The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-31
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LOOKING OVER DETROIT

from all bosses and run it for the benefit OF all
workers.
The Issue-Ciass Against Class
This workers idea is just as sensible as to say
that workers with blue eyes should be compelled
to starve to death. 1t is reactionary idea that
defeats the struggles of the working class against
the boss class whose profits would not suffer the
least reduction by throwing foreign. workers on
the street and hiring American" workers-per-
haps at less pay.
This idea of foreigner" being the enemy
is one of Mayor Murphy's pet ideas, only you
don't have to be born in Europe or China to be
a foreigner" to Murphy. You are foreigner"
in Detroit if you we're so foolish as to be born
in Nashville or Omaha
A couple of landlords write that they are going
broke because workers don't pay rent One of
them tries the old gag that "the small landlord
is the tenants best friend'-O, yes, so long as
the tenant pays his rent. Rent that is twice as
high as it ought to be- rent that takes up from
80 to so percent of workers wage while in the
Soviet Union it takes not over 10 percent while
he is working. and where the unemployed do
not have to pay rent.
widows and Orphans"-Gag
Behind some of these landlord complaints, such
as one who claims to be "chldess, elderly
widow who invested her small capital in flats
and now can't collect rents from starving
workers. we suspect the fine hand of the big
realty corporations
Most of the landlord interests are centered in
the big investment banks and trust companies
and the old gag of widows and orphans" is
usual to such scoundrels who demand their pound
of flesh in rent. which is robbery to begin with
or they will throw workers into the street.
Only in one n1issive sent to the News Letter
Box" is the wonderful plan" of Mayor Murphy
straight to the point:
Il have not had days work in months and
my wife will be confined in December My chill
dren need clothes. don't want charity 1 want
work. wrote to Mayor Murphy and told him
my story. few weeks later I received a reply
and he told me to register if I had not already
done so and said he was sorry But being sorry.
or a letter, doesn't fill an empty bread box
suppose if I have to wait my turn for work I'll
die of old age"
Staggering" Problem
Still another worker apparently not aware that
Hoover had sponsored the bright idea of stag
gerlng jobs, protests the proposal made by Del
Smith and some other public officials to cut the
D. S. R. platform mems hours to or Z. That
sounds very lovely" he says, but goes on to ask
how IN hell he is going to live on the reduced
salary which he takes for granted will GO along
with the reduced hours
This, workers. is the problem. And it is to be
settled, not by trying to outlaw foreigners, or
by workers OF any kind men or women mar
rled or single, white or black, quarreling with
each other while the dividends of the capitalists
go on as before. The unemployed must help the
employed to fight back any wage cuts, to
demand the same pay for part time as for the
full time while the employed must help the fight
for real, adequate immediate relief and for unen-
ployment insurance. And both employed and
jobless should support the Communist Party
Vote Communist and fight with the Communists
after the election.
The rich whose dividends for the first nine
months of this year have been so percent more
than during the same time last year, must be
forced to pay genuine and sufficient relief and
insurance for the unemployed And only the
light OF the workers will make them pay