The November, 1917 Mayoral elections in New York City saw the Socialist Party achieve their best success in the city. They received the highest percentage of the Mayoral vote they would ever get with Morris Hillquit winning 145,000, or 21.65% of the vote (with over 30% in The Bronx), while also electing ten State Assemblymen, seven city Aldermen, and one municipal court judge.

The Socialists in the New York Board of Aldermen: A Record of Six Months’ Activity by Evans Clark and Charles Solomon. Published by the Rand School of Social Science, New York. 1918.

Contents: Introduction by Algernon Lee, The Delegation, Coal and Ice, School Lunches, Working Conditions, Municipal Ownership, Municipal Trading, Dental Clinics, Hospital Care, Miscellaneous Measures, Rent Profiteering, BRT Fares, Community Gardens, Day Nurseries, Street Peddlers, Health Department Scandal, Efficiency, Aldermanic Limitations, Summary, List of Measure Introduced.

Rand School of Social Science was founded in 1906 by supporters of the Socialist Party of America in New York City. A workers’ education school, in addition to classes a publishing house, research institute, as well as camps and retreats were developed. The school came under the Social Democratic Federation after the split in the Socialist Party in 1936 and changed its name to the “Tamiment Institute and Library” with Its collection forming the basis the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives at New York University.

PDF of full pamphlet: http://cfss.indstate.edu/debspams/c592s6_1918.pdf