The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-23
SATURDAY, JUNE %, 1884
MoIey Is on the Spot With
TheMayor andPolice Chief

THE campaign for ousting Police Com
1 missioner Organ and the driving from
public life as a liberal of his chief La
Guardia must not be allowed to obscure the
decisive part played in the terror drive
against Communists and the unemployed
by Raymond Moley and the Chief Execu-
tive whose closet advisor he is 1t was Raymond
Moley, editor of the magazine To-day" financed
by the millions of Vincent Aston, who gave the
signal for this drive of brutal reaction.
It has been a long time since New York City has
felt such white hot of mass anger as that
now sweeping around Mayor La Guardia's throne,
swirling around his brutal Police Commissioner
Organ, making both these demsgogues sweat.
Perhaps La Guardia and organ will remember
now such cases are that of Patsy Augustine, striking
food workers leaders who was beaten burned with
cigarette butts given the water cure" and tor
mented for 10 hours in the best fascist style. Ger
tanIy they will not forget for long time the series
of planned and bloody attacks by their police on the
unemployed
La Guardis and Organ must go!
The varied social classification of the people
whose names are on the police red list" show it
for what it is-a fascist list 1t includes hundreds
Of names of people who in spite of the fact that the
great majority of them are opposed to Communism
and most bitter enemies of the Communist Party
have some regard for science the arts and culture
in general The police secret list is medieval in its
sll-embracing character. 1t compares only with
the lists of the great inquistOn and those Of Hitler
ism and Italian fascism
1t is doubtful if La Guardia and organ would
have had the nerve to start the armed police
saults on unarmed and hungry unemployed, under
the glise of quelling the red menace" if they had
not believed they had the backing of the Roosevelt
administration.
Never has the art of provoking police off,
Gals been developed to the extent used by Com
munsts," wrote Moey in To-day" for May o.
Most of the riotng in the squares of our larger
industrial cities around factories and before relief
offices and police stations is kept bOiling-mOre Of
ten than not it is started-by card-carryng mem
bers of the Communist Party" wrote McAlister Cole
in Today for May 26 in article procured
by Moley and paid for out Of the Aston millions
The first bloody clubbing of the unemployed oc-
CURED on June 2. Three pages of the May 26 issue
of To-day" unofficial mouthpiece of the Roose-
welt administration, devoted to SANDER of and
infamous provocation calculated to incte the police
to murderouS attacks against Communists and all
who support their program any part of it.
The Mirror took it's cue from Moley The Herald
Tribune, never at odds with any administration in
arrives against Lne working class or any Sectl0n OF
it, outdd itself in seconding the Moley motion for
terror and suppression and the Mirror amendment
for determination" of the Communists The
Herald Tribune, absoying the police from all blame,
tried to picture Communists gangsters
The authorities here dealing NOT with
social doctrine but WITH ORGANIZED CRIME,
for which it would be a costly folly to make any
more allowances than they do for THE CRUEL
AND VICIOUS LIBERTIES THAT THE UNDER
WORLD TAKES WITH THE PUBLIC" EN-
phasis ours-Edtor).
The stage was set for wholesale attacks on the
unemployed, strikers and their Sympathizers-while
the police force gave complete protection to open
fascist activities.
~ and want by police clubs and mass atrocities
failed
The Daily Worker exposed the criminal con-
spiracy. 1t called New York workers, employed
and unemployed, to organize and smash it.
Mayor La Guardia and his police commissioner
have been caught redhanded-we use the word ad-
Wsedly. Their hackers, Raymond Motley the multi
millionaire Aston and the Roosevelt mouthpiece
To-day" are also exposed.
Meanwhile the conditions of the unemployed
masses get worse. Some $4,000 are to be dropped
from the relief rolls. This must not happen
~ The administration of relief must be placed in
the hands of committees elected by the mass or
CARNATIONS of the unemployed
La Guardia and Organ must go. They have
shown themselves to be the little tyrants of the
big bankers and employers. Sweep them out of
Office on a wave of mass anger they have aroused
They are the enemies of every worker!