The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-11
Gibson Starves Jobless, Robs Toilers'

that the Brooklyn relief campaign
head was a leading figure in the
diabolical plot to finance courses in
Economics which would meet with
the approval of the public utilities
E. V. Lewis of Denver testified before
| the commission that he had made a
| report to Parker of an agreement be-
tween the public utilities and the
University of Colorado. Under this
agreement, public utility tool by
the name of Herbert P. Wolf had
prepared correspondence course Of
100 lessons in Economics. These les
sons were approved by the public
utilities and sponsored by the uni
versity. 1t is manifest that most Of
the students who had been forced to
take the correspondence courses were
members of the working class Thus,
Parker sought to poison the minds
of the young against their own class.
In operating against the workers thru
the universities, Parker enjoyed a
long title. He was chairman of the
Cooperation Committee with Educa-
tional Institutions of the Joint Com
mittee of National Utility Associa-
tons
Tammany's Game
Gibson and Parker have received
steadfast cooperation from Tammany
in their city-wide fraud movement.
Taylor, the Welfare Commissioner
knows how to execute orders without
flaw. From 1918 to 1924, he served
ss a democratic assemblyman from
Brooklyn. One of his prize efforts
for the Tammany robber machine in
volved the drafting of legislation to
give lifetime jobs to several demo-
cratic district leaders. These leaders
were connected with the city's courts
The measure failed to pass only be-
cause the republicans, who were in
control Of Albany at the time, could
see in the legislation no benefits for
their own henchmen.
Having served faithfully his APP
premiership in office for Brooklyn
Boss McCooey, Taylor was returned
to the borough to become the sheriff
of Kings County. Under the law, this
office cannot be held for more than
one term, SO Taylor was shifted to
the post of County Commissioner of
Records. For his consistent fealty to
Tammany and McCooey, Taylor was
appointed on May "a, 1890, Welfare
Commissioner at double the salary
he had previously drawn.
One Relief Office for Each 121,000
As Commissioner of Public Welfare,
he opens and closes Home Relief Blu
reaus as Tammany directs. Taylor
now has in operation SIS bureaus in
the city of about seven millions-this
means one bureau to every 121 900
persons. And this, in face of the
statement by the Urban League and
the Tammany Emergency Committee
that in Harlem Alone, GA per cent
of the workers are unemployed and
on the brink of starvation.
Taylor's assistant, Rybicki, is a pro-
tege of Tammany Boss John H. Cur
ry. On November 16, 1881, he sent
thousands of registration cards for
relief jobs to Samuel Levy, then Bor-
ough President of Manhattan. He
sent hundreds of these cards to Bor-
ough President Lynch of Richmond,
and hundreds more to district leaders
throughout Brooklyn. These cards
subsequently were used to place on
the payroll thousands of petty poll
ticians and their well-to-do friends,
while the thousands of starving work
ers who appealed for jobs we're alb
ruptly turned away.
Throughout the relief campaigns,
the republicans have cooperated to a