The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-20
c. WA, Cuts Wages Beoav Promised Minimum;
Refuses Jobs to Negroes, Women, Single Men
Letters from Jobless Show Discrimination; No
Pay When Sick; Most Workers Can't Get
Jobs; Lies of Roosevelt Exposed

live?" A Chester, Pa, unemployed
correspondent writes, THE Chester
Times comes out with a statement
that 3,700 are already employed I'M
der C.WA. Charles A. Ernst, chair
man of the GAS, claims 1880 total
at work under the GAS. program
But the workers themselves can find
only go men working on this propo-
sition." The writer then lists where
the men are working. Similar re-
ports come in from all cities.
The C.W.A. program Is character
lied by this stalling and swindIing
of The jobless, and by widespread
discrimination. Many workers can
not get jobs at all. A letter from
Atlanta, Ca, states that no Negroes
have been put on C.W.A. jobs. This
condition prevails in the South. But
Jim Crow methods of the C.W.A.
are not confined TO the South. A
worker writes in from New York
that IN many of the % C.W.A. Of
fices In New York, Negroes are not
even allowed to register but are Jim
Crowed to the Harlem office, re-
CARELESS OF where they live, and GER
tainIy, In the giving out of jobs,
the Negroes get less Jobs.
Single men and women are gen
orally Disseminated against in the
giving out of relief. ITEMS of thou
sands OF single unemployed men and
women of Detroit are Disseminated
against" writes Detroit unemployed
worker. There is no relief from city.
state and federal administration. In
Detroit, single workers are placed in
the Fischer Lodge and the county
poor home in EloiSe, but only a lin
ited amount are put there and the
conditions are not good in them"
From Massilon, Ohio, comes an ex-
ample of the widespread discrimins+
ton against the foreign-born workers
Out of T26 men in Massilon, now
on the payroll OF the C.W.A., there
are only very few foreign-born and
these are either citizens, veterans or
have extra large families. Many have
registered with the C.W.A. board of
this city, over three thousand, but
it seems all to be only a slim hope,
this worker concludes.
Firing Of Workers
After the workers receive eva.
jobs, discrimination does not cease.
The Florida worker, quoted above,
says of discrimination, THE foreman
told the men, that If they we're dis
missed for any reason whatsoever,
they would receive no more help o.
employment OF any kind, from city,
state, or federal government"
Another letter from q Chicago G.
w. A. worker exposes the deliberate
attempt TO keep as many off OF re-
lief as possible, and to pay nothing
to sick workers. This worker writes
that on NoY. % he started on C.wA.
work. He and his mother received
their last grocery order Nov 6 for
1892. He did not receive his first
pay until two weeks after he started
work, and had to borrow to eat. He
then became seriously Ill with cry
SipelaS. He paid a doctor bill OF sl8
with borrowed money. He wrote,
asking for continuation of his sal~rx.
He continued, THE office timekeeper
payroller called me up at once and
quite excitedly and emphatically told
me it was impossible to pay me for
any sick time, it was against the rules
of the C.W.A." His mother then
went TO the relief. In three days she
got 1894 grocery order. The relief
office refused to pay the doct =. and
the investigator said he looked well"
She had not been to see me and
the time she said / was well, was
in bed, unable to get up. 1 was sick
two weeks. The doctor cost SGT. r
lost nine days pay. Between the re-
lief and the rules Of the C.w.A., L
could starve to death very easily, as
I am in poor health, after IL months
on relief"
Many of these letters from work
ers in sections where there is no or
ganlzation ask what to do about the
starvation condition. Other letters
answer this question. Letters from
Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Bemidji.
Decatur, Illinois, and many other
other places show that by holding
meetings Of the workers, electing
job committee and making demands
on those in charge OF the Jobs, con-
SESSIONS have been won.