The daily worker., 1932-09-20
Roosevelt's "Reliefp Pro-
gram for Railroad Labor

STUIU JO7 ANL]CCI OCtCA AL%OOI
THE politician Roosevelt who is so liberal" and so "safe
at the same time who has the complete support of
Owen D. Young, John j. Raskob and Tammany Hall, fol-
lows up his fake farm relief program with relief program
for railroad labor 1t is program of complete support
and protection for finance capital stock and bond hold
ers of Wall Street. the Morgans Gould and Vanderbs
In his Utah speech he discusses what he calls "the
preservation of railroads. The railroads. he says, re
in serious difficulties What these difficulties? What
happening our railroads. that they must be preserved?
Is there something wrong with their equipment Are they
insuperabe engineering problems? Is there shortage of
competent workers? Not at ALL
With his typical Stiffness Roosevelt nowhere clearly
defines what he conceives these difficulties
But the New York Times correspondent defined them
his follows only passing
what the really ruling class
which the railroads.
and bond interest about the uninterrupted flow its profits
seves railroad pledge to these financial
their profits will be fully protected working
What directly railroad arena
They workers
the hand driving the
starvation
robbing the millions
extortonate shipping rates
the
believing their champion these
promises hypocrisy profits
bankers
railroad workers the highest wages the industry can Afford Thus
honeyed pcaIy strives
he also hide the bitter ireconc
the against
the railroad magnae Practced the arts
Tamn1any promises pull opposite directions at the
time hungry
This also the policy of the liberals and the F.
Brotherhood leaders who by means of class cooperation
ayoTs and fight unemployment insurance
dole. That is why Roosevelt is their candidate
Both Secretary of Labor Doak
the Times financial expert assert
Roosevets railroad nothing but continuation OF Hoov
And they absolutely right For railroad workers this
quarter of million during the past
cuts ang 22ooooOo and part time Tor thousands OF
railroad workers
and Roosevelt knows it. There are 100000
stockholders less
ago showed that over 90 percent controlled
lea & o r mo MOI gan ana sum p oeo 10 % @ % or % % hos ao1
@ ~, s11p mas IT. @ ontbina ht NTorgan AGENTS con
ro more than 145 miles OF track through the ownership Of percent
the Committee Interstate and Foreign Commerce
devices owned controlled over percent mileage
f Ag % W y % Pa systems m b M New IN y @ Ti said % recently that these
figures not reveal the full extent of concentrated control Roosevelt
roads He does this to enlist the of the workers and
1osa 1osssr' as whole in support Of the uns policy of the rail-
poosEvMTs railroad program following points:
The point that the announce its intention
a specified period" gad he
said o the policy of freely lending the railroads
policy
government subsidy to the bankers and bondholders
Second laws to adequately protect security holders
creditors reorganzaions
Of finance capital and the railroad magnates
Third he advocates motor bus regulation As matter of fact the
competition deliberate attempt Of
their profits
railroads
the freight
this country the buses small part
believes the elimination of mileage where
wholesale
policy
Street profits
Roosevelt further concentration railroad control thru
Since the Commission under Hoover
already given its the Plan which gives four
control the railroad mileage
of the Mississippi Roosevelt merely pledges to continue to assist
the manipuaion
wholesale particularly
will be thrown the result of these
sohdaons
himself
at the of the workers