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

on the relief rolls OF the country
several months ago. Owing to the
alleged "reemployment' under the
new DEAL" 100000 unemployed are
supposed to have found jobbs. OF
the remaining $500 600 family heads,
100000 are now to be given jobs
on November 16 and 100000 q
month later.
To say that unemployment has
decreased is not true. Shortly after
March 4, q few hundred thousands
procured jobs, on the basis Of the
employers producing for stock and for
speculation. But today, these workers
together with hundreds of thousands
more have been laid off or fired.
Steel has declined from SO per cent
to 25 per cent and is going down.
Auto, railroad, building construction,
electrical power consumption have
declined to a low figure. Production
at the present time-Nov Sis as
low as at the same time In 1881.
The steel producers hope for an up
turn after the new year. In some
plants they tell the workers to come
back in April"
1t is obvious, therefore, that mil
lions will get no work-and will
starve.
In addition, Roosevelt proposes
that the new relief workers shall
work not only in the parks, but on
construction work at the prevailing
wages" This is direct attack on
the union scales, and must rouse
the trade unions to immediate action.
Although this has been the practice
during the whole crisis, the burocrats
of the unions have done nothing to
end the abuse. Now the rank and file
must take 1t up in every union sand
make fight for union wages. "
Roosevelt promises now the unern-
ployed $50 a month. But this will be
much lower when the forced labor
jobs open. When one takes into con-
sideration the rapidly mounting cost
of living, the carfare that the workers
will have to spend, the need of warm
clothing, ETC., this Is coolie wage"
The workers must demand union
wages and organize on the job to
fight for it.
1t is noteworthy that the single
men are not considered at all III
Roosevel5'S proposal, since they re-
ceive no relief. The single men must
organize and put up fight for work
also 81 union wages. The Negro
workers will continue to be discrim-
mated against, as they have been
in relief and in the application OF the
codes under the MIRA.
A big job is ahead for the Unem-
ployed Councils in organizing the
workers to demand union wages on
all relief jobs, to prevent discrimirla-
ton against Negroes and to obtain
work for the single men.
We must also raise the question Of
the single and homeless women, for
whom absolutesly no provision Is
made. What is become Of the elderly
men?
But above all, Roosevelt knows
that millions will get no work-and
no relief; that the measures he pro-
poses are not solving the situation.
The Of Unemployment and Social
Insurance becomes clearer every day.
Roosevelt sidesteps this issue, pre-
ferring to keep the unemployed either
starving or on hunger rations.
The coming National Convention
Against Unemployment in Washing
ton, D. c., on Jan. 1915 called by the
Unemployed Councils must be the
rallying point for the whole working
class in the struggle against unen-
ployment. Roosevelt's decree means a
continuation Of hunger. 1t will not
prevent the addition Of millions more
to the army Of unemployed through
the lay-offs and firing that are TAX
ing place. 1t will not provide adequate
food, shelter and clothing for the
unemployed and part time workers
and their families.
The struggle against the Roosevelt
program must be taken up in every
locality, on every relief job, building
organization and putting up fight.
This is the immediate task of the
Unemployed Councils.