New-York tribune., 1921-06-21
Citizens Union
Will Help Rid
City Of Hyla11
Demands Made for Transit
Home Rule, End of Poll.
ties in Schools, Curb for
Crime and Tax Reform
Drive 10 Rout Tammany
We Want New Courthouse;
We Got Limestone Com
spiracy,' Says Schieffelin

1He CltlzenS Union, through its
chairman, William Jay Schiefclin, yes
terday declared it's purpose to CO.
operate in the -Tammany Mayor
atty campaign. Mr.. Schefelin's state
platform.
The union demands better transit for
5 cents; home rule in transit affairs;
an administration that will stop play
ing politics with the public schools;
a sitting for every pupil of school age;
an administration that will curb crime
and not hide it, and Police Commits
sioner who will not try to grab an
Illegal pension for his own benefit.
Attention is called to Mayor Hylan's
/ in the tax rate and enormously in
creased realty assessed valuations and
a budget 45 per cent greater than the
last MitcneI administration.
The executive committee of the Union
has authorized Chairman Schieffelin to
! appoint conference committee to con-
suit in regard to nominations for city
] oihSeo ana III IeSdIu 10 pluHS 1OT LHc
campaign in general.
Candidates Records Barred
The Union will have this fall, as
usual, a committee on local candidates,
who will make up the records Of all
candidates of all parties and recon-
mend action in individual cases. Mr.
Schietfelin's statement follows in part:
1--WE shall oppose to the utmost the
present Hylan Tammany administra-
tion if presented for reelection, be-
cause it has been an inefficient and bad
| administration.
"We want reduced budget. Mayor
Hylan promised it, but we have the
largest budget in the city's history
Sl07 100000, or as per cent. more than
Mayor Mitchel's last budget, and even
so the Hylan budget was juggled by
the omission of $28,000,000 needed to
keep the schools running until the end
Of the year.
eve want reduced taxes. Mayor
Hylan promised them, bus we have the
highest tax rate in the citys history,
the rate having risen approximately 50
points between 1917 and 1921 in spite
of tremendous increase in assessed
valuation.
eve want better transit for a scent
fare. Mayor Hylan claims to want
this, too, but what we have is thou
sands paying two or three times cents
for their daily rides, discontinued car
lines, bus lines stopped because they
have been illegally established and
threatened receiverships for those
transit lines that are not yet in the
hands of receivers.
Home Rule Demanded
eve want home rule in transit at
fairs. The city is big enough and has
brains enough not to need a state com
mission from Albany to solve our
transit problems. Yet what we have is
state commission of three men sub
stltuted for the city, because the Hy-
an-Iammany regime has done nothing
about transit except talk, while the
transit lines were going to the dogs.
| 1--WE want an administration that
Will stop playing politics with the
"We want more schools. Mayor Hy
Ian promised them. Where are they :?
In the future. Many Of the existing M
schools were recently described bv a
! visiting delegation of women as filthy
fire traps.
I'VE want sitting for everv pupil
Of school age. Mayor Hylan promised
them, but under him the number of
part,tlme pupils has nearly doubled
- we want new courthouse. Mayor
! 80 ie,li anu coInpCTOller Craig DrOmiS Sed
IT. But what we got was a limestone
conspiracy.
We want an administration that
will stop playing politics with the 20 DO.
lice Hylan's first commissioner re-
signed on the ground that he could no
longer serve with self-respect. Hvlan
then appointed notorious police noIi.
I!clah, ana as result the present po-
/ lice administration is on a lower nIane
|
deco odes. Al '"o
"We want prompt solution of III.
problem of garbage disposal. Mavor
aylan promised it. He has utterIv
failed to keep his promise.
We want an administration that u;l,
stop making dishonest statements shont
itself and others. In three and one
half years Hylan has solved not t"'
single big problem to the citv's advara
tage., He has sidestepped issues "a'4n he
should have met squarely. misstated
or Juggied facts when they did NOT smit
nm m, and blundered consistently. ~
he has surrounded himself with .s-
sociates who were notoriouslv ra nnsaS ~o-
cessful in private life and have l;le-
wise proved incapable as public SER
wants; Some of these, like his cron;as
dailrschheld dinta1 and Solovei, have been in.