The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03

ployerS is for more starVation-which
means more profits for the bosses.
New York, Oakland, Chicago, Phila-
delphia and many other cities are
cutting off what little relief they were
giving. So do the small towns. An
example is Mount Pleasant, N. Y, in
which yesterday the Village Board
passed a resolution to "cut poor re-
lief to the bone," to substitute rs
cent coffee for that which has been
issued, and to buy other foods at the
cheapest price.
simultaneously, the state Commit
tee on Unemployment Relief Meas
ures of New Jersey announces that
unemployment in January this year
is 1874 per cent worse than at the
same time last year, when the crisis
was already well advanced.
r Especial to the Daily Worker)
PITTSBURGH. Pa, April 1.-The
city of Pittsburgh refuses pointbIank
to give unemployment relief. The
committee elected at a meeting of
the unemployed council in the Hill
section Visited the city Department
of Public Poor" and were fatty re-
fused relief. The committee of the
unemployed council presented the
cases of seven starving families. They
were told by an individual named
Raub, the director Of the department,
that the city does not give out re-
lief at all.
They were told to go to some char
ity institution and when they pro-
tested that they have already tried
this, they were told the city could
do nothing for them. Included in
the seven cases was the Thomas fam
lily, of six, whose meager relief from
a charity institution was cut off four
months ago.
This refusal to give relief is part
of the infamous Pittsburgh Plan" of
the Mellon and the steel and coal in
terests. BY means of this plan the
bosses are extracting one days pay
from the already starving part-time
workers. The plan also includes a
complete registration of all workers
and the employment only of ode
sirable citizens" which makes it cas-
Ter to deport and Jail class conscious
workers.
While a. great deal Of noise has
been made about the Pittsburgh plan,
unemployment in Pittsburgh has
grown by leaps and bounds. The Of
fetal figures Of the government now
admit $4,000 totally unemployed and
10000 more who still have jobs but
are not working. which means that
they are also laid off. There are
more than 100000 workers unem-
ployed in Allegheny County.
Only 2,e00 Jobs.
Since its inception the Pittsburgh
plan has employed around 1000
workers but this means that large
numbers were laid-off, SO that the
bosses could hire these workers under
the Pittsburgh plan at cheaper
wage, as low as IS cents an hour.
Meanwhile, in a number of depart
nlents Of the city of Pittsburgh hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars have
been stolen in graft by the heads of
the departments and Mayor Kline's
gang. The heads Of departments in
Pittsburgh get a salary Of $4,000 a
year. This graft includes the letting
Of contracts for more than $1,000, 900
Illegally, contracts which were not Let
to the lowest bidder. the buying of
a $1,000 automobile and other lux
uries for Mayor Kline, and automo-
biles for many police officers, and
many other forms of graft.
Edgar j. Kaufman, r. MELONS
chief lieutenant in putting over
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