The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-06
A Fake "PIan" for the
Jobless

REALlZING more and more that the new
~ Roosevelt Work Relief program is an
attempt to drive still lower the living
standards of the 10000 UNEMPLOYED.
the fired c. W. A workers, together with
the jobesS in every part OF the country are obiliz
ing for struggle.
On Monday 5000 iobess workers in Minneapolis
demanding that the "cooe wages" Of $72o a week
be Immediately raised TO c. w. A. levels, and that
40 per cent increase in relief Immediately go into
effect, brushed aside the full mobilization of the city
police, and Stormed the City Hall
In Philadelphia, the very threat Of a huge mass
meeting Of the 22,500 fired C. w A. workers forced
the Philadelphia County Emergency Board to re-
hire 1900 c. w. A. workers and resume work on 300
abandoned projects.
In New York City, C. w. A. jobless workers will
reconvene at the Greater New York United Front
Conference on C. w. A. and Unemployment. This
conference, to be held Sunday, April 8th at P. M,
will broaden still further the fight for jobs for i'm
mediate cash relief equal at least to C. w A. pay
and for the enactment of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill. The workers are determined
to maintain the hard-won victory OF C. w. A. and
to resist the Roosevelt Relief Work" coolie wages
THE bankruptcy of the Roosevelt "Tripartite Works
Relief" plan Is evidenced in its very phase. For
the stranded populations" living in single industry
communities in which there is no hope of future
Unemployment, such as miners in worked-out fields"
to use the phraseology of the honey-worded Roose-
welt demagogy to be ransplaned to Subsistence
farms" 1T is planned to explore this difficult stu
ation" Roosevelt continues, and after physically
tranSpanting the entire families to Subsistence
FARMS to revert to primitive handicraft stage by
setting up supplementary industrial enterprises"
This plan doos thousands to forced labor at starva
ton coolie conditions.
Meanwhile, the small farmer who cannot find q
market for the abundance Of food which he pro-
duces, is to find competition for his markets in
creased In an attempt to placate him. Roosevelt
will hand him handful of seeds. C. W A. is to
be abandoned entirely In the rural areas
For the city worker the Roosevelts "Tripartite
Works Relief" will provide work for period not
to exceed six months" In making Fascist bid
for support from the white-collar and professional
groups by giving them special consideration the
Roosevelt program states that: Every effort will be
made to continue opportunities for work for the
professional groups in need-teachers, engineers,
architects, artists nurses and others"
In every instance, where city and state govern
ments have undertaken to take over the c. W. A.
workers works relief" little or no additional
appropriations are made to carry the increased need
of relief In New York City the April appropriation
for the payment Of wages to the former c. W. A.
workers and the relief to the growing number of
Home Relief clients exceeds the March appropriation
by only $4,000. Supplemented by federal and state
funds the city, state and federal appropriations total
only $15,000,000, or, S12 month for each of the
city's one and a quarter million unemployed.
Under the leadership of the Unemployment
Councils and the Relief Workers Leagues, the work
ers everywhere are determined to strike decisive
blow at the Roosevelt coohe wage Of $72o week
Organize mass stoppages and strikes the
projects of employed and unemployed to defeat
the wage cuts and firings Establish picket
lines at the Welfare Boards and Relief Bureaus.
Demand immediate cash relief equal TO c. W. A.
wages for all fired C. W. A. and unemployed work
ers. Demand c. W. A. jobs at union rates of pay
for all unemployed workers. Demand that Con-
gress Immediately enact the Workers UnempIoy-
ment and Social Insurance Bin.