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...Morris Hillquit, labor representative on the I.L.G.W.U. and Manufacturers Board of Arbitration. A distinguished lawyer and second only to Eugene Debs as a leading figure in U.S. Socialism, he was one of the founders of the I.L.G.W.U. and its "Gray Eminence of the conference room...
...Cleveland's vast Municipal Auditorium, but in a smaller chamber than Republicans will occupy for their national convention next week, another party last week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
Died. Morris Hillquit, 64, national chairman of the Socialist Party, longtime Socialist spokesman and writer (History of Socialism in the United States, from...
...Morris Hillquit, the Latvian-born Manhattan lawyer whose political history is that of the U. S. Socialist party since 1888 (when he was 19), made a "keynote" speech attacking the corrupt, reactionary Republicans and Democrats. "Only a party like ours," he said, "can be relied on to cleanse this immense cesspool of political corruption...
...Maurer, however, was nominated for Vice President, by William Van Essen of Pennsylvania, with Morris Hillquit seconding...