The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-29

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Estate, the mayor declared. Nov. g
or 7 will be the date of the mayors
meeting. 1t will probably be held
at City Hall.
This planned action of Republican,
Democratic and Fusion mayors
throughout the state-to be followed
promptly by mayors in cities
throughout other states-is a clear
example of the methods by which
the capitalist class. through its local
governmental officials, is thrusting
the burden of the crisis more and
more on the backs Of the toiling
population - the workers. farmers.
professionals, and small business
people.
its local governmental officials, is
thrusting the burden Of the crisis
more and more on the backs Of the
toiling population the workers,
farmers, professionals, and small
business people.
An examination Of the LaGuardia
tax and relief policies illustrates this
quite we'll. It is of particular in
terest to workers all over the coun-
try because of the place New York
City holds among municipalities.
New York has always been regarded
as something Of pace-setter in
CITY matters. Policies laid down by
a New York City administration on
unemployment relief, taxation, labor
policy, ETC.. find quick echo
throughout the land,
LaGuardia plays no mean role in
all this. AS a demagogue par ex-
cellence. he has a national reputa-
ton as a pseudo-radical, a leader Of
such mealy- mouthed "progressives"
as Norris, Nye. the LaFollettes, etc.
Bankers Policy
The actual picture of the relief
and tax situation in New York City,
stripped Of the LaGuardian verbal
smoke-screen. shows beyond any
doubt that the LaGuardia policy is
bankers policy, one directed at
taxing the great masses of the city
to continue the payment of inter-
est to the Morgan Rockefeller
banks. the real rulers of the policies
Of the CITY.
Mayor LaGusrdia, with appro-
pirate theatrical gestures. has
shouted time and time again that
the unemployed Of New York City
will not starve so long as he is
Mayor. He, Fiorello LaGuardia,
would never never let the city be
a slave to the Wall Street bankers
and the wicked public utilities.
But who will benefit by the new
! sales taX2
4 Evidently not the wage Garner or
the small business man. 1t will cut
the already low reduced purchasing
/ power Of the worker and. especially.
the jobless person on relief. For
I the small storekeeper it will be
/ disastrous, since the large stores will
be, despite all their protestations,
1 far more able to absorb the levy
than the little merchant.
/ Relief Cases Closed
Consider the background. Relief
: is being slashed in New York. On
/ Tuesday. the same day that the
! Beard of Aldermen adopted the
! sales tax, 1t was announced with
! high giles by the Depa- tment of
welfare that 14,130 families we're
thrown off the relief rolls. This
cases were closed"
There is BY no means an acci-
! dental relation between the drive
/ on the relief rolls and the passage
of the sales tax. IT Is all part of the
/ concentrated drive by the WALL
j Street-LaGua~dia- Tammany forces
on the working population of the
| city.
/ Relief cases are being closed. In-s
! vestigations have become regular
1 shopping processes. Almost every
/ last bit of resources at the disposal
of a family-savings, insurance, etc.
must be gone before families will
be put on the miserable relief.
Coal was not given families until
about one month after am-heated
/ apartments were given heat. The
| cry that "Chiselers and aliens are on
I tfe relief rolls" has been taken up
/ the wolf pack Of Wall Street. One
I OF the aldermanic jackals, John
( Cashmere, Brooklyn Democrat,
made the charge at Tuesdays ses-
sion of the Board of Aldermen that
lCefstNssed on Pn9s ~