The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-28
SOCIALIST PARTY CANDIDATES SUPPORT
ENTIRE TAMMANY- BANKERS PROGRAM;
DON'T EVEN MENTION NEGRO WORKERS
Socialists Are Sorry
Roosevelt Isn't
One of Them

| for all honest intellectuals and pro-
| fessionals to examine the pretenseS
of the Socialist Party; to find out the
| attitude, record and deeds Of the So
cialist Party on all the basic issues
confronting the working masses. 1t
is more urgent than ever for the
workers, and particularly for all fol-
lowers and members of the Socialist
Party, to compare words with deeds.
The Socialist Party platform speaks
1bout Increased appropriations for
| unemployment relief sufficient to pro-
ide the basic necessities of life
| God, clothing and shelter" How
, much relief is sufficient" relief? The
| platform doesn't say but an article
in the New Leader, Sept 16, 1898, calls
! for a total of 10 million a month for
relief, a figure even lower than that
| set by such an open capitalist agency
as the Committee Of the United
Neighborhood Houses Of New York,
who say, "a monthly grant Of IS
million is necessary for decent care
of those needing relief" And this is
only IS per cent of what is actually
needed for relief.
The S. P. leaders boast that: "The
Socialist Party has plan. 1t in
cludes: Government administration
as illustrated by Milwaukee" So let
us look at Milwaukee, the city with
a socialist administration. According
to the Milwaukee Journal, Jan. 10,
1882. "relief rations for an average
family of five, man and wife and
three children for two weeks, is
$263."
The platform says that Teachers
who protest against conditions are
prosecuted and victimized," and then
goes on to advocate "the elimination
of censorship over the religious, poll
tical and economic views of the teach
ers and students" while the Socialist
leaders of the Teachers Union, Lef- |
kowitz and Co., expelled a whole num-
Der of the best fighters against sal
airy cuts and denounced them to the
Board of Education.
Again-Words and Deeds!
The Socialist platform complains
that 1.-THE city government is in the
hands of corrupt and incompetent
political machine" Public officials
were shown to be faithless to their
| trust, obedient to big business and in
alliance with the underworld" But
the S. P. candidate for Mayor, Charles
Solomon, has not hesitated in sharing
in this graft and corruption dealt out
| by Tammmany to their hangers-on!
In May, 1880, he received two ap-
pointments as referee in a foreclosure
| action in Brooklyn, one from Tam
many Judge John B. Johnston, q Nc
Cooey tool; and one from Republican
Judge James C. Cropsey, anti-labor
injunction judge. This form r. graft
has been condemned even by lawyers
associations with their low ethical
standards. In the special interview
in the World-Telegram, Oct. 10, inst,
Solomon boasts of his friendship with
Tammany crooks and his great adj
miration for boss Flynn.
In New York City the S. P leaders
officially allied themselves with gang
sters, the police, the bosses, Tammany
Hall, and the A. F. of L.. racketeer
leaders to smash the fur workers
union. The Socialist Party leaders
support every racketeering underworld
official of the American Federation of
Labor. The worst kind of racketeer-
ing and underworld gangster rule ex-
lists in the Socialist controlled unions
| in New York. With the aid of the
underworld and Tammany police, the
Kaufmans, Shores, Hillmans, Dublin
skys, ETC., in the needle industry, the
zausners and Shapiros in the build
ing trades, etc., have been slugging
| of democracy and workers control,
have broken a thousand strikes and
betrayed the workers with fake stop
pages, and fake agreements.
Socialist neutrality-suspicious.,
Negro
The Socialist platform states: 1--WE
| demand again, and pledge our elected
representatives to work for the COM
plete abolition of the practice of is
suing injunctions in labor disputes"
But Charles Solomon, the s. P. cam
didate running on this anti-injunc-
ton platform, had his clerk apply for
an injunction against food workers
which resulted in the police murder
/ of Steve Katovis. Waldman takes out
injunctions against needle trades
workers. Furthermore, the Socialist
leader, Shore, took out an injunction
| for the fur bosses prohibiting them
| from employing members of the mil't
tant Fur Workers Industrial UnioI
This action was fully supported arr
approved by the New York City Conf
mittee of the Socialist Party. Again
, Words and Deeds.
The Socialist platform says that
1.-THE S. P. is unalterably opposed to
a tax program which further burdens
the poor" Yet Solomon has given
his approval to the Untermeyer-Tam-
many Bankers tax program ION the
whole it is good, very good, and /
certainly approve it," Under the new
! Untermeyer- Tammany tax program
a so per cent increase in the water
rate already went into effect. That
means a $12000,000 increase in the
rent bill of hundreds of workers fam
lilies, since the landlords are already
simply passing the increased water
rate along to the tenants. Solomon
supports the very tactic of Tammany
to plumber the workers, and starve I
the unemployed behind the smoke l
screen of taxing the rich"
1t is no accident that nothing at
all is said in the Socialist platform
about the most exploited, most OPP
pressed section of the working popu-
lation. the Negro people, Disseminated