Howard Y. Williams

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HOWARD Y. WILLIAMS
TRAVELER, WRITER, LECTURER
National Director, League for Independent Political Action

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York City 112 [19 st.

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HOWARD Y. WILLIAMS, National director of the League for Independent Political Action, has a record of splendid fidelity to the public interest.  He has devoted himself to practical work in behalf of the general welfare.

Mr. Williams was born in San Francisco, is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and Union Theological Seminary.  He took graduate courses at the University of Iowa and Columbia University, working intermittently as a miner to defray his expenses.

Finishing his work at Union Theological Seminary just at the outbreak of the World War, he went to France in the summer of 1917 with the Tenth Engineers and served over-seas two years.  He was promoted to captain, was decorated by the French government and cited by General Pershing.

Following the War, Mr. Williams was for ten years in charge of the Peoples Church of St. Paul, where he distinguished himself for effective moral and civic service to the people.  In 1926 he was the candidate for Mayor of the Labor-Progressive forces, receiving over 26,000 votes and coming within a few hundred votes of election.  In 1928 and 1932 he was the Farmer-Labor candidate for Congress and received large votes.

Mr. Williams has traveled extensively in this and foreign countries, meeting personally many of the social, political and labor leaders of Europe.  He has also studied Mexico and interviewed there the President of the Republic, members of his Cabinet and various outstanding personalities.  He is now traveling over the United States organizing, stimulating and cooperating with local third-party political movements that will eventually unite to create for this country a critical opposition party comparable to the British Labor Party.  Mr. Williams has a keen insight into political and economic institutions and problems.  He is a very forceful speaker and writer.

He is speaking constantly before influential audiences in all sections of the country.  Included in the list of clubs and associations under whose auspices he has spoken are the following: City Clubs of Detroit, St. Louis and Portland, Oregon; Kiwanis Clubs of Seattle, Spokane, St. Paul and Morgantown; Lion's Club of Atlanta; Exchange Clubs of Indianapolis and Montgomery; Twentieth Century Club of Boston; Friday Evening Club of New Haven; Saturday Lunch Club of Minneapolis; Optimist Clubs of San Francisco and Topeka; League of Women Voters at San Francisco, Milwaukee, Lynchburg, Northampton and Morgantown; Women's Congress of Syracuse; American Association of University Women and Women's Club of Winston-Salem; Social Workers Clubs of Kansas City, Nashville and Lynchburg; Cosmopolitan Clubs of St. Paul and Fargo; Civic Club of New York City; Henry
 George Club of Pittsburgh; Open Forums of Denver, Albany, Milwaukee, Seattle, Baltimore, Atlanta, Pasadena, Long Beach and St. Paul.

Among the 100 colleges where he has spoken, he has given chapel addresses to the entire student body at the following: Amherst, Oberlin, Hamline, University of Richmond, State College of North Carolina, Woman's College of Alabama, Haverford, Morgan, Fiske, Carleton, Reed, Rollins, Bucknell, Allegheny, Sweet Briar, Randolph-Macon.

He has spoken to many trade union groups and the Trades and Labor Assemblies in the following cities: Kansas City, St. Paul, Butte, Topeka, Savannah, Niagara Falls, Atlanta, Hartford, Providence, Concord.  He addressed the convention of the International Switchmen's Union at Buffalo.

He has spoken in numerous churches of many communities including: Broadway Tabernacle, New York City; Peoples Church, Cincinnati; Bethel Evangelical Church, Detroit; Linwood Boulevard Christian Church, Kansas City; Grace Community Church, Denver; King's Highway Congregational Church, Brooklyn; Central Presbyterian Church, St. Paul; First Unitarian Church, Milwaukee; Temple Mt. Zion, St. Paul; St. Columba Catholic Church, St. Paul; Seattle and Boston Congregational Ministers Association; Hamline Methodist Church, St. Paul; Kansas City Christian Ministers Association; New Orleans and Lynn Young Men's Hebrew Associations; Buffalo Evangelical Ministers Association.



Comments
May I say that I hope it will be possible for you to make a return engagement for my several forums?  I still hear the most complimentary remarks in response to the challenging addresses which you delivered when you were with us.  You have a genuine message that is needed in this hour of economic and political chaos.

FREDERICK W. ROMAN, Los Angeles, California

May I take this opportunity of expressing my enthusiastic approval of the splendid work which Mr. Howard Y. Williams is doing for the League.  Mr. Williams addressed a large and intelligent audience of students at Ohio State last year and I have heard him speak on other occasions.  He is not a political spell-binder.  He impresses one immediately as uninterested in the ordinary arts of the politician.  His appeal is to the intelligence of his hearers and not to their emotions.  His discussion is always thoughtful, informed and cogent.  It is enlivened by sufficient humor to make it interesting and forceful.  He is doing a splendid work and I trust no difficulty will prevent his carrying on his campaign of education.

W. J. SHEPARD
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio State University


Labor, and especially his intimate friends among labor, knew of his worth and value or he would not have been the standard bearer on the Labor ticket.  Howard Y. Williams has conscientiously stood up for the things that we have been striving to obtain in the face of opposition and criticism.  He knows the conditions of the under-paid and out-of-work people.

J. M. CLANCY
Former Commissioner of Public Safety, St. Paul

Mr. Williams knows the facts; is clear in exposition; keeps to the point; is fair-minded and practical.

GEORGE A. COE
Author and former Professor at Teachers College, N. Y.



Titles of Addresses

DOES THE UNITED STATES NEED A NEW PARTY?
WANTED: A NEW ALIGNMENT IN AMERICAN POLITICS
THE BRITISH LABOR PARTY AND ITS SIGNIFICANCE FOR AMERICA
RECENT GAINS OF EUROPEAN LABOR MOVEMENTS
THE FOES OF DEMOCRACY
THE CHURCH IN POLITICS
Berlin, Genera and the World Crisis
HAS PEACE A CHANCE TODAY?
MEXICO'S STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM
EUROPE TEN YEARS AFTER THE WAR
THE PLACE OF THE TRADE UNIONS IN POLITICS
CAPITALISM, COMMUNISM AND AMERICAN POLITICS
CAN DEMOCRACY SURVIVE?
NATIONAL PLANNING FOR AMERICA
THE INDIVIDUAL'S RESPONSIBILITY IN AMERICAN POLITICS
CAN WE PREVENT ANOTHER WORLD WAR?
WOMAN'S PLACE IN AMERICAN POLITICS
CAPITALISM, COMMUNISM AND SOCIAL RELIGION
THE SIGNIFICANCE TO AMERICA OF EUROPEAN POLITICAL MOVEMENTS

Can Capitalism Survive?  The significance of the Minnesota Farmer labor Party.
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