The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 15, 1933, Page 2

Page Two ILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1938 TAMMANY ALDERMEN JAM THROUGH ALL UNTERMYER NEW TAX PROPOSALS Money Will Ga tor Bay Off Wall Street Bankers, Republican Member Reveals in Public Debate NEW YORK, Sept. 14.—Determined to keep their promises made to the Wall Street bankers, the Tammany Administration Board of Aldermen today passed the Untermey The tax program provides for a will cost the poorest tenants of the ral | gross income of utility @ five percent tax on houses, a tax of one q per cent on the menis’ companies, brokerage fre in: mpani ®tock tr: er tax on stock e change | transactions, \ | Taxes on Poor Permanent. The water and taxi levies are| permanent. The other taxes are for six months. | That the largest part of the new| revenues will go to the Wall Street bankers as payments for loans, was | revealed in the speech of the Repub- | lican Alderman, who said: “The money from the taxes is | not going to relieve hardships and suffering caused by unemployment, but is going to the city’s bankers to pay back money advanced a year ago and already spent.” j The so-called “Wall Street” taxes, it is admitted, will be very difficult to enforce. Wall Street people readily admitted that the stock ex- | change taxes will be easily tied up| in the courts for the entire six months in which they are supposed to apply. | That the Wall Street banks do not | expect the city to be able to collect | ility companies by the fact that r refused to gran y loans even on the ba: of the new taxes. It is expected that there will be a} crisis in city payrolls on October 1. | Custom Tailors’ Strike | Spreads; 2500 Out! NEW YORK.—The ranks of the} striking custom tailors has swelled to| 2,500 workers as the strike reaches out to the department stores. Rogers Peet and John David are among the | big shops affect the strike. To-| day the strike hall was crowded to! capacity, with the strikers mobilizing for a keting demonstr Fifth A While the Merchant Tailors’ Asso- ciation has been sending notices to the bosses to stand pat against a Settlement with the Industrial Union, the pressure of the strike is forcing employers to agree to individual set-| tlements. Vigilant picketing committees have béen organized by the workers in the sections where they live to guard against any home scabbing. DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn || PHONE: Office Hours: 8-10 3 Intern] Workers Order DENTAL DEPARTMENT 80 FIFTH AVENUE 1TH FLOOR All Work Done Under Personal Care of § Dr. C. Weissman Hospital and Oculist Prescriptions Filled At One-Half Price IPM. White Gold Filled Frames. ZYXL Shell Frames eee Lenses not included COHEN’S, 117 Orchard St. First Door Off Delancey St. Telephone: ORchard 4-4520 MEET YOUR COMRADES AT THE Cooperative Dining Clnb ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park Ezst Pure Foods Proletarian Prices (Classified ) | BEAUTIFUL Room all improvements for 1| or 2, Chernomovsky, 71 E. 7th St, | ration on| ogy] er tax program by an overwhelming majority. 0 percent increase in water rates that 00,000 a year in increased rents; Industrial Union Forces Fur Bosses _ Concede 35 Hr. Wk. NEW YORK.—After heated discus- | sions lasting through the night, the Fur Trimming Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation was finally forced to concede the demand of the fur workers’ sec- tion of the Needle Trades Industrial Union, and granted the 35-hour week to go into effect in all union shops Monday, September 18. The settlement conceding the 35- | hour week represents an outstanding | victory for the fur workers and ef- | fectively nails the lies and slanders} spread by the A. F. of L. fur union that the Industrial Union is blocking the establishment of the shorter hour week. A number of shops are siill on strike for the 35 hour week. The A. F. of L. union officials are aiding the bosses to hold out against the shorter hour week in the effort to prevent any settlements. In the Goldman Brothers shop at 115 W. 30th St., the A. F. of L. union provid- ed the shop with scabs, but the | pickets finally won the shop out on trike. Election Meets Act on NY Lynch Terror NEW YORK—The Manhattan and Brooklyn Communist candi- dates ratification conference will launch a struggle against the lynch spirit being whipped up against the Negro workers of New York, the open discrimination, police brutal- poor housing and insufficient was announced yesterday by Brodsky, election campaign manager for the Communist Party. Delegates’ credentials have al ready been sent in by many organ- izations to the conferences which will be held at. Esthonian Hall, 27 West 115th St., at 1 p.m. in Man- hattan and at Central Hall, 196 State St., at 3 p. m. in Brooklyn. Robert Minor, didate for Mi at both m Communist can- yor, who will speak ings, will also speak | before an election rally arranged | by all the workers’ organizations in Coney Island for tonight at the Coney Island Workers Center, 2874 W. 27th St., Brooklyn. (Brooklyn) for Brow msville Workers! Hoffman's RESTAURANT & CAFETERIA Pitkin Corner Saratoga Aves. BENSONHURST WORKERS Patronize GORGEOU’S CAFETERIA 2211 86th Street Near Bey Parkway Fresh Food at Proletari FOR BROWNSVILLE PROLETARIANS SOKAL CAFETERIA 1630 PITKIN AVENUE Brooklyn Workers Patronize ——_S TE A M—— LAUNDRY —SERVICE 476-8-80 Howard Ave., Bklyn, N.Y, PResident 3-3000 COMMUNIST PARTY MONTH CAMP UNITY WINGDALE, N., Y. Spend Indian Summer, the Most Beautiful Season of the Year Amid the Berkshire Hills A Real Workers Atmosphere, Swimming, Rowing, Handball, Hiking—Warm and Cold Showers VACATION RATE: $13.00 Per Week (inel. Tax) WEEK-END RATES: 1 Day - - $2.45 Cars leave for © and Saturday 10 A.M., 3 Express. Stop at Aller Round Trip: To Nitgedaiget - To Unity 2 Days - - $4.65 (incl. Tax) $2.00 $3.00 APEX CA 827 Broadway, Between FOOD WORKERS INDU: All Comrades Should Patronize This ede na STRIAL UNION SHOP ATTENTION YOUNG COMMUNISTS! All Young Communist League members are to report tonight, September 15, between 6 P.M. and 9 P.M. at their respective Y.C.L. Section Headquarters~-This is in reference to an extraordinary sit- uation that demands the presence | of every Young Communist. 1 District Buro, District No, 2 Young Communist League Jewelry Workers Attention. All jewelry workers on the Bazaar) | Committee are called to an impor-| tant meeting tonight at 6:30 o’clock, | at the office of the National Press | Bazaar Committee, 50 E. 13th St.,/ | sixth floor. The work of making up jewelry ar- | ticles for the bazaar must start at} once. Tonight’s meeting will lay | | down plans for this work. aa Bets Daily Worker Volunteers. Daily Worker Volunteer member- ship meeting tonight at 7:30 grelock | at Workers Center, 35 E. 12th St, All Volunteer members and workers | wishing to join the Volunteers must | be present at this important meeting. he Oe New Harlem Group to Meet. The newly organized Industrial Workers of Harlem Club will hold its third meeting tonight at St. Lukes Hall, 125 W. 130th St. Mrs. W. Burroughs, school teacher ex- pelled for her activities in behalf of the Scottsboro boys, will speak on the “NRA and what it means to the Negro workers.” Weissherg, manager of the Dress Dept. of the Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union will speak on the situation in the dress trade. Admission is free to all workers. | City Events | | . Symposium on the South in the Bronx, Tonight. Sender Garlin of the Daily Worker staff, Dr. Benjamin B. Goldstein, formerly of Montgomery, Ala., and Louise Thompson, Negro lecturer, and writer, will speak on “Negro Persecution in the South” tonight at Ambassador Hall, Third and Clare- mont Aves., the Bronx. Auspices: Bronx Section, I. L. D. ‘Arrest 18 ‘Strikers: ‘on Cleaners’, Dyers’ Mass Picket Line NEW YORK.—The strike of the two | thousand cleaners and dyers spread} today as the important Blau and) other shops came out. Eighteen | strikers have been arrested so far, all} | being bailed out by the LL.D. Ly} | Gelman, member of the strike com- | mittee, was stabbed on the picket line esterday and barely escaped without injury, the knife of the scab ripping | his coat. | Mass picketing is being carried on | Friday morning in front of the B and M shop in Brownsville, where three arrests occurred yesterday and where the cleaning and dye house | Owners are making a test case to try | | and prevent any picketing. The strike is expected to spread to the drivers, as the members of the, Cleaners and Dye House Drivers Un- | | fon, of the A. F. of L., local 185, are | | holding a meeting this evening with- | out their officials to take up their} stand on the strike. The question | of impeachment of the officials of the drivers union, who refused to put the | question of a strike toa vote at the| last meeting, will be taken up tonight. | The Cleaners and Dyers Union calls on all tailors to give no cleaning and dyeing work to ‘anyone during the | course of the strike, | | | FUNDS FOR DELEGATE | NEEDED. | | All individuals mand organiza- | | tions who have collected funds for the sending of a New York City delegate to the Paris Congress are requested to bring them to Room 1610, 104 Fifth Ave., not later than Saturday noon, The New York City delegate must leave not later than | Saturday night in order to reach the Congress on time, Gutters of New York NOTHIN’ DO * So “ou won't LET ME EXAMINE NOUR RECORDS // GUILTY NOTHIN, IT's “foo NEWR ELECTION. EASE riaesee JVOGE WE PLEA Gut NOW, NONE OF YOUR. GRAGS OF THE crTy'S MONEY — ANYWAY NOT “TILL AFTER BANKERS “Perhaps there wouldn’t "0 Lock You uP, BE JABERS, IF Or WUZN'T So NERR, ELECTIONS / be so much objection if it weren’t so near election time’’—Warden Schleth of Welfare Island to John L. Spivak, of the Daily Worker. Tell Prison Experiences at Protest Meet Tonight, Minor to Tell of Welfare Island Where Negro Was Slain; Hathaway, Others Will Speak Cells that reeked of human excretion; air that stifled inmates until these on upper tiers virtually fought for a breath; insects crawling over filthy mattresses to the bodies of prisoners tossing restlessly during the long nights—this is the Welfare Island that iobert Minor, Communist Candidate for Mayor of New York City, saw, when he was imprisoned there for six months in 1930, and Israel Amter, were each given “4ndeterminate sentences” for leading | an unemployed demonstration at} Union Square in 1930. | Minor, Sam Brown, Julius Ro- dregues, William Campbell and | others who served time in New | York’s scandalous “School for Crime,” will tell their experiences tonight at a huge meeting at Wab- ster Hall, 119 E. 11th St. The meet- ing was called by the International Labor Defense to protest against the suppression by Tammany offi- cials of the facts about the murder of James Matthews, a North Caro- lina Negro battered to death by a prison keeper. William J. Cahill, Commissioner of Correction, who fought desperately to keep the Daily Worker from obtain- ing access to the suppressed records of the Matthews murder, has been invited to attend the meeting. | Besides former Welfare Island pris- | onerg,who will tell. personal experi- ences, the speakers will include Clar- ence A. Hathaway, editor of the Daily Worker, and James Ford, former can- | didate for vice-president on the Com- munist ticket. Minor Describes Experiences “The indeterminate sentence,” Min- | or explained yesterday, “means a 3- year sentence to all intents and pur- poses, with the exception that it| gives the prisoner a chance to be} paroled. I was released at the end| | of six months because they thought | I was dying. | “When I was first taken to the) penitentiary on Welfare Island, I,| along with a great many other pris- oners, were confined in cells 412 feet wide and 8 feet long. There were| two men to each cell and the men| were confined in these filthy places for 22 hours out of each 24, “In each cell was a toilet bucket. The excretions of the prisoners ris- ing from the buckets hung over the! o— < Minor, along with William Z. Foster | 2atrow confines in an intolerable stench. And to this foul air was added the stench from the other buckets in adjoining cells. The whole lace reeked. Became Il “Once a day these buckets were cleaned, but the odor hung over the tiers, so that it was almost impos- sible to get a breath of fresh aid.| Prisoners on the upper tiers, where | the stench seemed to hang like spider webs, found it almost impossible to| breath.” Minor did not stay in these cells) long because he was taken ill with | chronic appendicitis and was trans- | ferred to the penitentiary hospital, Latcr Foster, Amter and Harry Ray-| mond were transferred to Hart's Is- land. Minor remained in the hos- pital for four months. After he had gained strength enough to go to the! prison yard, he witnessed one of “The | School’ for Crime’s” notorious riots | which broke out after a baseball game. “The New York Evening Journal carried a story that the reds had been | responsible for the riot. Prison of- | ficials came and assured me that they | had not sent out that story, “Shortly after that one inmate was released and published an expose in the Daily Worker of conditions there. As I was editor of the ‘Daily’ up to the moment I was imprisoned it was assumed that I had to be ‘broken’ because of the expose. “One of the officials came to me and said if I would deny the facts in the story I would not be punished. I refused. The following day he came again and said if I would get the ‘Daily’ to ‘lay-off’ I would escape pun nent, I again refused. Punisked Following Expose “For that I was transferred to Rikers Island and, though I was con-~ valescing from months in the hos- pital, I was put to work carrying | 250-pound cinder-cans, two men to a can, I collapsed within two days. AUTHORITIES PREPARE 10 LYNCH NEGRO “Another Tuscaloosa Being Prepared” Says L L. D. DEPUTIES CARRY GUNS Roosevelt, Governor Warned of Danger LYNCHBURG, aV., Sept. 14— Threats of lynching against Reg- inald Leftwich, framed Negro work- er who goes On trial in Rustburg today on murder charges, are being openly made here. E. A. Norell, Negro attorney from Richmond has been retained by the I-L.D. for the defense of Leftwich. A tense air pervades the entire city as the stage is set for the trial. Deputy-sheriffs have been provided with rifles and machine-guns, and they make no claim +f intention to protect the frame-up victim or his defenders, Four hundred representatives of workers’ organizations totalling 10,- 000 members, met here last week to. plese mass defense for Left- wich, . * 8 NEW YORK.—President Roose- velt and Governor John G. Pollard if Virginia, weer notified today by the International Labor Defense of the situation in Rustburg, Va., which threatens a repetition of the murderous drama of Tuscaloosa. In wires to both executives, the International Labor Defense de- manded guarantees of safety for Leftwich and his defenders. A wire to Judge Don P. Halsey, of Rust- burg, held him personally respon- sible for their safety. 2,300 Workers Out in Underwear Strike NEW YORK.—in the third day of the white goods workers’ strike, enthusiastic youthful workers, many of whom are Negro workers, meeting in the strike hall at Irving Plaza discussed the problems of the strike and stressed the importance of solidarity in the coming critical days of the strike. Conferences of employers and A. F. of L. officials with the officials of the NRA were held yesterday and reports of these negotiations are expected today. More than 2300 strikers are now out on strike under the leadership of the Needle Trades Workers In- dustrial Union and more shops are joining the strike daily. A girl striker, member of Local 62, fell while on the picket line shouting “It’s conditions; they are terrible.” Mary Goff, A. F. of L. organizer, instead of sending the girl to her family, called an am- bulance, which brought the girl to the Psychopathic ward at Bellevue Hospital. WANTED—USE OF AUTOMOBILE If there is anyone who can give the Party the use of an automobile for a three months’ tour please ad- dress P, O. Box 87, Station D, New York City. Such machine will be in charge of one who will keep it in Al condition. NOTICE! The Editorial Office of the Daily Worker is open from 7 to 9 o'clock every evening except Saturdays and Sundays. A. competent comrade, member of the Volunteer Committee, will be there to help workers who have difficulty in formulating letters to the Daily Worker. “I was taken to a cell there, for there is no hospital or clinic, and placed on a damp cot. Insects crawled over the beds and the patients.” When the doctors thought Minor was about to die they ordered his release. Besides Minor, the other speakers will also relate their own experiences. Farmers Play Ball By BEN FIELD (Battling for Edward Newhouse) eet oe ae I do not mean here the Brockiya semipro team, the Farmers, who no more consist of farmery than a Farmers’ National Bank in some small town is run foe and by the farmers. I mean real dirt farmers with the manurd and the milk spotting their overalls and boots. The sports’ writers of the boss’ papers are very fond of adding “color” to the stories about big league players when they say that Del Bissonette,? former first baseman“ for the Dodgers, owns an apple orchard. Yessir, big, Locomotive Johnson, now managing the Cleveland Indians, has a farm in Maryland. Warneke of the Cubs breeds prize cattle. But not a single one of these “farmers” would stand the ghost of a show of being admitted as a delegate to the Farmers National Convention, to be held this year, Nov. 8 to 11, in Chi- cago, not in Wrigley Stadium, though 1,000 farmers are expected to attend. All such farmers as Bissonette, John- son, and Warneke are “show and gentlemen farmers.” They belong to the other side. They probably will be lined up that way even after the farmer's turn to bat comes. Much has been said about football taking the place of baseball as the national sport. But it is baseball still for the farmer. Tramp down any road through the country and you will see in the summer dusk or dur- ing a blazing Sunday afternoon the village boys, hired hands, and farmers playing out on the lot. The baseball field is often a meadow from which the hay has just been cleared. A few cows may be grazing in the outfield. ‘The bases are rocks or bags of lime or dirt. Where the boys have been able to get uniforms, it is often as @ result of the “generosity” of some of the local business men. The play- ers in return act as billboards for these big-hearted money men. Sewed on to the backs of their uniforms are patches carrying the name of their patron—the local jewelryman, the un- dertaker, the lumber dealer. For a few hours the farmers can almost forget the mortgage and the price of wheat and hogs. The bleach- ers look like cattlesheds. Generally, these fields haven’t even benches. The players are sluggers and good pitchers. Take any boy who starts milking at the age of nine, going to the woodlot with an axe, pitching hay, and husk- ing corn, and you have strong should- ers, a mighty wing, and an eye like a hawk’s, The hands, however, are clumsy and so the fielding is un- certain. I remember stopping off at @ farm school in Pennsylvania and talking to one of the boys in the cow- barn. “We've got a good basketball and football team here. But our baseball ain't so hot, we give our games away in errors.” . 8 Wes it comes to pitching, the left-wing movement of farmers can be proud of itself. One of the best farm organizers in the country still has a good spitball. He is a dairy farmer who has been involved in some of the famous “penny sales” in which farmers bid in ten cents for a horse and five for a cow in order to save their neighbor's chattels. And up in Cresby, Minnesota, the chair- man of the unemployed council used to be a southpaw. Crosby is the town that will go down in history as having the first Red Mayor in the United States. This comrade has worked as afarm-hand. He is tall, lanky, tough as horn, and when his control was good, batters couldn’t even smell the ball. The farmer, especially during the summer when he works himself to a hank of skin and bone, needs re- creation. He wants to get away frcm the farm. Under capitalism all he can get is a nip at sports between chores of a Sunday or after 12 or 14 hours of hard work, after a week day. This explains why the farmer still goes to church or to those fairs will admit you to The Mysterles Paris. Baseball is healthier than “mysteries” or sitting in church bow+ ing to Christ for the “Joys thet the earth abounds with.” $ But even baseball has suffered dur- ing the crisis. Many of the semi-pro teams, consisting of farm boys, have And in the Red River Val- ley, in Minnesota, where they an- nounced last summer Porky, the speedball pitcher, and a fine Negro team, the farmers haven't the few cents to get them inside the playing field. There is only one way out. The farmers will have their sports only when they have their farms and their bread. They can do this by starting to play bal! with the workers to knocit cepitalism out of the box foreves, Standing of the Clubs Club W.L P.O. 4 Wash’gton 92 47 .662 s Phila. 71 66 518 | Boston 88 83 Cleveland 78 60 614! St. Louls $2 86 .271, Cleveland at New York, St. Louis at Phila- delphia, Chicago at on account of rain. . 2 8 National League. Club W.LP.C.) Club W.LP.C. New York 83 53 610] Boston 78 85 .526 67 58 80 .309 Brooklyn 56 80 .39¢ Cincinnati 52 87 .374 Baltimore at Buffalo Night Game, Newark at Rochester postponed—wet grounds, Inning-By-Inning Scores American League R. H. E. Detroit .. 011 000 001—3 15 0 Washington . Sorrel and Hayworth; Whitehill) and Sewell. National League. Philadelphia Cincinnati .. A. Moore and Davis; Derringer, Kolp and Crouch, mm: Malone and Hartnett. Games Today. National League. New York at Chicago. Brooklyn at St. Louis, Boston at Pittsburgh. Philadelphia at Cincinnati. American League. St. Louis at Philadelphia (2 games) Cleveland at New York, Detroit at Washington. Chicago at Boston. Help improve the “Daily Worker.” send in your suggestions and criticism! Let us know what the workers in and circuses where ten cents extra} your shop think about the “Daily.” This is the second of a series of three articles in which the mani- fold connections of the Fusion managers and backers with Wall Street have been brought to light, The third and last article will ap- pear tomorrow, and will be devoted to an analysis of the political career of the Fusion candidate for Mayor, Fiorello La Guardia, eee By JAMES CASEY | Part i. | YyILLIAM § JAY SCHIEFFELIN, | known as the founder of the Fusion movement, is a wily dema- gogue who has one considerably dis- tinction among capitalist politicians. He seems always ready to shed tears over the plight of overburdened tax- payers while his companies exploit the workers to swell his personal bank accounts, From the year 1906, when he be- jcame chairman of the Citizens’ Union, he has often rallied bourgeois and petty bourgeois civic groups and | thousands of workers to support one group of capitalist politicians or an- | other. On October 27, 1931, as the head of the Committee of One Thousand, he launched the move which developed into the present City Fusion Party, Many of his demagogic utterances, given wide publicity in the capitalist press, have |led workers and small business men | to believe that he was an enemy of | the robber-utility corporations and of big business in general. No as- sumption could be farther from the | truth. | One of the principal issues in the 'Schieffelin is Closely Tied Up with Big. Morgan Insurance Companies and Banks; President of Big Corporations current election campaign is that of new tax load on the working masses, La Guardia Managers continuance of the five-cent fare on the city’s transportation lines. Tam- many is maneuvering to increase the transit fare. Schieffelin, the Fusion promoter, will now say to the public that he is against a fare rise. But Schieffelin and the Tammany boss, John F, Curry, stand as one on, this issue. Curry wants a higher fare. So does Schieffelin, In a speech on January 16, 1927, before the City Republican Club, Schieffelin expressed himself definite- ly on this question, He said that a ten-cent fare on subway express trains “was the only solution to the transit problem.” Schieffelin wanted the Republicans and Tammany to get together in this plot to gouge millions of dollars yearly out of the pockets of the workers. A fare in- crease would bring new piles of wealth into the coffers of the B.M.T. and LR.T. directors, That Schieffe- lin wanted a “united front” against the sub-riders is indicated by his appeal to the Republicans “that the transit problem should not be al- lowed to become a political issue.” Agninst Taxes on Rich When, in 1930, the capitalist crisis began to take heavy toll of its work- victims, Schieffelin’s outstanding thought was for his interests — the monied interests. Schieffelin was a proponent of a plan to entirely abol- ish income taxes on capital gains. He was at that time a member of a com- mittee of the New York Merchants Association which proposed that Congress do away with these assess- ments. Such a move would throw a who already were suffering keenly from the effects of the crisis, This Fusion promoter is a director of the Atlantic Mutual Insurance Company. Through this corporation, he is asso- ciated with Cleveland E. Dodge, of| the National City Bank, Walter YYoods Parsons of the Bank of New York Trust Company, and John Sloane of the Fifth Avenue Bank. These are all Morgan interests. It is obvious that before Schieffe- lin approves of a man for public cttice he convinces himself that this p:ospective candidate could be trust- ed to protect his ‘nierests and those f t associates, Under circumstan it is interesting to whom $-lii tin has favored | mayozalty. Th Street | approved of Norman| figure Thomas for Mayor. Likes Norman Thomas On May 17, 1931, Schieffelin paid verbal tribute to Thomas. He said that Thomas was “a man exceilently capable and fitted for the office of has that Street Mayor.” Schieffelin knew Thomas was “safe” as a W: candidate. But in the Fr against Tammany. Schieffelin feared that Thomas might handicap his capitelist political wing through his Socialist tag. Schieffelin, who has a residence on Park Avenue, Manhat- tan, along, with those of other mil- lionaires, is president of the Drug- gists’ Supply Company. He is the president of the Druggists’ Import- ing Corporation and also president and director of the American Lithia and“hemical Coripany. 8 S a political team-mate of two reactionaries such as Chadbourne and Schieffelin, Maurice P. David- son fills the requirements perfectly. Davidson, who is chairman of the City Fusion Party, preaches one kind Favor Ten Cent Fare, of doctrine before the public and practices another when it serves his pocketbook, , Davidson Close to Tammany Official In 1931 Davidson was assigned by the Committee of One Thousand to! form a group of 150 lawyers to fight recketeers, On November 17, 1932, when this committee began formally the organization of an Independent Party, Davidson was made head of the plan and scope committee. Da- vidson was convinced that Tammany was corrupt, heartless, bad beyond correction, Davidson indicated that he would have nothing to do with Tammany either in a business or po- litical way. Nevertize'ess, very hour Davit: ia business with a Congzscoman who was taking his political orders from the Tammany-MeCocey machine. The Fusion chairman is a director of the Tri-National Trading Cor- poration, Associated with him on the board is Emanuel Celler, Democratic representative from Brooklyn and a strong supporter of the Tammany machine, But business is business! Davidson and Celler are working to- gether toward a common end—the exploitation of the workers. In such @ situation Celler forgives Davidson for his public attacks on his political friends... and the Fusion leader very politely forgets all about Tam- many graft and crime. Defends Bankers In his public tirades, Davidson takes the greatest care that his re- marks should not be misunderstood as shafts against the masters of Tammany—the Wall Street barons. Davidson would have the workers be- lieve that while Tammany was their enemy, the bankers were their friends. Thus in discussing the coni- Plete breakdown of relief to the ’ Oppose Tax on Ric Davidson, Fusion Chairman, Is Business Asso- ciate of Tammany Congressman; Always Defends the Wall Street Bankers more than one million starving work- ers in the city, D: son took ecra- sion to defend the position of the bankers, sf Early in July, 1933, the bankers announced that they would lend nene of the money extorted from the wokc- ers for relief of the starving jobless and their families. Davidson admit- ted that relief was necessary. How- ever, on July 11, Davidcon sought to exonercte the bankevs, Althevgh thousands of famil'ss are being left to starve, he plactd the blame on Ta:amany, Te ca’ the situation was brourht ebout “vy the insensate greed of Tammayy and was not due to the attitude of the bankers.” For a time Fusionists were cau- tious about becoming too chummy with Samuel H. Koenig; head of the Manhattan Republican organization. Koenig is known to have been very close to Tammany Boss Ourry. Koe- nig’s district leaders also were known to have sheltered racketeers. The matter of catching more votes was considered and soon Koenig was in- vited into the leadership of Curry’s trader for votes, the Fusion chair- man is showing Tammany Curry that he, too, is just as adroit a capi- talist politician, with neither shame nor principle. Davidson has wide business inter- ests. He is president and director of the Clinton Gates Corporation. He ady | dates are all servants president and director of the Kel- vedon Realty Corporation, and he is treasurer of the Warren Securities Corporation. Rockefeller Man Helps Fusion To build their war chest, the City Fusion Party leaders have the assis- tance of the financier who has raised more money in political campaigns than probably any li man in America. This man is Col. Hent Rogers Winthrope. He is a directce of the Chase National Bank, a Rocke j feller institution, . 4 In the 1924 national campeign, Winthrope was treasurer of the Re- publican Senatorial Committee. In 1932 Winthrope was head of a powe erful private group seeking funds the Herbert Hoover campaign. was also helping the Republican Na- tional and State Committees, Winthrope’s committee will issue aps peals to millions of New York ers for contributions. friends know that the ask for a lead nickel Winthrope is the president ‘Wabesh Railroad Company. He is director of the Long Island director of Reaper At Company; a Arbor Railroad member of the board of States Rubber O-