The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 7, 1933, Page 5

THE 4 PARTIES IN THE ELECTIONS By GEORGE SISKIND __ As 17. election approaches, Tammany tries every cunning trick to keep power by putting off until after election day its schemes of the most drastic | raids on the pocket-books of the workers. First, Tammany tried to pass the buck (of raising relief funds) to the state legislature. in the state legislature, of course, refused to take the responsibility of an- tagonizing the voters through special state taxation. The state legislature passed the buck to Tammany by a® law giving Tammany the power to raise funds by special taxes. Tam- many and the Republicans thus play football with the growing misery of the workers. They both are adamant in carrying out the dictates of their masters, in guaranteeing the bankers’ interest at the expense of the tens of thousands of unemployed workers and their families. To carry this out, Tammany called in Untermyer to figure out a way of raising funds at the expense of un- employed relief, behind the smoke screen of “taxing the rich.” Unter- myer is heavily interested in real estate. He owns many apartment houses and office buildings. Unter- myer at first tried to have an “im- partial \Citizens’ Committee” suggest the taxes, so that the committee and not Tammany would be held respon- sible. Untermyer put at the head of this committee Peter Grimm, of the Citi- zens’ Budget Committee, representa- tive of big real estate interests (of the firm of Wm. A. White and Sons, who handle the Rockefeller real es- tate in New York). Grimm appointed on his committee the presidents of the New York Chamber of Com- merce, the Merchants’ Association, and the New York Board of Trade, all bosses’ representatives, the crowd that is behind the Fusion Party. The Untermyer-Grimm-Tammany tax plan was designed to fool the workers into believing that 1) the rich were to bear the taxes, 2) the money raised would go for relief. This is a swindle. As a matter of fact the taxes proposed and since adopted by the united front of Tammany and the Republicans are passed to the work- ers and evaded by the rich. The funds raised wonld go to the bankers and not for relief. Out of the $40,000,000 to be raised by the taxes (assuming that the rich will not evade them) the lump sum of $25,000,000 will go to the bankers to redeem city relief securities. At the most, only $15,000,000 would be avail- able for relief. But a good half of the $15,000,000 will go in salaries and graft. Tammany talks of the Unter- Myer tax as a tax for relief; yes, for the relief of the bankers! Under the Untermyer-Tammany tax program a 50 per cent increase in the water rates is already going into effect. This means a $12,000,000 in- crease in the rent bill of workers’ families; since the landlords are al- ready passing the water tax along to the tenants. Furthermore, the in- creased water tax will ruin additional thousands of poor home owners al- ready facing foreclosure and the loss of their homes. The supposed taxes on the stock exchange speculators (which Tam-~- many has already completely given up), rich banks and utility com- panies, are a blind behind which Tammany is determined to continue their starving the unemployed, plac- ing heavier burdens on the working population generally, and mortgaging the income and welfare of the peo- ple of the city to the bankers. While the big noise is made by the repre- sentatives of the Stock Exchange, the water tax is forgotten, the taxicab tax goes into effect, and Tammany is oiling its machinery for jamming through a $20,000,000 slash in the sal- aries of the lower city employees, already prepared by the Untermyer- Peter Grimm Committee. The Fusion Party is a partner with Tammany in this criminal hunger conspiracy by the bankers directéd against the working people of the rity. With the slogan, “Turn the ras- ials out,” LaGuardia and Fusion with (ihe aid of most of the capitalist press and the Socialist leaders attempt to turn the attention of the masses of voters away from the real issues of relief, and the bankers’ raid on the dwindling incomes of the workers. LaGuardia and Fusion have not said one word on relief; not a syllable on the crushing burden forced upon the unemployed, part time and poor workers and home owners, “Should I become Mayor in 1934, I must use my best efforts to pay off the debts of the previous administration,” says LaGuardia boastfully, in an inter- view of Sept. 17, 1933. His first and last thought is for the bankers. Not @ word about relief to the starving unemployed—not a word about bread for the hungry children of the workers. Fusion as have set. the time boost in subway fares im- after the elections. La the poor consumers, ‘The Socialist candidate for Mayor, Solomon, has given his ap- pgp! Untermyer tax program. speakers against the water tax, pro- says, “It’s a tax to provide for relief.” “On x The Republicans JAMES W. FORD Candidate for Alderman in the 21st | District, Harlem Socialist Party candidate for Mayor assists Tammany and the bankers in this robber raid and swindle. The Socialist Party leaders waste a lot of crocodile tears over the “tragic situation of the unemployed.” Yet, the “New Leader” (Sept. 2, 1933) claims that “93 per cent of the jobless are now on the municipal rolls.” They thus convey the impression that 93 per cent of the unemployed are taken care of by relief. But even the capitalist Welfare Bureau reports that “one out of every six, or 16 2-3 per cent. of all the unemployed receive relief.” The Socialist Party campaign platform favors “sufficient” rleief; but the “New Leader” (Sept. 16, 1933) calls for the appropriation of a total of $13,000,000 a month for relief. This is even lower than the sum claimed by the bourgeois agency, the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, who say, “a monthly grant of $15,- 000,000 is necessary for decent care of those needing relief.” Yet this fig- ure is only about 15 per cent of the amount nececsary for real relief of the unemployed workers of the city. The Socialist Party leaders are a special help to the bankers because they make even more radical promises than Fusion, and presume to talk in the name of the workers. No wonder Norman Thomas bitterly com- Plains why Fusion did not come to them originally, why the Socialist Party was not given the initiative by Chadbourne, the Chamber of Com- merce, Merchants’ Associations, the Chase National Bank. etc., in blurring the real issues in the election cam- paign, in distracting the attention of the miasses from the growing attacks upon unemployed and employed, upon the living standards of the masses and attempt to deceive them with fake issues of “honest government,” “clean politics,” anti-Tammany, etc., in order to put over the program of the bankers, The Communist Party is the only party that stands firmly on the prin- ciple that the provision of adequate food, clothing and shelter for the un- employed, part-time and poorly paid workers, and the protection of the living standards of all the working people of the city, is the primary is- sue of this election campaign. Only the Communist Party fights daily against the bankers’ program of starving the unemployed. Only the Communist Party leads every fight for relief, against evictions, for plac-4 ing the entire burden of the crisis upon the rich: the bankers and their government. The Communist Party leads the fight for unemployment and social insurance at the expense of employers and the government. Communist Party pledges itself and all of its candidates when elected to office, to work to the best of our abil- ity to carry out the Communist elec- tion platform of struggle for the needs and rights of the workers in the As- sembly and Board of Aldermen just as the Communist Party leads the daily fight for bread, clothing, shel- ter, for the needs of the workers. Enroll; register and vote Commu- nist. Minor for Mayor—Vote every hammer and sickle! ne Students to Score CCNY. Ousters at Protest Today Minor and Burroughs Speak at Meet in Washington Sq. NEW YORK.—As a defiant answer to the reign of terror imposed by City College officials, recently-expel- Jed students have called a mass stud- ent and workers’ demonstration for today at Washington Square Park, foot of Fifth Ave., at 10 am. Robert Minor, candidate for Mayor, and Wil- liana = Burro candidate for Comptroller, for the Communist tick- et, speak, From Washington Square the de- monstration will march to City Hall where a delegation will present the demands to Mayor O’Brien. Mass student indignation is aroused against itive speech on the affairs at the college. Student elections have been suspend- ed, the administration fearing that anti-R.O.T.C, students will be elected.’ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1933 “FOOD, CLOTHING, SHELTER MAIN ISSUES OF ELECTION”--MINOR Communist Candidate Says Bankers Have Paid No Income Tax in 4 Years Must Tax Rich to Pay! Jobless Relief to Masses By ROBERT MINOR (Communist Party Candidate for Mayor.) ‘TIME has come when things cannot gd on in the same way. A change is necessary. New York workers to the number of more than one and a quarter million are unemployed. This is the only country in the whole world where the government refuses even the slightest responsibility to in- sure the workers against unem- ployment. In New York City live the richest billionaires in the world, whose incomes are counted at tens of millions per month now during the depression, But not a banker or trust magnate in New York City has paid a cent of income tax jn four years! The city government in the hands of these plundering bankers ts now cutting down the miserable pretense of unemploy- ment relief. Starvation stalks through the city. Not only hun- dreds of thousands of men and women are suffering, Babies in working-class districts are dying more than twice as fast as they did four years ago. Hundreds of thou- sands of working class families are being crushed, broken up. Eyic- tions are pushing them out- onto the streets, or the Home Relief Bu- reaus are moving them into old !condemned houses, cold, / windy, dirty and infested with mice and vermin, More than 50,000 women of our class are sleeping in the subways for lack of a home. And there are 200,000 empty apartments. If this is true, what are the issues of the election campaign? ie issues are: Food, clothing and shelter for the unemployed. Fie oar Communist Party proposes to make it a crime to evict an un- employed person or his family from an apartment. We propose that the City-owned government take over all vacant apartments owned by corporations or big landlords, and put these apartments at the dis- posal of the families of the un- employed free of charge. This is an issue of the election. * OW about those that have jobs? The employers of New York, like those of the rest of the coun- try, have been cutting down wages for the past four years. Workers are unable at present wages to maintain their families even when working. The cost of living ‘is’ go- ing up. In the effort ‘to raise wages, or to prevent further cuts, about 100,- 000 workers are on strike in New York City today. Experience shows that the “Blue Eagle” does not ralse wages; under the “Blue Eagle” generally, only those workers get raises who fight the “Blue Eagle.” The New York administrator of the N.R.A., Grover Whalen, the same ex-police commissioner who made the bloody assault against the un- employed workers in March, 1930, has declared that under the N.R.A. the workers no longer have the right to strike. Only those whe are ready to strike get raises, and only those can strike who are ready to fight the N.R.A. But to prevent the raise of wages, the city judges are issuing injunc- tions wholesale almost every day. To defend their elementary politi- cal rights, the workers must re- sort to mass violation of injunc- tions wherever they are issued! Down with injunctions! This is an issue of this campaign. ; a Rec 'T' is the policy of the city of New York in regard to wages? ROBERT MINOR Communist Candidate for Mayor of New York City Strike-breaking by the police with clubs, tear-gas and injunctions. This is the.policy of all of the po: litical parties in this election ex- cept the.Communist Party. Never mind that they say; look what they do! The Democratic, Republican- Fusion and McKee tickets are open- ly strike-breaking bankers’ tickets. But the Socialist Party? The work- ers who are members of the Social- ist Party are strongly in favor of the workers’ cause. But it) is other- wise with the leaders. Charles Solo- mon, candidate of the Socialist Party for mayor, is an injunction lawyer. He obtained an injunction against the Miller Market strike in January, 1930, in which the po- lice, acting in accord with Solo- “man's injunction against-nicketing, ‘murdered © the’ worker’ Steve" Ka+ tovis. This was in order to keep wages down, and to prevent the growth of a militant union. The Socialist Party leaders co-operate and support the Green, Lewis, Du- binski racketeers, who sell out thi workers. - What is a correct policy in city affairs, from the point of view of the workers? No injunctions! Mass violation of injunctions! Keep the police away from struck shops! And the Communist Party proposes fur- ther that the city should anpro- nriate funds for strike relief for all workers who go on strike! Isn’t this a proper use of city funds for the purpose of raising the standards of living of the workers? This is an issue of the election campaign! Another issue of the campaign is the wages of city employees. The Communist Party stands. for the city government to pay the highest wages to the city employees—real workers, teachers, clerks, engineers and other snecialists (not salaried political job.holders). No wage cuts, 'E school system is being looted. Our children are being robbed of hot lunches in order to fatten the pockets of Tammany grafters. The teachers are being starved with wage cuts and so-called “voluntary” assessments. ‘And $20,000,000 has been cut off the normal city budget for this coming year (allowing for normal increment) in order to save the bankers of New York from hav- ing to pay txes to maintain the schools. “This is an issue of the campaign. 65 ate 'HE 3,500,000 Negroes of New York City are tortured under the brutal System .of segregation—-a.crime un- equalled by even the bloody Hitler in Germany. This medeival sav- agery is enforced by the real estate millionaires supported by the ruth- less violence of the police, and sup- ported as well by all of the other political parties (Democratic, Re- publican, Fusion and Socialist). Crowded into the most dilapidated houses at outrageously high rent (50—75 per cent above that paid by whites) by segregation, the Negroes of Harlem. suffer’a death-rate fully half again as high as that of the better “white” neighborhoods. Ne. | groes are refused the common rights | of men, excluded from public ac- commoedations (restaurants, thea~ | tres, hotels), prohibited from walk- ing on the streets wfth white per- sons of opposite sex (under order of Police Commissioner Bolan), and are habitually beaten, arrested, framed up and even murdered in prison. The capitalist press and Po- lice Commissioner Bolan (supported by the Republican, Democratic, Fusion and Socialist parties) even carries on a medeival campaign about a mythical “Negro Ape-Man” supposed to attack white women in Central Park, thus attempting to incite degenerate whites to whole- C. P. Platform Against Imperialist War sale murder of Negroes—in the ef- fort to break up the growing unifi- cation of the Ni and white workers for mass action to for granting of unemployment relief. As against this, the Communist Party fights for full social, political and economic equality for Negroes. This is one of the most important issues of the campaign. E Communist P: for the needs of class, the whole toiling population, the Negroes, the intellectu: and “small” people on all of these issues But there can be no omelette with- out breaking some eggs! Many hundreds of millions of dollars are necessary to prevent the starvation of the work people of New York. How to get the money? Make the big billionaires and the millionaires pay! Make no mistake out it. The multimillionaire bankers who rule New York City—the richest in the insurance sufficient to these needs. To avoid it they are now attempt- ing every vicious kind of tax on the food, clothing, transportation (sub- way fares) and daily life of the working class. . And every millionaire in New York has failed to pay a nickel of income tax in four years! The Communist a policy of fo! capitalists of N heavy taxes as may be necessary to replace the wages lost by all New York workers throug! ment, sickness or oth This is a large order. party is For instance, in service men. The Communist Party has from the beginning supported the immediate payment of the “bo- nus” in full. All other parties dodge and hedge on this issue (voting “for” it when they can be sure it won't really go into effect) Mr. Norman Thomas, leader of the So- cialist Party, opposes it on the ground it might create “financial difficulties” for the public treasury; he thinks it better that the veter- ans and their families starve a little rather than burden the wealthy tax- payers. (These same multimillion- aires have been given, from the public treasury, four times the total amount of the back wages due the veterans.) Taxation is an extremely impor- tant issue of the election. The Communist Party is for tax- ing the rich, and not taxing the working class and “little” people. And we demand the publication of all information on incomes of the millionaires! It is a case of class No other teady to go to this extent. ard to the ex- against class. issue is Bred, Meat and Milk for the working And this fight for food, clothing and shelter and political rights is the absolute necessity for the build- ing up of the revolutionary strength of our class, training and disciplin- ing the masses in order to win a new and better world. The Communist Party is the only party of Socialism. Through the fight for food and shelter the working class, the toil- ing masses as a whole, the Negroes, the intellectuals, etc., will be led to the overthrow of the brutal, cor- rupt dictatorship of finance-capital, to the establishment of the gov- ernment of the masses—the dicta- torship of the working class, the attainment of democracy, the build- ing of Socialism. Communist Candidates in New York Municipal Elections BEN GOLD Candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen NEW YORK COUNTY Henry Shepard County Clerk Laura Carmon District Attorney Pauline Rogers Justice of the City Court Steve Kingston Members of Assembly 14. Alfred Wagen- knecht, Sheriff District: 1. Theodore Baron 2. Sam Schoenberg 3. Ben Lapidus 4. Harry Friedman 5. James Taney 6. Rubin Shulman 15. Charles Siogal 16. Sidney Leroy 17. Armando Ramirez 18. Sidney Spencer 1. Harry Fieldberg | 19. William Fitz- 8. Peter V. Cace gerald chione 20. Theodore Roose- 9. Oakley Johnson velt Bassett 10, Frank Dorio 21, Herman Waldron 11. Caroline Hall Macwain 12. Owen Appleton | 22. Maude White 13. Otto A, Hall 28, Colin Reed BRONX COUNTY Hessou Bydarian Joseph Kaufman Angelo Severino Sheriff County Clerk District Attorney -————- NEW YORK STATE Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals Justice of the Supreme Court Dominick Fliani Charles Irving NEW YORK CITY Mayor Comptroller President of Board of Aldermen . Borough President of Manhattan Borough President of The Bronx Borough President of Brooklyn Borough President of Queens Borough President of Richmond “Robert Minor William J, Burroughs | Ben Gold} 3 Israel Amter Louis Hyman Fred Biedenkapp George Powers Harold Keithlin Justice of the City Court Isaac Stamler: Judge of the County Court Morris E. Taft Register of New York County Lillian Tomashaw Members of Assembly District: & dames Steele 1. Isidore Baker , Abraham Skolnic! 8. Carl Brodsky = 8. Max Schulman KINGS COUNTY Sheriff John M. Cooke Register Mazy Walker Members of Assembly, 12. Ada Vladimir 13. Joseph Garatfa 14, Harry Eddy Cantor 15, Joseph J. Kahn 16. Arthur Senson 17. Merril ©. Work District: 1, Joseph Roberts 2. James Lerner 3. Joseph Magliacano 4. ‘Hyman Hodes 6. Oscar Buchanan 7. Carl Oscar 18. Morris Yanoft Peterson 19. Martin Gross 8. Joseph Andrew 20, James A. Field Hansome 21, Michael La Vera 9. Louis Desantes | 22.'Dan Rubel 10, Randolph Brown 23. Mollie Samuels QUEENS COUNTY County Clerk Dora Jones Justice of the City Court ‘ Irving Schwab Members of Assembly ‘ 3. Booker T. Morgan { oistret 4. Tim Holmes 1, David ©. Pison! . | 5, Charles E. Archer 2. Helen Schnelder | 6. Greta Kornfeld RICHMOND Sheriff John Kryzak | Members of Assembly Ist District ‘Tom Siragusa and District Ellen Kuisma of New York MANHATTAN 12, Marvin Thomason 13. Jim ‘Gralton 14. Carrie Katz 15. Albert Glassford 16. Sarah Rice, 17. Peter M. Uffre 18. Anthony Riagnon District: 1, John Adams 2. Salvatore Giur- 4. Joseph Klein 5. Stanley Zimnoch 8. Joseph Porper 19. William L, Pat- 7. Sam Madell terson 8. Sam Brustein 20, Matti Wick 9. Kendall P, Olm-/| 21. James William a Ford 22, Sam Brown stea 10, James Young 23. Maurice Sand 11, Henry Hirsch District: 28. Homer. Glenn 38. Helen neh | 39, gam Berland 26, Pauline Gootzelt | 31" Alexander Raynes 27. Sam Nessin 32. Joseph H. Cohn KLYN District: 33. Doretta ‘Tarmon 34, WilllamSchiffman 35. Joseph Lapidus 36. Louis Hernandes 37, Trygrave Peder- son ‘Hannah Scherer 39. Clara Shavelson 40, Max — For Board of Aldermen of the City, WILLIANA BURROUGHS Candidate for Comptroller . (7, Harry Rosenblum 50. Albert Clarke 53. Anna Moskowitz «|54. John Siurba 56, Lewis Secundy QUEENS 59. Alfred Fleischer 60. Nicola Napoll St. -‘Teehl Meller 61. George Wilner 58. August: Henkel 62. Tom Lewis RICHMOND Max Korenman 42. Oscar Nicholas Myers 43. Jacob Krasnitz 44. Max Cander 45. Mery Kandel District: 68rd District 64th District Minnie Nichols 65th District Jacob Kasser For Justice of the Municipal Court MANHATTAN 6th District Sam Gonshak 9th District world—will go to any extreme to | avoid adopting a policy of paying | out unemployment relief and social Richard Gullivan 2nd District By DAN In a small mid-western city the U: in the steam-heated Fire Hall. They don't. say. also to the big bosses of the state, tha EMIL NYGARD | Communist Mayor of Crosby, | Minn., who will arrive in New York | City October 18. Negroes Have ‘Much at Stake. ‘in Elections What will the Negro people of | New York City get out of the 1933 municipal elections? Will they get jobs? Will the starving Negro un- employed get real guarantees of im- mediate relief and unemployment insurance, and will they receive the {sure guarantee that after the elec- tions the increasing discrimination, growing lynch incitement and terr will be brought to an end? Or will! they receive the usual promises from | the capitalist politicians and Social- | ist leaders? | | | What the Negro people will get de- pends on what political party they support and what candidates they vote for at the polls in November, | and on the militant, determined | struggle which they will carry on| before and after election day to force | their demands upon the government. This election takes place at a time when fully three-fourths of the Ne- gro working population are unem- ployed; when the death rate is 42 per cent higher in the Negro neigh- borhoods than in the white neigh- borhoods of the rich. The most shameless and vile form of discrimin- ation is practised against the Negro unemployed, the majority of whom receive no relief whatsoever. Under the N.R.A., that is supposed to give prosperity to all, numerous factories, shops, offices, and public institutions refuse employment to Negroes, The criminal conspiracy of segre- gation between the landlords, capi- talists and Negro reformist mislead- ers enables the landlords to force 25 to 50 per cent higher rents from Ne- gro tenants. TuberculoSis among the Negro population of Harlem and Brooklyn is now 50 per cent higher than in 1929 and almost twice as high as in the neighborhoods of the rich | bosses. The most frightful disregard for human life exists in the “butcher | shop,” the Harlem Hospital. Negro | prisoners are being savagely beaten up and murdered on Welfare Island, while a new wave of police-inspired lynch incitement is spreading through the city. In the face of this growing misery of the Negro masses, the Tammany city administration cuts down and refuses relief, stops rent checks, and organizes police attacks and club- bings at the Home Relief Bureau. This outrageous and brutal policy of Tammany against the Negro peo- ple of New York receives the fullest support from the Republican and Socialist parties, and from the Negro misleaders and henchmen of Tam- many, The Negro misleaders, such as Crosswaithe, Davis of the Amsterdam News, Ferdinance X. Morton, the Rev. Adam C. Powell, Dalmust, Steele, etc., most shamelessly sell out and betray the Negro masses by open col- laboration with and support of the capitalist class. and its political par- ties; Democratic, Republican and So- cialist. The Rev. Adam C. Powell, assistant pastor Abyssinia Baptist church, Harlem, while pretending to be against lynching in the South, refuses to permit a meeting called to protest the murder of James Mat- thews, a Negro worker on Welfare | Island, to be held in his church, and calls the Tammany police to attack the Negro and white workers. This ; Same Negro misleader was also re- sponsible for expelling three Negro workers from the Harlem Hospital committee, because they insisted on mass action to force Tammany to improve the conditions and service of Harlem Hospital. The Amsterdam News is in posses- sion of damaging facts regarding Harlem Hospital, but in their own words “it is too near election time to publish these.” Scottsboro and Tuscaloosa are far away, so these Negro misleaders can shed crocodile tears for them, “but to expose the 7 BRONX 1st District Leon Taback 2nd District Leon Blum For Justice of the Supreme Court 1st District Paul Luttinger 2nd District Anthony Bimba NASSAU COUNTY Members of Assembly Ist District ‘Willigm Meyer Mauro La Forgia But they can’t help themselves. | “damn red” at the head of the city government and he does anything they “of workers’ | Mayor countered | the abolition of the r Page Five A DIFFERENT KIND | OF MAYOR DAVIS | nemployed Council holds its meetings Not that the local councilmen like the idea, The workers have stuck a In fact, so:callous is the new Mayor not only to the councilmen, but t he has brazenly instituted a system committees to distribute city jobs to the unemployed. He sim~ ply had workers from various sections of the city send their representatives to sit with him. A “Workers’ Advisory Council,” he had the audacity to call them. The bosses didn't expect him to do anything like that. Aft all, every Mayor the city at matter any elected, ran committee of b: ists. But this M city th izations, the like Well, things wouldn’t have been | so bad, But no sooner did he get into office than bingo, the Commu- nist Mayor demanded that the po- lice department be abolished! He said they only served the bosses and were used to cldb prote:ting workers. He wanted a workers’ pa- trol instead! But. the reactionary councilmer. soon trick out of t They had alr er e under the c: t the red a demand for lice commis- | sion, lo and behold, something hap- pened. The Farm Labor legisla- ture of the State of Minnesota, under Socialist influence, rushed through a bill forbiddin: police commi: The ne of Control, lief work, wa: of forced labor. Med Cr he removal of the y ‘coun resolution labor bill the foll council rescinded the y and promised to cooper: Telief adm trat Tv ers went on st Out of 300 workers, 14 were scab- bing. And much to the greater con- sternation of the bosses, the city head, in his official capacity as Mayor, went to the relief job and personally pulled the scabs off the job. Two days later the strike was settled with a partial victory for day the ious action e with the lief work- the workers. When the Mayor (his name is Emil Nygard) _ first into office, . he found the city practically bankrupt was on deposit in was closed. tution were attempting to force the settling of the debt with'a 75 per cent loss to the city, Militant protest action on the part of the workers, led by the new Mayor, brought full payment to the city. When Nygard was elected, he found 1,500 on the relief list out of a pop- ulation of 4000. The number re- ceiving relief was increasing daily. An emergency appropriation of $5,000 was forced from the State Board of Control, after ard led a delega- tion of Crosby unemployed to the State Legislature. The sum of $23,000 a bank. Workers of New York will have an opportunity to greet Emil Ny- gard, the only Communist Mayor in the United States, when he comes to New York, Wednesday, Oct. 18, to bring the greetings of the worke ets of Crosby to Robert Minor, Com- munist candidate for Mayor of New York City. On that day, he will speak at the “Vote Communist” banquet, arranged by the Commu- nist Election Campaign Committee, 799 Broadway, in New Star Casino— 101 W. 107th St. Beside Nygard and Minor, speakers will be Earl Browder, Williana Burroughs and Ben Gold. murder of a Negro worker on Wel- fare Island now at election time would hurt Tammany Hall. Thi: would most surely hit the pocket- books and interfere with the graft of the Kid Davis, Rev. Powell, Fer- dinance X. Morton, and the rest o! these misleaders. They support the bosses in their hunger starvation an¢ lynch program as long as they car get a share of the graft. Equal Rights for the Negroes ané Self Determination in the Bilacl Belt. These betrayers of the Negro peo ple are one and all lined up agains the Communist Party, the only Part; that fights uncompromisingly agains any discrimination practiced agains the Negro people, not only in Ala bama and throughout the country but right here in New York. It waj the “Daily Worker,” official orga: of the Communist Party that e: posed the murder of James Matthew on Welfare Island. It is the Cor munist Party that has led the hero! fight for the defense of the nif Scottsboro boys, framed up in bama, and has actively led struggle at the Home Relief Bureaus to for the granting of relief. The Communist ‘Party is the oni} political party that dares to rais the demands and daily fight for: 1, For full social, political and ecq nomic equality for all’ Negroes. 2. For the right of Negroes to “| job on absolutely equal terms. 3. To enforce this by drastic crim inal law and by mass action of 1 working class, both white and Negr| in defense of Negro rights. The C. P. fights not only for tt immediate daily needs of the Negi people -and the working class, b also for the final and complete li eration of all the toiling masses / city and country, by the overthro) of the white capitalist ruling clai and their Negro lackeys and hencl men and for the building of a S, cialist Society in America. 1 Register and Vote Communi, Vote for bread, milk, clothing, she ter. Vote for the Party of Neg’ Liberation, t Enroll Communist! — Fight. Negro rights by voting Communi!