The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
PUBLICITY"
AND RELIEF
WIN STRIKE
By F. G. BIEDENKAPP.
Natl Secretary of the Workers In
ternational Relief


The class struggle in the United
States is sharpening, the workers
in industry as well as on the farms
are awakening to the fact that there
is something wrong Gin the state
of Denmark" The reports of the re-
turning labor delegates from Soviet
Russia, which show that where
workers control the industries and
the government, poverty, unemploy-
ment and the struggle for exist
ence in general is disappearing,
brings to the realization of the
workers the fact that the system of
capitalism must be abolished.
To destroy the system of wage
slavery and to establish a system
Of production for use and not for
profits, under the control of the
workers, two outstanding facts must
be constantly borne in mind and de-
veloped into powerful instruments
Of defense for the workers and as
an instrument of attack against
capitalism. One is publicity, and the
other is Relief.
When workers go on strike or.
when they are locked out because
OF their protest against unbearable
conditions both of these factors be-
come all-important. During such
times the workers become real ac-
tive participants in the class strug-,
gle ana are relentlessly made to
feel the sharpened edge of the cap
italist sword that penetrates thru
their flesh clear to the bone. ,a,a
Capitalism has no conscience and
recognizes no authority other than
its own. When during such labor
struggles thousands upon thousands
of workers, their wives and chill,
dren face death by starvation and
exposure, capitalism becomes most
vicious and life destroying.
Role of Charity
During such conflicts, boss-con7
trolled relief organizations function
ing on the basis of charity are in
jected into the struggle not for the
purpose of bringing relief to the
workers, but as means of breaking
the strike. Bosses tools, known as
charity workers, enter the homes of
strikers and promise them food for
the children on the condition that
the members of the family that are
on strike become good boys and
girls" and be willing to go back to
work as scabs, thus betraying the
rest of their fellow workers.
Against this concrete wall of cap
italism stands the Workers Inter
national Relief and the Daily Work
err Both represent the interests of
the working class and fight the bat
ties of the workers on the basis of
the class struggle. The Daily Work
en- which is owned and controlled
by the workers is the only daily
Iprcss in the English language that
challenges the entire capitalist press.
Wherever workers struggle the
Daily Worker can be found fighting
the cause Of the workers, speaking
the language of the workers and in
the interest of the workers.
The w. l. r.
The Workers international Relief,
American Section, is a permanent
workingclass organization affiliated
with the International organization
with headquarters in Berlin, Ger
many. The w. I. r. is the only per-
manent workingclass organization
that carried on relief in the interest
of the workingclass in this country
on an international basis. Not only
does the w. I. R. provide food and
clothing during strikes or lockouts,
Tut also during periods of natural
catastrophies when the workingclass
needs aid and assistance. The w. I.
f. carries on it's work on basis Of
co-operation from worker to worker.
Not only by giving material sup
port but by giving moral support
as well. The motto of the Workers
International Relief is "Relief to
the Workers, wherever the need
arises SO as to strengthen them and
belp them in their struggle against
capitalism and oppression.
More power to the Daily Workerl
More power to the Workers Inter-