The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-01
Netv Year

T4iE turn Of the year-and the immense engines Of
the capitalist class, the newspapers the radio the
movies, the churches, all chime together in song
q thanksgiving and hope"
At the White House 800 beiewe1ed distinguished
guests" celebrate the blessings Of the New Deal"
And well they might. For the past nine months
a Roosevelt have been rather happy time
aCr them than the dark months that ended the Hoover
administration.
Nine months Of Rooseyelt-and the biggest wall
street monopoles declaring extra dividends
Cor the first time since the pay days Of the Coolidge
era. Nine months OF Roosevelt-and railroads are
Declaring fat dividends the Alabama and Southern
scx example, for the first time in 30 years
Nine months of Roosevelt-and the capitalist rulers
have had II BILLIONS Of Government subsidies IN
zoe form another, poured into their eager mouths
happy New Yeari How hoIlowly does this hypoc-
eaav ring in the Of millions Of working class
homesi
Nsne months oS RoOseyelt-snd the price Of bread
pas scared 20 per cent milk IS per cent eggs 30 per
eentI
Hane months Of RoOSeyelt-snd the pay envelope
a every worker in the country now buy Is per
sent less food than year ago. These are oficial
figures Of Roosevelts own capitalist economists
Nine months Of Roosevelt government-and the
army Of 100000 jobleSa still stands watching every
one OF the stick Roosevelt promises turn to ashes
Remember tnem7 Six million by septemberP Then
how it changed to 100000 by November? And then
it dropped to 100000 by December2 And then how
actually appeared 10000 10 the Official report Of
the Pubic Works administrator
And for tbs Iohless who struggle for food and
shelter, the Roosevelt government has the machine
guns, the police clubs Of ths capitalist State power
Nine months of the Roosevelt government and
there stands ready the most treacherous war machine
IN the history Of ths country war machine that
rivals that Of the War President Wilson And wear
after Wilson took Office In 1916 American workers
being slaughtered IN the imperalist battefelds
Of E,nopev
For e'sry working class family the price Of coal
has 'cked up by ths NFsA. coal code; the price
been sent Skyward by the Roosevelt milk
cost of clothes have been raised "a per cent
Roosevelt textile code.
the average wage OF thu American workers
Aer these codes has been about S12 a week In
le South the laundry code is 1912 q week
HAPPy new yesri cry the capitalist hirelings. But
= In the homes Of the workers there is hunger
Scblessness misery, and the terrible unknown Of the
nturea future In which there stretches an increas-
ngly bitter struggle for existence,
We look up and we see wall Street rulers getting
tat under Roosevelts tender care We see the Roose-
gelt NtSA with the blessings Of the A. F. Of L. and
s. P. misleaders driving wages down. breaking strikes
'Eablishing, behind the deception Of false promises
antense wage slavery.
The turn OF the year. and we see the giant of
dalist construction rising mighty and invncibIe in
Soviet Union, the land Of the proletarian dictator
p. We see the workers and peasants Of the Soviet
lon under the leadership Of Lenins Party headed
Stain, building for themselves better life, life