The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-18
Decreeing Starvation

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, in his speech to i've hun
dred state and local onicals again sets forth his
determination TO break all promises made to the
enployedys and Immediately to cut two million job
less of Of the relief lists and put them on forced
labor. Roosevelt during his campaign, repeatedly
promised to see that all unemployed received unen-
ployed relief, and favored unemployment insurance.
Roosevelt promised at the beginning of the NFcA.
that the Public Works Program "a part of the MA
prosram) would put six million jobess to work within
a few months. Instead, lay-ofs have increased
Industrial production gone down, with seventeen
million workers still unemployed. In order to
this up. Roosevelt claims that it does not make
any difference how many have been put back to work
1.-THE number has been estimated variously at from
three and half to i've Million he says. 1.-THE actual
figures make very little difference" In this curt and
nonchalant manner does Roosevelt dismiss his broken
promises. ..
Roosevelt,s latest speech, which in essence Is q
declaration of further relief cuts admits the failure
of the Public Works Program of the MIRA. This pro-
gram set aside So 800 100000 which supposed to
go for public works Instead the bulk of this money
put into war preparations, which employed only
few thousand workers. .
NOW, s4ooooOooo Of this same Public Works Fund
which has not benefited the unemployed, is used as
pretext to cut two million of the relief lists under
cover of making new promise that the fund, which
it is clear Is not aiding the unemployed, will supply
Jobs 1t Is clear from the past broken promises and
practices that Roosevelt intends to rob the unem-
ployed Of even the miserable relief that they now
getting, giving only few forced labor Jobs. Roose-
welt brazenly admits that new funds are to be
put into unemployment insurance relief declaring
This 900 Is not going to cost the Federal
Government any more money, because are taking
it out of the large public works appropriation OF
$3,so0000, GEO. -5s ,,--,o ,.-.4 -
ROOSEVELT then sugar-coats the brazen relief cut
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the unemployed Two million jobIess workers, he says
getting no relief because they "too proud to
ask for assistance"
Roosevelt thus disnisses with wave Of the hand
the millions of unemployed not on relief lists, hun
dreds OF thousands of whom have faced police clubs
and arrests in demonstrations demanding relief The
millions Of desperate and starving who getting
relief got relief because the state local and federal
government busy spending funds busy with graft
and refusing to tax the rich, denied them relief The
unemployed workers must fight against all attempts
to cut them OF Of the relief lists.
Now Roosevelt is going to do the unemployed q
big favor. Those two million unemployed workers Who
through organization and struggle have forced the
authorities to put them the relief rolls and give
them small allotment Of relief are going to be cut
of the relief lists.
THIS relief Is bad for the unemployed Roosevelt tens
Two million are today on what we might Just
as wei call frankly the DOLE When any man or Wo-
man goes a dole, something happens to them
mentally and the quicker they taken off the dole
the better 1t is for them for the rest Of their lives
With unprecedented brazenness Roosevelt takes two
million of of the relief lists, takes shred Of
security against starvation away from them puts the
unemployed forced labor and says he does 1t for
their mental good"
The seventeen million unemployed workers demand
above all, security against starvation assurance
that they and their families Will have food clothing
and lodging.
The unemployed workers must not allow Roose-
ves talk of their mental good" to rob them Of relief
Roosevelt, for campaign purposes recognized before
election the right of all unemployed to such security.
Now the unemployed demand OF Roosevelt adequate
unemployment relief and the enactment Of the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill