The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-27
Fraudulent Bills Aim TO
Sidetrack Real
Benefits
By I. AMTER

protection against unemployment is
growing rapidly among the masses of
workers. All the measures thus far
ADOPTED by the government, both fed
eral, state, county and city, have not
improved the situation Of the workers.
The number of unemployed is grow
ing, with an increase of nearly 4 per
cent in the past two months. The in
dustries report no rise in production.
The steel industry, which put forward
high expectation of January being a
banner month" admits that there are
no orders.
The government announced
public works program last June, but
this has been devoted almost ex-
clusively to war preparations and
subsidies to the railroads and big
corporations. No more than 100000
men are at work on federal public
works. AS bridge to public works.
the government forced by the
pressure Of the masses of unemployed.
instituted the c. w. A. program.
Although there has been much prop
uganda about the federal govern
ment putting more than 100000 to
work on these jobs, this is untrue,
and the great part of these workers
were merely transferred from county
and city jobs. But the main gain to
the unemployed is that they have
forced the federal government to
provide work at CASH wages. To be
sure these wages have been very low.
far below the union scale. Union
wages were granted to a small num-
Der Of skilled workers, as help to
the A. P. of L. burocrats to get back
into the ranks the men whom they
expelled for unemployment.
Abandon C. W. A.; Enlarge G. c. G.
as War Preparation
Now, more than 100000 Of the c.
w. A. men nave been ordered fired
at once, as part Of Roosevelt's plan of
helping the forgotten man" The
c. w. A. program is to be scotched
by May 1, with the hope expressed
that at least 100000 will ind NOR
NAL work"-how, Roosevelt does not
say. The remainedr-Roosevelt does
not worry about.
Three hundred thousand boys are
in the C. G. G. canps-and their
number is to be increased to 100000
by summer. These camps, according
to Assistant Secretary of War Wood
ring, are nothing but military camps
in preparation for war The millions
Of transients are to be forced into
civilian labor camps without pay
also under the control of the War
Department.
1.-THE relief situation is worse than
it was a year ago" declared Bishop
Manning in New York City the other
day. Relief is being cut down,
Roosevelt advocates cutting it off en-
tirely. His remedy is to put the I'M
employed into homestead colonies
where they will work in new industries
and cultivate gardens. This at a time
of overproduction of industrial prod
uctS and such a surplus of agricul-
tural produce that he orders the
destruction of foodI This is Roose-
velt's planned economy"
Thus the whole relief situation is
endangered. Millions Of workers face
stark hunger. No work-no relief
the refusal of the government to pro-
vide unemployment insurance.
Workers Demand Unemployment
Insurance
The movement for unemployment
and social insurance is growing in all
sections of the working population.
The workers realized that the IT.
regular payments Of inadequate relief
cannot go on any longer. They have
witnessed wholesale discrimination,
graft and corruption in relief. This is
compared to the graft, kick
back and racketeering that are &C.
curing in connection with the G. w.
A. Jobs. Even the federal government
has to admit that In the federal ad-
itself hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars have been Inisused.
Discrimination against the Negro
workers in relief and on the G. w. A.
jobs has been practiced. Diserimina-
ton against foreign-b born, single and
young workers, who practically re-
ceiyed no relief whatever, except
where they put up a stubborn fight
Indifference to the plight of the mil
lions OF women workers. Indifference
to the ten million children who are
starving in this country.
The government knows that the
movement for unemployment and So
cial insurance is developing in this
country! Hence like last year it is
bringing forward proposals to Offset
the movement for the Workers IN
and Social Insurance Bill,
the only genuine bill before the work
ers OF this country.