The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-13
USE CRISIS
CRY TO CUT
OFF RELIEF
Tammany Carries Out
Wall Street Starva-
ton Policy

Even the Tammany pretense
of relief is to be done away
with by the New York City
Hall gang. The Tammany
press itself admits that there
are almost a million unemployed
workers and their families who face
actual starvation. Frank j. Taylor
commissioner of public works, has
notified Mayor Walker that the Glib
son Committees relief fund of $18,-
100000 will be exhausted by the last
of May. Another $12 100000, appro-
priated by the city for unemploy-
ment relief will be gone on the same
date. The fact is that the workers
will not have to wait for June 1 for
the miserable dole handed out for
city work to cease. The miserable
handouts to large extent have been
stopped already, as cases reported in
the Daily Worker have shown.
Tammany is thus carrying out the
policy of its Wall Street masters.
Budget Already Cut In Half
A confidential letter that fell into
the hands of the Unemployed Coun-
Gil reveals that already the "hone
relief bureau supervisors" have been
ordered to cut down budgets on re-
lief by so per cent.
The rankest discrimination is prac-
ticed in the administration Of the
Tammany 'relief". The letter adds
that: ''Nationalities accustomed to a
lower standard of living, such as Ne
groes, Italians, Porto Ricans shall be
cut more than the others" This del
iberate mass starvation is being i'm
posed more drsstically upon the most
oppressed sections of the population
in an effort to divide the working
class and defeat the growing move
ment toward consolidation of the
fighting working class front against
the hunger program of capitalism.
Tammany has all along been using
all Of this so-called relief fund that
did not go to pay the salaries of the
hordes of officials, investigators"
and hangers-on in general, in the
most discriminating fashion, in the
hope of keeping the workers divided.
The fraud of Tammany relief is
seen in the rising death rate from
starvation in New York City. The
official magazine of the Welfare
Council C'Better Times") yesterday
published a list of ninety-five cases
of starvation in hospitals, twenty Of
which resulted in death. Countless
others who die of starvation are re-
ported as having died from other
causes.
On top of thsi is the Block Aid
fake that is used as a fascist attack
against the whole working class ana
is an attempt to still further beat
down the living standards of the
workers
Organize Mass Campaign
The Unemployed Councils are call
ing on the workers, white and Negro,
native and foreign born, to unite and
defeat the whole attack against the
unemployed workers and against the
whole working class.
An intensive campaign is on to
mobilize the workers in all neighbrr-
hoods. Thousands of leaflets are be-
ing distributed by all Councils and
Block Committees for Thursday,
April 18th. Indoor meetings will take
place tomorrow in many workers
headquarters. Friday morning there
will be a wave of demonstrations at
all Home Relief Buros to force them
to keep open. This campaign will
be broadened to embrace tens of
thousands in great city hall dem
onstration Thursday, April 21st.