JEWISH SOCIALIST VERBAND HOLDS 6TH ANNUAL CONVENTION
Stanley, Louis
JEWISH SOCIALIST VERB AND HOLDS 6th ANNUAL CONVENTION Convention Confident of Future of Socialist Movement—Reviews Activities and Plans for Extensive Work Among Jewish Workers Bx Lonkt...
...Socialism and the Trade In ions The resolution on trade unions congratulates the Jewish trade unions on their victory over the Communists...
...A source of raceme has been the sale of books...
...Labor Conditions The Verband is rather proud of its connections with other labor organizations...
...New York: Labor Institute, SOS Locust Street, Phila...
...Professor Ward is one of the outstanding men in the academic field who is challenging the present social order...
...But will also result in...
...The paper has a circulation of 5,000...
...He prepared for it whan bo said that Mooney and Billings were equally rnnnrant or equally* guilty, and that he would not make a decision ahdat pardoning saoomW uAifc 1*» supreme eo«rt hsd apprdVaa anB passed on to him Billings' application for pardon, so tfljat MSUgbt decide both capon at tha/ same time...
...Southern Girls in Labor Discussions DURHAM, N. C-(FP)—Girls who have attended the Bryn Mawr er Southern summer schools far women la industry are heck In their home towns seeking to start discussion groups among their fellow workers, as the result of a coaferoaee held et Duke University...
...The >party organizations should establish the necessary contacts with labor organizations and the radical intelligentsia which favors independent political action to oppose the capitalist parties for the purpose of laying the foundations for a labor party...
...January 13...
...It helped to fight corruption...
...thtak...
...The convention heard addresses by Morris Hillquit...
...Lacking in experience and outstanding leadership, but completely disgusted with a do-nothing policy they fall in the clutches of the communists...
...which la now ia Its aeooad edition, aad RogoaTa ambitious five volume work, "The History of the United States...
...Phila...
...Philadelphia, Chicago and Boston...
...Trades, and othera Socialist Vote In New Leader Shows In erease tion return* just published show that the wmmz*** ¦ ¦ ¦ aai#ajVjree^vaf f^tatal of 1,016 votes In New /eraey in the election last November...
...Ia the New York Cleaners aad Dyers' Union particularly...
...Since the last convention two years ago the deficit that has bean encumbering the organisation has been considerably reduced through the strictest economy...
...He was one of the group which endorsed and worked for Norman Thomas In the last municipal campaign...
...It ia a brilliant step from the governor's point of view, though it may well be a bad one from that of the frameup victims...
...the Assembly candidates Kriger, Doremus...
...The purpose of this Congress was to combat Communism and raise the Jewish unions to a higher moral level...
...The National Executive Committee neat on record In endorsement of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...Which was, of course, unfamiliar stuff to the raak and filers...
...A Branch was formed in this city sometime ago...
...In Bergen County the vote for tha Socialist candidates for tha Assembly more than doubled...
...These are Labor Temple, 241 East 14th Street...
...2) Palestine cannot become a Jewish national home...
...Only five- of the «1 counties had a Socialist ticket ia the . field...
...This criticism must be sympathetic, it must be free from the stigma of malicious attack...
...The Set gain ha the Socialist vote Is 1131...
...A motion introduced by Chanin at the last session to provide for a commission to make an investigation In Palestine Poland and other countries was tabled...
...One of the emergency measures employed was to turn the "Wecker" from a weekly into a bi-weekly and- placing the editorial work oa a voluntary basis...
...recant Socialist mayoralty candidate in New York City...
...The foreign visitors will be Miss Kathleen D. Courtney of England, honorary secretary of the British Women's Peace Crusade...
...It is understood that the company has agreed not to employ colored firemen In the future and as new vacancies occur they will be ailed by white firemen...
...Frank Graham of the University of North Carolina, Pres...
...The thesis was to the effect that the Hardwood boys should become a part of the political machinery of the party...
...They tack a board on four of these and make a cart Sometimes they find bobbins with thread on them and they make bails from the thread...
...After aeveral conferencea the Congress came to an end be cause of interne...
...Relations with tha Workmen's Circle have bean very cordial...
...NO MORE NEGRO FIREMEN CHARLESTON...
...gave a picture of the present state of the Verband...
...of Pawtucket, R. I., owner of the Loray mill, will be a main defendant in the damage suit, filed in the name of Wesley May, brother and administrator for Ella May, who left five small children...
...Students can register at the office between now and the first of the year...
...Since the time for a national labor party is not ripe, the National Executive Committee or the Socialist Party as well as city and state organizations should take the initiative to form local labor parties wherever circumstances make it possible...
...flavsag BU Face If it decides to pardon them, then Young has saved bis face with the Pacific Gas and Jbectric Co., which is tha power hank of the whole frameup...
...Harry Rogog of the 'Forward": Abraham Cabas, editor of the "Forward": Clarence Senior, National Secretary of the Socialist Party: I. Weinberg of the Workmen's Circle: I. Tiegel of the United Hebrew...
...Three widely known and representative women from Europe and one from the Orient will come to confer with fifty representatives from each of ten leading national organizations which for four years In the United States have been studying the causes and cures of war...
...This new ruling will only affect the colored firemen during the dull season* whoa business is at it* lowest ebbCMC CLUB VIOLEN RECTTAL J. MMcolm Bird lectured at tha Civic Club...
...Asked what the children play with she said that "they go around to the Junk piles in the back of the mills where there are old gears with won out' teeth...
...Prof...
...In accordance with the practice of bringing over European speakers for speaking engagements the Verband arranged a tour for Victor Alter, prominent in the affairs of tha Polish "Bund" with which the Jewish Socialist Verband has fraternal ties...
...Speakers' tours aad open forums have made up an,important part of the Verhaad's acUvitiear Hampered by funds, the organization baa done the beet it could aader the circumstances...
...Tha only question is, how could a man able to think of this stroke of serf-earing genius expect the public at the same time to believe that he has mot the brains to understand a plain transcript of testimony which he has boon "studying Intensively" ever since last spring...
...S. C. (FPl — Fifty-one per cent of firemen on the Atlantic Coast Line holding jobs must be white according to the new agreement between the firemen's brotherhood and the road...
...Beginning as a group of dissatisfied workers, with the A. F. of L. union aad leadership they now have the control of the trade in their hands...
...The organiser of the Communist party in Philadelphia became the business agent of the new union...
...Hence, the method already used by the Party remains, the method of broad independent political action of a labor party...
...International Peace Conference of Women WASHINGTON, D. C—What women of the six great powers can do to strengthen the determination of their respective governments to build international peace-making machinery will be the main topic for discussion at the fifth annual conference on the Cause and Cure of War in Washington from Jan...
...A New England Bureau and a New Jersey Bureau have been doing good work...
...AriMede aa IHMMaa The Chief ejuaatjoaa that came up for decision war* the Peleetia* situation, tha attitude taw*** the wee* aad **e movement for ^ Leber Party...
...1928...
...Now he <ha*f foiatd-nm out even for that...
...Not less than *50,000 will be asked for a fund for the orphans' support...
...Therefore, the incoming executive board is instructed to call a conference of Socialists and their sympathizers In the unions for the purposes of obtaining new members for the Socialist Party and the Verband and of propagating Socialism, among trade unionists...
...Harry F. Ward has to offer...
...14 to 17 at the Hotel Washington...
...Among the speakers were State Secretary Andrew Wittel, Fred Krafft, a political prisoner during the World War...
...Tsune Gauntlett of Japan, one of the leaders in organizing the Japanese women's petition for peace...
...Madame Marie Louise Puesch of France, vice president ol the International Federation of University Women...
...The %vera*re of the vote cast for our Assembly candidates Una year waa 773 as against 830 laat year...
...The open forums have been held in New York City...
...Elisabeth Gilman, 813 Park Avenue...
...3) remaining unconcerned, with Zionism In ail its manifestations the Verband declares its interest In the fate of the Jews there, particularly the Jewish workers, and therefore...
...The Hardwood Floor Layers have organized about 60 per cent of their trade...
...The awakening In the South, the strikes here and there, the organization of the progressives within the American Federation of Labor, the large number of votes received by Socialist candidates, the spontaneous appearance of local labor parties in New Bedford...
...While seven union leaders were sentenced to five to 30 years for the death of Police Chief Gt- F. Aderholt in an unwarranted raid on the Loray strikers' tent colony, no one has been convicted in the Ella May murder, committed ia broad daylight on an open highway between Gastonia and Bessemer City by gangsters identified as Loray bossmen...
...t#h P»Uy Forward": James OneaJ editor of the New Leader: Bather Friedman, lecturer for the Socialist Party...
...He is author of many books of which the latest are "The New Social Order" and "Our Economic Morality...
...The new organisation started in April of this year...
...Perse*, sartleaaeltr...
...wardens of San 'Quentin aad Folaom, and James Johnson...
...JEWISH SOCIALIST VERB AND HOLDS 6th ANNUAL CONVENTION Convention Confident of Future of Socialist Movement—Reviews Activities and Plans for Extensive Work Among Jewish Workers Bx Lonkt Stanley rpHE Sixth National Convention *¦ of the Jewish Socialist Verband constituent body of the Socialist Party, opened in New York City with a mass meeting on the evening jal November 28 and continued with Its business aessions until the afternoon of December 1. The convention was, marked by confidence in tha present aad future work of the Verband, the inattention paid no the Comntunlets an Intense interest in the Palestine situation, a determination to revive the Socialist spirit ia tha socalled Socialist unions, aad a conviction that the Socialist Party should take the Initiative in creating a Labor Party in this country...
...The executive board and affiliated branches and groups are instructed to work for the formation of local labor parties...
...A. Litvack...
...Bergen County Socialists were so pleased with the result that they held a dinner at the Canton Restaurant, Hackensack, Monday evening...
...Armiel and others...
...there- be a further aad indefinite delay—for eoarts and beards pass sic*.-!*' oa^JFmattars Xvsf oae lham -but tie governor's hide j/aaved, together frith his senatorial ambition* Ifftha ffurt <#asea Jt# rocensaaead* aWBnga tar fsUdon, Young caa say that this automatically removes tha case from further consideration...
...Tha board, and not the governor, is to bear the blame for either pardoning or refusing to pardon both Mooney and Billings...
...7, at 2 o'clock in the Debs' Auditorium of the Rand School...
...Labor College PHILADELPHIA...
...Children in mill villages don't have toys because they don't have money to buy them," explained Cora Hall of Marion In commenting on the situation...
...Secretar...
...Dembitxer aad N. Chanin lectured in a large number of cities in the East, South aad Middle West...
...to discuss labor's problems in this city...
...Class work will begin in January of 1930...
...These same counties gave tha Socialist Party 1885 votes ta the ejection laat year...
...A meeting of progressives of Philadelphia, will take place at 810 Locust street, on Saturday, December 7th, 3 p. ra...
...these three cossQanrnM aad statutory agencies (tha supreme court, tha pardcae haard, aad himself) will not only be Just and fair to -ski cottosrfled...
...Philip Block and Slutsky covered many cities for tha "Wecker...
...vast pasfic which knows Mooney aad Billings to be innocent...
...Contributors of toys or money to buy materials are asked to seed contributions direct to the handicraft headquarters of the nearest branch of pioneer Youth...
...C. Kantorovicb...
...Baltimore, Md...
...The changing of seci'3taries and the moving of headquarters delayed the opening of class work...
...Is ready to help the Jewish masses there but to no smaller or greater extent than the Jewish masses in other countries: and (4) the incoming executive board Is authorized to call a conference fit all Jewish working class organizations in America to arrange relief for the workers of Palestine...
...Gov...
...Furthermore, the board is Instructed to join with the United Hebrew Trades in bringing closer together the various branches of the Jewish labor movement...
...On the contrary, a Socialist Party is necessary to push for a Socialist program within the broad labor parties and consequently a powerful Socialist Party is an urgent necessity...
...Hypocrisy or Stupidity Young assorts that after all these years of study he is unable to make up hijf*iiind on the preparedness day case — a fine acknowledgement either of hypocrisy or remarkable stupidity...
...The College is located at 810 Locust street...
...The meeting will be under the auspices of the Conference for Progressive Labor Action...
...George Carter ia the only unionist still held far bail pending appeal to the state supreme court...
...If tha hoard decides against the) pardoo, then Young can put tha anus on them when ha' at accused by the...
...James Oneal...
...Moat important of all was the close co-operation that the Verband tried to give the Socialist Party at every opportunity...
...he says, "that a final verdict reached through the independent activities of...
...She waa hit by a Marion deputy's bullet She worked IS years in the mills aad is visiting northern cities in the interests of relief...
...The Labor College is off to a late start...
...His topic will be 'The Religion of Proeperity...
...t, promptly nt 5, a violin recital by Gilbert Roes, at the Civic Club, 18 East 10th St...
...After referring to the fact the Jewish unions had been built up by Socialists and other radicals and had always been associated with the Socialist and radical movement, the resolution deplores the attitude of those leaders who in their fight ag-ainst the Communists have had their enthusiasm for Socialism cool off and declares that it is time for the unions to renew contacts with the Socialist movement...
...public service of commandThg the bob...
...Ha says that he has no power to subpoena witnesses and make them talk, though every possible witness has been willing and eager to talk to him freely...
...Hardwood Floor Workers Dump the Communists PHILADELPHIA...
...18 East 10th street, N T. C, a^ 8:15 pja.es "The Attitude of Modern Seian'ee Towards Psychic Phenomena,'' oa December 4. On Sunday Dec...
...The Manvule-Janckes Co...
...Socialists have never interfered in the internal affairs of the unions...
...Children in the New York Ctty shop at Labor Temple voted to "turn this shop Into a toy shop during December" and last week started to work on carts, menageries of toy animals, scrap books, dolls and other playthings...
...Chare ey Vladeek of the "Jew...
...Cams nan, the...
...dhectOT of the department of penology...
...7 East 15th street...
...For a short period everything was hotsy-totsy...
...Henry J. Cox served as toastmaster...
...It called together the Jewish Labor Congress, which he'.d its first session in New Tork City...
...Nevertheless, the resolution gaea on to say that (1) Palestine cannot aelve tha Jewish problem, ¦because the majority of Jewa will remain outside of Palestine where they will have to participate in the general movement for emancipation in their respective countries...
...The governor haa handed the whole Mooney transcript sever for stady and investigation to the advisory pardon board, which consists of Atty...
...The resolution ends by pointing out that the formation of local and even national labor parties does not mean that the Socialist Party has no reason for continuing its existence...
...Progreeo Hade The reports of Secretary Nathan Chanta, Chairman Saul Rifkin...
...Children of Southern Strikers to Receive Christmas Toya Strikers' homes In Marion, N. C will be cheered this Christmas by a caravan of toy animals and j>-.i' piaythings which the children of northern -unionists are making and repairing dor the boys and girls of aoutharn textile workera...
...The Socialist Party should take advantage of these manifestations, although it is clear that the mass of workers is not yet ready to accept the Socialist Party as the representative of its political demands...
...Through the United Hebrew Trades the chauvinism of certain Zionist groups was counteracted by waging a campaign to raise funds for the relief of Palestine workers...
...After * through diecusaioa a resolution vy adopt, ad expressing sympathy with the victims of tha pogroms ia Palestine...
...It was not long before the Union Square crowd learned what their nuclei were violating .and orders were shipped...
...Fully paid up members number about one thousand and there are probably another thousand who are not in good standing...
...Tha Communists fargot to take orders from Union Square and acted as organizers should...
...23th which was well patronized by members and sympathizers...
...A very successful organization tour conducted by S. Levitas took him from coast to coast...
...Morris Sigman was elected President and S. Levitas...
...and the representative of the editorial board of the official organ, the "Wecker," Chaim Kantorovich...
...Frau Dorothee von Velaen, president of the German League for Equal Citizenship for Women...
...The up-shot of It all was the throwing of the Communists out on their ear...
...difficulties The Verband used its influence for the better in various trade unions...
...Newark...
...They only want to help to make the unions bigger and stronger and see that they stand for democracy and idealism and operate on a high moral plane...
...Boya and girls in Pioneer Youth camps and clubs as well as friendly individual and other orpnriiraUons are being asked to supply the toya Repairing aad painting of old toys and the construction of new ones began two weeks ago in the shop at the Labor Institute of the Philadelphia branch where the plan originated with Bessie Zack, a Pioneer Youth group leader and president of the Bookkeepers Stenographers and Accountants Union...
...Wisconsin...
...Kenosha...
...Prepare Big Damage Suit Against Ella May's Slayers CHARLOTTE, N. C.—(FP)— With the freeing under $5,000 cash bond of Clarence Miller, sixth defendant in the Gestosis case, F. Frank Flowers, union attorney, announced that he was about to file suit for damages against those responsible for the murder of Ella May Wiggins, strike leader...
...To accomplish this friendly relations must be maintained between the Socialist Party and the existing unions but this does not prohibit criticism of union policies *nd activities...
...They heard address aa by Prof...
...At the convention there were present about eighty delegates from approximately forty branches and fraternal organizations...
...The former secretary, Israel Mufson, has become an executive secretary of the Conference For Progressive Labor Action...
...For a Labor Party The resolution on the labor party expressed the view that the apathy among the American workers is vanishing...
...Some eight thousand dollars was netted la tbJa wag la a tea-month period...
...The Verband places a great deal of stress on the literature it pub lianas, siace this is aae of the beat ways of reaching the Jewish worker with its meaaage of Socialism...
...c c Yoang mtm mm found a way/to pass tha buck la the Mooney case...
...aad Mrs...
...Webb, Lieut...
...The left-wing dandies began to make their noise...
...Further information may be had of the branch secretaries or at the national headquarters, 43 Aster Place, New York...
...Ward to Lecture At Rand School Forum Professor Harry F. Ward, Professor of Ethics, Union Theological Seminary of Columbia University, will be the speaker at the Forum on Current Events, Saturday, Dec...
...A c-'eals to "make or give a toy" have been sent out by a children's oirunittee of Pioneer Youth of America which is sponsoring the project...
...The organisation has published Shuh'a "Lenin.' Chanin't "Soviet Russia...
...T. A. Wilson of the State Federation of Labor, Dean Cart Taylor of the graduate school of the state college and others...
...I feel...
...Niagara Falls and other cities, all indicate that the dissatisfaction with the old parties and their policies is growing and is seeking expression in organization...
...The Verband ia now planning to arrange a speaking trip for Abramovitch representing the Russian Social Democratic groups residing abroad...
...Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party: Norman thoasas...
...of New York...
...Professor Ward hardly needs an introduction to Socialist audiences...
...the immaasurabie...
...Everyone interested in following up the recent phenomenal campaign will want to hear what suggestions Dr...
...In Toronto the active "Zukunft" group consisting of newly arrived Polish Bundiats ha a been setting an example to similar elements la the United States...
...Governor Youg Passes The Buck on Mooney Case ByMiriam Allen Ford SACRAMENTO, Cam— (FT) —. <g...
Vol. 9 • December 1929 • No. 18
