The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
Goose Eggs, Pellagra and
Starvation

Skimping and mean economy that years of
poverty have taught her, cannot find cloth
enough to stitch together as a covering for
the undernourished bodies of her grandsons.
Is it not tragically ironical that these mill
workers who manufacture CLOTH and are out
of work because the market is flooded with
cloth, should wear the miserable rags that
come from sources which only charity can
provide!
Along with capitalism, wage slavery, and
poverty, it is logical that the boss should want
the church to flourish in the slave areas of
the South. For it is the historic function of
the church to keep workers in a backward
state. By means of heavenly" promises, ig-
norance and a starved imagination, the
wretched slave is enabled to reconcile himself
with the misery and disease which encompass
him. Religion breaks the revolutionary frame
of mind of the worker and allows the boss to
easily break his body on the wheel of capital
ist exploitation.
While disease and starvation spread through
out the tattered ranks of the Southern mill
slaves, one of the local factories recently de-
clared $250,000 dividend! A golden egg for
the bosses! Goose eggs, pellagra and starva-
ton for the workers.
On top of all this the situation grows worse
and worse. Jobs are becoming fewer and
fewer. More and more mills are working part
time. Some will shut down. If such condi-
lions exist in the summer while vegetables
are plentiful and relatively cheap one can only
imagine the misery in store for these workers
when winter sets in.
But it is not in the human fibre to stand
by and die like rats in hole. For this reason
the mill barons fear the coming of the
vanguard of the workers, the Communist
Party That is why they bend every effort
to extermnate the working class leaders who
come into this country for the purpose of
organizing these workers and explaining to
them the nhuman structure of capitalism
which, like house of cards, can be brushed
aside once the workers become aware of their
strength.
That is why in Georgia dead law carry
ing with i the supreme penalty, was resur-
rected from the cemetary of civil war days,
and made to apply against Powers, Carr.
Newton Storey, Anna Burlack and Mary Dali
ton, who went into the slave areas of the
south to organize these workers. AS a re-
suit these militant organizers face death by
the electric chair in the Fulton Tower Prison
of Atlanta, Ga.
The mill workers of the south are ready for
organization. They are ready for that class
struggle knowledge which will teach them how
to throw off the heavy yoke of capitalism.
hunger misery, and a mllltant curiosity are
provoking them to learn the nature of the
wage-slavery system which brutalizes men,
women and children SO an insignificant group
of capitalists may glut themselves on the
profits, gew-gaws, and trappings of that rot
ten branch of our decadent society, disgust
ingly known the upper" class.
Adjusted to the immediate and peculiar con-
dtions in each locality, there must be spec ly
orientaton toward the concrete application
of the revolutionary Trade Union program.
Today the rehabilitation of the workers and
their willingness to follow our leadership is
far ahead of our organizations ability to take
care of them. We must recognize this fact
and translate our theories into action by
chrystalizing the radical tendencies of these
workers into a definite program. Let US full
fiji these tasks with courage and ability; then
we can go forward with the mass organization
of these workers into political party. And
with "class against class" as our slogan we will
march forward to the over brow of capitalism
and to the establishment of Workers AM
Farmers government.