The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 12, 1934, Page 3

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1934 Page Three Aim of Labor Board Is to Break Strikes Will Cive Bree Hand to| Terror While Passing Buck on Grievances (Daily Worker Washington Burean) WASHINGTON, July 11—The new Roosevelt Labor Relations Board held its first general press | conference yesterday, expressing confusion as to when it will take jurisdiction in disputes and as to just how it will proceed on almost every vital question. | One thing seems clear, however— that, as predicted last week by the Daily Worker, the new board will sit back in vital strike situations in basic industries and allow the ma- jor strikebreaking job to be done by special boards such as the Na-| tional Longshoremen’s and National Steel Labor Relations Boards. The} board will give a free hand to the) terror against strikers. Unclear On Duties Lloyd Garrison, chairman of the new board, issued a statement say- ing its first job is to determine “to what extent our board and its agen- cies will attempt to act in a purely mediatory capacity in labor disputes not involving an alleged violation of Section 7-A.” In other words, there | is a possibility that this board wi!l) restrict its activities to cases involv- ng Section 7-A. This would allow them to stall along strike situations while they “considered” whether or | not they had jurisdiction, and while | the terror is used to try to smash the strikes. Although the newspapers are playing up this board as a “Su- preme Court of Labor Disputes,” a kind of court of last resort, Garri- son, asked whether he could sug- gest a different method of pro- cedure to other boards, said, “I sup- pose we have power to suggest any- thing to anybody, but we are not ® parent board in any sense.” He added, however, that in certain in- stances they might review cases. Just what these restrictions and conditions are was not made clear. “Will you take up the labor ques- tions in the Harriman case?” a correspondent asked, referring to the Tennessee Textile Mill which has locked out its workers. Buck Passing “This is in the hands of the com- pliance board (of the N. R. A.) ... There will be no change in the sys- tem of enforcement,” Garrison re- plied, indicating that the now estab- lished practice of buck-passing from one N. R. A. agency to another, and among them and the Department of Justice, will go undisturbed, wherever the question is that of violation of agreements by employ- ers, The new board is composed of former corporation-law and per- sonnel-management and university professors. The chairman, although he is dean of the University of Wis- consin Law School, constantly turned to the young counsel for the board for the answers to questions today. The board will hold a conference with heads of the Regional Boards this week-end to study the problem of what to do about the 20 egional boards established under the old labor board. WHERE Our Comrades EAT RAPOPORT'’S DAIRY and VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 93 Second Ave. N. Y. City — WORKERS WELCOME — NEW CHINA CAFETERIA Chinese Dishes 20 American Dishes _ Be A Communist Mayor Bill of Young, Platt, Mich., who fights on the side of the unemployed against the bosses, A little different than LaGuardia of New York, eh, what? Red Mayor 2,500Michigan Men Win Strike On Relief Cut Communist Mayor of Platt on Strike Committee By JOHN PACE ANN ARBOR, Mich., July 11— The 2,500 relief workers in Wash- entaw County who struck on July 2 against a pay cut in the budget allowances, won the strike with a 20 per cent wage increase and the recognition of the workers’ elected grievance committees. As soon as the cut was ordered by the relief commission, William Young, Communist Mayor of Platt. Michigan, called a meeting of the Unemployment Council. A com- mittee was elected to go to the Trade Union Council of Ann Arbor (an A, F. of L. body) to take up the question of a strike. A meeting was called on June 30 of all relief workers, and a strike was voted. A strike committee was elected, a plan of action adopted, and demands fo:mulated. The ques- tion of authority from the National Office of the A. F, of L, was raised in some locals, but the militant rank and file demanded immediate strike action, and united action with all the relief workers. On the County Jail construction job. where the majority of the workers are skilled, all struck in solidarity with the laborers who are discrim- inated against by the supervisor, demanding that the supervisor be fired. A public trial of the super- intendent will be held with three members of the stzike committee and three welfare workers compris- ing the trial board. The workers elected a strike com- mittee including W. Young, Com- munist Mayor of Platt, the organ- izer of the Unemployment Council, the Section Organizer of the Com- munist Party; a Negro worker, a member of the Section Committee of the Communist Party and mem- bers of the Trade Union Council and the A. F. of L. locals. This example of united action must be used by all workers in their struggles. The bosses in their greedy fight to pile up more profits are trying to lower still further the standard of living for the em- ployed and unemployed. New relief cuts are taking place daily, In Dc- troit and Wayne County workers are striking against a relief cut in the form of an hourly slash from | EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the fifth of a series of articles on war preparations by Seymour Wald- man, Washington correspondent of the Daily Worker. ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federation of Labor, a member of the strikebreak- ing National Labor Board and one of the loudest ballyhooers of the fore the Nye-Vandenberg Senate Commission. Green, after studying “the economics of the situation,” gave the commission the benefit of his profits-smudged scholarship and research. He said: “I think we all agree, everyone who has studied the economics of the situation, that in- dustry and capital are entitled to a fair return upon their investment under any circumstances—in times of war or times of peace.” Of course, little need be said as far as equalizing the burdens of war is concerned. It is a recklessly brazen and demagogic capitalism that prattles of such equalizing when it must put away in sched- uled hospitals the hulks that once were whole men. The shattered men who were drafted to save J. P. Morgan and Company from going | to the wall as the fiscal agent of | British and French imperialism. | The sufferers whose blood was coined to give millions to Charles | | M. Schwab and other patrioteers | who ran the Emergency Fleet Cor- | Editor of Italian Paper Is Sued for Libel, Trial Mon. L’Unita Operaia Ex- posed Corrupt Leaders of Italian Order NEW YORK—Comrade Tito Nunzio, editor of L’Unita Operaia, revolutionary Italian language newspaper, has been summoned to appear in court next Monday to answer a libel suit against the paper. The suit, brought by a cer- tain Prof. Isola, one of the hench- men of Rosario Ingargiola, expelled former leader of the Independent Order of the Sons of Italy, is based on the exposure by L’Unita Operaia of the shady deals of Ingargiola and Isola. ‘That the exposure of this clique was based on facts is clearly proved by the fact that, under pressure of the indignant rank and file mem- bers, the recent convention of the Order, held in Schenectady, kicked out both Ingargiola and Isola. Trial of Comrade Nunzio by spe- cial session court.-has geen ordered under a similar libel suit started by Ingargiola. Nunzio was released, Pending trial, on his own cog- nizance. They and Mussolini’s agents in this country are clearly seen in the libel suits, which are aimed to crush the revolutionary paper, which has become a mass organ among Italian workers in this country and is now conducting an energetic campaign to become a daily paper. These attacks against the work- ers’ paper must be repelled by the workers. The court room at 120 Schermerhorn St. corner Smith, Brooklyn, should be packed on Mon- day by workers, especially the Ital- jan workers in. the neighbozhood. Workers from Manhattan can take the B. M. T. or the I. R. T. and get off at Boro Hall Station. | war-painted New Deal, testified be-| | | By poration and similar equally profit-, able “dollar-a-year” ventures. But, as far as decommercializing war in an imperialistic country is concerned, it is not only nonsensical but also even contrary to the argu- ments made openly by the legisla- tive spokesmen of the leading finan- | ciers and industrialists when such | an important imperialist necessity as a “navy second to none” was being authorized by Congress| through the naval and war plane construction Vinson Bill. | A Constitutional Amendment | In the main, the War Policies} Commission recommended a consti- | tutional amendment “to eliminate all doubt concerning the extent of the power of Congress to prevent profiteering and to stabilize prices in time of war.” Until that amend- ment is passed, the Commission | recommended a program which should “be adopted as governmental policy in order effectively to mini- mize the profits of war and to dis- tribute its burdens and sacrifices equitably” (Hear! Hear!) This pro- gram, its sponsors announced, would | seek to prevent anyone receiving @ “profit due to the war” (that is, anything above the so-called normal rate) by the imposition of a war- time revenue law taxing individuals SEYMOUR WALDMAN The War Set-Up in Washington and corporations “95 per cent of all income above the previous three- year average, with proper adjust- ments for capital expenditures for war purposes by existing or new industries.” To remove all doubt concerning its idea of distributing the war-time “burdens and sacri- fices equitably,” the Commission members recommended “that no constitu%onal amendment to permit the taking of private property in time of war without compensation be considered by the Congress.” | They recommended this, despite the fact that the resolution under which the Commission sat directed them “to study and _ consider amending the Constitution of the| United States to provide that pri-| vate property may be taken by| Congress for public use during war.” In other words, the Commission said that workers’ lives should con- tinue to be taken by imperialism. | But private property? Why, that’s| another matter. The allowance for “proper adjust- ments for capital expenditures for | war purposes by existing or new in- | dustries” is, of course, just a joker) to make certain that the war prof-| its will be as juicy as ever. Such ingenuity may not even be neces- sary in view of the fact that the Protest Beating Of Union Members In Albany Strike Members of Furniture Union Ordered to Leave Town [New Attack Made On Taxi Drivers Fees, Greater Police Rule in Industry In Official Report |Report Demand Bigger ALBANY, N. Y., July 11.—A new} NEW YORK.—A new attack on heads of each indust over the various ry-business and price-fixing war-time boards which will dictate prices in their own fields. Furthermore, this pro- vision fails to treat the certainty of huge profits through bulk war or- ders even if the concern in ques- tion has made only a 3 per cent profit during the years previous to a declaration of war. Lastly, offi- cial records, especially the enlight- ening Graham Committee reports on the monumental greed and cor- ruption (both inseparable from cap- italism) that accompanied the shell-coining of workers’ bodies into | New power and new markets for the banking and industrial rulers of the victorious capitalists’ armies, show the absolute impossibility of Preventing business fraud and y will preside chicanery and the impracticability | of understanding or supervising the big corporations’ accounts. That is the difference between what the American Legion rank and file demanded and what they got from their leadership, the A. F. of L. officialdom and the govern- ment. Many Vets Know Better Fortunately, however, many thou- sands of veterans, seamen and long- | shoremen, understand that it is bet- ter to prevent one American, Jap- anese, British, French, or any other imperialist ship from leaving port with guns, powder cotton or other war supplies designed for the Slaughter of workers in other lands, |than to wait for or believe in ten | thousand “investigations” or arma- ment and munition manufacturers. In the case of Japan, for instance, these militant workers realize how important it is to explain to all workers, regardless of union or po- litical affiliation, that the Jap- anese workers and peasants are heroically opposing their own bank- ers, industrialists and landlords. They explain this to them to make it clear that the anti-Japanese American workers “Fighting Bob” ‘ & ROBERT MINOR Minor Takes Call of Priest | For Debate Defies Mayor Who Or- dered His Arrest at Meeting (Special to |Bosses Paper | Proves Green | As Their Tool Asserts He Forced Auto Arbitration Board on Rank and File By NAT GANLEY DETROIT, Mich.—A news story, which adopts a friendly attitude to William Green and Collins, in the June 30th issue of Automotive In- dustries, bears out the charges made by the Daily Worker in its reports on the June 23rd-24th Américan Federation of Labor auto locals conference. Automotive Industries is the organ of the manufacturers. The Daily Worker charged that the National Council of 11 men set up by the conference would be an instrument of the bureaucratic ma- chine without any powers of its jown. This charge is borne out by | the following: “William Green, president of | the A. F. L., proposed the plan for | establishment of the council,” de- clares the manufacturers’ organ. “He said that the federation would finance the council on con- dition that the chairman be named by the A. F. of L. and that ONLY MATTERS PRESENTED BY TH NATIONAL A. F. of Le NTATIVE BE C ID- ERED BY THE COUNCIL.” The Daily Worker charged that Daily Worker) the conference was reilroaded thru Boe “st a o —|in the most brazen, bureaucratic over’ Minor, member of the Cen-| manner by the officials. Delegates tral Committee of the Communist Party has accepted a challenge to a public debate issued to him at Virden, by Father Scully, pastor of St. Catherine’s Roman Catholic Church here. | Father Scully issued the challenge | while Minor was addressing a meet- | ing of coal miners, mostly Catholic, | |and urging on them the necessity | for all workers regardless of creed | sentiment of jor color to support Communism as wave of terror has been launched | by the police of Albany, terrorizing the militant workers of the Peer- less Upholstery Co, of 354 N. Pearl Ave., Albany, N. Y., now in the sec- ond week of their strike against slavery conditions. The _ strike, which was declared on June 27th, is solid, gaining prestige among the other furniture and allied shops in Albany. A few days ago, the police arrested one of the rank and file strike leaders, Steve Gleason, tortured him under a third degree because of his militant action in connection with the strike. The next day the police arrested Jack Harris, field organiz- er of the National Furniture Work- ers Industrial Union, and after he was taken to the police station. he was (assaulted and beaten up se- verely by detectives, who told him if he will not leave town soon, he won't be able to leave Albany in good health, Joe Kiss, National Secretary of the National Furniture Workers Industrial Union, in the name of its 10,000 members has sent a telegram to Mayor Thacher protesting this brutal attack on workers, to which Mayor Thacher among others an- swered ‘the following: “The police, however, will not sanction or tolerate outside agita- tors now engaged in the opera- tion of picketing.” The various mass organizations in Albany, Troy, Amsterdam, Schenec- tady are contemplating of opening an intensive campaign in raising relief for the strikers. All funds shall be sent to the Union Head- quarters, 186 South Pearl St., Al- bany, N. Y. ° the living standards of the taxi drivers, which may plunge almost 20,000 out of work and raise license fees for 35,000 others, is made in the report of the Mayor’s Commit- tee on Taxicab Survey, released Monday by Aldermanic President Bernard S. Deutsch, its chairman. Deutsch declared that “the taxi- cab industry in New York City is thoroughly unsound in organization and operation. Many, if not mos‘ of the operators, have been losing money in spite of the fact that the drivers work inhumanly long hours and in many cases for compensation substantially below the subsistence | level.” ‘The report urged that the 20-cent first-quarter mile fare be retained, that police authority over hack | drivers be strengthened, and that | the fee for owner-licenses be raised | from $10 to $50, and for driver's license from $1 to $5. A full discussion and analysis of typewritten pages will shortly in the Daily Worker. appear Knitgoods Workers Strike NEW YORK. — Workers of the Stiefel and Healy Knitting Mills, 498 Seventh Ave., striking under the leadership of the Knitgoods Workers Industrial Union, report that lead- ers of Local 155 of the I. L. G. W. U. are sending workers to scab in the shop. The union appeals to all members of the I. L. G. W. U. to refuse to work in the shop and join with workers of the industrial union on the picket line. Chairmen of the Industrial Union will meet tonight at union head- lems of the trade, must be directed toward the real|*®¢ only way out of the crisis. Minor | were confused by the parliamentary tricks of Green, Collins & Co., their own motions were kicked off the floor, etc. Says Automotive Indus- tries: “There was reported to have been considerable opposition to the program on the grounds that Mr. Green, with the assistance of William Collins, his chief lieuten- ant at Detroit, was trying to ‘rail- road’ the meeting.” this report of more than 60 closely- | quarters to take up immediate prob- | enemies of proletarian internation- alism—American and Japanese bankers, industrialists and land- lords. These militant workers recall to Japanese marine workers, in Seattle in 1919, refused to load ships with munitions and other war supplies destined for the Siberian armies of Admiral Kolchak, the White Guard spearhead of the imperialist inter- ventionist campaign led by the British, French, Japanese and American governments against the newly founded Soviet Union, the Fatherland and champion of work- | ers of all lands. (To Be Continued) “No Reconciliation” With Bosses Declares Minneapolis Driver By a Truck Driver Correspondent | MINNEAPOLIS. — The _ strike situation of Minneapolis drivers and helpers is getting serious. They are going to take a strike vote tonight (Wednesday night) at 8 p.m. at East Side Eagles Hall. Local 574 is calling on all other unions to vote on gerenal strike. St. Paul drivers are also voting on strike, also the Duluth drivers. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Re- gional Labor Board was in ses- sion Friday and Saturday, but from indications there can be no terms of reconciliation reached, as the gap is too wide. Mayor Bainbridge of Minneapolis is threatening to call on Governor Olson for troops without delay. | their fellows how American and} | unhesitatingly accepted amid the cheers of the assembled coal dig- gets, Actual arrangements for the de- bate are under way and the date will soon be announced. Practically every miner in Macoupin County is | expected to attend the debate. After accepting the Minor continued with his speech, j exposing the N. R. A. explaining | why the Communist Party rejected General Hugh Johnson's offer of participation in the National Labor Board and how liam Green and the leadership of the Socialist Party is holding back the masses of workers from a fight | for their real interest. | The Mayor of Edwardsville, I | where Minor was scheduled to | speak last night threatened that he | would order police to break up by |force any meeting of the Commu- | he appeared in the town. cae ee pete sade |_ CHICAGO, Ill, July 10. — Bob | Minor, member of the Central Com- | mittee of the Communist Party, | turned an attempted questioning of | his activities by the Mayor of Pekin, | Il, “into an exposure of the city | government, while workers packed around the courthouse cheered his statements from the windows. “Fighting Bob” was arrested Sunday while speaking to a meet- ing of Pekin workers, many of them out on strike against the Corn Products Company. Workers stormed around the jail where he was held. While the crowd was outside, the Mayor of the town tried to ques- tion him and make him promise to |stay out of town. Minor put the | Mayor on the defensive and instead | of being questioned, questioned the Mayor. challenge, | John L. Lewis, Wil- | nist Party and to arrest Minor if | The Daily Worker reported that the rank and file delegates put up a militant battle against the ma- chine. Automotive Industries re- cords this battle as “a tug of war in the conference” between the “more radical” delegates and “the conservative members who wish to cooperate with the labor board and who recognized, as the board does, that patience and time are required in solving many of labor’s prob- | lems.” The Daily Worker declared that the rank and filers were able to muster a big support behind their |attack on the Green-Collins ma- | chine and a substantial support in | favor of their proposal for one mili- |tant industrial union in the auto industry. Talking about the Green- | Collins council plan, Automotive In- | dustries declares: “The program | have been adopted by only a nar- | row margin, many of the 130-odd | delegates voting against it.” The manufacturers, who now hope to steer this rank and file disgust with the Green-Collins machine into the channels of splitting the A. F. of L. and building the com- pany unions, will get the surprise of their life when the A. F. of L. opposition consolidates its ranks. The A. F. of L. workers will follow the lead of the Cleveland White Motor local, which developed inde- pendent struggle over the heads of the bureaucratic officials and won important improvements for the workers. These struggles should be | extended in a united front with the | M. E. 8. A. and Auto Workers Union locals. is reported to | CHICAGO WORKERS TO AID | “DAILY” (Daily Worker Midwest Bureau) CHICAGO, July 10.—Mobilization of Roseland workers to support the Daily Worker circulation is the pur- pose of a conference to be held at 317 E. 115th St., Wednesday, July 18. oaks pA sai sie Pha al ere st Conveniently — Ignores, budget and the resulting financial | * . , chaos left us by our predecessors. His Reign of Terror | since then we have put into effect LaGuardia Reports od All organizations and readers “of ——— the Daily Worker are being asked to attend this conference. 24 to 20 hours a week. The De- troit relief workers must follow the example of the workers in Ann Ar- bor for a general work relief strike against this latest cut. Re ee 7 | “To the People” | Rea ere us Seeaiu briefly, dios Ghai Over “Economy” points mentioned in LaGuardia’s | | report. He mentions the new gar- | Program That Slashed F MEET YOUR COMRAPES AT THE Start a Daily Worker route to- Cooperative Dining Club ALLERTON AVENUE Cor. Bronx Park East Pure Foods Proletarian Prices PHILADELPHIA ™<mployea, part - time workers! Earn expenses by selling Daily Workers. Join Red Builders staff. Good locations open. Meeting today at 8 P.M., 46 N. 8th St. CORRECTION In Comrade Haywood’s articles on the betrayal of George Crawford by the N. A. A. C. P. leadership and “defense” attorneys, an article in the Nation of June 27 was errone- ously attributed to Helen Board- man as sole author. The article and the investigations upon which it was based were the work of Helen Boardman and Martha Gruening. REST — STUDY — HAVE FUN! FREE WORKERS’ SCHOOL The Vacation You Hoped For! CHAS. ALEXANDER, Director at CAMP NITGED AIGET HUDS! nest Food, Comfortable $14 a Week. Swimming, Ternis — All Sports. East at 10:20 EStabrook .M. Frideys, Saturdays, 00. 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Not only does LaGuardia slur over the outstanding features of his administration — the police terror, and the attack on all rights of labor, the wholesale wage cuts and lay-offs, the offen- sive against the unemployed, the curtailment of educational, health, and other public service activ- ities—but he attempts, by isolating insignificant instances in these fields to paint a uniformly rosy picture of his administration. The half-truths and lies which make up his address will fool no- body, least of all the unemployed and employed workers, the strikers and city employes who have borne the brunt of the Fusion attack. It is, however, necessary to expose the basic nature of his report for those who still imagine that the present city government is in any way meant to serve the people of New York. Tightens Wall Street’s Power The outstanding feature of La- Guardia’s program and his achieve- ments, brought about by what La- Guardia euphemistically calls “our great experiment in progressive mu- nicipal government” and “our non- political, non-partisan government” is that every action of Fusion has been carried through for the pur- pose of tightening Wall Street's Stranglehold on the masses of this city. This will become evident as we examine his address point by point, and as we mention other points which LaGuardia very con- veniently failed to mention. “Three months ago,” says La- Guardia, “I reported our unbalanced an economy bill, emasculated and grudgingly given us by the State Legislature, but still something.” LaGuardia finds it better to omit all mention of the fact at this point that in its original form his Econ- omy Bill would have meant an even more drastic attack on the living standards of the people of the city. Only the dog-fights of Fusion and Tammany in the Legislature, during which Tammany, holding out for the continued existence of the County offices, attempted to curry favor with the voters by putting up a fake, verbal opposition to LaGuar- dia’s program, kept the bill from going through in its most vicious original form. How $31,000,000 Was Raised “The city budget for 1934 has now been balanced,” continues the Mayor. “In plain English, we have saved or raised enough to make up a tidy item of $31,000,000 which was necessary.” e Yes, the teachers, the civil em- ployees, the lowest-paid workers in the varicus municipal departments, the people who have to pay taxes on their daily purchases, have con- tributed to make up this $31,000,000 deficit. Not the Wall Street banks, La Guardia’s masters. They still receive their interest on the $126,- 000,000 a year promised them for four successtive years under the terms of the Untermyer agreement. And it was to pay this tribute in full to the Chase National (Rocke- feller) and National City (Morgan) banks that the masses of New York were victimized by La Guardia’s vicious Economy Bill. The budget deficit was made up by those who were already living at and even below a bare subsistence level, not by the money-masters, who were further enriched by the measure. After stating that “We, like other cities, derive most of our revenue from taxes on real estate,” La Guardia says that he “found that real estate could not carry an ad- ditional lead. I therefore sought new sources for the needed rev- enues.” MAYOR LAGUARDIA Attacks Workers, Jobless In. other words, he preferred not to tax the landlords, the real estate owners—who are also the manu- facturers, the bankers, the big cor- porations of the city. What other sources did he find? The follow- ing two main points will give you a@ general idea of how he raised the $31,009,000: 1. The Economy Bill, already mentioned, which provided for wage-cuts, lay-offs, payiess fur- loughs, etc. The lower-salaried city employees were victimized most by this bill. Although orig- inally proposed as a temporary emergency measure, to terminate in the fall of this year, we already know that Fusion will continue to keep the bill in effect for at least another entire year. This was recommended to the administra- tion just a month ago in the re- port of Dun & Bradstreet, the foremost financial credit-rating concern in the United States. 2. Cutting down on unemploy- ment relief. It was this move that brought about the city-wide dem- onstrations of jobless which were suppressed by La Guardia and his Police Commissioner O’Ryan with a brutality which equalled, if not surpassed the Whalen attacks on jobless and employed workers in 1929-1930, bage incinerators as city improve- ments. The resultant saving, how- ever, is not for the masses, but for the Wall Street-controlled admin- istration. He mentions a saving of $1,000,090 a year on coal. He men- tions other, similar savings. For whom? Not for the jobless. LaGuardia is still hypocritically jockeying to kill relief funds through a 3-cent tax on all subway and transportation lines—an 8-cent fare, despite his protestations to the contrary. Not for the city’s workers; their wage cuts, forced furloughs, lay-offs re- main as long as the Economy Bill remains in effect—and even after! These are savings only for Wall Street, which elected Fusion to of- fice, and for Tammany, with which the Fusion leaders put through a horse-deal at the very outset of their campaign in order to insure election. Proof of this is seen not only in the fact that many Tam- many grafters still retain well-paid sinecures on the city’s payrolls; not only in the fact that LaGuardia did not push his fake fight against the Tammany - dominated County of- fices, but also in the fact that in this very report he Praises the “co- operation” of Tammany officials with his government. The Broken-Promise Trail LaGuardia speaks of improve- ments in city parks and play- grounds. But what about crowded class-rooms, fire-trap school struc- tures, underpaid and politically per- secuted . teachers? He mentions new hospitals. But here, too, many of the city hospitals are fire-traps, and the nurses and hospital workers are still fighting for an eight-hour day without re- duction in pay. As a recent issue of the Voice of the Nurse and Hos- Pital Worker declares: have been cut; payless furloughs have been introduced, and hospital employes are still compelled to work on a 12-hour shift.” “The Health Department reorgan- ization is fairly under way,” says two birds with one stone by raising | “Wages of | city nurses and hospital workers | City Wages LaGuardia. Yes, but low-paid food | | inspectors have been fired, and as | ;@ result the health of the city’s| masses is in greater danger than | ever. | Pear Soe Socialist Party Leaders Silent y era jobless and employed workers, those who bear the burden of LaGuardia’s economies, will testify | to the truth of the fact that not a single act of the Fusion administra- tion has been meant to improve the conditions of the great masses of New York. And a great share of the | responsibility for this vicious anti- working-class policy of the Fusion regime lies with the Socialist Party leaders: men like B. Charney Vla- deck, business manager of the So- cialist “Forward,” who, as a mem- ber of Langdon W. Post's Housing Commission, plays along with Fu- | Sion’s refusal to relieve the tene- | ment fire-trap danger by capitulat- ing to the landlords and real-estate owners. Men like Panken, who re- | cently was offered a post as justice under Fusion; men like Blanshard, | etc. Most important, however, the New York District of the Socialist | Party has maintained complete offi- cial silence on Fusion’s anti-work- | ing-class policies and actions. | The Fusion administration has been in power for more than six months, Its record to date is a record of unrelenting, hypocritical attacks on the workers, of broken campaign promises, of the most brutal police terror against work- ers and jobless, of protection to bosses and fascists of all breeds, particularly the Nazis of New York. Fusion’s record is clearly the rec- ord of a regime which is controlled body and soul by finance capital. The workers already know what to expect from LaGuardia and his} gang. Workers who were fooled by | his promises into voting for him last fall now know on what side of the | fence LaGuardia is, what his “pro- | gressivism” means. | day! The growth of our “Daily’” today spells the results of tomor- row’s struggles. ELECTROLYSIS SUPERFLUOUS HAIR ON FACE PERMANENTLY REMOVED Results Guaranteed — Personal Service METHOD ENDORSED BY PROMINENT PHYSICIANS Will give treatments to unemployed free every Friday from One to Four jg, 171W. 7st St.at Biwa: C,H, Landis pyone: endicott 2-018 DR. JULIUS LITTINSKY 107 BRISTOL STREET Bet. Pitkin and Sutter Aves., Brooklyn PHONE: DICKENS 2-3012 Office Hours: 8-10 A.M, 1-2, 6-3 P.M DR. EMIL EICHEL | DENTIST 150 E. 93rd St. New York =| Cor. Lexington Ave. ATwater 9-8838 Fours: 9 2. m. to 8 p.m. Sun. 9 to T Member Workmen's Sick and Death Renefit Fund as —WILLIAM BELL———= OFFICIAL Optometrist OF THE 106 EAST 14th STREET - Near Fourth Ave., N. ¥. C. 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