The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-21
Buy Tomatoes for the Needy,
Says Mayor Murphy

not help but see the starvation program of Mr..
Murphy which he SO faithfully forces upon the
shoulders of the working class and their chill
dren. In the quotation above you will note that
it says this was the first step to provide needy
families with some of their food for the coming
winter" What does this mean? This proves
very conclusively that the charges made by our
movement against the present city administra-
ton were and are correct. We charge that
$4,000 families we're stricken off the welfare
list, that the welfare support was completely
stopped and that thousands of workers we're
left to starve, and it Is only during the pre-
sent election campaign that Mayor Murphy
once more comes out with his demagogy and
with his methods of foohng and misleading the
workers.
1t is true that it is impossible for Murphy
who is such a faithful servant of Henry Ford
Dodge Chrysler and the Wall Street bankers to
make similar promises which ne had made in
the city election campaign a year ago. He is
convinced that he stands exposed before large
section of the Detroit population. He is con-
WINGED that the very misery of the masses is
a living monument against the fake promises an
demagogy which he 50 sAlfully put across dur
ing the last campaign. Knowing this he is util-
izing similar methods but in a different form
during the present election campaign. One OF
these methods is the canning of 10000 quarts
of tomatoes What joke But it is more SER
ious than that This present scheme of Mayor
Murphy's Unemployed Committee is nothing
else but an actual racket of the present City
Hall officials. 1t is interesting to know that the
other candidates for Mayor such as Nagel En-
mons and Hanna are endorsing the very same
methods and advancing a similar program,
Only the candidates endorsed by the Com
munist Party, the Auto Workers Union. and
the Unemployed Council, and other militant
workers organizations are honest and sincere
in exposing the starvation program of the ca
pita1ist candidates and at the same time make
determined fight for the necessary things of life
such as SUFFICIENT milks for starving children,
the number of which is increasing daily, but
yet we find that the big creameries are dump
ing milk into the river than than supplying
the needy.
Only W. workers candidates are fighting for
cash relief which will make it possible for the
workers themselves to purchase the necessary
things OF life and would make it impossible for
grafters and racketeers to swell up their pocket
books at the expense of the working masses
Knowing the above outlined conditions which
are only very small part of the actual situation
under which the workers are compelled to live
we must seriously drive home to every working
class family that vote for the workers candi-
dates is vote against hunger, against the star
walton program, against the increased system
of wage cuts and the speed-up-a vote for the
workers candidates is demand for milk for
our children: is demand for cash relief for
all unemployed: is demand for better living
condition of employed and unemployed: Is
demand for better living conditions of employed
and unemployed workers
All workers employed and unemployed, must
rally to their class program and vote for the
following candidates.
John Schnieis for Mayor
William Novel, Joseph BiIups, Nellie Belunas
Antonio Gerlach-For Councilrnen.