The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-11-22
SOCIALISTS WIN.
LABOR PARTY GAIN
Rv Henry C. Fleisher

New York = Voters in scattered
elections throughout the nation
have shown their waning enthus-
itsm for the New Deal and their
eagerness to support labor parties
wherever they exist. Where no Ia
Dor party tickets were offered,
large numbers of voters switched
back to- the G. o. P.
In two eastern cities Socialist
party scored ringing victories.
Mayor Jasper McLevy of Bridge
port, Conn.,, was reelected bv a s.
600 majority over the combined to-
tails of his Republican and Demo-
cratic opponents, and an entire So
cialist city council was voted into
office with him. In Reading, Pa,
former mayor ]. Henry Stump, So
cialist, polled more than 10000
votes and won back his position in
the city hall. Socialists there also.
won three seats on the school
board, several city council posi-
tons and the city treasurer's Of
fee.
Maurice Sugar, Detroit attorney
running for city council on a La
Dor party ticket, failed to win a
post, although he polled 55,574
votes and ran tenth in a field of
18 candidates, of which nine were
elected. Circulation of a faxed
handbill and a vicious last-minute
SANDER campaign run by big bust
ness interests, to which Sugar was
given no chance to reply, robbed
him of victory, Detroit observers
charge.
Less sensational but scarcely less
important Labor party votes were
polled in Springfield, Mass, where
aldermaniac candidates won $500
votes, though failing to win a seat
Toledo, Ohio, where two labor
backed candidates for the board O.
education were voted into office
and Cleveland, where Commun
list candidate for municipal judg
received over 10000 votes, the lar
gest number yet received by Cor
munist in that city. New Yor
CITY returns showed &C., LAB Social
list and 51,336 Communist votes.
In Albany, N. Y, 3-to-1 vot
for a municipally-Uwne0 electri
power plant gave utility interest
something to worry about.
While labor's gains were not tire
mendous in the off-year elections
observers feel that by 1886 sizeabl
gains in labor party voting strene
tn will be accumulated. TheodOr
: Wallen, conservative New Yor
Herald-Tribune political observe
; admitted as much: "The SocialiS
successes in some spots indicated
he wrote "that the trend was ava
from the New Deal and not nece'
sarily to the Republicans.
George Anderson, leading ii
United Labor ticket in San Fral
cisco, received 234o Of the tot,
I'd city vote, 37,673. He was cano
date for municipal judge. Redfel
Mason, United Labor for mayo
got 14,267, running third.
In Gloversville, N. Y, out OF !
01U votes cast Tor mayor, CAS O til
m ed Labor candidate received 1,O1
ng TWO ELECTED
II. IN PORT HURON
er A Labor ticket in Port Hur
lie. Mich, elected two of its candldat
to city office and came within 8
votes Of electing q mayor.
Otto Schmeckel was elect
zee safety commissioner by vote
4,337 against S,707 for c: L. Boy
ton, who was held in office Sir
1917. William Powell defeat
Joseph w. Beatty, the incumbe
for park commissioner by 3,4
,r votes to 3,181.
~ David L. Hanton, 25-year-
D. president of the A. F. of L. Fl
Is eral local in the brass works the
fell 383 votes short Of defeat
er Mayor George L. Harvey for
r chief city office.
ce Yetta Land, Communist car