The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-20
McLeVy Sees Roosevelt

JASPER McLEvY, newly elected Socialist Mayor Of
Bridgeport returned yesterday from his first con-
tact with the capitalist magniicence of the White
House. where he heard Roosevelt at the conference
Mayors the latest plan to take 1900 600
of the relief lists and put them to work on forced
labor projects
And the new Socialist Mayor is beside himself with
Joy and admiration at the cunning and loyal tool OF
Wall Street. who now sits in the White HoAsa
Listen to McLeyy in his latest statement on
Roosevelt:
II think the plan is the best piece of relief work
the Roosevelt administration has produced
Roosevelt possesses courage and intelligence to try
new path. This is splendid thing. He Is
getically and resourcefuy trying to lead us out Of
the depression. He commands our interest and
admiration. am following his whole program with
sympathy. The nation has for long needed some
one to take 1t out of the old and senseless paths
The Roosevelt relief" plan will drive 100000
families off the present relief lists The Socialist
Mayor McLevy admres Roosevelt for his intei gcnce
The Roosevelt "relief" plan will herd 100000 Job
less workers into forced labor camps at coele wages
Qittle more than 81 day. McLevy Is impressed
with Roosevets 'resourcefulness"
The Roosevelt relief plan ignores the rest of the
100000 jobless workers McLeyy sdmires Roosevelt
for taking out of 'the old senseless paths"
The Roosevelt "reief" plan is calculated to conceal
the fact that the Public Works program has been a
fraud as far as relieving joblessness and has been
dominantly a war preparations program, with only
Is per cent of the $33ooOOOOO0 set aside for relief
McLevy thinks that is splendid"
The Roosevelt program is a slap in the face al
the working class demand for Unemployment
Insurance at full wages, to be paid for by the
employers and the Government. Roosevelts pro-
gram is the Wall Street program, which per-
mts the capitalist class to avoid any responsibility
or expense in the care Of the 100000 jobIess
workers. The Roosevelt program is like the Hitler
program of forced labor camps, It is the program
Of the capitalist class, which places the burden
Of relieving the misery of the jobless workers upon
the backs of the workers themselves letting the
capitalist rulers get away with their profits nm
diminished.
70 Is fact that McLevy was helped into Office by
the workers who believed his promises of Unen1-
ployment Insurance who believed that the plank for
Unemployment Insurance in the Socialist Platform
meant something
But the Roosevelt relief program which McIevy
thinks Is so Splendid" and which he follows with
such sympathy is nothing but The most embittered
reacuonary, vicious, attack the very principle of
Unemployment insurance. Listen to Roosevets latest
statement, as he announced his new forced labor
camps ":
When a man or woman goes on a dole some
thing happens to them mentally, and the quicker
they are taken off the dole, the better il is for
them during the rest Of their lives"
al tileot WORDS, Roosevelt lays down again the
cynical answer of Wall Street to the working class
demand for Unemployment Insurance, to be paid for
by the employers and the Government And the
socialist McLevy, ferventy and with sympathy en-
dorses this starvation, capitalist program this vicious
attack on the very idea of Unemployment insurance.
SOCIALIST workers, particularly you OF Bridgeport
you Who voted for McLevy sincerely believing that
he stood for a fight against the Roosevelt NRA
exploitation anu wage slaveryl Is it not clear that
McLeVy Is breaking ali his proises7 Is it not clear
tEat by his support OF the Roosevelt forced labor
camps, he is helping the capitalists to break the fight
for Unemployment Insurance, which he pretends to
support3 How can one sincerely fight for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and at the time find Roosevets
attack on it so Splendid?
McLeVy will try to carry through the capitalist
program under the cover Of radical Socialist phrases
But his actions will be no different from that of the
other two capitalist parties the Republican and
Democrat.
Only the united actions of the Bridgeport workers
themselves can successfully carry through the fight
for more relief, against the forced labor camps and
Tor Unemployment insurance.!
Behind the Socialist" phrases of Mcrevy you will
hnd the actions of capitalist supporter