The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-03
VOTE EVERY HAMMER AND SICKLE!
THE SOCIALISTS" IN THE
MOST DELICATE SITUATION

that country nearly half of the army of unem-
ployed get no insurance whatsoever.
1t is good and effective to use the examples
shown by the socialists" in the various coun-
tries in Europe to prove how meaningless, empty
and INSCRIPTIONS the promises of Thomas,
Waldman. Panken and others are. However,
the socialists" in the United States, too, have
record, That can prove that the unemployed
can expect from them just as much as they can
expect from Tammany or the republicans.
Where were the socialists" before the dem
onstrations of March 6, led by the Communist
Party and the Trade Union Unity League? Like
the republicans and democrats they did nothing
and contemplated nothing in order to obtain
unemployed relief. 1t was only after the March
demonstrations that they did something Here
it is.
The standard bearer Of the socialist" party
in New York State, Louis Waldman, writes in
his message" to the people" of the state of
New York in the Campaign Issues, $780, pub
lshed by the socialist" party:
Governor Roosevelt regardless Of what he
may say in this campaign, did nothing prac-
teal to give work or relief to the unemployed.
While the legislature was still in session this
year. co-chairman of the Public Affairs
Committee of the socialist party 1 wrote him
and urged that he send special message to
the law makers calling for minimum pro-
gram on unemployment. including unemploy-
ment insurance. / begged him in the interest
of tire unemployed that he recommend at least
the appointment of an unemployment insur-
commission, to study the question and
prepare an adequate bill for the 1881 Iegis-
lature. That wss in March He did nothing
(Pg. 1921. Our emphasis)
Listen to the sacrifices the socialist" candi-
date for governor was ready to make for the
hundreds of thousands of unemployed in ~ Y
State Il begged him." he says. Waldman was
on his knees before Governor Roosevelt for the
sake of the unemployed And what did he beg
fore? commission to study" and to prepare
an adequate" bill for the 1881 legislation And
TINT w in March n over a million work
ers had demonstrated for immediate relief!
The socialist" party by its own adj
mission, as proven by the interview OF Charles
Solomon, one of it's standard bearers in the
present campaign in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle
of Oct. Goth, is of course far from thinking of
fighting for unemployment insurance far from
fighA'~g for anything. A cartoon printed in the
above campaign booklet published by the so
cialist" party on page IS is rather characters
tic Here is a factory with mass of workers
bef"re it. The signs on the factory read. Works
Closed" mo Hands Wanted" But near the
faces of the unemployed are turned to it. The
inscription under that picture in large letters
reads: 1.-THE Works Are Closed! BUT the Bal
lot Box Is OPEN"
The socialist party is using the same kind
of drug as the other two capitalist parties are
using. 1t is either matter of studying the
unemployment problem or of substituting poll
ing booths for closed factories. AS If factories
scould have been opened by vote for the $50
cialist" party AS if the socialists in Eng
land Germany and other countries have not
proven that vote for them. just as for other
candidates of the capitalist class, results In shut
ting down more factories and In increasing the
armies of the unemployed!
From the very beginning the Socialists" have
tried to belittle the unemployment issue, just as
Hoover has been doing. Haywood Broun's "fa-
NOUS slogan, issued in March, "Give a Job Till
June" meant the same as Hooyer's slogan, Pros
perity in go days" issued at the same time, after
the demonstrations led by the Communist Party
and Trade Union Unity League Through his
campaign of Give job till June" Broun tried
to drug the workers to keep them away from
fighting. Oh, 1t is only matter Of waiting
until June!
Taking the figures of the number Of unem-
ployed is one of the means Hoover, Green and
others are using in order to beiittie the unena-.
ployment issue Eoovers census bureau has.
brazenly forged the figures bringing them down
to about two millions. Green has condescended