The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 9, 1933, Page 1

“One Cannot Say Too Much” “One cannot say too much for the Daily Worker. The very fact that it is the only English daily paper that is persecuted by the bosses and their henchmen should be sufficient ground for the workers to rally around their trailblazer in the class struggle. Our answer to our enemies is a five dollar check for our fearless fighter.—S. and B, R., Minneapolis, Minn.” Vol. X, 2 vail intered ax second-class matter at the Fost Offies at Orga d geiat Party > | (Section of the Communist International) Vorker U.S.A. L ‘A Crime to the Working Class’ “Enclosed find my contribution ($1) to save the Daily Worker,. This money was supposed to aid my old aged mother, to which I am also « supporter, but considering the danger of suspen~- sion, I think it would be a crime to the working class to help an individual at this very moment and refuse aid to the Daily Worker—A Marine Worker, New York, N..¥.” NEW YORK, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1933 EDITION Price 3 Cents DEMANDS OF “FORGOTTEN MEN” FACE ROOSEVELT In Gigantic Mobilization March 4th to ‘Compel Keeping of Promises to Unemployed Workers and On account of the extreme danger to the life of the Daily Worker, we are compelled to give the whole of the first page to this urgent appeal for help. (AN EDITORIAL) RESIDENT-ELECT Roosevelt the day before yesterday issued a call to all the Governors of the 48 States to come to Washington for a meeting in the White- House with the new president on Monday, March 6th. The new incoming president gives as the subjects to be discussed by himself and the 48 Governors the following: (a) Conflicting taxation by Federal and State governments; | (b) Federal aid for unemployment relief; (ec) Mortgage foreclosures, especially on farm ‘ lands, and (d) Better land use by afforestation, elimination of marginal agriculture land, flood prevention, etc. {e) Reorganization and consolidation of local gov- ernment to decrease tax costs. T is clear that the most vital interests of the great laboring masses of city and country are to be handled on the first business day of the new gov- ernment administration. The 48 Governors most of whom will gather in Washington have been, without a single excep- tion, elected to governorships in the various states on the tickets of the capitalist political parties, in campaigns that were financed by the bankers, manufacturers, merchants and rich land and mort- gage owners of their various states. (President- elect Roosevelt himself belongs to the class of | wealthy aristocrats). These gentlemen, coming to- '} gether in Washington to settle the most vital questions of life and death for more than 100,000,- 000 laboring and suffering people—will consider all of these questions under pressure of the class in- terests of the big bankers and trust heads whose “good will” and campaign contributions made pos- sible the election of these gentlemen. Class interests will be reflected in the five questions enumerated by President-elect Roosevelt in the following way: * * * p the matter of taxation, behind the question of conflicts between Federal and State Governments on this or that kind of taxation—is to be found the REAL question to be settled at Washington which is who shall pay the heaviest burden of taxes! Of course, the greatest pressure will be ex- ercised hv the wealthy multi-millionaires who con- trol all the capitalist political parties, and who will so juggle the taxation question as to put the least possible burden upon themselves and the greatest possible burden upon the already bankrupt masses of workers, “dirt” farmers and small business people. * * gx the question of “Federal aid for unemploy- ment. relief’ —the pressure of the strongest powers of finance in the world will be exercised to bring about the heartless betrayal of the 16,000,000 starving, unemployed workers and the countless millions of their dependants, to whom Roosevelt has promised unemployment relief and insurance. In this, the only big industrial country in the world where there is no social insurance system of the National Government, and only the merest makeshifts of social insurance under a few State Governments, a struggle for Unemployment In- surance represents the most important issue of life , & tats wait in Yue-Yefore the Salvation Army for food handout, Albany in 19 CHILDREN’S BREAD LINE IN ROOSEVELT’S METROPOLIS.— in N. ¥. C. controlled by the Democratic Party of Roosevelt these young S BY FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT.— Gov. Roosevelt's state treopers viciously attacking the Hunger March to The other photo shows an entirely different scene. Desperate Farmers, Daily Worker Must Lead! — | For here you see the president-elect laughingly greeting Prince Ferdin- and and Prince Frederick, grandson of the bloody ex-kaiser Wilhelm of Germany. and death for the working masses. Have we forgotten? Just three years before these Governors will meet in Washington, that is, on March 6, 1930—the great mass struggle for Un- employment Insurance of the American workers began. Do we not remember the great mobiliza- tion called for by the Communist Party through its central organ, the Daily Worker, to which 1,250,000 workers in the cities and towns of the United States responded? Do we not remember this historic advance of the working class under revolutionary leadership which for the first time compelled the capitalist class, together with all of their foul retainers of the prostitute capitalist press, the betraying mis- leaders of the Trade Unions and of the Socialist Party, etc., to recognize that there is such a thing s mass unemployment in the United States? Do we not remember the bloody cavalry charges of he capitalist police, the heads cracked under cos- sacks’ clubs, the trampled women and children— the price that we of the working class had to pay to compel the heartless bankers and corporation heads and their political tools to recognize that there is such a thing as an unemployment ques- tion? i Do we not know, in fact, that it is precisely these struggles of the American workers that are compelling President-elect Roosevelt to place on the ordei of the day before the 48 Governors, the question of Federal aid for unemployment relief? But what is the likelihood that the 48 Gov- ernors and Roosevelt will concede real unemploy- ment relief at the expense of the Federai Govern- ment and the great bankers and trust heads? “Federal aid FOR unemployment relief” is to be construed as meaning the turning over of Federal funds not to the unemployed, but to the State po- litical machines of the different 48 States—to be squandered and stolen in the obscure political un- derworld of 48 different State Gcvernments where it will be impossible to trace and expose the steal- ings! Do we not understand that this will mean the turning over of huge slush funds to the 48 State political machines to give “unemployment relief” to the political friends of the various Gov- ernors and their administrations? What about New York State itself, when Roosevelt was Governor of New York? What be- came of the funds that. were supposed to be given to the unemployed workers? The greatest per- centage was stolen by exactly the corrupt New York State and New York City political machines. While the streets were lined with starving men and women, while working-class children were shiver- ing and pale and fainting from hunger at school because of their fathers’ unemployment—“unem- ployment” relief was given to rich job-holders who drove Lincoln and Buick automobiles through the crowds of starving workers, while they went them- selves to receive the funds that were supposed to “NEW DEAL” CLUB IN ACTION.—When masses of the “forgotten man” demonstrated before the New York Home of Roosevelt for Unem- ployment Relief his Tammany cops viciously clubbed thom. go to the unemployed. This is what happened in New York State when Roosevelt was Governor. “Unemployment Relief” is being interpreted also to mean the devotion of great sums of public money to projects haying no other purpose than enriching the Tammany contractors. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation has already turned over $3,000,000,000 to bankers and corporation heads who are Hoover's political friends, and is expected to turn over billions more to Roosevelt’s political banker and corporation friends; whereas it is doubtful if as much as $1,000 out of the enormous sums turned over by the Fed- eral treasury to these multi-millionaires has ever reached the pockets of unemployed workers. Is it not clear that the American working class has to have its vital interests represented in these questions? HEN take the question of mortgage fore- closures, This affects the interests of millions of small home owners of the working class and middle class in the cities, and many millions of American farmers, 10 per cent of whom have al- ready lost their farms in two years to the loan sharks, Ts it not clear that, when Roosevelt and the 48 Governors meet in Washington, the farmers and small kome owners’ interests will be most vitally at stake? The question of “Farm Relief” is being handled by the ruling class and its politicians not in the way to enable the farmers to escape confis- cation of their farms by bankers, but in such a way as to enable the bankers and corporations to collect the mortgages—the whole aim of this so-called “Farm Relief’ being to prevent the escape of the farmers from the debt trap. When 10 per cent of the American farmers lost their farms in the course of two years, this was “all right” with the ruling class politicians; it was only when the farmers revolted that Hoover and Roosevelt decided “something was wrong” and proceeded to find measures for “Farm Relief” by turning over funds not to farmers but to bankers. Is it not clear that the farmers and small home owners have to be heard where mortgage foreclosures are being considered? * * * HE question of “better land use by afforestation, elimination of marginal agriculture !and, flood prevention,” will be construed to mean the restric- tion of the poorer farmers so as to crowd them off of their “marginal agricultural land” for the bene- fit of the wealthy landlords; it will mean the favor- ing of big estate owners with forestry service, the feeding of a horde of politically connnected con- tractors and estate owners with “flood prevention” measures, etc. - e * HE “Reorganization and consolidation of local govern- ment to decrease tax costs” will be construed in such a way as to weaken the influence of the working WHILE DEMOCRATIC PARTY MAYORS, like Cermak of Chicago arm thugs with shot guns against the jobless who demand no relief outs, They shot down four unarmed workers in front of the Lawnsdale aS AO Ue. i {no longer there ds of business ¢c s, masses MUST class and farm voters trate authority” in the It is clear that the voice of the heard when these questions are being considered. * " 64, THER subjects” may also be considered, according to the invitation, and under these will douk include a cut of the pay of the Post Office and other Ci Service employees who are already almost unable to 1 on their wages, a cold blooded assault against the rail- road workers through government connivance in cutting their wages. “Other subjects” will likely be the projects to compel the workers in large industrial plants to con- tribute out of their already lowered wages for feeding the unemployed, the project of forcing the “stagger plan” as a means of reducing the standard of living of the working class. With absolute certainty the whole under-current of this conference will be the question of a wholesale drive for the reduction of wages of the whole of the American working class. Not to speak of little things like the distribution of “pork” to deserving Demo- crats which will go on at an unequalled speed. Without doubt the whole question of the coming. imperialist world war as a measure of the capitalist way out of the crisis will be before the Governors’ conference in one form or another. Unquestionably the great array of “victorious Demo- crats” that will assemble with Roosevelt, from the South especially, will spell no good for the Negro masses of the South who are now under the pressure of persecution arid suffering never before seen by them. Unquestionably the American masses, working class, farming, Negro and white MUST be represented at a moment like this. sy jes} ue N MARCH 4th, 1938, in the place of the repudiated Hoover—the victorious Roosevelt elected by the overwhelming millions of American Voters on ‘his ises to the “Forgotten Man” will be inaugurated as the new President. On March 4th, the Forgotten Men” will assemble in all of the cities and towns of America determined to bring to realization some of the promises that were made by this new President. In every city and town the work- ing class will assume the greatest activity in assembling on March 4th which must be a National Day of Strurate for Unemployment Relief and Social Insurance to for- mulate in most concrete manner the realization of these prom which the masses insist upon being kept. This must be a mobiliz n of all of the vital, active forces in every Trade Union, every Unemployed Council, every workers’ mass organization, for a gigantic demon- stration on the streets on March 4th. To-carry this great action through, the Daily Worker is necessary as the clarion voice of leadership. Roosevelt promised great things to the “Forgotten Men”! yrom- Roosevelt promised Unemployment Insurance. Roosevelt promised relief for the farmers. Roosevelt promised a “new deal.” The millions of “Forgotten Men” will not relinquish the promises that Roosevelt has made to them! 100,000,000 “Forgotten Men” will face Roosevelt on March 4th. Who will lead and mobilize these millions? Everybody knows that only the Communist Party can and will lead these workers, as it did on March 6th, 1930, sincerely and truly “and bravely to comnel the granting of concessions by the ruling class to the starve ing millions of American workers and farmers. The Daily Worker must be the voice of the Pariy— the organizing instrument in reaching these masses. Every other daily newspaper in the English language in America will do all in its power to aid in the deception and defeat of the masses. The Daily Worker is necessary to this struggle. The great masses of American toilers are moving forward now, not backward—and the Daily Worker is absolutely necessary to these struggles. The masses cannot afford to let the Daily Worker die. But the response must be quick and substantial. ° ° * Yesterday’s contributions were $313.42, a drop of $38.57 from the day before. The life of the “Daily” is’ threatened! Contribute, collect, speed every cent to the Daily Worker, 50 E, 13th St., New York City, Received yesterday Total to date ....00 UNDER ROOSEVELT’S LEADERSHIP.—The mighty mass demor- stration on March 6, 1930 in New York which started the nation-wide movenient for jobless insurance was smashed and its Photo shows feaders of demonstration: I. Amer, Wm. Z. Foster, | trom clutches of vicious chain Bang.