The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-08
Mass Welfare
Is Main Issue
Continued from Page u

terestS. The Communist Party bases
itself on one fundamental principle
to fight for and advance the in
terests of the working class. 1t is
the party of the working class"
Wall Street Rule
Continuing in answer to some o.
my questions, Amter, his long fin.
ger pointed to give emphasis to hi,
words, declares:
"Just look at the situation II
New York state. We have a Wal
Street banker for Governor. We
have a Wall Street tool for Mayor
And the whole Legislature and gov
eminent machine is nothing but
the machine that gives the big
boys what they want. And this is
not because New York is some ex-
ception in this country. It is be-
cause the government machine OF
New York is just like every
part of the present government
machine all over the country, from
Roosevelt down to the cheapest
sheriff-nothing but the tool and
instrument of the employers, land
lords and the bankers"
and that is the reason" he ex-
claimed with growing warmth
why more than one million work
erS in New York go hungry every
day while LaGuardia hands over to
handful Of about fifteen bankers
more than $120,0Oo,000 every year
in bond payments. That is the rea-
son, the employers can cut wages
and have police smash picket lines
when the workers organize to fight
back by striking. That is the rea-
son Governor Lehman's banking
firm is making millions in profits
out Of its investments in milk COM
panies like Borden and Shelf
field, while the small farmers up
state are losing their farms to the
mortgage holders and bankers"
What do the other parties pro-
pose to do about these thingsP"
Anlter questioned. "TThey can do
nothing but make them worse, for
they are capitalist parties who are
responsible for this hunger amid
plenty"
Main Issue
What would you say is the main
issue in this election?" I asked.
THE answer is given in very
plain language in our election plat
form" Amter replied. Listen" he
said, reading to me from the penny
leaflet which the Communist Party
is distributing by the thousands in
this campaign.
"The issues the Communist Party
raises in this campaign are the is
sues of the welfare of the workers
and farmers, Of the clerical and
white collar employees at the ex-
penSe Of the bankers and trust bill
lionaires," he read.
'"That is why we say boldly and
bluntly that the State mus. stop
appropriating over S10G,C0a,G0G ev-
cry year for police, over S250,000, 600
every year for the payment Of Wall
st. bond interest, instead it should
Immediately set aside $500, OO0, 900
for emergency unemployed relief
without adding one cent of taxes to
the already too great burdens on
the harassed small home owners,
and without taking one cent of the
too small salaries of the state en-
ployees."
In the clash of issues in this
campaign, there is really one major
clash OF issues" Amter said. ut is
really the clash between the private
investments of the Wall Street
banks and the needs of the majority
of the people.
Hundreds of thousands of work
ers starve-because LaGuardia is
carrying out the Infamous Bankers
Agreement where the city mortgages
itself to guarantee the profits of the
National City Bank and the Guar
anty Trust Company, Morgan
Rockefeller banks.
Working class children must get
less milk-because Governor Leh-
mans Milk Control Board is cur
failing production, is robbing the
small dairy farmers, and is guar
anteeing the Milk Trusts 300 per
cent profit on every quart.
THE schools are being closed.
teachers salaries slashed, standards
built up through years of effort,
degraded and cheapened by pro-
fessional patriots of the Board of
observation-disclosures LaGuardia and
Lehman will spare nothing that is
vital to the peoples welfare in their
servitude to the Wall Street baks."
A Communist Governor
"WHAT would you as a Commu-
W mist Governor do" I asked
Amter. His reply was quick and
firm.
1 would continue to act in Of
flee as do out of it. I would
act as Communist, as a member
OF the revolutionary party of the
working class. I would act imme-
diately with energy and determine
tlon to raise the daily, material well
fare OF the masses no matter what
this would do to the precious Bank
ers Agreement or any other prop