the cost of farmers and consumers generally...
...I prefer to debate with them and the Republicans not the method of working out the high tariff principle but the principle Itself...
...This is a significant achievement in Los Angeles where the trade union leader...
...The debate In question was arranged, but no representative of the Socialist party were found...
...Considering the low state of the organization and the interest in Socialism at the beginning of the campaign, the Los Angeles campaign committee, headed by Comrade Carl O. Parsons and backed by many willing comrades is achieving wonders...
...During the recent visit of Lena Morrow Lewis here she was kep't busy the greater part of the time filling speaking engagements at the request of various women's clubs...
...Will, perchance...
...Whatever contributes directly toward the welfare of men, women and children is sound and whatever doesn't is unsound, no matter what deep and subtle arguments are used to support It...
...and if Norman Thomas, the present Socialirt candidate, were elected he would make a fourth...
...Calls Smith Baactienal QUESTION:—In .your opinion does the prohibition issue deserve the great emphasis that is being laid on it, or are other issues, such as public ownership of public utilities, old age and unemployment insurance, the abolition of injunctions in labor disputes and civil liberties, more importantT WOODWARD:—The prohibition issue is not of the slightest importance...
...I cannot be against this and for this...
...We are not investigating natural phenomena by agreed standards and tests...
...At Princeton, though the meeting was in competition with one of the biggest athletic events ' of the year, the crowd came early and stayed late...
...Socialist candidate for Governor of New York, spoke for the Socialists and Meyer Stein brink upheld the Republican side...
...If the overwhelming approval of the audience means anything Comrade Lewis clearly won the debate...
...The people all out the city an taking Sootaliot Jisstaleus iiairtflr...
...All's well with the world as long as dividends continue...
...They also see beautiful sunrises and ¦•Mets which are so inspiring In the Blue *dge Mountains where Unity House Is heated...
...Calls Hoover "Nothing" "I am interested to Hoover," be said...
...Recently while adressing an audience be held the Bible in one hand and the Socialist platform to the other and exclaimed...
...Waldman, who was present, on her husband baring "won the debate.'* The audience had come to hear Darrow but remained to cheer Waldman, though It was by no means a Socialist audience...
...The reception from the pubic and tbe press was most gratifying...
...Thomas challenged contentions of Herbert Hoover, Republican candidate for President, that the high tariff has brought high wages to American labor...
...His Plea For Irish Freedom Referring to his only previous, speaking engagement in this city, Mr...
...One of her most successful meetings was a debate with Prof...
...Those who wish to come out for a vacaUon or week-end, should for their own |*Menlence, apply to the Unity House QOce...
...I was a Protestant," he said, "but I resented the idea that a difference in religion should be a reason for denying to the Irish people the light of self-government...
...Tariff revision should therefore be carefully undertaken to the interest not of domestic monopolists on the one hand or American investors in foreign securities on the other, but of the farmers and workers as consumers and lovers of good international relations...
...Darrow's address was pert of a threecornered discussion to which Louis Waldman...
...Thomas Asks Data of Smith On Power Urges Senator Norris to Obtain Answers on Three Questions TN view of Senator George W. Norris' rndorsemsnt of Governor Smith's car Willacy, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, has written the Nebraska Senator urging him to obtain from the Governor answers to three questions dealing with the development and control of Water Power...
...Darrow's fellow Democrats of Tennessee believe that the earth is flat and that the Whale swallowed Jonah...
...Although he had lived In Reading and had seen Jim Maurer, he was not a Socialist until after he attended the San Bernardino high school...
...He ended by saying, "If Norman Thomas is elected it will be alright with me...
...All Schools Organised Only about a month ago, our local campaign manager Parsons organized a Thomas and Maurer Club in the University of California with a membership of about 50...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for President, declared in an address here Tuesday before the student body and townspeople of Princeton...
...The New Brunswick audience could not bear enough of Thomas...
...Mrs...
...We do not believe that'any nation can long sell to its neighbors If it will not buy from them...
...Above all, the present campaign has been more successful in reaching new elements, especially young student elements, than any other Socialist campaign since the World War...
...It has drawn more Into the organization...
...The remedy for Protestant bigotry, deplorable as it may be, is not to turn to another kind of bigotry...
...All he was Interested to was defeating Hoover...
...we Socialists, on the other hand, fight for liberty every day through the unions snd through our party, but want to strike a blow at the basis of Intolerance at the ballot box...
...And why are English workers under nominal free trade better paid than French and German workers under high protection If tariff is the chief source of high wages...
...War were present...
Vol. 7 • November 1928 • No. 46
