The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-15
The Special Session of the Ohio
Legislature Is Against I'm
employment Insurance

Tor the reason that they are tbs capitalist rep
resentatiVes closest In touch with the hungry
masses Of the cities, It is they who feel most
often and most closely the mass pressure Of
the Unemployed Councils. 1t Is they who are
the first to sense and to fear the working class
revolt that will follow If too many workers are
left to starve to death
Admits Charity Bankruptcy
Mayor Miller Of Cleveland flushed with re-
cent victory through wen-greaSed political ma
chine and sure in the support Of his capitalist
masters, put 1t mildly, according to newspaper
reports, Claiming that the Associated Charities
might soon, for lack of funds suspend relief for
1900 families in Cuyahoga County. he said
PUT them out in the streets and you have a
governmental problem for the state"
Mayor Moore of Youngstown put it little
more pointedly. Claiming that Mahoning County
is expanding relief funds at the rate Of $4,000
a week, he said: when the funds are gone
there may be serious disorders"
There we have it. These capitalist agents
do not give a damn If the unemployed starve,
provided they do it quietly. There's plenty enough
factory fodder (and cannon fodder too for that
matter) even If several million starve to death
But what they do fear is what they call "seri-
Gus disorders" namely that the jobless will
not stand for it, that Unemployed Council Or
ganization will become stronger and more mill
tant, and that capitalism will be threatened by
a rising revolutionary wave.
Militancy Feared
Fearing the militancy of the starving masses
these mayors and city managers do not propose
to do any more themselves than they are forced
to do. Our relief funds are running out" they
have all been shouting with one accord. But
will they willingly replenish them by taxing the
rich parasites and bosses in their cities, by re-
frfcr to Do
on your life. Sooner will they let the jobless
starve. Instead they hypocriticalIy cry, I'VE can
do no more, the state must help"
So the word goes down the line, from one
capitalist agent to another, that the unemploy-
ment situation is becoming desperate, that there
is no chance of the 1oblesS starving in silence
with the Unemployed Councils on the Job and
hunger Is becoming great in the rural districts
that soon the farmers will be on the march too
So the big bosses finally nod their heads and
say: "Wel, suppose we've got to pretend
to do something; just fix it up for U.s. boys the
best way you know how" And so Governor
White finally consents to call special session.
These are the reasons why the capitalist press
in the big cities of Ohio has recently been ad-
hitting here and there few of the facts about
the increasing misery of the jobless and the
country poor. Destitution in Cleveland, for in
stance has increased at such a rate that the
Associated Charities report 1890 families re-
ceiving direct relief in February, as compared
with 1901 in February, 1881. They threaten to
leave all these workers to starve after the end
Of March unless more funds are forthcoming
Children Starving
Tens Of thousands 70 children of the poor
farmers Of Ohio are going hungry or being "fed'
on one and one-third cents day, the capitalist
press admits. Their parents do not even have
chance at the half-cent meals (two for 1856
centS). Thousands of children in As rural coun-
ties have to be supplied with shoes and clothing
to be gotten to school Their parents do not go
to school, so they get no clothes or shoes to
protect them from the elements. Admitting the
above facts, the Cleveland Plain Dealer COM
ments: "a social worker in Kansas recently spoke
graphically Of a breadline knee-deep in wheat
That condition Is not far from the correct pic
ture of much Of the rural territory of Ohio"
Starving farmers of Ohio, starving jobless and
employed workers Of the cities, unite to make
your demands heard when the special session
Of the bosses legislature meets in Columbusl
Demand that the wealthy bosses of the state
be made to pay for food and clothing for your
hungry children and yourselvesl Demand I'M
employment insurance at full wages and paid
for by the boSsesI