The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-23
Murphy Forced Into
Open AS Hunger Chief
Liberal Speeches Worn Thin by Continuous
Cutting Off of Detroit Relief
Cops Pistols Shots Against Unemployed
Drown Out Demagogic Speeches

regain the prestige he had lost in
the Ford Massacre and the Briggs
Hunger March. He had already stop
per all payment of welfare rents, he
had closed Fisher Lodge, giving hte
HOO homeless men the choice of
forced labor at the Eloise Insane Asy-
lum or starvation on the streets.
Eleven thousand wage workers for
the welfare department were dis
charged without receiving their last
pay, amounting to over $4,000.
He had already approved the sales
of workers homes for taxes. The re-
lief appropriations have steadily de-
clined from $17,OOOoo0 in 1880 to ST.
100000 in 1881, and the new budget
effected July LIST, 1882, appropriated
only 100000 to feed the more than
100000 unemployed and their families
Yet Murphy plays the role of the
Peoples" Mayor who opposes the
Council, and the bankers, but is fin
ally forced" to reduce welfare funds
because of circumstances over which
he supposedly has no control.
Evictions Increasing
His real policy is revealed when he
says we cannot throw $4,000 people
off the welfare at lone time" The
method he is using is to deny them
relief at the rate of 100 families per
day off the roles. Evictions are in
creasing at an unparalleled tempo.
The workers of Detroit are beginn-
ing to see fore clearly the role OF
Murphy; and to understand the con-
cesSionS can be won from the bosses
only through mass struggle. Militant
resistance to evictions, involving the
masses of workers, in ever larger
numbers, to struggle for relief must
be the answer of the workers to this
outrageous policy of mass starvation.
Murphy, in putting into effect the
Hoover-Brucker program of hunger
and wage-cutS has double purpose.
One is the unloading of the entire
burden of the crisis on the shoulders
of the workers; and the other is to
reduce the resistance of the workers
to more readily militarize them for
the coming war.
The Hoover Hunger Government is
planning another imperialist slaugh-
ter to solve their crisis. This imper-
ialist war is aimed at the Soviet Union
the Workers Fatherland = where
there Is no unemployment and the
workers are making rapid strides in
a program of Socialist Construction.
BY starvation and terror, the bosses
are Attempting to drive the workers
into this war to slaughter off the un-
employed. Under the leadership of
the Unemployed Councils and the
Communist Party, the workers can
effectively struggle against and hin
der the war plans of the bosses. Mill
tant struggle by the workers, organ
lied into Unemployed Councils and
committees, can force the bosses and
their government to grant Unemploy-
ment Insurance.
Vote Communist
In the coming elections, the Com
munist Party, fighting for the inter-
ests of the working class, against the
bosses, conducts an unrelenting cam
paign for Unemployment Insurance"
at the expense of the state and en-
ployers. The Communist Party also
rallies the workers to struggle against
Imperialist WARRIOR the defense of
the Soviet Union-for the defense of
the Chinese people" Demagogues
like Murphy will again make promises
to fool the workers and avoid the
real issues. The real issues in this
election campaign are hunger, wage
cuts and war. The Communist Party
calls on the workers to struggle
against the bosses hunger program
and to VOTE COMMUNIST ON NO.