The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-08
MiIitarize Youth, Add
to Starvation -JObless
Program of Roosevelt
C.W.A. Has Not Checked Unemployment; Camp
Are Increased; Workers Protests
Haze Won Concessions
BY CARL REEVE ID

aiding in the building OF the v
machine, but primarily, Of forcing Il
working class to bear ell Of the b.
dens Of the acute crisis. Roosevelt,
his decree launching the c. ". A.
spoke against unemployment insur-
ance, on the ground that the dole
is bad for the unemployed mentally"
Later, under pressure Of the demands
of the unemployed, Roosevelt made
a gesture, comforting" with several
Morgan Co. bankers (Raskob, Deane,
etc. on a "job insurance" bill. The
plan, Of course, is to give congress
such an insurance" bill which
forces the employed workers to sup
ply most Of the fund, which disbars
most of the unemployed from benefits
and which relieves the government
and the employers from being taxed
for the unemployment insurance
funds
Cuts in Relief
RooseveIt's policy from the first
has been the cutting Of workers Off
relief lists. He stated In his speech
on the C.W.A. that only work relief
was good" for the workers.
The C.W.A. has set up an immense
bureaucratic machine which gives
fat salaries to its officials, builds the
democratic party political machine,
reeks with graft, trickery against the
unemployed and corruption. The
demagogic promises in RooSevelts
DEGREES and his lying figures that
-four million have been put ts work, .
attempt to hide these facts-that the
promises Of the C.W.A. we're not kept.
that non-union conditions prevail.
that discrimination against foreign
born and Negroes by the CW.A. is
widespread, and that the C.W.A. has
added scarcely half q million Of the
seventeen million unemployed to the
relief lists.
Reminiscent Of Hitler
Roosevelt's methods are reminis-
cent Of the denlagogic DEGREES Of Hit
Ter on war against starvation
Roosevelt's DEGREES alone are SUFFICIENT
to change the laws, the wages, work.
ing conditions Of the unemployed, and
to place the entire relief apparatus
Of the country in the hands Of one
man-Hopkins.
The workers Of the United States
have won concessions from the Roose-
welt government Of finance capital
through their mass struggle. The
CW.A. workers in many places have
won demands by protest and by or
ganization. Relief has been won in
many cities through the struggles led
by the Communist Party and the
Unemployed Councils More conces=
sions can be won, Unemployed In
surance can be won, by intensif 80
these struggles. IL
Feb. Convention
The attacks Of the Roosevelt gov
eminent on the unemployed workers.
aim to force the unemployed into
more misery and starvation. Unem-
ployment in the US. has not even
been checked, in spite Of Roosevelts
false figures. The production in in
mstry continues at fraction Of ca
pacity.
These attacks on the unemployed
must be answered. The preparations
for the national convention against
unemployment on Feb. in Washing
ton can win further concessions.
It is necessary to spread the or
gsnization of the C.WA. workers into
job committees and unions; develop
immediate struggles for local and
partial demands Of the unemployed,
intensity the campaign for the Work
ers Unemployment Insurance Bill;
build the trade unions and mass or
CARNATIONS OF the workers; fight
against discrimination against the
workers in any form. The Roosevelt
government must be called to account
for its attempt to dictate over the
lives of the unemployed workers, its
attempt to plunge them into further
restitution.