THOMAS NAMED FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK SOLOMON AND LEE ALSO ON CITY TICKET
Thomas Named tor Mayor of New York Solomon and Lee Also on City Ticket Fighting Platform Drawn Up at Enthusiastic Convention—Labor Pledged Aid . 'T'HERE was determination and enthusiasm...
...15th, 1873, in Dubuque, Iowa, and attended the University of Minnesota...
...These tenements, condemned as far back as 1901, at the present rate of progress, will continue In use for another thirty years...
...The City of New Tork under proper taxation can afford to pay for the services it needs...
...Inefficiency, extravagance and corruption have become the accepted rule...
...From the opening of the convention, the atmosphere of victory generated by the British Labor Party was evident...
...it cannot afford the wastes and graft for which Tammany budget methods are responsible...
...We would keep both production and distribution of power ia public hands...
...The trade unions are in tragic need of political power, he said...
...Twelve years sgo, in its municipal platform, Tammany pledged the public ownership ard operation of transit facilities,-forced to do this by Socialist agitation: After all these years of continuous Tammany rule the city is still in the clutches of the...
...As steps toward this solution we demand: 1. The elimination of the graft, inefficiency and discrimination found in our market places...
...FOR CONTROLLER—CHARLES SOLOMON...
...i^j^ She does "rugged individual"j^OSs under the capitalist sys'^gh Bearer did exactly right in *Wiag the wife of the colored Con****», DePriest...
...manager of the Pocketbook Workers Union, was called to the platform for a few words...
...Walker, in the future as in the past, will seek popularity by shouting for a policy five-cent fare...
...Crime is essentially a social problem in the solution of which it is imperative courageously to attack such evils as slums, lack of playgrounds and recreation facilities, deficiencies in the educational system, inadequacies in health supervision, unemployment and other evils growing out of prevailing economic and social injustice...
...The facts Ihs engineers won in theory _** Tuamacy Board of Estimate sWP*h . increase from »2,600 to This paper increase had K"aa Bade real and every effort ^BSha of Technical Men to set it ^aR**aM*ed by the Mayor or Mr...
...And in an early tomorrow, we shall be sending out word to the world that a Socialist government rules the United States...
...Shoe Strikers Drop Communists, Silence Foster By.T a Mew Leader Correspondent) BOSTON,—Monday saw the beginning of the eleventh week of the Boston shoe strike with prospects for a complete settlement in the near future fairly bright The Commusist attempts to create dissension in the ranks of the strikers ended abrupUy when two Communist party members were removed from the positions they held in the union by an overwhelming majority vote of the strikers...
...He was bom OcJ...
...The more outstanding of these problems are: Transit jyEW YORK'S transit problem cries aloud for Immediate and energetic solution...
...Another beautiful example of Tammany methods is its handling of the emergency rent situation...
...That, means we must have a party to cany out this philosophy and program...
...Therefore we favor a plan similar to thafc which has benefited small home owners elsewhere for progressively' putting a higher burden of taxation on land than on buildings and improvements to the land...
...Recapture Delay Coats $53,000,000 In spite of recommendations made by special counsel to the Transit Commission (in line with the demands of the Socialist Party in the last municipal campaign) to give notice to the traction companies of intention to recapture the city-owned subways, the Mayor has permitted the city-owned subways to continue to be' exploited by the private traction companies to their enrichment...
...Progress has practically come to a standstill because the power of government lies with the employers...
...Amidst wild cheering, which included a 28-minute demonstration at the mention of the name of Norman Thomas as the candidate for Mayor, the following ticket was put in the field to carry the Socialist banner in the campaign soon to open: FOB MAYOR — NORMAN THOMAS...
...Platform la Adopted With the nominations out of the way, the convention turned'its attention to framing of a platform on which a committee had been hard at work for two days, and a sub-corn- » mlttee for a month previously...
...Many of the schools are overcrowded...
...s> need a philosophy and program in tap interest of the workers with hand ant...
...2. Popular election of magistrates and the right of jury trial in the magistrates' courts upon, demand...
...It does not even enforce such obviously necessary standards as proper fireproofing of stairways, windows in every room, a toilet for every family, and abolition of the use of cellars for dwellings...
...By this conduct the Mayo£ is responsible for the waste of over *52,000,000, of the city's money and the crippling of the city's credit to the extent of over $300,000,000...
...author of "The Conscientious Objector," the "Challenge of War" and "What is Industrial Democracy...
...End Old-law Tenements 3. The abolition of old law tenements in which one-third of our population still lives...
...Thomas is chairman of the Emergency Committee for Strikers Relief, a director of the League for Industrial...
...You will not be slow to decide who is responsible for their presence before legislative committees...
...It can do nobody who is right any harm...
...Appointments to the magistrates' bench are uniformly made without regard to professional experience and equipment, or capacity for service to the community, and primarily on the basis of designation by district leaders motivated only by political considerations...
...The Constructive Program We favor: 1. The establishment of a unified system of transportation to be managed and operated without profit by a public transit corporation entirely controlled by the people and the transit employees on the lines, in the shops and in the offices...
...Foster Sper, has thrown some interesting light on the relations between Southern mill town ministers and the textile companies, in the following letter written to D. E. Patterson, president of the South Carolina State Federation of Labor: "I have read with interest your committee's report on the Cotton Mill situation, etc., in South Carolina...
...The telegram was also signed by G. H. Markland, president of the Elisabethton, Tennessee, local of the United Textile Workers of America...
...President William Green and VicePresident Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, which has thrown its support behind the impending strike, and President Benjamin Bcnlesirger of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, who rose from his sick-bed to address his followers, spoke at the strike demonstration...
...demanded that the city administration live up to contracts calling for payment of union rates of pay on city work...
...Moreover we pledge ourselves to a just and scientific system of taxation...
...Many of the buildings are out-of-date and badly equipped...
...Most of them said ptassH do nothing unless the FedI^SasaaDnsnt would restore public ah to hmnsdiate lease and exploiNever mind about posterity MPjMStare...
...Similar demonstration came when S A. De Witt named Solomon for Controller, and August Claeasena proposed Lee for President of the Board of Aldermen...
...In 1918, he joined Ahe Socialist Party, and was its nominee for Governor of New York State in 1924 and later for Mayor of New York City in 192S...
...Biilings and the Centralia victims...
...We pledge ourselves to the following program: 1. A scientific zoning of the city with proper provision for parks and playgrounds...
...Those unable to get in, will vote all day Friday at various halls designated in Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx...
...Through these all was the declaration of the m~^Htr* Party's readiness to aid the trad* unions' struggles^and the hope of the party that the unions would accept more progressive policies and methods...
...2. A continuance of the emergency rent laws for the protection of tenants in the lowest rent-paying groups...
...No adequate provision is made for children, who, on account of physical or mental peculiarities, or for other causes, do not fit into a standardized pattern...
...4) And lastly: have you noticed that when there is pending any legialatlon affecting the question of employment in the mills, or the condition of the mill villages, that there are usually on hand mm pastors, also mill village community workers (whose salaries are paid by the companies) and thes...
...it will require cooperation between the city...
...If in support |^ «0«r«<iM the c:>ry entineers Ji and other construction |g*fjtoreed to strike, their cause I BP***4 tta fault wul be Walker's...
...The State Housing law of 1926 providing for limited dividend companies is the failure that we predicted at the time of its enactment Mayor Walker's alternative plan of housing built by philanthropic capital on land acquired by the city through excess condemnation has as yet built not one single eapartment...
...Tammany's Anti-Labor Policy We indict Tammany for its antilabor policy which is largely responsible for the company union on the Interborough Rapid Transit system...
...The United Textile Workers is affiliated with the American Federation of Labor...
...The housu_g authority, to this end, should be empowered to carry on slum demo ition and the erection of new houses to be rented at cost...
...At the root of these evils lies the bureaucratic control of the school system, which subordinates educational purposes to the interests of business and the political machine...
...At the front was a beautiful poster at Ramsay Max Donald, British Socialist Prime Minister...
...In n aakJBf of the tariff there has ha *» principle at all...
...The Republican Legislature would give over our power interests to private corporation...
...Later when William Z. Foster tried to address the advertised meeting of the Trade Union Educational League, his statements concerning the strike and its leaders were met so often by shouts of "lies" from the rank and file of the strikers that he was not able to continue, rebellion started in Elizabeth ton, N. Y. Socialist Platform Pledges Construction Of Homes, Municipal Transit And Ending Of Corruption Destruction of Tammany Alliance With Crime Demanded — Clean-Up of Lower Courts Urged — Would Make Campaign Step in Building ^National Party of Socialism (Socialist Psrtv Platform for the New York Citv Municipal Election of 1929) THE Socialist Party of New York proposes here the ^rst steps towards the building of a new city...
...Chicago recently had the best Soclalis' picnic for years...
...urged support of the Socialist national executive committee's coming drive for a large organization fund...
...jif aaaiBj courage in face of Z**>tation to try to straddle the ij^a order to appease tie South President wants to luild 2**^8publican Party...
...Lee declared, "If we should need encouragement outside of the strength of our own...
...The tendency of the system is all towards servility and standardization...
...Less than half of this increase can be accounted for by increases in salaries or by the constructive social services of the city...
...A mere gtKtfea hi armaments will not in as hag res, be enough if imperial aensi so am unchecked...
...ta For TJnemploj-mewt Belief S. We pledge ourselves in the war against unemployment to the establishment of adequate public employment exchanges, of a state system ef unemployment insurance and to Stint aad municipal provisions for the oat of public works to provide employment in dull times...
...It is useless to condemn eld housing unless decent new housing can be provided...
...Kelly and Mr...
...Although Mayor Walker expressly promised that his election would mean immediate relief, traction has been designedly continued as a political issue...
...President Green's and the A. F. of L.'s executive council's visit to West Point was deplored as an encouragement of militarism...
...3) In addition to this, in scores of villages in this state these pastors receive checks monthly, quar" terly, or annually from the mm companies...
...Many of the presidents general managers, superintendents, and overseers are fine men: there is no question of that But my opinion is that the pastors, who often possess considerable influence with "the help," should not be supported even in part thus...
...29, 1889, In New York City: is a graduate of the Brooklyn Law School...
...The Program on Police and Courts To rehabilitate our police department and to win for our inferior criminal courts public respect and confidence, and to convert both into agencies of social usefulness we propose: 1. The reorganization of the police department and its administration free from graft, favoritism and political domination...
...There is a widespread public conviction that our inferior criminal courts are used by politicians to dispense political favors...
...but the logical, true-blue, died-in-thewool five-cent candidate is the Socialist, Norman Thomas...
...Mill Owners Lure Ministers With Cash, Preacher Says f ROSS ANCHOR...
...The hall was hung with a score or more of striking British Labor Party campaign posters...
...convictions, outside of the candidates and the platform we will adopt here, we will be able to turn to the story of the British Labor Party...
...FOR PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN—ALGERNON LEE...
...This alliance is born of partisan politics and comes to the surface in such disgraceful episodes as the Rothstein murder, an affair which involves those high in our political circles and over which there has been drawn a hurried veil of secrecy and evasion . To meet public indignation over inefficiency and corruption in the police department, the Mayor appointed a window-dressing Police Commissioner, who promptly proceeded to divert public attention from the avowed purpose of his appointment by spectacular and vain conduct with respect to traffic, sensational and lawless raids and dragnet arrests, direction of bis subordinates involving violence against the person and invasion of basic civil rights...
...While an honest and competent administration of the police department is necessary in coping with the criminal, repression and punishment are inadequate...
...The List of Scandals As we hail the victory of our comrades in Great Britain we are reminded that their rise to power followed many years application of municipal Socialism in the cities and counties of Great Britain...
...and the taxpayers still have to make up the deficit...
...Resolutions greeted the British Labor Party...
...Courts of equity, without regard to the political complexion of their incumbents, issue drastic injunctions against the workers, destructive of their rights and undermining the very existence of their organizations...
...West Point Visit Criticized A resolution on the needle trades situation pledged full support to the cloakmakers and the pocketbook makers in the event they find a strike necessary...
...He is a member of the American Federation of Teachers...
...South Carolina.— The pastor of the local Methodist Church...
...Socialist affairs are looking up...
...Algernon Lee's keynote address was brought to a halt by wild cheering when, towards the close of his talk, he referred to Mac Donald and the British Labor Party...
...Another resolution voiced support of the engineers employed by the Board of Transportation and urged the removal of John H. Delaney, head of the board, because of his anti union activities...
...With the threatened arrest of the entire board, he was finally seated...
...It has been my good fortune to hold several null pastorates, and I have often been the recipient of substantial favors at the hands of the mill companies...
...The Queens Boroug-u sewer and paving scandal, the Equitable Bus scandal, the milk scandal, the pushcart scandal, the Street Cleaning Department Scandal, the demoralization of the police, as evidenced by the unpunished Rothatein murder and other killings—these are but a few of the more notorious offences of the City Administration against caramon decency...
...We propose the foregoing prograft in order to make the city goveiaawir a means of emancipation rather test exploitation...
...Not the gansssat the elimination of armg-gji sa ear Canadian border was EhmMs friendship with our neighL| tfet north...
...I em glad ' that I flatly'refused to do so...
...Wa demand again, aad pledge our elected representatives to work for, the complete abolition of the practice of issuing injunctions in Labor disputes, aad pending the realization of this object, the modification of the law "(1) To provide against issuance of injunctions in Labor disputes before full aad complete trial of the issues, and (2) Jury Trials in proceedings to punish for contempt for alleged violation of Injunction orders, such trials to be presided over by a judge other than the one issuln* fiy injunction...
...nearly always testify before committees that conditions in the mills, and in the villages, are excellent...
...6. All schools to be provided with well-equipped and up-to-date playgrounds . 7. The development of Experimental Classes as a means to the improvement of educational methods...
...He was subsequently twice reelected by the voters...
...Thus it may get contributions from landlords and votes from their victims unless...
...paM have lost more among Hf* than he could have gained "Ha" the Southern fire eaters who ffjysttece him...
...Both the old parties have served obediently the real estate interests which own a large share In them...
...Nevertheless it is *n# I**1* tilAt Pres:rient Hoover •gist WUrest anything so drastic Safest Prime Minister Mac Donald, 0af had of a government not repMsehf the majority, will not feel ggpsMtr opinion in his own country ¦jM sack so logical a suggestion...
...General Welfare 1. We pledge ourselves to the mmtenance of the highest standards el community health which requires est only the bousing, parka and r*r* grounds we have advocated but u efficient and modern system of sears disposal and an efficient and son-pah itical health and hospital departmasf We deplore the fact that in adepusf our recommendations for the erectsa| of a special hospital department tosg Walker Administration packed Jill department with political appointee...
...Scarcely a department of the Walker administration is without its scandal...
...It would be a city where those who are making its wealth by work of hand and brain would receive their full rewards in the shape of greater opportunities for leisure and decent living standards...
...Heartened by the pledge of 150.000 toward a strike fund from the United Hebrew Trades and the promises of thousands more from other labor and sympathetic organizations, Acting President David Dubinsky of the International Union and Isidor Nagler, Manager of the New York Joint Board, are proceeding with strike preparations...
...Witness the school board primaries in Los Angeles and elections in Miwaukee...
...nnowi earlier proposal for frf*^ ^ the size of navies and for #**J2aanoent of »ome kind of P'^Vffirty to compare vessels MgELa sise, armament, speed, £jE_7tonaeetion General Dawes *^»aerfectiy true things about •JSTliexpecUng naval officers to -ft.,* navy . We' hope that the gig continue in this courteasehV vein and not try any •Jf^ Keria" stuff on the Labor '^^Ln*} In other words we hope Will forget the follies of KEptHetsn past " ^. l&SSpltcant than anything Mr...
...These candidates were the unanimous choice of the 150 delegates, whose attendance was supplemented by the presence of from 200 to 300 visitors...
...CHARLES SOLOMON, for Controller, was four times elected to the New York State legislature from the 23rd Assembly District...
...The struggle to which we summon the people of New Tork is for complete economic freedom and social Justice...
...We recall that it was due to the Socialist ideals that inspired the workers and leaders in this work that these unions set an inspiring example to the workers throughout the country...
...We urge the needle trade unions once again to resume their position as (he vanguard of progressive unionism...
...Solomon and Lee Outstanding Spokesmen for the Socialist Cause NORMAN THOMAS, for Mayor, was the Socialist candidate for.president in 192S...
...I aa> proud of the party and proud of the platform, socialists don't fall for the ab* surd Idea that non-partisan good government is all we need in cities...
...Thomas, in 1910, became associate pastor of the fashionable Brick Presbyterian Church or...
...The houses are usually among the bast in the villages, and water and lights are also free...
...member of the Executive Committee of the Civil Liberties Union...
...A democrat as S serially a progressive like JnSSr Dill, for instance, votes assst Sssater Borah's well meant nthsasShly vague effort to limit Mttefsrm products because he...
...More recently at a conference at Lake Geneva...
...The teachers, too frequently, are subjected to a cramping routine and a mean-spirited censorship fatal to professional enthusiasm and self-respect...
...Its field is individual as wet" as political...
...Thomas and the Socialists are is earnest...
...To the making of our Party we summon those who see with us a city of the future, very different indeed from the New York of 1829...
...The best platform we've ever bad," was the comment on all sides...
...Probably Mr...
...Complete elimination of censorship over the political, religious, and economic views of the teachers...
...We pledge ourselves to their elimination...
...As a consequence this important tribunal has been dangerously lowered in the respect and confidence of the community...
...Indeed, the victims should wake up to what is happening...
...Elisabethton Textile Union Greets Convention Of N. Y. Socialists: Urges a Labor Party Organisation of a labor party in the United States was urged by William F. Kelly, vice-president of the United Textile Workers of America, in a telegram greeting the N. Y. C. Socialist convention received by Norman Thomas, the Socialist candidate for mayor of New York City...
...2. The Board of Superintendents to be replaced by a representative supervisory council composed of District Superintendents, Directors of Bureaus and Divisions, principals, and teachers freely elected by the members of these respective groups...
...the shameless treatment of the city engineers in their struggle for decent wages...
...The five-cent fare can be justified only on the theory that the city should toke over and operate the city's transportation as a public convenience, as it maintains the city's park system, its waterworks and its streets and highways...
...Cloakmakers able to fain admittance into the Armory were handed strike ballots which they deported as they left...
...What must be done and done now...
...Tbeatricalism, Hysteria, Lawlessness" While scores of homicides remain unsolved and crime flourishes, the outstanding reaction of the Mayor and bis Commissioner is theatricalism, hysteria and open advocacy of lawlessness...
...Markland follows: "The Elizabeth ton local of the United Textile Workers of America send to you and your brothers meetings in the work to give American labor a political party...
...8. The merit-system of appointment and promotion to be observed in spirit ss weQ as in totter...
...It serves the employing class and can serve no one else...
...Hmt Tariff jfjjUiui nicely General Dawes may wSkMpma, that tariff bill which :aBw the tender care of Senator nsjt nth (row these hot days in TsJhetm higher and faster than agnsissa cannot help but intensify Memflrwiil irritation against us to fehst sot only cf trade but of the (¦art en which peace depends...
...More than ever, the public is forced to endure the Indecency and actual physical torture of daily travel in our shockingly overcrowded, privately managed transit system...
...Thinking that perhaps you do not know certain facts I am writing to say: (1) Seventy-five to ninety per cent of the mill operatives in South Carolina are members of either the Baptist or the Methodist chinch...
...had a spirit and an Intelligence that were magnificent...
...2. The establishment of such terminal, farmers, wholesale and retail markets as may be required to supply the consumer of the city with food in the most scientific and inexpensive manner . 5. The setting up of public agencies, cooperative or municipal, for the supply of milk and ice at cost...
...Including those at Amsterdam, Stuttgart, the Hague, and Frankfort...
...students from nine states running from Ohio is North Dakota showed an smiling Interest in what I had to say about Socialism Last but not least our municipal convention in New York, hot weather and all...
...3. Publie defenders in the criminal courts to afford equal protection under the law...
...He edited a number of Socialist papers, including the Worker (1899 to 1908) and the Call (1908 to 1909...
...associate editor of "The Nation" and "The New Leader...
...Otherwise, the freedom that shoud characterise the ministry is made more or less difficult, to say the least , "I am not the only pastor who bsa, been directly requested to- protest pending legislation inimical to the financial interest of she companies, and helpful to the operatives...
...rmf say will be a personal ^jjb* between Ramsay Mac-ft ant President Hoover . All . —gfc fjr the reduction of navies, previously pointed out...
...By allowing the law to lapse it gave the landlords a chance to raise rents ta Harlem and elsewhere...
...For the five-cent fare is essentially a socialist group and the socialists are the logical group to carry out such a policy...
...Support was pledged to the Southern textile workers, and suppression of civil rights in Elizabethton and Gastonia was denounced...
...A reorganization of our system of marketing in accordance with this principle cannot be accomplished in a day...
...It must include the *f tion as well as the city and stats, , No single victory can be more significant or heartening than a greet vote at the next election for floenflat City and state candidate*, ptodfal not merely to our specific mesas** of relief but to the building of a flB> tant political party as an effectiw'hg strumerrt for our emancipation...
...Education »N the vital matter of public education...
...For Special Tax on Realty 2. Recapture of the city-built subways and the releasing of over $300,000.000 now invested in the old subways for the immediate construction of new subways and other public improvements...
...When McAllister Coleman, chairman of the committee, completed reading of the statement program a round at vigorous applause went around the hall...
...The telegram, received from Mr...
...He was born Sept...
...4. As adequate number of ungraded and vocational classes to be provided for pupils unsuited to regular work...
...Responsibility for the half-million dollar Equitable Bus scandal and the failure to provide adequate bus transportation must also be laid at the door of the Mayor...
...New York falls far short of the duty which every modern community owes to its children...
...it shamefully discred|Hla an employer...
...4. Municipal housing...
...and Mrs...
...Food and Markets The people of New Tork have successfully solved their water problem by treating it as a matter ef public concern...
...along with the £y St white Congressmen at the White House reception...
...Political parties not represented in the Board of Aldermen shall choose members of the Board through their Executive Committees on the proportionate basis of the vote cast . There shall also be representatives on the Board directly chosen by the people...
...9. Reorganization of the training of teachers so as to raise professional standards and especially to equip future teachers with knowledge of social and economic conditions...
...Such lines shall be built as rapidly as possible for the relief of the people...
...Cloak Union Voting For A Walkout Demonstration of 10,000 Workers Precedes Probable Strike of 30,000 in New York A DEMONSTRATION of eloakmakers jammed the huge auditorium ef the 71st Regiment Armory at 4 P. M., Thursday, as a preliminary to a walkout of 30.000 garment workers in protest against conditions of labor within the industry...
...we might have recovered ifcjjt.afth reasonable care and ¦¦¦ajr* Private exploiters want JJ»hey want when they want it...
...Except for some philanthropic effort and the success of some cooperative ventures nothing has been done on this problem in the last four years...
...DePnest g** race but to the whole district elected her husband...
...The telegram was so as extent a. personal tribute to Herman Thomas, to whom the telegram was addressed,.tor his weak In raising rands for the Rayon The resolutions committee, chair* mined by Edward Levtnson, prop as ei a number of resolutions destine with the trade unions...
...State and Federal Governments and the encouragement of consumers' and farmers' cooperatives as well as of municipal enterprises...
...The politicians, both municipal and State, have fed us with promises...
...Only coordinated action by nation, states and cities to put super-power under public ownership will avail...
...2) In nearly all the South Carolina mill villages the pastors of the above named denominations are furnished booses free...
...Lee has been educational director of the Rand School of Social Science since 1909...
...Brooklyn...
...Yet it is fair to 'H*aSgt that Pres...
...Re resigned to become pastor uf the East Harlem Presbyterian Church in a neighborhood of struggling masses...
...Not only our slums hut the packing box housing in new sections of the city are a disgrace which would not be tolerated by any progressive European city...
...We Socialists have always advocated the principle of excess condemnation but the housing situation will never be solved by the few spectacular ventures on the East Side even if the Mayor's so-called plana ever get beyond the stage of vote-catching talk...
...In this state and municipal campaign we pledge ourselves to the following specific measures: 1. Expert investigation of the breakdown of regulation of all public utilities in New Tork State under laws passed and commissions appointed by old party politicians, fEspecially we demand investigation, looking, if necessary, to the removal of the puDlic service commissioners who permitted the merger of the Brooklyn Edison and Consolidated Gas without any guarantee at all that the benefits of the resultant economies shall go to the consumers...
...Injunctions and Picketing The rights of organized labor on the picket lines and in the courts are flagrantly disregarded...
...Considering this splendid history, the Socialist Party condemns that fanatical group, organized as Communist nuclei and despite its record of frightful destruction in the unions, has ventured upon a policy of splitting the unions, and making united action in the face of the employers difficult...
...He was secretary to the late Congressman Meyer London, secretary of the Socialist delegation in the Board of Aldermen, and was the Socialist candidate for Lieutenant Governor in 1924 and for Controller of New York City in 1925...
...At the same time, the convention called on these unions to resume their old position as the leaders of progressive trade unionism...
...they believe in public ownership sad operation...
...Police and Courts qUR police department is shockingly demoralized...
...Direct representation shall also be given to the employees on the directorate...
...the continuance of the shocking third degree methods of arresting suspects who have no political Influences...
...Our strike has taught us to elect henceforth men who will strive for industrial democracy.''' TIMELY TOPICS By Norman Thomas EL^— Uoover ^llttDonald ^oslPOR DAWES* eagerly y~*Lgi speech...
...Taxation and Budget In ten years of Democratic administration the city budget of New Tork has risen over 100 percent to a total of about $600,000,000...
...transit trust...
...The strike call will be issued as soon as possible after a referendum ballot has been taken...
...We recall the dynamic power of the socialist spirit in building unions in this industry where other methods had failed and to the extent that we can aid in reviving this idealism all our resources and institutions are at the service of the workers in the industry whatever the emergency or need may be...
...e.xEvfcVtBS abolition of navies and ggggsrisation of narrow waterK^lhat would be a real saving (Jg^ay, a real lessening of the gafesfssspicion and hate...
...The change in Mayors by Tammany since the last municipal campaign has brought no change in the transit situation except to make it worse...
...Never mind that ac-_ apex to the great expert, Profesffj^at' Kansas, "it is doubtful *jjSsrwe have realized 10cr of the ^¦tfthU...
...We pledge the support of the Socialist Party to these unions in their effort to rebuild an dto recover the old idealism that made them a conspicuous power in the labor movement...
...Th failure of the Mayor to adopt a policy with respect to the new billion dollar city transit system will deliver us up more completely to the mercies of the transit interests which have outrageously fleeced us in years gone by...
...It will not be otherwise in America...
...Anywould probably have been Jpsg run bad politics...
...Thomas Named tor Mayor of New York Solomon and Lee Also on City Ticket Fighting Platform Drawn Up at Enthusiastic Convention—Labor Pledged Aid . 'T'HERE was determination and enthusiasm unequalled in many years at the New York City Socialist convention which met last weekend at the Peoples House...
...to the appraisal of real estate at its full value, ss directed by law and to the principle that society which alone creates the rental value of land should receive that which it creates...
...He was born November 30, 18*4, to Marion, Ohio...
...brain from cities up to nation...
...Persistent arrests of workers engaged to lawful picketing aad their conviction with avidly in the magistrates' courts are the order of the day...
...Two resolutions expressing regret at the recent deaths of Alice Hall Cassidy and Peter J. Flanagan were adopted by a rising silent vote...
...ALGERNON LEE, for President of the Board of Aldermen, was a member of the New York Board of Aldermen from 1918 to 1921...
...6. The formation of a Food Commission containing adequate representation from labor, technical experts and housewives to take charge of the foregoing city food services...
...a« we expected, }KrS'** be an elaboration of...
...By efficient management and 'he elimination of private profits and the present unnecessary rentals, the five-cent fare can, and shall be maintained...
...It is only thus that our Canadian neighbors enjoy a rate for domestic users of about one-third of v.-hat we are forced to pay by the power trust...
...PUp nay hope for real reduction f-nsst emament and in the atmcggaa of redaction of armament we BB/hto hope for progress in solving Sg issstlnni in which American ¦j ahhb interests clash...
...They should be knitted together with the existing lines, transfers being given at appropriate points...
...3. New lines shall be financed partly out of monies available and made available under this plan, partly out of fares and partly out of assessments against property directly benefited...
...State or municipal, to enable the city to provide homes for its children, thereby relieving it of the necessity of providing more toils for its criminals...
...He was one of the five socialists ousted from the assembly in 1919...
...Often this remuneration amounts to several hundred dollars per year...
...Neither the generation nor the distribution of power from jhese sites must be allowed to pass Into private bands...
...Wave after wave of cheering, interspersed with lusty singing of "The International" and "The Red Flag," broke out when Waldman named Thomas...
...Wide Interest In Unions Another significant note in the convention was the interest in trade unionism...
...they preach it only for political convenience...
...The immediate program which follows must always be viewed in terms of our ultimate goal which is to give to the working men and women of New York a government which will conserve their interests and those of their children, be vigilant against the interests of greed and exploitation and at all times be at the efficient service of the majority of the people...
...It has signally failed to do its primary fob...
...Further, to free the transportation system from bureaucracy and partisan politics, we advocate the rigid application of the merit system for all grades of transit employees . The directorate of this public transit corporation shall be chosen by the representatives of each political party in the Board of Aldermen in proportion to the total vote of each party in the Mayoralty election, choice to be made by the executive committee of the party in any case where a party is unrepresented on the Board of Aldermen...
...I The following resolution on the needle trades situation in New York was adopted by the New York City Socialist convenUon last Sunday: "The Socialist Party of Greater New York, meeting in a city convention, sends fraternal greetings to the labor organization of the city and especially to the unions in the needle trades who are facing, the prospect of strikes to improve the conditions of their members...
...2. Direct distribution under public agencies of electricity generated under public authority from public water power sites...
...And...
...By as extension of this principle we will find relief f.-om our present wasteful, chaotic, competitive system of private distribution of all food products...
...Other resolutions demanded increased pay for the police and firemen...
...Cos, Electricity and Super Power nation-wide super-power system must be substituted for the growing private power monopoly which has systematically tried to deceive and corrupt the minds of the voters whom it robs . Regulation has broken down...
...By belatedly putting a new and quite inadequate lsw on the books it now hopes to appease the tenants...
...Mayor Walker and Tammany have never faced the logic of the policy they espouse...
...of our city...
...It would be a city whose citizens could live as free men and women, working together for the good things of life rather than competing in a drab struggle for existence...
...Police and judges make themselves in effect the allies of employers in Industrial disputes...
...Any2> would have been a gratuJaaBtnot only to Mr...
...The merit-system for appointment and promotion is so Juggled and powers of discipline are so misused as to reward mediocrity from top to bottom and penalize initiative...
...And in consesset of that sort of log-rolling, ¦ hi Mar York World has rather ssatjr polntea out, everything -the seats etttsen uses from the alarm set sates wakes Mm up to the *JNs hi puts on ard the building SSsrtsh of which his house is made stentsiore because of increases in (JFinanag from ten to fifty per |.S>> an) shortsighted selfishness 'ask a the end robs us all on this >a»tarjf bill blocks the efforts of aniilUuiiiita to get the great oil jfjpjahg states to agree on a conamaos policy...
...Tammany has screamed and yelled about the five-cent fare at election time, but Mayor Walker and his associates have never done anything to make it an economic reality and never will...
...I can remember the time we would discuss the problem, 'would England ever have a Socialist movement.' Today a Labor government rules Britain...
...Light is what is needed...
...Lee has attended a number of international Socialist congresses...
...Housing, Parks and Playgrounds THE comfort and beauty of the city is of right, one of the chief concerns of any city government New Tork City, the richest In the world has miserably failed to provide its children with decent homes and with that carefully worked out sywtem of parks and playgrounds'that is a necessary supplement to the homes of a great city...
...Tammany election thieves kept him out of his seat for almost two years...
...instead of the present half-andhalf...
...A root man on an old party ticket does positive harm in confusing straight thinking.' He is a sugar coating on the poison pflT The Republican Party will be the Be-' publican Party ta New York, whomaoevw it nominates for Mayor...
...It means tar the Stats the prompt passage of*an adequate old-age pension law essa state insurance against sickness...
...demanded freedom for Mooney...
...4. The gathering and broadcasting of facts, regarding the scarcity and surplus of any commodity...
...We unreservedly condemn such action which can be considered only as mutiny in the labor struggle and equal to a policy of strikebreaking itself...
...If the actives of the companies are good-will—and often they undoubtedly are—let them contribute to the church hat wad of giving cheeks to the pastors personally...
...What a ba«lne8s this vrulent race ^iTssanany administration may like BStsnl favors for docile voters with ^PfsaU but it hates like poison to -Hjtlhe claims of unions of workfor Transportation Com38** Maney to fire three hundred jBfcsai out of hand is, without a fc-BP stauiii...
...Semi-private, semi-public system, which conceals the financial realities from the deluded voters, they would substitute an out-and-out socialization of the city's transportation system...
...2. We pledge ourselves to the paavJ er care of the aged and unfortunates This means for the city reform efj shocking conditions under which eas people are herded together in barrassaj as on Welfare Island...
...8. The adoption of a comprehensive system of replacement and new building...
...An early paragraph in the platform told of British Labor's preliminary work in the' cities and Towns before victory on a nation si scale was possible...
...member of the executive committee of the American Toad for Public Service...
...the frequent abuse of police power in dealing with lawful and peaceful strikes, and for the violation of the law providing for the maintenance of the prevailing rate of wages on city work...
...There la a sinister alliance between the dominant political party and the underworld winch makes impossible he nest and efficient policing...
...He is author of "The Albany Trial," "The Socialists in the Board of Aldermen," and other pamphlets and articles...
...if indeed we are to make any real start towards this constructive program, is to create an independent political party courageous, militant, and determined to combat both the corruption of the Tammany machine and the reaction and .hypocrisy of the Republicans...
...The rebuilding of our city'calls for dealing first with pressing and vital problems affecting the everyday lives of ous^jpeople...
...Charges and countercharges indulged in by the politicians of both old parties have been the answer to the cry for relief...
...It Is only, by virtue of a Supreme Court decision ignoring the city's legal advisers that the subway riders still drop nickels instead of seven-cent tokens in the turnstile slots...
...Would Have City Build House* To provide decent housing our candidates, both State and municipal, pledge themselves to further encouragement of cooperatives and the establishment of a municipal housing authority, expert and nonpolitical in character . We shall fight for all necessary legislation...
...Enemu-agee Modern Educe ttoa 5. Development of the Continuation Schools aad provision of scJiolarahlp allowances to enable boys and girls of working age and of proved ability to continue at school...
...These laws both old parties allowed to lapse only enacting a new municipal law after the landlords had been given an opportunity greatly to increase rents in those portions of the city where every Increase in rent is most burdensome...
...This is only the immediate part of our program...
...Louis Waldman placed Thomas in nomination, foil owing a stirring arraignment of the Walker Tammany administration...
...An overwhelming vote in favor of strike is indicated...
...It shall consist of members to be chosen by each political group in the Board of Alderman in proportian to the vote cast at the last mayoralty election for the Party of thaUgroup...
...We tool: back over the years of heroic -struggles and measureless sacrifice when men and women in the sweated trades of the Industry finally established powerful trade unions end rescued hundreds of thousands of workers from the degraded status which had been theirs for many years...
...Fifth Avenue...
...Towards the end of .the first day's session, Abraham I .Shiptcaoff...
...contempt...
...He is associated in the practice of law with Louis P. Goldberg, active Brooklyn Socialist...
...He was educated at Princeton and the Union Theological Seminary...
...The immediate task was the nominating of a ticket for the campaign to come...
...Jsanr Itt eame* from Washington mm thw want a tariff on shingles, IbsMsbV » bed for the whole counJMSsSiilafly bad for the farmers, lib ths way it goes...
...The dwelling house law of 1929, passed by a Republican legislature and signed by a Democratic Governor, instead of providing for the abandonment of all such tenements within a specified period of time prolongs their life...
...denounced Police Commissioner Grover A. Wnalen for aiding abetting violence by the police force against strike pickets as against other citizens...
...One of the high points of the convention was the reeding of a telegram from the Ettsabetbton local of the United Textile Worker* praising the convention for the work it was doing in helping give American labor a political party ef its own...
...For Non-Political Administration We shall strive to bring about the following changes:— 1. The Board of Education to be selected so as to represent a cross-section of public opinion and the interests of the people...
...Endorsement For Thomas From Enemy rjpHE New York Herald-Tribune (Republican) printed the following editorial in its issue of Tuesday, June 18th: THE LOGICAL FIVE-CENT MAYOR If New York City really wants to continue the five-cent subway fare it would do well to think seriously of Norman Thomas, just nominated as the Socialist party's candidate for Mayor...
Vol. 8 • June 1929 • No. 23
