The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-24
Amter Hits Socialist Role in
Aiding Tammany Gratters
Socialist and Police Work With Walker to Beat
Up Strikers and Unemployed Workers

NEW YORK.-"For their own po-
litical purposes, the socialists" says I.
Amter, district organizer of the Com
munist Party, who have betrayed
| the workers in every struggle,
through the City Affairs Commit
tee, have lodged a compliant against
the Tammany Hall administration of
New York. Hoping to take adva1-
tage of the scandalous situation in
the city administration, which is be-
coming too much even for the cap
itaIsts, they are preparing for the
coming aldermanic election cam
paign, Together with the repub-
licans they have launched drive
against Mayor Walker in the de-
mand for an investigation.
Their scheme is clear-but they
will not dare to go through with it.
They will not dare to demand a
real inyestigation-an investigation
that would be conducted by workers,
for that will uncover the rot not
only in New York, but in the entire
country under capitalist system.
What does the mayor reply to the
charges? He denies everything-New
York is the "purest" city in the
world, and Jimmie Walker is its
''purest" mayor Of course, he, like
Hoover Roosevelt, has his
''faults'-there are defects in the
city administration, but one must
consider the limits of human posi-
bility.
Jimmie Walker talks about rack
eteering. There is no such thing in
New York, according to him. But
his district attorney, Grain, admits
that there are so in the City of New
York and he has not been able to
secure indictments in even 10 cases,
and nothing has been done in them.
1 Is this connivance between the dis
1 trict attorney and the magistrate
courts, which Jimmy Walker defends
/ and covers up? Is this connivance
between the racketeers and the city
administration, of which Walker is
/ the head?
Walker correctly accuses futile,
United States attorney and repub-
lican of high standing in state af-
fairs, of having investigated the
Judge Vause case in Brooklyn, on the
charge of payment of $25o.o0o to
the judge for the lease of pier,
and of having found nothing on
which to return an indictment. But
the workers understand that the re-
publicans are no better than the
Tammany Hall democrats. They are
one brood of capitalists, who have
the moral get rich,' but cover up
the means if necessary. An investi-
cation of the police department of
Chicago is now going on, and the
same grating is being found there
as in New York-and Chicago was
republican
Walker praises his glorious police
commissioners-Wh and Null
rooney, who have made New York
not only one of the best and most
orderly" cities, but who have striven
for even more. Crime is rampant in
the city, and the police department
can do nothing to stop it. Racke-
teering and the underworld rule But
this is not all of Whalen's and Null
rooneys achievements. They have
battered the workers heads; Their
police arrest and beat up militant
workers on the picket line. The
starving workers have been allowed
to die in the streets. Thousands Of
families have been evicted, and al
that Walker could say was that 'hs
regrets the situation This if Wal
kers best ruled city in the country.
Roosevelt will unquestionably re-
iect the charges Of the City Affair.
Committee, which were made as po-