The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-31
Workers Must Reject
Crumbs 81 i'm the Struggle
For the Whole Loaf
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL

TODAY another writer so-caed turns loose his silly
stuff in of the local yellow capitalist Sheets to the
effect that court bas in Chicago organizing them
selves into relief body befend poor workers. unable to
pay their rent whom they forced to evct from their
homes.
It be doubted whether this fiction has any exist
outside the brain of the kept press hack who wrote it.
Yet is typical of the kind of material that prostitute editors
dote :.
If workers went out on strike for wages enabling them
to pay their rent then the mad dog press would turn upon
them, they always do in bitter rage. Or if they sought
unemployment relief under the slogan of Work or Wages!"
then they would be charged with being BoIsheVists.
But to have the baiIfs of capitalist court throw
few pennies into hat, to relieve for few
extreme case OF poverythat makes good stoy-thats
godsent charity 1t is the kind of charity that is pedded
year. around Christmas time, in the form Of basket
of stale food by churches of all creeds by the salvation
army, the volunteers of America and other organizations
that thrive and rich off the agony of the poor These
are the profteers in poverty.
were better if the Chicago court baiffs little cogs
in some old party political machine organized as workers
and among demands, put up fight for an increase
in wages themselves Some of them receive low $166
per month to do the dirty work that thrust upon them
If they organized workers. which is be expected of
them, they might realize their solidarity with the of
the working class and refuse to evict workers unable to
pay their rent William Rooney, chief clerk of the NUM-
cpa court for instance rds himself of this apologize
philosophy:
world There nothing hate do than svct worthy
unemployment temporary
ability they have gotten behind in their rens'
That is the bIeating of human slave in ASS skim
is cheap effort at excusing his degradation. He
whose tool he is The landlord at least gets the benefit
terror created The poor renter pays the landlord frst
even his children must go hungry and without clothes
But the bullying baI usually picked because of his soft
head and hard heart like any police cossack gets
ptance in wages that may stop after the next election
when he must make way the political pie counter for the
lackeys of some rival capitalist political master.
Any seIfrespecting worker will spit in the face of the
baf that offers his family meal and at the time
kicks his broken furniture the sidewalk, usually in
the rain, often in the cold Of winter. Every worker with
pride in his class will reject all forms of charity eff
fort of the great employing class keep the rising working
class contented with its Iowy lot.
@T& has
In those revolutionary days in Russia between March
and November, 1917, the world capitalists willing
give the workers and poor peasants with their heels upon
the fallen czadon all the crumbs they wanted But there
thing they would not give; THE WHOLE LOAF.
That just what Russas workers and poor peasants
handed AlL POWER; and that is what they got in the
Bolshevk revolution, because they refused
crumbs thrown to them by their masters.
Let the workers and poor farmers of United States
reject the crumbs of American capitalism, whether they
in the form of pennies from baifs or cIoroformno
legislation from the capitalist awr1akng bodies-congess
the state legislatures Let them organize carefully and
deliberately for the seizure of all power the whole loaf;
for the Soviet rule of Americas workers and poor farmers
leading the way to Communism.