The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-18
BlOck>Aide1S Expose
Themselves
BY !. AMTER.

T2LTARE COMMISSIONER FRANK W. TAYs
8 LOt2 admits today that "The Bureau now
IS $4,000 applications for relief. The books
il - closed III about two weeks and will be
I'd only if it becomes apparent that 1t
II oe possible to offer relief to those found
5..,ly OF assistance. AT present there are about
, Zone Relief Bureaus and these will be cut
own to "a" &c.. r.
aving stated one week ago that there arc
303 families unprovided for, now it is admit
ted tnat the number that has been reached and
-eceige no relief amounts to $4,000.
*gu5 the worst aspect OF the whole situation
s that as the Block-Aid Committee admits ~the
2yerase unemployed head of family the
'ai5iny list of the Emergency Work and Relief
2ureau has been out of work Is months" This
lows clearly the starvation condition among
ne unemployed of New York. Not only are the
.or5ars suffering generally from starvation, but
5 reported only recently 95 men and wonaeu
4sre treated for starvation in the city hospitals
whom 20 died. How many thousands and tens
/ thousands OF cases, the origin of which Ii
lndernowishnent and starvation are treated
II the hospitals or suffer without any aid, VIII
remain unknown.
tuberculosis is raging, and is especially vide
cad among the Negroes Official reports show
K; although the death rate per 100 thousand
- and among the other colored races, IL is be-
zen six and seven hundred.
'rhe Block Aiders are >robbing the workers in
ne factories. stores and offices. Up to the pres
ent time, they have collected s274000, Of which
$223 900 comes from Manhattan. Where in Man.
hsttan it would be interesting to inquired For it
is clear that since they cannot get support In
the neighborhoods, they are bouncing upon the
workers in the factories, offices and stores, and
are compelling them through the foremen and
supervisors, etc. to contribute, nickels, dimes,
qunrters and half-dollars week..
Mayor Walker refuses to consider the reduce
Jon of the high salaries Of the city officials. He
ccntemptuously declares that he is not talking
for the crowd and certainly not for snakes" This
is the scoundrel who pretends to be interested
in Mooney, who spends his time at Hollywood
and the South raking in hundreds of thousands
OF dollars in graft which Seabury will not even
dare to uncover This is the head of the TAM
many Hall administration which reeks with
graft from top to bottom and which Mayor
Walker has the nerve to deny.
The Hoover government rejecting urenploy-
nent insurance and the U. S. Congress which
rejected even the pitiful demagogc proposal Of
La Toilette Costigan, is placing billions in taxes
on the shoulders OF the workers to balance the
budget" The Six Governors Conference which
made so-caNed radical proposal for unemploy-
nlent insurance, but is only fake, does not pro-
coed any further. That it is clear that the work.
ers must rely upon their own strength in order
to get unemployment relief and insurance.
Commissioner Taylor declares that "reinvesti-
CATION of registered cases of the Bureau show
that the need now is as great. if not greater
than last winter when these applicants regis
tered" OF course it is greater, and therefore the
unemployed must realize that they will get re-
lief only through organization and struggle.
The unemployed must organize into the Block
Committees and Unemployed Councils and dem
opstrate at every relief bureau and not leave the
relief bureau until every worker Is provided for.
Mayor Walker and Governor Roosevelt must be
told in terms OF struggle that the unemployed
will not tolerate their fooling around with this
question any longer. Starvation is rampant, and
if Roosevelt can make demagogic speeches about
the common people,, he will have to UNDER
stand that the common people, namely. the
workers. do not intend to starve, do not intend
to be laid off by the tens of thousands, do not
intend to have their wages cut to the starvation
line, without real fight.
In every section; there must be demonstra-
lions and struggles at the relief bureaus and
on April Fl.