The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-20
Housing Outlook Grows
Worse in New York City,
CapitaIism's Pet Jewel
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY New York City, the nations metropolis stands
the country rUt only tnat housing
that helpless to remedy the situation This product of
captalisthe modern ctys unable to provide even the
elemental need of shelter for its inhabitants
The state housing commission innocenty reports to the
legislature at Albany that housing conditions in New York
City steadily growing instead of better 1t
the housing situation generally to be beyond relief thru
Frank Mann Of New York cy fanv satss
that:
"For the the supply of low
rental met mind the
holds promise for relief In this respect"
The needs of the workers are few They are not per-
mitted have many under capitalism. little eat
clothes to hole to live; that is all New York the
richest city in the capitalist world fails in providing all of
these The housing report the state legislature makes
mention of the thousands who endessy walk the streets
sleeping in parks aleyways Outof-the-way It
does not itself with homes for The &c. who
found hudded together just the other day in subway
ton The Of these is turned the police They
arrested 1t is crime to be homeless Yet capitalism
sPawns many homeless
The housing commission only concerns itself with work.
who have fairly good jobs who work hard from day to
day. who earn up to $500 year. For these new con-
of the population and for them, new construction has
brought improvement in housing conditions" In other
words get attention from the housing proteers in New
York City, one must earn more than $500 annually in
order to pay the bandits TOLL But that is within the
reach OF the masses who labor.
What happens? The commission tells that Fam
lilies forced to out of apartments those built
before the and find something cheap in what called
"old-Iaw tenement" Listen to this
today
the depreciation Landlords
repairs
apartments
apartments occupied
Yet is the great capitalist press of New York City
likes denounce Soviet Russia for having
peey solved its housing problem. Yet the fact IS that
Moscow, in the Workers. Republic has housing program
and is carrying out betterng the conditions under which
its freed workers lNe while New York City, the furnished
jewel of this capitalist republic has not only made pro-
gess since before the but promises conditions steadily
growing for the slaves practically held in leash
within its confines.
The point for workers hold clear is that no
release under capitalism, The old party representatives in
the state legislature reject state aid for public housing
with favor would be to decrease Yet If this
hope realized would give the great employers
to cut wages has been done before Decreased
decreased wages
Some unions contemplate going into the housing bust
for their members This would bring similar results,
in addition creating another barrier between the organized
and unorganized workers.
The New York Housing Commission states the situation
correctly when there relief thru private
prise operating for profit 1t did take the step,
however, pointing out that there is relief under capital
ism-which is the profit system
The real housing problem before the American work.
and farmers today the tearing down of the capital
ist structure and the building of the social edice-
COMMUNISM That will be the first effective step in the
effort solve the question of suitable shelter ALL Filling
Madison Square Garden the second time almost within
month"; the occasion of the paris Commune anniversary
would indicate that New Yorks workers moving in this
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