The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
SEABURY PLAN IS
BANKERS RULE.
Charter Proposal Hits
At Workers
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employed.
Hit At Communist Nominees

employed.
Hit At Communist Nominees
The Seabury Plan for the election
of mayor on capitalist mon
partisan" ticket and the selection of
candidate by petition is an insidi-
GUS attempt to make representation
of workers in the City government
impossible. The choice of candi-
Gate under this plan would be agreed
upon by the City Club bankers or
ganization), the Rotary Clubs, the
Kiwanis Clubs, the Lions Clubs and
scores of other civic organizations
dominated by big business and petty
politicians. Under this program, the
dictatorship of finance capital would
be complete
Tammany, Of course. does not look
with kindly eyes toward this dicta-
torship, More than $3.50, 100000 is to
be available during the next fiscal
year for distribution among bribing
contractors, district leaders, party
underlingS and other faithfuls of the
Tammany clan. Always loyal SER
wants of Wall Street, the political
bosses demand what they believe to
be their traditional right--the I'M
restrained right to loot the govern
ment Golfers Of the millions extorted
from the workers. The Seabury plan
has aroused the fury of Tammany.
Lehman Is Bankers Man
This bankers program is to go be-
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many is awaiting this moment. Tam
many is marshalling its forces, for
it dominates the State Legislature
On their side, the bankers have as
their commander Governor ELECT
Herbert H. Lehman. Lehman is him
self big banker and labor exploiter
of many years standing and a re-
spected figure in Wall Street. He
is director Of the Studebaker Cor
poration, the Pierce Oil Corporation,
General American Investors, Inc,
Murray Corporation of America, KEEL
Sey-HayeS Corporation, Interstate
Department Stores, Spear & Co.,
Franklin Simons & Co., the Jewel
Tea Company, the Knott Hotels and
several other OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
tons which have cut wages, fired
workers and brought on general mis-
cry among the masses of the people.
Lehman also is past master at
the art of playing "the peoples
friend" of bamboozling the workers
in the role of "philanthropist."
Amid this clash of capitalist inter
ests, the republican legislators and
politicians who recognize party lines
only for the purpose of bargaining
for graft and patronage, are seeking
some vantage point so that they may
be in position to ask for political
plunls. The republican bankers, need
less to say, are working as one with
Young, Raskob, Baruch, etc.
Would Kick Workers Out of Jobs
Seabury's proposal to consolidate
various city departments, while strik-
ing at the Tammany graft machine,
is also designed to throw thousands
of city workers out of jobs. This also
is in line with the bankers program.
While low-paid city workers are be-
ing given wage-cuts and the unem-
ployed are refused relief, the salary
of the mayor, under Seabury's plan,
would be reduced only $4,000, giving
him $4,000, which is still $1,000
more than what the mayor was get
ting until Jimmie Walker boosted his
salary two years ago. The Commun-
list Party and the Unemployed Coun-
ellis demand that no city official get
more than $500.
The Seabury proposals will I'M
doubtedly be hailed by the Socialist
Party, which tries thru its City At
fairs Committee to make the workers
believe that the chief issue is graft,
not bread, and that the elimination
of a few crooked officials would solve
everything. At the same time the
Socialist Party. where it gets power,
as in Milwaukee, does not neglect to
build up its own graft machine.