The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-26
Watch the Coal Miners
Plan Their Fight On the
Growing Jobless Evil
TODAY the kept press making much Of the fact that 20
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TODAY the kept press making much of the fact that ZOO
homeless and iobess marched into church in New
York City and took over the place for the night.
An attempt is made to give the impression that the
employment problem has been solved just Christmas
basket given at this by the Salvation Army
other professional charity organization supposed to ste
the cravings OF hunger for whole year
Urban J. Ledoux, Of Boston, who is apt publicity
stunts at the the obess staged the invasion of the
Camp Memorial Congregational Church. on New Yor<'s
lower East Side. The church due for early dserton by
its dwnding congregation The pastor was addressing an
audience Of four when the obess Two Of these
trustees After hurried consultation the church officials
agreed that the men could stay.
Just how long they will stay depends doubt upon the
whns of Mr. Ledoux, who broke into the ImeIight
years by auconng off the obess the Commons in
Boston, in Bryant Park, New York, and in other cities
Ledoux has his counterpart in Dr. Ben Retman the
formed anarchist Of Chicago who has taken to religion but
also dabbes in the unemployed problem another of
getting space in the bosses press
The unemployment situation presents too great and too
riety seekers.
1t is problem involving millions of workers. men and
and also children forced into industry that merely
burlesqued by makeshift panhandIing.
The eagerness with which of the type Ledoux
Retman exploit the plight of the obess only paraeed by
the inertia of the trade union bureaucracy in refusing
active steps to meet even the immediate needs of the problem
glaring example OF this inertia the con-
ventions Of the United Mine Workers of illinois the
Illinois Federation of Labor when the labor ociaIdom did
its utmost to gag every effort Of the left wing mtants
raise the unemployment issue, especially presented
itself turnout the coal fields of the state attacked as
Communist propaganda
Nothing has been done since the holding Of these
conventions by the officials of miners union in spite
Of the fact that unemployment is increasing The figures
for November show an increase the previous month
In this crisis, in every other vital issue confronting
labor the Communists present the only program meeting
the needs OF the hour and pointing the way the ultimate
solution Of this problem. The Workers (communst Party
furnishes the leadership for the struggle against the
poyment evil.
That the rank and file miners in Illinois, especially in the
southern sections OF the state ayng behind Com
munst leadership in the preparations made for
nac
at French Club Hall, in Christopher, Illinois.
This conference will only voice the needs the Job
less but will set about satisfying those needs 1t will raise
the demand that industry maintain its workers. will
unemployment insurance. call for the unity of the en-
poyed with the unemployed and provide for the organza
ton OF shop committees and unemployment councils But
these workers will realize that all concessions won under
capitalism will be inadequate that the problem only be
solved thru the abolition of the employers profit system and
the building of the Communist social order.
Workers do not want hard bench for night in a
deserted church. Workers demand the right and enjoy
life. Capitalism will grant them that right They
will win that right thru their organized strength thru
the triumphant struggle for their emancipation The
Conference OF Coal Miners at Christopher Ill., this Sunday
should attract the attention of thinking workers everywhere