The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-02
ROOSEVELT IN
BOSS PLAN MEET
Will Not Consider
Jobless Insurance
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group, in addition to Rainey, will
include Speaker John Nance Gamer
CTexas), Samuel Reyburn of Texas,
chairman of the Interstate Commerce
Commission under whose beneficent
administration the railway conf
panies have been aided in cutting
wages, raising rates, reducing services
and carrying through the four system
merger which sets up the most pow
erful monopoly in the country; John
McDuff1ie of Alabama, in whose state
the Seottsboro frameup has been fol-
lowed by whole new series Of muir
der atrocities perpetrated on Negro
share troopers and farm Iaborers.
without protest from him. James w.
Collier of Mississippi, chairman of
the Ways and Means Committee.
more Conservative Element
Regarding the composition of the
conference even the New York Times
is constrained to remark that "the
group Mr. Roosevelt has summoned
to meet him is representative of the
more conservative element in the
party"
The New York Herald Tribune
points out that "the personnel of the
group also occasioned comment here
because of the absence of the out
standing progressives within the
Democratic party"
According to the published order of
business Of the conference it will deal
with general legislative matters"
but in the inspired interviews to
which President-elect Roosevelt has
already adopted as a MEDIUM Of
communicating his views to "the
public" the conference will deal spe-
cifically only with wangling the beer
bill through Congress. the balancing
of the budget, and farm relief legis-
lation."
Unemployment Relief Absent
1t is deeply significant of the whole
trend of the Roosevelt policy inme-
diately after election that no mention
is made either by him or in the press
comments os the coming conference,
of unemployment relief legislation,
unemployment insurance, or of the
problem created by the rapidly in
creasing hunger. disease and actual
mass starvation throughout the coun-
try among the working class.
1t is clear that even the farm relief
legislation discussion, in view of the
reactionary character of the confer
ence. is thrown in merely to keep the
impoverished farmers hoping - and
quiet.
The Meaning of Warm Springs
The coming conference is dolni-
mated absolutely by the most reac-
tionary section of the Southern wing
of the Democrat party. 1t is testi-
mony to She fact that the selection
of Warm Springs, Ga, as "the second
home" of the president-eIect was
much more than a gesture and that
it is sharply indicative of the still
closer linking of southern bourbonism
with the Wall Street program of the
Roosevelt administration.
"Pr0gressives' Next.
AS the time of Inauguration APP
proaches, however, we can expect to
see another conference called, at
which the progressive" wing of the
Democratic party will be represented
strongly in an attempt to cover up
the Wall Street character and anti
working class program Of the Roose-
welt administration.
At present the coming conference
will serve the purpose of console
dating, through the elimination Of
frictions arising from questions OF
patronage, etc, the reactionary lead
ership of the Democrats in the House
and Senate.