The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-10-31
The Seabury Commission and the
Election

graft through Sherwood while the unemployed
and the children Of New York are starving?
Then why the seabury Commission Because
the stencil is so fearful, and the struggle for
control of Tammany Hall is reaching such a
stage, that the Roosevelt faction has used this
method of getting rid Of its enemies and op-
ponents and obtaining control. This is not pc
culiar to New York. What about ex-Mayor
Thompson's administration in Chicago? His
open connections with the murder gangs Of that
city? It is notorious-and the throwing out of
Thompson and election of Cermak in Chicago,
does not change the situation. It is being proven
by the little that the Seabury Commission dares
to expose that: ~ The ruling political machine
cares nothing about its own claw and order"i
~ that political jobs are purely for graft pur-
poses; 49, that contracts are parcelled out to
friends and relatives, with a high percentage
going into the pockets Of the politicians and
contracts az that this corruption extends down
to the lowest ranks-and the "upholders of law
and order"-the police openly involved in
it and getting their swag; (5) that any crime is
resorted to in this traffic. This is not only Tam
many Hail. but the Republican Party as we'll
The Teapot Dome scandal is known to every
body and the goat was Fall.
The whole system is rotten to the core. The
100000 unemployed workers in the country,
OF whom more than 100000 are in New York
City; the millions in the country and city who
are working part time, should consider this i'm
portant question Just now at a time of the worst
economic crisis that has affected the capitalist
world. AT time when millions are starving, on
the verge of collapse, when thousands of fam
lilies being evcted from their homes, when
the gas and electric rates are being raised in
New York more than 100 per cent for the small
cent of the children are suffering from ui.,ser-
nourishment; when men and women, young and
old, fill the penitentiaries, and new jaiIs are
being erected for the workers; when the insane
asylums are filled up; when the hospitals are
crowded-when the city budget of New York was
never higher in its history, when the city treas
uries are being pIundered and grating takes
place right and left-then not penny Is pro-
vided in the city budget of 1851, 100000 for the
unemployed. And Aldermanic President Mckee
who introduced bill in the state legislature,
for the arrest of all involuntary idlers"-a
strikebreaking fascist measure against the I'M
employed, which the state legislature passed,
stated at the banquet which launched the char
ity relief drive of $120o000O, that "there Is not
enough in the city treasury to cope with the
crisis" Millions for plumber, graft and corrup-
ton, but nothing in the city treasury for the
unemployed
This is the Tammany government This is the
capitalist government. This is the nature of
capitalism The workers must take note-and
realize that no "clean" government can be in
stalled, neither democratic republican nor So
cialist, can give us clean government only
cleaning out of the system, and the establish
ment of workers government. For this only
the Communist Party stands at the same time
fighting for the daily demands of the workers
The workers must fight and vote against graft
and corruption, for the rights of the workers.
for unemployed relief and insurance on Novem-
Der 3rd-vOTE COMMUNISTS