California Party Votes Aid To Waterfront Strikers
California Party Votes Aid To Waterfront Strikers THE State Executive Committee 1 mat in Glendale, May 19-20, tad was entertained at a banquet tad mass meeting, making the S.E.C meeting not only a...
...Terms for both will lie t!l and local hospitality...
...Picnic The annual picnic of the Ray District Conference will be held in Alvarudo Park, Hicliinond, on Sunday...
...Eleven States Adopt Ownership Plan to Control Liquor The increasing trend away from strict prohibition is described fn a report of the National Municipal League's Committee on Liquor Legislation...
...Hoy Burt, National Organizer, will be the principal Instructor...
...A state platform was adopted reaffirming adherence to the fundamental principles of international Socialism...
...that in ardor to realise the Idaal of a stale paper It waa necessary Hrst to build ap Ihe circulation of Tho Now Leader aad that of tho Now World, tho campaign paper...
...Members are active In the C.W.A...
...Boom ti'28, H28 Mongoniery Street, San Francisco, or to Paul Brendel, 1(g) i'iisi Adams St., Los Angeles, for date...
...I In full supEil of tin parly was pledged to the llfornla teurhers In uuy light they may have to make to preserve our public school system...
...Ilolh have excellent chances...
...Stockton News Jack Fitzgerald, member of the International Union of Operuting engineers and secretory of the Machinists' Union, Is candidate of Stockton Local for Sheriff...
...Effie M. Mueller, Indianapolis, clerk of Supreme Court...
...Only commercial advertising, and not political handbills, are covered by the municipal ordinance against passing out handbills without a license, the police judge ruled in freeing Kennison...
...The New York City delegates to the National Convention are as follows: Frank Crosswaith, Algernon Lee, Julius Gerber, Simon Berlin, Jacob Panken, Louis Hen-din, Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler, Louis Waldman, B. C. Vladeck, Samuel Orr, Matthew Levy, Haim Kantorovitch and Anna Bercowitz...
...To such movements we extend Ihe hand of fellowship...
...fraternal greetings wtrt extended to Ihe walerfronl workers of the PaelSc * Coast wha art making- a gallant struggle for the racafaitian af their union, hiichrr wanes, shorter hoars and improved working rondi-tioas...
...He was given a tremendous ovation...
...Locals in other parts of the state were urged to take similar action...
...Samuel While whs Instructed to draw up a resolution re-iillli iiimik the narty'a support nl lorn Mooucy ami In present it to him In person...
...Kantorovitch Is Chosen Delegate by the Bronx The election of one delegate in the Bronx resulted in the election of H. Kantorovitch, who received 186 votes...
...S. C. Garrison, our oldest living member in Indiana and our only colored member at large, was with us on Sunday, and made a wonderful plea for united action and solidarity of our forces in the interest of the Socialist Party...
...2nd district...
...Ernest Morgan was elected secretary to replace Comrade Urie who is leaving the state...
...Cleveland Opens New Headquarters The Socialist Party of Cleveland and the Young People's Socialist r.eafM are opening up a new headquarter in the 14th want...
...Fifteen states in all operate under the license plan while one> Kentucky, nominally dry, has laws legalizing liquor sales for medicinal purposes under such terms as to make virtually open sale possible...
...A resolution condemning the attitude of the chief of police of Indianapolis and the mayor of the wty toward the strikers of the Real 811k Hoosier mills, and assuring •he strikers of our sympathy and •"PPort, was adopted...
...All party locals and branches . wart nrgeil to support tha strlkers and use to tht limit their resources ta protect tha atriktra in thtlr civil rights...
...The alternates are: Esther Friedman, August Claessens, Morris Berman, G. August Gerber, Wilho Hedman and Max Delson, New York...
...The group Is composed of College of the Pacific students and young workers...
...A resolution was adopted condemning Ihe attempt of Chambers of Commerce to shorten Mir school day, Increase Hie Size of rhlssi",, close killderglirtellH unci Bight schools for adults, charge, tuition In high iH'hools, ami otherwise limit the education of lln workers...
...A Ylpsel Circle Is being organized under the direction of Harold Jaeoby...
...Admission will be free, parking free...
...free dancing...
...H. W. Daacke, Indianapolis, was nominated for secretary of state...
...A plank dealing with the problems of agriculture and its needs, and one advocating progressive income and inheritance taxes, the elimination of the sales tax in order to reduce the burden of taxation carried by farmers and, small home owners...
...It Is not believed we can elect anv Congressmen this fall, hut the I,os Angeles County Central Committee waa urged to concentrate In two assembly districts...
...Ruth Robson, Indianapolis, auditor...
...Mas Winter The National Office has canrelleoTIke Western tour of Max Winter...
...Mrs...
...Comrade George Stein-hardt polled 167 votes...
...Binford, West-field, superintendent of public instruction...
...California Party Votes Aid To Waterfront Strikers THE State Executive Committee 1 mat in Glendale, May 19-20, tad was entertained at a banquet tad mass meeting, making the S.E.C meeting not only a success but a pleasant and memorable occasion...
...Two Judgeships for the Appellate Court, Northern District, and two for the Appellate Court Southern District were nominated...
...The following locals have been organised recently by state organiser Karl Pauli: Hamilton, Middle-town, Newton Falls, Piqua, Greenville...
...Starting a state of sectional paper was discussed...
...The convention discussed the agenda for the national convention anA were unanimous -against, any Jmliltion or compromise with any farmer-labor or any other political group...
...They are working In the International Longshoremen's strike and have passed around petitions severely criticizing the action of students who are scabbing...
...The globe with the clasped hands Was adopted as the emblem of the Party...
...It is tha opinion of tha SEC...
...A resolution protesting the meager dole sanded to the unemployed under the Nit A that the amount is glaringly Insufficient, and demanding major enterprises similar to the Tennessee Valley project to be put in force at once...
...Write to K. I'., i'orter...
...An attempt Is being made to provide scholarships for those young people who urr anxious to attend but are unemployed...
...As the only solution of our problems, the platform advocates the abolition of the capitalist system, with profit, rent and interest, through election of our candidates...
...The first meeting is to be held Wednesday evening, June 6, at which Frieda Schvenlcmeyer, who has just returned from a year in England and Russia, will speak on "Workers' Education in Europe...
...A new branch has also been formed in Toledo...
...and to the declaration of principles of the Socialist Party of America...
...For further Information write tu Ihe State Secretary...
...Young people, particularly, are urged lo attend...
...Hoosier Socialists 'Name A Full Party Ticket By Emma Henry State Secretary, Socialist Party INDIANAPOLIS.—The state convention of the Socialist Party fas held in Indianapolis Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, to nominate a candidate for United States Senator and state officers, adopt a state platform and other business...
...William M. Feigenbaum, Emil Bromberg, Alexander Kahn and Jack Alt man, Kings...
...Street meetings under the leadership of William Whitney, chairman of the Labor and Welfare Committee, are being conducted two and three nights a week, while community forums and educational meetings In the local headquarters are led by Mnrjorle Klpp, Educational Chairman, and .1...
...Ernest Malott, Marion, for treasurer...
...Dempster and Southwick Tour Milen Dempster, candidate for Governor, and Jesse W. Southwick, candidate for Lieutenant-Governor, will start ii tour of the state on June 17...
...The Miami Valley Socialist League, composed of locals in the southwestern part of the state, is taking active steps to organize that district...
...Aaron Levenstein, Alfred Belskin and Sarah Volovick, the Bronx, and A. C. Weinfeld, Queens...
...fl|| work of the Civil, Rights Committee of Alameda County was endorsed and all locals and branches in the county are urged to support it...
...A number of states have defined "non-intoxicating liquors" in terms of sufficiently high alcoholic content as to make beers and wines legal...
...Comrade Wallace is an attorney and lives in Veedersburg...
...speaking Itrst ut the picnic of the Hay District Conference...
...W. Thornton...
...Of the twenty-six new permanent state liquor laws, eleven embody the governemnt ownership plan, a method advocated by the League in its Model Liquor Control Law...
...organization recently started, and the Labor Committee has organized workers who cannot get public relief either because they have been In the state over u year and are not eligible for transient relief, or because they have not been In the county three years and therefore ar not eligible for county relief...
...Last Sunday the Socialist Party of Cuyahoga County held a county convention at which -nominations were made for the fall elections at the Labor Institute, 10511 Pasadena Avenue...
...Two other states, Maryland and Wisconsin, operating under the license plan, make specific provision of the ownership of liquor by county governments and the establishment of county liquor stores...
...The industrial and political chaos was pointed out, and the necessity for unemployment relief in order to save the lives of the children of the workers...
...Organizing and propaganda trips Into the rural area of San Joupln County are planned for the next few week-ends...
...It wa* with regret Hut the/ were farced to do thie, but Comrade Winter speaks Eng...
...Comrade Sallume, who has recently been organizing in Minnesota, was made local organizers with headquarters in Cincinnati...
...Joseph Plecurpo,, local secretary, is candidate for Stale Senator...
...Hah with difficulty, and it waa found that bit Urge audience* ia the East were unable to understand him...
...In view of the fact that we have an arrangement with The New Leader to publish • California edition and the campaign committee expects to get out a campaign paper, It was felt that such a move would lie unfortunate...
...Howard White, head of the Pacific Hook Store, Is candidate for State Assembly...
...June 17...
...W. P. Santisteban, Judge of Supreme Court...
...The stale campaign will start at this point with the candidates for office and other prominent members of the party as speakers...
...While the committee did not deny ¦ the right of any local to Issue a paper, It objected to making appeals lo comrades throughout the state...
...Summer School Two summer schools for organisers are being planned for July—one in San Francisco and«the other In I,os Angeles...
...v—.S. C. Socialist Leader Freed CHARLESTON, S. jC,—Stephen V. Kennison, whom Charleston police have harassed for months on one charge or another connected with his Socialist activities, has again been released from the local jail...
...A motion wai rarried to "approve the work of the American Ijibor League and of all other like organizations In the State of California whoar purpose Is to better Ihe Immediate condition of the workers, both employed and unemployed, and that we recommend to all locali and all members of the Socialist Party their serious consideration of cooperation In and support of such movements...
...The enforcement of constitutional guarantees of economic and political equality for the Negro and all other races in order to end race discrimination and hatred, enactment and enforcement of a drastic anti-lynching law, unalterable opposition to military training in our schools and colleges, supported in full or in part by state funds, are also platform features...
...Forrest Wallace, state chairman, was nominated for United States Senator...
...sports and refreshments...
...Located near the Cleveland Worsted Mills where many eontaoU wsm made by the Socialists jn the recent strike, it ia hoped that this headquarters will develop into a real workers educational center...
...A splendid spirit of comradeship prevailed...
...Uncle Heights and the 52nd district...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 67
