Registration All Next Week!
CROSSWAITH, FRANK R.
Registration All Next Week! Crosswaith Calls for United Battle Against Want, Misery, Graft By Frank R. Crosswaith fatalist Candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, from an address...
...FIRST VOTERS MUST SUBMIT TO A LITERACY TEST...
...when your children go to school or when you receive unemployment relief, you receive the benefit of the Social Services...
...The city quite properly has a right to tax that property and to apply the money thus collected in the interest of the people who create that stupendous value...
...In spite of confusion and chaos, there is more or less general agreement that society is passing through a critical period, a period of profound changes affecting our whole socio-economic »et-up...
...The breakdown of capitalism is no longer a matter of purely academic speculation, but a fait accompli...
...Here is how it works: The seven million jteople who live and work and function in New York create enormous values by the very fact of their being...
...Registration places are open Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 0th to 13th, from 6 p. m. to 10:30 p. m., and Saturday, October 14th, from 7 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. The Socialist Lawyers' Committee will aid all voters having difficulty in registering...
...REGISTER AND ENROLL...
...In order to vote on November 7th for the Solomon-CrosnwaithLaidler ticket, citizens must be 21 years old on the day of election, and residents of the state for one year, of the county (borough) four months and of the election district for thirty days...
...Classes will be opened for the instruction of watchers...
...Last year's magnificent Garden rally can be turpatstd if all Socialist branches enroll immediately in the drivel...
...And it is alee true that under Tammany role, or the rule of similar piratical organisations In other cities, they are plundered and highly important positions are considered rewards for political services—aa we in New York knew only too well...
...War is waged upon disease at public expense not so much to do favors to those who are saved doctors' fees as to protect the public health...
...for payment of union wages on all relief work...
...That Tammany has treated that ocean of value as a source of plunder la something that we most, we can, and WE WILL remedy...
...The Socialist Party pledges its candidates to fight for increased appropriations for unemployment relief...
...It matters not our race, our creed or color—let us as workers unite to burst the bonds that chain us...
...Every watcher should be instructed...
...What about housing...
...If your right to register is challenged, if there is any question as to your citizenship, residence or other qualifications, or if there is any other trouble, TELEPHONE AT ONCE ALgouquin 4-2620 and advice and assistance will be at your disposal without charge...
...Pompous, arrogant and ignorant district leaders were showed to have filled tiwir tin boxes with millions of dollars while the city has been drift»l toward bankruptcy...
...While the ¦Issry-burdened unemployed have been compelled to exist upon tardy ¦nd Inadequate relief these political ¦oeaneers have grown fat and •••'thy at the peoples' expense, "•w departments of the city government escaped the activities of ••se Pirates in politics...
...for old age pension, unemployment insurance, abolition of private employment agencies, shorter work day...
...WATCHERS Every year we are robbed of votes, very often because of the inexperience of our watchers...
...Major LaGuardia himself may personally hate Tammany and some of its cruder methods since he has several times been their victim...
...for adequate and effective anti eviction legislation...
...Education is made compulsory, not as a favor to the children of the workers but to build for the future...
...Our schols are overcrowded and cruelly mismanaged, the teaching staffs woefully inadequate...
...What about Tammany's view with respect to prompt and adequate relief for the unemployed...
...But what about Tammany's concept of government in relation to workers...
...when you are taken to a public hospital...
...I therefore plead with you to support us with your ballot on election day for the realization of our immediate aims—but mors than that—I plead with you to enlist in the struggle for our Anal aim, objective to join in the great cause of Socialism...
...How the Social Services art plundered by Tammany and starved by bankers, and why a big Socialist vote it needed to save and develop them will be the subject of a forth' coming article...
...Oar schools have become local front line trenches of the decaying economic system...
...x* an Untermyer to appear as "¦"¦emf thla piece of class legislation with a threatened tax upon stock transfers and brokerage houses only to withdraw the threat at the rightutime...
...That the government of the city is in the hands of a corrupt, brazen and incompetent political machine is general knowledge...
...it was not so long ago that there was nothing but charity for those who had no means to pay for these things—charity mixed with a good deal of contempt...
...No one can vote without having registered...
...Those parents who are not politically minded and who have kept aloof from the influence of Tammany Hall and its sycophantic ally, the local Republican Machine, need to know to what extent the plastic minds of their children are being molded to support Tammany and the economic system that spawns Tammany...
...Every comrade should act as a watcher on Election Day...
...Send your name and address to the party office at once...
...DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST DAYS...
...REGISTRATION begins Monday...
...When a doctor comes and tells you that your child is suffering from diphtheria and that you can get anti-toxin at a registered Board of Health station, you are benefiitting from the Social Services, and so are your neighbors whose children are protected when your child is properly treated...
...Instead of waste and woodland the quarter of a million acres that constitute our city are by the very fact that we occupy them valued at over nine billion dollars...
...It took an Wtormyer to propose a tax upon »o»e of us who are not fortunate •*>u«h to own automobiles and *»• under pressure of necessity !** occasionally a Uxicab...
...What about judges issuing injunctions in labor disputes whenever workers seek to elevate their wages and living standards...
...As a substitute for the wlse•seklng, well-dressed political play •jr of New York's underworld nmmany gave us John P. O'Brien, *Mthe people with amazing gulll*fty accepted Tammany's toy-gift...
...KIOW, where does the money " come from for all of these things...
...Whatever may be the personal views of Major LaGuardia he is the prisoner of his backers and associates, who will have none of the "Socialist" nonsense...
...for an extensive program of public works...
...Branches are urged to take blocks of these seats for sale to their members and at local rallies...
...That our city government must be taken out of the hands of the corrupt and inept Tammany politicians who now control it all thinking citizens will agree...
...and in times like these, unemployment relief...
...I plead with you to become a part of this modern abolitionist movement and go forward with us to victory...
...What about the influence bankers wield in the city government...
...Every worker shouid know something about them, unless he wants to be considered a bad citizen...
...Louis Waldman will act as chairman of the meeting...
...Comrades should send their names and addresses to the party office and they will be notified when and where the classes will be held...
...Over a million and a half of our fellows in this city are jobless through no fault of their own...
...Many of these schools are firetraps...
...The Social Services are those things that are done by the city or the state for human welfare, such as schools and hospitals, parks and museums, health inspection and prevention of disease, music in the parks and lectures and libraries...
...It will also enable us, on election day, to apply our collective, political intelligence toward a solution of these problems...
...Do you suppose, for example, that the two cents a day you pay if a book is overdue pays the (shockingly inadequate) wages of the librarians and keeps the shelves supplied with books...
...Even a child who borrows books knows better than that...
...When you sit in the park and listen to a band concert...
...Now, at least in theory, our city accepts that principle...
...ONE MORE WORD: When you register BE SURE TO ENROLL...
...But what shall we substitute for Tammany...
...What about the real estate sharks who prey upon the people's normal need for homes...
...As in the past, the Socialist Party does not seek to disguise itself nor to obscure its immediate and ultimate objectives...
...Crosswaith Calls for United Battle Against Want, Misery, Graft By Frank R. Crosswaith fatalist Candidate for President of the Board of Aldermen, from an address over Station WEVD...
...Even this last minute entrance of McKeo in the fight is a part of this deceptive maneuver to keep the city firmly in the grip of special interests...
...Tickets for reserved seats at the Garden rally are available now at the Socialist Party office, 7 East 15th Street...
...Speaking of Major Cunningham one newspaper a few days ago said: "He has a direct appeal to the embattled bankers, stock-brokers, insurance officials and financial men who are reeling from the jolts the present administration has handed them in the threats of special taxes and higher levies" Is it any wonder then that the Fusionists have no platform other than the meaningless one of throwing out Tammany...
...The idea that the physical and mental welfare of every man, woman and child in a community is a SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY is a Socialist conception that is new, and that has been accepted only as Socialist ideas have grown...
...THE current municipal campaign offers us a unique opportunity to express ourselves regatding the pressing economic and social problems we face...
...Members of the local Chambers of Commerce, bankers, contractors and others who live off the needs and the labor of the workers have decided that the answer to this question is the political chop suey labeled "FUSION...
...The idea that it is a matter of public concern whether or not the masses are fed properly, housed, clothed, kept in good health and educated was savagely condemned not so long ago, and even today it is far from universally accepted...
...That the Social Services are shockingly inadequate, that Hhey are starved for sufficient funds is true...
...The recent legislative investigation which we Socialists did much to force upon an unwilling legislature proved that conclusively...
...REGISTER EARLY IN THE WEEK...
...t it took an Untermyer to pro•*•» as a means of saving the flJjaeial life of the city a 50 percent g*> those of us who drink water **t*sd of the beverage that is so1 ¦** » part of Tammany's coheyjness and success...
...To save the city from its betrayers and rebuild it in the interest of the masses who work, and irrespective of race, creed or color, the Socialist Party makes its appeal for support primarily to the working class and to all socially-minded citizens intelligently and slnccrelly concerned with the future of civilization...
...MARK A CROSS UNDER THE ARM AND TORCH ON THE ENROLLMENT BALLOT...
...LEADING SOCIALIST CANDIDATES WILL SPEAK AT GARDEN RALLY THE most brilliant Socialist orators in New York will address the great Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, November 5, as a climax to the most stirring Socialist municipal campaign in years, Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler and Frank Crosswaith, candidates for Mayor, Controller, and President of the Board of Aldermen, respectively, head the array of speakers which Includes Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit, Lillth Wilson, Socialist member of the Pennsylvania legislature, and Daniel W. Hoan, Socialist Mayor of Milwaukee...
...It is with this as a background that we must view the present Mayoralty campaign...
...Major Cunningham, his associate as candidate for Controller, is a banker of the same tribe that now has the city by the throat...
...The Social Services and What They Mean to Us 1*HIS is as good a time as any to talk about what has come to be known as the Social Services...
...ALL SOCIALISTS MUST REGISTER AND SEE TO IT THAT ALL OTHER SOCIALIST VOTKRS ARE REGISTERED...
...Come with us in the fight to reconquer the world for all God's children who do the world's useful work...
...We who have been bound by the ties of woe and want since the dawn of time—we who have borne upon our backs the burden of civilization, let us como together...
...when you draw books from the public library or go to a public lecture...
...for public housing, transit and public utilities, improved education, hospitals and h e a 11 h—these and many other equally vital and important problems constitute the platform upon which the Socialist Party presents its candidates...
...Conservative estimates place the number of workers crowded into tenements that are unfit for human habitation as more than two millions...
...The Social Services are a new thing...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 15
