The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-20


2 will get no more than $100 a day.
! The workers will not receive this
money, but it will be used to provide
for their families. Thus, the prison
camps are not only for the homeless
| youth, but for married men.
Who breaks up the home? The
! Communists? No-RooseYelt, the
! demagogue, with the aid of the other
I liberals" and "progressives, Sen
ators LaFoTette, Costigan, Wagner,
Frances Perkins, the new secretary
o. labor, William Green and, with
! some criticisms, Norman Thomas
} agree with this program.
Not Free To Leave
The workers will not be free to
| go and come They will be under
army discipline, and will be permitted
to leave the camp only if they can
! procure better jobs" This is mere
| ly mocking at the unemployed.
This is a direct attack on the whole
working class. Although they tell
us that this prison labor will not be
! in competition with free" labor, it
| is obvious that it cannot be prevent
ed. This means that wages all
around will be slashed on the pre-
tentious plea of aiding the unem-
ployed"
This comes on top of the imitation
! schemes put through for the pro-
lection and support of the big banks,
| the squeezing out of the small banks,
| 1,n If lNS115~yNr in Ig,Nacitc
to the small depositors, the driving
up of the cost of living, the cutting
Of wages, the throwing of more hun
dreds of thousands of workers into
! the streets, as for instance in the
closing down of the Buick and
! Chrysler auto plants, indicate what
is in store for the workers.
| Remember His Deeds
Masses of workers still are under
the influence of Roosevelt's dema-
gogy. They still think he will do
something for them. These work.
ers should remember his bank pro-
gram, which will cost the workers
and small depositors billions of dol
lars in deposits his wage cut pro-
gram for government employees and
the veterans relief cuts, which are
only the beginning of general wage
slashes.
And above all they should not for
get his army prison labor program,
which is an open fascist program
in preparation for a general assault
on the working class conditions, and
for another imperiahst war.
Power as if we were in fact in
vaded by foreign foe!", is what
Roosevelt asked in his inaugural
| speech. Roosevelt wants dictatorial
power-the bankers have given it to
him-the bankers whom he assailed
in his bid for votes.
What is to be done? Now only
the united force of the working class
will help. The United Front of all
working class organizations, no
matter what their character may be
unemployed organizations, unions,
shops, fraternal lodges, clubs, irres-
pective of political Ieanings, religi-
GUS Affiliations, whether of native
or foreign-born workers - all of us
must get together III the struggle
against the Roosevelt Wall Street
army prison labor program. The
Unemployed Councils must be in the
forefront in brin-ing about this
united front.
Who Opposes Unity?
Some there are who oppose this
united front: the leaders of the
A. F. of L. and of the Socialist Party.
These people support the Roosevelt
program. They may pretend, as
Green does in his speech at Wilkes
barre, that they oppose Roosevelt's
program, but they do and will do
nothing to prevent its being put
through
Norman Thomas may go to Wash
ington in disagreement" with Roose-
velt's program, but he comes away
approving the steps Roosevelt has
taken in the financial crisis!"
These people and their colleagues
are preventing the workers from
uniting, just as in Germany they
are responsible for the fact that Hit
Ter is in power-which power he is
now using to smash the whole work.
ing class, including the Social-D Demo-
cratic workers.
Build the United Front in every
locality. Send resolutions to Roose-
welt, White House, Washington, D. c.,
condemning his work program. De-
mand that he put through legisla-
ton along the line of the demands
put before him by the National Com
mittee Unemployed Councils, for
emergency cash relief of $50 for each
worker, plus $40 for each dependent.
Also immediate enactment of a bill
for Unemployment and Social In
surance at the expense of the en-
ployers and the government.
The times are moving fast. The
situation grows sharper. The work
ers must not lose moment. Roose-
welt is ramming thru a policy of
hunger. Only the workers can stop
it, by militant action in every locality
in the fight for relief and insurance,
by struggles against wage cuts,
against the denial of our rights.
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"The Communists fight for the
attainment of the immediate
aims, for the enforcement of the