The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-22
BY Jacob Burck

/, Whenever trade unionist can no
longer pay his dues to the unemploy-
ment fund he is automatically
dropped out of the union and be-
comes danger to the very existence
of that union. These workers are
therefore prevented from getting
any relief whatever with the excep-
ton of occasional aid from charity
institutions. As result we see
greater number of these homeless
workers wandering around through
out the country begging and looking
for place to sleep.
These workers who, due to the
reactionary policies of the trade
union leaders can neither get work
nor public aid, and on top of this
lose all civil rights, such as the vote,
etc., are therefore completely aban-
doned by the social-democratic party.
When these workers began to revolt
and apply for help to the social
democratic party they were told,
"Well, we sympathize with you, but
since you cannot vote you have
therefore very little interest for the
social-democratic party"
Where to Attack Workers?
And the editor of the Social
Democrat" in Copenhagen, trying to
explain to the readers what prole-
tartan means, finally found in this
army of homeless workers his actual
conception of proletarian. When
due to the initiative of the Commun-
list Party movement was started
to march toward the national gov
eminent and demand relief, the So
cial-democrats in the beginning re-
ceived the demonstrators from the
various cities controlled by social
democratic mayors, but as the de-
monstration grew they soon began
to expose their real policy, which
was to break up the demonstration
but have it broken up in con-
sentative controlled city. The gov
eminent controlled by the conserva-
tives wanted to break it up in a
social-democratic controlled city, as
they We're also pursuing policy of
blaming the other
The conservative government sue
ceeded in having the demonstration
broken up in social-democratic con-
trolled city. But under the leader
ship of the Communist Party the
workers were reassembled and final
ly arrived in the city of Copenhagen
where they were received and
strengthened by a demonstration of
$4,000 unemployed workers. The
government was armed to the teeth
and refused to even consider their
demands, which were very modest,
only the right to live and place
to sleep. The workers then marched
to the municipal government con-
trolled by the social-democrats, and
demanded relief. The mayor, who
in 1908 issued proclamation to the
Danish soldiers to turn their guns
the right way in time of war, in
1927 told his police to club and Jail
these homeless workers and refused
even to feed 1900 homeless persons
! for the time their negotiations would
last with the government in Copen-
hagen. Only two weeks later he
helped to grant 10000 kronen to re-
ceive the Belgian King and Queen
and rink to the health of this "dem-
ocratic" pair. Thus social-demo-
cracy has been exposed time and
again as nothing but lackey Of
the capitalist class. The only party
leading the workers in the everyday
economic struggles, and which also
took up the leadership in the fight
for these members Of our class was
the Communist Party. And although
very weak numerically, in this strug-
gle and in the coming struggles it
will show itself as the only Party
capable Of leading the Danish work
| ing class to their final emancipa-
Asnuy