The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-10

1t would transfer those now on relief
to forced labor. The plan adds no
new funds to unemployed relief.
Roosevelt'S program creates huge
army, two million beginning on Nov.
Is and two million more in three
months, which are in all ways at the
mercy Of the employers government,
since they will be forced to go where
the government tells them, at the
hours and wages dictated by the gov
eminent.
When it is recalled that Roosevelt
took 250,000 youths from their homes,
and sent them to miltarized "conser-
walton" camps" to labor at 81 day.
at the same time taking relief away
from their families, the treatment OF
the unemployed under the new pro-
gram can be foreshadowed. The new
plan is another step showing Roose-
velt's determination to deny the work.
ers unemployment insurance.
Federal Relief Director Hopkins,
who will be in charge Of the newly
created Civil Works Administration"
emphasized to the press that there
will be no question of labor contracts
as the men employed will be engaged
by and under the supervision Of
county and city officials" This means
that the Roosevelt government is CIV
ing the lead for the employers to
use non-union labor, and that the
program is of piece with the labor
smashing, strikebreaking, wage-re-
ducing speed-up drive being carried
on by Roosevelt under the NR.A.
This reserve of non-union labor, I'M
der the control of the Civil Works
Administration of the Roosevelt gov
eminent, can easily be diverted later
for purposes of farming out Of nom
union forced labor by the government
to private corporations, forcing down
the whole wage scale Of the working
class. The four million will be put
to work at public works for war
purposes.
It is made quite clear IN announce
ing Ro,~evelt's plan, that the White
House will not add anyone to the
relief lists. The plan emphatically
states that the four million men will
be taken off the existing relief rolls
and put to work under forced labor.
1t is equally clear that the plan
calls for no additional funds to the
unemployed workers. 1t is decided
that so million dollars month for
the first three months will come from
the Public Works Funds, already al
lotted for unemployment work, and
the remainder will come from the
Federal Emergency Relief Admins
tration Funds and the local relief
agencies, from funds already allotted
or being raised.
The unemployed workers are again
treated by Roosevelt to a program OF
ballyhoo and big promises. Roose-
welt has sent many of the youth OF
the country into miltarized camps at
a dollar day, at the same time taking
the families of these youth off the
relief rolls. The Roosevelt govern
ment, under the N.R.A., has encour-
aged the sending of armed forces
against strikers to reduce wages and
break strikes. The Roosevelt govern
ment has persistently refused tbs
unemployed workers demand for the
passage of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. This govern
ment now proposes to take four mil
lion of the II million unemployed
and make tremendous reservoir of
cheap non-union labor out of them.
1t proposes to put them to work at
war preparations.
rely on the benevolence of such q
regime of the bankers. 1t is neces-
sary to build the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, to send delegates to the national
convention in Washing
ton on Jan. 10, to fight for unem-
ployment relief and for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill,