The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-31
By HARRISON GEORGE


beading what is called 1.-THE Letter Boz" in the
Detroit News, gives one an idea OF the COM
pelling central question in Detroit as in other
cities-the question of unemployment. True the
idea gotten from the News is warped, as it by no
means expresses the opinion of vast masses Of
workers who remain inarticulate-but whose suf-
fering have forced Mayor Murphy and associated
demagogs to make pretensions of Solving" the
question.
In spite of the united front, running from
Hoover's praise to endorsement by the fake so
ciahst' party, the News Letter Box" reveals no
enthusiasm, no popular gratitude" for the blus-
tering faker Murphy who has set out to STAY the
dragon of hunger. Let us survey what some of
these scattered opinions:
One worker of no little writing ability sarcas-
tically rips into the News itself for an editorial
called How Hard are these Tmes?" The cap
itaist editor of the News like all of his kind,
has never learned to regard workers as people.
People" are those who play golf, have vacations
in midsummer get all excited over yacht races,
whose greatest troubles" are how to select the
best cars and train housemaids. .
Always Blind
The stark misery and endless worries of the
vast majority of workers does not interest the
editor of the Detroit News. And in resentment
bread into the foreground of attention. the
News" editor tried to be scornful and intimate
that times were mot so hard. because, said he,
a half million people had attended baseball games
in the East and Middle West one recent Saturday.
Quite correctly the worker reminded him that
such a fact is mot an indication of the times;
that the man who is chief sufferer in times like
the present never has and never will be seen in
any great number at these inter collegiate games.
The men who works at ordinary labor cannot
afford It,"
Also he adds, if the editor has doubts about
how hard times are, 81 suggest that he don habil-
nlents of the average worker and begin his quest
for job
This Countrywide Bosses
An ex-soldier, sore at the difficulties of paying
for home, paying taxes. paying doctor bills for
q sick wife, when-"au make here is from
so cents to 81 day.. wants to know why the
capitalist government even holds back bonus pay
ment. He adds:
"IftheU S.canesth
IF the U. S. can manage to loan Germany mill
lions OF dollars, it could put the same in circula-
ton amongst its own who gave the best they
had in them fighting for this country instead of
against it.
The man forgets, of course that the soldiers
capitalists of this country. The country" had
neither any interest nor any voice in the World
War. And after the war, the capitalists OF this
country" figured on making profits not only from
the workers of this country" but also from the
workers Of Germany-and therefore the millions
OF dollars loans to Germany while ex-solders of
this country" can starve and die in the street
Tor all the capitalists of "this country" care
Another worker, influenced by capitalist propa-
ganda. thinks that what ought to be done is to
run all the foreigners out of jobs and give them
to Americans. The obvious impossibity of star
ing all the millions of foreign-born workers to
death never seems to occur to him, nor the fact
that it wouldn't help the ones who are so clever
that they picked out America to be born in.
If the bosses can keep workers quarreling with
one another over who shall have the Jobs. the
workers will not unite to take away all industry