The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-01
Workers Turnout U.s. Will Celebrate 10th Soviet AnniVersdr
Minor Hits Hunger
Budget Bank Deal
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not one of the biggest bankers OF
New York has paid a nickel in in
come tax in four years?
We demand such taxes Of these men
as are necessary to prevent mass
starvation in New York.
In adjusting taxes to meet the
great necessities of the present time
we propose to shift the burden en-
tirely away from small home own
ers, from tenants and from con-
sumers. Such taxes as the sales tax,
the outrageous tax on the water we
drink and the recently established
tax which literally steals IS cents a
day out of the pockets Of taxicab
drivers who are trying to live with
their families on $12 a week-are the
kind of taxes that make matters
worse and not better.
The proposals of other parties that
no greater taxes be levied but that
the needs be supplied by saving
money on political salaries (Which
should be reduced)-are absolutely
insufficient and constitute really a
program of cutting down unemploy-
ment relief to the zero mark.
Last December a resolution writ
ten by Chairman Mitchell, of the
National City Bank, and President
Aldrich, of the Chase National Bank,
was dictated to Mayor Mckee and
adopted verbatim by the Board of
Estimate. This resolution dictated
by the bankers, has become the basis
Of the budget policy of all parties
except the Communist Party. 1t die
tates a reduction in the wages of
City employees and implies a raising
of the transit fare from SC to &c or
10c. Under this agreement the city
continues to pay ,000,000-30 per,
cent of its income-in debt service to
the banks in preference to all other
things. This is the starvation rule
that is responsible for the non-pay-
ment on unemployment relief - the
doubling of the infant death-rate
among the unemployed.
Only last night Mayor O'Brien
signed a second agreement with the
banks binding the city until 1887 to
the same policy in consider" o'l for
a loan of $25,00o000, which should
have been raised from the same
bankers by taxation.
The Communist Party proposed
that in making a new budget the
people of New York repudiate this
death-laden agreement.
Not a budget policy dictated by
the bankers, but one shaped to the
needs Of human life for the masses!
However, we propose to meet
many of the needs by means addi-
tional to taxation. For instance,
there are 100000 empty apartments
in New York, while tens of thou
sands of unemployed workers and
their families are being evicted. We
propose that the city take over all
of these apartment houses that are
owned by big corporations and use
them for the free housing of unem-
ployed families. We object to the
proposal Of the Socialist Party that
the city appropriate $40,000,000 to
pay rents to landlords. Such money
must be appropriated not for land
lords but for unemployed workers.
The city should pay rents of unem-
ployed workers only to the small
landlords and should in all cases
make it crime before the law to
eVict any unemployed person for nom
payment of rent.
We propose at the same time that
the city budget include very large
! proportion of funds for the building
of schools, hospitals and new apart
ment houses TO relieve the housing
shortage and to employ the building
| trades workers. We demand as a
further measure of unemployment re-
! lief the breaking up of segregation
of Negroes, forbidding by law that
larger rents are charged to Negroes
than are charged to whites, and
making it crime to refuse accom-
modations to Negro tenants because
Of their race.
1t is imperative to raise the stand
ards of living, the wage standards
of the working class. We propose,
in drafting the city budget, to allow
for appropriating funds from the
public treasury for strike benefits for
all groups of workers who through
strike action undertake to raise
wages.
There will be many legal objec-
lions to these measures. But these
are times Of great crisis in which
it is necessary to override the quib-
bles Of corporation lawyers. Many
will say that these proposals are i'm
| possible, but the Communist Party
points out that in the presence Of
such mass movement of the people
of New York this winter as is in
evitable under the lash of starvation
and worse crisis-legal bubbles will
have to be set aside as they have
been set aside before A mass move
ment led by the Communist Party
will set such legal bubbles aside. The
working class is compelled to fight
for its very life today.
The Communist Party is the revo-
lutionary Party. 1t is the only Party
which openly declares the necessity
for the revolutionary way out of the
crisis. All budget questions are small
and transient questions in such a
time as this. We hope to elect at
least some of the Communist Party
candidates to the city legislative
body and it requires but a word of
minder to show that fearless men
and women advoc2 Ting this program
will be able to realize very substan-
tial concessions if supported by the
masses of New York workers and
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