The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-20
BY BILL dunno

Two facts:
y In ten months of 1892
eviction orders affecting approx
mately 100000 persons were
sought in New York City courts.
2. Almost overnight, Acting
Mayor Mckee of New York City
became the petted darling of the
most powerful section of the me-
tropolitan capitalist press.
Mckee stood for economy" as
against the Tammany Hall raids
on the city treasury for the sinews
of war and an economic base for
its political machine, the big fl
nanciers and the hopeful
middle class rallied to his program
of wage cutting, reduction of So
cial services and discharge of city
workers to secure lower taxes.
The World Telegram, member of
the ScrippS- McRae newspaper
chain which adopts liberal
front, picked Mckee as the cham
pion Of "the people" and managed,
with the help of the Times, Her
aid Tribune and Post, etc, to roll
up some $4,000 votes for him as
an independent" candidate for
mayor.
MCKEE'S FIGHT
A SHAM BATTLE
McKee's fight with Tarnmany
Hall is sham battle. He was
picked to give some shadow of re-
spectability to the New York City
Democratic Party organization af-
ter the exposures Of the graft and
corruption of the Walker admin
iStration and its "tin box coterie
of racketeers, it's connections with
various notwithstanding corpora
tions, etc.
At the same time, Tammany
Hall cautious about openly en-
gaging in wage cutting and reduc-
ton Of working forces because of
its large working class following,
anxious to maintain the appear
ance of struggle against banker
domination" of city finances, but
at the same time compelled by the
threat of bankruptcy to come ac-
cept terms Of the Morgan banks,
arranged to have Mckee appear
as the official responsible for the
Wall Street program of protecting
the financiers' loans at the expense
1Afs m
many Hall hopes to prevent its
becoming the object Of the increas-
ing resentment and anger of work
1ngclass supporters and victims.
pY this maneuver Tammany Hall
~ is enabled TO put forward its
schemes for carrying through its
part of the general capitalist drive
against wages, living standards,
unemployment relief. etc, and
continue TO pose, although under
greater handicaps, as the champion
Of the five-cent fare, the welfare
of the masses and city social SER
vices.
The program Of Mckee is the
program of Tanlnany Hall, more
outspoken and brutslly expressed
in order to divert attention of
workers from Tammany. His fierce
verbal opposition TO graft and COR
ruption and advocacy of lower
taxes on real estate holdings, is
window dressing for the middle
class.
HIS PROGRAM REVEALED
The social content Of the Mckee
program was exposed by no less
person than Mckee himself in
a speech before the Ohio Society
meeting in the Pennsylvania Hotel
on Dec. IL. According to the New
York Sun, Mckee denounced
g. the growing tendency to give
direct monetary relief to the I'M
employed as highly dangerous"
Every dollar given. -. as a
temporary and private means Of
alleviatins suffering is BETTER
THAN THOUSANDS OF DOL
LARS OF DIRECT MUNICIPAL
BELIZE" he said.
Since the bulk of the money col
lected for emergency relief is cx-
tracted from workers siill employ
cd; the charity drives do no5 cut
substantially into the incomes Of
the wealthy. Since charity is the
Mckee solution for Unemployment
relief it follows that he is against
the use OF taxpayers money" for
this purpose. He says SO himself:
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