The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-14
cord of Socialist Milwaukee Exposes Morris Hs Decebtion5
S. P. NOMINEE
TRIES TO FOOL
N. Y. WORKERS
! Dodges Real Issues in
Speech

Radical words in New York and
wherever it is out Of power, and re-
dictionary deeds in Milwaukee, where
it is in power-this consistent policy
OF the Socialist Party was once more
exemplif1ed by Morris Hillquit, mil
lionaire corporation lawyer, in a
speech accepting the socialist nomi-
nation for mayor at a meeting in the
Rand School Wednesday night.
Hillquit Numbered against the
Democratic and Republican Parties
and said that the Socialist Party
campaign will be made largely on
the issue of adequate relief of the
1,150,000 suffering victims of unem-
ployment" But the experience of
the workers of Milwaukee, which has
had a socialist administration for 20
years, reveals the hypocrisy of this
statement. The city of Milwaukee
does not provide a cent of relief, but
passes the buck to the county admin
istration, in which the socialists are
also influential. OF the 10000 I'M
employed in Milwaukee County, only
28,978 received any relief, according
to recent figures. And this "relief"
consisted Of S1.31 per week for an
entire family!
S. P. Backs Forced Labor.
Hillquit, in his acceptance speech,
did not say word about the crirni-
nal relief policies of the socialists in
Milwaukee, nor did he mention that
the proposal for forced labor for the
unemployed came from the S. p. can
didate for governor of Wisconsin,
Metcalfe.
While the socialists in New York
attack the Tammany proposal for re-
ducing the wages of all city employees
Hiliquit said nothing about the ten
per cent salary donation" forced
through for all civil employees by the
socialist administration in Milwaukee.
Human" Police Clubs.
On the contrary, Hillquit had the
gall to say: 1--WE Socialists stress the
human factors in municipal admin
istration" and Our slogan is the city
nor the people, The unemployed
E'orkers whose demonstrations for re-
9ef have been broken up by the
socialist" police in Milwaukee and
Vest Allis, Wis. also ruled by the
s. P. know how true this Isl
Honesty and cleanliness in the
CITY government are a very import
ant ISSUE" Hillquit stated. But he
kept silent about the $1,000 profit
which Mayor Hoan of Milwaukee who
F9s been campaigning in New York
for the Socialist Party, made from
the sale of war time food-stuffs and
supplies. He also said nothing about
the activities of the Milwaukee so
cialist" police, who are fully as ex-
pert at corraling graft as their col
leagues of New York.
Sham Fencing.
Eillquit's entire speech consisted of
sham fencing with the republicans
and democrats. Not word about
the militant program of the Commu-
mist Party, the only party which
fights for federal unemployment in
surance at the expense of the bosses
and the government, for immediate
TaEef, against evictions and wage
puts. Not a word concerning the
plight of the Negro workers who are
9im-crowed, prosecuted and viciously
disseminated in the distribution of
even the miserable relief that the
workers have been able to wrest from
tn Tarnmany administration. But
the Socialist Party has shown by its
dseds where it stands on the Negro
question. The most recent example
IS the case of the socialist WEVD
station, which has refused to allow
Negroes and whites to ride in the
same elevator. Hillquit has refused
to debate with William L. Patterson.
Communist candidate for mayor on
the Negro question
The conclusion for every worker
should be to vote Communist on
Nov. 8thl