The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-29
They Discuss Diets

Wheedled and shaved down, Besides the inaf~
tyrizing news Stories the New York Times de-
votes an editorial Weighing the possibilities Of
the diet In Syracuse it is applied only to relief
given by the city The Times ponders over the
problem of supplying every housewife (of the
working class, of course) with the scheme. And
the Times, realizing that the idea is too ridic-
ulous to hit home, admits that the normal man
finds himself going away hungry from the mere
act of reading over the menus"
But there is a balm The diet of Syracuse
mentioned above is obviously a much better
diet than the prevailing for nearly every
body in Soviet Russia"
Two days before this appeared the Times
reported the Moscow congress Of the trade unions
Comrade Mootov said that wages had risen by
IS per cent Molotoy said that public dining
halls serve 32,0OO000 meals daily. (And no
9-cent meals. The vacations. social insurance,
nurseries and ali which the Soviet workers have
gained compared with the Scent diet of SYRIA
cusei We know why the Times drags the Soviet
Union in.
To the housewife the scheme is also of doubt
full value. For to live at 9 cents day she must
buy in wholesale quantities, says the Times. III
the Syracuse diet person gets three pounds
Of food day But there are only two foods
that sell for cents pound, flour and potatoes
An adrliss on that there can't be a 9-cent diet
for the housewife except if the purchases are
made in lots Of 100 tons and 1000 gross,
Now, MIR. Ochs Of the Times, you say that the
housewife could live on 9-cent diet if she we're
to buy in large lots, and you say that normal
man is hungry when he reads the diet" which
is bought in large lots, So which is correct?
Not to be beaten by Syracuse, the patriotic
mayor of Tulsa, Okla, rushes forward to serve
notice that a city which spends 9 cents day
OF its unemployed is just plain extravagant
Why, since Nov. ], Tulsa has fed about 10000
WORKERS at q daily cost of less than GA cents
and what is more, they are much healthier
than the rest of the city. The only comment is
that the rest of the city must be living on air
and are on the verge Of death.
The race OF starvation relief schemes in the
United States is flashed on screen of League
of Nation statistics of worldwide misery. The
League announces that one out of every twenty
eight in the world, or 100000, are, diplomats
ically speaking, deprived of their means of SUBJ
sistence" (They call it starvation in privately
Albert Thomas, the socialist who released the
figure is rather forgetful (also automatically
speaking. On Christmas the International La
Dor Office, of which he is director announced
that 100 million are starving all over the world
except in Soviet Russia. a:ld that the greatest
number starving was in the United States. That
figure was based on world unemployment fig
ure of 25 million, a great under estimation.
The growth of unemployment is accompanied
by systematic scientific sashing of relief
for the unemployed in Tulsa. Syracuse, New
York and every city OF the country. The unem-
ployment relief has been on the theory of taking
care of your own In reality, starving your
own" No single city has taken care of tenth
part Of the unemployed and already they are
cutting down to 9 cents and cents
Let the mayors experiment if they want to-
the workers will fight in ever larger masses foe
unemployment insurance.