The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-30
Only Communists Fight
for the Needs of the
Whole Working Class
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY and day by day. the New York Times petted pup
pet Of the putocracy, is pattng itself the back
because OF $zZo2O513 raised during the holiday for
what it calls the Hundred Neediest Cases."
This is the New York Times that is Of the biggest
allies OF the police in organizing pogroms against dis
content of the unempoyed that helps rally brute force
the war on the iobless
The New York Times says it raised $3,630S8 in 1912,
when it made it's first Christmas appeal. 1t pdes itself
the fact that this has increased than 90 mes
until is now close to quarter Of million dollars This
years contributions procams this mighty organ Of 1.-THE
House OF Have will take OF more than 300 needy
That is about the number of jobess homeless men
that Urban j. Ledoux marched into the Camp Memorial
Church. New Yoks East Side So the Times and Ledoux
about par insofar their forms of philanthropy
carried out
The New York Times had its side, in addition its
big capitalist and middle class readers such other
CARNATIONS as the States Charities Aid Association the
Brooklyn Bureau of Charities, the Charity Organization
Society the Association for Improving the Condition Of the
Support Of Jewish Phanthropic Societies. all of which
buwarked by 1.-THE best people"
This aggregation is of course jealous of it's claims
the right to protect" the poor. It claims monopoly
Charity is good paying business especially when in the
hands Of the churches.
1t can therefore be easily understood American
Board of Applied Christianity in New York should issue
statement advising churches applied to for their shelter
to refuse the same"
To be sure the churchmen are shocked that the gded
interior of their handsome edce should be soed by the
OF the but they also jealous OF the TACT
that Ledoux is trying to compete with them in the expota
ton of misery
This situation only emphasizes the fact that tinkering
with the nationwide, and worldwide problem of unempoy
ment leads where
Charity is narcotic for doping unrest growing out of
poverty Ledoux annual outbursts around the holiday
with pleas for the obes merely confuse the situation
The fight for the unemployed the fight of the whole
working class 1t is struggle in which the employed as
we'll the obess must participate It Is drive against
capitalist that must have its oganza-
tonaI roots deep in the Iaborng masses
Only the Workers (communst) Party puts forth pro-
gram of action in the present iobess CRISIS ralyng the
for their protection, for aggressive action as
a class
The New York Times talks about its 100 Needy Cases..
and feels is doing service But that service is in the
interest of its class-the capitalist class
The Workers (communst) Party fights for the needs
not only pay 10o but of the many millions of robbed
and exploited workers and poor farmers 1t fights for the
interests of its cass-the working class 1t is under Com
munt leadership that the proetaran will win the
victory its enemy Rally the workers everywhere
in the present crisis for the Workers Communist Party
In the Fon+ ainc&t nlOxn-o ont