The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-17

starvation, while children mechanic
ally move around, the picture of Ill
health caused by malnutrition.
Children Starved.
I talked with school superintendent
a few days ago, and commenting on
the pupils at school, the workers chill
dren, he said. "They come into school
in the morning and tragedy is plain
ly written on their face. Their whole
demeanor is saddening, many OF them
not properly washed, no doubt for
lack Of soap many in rags, unkept in
every way, and all Of them plainly
hungry. Ambition, desire to learn
completely gone, while a dark atmos-
phere surrounds the school house"
In one mining camp l visited, 80 per
cent Of the houses were empty, and
going to wreck, many Of them empty
for two and some for three years, the
owners, after a life Of self-denial to
build themselves a little home, to be
a little Independent in their old age. to
be free from the spectre of evictions
In the evening of their life, to pass a
few quiet days in peace before they
passed out into the great beyond, have
been forced to move out with their
offspring, most of them to the large
cities where their conditions are ter
rible.
Further Poverty Threatened.
In Illinois, Ohio, and Indiana and to
nearly as great an extent, the outlying
districts from the central competitive
field, the miners and their families are
practically in collapse and unless
some aid is soon forthcoming a con-
dition will arise which lower wages
and open shops will intensity and
which will require all the powers OF
the workers to remedy.
With this situation staring us in the
face, the progressive miners thruout
the land are arousing their brothers
to action, protest meetings ara being
called, demand is made for work in
the coal mines, and failing that. that
the state furnish work, or unemploy-
ment insurance.
capitalism Owes Its Slaves q Livino
The progressive miners contend
that it makes no difference how much
work there is, their wives and families
with themselves are entitled to a liv-
ing, and demand that living from can
italist industry, or its child-the state.
The progressive miners are also
showing the reason for this extraor-
binary wave Of unemployment. the
shifting of the center Of production
from the union fields to the nonunion
fields, to break the standards of liv-
Ing, to cut deep into the wages Of the
miners, to break our working condi-
lions in the mines, conditions which
We have fought for thru many years of
bloody struggle.
Sacrihces have been made that have
thrilled the workers OF the world. bv
the miners in their fights for Justice.
the Cabin creeks, the Ludlows. and
Walsenburgs. the Calumets, the Diyi.
den's, Pana's, and Herrins, all attest
TO the struggle, that the miners have
made and let no man believe those
struggles have been in vain.
Let These Millions Feed Miner1
Chlldrenl
The progressive miners are calling
upon their brother slaves of the
picks to organize and demand action
for immediate relief from the govern.
ment.
Millions of dollars are being spent
by the government in China TO crush
the Chinese workers in their fight for
justice
Millions Of dollars Of blood money
wrung out Of the toilers' lives are be-
ing paraded in the Pacific to awe the
world with the mailed fist OF Yankee
Imperialism while the toilers at home
are starving.
We demand the immediate return
OF the marines, and soldiers from
China, the immediate return OF the
feet from the Pacific, and the money
used for those inhuman ventures be
used to feed the straving workers in
America.
Treaohery In the Unions.
The progressive miners are showing
what the workers leaders are doing
ut this time of trial, what the Lewis,