Millions Mourn Hillquit
Millions Mourn Hillquit ****** World-Famous Socialist Leader Dies After Long Illness fl*HE Socialist movement of America and of the P the whole world suffered a staggering blow with the passing...
...The ushers were all young Socialists and the arrangements were carried to a conclusion without a hitch...
...h was a fitting farewell to a man who had given his whole life to the cause of the oppressed...
...The workers object to the silk code recently signed which is identical with the cotton code and carries a wage schedule too low for the silk workers...
...In the after noon he spoke with his usual fire and brilliance at a Karl Marx memorial meeting at Town Hall...
...The m a s s ed s i n glng about the coffin was the climax of a tribute of admiration, of love and devotion unmatched in its fervor and its beauty...
...The speakers and other notablea sat at the north end of the platform, and the Hillquit family at the south of the coffin...
...Millions Mourn Hillquit ****** World-Famous Socialist Leader Dies After Long Illness fl*HE Socialist movement of America and of the P the whole world suffered a staggering blow with the passing of Morris Hillquit, National Chairman of the Socialist Tarty and for decades The party's beloved leader, who died at his home 1ft New York a few minutes past midnight Sundry, October 8th...
...At 10.30 tho Metropolitan String Quartet of Station WEVI) played ¦ number of classical selections, and then the speaking began...
...The exercises at historic Cooper Union were brief...
...There were many speeches, but all brief, and each was from the heart...
...The case is in the hands of Attorney Jroel Gross of Jersey City and it will be fought to a finish in the courts, and the Civil Liberties Union is being approached to render aid because of the supreme importance of the issue involved...
...The National Strike Committee is planning a campaign against the ininjunction, and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, through General Organizer Joseph Schlosaberg, have promised support...
...He continued his work, however, but it was plain that he was failing fast...
...At the head, grouped about the hearse, were ten young Socialists carrying red flags, and in the hearts of all were sorrow at the passing of a great and noble soul...
...He tad recently accepted the post of eWfaman of the City Campaign Committee and had written a tl letter in support of the '« local ticket, and he had listed as one of the speakers e closing rally of the camMifn at Madison Square Garden...
...A few hours before he breathed his last, Comrade Hillquit dictated a letter on party matters to the National Executive Committee...
...His clear brain, his penetrating judgment, and his gift of inspiring oratory always held the attention of International Socialist Congresses and made him in Europe the best known figure in the American Labor and Socialist movement...
...I TPO the songs of comrades, with red flags flying and with mourning thousands following Morris Hillquit, beloved leader of American Socialism, was borne to his rest Wednesday...
...he therefore chartered a plane and flew to the Capital, there to do his last work for the union with which he had been associated for so many long and busy years...
...The International Mourns "TMIK Labor and Socialist Internationa] joins with the Socialist * Party of America in mourning Morris Hillquit...
...If de™d against the workers it will IB only affect those in the textile ¦fcstry but also the workers in all jfifeare BOO silk workers on *wa In Bayonne ant a total of jJjJJJOO in Hudson County...
...Last year, as candidate a|| Mayor in the special election eused by the forced resignation of Mayor Walker, he spent himself as ¦par before, until his friends were •larmed at what they felt was a reckless disregard for his own phyiteal welfare in the interests of the m. Just before his nomination last J«ar, Comrade Hillquit had been Wrking on his memoirs, but he Mj them aside until the campaign ¦ywer...
...D ur i n g the winter and early spring he spoke on a number of 0 c c a s ions, his last two appearances being on March 25th...
...In all his recent letters—includ-' -fcf a letter published in the Labor Dsy issue of The New Leader—he optimist iinlly reported improved physical condition and promised an etrly return to party activity...
...The ten-story building of the Forward was draped in red and black, and a large portrait of the dead leader hung over the doorway...
...Immediately thereafter ¦ resumed the work, but it was Mad that something had gone out HiL He seemed tired and spent, •aaangh the spirit was undimmed...
...A guard of honor of young Socialists stood at attention with red flags throughout the services...
...He had to submit or be financially ruined...
...As tens of thousands of sorrowing workers stood with bared heads in front of the building of the Jewish Daily Forward in Rutgers Square, New York, thousands of Socialists grouped about the hearse and sang the International and the Red Flag...
...Many workers* are wondering whether it will become necessary for union men first to get a permit from the bosses before they can resort to a strike...
...Please Isy a wreath on Hillquit's grave with red ribbons snd with this inscription: "To the Faithful and...
...In the evening, despite a pouring rain, he journeyed to Brooklyn to fulfill an engagement to debate Senator Joseph T. Robinson for the Brook lyn Forum, a party organ ization...
...One entions ia that the strike In violation of the NRA j «NW called without eonI employer...
...It report of his death, therefore, fU • stunning surprise to all exIP' those who had seen him Morris Hillquit had fought off two severe attacks of tuberculosis fa the last twenty years, but in his public activities he never spared himself...
...The is sweeping In character Ins the striken from alything imaginable...
...It SJjL ,s)a»o have an important ¦•aring upon interpretation of the ¦J* taction of the NRA...
...Shortly after Labor Day lie returned to New York, and he remained at home, taking a keen and active interest in all party affairs until the very end...
...Again he acquitted himself bril1 i a n tly, but it was noticed that he was haggard and worn and very tired...
...The coffin banked high with floWers stood on the platform from which Hillquit had so often spoken, the whole platform a gigantic floral tribute from every section of the Socialist and labor movement...
...Nazi Censorship Reaches Across Dutch Border Louis Saalborn, a Dutch theatrical producer, who had a company playing Karl Zuckmeyer's "The Captain of Koepenlck" to good houses In Holland, not long ago received an imperious note from the German government, requiring him to take the play off the boards, on pain of being in future denied foreign production rights in any other German plays...
...His clothes were wringing wet with perspiration at the close of the debate and having difficulty in securing a taxicab he returned home in bad condition...
...A motor trip to New York, and then a five-hour railway journey to Washington, would have been too strenuous for him...
...The strikers are aware that they are involved in a battle that may determine the fate of all labor organizations throughout tho country and they appeal for general labor support...
...Courageous Pioneer of Internstional Socislism from the Labor snd Soeislist International...
...As a joyous satire on both militarism and bureaucracy, It Is of course as offensive to the brown-shirt upstarta aa to the old-fashioned Junkers...
...The play in question is based on an actual incident in pre-war Germany, where a cobbler dressed as an army captain appeared at the city hall of Koepenlck and declared that he was Instructed by the royalimperial authority to take charge of all municipal affairs, 'amused himself for a while by making the public officials kowtow to him, and ended by carrying away all the cash in the city treasury...
...The speakers were Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee, James Oneal, Jacob Panken, David Dubinsky, Charles Solomon, Julius Urrfknsky, Harry W. Laidler, Joseph Weinberg of the Workmen's Circle, Meyer Brown of tho Poale /ion, Abraham Cahan, N. Chanin, Prank R. Crosswaith, Mrs...
...His last thought was for his party...
...Hillquit had been ill for several months, and for several years his general health had not been good, but few outside bis immediate family circle realized the seriousness of his condition...
...and 24th St., Union City, N. J. This week strikers and their representatives were in Washington opposing the silk code before the NBA administration...
...Organizations desiring to share the financial responsibilities of this notable case should send contributions to the American Federation of Silk Workers, Local 12, Italian Cooperative Hall, Summit Ave...
...He made a few appearances at his office, and then he went to Avon, N. J., • During the summer he worked on a code for the cloakmakers, and he was called upon to argue the code in Washington...
...possible that his terrific exerttoaa in the 1932 campaign short•id his life by years...
...The coffin had been borne from Cooper Union, where the funeral s e r vices* were held, through the streets of the East Side, followed by a procession of sincere mourners over a mile long...
...Signed by Frledrich Adler, Secretary, L.B.I...
...Victor L. Ber» llyonne Silk Workers * In Battle on Injunction AN injunction issued against the "Asjarican Federation of Silk Workers of Bayonne, N. J., may Prove to be a historic landmark in ** 'truggle of the workers to »»>ntain the right to strike...
...Thus the Hitler-Goring censorship reaches beyond the German frontier...
...The workers are still out and determined...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 16
