The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-29
Forced Labor Jerseys
Answer to Cry TOR Bread
The Government Cashes In On Unemployment

for $4,000 if those men whoss
families were receiving relief FROM
the city we're required TO do az
least one day of work each week in
return for the aid"
The state emergency relief ad-
ministration is now busy Selling"
ideas to the cities, on how dead.
end streets could be developed,
dumps could be turned into parks,
city trucks repaired without hiring
mechanics, lumber hauled, ETC., all
on the basis of forced labor. The
dredging of the Passaic River,
planned for the last rs years, Is
now actually to be undertaken, be-
cause under the forced labor sys-
tenn it is found to be profitable.
Municipalities are being taught
to exploit the suffering and misery
of the masses, to use the whip of
hunger to force them into this lat
est method of slave-labor. The
government is showing itself openly
as the slave-driver, the >exploiter,
to make profits out of the suffer-
ing of the working class.
But while the workers are given
forced labor, the bankers and rail-
roads receive direct gifts of aid
from the government. Building
and loan associations, railroads, in
New Jersey have already received
millions from the Reconstruction
Aid Corporation. The Central Rail-
road of New Jersey has Just re-
ceived from the Federal govern.
ment gift of over 100000 in tax
refunds. The policy followed in
New Jersey is the Hoover hunger
program. Categoric refusal of ade-
quate unemployment relief for the
workers, but full protection of the
profits of the capitalists and mil
lions for their aid.
Sacredly guarding the profits of
Standard Oil, U. S. Steel, Public
Service, etc., the New Jersey state
government is seeking new ways Of
forcing the workers themselves to
bear the full burden of unemployed
relief; of taking from the workers
who still cling to part-time jobs,
the funds for the shameful charity
doles handed out to the unemploy-
ed. Hence, the infamous New York
"block-aid system" is now also to
be put into effect in New Jersey,
and Governor Moore has been busy
comforting with Tamnany Hall on
how this system can most smoothly
he established re-
Worke-5 everywhere are seething
with indignation at this latest bra
zen attack upon the unemployed.
On the basis of an intensive CAM
paign throughout PIE state, it is
possible to smash the system OF
forced labor. We must develop a;
broad agitation, demonstrations,
parades, leading to organized re-
sistance to putting this slave-driv.
ing policy into effect.
A campaign of organization Of
lock committees, Unemployed
Councils, must be started in all
sections, to lead the workers in
the neighborhoods. The struggle
against forced labor must be con-
nected up with other demands of
the unemployed-with the fight
against the block-aid system,
against discrimination in relief of
young workers and Negro workers.,
for milk for the children. Cutting
off cash relief will mean a big in
crease in evictions, against which q
determined struggle must be con-
Quoted.
We must expose the role of the
government in establishing the new
system of slave-labor, and intensity
manifold our activity to mobilize
the workers for the fight for UNI
employment insurance.
The situation in New Jersey Is
ripe for militant struggle and or
ganization Of the unemployed. A:d
the establishment of a new district
OF the Communist Party in New
Jersey, recently effected, makes
possible an intensified campaign
against the starvation, forcad labor
program of the state government,
representing the oil, steel, chemt.
cal, railroad, textile and banking
trusts of New Jersey.