[2] On October 5 the Brandon group filed a slate of candidates for the November 7 New York municipal election as the "Indus Union".
Joseph Brandon was nominated for mayor, Julian Diamond for City Controller, and Harold Leby for president of the Board of Aldermen.
[6] On January 21 a "Daniel De Leon Forum" was held at the same location when Brandon debated Howard Y. Williams on the efficacy of a Farmer–Labor Party.
[7] The relationship between this "forum" and the American Labor Party is unclear, but it had at least two events without Brandon: James Oneal give a talk on early American labor thinkers that Christmas Eve,[8] and heard a lecture on the NRA by James Greenhut on March 4, 1935.
[9] On June 28, 1935 Brandon gave a talk on the "Policy of the American Labor Party" at the "Industrial Workers School" at 94 Fifth Avenue.