The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-05-09
HOUSING PLANK
OF COMMUNIST
PARTY PROGRAM
N Segregation, Low
Rents; Free Houses

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hes also favored the Allen Street
scheme for widening and the con-
struction of model apartments. :"
Both these schemes are fakes, which
even if put into effect, would be
done so for the benefit of the men,
bers of the East Side Chamber of
Commerce. But, just as during the
last municipal election, he will con-
tinue talking these schemes until
after the elections, and then if
elected either forget all about them
or actually build-model tenements
for the well-to-do.
Their Bluffing Ability.
To realize the bluffing ability of
these grafters, we need only recall
the fact, that since 1885 the Tam
many machine in New York City
has been talking housing relief and
to this very day, in 1929, has done
nothing to relieve the housing sit
uation, but has allowed it to go from
bad to worse.
Of course, the Tammany speakers
will say nothing of the Emergency
Rent Laws, which, inadequate as
they are, will be totally repealed on
May 81, on the recommendation of
a committee appointed by the for
nler democratic Governor Smith.
Park Avenue Parties.
The republican party buffers will
go on the street with promised re-
forms in housing. Just imagine
what the republican party, the par
ty of big business and the landlords,
will do for working class tenants!
The republicans have shown with
undoubted ability how we'll they can
govern for the interests of the ex-
ploiters, in city, state and national
governments.
These parties are TO be fought
with all the might and main of the
workingclass, for they represent the
tenants of lower Park Avenue, the
avenue of 1000 millionaires.
Socialist for Constitution.
The socialist party, the party of
struggling" corporation lawyers,
coilared and de-collared clergymen
and reformist strikebreakers, has al
ready told US what it will do on
housing during the election cam
palgn. Mr.. William Karlin, the law
yer and ex-honorable, will call the
politicians by their numbers, the
only thing that the socialist party
can do during such campaign"
MIR. William Feigenbaum, also ex-
honorable, will attack the Soviet
Union because it allows "all the
houses to go to pieces Norman
Thomas, ''the old man who has re-
tanned the touch of youth" the kind
ly pulpiteer teacher of the S. P,
will allow no illusions to remain in
the minds of the workers. He will tell
them, as he has been telling them
for some time, that the socialist par
ty will not be able to alter the consti-
tuition if its candidates are elected
Gan emergency in ITSELF" says Mr..
Waldman, the corporation lawyer,
following in the footsteps of Morri
Hillquit). And without altering the
constitution nothing much can be
done for the workers in the tene-
ments, continues the old young man.
The socialist party, of course, would
not think of altering the constitu-
ton.
Kind Tammany.
But one thing they will do, say
the spokesman of the socialist party.
They will tell the workers in the
tenements that all they will have to
dc is ask the kind tiger Tammany
and its rider Walker to make the
tenements little better to live in
and, presto, the tenements will be
better to live in.
That is the program of the social
list party on housing.
That is the program of the So
cialist party on housing.
Workers Have Party.