The daily worker., 1932-09-21

they are no longer able to pay rent
which in the case of cooperativeS is
paid on investment bonds,
Angered tenants of the Verband
Cooperative on bringing charges to
the Executive Committee of the So
cialist Party against Panken and
Levy were told by members of the
committee that Morris Hillquit, So
cialist candidate for Mayor Of New
York City, had taken the case of the
landlord against the tenants. On
verifying that Panken and Lew had
secured the case instead of Hillquit.
the Socialist Executive Committee
passed a vote of censure against
Panken and Levy.
While Panken and Levy fight for
the landlords in the case of the Yer
band Cooperative, Louis Waldman,
Socialist candidate for Governor Of
New York, is acting as counsel for
the tenants facing eviction.
Two-faced Cynicism
This is sheer cynicisrn. Socialist
lawyers fighting for the boss and for
the worker at the same time" Israel
Amter. Communist candidate for
Governor, stated yesterday. "Wald-
man, Panken and Levy are preying
upon workers in a fashion that out
Tammany's Tammany in cruelty
The Verband tenants must learn that
on one side they are being fleeced
by Waldman who is supposedly de-
Tending them, while on the other
hand the Socialists, Panken and Levy,
are receiving money from the land
lord which in the long run must be
charged against the tenants in the
form of rent"
Anter pointed out that while
Panken and Levy are openly fighting
for the landlord in the Verband case,
they are acting at the same time as
attorneys for the 26 tenants in. the
Scholem Aleichem Cooperative, 3451
Giles Place, who were ordered evict-
ed by Municipal Court Justice Will
liam E. Morris, a Tammany man,
after he had heard only cases. The
tenants ordered evicted have secured
Ia new hearing.
Overlooked by Thomas
Speaking before the Scholem Ale
ichem tenants Monday night, Nor
man Thomas, Socialist presidential
nominee, delivered a TRADE against
"landlordism and predatory employ
ers," but said not one word against
his fellow Socialists Panken and Levy
for helping the Verband landlords
evict unemployed workers.
Addressing the same audience
Matthew M. Levy, while attacking
Judge Morris order for the eviction
of the Scholem Aleichem tenants
kept quiet about his own action in
helping the landlords evict the te-
nants from the Verband Cooperative
THE tenants of both the Verband
and Scholem Aleichem Cooperatives
are at present the victims of So
cialist treachery," Amter declared
Not only in such, cases, but also
in national emergencies, Socialist
leaders repeatedly turn against the
workers and disarm them in thei1
fight for the right to live. Workers
living in the Verband and Scholem
Aleichem Cooperatives must kick out
these Socialist lawyers who are rob-
bing them while pretending to defend
them, and organize under working
class leadership against eviction by
landlords and Socialist attorneys"
After militant fight, the left-wine
group of tenants in the Scholem Ale
ichem Cooperative succeeded in ar
ranging meeting at the Cooperative
for Wednesday, September 81, at s
pm. at which Moisaye Olgin, Com
munist candidate in the oath Con-
gressional District will speak.
Levy, speaking Monday before the
court in which the Scholem Alei-
chem case is being argued, defended
rent strikers as the tenants only
weapon" Right at the same time
when he was trying to eyict another
group of tenantsl