Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1913-02-27
NATIONAL
SOCIALIST NEWS

A state convention of the Socialist
Party of Michigan will be held in
Langhrey's Dancing Academy, corner
of Cherry Street and South Division
Avenue, Grand Rapids, Saturday,
March l, opening at 2 P. NJ, for the
purpose of placing in nomination
candidates for state offices to be Vot-
ed on at the spring election, April Z,
and transacting such other business
as may properly come before the con-
vention. The officials to be nominal
ed are two Justices of the Supreme
Court, two Regents of the State Uni
versity. Superintendent of Public In
struction, Member of the State Board
of Agriculture, and State Highway
Commissioner.
By recent referendum in Tennes-
see, Jos. E. Voss, 778 Eastern Ave-,
Jackson, was reelected State Seore-
tary.
w. A. Weatherall, Box 1907, Mem
phis, was elected National Commit
teeman.
Translator-Secretary Frank Petrich
signed, in order to devote his time
to organization work in the Sloven-
! ian wing of the section. The section
includes Slovenians, Servians and
Croatians.
Alex Susnjar has been elected by
the Executive Committee of the Sec
ton to fill the vacancy. He will as
sumo the duties of the office March
1, and his address will be Ill North
Market St., Chicago.
An appeal for funds from the Little
Falls, New York, Defense Committee
has been transmitted to the Nation
al Executive Committee.
No action was taken on the motion
| regarding the difficulty between st.
Louis Labor and the Typographical
Union.
The National American Woman
Suffrage Association has invited the
Socialist Party to participate in the
Joint Suffrage Procession in Wash
ington, March 3. AS Kate Richards
O'Hare, member of the National Elk
ecutive Committee and international
Secretary, will have occasion to be
in Washington at that time she has
been requested to act as our repre-
sentative. A communication has been
sent to Lydia M. Jenkins, Correspond
emit of the District of Columbia urg-
ing local Socialists to make the So
cialist section in the parade as large
and as attractive as possible.
The motion by Hickey of Texas,
that the National Secretary be in
structed to annul Referendum D."
has been seconded by Foley Of Penn
sylvania.
Committee motion, that all women
organizers be asked to make especial
effort to push the circulation of The
Progressive Woman resulted as fol
lows: Voting yes: Brewer, Carr,
Lewis, Simons, Twining; not voting:
Branstetter, Berger. Motion carried.
Women organizers will please act
upon the above suggestion.
| A certain Chicago comrade has for
several months been engaged in a
species Of activity for the cause
which may serve as a valuable sug-
gestion to other comrades in various
parts of the country.
He has been exclusively engaged
in canvassing for Socialist pamphlets
He sells ten, fifteen and twenty-five
cent booklets. His earnings have been
from two to three dollars per day.
His experience shows that the time
has arrived when a person can make
a living selling Socialist literature.
| Proposed Referendum.
4 The District Central Committee of
the Socialist Party Of the District of
Columbia adopted motion initiating
q Referendum as follows:
| THAT AN ASSESSMENT OF
TWENTY-FIVE (25) CENTS BE
LEVIED ON THE PARTY MEM
IBERSHIP, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
CIEARING UP THE DEFICIT NOW
CONFRONTING THE NATIONAL
OFFICE.
Comment: We feel that the Na-