The daily worker., 1930-10-18

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| tracing concern headed by two of
his sons. Superintendent Walker,
in his official capacity, awarded
contracts to this concern, which
was owned by himself and his two
sons. In the course of five years.
Walker spent S6,5OO,000 of the
city's money. Almost two-thirds
of it was graft which went into
the already bulging pockets of the
three Walkers.
This concern gave as its business
address the same street and house
number in which the two Walker
sons lived, and city checks drawn
by Walker senior were identical
even in fractional amounts with
bank deposits by his sons. Another
brother of Mayor Walker, a physi-
clan, was recently appointed to a
city job in direct contravention of
civil service regulations.
Perhaps if Nessin and the jobless
delegation were given an opportu-
nifty to make statements of fact,
Walker would scarcely have had the
gumption to "feel insulted" and the
delegation would not have been sub
jected to a beating unparalleled in
the long and bloody history of the
American labor struggle. But then
again, it is altogether possible that
Walker would have ordered them
shot then and there. Certainly the
hundreds of detectives in the Board
of Estimate would have been happy
to fulfill the order.
Among Walkers friends and ac-
completes are almost all the Fifty
nine" who, according to ex-ambas-
sador Fletcher, rule America. Also
among his friends and accomplices
are some of the greatest gangsters
in America, including Bill Dwyer
and Paul Vaccarelli. Walker knew
and approved of the rum running on
city-owned garbage scows by
Dwyer, Vaccarelli and Michael
Laura, deputy street cleaning COM
missioner, under the supervision of
Charles Hand, Commissioner of
Sanitation, and Walkers former Sec
retary.
Mayor Walkers affection for
gangsters and gunmen is even de-
cried by AL Smith and some of the
new Tammany," who would prefer
to see Tammany graft disguised.
When it was charged recently in
the capitalist press that New York's s
food supply was controlled by gun
men who lacked up the prices of
almost every staple food that is
found on the city's tables, Commits
sioner lynne, who has an itch for
publicity and the mayoralty, declar-
ed that he would put $50 inspectors
from the Board of Health on roads
leading to thecity to prevent food
racketeers from stopping food
trucks and imposing a toll of sew
eral hundred dollars on each. Mayor
Walker Immediately ordered Wynne
to do nothing of the kind, adding
that it was the duty of health in
spectors to inspect, and inspect only.
Will Walker deny that these food
racketeers are paying tribute to
Tammany for the privilege of i'm
\ posing tax on food merchants?
Walker is not only a CRATER. He
is one of the cheapest grafters ir
Tammany Hall, and those who know
that Tammany officials have driven
crippled ex-service men from Their
only means of livelihood at East
Side pushcarts, and given these
pushcart stands to Tammany hench.
men, realize what this statement
means. There are racing sweep.
stakes Of all kinds running illegally
in New York. Almost all of them
are fraudulent and everyone with.
out exception pays for and gets po.
lice protection. A recent sweep.
stakes, with a prize of thousands Of
dollars, was won by man who gave
his address as that of Walkers
house in Greenwich Village. The
building is one-family house.