The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-11
|RAW-FOOD,
STALE. BREAD
RELIEF PLAN
N. Y. Charity Works
Out Semi Starvation
Diet; Saves Money"
PREPARE HUNGER MARCH
Fight for $50 Winter
Federal Relief!

NEW YORK. - The organization
known as '"The Society for the I'm
provement Of the Condition Of tht
Poor" has issued a new starvation
diet. figured so that at the lowest
possible cost. enough unemployed
workers can be kept half alive unit
they may be wanted in industry
again.
Lucy Gillett, director Of the 80.
ciety" nutrition bureau, worked II
out, and does not even claim that II
is enough.
She says It Cannot cover by the
widest stretch Of imagination" the
diet nutrition experts would like tc
suggest.
Here is what they want you to live
on, you workers who are jobless be-
cause you produced more than the
boss can sell:
At least a pint OF milk day for
children, and for adults If possible.
Three pounds of potatoes and
one-half can of tomatoes a person
a week.
Three to four pounds Of cheap
est varieties of vegetables and
fruits, such as cabbage, carrots,
yellow turnips, onions, bananas
and prunes, person a week.
Day old bread, because Of de-
creased cost.
One-half to three-fourths pound
OF fat and sugar person day.
Small amounts Of eggs, cheese,
meat and fish when funds permit.
Cod-Iiver oil for every child I'M
der three years of age.
But the Society for the Improve
ment of Conditions of the Poor" isn't
fanatical about any of these things
1t knows that the big bosses may moi
want to pay even for this much, ano
it suggests the unemployed eat the
vegetables raw so as to save the cost
of gas. 1t suggests they buy evapo-
rated milk and milk powder in
stead of fresh milk, and this saving
will buy the fruits and vegetables
needed. 1t worries a little over the
cost of the small amounts of eggs
cheese, meat and fish, but thinks
they should be provided wherever
possible, "for psychological reasons
This is how they want you to live
JoblesS Workers. And in fact, this is
better than they intend to let you
live. Only a small percentage Of the
jobless will get relief enough for this
diet, even if they don't fight HARD
for it.
Millions will live this winter as they
did last winter. on breadline SOUP
and 'coffee-and."
Not More Than This.
Such figures as those given out By
the Society" are intended as ar
upper limit, to keep any small place:
from going further and to quiet the
iobless with the idea that they car
live on almost nothing.
But winter is coming, and notice
that the Society" makes no provi.
sion for clothing. for fuel, for hous.
ing in zero weather.
Demand $50 Winter Relief!
This is why the National Hunger
March will demand $50 cash relief
for each jobless worker for specia
winter needs and in addition to To-
cal relief. The $50 is for the increased
diet needed to withstand piercing
cold. 1t Is for some warmer under.
wear and maybe a sweater and &
pair Of shoes.
Make Them Feed You.
local struggles must compel the
local authorities to at least provide
food. must stop evictions and turn
ing off of gas, light and water mus
force the authorities to give coal fol
heat, or provide other heat These
struggles should be organized under
the leadership Of united front com.
mittees In every neighborhood, II
every bread line.
And local struggles lead to mas.
support Of the National Hunger
March, which on December vii
demand from Congress not only the
$50 winter relief but unemployment
insurance at the expense Of the cap.
italists and the government.
PROTEST HARRINGTON JAILINC
NEW YORK.-The National Com.
mittee Of the Unemployed Councils
yesterday issued a statement de.
nouncing the Imprisonment for three
months Of Wal Harrington, leader
of the British National Hunger
March.
1.-THE working class In America
must be prepared to withstand q
similar attack against the National
Hunger March to Washington" says
the committee, and continues:
"Only solid organization. determi-
nation and militancy will force the
federal government to grant the de-
mands of the starving The best way
to show solidarity to the British
comrades and back our own hunger
march demands is by intense local
struggles and more local victories"