The Daily Worker

"Buy Tomatoes for the Needy"
Says Mayor Murphy

By JOHN SCHMIES.

The following is a quotation from the capitalist newspapers, boosting Murphy for City Mayor:

"Enough tomatoes to make 10,000 quarts of canned goods were purchased at the Eastern Market by Edward Fronsdorf and Ben E. Jacob, acting for the Food Committee of the Mayor's Unemployment Committee. This was the first step to provide needy Detroit families with some of their food during the winter."

IN DETROIT, we have an unemployed army of over 200,000. This of course, does not include all the dependents of this army of unemployed. We have a still larger army of workers who are working only part time. Misery and starvation is growing rapidly in Detroit. Among many families actual hunger is the order of the day. Thousands of families are being evicted, thousands of workers are losing their homes. The public schools were closed for 2 weeks longer due to infantile paralysis which develops due to the lack of proper nourishment and over-crowded housing among large sections of the population. This fact is even admitted by the leading doctors in the city, including doctors in charge of the City Health Department.

If one compares this frightful situation developing among the masses and then reads in the papers that the canning of 10,000 quarts of tomatoes is to relieve these conditions, one can not help but see the starvation program of Mr. Murphy, which he so faithfully forces upon the shoulders of the working class and their children. In the quotation above you will note that it says "this was the first step to provide needy families with some of their food for the coming winter." What does this mean? This proves very conclusively that the charges made by our movement against the present city administration were and are correct. We charge that over 25,000 families were stricken off the welfare list, that the welfare support was completely stopped and that thousands of workers were left to starve, and it is only now during the present election campaign that Mayor Murphy once more comes out with his demagogy and with his methods of fooling and misleading the workers.

It is true that it is impossible for Murphy, who is such a faithful servant of Henry Ford, Dodge-Chrysler and the Wall Street bankers to make similar promises which he had made in the city election campaign a year ago. He is convinced that he stands exposed before a large section of the Detroit population. He is convinced that the very misery of the masses is a living monument against the fake promises and demagogy which he so skilfully put across during the last campaign. Knowing this, he is utilizing similar methods but in a different form during the present election campaign. One of these methods is the canning of 10,000 quarts of tomatoes. What a joke! But it is more serious than that. This present scheme of Mayor Murphy's Unemployed Committee is nothing else but an actual racket of the present City Hall officials. It is interesting to know that the other candidates for Mayor, such as Nagel, Emmons and Hanna are endorsing the very same methods and advancing a similar program.

Only the candidates endorsed by the Communist Party, the Auto Workers Union, and the Unemployed Council, and other militant workers' organizations are honest and sincere in exposing the starvation program of the capitalist candidates and at the same time make a determined fight for the necessary things of life, such as sufficient milk for starving children, the number of which is increasing daily, but yet we find that the big creameries are dumping milk into the river rather than supplying the needy.

Only our workers' candidates are fighting for cash relief which will make it possible for the workers themselves to purchase the necessary things of life and would make it impossible for grafters and racketeers to swell up their pocketbooks at the expense of the working masses.

Knowing the above outlined conditions which are only a very small part of the actual situation under which the workers are compelled to live we must seriously drive home to every working class family that a vote for the workers' candidates is a vote against hunger, against the starvation program, against the increased system of wage cuts and the speed-up—a vote for the workers' candidates is a demand for milk for our children; is a demand for cash relief for all unemployed; is a demand for better living condition of employed and unemployed; is a demand for better living conditions of employed and unemployed workers.

All workers, employed and unemployed, must rally to their class program and vote for the following candidates:-

John Schmeis for Mayor

William Nowel, Joseph Billups, Nellie Belunas, Antonio Gerlach—For Councilmen.

relief the bosses are "giving" the workers who have made them rich by "trusting in god and staying away from those Reds that are trying to undermine our government." Workers of the world, unite! Overthrow this rotten system of which the "Y" is such a good lackey. Form a Workers' and Farmers' Government. Join the Communist Party and the Unemployed Councils of the T. U. U. L.