The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-07

of workers committees TO distribute
city Jobs TO the unemployed. He sim
ply had workers from various sections
of the city send their representatives
to sit with him. A workers Advisory
Council" he had the audacity to call
them.
The bosses didn't expect him to do
anything like that. After all, every
Mayor the city, or for that matter
any city in the country. had ever
elected, ran things with an advisory
committee of bankers and industrial
lists. But this Mayors committee was
made up Of just ordinary workers
from trade unions, fraternal organ
izations, the unemployed council and
the like.
Well, things wouldn't have been
so bad. But no sooner did he get
into office than bingo, the Comnu-
mist Mayor demanded that the pO-
lice department be abolished. He
said they only served the bosses
and were used to club protecting
workers, He wanted workers pa
troll instead!
But the reactionary councilner.
soon tricked him out Of that. They
had already placed the police under
the civil service and when the red
Mayor countered with a demand for
the abolition of the police commits
sion, 10 and behold, something hap
pened. The Farmer-Labor legisla-
ture Of the State of Minnesota, under
GOpia1iet Influence ,~y1ct,aJ fb,.o,,rt, 4,
bill forbidding the removal of the
police commission.
The next stunt of the State Board
Of Control, which had taken over re-
lief work, was to institute a system
of forced labor. The little city dts
called Crosby was the scene of a
mass Mobilization Of workers. The
city council was forced to pass a
resolution in opposition to the forced
labor bill. But the following day the
council rescinded the previous action
and promised to cooperate with the
relief administrator The relief work.
ers went out on strike.
Out of 300 workers, IA were scab-
bling. And much to the greater con-
sternation of the bosses, the city
head, in his official capacity as
Mayor, went TO the relief job and
personally pulled the scabs off the
job. Two days later the strike was
settled with a partial victory for
the workers.
When the Mayor Chis name Is Emil
Nygard first came into Office, he
found the city practically bankrupt.
The sum of S23 900 was on deposit in
a bank. But the bank was closed.
The officials of that institution were
attempting to force the settling of
the debt with rs per cent loss to
the city, Militant protest action on
the part Of the workers, led by the
new Mayor, brought full payment to
the city.
When Nygard was elected, he found
1900 on the relief list out Of pop
ulation Of 1000. The number re-
ceiving relief was increasing daily.
An emergency appropriation of $4,000
was forced from the State Board OF
Control, after Nygard led delega-
ton of Crosby unemployed to the
State Legislature.
Workers of New York will have
an opportunity to greet Emil Ny
gard, the only Communist Mayor in
the United States, when he comes
to New York, Wednesday, Oct IS,
to bring the greetings of the work.
ers of Crosby to Robert Minor, Conn
munist candidate for Mayor Of
New York City. On that day, he
will speak at the 'Vote Communist"
banquet, arranged by the Commu-
mist Election Campaign Committee,
799 Broadway, in New Star Casino
101 w. 107th st. Beside Nygard
and Minor, speakers will be Earl
Browder, Williana Burroughs and
Ben Gold.