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

Roosevelt's speech opened up
wartime propaganda campaign for
the voluntary acceptance of blanket
code by the employers providing for
wages as low as $1,000 for a 35-hour
week, without hearings, in order TO
prevent the expression of the work
ers' resentment.
Another Desperate Winter
He warned the bosses that if they
did not extend the stagger plan to
absorb a few more workers on their
Eyesent payrolls I'VE will go into an
other desperate winter" The brunt
of his attack was contained in the
following paragraphs:
while we are making this great
common effort there should be no
discord and dispute. This is no
time to caviI or question the stand
ard set by this universal agreement.
1t is time for patience and UNDER
standing and cooperation.
"The workers of this country
have rights under this law which
cannot be taken from them, and
nobody will be permitted to white
them away, but on the other hand
no aggression is now necessary TO
attain those rights.
"The whole country will be united
to get them for you. The principle
that applies to the employers APP
plies to the workers as well, and I
ask You workers to cooperate in
the same spirit"
These general terms hiding the
iron fist behind the demagogic velvet
glove tell the starving millions of
this is no time to cavil
or question the standard" of starva-
ton. Do not demand unemployment
insurance, says Roosevelt. at is time
Tor patience and understanding and
cooperation.
Empty Rights
To the unemployed he says you
have rights" But do not dare to ex-
ercise those rights as we will consider
that as aggression and you will feel
the heavy hand Of the strike break
ing government. Accept the $1,000
starvation standard to feed your
family on. Cooperate with the
bosses.
Roosevelt tells the workers that
Morgan & Co., the General Motors.
Sears Roebuck g. Co., the coal barons.
will unite to get your rights for YOU.
But you remain quiet and obedient
while We shackle this new slave law
on you.
When he first saw the industrial
recovery act, Roosevelt spoke about
decent living standards" and prom
ised Ito put millions of men back in
their regular jobs this summer"
Iorgets Decent Standards
But in his bombastic radio speech
ne fails to say anything about de
cent living standards" He fails to
admit the failure to provide Jobs for
millions in the summertime. but
promises jobs for the winter to keep
the unemployed from demanding re-
lief and unemployment insurance.
he points to his forced labor camps
as an example of helping the unem-
ployed.
We appropriated 100000 900. TO
supplement their (the citiesD efforts
ana in addition, as you know. we
have put 100000 young men into
practical and useful work in our for
ests and to prevent flood and soil
erosion. The wages they earn are
going In greater part to the support
OF the nearly one million people who
constitute their families"
When reading Roosevelt's "solu-
ton" for unemployment every worker
should recall the provisions of the
WORKERS Unemployment Insurance
Bill and use it as an answer to Roose-
velt's stagger and starvation schemes.
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill provides that the fed
eral government Immediately adopt
insurance providing
not less than $40 weekly for adult
workers, and SO for each dependent
to all workers wholly unemployed
through no fault of their own, with
out discrimination. The insurance
to be paid at the expense of the
employers and the government, the
administration of the bill to be by
the workers. Part-time workers
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