The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-14
WOULD ABOLISH
THE PROSECUTOR
Taxes on Mines to Get
Jobless Relief Fund


CROSBY, MINI. Dec. IL. Emil
Nygard mot "Mygard," as first re-
ported the Communist mayor ELECT
here, has issued a declaration Of po-
Icy for the first Communist mayor
atty administration. Most OF the
other city offices are still in the
hands of the workers opponents, but
Nygard will rely on the mass move
ment of the employed and unenl-
ployed workers TO force action ON the
following;
I. Municipal relief without discri-
mination and employment on civic
work for jobless workers.
2. Abolition Of the city proSecu-
tors office, which Is used now mostly
to send workers to Jail: and abolition
OF the police commission for the
same reason.
3. SIS month relief for each UNI
employed worker and 81 additional
for each dependant, the payments
on the city debts to be stopped If ne
cessary to raise the relief funds, and
taxes on the mining companies to be
continued, for the same purpose. A
relief committee of miners, employed
and unemployed, to be in charge of
distributing the relief
4. Reduction of city officials SAL
aries by Is to IS per cent, with a 30
per cent reduction in the mayors sal
airy Of $50 month.
5. No cutting off of light and
water from unemployed or partly
employed miners, the city to pay the
bills out of the $4,000 surplus in the
treasury now.
What the Workers Want.
These are not just Nygard's pro-
gram they are the demands of the
organized unemployed in Crosby.
Crosby is mining town, the metal
mined being iron and manganese.
Practically half of the voting popu-
lation of Crosby elected Nygard, an
avowed Communist in the face Of a
slanderous, demagogic campaign by
his opponents against Soviet dump
ing of manganese" Nygard's vote
was 529, against $50 divided between
his two opponents.
Nygard himself is q 26-year old
miner, unemployed and a leader Of
the joblesS miners here, for the last
two years He is a Strapping six
footer, of Scandinavian descent.
Describe the Soviet Union.
The biggest event in Crosby re-
Gently, aside from the election of
the first Communist mayor in the
United States was the mass meeting
of miners from Crosby and vicinity,
Dec. 4, to hear Walter Frank speak
on the Soviet Union. The hall was
filled to Overlooking. AS Frank told
of what he had seen in the Workers
Fatherland, where right during the
terrific unemployment In capitalist
countries, the Russian workers, led
by the Communist Party abolished
unemployment, turning the whole
country into tremendous workshop,
with ever more and more factories
opened and a continual rising stand
ard of living through their own
control OF industry and abolition Of
capitalist profits, the audience be-
came enthusiastic.
Destroy Some Lies
The woman who presided at the
meeting had been reading horror
stories OF famine, mothers killing
their starving children in the Soviet
Union, which she found In Catholic
propaganda circulated in the papers
here.
AS Frank destroyed these false
hoods, one after another, she almTst
cried, she was 50 relieved to get the
real facts.
The Frank meeting was the talk of
the town for days, and all workers
say there should be Soviet America.
Frank went to the Soviet Union as
an elected delegate of 1000 members
of the ALL, on the May 1 workers
delegation sent through the FrienuE
of the Soviet Union He is an ofacaa.
in the building trades council Of the
ALL. in Minneapolis, and is now on
a tour for the Friends of the Soviet
Union.
Frank, in his speech, called on the
workers to give full support to the
Communist mayor.
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