The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-16
Jobs Scarce, Back Pay Overdue
on CWA; Workers Put Up Fight
Work OF Party Lag
ging; Strikes, Protests
ON Increase
By CARL REEVE

sand have been shifted from one
Office TO another, unable to obtain
two weeks back pay.
CW-A. Administrator Whitney, APP |
proved before selection by mayor
elect LaGuardia as we'll as by Mayor |
O'Brien wrote a letter to the Board
of Estimate which revealed that only /
1900 have been given C.W.A. work (
in New York City above the 100000 |
mechanically transferred TO the @. (
WA. from the jurisdiction Of the
Work Relief. Some Of these have al |
ready been laid of Whitney further
admitted in this letter that no more
viii be put on CWA. work this
month.
WHILE thousands have been Unsuc-
" cessfully applying for work,
standing for hours in the cold and |
while others working We're denied |
pay, Roosevelt again issued a state |
ment in Washington that the C.WA. /
program is progressing "satisfactor-
Hy". Roosevelt backed up Ickes' lying /
figures, which were fully exposed in |
the Daily Worker, that four million |
have been put to work. The schedule |
Of four million at work by December !
Is included $1,000 workers in New
York City. But at most 12,0o0 of these !
are at work and over 100000 have
registered for jobs.
In Cleveland 800 were put to work
when the schedule called for $500 to
be put on Jobs. In the South, the
Cw-A. is recruiting for lumber camp |
peonage at "a cents an hour.
feNLY small fraction of those
" promised jobs got them. Many Of
these were not paid. The wages were
cut below the wages promised. Skilled
are getting wages OF unskilled. Ae-
cidents are increasing at the danger
GUS work. Nine were killed in Col
orado. Many are hurt at Bear Noun
tain.
These workers get no protection
from accident or sickness. They do
not come under even the inadequate
workmenS compensation laws. They
are forced to work at non-union con-
ditions. When fired, they must. be-
gin the dreary round of seeking to
get back on the relief lists, regiStra- |
zion, and futile shunting from one |
Office to another.
The Post Covers Up
THE New York Evening Post, sup /
1 ncrter of Roosevelt. in . clever edi-
torial yesterday, blamed this intoIer-
able condition on red tape. This
demagogic piece OF writing entitled |
RED Tape and Snowy Sidewalks
sheds many crocodile tears over the |
cold and hungry unemployed. and
advises that red tape be cut, and the
unemployed wait indoors" instead |
Of in the cold.
The New York Evening Posts new |
owner, David Stern was one Of the
first supporters OF Roosevelt for
president. He is termed one Of the
president makers. His Philadelphia
Record has long been strong adj
vocate of imitation, and higher prices
OF necessities. The Post, like the
Record, with its demagogic policy OF
sentimental talk about the suffering
OF the unemployed, cloaks the fact
that the Post is one of the strongest
supporters Of Roosevelt's entire CIV.
A. and N.R.A. program, and at every
step, supports Rooseve1t's chief poll
icies. The editorial of yesterday has
as its theme that the C.W.A. program
is all right, only let the red tape be
cut and everything will be all right.
The Record, Stern'S Philadelphia
paper, like the Post, is the bitterest
enemy, under cover of demagogic
phrases, Of the fight of the Phila
delphia Unemployed Councils and the
Communist Party for unemployment
relief.
C,W.A. workers Fight
II is not only matter of whether
the unemployed wait inside or out
side for jobs and back pay The main
question is. the achievement Of the
demands for "a job or relief for every
worker. The program Of the I'M
employed Councils, demanding union
conditions, demanding no Jim Crow
ing of Negroes, demanding compen-
sation--for C,W.A. workers, can only
be achieved by the action of the I'M
employed themselves. The Post is
trying to prevent q fight for these
demands by its talk Of red tape.
THE militant action of the unern-
l ployed workers yesterday at the
Hubert st. C.W.A. Office, in hammer
ing down the doors and demanding
back pay at once, should serve as .
warming to the Communist Party and
Unemployed Councils of New York
City that they are tagging behind the
rnilitancy of the unemployed workers.
The C.W.A. workers are willing and
ready to fight--the strikes Of Bear
Mountain, Arden and Hook Noun
rain C.W.A. workers have shown this.
The demonstration Of the unem
ployed for back pay in spite Of many
police again shows that the unem-
ployed are determined to fight for
decent conditions on C.W,A. jobs.
A Warning to Us
But the organization and leader
ship of these workers has been pain
fully slow. Work on the job, neigh
borhood work, mass meetings, de-
monstrations, etc, are not being
pushed with sufficient energy. The
directives Of the recent New York
convention against unemployment
must be more quickly put into life.
The preparations for the national
Unemployed Convention on Jan. Is
in Washington, with the demands
centering on C.W,A. work, and the
fight for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill, must be based on i'm
mediate decisive struggle. In the
course Of this struggle, the ulem-
ployed workers, demanding C.W.A.
Jobs and union conditions on these