The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
TOTHE 9TH
Y E A R OF
THE w. [. R
By LUDWIG LANDY,
National Secretary WIR.

The Workers International Relief
came into existence in 1871. The
Russian revolution, the heroic fight
of the Russian workers and peasants
against their inner and outer enc
mics, and their success in combat
ting them, inspired the working
class all over the world. When the
famine broke out in 1921, the work
ers the world over came to the res
cue of the workers and peasants in
the famine-stricken area of the
Soviet Union, on the solidarity call
of the Workers International Re
lief.
This response further inspired
the Russian aVorkers and peasants
IN their fight against the white
guards and the united attack of
the capitalist countries. The
Workers International Relief dis
tributed food and clothing
throughout the fGnti1,e-stricken
area and participated in building
model farms in the Soviet Union.
In 1922 during the earthquake in
Japan when thousands of workers
were left homeless and destitute, it
was again the Workers international
Relief, through the solidarity appeal
which sent hundreds of thousands
of dollars for relief of the stricken
Japanese workers.
/ After the war, when the Ger
man workers were starving-this
time not due to a natural cata-
strophe, but to imperialist war in
which millions of workers were
slaughtered leaving their fam
lilies destitute, and many more
millions crippled, it was again the
Workers International Relief that
came to the rescue with relief.
Here, in America, the Workers In
ternational Relief gathered all its
forces in helping the Passaic textile
strikers. In the New Bedford tex
tile strike, the Workers international
Relief was also on the job. In North
Carolina, in spite of all attacks of
thugs, gangsters, hirelings of the
bosses and the state police, the
Workers International Relief opened
relief kitchens and erected tent colo
MES and maintained it's relief ac-
tivities there from the first day Of
the struggle.
The American Federation Of
Labor, the social democrats and all
other reformists have always recog-
nized the Workers International Re-
lief fighter against their bureau
cracy.
The Workers International Re-
lief at this period must mobilize
all workers in all countries to help
to organize the unorganized. Espe-
cially in this country the Workers
International Relief must work
hand in hand with the new trade
union center to help build new re-
evolutionary unions and to fight to-
gether with them against all the
reformist trade union leaders and
the enemies of the working class.
At present the Workers Interna
tional Relief is engaged with RELIEF
work for the struggling miners il
Illinois who are fighting against thu
bosses and the Lewis and Fishwicl
machines, and for a militant union
The Workers International Relic.
has opened three food stations ant
sent out a solidarity call to all work
ers throughout the country soliciting
help for the striking miners ant
their families.
The Workers International Relic.
gives full consideration to the strug
giles of the Negro masses in thei
fight against discrimination ant
fosters the spirit Of solidarity be
| tween white and Negro workers.