The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-09-17
COMMITTEES TO
DEMAND RELIEF.
FIGHT PAY CUTS
Not One Jobless With
Out Housing, Food
and Clothing!"

NO IeQerdl TelleL aSlQ6 from Lle
donation of a little wheat and cotton
from the Farm Board and cam
paign in every city to force the wage
cut and part time employed workers
to give what little the jobless will get
this winter, was the actual program
outlined in President Hoover'S key
note speech to the conference yes
terday here of heads of 20 charities.
Fight for Relief!
Against this starvation and wage
cutting program, the Communist
Party through Fosters Chicago speech
Sept 10, called for mass united front
struggle of jobless and employed
workers, SO that not a single man,
woman or child must be without de-
cent food, clothing and shelter in the
coming winter" And the Commu-
nists call for building Of united front
block committees, committees at the
bread lines and in the flop houses,
united in Unemployed Councils,
working with the anti-strike commit
tees in the factories, mines and rail-
roads, to smash the starvation scheme
Of the government.
Resistance to evictions, strikes
against wage cuts, demonstrations on
larger and larger scale until they
are national in scope win compel the
capitalists and their government to
grant some relief to the jobless.
Stop Wage Cuts!
Hoover flouts before the jobIess an9
other emergency committee, headed
this time by Former Secretary Of
War Baker and devoted to forcing
the workers. with jobs to feed those
without, devoted to saving the profits
of the rich. Now every man, woman
and child, employed and unemployed,
must join ranks to protest this in-
fanny, to compel relief, to demand
food, to stop wage cuts.
The Hoover program means starY-
ing to death of many of the 100000
unemployed this winter, and half
starvation for the rest, and new wage
cuts and semi-starvation for millions
of the employed workers.
Hoover did not put it quite SC
clearly. He also said that 'Ths first
task is to see that no man, woman or
child shall go hungry or unsheltered
through the approaching winter" But
he proposes the government shall give
nothing but 100000 bushels of
wheat and 100000 bales of cotton
much Of which is now already con-
sumed. This gesture will not feed,
ciothe or house the unemployed this
winter.
The president outlined the second
task to be further support of hos
pitfalls, ETC., which means Community
Fund collections, checked off the
workers wages as always, only more
so this year.
Local Resources"
''The third (task) is to maintain
the bedrock principle of our liberties
by the full mobilization Of individual
and local resources and responsible
ties
This is the same story as was told
Of the last two winters. There will
be Emergency Relief drives in all
cities and states, in which corpora
lions will make donations by check
ing it off the wages of their ern-
ployees. Those who do not ''volun-
tarily' cut their own pay, will face
the prospect of disharge.
Still Secs Property"
This is all Hoover proposes to offer,
aside from the miserable Red Cross
wheat and cotton. He covers this
criminal action, this condemnation
of the jobless to misery and starva-
ton, with the "dawning hope that
business will be better, and the pious
declaration that loans to banks and
railroads will help. But the billions
given the capitalists by the govern
ment helps only them and not the
unemployed.
S9O,000,000 to Dawes
Even President Green of the A. r.
L. who has followed Hoover's plans
slavishly has been forced to admit in
his Labor Day speech that all the
donations to bankers and corpora
lions including the $90,000,000 given
to former Vice President Dawes, has
not helped employment even a trifle.
Hoover himself in his economy letter
to departmental heads forced reduc-
ton of the 1884 building program by
$500,000,000, saying such expendi-
lures must be less necessary for emf
ployment purposes after June"
Hoover did not mention federal.
unemployment insurance. But he at
tackled it. with the following amaz-
ing argument: personal feeling and
personal responsibility deductions
from the workers wages, -Editor of
men to their neighbors is the soul Of
genuine good will; it is the essential
foundation of modern society. A cold
and distant charity which puts out
its sympathy only through the tax
collector yields very meagre dole Of
pn|oy3pg and pertupctory relief"
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