The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-29
'Unen1pIoyobles' Topped Off;
Work for All on Relief Rolls
Ordered in Wage-Cut Driue
Insurance Congress to
Convene as Jobless
Face New Attacks

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. "a
Action around the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance.
was spurred yesterday following tbs
announcement by Federal Relief
Director Hopkins that he has al
ready issued orders for cutting down
the federal relief rolls twenty per
cent, chopping 100000 off relief by
Feb. 1.
Hopkins issued his statement fol.
lowing a conference with president
Roosevelt in which secretary Of In
terror Ickes and other Roosevelt
administration leaders took part.
-Four million "unemployables" will
be taken off federal relief and
given over to the localities, Hopkins
announced. The rest Of the nine
teen million on relief will be de-
pendent entirely on work relief, ac-
cording to the Roosevelt plan.
The scale Of wages" on the work
relief plan was not announced, but
undoubtedly it will be maintained at
subsistence leves Recently the
minimum wage Of thirty cents an
hour on federal work relief WIS
abolished by order of the Roosevelt
administration. The work relief
plan announced by Hopkins, as
Roosevelt spokesman. is aimed to
aid the wage cutting campaign,
since the wages Of wo-k relief
workers will be extremely low and
will tend to cut down the whole
wage standard
Economy" to BE Stressed
1t was made known yesterday BY
Roosevelt spokesman that Roosevelt
will stress economy" and "balanc-
ing the budget" in his message to
Congress This means that Roose-
welt is rapidly carrying through the
program Of the bankers laid down
at White Sulphur Springs of d-as-
tic relief cuts, and a general attack
on the workers living standards, and
denial Of federal unemployment in
surance.
Seventy per cent of all relief costs
are now met by the federal govern
ment and the throwing Of 100000
on the local relief lists will sharply
cut down the starvation rations Of
the unemployed all along the line.
Whereas in the past the aban-
donment of the unemployables by
the F. z. R. A. and the Roosevelt
government has been giving forward
quietly, yesterday announcement
blatantly announced that all unem-
ployables would be cut of federal
relief after Feb. /.
What this new relief policy Of
the Roosevelt regime will mean in
actual terms of hunger is blatantly
set forth in the leading story Of
yesterdays New York American.
More Relief Cuts
Administration leaders pointed
out tonight there would be marked
trend toward eventual balancing of
the budget through reduction of
dole expenditures the American
stated, indicating in clear terms
that government economies would
be made by direct cuts in the re-
lief to the unemployed.
Herbert Benjamin, executive sec
.etary of the National Sponsoring
committee for the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance,
yesterday called upon all groups
backing the National Congress to
rally their full membership in all
cities for mass demonstrations on
Monday, Jan. 7. in answer to the
new moves OF Roosevelt against the
jobless at the time when their
delegates in Washington will pre-
sent demands to Roosevelt and to
Congress.
The National Unemployment
Councils, through its National Sec
rotary Israel Amter, called upon all
Council members to swing into IN
slant action in support of the Jan,
7 demonstrations. The demonstra-
tons on Jan. will be the express
sion of the demands of the en-
ployed and unemployed workers for
genuine unemployment insurance"
Anter said The Unemployment
Councils must be the driving force
to rally thousands of workers be-
hind these demonstrations.
Meanwhile, from all sides new
support was rallied behind the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
Insurance. Unemployed Leagues,
riding over the opposition of their
national leadership, union locals of
the American Federation of Labor
and Socialist Party members lent
thei- active support to the Congress
and elected official delegates.
A. F. of L. Chop Delegate Chosen
NEW YORK. = Riding over the
opposition of their union officials,
workers of the Levine Knitting
Mills, assembled at g shop meeting