The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1917-10-21
HYLAN TYRANT.
HILLQUIT SAYS
Declares Tammany Mayor
Would Club Strikers to
Help Bosses.

Before an enthusiastic audience of
more than 1000 persons In Cooper Union
yesterday afternoon Morris Hillquit,
Socialist candidate for Mayor. bitterly
assailed John F. Hylan. Tammany can.
didate for Mayor, as "a man without
quality" Mr.. Hillquit further warned
his hearers that II the Tammany ticket
was elected there will be a return "of
the old time Tammany methods of police
brutality In time Of strikes"
"Hylan is a man without quality
said Mr.. Hillquit. He never taiks-no.
body knows anything about him. What
are we going to do about it--elect him -
We're going to elect you." roared the
crowd.
We'll. IL you elect me you will elect
yourselves" responded Hillquit.
$4,000 for Movie Pictures.
Il must say" continued the Socialist
candidate. that envy Judge Hylan. He
and the people behind him have Just
paid out $4,000 to have him photo
graphed in the movies. They took reels
Of his smiling face while he was dining
with the Cloak Manufacturers Associa-
-ttcrr The Cloak Manufacturers Associa-
tion Is composed Of your bosses. They
are the men who in the last labor
trouble locked out the workers for ten
long weeks. They want to bring us back
to the starvation wages and the sweat
shop conditions Of the past
The strike referred to by Mr. Hill
quit was the one settled by Mayor
Mitchell when he forced the cloak man.
ufacturers to arbitrate with the work.
ers and end the lockout"
Continuing, Mr.. HillQuit said: I'm
other words. you are the slaves and they
are your masters. and Mr.. Hylan stands
with them. They will settle your strikes
and they will have the aid of the police
clubs and your pickets will be clubbed
and crippled"
Mr.. Hillquit pointed out that the
present agreement between the employ
ers and the workers. drawn up after the
last strike. expires In eighteen months.
Mr.. Tammany Hylan.
your bosses are farseeing," he said,
land II Hylan Ia elected Mayor they viii
go to Hylan-Mr. Tammany Hylan--
and ask him for the police clubs and
they will get them II you elect me.
then the police clubs will not be for
the heads Of honest working people try
ing to make a living and better their
whom your employers hire TO break your
strikes and take your places in the
work shops. You must thank your
bosses for forming the Hylan Club.
III you want war to continue in
definitely. II you want new millions OF
your fellows slaughtered and butchered
In the hard struggle. and the war in
Europe to continue day after day. and
this bestial brutal state Of affairs to be
prolonged. then vote for the capitalistic
parties"
Other speakers at the meeting as
serted that this Is not a campaign but
a revolution" and predicted the victory
Of the Socialist candidate.
In a speech at Niblo's Garden, Third
avenue and 170th street. Mr.. Hillquit
made the most Of the sugar famine in
New York oity by adding sugar to the
long list of city controlled commodities
II the Socialists are successful In the
municipal campaign.
He said the sugar shortage could
have been averted by Socialist control
of the city government. He deplored
the expectation of sugar to other coun-
tries and asserted that enough had left
this port In the last six weeks to supply
the city for two and a half months at
a rate of 10000, 900 pounds a month.