New-York tribune., 1921-10-30
Pledges
Homes for All.
Reduced Rents
tcsnsInusd from page ons,
York City for introduction and con-
ssderation by the state Legislature.
Promises by Candidate

The coalition candidate spoke last
night at four meetings in Brooklyn-at
Erasmus Hall, Flatbush: the Manual
Training High School, Seventh Avenue
and Fifth Street; Public School 1877,
2215 Coney Island Avenue, and at the
18th Regiment Armory In the after
noon he addressed the members of the
Brooklyn Club at l25 'Remsen Street.
His speech follows
"Only little more than week re-
mains of this campaign. l have told
you again and again of Mr.. Hylan's
broken promises. Tonight l am going
to discuss a problem which consider
absolutely vital to the city's welfare.
1t IS the question of proper housing
facilities for our people. | propose
that my administration shall not oniv
lead the way in findinga permanent
remedy for the present intolerable
housing situatio, but that it small also
outline policy whereby we will be
able to cope with such an emergency
should it arise in the future. When /
become Mayor | am going to tackle this
job alone.
Il do not charge that our present
situation is entirely due to Mr.. Hylan.
Circumstances outside of his control
started the trouble. do charge, how
ever, that, face to face with the fact
of an acute shortage Of homes, be-
cause of which the health and happi-
ness Of literally hundreds of thousands
OF our people were menaced, Mr.. Hylan
took not one constructive step. He
created rent profiteerng committee
that was a smoke-screen and nothing
else. Where the city needed prompt
and Intelligent action, we got the
typical Hylan fourishes and ruffles.
am going to prove this from the facts
Hylan Camoufage Barred
Perhaps the most amusing of Mr..
Hylan's efforts to fool the people of
this city has been his recent assertion
that he has made serious attempt to
deal with the housing situation. A day
or two ago he declared publicly that
he was the sponsor for the tax ex-
emption measure, under which plans
FOR more than 10000 homes have been
filed in the building bureaus of the FIVE
boroughs. This is an absolute and de-
liberate falsehood, and nobody knows
it better than Mr.. Hylan. am going
to nail that lie right now. The actual
reverse is the truth. The records in
the case are so plain and were made
such short time ago that | am sur
Prlsed at such a statement, even from
Hearsts Man Friday, Hylan. These are
the facts:
The housing situation lay so lightly
on Mr.. Hylan's shoulders that while
it was at its very worst he was busy
digging that million dollar hole which
was to be the Hylan Courthouse. In
spite of my protests and in spite of
my demonstrating that where one
empty courthouse was being built, the
money, labor and materials could be
used to house four thousand families.
Mr.. Hylan went ahead with this court
house scheme until he stubbed his toe
on a scandal in the limestone contracts.
"In the meanwhile, when the people
found that the man. they had put at
the head of the city government took
his sponsibilities so lightly they
went to the state Legislature and de-
manded relief. The Legislature passed
the first batch of the rent relief laws
introduced by Senator Lockwood's
Housing Committee to meet
this crisis. These laws were passed as
temporary measures to relieve an
acute situation down here Five months
later, at the special session, in Septem-
Der, 1920, the Legislature enacted like
wise more rent laws introduced by
Senator Lockwood's committee, all tenn