The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 28, 1933, Page 6

stance Page Six “COMMUNI PARTY MAKES UNEMPLOYMENT Red Candidates Are RELIEF AND SOCIAL INSURANCE CHIEF Working-Class Leaders ’ ISSUES OF NEW YORK ELECTION CAMPAIGN Hundreds of Jobless) “Workers Are Dying from Hunger By I. AMTER It is not an accident that the| Communist ha nade unemployment relief and un- employed and social the outstanding election campaign. ation of the whole working class is menaced by the Na- tional Recovery Act, which is fast breaking down, and the ers Party insurance the issues of The situ- only security that the wor can have is insurance at the| expense of the employers and the government. Have workers gone hungry Are workers hungry today They are. The states and cities do not pretend to be taking care of all the unemployed. More than 1,000 municipalities are bankrupt. New York City has never provided for all the unemployed. Up to about three months ago there were only. 254,000 heads of families on the relief rolls. Now they have | thrown more than 70,000 off the rolls, so that only 186,000) families are being cared for. But there are admittedly more than 1,000,000 unemployed in New York City. What is hap- pening to the rest? The single workers get no relief | outside of the flophouses and soup- kitchens. The young workers get no| relief whatever. Tens of thousands of Negro workers get no relief. How do they live? There was a time when an occasional notice in the Newspapers would record deaths from starvation. This is no longer “news” —but it is happening every day. Hundreds of people are dying in the hospitals from hunger. One out of every fifth child in New York—and | throughout the country—is hungry. In some parts, particularly in the South, the situation is even worse. IRK, By DAD i Gertrude Ruegg, leaders ~ . AMTER Communist Candidate for Manhattan Borough President in New York, om the fringes of Chinatown, in Rese | of Bayard St, an open-air meeting was in progress. Pop bottles, eggs, garbage, and an 9 around the pl and the small ¢ ROBERT MINOR | weren’t bother s ficiently interested he hoodlums who “reds.” 1 it a day before lis cracked.” hurtling ig would workers, gled on. An egg, , had found its mark A handful of pebbles | Communist Candidate for Mayor By B. DUMAS With the Tammany city adminis-| tration standing naked and exposed | before large masses of workers in| New York City as the outspoken and reactionary servant of the bankers and the bosses, permeated with cor-| Tuption, graft and gangsterism, the Wall Street bankers and industrial-| ists have found it expedient to or- ganize a new political partys whose| anti-wo! been pul fool the workers. This party carries the official label, “Fusion.” The bank- ng class activities have not ers offer to the millions of working| class voters this new outfit of serv- ants of capitalism as a choice be- tween the openly exposed anti-work- ing class Tammany city government and Fusion. Can and will a Fusion city adminis- tration serve the interest of the em-/| , Ployed workers, the unemployed and | professionals, etc.? A glance at the| Fusion candidates and their support- | ers will give the answer. ‘LaGuardia Record Shows Him Servant of. Bankers icly revealed with which to} What is this Fusion? | , as the hail of refuse grew ‘are in jail for the Italian ‘'s as well as for the Chinese rs, The workers of Italy e from the fighters of other ; In the ootne: Union addr G ja pledged to carr! bankers’ “four-year fp | upon by the Wall Street banke: the Tammany city government. What | is this “four. r plan” which Fusi on| ‘ pledges to carry out? How will this | plan” affect the lives of the em-| ployed and unemployed workers and} | small home owners? | “In a nutshell the agreement t tween New York City and its | ers . . . will compel the city either to effect drastic economies or to im-| ; | pose whatever new taxes the legisla-| ... ture and the agreement with the} | bankers both permit.” (Wall Street Journal, Sept. 30, 1933.) The acceptance of this “plan” is a clear and open declaration by Fusion | | that, if elected, LaGuardia will work | | hand in hand with the Wall Street| ¥ | bankers, the bosses, to carry out the} 1 further intensified attacks on the liv-| | ing standards of the working people. | ‘Ttalian,” he continued ame way that the e framing Paul and d worker, leaning over window-sill, yelled at one of the hood- y off.” Another group of were ch while Ts who were but a few lying in the dungeons of the Kuomintang Chinese Government. -o- eee | and Elizabeth | Sts, , Home Relief Bu- | them. He urged the workers to fol- s too late to re-| gain | called his | | gan to take form in Sam Stein from | the day he was forced to leave school | at 16. Leading jobless workers in Three Italian | d off the block | LaGuardia, the Fusion Mayoralty) home owners, new wage cuts, cuts for | candidate, has been put forward as| the teachers and other city employees. | a “man of the people.” He is also| It means that LaGuardia pledges to| characterized as a fearless foe of | the bosses and bankers of New York | Tammany Hall and as one who will| City that he will use the police to| fight thievery and irregularities in of-| smash the coming struggle of the | It means less relief for the unem-| minutes before indifferent, crowded | | ployed, higher taxes for the small| around the speaker. The barrage dwind led, and finally stopped. eee ALL of police held off a work- delegation before the Spring SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1930 AV of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union, were in the Italian neighborhood occasional stone landed on the speaker ner. A large demon- d the delegaves. Kami- ites led to e bureau by the Unem- ployed Council, crowded against the) door, Sam Stein was speaking to | jow him, and then suddenly took an | infant trom the arms of its mother, placed it in the arms of the stanned policeman, and shouted: ‘It would be better to dash this} 1 ains to the pavement, tnan| lowly die of starvation. This | must eat, just as Mayor O'Brien's cnildren would eat!” with which he snacaed tae cnud back and the enraged workers pushed their deiegation through the wail oi police. Food checks were hurriedly issued to many families that day. \A child | | A SCOTTSBORO parade swung past the headquarters of the iascist| American Legion on E. 7th St. A red ig flew high in the breeze at the | head of the line. A man dashed out and demanded the parade stop. He was Jacob Rosenberg, leader of the | Legion post, and Republican captain. There was no American flag being carried by the marchers, and “inas- much as it was against the law,” they must disband, he said. The police were about to carry out his demand. Sam Stein stepped up and told Rosenberg that the police knew what to do without his teiling them. “You've got a helluva nerve,” said) Sam, “telling the police what to do!” The police, displaying all the intel ligence of their creed, fell for it, and feeling themseives outraged by Ros- enberg, rushed him off the street. They said he certainly had his nerve} about him, “trying to tell us cops what to do.” The parade continued. ie ioe. red thread of a worker's strug- gles inevitably wove the strong skein of class consciousness which be- their struggles for the minutest de- mands, maneuvering against and out- witting the police, always on the alert to win new workers to the movement, Stein built the most mili- tant branch of the International La-| bor Defense, the Steve Katovis. + see ‘AM STEIN is now the Communist candidate for assemblyman in the Second District of Manhattan. His activities, of which this story merely skimmed the surface, are the leader- ship of struggles that form the back- ground of every Communist candi- date, Sam Stein is typical. He is the stuff they're made of. fice. On March 7, 1926, in a debate on the floor of the House of Represent- atiyes, Congressman Lewis C. Cramp- In Negro and Latin American Harlem | one out of every third child is slowly starving. More than 310,000 dispos- fess notices were served last year in New York City. Rents remain high and as a consequence two, three or four families occupy one flat while | more than 14 per cent of all apart- ments in New York are empty. Above it all is the lessened buying | power of the dollar, owing to infia-| tion. There has not only been a direct reduction in relief, which is He unhesitatingly jumped to the de- fense of Tammany: “Tammany Hall is full of heart and full of human interest.” So, ac- cording to the Fusionist LaGuardia, the clubbing and jailing of the unem- ton of Michigan attacked the Tam-| many administration. What was La-| Guardia’s position on this occasion? | workers against this program of hun- | ger and starvation. | Fusion thus exposes itself as a par-| | ty of the bankers and the bosses. ‘The workers should vote for the candidates of their own party, the Communist Party. The Communist Party has proven to the workers that! | 1—For $7 weekly cash relief for all it alone fights in the interests of the| workers. The Communist Party has| proven this to the workers by lead- | ing and participating in their daily | struggle against wage cuts, for un- child laborers! Young Workers and Students of New York Vote Communist! The Communist Party as the only Party fighting in the interests of | the young workers and students, stands for the following demands of the | youth in the present election campaign: 2—For vocationad training for all boys and girls between 16 and 18 years of age with regular average wages and government maintenance of all 8—For the right to vete for all persons above 18 years of age! considerable, but also the vouchers handed out to the unemployed return them less food. The government re- | ports show that the cost of food} stuffs rises a small percentage a week. ployed, the breaking of strikes and| employment relief and social insur- | | other such “humanitarian” activities | ance. The Communist Party al one | of the Tammany city administration | fights for the interests of the Negro is “full of human interest.” Workers | people, against lynch terror, for equal | should therefore know what they can | rights for the Negro masses and for| 4—Fight to end the discrimination of the NRA codes against beginners, learners, and apprentices in minimum wage provisions! | | 5—Against forced labor Civilian Conservation Corps! For immediate relief and unemployment insurance, with no discrimination of youth! ou ‘When we examine the reports, how- | ever, we find that the food that the | rich eat has gone up only slightly, | but the food stuffs unat the workers ahd have gone up sky Rist. ‘Thus | one week cheese {i x | oats 16 per cent, bread 20 per cent, | their policy of hunger and starvation | cabbage 24 per cent, lard 25 per cent,| for the unemployed, wage-cuts and | onions 50 per cent, eggs 54 per cent,| Sttike-breaking for the employed) flour 69 per cent, potatoes 107 per | workers and city employees more ef- ficiently than did the Walker and This | O'Brien administrations. In his ad- | only Bertie weieneterel ‘eretidh val dress at the Cooper Union meeting, the employed worker, who has work | Which opened the Fusion Party cam- for a short period. paign, LaGuardia sald that: What is to be done about this sit-| | “By Proper and scientific adminis- Wation—now in the fifth year of the| tration, greater benefits can be given erisis with no outlook of improve-|to the needy without greater ap- ment, but with every sign pointing | Propriations.” (Bold face mine.) to another crash? Harry L. Hopkins, This is a clear statement to the relief director, declares that | unemployed that they should not ex- “unemployed this winter will re-| pect any more relief than the work- ~. the worst beating in the history| ers forced from Tammany Hall of the country.” He means by this| through their militant and stubborn that funds for relief are low and| struggles under the leadership of the “m0 efforts are being made by the| Unemployed Council and the Com- government to raise them. In launch-| munist Party. the Community Fund drive| expect from LaGuardia. They can! tivities as that of Tammany Hall. LaGuardia pledged the Wall Street bankers that if he is elected Mayor & rh expett the same strike-breaking ac-| the right of self-determination in the Black Belt. The members and candidates of the Communist Party, Minor, Gold, Wil- | liana Burroughs and the others, have | | led, and are leading, great mass | struggles against injunctions, against | | youth, in giving of jobs or relief, 6—Fight against all violations of rights of students and teachers, for re- instatement of all students and teachers expelled on this issue! )For the building of additional schools and playgrounds in workers? neigh- borhoods! No tuition fees in schools of higher learning! I—Fight against all forms of discriminations practiced against Nefro | 8—Against Imperialist war and for defense of the Soviet Union! unemployed over 16 years of age! in the schools, ete.! | the attacks of the bosses, bankers and| ~ city government on the living stand- | ards of the workers. | Workers! Vote Communist on Elec- tion Day! Vote for the Party of your class! Vote against hunger, for adequate unemployment relief and social in-| surance! Vote for the right to strike and picket, for the right to belong to a| union of your own choice! Become a member of your Party! Join the Communist Party! Vote Communist! Insurance, Immediate Cash Relief — Vote Communist! For Unemployment Tecently declared that re- Net “ mainly on private char- iy.” rich have from year to year contributed a smaller proportion the charity funds. The workers the shops have been compelled to contribute whether they wished or payers; union rates on all relief jobs. The Communist Party proposes a program of public works, of workers’ homes to be rented to the workers at cost plus maintenance, of schools, hospitals, nurseries, playgrounds, etc. FR Were able to do so or not. The $500,- he Ci Pr 000,000 priated by the govern- The Communist Party proposes as t ‘eee ce ‘all to be consumed. The the only security for the whoie work- | ing class in the crisis, which is deep- |ening in spite and because of the NRA unemployment and social in- | surance at the expense of the em- | ployers and the government. This is a central demand—a de- M eid of the “public works” ies, used for war purposes | pt rend airplanes, naval barracks, motorization nechantzation of the army, etc. The Communist Party alone de- clares that the unemployed can be decent relief only through put- Increasing taxes on bove $5,000, by cutting that the whole working class needs to ensure that the working class family may live and the working salaries of all public officials. The | “1888 children may grow. We demand Communist Party agrees to cut taxes | isurance for every worker, irresvec- but only for the small taxpayer, and | tive of nationality or color, race or shift the burden to the rich. Tne | Teligion, who is unemployed for no unist Party proposes $7 a week | {ult of his or her own, whether for each mnemployed plus $5 for each | "employment, part-time, accident, no discrimination | Sickness, old age or maternity. The . ‘Negroes, foreign-born and funds shall be procured through tax- x workers, who are the worst ation on all incomes above $5000 and It proposes ene clothes and for .| ministered only by commissions ions. from industry; free rent, gas, and electricity for the unem- pad foreclosures on the prop- of sasil homeowners and tax- = The coming winter will be a bitter winter of struggle both for the em- Ployed workers, whom the govern- ¢, mand for security. It is the demand | by capital levy. They shall be ad-| ment is trying to force into govern- ment-controlled unions and from whom it is trying to take away the right to strike and picket; and for the unemployed whose relief is be- ing cut, and who together with the jemployed workers are growing hun- gry because of inflation and the ris- ing cost of living. Only the Communist Party fur- | nishes the program and the solutions. | Not only by electing Communist can- | | didates, but ‘by building up the fight- | ing united front organizations of the | working class—the fighting industrial unions and the Unemployed Coun- cils; and by building the Communist Party, will the unemployed and em- ployed fight their way through the crisis, against the NRA and growing fascism and the denial of workers’ rights, Vote Communist for adequate un- employment relief and~ unemploy- ment and social insurance at the expense of the employers and the government! Vote Communist and fight for your rights! You need the revolutionary move- ment. The revolutionary move~ ment needs the Daily Worker. The “Dally” needs funds to continue. Help the “Daily” with your im- mediate contribution, Wall St. being pulled off automobile W. S. invasion into Nicaragua, i “FIGHTING BOB” MINOR LEADING FIGHT AGAINST AGAINST IMPERIALISM JULY 4, 1928—Robert Minor, Communist candidate for Mayor, in from which he was speaking against \S ‘SOCIALIST PARTY CANDIDATES SUPPORT ENTIRE TAMMANY-BANKER’S PROGRAM; DON'T EVEN MENTION NEGRO WORKERS BEN GOLD Communist Candidate for Aldermanic President we WILLIANA BURROUGHS ‘socialists ~ Are Sorry Seven Communist Candidate for Comptroler | P., Negro Reformists, Betray Negro Masses By JAMES FORD (Candidate for Alderman, 2ist District, Harlem) Workers of Harlem! Election day approaches. Be prepared to go to the polls to vote for the rights and interests of the poor and the unem- ployed, for the unity of the working people in the interest of the exploited population. In choosing parties, and every honest and sincere worker is right in weighing parties, one must carefully choose the party that meets squarely his needs and the needs of the greatest number of people who hav the same needs as himself. Only by uniting the people who have common needs can there be suc- cess. Because the greatest number of people today are those oppressed by the ruling class. Don’t choose a party that talks about these needs and glosses over them. Such parties are the parties of Wall Street and the bankers. They do this in order not to commit them- selves to any action for the needs of the masses. A prominent Socialist leader, Frank Crosswaith, declares that “unemployment strikes the Ne- gro more cruelly than any other ele- ment in the community.” But They Do Nothing But if you ask this Socialist leader what the Socialist Party does about it, he will be forced to say (if he is honest) “nothing!” If he is honest, he will be forced to say that the Socialist leaders disrupt every strug- gle for the vital needs of the workers. If he is honest he will have to tell you that whole branches were ex- pelled from their party and from the Young Peoples Socialist League be- cause they answered a united front: call to fight for relief and unemploy- ment insurance. This same Socialist leader is re- ported as saying that a vote for the Socialist Party is telling the entire nation that “we are tired of lynch- ings.” Let us ponder this bold and brazen statement. If you recall, So- cialist leaders branded the great in- ternational Scottsboro campaign that aroused millions throughout the world, as a “racket of the Commu- nists.” SabotaSers of Scottsboro Do the Socialist leaders really want to arouse “the entire nation” against lynchings? Of course not! Their statements are the purest sort of de- seit. The Socialist leaders have done everything they could to sabotage the Scottsboro case as well as that of Tom Mooney. Dr. Laidler, another Socialist lead- er, speaking in Harlem, states that the Negro more than any other group in our community has been the victim of inadequate relief. But do these gentlemen propose to do anything about this inadequacy? Of course not, They care nothing about the in- equalities of the Negro people, The official organ of the Socialist Party, the New Leader, of July 28, 1932, writing about the 1932 national elec- tions says the following: “What the Negro wants and needs is what the white worker wants and needs; neither more nor less, That is what we socialists stand for.” 8. P. and Hitler Promise “Socialism” What does this mean? It means that the Socialists don’t give a con- tinental about the inequalities which the Negro people suffer. The ques- tion of equal rights means nothing to them. Any really class conscious worker knows that he must help in a special fight against these inequal- ities practiced against the Negroes. Why, I have two Pioneers in a class I teach in the Workers School who understand perfectly this basic work- ing class principle. Yet these people have the gall to come to Harlem and try to fool the Negro people by the term “Socialist.” Hitler also promised “Socialism.” The Rea Issues The issues in this election cam- paign are of vital concern to every | Negro in Greater New York and par- ticularly in Harlem. The issues are: Jobs, food and relief for the un- employed; Higher wages to meet the rising cost of living; Clothing and shelter; Against the vicious police brutality of Tammany police; The right of free assembly and speech without police interference; Against lynching and the spread of lynching into New York; The terrible conditions of children and hospitalization; Equal rights for Negroes; The right of self-determination for Negroes in the Black Belt of the South. These are the issues in this cam- paign. We are first concerned with how the parties stand on these vital issues of the Negro people, the yard stick by which we measure them in their daily actions towatds the masses of Negro people and their attitude towards our ultimate freedom. ‘We know the record of the Demo- cratic Party, the traditional party of slavery. We know that the Tammany administration in New York reduced home and work relief and organizes police terror at the relief bureaus. ‘We know by their records and back- ers that the Republicans and Fusion- ists serve the same masters as Tam- A Fighting Party We have also been convinced by its action, that the Communist Party is able to organize masses of workers to effectively resist evictions and has Jed the fight for unemployment re- lief and social insurance. The Communist Party, which is fighting for the liberation of the Ne- gro people, is a vital and necessary part of the struggle to free this coun- try from the grip of the few people who own everything, and are respon- sible for the present misery of the toilers of this country. The Commu- nist Party has shown that it alone has the ability to get results for the toilers, both Negro and white... ., The while workers cannot free themselves from the grip of capi- talist exploitation without the sup- port of the Negto masses; the Ne- gro people cannot gain their free- dom without their white class ailies. The Communist Party is the only Party that is building up this unity, and is capable of organizing the white workers to support the strug- gle for equal rights for Negroes, A REVIEW UNEMPLOYMENT AND THE RECTION CAMPAIGN, issued bf the Election Campaign Com- mittee of the Communist Party, 799 Broadway, N. Y. C. Price 1c. pie a he Both workers and speakers have felt a serious need for an all in- clusive pamphlet on relief in New York dity and the Communist eh Relief Platform. Well, here it is Alive with authentic data, the new pamphlet, “Tnemployment and the Election Campaign,” based on material compiled by the District Research Committee of the Com- munist Party, should be grabbed up as a rapid-fire round of work- ers’ ammunition in the election campaign and the coming strug- gles this bitter winter, Under one cover are brought to- gether figures and facts on the main issue for workers in the e’ec- tion campaign—unemployment in- surance, “Housing and Break-Up of Work- ers’ Homes,” “Hunger ani Disease- Suicides Grow,” and “How the City | Handles the Relief Problem,” are some of the sections appearing in’ the pamphlet. On home relief, work relief, the NRA to the pre- election tricks of Tammany, Fu- sion, McKee, and the vote bait held out by the Socialist Party, this nifty little hookiet bristles with easily read information. “The promises of Pxosevelt,” it reads, “are as fast in coming as Hoover’s ‘prosperity around the corner’ In the meantime, the NRA is raisine the cost of living to the skies, The temporary rise in em- ployment in July provided some workers with jobs that lasted a very few weeks. These workers, afte many long months without | a job. are unemploved once more; bud find their relief stopped.’ “ Roosevelt Isn’t One of Them IN this growing crisis of capitalism and sharp discontent of millions of workers, it is urgent for all workers, for all honest intellectuals and pro- fessionals to examine the pretenses of the Socialist Party; to find out the attitude, record and deeds of the So- cialist Party on all the basic issues confronting the working masses. It is more urgent than ever for the workers, and particularly for all fol- lowers and members of the Socialist Party, to compare words with deeds, ‘The Socialist Party platform speaks xbout “increased appropriations for inemployment relief sufficient to pro- ide the basic necessities of life— ood, clothing and shelter.” How j tauch relief is “sufficient” relief? The | platform doesn’t say, but an article | in the New Lea t. 16, 1933, calls | for a total of 13 million a month for ; | relief, a figure even lower than that | set by such an open capitalist agency as the Committee of the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, who say, “A monthly grant of 15 million is necessary for decent care of those needing relief.” And this is only 15 per cent of what is actually needed for relief. The S. P. leaders boast that: “The Socialist Party has a plan. It in- cludes: Government administration as illustrated by Milwaukee.” So let us look at Milwaukee, the city with {a socialist administration. According to the Milwaukee Journal, Jan. 19, 1932, “relief rations for an average "family of five, man and wife and three children for two weeks, is 9.63."” . The platform says that “Teachers who protest against conditions are persecuted and victimized,” and then goes on to advocate “the elimination of censorship over the religious, poli- tical and economic views of the teach- ers and students,” while the Socialist leaders of the Teachers’ Union, Lef- kowitz and Co., expelled a whole num- ber of the best fighters against sal- ary cuts and denounced them to the Board of Education. Again—Words and Deeds! The Socialist platform complains that “The city government is in the hands of a corrupt and incompetent political machine.” “Public officials were shown to be faithless to their trust, obedient to big business and in alliance with the underworld.” But the S. P. candidate for Mayor, Charles Solomon, has not hesitated in sharing in this graft and corruption dealt out by Tammmany to their.hangers-on! In May, 1930, he received two ap- pointments as referee in a foreclosure action in Brooklyn, one from Tam- many Judge John B. Johnston, a Mc- Cooey tool; and one from Republican , Judge James C. Cropsey, anti-labor injunction judge. This form °” graft has been condemned even by lawyers’ + associations with their low ethical standards. In the special interview in the World-Telegram, Oct. 13, inst., Solomon boasts of his friendship with Tammany crooks and his great ad- miration for boss Flynn. In New York City the S. P. leaders Ofifcially allied themselves with gang- sters, the police, the bosses, Tammany Hall, and the A. F. of L. racketeer leaders to smash the fur workers’ union. The Socialist Party leaders support every racketeering underworld official of the American Federation of Labor. The worst kind of racketeer- ing and underworld gangster rule ex- ists in the Socialist-controlled unions in New York. With the aid of the underworld and Tammany police, the Kaufmans, Shores, Hillmans, Dubin- skys, etc., in the needle industry, the Zausners and Shapiros in the build- ing trades, etc., have been slugging workers, destroying every semblance of democracy and workers’ control, have broken a thousand strikes and betrayed the workers with fake stop- pages, and fake agreements. Socialist Record—In; Taxation—Anti-Nesro The Socialist platform states: “We demand again, and pledge our elected representatives to work for the com- plete abolition of the practice of is- suing injunctions in labor disputes.” But Charles Solomon, the S. P. can- didate running on this anti-injunc- tion platform, had his clerk apply for an injunction against food workers which resulted in the police murder of Steve Katovis. Waldman takes out injunctions against needle trades workers, Furthermore, the Socialist leader, Shore, took out an injunction for the fur bosses prohibiting them ‘som employing members of the tant Fur Workers Industrial U1 This action was fully supported approved by the New York City . mittee of the Socialist Party. Again Words and Deeds. The Socialist platform says that “The S. P. is unalterably opposed to a tax program which further burdens the poor.” Yet Solomon has given his approval to the Untermeyer-Tam- | many-Bankers tax program. “On the whole it is good, very good, and I | certainly approve it.” Under the new | Untermeyer-Tammany tax program a 50 per cent increase in the water rate already went into effect. That means a $12,000,000 increase in the | rent bill of hundreds of workers’ fam- ilies, since the landlords are already simply passing the increased water rate along to the tenants, Solomon supports the very tactic of Tammany to plunder the workers, and starve the unemployed behind the smoke screen of “taxing the rich.” It is no accident that nothing at all is said in the Socialist platform about the most exploited, most op- pressed section of the working popu- lation, the Negro people, discriminated against on jobs and on relief, lynched, eMsahumett pate) 3% n. ‘i i s I ») i | | ts, eae OER i] |