The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-10-17

himself an out and out agent of American
imperialism. His thinly-veiled phrases showed
that he stands for a fascist dictatorship in
this country which will further enslave the
working class and that his publications will
carry on such campaign in the months of
struggle which lie ahead.
Chicago's Prosperity Day was big flop!
"Big Bill" Thompson has thrown his hat into
the ring for reelection as mayor and the
workers are kicking the thing all over the lot
The ranks of the unemployed in Chicago in
crease daily and weekly by the thousands
Jobless workers, both men and women, sleep
in parks, in Railways, in fact any place where
they happen to find place to flop for the
night. For many weeks they slept, hundreds
of them, under the bridge at Wacker Drive,
over which the parasites drive in their limou-
sines and family cars. Three big hotels
actually made arrangements for their garbage
wagons to pass under the bridge so that the
workers might grab off what morsels of food
had been thrown away by the parasites.
In Grant Park, Chicagos loop show place
and beauty spot, thousands of the jobless
would gather of night, but they were
awakened at five in the morning, because it
wouldn't do to have the capitalists and their
"dames of leisure" bothered by the sight of
workers lying around hungry and cold and it
was certain that if the cops permitted the job
less to remain longer than 5 a. m. they'd get
the habit of staying there all day long.
The Councils of Unemployed, under the di-
rection of the Trade Union Unity League, kept
hammering away on the question of unemploy-
ment so long that the capitalists have become
genuinely alarmed at the turn of things. VIM.
Wrigley, the chewing gum king who pays his
factory help the lowest starvation wages, and
the Tower Town Girls, tribe of useless old
battle-axes of the capitalist class have come
to the rescue of the four hundred and fifty
thousand jobless workers of Chicago. The
'kept women" of the Gold Coast, styling them
selves Tower Towners, have leased the old
County Jail, condemned as fire trap three
or four years ago. and will quarter a couple
of hundred "unfortunates," these consider
ate old damses term the jobless. They will,
of course, be fed with the usual Salvation
Army slop guaranteed to turn the stomachs
of even hogs.
Bill Wrigley, who made several millions this
year on his Cub ball in the National League,
to say nothing of the millions coined out of
the sweat and blood of workers in his gum
factories, comes forward with an offer to "do-
nate" one of his unused warehouses to house
the homeless. Bill is so considerable of the
"unfortunates," don't you know
1t will be seen that the efforts of Wrigley
and his female associates to "salve" over the
Unemployment SITUATION Is DuC an attempt 10
smash the miitancy of the jobless thousands
in Chicago. They offer swill and slop in
der to keep down struggles against them and
the class of which they are part for real,
SUBSTANTIAL relief.
Against this policy of betrayal which is re-
ceiving the support and cooperation of the
trade union takers of the A. F. of L. here and
the leaders of the treacherous socialist party,
the National Unemployed Councils, affiliated
to the Trade Union Unity League, is organic
ing the unemployed for struggle against the
capitalist system, for the Unemployment In
surance Bill which grants every unemployed
worker twenty-five dollars per week and five
dollars additional for each dependent, and
against evictions from their homes for nom
payment Of rent
Thousands of workers will vote Communist
this election day in Illinois. We must poll
huge vote for the Communist Party program,
which is a program of class struggle.