The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1921-07-20
COALlTlONlSTS USE
HYLAN'S PET PLANKS
TO BUILD PLATFORM !
Prices Committee Antici-
pates 5 Cent Fare Cry and
Adds City Control Of
Coal, Ice and Milk.
WOULD DEAL IN HOUSES
Reduction Of Phone, Gas
and Electric Light Bills
Also Suggested in Draft
for Steering Group.
SOME MEMBERS AGHAST
Lusk Teachers Loyalty Law
Disapproved-So Socialistic
That Speakers Say Cts and
G. O. P. Will Revolt.
SOME MEMBERS AGHAsT

The Price Coalition Committee, in
dependent body headed by Joseph M.
Price, which is cooperating with the
Republican organization and the Citi-
Dens Union In the anti Tammany cam
paign. adopted platform yesterday
so liberal in tone that one protesting
member said he was not sure but what
he was in Socialistic body. Another,
w. r. Dorman. a lawyer, Of Brooklyn,
withdrew from the committee after the
platform was adopted over his protest.
The document, after revision In
phraseology, will be submitted to the
steering committee, composed Of rep
resentatives of all anti-Tammany bod
les and authorized by the latter to
pick slate and adopt a platform. 1t
was predicted last night that the Re-
publicans and Citizens Union would
never consent to go so far in the final
platform on which the anti-Tammany
candidates are to run. Lively sessions
on the subject are inevitable.
For instance, the traction plank
adopted--which was the most liberal Of
three originally suggested--declares for
adequate service at a five cent fare"
and for pledging the candidates to de-
mand an amendment to the traction law
recently enacted at the instance Of Gov.
Miller. Another plank was for pledging
the candidates for the retention of direct
primaries In local nominations.
Would MunfcipaIise Coal.
Other sections in the platform which
were adopted over the protest Of the
more conservative members Of the COM
mittee were: City to have power to con-
denim land for housing purposes and to
sell. hold or lease the same: for early
report to Board of Estimate on a plan
for sale by the city of coal and ice and
the establishment Of municipal milk pas
teurization plants a plank dealing with
free speech and indirectly criticising the
Lusk legislation relating to teachers.
The latter plank was opposed on the
ground that it had no place In munich
pal platform.
The platform was prepared by a spe-
cial committee. of which Miss Mary Z.
Dreier OF Manhattan was chairman.
There were two members from each bor-
ough. the others being Edward J. Nc
CURE. Manhattan; G. w. Thompson and
Mrs. Raymond v. Ingersoll. Brooklyn:
Bernard S. Deutsch and Gustav Gunkel,
The Bronx; Emile Il. Rathgeber and
Henry S. Rasquin, Queens. and William
Y. Wemple and Mrs. Frank Keep. Rich
mond.
There were less than fifty members
of the full Coalition Committee, consist
ing of about 800 persons In all, present
at the. Pennsylvania Hotel meeting
yesterday. 1t was explained by Mr..
Price that three different traction
planks. traction being considered the
most important. had been sent by mail
to every member of the committee with
the request for an opinion. This was
the communication made public by Com
missioner Hirshfield of the Hylan forces
on Saturday. Two of the planks marked
"A and B." respectively, placed the
blame for the necessity for the Miller
traction bill on Mayor Hylan and de-
ciared for adequate service and the
smallest possible fare commensurate
with that service.
Mr.. Price explained that 10 replies
had been received. or that number six
teen voted for a." twenty-one for "B"
and sixty-one for &C." the one incor-
porated In the platform presented for
consideration yesterday, and which was
adopted after heated debate. Only one
member OF the committee wrote that he
favored no declaration on the traction
issue at all.
Traction Plank Approved.
The traction plank adopted, as sub
mitted by the committee, follows
The Hylan administration has sought
to cover It's own incompetency by loud
declarations for the five cent fare The
truth is that because this administra-
ton has failed to face the traction diff
fculties and to adopt a constructive pro-
gramfne. tens of thousands of men and
women in this city pay two and three
fares to reach their places of work.
Failing operating costs are fast re-
moving the only possible claim for fares
higher than those guaranteed by con-
tracts upon which the people Of New
York have expended several hundred mil
lion dollars. Under the present transit
law. the city has no right to control its
own investment through its elected rep
resentatives. 1t is merely a spectator
and must accept the plans Of the Tran
sit Commission, while the traction COM
panies may reject any plan submitted.
The Coalition Committee favors q
unified traction system supplying an ade-
quate and satisfactory service at five
cent fare. We also favor substantial
reduction In the present telephone, gas
and electricity rates. We believe in the
election Of officials pledged to accom-
plish these obejots through constructive
effort We shall also expect our nomi-
nces. II elected, to demand an amend
ment 70 the transit law so that no plan
OF settlement can be adopted and no con-
tracts changed without the consent OF
the elected Board of Estimate and APP
portionment."
When the platoon was read for adop-
zion. plank by plank. Mr.. Dorman showed
himself out of sympathy with many of
The provisions. 1t was illogical to fight