The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-05
TAKE HEED
F.D.R. WARNS
ALL OPPOSED
Address to Congress
Ask Liquidation of
Business of Relief
BY Seymour Waldman
daily Worker Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. A.
In presenting his opening message
today to a Joint session of the new
seventyfourth congress President
Roosevelt personally outlined the
general legislative program, de-
manded by the big capitalists,
which simultaneously acceIerates
the fascist measures already under
way and warns those basically OPP
posed to take heed" In short. the
Communist Party was warned that
its anti-fascist and anti-hunger
program is more than unwelcome
to the new deal program of in
creased forced labor, authorization
and wage-cutting.
Declaring that Eve have under
taken new order of things" an
American plan" within the frame
work and intent of the Amer
lean constitution Roosevelt recog-
i1ized the peoples desire for
change" with recommendations for
"a new economic order" which pro-
vide for the liquidation of this
business of relief" the throwing of
about four and half million So
called unemployables, or the aged.
crippled and others in a similar
category, on the inadequate meScies
of local welfare efforts" and the
superseding Of the Federal Relief
Administration with single new
and greatly enlarged PLAN for
emergency employment which will
give as compensation" less than
wha5 the private employers desire
to pay their labor The big BUSH
ness Roosevelt legislative schedule
proposed also that "the successful
work" of the military -oriented and
Fascist-tinted civilian conservation
corps" be extended and enlarged.
The President prefaced his an
rouncement in few days he will
make specific recommendations to
congress for "a broad program de-
signed ultimately to establish"
security Of a livelihood, the "se-
curly against the major hazards
and vicissitudes of life" and "the
security Of decent homes" with an
optimistic report that will be dis
tinct surprise to the many millions
of poor farmers and workers who
have borne the brunt of the new
deal anti-labor and war prepara-
items program. Materially. can
report to you substantial benefits
to our agricultural population, in
creased industrial activity, and
profits to our merchants" he stated.
Security" in the Future
President Roosevelt declared,
however, that this security" pro-
gram will take many future years
to fulfill" His recommended ions
are known to favor State Unem-
pigment reserves" rather than
any form Of genuine Federal I'm
employment insurance such as is
provided for in the bill substantially
formulated by the sponsoring COM
mittee of the National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance and in
troduced yesterday in Congress. He
said that they will cover the broad
subjects of unemployment insur-
ance and old age insurance, of
benefits for children, for mothers,
for the handicapped, for maternity
care and for other aspects of de-
tendency and illness where be-
ginning can now be made"
Though dressed up in character
istic middle-of -the-road demagogy,
Roosevelt nevertheless voiced the.
sentiment which was expressed
more forcibly in recent declarations
Of the dominant bankers indus
trialists' and landlords avowed
anti-labor United States Chamber
of Commerce and the National As
ISOLATION of Manufacturers. 6.
There is evident a restoration of
that spirit of confidence and faith
which marks the American char
acter," he said. Let him who, for
speculative profit or partisan pur-
pose, without just warrant would
GEEK to disturb or dispel this assur-
dllCC, bdAS llCCu UClO4C HC dScuill0c
responsibility for any act which
slows our onward steps," he added.
Despite last weeks extremely
conservative American Federation
of Labor leaders announcement
that unemployment has increased
for the sixth successive New Deal
month and that 1t is nearly 100000
more than last year at this time,
Roosevelt declared that I'VE have
proceeded throughout the nation a
measurable distance on the road
towards this new order of things"
and spoke about giving employment
to the 100000 he said will remain
on relief after the scuttling of the
a.