Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1932-04-28
Mflwaukeeans Apparently Unafraid Of
Mayor HOan Who Has Started 18th
Year as City Head.

Milwaukee, city of more than
half million people, once noted
for the quality of it's beer, has
become famous for good munich
pal government under the leader
ship of the Socialist, Daniel Web
ster Hoan, its mayor for 16 years.
and who was recently reelected
to another term. The people there
have long ceased to stampede
every time some blatherskite
shouts radical" or 'bolshevist!"
The city police and detective
force have an enviable reputation
for getting criminals and getting
them quick and as a result there
is a minimum of crime in the
Wisconsin metropolis. Through
good city government the taxes
are reasonable and the indebted
ness very small, brought about in
no small degree by the day labor
system on public works rather
than the contract system.
In an article headed, "Milwau-
kee Visions an Ideal City Govern
ment; Ready for Far-Reaching
Socialist Experiments" written by
Alvin J. Steinkopf and published
in the Minneapolis Tribune with
Milwaukee date line of April 10Th,
the high lights of the mayors pro-
gram are brought out as follows:
The city of Milwaukee, grasping at
a vision of an ideal city government,
today apparently was committed to
experiments in Social
ISM
Leading the way was Mayor Dan
iel w. Hoan, Socialist, who Tuesday
began his seventeenth year in office.
TIC city council which seems ready
to do his bidding, the mayor out
lined a four-year program of legisla-
ton and administration which goes
far into the field of SOcialistic specu-
lations.
The mayor advised that the city
go into the business of retailing
coke, prices of which he holds to be
eXorbitant. He urged the council
to investigate coal prices and to sell
it, too, if citizens are being gouged.
He advocated that the city plan to
take over milk distribution, bust
ness which he said is controlled by
outside monopolies.
Milwaukee should, he believes, take
steps to acquire electric
power plants.
The mayor views with approval
plans to establish a municipal bank
in the city hall He asked the city
legal department to study sugges-
tions that municipalities, under prop
er safeguard, be allowed to issue
just as do national banks.
Mayor Hoan then vigorously de-
nounced the action of many munich
palities i'm cutting pay of city en-
plOyes to effect economies. Less
money for the policeman means less
trade for the grocer, he declared.
Next, he demanded, and expressed
confidence that the city will put into
effect the six-hour working day. He
urged workers to resort to the ballot
and the general strike to attain this
end if necessary.
For Milwaukee the mayor urged
spreading municipal work as far as
possible through the adoption of the
siX-hour day and use of hand labor
as a temporary expedient.
He denounced as unsound the con-
tract system of having municipa]
works performed. The municipal con-
tractor, he predicted, will soon pass
out of the picture in Milwaukee. all
work to be performed by municipal
agencies.
And while various items of this
program are being worked out, there
will be an energetic effort to reduce
rates of public utilities, the mayor
promised.
Before hearing the inaugural ad-