The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-20
statement by District Committee, Communist
Party District p

posed TODAY as the most corrupt, grating poll
teal machine in the world The fake investiga-
ton now going on brings to the surface only
few insignificant details of the deep going cor
ruption that embraces the entire city admins
tration. every public official, from the grating
Mayor Jimmie walker down to the bought and
paid for judges, the police and every Tammany
Hall office-holder.
Corruption and graft is not limited to Tam
many Hall Corruption is inseparable from
capitalism. Corruption is just as much part Of
capitalism as the nose is part Of the face. 1t
is a symptom of the decay and decomposition of
the entire social system. The Tanlmany Hall
machine, representing the complete control OF
Wall Street finance capital of the city OF New
York is in the midst of sharp fight between
the Walker, Roosevelt and Smith groups over the
presidential candidacy in 1882, and for sharing
the spois of hundreds of millions Of dollars,
Systematically placed into the pockets of Tam
many henchmen out OF city funds, fat jobs, po-
lice and underworld rackets. The opposition
parties are trying to benefit by the struggle
within Tammany Hall.
The opposition machine of the republican
party and the third party of capitalism, the
social fascist socialist party, sharpening their
teeth 70 the residential elections in 1882, wish
to make political capital out of so-called fake
Investigations of the city administration, and
hope to throw sand into the eyes of the workers
in order to withdraw their attention from I'M
employment and starvation, vicious wage cuts,
and speed-up. the fierce persecution of Negro
and foreign born workers and growing attacks
against the conditions and standards of all the
workers of New York.
More than one million workers are out of jobs
in New York City. Over 1000 families are evicted
from their homes daily The cost of living and
rents are sky-high, while hundreds of thousands
of workers, particularly Negro workers. are
herded into filthy tenements. Starvation and
r-starvaton face not only the unemployed,
but hundreds of thousands of part-time workers.
Those who still have jobs are suffering wage cut
after wage cut while the speed-up becomes ever
more brutal and killing Suicides, insanity, crime
and prostitution are growing at an alarming rate
in the city, but the corrupt grating Mayor
Walker and his city administration, walloWing
like hogs in the cesspoo of graft and corrup-
ton refuse to listen to the demands of the
unemployed.
The only answer Of the Tammany administra-
ton, aided by the republican and socialist party
to the demands of the unemployed are police
clubs and jails. The March 9th delegation of
10000 unemployed workers last year, were sent
to the penitentiary by the same judges who to-
day are guilty of graft and of preying upon in
nocent women. Time and again delegations of
unemployed and employed workers placed their
demands for immediate relief and unemployment
insurance before the city, and each time the I'M
employed were dubbed and beaten by the same
police who are today shown to be working hand
IN hand with the underworld, who grow fat and
framing up of women.
The republicans in the city administration not
only sanctioned but applauded the slugging of
the unemployed and the sentencing of their
leaders to long jail terms. While one set of
1ammany grafters is investigating the other
the republicans Investigate" Tammany Hall
ana Tammany Hall accuses the republicans in
the city administration of graft The social
fascist preacher, Norman Thomas, in chorus
with liberal politicians, rave about "clean gov
eminent, honest politics." in preparation for vote
catching in the coming elections in the Fall In
reahty they all present one united front with
Tammany Hall against the employed and I'M
employed workers In Albany the hunger march,
ers tried to place the demands of the unem-
ployed OF this state for immediate unemploy-
ment relief against evictions, for free gas heat
and light for the unemployed for lunches for
Inc chlldre Mn the schools, against wage cuts
ana speed-up for lower rents for the workers
Unemployment insurance bill, and were murder
ously attacked by the republican controlled state
troopers. The entire state legislature demo-
Gratis, and republicans passed resolution, high
~ praising the murderous attacks of these thugs
Governor Roosevelt is directly responsible for
the brutal police clubbings and attacks of the
unemployed workers.
The holy preacher, Norman Thomas with the
entire leadership of the socialist party apnroved
the smuggling of the unemployed only demanding
more efficient methods on the part of the Tam
many thugs These socialist leaders while using
working class language to fool the workers. are
part OF the bosses Strike-breaking machinery to
betray and sell all workers struggling against
miserable conditions. They are combined with
the gangsterS of the underworld the police and
the injunction judges, in every fight of the New
4ork workers against wage cuts long hours and
Speed-up. Today, as the third party of capital
ISM the socialists support the system that breeds
mass unemployment and starvation the system
'nst is today driving down the living standards
Oh al workers to the semi starvation level The
socialist lawyers and socialist union officials
work together with the judges who arc TODAY
exposed as grafters and racketeers. get ont in.
functions and send hundreds of workers to iaiI
under Paragraph 900 of the penal code, one of
the most vicious strikebrealng laws that have
ever been enacted by capitalist legislature
While II squanders millions robbed from the
workers IL graft, the city administration did NOT
assign one cent in the original CITY budget Of
last october of more than $4,000 1000 for the
unemployed. 1t was only after the militant
demonstration of the unemployed at Citv Hall
on october 10th that they appropriated a mis-
cradle Sl,OOo,OOO for charity. Through special
alien squad set I'D by MulroOnev tho o;+1, 81