The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05
ay GApoR REsEARcH ASSOCIATION.


BY LABOR RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
FHIEF among the witnesses before the spe-
v cal committee OF the U. S. Senate taking
testimony against unemployment insurance was
P. r. Sherman, representative of Matthew VOLTS
National Civic Federation. Assisted by the cour-
teous senators he hogged the time in order to
keep the advocates of even partial unemploy-
niept insurance from testifying Sherman and
Vol opposed old age pensions in New York State
before the present pension law was passed there.
They have for years been consistent enemies of
social insurance Of every sort. Hunger marchers
who fight for unemployment insurance must
clearly fight not only Hoover and the capitalists
but the VOL Civic Federation and the A. P. OF L.
ADEQUATE" RELIEF.
The Emergency Work and Relief Bureau in
New York City refuses even to register for any
Kind OF emergency job" workers who are not
heads Of families or who are under 81 years Of
age Even the head Of the Hudson Guild says,
Adequate provision was not made for them last
winter and nothing is even promised for this
And perhaps the greatest physical need is for
the women in the tenement houses No provision
has been made for them he adds.
TRANSMITS"
The private hunger marches OF individual
workers have increased with the deepening of the
crisis More workers are forced to become migra-
tory and homeless. Reports from 100 cities to the
Hoover Hunger Committee Show an Increase
IN number of transients-that in few comrnu-
mites is as high as 200 per cent"
Federated Press reports that unemployed men,
often accompanied by large families, are pouring
into California from Arizona, Nevada, and New
Mexico at the rate of 1900 day"
WALKER HIDES BEHIND MORGAN
Ctsk,v S&P
the Seabury Exposed graft in the hand-out Of
the ctys 100000 work for relief" during the
last IL months. 1t was a Tam1nany grab bag;
the boys who knew the politicians got the work
relief" jobs.
So this year, in order to cover the stencil
little Mayor Walker appoints the greatest-and
most espectable-robber in America, j. P. Nor
gan, to head his emergency work bureau COM
mission which will spend $15OOO0oo of city funds
for relief. Like the crooks who Served" the gov
eminent in the World War they are to serve
without compensation"
LESS THAN THIRD FOR JOBLEsS.
Less than third Of the total sums now being
colected--partly by forced check-off of workers
Wages-for the Community Chests in some 400
cities of the United States will go for any kind
Of unemployment relief" Including graft and
overhead'). The rest will go for so-called Char
acter building" organizations such as the
YMCA. and Boy Scouts. Yet the impression
given out in the current drives is that they are
TO help the unemployed
DRASTIC DROP IN MILK CONSUMPTION.
The effects Of the crisis on the children of New
York City and vicinity is revealed by figures on
the receipts Of milk in the Port District of New
York We find that in the some of October, 1881
over 10 100000 quarts less milk were received
than m the same month of 1929. This is de-
crease Of over II per cent.
n Is estimated officially and conservatively
tat In Pennsylvania alone at least 10000 school
children will go hungry this winter unless i'm
mediate relief measures are taken by the state
government
IN west Virginia the Quakers who are feeding