WORLD SOCIALIST LEADERS JOIN IN SURPRISE TRIBUTE TO HILLQUIT; 550 HONOR LEADER AT N. Y. BANQUET
World Socialist Leaders Join In Surprise Tribute To Hillquit 550 Honor Leader at N. Y. Banquet Snowden and Other British Cabinet Ministers Exprew Hope for Triumph of Socialism in America,...
...And even though in the new world where you found your home success ha* not as yet brought forth a great rising and political deliverance, we know that the ground is laid and that extensive work of preparation has been done...
...GEORGE LANSBURY...
...seemed genuinely interested in seeing the law enforced...
...World Socialist Leaders Join In Surprise Tribute To Hillquit 550 Honor Leader at N. Y. Banquet Snowden and Other British Cabinet Ministers Exprew Hope for Triumph of Socialism in America, in Messages to Veteran Leader of Paily TTillqnit Pledges Greater Activity Than Ever GREETINGS by cable, tdrgrnrti, letter and speech** to Morris Hinquft in celebration of his sixtieth birthday and a contribution of $2,000 to the campaign by tug comrades and friends were the high spots at the dinner in Park View Palace Sunday night which closed the two days session of the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party...
...Ray M. Boyer...
...had fit the platform and paid a warm tribute to his abilities as a lawyer, thinker and ¦i luaai TTcirmau Thomas, HoidsHat oasoaMs for Major, received an gfaMai when he was presented...
...L Darrington of the Painters' Union No...
...England...
...TOM SHAW...
...Board of Education (2), Nicholas Wetilch...
...MUlendorf...
...Gilbert S. Roe, ! A. I. Shiplecoff, Norman Thomas, B. C. i Vladeck, Louis Waldman...
...The United States, he declared Is a nation of builders...
...Edward F. Caasldy...
...Edward F. Caasldy also emphasised this aspect of Hlllqult's Ufa and recalled his courage In 1917 when Hillquit was the Socialist candidate for Mayor and repeatedly refused to subscribe for war bonds when asked...
...S* long aa society Is founded ea Injustice, the fmiction ef the laws will be te defend and sustain injustice...
...I would like to express the hope that you may live to see the realization of the Ideals you so long taught in the United States...
...j "Why, I repeat, do you endorse Judge ] Callaghan...
...President of the Polish Sejm...
...63 will represent the Schenectady Trades Assembly at the Toronto Convention of the American Federation of Labor...
...Rarely has there been a Socialist affair so striking in impressive incidents and so charged with human interest as this dinner given by New York Socialists and their friends...
...I Mrs...
...This was introductory to presenting Comrade Hillquit with a beautiful bound volume, about eight Inches thick, which contained the greetings from Socialist government* officials of England, Germany and Denmark, as well as expressions of regard from hundreds of other Socialists and labor men in the United States and abroad...
...This is an issue you cannot dodge.' The Injunction Facia "Observe that Mr...
...Belgium, Bulgaria...
...MUlendorf was attorney for a company which obtained an injunction in Justice Callaghan's court against the Upholsterers' Union...
...Vladeck In Stirring Flea...
...Scared by this record and perhaps threatened with action by the Governor, Grover Whalen thereupon completely crawls out from the contemptuous attitude of defiance of the law in regard to public milTfTVf* which he adopted after consultation with the district attorney's offices of the city and expressed in a letter to the Federal Prohibition Administrator...
...I am not a prohibitionist...
...Rafael Ambro- j mo wits, Thedor Dan, N. Tseretelli, exiled Russian Socialist leaders, and Julian Besteiro, Spain...
...It was his task to ask for contributions and when it was learned that the sum was about S150 short of S3,000 be interrupted further speaking till the balance was obtained...
...Belgium, and leader of the Belgian Labor Party...
...His reference was to the I recent death of Victor L. Berger In Mil| waukee...
...Thomas said...
...Inefficiency and hypocrisy," In an ¦iwiiw by Thomas Monday at a yjtnt meeting of the Socialist organizations of the 2nd...
...The greetings came from the International Socialist Bureau through Chairman Vandervelde and the Secretary, Frits Adler: from friends in Austria...
...John R Clynes, British Secretary for Home Affairs, wrote: "I would like to Join in the warm con] gratulations which all who know of Mor, lis Hillquit are eager to offer nun...
...Tom Johnson, Ireland...
...counsel for the plaintiff, admits that the union denied the contentions in his affidavits and admits by his silence my first statement that the injunction was granted without hearing witnesses, without evidence of police arrests, and without requiring the plaintiff to post bond...
...Among the csatagrams reosfvsd was one from Senjasatn Snnastoaer...
...I have had ample opportunities of watching and appreciating your devoted services to the great cause of internationalism...
...Emil Vandervelde...
...He has a splendid record of first class work and we wish him long life and continued service In a great cause...
...B. Charney Vladeck, Business Manager of the Jewish Dally Forward, spoke with all the feeling and earnestness for which he is noted...
...Marion Phillips, j M. P...
...I express the fervent hope that he may long be spared to continue his work by voice and pen and that he may live to see the triumph of the ideals to which he has devoted Ills' Ufe and great abilities...
...William Meyer, Algernon 'Lee, Harry W. Laidler, Robert Moras Loveu, Jacob Panken...
...Joseph Weinberg, President or the Workmen's Circle, decided to speak In (Yiddish and his remarks' provoked j ripples of laughter...
...So despite Justice Collaghan's | judicial interference the union won...
...I have heard of Queens property which increased ten fold on the coming of toe Crges ftpedfie liminti *TX you do net tons finance the sub* way building how will you or your successor keep the five cent fare...
...John R. Clynes...
...And the more unjust they are, the mere respectable they will seem.—Anatete France...
...It still raises the question: Do you, the vehement progressive ol 1824, the friend of labor and the enemj of injunctions, believe that Justice Callaghan took the proper method and procedure in granting the injunction ir question...
...Prastaant of the inHomawwnal Lathes' Oarmant Workers Union, who te In Barope because of ID health...
...La Gaarwia's beast ef never TesvSBs saade a deal wMa Tammany is that he suffers freaa an excoedtngtv bad memory,*' Thomas said...
...Is it Just that private owners should benefit so enormously, leaving subway riders and general taxpayers to hold the bagf 1 lib* Socialist answer Is that we should assess at least one third of the coat of new aubwaya on property benefitted, such assessments to be paid gradually oter a period long enough—say ten years—to permit It to be paid out of increased values...
...Thomas pointed out that Mr...
...Some speakers bad said that had he chosen to enter some other field be could have held high office or amassed a huge fortune...
...Your name is inscribed in the history of the Internationale side by side with those of Be be I Jaures and Ketr Hardie...
...He was equally Hberal In his congratulations to Hillquit and took the occasion to amk* a fcaaatul plea for oonsssrattoa to the Socialist movement by all was were present, as compared the aneertam and conflicting attitudes of Florella La Ouardia, the Republican candidate for Mayor, who within ten years has been on almost every side of every question, with the consistency and devotion to principle displayed by Hillquit...
...Abraham Baroff, Secretary-Treasurer of the International Ladies' Garment Workers, was introduced and declared that Hillquit had been not only the advisor but in many ways the leader of the International in all its many difficulties and problems...
...One of the best informed men in this city, dose to leaders in Tammany BnlL told me months ago that the only effect of Whalen's spectacular and violent raids of speakeasies on assuming office was to add at least $2,000,000 immediately to the price of protection...
...MUlendorf by no means tells the whole story...
...by the Board «t tkm'prtBnay hBnadsd far liaj'r'i (Talker toot eeeondaruy tor Major La Quenlle whose pceftton on i ncfl if ¦sow m stffl unknown.'* Thnsaai uJd...
...If be dM not make the deal In ISIS, aaanebedy made H far Baa mat he was glad te aeeew* the benefits ef tt...
...Observe moreover, that the Injunction for- ' bade not only violence and intimidation but aU peaceful picketing...
...First Question - nantin at the Pdbnt Famm ef Bfcooftlyn BisgBSa, sad at Wis nesnsgh M Labor Lyceum, both la Brooklyn, (besane...
...Herman rhomas Sunday pointed oat that La Gtuardia ran on too Democratic ticket In 1»18 for Congressman from too 14th district...
...wad,MtdMsi fee* way 'for' yearn through the awjassd trails* to the garment industry with the aid and «oaa-sel of TTTrtwill Gilbert X. Roe, who many Swam ago was a law partner ef the lnhjf SSnatWf LaFoartU...
...runner questions on the transit situation will follow.Wholen 'Crauts* on Dry Low—I* Incompetent Police ConrndaUoner Whalen was accused «f "an exhibition of mingled false statements...
...Secretary for Home Affairs, and Oeorge Lanabury...
...Is this a proper procedure...
...I joyfully remember your visit to Denmark at the Congress of 1910 and wish you may still live for many years of good work...
...M. P., I F. O. Jowett, M P...
...Do you believe that Whalen's second letter gives us any basis of confidence that he can deal with speakeasies which he himself has called breeding places of crime?' "This is not a prohibition question...
...Here we also made progress Into the war period when we suffered reverses...
...He does not ten you, for instance, that the employer tried to avoid responsibility for keeping his original agreement with the union by organising a second corporation to which he shipped work and for which he alternately claimed and disclaimed responsibility, as he found convenient...
...It was evident that Gerber labored under considerable emotion as he paid his tribute to Hillquit and made an earnest plea for friends who are outside to get Inside of the party...
...ARTHUR HENDERSON...
...Finnish Socialist Chief...
...Many Others Write Other felicitations were received from Friedricfa Adler, Secretary of the Labor and Socialist International...
...Arthur Henderson...
...When the Socialist Party was organised in this country thirty years ago it had but a handful, but he had seen the movement evolve into a mighty force all over the world...
...The surprise was not only on Hillquit but on most of the ted present, as only a few knew what it was...
...It declared: "The Injunction i should not have been granted without an undertaking," that is, a bond to as! sure financial responsibility of the corpoi ration in the final settlement of issues...
...Paul Block and the judge himself...
...Joseph W. Sharts, Alfred Baker Lewis, James Oneal, Bertha H. Mallly, J. Mahlon Barnes, Adoiph Germer, Clarence O. Senior, Oscar Tokol...
...La Ouardia appeared on the ballot as both Democrat and Republican...
...During my ten years tenure of the position of president of the Labor and Socialist International from which only recently I have resigned...
...She bad written a letter j to Comrade Hillquit and read tt as her i speech...
...They have represented practical ideas to the atj tainment of which you have worked un] selfishly and unsparingly...
...that he was profoundly eonvinoad tost the Socialist mawameat wit be ss Mr • njctar la the Qhnwd •totsft ss is la m oUstr aattsns of the world...
...The Secret Bevealed Shortly after Hillquit arrived at the banquet hall a group of friends formed j In line and slowly proceeded down the j aisle to where Hillquit was seated...
...It was the sense of the Schenectady central labor body last Wednesday evening that the Schenectady delegate should support old age pensions in the convention, and should favor a reversal of the action of the 1928 convention in connection with Brookwood Labor College...
...demanding that lie either drop his endorsement of Stephen Callaghan, Brooklyn supreme court Justice, or explain whether he approved vr disapproved Callaghan's labor record...
...Karl Kautsky, leading theoretical writer of the Socialist movement...
...Prem Lanseury and Shaw Oeorge Lanabury, British Minister of Works wrote: "Dear Comrade Hillquit: "This is to bring you greetings, good wishes and love on your SOth birthday from myself in particular and from many others In this country who would, I am ! sure, be glad to Join me in sending this ) note...
...Whitehall, S. W., July 15, 1929...
...Each fssst was presented with a beautiful photo of lBHqntt...
...Thomas Pays Trttate Miss Pauline Newman, editor of the Woman's Department of The New Leader, spoke tor the Socialist and trade ; union women...
...Where do you personally stand on the speakeasy question...
...Hypocritically he tries to make It appear that he has not crawled at all...
...Joel Moses, Frank C. Per| kins, Morris Berman, Abraham Cahan...
...William Gillies, England...
...Secretary of Foreign Affairs, wrote: "My dear Hillquit: "I am delighted to have the opportunity of offering to you my very sincere congratulations on the occasion of your 60th birthday and I shall look forward to being able to felicitate you In due course on your attaining and passing the alloted span of three-score years and ten...
...He found it difficult to find words to express the lndebted: ness of the union to the Socialist leader...
...Comrade Hillquit was aware that there was a surprise promised but he was unable to fathom it...
...Minister of Public Works...
...At the dinner were representatives of trade unions, the Workmen's Circle, the Jewish Daily Forward, The New Leader and party organizations of New York and other cities and states...
...Supposing that there Is violence in a strike...
...IgnaUt Dexinsky...
...Ee who was going to throw all speakeasy cases back at the federal administrator now promises a vigorous enforcement of all penal statutes without discrimination, and specific cooperation «g»«T»«t speaksaslat with the federal administrator under the state public nuisance law...
...Secretary for War...
...The gentleman who defends Judge Callaghan is none other than a lawyer for the plaintiff who got the injunction against Upholsterers' Union Local 76 and his defense is simply a statement that the union employed violence and Intimidation against workers who did not want to join it...
...He boasted that there were no gangs In New York and last week there were four gang killings in Manhattan and Brooklyn, one New York gang killing in Cleveland and another shooting in Boston, all connected with, various rackets, including the speakeasy racket, protected by police and politicians...
...Truly and Bineereiy, THEODORE STAUNING...
...Reviewing his life and activities, the ' speaker said that if be had his Ufe to live over again or if he had ten Uvea to live he would live them as he has lived...
...V. Karapetoff...
...M^4Mt^«7 day lasgmtns Walker Finance Plans, Thame...
...J. Henry Stump...
...Ward declared Soellner...
...His long and valuable services to international Socialism have won for him the gratitude and afTection of the world movement...
...The "conspiracy" had been arranged as a surprise by Julius Gerber as the chief "conspirator...
...President of Council, Joseph Long: for Councilman at Large (3), John Ricksecker, Andrew Manger, Harry Lehr...
...Brooklyn Assembly districts, at the Brownsville Labor Lyceum...
...It Is essential to ordinary justice irrespective of the present lew...
...Finally and most important, he does not teU you that the AppeUate Division ordered the plaintiff to post bond and fixed the date for immediate trial of issues...
...announce myself with a salutattion both personal and from the comrades in Denmark...
...Charles W. Ervln, Julius Gerber, Meyer Gillis, Prof...
...Suppose you accept the statement ol this naturally biased special pleader at its face value...
...While the trial was proceeding the plalnI tiff corporation seeing the case going 1 against it withdrew its application for a : permanent injunction and settled with ! the union...
...He does not tell you that the union charged that the employer hired gangsters to stir up violence...
...The members of the British Labor Cabinet who sent greetings were Philip 8nowden, Chancellor of the Exchecquer, Arthur Henderson...
...We have plenty of law against violence...
...It was already in power or near power in many nations abroad...
...A little later in the proceedings Algernon Lee, the toastmaster...
...Upton Sinclair, Benjamin Schlessinger, J. Baskln, ; N. Chan in...
...Violations of the prevailing rate In Schenectady would be brought Immediately to the attention of Assistant Attorney General McMuUen...
...President Soellner reported that he had attended a conference with Attorney General Ward In connection with enforcing the prevailing rate of wages in connection wth all public work...
...W. H. Wtik...
...You and your comrades in America, -' have had a very hard row to hoe and • i although at present you have not reached 11 a posiUton that we appear to have , reached In this country, I feel quite sura r j that one of these days the tide will come • rushing in your war and when it does ¦ one of the men who will be most remembered as having had a big hand in creat, ing Social-Democracy in America will be yourself...
...Away beak about mo a report to the Cay Gtub...
...Or I have you experienced a change of heart...
...This is an issue you cannot dodge," Thomas declared...
...Sincerely yours, m Signed "NORMAN THOMAS...
...Holland, Hungary, Ireland, Poland Russia, Sweden, Spain and the United 8tates...
...Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Tom Shaw...
...But I believe when public opinion understands the facta and the Inevitable alliance between speakeasies and other rackets and with crime generally It will i glial * * La Ouardia Ran in 1918 As Tammany Nominee -Taktog as Ms teas the statement of r. H. La Onardia...
...This la essential to pi saw...
...More on the Record Of Justice Callaghan Thomas early in the week struck vigvously at Ls> Ouardia...
...Adelhadd Popp, member of the Austria Parliament...
...He recalled that the Socialist movement when he joined it as a young man was little more than an aspiration in afl countries with the except!ton of Germany and even there tt was an exile under th» exception laws...
...Delegates Walker, Umpleby and Merrill were appointed as committee to draft a resolution for the American Federation of Labor convention proposing a consolidation of International Unions for the purpose of eliminating jurisdictional disputes and increasing their effectiveness...
...Arthur Crispien, President of the German Social-Democratic Party: Herman Polak, M. P., Holland...
...Mayor of Reading...
...Why should a judge be asked to enjoin what Is already Illegal unless with the iUegal Is included the legal and unless it is intended to try to send men to.JaU by the easy road of contempt of court Instead of the fairer, but harder, road of a regular trial...
...Your work in America was an evidence of the advancing and penetrating power of the international idea...
...Theodore Staunlng, Prime Minister of Denmark, wrote: "On your SOth birthday, I too...
...Minister of Education, Denmark...
...La Ouardia, replied to a defense of Justice Callaghan made in the New York World by Solomon MUlendorf...
...Introduced Julius Oerber who had known Hillquit as a boy in Riga...
...Greetings received from the United States included those from Theodore Debs...
...Berger Introduced Toastmaster Lee, after paying a tribute to Hlllqult's long Ufe of useful service to the working class, declared that his most difficult problem was to choose speakers representative of the organisations wham Hillquit had served...
...He concluded with i an earnest peroration that evoked a hearty demonstration by the audience...
...Greece...
...Actually) of oousse, he will do Just what he baa been doing, that is, to Ignore the law save against certain speakeasies which the police will say are peculiarly bad ones but which are more likely to be those which have been slow in paying up...
...Like the majority of my party In this state I believe that the Swedish plan somewhat modified to meet American conditions would be better In New York than prohibition not supported by public opinion...
...But Mr...
...e the five cent fare under conditions laid down by the present law that new subways must be self-supporting within fhne years...
...Bspsfcttsan designee for Mayor, that "I never made a deal with Tammany in my life...
...The asasss...
...JOHN R. CVTMBS...
...first President Finland: James F. : Carey...
...What Snowden Wrote I "Treasury Chambers...
...England, Prance, Germany, Finland...
...It was expressive of the feahn of ttsst...
...M. P., Ellen Wilkinson...
...Thomas* question queried the Hater on hat pmnm for financing U» new sofowayi aamnonced...
...Joseph Wein; berg, W. E. Woodward, Art Young, Katherine Deis, wife of the late Eugene V. Debs, and Benjamin Weinstein...
...Otto Bauer, leader of the Austrian Socialist Party: Karl Belts, Mayor of Vienna, Henri DeMann, Bel- ; gian Socialist leader: Borgbiorg...
...It is a great pleasure to me to greet' our comrade Morris Hillquit on his SOth birthday...
...linn sasy Trtgttt, asked the first tfaBnr...
...Schenectady Wants Reversal On Brookwood Delegate to A. F. of L. Convention Also Instructed to Favor Old Age Pensions SCHENECTADY.—W...
...Thomas Duncan, Socialist member of the Wisconsin Senate, said that his ln' tercet In the Socialist movement had i been awakened many years ago by read| ing a pamphlet written by HUkniit...
...Perhaps, said Hillquit, but this type of success had never appealed to htm Turning to the bound volume of letirailiin ef tL NattansU Kmcuttve Com ¦atoo wMah received an ovation...
...Thomas asserted Whalen has "crawled" en the issue of closing speakeasies...
...stnee quoted by Chairman Delaney of your own Transportation Board, showed that subways in Manhattan and the Bronx had Increased real ¦state -tanas aneoyh to build fire more tobwaja la Manhattan and seven in the Bronx, noun dim to Samuel TJntertrr/er, Tablet on atb Avenue went up 104% before earth was turned...
...The ' public deserves an answer...
...Has he privately assured you | of a change of heart on injunctions...
...He was compelled to restrict the list, much as he regretted to do so...
...Tom Shaw, British Secretary of War, wrote: "Dear Comrade Hillquit: "May I offer you a word of greeting on your SOth birthday...
...He does not teU you that the employees who signed the affidavits in behalf of the employer were strike breakers who naturally had to sign those affl> davits...
...Thomas said Commissioner Whalen's boast of having ended gang warfare was given the lie by four killings last week...
...Massillon Socialists Name City Ticket <Bt a New Leaser C»ms»«4«at> MASSILLON, Ohio—Massillon socialists have nominated the following candidates for the November election and have filed the necessary petitions: For Mayor, William L. Bluster...
...former Minister of Justice...
...Meta L. Berger, wlekrwof the late 1 Socialist ex-Congressman, had been | asked to speak but she was still too [deeply affected by her recent loss and i expressed her tribute to Hillquit through I toastmaster Lee...
...Pierre Renaudel, member of French Chamber of Deputies: Paul Loebe, President of the German Reichstag...
...Or do you think labor doesn't care...
...The action of the Executive Board In opposing the renomination of Assemblymen M err lam and Nicoll was approved and concurred in...
...The Socialist candidate, In his letter to Mr...
...Josiab Wedge wood, M. P., Fenner Brockway, M. P., Dorothy Jewson...
...Emil Seidel, Max Hayes, Moritz De Jong, Seymour Stedman...
...Thomas' letter follows: "Dear Major La Ouardia: "At last some one has been found brave enough to defend the injunction record of Justice Callaghan whom you have so eloquently endorsed, somewhat to the consternation of Mr...
...Denmark...
...Among them were five members of the British Cabinet, the Prime Minister of Denmark and the President of the German Reichstag...
...We erect .big buildings, we build great banks, and industries—build everything except life...
...He was happy that we still had him with I us as we never know our loss till we lose Isuch men...
...Net A Prattibitfcmart *T therefore renew my questions to Mayor Walker In my letter of August 29 which he has not answered...
...All of us have i admired your robust spirit and your energy not less than the conspicuous abilities which you have placed so readi' ly at the disposal of the International ' Labor and Socialist movement...
...Mrs...
...We need builders of life more than anything else in this country and as such Morris Hillquit, said Vladeck, Is one of its most devoted builders...
...It Is not often that even New York has seen such an exhibition of mingled false statements, inefficiency and hypocrisy as Graver Whalen has recently given us," Mr...
...How eloquently have I heard you denounce these features of injunctions...
...The question It: Sow do you and roar ccfleagnes ezpact to finance tb* jrrogram of new construction or subsays snnBsmcad by tba Bsard of Trensporratinnf TO you or w&l you not attest at least a third of the cost against property which will be benefitted to the extent of many hundred per cent...
...The telegrams, letters and cables came from representatives of the Labor and Socialist movement in many countries...
...18th, 22nd and 23rd...
...They carried three large clusters of red roses and one burden-bearer staggered under | a huge birthday cake presented by Bakers' Union No...
...and I j sincerely hope that you will long be ' spared to continue to play the same dis! tlnguished part In the future as you have played in the past...
...James H. Maurer, Daniel W. Hoan, Mayor of Milwaukee...
...It was a late hour when Comrade Hillquit was introduced...
...International friendship, understanding and co-operation have never been platitudinous phrases on your lips...
...Whatever Walker and Whalen intend, this is the Inevitable result of their method...
...F. M. Wibaut, Vice Mayor of Amsterdam...
...thing we can say abas* Mr...
...Do you accept Whalen's first statement or second...
...PHILIP SNOWDEN...
...Be 4selsM taat^be nad so arranged htt party Ha was •ataf toTfta'tacM ttaw to tad party aad Itp auttrttaw nam he by aaymg...
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