The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

reaCGlODEry agents OF Utl6 capitalist
class in the ranks of labor, the lead
ers of the American Federation of
Labor. The Socialist Party in the
city governments Of Reading and
Milwaukee just as vigorously as the
other capitalist parties, are denying
the demands Of the unemployed,
The whisper Of opposition to the
Hoover program that was heard
around the se-called Wagner bills, 4"
could not conceal the fact that these
Wagner proposals were in opposition,
not to the Hover Hunger Prgran, but
to the struggle Of the masses against
it.
Our Demands
The starving millions OF workers
demand food, clothing, shelter; not
Surveys" or employment offices" or
or building programs" that are as
fictitious with Mr.. Wagner as with
Mr.. Hoover, and are merely talked
about with the same ailn~-to keep
the starving workers from demanding
and struggling for something real
while their wives and babies die
waiting for capitalist promises to
come true.
The climax OF the Hoover program
of unemployment relief has been
reached in the policy Of forcing the
employed worekrs, who have had
their wages cut and facing further
reductions in their meagre income, to
donate" to the funds for "unem-
ployment" relief under threat of dis
charge or discrimination. The part
time workers, who themselves are
hungry, are being compelled to Com
tribute"
Such program Of mass hunger
and starvation forces the suffering
masses to struggle for self-preserva-
ton. To carry through the Hoover
Hunger program the utmost violence
is being used against the unemployed.
Their demonstrations are broken up.
Mass arrests Of workers are made.
Workers who resist eviction are MUIR
dered by the police in cold blood. A
campaign of terror is carried on
against the working class, particularly
against the Negro and foreign-born
workers and against the militant
labor movement and Communist
Party organizations. The cruelest
lynch and murder terror has been
launched against Negroes. Thousands
of foreign-b born workers are being de-
ported. The suffering is the greatest
among the women and youth, both
Negro and white. This campaign of
violent terrorism Is aimed to thWart
the demand for immediate relief and
unemployment insurance. This at
tack is as cynical and brutal as the
tyranny which has held Tom Mooney
and Warren K. Billings in prison for
fifteen years In the face of positive
proof of their innocence.
The Independence" Fraud
AS an auxiliary to the campaign of
repression, fierce attack by the
Hoover government, by the Repub-
Iican and Democratic parties, and all
ther spokesman is being made
against the dole" The employers
arogantly reduce the living standards
to the point of human degradation
and receive in this the backing of the
Hoover government. But Umemploy-
ment insurance is denied on the abb
surd excuse that it would deprive the
worker of his alleged independence. "
Unemployment insurance is rejected
as q ''dole," but the unemployed are
condemned to hutniliate themselves to
obtain the most miserable shelter, to
sun1bit themselves to insulting in
uuisitiolas and RECOMMENDATION that they
may obtain a dole Of nneagre food,
the rutritiona1 value of which any
honest doctor would condemn as in
surfing not life but slow death, and
which falls far below the minimum
for health set by the U. s. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
The employing class, living at the
expense of the misery of the workers,
is opposed to any system of unem-
ploylnent insurance which would
guarantee to the workers their full
wages and secure to them the means
to live.
The National Hunger Marehers who
represent employed and unemployed
workers, organized and umorganized
workers, members of the American
Federation of Labor and the militant
trade union movement demand from
the Congress of the United States the
enactment of the Workers Unem-
ployrnent Insurance Bill which con-
tains the following points:
The Bill
Immediate Unemployment Insurance
at Full Wages
"t.-I1lat a system Of Federal gov
eminent insurance be Immediately
established by an Act of Congress and
made immediately effective, guar
anteeing full wages to all workers
wholly or partly unemployed, through
no fault of their own for the entire
period OF unemployment.
For All Workers--No Discrimination
"2.--That unemployment insurance
be paid to every unemployed worker,
adult and youth, whether industrial
or agricultural, office employees, and