An auditorium seating more than 3,000 persons was dedicated at the Workmen’s Circle Camp yesterday in memory of Meyer London, Jewish labor leader, who served three terms as a Socialist in Congress from New York’s lower East Side.
More than 800 representatives of the Socialist party, including Mrs. London, were present. Charles Sol###on, 1934 gubernatorial candidate, described him as “an American in the true sense of the word.”
was recalled that London, who ### in 1926, had introduced the first social insurance bill into Congress in 1915.
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