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HaroTTTE^^ June 8, 1934 SOCIALISTS PREPARE RELIEF MACHINERY TO MEET STEEL STRIKE THREAT PITTSBURGH—Relief and defense for striking steel workers in the walk out which threatens is being set up from central offices here by the Socialist party, with Sarah Limbach, secretary of the Socialist party of Pennsylvania, as secretary-treasurer, and Leo Krzycki, national chairman of the party and head of its labor committee, as chairman of the relief and defense committee. The party1s labor committee is still working on the details for this work, but in general it may be said that activities will follow the lines taken in the coal strike two years ago, when the Pennsylvan ia Socialists collected tons of clothing and provisions and thousands of dollars in cash which was distributed among the striking miners, through commissaries of the unions themselves.
# # # # # FARM PARLEY TO HEAR SOCIALIST AGRICULTURE PROGRAM WAUSAU, Wise.—The recent official declaration of the Socialist party on agriculture, which upholds the principles th^t ,fthe one-family farm is both the home and the job of the farmer" and that use should be considered as sole title to farm property, will be presented for the first time to a large gathering of farmers in a conference held this week end here.
Speakers will briefly explain the various planks in the program, after which the floor will be thrown open for a full and frank discus sion by the farmers attending the gathering. The Socialist program has been carefully worked out in small conferences of working farmers, but this will be its first public test before a large group . "We are confident," says AI Benson, secretary of the Socialist party of Wisconsin, "that the farmers want to end capitalism. They want fundamental changes made in our economic system which will bring them a true and lasting prosperity. They will not continue to fall for a lot of bunk handed out by politicians. They want action, not promises."
The Socialist program, in addition to its advocacy of public ownership of industries which process farm products, its opposition to absentee ownership of farm property and its support of security of ten ure for those who actually work their own farms, proposes a shifting of the burden of t*xes from property to income, federal re-financing at cost of farm debts, the encouragement of cooperatives, price stab ilization, social insurance against adverse conditions and catastro- phies, and the establishment of advisory planning boards for land.
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•.-...*•• .... - L. & S. Press Service -3- 6/8/34 ad THE NEW SOCIALIST* NORMAN THOMAS, New York, reelected—Executive director, the League for Industrial Democracy; chairman, Emergency Committee for Strikers1 Relief; twice candidate of the Socialist party for President of the United States. Alternates FRANK CROSSWAITH, New York—Recently chosen organizer for the International Ladies1 Garment Workers; formerly special organizer for the Pullman porters; editor of the Negro Labor News Service. DEVERE ALLEN, Connecticut—Editor of the "World Tomorrow" and of the "No Frontier News Service." Active in numerous peace organiz ations. MURRAY BARON, New York—An organizer for the Pocketbook Workers. GLEN TRIMBLE, Massachusetts—Editor, "The Voice of Labor," New Bedford, Mass. HERMAN NIESSNER, New Jersey—Former international president of the Plate Printers1 and Die Stampers1 Union.
# # # # # TWO SUMMER CONFERENCES PLANNED ON DEMOCRACY vs. FASCISM NEW YORK—The League for Industrial Democracy, following its usual cus tom, will hold an eastern and midwestern summer conference this year, the first at Northover camp, neat Bound Brook, N.J., June 21-24, the second at Bowen country club, Waukegan, 111., June 22-24. The theme of the eastern conference will be "The Menace of Fas cism and War." Among the speakers will be Norman Thomas, Edward L. Israel, Reinhold Niebuhr, Nathaniel Peffer, Harry W. Laidler, Jay Love- stone, George Streator, J. B. Matthews, B. C. Vladeck, Broadus Mitchell, Leo Krzycki, Felix Cohen, Bruce Bliven, H. C. Engelbrecht, Joseph Schlossberg, Haim Kantorovitch, Colston E. Warne, James Oneal, Richard Whitten, Monroe Sweetland, Franz Daniel, Joseph P. Lash and Kenneth Meiklejohn. Further information about this conference may be obtained from the L. I. D., 112 E. 19th st., New York, N.Y. The theme for the midwestern conference will be similar: "Is Democracy Out of Date?" Speakers will include Paul H. Douglas, Charles W. Gilkey, Abraham Lefkowitz, B. C. Vladeck, Maynard C. Krueger, Frederick L. Schuman, Mark Starr, Mary B. Gilson, James M. Yard and Clarence Senior. Further information about the western conference may be obtained from the L.I.D., 20 W. Jackson blvd., Chicago, 111.
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f f **+* | 1 } ( ' L. & S. Press Service -4- 6/8/34 PENN SOCIALISTS ASSAIL PRO-FASCIST CANDIDATE PITTSBURGH—Approval of the suppression cf the economic and political organizations of the Austrian workers by George H. Earle, III, former minister to Austria and Democratic candidate for governor of Pennsyl vania, "stamps him as the most undesirable person to hold the respon sible office of governor," according to a statement issued by the Socialist party of Pennsylvania. Earle, who returned for the campaign last week, issued a state ment supporting the tactics of Chancellor Dollfuss, the Socialists point out. "To delegate the power vested in the governor to an individual so definitely committed to the policy of bloody suppression of the people is to invite disaster," the party says. # # # # # "AMERICAN SOCIALIST QUARTERLY" PRESENTS CONVENTION ISSUES NEW YORK—The issues which faced the Socialist convention in Detroit are presented ably and forcefully in the current Summer, 1934, number of the American Socialist Quarterly, published at 7 E. 15th st., New York, N.Y. Articles by Maynerd C. Krueger, Devere Allen, Darlington Hoopes, David P. Berenberg, Andrew J. Biemiller, Arthur G. McDowell, Haim Kan- torovitch, and a short statement by Leo Krzycki, present questions of philosophy and tactics of the Socialist movement. As in the case of previous issues, the editors of the Quarterly expect a complete sale of this issue almost at once. Single copies of the Quarterly are 25$; the annual subscription cost is $1.00. # # # # # THOMAS BOMB EPISODE WORRIES ROCKFORD ROCKFORD, 111.—Regretting the explosion of a tear gas bomb at a meet ing here addressed by Norman Thomas, Socialist*, the Rockford city council has unanimously adopted a resolution directing police to "strive to the utmost to trace and arrest the person or persons responsible for the deplorable act." ##### TWO-LANGUAGE ANTI-FASCIST LEAFLETS READY NEW YORK—The Labor Conference to Combat Hitierism, 15 Union Square New York City, now has available a leaflet in German and English, "Workers of German Origin!" which urges action against Fascism in this country and in Europe. O.E.A. ##### 12755 hk;tk ^/t Ci ' ^v \f.< S* • y*^,. IT $> •• H ""• • J *....*• v 1L nA***^ V. »\ .: / E£UX /WS * ?"••''•"j. 8 ^fes*—•m*** I (A S- a> u ^r *r 7< r E5 mpk*% •<^ /r. L. & S. Press Service -^5- 5/11/34 California At least four issues will be published this year of a special campaign paper, "The New World," which will carry the Socialist mes sage throughout the state. The first issue, containing the party plat form, sketches of candidates, and the official statements of the Cal ifornia Socialists, will be ready for distribution soon. Subscrip tion for the four issues will be 250, with special bundle order prices. Inquiries and subscriptions should be sent to Marjorie Kipp, 511 E. Channel st., Stockton. Joseph A. Plecarpo, candidate for state senator from Stockton, Calif., is believed to be the first Socialist ever to run for that of fice in his district. Colorado The New Leader series of articles, setting forth the basic prin ciples of the modern Socialist movement, is being used as text material by B. F. 3i3kersta.ff, who is conducting a study class for local Fort Collins. Michigan Local Gladstone has assisted in the establishment of a cooper ative store which is affiliated with the Northern States Cooperative League. Nebraska The latest entry into the list of Socialist papers of the coun try is "The Leader" of Omaha, Nebraska. Publication office is at 2022 Webster st., Omaha. Gray Bemis and H. W. Huntington are editors* New Mexico Socialists of Portales and vicinity are going to put a full county ticket in the field this fall. "We have no money,11 they write, "but our fighting qualities will average about two tons each." South Carolina Once again police have decided that 3. V. Kennison, state sec retary of the party in South Carolina, is causing too much trouble. After searching the statutes for something to keep him quiet, they have decided that passing out Socialist literature to workers is a form of "advertising without a license." West Virginia The state convention of ^est Virginia Socialists suggests that a conference be held of publishers and editors of party papers, for the discussion of plans looking forward to the consolidation of the press so as to eliminate waste a.nd duplication. The suggestion is made that a single national paper be set up with regional editions. O.E.A. 12755 HK:TK £A^*A*tiL> i V-r t -- }' - ^•^%^^/L^ f* (PA I _Jg~" —rtl-.i ^ . *. * • " s, / • ~*' tv£— *', - y Vta&*A*> • V^\:^ Sk£) i />/^ -r . -• -- -$/ *%*&