The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-11
Internal Tammany Fight Reveals Graft.

In the drive of the Tammany Hall administration against its
dissenting hangvers from the Hyan administration the public
being of graft have had Tor
The report of Mayor Walkers Investigator of the health
department. Supreme Court Justice Charles H. Key
veas the frghtfu which Tammany Hall CANDLES with
very millions of inhabitants of the city The report
is of plainly partisan to the Walker administration but
findings apply alike to all Tammany Hall administrations 1t
declares, in part that
evidence condition corruption in the food
mstration nSis ove U
The most of graft in this department the
bribery inspectors who granted permission dealers to sell
auerated food to the public Some inspectors
known package men, This class instead of taking cash
packages food But by far the larger number took
plain graft of money return for permission to sell
poisonous food Another form of graft pracced by nspe
TORS who entered stores and continually found fault with trivial
irregularities until despair graft paid to get rid of them
The ramfaons of the grafters extended all directions
If certain dealers wanted destroy competitor they simply paid
the inspectors to close his place Two instances of this sort are
pointed the report that involved the closing for consider
retail poultry dealers the of Jewish
holiday other Jewish dealers the benefit of this graft
Milk dealers who had had their permits revoked after
peaed violations again given permits payment of from
$3.50 to $780,
Thousands of could be cited the wholesale
rupton in this department of the administration alone.
Unsophstcated read these and i'm
agne exception but all who live in New York and
observe workings any city administration
administration for that matter know that the vast
edfice known as Tammany Hall built upon graft graft
Everything from license operate motor vehicle
license to erect kcaper has its set price in the form of graft
1at be paid. Tammany maintains its influence its
mites for graft
The present exposures due to the fact that the Walker
administration intent upon cleaning out all the hangovers of
the yan administration Any other department of the city
could be subjected the of expose with the identical
results
The revelations of the health department particularly
horrible inasmuch they affect the very lives of millions of
workers. because most of the low dirty bourgeois swine who
graft to Tammany inspectors maintain their stores in working
class sections If such state of affairs existed in the establish
mens selling food to the putocacy would hear howl that
would send the grafters scurrying cover usual
ing class the chief sufferer from this sort of thing
Mayor Walker left last night for trip Europe where he
intends to King George President Hndenburg and Musso
n He could the king and Hndenburg pointers how to
raise graft to aid in raising their budgets without increasing
AS for Musson he might be convinced by Tammany
Broadway butterfly that there other
funds besides plain pilage.
This report of the rotten conditions in the health department
should the workers of the city realization Of the fact
that Tammany Hall of the greatest to human life
and mpe them to support labor candidates at the coming
TONS who will fight against food pollution and all the other
forms of graft that make Tammany murderou malignant
power.