The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-03

by this fact at all: it is merely "a result Of
many months of thinking" that is ALL
Great Mass Misery Next Winter
1.-THE number of citizens who in this coming
winter will be in need, so far as it is possible
to estimate, will be nearly if not quite, twice as
many during the winter of 193O-S1," declares
Roosevelt.
Workers! Employed and unemployed You re-
member the last two winters You remember the
long bread lines, tens of thousands of workers
standing in these lines in the bitter frost and
cold waiting for miserable bowl OF soup You
remember the evictions! The shutting off of gas
and electricity The cutting of the supply Of
coal, the grocery and the butcher credits! You
remember all. this, Governor Roosevelt assures
us that this winter there will be twice as much
misery, with twice as many workers, farmers
and their families sufferngl
A Plan of Starvation
What does the plan of Governor Roosevelt to
be adopted by the New York Legislature pro-
pose?
This PLAN says the N. Y Times in an edi-
torial in its August 20 issue, is not system of
unemployment insurance it is to provide
work, that the money would be expended as
wages, not charity"
But even this is bluff! The plan provides
for charity and nothing else (besides graft for
the administrator but charity! Charity,
where work Cannot be found" by the local
emergency committee or forced labor where such
work can be found, no cash relief! Franklin D.
Roosevelt as Herbert Hoover, is afraid Of the
dole" They refuse to grant the demand Of the
unemployed for cash payments
Here are the provisions for the plan:
l. That under no circumstances shall any
actual money be paid in the form of dole or
in ofh b1y ha off 10
unemployed and his family.
A blank refusal to in any way help distressed
unemployed workers and their families in cases
Of need, sickness eviction, etc
2. That this relief should be restricted to
persons who have resided in the state of New
York at least two years prior to the enactment
of this statute.
An excellent scheme to discriminate against
workers. especially militant workers and foreign
born All the commissioners" will have to do
in such a case is-to declare a worker not to
be resident of the state for two years and that
settles it!
But here is still a better one showing how
Roosevelt is against" charity
IF any form of employment can be found
for the public use at prevailing rate of wages
whatever that means; the plan is not opposed
to the present wage cutting going on.-E. s.
DC paAu lOT SucH WOrk5 II, however, IL is I'M
possible to E.'Ovide work of such kind then the
local welfare officer may purchase and give
to the unemployed within jurisdiction, neces-
sary food, fuel, clothing and shelter for them
and their families"
Cash relief, the dMand of the unemployed
is a dole that 1--WE" must avoid in "our" land of
milk and honey! But the welfare officer buying
nd giving food, clothing and shelter to the I'M
employed this is not dole, this is not charity!
And workers! Do you realize what this ar
of getting rid of these $2O0O0o00 will
mean for graft for these welfare agents" and
these emergency" committees? Il will mean
practically that the major part of this money
will go into the pockets of these agents of the
bosses. Part of this money will go into the
pockets as graft to the various contractors who
will have to provide work" to these unemployed
The Legislature is now investigating graft in
New York State. We unemployed workers are,
by Roosevelt's plan being degraded to the posi-
ton of actual beggars! But the essence of this
whole plan is to provide more graft for these
politicians.
We must organize militant struggle against
this plan to degrade the unemployed to beggary
and organize graft and demand real unemploy-
ment relief in cash payments
The second article will appear in a
subsequent iSsue)