The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-27

The seeming tumult in the ranks of New York demo-
Gratis the Tammany Tigers efforts give birth to
new leader to succeed George W. Oany recently resigned
should not excite the workers of the metropolis The delivery
will take place in due time and the Tammany Tiger will not
have changed or lost any of its stripes in the process
There is much talk of the chaotic situation created be-
cause the new leader has far failed materaze the
embarrassing situation confronting the big Smith,
Walker Wagner and Foethat has been appealed to in an
effort to get the job done in approved style while the district
leaders are kept crowdng each other in the background
1t should be good circus act for the working class not
to be taken seriously instead to be laughed at But it
serious business for Tammany it involves bringing to
lie and keeping alive New Tammany," Reform Tam
many for the municipal elections this fall that will be able
to attract all of the best people at the polling booths
ZAP Smith tried put over the purified Tammanyn in
the presidential elections last fall Franklin D. Roosevelt
the silk stocking Tammany governor now trying
desperately carry the same mission at Albany Roose
welt even goes far to claim that he not allied with
Tammany at ALL But the fact remains that the votes con-
troed by the Tammany machine in New York City sent him
to the governors chair the Without these votes he
would have lost mseraby The women leaders of Tammany
in this publication process consulted to the extent
of having their pictures taken for the daily press
Governor Roosevelt in the closing days of the state leg
sature keeps issuing alleged favorable statements on pro-
posed labor legislation with the object of throwing good
big buckets OF sand in the eyes of the workers But
how at the critical moment sufficient votes do not seem to
maeriaize to put any worthwhile legislation on the statute
books is often conveniently blamed on the republicans
The labor bureaucrat who part Tammany and the
socialists who have great admiration for "Al" Smith
seize upon Rooseves publicity and similar propaganda
indication that something good can come out of the
Tammany Tiger thus carrying out their role of loyal reform
list agents of the established capitalist order But Tamany
creature of capitalism remains as anti-abor as ever
1t is not too early for the workers of New York CITY TO
study this situation the preparations for the stg
gle leading to this autumns elections Nothing good for
the working class can come out of Tamma of the re-
publican party or out of the socialist party The only fight
for labor in the fall elections will be waged by the Commn
ist Party under the banner carrying the slogan Cass
Against Class IN the war against the oppressors of labor
This election will take not only national but an infer
national significance Labor the world over looks to New
York City the strongest citadel of peraist oppression
Labor Will be cheered everywhere by the knowledge that the
fist OF the working class within the walls of this mperaist
fortress grows stronger and stronger aroused working
class in New York City make the leader of the New
lamany the standard bearer of another oon hope of
capitalism. r ~