The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-11
Bread ere Not Venom

AGUARDlA faces choice. Either he
~ can turn over large sections of the citv's
income to feed these starving families. or
ne can trample on the faces of these fami-
lies, and continue to pay the profit-bloated
Wall Street bankers their pound of flesh.
This pound of flesh amounts to nothing
less than s127ooo,OOO every twelve months or
s2,5OOO00 a week
Obeying, no doubt the orders issued bv La
Guardla at his secret press conference last week
the Daily Mirror" in yesterdays issue lets loose
Jet OF venom and filth against the Communists
which is an insult to every worker in the citv to
every honest and decent person Frothing at the
mouth, with poison which is greener than the sheets
upon which it is printed, the Mirror calls for
organized brutality and lynching attacks against
the Communist leaders of the jobless whom it calls
with that venality which is the hallmark of CAPT
talst journalism, those skulking rats"
Not only does the Mirror spit venom Hoping
That no one will notice the lie, its editorial states
that LaGuardia is spending s16OOoOO0 day for
relief. This would bring the annual BUDGET to
more than five billion dollars The actual citv
budget is less than half billion The truth is
that the city is not spending more than fvc or
six million dollars a month for the relief of more
than one million starving people, about IS month
per person.
This single detail illustrates fully and COM
pletely the level of the Mirror editorial the
spewer of LaGuardia anti-working class poison.
1t is not necessary for the workers of the city
or the Communist workers who are in the front
ranks of the fight for bread to descend to the
filthy depths where the Mirror habitually moves
to answer this gutter sheet
This frenzied venom which LaGuardia and his
prostitute press hurl at the Communist workers is
ha6p If iht1te
cringing servants of the Rockefeller Morgan banks
pay to the most militant and courageous fighters
against these bankers
WHAT do the "skulking rats" want? Charles
" Krumbein, District Organizer of the Commu-
mist Party in an interview in Saturdays Daily
Worker made the demands of the Communist work
ers wholly clear
The Communist Party, stated Comradc Krum-
bein, is the only party that is actually fighting
to see that the iohless workers and their families
get adequate food, that their babies get good
milk that their wives and children do not have
to feel the daily agony of hunger and want
We want the iobless to get rent from La
Guardia, instcad of being thrown like animals
into the street. declared Krunbein
We want LaGuardia to provide instead of
fat payments to his banker friends, minimum
of 81 week for all jcbIess workers and S. extra
for each dependent
We want the Negro people of this city to be
treated like human beings, we want an end to
the Grow oppression of the starving negro
workers who get only abuse from LaGuardia
not relief
We want more schools more relief and health
centers, more Fairgrounds. We want stun
clearance program that will provide Clean healthy
homes for the workers and their children Kruu,-
bein declared
The difference between us and LaGuardia is
that ne things his Rockefeller Morgan friends
are more important than feeding the icbless and
their children We think the starving iobless come
first, before any bunch of Wall Street crooks
that ever lived
BECAUSE the Communists put forward these de-
mands of the masses because they prepare and
lead the struggle for them they become yellow
dogs" to $4,000 year LaGuarda and "skulkng
rats" to the prostitute press of Wall Street
But to the workers they stand increasingly as
the bravest, most devoted defenders of the n2eds
OF the man in the street, of the needs of the
masses
The Communists are part and parcel of the
citys population, the most advanced and militant
section Of this population That is why LaGuardis
who is nothing but faithful watchdog Of the
Rockefencr-Morgan moneybags. spews his disgust
ing poison at them-or gets the Mirror to do it
for him.