The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-10

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ceal the class character of capitalist
terrorism.
Governor Smith, it was pointed out,
disregarded the growing economic de-
preston in the country, which had
already expressed itself in $4,000
more unemployed in New York State
at the beginning of this year than in
the corresponding period in 1926, and
ignored the housing situation for the
great masses of workers who are
unable to pay the high rents.
Real Estate Interests.
The report pointed out that the
limited dividend corporations and the
condemnation plans of Governor
Smith were a means of doing away
with the non-profitable tenements of
the East Side. By direct state as
sistance, Smith would help the real
estate interests of the city without
meeting the housing needs of the
great masses of the working popula-
ton, Weinstone said.
Governor Smith was further at
tackled for his failure to consider in
the message the needs of the upstate
farmers who are suffering from in
creasing tenancy, mortgages, and
control of the big milk trusts. Smith
had nothing to say on the questions
of child labor, old age pensions, and
the need for program for social
legislation for the workers, according
to Weinstone and made only a ges-
ture for the support of the bureau
Gratis of the American Federation of
Labor by a change in the compensa-
zion laws.
Fake Solution.
The proposal of Governor Smith re-
garding the injunction, though &C
ceptable to the bureaucrats of the A.
F. of L., is not only an evasion of
the issue, but is fake substitute for
the real need Of checking the power
OF the courts to issue injunctions in
labor struggles, Weinstone continued.
The message of Governor Smith
lis intended to ensnare liberals to sup
port him as candidate for president
and it is interesting to note, Wein-
stone said in his report, that on the
question of free speech Governor
Smith could make reference only to
the past. the liquidation of the Lusk
Bills. But here Governor Smith is
no more liberal than other governors
and the administration at Washing
ton, which was finally compelled, I'M
der the pressure of the masses, to re-
lease political prisoners after the war,
the report to the district committee
said.
Nothing on Free Speech.
But Governor Smith has nothing to
say regarding the suppression of free
speech today and the use of police
violence against workers, according
to Weinstone, and he thus gives the
impression that there is only one
survival of the postwar period, that
Of movie censorship.
Governor Smiths message is a
challenge to the workers of New
York." the district organizer contin-
ued. at is the voice of Wall Street
that speaks with the demagogic
tongue of Tammany Hall. But in
this message Governor Smith makes
even less concessions in phrases than
has been customary, since he has not
only in mind the labor reactionaries
but also Wall Street, whom he seeks
to please and to assure that he is a
safe man, always to be counted upon
for policy of supporting Wall
Streets imperialism and violence
against the working class"
Sham Proposals.
The report pointed out the need Of
exposing the sham labor proposals of
Governor Smith and intensifying the
attack against this Tammany Hall
leader and against the non-partisan
policy Of labor, while struggling for
the establishment Of Labor Party
in New York State.
In preparation for a campaign on
a state wide scale. the district COM