The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20
Fusion and Tiger
Continue DOg-Fight
Over Wage-Cut Bill
BY c. P. r.

NEW YORK.-The political dog
fight being waged over the passage of
LaGuardia's Emergency Economy Bill
continued over the weekend with
Postmaster General James A. Farley
attempt to win support for the bill
from State Senator John j. Dunnigan
and AsSemblyman Irwin Steingut
Both Dunnigam and Steingut, demo-
cratic leaders in the state legislature,
have been directing the fight against
the bill, which has twice been de-
feated at Albany.
While Governor Lehman and Far
ley have announced their support of
the measure, which aims to legalize
widespread wage-cuts and enforced
payless furloughs for city employees,
the Democratic opposition to the bill
has sprung from an together diff
ferent source.
Both Favor Wage Cuts
It is not against the payless fur
loughs nor the wage cuts for civil
employees that the Democratic CO.
llorts are waging their fight. 1t is
the third outstanding point In the bill
the power to abolish county jobs
that the Democrats in Albany are
lined up against. These county jobs
have for a long time provided poll
teal power. as well as lucrative spoils
and graft to the Tammany machine
Farley on Saturday did not succeed
in breaking down Steingut's and Dun
nigan's resistance to the bill because
the Tammany machine sees the
county offices, their source of fat
contracts and enormous graft for SC
many years, jeopardi5ed.
Economy for the Bankers
But LaGuardias aim is deeper than
just the attempt to effect a more
economical city government. It is
true that he is attempting to cut
down on city costs. But the teachers
the firemen and policemen-all city
workers whose wages have been OF
will be cut by the new administra-
tion-are, together with the masses
of New Yorks workers, bearing the
sole burden of LaGuardiaiS economies
The Chase National and National
City banks, to which $4,000 900 per
year will be paid for the next four
years under the terms Of the Inter
myer agreement, are the only ones
who will gain if the bill is passed
Moreover, whether the bill is finally
passed or not, the entire Fusion ad-
ministration is admittedly dedicated
to the safeguarding of the Wall Street
bankers loans.
Fear Loss of Jobs Power
Workers should not be fooled into
thinking that the Democratic legis-
lators have their interests in mind
when they oppose the Economy Bill.
THE objections (of the Democrats)
to the bill says yesterdays New
York Times "centered mostly in the
proposed grant of power to the Board
Of Estimate to abolish jobs and cut
salaries in county Offices"
The word mostly" in the above
quoted sentence could have been left
out had the Times been interested In
accuracy.
Workers are urged TO fight the La
Guardia Economy Bill, which is solely
a measure to increase the Wall Street
bankers strangle-hold over the
masses of New York-the same bank
ers who put LaGuardia into office.
They should fight it determinedly,
making clear that their opposition has
nothing in common with the Tam
many attempt to hold on to the graft
which Fusion is attempting to defect
into its own pockets.
Tammany and Fusion, workers
should remember, are under their
surface differences Of technique in
fooling and victimizing the masses,
birds Of tte same feather