The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 16, 1933, Page 5

H { The tCommunist Party, Party of the working class, stands firmly on the principle that the provision of ade- quate food, clothing and shelter for the unemployed and part-time work- ers, and the protection of the living standards of all the working people of the city is the primary issue of this election cam} ‘The Communist Party in this elec- tion campaign puts forward this plat- form of struggle: 1. Immediate adequate cash relief for all unemployed without any dis-| crimination. 2. Employment and social insur- ance at the expense of the employ- DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1933 ORKERS, VOTE COMMUNIST~-VOTE AGAINST HUNGER! ers and the government. 3. Higher wages to meet the rising cost of living; mo wage cuts of any kind. | 4. The unqualified right of the workers and city employees to or- ganize into unions of their own choice, the absolute and unlimited right to strike and picket, against injunctions or police interference with strikers or unemployed. 5. Full. and unconditional social, economic and political equality for} the Negroes. 6. Militant struggle against imperi- alist war and for the defense of the Soviet Union. Misery, Increasing Relief Cuts The working people of New York face more serious problems today than at any previous time. More than a million and a quarter unemployed workers face dire misery and the most drastic attacks on their very right to live. With 201,000 vacant apartments in| New York, the landlords filed 308,516 | eviction applications in 1932. | Thousands of mothers are forced | to nurse their children on tea or hot | water. In the poor workers’ section the children are supplied in the | schools with one-seventh of the milk necessary to prevent rickets, scurvy and tuberculosis. The death rate of | infants has increased by 100 per cent since the crisis began. Fully three-fourths of the total working population of Negro Harlem are unemployed. The death rate is 42 per cent higher in Harlem than in the rest of the city. The bulk of the Negro unemployed are discrimin- ated against, and receive no relief whatsoever. Employment in numer- ous factories, shops, offices and in public service is closed to them. The | criminal conspiracy of segregation | enables landlords to force twenty-five | or fifty per cent higher rents from Negroes. Tuberculosis among the Harlem Negro population has in- creased fifty per cent since the S began—the rate being twice as high as in the “White” neighborhoods of | the rich. The most frightful disre- gard for human life exists in the Harlem “butcher” hospital, Negro! prisoners are murdered in cold blood on Welfare Island. | Williama Burroughs Communist Candidate for Controller. | Veterans for whom a special state) law was passed making city relief compulsory, find relief reduced or de- nied altogether. By the thousands’ veterans fill the hospitals and flop-; houses of New York, and are, on the | slightest excuse thrown into jail. | The young, single workers of New; York, both male and female, are not} even permitted to register at the! Home Relief Bureaus, are denied all) relief. N.R. A. and Living Standards | The program of the bosses and their government for the solution of | the crisis and unemployment is to} increase their profits by beating down the living standards of the workers. The workers are told to believe that the Blue Eagle is a guarantee of; higher wages, better conditions, andj the right to organize into unions “of | their own choosing.” But what = the fa | Under the N.R.A. the prices of food, | clothing and all necessities are) mounting beyond the reach of even those who are getting the so-called) minimum wage. The minimum wage | is already becoming the maximum. Better paid workers are already being | fired, and others are hired at the minimum. At the same time, the} speed-up grows more intense. | Early in September close to a hun-| dred thousand workers in New York} City alone are on strike in N.R.A.| factories against N.R.A. wages. Under | the wings of the Blue Eagle, Tam-j many police are clubbing and arrest-| ing strikers wholesale. In the name| of the N.R.A., Whalen, “New Deal” | Adminxtrator in New York, arrests pickets and attempts to outlaw) strikes. Vicious strike-breaking in-| junctions are issued and an attempt is made to rob the workers of every civil right (shoe, furniture, bakery, fur workers, etc.) The N.R.A. will not solve the crisis. It will not abolish unemployment and misery. It is a means of raising the profits of the bosses by driving down still lower the purchasing power of | the working population. The recent increase in production, due to infla- tion and speculative buying, is again! choking the warehouses with goods that cannot be sold because low wages and high prices do not permit the workers to buy. Already production is falling in the heavy industries. New mass lay-offs are taking place. A new and worse} crash is coming as a direct result of the N.R.A. which is lowering tine standard of living of the workers. The New York workers can win gains in wages and improvement of conditions, but they can win them only by fight- ing the N.R.A., not by submitting. The New Deal Government through the N.R.A. allots three billion, three hundred million dollars mainly for war preparations. The N.R.A. is the bosses’ instrument for war prepara- tion. All capitalist parties — Demo- cratic, Republican, Socalist and the American Federation of Labor lead- ers support the N.R.A., support the Program of the bosses, for the de- struction of our living standards and Tammany’s Record for imperialist war. In the face of the hicreasing misery of the workers the Taimmany Admin- istration reduces home and work re- lief, stops rent checks, vuts wages of city employees, and organizes brutal police violence at the Home Relief Bureaus. It has reduced by 8,800,000 dollars the yearly salaries of teachers, and crowds the children in the working class sections into old and unsanitary school buildings, while 12,500 teachers remain unappointed — without jobs. ‘Teachers or city employees who pro- test against salary grabs or dare to hold social, political and economic views not in agreement with Tam- many, are expelled. The Tammany administration 1s about to put over further reductions in wages of teachers and city em- ployees. Already the Tammany Board of Estimate carried through a new raid on the dwindling incomes of the working people of the city. ‘The water tax means ruin to addi- tional thousands of poor home own- ers and a general rise in rents. The taxi tax robs the taxi drivers of one- sixth of their wages. While turning over $170,000,000 per year, or 30 per cent of the entire budget to the bank- ers on the bonded debt, the Tammany Administration would after election attempt to put over higher subway What Is The Republican and the new Fu- sion parties serve the same masters as Tammany Hall. They represent the same interests: the bankers and trusts, the interests of the capitalist system as @ whole. The whole Fu- sion campaign is but a “new” deal between the Republican and Demo- crat capitalist politicians (to be gain- ed from robbing and starving the people). Who are the men behind Fusion? Fiorello H, La Guardia, several iimes decorated by Mussolini for his “i >ful services to the Fisvist butch- fares and general sales taxes. The billion dollar utility corpora- tions are shamefully plundering the people with the compulsory one dol- Jar minimum charge for light, and the general exorbitant light and gas rates. In the interests of the bankers, mortgage companies, and the Tam- many graft ring, tens of thousands of small home owners have lost their homes, and the life savings of many thousands of families were wiped out by Tammany speculation and graft. Tammany Hall pays for its privi- lege of commercialized bribery, cor- ruption, the sale of “justice” to the highest bidder, and for plying the trades of the under-world by rend- ering to the bankers the service of strike breaking and suppression of the workers with police brutality, in- junctions and jails. The so-called reformers, the liber- als and the Socialist leaders who bab- ble about “honest government” and “clean politics” under capitalism are trying to deceive the workers. Graft and corruption is an inseparable part of any government representing a system that is based upon greed, pri- vate profit, exploitation and oppres- sion. The Republican and Fusion Parties are not any better for the working people than Tammany. Fusion? ers of the Italian workers, is one of the most dangerous agents of the finance kings. With Tammany more and more discredited, and the Re- publicans having little chance in New York, La Guardia is brought forward as “a man of the people.” La Guar- dia is a former Republican, a former Socialist, a former ive, and a former highly paid consulting counsel for Tammany administration, i “Some of the powers and financial backers behind Fusion are William M. Chadbourne, connected with the © | through fake stoppages in collabora- Morgan and Mellon firms, one of the Election Campaign Platform of the Communist Party chief contributors to the Czarist, Monarchist organizations in Europe; Colonel Henry Rogers Winthrope, Die rector of the Chase National Bank, a Rockefeller institution, a railroad magnate, one of the financiers of the Hoover presidential campaign, etc. etc. Behind the smoke screen of dema- gogy and promises, La Guardia and Fusion are committed to the same program as Tammany Hall, the plun- dering of the poor, the breaking of strikes, starving the unemployed, and maintaining the profits of the same handful of parasite bankers at the expense of the welfare of the work- ers and their families. The Socalist leaders are now, and have been openly supporting every labor racketeer and strike breaking leader of the AFL. The leaders of the Socialist-controlled unions have broken a thousand strikes, put tion with the bosses, police and gang- sters. Socalist lawyers Solomon, Wald- man, etc., take out injunctions against workers (food, needle industries). Norman Thomas and Morris Hillquit hail the N.R.A. as “paving the ground for Socialism.” Now that the work- ers are more and more recognizing the strike breaking role of the N.R.A., the Socalist leaders have tried to modify their support of the N.R.A. While the Socialist union leader, Du- binsky, showers praises upon and takes picturés with the chief strike- breaker, Whalen. The Socialist leaders are against Socialism, against destroying capital- They are out to “prevent revo- lution” in support of capitalism. The Socialist Party leaders of Germany in} the name of democracy in 1918 shot down the revolutionary workers in} Berlin, and in 1932 called upon the workers to vote for Hindenburg, and paved the way to Hifler. The Socia- list leaders in the name of democracy prepare the ground for Fascism every~ where, New York Municipal Elections—-1933 ROBERT MINOR Communist Candidate for Mayor. Socialist Party—Third Bosses’ Party At the very moment that the So-) cialist leader Panken sings hallelujahs | to the blessings of American demo- cracy and states that he has “no) fears of Fascism in America, martial | Jaw and machine gun rule rages in) Utah and New Mexico; gas bombs and! police clubs are viciously rattling on} the heads of the striking workers in New York, Paterson and Lodi, N. J./ and Pennslyvania; and the murder-| ous muzzles of Yankee warships are| in Cuban ports ready for bloody in- tervention against the growing, mili- tant struggles of the Cuban masses/ for independence, for bread and) freedom. | The Socalist Mayor, Hoan, cuts re-| lief and wages of the city employees, | brutally slugs the unemployed, while | his Socialist Sheriff, Al. Benson, evicts 12,000 families a month in the “Socialist” ¢! Milwaukee. | ‘The Socialist Party leaders attempt | to disrupt every struggle for the vital | needs of the workers by splitting the | unity of the working class. They) sabotaged and split the anti-Fascist| movement, they turn a deaf ear to and | expel whole branches from their par- ty for answering the united front) appeal of the Communists for joint | struggle against Fascism, hunger and war, for relief and unemployment in-| surance. “The Socialist: leaders »sa-} botage the movement for the freedom | of Tom Mooney and the Scottsboro} boys. The Socialist leaders betray | their rank and file members who hon-| estly want to fight capitalism and for Socialism. The unity of the Socialist workers with the Communists is growing. The | Communist Party extends a fraternal) comradely hand to the members and) followers of the Socialist Party, and will continue to do everything in its power to cement the unity of the working class. The Socialist Party leaders use the name Socialist just at Hitler prom-| ised Socialism in order to save capi- talism from the workers. They are) the most bitter haters of the Soviet! Union and Socialism. The Socialist Party is the third party of capitalism. The Communist Party—Party of the Workers | The Communist Party is the revo- lutionary party of the working class. As the Party of the working class, it has no ties with the ruling class and is the only party that represents and fights daily for the vital needs of the workers. The Communist Party pro- poses that the mass hunger and mis- ery of the working people be relieved entirely at the expense of the rich exploiters and their government. The Communist Party, bitterly hated and feared by the bosses and their agents because they know that the can- didates of the Communist Party, if elected to office, will carry on @ per- sistent, ceaseless and fearless strug- gle to put into life our election plat- form, the platform of the defense of the living standards and the rights of the toiling masses, just as the Com- munist Party leads workers’ struggles in the shops, relief bureaus and neighborhoods every day. The Communist Party proposes the following platform of the working population of New York in this city election. The Communist Party has shown in action that the workers can force the capitalists and the govern- ment to meet the demands of the workers. The election demands for BREAD, MILK, CLOTHING AND SHELTER and FOR THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS, can be realized just as thousands of unemployed and em- ployed workers won relief, stopped evictions, defeated wage cuts, and won wage increases under militant leadership. ‘The Communist Party pledges it~ self and all of its candidates, if elect- ed to office, to work to the best of our ability to carry out the following platform within the halls of the as- sembly or aldermanic chamber, and to rally a broad mass movement on the outside for the following plans of our election program: 1, Immediate Unemployed Cash Relief. For the adoption by the City Gov- ernment of the Workers Relief Ordi- nance which contains some of the following demands: a) Immediate cash relief for all un- employed without discrimination at the rate of: $7 per week cash to each unemployed worker. $5 per week for each dependent under 16 years of age. Above cash relief provisions to apply to all single unemployed workers, Al- lowance to be adjusted monthly in accord with the increase in the cost | of living. \ b) Full union wages to all workers employed on relief projects, in no case less than $5 per day for not more than 7 hours per day with 12 days work per month guaranteed. ¢) Absolute prevention of any evic- tions of unemployed or part-time workers, such eviction to be made a criminal offense. All relief allow- ances to apply without distinction as to race, nationality, religious or poli-} tical beliefs, or affiliations, citizenship or length of residence. d) Public works on an extensive program to be started immediately. Immediate tearing down of old un-} sanitary and unsafe tenement houses and the inauguration of a vasi pro- gram of building modern apartment houses at nominal rentals. Imme- diate building of new schools, parks and playgrounds in working class. dis- tricts. Program to provide for a seat | for every school child, to employ all New York teachers unemployed or un- appointed. e) All vacant apartment houses to| be thrown open to the unemployed without charge. f) Universal free and adequate medical and dental service to all school children and to the families of unemployed. Abolition of all fees} or charges to unemployed and their families in all hospitals, clinics, etc. The city government to assume obli-; gation for all medical charges of pri- | vate physicians in homes of the un-| employed. g) Free, hot, nourishing lunches and clothing, shoes, books and scliool supplies to all children of unemployed | and part-time workers. h) Vocational training for all boys and girls between 16 and 18 with reg- ular average wages, and government maintenance for all child workers un- der 16, | No tuition fees for workers in insti- tutions of higher learning. i) Pull support of the demands of the War Veterans for the full and immediate payment of the Bonus by the Federal Government. The mime- diate fulfillment of the obligations undertaken by the City by the State law providing for cash payments of relief to all needy and disabled war veterans and servicemen; and full | ing cost of living. We propose a City payment to be increased in proportion to the rising cost of living. No dis- Ordinance restricting the cost of milk, | bread, potatoes, meat, fruit and vege-| tables, to make these staples accessi- | ble to every workers’ family. At the same time, we demand that milk sold in the City of New York should be paid for by the Dairy Companies at) prices which will guarantee to work- ing dairy farmers costs of production | and a living income. | We propose a City Ordinance for a} general 25 per cent reduction of rents; | for a drastic reduction of light and) gas rates. We fight against any increase in| subway, street car, bus or elevated fares. | We propose a consistent municipal | policy to raise the standard of living of New York workers. We propose the granting of public funds in the form of strike benefits to trade unions in all cases where workers undertake by strike action to raise the stand- ard of living. 4. Civil Rights—Right to Strike and Picket. a) Complete freedom of speech, as- | sembly, the right of petition and demonstration, the full right of the workers to the use of the streets. We demand the release of all political prisoners, strike pickets, etc. b) We demand the withdrawal of all city and state police or private guards from the vicinity of all places where strikes are in progress. For the absolute and unrestricted right of the workers to organize into unions of their own choice—for the unquali- fied right of the workers to strike and picket. | c) For the complete abolition of! injunctions. under all conditions against trade unions or workers en- gaged in struggle. d) For the right of teachers and city employees to belong to any or-, ganization and to express any social, | economic or political views they de- | sire without victimization. e) The Communist Party calls upon | the workers for a mass struggle| against all interference of the capi- talist courts and police in labor dis: putes. We call for the organization of Workers Self Defense Corps, to} resist gangster and Fascist attacks | upon the workers. 5. Equal Rights for Negroes. The Communist Party fights un- compromisingly against all discrimi- nation and inequality practiced against the Negro people. “We de- nounce the reactionary criminal prac- tices of the ruling class of New York, supported by political parties, Demo- cratic, Republican, Socialist, by which a population of 300,000 Negroes is confined in segregated districts, over-| crowded and charged extra high rent for homes in the oldest and most un- sanitary buildings, and are cystem- atically excluded from restaurants, hotels, theatres, and ether places of public resort by the connivance of the police and open support of the City, State and Federal Governments. | Drawn by Morris J. Kallam crimination against Negro veterans. | No discrimination against unmarried veterans, y) Immediate moratorium on pay- ments of mortgages by poor and un- employed home owners; the absolute | stopping of all sales or seizures of homes or foreclosures; for a mora- torium on taxes on the homes of un- employed workers. 2, For Unemployment and Social Insurance. The Communist Party undertakes to mobilize the workers on a national scale for a system of Unemployment and Social Insurance by the United States Government, guarantecing in- surance to the amount of average wages to all unemployed workers, in- surance against old age and disability, the entire cost to be borne by the Government and employers. In the absence of a system of Social Insur- ance by the Fed Government, we propose that the City Government of | New York should endorse the Work- ers Unemployment Insurance Bill, | 3. Reduction of the High Cost of Living. We propose to enact a law making the shutting off of gas, light or water from the homes of unemployed or art-time workers, a criminal offense. We call upon the working masses,| We propose a criminal law subject- the housewives and professional peo-| ing to heavy imprisonment any per- | ple to wage war against the mount-| son acting to segregate Negroes in residence districts, to exclude Negroes For full social, political and eco-/ nomic equality for all Negroes. For the right of Negroes to any job on! absolutely equal terms. We propose | to enforce this both by drastic crim- | inal laws and by the mass action of} the working class, both White and) Negro, in defense of Negro rights. | | etc, or to segregate them in from restaurants, hotels, places, or The Communist Party proposes to organize as part of the election cam- to refuse equal service. | paign, mass picketing demonstrations | against Jim Crow institutions to com- | | pel the admission of Negroes on equal | terms and without segregation in all such places. The Communist Party, the only party which has fought for the de- fense of the innocent Negro boys | framed up at Scottsboro, Ala., pro- poses that the city government of | New York publicly endorse the de-| fense of the innocent Negro boys of | Scottsboro and other Negroes framed | up in Tallapoosa County, at Tusca-! loosa, etc., and that the city govern- Ben Gold Communist Candidate for President Board of Aldermen ment vote public funds to aid in the expenses of their de 6. Rights of Youth — Abolition of Child Labor. For the right of all persons above 18 years of age to vote. theatres, | such | | | tices” in minimum wage provi to the d cod and We demand an end mination of the N.R.A beginners,” “learners” That the City government g record against the forced labor Ciy1! Conservation Camps. We demand an end to the of the academic rights of 5 and for the reinstatement of all stu- dents and teachers expelled or sus- pended on this issue. We demand the abolition of the labor of all children below the age of 16, and government mainienence of all child workers. 7. Resistance to Imperialist War— Defense of the Soviet Union. All war funds to the unemployed! ‘The Communist Party proposes that the City government use its inf - to secure the diversion of 1d now allotted to war purposes by the Federal and State Government, to the relief of the unemployed. The Coii munist Party would use the autho of the City government for a pop’ mass campaign against imp: war and against imperialist the United States Government i intervention against the Union of So- viet Socialist Republics. We propose to organize the workers to stop the shipment of munitions from New York Port for use in im- perialist war in China, South An ica, or elsewhere. We demand ft! end of intervention in Cuba and im- mediate withdrawal of all war ships violation stu all f | from Cuban waters. We propose the establishment of fraternal relations between the work- ers’ organizations, trade unions, and the soldiers of the federal go ernment and the national guard, w a view to encourage soldiers to refu | interference in strikes and to resist imperialist. war. The Communist Party, if successful in securing a majority in the City Government will call upon the wor! ers of all large factories in New York City, all mass organizations of work- ers and all unemployed crganizations, to elect delegates to cooperate with the worke! administration of the City as advisors. What a Communist Vote Means The Communist Party, while fight- ing for the daily, immediate needs of | the working class, prepares the work- ers for the final overthrow of the | capitalist system, and for the building of a Socialist society in America, Capitalism is chaos, anarchy, ex-| ploitation and ruin of the working} class and the farmers, enslavement} of the Negro and colonial peoples. Capitalism is inseparable from un- employment, hunger and war. Capi- talism is bankrupt and dying and cannot continue to exist without plunging the world into the most hor- rible suffering and war. The Communist Party is the Party of Socialism. Socialism is the only way out of capitalist ruin, s m and war. But Socialism is only possible with the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a workers and) farmers government in the U. S. Capitalist democracy, the masked! | brutal dictatorship of a handful of big bankers and trust magnates must be replaced by the only genuine democracy for all the toilers which} ca nbe nothing else but the dictator-| ship of the working class. The Communist Party of this coun-| try is the American brother Party of | the Communist Party of the Soviet} Union, under whose heroic leadership | the Russian workers and peasants) have already succeeded in building! | standards of the foundations of Socialism, in cre- ating a new life and culture for the masses; the only country on earth that knows no unemployment, w’ are impossible, where the livi the masses are rising with mighty strides and where clas are being finally abolished. This was made possible only because under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, the Rus- jan workers and peasants Czar, the parasite capital: landlords and teok control mines, mills, factories and the land. A large vote for the Commun 2 | Party will strike fear into the hearts of the capitalists and their govern- ment and will force concessions for the workers! A large Communist vote will be an n of mass determination to organization and struggie for mediate needs of the workers! A vote for the Communist Party, the election of Communist candidates is a vote for bread, milk, clothing and shelter! A yote for the Communist Party is a vote against the bosses—for Social- ism! Enroll, register, support and vote for the party of your class—renister and vote Communist! 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