The daily worker., 1930-10-18
WALKER TAKES
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Proof of the Jobless'
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were offering half of all net profits
over 8 per cent, difference which
would ultimately amount to MILL
ons.
Hearing on Franchise Refused
These rival offers were never
heard. The item was never called
No call had been made for hear
ing even though these lawyers and
statisticians and officials of rival
companies had been waiting all day
and for months before for exactly
that purpose. Even the capitalist
newspaper reporters wrote that
there had been no hearing, that the
franchise had been jammed through
Let a capitalist newspaper describe
the scene, the same newspaper that
declared yesterday that Sam Mes
sin "insulted" the mayor by calling
him a CRATER.
Few in the audience realized
Just what had happened. Oppo-
sition was there in considerable
numbers, but got no chance to be
heard. With startling suddenness
the Board of Estimate voted the
Equitable Company franchise. The
vote was taken before the opposi-
ton knew what was happening.
Few citizens who had again come
to speak on the matter were
aware that it had taken place. In
less than a minute vote had been
taken and the franchise awarded.
The president of one company
realized that the Board of Esti-
mate was taking action. We OBJ
ject to this procedure he started
to say. The mayor called him to
order. He attempted to continue
and the mayor again called him
to order. we refuse any longer,
said the mayor, banging his CAV
ell, 'to permit you to use the
Board of Estimate to get public
ity for YOURSELF The corporation
officer again tried to speak, but
the mayor directed police to ST.
lence him."
Nessin Almost Killed at Mayors
Order
How like Thursdays meeting of
the Board of Estimate! The same
railroading through of franchise
to all Tammany for unlimited graft
The same charge of publicity seek
ing" on the part of the mayor, thar
whom there is no greater publicity
hound alive. And almost, if moi
quite the same, order to throw the
"disturber" out. Not quite the
same, because the president of the
rival bus company was simply evict
ed by the seat of his trousers, while
Sam Nessin and his co-members OF
the Jobless Committee were slugget
with blackjacks in front of tn,
mayor and his entire board of Tam
many thieves and then thrown bod
lily down two flights of marble
stairh, after which the entire com
mittee was blackjacked again b,
forty detectives, according to tn,
New York Times, and the corridor!
of the City Hall ran red with gor,
blood.
The corruption of capitalist gov
ernment was never beore thrown Sc
flagrantly in the teeth Of the work,
ing class, never so unashamed ol
arrogant. There was not the slight.
est attempt on the part of Walker
to disguise what he and his crooked
Board of Estimate were doing. Ever
the Brooklyn Borough President
later admitted that he had beer
forced to vote for the crooked
franchise.
When some realty owners who
thought that Walker had bitten off
bigger slice of graft than they
thought he was entitled to and sued
to set aside tn action on the
ground that the public had been de-
MED hearing, Walker ordered the
minutes falsified and then forced
the Tammany clerks to setsify that
a regular meeting had been held and
no one apr cared.
Family of Grafters
Mayor Walkers hypocritical
show Of. anger when he heard him
self called CRATER is laughable,
considering that graft seems to
be both ahabit and business with
his entire family. Mayor Walkers
father. William H., was formerly
superintendent of public buildings
and offices. While superintend-
ent, he organized dummy con-