The daily worker., 1933-10-28
Another Marked Card

TRANSIENT CAMPS"-this is the latest marked card
l to be turned up in Rooseyelt's New Deal
According to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emergency
Relief Administrator the homeless unemployed" 80
anyone who hasn't lived in state for year-are
to be herded into such camps. Yes, literally herded!
The unemployed not to be hired to work IN
these camps as boys hired" last year to enter
Roosevelts reforestration camps No Offices to be
opened to receive applications from workers desiring
such "iobs" A more selective method will be used.
Workers will be sent to these transient camps" Hop
kn@ admitted by the railroads police and sheriffs
In other words, any militant worker, any worker
who fights against the miserable starvation conditions
now haunting the more than fifteen million
poyed, may find himself classified as homeless He
may find himself In the custody Of policeman, a
sheriff or a railroad detective and his way to
transient camp" ".'et 9s..cs Sc Ice-s--. -s.=.s-s
Once there he must work He will receive no COM
pensation above what the Administrator terms o
minimum care" standard, on in simple language,
starvation ratons-
Forced labor camps, yes! But these more than
forced labor camps. They prison camps! They
be compared only to the vicious turpentine camps Of
the South to the murderous concentration camps Of
Naz Germany to the cruel prison colonies of Fascist
Italy They further step by the Roosevelt regime
toward Fsscs in its desperate effort to get out Of the
crisis at the workers expense "@-".
WITH cynical contempt, Roosevelt already laid the
basis for suchs step in his radio speech last Sunday
He spoke of Several million" unemployed who worked
occasionally, when they felt like it. and others who
preferred not to work aH With this vile statement
he showed not only heartiess disregard for the
forced suffering of the jobless workers but vicious
desire to arouse those with jobs against the unenl-
ployed, people lazy to work." hoboes, as
tramps. = @s& ~J.lFc ..s.., .a.... 80. So
Now he proposes to turn the unemployed oyer to
the tender nerces Of the railroads police and sher
ifs and OF his brutal prison camp Keepers In this
lists Of caring for the unemployed and dispose easily
of those who resist the carrying through OF his hunger
program.
And he hopes to WIN popular support for these
detestable plans by turning his propasanda machine
loose on the job of picturing the unemployed as
Criminal elements at best worthless yagrants"
THESE so-eslled Transient camps" should be fought
reentlessly. by every worker, employed as well as
unemployed e 80. --+s-. 49,
Every workers organization should Immediately
adopt resolutions of protest against these camps send
ing In such resolutions for publication in the workers
press. 500 ~ ,T#.' ,r sss -s.. d.. ..r
Protest demonstrations should be organized in every
city against prison camps, against forced labor for
adequate relief, and for unemployment insurance.
The Unemployed Councils should be built into power
full fighting bodies in the Of the struggle
for these demands. sft
The ranks of the workers should be united-em-
ployed and unemployed A. r. of L. members Commu-
nists Socialists and non-party workers-in the fight
against forced labor and for jobless insurance
Now, comrades is the time to act. Build and
strengthen the unemployed movement. Close your
ranks. Refuse to go further in a game where the
cards are stacked against you.