‘Socialists of New York Will Honor Memory of Parisian Proletariat’ from The Worker (New York). Vol. 16 No. 50. March 16, 1907.

On Sunday next. Mar. 17, an event will take place which will have a two-fold interest for the Socialists of New York City and vicinity–as an artistic celebration of the heroic struggles of the French proletariat and also as a means to advance the cause of Socialism. On that day Local New York of the Socialist Party will commemorate the Paris Commune and again demonstrate the international solidarity of Labor.

This will take place at the Labor Temple, 243 E. Eighty-fourth Street, and will consist of a meeting, concert and dance. beginning at 3 p.m., and lasting until midnight. The speakers on the Commune will be Jos. Wanhope in English and Alexander Jonas in German. Both are eloquent Socialist orators and will undoubtedly make the occasion a most enthusiastic demonstration. The musical program will be rendered by the well known Carl Sahm Orchestra. In addition, the following have been engaged: Mme. Rose St. George, a well known contralto, who will render a few numbers, the Finnish Socialist Mixed Chorus, the Socialist Liedertafel. Free German Children’s School Chorus of Yorkville. and the Dramatic Section of the Workingmen’s Educational Association for the Living Tableaux, representing Rouget De L’Isle singing “The Marseillaise” for the first time.

The proceeds of the festival will go to replenish the funds of Local New York. which has a great task of organization and agitation demanding its attention. With all the fine attractions on the program, the celebration should be the most successful of all events held under the auspices of Local New York. It remains for the comrades to push the sale of the tickets, which are 25 cents each, and success will be unquestioned.

The full program of the festival is as follows:

Doors open at 2:30 p.m.
1. Remarks by the chairman of the festival. Miss F.M. Gill
2. Two selections by the Carl Sahm Orchestra.
3. Three songs by Mme. St. George.
4. Speech by Jos. Wanhope.
5. Living Tableaux by the Dramatic See-ion of the W.E.A.
6. Musical Concert by the Carl Sahm Orchestra.
7. German speech by Comrade Alexander Jonas.
8. Children’s Chorus by the Free German Schools of Yorkville.
9. Presentation of Party Banner to the 224 A.D.
10. Finnish Socialist Chorus,
11. Socialist Liedertafel.
12. “The Marseillaise”.
Intermission.
13. Grand Dance.

Comrades, see to it that the hall is packed as this is the first Commune Celebration in many years. Make this affair such a success that next year we shall be compelled to hire one of the largest halls in the city.

The Worker, and its predecessor The People, emerged from the 1899 split in the Socialist Labor Party of America led by Henry Slobodin and Morris Hillquit, who published their own edition of the SLP’s paper in Springfield, Massachusetts. Their ‘The People’ had the same banner, format, and numbering as their rival De Leon’s. The new group emerged as the Social Democratic Party and with a Chicago group of the same name these two Social Democratic Parties would become the Socialist Party of America at a 1901 conference. That same year the paper’s name was changed from The People to The Worker with publishing moved to New York City. The Worker continued as a weekly until December 1908 when it was folded into the socialist daily, The New York Call.

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