NO RELIEF Socialist Appeal HERBERT HOOVER Official Organ of the Socialist Workers Party, Section of the Fourth International issued Twice Weekly VOL. III, No. 33 TUESDAY, MAY 16, 1939 Set up and Printed by Union Labor.
Application for Label Pendleg 3c a Copy FIGHT THE RELIEF CUTS!
THE OLD DEAL RELIEF and the 60 Families Understand US Mayors Only the Language of Class Action! Admit Relief Cuts Disastrous Roosevelt Stand In Coal Crisis Draws Lewis Blast Congress strike We address these words to the unemployed.
differences about the speed and methods to be used in We ask, fellow workers and comrades: do you under carrying on the attack: that is all.
stand what is happening in this country? Do you realize Why Not Use the War Money?
that, under the combined leadership of Roosevelt and the Congress, there is now taking place THE SHARPEST Lewis and Browder and the Workers Alliance support AND MOST BRUTAL ATTACK ON THE UNEMRoosevelt and his policies and his war. That is why they Avoid Reference to PLOYED ON YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMIdo and cannot and will not ask you to fight back millFDR Responsibility LIES SINCE THE GREAT CRISIS BEGAN IN tantly against his attack you. They appear once in a 19297 while before a Congressional committee, or suggest that Need Increases Does this sound like an exaggeration? It is easy enough you write postcards to Congressmen. But Congress and the President naturally pay not the slightest attention to (pecial to the Bosiollet Abpoal)
to prove it beyond doubt.
such pitiful gestures.
WASHINGTON, May Shp THE NEW DEAL On election day last November the rolls stood Your money, fellow workers, comes from the Federal. Results of discontinuing at 3, 350, 000. This figure was itself completely inadequate government, Roosevelt government. That is the boss or cutting it. as to provide jobs. There were around twelve million wemagainst whom you have got to fight. You will have to Roosevelt has proposed The New Deal ployed at the time, not counting workers on part time. make up your minds to that, no matter what Lewis and would be tragic too ter Cuts Begin Day after Election Browder tell you, or give up in advance.
Casualty List rible to contemplate, the.
Is there any money available for the unemployed?
The average wage on was 55 per month. This United States Conference of Hero 5s the New Deal Think a minute: The present Congress has already voted Mayors stated, in closing its figure is less than half what the government experts decasualty itat: two billion dollars for Roosevelt war machine. Plenty case today before the memBetween clection day and clare is necessary for a minimum standard of health and Jan. 1939 310. 000 glasbed of money for guns and ballets! Why not take that money decency.
bers of the House Appropria from the rollet rolls. Be.
and use it for the unemployed?
tween Jan. 1939 and April But, shamefully low as were the number of jobs and tions Conimittee investigation an additional 40. 000 11. average wage in November, they were prosperity comWe Have Got to Fight!
of ens slashed.
pared to the situation today, and boom times compared On March 14. Roosevelt The Sixty Families alone have fifteen or twenty billion The mayors who appeared President Ultimatum Endangers Welfare Ind Cookress that besides to what will be the case three months from now. unless at the hearings represented dollars of wealth in their strong boxes! Fifteen or twenty these, 850, 000 people certi.
billion! Compare that with what sixty fantilies in your some of the largest cities in the Of Miners; Kentucky Governor Threatens fied as eligible for you do something about it.
nation, including New York, would not be considered The day after the elections were safely out of the way, neighborhood have got salted away. Do you agree that it Chicago, Cleveland and MilUse of Strike breaking National Guard Total: 1, 200, 000 thrown into the cuts on started. With Congress not in ses right and just and sensible that Sixty Families should have waukee. They were unanimous the guller.
sion, Roosevelt slashed 310, 000 off the rolls between electen times the money that Roosevelt proposes for thirteen ing that the rellet program in opposing the cuts and insist. Special to the Socialist Appeal)
In the same speech Roosetion day and the first of this year.
million tinemployed? Couldn the Sixty Families manage must be expanded.
WASHINGTON, DC Ihree major developnients feavelt said that the further slash carried through by Between January and April 1, 40, 000 alien workers to get by on a few less billion? Why not take some of when questioned about how tured the coal crisis this week: wond affect An open break between John Lewis, chairman, those billions and use them to give jobs at decent wages funds shall be provided, how5. 000. 000 people. Le. In.
were dropped, bringing the number on down to ever, the mayors got tongueand President Roosevelt became immincat following a sharp off roket.
cluding those already thrown 3, 000, 000 to every man who is out of work?
tted, not e single one dering to public attack by Lewis on the administration policy in the During the first week of April 200, 000 more got their But you ve got to fight. Not with postcards and lobby. cross the interests of the caplThen: 1st week in April, pink slips. Another 200. 000 the first week of this month.
ing in Washington, but with militant mass demonstrations in list class and demand that 200. 000 eut. 200, 000 more In in the streets, with strikes and picketings on the projects, from the unemployed to bull the 1st week of May. 200, 000 Roosevelt ultimatum to the coal operators and the with at least as many scheduled for June. By the end of more scheduled for the 1st with death watches and hunger marches.
the war machine be returned officials of the United Mine Workers of America to open the work of June. 400. 000 more the first week of June, rolls will be down to a This is the only sort of language that Roosevelt and to the relief program.
mines following a White House conference jeopardized the maximum of 2, 400, 000 for the 1st week of July.
Grand total not countCongress and the Sixty Families who direct them can New Deal Henchman welfare of the 485, 000 strikers.
ing approximately 000. 000 Unemployment Increases understand.
Their whole presentation stu3. Democratic Governor Chandler of Kentucky announced thrown out of work by bust.
his intention of using National Guardsmen to break the strike What are you waiting for? There is no time to be lost! diously avoided reference to mess notivity decrease of According to the relief budget which Roosevelt has 15 since last November in Harlan County by furnishing armed protection to scabs.
presented to Congress, this will be cut to 2, 000, 000 in July.
Reaction is advancing in this country with the speed of the fact that the cuts and some 400. 000 youth eligt, The coal operators and the meeting to determine prices. airplanes. If we don begin fighting soon, we will wake are geared to President Rooseble for Jobs since November)
In cight months. from 350, 000 to 2, 000, 000, a drop up one fine day to war and concentration camps, and proposing a one third slash for velt April 27 relle message, committee were in stened contract beforehand rolls by the New Deal in ittof more than 40. 1, 350, 000 men, with their families 000. 000 knocked off the never know what hit us.
totalling well over 5, 000, 000 people!
the year beginning July La virtually continuous session might exclude this possibility Demand a job for every worker!
tle over six months.
The conl operators strategy in New York City following has been to prolong all negotiGuardia, leader of the mayor If Roosevelt basis for es To these 5, 000, 000 people, a wage of 55 a month would Thirty thirty! thirty dollar minimum weekly wage alty these developments.
ations until the mating is used, the onmber group. the Socialist be riches. Some of them, including many of the aliens, and thirty hour maximum week throughout industry, Hoan of Milwaukee, etc. All signed a contract that would of people atteoted including Accues Roosevelt are simply being left to starve. The others, at best, are the families of those direotly and public works!
not include elther wage and are henchmen of the RooseIn making pubilo letter ne hour demands and also cxclude out off, therefore runs oloser being transferred to a home relief which is hardly better aent to John Steelman, fed the unlon or closed shop. They twenty billion dollar public works and housing pro. velt New Deal.
to 10, 000, 000 then to 000. than starvation.
The mayors limited their eral conciliator in the coal 000.
whole case to two points. 1)
bluntly (Continued on Page 3)
negotiations. Lewis During these same months, the total of unemployed in Expropriate the Sixty Families! Use their billions to the is of great benefit charged that the Roosevelt ad.
the country has not decreased, but on the contrary has give jobs to the workers!
in providing employment and ministration was directly regone up by the hundreds of thousands. Industrial produc All war funds to the unemployed!
carrying out constructive work sponsible for the open shop of great benefit to the nedrive Against minera tion is running about 15 behind the November rate, and tion and (2) hinting at the union.
300, 000 or 400, 000 youth have in this period reached what danger to the capitalist regime Lewis pointed out that the of the United States through Roosevelt administration fail.
the likelihood that those throwo ure to support the union origoff relief rolls would turn to inal proposal that the expired As and unemployed But since then events have What to Do About It?
Over Flint Offices the road of revolution to fight Agreement be extended and workers seek to organize moved quickly. Roosevelt bim We want to ask you, fellow workers: what are you starvation.
that the industry be kept in op against the pink silp and relief self has taken the leadership going to do about this attack on the health and very lives Mayor LaGuardia. frequent eration bending negotiations, but wave. they find that they caused many operators to be have to fight not only the relser. In cutting rolls. His of yourselves and your families?
Washington Worried as Union Continues y pounding the table to emphasize his points declared Lieve that they had certe slashers, but also a company. April 27 message proposed. In Are you going to sit back and take it like slaves and 24 Hour Vigil in Defense of 900 Families that the A, had done a blanche from the government union outfit. the so called Addition to all previous cuts, to disembowel the United Mine Workers Alliance of Amer one third slash for the year be good job. and that its disconcowards? Are you going to watch, and do nothing, while (Spexial to the socialat Appeal)
your wives and children go hungry, while they get sick tinuance would have tragic Workers.
Blume on the Roosevelt ad. the leaders of this one have workers Alliance quietly saboLike many company unions. Bloning July Whereupon the FLINT, Mich. May The Death Watch initiated by the and disastrous results.
and you have no money to call a doctor, while all of you Unemployed and Workors Unlon, affiliated with the The unemployment situation ministration for the resulting had to suppress demands for ta god the idea of a March on get evicted, thrown literally on the street? has cast a hauntlog shadow over the Flint welfare of. in New York, he declared was deadlock and the consequent action by its members. In one Washington. For such fices across the street, walle resentment and anger grows only slightly better than in fuel shortage confronting the such maneuver, about two marcb might grow to uropor.
This attack is not going to stop because of any prayers among anton men and women at the harsh and inhuman trcat. 1933 a damning Indictment of country was also placed by months ago, the lend. tlons uncontrollable by the ment given to the 800 familles cut of relief last week.
or hopes on your part. It will continuc, and get more the New Deal policies whicb Lewis. ers announced referendum leaders, and might be vicious month by month. Not merely will more hundreds Today, as a family of thirteen was thrown out on the streets were to end forever the hunger Your department must ac of the membership on the ques. directed at the Instigator of by the sheriff, they moved inand misery of the forgotten cept responsiblity for its own tion of a March on Washing the cuts. President of thousands be dropped from the average wage to the park neighboring the them store his fumiture and man.
Administrative blunder, Lewis ton.
Roosevelt.
of those who remain will be lowered, and home relief will welfare office and Joined the move into the community it was erroneous, be deemphasized iu the le What happened to the refer These masters of the be driven down toward the vanishing point.
others who have maintained a Supine Altitude center a concentration campi clared, to argue that if business endum? How did the have achieved the feat of not 24 lacur vill for the past five for evicted unemployed, where picked up. reliet costs could be The failure of the Roosevelt locals vote on 16? What was commenting once on Roose.
The attack has succeeded up to now for one and only days. Consternation spread they are herded together, re eliminated. Business recovery.
administration and its Demo the final vote! we are certain volt April 27 message! Nei. onc reason: because you, the unemployed who are the from Flint to Lansing, the state gardless of sex or health and he said, would bave Tirst a cratc party machine in indus. that 11 held it would be over ther as the Jeadership victims, have not fought back.
capitol, to Washington official where the unfortunate familles sorb those on relief and the trial states to allow miners whelmingly 10 favor either unemployment insurance word out of the lend have they said a word about his The attack will stop and the trend will be reversed dom, and back to Flint akain, are treated worse than cattle employables on the rolls before So disturbed was Washington or relief was exposed by Lewers! They have simply dumped budget for the coming when, and only when you really begin fighting 15. He termed the Roosevelt at the whole business overboard year! Agents of the boss presat the reports of the watch Drivers Union Local 332 do. Although all statistics show titude As supine and lack. The membership voted? Never ident, that what they are. Not Roosevelt Acts for Sixty Families arranged to send more than Adams deliver his furniture to clined, Roosevelt attempted to adals! cal, and he specifically mind. Thet their idea of de their but the scores of pointed out that only Pennsyl. mocracy these people who new unions springing You have not been fighting because you have trusted 200. 000 pounds of surplus com the Park where the death justify his latest slash of re.
modities to be distributed to watch is located. Two tents llet funds by declaring that 10vanls with a Republican re. call on ug to die in tror for up throughout the country, will what you have been told by John Lewis and his asso the needy. So deathly afraid In watch the Adams family dustry would absorb those gime had given any relief to democracy!
lead the fight for Jobs ciates, by Earl Browder and his party and his Workers are the Federal authorities that now live, stand as a constant thrown on streets.
the strikers.
Why these scoundrels have and reller.
The the death watch will con reproach and a living condemimportance of the decided not to go through the Alliance. You have believed them when they told you that The latest maneuver of the Hours Too Long union original proposal to motions of holding a march is is to call a Right to Roosevelt was your President and leader and would help wide rolled slashes, that they may the remains loyed and wages to solve the problemas tinue to grow and crystalliza nation of Flint rellet condiLAGuardia did hot Advocate work under the old contract clear enough. When they pro Work Congress on May 27 in pending settlement of the 18. posed it, the President was en Wasblogton. Call is too you out of your difficulties.
sues took on a new tura with gaged in a sham battle with strong a word, for one learns This is a direct, Aat lie.
may be distributed to su in Workers Union voted unemployment, but he did nd.
the announcement that the coal the Democratic. Republican of it publicly only through a Roosevelt is not your President, but the President of need regardless of reliet cer. unanimously to carry on a mit that working hours as a commission was going to seleconomy bloc about just how casual reference in the Daily dealth watch until all 900 whole in the nation must be coal prloes within the next two much should be cut from the Worker. We can say in adthe banks and the Sixty Families. He began this attack tification months.
And the death watch has camilles are put back on relles reduced in order to make room final appropriation for vance that this Congress. on you, began it in November on his own sole responsi only begun. Friday morning a decent standards. for at least 000. 000 persons.
The would be in a the curent fiscal year: it was the stalinist leaders have their bility, and cut 310, 000 before Congress even met. It is Charles Adams, bis wife, and After the meeting in the Mayor Kelly of Chicago rogood position to ask for higher possible to pretend that all the way, will vages nod better conditions cutting was not coming from Torles but not say one word hie, not Congress, who has proposed to cut the rolls to children were evicted from Buick ball, the members ported that one out of overy from their home. The author marched down the street Blog five persons in Chicago was white the conl commission was Roosevelt.
about the President W. 000, 000 in July. He and Congress sometimes have minorues immediately told him to let (Continued on Page Continued on Page 2)
gram!
the Workers Alliance Suppresses Action Demands of Members is ironically called employable age. Death Watch Casts Shadow