The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-04

CSAANA w IL u ~ w ~ ~
fled Fight for JoblesS |
Sheer starvation faces the 100000
unemployed workers unless they or
ganize and by militant struggle force
granting of enough food TO maintain
life through the winter. For city
after city is cutting off or cutting
down tremendously even the soup
line rations they have been giving.
JobIess Already Starving
This is the fourth winter Of unem-
ployment. The number Of jobless is
greater than ever before. Their lit
tie savings are exhausted. Their
bodies are weakened by long months
of partial starvation. Hundreds of
thousands and millions have lost
their homes and what items Of per-
sonal property they had. Their rela-
tives who still have jobs are work
ing two or three days week on
stagger system, and have had wage
cuts amounting to over so per cent.
New York, 6 Cents Day.
Figures showing terrific, amazingly
cynical slashes in the petty starva-
ton dole of relief given up to now,
have been compiled by Grace Hutch
ms of the Labor Research Associa-
ton. They show:
New York, with its admitted 1,l60,-
900 jobless, estimates relief needs at
$75 100000 for the next twelve months
$3.50 a month for each unemployed
workers family, or 6 cents per per-
son a day.
| The report states:
Relief is on a disaster basis in
New York City, admits William Hold
son, executive director of the New
York Welfare Council
1900 Dead.
"It is impossible to estimate the
number of deaths in the last year in
which starvation was contributing
cause declares Fortune, the rich
mans magazine, in analyzing the
deaths directly from starvation in
New York City hospitals. But GER
tainly they run into the thousands.
One New York capitalist paper adj
mitted more than 1000 deaths from
starvation.
Detroit, Cents Day.
Fifteen cents per person per day
was the Detroit rate of relief in April,
1892, said to be the lowest rate for
years But by September it is cut
to about cents per person per day.
A family of nine now gets $3.50 a
week, or so cents each, to last for
7 days. The welfare agencies no
| longer even pretend to pay rent. and
from so to $50 families are evicted
each day, according to city records.
Evicted workers and their families
live in floorless tents, in a park that
becomes a mud-hole when it rains.
Philadelphia Cuts All Off
philadelphia cut down relief ex-
penditures from $1,500,000 in the one
month of March 1892 to bare
$4,000 in July-practically nothing
at all for the 100000 starving jobless
and their families. Even before the
cutting off of relief, the average
| family was receiving Gin May only
$4.23 a week for all needs. This
amount allowed 1898 a week for food,
while the U. S. Children's Bureau es-
Inmates that the very minimum
necessary for food in a family OF
three is S5.15 week. Families on
relief were said to average 48 per-
sons in each, so the amount to feed
person for a day was only about
liz cents.
Even this was cut off in July and
55, 900 families were left almost wholly
without relief, "Slow starvation and
progressive disintegration of family
life" admits the Community Coun-
Gil. With at least 1,250,000 jobless
in Pennsylvania it is officially esti-
mated that 100000 persons are
wholly without income in the state.
This is, of course, an under-State-
ment.
socialists" Cut 80 Per Cent.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with $50
cialist" administration, cut relief ex-
penditures between March and July
1882, by 80 per cent.
Cut Half In Pittsburgh.
In Pittsburgh. where last year the
QrlV6 was IOT 0O,UOU,OUU lOl 1CnC4s Uliio
year it is for only $3,000,000, though
no one even pretends that the need
has been reduced by even a fraction
of per cent.
They All Cut Down.
Rochester proposes to give Is cents
per day per person relief, if they
make the proposed collections. The
rate for Schenectady is 8 cents, Tor
Syracuse, 9 cents, for Utica, 10 cents.
Cities and city areas that have re-
Gently cut relief by 20 per cent or
more include the following; Phila-
delphia, 88 per cent; Los Angeles,
46.8 per cent; Mobile, Alabama, 43
per cent: st. Louis, Missouri, 80 per
cent: Flint, Michigan, 800 per cent;
Houston, Texas, 253 per cent; Sac
ramento. Calf, 24.6 per cent; Pom
tiac. Mich. 244 per cent; Knoxville,
Tenn. 24.2 per cent; Shreveport, La,
90 per cent winston Salem, N c.
21.7 per cent
Negroes and Other Groups Cut Off
Entirely.
Besides cutting the rate Of cid
given to each family. many communi-
les have Abandoned whole sections
OF the working class. In Dtffe5,