The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
Men and Dogs in New York

houses, apartments and tenements,
but who daily visit the slave market
applying anxiously to the employment
sharks fora chance to earn living.
The homes of these workers beggar
description. A few weeks idleness
means intense poverty and indescrib-
able suffering. Countless thousands
of children go to school hungry every
day in New York and other cities
throughout the country. In times of
unemployment the pangs of hunger
knaw deeper. Each evening women
and children, wives of the unemployed
men, wait anxiously the return of
the father who has been in search of
job, only to be plunged deeper into
the slough of despair. Four million,
or nearly ten per cent of the total
number of workers in the United
States are unemployed, according to
statistics month old. Another mil
lion or two must have been added
since these figures were gathered.
But figures alone can never depict the
actual devastation of unemployment.
When millions of men are out of en-
ployment it means many more mil
lions of human beings dependent upon
them suffer hunger, misery and de-
graduation.
WHILE the breadlines grow ever
!" longer in the Bowery and the
Lower East Side, a short distance
away, on Park Avenue, Riverside
Drive, and other nests of parasites,
those who have reaped millions off
the unpaid labor of the working class,
part of which now comprises the
unemployed army, daily give to their
wives or other kept women, millions
of dollars in platinum, diamond and
pearl baubles. One kept lady on Park
Avenue receives from Wall Street
banker a gift to adorn her hair that
would feed ten thousand men for a
week.
Back inthe Bowery Mission, 800
men sat on Sunday and listened to the
ignorant believing of pulpit pound
err who told them that God would
provide for them and that the institu-
tons OF todayare ordained by God,
before they were permitted to receive
a travesty on sandwiches and coffee.
But comparisons between those who
live cintidleness, luxury and debauch-
cry off the wealth created by the
workers, and the army of unemployed
Is commonplace. We will pursue
that comparison no further.
I EFT US make another comparison.
= Madison Square Garden is warm
and comfortable-even gorgeous
these days. Two Thousand dogs are
at this moment being ministered to
by paid servants Of the plutocracy.
They do not have to listen to poison
Gus talks to the effect that if they
are good dogs, content with their ex-
istence here upon earth they will 60
to dog heaven where there is
warmth, brightness, an abundance Of
fresh-killed meat and plenty Of health
full fresh milk. They get all that and
more and none Of them ever stands
In . breadline one second. Not one
Of the lackeys that care for the Madi-
son Square dogs would dare offer one
Of them the food that men on the
Bowery stand for hours in the hope
of getting.
These 1000 dogs are assembled at
Madison Square Garden for the an
nual dog show Of the Westminster
Kennel Club. It is one Of the events
of the season for the nabobs of the
country. The temperature Of the place
that shelters the dogs is kept at a
certain point 80 that the health of the
dogs is not endangered. The bitch
dogs are objects of special care, be-
cause they must become mothers Of