The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-05-06
BY E. CARLOS.

THE election campaign is over, Mayor Cernak
L is back from his vacation, with things getting
down to normally" 1t Is perhaps normal to
the capitalists, but not so for the workers Since
the elections tens of thousands of workers were
laid off, with more lay-offs, more wage-cuts to
come But today there is very little said about
the workers in spite of the so-called great VIC
tory for labor, of the Federation News. The
workers are beginning TO ask what happened
to the three main election planks of Mr.. Ger
mak-unemployment, taxation and crime. This
is what happened:
Unemployment: Closing down of soup-kit-
chens and flop houses, the liquidation of the
Emerson Emergency Relief Commission and the
famous campaign promise Of Mr. Cernak, two
million dollars appropriation by the county for
relief entirely forgotten. Taxation: The city
is facing bankruptcy, with money to pay the
employees. The bankers refuse to give any more
loans until the financial reform bill has been
passed by the state legislature. The small tax
payers refuse to pay taxes. And to complete the
picture of financial stability, dozens Of banks
are closing down, robbing the workers of all
their savings. Lastly, regarding crime, the small
frys are going under cover, but Mr. Alphonse
Capone is sitting safe. He knows very well that
Tony does not mean it. In one word, the pre-
election social demagogy of Cermak is not work.
ing out at all. Conditions are changing from
bad to worse.
Something is to be done to further fool the
workers and to bring some business to Chicago.
Words, promises, newspaper cartoons about the
coming back of prosperity do not work out any
more. The new subway can be built now, say
the newspapers, with an outlay of 60 more
millions of dollars but when will it be built?
The Federation News of the Chicago A F. of l..
is licking Cermak's boots, better than they did
it to the former master, Thompson, but will the
workers be fooled any more by the Fitzpatricks,
NockelS and the new floor-leader at the City
Hall, Alderman Bowler? Something has got to
be done-and done fast.
The Chicago Jubilee Week
The big mountains of the Tribune and the
Association Of Commerce got together and gave
life to a tiny little mouse. The baby's name is
Chicago Jubilee Week. 1t is very small one,
but watch it grow BY May 11-18 when the
great event is to take place, we will be faced
with elephant, with the earnarks and bray
ing of a donkey The reading Of the capitalist
press, which plays up this event as front-page
headliner, will make one see what tn efamous
bootstrap, by which Big Business in Chicago
will lift itself out of the mud will look like.
The Jubilee Week will have everything to
satisfy the public. Delegations from every state
and from the International Chamber of Com
merce will attend. To show its peaceful charac-
ter. the week will open with military parade,
with Major-Genera Parker acting as marshal,
and this will be further enhanced by the roar
ing Of airplanes over the city. International
boxing tournaments, displays Of merchandise at
reduced prices by our business men downtown;
fireworks, carnival and the second Inauguration
of Mayor Cermak. And, according to the press,
hundreds of thousands will stream into the citv
from other states, availng themselves of the
reduced prices Of the railroads, to spend mil
lions of dollars, accumulated through unemploy-
ment, wage-cuts and bank failures In one word,
a gigantic undertaking. which, according to the
Tribune, will turn the tide against depression
like General Sheridan turned the defeat into
victory. Jobs, bread and butter for the work.
ing people"
Why VIII Chicago Lead?
To make it sure that this dope will work, the
bosses keep on telling the workers that it is only
the beginning. The climax of this revival will
he reached at the Century of Progress Exposition
two years hence "Fairyland of Jeweled Light
and Color this World Fair will present the
progress Of the world during the past century
Millions of people will come from every country
TO the city Of Il Will" celebrating its centennial
rnd they will leave here. incidentally, pile of
money, lots OF orders. 2lyipg lobs 10 the workers