The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
PLANSPOLICE
PHOTOFILEO OF
ALL ON RELIEF
New Crisis Aimed to
Pave Way for 7-Cent
Fare, New Taxes
By Howard Boldt

The LaGuardia relief administers
ton ordered single unemployed
workers dropped from the rolls I'M
less they accept forced labor at a
dollar a week in the former prison
camp at Greystone. 1t has begun
a widespread investigation of all
work relief clients, and put for
ward the proposal of photographing
all relief workers for police files.
Meanwhile, driving headlong for
another "crisis" in relief financing,
City Hall is opening the door for
the seven cent fare, for wage and
sales taxes, and is tightening the
entire relief machinery for a vast
program of forced labor on relief.
Drive Under Way
Relief investigators have been
told to close at least one case a
day; Winter clothing is not being
given except in most unusual cases:
adjustments" are being made on
insurance policies which are in
tended to pauperize the entire re-
lief clientele; relief workers who
have managed to save even twenty
or thirty dollars are fired; a gag
law prohibiting investigators from
even discussing their work outside
the confines Of the relief offices has
been ordered; rents go unpaid;
cases are closed on merest "suspi-
cion"; case workers who dare raise
their voices in protest against DO
lice clubbings and racial discrimi-
nation are fired.
Photographers have been asked
to submit bids of photographs of all
relief workers photographs two by
one and seVen-eighths inches in
size, to be filed with the Police De-
partment, the Home Relief Bureau
and the Works Division of the De-
partment of Public Welfare. Nor
have the unemployed on direct re-
lief been overlooked. Case workers
in at least two sections of the CITY
have been asked to register those
on Home Relief, who will be pho
tographed and their pictures fled
with the Department of Sanitation
for snow-shovelling at forced labor
jobs this Winter.
Discharge Slips Ready
The pink Slips" discharge no.
tees which are euphemistically
called transfers" are being mimeo-
graphed by the thousands by
the Works Department.
All rpliaf urorL,n,~e % r-.;,.
cess of sixteen dollars a week are
oeing investigated, subjected to the
same endless list of questions of the
infamous "paupers' oath" which was
circulated among all C.W.A. work
ers last April. Orders have all
ready been sent out for the firing
OF workers earning two dollars more
IMAM would be their budgets on di-
rect relief.
Inc 800 special investigators as
signed to review all relief cases. and
on the basis of whose findings and
Snoopings five hundred relief cases
are being pared from the rolls daily
and another thousand relief cases
are being cut, continue at work IN
all boroughs.
Pauperization Plans
A memorandum sent out BY Ed
ward Corsi, director of the Home
Relief Bureau, stated:
VIII you kindly inform the
precinct offices that they are to
make full investigations in all
work relief cases, including bank
inquiries, wherever there appears
to be an indication that there
may be an account either in the
name of the person who is en-
ployed or some immediate menu
Der of the family.
Wherever bank accounts are
found in the sum of S100 or more,
dismlssais are to be sent through
IN the same manner as is done in
other work relief cases where re-
sources are discovered.
Where there is bank ac-
count in the sum of $500 or over,
kindly submit the application to
the Department of Special Inves-
legations for transmission to the
Corporation Councils Office for
action. Also certified transcript
of the bank account from the re-
port covering interview with the
family, showing that the bank
account is in his name or in the
name of an immediate member of
his family.
IF the account is in the name
of the husband or wife of the per-
son who is or who has been on
work relief, may we have state
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