The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-20
He Alone Means 1t

WITH frankness that has not yet appeared in those
" capitalist newspapers that make pretension of
dignity" the tabloid New York Daily News gives
away the entire rottenness and fraud of the promises
being strewn with such generous profuseness by
the Mayoralty candidates Of the capitalist parties
Says the News:
IAN the candidates for Mayor arc promising the
voters that the city will go furnishing subway
rides at two cents below cost and water at less
than cost and will go on educating 100000 chill
dren free of charge and will pay over $780,
100000 year interest debt and also reduce
taxes, . That is impossible, and suspect that
everybody knows it, =. Such promises are what
voters want in democratic country. :"
This is very interesting-for many reasons. In the
first place 1t places true evauatton on the prom
ises of the Laciuardias, the McKees, the O'Briens
and the Solomons
In the second place it unconscously gives away the
real reason why every of the candidates Of the
capitalist parties will be forced to raise the subway
fare maintain the present increase in water rates,
and even increase it still further, and institute drastic
slashes in the budget of the Board of Education.
TT is in the next to the sentence that the News
l gives the whole story away, TT is THE IN
TEREST PAYMENTS TO THE WALL STREET
BANKERS, AMOUNTING TO OVER s10OOOOOoo A
YEAR, THAT REQUIRES THE ENORMOUS BUR-
DENS WHICH THE CITY GOVERNMENT PLACES
ON THE BACKS OF THE PEOPLE,
The News very deliberately omits to mention the
name Of the Communist candidate, Robert Minor
The reason is that he alone has exposed the capitalist
conspiracy of silence the five-cent fare and the
secret agreement to raise it,
They know that he alone would stop the enormous
tribute that the Wall Street banks chisel from the
city every year He alone, OF all the candidates. would
up the Untermyer tax agreement the very first
day that he took office He alone would levy heavy
capital tax on the Wall Street millonares and
porations He alone would smash the huge transit
pay interest etc.
The News has some blunt words about that capital
list democracy" for which it will some day cell upon
the workers to die the Enthusiastically the
capitalist press did the last 1917 slaughter. With
unabsshed cynicism, it states:
"The price we pay for democracy s the fact
that we vote for candidates, not the basis of
their efficiency fitness for office much
on their ability to sing sweet songs to various
racial and religious groups and smear sweet scented
goose grease all the voters"
This is quite revelation. But not for the reason
that the News gives. 1t is not the desire of the work
that they be srneared with sweet scented goose
grease. They want relief from hunger, lower rents
lower taxes more schools, unemployment insurance
etc.
The goose grease comes from the fact that the city
government is nothing but tributary of the Wall
Street banks. The goose grease is to hide that fact
And the News for all its cynical talk, is not cynical
enough to tell the workers this whole truth about the
matter,
1t is because Minor knows full well the fraud of
that capitalist democracy" of which even the abloids
becoming cynical that the capitalist papers are
SO careful to keep his from the workers. 1t is
because he exposes it the sugarcoating that
ceals the dictatorship Of Wall Street bankers, that
the News is quiet about him.
The News is silent on Minor because he alone of
all the candidates means what he says And the
News knows it,