The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-20
newark J0BLESS
TALK ACTION AS
SKY PILOTS SING
Pie in the Sky Stuff Not
for Hungry Stomachs
(gu a Worker Correspondent.l

by a Worker Correspondent
/ NEWARK, N. with no further
food or shelter as the attendant
lniseries of the jobless existence
which is theirs as a result of being
able, when they did work, under the
speedup rules of the bosses, to pro-
luce more than the wages paid were
able to buy back, hundreds of New
ark's unemployed workers are press
ing for action.
Realizing that the "Homes" (the
city parks) which they have occu-
pied up to now will soon be unten-
able because of the steady approach
Of Winter and wanting to have
something done before the frost be-
gins to bite, these workers gather
in groups to discuss the economic
:risis and the cause of it all. Into
Sheir group discussions they draw
he passerby and succeed in winning
new supporters for the Workers
'ocial Insurance Bill as we'll as for
he Party, TUUL, LID and the mani
aold activities.
militant" Park.
This has gone on night after
night until Newark's centrally To-
Gated Military Park is becoming bet
Ter known as militant" park. AS
one worker puts it, They enter the
park without knowledge of COM
munism and leave with Plenty. On
some nights of the week and always
On Sundays, there gathers a small
band of fanatical religionists with
bandbox organ whose praying and
hymn singing fails to interest the
hungry unemployed even as a form
Of entertainment.
This group Of old fogeys, of which
the greater number we're of the
"Battleaxe" type, began to squirm
when they found that their prayers
and hymns were just rolling into
space and that the crowds in evil
dence were not listening to them but
to things that meant more than
prayers.
Service
First an old Gazette" and then a
,5ozo so old that he might have
spread manure for George Washing
ton. in his time came to demand that
the discussions cease and that all
/ and sundry listen to the Service"
But they were not serving meals
nor were they giving addresses"
that offered good bed for the night
I SO the demands were ignored and a
Fcop was sent for. John Law came
but could do nothing that would
compel anyone to listen.
Suddenly a believing creature
whose words told that he had been
sponging on anyone he could grab
all his life and who sought to prove
THAT this was a manifestation of
Foods WILL" began to tell of the
devastating work of the devil who
sent his agents to take away those
who came to listen to the message
! Of Jesus and admitted that the po-
lice should do something about it.
/ In fact they demanded that some
thing should be done about it.
But, while those hymn singing
creatures continued to look skyward
watching for the opening of the
l'Pearly gates" the workers, realiz-
ing that it won't be long before the
undertaken will get the most of them
anyhow, decided to laugh it all off
and continued with the preparation
for struggle for bread, for "Work
or Wages"
Want Food Now.
The workers want their pie now
and not in the sky. For this reason
they rally to the slogans and call of
the revolutionary movement. They
are joining the party and the auxil-
larry organizations and are satisfied
10 let others pray or be damned
while they get ready for the fray.