The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
Jobless Have Only the
Rights They Fight For
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of 1900 in Brooklyn having work.
So, why this bluff, Mr.. Walker?
Why this fakery when even the
State Industrial Commissioner
called your attention to the growing
unemployment situation last July
and you ignored it?
What Jobless Want.
The hungry workers don't want
your Sympathetic study" and 're-
grets." They demand work or
wagesw Walker got away with a
raise of $4,000 in his own salary,
while families starve. And when
these workers protest and demon
strate he forgets "free" speech and
free assemblage and gives them
clubs and machine guns.
The army Of the unemployed is
growing and the State Industrial
Commission declares that the pres
ent employment level will not rise
for some time" That is correct,
for speed-up, the conveyor system
and increasing hours are throwing
hundreds of thousands of workers
out of a job every year. Today not
only the United States, but Ger
many, England, Italy, Austria are
in an economic crisis, with 100000
out of job in the United States,
100000 throughout the world.
Senator Brookhart proposes relief
amounting to $50,000,000, or STA
mani This means to mock the I'M
employed. Secretary Of Labor Davis
says American workers want work,
not doles." Correct! But furnish
them with work, Messrs. Hoover and
Davis. The system for which you
stand-the capitalist system-is
driving millions out of the factories
and working the remainder like
mules! In the Soviet Union there
is a shortage of labor, industry is
in the upgrade and will far outstrip
the United States in 10 years. Hours
are decreasing, wages are increas-
ing.
That is the country you damn
Messrs. Hoover, Davis, Vol,
Thomas, Lovestone! That is the
country which the United States i'm
perialist government is preparing to
attack with military force. You
have built up your united front of
all imperialist powers in London,
plus the fascist American Legion,
XXX, Veterans of Foreign Wars,
etc., plus the social-fascist A. F. of
L., Socialist Party and the church.
You want to destroy the Soviet
Union, the country of the workers,
and place it once more in the list of
capitalist countries, in which the
capitalists will be free to exploit
men, women and children, young
and old, white and Negro, to rob
them of their energy at 40 years
and throw them at the scrap heap.
"Give the workers education" says
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of
the governor. Hundreds of thou
sands of college graduates can get
no position and are looking for jobs
together with the unemployed.
"Show the American flag on
March g." says the reactionary i'm
becilic lawyer, George H. Mann.
Hundreds of thousands of American
workers who were in the World War
under the American flag, while mil
lionaires and their sons stayed a!
home, piling up profits, are tramp
ing the streets, looking for work,
offering to trade their medals for
job.
Forced by the demonstrations or
ganized and led by the Communist
Party and the Trade Union Unity
League, the U. S. Senate has discus
sed the critical unemployment situa
ton. Hoover talks of an "unemploy-
ment conference" What was the
conference in November, Mr.. Hoo
yer? We know it laid the basis for
a fascist dictatorship in the U. s.;
it was a war council; but it masked
itself as an unemployment confer
ence. Another purpose was to
launch vicious offensive again It
the American workers as whole.
The workers of the country see
through the capitalist schemes =
the unemployed workers, the part
time workers-Of whom there are
millions unable cmake ends meet
and the employed workers who are
being driven like machines. That IS
why they are turning to the Com