McKee, Sudden Convert to "Economy", Untouched by Tragic Need of Unemployed
Rosner, Henry J.
By Henry J. Rosner McKee, Sudden Convert to "Economy", Untouched by Tragic Need of Unemployed Spectacular but Superficial "Savings" Only a Bid to Big Real Estate Interests Which Expect Tax...
...Harry I W. Laldler, "Congress and the Unemployed...
...No human being can K* ~_—1- kl...
...The Empire State Building, for example, pays a million dollars in taxes...
...Governor Roosevelt has not remembered them In his own state, where he has great power to aid the pobless...
...TN rily, state and nation, ¦ the Socialist Party is the only genuine political party which has a program ¦or unemployment...
...prominent speakers and artists...
...ris too bad that comrades who criticize the German Social Democracy can't spend a month or a year in Germany and acquaint themselves with conditions at first hand...
...9, 19,000 families' requests for help were pending...
...Its confidential weekly reports to the Commissioner of Public Welfare, made available to the Research Department of the Socialist Party, show that the city's appropriation for relief should have been doubled, if not tripled, in the past four months...
...28—8:15 p. m— Richard Rohman, Theatre Oulde...
...It is ihe only parly which would put such a program into effect...
...27—2 p. m., Jones Wilson and Peterson, Negro Spirituals...
...Our Social Democratic party is the rock to which the masses of the German workers will rally as the great struggle develops...
...There may have been some justification for such a survey in"1930, but that time has long since passed...
...Three millions a month should have been provided by the state for the City of New York alone...
...Why Another Survey...
...Instead, the state Is spending $1,200,000 on relief throughout the entire state...
...Society Will Pay...
...One of the Mayor's first acta on assuming office was to order a survey, now under way, of unemployment by the police and fire departments...
...That would mean the destruction of the whole working class movement...
...A practicable plan was presented to show that this sum could be raised readily by a 50 per cent Increase in the income and stock transfer taxes, The governor subsequently announced that there was no need for a special session until November...
...and by August...
...but he heralds a breakdown or crisis of bourgeois psychology, which shows itself in the form of illogical and disconnected reform schemes put forward by various capitalist politicians and social leaders in a desperate effort to patch up the crumbling edifice of capitalism...
...This drop in registration of new applicants is to be explained only by the increased difficulty of obtaining assistance...
...The city is spending $3,000,000 a month for relief...
...The fact that they have been losing some members and votes from the outside fringe of their supporters is not surprising...
...If, thanks to this defense corps, the political crisis is safely passed after all and normal democratic government can function once more, the party will be there with unimpaired strength and added prestige, to carry on...
...The conclusion Is inescapable...
...Thursday, Sept...
...Picking the Hungriest Miss Gibbons, chief of the city's Home Relief Bureau, recently admitted to the writer that these families required relief, but that a shortage of funds compelled the bureau to "select the hungriest among the hungry...
...1932, these had mounted to 23,856...
...In June a Socialist delegation called upon the governor and demanded that he convene a special session of the legislature to appropriate 30 millions for Immediate relief...
...Roosevelt's "Forgotten Man" Included the Desperate I misemployed of His Own State JOSEPH V. McKEE, New York's new mayor, baa become the "darling/" of the city'a reformers Hla reduction of some high salaries, his elimination of a fleet of expensive limousines for city officials, his insistence that the New York City budget be cut 80 to 100 millions, his sober, industrious habits, have won the applause of New York City's bankers and real estate magnates...
...Before the relief stations were shut down in April, new families had been registering for relief at the rate of oooo a week...
...He stated that it was necessary to find out whether New York City was spending too much on Unemployment relief in view of the enormous burden that It was placing upon the taxpayer...
...t.b*v, .< v., u.iu.l.v...
...According to the official food bad-get of the Home Relief Bureau, «V| cents is allowed for each meal per person...
...It only proves that in the existing conditions of threatening civil war in Germany no democratic party can hope to grow or make any strong general appeal for the time being...
...it Is certainly no proof that they have been following "wrong" policies...
...The Socialist Party is the only democratic political party which has a program for unemployment...
...No wonder the real estate Interests are applauding McKee...
...Harry W. Laid ler, L. I. D. program...
...The facts presented in this article demonstrate conclusively how correct the Socialist Party was In its prediction that existing appropriations were not adequate to avoid starvation and distress among New York's jobless...
...26—5 p. in., American Birth Control League...
...8:15 p. m., Dr...
...McKee, the mayor who belatedly fights for tax-relief, has yet to fight for adequate unemployment relief in New York City...
...The German party has more well grounded Socialists than any other Socialist party in the world...
...II 46,000 families had not been dropped, if greater dispatch bad been shown in helping those who \.~ i „„..li„.l „..,.H,..- RA rtArt...
...i.|>* * .j...
...10:15 p. m , City Affairs Committee...
...By January...
...8:15 p. m., Henrlk Wlllem Van Loon, talk...
...The real estate interests believe that Mayor McKee will give them the tax relief for which they have been clamoring...
...If sent to the White House, his record holds cut no hope for the unemployed...
...Every day lost means more tragedy In the homes of New York's jobless...
...He Is their mayor...
...He calls on all members to rally for a great and lasting effort on the political field...
...9, 2190 new applications were received...
...Socialists would abolish graft and corruption, and institute a real economy in order to provide additional funds for the improvement of the city's educational, health, hospital and other social services...
...For the week ending Sept...
...Tbe Communist recruits are from among the young and from among the leas well-organized sections of the working class who have suffered the worst and become reckless and desperate from hunger...
...The breadwinner could not have been reemployed because factory employment in New York State has declined an additional 13 per cent since April...
...One half of the additional funds should come from the state governments...
...He expects no majority In this present parliament for any socialization bill introduced by us...
...Prom April to the middle of July, no new applications were accepted...
...The privately financed relief agencies for many months have not been accepting new cases...
...Although City's Home Relief Bureau Already Has Accurate Data...
...The...
...By Herman Kobbe "Final Conflict" Now On in Germany Reform Schemes and Repressions of Capitalist, Politicians Will Be Met by Determined Strength of Working Class in Social-Democratic Party, Writes American Architect From Heidelberg Heidelberg, Aug...
...The city ought to be spending 8% million instead of 3 million...
...By Henry J. Rosner McKee, Sudden Convert to "Economy", Untouched by Tragic Need of Unemployed Spectacular but Superficial "Savings" Only a Bid to Big Real Estate Interests Which Expect Tax Relief From Their Mayor...
...These 160,000 persons are breaking down mentally and physically tacanse of malnutrition...
...When MeKee Was Silent Socialists fought bitterly against the waste and corruption of the Walker administration, while McKee sat on the Board of Estimate, with a voting power as great as Walker's, silent, unprotesting and unperturbed...
...With the re-opening of the bureaus, the number of new applications dropped 60 per cent...
...Roosevelt Forgot Them, Too And yet, Governor Roosevelt aspires to the presidency on a platform of helping the "forgotten man...
...Wednesday, Sept...
...labor for the ownership of the means of life...
...In dty, state and nation, it makes no difference...
...And why not...
...Monday, Sept...
...Further confirmation of this difficulty Is to be seen In the fact that on Sept...
...No amount of future prosperity will ever enable them to regain their lost vitality and health...
...During the past eight months, New York City has built a vast relief organization directed by highly competent social workers...
...Sunday, Sept...
...a..,-* IIU1U1 VI, .* daily expenditure of 19'/] cents...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...Surely the need in September was greater than In March...
...And because our own comrades realize this perfectly well, they do not rely on the party alone, but have organized a mighty military defense—organization to meet the emergency...
...Under no conditions will the party leaders urge the comrades to run into the bayonets and machine guns of the Hitter men and tbe powerful Relcturwehr...
...As many as 46,000 families who had been approved for relief after rigorous investigation, many of whom had received aid for months, have beer, cut off from assistance since April...
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...The result is that dispossesses have grown alarmingly in recent months...
...A reduction of $200,000 in Its tax bill might very well mean for it the difference between a successful or an unsuccessful business year...
...1932, to 31,238, an Increase of 200 per cent over normal...
...First, the army of the Jobless was larger, and secondly, many unemployed families had had an additional five months In which to exhaust their savings and their credit...
...w,VW tiles would have been approved for relief since April...
...The party discipline is an inspiration to see...
...30, 4:30 p. m., Henry Pruchter, Naturalisation Aid League...
...Comrade Otto Wela has just published a remarkable article in our press aaying that the internal discussions in the party on tbe economic and political crisis are over, and the general party opinion now Is that this is Indeed a crisis of the capitalist system itself—the beginning of the "final conflict" WEVD Station WEVD (Debs' Memorial Station) has an interesting program every day...
...The great majority of these families are shifting for themselves without any resources...
...The Communurt leaders are doing their best to bring about this happy event (happy for the great men In the Kremlin), but their ideas make little headway among the Socialist working men...
...The membership will do the most distasteful things (like supporting Hlndenburg for president) if it Is necessary for the carrying out of some well planned stategy, or for the protection of the Republic...
...The Home Relief Bureau possesses in its files and records accurate data upon which to base a sound municipal relief prog<im...
...This policy has discouraged new families, reaching the end of their rope, from applying for relief...
...This sum provides direct aid of $1.20 a day for each of 9600 veterans' families, 75 cents a day for each of 47,000 nonveteran families, and $10 a week, through work relief, for 33,000 heads of families...
...29—8:30 p. m., Hey wood Broun...
...of capital vs...
...If the relief stations had not closed down for three months...
...In the case of large real estate corporations, a $100,000,000 reduction in the budget means a 20 per cent reduction in their tax bills...
...McKee Sat Silent All the Years That Socialists Attacked Waste and Corruption of Walkerism Mayor Orders Still Another Survey of Unemployment, When Every Day's Loss Means Tragedy...
...28—8 to 11 p. m„ Dedicatory program...
...10:15 p. m., "The Author Reviews His Book...
...Only the special highlights of particular Interest to readers of The New Leader are listed below...
...This responsibility is not th|' city's alone...
...The unemployed are the real "forgotten" men of our times...
...Every Day Lost Is Tragic These facts are just as available to Mayor McKee as they are to the Research Bureau of the Socialist Party...
...Saturday, Oct...
...1—8:30 p. m Dr...
...Approximately as many people as are receiving relief have been dropped from the relief rolls...
...Court records reveal that in September, 1929, 10,411 dispossesses were issued in the Municipal Courts...
...This number plus those dropped makes a total of almost 100,000 families In New York City requiring help, but not even fortunate enough to receive the 75 cents daily that 47,000 families are now getting...
...There Is strong reason, in fact, to believe that the stage has been set for a reduction of the city's already insufficient relief appropriations...
...Why, then, delay In the appropriation of additional funds...
...To provide $1.50 a day per family, the absolute minimum necessary to sustain life, would require an additional monthly appropriation of 0^ million dollars...
...Mayor McKee seeks a report from the police and fire departments upon which to predicate a reduction in unemployment relief rather than an Increase...
...Society win pay an enormous price for years to come, taking care of them in publicly supported hospitals...
...Friday, Sept...
...The rest of the program consists of musical numbers of high quality, readings, entertainment and features...
...Families Abandoned But this is not the whole story...
...and perhaps the highest literacy and intelligence among the rank and file...
...Hence no help could have been had in that quarter...
...The food provision Is far below that required to preserve health...
...Home Relief Bureau has also stopped paying rents...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
