The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-15
JOBLESS COMM,
CALLS FOR BIC
MAY | STRIKE
Urges $4,000 More for
Revolutionary Unions

Unemployment Committee might
have to endure were not important
and that we did not care to talk
about them.
upon being asked how the food
was in the jail, we replied that
everyone knows that the food of
all prisoners in the jails of New
York is stolen by the Tammany
graft machine. 1t was this which
was completely perverted into a lie
to the effect that we were on hun
ger strike.
All For the Fight.
Il can speak for all of the pris
oners when l say that the question
Of railroading of the workers I'm
employment Committee must never
be allowed to sink to the level of
personalities, but must always be
coupled up with the big fight which
must grow larger and larger every
day for the demands of the unem-
ployed! Social Insurance, Work or
Wages.
I'm this mornings capitalist
papers even hypocritical spokes-
man for the capitalist class admits
now that there are 100000 jobless
workers in the United States Of
America, this of course being far
short of the reality. The fight for
the unemployed will reach new
and higher and more political stage
on May First.
"Our statement dictated through
a wire screen to the capitalist re-
porters outlined the well-known I'M
employment program, pointing out
that on May Day will be bigger
mass demonstration than occurred
on March 6 and forecasted the mass
character of the coming National
Unemployment Convention in Chi
cago on July and S. I also char
acterized the star-chamber convic-
ton Of the Unemployed Commit
tee as typical example of the rail-
reading of workers representatives
in capitalist court. In addition to
night-sticks, blackjacks, tear bombs,
prison for their representatives is
the answer Of the capitalist state
to the demands of the working
class on unemployment. But this
answer will not be accepted by the
working class any more than was
Whalen's tyrannical order at Union
Square on March 6.
$4,000 Recruits.
"Tell the workers for US that the
drive for $4,000 new members of
the Trade Union Unity League and
the revolutionary unions affiliated
to it is the way toward the next
great advance of our class. Upon
this every sincere and militant
worker must concentrate his untir-
ing energy.
II cannot close this statement
without comment on the activities
of Benjamin Gitlow, a former mem
mer of our Communist Party, now
deserter and renegade.
Ellis action in regard to the COM
ing May Day demonstrations of the
New York workers show that Git
low is now playing the part of a
scab.
"Gitlow is no better than a police
agent, and he is now being pushed
forward by the capitalist press as
Communist" just as the same
capitalist press pushes forward
Carlo Tresca as Communist"
and Norman Thomas as spokes-
man for labor-these being mere
political "undercover men, of the
capitalists against the workers.
Parade In San Antonio.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, (by
maiD Five thousand jobless and
militant workers, many of them
Mexican and Negro workers, assem-
bled at the Flores St. entrance of
the city hall here April 6, after a
parade with banners through the
main streets of the town and past
the Mexican consulate, brought out
Mayor Chambers and presented to
him the demands Of the unemployed,
in the shape Of a resolution adopted
by the demonstrators. The resolu-
ton when read to the crowd re-
ceived hearty cheers for each of it's
demands for Unemployment insur-
ance, abolition of child labor, aboli-
ton of speed-up system, abolition of
overtime, food for the unemployed
workers children attending school,
no evictions of unemployed workers,
abolish vagrancy law against unem-
ployed workers, abolish contracting
with laborers. We demand laborers
should be hired by day or week.
Banners in. the procession carried
these demands, and also a demand
on the government and the bosses
for ''less talk and more action" in
the way of unemployment relief.
There were many speakers in Span
ish and in English.
The U. S. department Of state
had wired Governor Moody and he
had ordered Mayor Chambers, to
prevent the parade from passing the
Mexican consulate. In defiance of
this, it stuck to its original line Of
march.
Dies From Eating Dough.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, April a.