The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-03
LaGuardia Begins the Attack

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MAYOR LAGUARDIA newly indicted into ONCE has
h already given unmisakable indication of what he
intends to do within the coming weeks.
Every of his utterances has been fairly
open promise of coming assault against the working
class population Of the City.
Lacuardia has been chosen to continue the City
policy of protecting the Wall Street loans The previ
Tammany administration has become too raw, too
discredited in the eyes Of the masses, to
adequate instrument Of the Wall Street bankers. La
Guardia now takes OBrien's place as a Mayor of
reform" as fighter against graft"
He is at the present moment inaugurating a few
cstchpenny Investigations into graft" He will delber
atey make big fuss about "the crooks" and graft"
In the end, nothing will be done New crooks and
grafters OF the Fusion stripe viii displace the Tam
many crooks. And only in a few cases, at that.
Meanwhile, behind this camOuflage, LaGuardia will
drive ahead to out the wishes and dictates Of the
Wall Street bankers!
EVERY ONE Of LaGuardias remarks is concerned
with what to him is the urgent necessity of
balancing the budget" What does that mean? Simply
that LaGuarda is driving ahead to the fufllment of
his prediction pledge to the group Of Morgan-Rocke
Teller Wall Street bankers who financed and organized
his campaign.
That pledge to guarantee the safety of the
Citys bonds in which these bankers hold hundreds
regular and punctuaI payments by the City Of the
huge interest tribute Of S1OOO00OOO year thai these
Wall Street bankers exact from the Citys population.
Before February l, the City must assure itself of
$40000000 additional income to pay the bankers or
slash wages and expenses by that amount That is
what LaGuardia means by balancing the budget"
That is what he promised the bankers.
IN THE LIFE and death question of adequate relief
for the jobless and their families, LaGuarda has
declared that the present state of the budget"
qures that all relief be administered scientifically"
For every jobless worker, for every workingclaSs
mother who is trying to keep her children alive on
the scraps Of food that handed out through the
sow-moving, brutal relief agencies of the CITY, that
can have only one meaning 1t less to eat
less for shelter and warmth. 1t the spreading
Of the present relief appropriation greater num-
Der of jobess.
If LaGuardia is so interested in science why does
he not make scientific slash in the $500 100000 in
terest payments that the City hands over the Wall
Street banks? Why does he not make a Scientific"
slash in the fat salaries of the top office holders?
IN THE QUESTION of the scent fare, IaGuardia
v yesterday shot out:
Certainly there is beating about the bush
You can't have your credit shot to pieces and expect
to exchange city securities for property"
He here that he will soon take measures
adequate fare" He is planning to exchange city
securities for property" and maintain the high value
of these Securities"
That is to say, he is planning TO turn to the
present stockholders and bondhOlders of the sub
ways (the Wall Street bankers) a new issue of City
bonds in exchange for their" property the subways
in plan of "unification."
And in order to guarantee the City payments ON
these bonds he will introduce IAN adequate fare
the 7-cent fare
On the subject Of wages for Civil Service en-
ployees LaGuardia has already taken grim steps about
whose outcome there cannot be any doubt. He has
asked the State Legislature to give him power to effect
what he is pleased to call major operation" in order
to raise the necessary pay the Wall Street
bankers And this means that City employees of the
school system the various hospital welfare educational
services Of the city headed for another sharp
cut-unless they fight!
In its totalty, LaGuardias program is the pro-
gram of the Morgan Rockefeller banks who chose him
THE COMMUNIST PARTY is the only party in the
City that calls for organized resistance to this Wall
Street program It calls for the organization the
obess against relief cuts for higher relief 1t raises
the following demands and calls for practical steps
Of organization to execute them
The Communist Party is the only party which has
issued demands and slogans that express the real
Of the of the City 1t calls for organization
to effect the following immediate program:
Not cent to the bankers!
Adequate cash relief to all unemployed without
discrimination
Against salary wage cuts of any kind
Against any increase in subway fares!
No discrimination against Negroes, especially on
jobs or relief!
For the unlimited rights of the workers TO or
ganize, strike and picket!
Against injlhctions and compulsory arbitration!
For Unemployment and Social Insurance at the
expense of the government and employers!
Against any curtaiIment OF educational facilities!
The working population of New York City, the
jobess the professionals and lower middle classes will
have to grid themselves for bitter struggle against the
administration Of the new Mayor, LaGuardia, If they
want to beat back what very clearly appears