The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-26
fight AGAINST BLACkL|STS!
Amter Puts
Relief Plan
To Mayor
Tells LaGuardia How To
Tax, While Jobless
Mass Outside

NEW YORK.-Unemployed and
relief workers and homeless men
maSsed at City Hall yesterday and
threw a picket line around City
Hall Park while representatives of
the jobless presented relief de-
mands to Mayor LaGuardia at the
open hearing on his three tax
schemes to finance unemployment
relief in New York City.
Israel Amter, secretary OF the
National Unemployment Council
and Communist candidate for gov
ernor of New York State, speaking
in the name of the Communist
Party, demanded that new fields of
taxation be opened by taxes on cor
porations and utilities, stock trans
fers and large realty holdings, and
that the present administration
scrap the Bankers Agreement and
stop the payments to the bankers
under the debt service, in order to
meet relief obligations.
1--WE are just as much opposed to
the proposals made by the Board
Of Aldermen as we are opposed to
those made and to be made here
by the representatives of big bust
ness" Amter said. I'VE are opposed
to these proposals because even by
the calculations of the city they
will bring in an insufficient
amount. These plans mean that the
jobless in New York will face worse
starvation than they have even up
the present"
City Taxes Aimed at Workers
Launching into an attack upon
the present relief tax schemes,
Amter pointed out that these taxes
are directed in the main against
the working population. Amter
pointed to the discrimination
against Negroes, Latin-Americans
and italian workers on the relief
lists and demanded that the pres
ent relief budgets be increased to a
sum equal to the relief needs of
the families of the jobless.
Pointing out that there are
100000 families in New York who
are joblesS and need relief in ad-
dition to 10000 young men and
women, Amter demanded that the
city provide $40 week relief to
families and 81 week to single
workers as the very minimum
which the unemployed would ac-
cept.
ITO finance this" Amter declared,
I'VE say that if the unemployed
have been compelled to live on
miserable relief for six years then
it is time for the bankers to give
up their loot"
Unemployment Insurance
Finally" Amter declared, though
we have heard a great deal about
unemployment insurance both from
you and from President Roosevelt,
we declare that there is only one
unemployment insurance bill that
will help the situation beyond the
palliatives that have been proposed
or adopted. This is unemployment
and social insurance as embodied
IN the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill. We ask and demand
that the Board of Alderman and
you, Mr.. LaGuardia, endorse this
bill and petition the United States
government to enact it into law"
Isidore Begun, of the Unem-
ployed Teachers Association, de-
manding that adequate relief funds
be provided for the jobless through
taxation on the bankers and the
rich, declared, IF the city can go
bankrupt insofar as the jobless are
concerned and stop relief payments,
then it can go bankrupt insofar as
the bankers are concerned and stop
the payment of their loot"
Begun, who was fired from the
city schools for his activity in be-
half of the teachers, in answer to
LaGuardia's challenge to the state
ment that workers were starving
offered to take him to Harlem where
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