The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-27
Party Life
Some Pointers
For Defeating
The Sales Tax
BY SAM STEIN

uPSA t44C DdSho VI eAAC NOAAAA6
masses Of New York is to be thrown
off, it will take more serious or
ganizational and agitational work
than we have conducted thus far.
There is entirely too much depen-
dence on leaflets, Daily Worker
publicity and mass meetings with
out the necessary preparation.
When the final sales tax hearing
was held at the Board of Estimate
meeting, only few hundred work
ers were present to protest. Thou
sands should have been there. We
did not reach the masses by per-
sonal contact in preparation for this
important meeting whose outcome
has affected the daily lives of all
New York workers. What is to be
done now? How can we force the
repeal of the sales tax?
House meetings should be called
throughout the city. Each Party
unit within the next ten days should
be made responsible for minimum
number Of such gatherings. Right
now there is tremendous indignation
against the tax. There is much talk
and some confusion about it. Ger
tsinly every revolutionary worker
working among the masses can con-
vince worker in his territory to
allow his home to be used for a
meeting to discuss the sales tax.
Once the home has been procured,
the next step should be to convince
the work of the necessity of himself
or herself rallying the rest of the
tenants in the house to the meet
ing. OF course. the Communists
should aid in this However, all
efforts should be made to develop
the initiative OF the non-revolution-
airy worker.
Arrangements for serving light
refreshments, tea, ETC., should be
made. At these meetings the speaker
following the line of the Daily
Worker, should explain the work
ings of the sales tax. the millions
being paid to the bankers by the
city and how the needs of the I'M
employed can be met by placing the
burden on the rich and the bank
toilers
The following should be suggested:
u Each person present should
make phone call to the alderman
demanding the repeal of the sales
tax and introduction of the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill into the Board of Aldermen.
p Delegations to visit the alder
man should be organized.
81 Protest cards should be writ
ten at the meeting by each person
present. Penny postcards and suffi-
Gent pen and ink or pencils to ex-
pedite this action should be on
hand.
A. Children's delegations to visit
the alderman's home.
81 Picket lines should be estab-
lished before aldermen's homes.
s. Mass meetings to follow the
picket lines, in turn to be followed
by demonstrations before alderman's
home should be organized.
y Resolutions endorsing the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance and demand
Ing support of H. R. 1898 should be
passed and sent to Congressman.
Boards pledging each person
present to get one or more persons
to carry out the same actions should
be on hand and should be signed
by all present.
81 Ballots for the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill CHR. 1893
should be on hand.
100 Appeals for membership in
the Women's Councils should be
made.
ID Anti-SaIes Tax Committees
should be established.
12) Petition lists should be dis
tributed.
1s) Daily Workers and appropriate
literature should be sold.
At least one and half hours
discussion by those present should
take place.
In summing up. as in the open
Ing talk, the speaker should not do
any name calling, but politically
expose the LaGuardia and Tam
many Hall members In the Board
of Aldermen.
The suggestions Of the workers
present should not be met with
Communist or revolutionary vanity
Careful attention and respect
should be given to suggestions Of
Tered and full use should be made
OF worthwhile steps suggested in ad
dition to those already enumerated
Leaflets popularizing the meetings
ana actions taking place with
masthead, such as the Anti Sales
Tax Voice or the like. should be
distributed at regular intervals.
Small storekeepers who are feel
ing the effects of the tax should be
supplied with petition lists for cir
culation among their customers
DELEGATIONS of small storekeepers
should be organized. Wherever
small storekeepers and pushcart
peddlers have organizations Gas they
have in Section u. they should be
visited and modified for this strug-
gle.
Every UNEMPLOYMENT Council
should pass resolutions against the
sales tax and pointing out how the
UNEMPLOYED can be provided for
should be sent to aldermen. Anti
sales tax resolutions should be
passed expressing solidarity with
employed workers who bear the
brunt OF the tax. They should be
mailed to the trade unions. They
should also be put in leaf1et form
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