The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-31
BY LOUIS KOVESS.


AS you look over the capitalist papers, any one
IA of them and any day, you find that they are
filled from start to finish with alarming alarm
ing for the ruling class facts, items of the re-
suits of the crisis, which facts they falsify but
are unable to completely suppress. Growing I'M
employment, wage slashing and speed-up cam
paigns bank failures suicides, death as result
OF hunger evictions, police attacks on unem-
ployed. a wave of lying demagogy of capitalist
and social fascist politicians on fake salvation"
proposals, showing how panic-stricken the bour7
geoisie is in face of the growing movement of the
masses, towards the left, towards mighty strug-
giles, towards our Party and the revolutionary
unions
But when you look over revolutionary press,
written in foreign languages, you find that our
press is far from fully rejecting the crisis sit
uation. And even further off from rejecting the
struggles. led only by our Party and the revolu-
tionary unions affiliated to the Trade Union
Unity League against unemployment, for immed-
late unemployment relief and for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill, against wage cuts,
speed-up, evictions, etc.
The capitalist press is up to It's sclass task
of feeding the hungry with false illusions. But
revolutionary press is not up to its class duty
to destroy these illusions, lies, empty promises
and lead the fight for real food for the starry
ing workers.
The capitalist press is up to its class task
weapon of the bosses and their government. 1t
is also an organizer, concretely showing the way
to the workers to fake charity institutions police
food distribution" stations, away from the class
struggle
Our foreign language press is not as yet or
ganizer of the masses, does not lead them as yet
away from under the influence of capitalist and
social fascist demagogy, into the unemployed
councils, revolutionary unions, into the struggle
for unemployment insurance, etc. The examna-
ton of our foreign language papers proves con-
clusivey the above contentious.
The Twelfth Penum of the Central Committee
Of our Party characterized our struggle against
unemployment, for unemployment relief and in
surance, as the major campaign of the Party"
Speaking about the building of the revolutionary
unions, the resolution stated: 1.-THE building of
the revolutionary trade union movement is the
first task of the Party without which no con-
soldated progress can be registered toward win
ming the majority of the working class"
Let us see how far our editors understood
the directives Of the Party:
Rovnost Ludu (Slovak Daily in six issues
(November), there are two editorials which have
something to do with the revolutionary unions.
Not single news item. No articles In other
issues where the economic struggles are connect
ed with our unions, they are translated from the
Daily Worker without any effort to present the
questions in such way so that Slovakian work.
ers, the majority Of them working in several in
dustres should understand the problems as they
involve them In the campaign for unemploy-
ment insurance, In three weeks there were II
comments and articles published, only in three
instances mentioning our unions and the un-
employed councils.
Trybuna Robotnicza Polish bi-weekly): One
OF the best language papers, correctly placing
the unemployment situation and the building
OF the revolutionary unions to the forefront But,
still not sufficiently. It must improve much the
unemployment campaign.
Ukrainian Daily News: In four issues Dec
1919 there Is only one small front page article
and one editorial on the same question. The
news on the crisis situation Unemployment evic-
tons, bank failures, etc. is separated from the
struggles led by our revolutionary unions and
the Party against these conditions, far removed
from the trade union movement.
Freiheit Jewish Daily: In four issues dec
9-l2) five articles and editorials ON the econ
omic crisis, unemployment insurance campaign
In the Freiheit also the news belongs to
separate category has nothing to do with our
unemployment campaign and the building OF the
revolutionary unions. There are too many ar
Aolac EhIHn could b left out to give snaos whole