The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-02
The Unemployed Workers on the
March for Bread and Jobs

attacks without resistance They fought back,
Some policemens garments and faces bear wit
ness to that fact Especially did our Negro COM
rades-women-figh back!
In the city of Chicago it appears to be crime
to even attempt to present the grievances Of the
unemployed and make demands upon the city
council. In Milwaukee, the UNEMPLOYED Coun-
ellis and T. u U, L. held several very militant
and successful demonstrations around the city
hall and made concrete immediate demands for
relief from the city.
Throughout the entire Chicago District I'M
employment is rapidly increasing. Despite the
new outburst of lies and bally-hoo regarding the
return Of prosperity" conditions becoming bet
ter" etc.. on the front pages of the boss press
nevertheless the merest study of the back page
financial section of these very same papers will
convince anyone that exactly the opposite is the
truth
In the states of Illinois, Wisconsin Indiana
and Missouri the crisis continues to grow and
deepen and unemployment increases by leaps
and bounds. With the exception of soft-coal in
dustry, all others have suffered further de-
cline in production. And in the soft-coal fields
the increase is only slight The bourgeois econ
omic experts" are now beginning to Took for
ward to the spring for an upturn taking place"
In those factories where mass Iay-offs took
place and the workers have been re-hired Gas
in the North Western R.. r. shop, the workers
there are employed only and days a week
In Chicago, after months of hiding and lying
about the extent of the unemployment the Her
AID Examiner was forced to state that there are
100000 unemployed in Chicago. This is only
partly the truth, because the actual figure is
nearer to one-half million jobless in Chicago
The small reserves saved up by the workers
have now been used up. The little savings put
ing this great storm. Tens of thousands of work.
ers families face stark hunger terrific suffering
and acute cold. Thousands of families are with
out coal, food warm clothing or the means of
paying rent. Thousands of workers have already
been evicted and thousands more face immedi-
ate eviction from their homes.
Under the ever-growing desperation of the I'M
employed masses, driven on by the fear of what
the starving unemployed masses will do, and
already having seen and rapidly learning the
lessons of the powerful mass demonstrations on
March s, May L. Sept. |, ETC., the bosses, their
city, state and national lackeys and the boss
press have initiated big drive to relieve dis
tress and unemployment"
This drive assumes two aspects "a actual
preparations are being made to cope with any
mass movement of unemployed that will arise,
(2) campaign for charity, flop houses, soup
kitchens, registrations, good fellows clubs, get
ting jobs for the jobless and feeding of children
Of unemployed by rich ladies' clubs.
In Chicago the demand is being made for
5000 additional police. Since racketeering In
Chicago seems to be thriving despite the econ
oniic crisis, since bootlegging, gambling. gang
sterism are doing very good business-t.le 5000
extra police are not intended to curb these pros
porous and thriving institutions. The 5000 cops
are intended for the unemployed workers
In Rockford, ILL.,. the second largest town in
Illinois, proposal for additional police is also
under consideration No money for relief of the
unemployed appropriation for police
This seems to be the slogan Of the city authori-
ties of Chicago and Rockford. One of the lead
ing Rockford papers however, let the cat out OF