No Moratorium on Education
No Moratorium on Education Tammany, Taxes & Relief — By Henry J. Rosnes — TAMMANY has again given ^evidence of its blatant disregard of the needs of the unemployed. Although the Legislature...
...Another 75,000 heads of families are now on work relief...
...This sum makes n > provision for 150,000 single men and women who can get only flophouse relief...
...The necessary funds can be raised with ease...
...One thousand workers met in Irving Plaza Hall on Sept...
...The Associated Silk Workers are out one hundred per cent...
...Our greatest danger is overcon-fidence...
...Plans for united action to rally mass support and 'unds to defend Terzani will be made at a representative conference to be held Saturday, Sept...
...The latter have assailed the Tammany tax program as too drastic...
...A family will get a food ticket for two weeks, then two weeks will be skipped...
...But when the defense objected to the shortness of time for preparation, an agreement was readied with the prosecution for delay...
...50 a month should be an irreducible minimum for every family...
...Rents are paid only after the family has been evicted...
...The New Deal is on...
...Terzani was hailed as a staunch fighter for the working class by Herbert Mahler of the General Defense Committee of the I.W.W...
...Other speakers were William Patterson jf the International Labor Defense and Vanni Montana of the Italian daily, La Stampa Libera...
...Mooncy and Billings are still in prison because the workers have been divided," he said...
...There are thousands of mothers in the city who can't heat up the food for their children...
...The Campaign Over Radio Station WEVD Socialist city candidates will be heard over Station WEVD (1300 KC...
...Funds, however, allow an average relief per family of only $21 a month...
...10,000,000 can be provided in this way...
...Requests for credentials should be sent to the Terzani Defense Committee, 94 Fifth Avenue...
...24th at 8 in the Pythian Temple, 135 West 70th St., under the auspices of the Ingersoll Forum...
...Untermyer on a legal question, but there is no doubt about the city's power, provided the tax base is net income and not capital...
...The fact is that the city of New York collected $2,500,000 last year from a i%% net income tax on national banks levied by the state...
...In the past year they have robbed the city of at least $12,000,000 by charging between 5% and 6% for loans which speculators in Wall Street could make for less than 2°/0...
...Harry W. Laidler, Socialist candidate for Controller, asked Samuel Untermyer, why the commercial banks are omitted...
...He replied, that the city has no power to tax national commercial banks...
...UNDER THE NEW DEAL There is a silk strike in Pater-son, as there very often is...
...Since the city now possesses every taxing power enjoyed by the state, there can be no question about its legal right to soak the commercial banks...
...Eighteen shops are out, and workers are joining the union constantly...
...Then, a mad search must be made for a landlord who will agree to accept a tenant with a home relief rent check...
...25 by Judge Thomas Kadien, Jr., of Queens County...
...For example, Tammany is taxing the savings banks but not the commercial banks...
...No Moratorium on Education Tammany, Taxes & Relief — By Henry J. Rosnes — TAMMANY has again given ^evidence of its blatant disregard of the needs of the unemployed...
...Charles Solomon, candidate for Mayor, Harry W. Laid-, ler, candidate for Controller, and Frank R. Crosswaith, candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, will speak from time to time, discussing the important issues of the campaign...
...They cheered mightily when he said he realized that the murder charge against him was not an attack on an individual but on all anti-Fascist forces in America...
...Michelangelo Palumbo, eye-witness of Fierro's death, told how he and Terzani identified a Khaki Shirts member as the slayer, and how the authorities rejected their identification, accepting the word of "General' Art Smith, head of the Khaki Shirts, that Terzani was guilty...
...16, in Irving Plaza Hall, to be attended by delegates from Socialist, labor and liberal organizations, anarchist groups, and fraternal associations...
...His release on bonds doesn't mean that this case is breaking down...
...In recent weeks it has become the practice "to skip feedings...
...There are thousands of children who can't do their lessons at night because there is no light...
...And they ought to be soaked...
...further payments will be forthcoming...
...Harry Sacher, one of the five attorneys for the united-front Terzani Defense Committee, moved for a postponement on the ground that Arthur Garfield Hays, defense trial lawyer, is in Europe and that Terzani and another eye-witness pointed out a Khaki Shirts member as the actual killer on the night of the tragedy, and that the defense needs additional time to gather evidence to support this contention...
...A net income tax can take $20,000,000 of these dividends in the next six months and still allow a dividend rate of 10...
...The Tax Program Yet the city's tax program will allow only $6,000,000 a month or less than Vz of what is needed...
...The results are terrible to contemplate...
...The state matches dollar for dollar, so that another $21,000,000 of city funds are required adequately to meet the need...
...8 and gave a rousing welcome to Terzani on his release on bo:.ds after 47 days in jail...
...This is an authentic picture of New York City, in the first year of the New Deal...
...By John Nicholas Beffel Terzani Defense Conference Meets Saturday Afternoon "TRIAL of Athos Terzani, the young anti-Fascist mechanic accused of killing his comrade, Anthony Fierro, in a fight which broke up a meeting of the Fascist Khaki Shirts of America in Astoria, has been tentatively set for Sept...
...Last year the 16 largest commercial banks in New York paid $102,000,-000 of dividends on a par value capitalization of $574,000,000 or 18...
...Many Socialist branches have already elected delegates...
...At this rate, the cost of home and work relief for 215,000 families should be $11,125,000 monthly...
...22nd...
...On Friday, September 15th, Harry W. Laidler, candidate for Controller, will speak on "Taxation and Relief for New York City...
...Here's the spirit that will make the national edition of The New Leader a power for Socialism...
...One normally hesitates to cross swords with Mr...
...The 1'/,% tax on gross income of electricity, gas and telephone companies can be raised to 5% and still allow a 6% return on their common stock...
...Fascism will grow everywhere in America unless the workers unite solidly to resist its advance...
...WEVD NEW LEADER SPEAKER Miss Goldinc Hilson of The New Leader will be the speaker of The New Leader period of Station WEVD on Friday, Sept...
...15th, at the same time...
...They are entitled to aid in the privacy of their own homes...
...One elderly Italian woman showed a check for one week's work—42 hours—totaling $4.67...
...Here are the facts : Pitiful "Relief' There are 125,000 families now receiving home relief...
...All who seek to clear Terzani must keep in mind the lesson of the Mooney-Billings case, declared Norman Thomas...
...Few will, because of the knowledge that nq...
...This is not enough to pay gas and electricity bills, rents or even provide adequate food allowance...
...every Friday at 10.15 p. m., starting September 15th...
...Class-conscious workers every* where were urged to rally to Terzani's defense in resolutions passed at the meeting...
...At least $2,000,000 should be appropriated for this purpose...
...If in the face of all the circumstances known to the authorities," said Terzani, "I can be convicted and sent to prison for twenty years or life, it will mean that the vicious Fascist movement Bhall have triumphed...
...Get your friends, shopmates and fellow-workers and neighbors to listen in on these campaign talks—and on nil other WEVD features...
...The unemployed, however, better not turn to Fusion for help...
...Only a party of the workers, the Socialist Party, possesses the courage and the desire to take from the rich what they have stolen from the workers to care for them in their hour of need...
...Ingersoll Forum Lecture Wolf Adler will speak on "Sex Taboos" Sept...
...The Code for silk workers calls for a weekly wage of $13...
...The failure of Tammany to expand its tax program to include these Socialist proposals, means more evictions, more homes without light and heat and more hunger...
...At least 25,000 families needing help have been turned away...
...According to Samuel Untermyer, Tammany's financial advisor, $43,-000,000 will be raised, of which $25,000,000 will be used to pay off money previously borrowed, leaving $18,000,000 or $3,000,000 a month for the next half year...
...The united front will have no value unless we can show we can differ on ideas but unite on one cause like this...
...Although the Legislature gave the city practically unlimited power to levy upon concentrated wealth within the city limits, the Municipal Assembly has approved a tax pro-' gram which will provide less than ]/2 of what is actually required for unemployment relief...
...C. F. Anderson of Texas writes: "Rheumatism in the legs makes It hard for me to'get around, but will do my best to get some subs...
...It was arranged that Sacher and Assistant District Attorney Los-calzo would confer soon and specify a date agreeable to both sides...
...from i:M to 4:4!> p. m. William M. Felgenbaum, of The New Leader staff, speaks on Friday, Sept...
...Roger N. Baldwin presided...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 12
