Thomas Rapturously Welcomed Home
Thomas Rapturously Welcomed Home Thousands of Socialists, Yipsels and Just Passengers Give Socialist Candidate Glorious Welcome to New York When He Arrives at Terminal—Red Flags...
...We view the social functions of the city as of paramount importance...
...Fire more arrive through the efforts of L. E. Hansea...
...An uproar of applause and cheers, lasting for several minutes, greeted the statement, much to Pstterson's amassment...
...Marks Place, Manhattan...
...We Went Thomas...
...He came down and on an improvised platform gave his first public report of his great Southern campaign...
...Met by Party Leaders Before the train drew in from Pittsburgh, where Thomas had spoken to a vast audience the night before, a number of party leaders and candidates, headed by Louis Waldman, Jacob Panken, B. C. Vladeck and others, went down to the train level...
...Several hundred cars are expected to parade the streets of three boroughs, starting at the People's House at 7.30, moving uptown to the Bronx, and then downtown again, the parade culminating In a great rally i.t Rutgers Square, in front of the Forward building...
...August Claessens, candidate for Congress in the 14th District...
...The crowd was all set to march with Thomas downtown to Socialist headquarters, but when the candidate was whisked away in a car the enthusiastic Socialists, unwilling to be chested out of their parade, marched downtown without him anyway, singing, cheering and waving banners...
...ment, viewing is as the fascinating story of the lives of seven million men, women and children, he proceeded to list three essential problems in budget-making: that the budget provide sufficient funds to enable the municipal body to carry out its organic functions...
...POLISH SOCIALISTS WILL RATIFY TICKET The complete Socialist ticket will be ratified at a mass meeting of the Polish Socialist Alliance that will be held November 1st at Arlington Hall, the Polish National Home, on St...
...BIG AUTO PARADE ON WEDNESDAY The last week of the campaign will be inaugurated Wednesday night with an automobile parade, it is announced at city headquarters...
...That pathetic person, the 'small homeowner,' so often invoked in the discussion, who now pays about $800 in taxes, will thus save $20 a year and the large real estate owner will economise about $64 out of every $1,000 of his tax bill...
...and that every dollar raised be spent economically, honestly, efficiently and without waste...
...In front of the headquarters of the Thomas Maurer committee the parade halted and demanded Thomas...
...Los Angeles Is another city that Is active in the drive for new subs...
...When these functions are provided for, then and only then am I ready to consider cutting dfvn the budget" To Save Money He proceeded to show how millions of dollars could be saved to the city by getting rid of the political job-holders...
...Budget Cuts "Comptroller Berry now holds out the hope to the suffering taxpayers of the city of sixteen-point reduction in the tax rate...
...And now in this terrible emergency, with a million and a half workers unemployed, these perfectly innocent victims must be the first charge on the community...
...The first of the three ovations given to the Socialist candidate came when Hillquit made his appearance on the platform...
...In the concourse Thomas was greeted like a conquering hero, with roars of applause, cheers, flashlighta and the singing of the Internationale...
...that the revenue be raised from the proper sources...
...Patterson, introduced by the chairman as a "member of the New York bar," inadvertently started another enthusiastic demonstration for Morris Hillquit when he said: "Many of you probably think the best thing to do is to elect Morris Hillquit ss Mayor of New York...
...The Tammany candidate, John P. O'Brien, failed to appear, his explanation that he had a dinner engagement being met with derisive boos and hisses...
...Over a thousand of the welcomes marched from the station to the L. I. D. and the People's House...
...The Socialist candidate continued with an attack on the Democratic machine which considers tho "city an object of loot snd graft, and tho budget a license to dispense graft among their henchmen...
...In Winston-Salem the chairman of the meeting was an old comrade of 80, while the one who introduced him was a high school student of 16...
...It is a living organism...
...They are among us, utterly helpless, wards of the city...
...The station concourse was :. sea of red flags, above which banners calling for Socialist votes were carried, and there was a feeling of bubbling enthusiasm that made the welcome home more like a picnic than a political demonstration...
...From 19th Street, the parade, still strong, marched down to the Rand School, by way of 4th Avenue and Union Square...
...They formed into lines, four abreast, and paraded down Seventh Avenue to 24th Street, across to Sixth Ave...
...The speakers will be Jacob Panken, candidate for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals...
...Without a band, but with cheerful tinging the line of marchers made itself heard all along the way...
...Signs and placr.rds and posters gave color and instruction to the crowds massed along the streets...
...it is the hope of 7,000,000 human beings who depend on it for their lives, their welfare and education...
...Thomas was delayed in the train, where the cameramen had caught him with his family, and were taking pictures...
...In normal times," he went on, "in years of prosperity, there are thousands of indigent among us—the unemployed, the aged and the many victims of adversity in all forms and conditions...
...To attain this great result, the five-cent fare has been practically abandoned, and every working class family will hereafter be saddled with an additional expense of $30 to $50 a year In Increased fare...
...In front of the school, crowding the street and blocking traffic, the demonstrstion came to a stirring finish with the Internationale...
...Among the welcomers there were Heywood Broun, Julius Gerber, Paul Blanshard, A. N. Weinberg, Joseph Tuvim, Harry Laidler and others...
...WOK MAN THOMAS, fresh from the greatest Socialist Eropaganda tour in American istory, received a rapturous welcome when he returned to New York Tuesday morning...
...Hillquit called for the municipal operation of the public utilities and for the establishment of a municipal bank in order that the city might escape from the shameful dictates of the bankers...
...Success, he said, can be measured by the sise of the crowds that came to hear him at 6:80 in the morning, at 10 in the morning, and of course, noon and evening meetings...
...Pounds was the last speaker and read a speech in which he said: "Economy in city expenditures is the command of the day...
...The vast concourse at th: Pennsylvania station .vas jammed with Socialists, led by the irrepressible Yipsels, and the roof of the great structure was nearly lifted with the cheering of thousands when the smiling face of the Presidential candidate appeared...
...The Budget Speaking of tho budget as an intensely interesting human docuO'Brien Too Busy Eating' Dinner to Appear, But Pounds and Patterson Defend Their Case — Crowd Cheers Socialist Candidate...
...Thomas Rapturously Welcomed Home Thousands of Socialists, Yipsels and Just Passengers Give Socialist Candidate Glorious Welcome to New York When He Arrives at Terminal—Red Flags Dominate Scene...
...Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit and Louis Waldman, the three standard bearers of the party, are all out of town on the evening of the meeting, but they will be represented by messsges written especially for the occasion...
...It is more important to preserve their lives than to reduce taxes...
...All party members with cars are urged to join in the procession...
...they must not be left to perish...
...A Living Organism "To us," he continued, "the city is not an impersonal corporation...
...His attack on the middle-class notions of "economy" entertained by his opponents visibly swayed opinion to his side...
...William M. Feigenbaum, and Polish speakers...
...Thomas and William and Frances Thomas had joined him at Manhattan Transfer in a joyous family reunion...
...In all candor and frankness," he began, "I want to say at the outset that I do not consider economy the msln problem, certainly not the sole problem, of a city government...
...A few minutes later Lewis H. Pounds, the Republican nominee, entered, and was followed by William L. Patterson, the Communist candidate...
...that is, a little less than 6.4 per cent reduction of the tax bill...
...The Alliance, which publishes a weekly paper devoted to the party's interests, the "Robotnik Polski," is making an effort to win over the bulk of the Polish working class population to Socialism...
...As the cars move along the crowded streets of the city, through the loue'rpeakers announcements will be made of the Madison Square Garden rally of the next evening, as well as appeals for support for the party...
...Many passengers leading snd entering trains joined the cheering...
...The introduction of Hillquit brought a new outpouring of enthusiasm from the crowd...
...By Aaron Levenotein Hillquit Faces Rivals on Budget A PPEARING before the Citizens' ^* Budget Commission's symposium in Carnegie Hall, Morris Hillquit, Socialist candidate for Mayor, received three distinct ovations from an audience that had come to hear four mayoralty candidates discuss New York City's budget...
...The most encouraging thing he noted was the enthusiasm of the youth, and^helr promise for Socialism...
...and down to 20th Street, across to Irving Place and down to 10th Street...
...In Denver he spoke to 8,000 where he had addressed 200 in 1028...
...Arrangements are being made to have several hundre cars, and there will be loudspeakers, music and fireworks...
...The Surrogates' Court, of which my Democratic opponent is one of the presiding judges, is a hot-bed of these chair-warmers...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
