The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-19

Reverend Thomas Defends
Whalen's Fright" to Club
Unemployed Workers

The unemployment led the Party
has already brought into activity
sixth of the 100000 unemployed workers this country
well many employed
Fanticay the Spokesman for capitalism few days
the employment situation getting better The New York
Board of Trade announced that it has discovered decided improve
employment added
have repeatedly from the White House and the u Department
of Labor.
situation worse, with about 100000
army unemployed month The
financial published for the information of capitalists admit
less frankly that the situation getting worse and will continue
of Commerce instance Monday admitted
building from January February by
and decrease of so cent from February of last Yesterday the
same capitalist paper quoting figures given out by the r. Dodge
the ending March A. the building and engineering work
year The production ngots by Corporation shows
drop Of IT cent below last while the independent steel
Trust Company Business Bulletin of March IS shows that the usual
seasonal inesse in automobile odion This Time noc,o;he
and that sit probable that the March will be relatively
the capitalist authorities continue lie to workers about
decided improvement" which they admit themselves lie
The peculiar characteristic of all methods fighting the unemployed
workers is that they all try prevent action by the working class
itself
police within
days to send to the the OF rive that was elected
their demands unemployment to the city
or March che % 1ord b %, th d e tt d to
make their demands the Reverend Norman Thomas leader of the So
quesed the conference unemployment to which,
he requests the elected representatives of the unemployed workers
should not be admitted The capitalist gladly complied with the
request
yellow shpakoff proposing
Yesterday to turn the whole question unemployment to the
le Shpakoff speaking Party socaascis
the domination proposes the police
department free reign to conduct what he calls census of unem
poyment which is intended of merely scheme for police
poyed Very all
elect them and then let the police the
workers!
And the capitalist giving publicity
petition drawn by these yellow Socialists headed by Nor
demand the removal of Police Commissioner Whaen the Wall
Street thug who direct charge of the violent attack of the
give the that the Reverend Thomas
taking sides with the unemployed workers against the Wall Street
Board Of Estimates hearing the Reverend Thomas and his associates
working class Even glance at the socaed petition of the Reverend
Thomas shows that this of yellow traitors
ehaf the WORKERS but on the contrary endorses the clubbing OF the
unemployed at Union Square March and particularly takes the
public squares
For, Thomas said in his petition, that
8. instead confirming to preventing,
THEY HAD RIGHT TO PREVENT, the parade the
sioner refused to permit
the police
charged down thousands of people who dis
lance removed from the point which the parade being
IN IT AND WHO WERE WITHIN THEIR RIGHTS IN BEING
WHERE THEY WERE"
emphasized here that Thomas is
bcy trying to establish that the police had right to prevent
the of the streets the unemployed workers and that Thomas
only criticism of the police is that they attacked people who
had intention of participating in the unemployment demona
ton. Thomas continues:
This of police brutality during which INNO-
beaten for no reason at all :"
to protest against unemployment declaring them guilty" of
for doing and defends only the innocent who
guilty OF being the workers demonstration The police
ing to him. should have discriminatory dubbed the
the working class who in the demonstration
1t is clear that the dangerous
enemy the soal-fasci Norman Thomas Abraham Shipako
Joseph A. Ryan, than the uniformed police
Reverend Thomas himself candidate for appointment "d
eliminating police commissioner who would suppress
the bosses in the fashion of the bloody handed Socialist chief
police, zoergiebel of Berlin
What can the workers depend upon in this struggle?
They and must depend only working
Trade Union Unity League berest struggle against capitalist
class, the capitalist government the
underceer the socaascists Socialist Party and the
r. of L. bureaucracy.
Organization and activity of the whole
watchword of today We already beginning of wave of
organization this in so wears
The organization of unemployed councils
with utmost modifying UNEMPLOYED work
s Behind the demand for Work Wages social against