The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-15

solved the problem of unemployment,
While millions of workers are being
laid off here and in other capitalist
countries (there are already 10000
600 out of work in all capitalist
lands), under the Five-Year Plan
in the Soviet Union more and more
workers are absorbed into produc-
ton. The Five-Year Plan calls for
100000 new workers in the in
dustries. This winter the building
trades unions were educating 100000
new workers to go to work on build
ing construction in the Soviet Union.
What have you in the United States =?
Hundreds of thousands of building
trades workers are walking the
streets in American cities without
any work. The social-fascist A. F
of l.. admits that As per cent of the
building trades workers are walking
the streets without work.
100000 Face Starvation.
"In the United States 100000
are faced with starvation. What Is
the answer of the capitalist govern
ment? What is your answer, the
answer Of the State of New York
and the City of New York to the
mass of jobless workers? Your an
swer is blackjacks, breadlincs, night.
sticks, deportations and jails.
"But these jobless workers vii
not starve. These workers are going
to fight"
"They have shown that they will,
not starve but will struggle for thei,
demands of Work or wages. Owe,
1,250,000 rallied under the leader,
ship of the Communist Party or
March 6 in dozens of important
cities throughout the United States
This is one of the most significant
political facts in all American his
tory.
"If you do not grasp the signifi
canoe of this you do not know wha'
is happening in America. These
workers do not propose to starvf
after producing fat profits for thu
bosses in this country. They arr
turning to the Communist Party flo,
leadership. ,..
Fake Building Programs.
-."Your fake building programs
that means big graft for the poll
ticians and contractors, cannot solve
unemployment. The S50,0e0,000 pro
posal in Congress is of the same
order-a fake and a sop that will
never materialize for the workers.
Matthew Vol, one, of the bitter
est enemies of the workers in. the
United States, and the Ar F. of L
put forward the program of tbs
workers accepting charity. They
want the 100000, workers who ara
starving to go on the breadlines
docily and without any, struggle
This would mean simply surrender
to the employers for all workers
employed and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing wage cuts and starvation with
out fight. Matthew Woll hopes tc
divert attention from the unemploy
ment situation by developing a wal
atmosphere against the Soviet Unior
where they are rapidly building w
Socialism and, do not rhaxe an un
employment problem as they do il
capitalist lands"
Mayor Walker broke in, trying <
interruptp4the presentation. OF thu
program Of the committee He2,triet
to say something about "unemploy
nent hearing being held later in the
month" -
rs. Answers a Lie.
Aldermapic President, Joseph Nc
Kee. another Tammany politician
taking his cue from Whalen, sale
that Foster was not among the
niarchers in the parade to City Hal
organized by the Communist Party
Foster: That's one of the lies OF
your police commissioner, Grover
Whalen. If there was any coward
at Union Square it was Whalen who
shook like an aspen leaf"
Demands of Unemployed.
Foster presented the unemployed
demonstrations resolution as fol
lows:
eve workers, assembled at Unior
Square on Thursday, March 6, 1880
representing the 100000 of unem.
ployed workers in this country OF
whom 100000 are in New York City
make the following demands:
81. Work or unemployed insur'
ance for the workers, without dis
elimination as to race, color or ma
tionality. To be raised by taxation
on large income and to be admin
istered by the workers.
90. Immediate relief out of gov
eminent funds.
"3. No eviction of the unem.
ployed.
"a. For the right to organize
strike and picket without interfer'
ence of court, police, and injunc
lions.
IS. 7-hour day, 5-day week.
Is. Against speed-up, wage cuts
and lengthening of hours.
~. Abolition of child exploita
ton.
IS. Equal wages for equal worl
for women and young workers.
80. Defense of the Soviet Unior
by the American workers againsl
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