The daily worker., 1930-03-04

These facts, together with the poverty and
destitution of the masses, cannot be concealed
by the lies of the Socialists"
The effect of the two demonstrations was
such that it electrified the workers. Each time
the demonstrations took place they were the
talk of the town. as the workers put it. They
dramatized and emphasized the fact that there
is deep going crisis of capitalism which
throws millions of workers throughout the land
into actual starvation.
Large sections of workers with whom
never had any contact before were involved in
the movement. The capitalist press admitS
that about ten per cent of the demonstrated.
were women, with large portion of Negro
workers. The Negro workers not only took
an active part in the demonstration, but ac-
tually participated in the leadership of the
movement. The race prejudice, inculcated by
the bosses melted away like snow under the
suns rays by the spirit of solidarity that per-
meated the whole movement.
Fight for Negro Equality.
This spirit of solidarity received its highest
expression when the crowd of. white workers
drowned out the attempt of bourgeois students
to inject strife into the movement Com
rade Hays, Negro worker was speaking in
the courthouse square, after the committee was
turned down by the authorities. Hays was on
the committee to see the authorities.
AS soon as he started to speak the students
OF an engineering college across the street be-
gan to shout insulting remarks, demanding
that he get down from the platform This
cowardly attempt of the sons of the bourgeosie
to incite race hatred was met by the unanimous
solidarity of almost ten thousand workers,
black and white, who challenged these bour-
geols rats to come down for showdown
The Negro workers saw the development of
class solidarity between the white and black
workers, under the leadership of the Commu-
mist Party, and next day four Negro workers
walked into the Party headquarters and made
application to join the Communist Party. The
Negro workers saw that here is an organiza-
tion that not only breaches equality, but ac-
tually fights for their rights. The party's
prestige is Increased tremendously among the
Negro workers.
All Types, Yes-of Workers.
The Wisconsin News reported that all types
OF workers could be found in the demonstration.
In fact it had a headline across the whole page
saying: "Reds, 'vags,' cripples, join big parade
of jobless." The unemployed workers are thus
insulted as vagrants. AS to the "cripples,"
this yellow sheet has nothing but contempt for
the boys that 'went across to fight for dem
ocracy," got crippled and are now walking the
; streets, with insults heaped upon them by
those that were instrumental in sending them
to the human slaughter house. More than one
ex-serviceman mounted the platform to tell
how he fought. for the bosses in the war, got
manned or crippled, and is now starving.
The fact that "all types of workers were
represented IN the parade, as the yellow sheet
puts it, only testifies to the depth and breath.
the genuiness of the movement, and vet this
same paper referred to the marchers as .os-
tensibly" unemployed. In other words. these
men were not really unemployed, they only
posed" as unemployed, to give the Commu-
nlsts chance to demonstrate against capita1-
ISM. Even the Milwaukee Leader had to admit
that the demonstration was genuine, but added
1T was also Communist trick" to discredit
the socialists throughout the country
Workers Fight Back Against Attacks.
Inc frst demonstration was brutally at
tackled by the police in an attempt to break it
up. The masses fought valiantly and with
such determination that the police did not sue
ceed in breaking up the demonstration. The
motorcycles on which the cops rode into the
crowd were turned over, and even the captain
was pushed into the fountain on the square
The second demonstration was so big that
the cops did not dare to attack it. although a
whole squad, both uniformed and in plain
clothes, was sent to meet the workers How
ever, since they could not attack the demon
stration, they "took it out' on an unemploved
worker whom they found sleeping in the en-
ployment office and nearly mauled him to
death Some of the gentlemen" in their auto
mobiles got too impatient when they had to
wait too long for the parade to pass and tried
to run through the crowd. But the resistance
and determination of the masses was so great
that these gentlemen on their expensive limou
snes were driven back at every attempt,
The county officials at first refused to see
the committee of the Council of the Unem-
ployed, but when they saw what they termed
the ugly mood (ugly for the bosses, in reality
militant mood of the crowd" they gave in
and allowed the committee to come into the
courthouse only to evade an answer to the de-
mands of the council
The working masses are looking forward 70
the March demonstration. The crowd IL nm.
questionably accepting the leadership Of ~.
Party. In this campaign the Party and the
T.U.U.L, must be built. The best fighters IN
the demonstration have already been taken
into the Party.
1t is significant to observe that II II n.
new members, taken in mostly during the re-
cruiting drive, that are the most active and
enthusiastic in this work, learning more n !.
iew days than some of the "old" member. !
learned in years.. The developing struggle
leaves no room for pessmism. Some of ths
old members that see nothing but "dift;cp,t;.. !"
'impossibilities" and "the backwardness Of tba
American workers" will have to RAPIDLY sd;n.t
themselves to the new situation or get out ~