The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-25

More Bones; Less Bonus!
By JORGE

Well vets Hoover is pulling fast one. While
you can depend on i; tat whether the Congress
or Hoover wins in the sham battle over the
bonus you vets will lose, still there is 1882 to
consider and Hoover is great engineer.
It's like this: With the job of protecting cor
porations and capitalists generally from taxes
right now, Hoover is bound to fight tooth and
nail against any appropriation that might give
a worker, vet or non-vet a nickel, though he
would like to keep the veterans loyal to capital
ism as fascist shock troops against the workers.
and he wants also to be reelected in 1892.
So though he and all his cohorts fought. bled
and died to prevent even the Bacharach Bill
from passing now that it's passed, he is going
to pass it back with veto that tells Congress
it ought to be ashamed of itself for giving so
darned little to "our brave boys" "our gallant
heroes'-and "also, they don't need even this
much"
Believe it or not this is his game He has
set the Veterans Bureau ooh, how you love IT'D
and the Red (Double) Cross, to making Sur
vey." If you never heard of a survey" we'll
let you in on it. A survey when ordered by a
capitalist politician, is bound to result in facts
but only such facts" as agree with the prior
opinion of the capitalist politician.
Such a method in philosophical lingo, is called
eclectic" No, not electric" though the results
are shocking. Just see When the bill was
being argued, old Aluminium Mellon & Co. we're
on the job weeping and wailing that If it were
passed something like $1,750,000y000 or more
would have to be paid by the "overburdened
taxpayers" who are nearly dying of starvation
down at Miami.
But now what happens? Hoover has begun .
"survey"-a bit late-yet before it is finished the
N. Y. Post of Monday announces White House
sources as saying that:
There are 10000 veterans who would be en-
titled to draw only about $40 or $780, There are
100000 more who could draw less than $3.50 and
there are 100000 who could draw between $3.50
and $780,"
Let's stop right there and do some figuring.
Let's suppose each would draw the highest pos
sible amount That 100000 drew $50 each, that
would make $16800000 Then 100000 drew full
$3.50 EACH making 10000 more. Then 100000
drew $500 each making $250,00000o more. Yet
the whole lot would at most, draw $3l6,300 900
altogether! Where the devil is the peril to the
country" in that? Hoover makes a tax refund
present to destitute millionaires every day or so
bigger than that!
SO the fight against It as "extortionate" is
changed into fight against it as "shamefully
Insufficient" Pretty clever, what! .-
To top it off Herbies Survey" is getting fine
haired reports from the Veterans Bureau tNo,
Junior, the bureau doesn't belong to the veter-
ans, the veterans belong to the bureau) about
the amazing prosperity among the vets We
quote from the N. Y. Telegram Of Feb. 90:
Reports have reached the President that in
one large city, unnamed which has 10000 veter-
ans in its population, there are only 1883 known
to be in distress. Another city having more than
100000 veterans reported only 1,7oo in distress
according to White House figures"
Ali According to White House figures" the
moon is made of Swiss cheese!
You see vets that it is very necessary that
you teach Hoover arithmetic! And teach Con-
gress lesson in working class fighting spiritl
Every vet, whether he is A. L, or " F. w.
or Just S. O. L. should follow the Workers Ex-
Servicemen's League into the demonstrations to-
day, uniting the demand for the cash payment
in full of the bonus with the general working
class demand for unemployment insurance. And
we advise you to make contact with the Workers
Elk Seryicemen's League, address 70 E. Tenth St,
New York City, which invites you, If in the city,
to its Friday night meetings.
You can't beat the bonus steal with A, L. or
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