The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
BY BILL GEBERT

The workers of Chicago, the in
dustrial heart of the country.
are suffering under the lashes of
the Roosevelt N. r. A. New Deal
In the fifth year of the prolonged
crisis, The wages of the workers
In all basic industries have been
reduced to starvation level Under
the N. R. A., in the factories, mines
and workshops, men are driven by
tnhuman speed-up and forced to
work long hours. Real wages have
been slashed while prices of food
are rising. The Hoover stagger
system, under the New Deal, is be
ing spread further, with it's misery
and starvation.
One million seven hundred thou
sand are unemployed in the states
Of Illinois and Indiana. Hunger,
misery and starvation spreads to
the working class neighborhoods.
The Negro masses suffer the most.
They are jim-crowed, segregated
and doubly oppressed and ex-
plotted. Over $4,000 single and
young workers are herded into
despicable f1ophouses in Chicago,
many of them dying from poisoned
food and unsanitary conditions.
Young workers, boys and girls, are
roaming the streets.
The budget for schools has been
cut. Teachers and school employees
are unpaid. Children in the schools
are lacking milk, food and cloth
ing, Working class families in the
city of Chicago are forced to live
in novels and shacks while there
are thousands of empty apartments
and buildings in the city.
Democratic DemagOgy
The N. r. A. New Deal policy is
carried in the State of Illinois by
the Democratic machine of Mayor
Kelly and Governor Horner, the
lackeys of finance capital, the public
utilities, Mccormick interests, the
railroad and stock yards magnates.
This policy of attack upon the work
ing class is carried out under the
shameless cover of demagogy.
Governor Horner was elected
under the slogan of "a great
humanitarian. This ''gre a t
humanitarian" is also commander
in-chief of the National Guard
which, according to its own organ
THE Illinois Guardsman" March,
1880, declares that: "Bloodshed is
necessary to qucll disturbances, :"
and in the article describes how
the National Guard attacked the
striking Illinois miners, declaring'
Several other attacks of this
nature were prevented only by
the use of hayonets, with the re-
suit that several members of the
mob suffered minor wounds from
bayonet iabs,"
While Governor Horner claims
that he has no money for the
hungry unemployed, for the starv-
ing children, he appropriated in
1888 a quarter of million $780,
000) additional funds for the Ma
tional Guard, for policing the min
ing area, and in 1884 million and
a half dollars for improvement of
the National Guard and its quarters.
Mayor Kelly carries a sharp at
tack upon the workers, Negro
people by attacks upon meetings,
picket lines of strikes, etc.
The State and City Federations
Of Labor are part and parcel of
the New Deal machine. John Fitz-
patrick, President of the Chicago
Federation of Labor, is member
of the strike-b breaking Regional
Labor Board. Victor Oleander,
Secretary of the Illinois Federation
of Labor, is a member of the IL
linois Emergency Relief Commits
sion.
THE Socialist Party likewise gives
1 open support to the New Deal.
A prominent member of the Social
list Party, Karl Borders, is now in
the Federal Government relief adj
ministration. Sam Levine, buro-
GRAFT in the Amalgamated Clothing
Workers Union, a member of the
Socialist Party, is on the strike
breaking Regional Labor Board.
The cleft" variety of the Socialist
Party and the Musteites, under
cover of mild opposition to the N.
R. A., are giving objective support
by means of vicious attacks upon
the Communist Party, the only
fighting revolutionary force Of the
working class, and which mobilizes
and leads the struggle against the
Roosevelt New Deal administration.
Similar Conditions in Indiana
The characterization of the situa-
ton in the State of Illinois holds
true for the State of Indiana, where
Democratic Governor McNutt,
former National Commander of the
American Legion, carries the New
Deal policy through dictatorial
methods, such as arbitrary aboli-
ton of the municipal elections for
one year, adjournment of the State
legislature. by sending militia
against the striking miners and
against the unemployed in South
Bend.
The introduction of the N. r. A.
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and Indiana brought about a decline
in the weekly earnings of the work
ers in steel, packing, metal and
manufacturing industries, notwith-
standing the Insignificant increase
in some factories in hourly rates,
gained through the pressure of the
workers.
Imitation Cuts Wages
Imitation, with its rising cost of
living, has cut the wages of the
entire working class and further
lowered the standard of living of
the toiling masses. The whole ma
ture of the New Deal is one of