The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
Fight R0OSeVelt'S Action
AboIishing CWA Jobs

"E show is over said Federal Relief Director Hop
kins in dandy announcing, on behalf OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt that in less than month million
penniless. workers will be fred from the eva and
that within a few weeks the entire CW.A. program
viii be abandoned
The orders Of Hopkins already in operation, have
worsened the position Of the unemployed CWA. work
as follows: 1. No more C.WA. workers are being
hired in any state, although millions have registered
and never been given work; wages Of CWA. workers
have been cut to an average admitted by Hopkins to
be 5000 a week with the bulk Of the unskilled
workers receiving much less); g. This wage has been
cut by of the old Hoover sagger system. Hours
C.WA. jobs were cut from 30 hours a week to
is hours in the small towns "a cut Of so per cent in
wages and "a hours in the cities, which reduces the
wages in cities 20 per cent
Roosevelt, who has corroborated Hopkins acts and
who admitted that he has no plans for extending the
C,WA,7 thus abandons all his demagogic promises
regarding ending unemployment through the C.WA.
Roosevelt claims that the CWA has hired four mil
lion And yet, government figures show in Novem-
Der and December, a steady decline in employment
and a decline also in payrolls. In fact the figures
for December show the payroll to be less in December
than last July, when the NFA went into effect. The
figures show that unemploymnt is now at the level
Of last July.
Roosevelt now throws off the mask The MIRA.
to put six million to work The government figures
show no decrease in unemployment The P.WA was
bankers and the industrialists.
Now Roosevelt casts adrift even those who got
C.WA Jobs Now Roosevelt and Hopkins say they
have idea what is to become of these fred unem-
pioyed workers. and Of the millions who rag-tered and
VINO were unable to get C.W.A jobs.
TaE seventeen million unemployed workers can now
the fruits of RooseveIts Unemployment pro-
Sram" Hundreds of thousands of destitute unem-
played workers have been from relief rolls
They have guarantee from Roosevelt that they
will be returned to relief. They were taken off
relief and promised permanency CW.A.
work. Now they will have neither jobs relief.
RoosevelG's rosy promises and his many schemes
have served as cover for an attack on the unem-
ployed workers The recovery program has left larger
mass Of unemployed workers poverty stricken and in
actual starvation.
The workers Of the United States must not allow
this callous condemnation of millions of jobess workers
to starvation to go unanswered nationwide protest
against the firing of the CW-A workers, and the
refusal to give jobs relief to additional millions
must be launched at once. The masses Of workers in
protest against the Hunger Regime Of Roosevelt as
to force the government to give the millions of unen
ployed workers jobs or relief.
The open abandonment of even pretense OF unem-
ployment relief to the millions Of iobless calls for
the most deep-gong, widespread and militant protest
Of the entire working class The ruthless attack on
the unemployed is not question of the iobless alone
1t affects every worker in the United States vitality
The present Grass condemnation Of the unemployed
To starvation calls for the unified struggle of all work
ers, employed and unemployed. The rank and file
opposition in every A. F. Of L. local union should
Immediately organize the protest in uncertain terms