The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-16
Election Issues in
Detroit
By JOHN sCHNIIEs


THE coming winter will bring about the most
severe condition of mass misery and mass
starvation, that is, unless the workers in Detroit
will rally to the support for immediate relief
What is the platform of Murphy, Nagel EN-
mons, and Hanna in the election campaign2
Their platform is of economy, that is
economy in the sense that unemployment relief
must be cut down, that the workers children
will be deprived of the necessary milk and health
their program is one of starving the masses
and defending the millions of dollars of profits
of the automobile manufacturers, bankers and
real estate sharks
Their program is nothing but one of starving
the children of the working class.
Mr.. Murphy the present chief executive Of the
city government, promised in the last campaign
that the needy unemployed masses would be
cared for by the city. What are the factsp The
facts are that Mayor Murphy endorsed the pro-
gram Of economy. This program was worked
out by the City Common Council Mr. Bradley 7
the leader of this program, stated time and
again that the bankers in the city of Detroit
and some of the bankers in Wall Street insist
that the city Of Detroit must cut down the pay
ment of unemployment relief. Mr.. Murphy and
all the agents in the City Hall readily submitted
to this insistence of the bankers and immedi-
ing standards of the workers.
The following is official notice sent out by
Murphy's Public Welfare Commission:
Notice to all Welfare families, City Of Detroit
Department of Public Welfare, July 8, 1882:
1.-THE City of Detroit must reduce the money
spent on unemployed families because of lack Of
funds
after August /, 1881, many OF the families
now receiving help will be dropped from our List
This will first affect the families with no small
children The larger families will be asked to eat
at public dining rooms. We cannot promise
clothing, rent coal, gas, or light.
1.-THE Welfare Department deeply regrets this
necessity and offers its services in helping tbs
unemployed families carry out their plans.
"The Public Welfare Commission
The above Murphy notice to all unemployed
shows conclusively Murphys actual living pro-
gram towards the working population. 1t fur
Their shows that his fake promises in the past
his methods of demagogy, were merely methods
used to lead the workers into the arms Of the
automobile manufacturers, the bankers and real
estate sharks for one purpose and one aim, and
that is to make additional millions of dollars
profits out of the very suffering and mass misery
of men, women ana children of the working
class. No food no clothing, rent, no coal, gas
or light is Murphy's answer to the crying needs
of the workers and children.
The methods used by Murphy and by the pres
ent City Common Council to enforce their pro-
gram Of starvation are the following
Brutally clubbing members and workers Of
Unemployed Council by Murphy's police.
Wholesale arrests Of unemployed workers.
Mass eviction Of unemployed families.
Registering, er-printng and deportation Of
foreign born workers.
Discrimination against the Negro masses
through the methods of de1nagogy, of fake
promises, of graft and corruption among the
petty and bourgeois section of the Negroes
This is the program and tactics OF the present
city administration, this is the program and
methods of the boss class, this is the program
and will be the methods if Mr.. Nagel, Emmons
or Hanna happen to be elected. There is no fun
damental difference between them-they are all
candidates of the boss class, they are all being
put up in order to defend the present system
the present ruling class which is responsible for
increased unemployment for increased wage
cuts and speed up in the automobile and other
industries.
This starvation program is the burning prob
lem facing the workers in the present election
ers must fight, that the working class population
must organize.
The following are the demands of the Con1n1u-
mist candidates for mayor and City Council:
y Cash relief at the rate Of $40 per week for
single unemployed workers, SIS for married
couples, and So additional for each dependent.
D No eviction of unemployed workers.
81 No discrimination against Negroes, women,
foreign born and young workers in the admins
tration of relief.
~ Free gas, electric and water supply for the
unemployed workers.
81 Free car fare, meals, clothing and school
supplies for the children of the unemployed
workers.
g. Adequate supply Of milk for children Of
unemployed.
y Free medical and dental services for all UNI
employed and their families.
81 No removal of furniture from homes Of lin-
employed workers for non-payment of INSTALL
rnents due to unemployment.
81 Free carfare for all unemployed workers.
1o) All vacant hotel rooms and houses to be
turned over to and administered by the Unem-
poyed Council
ID The continuation of the city lodging
houses, with better meals served there under
the management and control of the Unemployed
Council
12) All jobs secured by the City Employment
week or not less than the wage of the last regu-