The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-09

/ ference on March rs in Albany the
State Emergency Relief Admins
tration announced to the cities in
/ the state; 1T will be vitality nee
essary to reduce the relief load by
means which will insure that
only those absolutely in need of re-
[ lief are placed on home and work
relief rolls.
What Is Party's Answer?
This is the situation confronting
the workers Of New York.
What is the position of the Com
munist Party?" Krumbein was
asked
The Workers Municipal Relief
/ Ordinance, the provisions of which
were made the central issues of the
Party's 1898 city election campaign,
remains the central relief demands
Of the Party today" Krumbein re-
piled.
This ordinance" he continued,
was adopted by many thousands of
workers throughout the city. It pro-
vides that the city shall assume the
obligation of providing for every
single unemployed worker on mini
mum rates of 81 weekly cash relief
plus IS for each dependent, this
amount to be adjusted monthly and
increased whenever the index of the
Department of Labor shows an in
crease in the cost of living as of
August 1, 1898. Supplementary re-
lief shall be paid to all part time
workers"
How to raise the money!" he
asked. Simply stop payments to
the bankers on the debt service.
These payments, which amount to
127 million dollars a year. Funds
can be raised from the revenue and
resources Of the city of New
York and the corporations that OPP
crate within the city. Funds can
be further provided by reducing the
salaries of all city officials to $4,000
year, by imposing tax on the
profits and reserve funds of all cor
porations that operate within the
city, by increasing the tax upon all
factory sites, Office and factory
buildings and expensive apartments.
In no case must any part of these
funds be secured by any levy on the
workers
Work Relief Demands
For work relief, our central fight
is for prevailing trade union rates,
in no case less than IS for a 7-hour
day and minimum of $50 a month.
Relief work, for which the city shall
assume full compensation award re-
sponsibility, full transportation, full
issuance of any special clothing and
full complement Of tools, should
be devoted to razing of the slums
and the erection of modern low
cost workers dwellings, and parks,
hospitals, schools, Fairgrounds and
recreation centers in workers
neighborhoods.
I'm the center of our fight Is the
demand for the Workers Unenploy-
ment Insurance Bill CHR. 7598)
Under the provisions of this bill,
every employed and unemployed
worker, withoYt any discrimination
whatsoever because of race, color,
belief or aff1liation will receive I'M
employment and social insurance.
We will fight for the enactment of
this bill as against all fake bills
brought forward by the agents Of
the bosses.
TN the fight for relief, the pres
ent, immediate need is for further
building and broadening the work
and scope Of the Unemployment
Councils, making of them real mass
organizations Of the unemployed
fighting daily in the interests of the
entire unemployed population.
Tn the forefront of this struggle,
in the foremost fighting ranks, must
be the trade unions, especially the
militant trade unions affiliated with
the Trade Union Unity League, CIV
ing force and momentum to the
struggle.
mo really effective unemployment
movement can be built up without
the active participation of the trade
unions playing their proper leading
role. The unions must realize that
unless they take up the fight of the
unemployed, their own membership,
especially those who are unem-
ployed, cannot long be retained
within their ranks.
/ ITO carry out it's plans for cutting
relief to coolie standards, the La
Guardia administration has called
thier leaedrs yellow dogs" said
Krumbein, He has asked the press
to prepare the public for a blood
bath.
But it is precisely because of
the fights led by these yellow dogs
who are leading the unemployed
workers in daily actions at the Re
lief Bureaus and in city-wide dem
onstrations that even the present
starvation standards of relief are
not further cut.
"Yes, more than that, forced in
creased relief from time to time.
This should be sufficient the nail
the SANDER of La Guardia that the
Communists prey on the misery of
the unemployed. We know that
when workers wiring concessions
from the bosses and their govern
ment as result of their organized
struggle that they would organize
and fight still stronger to gain still
more until they gain all that be-
longs to them.
THE Communist Party is arous-
ing the entire working class and
the friends of the working class to
struggle against the starvation pol
icies, the terror and the abrogation
Of the elementary rights of the UNI