The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-05
PREPARE FOR
J0BLESS FIGHT
ON March 9Th
Ryan Joins Police Cry
Against the Workers

Continued from Pace Ore)
will be packed with tens of thou
sands of workers, demonstrating
their protest at the capitalist sys-
tenn which is starving 100000
American workers and their families
with unemployment and driving
those at work with speed ups and NJ
cut wages and long hours. The
demonstration is called under the
auspices of the Communist Party,
U. S. Section of the Communist In
ternational.
Employed workers will strike
knocking off work at noon, downing
tools in solidarity with the unem-
ployed, and together with them join
ing in the Union Square demonstra-
ton, united in protest with tens of
millions of workers the world over
who are striking and demonstrat-
ing at the same hour in every great
city of the world on International
Fighting Day against unemploy-
ment.
Coincident with the return from
his nice winter vacation at Miami,
Florida, of Police Commissioner
Whalen with a coat of tan and
lust for workers blood, as an
nounced in his readiness to deal
with" the Unemployment Demon
stration Thursday, another violent
defender of capitalism, Joseph P.
Ryan, of the Central Trades and La
Dor Council, and along with Mat
thew VOL, one of the leading fas-
cists of the A. F. of L., declared his
fascist program against the unem-
ployment movement yesterday.
The Communists, says Ryan, so
disturbed the A. F. of l.. in the Fur
riers and the I.L.G.W.U., that it
"cost business men millions of dol
lars" Ryan said that all local
unions have been instructed not to
allow the rank and file to strike on
March 6.
"The so-called international un-
employment day mass meetings re-
ferred to by the Communists is a
direct challenge to the power of or
ganized labor as represented by the
American Federation of Labor in
this country" Ryan squeals. SIT
will he met as Such /"
Just what the "power" of the A.
F. of L. is worth to the rank and
file of workers organized in Ryan's
fascist unions" is shown in the
same edition of the N. Y. Sun where
it tells of Bread Line Opens in
Brooklyn" in the following words:
zone man who said he was plas-
terer making $50 to $50 week in
good times, said he belonged to the
plasterers' union, which has 1880
union members. Only about 100 of
the union members are working
now. A plumber who earned $40 to
$50 a week said that less than a
third of his fellow plumbers in the
union of 1900 members were en-
ployed now"
These workers, victims of the So
cial fascists such as Ryan, Vol and
Green, are reduced from the "aris-
tocracy" of labor to accepting slop-
Ply charity, and there are millions
more who will give these pot-bellied
fascist agents of the bosses an an
swer that fits their criminal betray-
al of the interests of the workers.
Ryan pretended an alarm that if
the A. F. of L. workers strike it is
violation of agreement" with the
employers, as if the fraud of agree
ments was worth damn to unions"
such as those of the plasterer and
plumber noted above as in the
Brooklyn breadline. 1t is obvious
that the 100 employed plasterers in
the union of 1850 have an interest
in class solidarity in seeing that the
1,150 jobless brother workers get
more in the way of relief than a
rotten charity handout, and they
also know that the employers are
forcing them to take lower wages
than the allegedly sacred agree
ment" calls for, so what have they
to lose?