The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-02
Join in Rallies
for theCongress
on January Z

employment insurance opens
its sessions in Washington.
This workers congress opens
Immediately after the begin
ming of the sessions of the
United States Congress, at
which President Roosevelt
will personally lay down his
recovery" program.
The message of President
Roosevelt, it is already GER
tain from previous statements
of his administration leaders,
will launch a new and inten-
sified attack on the whole
standard of living of the
workers, an offensive of fl
nance capital, whom Roose-
welt represents, against all
workers organizations.
The Workers National Con-
gress for Unemployment In
surance, meeting at a time
when the employers, through
their government, are speed
ing up their attacks on the
workers, assumes great sig
nifcance for every worker in
the United States-employed
as we'll as unemployed.
What is the program which
Roosevelt is bringing to Con-
gress in his annual message?
1t is the program of finance
capital, the program of Nor
gan, the program of the en-
ployers, which was drafted in
unfinished form at White Sui
phur Springs and in New
York by the conferences OF
the employers associations.
Roosevelt's program means
relief cuts coupled with a plan
of forced labor and cutting
down on relief lists. Federal
Relief Administrator Hopkins,
even before Congress opens
has already given instructions
that on Feb. l, 100000 "un-
enonlovables" now on relief
rolls, must be taken care OF
by State and local relief agen-
cies. All others on relief
must go on work relief rolls,
| Hopkins ordered. The min
imum wage of 80 cents an
hour on work relief was abol-
ished by the Roosevelt gov
eminent weeks ago to enable
employers to cut down the en-
tire wage standard OF en-
ployed workers. This aboli-
ton of the work relief min
imum wage has already dras-
tically cut down the starva-
ton income of work relief
men.
Roosevelt, under the en-
ployers' slogan of economy, of
balancing the budget, has
,vnically denied the eX-ser-
vicemen their back pay (the
oonus) and has given notice
that relief to all unemployed
will be cut drastically. The
more than a billion dollars of
P.W.A. funds which went for
! oattleships, railroads and war
preparations, instead of to un-
employed relief, foreshadows
the fact that new millions out
of coming P.W.A. funds will
go not to the unemployed but
to war purposes.
Roosevelt, dropping earlier
demagogic promises, has come
out definitely against Federal
unemployment insurance and
advocates a reserves" plan
on State scale which will
not provide at all for the mil
lions now totally unemployed.
The employers and the gov
eminent refuse to tax profits
and war funds for the unem-
ployed. Instead they advocate
sales taxes such as exist in
New York City, in order to
force the already starving
part-time and employed work
ers to pay for unemployment
relief.
This is the program of the
Roosevelt government, and
the employers he represents,
i for the coming session of the
N United States Congress. 1t is
\ a program of relief cuts, wage
cuts, company unionism, war
preparations, fascist meas
ures against the workers,
denial of unemployment in
surance, outlawing of strikes
and abolition of the elemen-
tary rights of the workers.
The National Congre S
for Unemployment Insur-
ance, which convenes Jan.
5, 6 and Z in Washington, will
give its answer to the Roose-
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