The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-15
WHO ARE OUR CLASS
ENEMIES?

ment.
This description is absolutely correct. Demo-
cratic leaders are holding city or county jobs
and paid city salaries. James Foley gets $22,5OO
"a year as surrogate Judge; F. Donahue, treas
urer of Tammany Hall, gets $4,000 year as
commissioner 70 water supply; James Egan,
public administrator gets $4,000 a year; d.
Ryan, transportation commissioner, $4,000
year. We find that New York City ward work.
ers paid during 1928 for personal services
$242, 2,949
John F. Curry, the present chief of Tammany
Hall, is successfully carrying on the past tradi-
tons of Tammany today John Curry, who
spent nearly half million dollars for the recent
wedding of his daughter, is making millions
from holding political jobs, securing large con-
tracts for personal friends and receiving a fat
commission on each deal. Curry has also
growing insurance business which brings him
increasing profit on the hard earned savings of
the working class. The former chief of Tam
many Hall, the predecessor of Curry, Charles
F. Murphy, who died in 1924 left an estate of
over $2,000,000, made largely by commission
on contracts given to Tammany friends. One
contract on glucose to be supplied by par
ticular firm paying him commission of $4,000
a day for a considerable period. The history
of the city administration, James Walker, Tam
District Attorney Grain has some rich expert
ences of graft and corruption. We shall here
only review few of them, which will give
every worker to understand why district at
torney Grain and Police Commissioner Whalen
consider the Communists "The most dangerous
men in society,""
Of interest is The Queens sewer scandal
Mayor Walker completely ignored the fact that
the residents of Queens had been plundered of
over $10000,000 in the single item of concrete
sewer pipe Mayor Walker urged the city of
New York to provide funds for the defense of
Morris Connolly, the Tammany leader in the
County and Queens Borough President, who was
directly responsible for the sewer graft and
share in it. In 1928, not to embarrass the cleo
ton campaign of Al Smith, Tammany Hall did
everything to forestall any investigation in the
$10,000,000 graft, and pinned the entire respon-
sibility to the Queens local leaders. In spite
of the fact that all the capitalist press carried
definite statements that Connolly sustained and
was responsible for the S100OO,0OO graft Con-
molly was one of the most Jealous campagners
for Al Smith.
John NJ. Phillips the agent for sewer piping,
contracted with Queens Borough for pipe in such
way that no pipe was legal except the one kind
for which he was sole agent. The most favored
contractors those who paid staggering
prices for pipe An outrageous price was then
quoted from the high assessment levied upon
the taxpayers. A contractor would pay Phil
lips for the agreement in thousand dollar bills,
often totalling over $4,000 for one BILL and
Borough President Connolly the Tammany chief
in that county, and partner to Mayor Walker
Police Commissioner Whalen and District At
torney Grain, signed every contract Phillips
wanted to have given, and refused to sign every
bid that Phillips wanted to pass out. AS
result of these years of graft, Connolly is now
worth S1,O0O,OOO. In the Smith elections, how
ever, Phillips, the agent for sewer piping, did
not forget Tammany Hall and donated $4,000
to the Tammany Hall campaign fund Natur-
ally, in order to save their face before the work
ers, Tammany Hall instituted fake inquiry
into the scandal. The results of the 'investiga-
ton" white-washed Tammany Hall and its
agents in that county and no one was called to
any responsibility.
Another example which will give the work
ers an insight as to who are the judges of
the five leaders of the unemployed in New York.
and who are the enemies and police who break
strikes thru injunctions and work hand in glove
with the A. F. of L. and the Socialist Party:
The Rothstein murder case shows definitely how
Tammany Hall, Mayor Walker and the Police
Department of New York City were partners
with the underworld Arnold Rothstein, who
was murdered at a gamblers hotel in Novem-
Der, 1929, made his money by hustling pickets,
pushcart peddlers and poor, sick pckpockets.
He was we'll known for fixing strikes in the
A. F. of L., instructing police to lay off a group
of A. F. of L. pickets and to lay on against
the left-wing and the Communist pickets.
Rothstein also fixed the police in other games
and dealt profitably with dope fiends. He made
money in the wholesale distribution of dope and
shared his profits with the police and Tam
many Hall. He gambled in real estate prosti
tuition, speakeases, and cards with the full
knowledge and protection of the police Ii
prostitute or cheap speakeasy did not come
across with fee, thru Rothstein, the police
would sooner or later move against that pros
titute or that speakeasy.
All this was known to the police commissioner
and to Rothstein's personal friend, Mayor James
Walker Not only that, Rothstein paid regular
salaries in the form of loans to the magistrates,
as was proven in tn cease of Vitale, who re-
ceived from Rothstein loan of $19,940. When
Rothstein was murdered Mayor Walker, and
the police department, because of fear OF the
racketeers involved in the murder caused gen.
eral paralysis of the police force, Tammany
Hall and the police department are well aware
of the murder of Rothstein, because being
themselves involved, sidetracked all inquiry into
that case.
THE WHALE CASE.
THE office of city magistrate in New York
City is bought from Tammany Hall at