The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
Defeat theLaGuardid-W Wall
Street Tax Program

THREE facts stand out above everything
else in the relief situation in New York
City:
l. Relief is being cut.
2. Relief rolls will be sIashed fur
Their.
3. The La Guardia administration is
attempting to place the cost of financing
relief on the shoulders of New YOrk's
tOiling population through scientific"
tax program and guarantee the billions
of Wall Street banks.
What the ruthless scheming, inhuman plans of
the bankers puppets in City Hall means in terms
Of human suffering is almost incalculabe. Slow
starvation, deaths, suicides, mounting rate Of in
sanity-these are what the relief-slashing Of the
administration actually signify.
new generation is growing into city of mis-
cry, generation which will pay in terms of tuber-
culosiS, rickets and variety of other diseases of
malnutrtion, for the cutting of relief and the new
tax burdens that banker-controlIed city admin
straton wishes to visit upon them Literally the
Wall Street bankers will receive an interest on their
loans to the city compounded with the blood and
bones of an agonized population
son reports 14,112 families were dropped from the
relief rolls. This is nothing more nor less than an
execution of the dictates of the bankers and their
spokesman in City Hall, who have raised the cry of
"Chiseler!" This cutting of the relief rolls was ac-
complished solely by forcing down the whole level
at which families must be in order to obtain relief
The most humiliating Investigations accompanied
by gagging of honest social workers within the re-
lief administration were the necessary means for
such slash.
At the same time the liberal" Mr. Hodson ad-
mts that 1900 families applied for relief in New
York who applied before. This means that
new sections of New York's population have ex-
hausted their meager reserves.
Unemployment is mounting Prices are rising
The little saving Of many workers who heretofore
have not applied for relief are almost gone 1t is q
matter of record that Mr. Hodson knows and has
admitted all these things.
In view of all of these facts relief must rise
relief expenditures the whole and the relief
given to each family
pUT the La Guardia administration is proposing
new tax program, scientific" series of levies
that will hit the masses of the city, that will cut
their already far too low purchasing power even
further. Comptroller McColdrick-who has no i'm
mediate worry about his political future and can
d11OIu 10 De 1Tdnk-SpeaKS IN TRUE voice OF the
La Guardia and Tammany forces. In the brazen
language of the bankers, McGoldrick demands a 2
cent subway fare tax payroll and sales tax
These are class taxes, taxes placed by the ad-
minstration against the toiling population in order
to meet the citys debts to the bankers to insure
a steady flow of gold into the Golfers of the Nor
gan-Rockefeller banks.
Any other scientific" measure that La Gaurdia
may concoct workers may be sure, will be a new
drive aimed at wringing more out of an already
$ half-starved populace.
Against these taxes and against the sashing
of relief the masses of New York City must set
their faces like flint LaGuardia, McGoldrick every
alderman, every city official must hear roaring
mol" from the workers, professionals, small bust
ness men and small home owners in New York to
the administrations scientific" tax plans
Let the bankers pay! Let the city suspend the
payment of the $3.50 900 900 interest on the bank
ers loans in 1885 pending the enactment of ade-
quate federal unemployment insurance. Tax the
utilities. Tax Wall Street. Tax large incomes Tax
large inheritances.
These proposals. advanced by the Communist
Party, can be supported by workers and other tax
payers of all shades of opinion. united fight of
Communists, Socialists, A. r. of L. members and
small taxpayers organizations can and must de-
feat the La Guardis bankers relief -slashing and
mass taxing schemes.
No time should be wasted in forming that united
front The lives and welfare of millions of people
are at stake.