The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-04
The "Work Relief" Fraud

w. W YIN ANSCtCJ IuNu
IT is new and terrible fraud that the Roosevelt
government is trying to put over on the millions
OF Jobess workers and their starving families The
fraud is called by Roosevelts Federal Administrator
Of Relief, Hopkins, the work relief plan
1t is with this work relief" plan that the Roose-
welt government hopes to blunt the resistance of
the thousands upon thousands of c. W. A. men
who are now being flung into the streets to starve
All over the country, Roosevelt's brutal orders
to dlsband the c. W. A projects are being ruth
lessly carried forward. Thousands at a time like
beasts of burden for whom the capitalist masters
no longer have any use, these c. W. A. workers
penniless and jobleSS, are being driven of c. w. A.
work, the only miserable support that kept them
and their hungry families from stark starvation.
This Roosevelt brutality this calousness to the
fate OF the c. w. A. workers and their families
has been met in many places by organized strikes
on the C. w. A. projects Chicago Canton County
Kentucky Utica, N. Y, Lancaster, Pa and manv
other towns and cities have already seen the G
W. A. workers refuse to take this Roosevelt hunger
decree lying down. This fight on the c. w A.
JOBS must go on with fercer energy The c. w A
men can win work and make the Roosevelt officials
pause before they proceed to slash these workers
off the rolls
But to demoralize and confuse these struggles
OF the C. w. A. workers, and to cloak from the
@S0V ROOSe-
Velt't orders abolishing the @. W. A. work projects
Roosevelt, through Hopkins is dangling his rotten
promises of the new work relief" Jobs before the
eyes Of the jobless workers
ACTUALLY, the new Roosevelt work relief" plan
"A is nothing but a calculated plan to establish
the lowest standards of coolie wages on brutal
forced labor projects for the fortunate few who
will get jobs at all. The promised work relief"
is only another brutal blow at the hungry, job
less workers and their families driving them still
lower into the swamps of cooie standards of
living.
In the first place, of the thousands fired from
the G. W. A, only miserable handful will ever
again md their way back onto any work relief"
or any relief hsts-n the Roosevelt plan is carried
through as scheduled This is made clear enough
by the procedure outlined for the new work re-
lief"
only those in absolute need" will be considered
Tor these new work relief" Jobs declares the New
YORK City administrator, Hodson
This is definite threat that the vast ma io,it,
OF those who are being flung from the C. W. A.
projects can have hope of work on these projects
AS Tor the rest, they will again have to go
tnrougn tne nell OF endless waiting endless answer
ing OF endless questionaires endless and agoniznp
attempts to hurdle the jungles of official relief
bureaucracy in order to prove that they are gin
absolute need" Only handful will be taken
Then of the handful who will be re-hired. there
Will be new frightful lowering of living standards
10 unheard-of levels of degradation What is in
store Tor these fortunate few who will get Jobs
again IS made clear by the latest statement of Hold
son VINO will direct them in New York:
We are going back to the relief wage
to the minimum subsistence level we will nav
80 cents an hour for not more than "a hours
work week
E1ort ;oIJo
tne need for his children of milk bread. care etc
Roosevelt offers-to lucky few-the cooe wsoe ~
81 day! Ne0 "
NuCH Is Roosevets new program for the iobless
FORCED labor, absolutely minimum coolie crumbs
OF SCarVatlon fare, flung to the country's obless
10 Keep up the pretense that the Roosevelt gov
eminent is interested in the starving obless work
ers and their families, the program that will be
the cheapest for the Wall Street masters that will
leave their huge money bags untouched and nro-
tected. -o p'o
The jobless cannot and will not accent tbs
Roosevelt brutality and hunger program. Immediate
steps must be taken to organize mass resistance
on all the O. W. A projects, at all the work relief
stations 1870
Fight for the continuation of the C. W. A.
jobs W. a.
Demand that all fired c. W. A. workers he
immediately placed on relief lists to get cash
reief equal to c. w. A. wages for themselves
and their famiies
On the work relief projects organize against
the cooie wages, against the 81 day standards
Flght Tor full union wages! Fight against the
nooseVeit plan that dOoms millions to starye in
order to protect the Wall Street billionaires,
right for the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill (H R. 1885, to be paid by the Gov
eminent and the bosses, so that no worker will
starve when the capitalist employers shut the
factories and fling the workers into the streets
Fight against the Roosevelt hunger program!