Roosevelt Hates To Admit That His State Is 'Busted'
Roosevelt Hates To Admit That His State Is 'Busted' Thomas, Waldman and Roaner Urge Governor to Make Provision for All in Distress — PresidentElect Smiles His Way Out. "THE "forgottei...
...The Socialist Party, and all its affiliated state and local organisations, will fight with you, actively and loyally, for the realization of the program you have adopted at your Cincinnati convention and for the attainment of justice, Independence, and freedom for all workers...
...Idaho (written in vote) 626 (516...
...The Governor's reply to this was a gem 'that should be treasured forever...
...The Governor did not deny the facts', but asked what legislation was recommended . to correct the situation...
...He urged that the State Relief Administration be empowered to distribute $20,000,000 of the $30,000,000 relief bond issue without reference to local appropriations directly to communities that are unable to take care of the distress within their borders...
...Party Calls Upon Socialists To Join Hands With Unions N. E. C. Hails Stand of A. F. of L. for 30-Hour Week —A Call for Solidarity...
...It was to meet just such situations that the federal law was written...
...In support of these assertions he cited the r? ports of the State Relief Administration...
...When higher income taxes were suggested, he replied that an estimate prepared by the State Tax Commission indicated that the yield from such taxes would be only 5 million dollars...
...THE "forgottei man" who looks to Governor Roosevelt lot a New Deal after the Presidential*inaugural will soon discover the terrible mistake he nude on Election Day...
...He declared that $10,000,000 a month should be the minimum expenditure on public relief in New York State—twice the sum actually being spent if the destitute unemployed are to be cared for on a subsistence level...
...Norman Thomas then said that the State must assume greater re iponsibility for relief and that the present system wherein the local governments first appropriate funds, spends them and are reimbarsed to the extent of 40% by the State placed the primary responsibility upon governmental agencies that are approaching bankruptcy as a result of increasing tax delinquencies...
...The conference came* to a hopeful and constructive...
...This was the opinion of the Socialist delegatipn, headed by Norman Thomas and Louis Waldman that recently conferred with the President-elect to urge him to broaden the scope of the special session of the Legislature to include more adequate unemployment relief...
...Granting for the moment that a glanced budget deesrves the Importance attributed to It by capl""¦t economists, the need of starving men, women and children surely comes first...
...In every ease thus far the official return* have shown an increase over the unofficial return...
...Waldman opened the discussion by pointing out that there were at least 150,000 families in New York State that needed relief but were not getting it, while those receiving home relief were expected to live on the miserable pittance of 19 cents a person a day...
...Why not then apply for loar s from the $300,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corporation fund for direct unemployment relief," suggested Louis Waldman...
...Mains 2,489 (1,843): Iowa S0.M7 (12.719...
...We rejoice in your determination to fight for a system of compulsory unemployment insurance, as a recognition of the elementary social obligations of the government and ruling powers to the working population of the country...
...Where would the money come from...
...The conference with the Governor was part of the day's work that included a conference at the Ten Eyck Hotel attended by rep resentatives of scores of party organizations, fraternal bodies and labor unions...
...close when Norman Thomas a/id Louis Waldman reported their interview with the Governor...
...As proof of this, be cited figures to show that public relief expenditures in the State had declined from $7,600,000 in March to a little over $5,000,000 in September, although the need had increased...
...New York 177,897 (176,045...
...IP HE National Executive Committee of the Socialist Party, in session in the City of Baltimore, sends fraternal greetings to the American Eederation of Labor and warm congratulations upon the progress it lias made at its recent annual convention in Cincinnati...
...Colorado 13,591 (9,707...
...Henry J. Rosner, the party's ReMarch Secretary, challenged this statement by pointing out that incomes of $10,000 a year and over Paid $36,000,000 in income taxes in New York State in 1932...
...Pennsylvania 91,119 ( 90,283...
...Roosevelt Hates To Admit That His State Is 'Busted' Thomas, Waldman and Roaner Urge Governor to Make Provision for All in Distress — PresidentElect Smiles His Way Out...
...The answer is that in his campaign for the Presidency he assailed Hoover inaction on relief and constrasted it with the "model system" established, under his own initiative in his own state...
...Analyze the logic of his position for a moment: First, he admits that the state's financial resources are insufficient to meet the need...
...901,689 Votes 11/1 Til official returns from nearly all the states available the vote for Thomas and Maurer has reached 901,689...
...Scattering corrections will in all probability raise the vote to 910,000, and when the official returns are finally tabulated from all the states it Is not impossible that the vote will reach the record of 919,799 cast for Debs iff 1920...
...The official report gives the party 4,119 in 26 out of 55 counties, and the latter figure is used in our compilation until the whole state vote is known...
...No Further Appropriations Governor Roosevelt's answer was that no further appropriations Wold be entertained until the •tate knew whether its budget *ould be balanced...
...Even with this increase the combined federal and •tate tax rate would be considerably lower than the British rates," a* argued...
...We call upon all working men and working women by hand and brain to enlist actively in the defensive struggles of their class on the economic field and to join us in an aggressive political fight against both old parties of the employing classes through an independent party of and for labor...
...A moving address at the meeting at the night session was made by Helen Pickenbach of ihe Women's Section of the Socialist Party, who emphasized the need of hot school lunches for every child to be given by the city as an investment in health and vitality of the citizens of the immediate future as even struggling Vienna manages to provide...
...All the states have reported, but the returns from many of them are still unofficial...
...Doubling these rates, assuming proper collections and allowing for the farther decline in Income in 1M2 should yield another $30,000,W0 in revenue...
...This would mean a rapid exhaustion of available state funds and would require further appropriations...
...Nothing will save the workers of America from this insidious capitalist attack except their own great, but unfortunately unmobilized, power...
...The following are the official returns received during the past week, with the unofficial returns previously reported in parentheses: California 63,299 (60,576...
...Foster was credited with 205 votes as compared with 209 in 1928...
...The reported vote for West Virginia was 3,382...
...To apply for R. F. C. aid now would be tantamount to saying to the country that he had lied during his campaign...
...The early part of the evening session was given over to reports and discussions of progress in Socialist organizing throughout the state since the election and much enthusiasm and interest was indicated in year 'round activity and planning...
...Never have the employing classes demonstrated their callous selfishness so strikingly and brutally as in these critical times...
...This is the position of the politician not of the true statesmen who must sit in the White House in the next four years, if we are to conquer the want and privation of so many of our people...
...Roosevelt's Reply Governor Roosevelt's reply indicated that his concern is with the taxpayer rather than with the unemployed...
...The natural advantages of the marvelous technical improvements in our industrial processes should not be allowed to be perverted into dire social calamity and to deprive millions of workers of a chance to work and live...
...Texas, with a reported vote of 4,450, is the last state to report, as compared to 772 in 1928...
...Those familiar with conditions in the Lone Star State insist that the reported vote bears only an approximate relation to the vote actually cast for the ticket...
...Why...
...Oregon 16,450 (14,430...
...We join emphatically in your condemnation of the dangerous "share-work" campaign, which is but a hypocritical method of further reducing wages, and in your opposition to the sales tax, which would impose new and unbearable burdens upon the laboring masses...
...then he refuses to apply to the R. F. C. for help...
...I will not make such a request," he declsred ferve itly, "because I would have to certify that New York is busted...
...Having precipitated the* country Into Industrial chaos and ruin by their own mismanagement and greed, they now seek to shift the penalty of their irresponsibility upon the workers by attempting to reduce their living standards below those of coolies...
...In a fair and rational industrial system increased productivity of labor must be met by a corresponding reduction of work-time and improvement in living standards...
...he asked...
...We heartily endorse the demand for a thirty-hour week...
Vol. 14 • December 1932 • No. 25
