The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-24
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A National "Hook Up
By JORGE

Well boys there seems to be right smart OF .
shin-dig on new about "city-wide investiga-
ton" of this little town, New York. When Sam
Nessin called Jimmy Walker CRATER last Oct
l6, he said mouthful We remind you OF this
in order to show that it is the Communists who
put the ginger into things like that
And just as the unemployed demonstration
and demands which caused Nessin's exposure of
Tammany was caused by the crisis, so in an
other way it is causing still more. The capital
list crisis reduces the pickings in graft and sets
one gang against another gang or crooks ana
even opens war within the gangs over division
of the reduced loot.
guy named Macy, new chairman of the re-
publican party in New York state, went to WASH
ington about two weeks ago, and things began
to happen fast. He saw Hoover. And shortly
afterward announced that New York republicans
would support Hoover for reelection in 1892.
1t was no accident that shortly the Federal
Bureau of Internal Revenue said it was going
to investigate the income tax statements of all
these Tammany cops whose bank accounts have
been climbing into six figures
Nor was it coincident that something heavy
began weighing on those New York City repub-
licans who are tied up tight with Tammany.
There's old boss Koenig, for example, one OF the
republican lads who was cheese in the bonding
company in which that Judge Jean Norris, our
Lady of Tammany Hail." invested a lot of kale,
thereby cleaning up on bonds of the victims she
sent to prison for the Vice Squad.
Koenig came through under pressure and lined
up for that "city-wide investigation" You see
the pressure from Washington is powerful strong.
The Hoover chance in 1882 would be helped by
a good old camp-meetin' revival exposure Of
Tammany crookedness to pour over the demo-
crats-that's what Macy showed to Hoover when
he went to Washington.
But other trains are running to Washington
besides the one Macy took. So Boss Ward OF
WestcheSter, against whom the pressure was
getting too heavy, also went to Washington,
where the N. Y. Times assures us with every
sign Of sincerity, he visited Hoover merely as
IAN old friend" and that Hoover would never,
never monkey with state affairs in New York,
and SO forth.
So Wards two manakins at Albany, Mastick
and Westall, first look dumb then vote against
the "invetigation," then vote to keep the ques-
ton alive while Ward fixes things In Washing
ton SO they know which way to vote.
In the meantime, while some "discontentedp
democrats like Kresel and Seabury are wrang
ling cops, and Jimmy Walkers Dear Max Sterer
is getting even by slapping some indictments
around Kresel, a republican "comrade" of Fish,
named McFadden gets up in congress and says
that Hoover through Ward, through Mastick
vestigation, because Hoover wants an expert"
financial republican, named Eugene Meyer, who
lives in Wards county, appointed head of the
Federal Reserve Board, and that Tammany got
two democratic U. S. senators, Wagner and
Copeland, to support Meyer as payment In kind.
Now we hear that duck called Machold who
was chairman of the N Y. state republicans be-
fore Macy, who is 'long identified with water
power as an associate Of Niagara Hudson Power
Corporation" but though Machold was repub-
lican chief, he was bosom friend of a powerful
democrat" named Floyd Leslie Carlisle, who is
chairman of the N Y. Edison Co. and sis also
chairman of the Niagara-Hudson."
SO it's all mixed up. with your electric light
bill, vice squad bank rolls and Hoover for presi-
dent again in 1882.
Oh, yes; remember that Mastick on of Wards
monkeys on a stick, is offering a bills at Albany
to make the theatres of New York moral"
And clean
| Well, if you see anything moral or clean about
either the republican or democratic parties put
it in glass jar full of hootch or farmaldehyde,
! they're both the same.