The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-31
How Many Jobless /?

WEEK after President Roosevelt slandered and be-
II snirched the starving unemployed, his Federal Re-
lief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins piousy seeks to
soft soap of the vicious cuts of the chief
dirty dealer in the White House
Speaking in Kansas City yesterday, Mr.. Hopkins
direct contradiction to Roosevelt people who worked
occasionally, when they felt like it, and Others who
preferred not to work at aI-the Presidents radio
speech declared the unemployed were 'the finest
people in America, the workers"
Having poured diplomatic balm into the empty
plate of the 100000 obless Administrator Hopkins
proceeds to campaign against unemployment insurance
But before dealing with Mr. Hopkins admissions it
is necessary to spike the outrageous lying of Roose
welt about the number of unemployed in the United
States today.
Roosevelt in his last radio message to the American
people sad there about 100000 of citizens
who unemployed Out of these, he says 100000
got jobs, leaving 100000 still unemployed And with
the of typical government represents of
the parasitic rich, he declared they don't want to
work anyhow.
IUABLE to wipe out the unemployed in fact Roosevelt
seeks to wipe them out in his vicious Imagination.
But wish to point out few facts Mr.. William
Green is certainly disturbing figure to the Roose
welt lying campaign against the unemployed Yet dur
ing the hearings the Black 30-hour Bill this strike
breaking gentleman declared that miracle to
happen, and production jump to 1929 levels half OF
those unemployed would still remain without jobs that
is around 100000 No miracle has happened. In
fact production is very close to the levels when
various capitalist agencies admitted 100000
without Jobs
In 1929 Professor Irving Fisher zone of Roosevelts
advisers in his latest initiation program) in article
in Business Week. declared that in that period of
prosperity" there around 100000 unemployed
He wrote that matter how high production climbed
the unemployed would continue to grow on the basis
of endless prosperity Professor Fisher brought out
additional fact completely buried today by Roose-
tOda That is
year in the United States 100000 boys and girls be-
come Of working age, and in order to live, must sell
their labor power Not of these counted in the
official unemployment figures.
NO WONDER the U 8 government refuses to take an
accurate count of the unemployed but changes It's
figures from week to week to suit the needs of its
tacks against the unemployed; to support the lying
campaigns Of recovery" The number of unemployed
in the United States today is well 100000 with
every prospect of their number reaching 100000 by
winter time
We have Mr.. Hopkins own word for II that: GAS
see It, going to start the winter with million
more families than relief year ago at this
time"
Instead of 100000 getting jobs as Messrs Green,
johnson and Roosevelt promise 100000 more are put
on relief rolls Even that doesn't reflect the reality be-
cause Mr.. Hopkins again tells there is Tightening
up OF the administration Of relief all the United
States" He admits further that many unemployed
starVe In silence and get no relief whatever.
The federal government is now spending twice as
much for the army, navy and war preparations it
is for relief The budget for war will be increased
while every effort is being made rifle the already
slim relief funds in the cities, states and nationally.
THE hopes Roosevelt has engendered among the
employed about the forthcoming Elusive jobs will
not feed the starving
Roosevelts ISLANDERS, his attacks on the unemployed
the deliberate cutting down of relief at time when
the jobess army and its starving millions growing
must be answered by energetic mobilization of
both employed and unemployed In the struggle for re-
lief.
We are now entering the fifth year Of the crisis
years with their record of starvation and their
perspective Of greater hunger They show that the
most determined fight must be made for unemployment
insurance, fight that should arouse and stir every
worker to immediate action
We must force the bosses and their government
to adopt the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill
to disgorge their huge profits and war budgets to
provide regular adequate income for those who starve
because capitalism is convulsed with crisis cannot
feed its own slaves