The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-09
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 sin 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-
nlent 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 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 90 on strike or
when tEey 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 and are relentlessly made to
feel the sharpened edge of the cap
italist sword that penetrates thru
their flesh clear to the bone.
Capitalism has no conscience and
recognizes no authority other than
its own. When during ssuch labor
struggles thousands upon thousands
CT 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-con-
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
er. 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.
er, which is owned and controlled
by the workers is the only daily
press 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
IF the workingclass in this countrx
on an international basis. Not onlN
loes the w. |. r. provide food and
during strikes or lockoutsE
tut also during periods of natural
when the workingclasS
needs aid and assistance. The w. RI
< carries on it's work on basis oil
cooperation from worker to worker.S
Not only by giving material sup-b
'ort but by giving moral supportS
Is well. The motto of the Workers.
Relief is "Relief toll
he Workers, wherever the need}
rises SC as to strengthen them and
,elp them in their struggle againstE
capitalism and oppression.
More power to the Daily Worker!I
More power to the Workers Inter.
,atiUnal Relief!