The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-14


YHas given today when this COM
mlttee discovered virtually by
accident that our names had
been put upon the calendar to
be called for pleading today,
without even any notification to our
attorneys. The corrupt machine of
New York capitalist government
then proceeded to put our names on
the calendar again for tomorrow
morning at such time as would be
calculated to keep us in court pre-
clsely at the hour when the Board
of Estimate of New York is sched-
uled to hold fake hearing, are only
too anxious to see that the commit
tee elected by the biggest demonstra-
ton of workers ever held in New
York, should be barred from attend
ance. This is logical sequel to the
previous steps of Whalen, Walker
and Co., who first answered the de-
mands of the unemployed with night
sticks and cavalry charges and an
swered again by arresting the elect
ed spokesman of the unemployed
workers, when these spokesman APP
peared with written petition to
our timid little mayor.
This committee nevertheless will
arrange to be at the Board of Estim-
ate session tomorrow and to present
in the name of 100000 unemployed
New York workers the demands
which were adopted at Union Square
a week ago. Although we must be
in court at 10 o'clock, as nearly as
possible when the Board of Estimate
meets at II o'clock Friday morning,
the members of the delegation, Fos-
ter, Minor, Amter, Lesten and Ray
mond will be there and will speak
for the unemployed. 1t is our duty to
discharge the trust placed in us by
the unemployed workers, in spite
of the fact that we are perfectly
we'll aware that the Board of Es-
innate, which represents precisely
the same capitalist class as do
Whalen and Walker, will do precise
ly nothing for the unemployed but
will do everything to assist in the
further starvation of these workers.
the attempted suppression of their
meetings and the failing of Their
elected spokesman. We will present
the demands in the knowledge tina.
the rejection of them will help to
open the eyes of many thousands
Of workers who still suffer with il
luslons to the effect that the CAPT
talist class dictatorship of New York
City and of the United States is no.
a capitalist class dictatorship.
"This committee, at the Board o.
Estimate meeting, will call attention
to the fact that on the same day
as the New York demonstration,
there were demonstrations in al!
cities of the United States and of the
world, the demonstrations in Amer
lean cities having been participated
in by more than 100000 workers.
Serious economic reports show that
fully 100000 workers are unem-
ployed in the United States and
neither Whalen's cossacks nor Hoov-
er's Washington police who threw
gas bombs at women and children
in Washington on March can stop
the swelling demand of the Ameri-
can workers for Work or Wages.
Economic reports show that condi-
tions are getting worse and not bet
ter. To the army of unemployed
there are being added more than
100000 new unemployed workers
every month. The capitalist system
of production only for the profit of
a parasite class, being upheld by
capitalist dictatorship of the same
class, will have to answer to its
victims for this situation.
"This committee, which the cap
italist government intends to rail
road to prison in the effort to still
the voice of the unemployed, now
learns that the plan of Whalen and
Grain and the bankers who give
them their orders is to railroad this
committee to the penitentiary in the
briefest possible time in the hope
OF getting this dirty job done be-
fore the movement reaches ever
larger mass proportions. We learned
today that we are to be called to
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