The Daily Worker

Cut Off Even Breadlines in 120 Cities to Starve Jobless

To hide the fact that ever greater masses of workers are forced onto the breadlines to keep from starvation, over 120 cities out of 149 surveyed by the Family Welfare Association, have abandoned breadlines. Not even the slop fed on these breadlines will be given to the workers any more in these 120 cities. While the city agencies promise "other forms of relief," the fact is that the bosses are preparing wholesale starvation for hundreds of thousands of workers.

The Family Welfare Association, a charity outfit, also pointed out that in 75 large industrial cities no breadlines at all existed this winter. Ninety-five of the fake charity organizations said they did not have sufficient funds to provide relief. This is the real reason why the breadlines are being eliminated. Unwilling to supply the unemployed in the leading cities with even the dirty coffee and stinking soup that they were formerly given, the breadlines are now being cut off.

Those cities doing away with breadlines reported that they were abandoned because, "community thinking turned toward more individualized forms of relief." This means that the few workers who get relief will be blacklisted, browbeaten and terrorized by a bunch of charity vultures and cops.

The closing of the breadlines and the failure of the entire charity structure of capitalism shows the worsening conditions of the unemployed and the necessity for pushing the fight for unemployment insurance. With no place at all to go for a bite of food, the millions of unemployed are closer to death by starvation. Mobilize for the huge hunger marches on Feb. 10 to force the bosses to pay the unemployed unemployment insurance.