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

passed the buck to Tammany by a
law giving Tammany the power to
raise funds by special taxes. Tam
many and the Republicans thus
play football with the growing
misery of the workers. They both are
adamant in carrying out the dictates
Of their masters, in guaranteeing the
bankers interest at the expense of
the tens of thousands of unemployed
workers and their families.
To carry this out, Tammany called
in Untermyer TO figure out a way of
raising funds at the expense of I'M
employed relief, behind the smoke
screen of taxing the rich" Inter
myer is heavily interested in real
estate. He owns many apartment
houses and Office buildings. Inter
n1yer at first tried to have an "im-
partial Citizens Committee" suggest
the taxes, SO that the committee and
not Tammany would be held respon-
Sible.
Unterznyer put at the head OF this
committee Peter Grimm, of the Citi-
zens' Budget Committee, representa-
tive of big real estate interests (of
the firm of VIM. A. White and Sons,
who handle the Rockefeller real es-
tate in New York;. Grimm appointed
on his committee the presidents of
the New York Chamber of Com
merce, the Merchants Association,
and the New York Board of Trade,
all bosses representatives, the crowd
that is behind the Fusion Party.
The Unternlyer- Grimm Tammany
tax plan was designed to fool the
workers into believing that u the
rich were to bear the taxes, p the
money raised would go for relief. This
is a swindle. AS matter of fact the
taxes proposed and since adopted by
the united front of Tammany and the
Republicans are passed to the work
ers and evaded by the rich. The funds
raised would go to the bankers and
not for relief.
Out of the $40,000,000 to be raised
by the taxes assuming that the rich
will not evade them the lump sum of
$25 100000 will go to the bankers to
redeem city relief securities. At the
most only $15,000,OO0 would be avail
able for relief. But a good half of
the $15,o0O,O00 will go in salaries and
graft. Tam1nany talks of the Inter
nryer tax as a tax for relief; yes, for
the relief Of the bankers!
Under the Untermyer-
tax program a 30 per cent increase in
the water rates is already going into
effect. This means a $12,00O,O00 in
crease in the rent bill of workers
families; since the landlords are al
ready passing the water tax along to
the tenants. Furthermore, the in
creased water tax will ruin additional
thousands of poor home owners al
ready facing foreclosure and the loss
of their homes.
The supposed taxes on the stock
exchange spectators (Which Tam
many has already completely given
up), rich banks and utility COM
panies, are blind behind which
Tammany is determined to continue
their starving the unemployed, plac-
ing heavier burdens on the working
population generally, and mortgaging
the income and welfare of the peo-
pie of the city to the bankers. While
the big noise is made by the repre-
SentativeS of the Stock Exchange, the
water tax is forgotten, the taxicab
tax goes into effect and Tammany is
oiling its machinery for jamming
through a S20,0OO,00O slash in the SAL
aries of the lower city employees,
already prepared by the Untermyer-
Peter Grimm Committee.
The Fusion Party is partner with
Tammany in this criminal hunger
conspiracy by the bankers directed
against the working people of the
Eity. With the slogan, Turn the ras-
,als out" LaGuardia and Fusion with
The aid of most of the capitalist press
and the Socialist leaders attempt to
turn the attention of the masses of
voters away from the real issues of
relief, and the bankers raid on the
dwindling incomes of the workers.
LaGuardia and Fusion have not said
one word on relief; not syllable on
the crushing burden forced upon the
unemployed, part time and poor
workers and home owners. "Should
become Mayor in 1884, I must use
my best efforts to pay off the debts
Of the previous administration says
LaGuardia boastfully, in an inter-
view OF Sept. II, 1888. His first and
last thought is for the bankers. Not
word about relief to the starving
unemployed-not a word about bread
for the hungry children of the
workers.
Fusion will not propose any taxes
on their rich bankers and the inter-
ests they serve. They hope to fool
the masses into being swept into Of
flee on an anti Tammany issue. and
after election proceed to carry through
the orders of the bankers, to fulfill
the program Of Tammany. Fusion as
well as Tammany have set the time
for the boost in subway fares i'm
mediately after the elections. La
Guard1a, openly advocated an in
crease in subway fares even a year
ago. Fusion serves the same masters
AS Tammany. Behind Fusion are the
same multi millionaire Chadbournes,
WinthrOpS, Cunninghams, the house
OF Morgan and Rockefeller. The pro-
gram Of Fusion is the program of
Tammany. Both are the programs of
the bankers: starving the unemployed,
lashing the salaries of city en-
ployees, increasing the tax burden on
the workers and poor consumers.
The Socialist candidate for Mayor,
Charles Solomon, has given his APP
proval to the Untermyer tax program.
He speakers against the water tax,
but he heartily accepts the whole pro-
gram, because he says, "It's tax
on the rich to provide for relief" ION
the whole It Is good, very good, and 1
certainly approve it." says Solomon.
This is precisely what Tarnmanv Hall