The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-27
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trNNIY WALKER, before going on vacation"
J tn California. resisted with all his might and
main an investigation of his administration The
republicans putting something across that they
really feared moved to investigate the city ad-
n,inistration of New York which is one OF the
most corrupt in the world, The republicans
know that if they start Investigations IN new
York City the democrats will retahate IN other
important cities, perhaps in the U, s. Congress-
and then the workers will learn too much. New
ertheless, it is fine opportunity for the re-
publcans to expose the graft in City Hall and
they wish to go ahead with their plans
The socialists-Norman Thomas the holy.
leading thenl-demand that they have hand In
the ue. Have the socialists not some admins
trations in this Acknowledgement don't
they too know about corruption? The socialists,
therefore demand that it be three-cornered
investigaton-all the parties Of capitalism par
ticipating.
After Walker had left town, Acting Mayor
Kerrigan declared that the demand for the IN
vestigation came as a result of "higher-ups'
being involved in the crash of the Bank OF
United States, who did not want the exposure
of the bank to be too open, But the bank crash
smells to heaven, and the rot must come out.
Therefore the politicians and bankers, who are
not interested in the lives and welfare of the
3000 900 workers and small depoSitorS, but on the
contrary want the right to continue to exploit the
workers in the shops and to rob them of their
snail savings, are fighting among themselves.
Tho groups within Tammany Hall are divided,
the spos are being fought over, and Walker may
be one of the victims of the internal fight be-
tween Curry, Smith and Roosevelt.
The graft and corruption in the courts, and
various other city departments, the men in these
offices who, together with the police, are sup
posed to uphold "law and order" but on the
contrary have been preying on the workers, on
women whom they have framed up on vice
charges these people Who through their hire
lingS, have not heSitated to resort to threats,
coercion and murder to get rid of 'unwelcome"
witnesses; these people who have piled up for
tunes on the lives and sweat of the workers
of this city-these are the people who sit in
Judgment on the militant workers of this city
who are brought into the courts for fighting for
working class interests against bosses, scabs,
gangsters, police and other such "upholders of
law and order" and are sentenced to long terms
in the prisons and penitentiaries.
The closing of the Bank of United States has
given the workers fine insight into the situa-
ton in the banking institutions, the political
grating institutions and the courts of the coun-
try.
Isidor Kresel, special prosecutor, is still di-
rector of the bank. Max Steuer, the eloquent
defender Of the peoples rights, resigned as
director of one of the subsidiaries just before
the crash Mr.. Broderick, state bank examiner
since April. 1929, knew about the state of the
bank, or should have known, and yet allowed
seven branches to be opened shortly before the
crash. The Jamaica branch was opened just
twelve days before the bank closed. Frederick
should have known that 100000 in loans have
been no good for nine years, and the bank
should have written them Off But this was
not done. The activities of Mr.. Broderick were
criminal, and the workers and small depositors
who have been robbed Of their small savings
should demand his prosecution. 1t is not to
be expected that his fellow-crooks on the police
force will arrest and beat him up. Quite the
contrary, they will not touch him. His fellow
crooks on the bench will not sentence him to
the penitentiary indeterminate sentence
which they hand out so freely to militant work.
erS on the picket line.
No. Mr.. Broderick will go free-for his polit-
ical friends do not want too much noise alto