The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-14
Mayor Walker and the
Unemployed
By JOHN LUCUS.

QEFORE the March demonstration of the
unemployed. when the press announced the
intention of the unemployed to march on the
City Hall in order to protest against their
plight, Mayor Walker in statement to the
press said that his administration is not re-
sponsible for the present unemployment situa-
ton Evidently the mayor thinks he can wash
his hands off responsibility with innocent
sounding statements. Nevertheless the facts
speak out differently
The mad naturalization process speeding
up of workers, introduction of efficiency meth
ods) which has been taking place in the United
States in the last few years, was aided and
abated by Mayor Walker in New York. in
which his "good natured" police force tried to
force the protesting workers into submission.
We can recall strike after strike which were
called to improve working conditions, combat
speeding up Of the workers and long working
hours which were broken up openly and flag
rantly by the police clubs Of Mayor Jimmy
Walker.
How the struggle of the cafeteria workers,
who were fighting against 1912 hours work
ing day, was broken up by police clubbing
and long prison terms handed out to them by
the Tammany judges is well remembered by
every worker Mayor Walker and his beauti-
and miserable working conditions upon the New
York workers, thereby increasing unemploy-
inert in the city.
Today in New York, besides the fake union
sweat shops, there are hundreds of open shops,
in which women and girls work long hours and
sweat out their energy for few dollars
week This situation has been made possible by
the police clubs of Mr. Jimmy Walker.
The strike of shoe workers is, being broken
I'D bv the police of elegant Jimmy Walker,
with brutality unique in the history of New
York workers. With his help the bosses are
frightening hours and cutting wages. Let Mr..
Walker deny his own responsibility in the pres
ent unemployment situation against these facts
It was only short time ago that the strike
of the structural iron workers, truckmen and
others, deserted and betrayed by the traitors
in the American Federation of Labor, was
broken up in regular Tammany police style.
The city of New York is heaven for open
shoppers, which has been made possible by the
administration of Walker and crooked Tam
many politicians, whose crookedness is con-
densed by the Wall Street money barons as
their co-workers, in the general robbery and ex-
ploitation of the American workers.
Today in the city of New York, it is next to
impossible to attempt the organization OF any
trade or INDUSTRY, WlLnOuI ,IdclIS Ihc PoiiSS
clubs of Tammany Hall, or the njunctions by
corrupt capitalist judges. And it is this same
Walker who evades responsibility in the unem-
ployment situation.
Not pleased with oppressive apparatus or the
crooked Tammany Hall political machine, the
Wall Street bankers are calling upon their aux
iliary fascist organizations, such as the Amer
lean Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and
others, to break up the workers resistance
against starvation and hardship. in other
words, to do the bosses dirty work.
In behalf of thousands of ex-sodiers, who
are not members of the Veterans and the Amer
lean Legion and who would never join it we
say the following: These organizations do not
represent the ex-servcemen, because outside
of few beguiled workers in the ranks, it is
composed of former army officers, hand shakers
and the like, who are now as before in the
service Of bosses and exploiters. against the
real ex-servicemen, the workers.
The Communist Party-the political Party
Of the working class fights for the real inter-
ests Of the working class ex-servicemen.