The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 14, 1933, Page 3

| empty space cost the City f | : | vafert voperiy at Christie-|P*0iect with the highest room rent/the press agent boys get through with Fa cee Oren et Git ea as been chosen, surprised at the|the Obristie-Forsythe story they will| plate why. but then, Jimmy never did |SPeed and secrecy of the ptocedure.| have the natives of America bam- EAST SIDE AREA J IN GRAFT SCHEME AS ELECTIONS LOOM? ROCKEFELLER LOT WAS SOLD TO CITY IN BIG 1927 STEAL To Charge Exhorbitant Rent for Rooms By PHILIP SHORT OWNTOWN between Christie and Forsythe Streets instead of tene- ments there is an empty space 7 blocks long covered with cinders. It isn't a very wide space but it iooks wide, because the shacks around it | are jainmed so close together. This of New | | i York $16,000,000. ; This piece of cinder cover=d-ground | was a gold mine to James J. Walker } (ex-mayor of New York, in case you've forgotten) and Tammany, | but, it was and is, a gold brick to! the Hast Side workers. Gold in them there slums—1927. Tack in 1927 Jimmy Walker and August Heckscher became very friendly. August (who made a for- tune out of cpeculation in real estate) had a big idea. Jimmy understood ig ideas and this idea was right | up his alley. Heckscher’s idea was | that it would be a fine thing for! the City to help out the absentee landlords who couldn't get enough rerit out of their rotten, unhealthy tenements to pay the taxes. The thing to do was clear: the City ought The Machine Age—In the American Home This expectant mother, no longer able to work in the factory, toils all day in her one- DAILY WORKER, EW YORK, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1935 ROTEST EXILE OF JIM GRALTON Militant Activities Cause Devortation Order DUB BS 2 ‘Worker public g ry shouted “Up Gr and “You're afraid to put him on trial!” to the members of the Le trim County Council, when the a: mother of Iton appeared to |ask the her in | efforts to ha tation order | against her s Jim Gralton aroused the | hatred of the authorities fo rev Jolutionary activities, and jdeportation order was t out him on the in: | agai; turned to Ireland to take part in the "Tan war and had a splendid rec- | ord. After he went again to New York, but on the death of his broth-| jer, came back to Ireland to work on his little farm. In the early part of this year his father also died Gralton was feared by every land- grabber in Leitrim for his work in | bi ng up the estates in 1921, and }@ howl rose against him. It in- | creased when he again took up rev olutionary wot ig class activities, }and the Pearse-Connolly Hall in the to buy the land, tear down the tene- < : bak area, which the Irish Republican ments aA then sell or lease it to, room home, near Chattanooga, Tenn. One dollar for ten hours work on the looping machine | army had built largely with his somebody who wanted to build non-| which the company installed in her home is all she gets to support herself, her three chil- ney in 1921, vee Hes dno by an profit making homes for the poor. ” Pun sloyed h:isband. One of her children looks on as she works. armed gang and finally burned to This would be sium clearance; it| (eh, atid her unemployed } : the ground, would be a fine thing for the poor, at least, that’s what August said. that European air was a lot more sal-;the Tammany powers that be: Ol- ubrious than New York ait. Jimmy | vany, Curry and Co., naturally they're | decamped with the platinum-blohde|in. Mofeover, Sloan & Robertson) | girl friend and 4 couple of heavy tin|were the atchitects for the Women’s | Prison at Sixth Ave. and Christopher | St., built under the Walker-Tammany | |regime. They likewise built a large |co-operative apartment house on Up- of 1933, the | Ber Park Ave., for a company of which | HE schome sounded fine to Jimmy; it would sound good at election time, especially after the press agents! poyac, got throtigh explaining it. Besides it| sounded as if there might be gold in| Gory IN THEM THERE them there slums, if the deal was well| spyngs—1933 peas 7 the summer 4 “A fine thing for the Peepul,” said s wha. thee sbbvante | Merk Eisner (head of the Board of} um clearance.” A/ fine |ammany bureaucracy, have a little | Higher Education and law partner Jimmy too; a good election | fro4 time on their Hands. |of Olvaney in Olyaney, Eisner & Don- iran Banks are | i all Wrapped | not busting with the same regularity | D&Uy) is president. as before, the main reason being that | thing fe gag and a fat commis up is seme louzy slums. * * i The understanding between the| there areti’t many left to bust. Tatn- HY the rush? There are several | F is of the Peepul’ Was that 10) many is thinking of election, the | reasons—the steal is pretty raw blecks was to be bought and cleared | pankers are looking around for spare |and pretty close to election, the soon- in connection with the widening of) cash. er pulled the sooner will the raw Allen Street. August Heckscher was! Suddenly, out of nowhere springs a| spots gét covered up. Around Octo- “very bleezed,” so pleased in fact that) surprise—The Board of Estimate met|ber Taminany can speak about the he lot the newspapers know that he|/and approved plans for the rebuild-|g@reat things it is doing for the work- | was going to give away millions and) ing of the city-owned tract at Chris-|ér, providing him with a job and aft-| millions of his hard carned dollars tie-Forsythe Streets, Andrew Thom-|erwatd with a beautiful home. A| and have built with them beautiful as has submitted a pian and been/Second reason is that if all the Tam- mansions for the workers. But sud-|iurned down. A couple of more or|imany hangers-on had heard about denly August got a shock, he discov- less unknowns have submitted plans|it they would have tried to horn in cred that there was nod honor amongjand been turned down. Sldan and|on the graft, and money is scarce in| thieves. Jitnmy pulled a fast one. Robertson have not been turned down, | the Wigwam these days. A third rea- JIMMY'S FAST ONE \in fact, their plans have been accept-|son is that the Washington propa- Jimmy Walker decided that he did-|¢d- Everybody is suprised—surprised |@anda bureau needs stuff to write) n't like the Allen Strect property, Ho|#t the fact that the most expensive | about and you can be sure that when| EV ody is urprised including the | boozled into thinking that the Great | Dee ee ac tiat simp’ pre: |N- ¥. Times which wrote an editorial| White Father in the Great White | ference had something to do with his|Called “The Christie-Forsythe Mys-|House is doing big things for the Snow friend, John D. Rockefeller, Jr.|tety:” Mystery? Mystery hell! | working man. Maybe, also, that Jimmy’s change of Where's the mystery? Andrew| THE CHRIS?IE-FORSYTHE , fers to get out plans for the houses. ndrew eamed of juicy commissions from a mind about the Allen St. property had| Thomas was a friend of Walker. Wal-| STEAL | iomething to do with Hecksther’s|Ker is out, naturally Thomas is out.| Back in 1929 the ground cost the | sudden loss of interest in the EHast/Sloan and Robertson are backed by city $16,000,000. According to Archi- | Side and his withdfawal of the Great as Bac haictaig ES Borers ccd Heckscher Fund, which under the Walker-Heckecher Plan was reported is being a gift of $4,000,000. QOME people wondered whether August owned the Allen Street property and the gift was a phony. Others had a hunch that the Rocke- leller’s owned Christie-Forsythe, and | For United Struggle | Against Hunger : By ROBERT MINOR In the struggle against hunger and evictions in New York | City, two things stand out: The absolute need of bigger and stronger mobil- ization of masses to compel the Tammany-Wall Street city government to grant real concessions to the starving fam- ilies of jobless workers. Without this—nothing will be obtained. 2. That such a mass nichilization, or even the simplest unity of the workers and of several organizations for strug- gle against the brutal Tammany machine for unemployment relief —is being sctively sabotaged by various groups. maitily the lead- ers of the Socialist Party. | | | | Rockeféller graft was bigger and bet- ver than the Heckscher dole. In August, 1929, the City of New| York bought the property at Christie- | + cy the. It was hear election time,| Reptiblican La Guardia, Socialist Thotnas, Democtat Walker, were all) strong for sltim cleatance. The capi-) jalists, bloated with the boom were talking about helping the workers. This always means a sock in the eye} ‘or the worker. He got it. Jimmy | Walker won thé election and they | started dipping down the tenement; | amid the crujhng and curses of the} dispossessed tenants. | Neither Jimmy Walker nor Tam- many had seen the dispossess. They | were back al their old job of hunt- ng for more graft. John D, Jr. had} nore of less hinted at the fact that) ae might build a few houses on| I the arrangements for the dem- Shristie-Forsythe and Jimmy saw @/ ostration at the City Hall on June 6. thance for a little more jack. Thru | the proposals of the Unemployed he Rockefellers Jimmy met their ar-| gouncils and of the Communist Part: thitect, Andrew Thomas, who design-| for the united front and for one sings | a the Paul Dunbar Apartments: for demonstration of all of the wotkers Lag ee EE oe the Rocke.| that could be mustered together by bao mbiahes : bP eit hue with or [at organizations, were evaded. The ‘ellers. c | demonstration of June 6 was con- | | Siderably weakened by leaders of the | |‘Socialist Party and of certain rene- | . ftom the buil P ..|8ade ex-Communist groups, Who suc- | je architect, fr je builders. Far. | cceded tn separating the workers into | on? Do the rank and file members ey sent Jimmy a nice, new tin box. | f* |of the Socialist Party know that we | ‘Architect Thomas made plans and|'W° demonstrations, lean have a united struggle (and with | vas still making plans when the Sea-| Throughout the present immediate | material successes, we believe) im-| vury Committee convinced Jimmy ‘Tisis with the Tammany threat of | mediately, as soon as the sabotage of | uth " shutting off all unemployment relief, leaders is 6 at |door keepers that they be regarded | as separate delegations. Again on Wednesday at the pub- lic hearing by the Board of Estimate, speaking on behalf of the Unemployed Council delegation, I declared that | the division of the ranks of the work- |ers in the struggle for unemployment relief, at which the Tammany poli- | ticlans .are sneering, is a Randicap | | which we will be able to overcome in | | spite of those responsible for it. I} ‘declared the Tammany government | will soon be faced with a united} struggle in which we can bring lite- vally hundreds of thousands of work- crs to the City Hall in such a spirit of militancy as can compel conces- sions. It is our sincere belief that this can | really be done. { | Do the workers who are members | of the Socialist Party understand | that their leaders are refusing to per- | mit @ united struggle against starva- | drew plans while Jimmy i Bungalows -- Rooms (Completely Furnished) For Rent at CAMP WOCOLONA Large Bungalow . 815 Room in Cottage -$40 Per Person for Summer, . .$15 ODGING ........ $4.00 Per Week $1.25 for 1 day—82.00 for 2 days For information phone MOnument 2. Camp Wocolona—Monroe, N. (ON RIF RR) | MEET YOUR COMRADES at THE Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor, Bronx Park East Pute Foods Proletarian Prices the same spirit of disunity has con-| tached? The National ‘Suecutive | tinued to govern the actions of the | Commit of the Socialist Party hes! iaivg K of the cere Party, etc. | tried to make it appear that the Com- At the same time, it is known that | is Great numbers of the rank and file ee Agate pees Sonate of the Socialist Party are sincerely | tives of the Socialist Party. This is orpored to this disgraceful policy of | not true. The Communist Party does sabotage and would gladly help to/ not refuse to discuss the question of bring about unity of all unemployed | unity with any representatives that workers’ organizations in this crisis! the Socialist workers seléct or recog- if they clearly understood what their | niz> as their spokesmen, Ieaders are doing, and the conse-| But the Communist Party does not poral ri] terms of stiffering of Mr Sie to Mion te ut bated ba ass, unite the workers’ ranks until Social- Last Tuesday, when the various d@- ist leaders agree to united struggle. | legations congregated in the City Hall) Hunger and starvation are facing | to demand an, interview with the | hundreds of thousands of New York | Mayor, the delegation of the Unerh- workers. A united front of struggle ployed Councils headed by myself A against It is a matter of life and} proposed to all of the other delega- death. Let us reach the honest work- | tions that we unite for the purpose i ing class members of the Sooialist | of presenting fighting demands to the Party and convince them that unity | Mayor then and there. Certain men, |is both necessary and possible. Only Altman of the Socialist Party and | the Socialist workers will increasingly Rubinstein of the Lovestone group, | strive for unity. loudly and angrily rejected this pi | With a strong united mass mo bosal and insisted to the Mayor’s! ment we can accomplish wonders. as $12 and $13 in the textile industry, Gralton refused to obey the depor- tation order, and went on the run | Since last March he has not slept at |home, and has succeeded in evading every effort to arrest him tect Sloan the Reconstrtiction Hous- tng Corporation (part of the National Industrial Recovery Act) has practi- cally promised to lend $8,850,000 on the project. The cost of the building} This week's demonstration by a is estimated at $9,289,708. jlarge body of republican workers These figures mean that the private|Shows the support Jim Gralton is interests sponsoring this project are| Winning in his own country. When getting $24,850,000 for which they are| the County Council ruled his moth- putting up as equity $439,708. This|er’s plea out of order, there was pan- is 1% per cent of the total amount.|demonium, and the workers’ and To make clear what this means, let| farmers’ sons left in a body cheering; me remind the reader that in capi-| and shouting “Up Gralton!” talist banking it is customary for a/ . nity Wes ‘ an equity of at least 10 per cent,|; pengtd Sa Z OrE- which, in this case would amount to| ara ork Ws ec ee to 5 | 8 ests to the Free State Min- Shout two end @ half milion doliars!/ istry of Justice, Dublin, Ireland. | [T is claimed that it is permissable | to use public funds for this project} as it is a public benefit. It is slum} clearanee, it is to provide housing for the poor, It is neither of these two.) The slums were cleared in 1929 from} this site. The city planners and ar-| chitects of integrity in New York have | been insisting that this site be used HOSIERY STRIKE VOTED BY 2,000 HIGH POINT, N. C,, July 13. — A lfor a public playground so badly|™ass meeting of over 2,000 hosiery jin, leading Social needed by the children of the dis-|WOtkers here yesterday unanimously trict. It does not provide housing| Voted to go out on strike next Mon- for the poor, Sloan & Robertson es-| day, in a struggle against the recovery timate that the rentals in these new] (Slavery) code proposed by the hosiery houses will be $10.75 per room, per} Manufacturers, and to win the work-! month, this means $32.25 for a three | ¢'s’ demand for a 25 per cent increase room apartment, $43.00 for a four|in wages. The hosiery manufacturers’ room apartment. Such a rent pre-| Code had set a wage as low as $8 a supposes an income of at least $40 a| Week for learners. week for tenants in the three roofi! The mass meeting also called for apartments and $50 a week for the| workets in all other plants in this tenants in the four room apartments.) area to join the strike. This call was These are the houses which the| turned down yesterday by Rex Fitch, Board of Estimate approved. These| chairman of the local executive com- are houses for the poor. These are} mittee of the American Full Fash- rents for the lower East Side where) joned Hosiery Workers Union, who the workers in the “boom” year of|declared that this union leadership 1929 could hardly afford to pay the| would see that the workers under average ferital of $5.37 a room a) their control would not join the month. Today in this district the| struggle here against the code. rentals average about $3 and every} actin day there are evictions for non-pay-| ment of rent. Paris Shoe Workers Picket Boss’ New Plant in Manhattan NEW YORK.—When the boss of BOSSES ASK FOR 130 workers of the shop out of their (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) | wages, he moved his plant secretly to | Manhattan, changed the name of the gram, | picketing the shop to force the boss | to recognize his workers under the |same terms they worked in the Brooklyn plant. Big 5 Slave Codes The next step is to prepare the slave codes for the big five and then rush these through with the minimum | cf hearings or no hearings at all, Two new slave codes have been pre- * *’ sented, one for the electrical manu- facturing industry and the other for shipbuilding. The electrical industry | which sumbitted its code will have a) great help in the presence on the administration of the act of General Swope, president of the Morgan-con- trolled General Electric Co., which is the leading trust in the electrical manufacturing industry. Swope’s slave code provides for a 35 cent an hour minimum pay and 35 hours a) Week. This weuld provide a wage of $12.60 for Mr. Swope’s wage slaves. The shipbuilding code’s details have not yet been made public. Purchasing Power The keynote of all the White House and Wall Street propaganda in the/ present stage of code-making is that | wages should be raised in order to, Boost purchasing power to meet ris- ing production output. The manu- facturers all declare that with the codes in practice the present high prices will go still higher. They use the pretext of such starvation wages $12.60 in the electrical industry, and the $14 a week blanket code for the vast majority of workers as an ar- gument that wages are “going up.” While in some, industries and in) some individual cases, there will be a slight money rise in wages, the real wages (the amount of bread, food, | clothing, rent, doctor's expenses and the like the money will buy) drops | (Daily Worker Staff Photo) lower than before. ‘The talk about raising the purchas- | ing power is the Roosevelt “new deal” method of actually lowering the pur- chasing power of the masses by lower- ing their real wages, COPS PROTECTING SCABS in kept at distance | Bishop of the Diocese, who came to t } Dublin and conferred with govern- ment authorities | Son of a working farmer, Gralton |was forced, like so ma to }emigrate to America, whe he be- |came a United States citizen. He re- conditions at Rogers Peet Co., Broadway Photo shows one of strikers police aliow to picket while hundreds are | organization UGGLED BY TAMMANY IRISH WORKERS 40 RUMANIANRAIL W WORKERS FREED BY MASSPROTESTS Bujor, in Jail for 14 Years, Also Re! | BUCHAREST, Jul: way wor d on ch nection ve been re tremendous led by the I Aid (IL.D.). At the s v= ernment has beer Bujor manian wo! in prison for 14 year of work protest regime, The den joined hi the military “clemency” in and of the ocracy” third anniversary 0! the throne. The social-demo mass pressure for hese Hers, is u as an argument to tr comrades of those cease tt mass behalf. INSIDE WORKER IN IRON TRADE 10 MEET TODAY Karlin, Socialist, 1 to Prevent Organization NEW YORK.—An organizing com mittee of the inside iron and b workers is calling all wo ofthe trade to a meeting to 1 ganization drive today 14, at 8 o'clock at the &4th Street, between Avenues. The meeting up the question of fort code of hours, wages and The committee y sistance of Loc: government ers, § WD eS ers, which was } from the Intern Union for it ve fight to oust their offi- chmen of the International officials Socialist Against Drive rts to prevent the new from forming an organizs tion is being made by William Kar- and former at- torney for the union, At called at the Rand School 1 urday at which the represc of Local 52 were present to get the help of Local vent the mass meeting place, in order to deliver ers to the A. F. of L I pass up an opr inity like declared Karlin, referring to t he wants to make with the national official: 17 Arrested So Far in Strike at Severn NEW YORK workers have so far been arrested on the C ket line at the Severn Cafete St. and 7th Ave., in the police at- tempt to smash the strike of the food workers who ate out under the le! ership of the Food Workers Indust Union. The cases of these y are coming up tomo: in Jeffer Market Court. An old injunction, obtained in 1929 against the Amalg: ted Food Work- ers is being used as the excuse for the arrests. The legality of this in- junetion is now being contested in fr the we “Why should e deal Inter- Seventeer on |do not want the workers to discuss | shop, and placed his salesmen at the Courts. But the more important fight | wages or to develop struggles around | front to play the part of the bosses. éainst the injunction is being con- j demands for increased wages. Hence |The workers located the new plant, | ducted on the picket line, where work-| Wie “Natio: She ihe ; the new quirk in the Roosevelt pro-| at 11th St. and 6th Ave., and are now /°!S are urged to mass to defend the Act attack on the masses food workers’ right to strike for better conditions. Garment workers in the heighbor. hocd are urged to support this strike. Police Breaking Rogers Peet Strike % strike of clothing workers for better and 1%th St. in New York. IN SIXTY-DAY REPRIEVE FOR NEGRO YOUTH FRAMED : > SE MURDER CHARGE een ntenced to Death in Ha Charlotte Altho No One Witnessed Killing ras IARLO Beat Negro Boys a od ace beati; f.U.U.L. Nat'l Board in Important Meet (CON “FROM PAGE ONE) through new m and gle unions. orm ans. Her file desires The NEB blish closer re- to ¢ lations with the unions and with the PMA, the National iress Concent: smaller independent ses of the etc Recruiting police The NEB emphasized the impor- | «mercy tance of strengthening the work in of th ; ‘ i the 1 ae ey During tr of a struggle for the economic in ; Be 10 said a 1 speal would be ter of the k and file, for de- ‘ 1th L. unions, ete. |tiled and a ste ition obtained While calling picitas | Whe the T. J. D. would preuaee 5 ce agree ie Witne were found can prove to reach : that none of the néeecn ge of our unions on all im- ‘0a! t ions the NEB strongly |"0e i. pointe b the necessity for cour |* fused ton unions to concentrate their main ac: oa é : No apps tivity in a number of the most im Sy aa : ; Ht Blak All I know about the case eR Tipe I read in papers. I DB decided that all u ¢ cooperation with the |2% app TSR Or Dh ia tha, wosbure, stall told I. L. D. repre ative: cgratureanen REET) The International Labor Defense ob iby dhevalected dele tained the s of Conrad O. Pear vs at the he: obtaini ecruiting campaign shall "¢ taken by the unions to util ze the strong urge among the mas- ses to organize. This recruitmen hall be connected up in fac tory h the developr of the fight for the immediate issues fa- cing the workers ch of the unions shall work out ‘ life, while 1 e taken around ac ign in the factories and he which the c 1 be built Social among the unemployed for and Unemployment Insurance One o ost impor t deci ions of the NEB was the dorse- ment of the cor nee of T.U.U.L., A.F.L nd indey nt trade unions with the organ unemployed in Clev z 26th and 27th united front confe the purpose of dev of the worke’ the Nation ki ld ced jointl loping he fight against al Reco for f and extending of con- aunching crete struggles for highe in pay, and for SOCIAL / PLOYMENT’ ference ions tions of the independent lay the basis for les uniting de Union Uni | son the NEB | the scheduled | from like! > lower unior reomin: the th them with sue, Fot IB se Fost iam 7 to attend the meeting and expres great satisfaction that Comrade Fos- ter’s health is improved a | will soon be at his post again the maid A’ sions. Every= ON “RE. ‘Workers? to the Labor Re- search r the co-operation ‘ they are giving to tl | Saturday 1 Unity I nd - | erusstan ated and sympathe orga afi . a letter of th NIGHT x by Brownsville Br, uth Club, 407 Rocke L. Am Ad Bill Dunn who addressed the NEB mee | was g ected heartily. n 1. J. MORRIS, Inc. v adopt ng GE. 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