The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-03

to raise them to about three millions. Now that
the head of the charities of Chicago says there
is an army of at least eight million workers
unemployed in the United States and DR.. Will
liam Steuart, director of the Census Bureau
has admitted on August 30th that some days"
the number of unemployed may actually be"
from seven to nine million, the socialists still
stick to 5 million. In the Oct issue OF the
New Leader organ of the socialist" party in
making much news of the unemployment sit
uation for election purposes, the Socialists"
talk about five million men out of work"
A leading socialist" Benjamin Schlesinger
head of the company union in the needle trades
the International Ladies Garment Workers
Union, on labor day last issued a message" to
the workers which was, of course printed in the
capitalist press. In that message, Schlesinger
said. The crisis will pass away A month soon
er, a month later-things must and will i'm
prove Surprising the stupidity of the official
prophets of capitalism, the socialist" was try
ing to predict prosperity and in this way keep
the workers away from fighting.
Norman Thomas gave his endorsement for the
candidacy of the independent" republican Judge
Frank Murphy in the Detroit mayoralty cleo
tons Murphy was elected mayor by fooling the
workers that he will get them immediate relief
Since his election he has ordered that unem-
ployed workers be arrested for vagrancy; that
non-reridentS of Detroit will be depprted from
the city; and that whatever relief he may
institute is to go only to such workers possessing
their own homes and paying city taxes, Still
Norman Thomas, leader of the socialists" keeps
admiring his successful independent" repub-
hcan In the issue of the New Leader of october
10 Thomas writes:
MIR. Murphy who has been one of the best
judges in America won without machine,
without campaign fund, simply by an upris-
ing of the decent people in Detroit who took
off their coats and went to work for him.
am proud that our League for Industrial Dem
ocracy members were among those who so eff
fectively got to work. hope the Murphy adj
ministration will justify the promise of its be-
ginning and that similar civic awakening will
spread to other cities and states"
Among the decent people" who helped Muir
ply was the arch exploter Henry Ford who
had endorsed the best judge, together with
Thomas Besides Ford there was quite number
of exploiters helping that independent" candi-
date who SO successfully, with the aid of such
misleaders as Thomas has fooled the workers
into believing that he will do something for
them. Murphy has done nothing for the hun
dreds of thousands of unemployed workers in
is no relief and there will be no relief except
fake maneuvers.
Milwaukee, of course, deserves to be mentioned
again There is no relief in that CITY, for years
under socialist" control! Not even Walkers "ice
cream" although the clubs and the jais for the
unemployed and their delegations are the same
as in Tammany-land
This is proof enough, and there is a lot more
to it, that the socialist" promises are as mean
ingless and betraying as the promises of Hoover,
and the chief of his hunger committee, A. Woods
who as r~'ce missioner of the city of New
York in the years 1914-l9l6 dubbed unemployed
workers and strikers alike Meaningless and be-
traying, just as the relief the Tammany may
or and commissioner Of police of New York arc
planning in order to drug the masses OF UNI
employed in order to keep them away from
fighting and from following the leadership Of
the Communist Party.
The three capitalist parties are playing with
the miseries and sufferings of the unemployed
The socialists democrats and republicans ne
yer will do anything just as they have done
nothing in the past, just as they have nothing
in other countries, except to worsen the lot of
the working class
The Communist Party will not give up its
fight for unemployed relief and unemployed in
surance after election day will be over. The
Communist Party has put the unemployment
problem on the order OF business, has forced the
three capitalist parties to give up prohibition
and other such fake problems as central issues
Of the campaign. has forced them to talk about
unemployment The workers of the United States
under the leadership of the Communist Party
and Trade Union Unity League will continue to
fight for SIS. week for every unemployed Sup
port this demand on election day. Support the
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill proposed
BY IT, Communist Partyl