The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-04
Organize the Unemployed!

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The labor faced today with the urgent necessity
organize the unemployed workers whose numbers are constantly
mounting into tremendous total
unemployed demonstrations in Cleveland where workers
are suffering from the decentralization of the steel
industry followed by the demonstration in New York City
task this time is to devote energy to creating
unemployed to raise demands in city, state and
nation the relief of these millions of workers and their fam
who being forced to tramp the highways and by
bread The meeting Thursday in New York the start OF
drive to organize here the unemployed workers.
Officials York State Federation of Labor and the
Central Trades York City who part of the Tamman
Hall will difficult time explaining the action of the
police department in refusing permit unemployed workers to
march to the city hall and place their demands Tor ree pefoe
The ban of the Tammany police department
based upon the that permit for parade had been
unemployed The real the desire TO sup
press regarding widespread unemployment and to shield the
capitalist from having openly to confess that it will do
nothing for these of workers and their families
Night after night thousands of unemployed stand IN
readne the cold damp streets of the lower East Side anxious
bread that dogs would refuse to eat so long
as they remain in the Bowey adjacent streets under the
shadows structures they assemble large
numbers as thew like and no one ntereres with them But the
victims of capitalism assemble in halls and become
audible hordes of paromen mounted police and the
ing squad get action they did Thursday afternoon at
the Manhattan yceum meeting under the auspices OF the NE"
York Council of the Unemployed.
This action of AL Smiths Tammany Hall police, with the
questioned approval the political machine would call forth the
ercst denuncaon part the official leaders of the
they not also seoca representatives OF
the employing class that taking advantage OF the widespread
Unemployment to reduce wages enghen hours and destroy union
conditions in all industry.
Industrial depression has not yet reached the trough OF S
Indications that the paralysis of industry
only its first stages and that conditions will become much
worse in the next few weeks or months.
widespread unemployment gives the lie to those labor
agents capitalism Green's VOLS and other opponents of
the wage policy of the A. of L. based the illusion
to increase production Pro-
increased instead of aiding the workers its eff
throw millions of them out of employment and
employers enforce cuts against those still
IN industry
various cities Councils of the Unemployed being
with the avowd purpose of organizing the unemployed into
governmental bodiesfedera, state and muncpalmmedate
relief Combined with powerful organizations of
unemployed workers. the fight should also be carried directly into
Labor bodies and the floor of the local unions
upon the aorous labor officials who play the
game old party politics that they break their crooked ties with
the politicians put up fight for in their lives for the
demands of the workers Their refusal to take
fight will only expose them to larger of the
labor and the for drive for class party
labor separate from and opposed to the old parties and their
political agents who parade union officials.
struggle the working class in the past few
Communs Party has to the fore the real
organizer of the and the vanguard of the
working only logical that in the campaigns to organize
unemployed the Communists have been the motvang force