The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-04
The Blacklist Winter

OUT OF the mouth Of Roosevelts own Federal Relief
" Administrator Harry L. Hopkins, we get picture
of what the coming winter will mean to the millions
of jobess American workers and their families Speak
Ing yesterday at the palatal Waldorf Astoria Hotel,
hopkins painted the following picture of misery:
'You know what's going to happen this winter,
f. 1t Is permitted. People going to be cold.
Children not going to have shoes, People are
not going to have enough to eat What
giving these people? grocery ticket, OF perhaps .
little work three days week. where they
sight or ten dollars week. Is that enough? Pay
ing their rent? No Giving them enough to eat?
No. Reducing 100000 people in the United States
70 lower standard of living that had in
the country. The average family relief gets fifty
cents day"
This is the official picture of working class misery
for the coming winter. Even in the words of this
hardened government official, the picture is terrible
and ghastly.
And there is no question that the winter will be
sven more terrible than Roosevelts relief administrator
admits
In the face of this stark bitter working class misery,
what has become of sll those glowing Rooseveltian
promises of the 100000 Jobs by the fall7
Where is all the prosperity, all the promised joy,
20 lavishly prophesed by Roosevelt?
The prospect of the beakest blacklist winter of
hunger is the actual snsweri
And what about Mr. Hopkins, who can no longer
conceal the fact that 100000 workers and their
families face suffering disease hunger and even DEATH
this winter Does MFR. Hopkins fay the official
derers of the Roosevelt government who doom these
millions of workers and their children to slow death
by starvation?
On the contrary. Mr. Hopkins talks about the
plight of the jobess workers only in order to convey
the impression that he Is friend Of these workers
For what is Mr. Hopkins remedy? Nothing but
the very same stale and rotten promises made
familiar 10 the workers by his master, Roosevelt!
Says Mr.. Hopkins:
$50 far as the Federal government is concerned,
ne mean to these people through the winter"
And that is ALI Just another promise whose value
Is doubtless no more than the usual Roosevelt promises
And that is all! Why does he not fight for IN
employment insurance. Why does he not denounce
Secretary Tckes, Administrator of the Public Works
program for squanderng hundreds of millions the
building of battleshps? Why Is he silent Roose-
yelts billion dollar preparations program
If Mr. Hopkins is so worried about the hunger Of
the jobless workers, why does he not fight for IN
employment Tnsurance2
Mr.. Hopkins knows thai the Roosevelt government
not making the slightest preparations for the relief
Of the workers in the winter
Mr.. Hopkins knows that Roosevelt has stated
blunty again and again that the Federal government
Is set like rock against the principle of government
Unemployment Insurance. He knows that Roosevelt
only recently stated that it by local mutual welfare"
agencies that the millions of hungry workers will be
relieved
MR.) HOPKINS, who pretends to feel SO grayely the
M suerings of the iobIess workers. is in reality, pro
posing for the coming winter the continuation of that
very Roosevelt system of charity bread baskets which
he denounces being hopelessy inadequate!
Jobless workers. You whose children will feel the
1old and hunger of winter! How long will we permit
the Roosevelt government to give billions to the Army
and Navy, to the Wall Street bankers and the war
makers?
Before the winter comes we must rouse ourselves
IS never before, to place before Roosevelt and his
agents, the unfinching demand Immediate cash relief
and Unemployment Insurance!
The billions of the bankers must go at once to feed
the hungry
Now-without delsy-the fight for Unemployment
Insurance must rise high in every union, in every
factory and mine, in neighborhood There is
time to losel