WHO OWNS THIS CITY?
WHO OWNS THIS CITY? 1926 No Busses 1927 No Busses Yet 1928 No Busses At All 1929 As You Were. No Bosses IN 1925 Walker promised busses on the streets in four months. Four years have gone...
...What would they do about buses...
...the Socialist nominee to the Board of Aldermen...
...K. Weinieig 1th A.D.—Simon Berlin 8th A.D.—Samuel E. Beardsley 9th A.D.—Anna Ingermsn 10th A.D.—Jessie W. Hughan 11th A.D.—George Chaikin 12th A.D.—M...
...Frank R. Crosswaith Members ot Assembly 1st A.D.—Max Edelsen Sr.d A.D.—Louis Liebenr.an . 3rd A.D.—Leonard C. Kaye 4th A.D.—Isidore Lecerman 5th A.D.—Evelyn Hugh-.n 6th A.D.—A...
...Another great need for New York !¦ parks...
...Vote Socialist...
...Thomas said...
...Could not some of the money spent on political "do nothings" be used to provide self respecting sleeping quarters with provision tor privacy, clothing and occupation to the respectable aged poor ea Welfare Island...
...An amazing fgnre—and this for New York Painty alone...
...Socialists, aided by trade unionists and liberals, and by many old party adherent* who must keep in the background but are hoping for a Socialist victory, are pulling together to send Hyman Nemser...
...L. Herman 58th A.D.—Alexandra A. Schoenbaum 59th A.D.—Ernest T. Megerlin 60th A.D.—Harry Cherkas 6ist A.D.—Louis Star.iey 62nd A.D.—Tucker P. Smith Richmond County County Court and Surrogate—Enor Byrns County Clerk—Adollna Muurahallen President of Borough of Richmond —Walter H. Dearing Members of Assembly 1st District—Anton Chrlstensen 2nd District—Hjalmar Muurahailen Members of Board of Aldermen 63rd A.D.—Charles M. Ferweda 64th A.D.—Simon Mattson 65th A.D.—Michael Airola Nemser May Win Seat As Alderman Old Party Factionalism and Good Campaign Give Party Opportunity in Brooklyn District SPURRED on by the possibility that the 35th Aldermanic District, which is located in Brooklyn, may be the first to break the ice again and elect a Socialist to the Aldermanic Chamber...
...What services dc these people render to the community for salaries received...
...Relief Association is right, -it relieves the people of 800 per cent which goes straight into the pockets of the Tammany district leader, who owns it...
...No basses yet...
...under sheriff, $7,500...
...Faced by a promising situation, the Socialists have put their best foot forward...
...What are the functions of the Sheriff that another department could not perform ? What are the powers Of the Sheriff, anyway...
...The Equitable was his favorite company from the start...
...That would have taken onlv » few Anvn His complete loss of memory after his election antagonized some of the members of his organization...
...This year it is practically conceded by the Democrats that it will go to the Republicans because La Guardia head* the ticket...
...All it planned to do from the start was sell its franchise— which it got from the eitv for nothing...
...Magistrate Bushel, Mr...
...A bill for a sweeping Congressional investigation of the Federal Government with regard to discrimination allegedly practiced against citizens of color In the various departments of Government in Washing-ton...
...Cashiers, assistant cashiers, confidential ste¦sgjsiiliiii i, stenographers who are OOnadeBtial special deputies, prts*• guards, etc., etc...
...I close the City Record, and be gto to ponder on Just what is thii hssgs amount spent year aftei year T What is the work of the flaarnt sad his staff of over a hundred people...
...The rest of his program includes the following: "A bill to reduce southern representation in Congress until and unless every citizen within the confides of the South is permitted to exercise hi3 or her constitutional right to vote...
...The bitterness between the factions has grown since election day, and has reached a point where I Dermody cannot appear on the street corners without being heckled by his former adherents...
...assistant counsel, KOO0...
...It was going to collect 800 per cent all over Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens...
...it didn't need any busses...
...There would be no chance for 800 per cent profit...
...I do not know, nor does anyone else, how many people are not listed but who deli** the benefit of being attached to this office...
...But the Phoney Equitable Coach Company, for whom the Mayor got a franchise, was going to do things on a bigger scale...
...twenty assistant isputitis at $2,500...
...Who killed the Equitable...
...Here Are The Socialist Candidates You Can Vote for A Socialist for Every Office To Be Filled This Year New York City For Mayor—Ncrman Thomas For Comptroller—Charts Solom For President Board of Aldorm —Algernon Lee New York County SheriS—Pauline Newman County Clerk—John Lyons District Attorney—William Karl Reglst?r—Hilda G. rjlaersens President Borough of Manhattan Judge of City Court—Max Deison Judge of City Court—Mar...
...As attorney for other unions, Nemser will receive and Is receiving support which wouK ?»Ve been difficult to otherwise get Crosswaith For Congress...
...He fought for the phoney company to the end...
...SOCIALIST CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE 7 EAST 15th STBEET, NEW YORK CITY Nominee for Sheriff Would End Office Ifias Newman Says $284,222 Yearly Is Wasted—Would Use Money on Welfare Services By Pauline M. Newman (Herts list Caadidate for Sheriff, New York County) % aeTFURE me Is the City Record...
...Thomas Says Mayor Walker is accused by .Vorman Thomas of appointing "fixers" and politicians to the magistrates' court bench...
...He is also responsibls for the custody and transportation Of prisoners to court, but shares this responsibility with the Chart attendants and the Depart - neat of Correction...
...NORMAN THOMAS For Mavor CHARLES SOLOMON For Comptroller ALGERNON LEE For Aldermanic Pres...
...A policeman who walked away with me after an open air meeting in which I had attacked the third degree methods of the police said to me: 'It is only if we beat up some of these crooks that we've got a chance with them...
...It, up to you to answer...
...Did not Major LaGuardia promise to take care of the "boys" who will go out and do their bit for him...
...I ask legal persons, I ask municipal experts, I ask politicians...
...With the Socialists in office, the superfluous departments tn our city government could be merged, and the first one on the list would certainly be that of the Untermyer and Thomas Will Debate Issue Norman Thomas, socialist candidate for Mayor, Samuel Untermyer, for the Democratic party, and Frederick R. Coudert, Jr., for the Republicans, win discuss the issues of the New York campaign at a luncheon meeting to be held by the League for Industrial Democracy, this Saturday afternoon, Oct 28th, at the Woodstock Hotel, 43rd street just East of Broadway Since the capacity of the dining room Is limited to 400, reservations should be made immediately at (he League, Algonquin 5865, or personally at 112 East 10th street Lunch is $1 for members of the League, and $1.25 for non members...
...And the Equitable didn't have a cent...
...This sentiment is not a sudden growth but is the result of earnest educational work in Harlem by Crosswaith for years...
...Assuming ttm the moment, at least, that this hi aB toe counties spend on the office of the Sheriff, it is, never•sSaas, a huge sum which the citissjss tt New York are asked to Why This Expense...
...The East New York and Brownsville Traffic Relief Association makes 800 per cent profit...
...The Democrats also have a candidate in the field but the race is chiefly between Crosswaith and Delaney...
...And yet...
...Walker was willing...
...3evern Judge Municipal Court, 2nd D: :rict—Ely Thaw Judge Municipal Court, 3rd Distr...
...The Equitable had to give up its franchise...
...The legal mind enkb The Sheriff's office is the saves from which come the rewords tor all ward politicians...
...If we are to raise a generation of children bsalttqr tn mind and body, la more playground...
...They would have the CITY OWN AND BUN THE LINES...
...Formerly connected with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, many of them are taking an active part In the campaign...
...An old fashioned campaign—the kind that carried the Socialists to ! victory in the same district in bygone years—an energetic candidate, who is at work .day and night arousing the voters to the possibility and opportunity of having intelligent representation in the Board of Aldermen, and a well managed campaign, directed by Emil Bromberg, who managed successful campaigns in the same section before are some of the elements making for victory in that district on November 5. Added to this is a peculiar situation which has divided the Democratic camp, the more progressive of the Democrats having indicated an intention to support Nemser...
...It is expected that this will be one of the largest meetings of the entire campaign...
...An effective anti-labor injunction bill...
...Two of our witnesses were afraid to leave his court room except in my company because of gangsters whom they recognized in the court room...
...Socialists Working Hard This loss of the Democratic candidate is likely to become more pronounced as a result of another situation...
...Added to this several internal differences developed, which culminated in a primary contest with former Democratic Alderman Joseph W. Sullivan, leading the opposition...
...He jammed a bus franchise through for his friends...
...I do not know, nor does anyone else...
...It is predicted by the Socialists that as a result of this factor alone the Democratic nominee will iose between 1,000 and 1,500 votes...
...They would fight to have the city put a system of big, clean, safe, double-deck busses on the street...
...States Program For Workers 'J'HE rise of Socialist sentiment in Harlem with its large population of Negro workers Is a striking phase of political change in the city in recent years...
...The scheme succeeded, for a while, but with a good part cf the former district stiii In the new one, and with a combination of the circumstances which now exist working in the direction of the Socialists, the effects of the gerrymander mav be overcome...
...A bill for a Congressional investigation of American Financial and imperial penetration in Latin America and the West Indies...
...He did not even make an effort—not a measure has been offered by him, even as a gesture, providing for any of the improvements he promised...
...even though it had never put a bus on the streets...
...The Equitable died because OPPONENTS OF TAMMANY exposed the whole deal, ' Who owns this city...
...I have already reached the hundred mark, and then are more...
...Those who pass by the dry-as-dust works on the dismal science, will And in "Progress and Poverty" a clarity and beauty of style seldom, if ever matched in a work on economics...
...Frank R. Crosswaith, Socialist candidate for Congress in the 21st District, is speaking to Harlem audiences that number as many as 2,000 at street meetings...
...Ethelred Brown, another Negro Socialist, received over 4,000 votes for Congress last year and all indications are that this record will be exceeded by the vote cast for Crosswaith next November...
...Tammany Hall and its favored franchise owners...
...The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation is to be congratulated fi" making it possible to purchase tfet new unabridged edition, In an attractive format of "Progress aad Poverty for the low price of JJ, mail postpaid...
...In part: "I cite the refusal of magistrates to hold even for the Grand Jury election officials against whom the Socialist Party produced overwhelming proof of fraud, following the defeat of Judge Panken two years ago...
...Certainly, the division at responsibility for the custody af prisoners should be eliminated, aad the transportation and custody af prisoners in the city should be concentrated In the Department of Correction...
...Did he, perhaps have the office of Sheriff in mind ? Why not ? The people pay...
...Darmody's Poor Memory Not only has he not gotten all that he promised—a condition for which an individual alderman may not always be responsible, although, knowing that, he might not have made promises he should have known he could not keep— but the moment he was elected he forgot about these things...
...Bus franchises are valuable...
...Once we get them in the magistrates' court some politician is sure to get them off...
...Dermody emerged victorious in the primary contest, but lost in the battle some of the leading Democrats of the district...
...JL9 I count the number of persons listed under the office of the Sheriff for New York County...
...4 We shall supplement parks and playgrounds by a proper treatment of boulevards and of land taken for our housing program...
...For, it is a wellknown fact, that the major parties and their candidates look upon the office of the Sheriff as a place where friends can be taken care of at the expense of the people...
...Prom the above I conclude, that ths Inactions of the Sheriff can be patpjlilisil by the Department of Correction...
...f read further in the City Record...
...If this is to be done, if the office of the Sheriff is ever to be abolished, the men and the women of New York will have to change their habit of voting for the powers that be...
...Benjamin Daublin Municipal Court 3rd District—Morris Wolfman Municipal Court 4th District—Harry W. Laidler Municipal Court 7th District—Fred Shulman Municipal Court 8th District—Morris Roser.baum Members of Assembly 1st A.D.—Abraham Zucker 2nd A.D.—Harry Mallis 3rd AD.—Meyer Greenwald 4 th A.D.—Jacob Dubno 5th A.D.—Viola Levenson 6th A.D.—Samuel H. Friedman 9th A.D.—Julius Lichtenfeld 10th A.D.—Rose Kriuer Uth A.D.—Eleanore Goldberg 12th A.D.—Frank Smith 13th A.D.—Anthony Dt Blasi 14th A.D.—Emll Bromberg 15th A.D.—Harry Smith 16th A.D.—Jacob Handier 17th A.D.—Joseph N. Cohen 18th A.D.—Jacob L. Afros 19th A.D.—Joseph A. Weil 20th A.D.—Hyman L. Greenberg 21st AX).—Anna Elish 22nd A.D.—Theodore Shapiro 23rd A.D.—Jacob Axelrad Members of Board of Aldermen 33rd A.D.—Abe Belsky 34th A.D.—Harry Schachner 35th A.D.—Kyman Nemser 3.ill A.D.—Harry Kritzer 3.'th A.D— Max Rosen 38th A.D.—Meyer Rubinson 39th A.D.—Joseph Tuvim 40th A.D.—Carl Cummlngs 41st A.D.—Philip Block 42nd A.D.—Minnie Weisberg 43rd A.D.—Simon Wolfe 44th A.D.—Arthur G. Breckenridge 45th A.D.—Morris Kurtnsky 46th A.D.—Elizabeth Smith 47th A.D.—Agnes A. Laidler 48th A.D.—Simon Sarasohn 49th A.D—Israel M. Chatcuff 50th A.D.—Louis Sadoff 51st A.D.—Henry Morris 52nd A.D.—Sam Babetsky 53rd AD.—Samuel L. Mailman 54th A.D.—Eva Dann 55th A.D.—Louis Epstein 56th A.D.—David Breslow Queens County Sheriff—Frank M. O'Conner Register—Myra O. Smith District Attorney—David M. Freedman Surrogate—Nathan Fine Borough President—James Oneal Members of Assembly 1st A.D.—George Larson 2nd A.D.—Edward P. Clarke 3rd A.D.—Henry H. Laybum 4th A.D.—Adela Kean Zametkin 5th A.D.—Ernest Welsch Members of Board of Aldermen 57th A.D.—Wm...
...There Is no qutatluu as to the possibility of merging the work of the Sheriff With that of other city departments, thus affecting a saving for the City of New York, and doing away with the greatest source of srraft in the citv government...
...His defense, when his only party members, and many non-partisans, put the question to him and his speakers recently, when they appeared on the street corners, was that he was in the Board only a year and a' half, and could not accomplish all of these things...
...They nominated Hyman Nemser, who is personally popular among all classes of voters, having lived there and worked for Socialism in the district for many years...
...But, they replied, in a year and a half he could have tried—he certainly could have drafted resolutions and bills dealing with the subject...
...Trees, grass, flowers, open space, these an) a rightful part of our children's heritage...
...I will work for the adoption of an anti-child labor amendment to the Constitution.'' Socialists For a Big Park Plan f|NK of tha greatest needs in VF New York city...
...BSsill lis to say that the deputies are at active charge of this work, leaving the Sheriff in active charge of drawing his salary...
...I ¦agin with the Sheriff and end with the prison guards...
...Bronx, slsllllj leas, and the Counties of Tsk111ii<siil and Queens considerably less...
...A bill for a radical reduction in the Army and Navy and the application of funds formerly used to maintain large military and naval forces to the education of the youth of the land, with equal educational facilities for all children regardless of race, creed, or color...
...he levies ssMcutVons, serves subpoenas, summonses, writs of habeas corpat sad so on...
...Not Walker...
...K. Bruun 13th AX).—Andre-*- Regelai 14th A.D.—Charles Rubik 15th A.D.—Louis Binger 26th A.D.—Herman Volk nth AD—Nina Prey 18th A.D.—Hyman Marcal 19th A.D.—Senja Witala 20th A.D.—Sophie Segalcfl 21st A.D.—Frank Pcree 22nd A.D.—Dora Delson 23rd A.D.—Mar.del Freed Members of Board of Aldermen 1st A.D.—Morris Goldewstv 2nd A.D.—Doniinick Lodata 3rd A.D.—Ernest K. Harrsen 4th A.D.—Samuel Ular.off 5th A.D.—Benjamin B'.umer.berg 6th A.D.—August C".aer.sens 7th A.D.—David Monin 8th A.D.—Edward Levinson 9th A.D.—Fichandler ICth A.D.—Eugenia I. Low 12th A.D.—Barnet Fenster 13th A.D.—Mtrris Casp3 14th A.D.—Gecrse McMullen 15th A.D.—McAlister Coleman I6t.h A.D.—Bruno Wagner 17th A.D— Bernard Schub 18th A.D.—Nathan Zughaft 19th A.D.—Max Kleinberg 20th A.D.—Otto West 21st A.D.—Ethelred Brown 22nd A.D.—C-eor-e F. Meyer 23rd A.D.—Fred Hodgson 24th A.D.—Benjamin Kaufman Bronx County Sheriff Andrew MacLean County C'-erl-:—Marion H. Laing Dis.r.:t Attorney—Morris Gisnet Register—Davis Rubinow President Borough of Bronx—Sam uel Orr Couc-.y Judge—Louis E. Weil _ Members oi Assembly 1st A.D.—Her.ry Gross ' 2nd A.D.—Abraham Mollln 3rd A.D.—Samuel A. DeWitt 4th A.D.—Julius Umansky 5th A.D.—Henry Fruchter 6th A.D.—Abraham S. KaUenberi 7th A.D.—Isidore Phillips 8th A.D.—Esther Friedman Members of Board of Aldermen 25th A.D.—Morris Gross 23th A.D.—Abraham Wisotsky 27th A.D.—Solomon Wechsler 28th A.D.—Meyer Marshall 23th A.D.—Abraham P. Conan 30th A.D.—Louis Fainlcen 3151 A.D.—Arthur Fassberg 32r.d A.D.—Emanuel Deutsch 11th A.D—Ephim H. Jeshurin Kings County SherifT—3orr.ard J. Riley Register—Win...
...Thomas singled out for particular attack Magistrate Hyman Bushel and Magistrate Weil...
...6. We shall provide competent supervisors for playgrounds...
...As to the transporting af felons to State penal institutions...
...A bill for a most thorough investigation of the naval Government of the Virgin Islands of the United States with a view toward substituting a civilian and democratic form of government for the naval Bureaucracy under which the natives of these islands now groan and from which they seem helpless to find a peaceful escape...
...I read: Sheriff, «a&0O0...
...The 35th aldermanic district takes in most of the old 14th Assembly district, which once elected Henry Jager, Socialist, to the Assembly, and which helped elect on several occasions B. C. Vladeck, Socialist, to the Board of Aldermen...
...What is tt* Socialist constructive program...
...1 and that Kings County spends fsmitlr ally a like amount...
...And BO X dtg a little deeper into the aamawfaat complicated city macfcdao aad I find that the Sheriff wMh his assistants has the power to enecrjte errfl and criminal mandates of ail courts of record...
...Some of them have since approached the Socialist party officials in that district with assurances that a substantial number of Democrats will support Nemser...
...in short I seek an answer to the above questions from people who know the machinery of our city government, and am astonished at the replies...
...3. We shall instruct the City Planning Commission to pay especial attention to the parte needs of the new boroughs...
...When Walker gave the Equitable its franchise it wast estimated it would need 916,000,000 in finances...
...According to E E Tiitman...
...twenty deputies at 98,500...
...16.500...
...It tried to sell its franchise to the B. M.T...
...It didn't own a bus...
...One magistrate who has since been mentioned for possible elevation to the Supreme Court refused to hold an election board, all of whose members were guilty of grave irregularities, one of whom having apparently had a previous conviction for grand larceny against him...
...7. We shall instruct the proper authorities to work out a program for the fullest possible cooperation in the use of school grounds and athletic fields not only during but after school hours, and their maintenance with proper equipment and under proper supervision...
...I begin to figure the east to New York County to keep this office going...
...1. We would consolidate the administration of parks now scattered under five political commission or commissioners under one expert appointed after consultation with the civic organizations particularly interested...
...If elected he proposes to introduce an anti-lynching bill "with teeth in it," using the bill of the late Socialist Congressman Berger as a model...
...I total the annual Hated salary and behold, it ¦lies to $284,222...
...S. We shall appoint an advisory board on parks and another on playground development composed of men and women with special experience and knowledge of th» matter in hand to make recommendations to the Park Commissioner and to the Board of Estimate on current needs and to serve with or as part of a city planning commission on long time needs...
...and a change in the character of the district, which, Socialists believe, will this year make it possible to clinch the victory...
...Progress and Poverty" has been translated Into practically every modern tongue and It is doubtful If any work of similar nature has had a wider influence on modern economic and political thought...
...I could mention a hundred other places where- the money could be used to farther decency and justice—even uader the present scheme of things Would that we were in BflSJMl Some day the men the women of New York will learn that in order to retain a democratic form of government to serve the people, honestly, fearlessly and courageously, they will have to leave their old notions of voting behind, and vote for men and women who embody the spirit of love, service and justice—men of the type of Norman Thomas and Algernon Lee, and for women like Evelyn and Jessie Hughan, whose love for humanity is supreme, whose devotion to the cause of righteousness and peace is boundless, whose ability to govern—if to govern means to serve—is unquestioned...
...Wherever possible and socially advisable we shall use the principle of excess condemnation to pay for parks and playgrounds...
...The district is now represented, or is supposed to be represented, in the Board by Joseph H. Darmody...
...The Italian vote in the district, which is normally Democratic, has risen considerably the last few years...
...The Equitable scandal got too raw...
...He also has the Jurisdiction in transporting Mens to State penal institutions...
...Crosswaith is making a straight Socialist campaign while his immediate program includes the following...
...It asked for $686,252 for "expense...
...Pull Runs The Courts...
...The district has been reapportioned by the Democrats in the hope that it would be taken out of the hands of the Socialists...
...The Republicans have nominated Hubert Delahey to make the race against Crosswaith, Delaney is also a Negro and is making the usual hackneyed arguments that have been made to Negro voters since the days of Lincoln...
...A bill for a five-day work week, an eight-hour day and adequate old age pension for federal employees...
...What benefit does New York County derive from this department ? What ftl the office of the Sheriff doing that other departments in the city government could not do...
...Harold F. Levin Member of Congress, 21st Distr...
...There would be no opportunity for crooked franchise peddlers...
...But, I thick, I am safe in rAstrng, that the five counties have SSI annual expenditure of nearly SB* million and a half...
...The municipal eapart said: 'What does the Sheriff do...
...Mayor Walker told everybody else to shut up...
...He was willing to let it sell its franchise for $686,252 hi cash and a five per cent cut on all the profits in the future...
...Four years have gone by...
...He won the election on the definite promise that he would get for the district a library, a park, a playground, and a hospital, all of which are needed, and all of which the people have been demanding...
...Thomas alleged, had shown favoritism on the bench to interests which he served as a lawyer...
...5. We shall appropriate the estimated ten millions of dollars a year for the short period necessary to bring playground space up to what is needed...
...The Socialists say the people own the city...
...the biographer of the British Labor Premier, the epochmaking work of Henry George had a tremendous influence in shaping the thought of MacDonald...
...Progress and Poverty' Particular interest attaches to the publication of a new unabridged edition of "Progress and Poverty" in connection with the recent visit to this country of J. Ramsay Mac Donald...
...M. Feigenbaum President...
...Borough of Brooklyn— I. Shiplaeofl Citv Court—Alexander Kahn City Court—Harry Rappaport City Court—Louis Waidman Municipal Court 2nd District— Marx Lewis Municipal Court 2nd District—S...
...To answer these questions intelligently, I begin to inquire into the functions and powers of the Sheriff...
...Bat that hi not enough for me...
...auditor, $6,000...
...Or the people...
...Which remark throws iight on both the police and the magistrates...
Vol. 9 • October 1929 • No. 12
