The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
these Communist arel
The Forward" Lied


The writer of this article went up
to the Cooperative Colony to find out
the actual facts. He spoke to the
workers at the Cooperative Colony
He found out: Sam Silverberg is not
poor worker as the lying Forward
represents him to be. He owns a
tailoring shop where he employs two
men. Just a few weeks ago he
bought a new truck for his business
Nevertheless, he refused to pay the
Cooperative a cent of the more than
$500 rent he owes. Several years ago
he rented a concession from the Col
ony and was compelled to move out
because he Is a difdcult person to
deal with. Even then he showed
himself to be a sabotager by breaking
the walls OF the store.
At mass meeting of more than
six hundred Of the tenants last
Thursday, Silverberg was given a
chance to speak. He spoke for three
quarters of an hour. His speech had
evidently been coached By the For
ward gang. He showed himself to
be a disrupter The meeting Of work
ers unanimously decided in favor Of
his ousting Not all the tenants in
the Cooperative are Communists or
Communist syInpathizers. Some Of
them at the last elections had voted
Socialist and Democrat. In spite of
this, all the tenants to a man cried
that this man be thrown ont.
Had Money For A Truck
The Forward Weeps crocodile tears
for the children of Silverberg, the
boss who employs two men and has
a truck. In one place 1t says that
both of SilYerbergs children are sert-
ously sick In another place, only
one child is sick. And the child who
has been sick has had pneumonia
three times the same year.
To add to this, the writer found
out that at the eviction tin sign
with the words Communists Evict
Poor Workers" was all ready. The
Forward photographers were planted
in favorable spots to take pictures
Everything had been staged, before
hand.
But the beans were spilled. Stein
berg, Democratic captain In the
neighbcrhood, came with truck, ae-
ecrding to the New York Times Of
Jan. rs. "Mr. Steinberg went TO GET
another truck 10 move Sam and also
TO arrange for another apartment for
them. Asked why he was interested
he explained that as captain Of the
Democratic Party in the section, he
tried to help members of the Olin-
vile Democratic Club who were In
difficulties. But wasn't Silverberg a
Communist? II seemed not. A few
months ago he Joined the Democratic
Club In the district"
Where is the other apartment tt
which the Democratic captain was
moving Silverbergs furniture? Ir
the apartment house of Ossinow, So
eialist landlord, who has stated that
he will give Silverberg free rent sc
long as Silverberg "can not afford tc
pay" Ossinow owns twelve apart
ment houses. Rent strikes which this
Cooperative has helped organize have
cost him more than $4,000. He has
repeatedly attacked the Cooperative
for its left wing activities.
A Real Rent Strike
When the F'o- ~ASrd Is confronted
with real rent strike, conducted by
unemployed workers against a grab
bind landlord, what is its attitudei
Hidden underneath the t1aring head
lines about Silverberg is the report
about the evictions on 18th st. ane
Avenue A. The Forward here ped
dies the same lies that all the cap
italist papers picked up from the
gutter. The Forward attacks the
strikers by stating that one of then
had started a fire in her rooms, thai
another one had threatened to shoot
the police. AS matter OF fact
neither of the evicted tenants wert
present during the evictions.
The Forward does not breathe one
word about why these unemployed
workers were fighting the police ant
the marshal.
The Forwards Line
The Forward pokes fun at thu
strikers. 1t attacks the Cooperative
Colony where rents have been re,
duced three times in year. where
the rooms do not rent for more thar
eleven dollars on the average, whert
the rooms are clean, spacious, full
OF sunlight, and the buildings ar
surrounded by beautiful grounds.
But the Forward has not a wore
to say about the miserable shack
on 18th st. The Forward hides TIN
fact that here there are public toll
cts, that freeze in cold weather, tina
have but one shower for forty-sever
tenants. The Forward hides the fac
that the matchboxes OF rooms rem
for fourteen dollars This agair
shows the Forward working hand II
hand with Tammany and the land
lords. This proves that the ForwaI
is for evictlons of workers, agains
rent strikes, and against the work
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