The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-08-03
Fight for Relief of Starving Job(ess by
Taxing Rich Is Keynote Of Campaign
Gold, Leader Of
NTWIU, Runs for
AIdermanic Head
Mrs. Burroughs, Negro
Teacher, Candidate
for Comptroller

NEW YORk.--R0bert Minor,
member of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party
and a fighter for many years
in the ranks of militant labor,
was yesterday selected as the
candidate for Mayor of New
York City in the coming cleo
ton.
The announcement Of the nomi-
nation was made by the District
Committee Of the Communist Party
of the New York District, which at
the same time named Ben Gold,
secretary of the Needle Trades Work
ers Industrial Union, as candidate
for President OF the Board of Alder
men, and Mrs. Williana Burroughs,
Negro teacher and member Of the
executive committee Of the Teachers
Union, as candidate for Comptroller.
Mrs. Burroughs was recently dis
missed from the public school sys-
TEN by the Tammany Board of Edu-
cation for her militancy among the
teachers and for her activity on be-
half of the ScottSboro boys.
A full list of candidates for all mu-
nicipal Offices will be completed for
the election, it is announced, and the
most aggressive campaign ever or
ganized by the Communist Party is
now being mapped out with the par
ticipation of representatives of trade
unions, unemployed councils and
other workers organizations.
Relief Is keynote
The fight for immediate relief and
Unemployment Insurance for the
starving millions of New York City
and vigorous drive against the en-
slavement of the city's workers
through the slave codes under the
National Recovery" Act, will be the
mainsprings of the Communist
mayoralty campaign, it was an
nounced.
In demanding that the city's un-
employed and their dependents be
fed and housed through taxation Of
the rich, a sharply graduated income
tax and a capital levy, the District
Committee charges that with rev.
enue of 81 200 ,O000 900 per year, and
with million working people starv-
ing, the city government pays out
approximately $300,00o,o0o to bankers
and bondholders in the form of in
terest, amortization, ETC., while
spending only about $l,500o0o per
month for relief of the unemployed
from the city. More money is stolen
in graft by Tammany politicians than
is used out of the city treasury to
relieve mass starvation.
Militant Leader
In selecting Minor to be its STAN
dard bearer in the mayoralty cam
paign the Communist Party has put
forward a workingclass leader who
has participated in scores of militant
actions Of labor AS far back as 1916
Minor became KNOW to millions
throughout the I'm ID States as the
organizer Of the lirst Tom Mooney
bClSlloC SOiililIItuSCs anu NlltA AAA6 L.
cent years has been dubbed and
arrested for his activity on behalf
of the starving unemployed. In
1880 Minor, together with William z.
Foster l. Amter and Harry Raymond
served six months in prison for Lead
ing the unemployed to the City Hall,
following demonstration at Union
Square in which more than 100000
workers participated His ilnprison-
ment and persecution in Welfare
Island and Rikers Island nearly re-
suited in Minors death.
A vigorous statement outlining the
issues of the coming mayoralty CAM
paign accompanied the announce
ment of the nomination of Minor,
Gold and Mrs. Burroughs.
Mass Starvation
with more than a million MEM
bers Of workingclass families of New
York being submerged in starvation,
and evictions being ordered by the
city government at the rate of 10000
per month" the statement said, ut Is
necessary for the workers Of New
York to use their ballots in this cleo
ton as form of pressure for con-
cessions to meet their most urgent
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