The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-26


should receive the difference between
their wages and the unemployment
insurance benefit.
How Farmers Are Helped
He tells the farmers he is helping
Them; but says nothing about the
millions made by the grain gamblers
with the help of the government.
without our help" he said, "the
farmers cannot get together and cut
production" Without the help of the
government the farmers could not
be forced to slash their crops in Or
der to raise grain prices on the grain
exchange, and through the processing
tax raise bread prices to starve OUT
the employed and unemployed
Throughout his speech Roosevelt
stresses the simplicity" of his
scheme All the employers should
get together, send kilograms Of
agreement to the president They
will be given a sign to hang up in
their window They viii not be
called on for any appropriations for
relief. The workers will be brow
beaten to accept the bosses terms.
Those Behind II
The big slave corporations, Roose-
welt admits, are behind the scheme.
ALREADY all the great, basic indus
tries have come forward willingly
with proposed CODES, and in these
codes they accept the principles lead
ing to mass unemployment"
Nothing about the thousands fired
in the South and North when the
textile code went ipto effect. Moth
ing about the slave open shop, COM
pany union plans of the big steel
and coal barons. Only the phrase Of
mass unemployment" to cover up
the failure to employ millions in the
summer time.
Roosevelt, referring to the suffer-
ing OF the unemployed last winter,
and, fora5eoing worse suffering the
coming winter, due to the admitted
failure to e-employ'' workers in the
summer, said:
I'VE are not going through an
other winter like the laGt. l doubt if
ever any people 50 bravely and cheer
fully endured a season half so bitter
We cannos ask Americans to con-
time to face such needless hard
ship3."
No Guarantees
But does he repeat his campaign
promise of unemployment insurance
to do away with such needless hard
ahips?' Not at all. He already
leaves a loophole to excuse the mass
starvation in the coming winter:
II cannot guarantee the success Of
this nationwide plan, but the people
of this country can guarantee its
success"
With billions in the treasury, and
hundreds of millions being spent for
war, while the stock and grain gam
blers have made some S20,000,000, 900
out of Roosevelt's initiation boom, he
cannot guarantee that there will not
be "a season SO bitter" full Of such
needless hardships."
He concludes his speech saying:
THAT is why I am describing to
you the simple purposes and the
solid foundations upon which our
program Of recovery is built. -~'~t7
THAT is why am asking the en-
ployers of the nation to sign this
common covenant with me-to sign
it instfe name of patriotism and hui
manity.
That is why l am asking the work
ers to go along with us in a spirit
of understanding and Of helpfulness."
What's Solid Ab5ut It?
The stock market crash, and
Frances Perkins alarming report
that production YVES going ahead
without unemployment. emphasized
the solid foundation of Rooseyelts
recovery program.
The dropping of mention of unem-
ployment insurance and decent liv-
ing standards" explains why he asks
the exploiters TO sign a common
covenant" directed against the work
ers.
His threat of terror and the smash
ing of strikes tells why he ends with
final appeal to the workers to ac-
cept their starvation lot "braveiv
and cheerIuily" while he attempts to
pull capitalism out of the crisis at
the expense CT the health and lives
of the American working class.