The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-18
JOBLESS STORM
RELIEF BUREAUS
In NE W YORK
Delegation in Harlem
Forces Withdrawal
of Police

NEW YORK.-Mayor LaGuardia
yesterday Instructed Welfare Com
missioner william Hodson to re-
lease for payment all checks for
unemployment relief which have
been held up since last Friday, fol-
lowing the refusal of the Board OF
Aldermen to vote the LaGuard1a
one-half of 1 per cent business tax
to provide unemployment relief.
This action followed a conference
between the heads of ten N. R. A.
code administrators and LaGuardia
at City Hall yesterday, where an
agreement was reached to launch
a municipal lottery and tax meas
ures for relief. The other two Tea
lures of the plan are a city income
tax equal to Is per cent of the Fed
eral Tax, and a gross business tax
of one-tenth of one per cent on
yearly receipts above $4,000.
Meanwhile unemployed and
relief workers stormed every Home
Relief Bureau throughout the city
Yesterday demanding immediate
payment of relief. Mass picket
lines were thrown around the sta
tons in defiance of the large mobi-
lization of police.
In upper Harlem, 500 Negro work
ers, led by the Harlem Unemploy-
ment Council, massed before the re-
lief station at 1871 w. 135th st. Two
radio cars and a number of police
responded to a call put in by the
relief official. A mass delegation
of seventeen workers elected at the
meeting pushed through the police
Gordon and forced Lillian Mason,
relief administrator, to order the
withdrawal of the police.
The New York District of the
Communist Party, exposing the La
Guardia tax maneuvers as an at
tempt to bludgeon the unemployed
and employed workers into accept
ance of new taxation upon the
working masses. yesterday called
for an increased struggle against
the LaGuardia schemes. The Con-
munist statement follows:
"The warning of the Communist
Party that the LaGuardia admin
istration, in behalf of the bankers,
is maneuvering to cut relief, to put
through the fare tax, wage and
sales taxes, is being borne out in
life. It is now evident that the
original LaGuardia tax proposals
and the Whalen, business men.
Board Of Aldermen revolt was
cleverly staged by LaGuardia to
deceive the masses. The LaGuardia
plan was never meant to be car
RED through. The whole thing is
a criminal conspiracy to give the
masses of the unemployed the hun
ger cure, to prepare for the in
creased fare, to guarantee the
bankers interest through forcing
the unemployed on private charity
institutions and force the entire
burden of unemployed relief upon
the dwindIing incomes of the en-
pIoyed.
1.-THE criminal stopping of all re-
lief payments is the black-ja La
Guardia is welding for the bank
ers in order to bludgeon the en-
ployed and unemployed masses.
There are plenty Of funds in the
hands of the city to continue and
increase cash relief payments for
all unemployed. LaGuardia would
rather starve the unemployed, and
drive still lower the incomes of the
employed workers and small con-
sumers rather than touch a single
penny of the bankers loot.
THE Communist Party calls
upon the workers. employed and
unemployed. to rally at each home
relief bureau, and the homes of
their aldermen, to drown the Board
of Aldermen and Mayor LaGuardia
with tidal wave of protests. De-
mand that cash relief payments be
restored Immediately. Fight against
fare, wage or sales taxes. Demand
from the city Observation-Disclosures
the rich. Tear up the bankers
agreement.
1.-THE Communist Party endorses
and fully supports the call of the
United Action Committee and the
Unemployment Councils for a
mighty mass demonstration at City
Hall on Sept % for immediate
adequate appropriations for winter
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