The New York herald., 1922-05-04
Two Score Unions There
to Hear Gompers and
Holland.
ON PLATFORM
Women and Preachers Are
Among 10000 Who Enjoy
Second Rally.

1Or1ty or WnOm were NOclleTOuS op-
ponents Of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead act. congregated in
Madison Square Garden last night and
heard their pet aversions belabored
with oratory by James Speyer. former
Representative L. W. Gray of New
Jersey, Hudson Maxim, Samuel Com
pers. and James p Holland president
of the New York State Federation of
Labor.
1t was a good looking crowd. 1t was
well behaved crowd. There were
many we'll dressed women in it, the
majority of them being of middle years
and not the less enthusiastic because
thereof. Not few clergymen occupied
seats we'll up front and some of them
s,pplauded vigorously every hit the
orators made upon their prohibition
target.
The crowd was not so large as ex-
pected. The garden was not full. The
upper galleries where the hard boiled
boys who love their personal liberty
are wont to congregate of fight nights
were quite empty. The rain doubtless
had something to do with the shortage.
But had the garden been filled to ca
pacity 1t could not have contained more
enthusiasm.
Arrangements had been made to feed
the oratory to overflow crowds that
we're to gather in Madison Square and
get their reward through the great
voice amplifiers erected for the purpose.
Certainly the rain killed outdoor gath
erings. Inspector Coleman and Cap
I tans Kelly and Mason were on hand
with ten mounted policemen and eighty
men on foot. There was ample police
provision for almost anything. Sou
venirs were sold-all sorts of them.
There were large buttons announcing
the wearers' wetness, there were foam
ing stems and seidels and even bottles.
One daring man with a large paunch
and a shiny pate took his life in his
hand and hawked Anti-Saloon League
emblems.
Thirty-five Labor Unions There
The Fifteenth Infantry band was
present to dispense jazz music-the sorr
that. TO quote one speaker, ought to be
accompanied by beer. Delegations from
thirty Ave labor unions arrived In groups
and in small professions. Social and
athletic clubs bearing aloft banners that
left no doubt about their feelings where
beer Is concerned. came In parade for
nation behind somewhat sad band that
played How Dry | Am" with all the
pathos at their command
Their banners bore the legends I'VE
Want Beer" our Platform-Beer, -
They slipped II over on us while we
were In France" and others OF similar
tenor. They sang of Brown October
Ale" an "The Little Brown Jug" They
howled the good old Vim Rouge songs
OF the A. Il. F. and howled with de
light every time William n. Anderson
and Andrew volstead we're knocked for
row OF growlers by the speakers.
They grosned dismally when Mr..
Gcmpers told them Of the twenty New
York Re representatives. who were absent
when the vote on the Eighteenth Amend
ment was taken In the House. They
groaned more when the President OF the
American Federation Of Labor pictured
the carrying home OF a thoroughly
druken Representative two days after
he had voted for prohibition They
cheered for a whore minute or nearly
that when Former Representative Gray
dared the Prohibition Enforcement agent
in Newark to train machine guns Gas
he IL alleged 10 have threatened) on
Jersey City vets who burned a van in
which he was carting conhscated rum.
In brief they had a splendid time tell
ing the world that they wanted no more
Of prohibition and yearned for their
liquor
NotnbIes Grace Platform.
A rather distinguished looking crowd
sat upon the flag decked platform The
New York division OF the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment
under the auspices OF which the meet
ing was held said that the following
were in that platform gathering;
Seth Low, Horace w. Corey. Ma jor
Roger Marchetti. Gen. Daniel Appleton.
Henry c. Appleton, Hudson MaxM.
Major Gerald Stratton. Thomas n. Etf-
duff. Stuyvesant Fish. Miss Elisabeth
Marbury. Harrison Grey F'isle. w. T..
Forrest. r.. w. Gray. George zebriske
Judge +. Henry Lacombe. William l..
Fish, DR.. Richard Derby. kermiy Roose-
welt. Archibald Roosevelt. Roland Holt.
Col Grayson r Murphy. George w. Ell
liott. John Sullivan, William w. Pei
lett. w. Il. verplanck. r. a. Plummer.
Reuben l.. Haskell, Augustus Thomas.
Victor Herbert. Stanley ". Howe and
A. Parker Nevin.
From the very start when James
speycr introduced Mr.. Holland as chair.
man the enthusiasm ran high. After n
Few speeches we're heard folks began to
trIckle out OF the Garden.
"t wish you wouldn't do that" yelled
MI Holland. IT hope you'll stay and
hear all the speakers. u Is In that
way they caught YOU unawares and
slipped the eighteenth amendment over
on you
But the truth OF the matter is the
trickle continued through the various
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