The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
'AIDPROGRAM'
COVERS PLANS
FOR AT TACK
Forced Labor Prepared
Under Barrage of
Security Talk
BY Seymour Waldman
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Deter-
mined to substitute so-caled work
relief for the skeleton minimum
now being granted to those still on
the rapidly thinning relief rolls, the
Roosevelt Administration is quite
obviously making every effort to
keep its ear close to the pulse Of
the unemployed and the destitute
while it works out the details Of
the various construction, housing
and subsistence projects which are
expected to sidetrack the rising
mass sentiment for adequate direct
relief and genuine unemployment
insurance.
The administration, from all in
dications, hopes that the general
barrage Of demagogy about general
and economic security" will revive
the widespread illusions which the
popularity phrased Roosevelt radio
speeches raised shortly after the
inaugural ceremonies and during
the honeymoon period of the Ma
tional Industrial Recovery Act.
Vague security" is the grease with
which the administration, gener-
allied by the manufacturers and
bankers, will use in the attempt to
slide virtual forced labor or sub
sistence relief down the Threats Of
the unemployed.
Needs Barrage of Demagogy
1t is significant that although
the administration has marched
openly and furiously on the road
pointed out to it by the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States
and other employer bodies, by
blessing profits and by supporting
the wage-cutting drive decided
upon by the manufacturers and
bankers, it still finds it necessary
to coat its pills with demagogy.
What is perhaps more important,
it apparently has convinced the
dominant bankers and industrialists
who opposed the thin illusory
phrases in the proposed compulsory
arbitration Wagner Labor Disputes
Bill because they preferred their
open machine gun policy, that an
offensive against the working class
can only be made under present
conditions under a barrage of IL
lusion- breeding speeches and con-
.ferences. Meanwhile, it is also ex-
pected that this barrage will pro-
tect the manufacturers delibera-
tons over the precise permanent
fascist mold into which they de-
sire to place the N. R. A.
The Administration and big
business have used their tremend-
GUS relief machinery to gauge the
sentiment of the people. Realizing
that many thousands of militant
and conservative employed and un-
employed workers and many thou
sands of intermediate bodies have
expressed desire for federal I'M
employment and social insurance as
provided for in the Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance Bill, and fully
aware CT the determined protests
against relief cuts which were
made from Colorado to New York,
the Administration in all probable
ity will go full speed ahead with
the plan to clamp its subsistence
program on the country 1t hopes
to accomplish this before what the
conservative newspapers call $50
cial risk" increases, that is, before
mass sentiment can block the at
tack.
Unemployment Insurance Congress
The fact that the subsistence Of
fenSive will coincide with the ses-
sions of the National Congress on
Unemployment and Social Insur-
ance, which will be held in the
capital from Jan. 5 to Z, has not
been missed by Administration and
business bodies. 1t is no doubt con-
sidered challenge to the entire
administrative and legislative pro-
gram on relief, employment and
billion dollar war preparations.
The simultaneous wage-cutting
announcements from Hopkins Re-
HeI headquarters on the ellmlnatiOn
of the 30-cent minimum, and from
Public Works Administrator Ickes
Office on the necessity for wage
cuts starting with the building
trades, illustrate the close working
arrangements between the adminis-
tration and the big money boys, the
sponsors of the company union
wage-slashing N. R. A. and the
open judges and planners of ma
tional industrial policies. The re-
cent big business proposal for Civ
ing Roosevelt complete control over
budgetary matters is straw in The
fascist wind. Functionally, the pro-
posals to use the unemployed to
build grade crossings for the rail-