The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-20
MASSES CHEER
J0BLESS FIGHT
ON CAPITALISM
Thousands Pledge to
Defend Delegation

T.U.U.L. and the Communist Party
He said he heard our talk and tina
the workers would reject us. How
about the million and a quarter wht
demonstrated on the streets on Mar
6? They did not reject it!
"The Union Square meeting dele
gates will not cringe in the capital
list courts. We deny Whalen has the
right to prohibit workers from
marching on the streets. We march.
ed in spite of him."
eve presented the demands of the
unemployed to the Board of Esti-
mates, in spite of the opposition of
the entire capitalist class"
Our demonstrations made a ma
Sional issue of unemployment. Until
tifen the capitalists and their A. F
of L. and Socialist henchmen were
silent on the issue. Now everybody
is talking about it. Unemployment
is growing worse all the time, and
the fight must go on more deter.
mined than ever
The socialist party were exposed
in this situztion. They have prac-
tically agreed to take Whalen's
resignation as the end of the fight.
But we fight the bosses of Whalen:
and we fight for the unemployed"
Then Foster spoke on the neces-
Sity for the broadcast possible ac-
tivity for the March 20 national un-
employment conference, and the
necessity of building militant unions
and for building the Communist
Party into a mass party. He said,
We must enroll $4,000 new mem
bers into the militant trade unions"
Robert Minor, a member CT the
committee elected by the 10000
workers in the New York demon
atration, when introduced, was
greeted with tremendous cheering,
he entire audience standing up to
greet him.
Minor reported in behalf of the
committee. He told how the COM
mittee was elected by the 10000
workers who had militantly gath
cred in Union Square on March 6
despite the dozens of machine guns,
the gas-bolnb squads and the hum
dreds Of police. He told the story
Of going to City Hall to present the
demands of the unemployed, after
hundreds of workers had been bru-
tally beaten by Whalen's cossacks,
and how the committee was captured
and arrested for acting in behalf
of the jobless workers. He told
about the class courts juggling with
the bail issue in an attempt to keep
the committee in Jail for class ven
geance. Minor described how the
committee finally presented the I'M
employed demands to the city gov
Crnment and Walker at the Board
Of Estimates meeting. He said,
Just after Walker and Norman
Thomas, the social-fascist, were
joking with each other over the I'M
employed question at this meeting
az the Board Of Estimates, the day
afterwards unemployed workers
were committing suicide in their
misery"
As Minor described the dozens Of
mass demonstrations in different
parts of the country the workers
present cheered.
"The Communist Party, which
must lead any effective struggle
against the capitalist SYSTEM" said
Minor, "are growing and ripening
INTO mature Bolshevik Party.
"The Communist Party of the
United States" said Minor, latter
being freed from the debasing in
fluenee Of the bourgeois rene
gades is advancing in size and pol
itical maturity, These mass unem-
ployed demonstrations prove it be-
yond doubt.
"And so we can say, if capitalist
reaction is growing, the revolution
lry movement and it's ally, the re-
volt Of oppressed colonial people,
are advancing still more rapidly
throughout the entire world.
Organize the Unemployed Coun-
ellis! Organize the unorganized
"orkers! Build up the new revolu-
ionary trade-union movement I'M
Ter the leadership of the Trade
Union Unity League! Organize the
masses Of workers against the COM
ng imperialist war-train them for
ne defense of the Soviet Union.
Most important of all, build the
evolutionary Communist Party,
which alone can lead the fight"
There was tremendous applause and
,heering following Minors talk.
Before March g." Amter said,
the capitalists thought that the
Communist Party in the United
States could be 'disregarded.' A
nillion and quarter workers fought
IN the streets. That taught them
hat it is powerful leader of the
working class. Moreover, Whalen
5 more worried about the handker-
:hief in his pocket than the 100000
iobless workers starving in this city.
Walker Ia ,s.@ concerned about his
$4,000 SALARY than the unemployed
workers.
"When the committee goes on trial
.omorrow and again on Monday,