From The NY Times, July 5, 1920
Here is the Socialist ticket:
For Governor—JOSEPH D. CANNON.
Lieutenant Governor— Miss JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN
Secretary, of State— CHARLES W. NOONAN
Controller—PHILIP RANDOLPH.
State Treasurer — HATTIE F. KRUGER
All candidates of the Socialist Party, when elected to office, will vote and work for the adoption of such measures as the following, not only for the immediate relief of pressing evils, but also as preparatory to the full realization of the Socialist goal.
1. Legislation which will enable municipalities to acquire land, construct dwellings on public account, and lease them at rents calculated to cover cost of upkeep and replacement, but without profit, thus solving the now growlingly acute housing problem.
2.’ Establishment of a comprehensive system by which the State in conjunction with municipalities and co-operative societies shall deal on a large scale In food and other necessaries of life, buying directly from the producers and selling directly to the consumers at cost, thus eliminating the capitalist middlemen, stimulating production and diminishing the cost of living:.
3. The rapid extension of State and municipal ownership and operation of transportation and storage plants, of lighting and other so-called public utilities and of industrial establishments beginning with those which, are already most largely monopolized and those which have to do with the production of the prime necessaries of life.
4.’The conservation by the State of the forests, mineral deposits and source's of - water power which it still owns, the reclamation of such as have been voted away, and the exploitation of these resources by the State, not for profit, but for the production of raw materials and power to be sold at cost.
5. Legislation which will clearly exempt labor unions and farmer associations from prosecution under the so-called anti-trust laws, and will assure them of the right of collective bargaining in the sale and their farm produce respectively.
6. Legislation guaranteeing labor the right to organize and strike, free from interference by the courts through the power of injunctions.
7. Repeal of the war emergency concerning military service and military training in the schools, and repeal of the so-called criminal anarchy law, which has been demonstrated to be in practice a law for the suppression of free speech and for the promotion of spies and provocators.
8. Amendment of the State Constitution and of the laws governing municipalities in such manner as to introduce the principle of occupational as well as geographical representation in legislative bodies and administrative boards: to introduce the referendum and the power of recall
I have a personal link, Hattie Kruger was my Grandmother. So none of this is new. But just look. New York did public housing. How has that worked out. Crime and Crumbling buildings. Public transport, think MTA and AMTRAK, also coslty crumbling failures.
Perhaps we have been there already.
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