The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-01
For a Wider Fight Against
The Sales Tax!

OPPOSITION against the sales tax in
" New York City is growing.
Workers and small business men of
New York, already staggering under the
burdens of the crisis, are fighting back
at this new load as never before.
Hundreds of thousands of people are beginning
to see through the LaGuardia shamming They
are beginning to see the Wall Street bankers as the
actual string pulers of the puppet mayor and the
puppet aldermen
But the opposition to the sales tax must grow
hundred-fold if this robber levy is to be defeated
Delegation upon delegation must visit local alder
men demanding that they rescnd their votes in
favor OF the sales tax Resolutions and kilograms
should be sent Mayor LaGuardia demanding that
he veto the bill when it comes before him We'd
nesday.
Above all the cry must ring out clear and strong:
Tax the bankers! Tax the large corporations!
Tax wealth!
MAYOR LAGUARDIA and his Tammany "oppo-
AVA nents, under pressure of the masses of the city
decided to cover their trail somewhat They there
fore proposed to strike nice balance they would
tax the masses and then tax the utilities
sl5O0o0O0 and inheritances So 100000. This was
designed to show how beautifully impartial Mr.
LsGuardia and the Board of Aldermen were They
would soak the rich" tool
The Communist Party and its central organ the
Daily Worker, have already commented on this
bluff Suffice it to repeat here the utilities intend
either to pass the tax onto the consumers or hold
1t up through endless lawsuits This is already
openly limited at in the capitalist press
Actually, therefore, the main weight of the tax
burden will fall on the masses of the city. 1t will
mean lower purchasing power and thus literally
less food for workers and their families
THE transit tax, that is the 7 cent fare, has not
yet been defeated Not by long shot.
LaGuardia, Tammany and the bankers are sim
ply keeping this in the background for while
When the masses become thoroughly disguised with
the sales taxes and constant relief crises-such is the
strategy of the bankers and the administration
then Will be the proper time to trot out the transit
tax 1t will be placed before the masses of the ctv
OF New York exactly in the same fashion as the
orlgand places revolver at the temple of his vic
tim. "Pay-or else :" Subway riders the ma
Jorlty OF whom are workers and unemployed will
be told that unless they pay an increased fare the
unemployed will starve. Payer else. :"
LII these plans of Wall Street and its city govern
~ ment can be defeated by organized united action
of the masses
united front of the people of the city of New
York, OF workers, professionals little business men
small homeowners, people of all shades o. political
opinion can defeat the sales transit or any other
such tax. A united fight can compel LaGuardia
to place the tax burdens on the banks and the
proht-swonen corporations. united fight of mass
proportions can compel the administration to take
the approximately $18000oo00 set aside in the 1925
budget for interest and principal to the bankers and
use it for unemployment relief
That united fight is the need of the hour In
every neighborhood in every shop in every fraterna
organization, that fight should be taken up imme-
dlateiy. The opposition to the Wall Street-La-
Guardia Iammany tax plans must grow hun
dred- fold.