The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-13
RooseVeIt's Broken Promises

president ROOSEVELT, with every new pronounce
ment and every new program" Unemployment,
makes it clearer that his policy for the seventeen
million unemployed is nothing but charity and forced
labor, relief cuts and starvation.
The campaign speeches of President Roosevelt were
aled with promises to the unemployed workers. These
speeches paid hpservice to the deep going need and
demand for social insurance in order to catch votes
Roosevelt said in campaign speech october 8,
1882 1--WE need for them Cthe unemployed, greater
asslranc Of security Old age sickness and unempoy
ment insurance the minimum requirements in these
days On october 20, 1882 Roosevelt repeated his
promise to the unemployed follows, If starvation
and dire need the part Of any OF our citizens make
necessary the appropriation Of additional funds which
would keep the budget out of balance, would not
hesitate to tell the American people the full truth and
recommend to them the expenditure of this additional
amount"
The full truth" is nov apparent These demagogic,
vote catching promises have been forgotten. The
eminent has taken all necessary to protect
the pocketbooks of the bankers and employers by
fusing the demand for social insurance. President
Roosevelt his campaign speech in Boston october
81 said Immediate relief Of the unemployed is the
Immediate need of the hour We must do all we can
in the way of emergency measures. But no mere
emergency measures OF relief adequate AS to
immediate relief rst principle is that this nation
owes q positive duty that no one shall be permitted
TO starve."
uHEN thousands of workers under the leadership OF
- the unemployed COUNCILS, SenG oelegSJlonS 10
washington to demand the enactment Of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, Roosevelt refused to
even discuss with them the question of adequate
employment relief and Of social insurance
"a year after these high-sounding campaign prom
ises we're made, Roosevelt said, 1.-THE first objective,
the first necessity is that the citizens of the community
through the churches the community chest, the char
table organizations Of the community going to do
heir share 10 their utmost extent first" (Sept 1888,
speech in washington at opening Of Community Chest
drive for funds from the employed workers.
When campaigning for votes the first necessity is
that no unemployed shall starve. When putting into
sect the program Of the bankers and the employers
the N.R.A. wsge-cutting speed-up, unemployment,
sEkehreaking drive the first necessity taxation for
the unemployed 1t is convenient for the Roose-
vet government to give the unemployed forced labor
to separate the youth from their families In mitar
lied conservation camps to cut workers off the exist
ing relief lists and to forget embarrassing campaign
promises
The workers, in all organizations can see from
Roosevelts campaign promises and from his present
actions against the unemployed that Roosevelt is
ring out program which means starvation for the
unemployed and security for the employers and bank
ers Only the united action and demand of the
Of the unemployed and parttime workers can force
the bankers government Of Roosevelt to enact the
workers Unemployment Insurance Bill. The national
convention of the unemployed in Washington on Jan.
49, to which all workers organizations should elect
delegates, will be decisive step forward in forcing
relief and social insurance from the Roosevelt bankers
government.