NEW YORK CITY SOCIALIST VOTE RISES TO 50,117
New York City Socialist Vote Rises to 50,117 Coleman Given 56,091 in City, Waldman 48,615— Discrepancy in Bronx Vote Given Thomas and Coleman Lend Support to Charge of Vote Stealing There New...
...In the fall, William Griffin of the college was the leading Socialist spirit in the community...
...It was evident that the Republican had the audience with him...
...In the Bronx, which proportionately, we feel is the strongest Socialist borough, the figures show we have been victims of serious frauds...
...The only J**1* verdict of the election in both "™*»It guilty of the use of public mon**ith wholesale and successful Intent ¦ deceive.'" Returning to the U. S. *«XICO CITY—Santiago Igleslas, *tJu*h Secretary of the Pan-Ameri** federation of Labor, who visited recently on behalf of his organT*0 »nd of the American Federation is on his way back to Washing™B'to order to inform both labor organ**»» about the situation prevailing in jr*0 By close co-operation with the |?*Jc*a Government and the Mexican r** federations, Mr...
...Ways and means of retaining a full time state organizer in the field Is the chief aim of the conference...
...Igleslas was able ***aaUne thoroughly the political, eco?*¦ and labor conditions of Mexico...
...A Republican advertisement even placed all the workers In the "silkstocking class...
...Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt...
...Local Bergen County is congratulating Itself that comrade Charlotte Bohlin's accident did not prove fatal, as was at first feared It would be, and the local comrades report satisfactory improvement in her condition, though still in the hospital...
...The straw vote taken by the Crimson, Harvard's daily newspaper, showed one hundred and fifty votes cast for Thomas as compared with ten for Debs hi 1990...
...When Crosswaith concluded the crowd shouted "Socialist, Socialist," repeatedly and when the last speaker was through, 82 Negroes, ten of them women, handed in their names and addresses for the organization of a Socialist branch...
...la the i«wmw< •* m coantry aufca It a stody U aaw discard aad cwU Thomas Well-Received By the Harvard Union CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—One hundred and four students attended the luncheon given Norman Thomas last week at the Harvard Union...
...These one hundred and fifty votes amounted to J.70 per cent of the number cast...
...advertised in the Philadelphia Ledger that the business failures for last August were over 56 million dollars, an increase over August ot last year of 48 per cent...
...The tower tnst people will be entitled to make a pater claim...
...Behind every vote and every representative that is brought into the Riksdag stands a labor movement In continuous growth...
...He grew more attentive, that is, he tried to watch two captains, one chairman, and three tally clerks all at once...
...The number of men asking tor alms in the streets of New York has Increased and the resources of relief organizations will be taxed this winter to care for starving men...
...Macy sees it, literature is not a thing by itself, the product of the thoughts or feelings of Individual Authors, but an expression of the intellectual and emotional life of whole classes and nations...
...Draw...
...The facts are that workers in rural and urban industry are piling up enormous fortunes for the enjoyment of the owners and through agencies of publicity which serve this owning class they are cultivating the fiction of a whole nation well off...
...There is no man** from the public which is clear and "*ktakable...
...Hoover is probaMf more heavily committed and has W a longer period of intimate contact with the power people than Smith, who ta» I doubtful shade in this round—an *4vtntage that In time he would lose by tuning all benefits of government econary In production over to the transmitohg companies...
...also a brief Interview with FresiiMOtnaa, On leaving Mexico...
...The members of the club hope to make of it a permanent forum for political opinion, in a section of the country where minority parties seldom find expression...
...The post had arranged a symposium with representatives of the three leading parties as the speakers...
...So even though the Communist scare be pure bluff...
...Louis within four or five weeks to organize the branch and he ¦wl}\ have another large meeting...
...No Issue any more...
...I—Bigotry...
...Hoover made statettBbj that have Induced Senator Johnea and the State of California to vote tec him...
...Neither had any real issues or had anything of substance to offer the Negro...
...John M. Moore was the active leader of the group during the spring...
...Large areas of the textile industry tell the same story...
...1.—Prohibition...
...Whether the outcome of the September elections be success or defeat, the trend of the movement Is pointing towards ultimate victory...
...The reports we have received from the few watchers we had in the Bronx polling places bear out our fears...
...Both men entered tbfc round with the enforced blindness "at results from the two-party system "oo» any man who wants office must vtak at his friends now and then...
...Smith thought Tammany *** food because it had lasted a long Hoover's eight-year silence on the Jjrraptlon of the government by his col"» the Cabinet differed only In "Pee from Smith's silence about Tam••"Js slower, more persistent methods, ** a longer period of time...
...A meeting every day and sometimes two were arranged for Jursek in St...
...He also endeavored to work up hatred against the Vice-Presidential candidate of the Democrats because he is a resident of Arkansas, the scene of some brutal lynchings...
...So many promises to ^monistic factions within each party ton been made that Hoover will not be 4k to say, without putting the tongue g£ the cheek, that his election signifies 0f definite decision on any "issue," fronts said...
...This does not mean a feverish outburst of activity before an election, but merely an extension of the educational and organization work carried on by the movement the year round in order to back up the practical politics of Swedish labor...
...The trade unions of the country were caught in the mesh of capitalist politics by their leaders serving either one or the other group of the two-party machine...
...LOUIS, Mo.—Under the auspices of a Negro post of the American Legion, what is the most exciting political meeting In many years was held in the auditorium of Vashan High School on Oct 29...
...The Cooperative Movement of Sweden is making it Increasingly hot for organised capital in that country and In its range of membership and of Interest the educational organization of Swedish labor is a model to all the world...
...Immediately, the board grew moral...
...I'm sure Mr...
...said the Democratic captain, "your man .can't get In anyway, give us a break—I''l make It even and cross six more ballots, next to Schmuck's name...
...A collection ot $20 was taken...
...an anthracite miner In Pennsylvania also slew his head off with a shotgun because it inability to obtain work, and similar iragedles are reported from week to week...
...The vote showed an increase of more than 2,000 over the 1926 vote given the party's candidate for governor in the city and an increase of more than 6,000 which the city gave Mr...
...Our showing throughout the city, with the exception of the Bronx, shows that we have more than held our own in an election where the personal following of Al Smith and the Issues of religion played havoc with the voters...
...Virtually free scholarships in this course have been offered to the number of 1 JO in all for the peasant yaw...
...They were seven thousand votes saved from the clutches of the over ardent Smith and Hoover captains ready to stab and steal for their beloved standard bearers...
...Alexander Goldenweiser's lectures dealing with "National Psychologies" on Tuesday evenings and with "The Story of Religion" on Wednesdays, while arranged as courses, are of such nature that each lecture can be appreciated separately...
...The Democratic oraetor made a more intelligent plea for the Democratic tlckI et but the audience hissed him a number of times before he could proceed...
...The Norman Thomas meeting in Pas- j sale and in Newark on Thursday of last week were very successful, there being record attendance at both places...
...He alleged that possibly 5,000 votes cast for Mr...
...It is no wonder that they themselves believe in the Red Scare...
...And every day is showing up a greater state of division as between the bourgeois parties themselves and even between the members of the present Coalition Government...
...Double fool...
...The blank ballots were called blank...
...Just to speed things up," she said— and our watcher thought It was very nice to do such a thing...
...This organization figured out a "minimum health and decency budget" for ten clues throughout the country and this minimum ranges from $2,067 for Schenectady to $2,539 in San Francisco...
...his final public statement but one jjrt election, Thomas said that regard•— ot who was elected, not one single frouid be settled...
...Only a few * groups In the upper section of the skilled trades manage to obtain this healthy and decency wage...
...Others are to start early in November...
...ajnes is supporting him on the ground Oat nothing can be done about it...
...Norman Thomas, Socialist Presidential Nominee, 15 East 40th Street...
...MBS...
...The Republican Party had emancipated the Negro, it is the Negro's friend and fosters prosperity...
...and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted...
...Parkville Students Rallied to Thomas Undismayed by little or no encouragement from the center of car*- iign activity, the Thomas->for-Prc...
...This movement Is now concentrating its energies on the elections...
...Other election districts had cleverer crooks, and so they were sure to get away with it...
...C. H. Phillips, for the Republicans and C. Vashan for the Democrats...
...The idea that as jnsident...
...In 1926 we received but 21,000 votes there, while in 1924 we received but 17,000 votes...
...This section of the appeal is set in italic but there is nothing to Indicate Its origin...
...John Kobl, a fine worker in Duluth...
...Madox Ford has observed, and New Yorkers would would like to understand America can hardly do better than attend the lectures on American Literature which John Macy is giving Monday evenings...
...Senate Borah is supporting him because he kit mi him to be bone dry...
...Paul...
...Chairman," his eager voice rang out, "the lady here has voted for six people...
...He enumerated M eeven points on which the Republl_ Democratic parties came to a fig deadlock...
...New York City Socialist Vote Rises to 50,117 Coleman Given 56,091 in City, Waldman 48,615— Discrepancy in Bronx Vote Given Thomas and Coleman Lend Support to Charge of Vote Stealing There New York Gty Socialist Vote MANHATTAN A-°' 1W8 IKS 1924 Thomas Waldmu Colemaa Pas'™ Th~rru 1 657 S77 898 689 47S 2 298 rtS S45 5« 478 ¦ *« *©4 880 TS9 21« 4 85Z S90 JS7 885 610 * 288 850 807 187 174 8 877 84S i,070 1,2*0 7 845 742 S45 155 251 8 677 898 765 1,296 1,144 9 791 829 165 277 10 760 504 660 144 649 11 '*» 982 711 177 814 12 41* 429 520 247 689 15 «U 541 586 172 868 14 «1 401 417 289 524 15 907 589 676 654 565 18 800 50* 581 457 847 I1 445 494 585 889 1,647 18 468 441 460 769 1,242 19 8»S 874 674 210 688 29 244 282 287 282 486 21 884 910 815 116 176 22 907 845 885 226 278 *8 1,428 2,048 685 642 589 14,771 14,484 14,586 11,402 12,652 KINGS COUNTY...
...We hope so, anyway...
...Both were guilty of both kinds of ttderance...
...Big Electoral Campaign by Swedish Labor Automobiles With Loudspeakers Feature Political Struggle of Working Class to Control Parliament...
...In the same building, two other election districts, not manned by Socialist watchers, were through two hours before we were...
...Justice Schmuck would hardly care to be elected by stealing votes...
...What happened at those districts that were not named by watchers can be magined from the happenings at one district In the Plfth A. D. In this district, the Republicans and Democrats began like cats and dogs, but by the middle of the count they seemed to have grown kindly to one another...
...Both candidates ducked 8a obligation of committing themselves a the misuse of the injunction...
...The next big event in the party life of the State is the conference called for Sunday, Dec...
...The bituminous coal fields .remain a scene of hideous sacrifice for many thousands of miners and their families...
...Masses of the farmers in the West and the Southwest represent a broken generation of tollers...
...At one corner of the table, one of the Republican ladies began counting ballots...
...After March •h, these forces will balance each other jsjt about as they have done in the past, as nothing will have been settled...
...Slgmund M. Sllnlm, one of the best known Socialists of the Northwest, also spoke and was warmly received...
...The Democrats showed their xetenpt ef the consumers in general by throwing away their attack on specially frMkged Industries...
...Both sides aeat be disqualified...
...A chain of labor dallies throughout the country would be of big service and yet the trade union movement has not established one such publication...
...t^-Porelgn Policy...
...Jursek's handling of the Communists who asked many questions left nothing to be desired...
...The Republicans showed tetr contempt of the farmers' lntellisnoe by promising them more tariff on ¦at products, which are not affected by Us tariff...
...S.—Water Power...
...About 2,500 people were preeent and many were turned away...
...The Communist Scare is being extensively utilized in order to counteract the advance of labor at the polls...
...BERTHA MILDON" Negroes Cheer Socialist Stand In St...
...Hoover talked the *u** nonsense about preparedness but is "to* for and accepting both pacifist m Big Navy support...
...Twenty-one pamphlets on all the central questions of Swedish politics, disarmament, peace In Industry, land and labor, the working woman, taxes and inheritance taxes, social insurance, collections of election songs set to popular tunes and being sold, and in tact help to cover the campaign expenses...
...You're on kid," said the cop...
...Call the wagon...
...The Rand School will be glad to send bullet* ns containing full information to all who desire them...
...Over and above what yon (aid and your faultless delivery throbbed and glowjd the substance of all reality...
...As Mr...
...Fought in »*» J mire groggy...
...The course is being given by Mrs...
...R Sept...
...Thus in- the fourth week of October the American Credit-Indemnity Co...
...Not molested by Socialist watchers, they worked fast 'and efficiently...
...Crosswaith was a stranger and began by saying that his opponents had made his task very easy...
...Unhappily for the Swedish bourgeois parties the Swedish Communist movement Is so lnslgnlcant as to make this slogan, elsewhere so effective, slightly ridiculous...
...Cicero...
...eeraa...
...Of especial importance is the Workers' Training Course, designed for working ; eopie who are organized on either the economic or the political field and who have enterprise enough to undertake a systematic and fairly Intensive course ot study for six months, in order to get a good grasp of economic and social questions and develop themselves for efficient work in the movement...
...Jersey Socialists Begin Fight Anew Depfimber 2nd With open air meetings continued right up to the day before election, with a campaign truck parading through Newark and Jersey City, and indoor meetings wherever possible, the New Jersey Socialists finished an ardous but encouraging campaign...
...Samuel A. Beardsley visited Trenton last Sunday evening to represent the Party in a three cornered symposium at the Y. M. H. A. August Claessens spoke in Trenton the previous weeki The local comrades there are expected to assume again the prominent place in the counsels of the party they usjdtj occupy and this holds good for the whole of the southern part of the state...
...Questionable figures were cited but chief reliance was placed upon the number of savings bank depositors and owners of automobiles in this country...
...ins that he was forced to run on a paste that it would be wonderful to 0rt a man iff the White House with i bee chance to talk wet...
...presided...
...even with watchers around...
...The audience was completely with the Socialist...
...August Claessens, secretary of the New York Socialists, declared that "serious frauds" had been committed in Bronx County...
...In the same week a broker committed suicide by leaping from the fourteenth floor of an offles building because of heavy losses...
...The following day the meeting was a topic of general gossip and as Crosswaith appeared in the streets he was hailed on all sides as the bearer of the only message that means liberation for the Negro masses of America...
...In numbers the party has progressed from 149,429 at the time of the Marseilles Congress (1925) to 202,338 at the Brussels Congress of 1928...
...In the face of all the evidence the Republican orators and editors were able to sell the idea of 'prosperity" to large numbers of people...
...On those seven main is¦* the campaign was a draw...
...Prom then on, they were scared Into honesty...
...No intelligent person believes that Johnesse paid for this expensive advertisement which shows the /complete surrender of these leaders to the capitalism of the East...
...This sum falls far short of what has been estimated to be the minimum requirement for a family of five...
...There is no doubt that we were overlooked...
...He has made other statements tat Invite every power trust owner in lot country to subsidize him as heaven's Fittest gift to them...
...Thomas In that county had been stolen...
...These are but a few of the courses being given...
...In states like West Virginia newspapers carry columns upon columns of notices of sheriff sales...
...The Trade Unions have progressed from 340.518 to 492,029...
...He counted over the padlocked ¦ issues...
...Crosswaith devoted his forty minutes to an impassioned address on this theme and had to beg his audience not to take up his time by cheering...
...As the evening wore on, the tally on the local officers was being taken and the number of blank ballots increased...
...Thomas when he ran for Governor in 1024...
...Grace Hansome, who brings to her work a knowledge of working people's problems that will make the courses very valuable...
...1 240 240 841 284 869 2 290 258 407 295 361 3 278 258 415 324 370 4 408 814 582 887 407 5 890 850 549 458 557 6 209 182 262 201 372 1306 1,602 2,506 1399 2,486 RICHMOND COUNTY A.D...
...Out on a political desert year meswge last evening came to me as water rod shade...
...Senator Borah rill be entitled to make a claim that Hoover change his position...
...It would have lost ¦"a rotes...
...Socialists have a few and in the coming years will have more, but they are ss yet a voice in the wilderness compared to the power of the posassing classes...
...There are prominent utility men in his camp who will be able to make a strong claim that he was not «o the up-and-up with them if he later nam out for government ownership and operation of transmission and distribute from these sites...
...While two years ago we were given 12,000 votes in the Bronx, this year's figures give Mr...
...Labor Korean Figaros How far short of "prosperity" $1,560 a year is may be gathered by comparing it with the estimates made by the Labor Bureau, Inc., in October of last year...
...The Republicans were ttroofwt on religious intolerance, the Demerits strongest on racial in tolerate...
...This final piece of Socialist publicity concludes a notable campaign waged by the party partly through newspapers, a phase of ortimaiional workvtbat has 1mm »ow tfa<*xaarhiT done, tsaii M Duluth Had Stirring Wind-up of Campaign...
...Other methods of Intensifying propaganda, especially work »mong the young, are to be considered...
...The use of paper ballots in place of machines was apparently taken full advantage of by the Tammany-appointed election boards...
...igMteted that ha waaJiiah^^raU-^ One of Thousands Of Responses to Radio Address by Thomas Laaawawas, Pa...
...Prosperity On Tap Only The fact is that economic conditions lave been very bad for millions of work:rs, farmers and the lower middle class, rhe great capitalist corporations at the op on the whole have continued to reap he immense profits which they have )een receiving for years but living for he masses, except for certain sections in „he skilled trades, has been uncertain and for many It has been a tragedy...
...2, to increase the number of branches...
...There is a depth of poverty In these regions that reminds the student of the early eighties...
...Smith could change 200 dry nO* in Congress was speedily shown up...
...I am voting for you...
...A series of Ill-conceived measures In respect of unemployment ber.sflt and in legislation professedly for "peace in Industry" have, moreover, made them certain of the profound mistrust of the working class of Sweden...
...His faith In Republican womankind was shaken a little when he saw her using her pencil where some absentminded voter had forgotten to makb his choice...
...Thomas 7,000...
...Corruption...
...a New Jersey farmer was Kept In Jail for debt while his wife and seven children suffered for want of food...
...Both candidates **ked the issue...
...The other two parties were represented by university men...
...1—Tariff...
...The experience of the campaign shows the special importance of more extensive and influential means of publicity to shatter the fictions that can be marketed by those wher have big stakes in preserving present conditions...
...Mr...
...About gaaj thirds at thaw havokak-eady beam awarded, and applesBallyhoo On 'Prosperity' Swung Vote Radio and Press Success ¦ fully Marketed False Reports of People's WellBeing The tremendous power of the press and the radio for -"-p'-g views in conflict with the world tn which we live had ample demonstration during the political campaign, Every Republican orator and newspaper chanted* praises of "prosperity" over and over again...
...It is from this point of view that be takes up, not only writers whom everybody knows at least by name, but also some of the less known but very Interesting figures of the American scene...
...There Republicans and Democrats were at peace...
...Louis Crosswaith Riddles Claims of Old Parties to Support of Race (By a New Leader Correspondent) ! OT...
...Crosswaith's opponents each had ten minutes to conclude but they labored without effect...
...The working majority which the elections may bring Swedish labor will in this case mean more than the mere fortunes of the electoral system and the passing whim of the electorate...
...And the Socialist watcher thought that was terrible...
...Karl C. Jursek, Assistant National Temple in Duluth before a fine audience Campaign Manager, spoke at the Moose in spite ot the fact that Smith and Borah spoke that Wednesday night over a national hook-up and that there were several other local political rallies ot the old parties...
...I object...
...In those election districts, the Socialist vote was small...
...Hudson I County also continued up to the last minute to wage as vigorous a campaign as the limitations of workers and of funds permitted...
...Those votes will either be declared blank, or this board will be under arrest...
...The only possible verdict of the *7^«n the Democratic and Republican Joes he asserted is "guilty of the use Jjotfk: monies with wholesale and suc*2oltntent to deceive...
...On the night of the election there was a gathering of the workers in local headquarters In Newark, (where a radio had been installed the previous evening to hear the last broadcasting of Comrade rhomes) to listen to election returns, and Many Bronx Votes Stolen from Thomas Claessens Fears 5,000 Socialist Ballots Were Taken From Party by Election Thieves ,->r *T<HE total of 50,117 votes rolled up for Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for president, was the cause of much elation around New York Socialist headquarters...
...Twenty million dollars in party and ¦uieiuntil expenditures in this electa nave brought no verdict on anyjjat" he said...
...C. H. Cammans, Executive secretary of the Socialist Party, in a double column statement in the newspapers, handles these "progressive" leaders without gloves...
...My two sisters, distressed over political situation, dreading the moment of sction, went this morning to vote fladly for Norman Thomas, Do send me literature...
...The Republican made the typical address which the Negro has heard since the first election of Lincoln...
...We have Increased our vote In Brooklyn to 25,000...
...The wet Repgotlcan papers in the East are supportm Hoover on the ground that reasons i economy will prevent him from enjsttog the Prohibition law anyhow...
...15th and 21st, the elections | for the Second Chamber of the I Swedish Riksdag are to take place...
...Big Vote Is Looked for fby a Kew Leader CorressoBdeat) MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.—The campaign in Minnesota closed with fine meetings in Duluth, Minneapolis and St...
...1928 1926 1924 Thomas YValdmaa Coleman Panken Thoma 1 845 818 854 186 159 2 6,154 8,821 8,868 8,280 2,246 5 217 202 195 112 118 4 582 508 568 744 568 5 1,111 589 60S 299 317 6 84| . 985 1,208 1,608 1,460 7 506 444 486 108 190 8 158 176 160 58 96 9 2,188 1,946 1,799 926 704 10 581 560 590 77 159 11 684 770 879 288 288 12 807 676 719 366 365 16 364 399 886 475 476 14 578 689 682 1,488 970 15 252 219 224 70 201 16 2,751 2,786 3,207 2,568 1,668 17 647 789 875 454 519 18 2,781 2,972 8,884 3,083 2,115 19 402 402 439 613 692 20 1,528 908 928 254 378 31 1,819 1,789 1,952 1,088 600 22 1,975 1,978 465 2,127 1,684 28 1,084 1,219 1 AOS 1347 1396 23,215 24,239 25,878 21356 17,869 BRONX COUNTY AD...
...Paul and Minneapolis right up to the election...
...The Increase in Manhattan was also marked, as was the increase in Richmond...
...Pot Hoover to discuss corruption would have ¦«ant an attack the could not afford on «B the Black Sox of Washington who are "Worting him now...
...Both perttes ducked a real program on unemftoyment...
...It's going to be the last time that such oversight will occur...
...Branches should meet and Instruct delegates...
...This made the Socialist watcher feel happy, but then suspicious...
...A subscription of $55 was collected by Jursek for the National Campaign Fund as well as an additional one for the local campaign fund of 135 00...
...1928 1986 1924 Thomas Waldman Coleman Panken Thomr.s 1 144 124 132 100 ISO 2 280 70 78 90 ISO 378 194 210 190 260 RECAPITULATION A. D. 1928 1928 1924 Thomas Waldman Coleman Panken Thomas New York 14,771 14,434 14,586 11,402 12,652 Brooklyn 25,245 24,280 23,878 21,956 17,869 Bronx 7,921 8,155 12,911 12,990 11,685 Queens 1,806 1,602 2,506 1399 2,486 Richmond 874 194 210 190 260 ' Totals .. 50,117 48,615 56,091 48,446 44352 Idaho "Progressives" Sealed Doom With Appeal for Smith ray a New Leader Correesonieat) BOISE, Idaho.—A last minute halfpage advertisement appealing to "Fellow Progressives, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists" to support Governor Smith and the Democratic ticket appeared in the Idaho Statesman Sunday morning...
...Lectures and Study Classes Offered by Rand School "How to Keep Well" is the subject of a new course which Is being launched at the Rand School, 7 East 15th street...
...1928 1926 1924 Thomas Waldman Coleman Panken Thorn: 1 404 401 493 872 1,085 2 978 1,148 1,981 2,051 1,566 3 942 874 1,378 1,874 1,695 4 1,007 1,014 1,564 2,106 2,128 5 1,211 1,182 1,774 2,299 1,749 6 1,118 1,007 1,691 732 647 7 1,265 1,225 1358 1,873 1,907 • 996 1,804 2,177 1,182 908 7,921 8,155 12,911 12,990 11,685 QUEENS COUNTY A.D...
...All this wss accepted by Republicans at least and yet one might read mast any day certain items in the press that would shock even the average Babbitt complacency...
...Even for those who have some steady employment the facts do not Justify the rosy view of the politicians...
...bat when those whe are eon...
...The class meets at 2 p. m. on Saturdays, and those who are Interested in getting* such a knowledge of the human body and its environments as will help them to cultivate positive health as wen ss escape disease should be on hand Saturday, so as to get a good start...
...I knew nothing of Socialism Out I never fall to follow where reality leads me...
...In any event the trade unions demonstrated that they cannot be a political force while they are held as captives of the capitalistic political parties...
...It must be remembered that in the Bronx, as in many Manhattan assembly districts, the Republican party is but a little brother to Tammany...
...No "1—Labor...
...Pewer than half the election districts were watched...
...Of j its 230 members at present 104 are Sodali Democrats and 5 are Communists...
...But only the 'careful watching of Socialist watchers rescued the Thomas votes...
...A gain of 7 seats would accordingly mean a working majority for the labor movement in Sweden...
...The average wage throughout the United - States is between $25 and $30 a week and at the highest figure this gives an annual wage of $1,560...
...1928 1926 1924 Thomas Waldman Coleman Panken Thoma...
...If It were possible to obtain a recount of the Bronx vote we feel confident that possibly 5,000 new Thomas votes would be found...
...Crosswaith Will return to St...
...This is the boasted "prosperity" over which fat politicians rejoiced in the recent political campaign...
...was even more indefinite on the "tUt of Nations, debts and reparations JJ* eas a mere ramshackle party behind "ta- No decision...
...Frank Crosswaith of New York City, representative of the Socialist Party, easily captured the admiration of the audience...
...We might not have been robbed tn some places...
...X Club at Parkville, Mo., kept up a steady fight in behalf of the Socialist candidate...
...Sunday he had two meetings...
...All through the middle states and In New England there are cities and towns each with thousands out of work and no prospect ot anything better than a hand-to-mouth existence the coming winter...
...A Watcher's Story Of The Bronx CEVEN thousand nln- hundred votes were cast in the Bronx, New York City, for Norman Thomas...
...One speaker had dug up the bones of Lincoln and the other the bones of Jefferson...
...Large quantities of posters and literature were sent throughout the state...
...A cigarette given to him earlier in the evening was reaping Its just reward...
...As the speaker warmed up to his subject he argued that the Negro worker has the same problems and Interests the white worker has...
...Smith has only gone as ar as government operation of a few titer power sites...
...The leaders attached to the Hoover cause passed on the "prosperity" bunk as they received it from the politicians while the Smith labor leaders were either too feeble to counter with the facts or they were not permitted to use them...
...Listen, kid...
...Automobiles with loud speakers are scouring the country...
...itb...
...Monday, the day before election, he addressed 400 students and the satire faculty of Hamlin* UnlToraity and In the evening a St Imtl ratty tor TTi flSB.se and bfsursi aad Vote Settled No Issues, Thomas Says j<9eja]jst Candidate Analryes Discussion of Issues Round by Round OB jeren major Issues of the campaign Jkrr (he Republican nor Democratic won an advantage over the other the election Just ended, Norman *M, socialist candidate for Presl2"deelared In seven campaign ad**'!fT m Manhattan and Brooklyn last zZpj...
...Many of those present were not Socialists, but Norman Thomas seemed to make his message felt, for large sales of literature took place after the meeting...
...When the Socialist speaker concluded the wild enthusiasm Indicated that the Republican had lost the audience while the Democrat never had a chance...
...Part of the appeal Is taken from an editorial In The New Republic of a few weeks ago which appealed for support of Smith...
...That there are men in all conn trie* who get their Urine by war and by keepinr up the tMamal of nations is aa ahaefct— as it is trae...
...o every point raised in the camPeople who believe in diametrically 2j*WTe positions have been allowed Persuaded to believe that each party J^dtte is for them...
...New York is not America" as Mr...
...Officer, the board is crooked...
...It was signed by Prank E. John ease, former prominent leader of the third party which In this state a few years ago obtained representation in the legislature on the ground that two leading parties were corrupt and owned by the exploiters of farmers and city workers...
Vol. 7 • November 1928 • No. 47
