The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-23
Another Perkins Lie

THE habit of Secretary of Labor Perkins to dehber
ately dstort Official government information the
economic position Of the American working class has
become so raw that even the most reactonary papers
re beginning to gag at it.
Miss Perkins for example has just released state
nent proudly announcing that from September to &C.
ober, $4,000 workers were returned to work.
Many Of the capitalist papers featured this news
cross their headlines if it proved the gradual dis
appearance Of the vast army Of 100000 unemployed.
At first glance 1t is obvious that this figure is
"A ridiculously small mouse to have issued from the
mountains Of the Roosevelt NRA. publicity.
Did not Roosevelt promise 100000 jobs by the
Autumn? Did not General johnson promise 45OO 900?
Did not William Green, and all other A. F. of L. off,
al hangers-on OF the Roosevelt government machine
acclaim that the N.R-A has finally solved the curse
If capitalist unemployment?
But now it turns out that even the tiny mouse
q Miss Perkins is fraud The New York Evening
Post for example reactonary supporter of Wall Street.
declares:
statistics unemployment being given out by
the Department Of Labor becoming, at least
they presented to the public, more and more use
less. An excellent example Of this is the figures
just released covering the period between September
Is and October Is. Granting their technical accur-
acy, they scarcely could have been presented in a
better way to hide their real significance, if not
actually to misIead the public"
So now it is clear that the Department Of Labor
joined the Department Of the Treasury and of
ne Interior in issuing Roosevelt propaganda disguised
as reports" And this together with the recent gag
gng Of the Federal Reserve Bank reports that con-
aimed the real facts completes picture of the whole
government apparatus functioning propaganda
machine for Roosevelt
The report Of Miss Perkins conceaIs the fact
that il the basic manufacturing industries there was
nothing but microscopic increase" Of OIL per cent
while the jubIantly hailed increase of $4,000 jobs
took place in manufacturing industries which
are purely seasonal.
As soon as the short seasonal squirt is over land
hat viii be in few weeks these $4,000 workers will
hgain be on the streets!
UHY does Miss Perkins resort to such obvious dis
tortion to give the impression that the mem-
ployment situation is improving?
1t is because particularly at this time, when the
Roosevelt government is planning to meet the terrible
starvation and suffering of the 100000 jobless with
coole forced labor camps that it needs propaganda
about the improvement in the unemployment situation
1t is because the Roosevelt government is prepar-
ing to beat down any attempts of the starving masses
TO fight for Unemployment Insurance, because the
Roosevelt government is driving 100000 families off
the relief lists because its whole brutal relief program
dooms the vast majority of the 100000 unemployed
to starvation that Miss Perkins ladies out the specially
prepared Department Of Labor Statistics" as sugar.
coat for the whole Roosevelt assault on the working
class.
The approach Of winter will mean more hunger
and suffering that has ever yet been seen in this
country.
The fight for Unemployment Insurance must rise
TO new heghts This is the only way that the 900
jobless workers and their families will be able To
adequate food and shelter against the misees
of the crisis In every shop relief station forced labor
camp, neighborhood, and street. the fight for Unem-
poyment Insurance at the expense of the government
and the bosses, and immediate cash relief must be
carried!