The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-18

$4,000 to $4,000 for married persons,
and from $500 to 81 900 for single
persons. This move was in line
with Lehman's entire tax program,
to lay the heaviest tax burdens of
the state on those least able to bear
them, the working class, and the
lower middle class. In line with
this policy Lehman fought against
raising the one-hslf per cent tax
on the gross earnings of public
utilities to four per cent, an increase
which would have provided $685.
100000 for relief and welfare pur-
poses.
In its fight against the Wall
Street Governor. the Communist
Party, the revolutionary Party of
the working class, through its
candidate, Israel Amter, calls for
an immediate appropriation, by
means of heavy taxes en- the rich,
on big corporations, on Wall Street
banks and spectators, of $780,
100000 for emergency, unemploy-
ment winter relief. This working
class program of taxation, aimed
against Lehman's capitalist tax,
program, specifically provides
that there shall he no increased
taxes on the small property own
ers, no reduction in the salaries of
lower state employees, and no tax
alton on consumers goods. This
is plank Number Two in the New
York State Election Platform of
the Communist Party.
In his relations to the farm pro-
ducers of the state, Lehman has
ruthlessly pursued a capitalist pol
icy calculated to aid the biggest
milk monopolies and the large dairy
producers, at the expense of the
small farmers and the city con-
sumers. His Milk Control Board
has followed the crop-reducing pol
icies of the Roosevelt government,
smashing down the price the farmer
receives for his milk through the
Infamous surplus schedules.
Against Lehman's capitalist mo-
nopoly program in milk, the Com
munist Party supports the stand
Of the United Farmers League,
which demands minimum of
cents for the farmers and not
more than nine cents as a retail
selling price, thus cutting the
enormous profits of the monopoly
milk trusts. But Lehman, and
Moses as well, have the closest
ties with the Borden Milk Trust,
Lehman's Wall Street firm own
ing heavy investments in the milk
companies. And the policies of
these capitalist candidates will
always be directed toward protect
ing the monopoly profits against
the interests of the farmers and
consumers. As it is. the city work
ers pay 800 to 500 per cent more
for their milk than the small
farmer gets for it from the milk
trust.
Serve Utilities
On the question of the utilities
in New York, both Lehman and
Moses are active agents of the Con-
solidated Gas, Electric Bond and
Co., and the Associated Gas, which
dominate the state.
Lehman has introduced some
minor changes in the utility laws
permitting municipalities to run
their own power plants, but only
on the condition that the private
profit interests OF the big utilities
will not be hurt. Lehmans close
ties with Tammany Hall, with It's
bonds to the Consolidated Gas Com
pany monopoly, make him a toe
faithful servitor of the utilities tc
do anything else than protect theii
profits.
AS for Moses, he is blunt in his
pledge to serve his masters. Two
days ago, he stated publicly. IT an
for letting municipalities have
their own plants. l am not, how
ever, for the appropriation of pri-,
vate property without payment"
Communist Proposal
This is precisely where both Moses
as well as Lehman, as well as the
Socialist Party candidate Solomon
differ from the Communist Party
The Communist Party, as the revo-
lutionary party OF the working class
declares boldly that it looks upor
the gigantic electric light system,