The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-27
By 1. AMTER..

To-Day, the local, county ana SVdJe
Governments, obeying the dictates of
Wall Street, are cutting unemploy-
ment relief. The bankers, landlords
and big industrialiSts demand eco
nomy" and reduction of taxes. The
politicians carry this out not by cut
ting down high salaries, not by de-
claring noratoriums on payment OF
principal and interest to the bank
ers. but by firing thousands of civil
service employees and particularly
bv.cutting down relief. The mayors
Of fifty of the largest cities in the
country have declared their bank
ruptcy - and the unemployed have
to bear the burden.
Every Promise Broken.
4 The Roosevelt government has be-
trsved every promise the Democratic
Party made during the election cam
paign. Congress has closed, without
making good single promise. In
stead Of the promised unemployment
insurance. Roosevelt and congress
gave. us. 80 war vessels and 800 bomb
ing planes to cost s247 100000 In
stead of the promises OF the new
deal Roosevelt and congress de-
creed forced labor for the youth, cut
ting of salaries of federal employees
and of the disability allowances OF
the veterans. To peak it all, con-
gress and Roosevelt have given us the
industrial recovery bill, Whlcn
means the lowering of the standard
of living of the American workers TO
a level not experienced by this gen
Grafton of workers. It means the Tx
ing of the standard Of wages against
which. according to the law, there
will be an appeal, not to the orga-
nized striking strength Of the work
ers. but to Roosevelt. 1t means the
taking away of the right to strike
xas already shown in textile in Read
ing. Pa, and steel and mining in
western Pennsylvania 1t means the
corralling of the workers into unions
under government supervision. II
means the heartleSs speeding up OF
the workers in the shops, increase IN
accidents and occupational diseases,
the throwing of hundreds Of thou
sands of the older workers into the
streets-while maintaining the profits
of the employers.
No Jobs.
Millions of unemployed workers
who think that industrial recovery
is now assured, will get no job. We
should not forget what Roosevelt
once said IF we should return to
the peak production Of 1929, between
five and ten million workers viii
never return to work" Yes, more
than this: Millions of workers now
unemployed and the millions who
come out of the schools and col
leaes each year, will never again see
the inside of the factories.
Starvation for the unemployed
hunger wages, heartbreaking speed
IN government controlled unions
and the denial of the right TO strike
for the employed workers, increased
misery for the toihng farmers, de-
struction of the small merchants
this faces the people of this coun-
trv All of this is in preparation Tor
new world war-a new slaughter
of the working class of the world.
Led by the Unemployed Councils
the workers have been carrying on a
struggle to meet these conditions -
and their struggles have been partl-
allv successful Were it not for the
fighting Unemployed Councils, the
standard of relief, low as it Is, vouio
be still lower; more hundreds Of thou
sands of working class families would
have been evicted; more tens Of
thousands of Negro and foreign-oorr
workers would have died Of hunger
But this is not enough.
Social Insurance Needed.
The demand and need of the whole
working class today, faced with the
recovery bill, has not been achieved
Unemployment and Social Insurance
at the expense Of the employers anc
the government. This demand toi
protection in case of unemployment
sickness, accident, old age, maternity
the demand for security must bt
realized for the working class family
The struggle for unemployment and
,ocial insurance becomes the centra
ask Of the whole working class -
brought home to us with the greatest
sharpness by the industrial recovery
aw-the pearl of legislation Of the
roosevelt Wall Street government.
Through the provisions Of the in
ustrial recovery law, the employ
RS, already well organized in theil
associations and chambers of COM
ierce, will be better organized thar
yer before The antitrust law il
polished. The government will aic
ne industrishsts in organizing them
slves and will unite them under gov
rnment direction. Today, the strug-
lie Of the workers becomes a sharper
unity