The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1978 Page: 2 of 16
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Carter reneges on promises to unemployed workers
To the editor:
Last year during his
campaign for the presidency,
Jimmy Carter travelled across
the country promising jobs
and a bright future for the
working people of America. It
was largely on this issue that
he won enough votes,
especially from minority
people to get himself elected.
But actions speak louder than
words, and since becoming
President, Carter's actions are
ones that help the rich get
richer and the poor get poorer.
In April, of last year, Carter
pushed through Congress a
new law which cut unemploy-
ment benefits back from 65
weeks to 39. This law also
forces the unemployed to take
any job available which pays
above the minimum wage.
And more recently he's come
out with his "workfare
program," which proposes to
put a million and a half people
to work—for the price of their
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SRC solicits silly sobriquet
To the editor:
Every person has the
inalienable right to a
nickname. Some are born
with names that come with a
nickname included — we
needn't worry about the
Theodores, Michaels, or
Williams of the world. The rest
of us obtain them through
such means as being large,
small, or possessing reddish
locks. The members of the Rice
community are normally
proficient at supplying needed
nicknames such as "R.A.,"
"Doc C," or "Adams." Yet,
despite this proficiency, we
have, through our apathy,
allowed one member of our
community to go through
three and one-half years of his
career unnicked. We cannot, in
good conscience, allow this to
continue. Therefore, it is
herebyannounced that there
shall be a "Nickname Keith
Cooper" Contest. What nature
PHILIP PARKER
TIlG Rim STEVESETSER
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Michelle Smith, Mark Linimon
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denied him (what's short for
Keith?), we shall make it our
task to provide for him. The
first prize in this contest shall
be a pitcher of beer at Willy's
Pub on Groundhog Day (what
better day to end a shadowed
existence). Send your entries
through campus mail to:
Contest
c/o Richardson College
Entries close 5 p.m. January
31, 1978. Be sure to include
your name and phone number.
Please, Keith needs your help.
Nickname Keith Cooper
Committee
Bart "Fred" McAndrews,
Chairman
WILLY
welfare check or minimum
wage at best.
The broad smile and smooth
talk are only a cover for
policies which in essence
divide the working class of
people, employed from
unemployed, in order to lower
wages, bust unions, and
worsen working conditions
and the standard of living in
general. In the face of these
policies which are basically
attacks on working people, the
Unemployed Workers Organ-
izing Committee, a nationwide
organization of the unem-
ployed, is calling for a
demonstration against
Carter's State of the Union
Address on January 21st in
Washington D.C., around the
demands "Jobs—Union Jobs
at Union Wages" and "Fight
Carter's Unemployment
Offensive."
The State of the Union
Address is where the president
evaluates the past year in
office and maps out plans for
the following year; and the
fact is that this year smilin'
Jimmy can't paint too rosy a
picture for the American
people because the economy is
in sorry shape. The profits of
U.S. bankers and industri-
alists are gettin pinched as
part of a sharpening world
crisis which is carrying the
U.S. economy in a downward
spin; the recent massive
layoffs in the steel industry
and the miners' and farmers'
strike are the most outstand-
ing signs of this. Faced with
this crisis situation, Carter,
faithful to the class of
capitalist masters he must
serve, has come up with the
unemployment benefit cuts
and "workfare program" to
shift the burden onto the backs
of the very people who brought
him to power.
As students, we too are
sharply affected by Carter's
"solution" to the crisis.
Unemployment among young
people is generally twice that
of the national average, and
four times as much for Black
and Latin youth. This
economic pinch also means
that with a couple of
exceptions, the job market
they offer us, even those of us
with a college degree, is pretty
bleak.
We know that unemploy-
ment is not fundamentally
caused by Carter or his
policies. Unemployment is a
vitally necessary part of the
functioning of the system of
capitalism, and is used as a
lever by capitalists to keep
wages down and therefore
profits up. Only when the
working class of people,
together with the great
majority of American People,
rises up and overthrows the
owning class and establishes
socialist society, where things
are run not for private profit,
but for the needs of the
majority, will the root cause of
unemployment be done away
with once and for all.
As a step toward this only
genuine solution, we must
organize ourselves and fight to
defend our interests, and
expose Carter's policies for the
attacks they really are. It is in
this spirit that the Revolu-
tionary Communist Youth
Brigade is calling on students,
and youth in general, to march
with the unemployed against
Carter's economic attacks this
weekend in Washington D.C.
Hiram A. Berry (529-1284)
Revolutionary Communist
Youth Brigade
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Parker, Philip. The Rice Thresher (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1978, newspaper, January 19, 1978; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth245357/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rice University Woodson Research Center.