The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-13
Flood Of HOkum Rises n Capital As
Attacks On Hungry Sharpen

The average working time in the
mines, according to testimony before
the LaFollette Committee, averages
from to IL days per month with
wages as low as so cents and 81 per
day.
Pinchot's Pennsylvania.
Governor Pinchot's testimony be-
fore the LaFollette Committee was
valuable principally for two things.
One, 1t showed the dead level of
mass misery IN the state Of which he
Is governor, and second, it showed
that in spite of his liberal reputa-
ton and his linlitless demagogy, he
has done nothing of serious nature
to relieve the unemployed or to place
the cost Of caring for the hundreds
OF thousands Of jobless and starving
workers on the huge corporations
which rule and rob in Pennsylvania,
and whose agent he is.
Pinchot stated that workers totally
unemployed in the state average 80
per cent and In some counties IS per
cent. He said nothing about the uni
versal part-time work that now pre-
walls in Pennsylvania or of the at
tacks Of his state troopers on the
unemployed.
The number OF people coming TO
tuberculosis clinics in Pennsylvania
has increased 80 per cent, The
number on the waiting list Of tu-
bercuIosis institutions has increased
Al per cent. The number OF pneu-
tatonia cases has increased 16 per
cent.
In Pennsylvania there are 5000
men working on the state highways,
according to Pinchot's statement.
He did not mention, of course, that
these workers are paid starvation
wages and that the whole system of
highway construction and repair IS
practically forced labor. For every
man given JOB on the Pennsylvania
highways, ten apply for work.
One interesting fact, however, that
develops out Of these statements, Is
that the total number Of workers
employed on roads by the Hoover ad-
ADMINISTRATION, after its thousands of
inches OF newspaper space utilized
to tell OF its tremendous public works
program, is only $4,000.
The Hebert Senate Committee is
devoting its main efforts to an in
testigation Of unemployment insur-
ance in other countries. It has not
yet found time to hear the demands
of the National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils.
These two committees, especially
that headed by LaFollette, are sim
ply an outer line of defense for the
Hoover Wall Street government and
are doing their best to create false
hopes and confusion among the mil
lions Of unemployed workers while
the Hoover Hunger Program is put
over in Congress.
Billions Of dollars are being APP
propriated to bolster UP the big banks
and increase the fortunes of the
multi milionaireS who own them.
The railroad companies have been
given an increase In freight rates
and a special financial pool has been
organized for them.
Glass Lines Are Clearer.
The sclass lines are being drawn
clearer and clearer in the United
States. In no other country in the
world is there such rapid develop
nnent OF the crisis with the burdens
and sufferings Of the masses in
creasing as rapidly Renewed efforts
& being made to split the ranks of
IL '7orking class
T ) Is the objective Of all the
den yogues in Washington and this
was he objective OF the "Father"
Cor s'hunger march" Hoover-Wall
Str government and the big capt.
tall. of this country are frightened
by the rising tide of resentment and
struggle by the working class. The
Senate Committee hearings on I'M
employment, the hypocritical express
sions Of sympathy for the workers on
the part of individuals like Lewis
who has spent his life betraying the
coal miners, by Pinchot and Murphy
and the horde of lesser lackeys and
demagogues now being modified, are
one part OF the struggle against the
unemployed and the working class as
a whole; the organization Of such
anti working class adventures as that
of Father" Cox, is another form of
the capitalist offensive; third, and
a tactic to which all others lead, in
the fight against the unemployed
especially, is the brutal armed at
tackS on and mass arrests Of unem-
ployed workers, as in Chicago.
Make Meaning Clear To Masses.
The meaning of all these develop
ments must and can be made clear
to the millions of the unemployed