The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-08
NY. Councils
Call Meeting
On Relief Tax

NEW YORK.-The Unemployment
Councils of Greater New York, in
call issued yesterday, called upon
all employed and unemployed work
esr to mass at the City Hall, Fri
day, Sept. IA, when the Council
delegates will present a relief tax
program to the Board of Aldermen
for financing winter relief. The
Council statement follows;
ON Sept. IA Mayor LaGuardia
and the Board of Aldermen will
make sharp cuts in the relief APP
preparations. At that meeting of
the Board of Aldermen, they will
try to pass bill to raise between
s35 100000 and S50,000,000 for next
years relief appropriations This
money will be raised by taxing the
wages of the employed, the small
salaried people and the small shop
keepers. Taxes will be levied on
sales and carfareS.
The amount to be raised will be
less than the appropriations of last
year in spite of the fact that thou
sands are being added daily to the
relief rolls and the price of living
is steadily rising.
The fight that LaGuardia is
making against Whalen, who open
ly represents big business and the
bankers, and the opposition of
the Board of Aldermen are all a
mockery and the worse form of
demagogy. Their program is one
cut home relief, make work relief
forced labor, deprive thousands of
those who are now on relief of their
starvation relief, tax the poor and
save for the bankers and big bust
ness the millions in profits that
they robbed from the workers I'M
der the Roosevelt New Deal
The LaGuardia administration
is already preparing all forms of
police terror and brutality, discrim-
nation against Negro and foreign
born masses, against those who may
dare oppose their starvation pro-
gram.
The Unemployment Councils of
Greater New York call upon all the
toiling masses, the unemployed, the
small shopkeepers TO demonstrate
against this attack on our stand
ards of living.
I'VE demand that increased and
adequate appropriations be made
for the next six months. Sixteen
million dollars per month sill be
needed to supply lowest minimum
of $40 per week per family and
seven dollar per week for the home
less men and women. This will
provide for the 100000 families on
the relief rolls and the estimated
100000 families receiving no re-
lief at all and the 10000 homeless.
We demand that the city tax the
bankers and big business; de-
clare moratorium on the debt
service charges, payments of inter-
est to the bankers and turn over
this average of $16,000,000 per
month for the unemployed. Abro-
gate the Bankers Agreement and
release immediately the $4,000, 900
which is set aside as security and
use it for the unemployed. Faxes
on tax exempt church and other
foundation property; taxes on stock
transactions will provide immediate
funds to meet any additional funds
needed for relief.
Organize demonstrations in every
neighborhood for immediate pay
mont Of relief.
Demand that your alderman
support these demands.
B uild Unemployment Council
locals in your neighborhood to lead
in these fights.
Demonstrate at the City Hall on
Friday, Sept. IA in support of your
delegation an d these demands
which will be presented to the
Board of Aldermen.
Demand that the Board of
Aldermen support the call for
special session CT the State Legis-
lature to be held Oct. 10 to pass a
State Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill pending the
passage Of a similar bill by the Fed
eral government.
UNEMPLOYMENT COUNCILS,
GREATER NEW YORK"