The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-01
KILLS WOMEN
w t.ron ~EsEARCH ASSOCIATION.

Wy I'ECG ~ESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
u -0y to ssar7i0y vile of R-ssall Ward, job
y Is t-o,msEer At Reese Vile, Delaware, shot
I'd !-'l',d e yOun1 children and then her
So. t. United Pro5s, capitalist news agency,
reported:
PIT and the tGtUo hunt for work placed
',----y 5v-Scn q the Ward family at Reese
Vile Evc-y ngl1t ward returned home with
tt e,lr2 cd storf-no job, no prospect of a
jcN"
This sui 3idc Ct mother, who could not bear
TO sec Hc" children staryc and so killed them
q'c0~ with herceI: is net en- uncommon tragedy
In this capitsHat crisis. FROM New York City,
Pittsburgh, Det~cit Omaha. Los Angeles and
other cities, come similar stories. tucked away
~ back Pages CT the capitalist press of joblesS
porcots who have murdered their children and
s~d2d their own lives rather than die the slow
dootn of starvation. Fathers have killed their
,ives and children end then themselves. Great
increases in the number of suicides are reported
IN every center. Tor New York the American
Iou.nol of Public Health admits:
Suicides in 1880 in the entire state OF New
Yor,. numbered 2.345. the greatest total ever
recorded" This figure is an increase of %
per cent above tie average rate for the pre-
cslng five years
Suicide and murder kill swiftly Bu5 the long
women no less surely. though rsullIy more
dc" y. Jobless women are not quite SO much in
tbs puo ic eye as jobess men; they are not often
"a the cadjire- they do net so often sleep
q : in Ole public parks ard souares-althou-h
lasny EsYe been found in Chicago parks in re-
en-, i2ontrs Usually they are hidden away in
tlrI teG,mcat3, where capitalism does not see
thl1l.
Cac-;iGth OF Jobless Are Women.
vt one g III e lc2. the welfare Council CT
" erik, cctIl&tcs that ono-st.th CT New Yoyk's
unemployed must be girls and unmarried women
It ~ ny 0cre Ct the ttlcss wcren are mar
rel IN / hive chiGron, tie Council does not Try
to estir'ate. But it warns all girls TO stay a1sy
from the worlds richest city unless they hare
at 'c1r s25 g We; to live on,
If is Dcpcrtion Of jobless women out OF the
teal number unemployed holds good for the
couptTT as a whole it seems that probably 100000
Fi,ls ard women arc nov out of WORK No che
Enov5 5llH e=act figure but since more than enc
fin o. al r'or';erg arc women. ard as there are
n BIZ rov over II 100000 unemployed. the
C. ir'atc Of 100000 jcblc-s ellis and women is
ne fa- r~on~
Son',ru o,.t il ',,rblc p-r,e has become COM
r., r"r hov~ 'i~~s vonlcn as for homeless men,
s .-~~71 l,'-~cred tV~@'e1q unemployed women
s'~o1 Niort1r in Chic-~o- -ar'-s il as admitted
b NJ. Ti-Gt3th D. CcT'-2.-. Commissioner OF
P--NrH Tre15s~c, in se1tc>)e~. 1881 No fever than
% voHe0 rlc"r il Gr2Y- oUt, Lincoln Parks on
~ Joke front to ssy nctnnr of those in the
c'',c, park.
'-o'''on VIC r''cn t,,ey fir. come to as we're
"-~' f~0@~eG md r'-cc1tChl,, after a number Of
pigs CT "1e"Ni'g il Tho r9t'ls, Showed BiAfked
e''e"t bin upon dress and health" reported the
800" cor''N'--ic1c". OrIy one free yemen
fc1 l'ou-cs exists il tlc city of Chicago, acorn
rr~A~'jr~ o.'l- 1oc.
s~r- G. he women are mothers and have
h'"i~ c,ild--p 18th the, IS hey lie On negs
r7~er- crossed TO INC -dL1't air. Joblcoc workers
en- - ,-cvsr-per3 az ocycr blankets ard burn
tl'0'1 ely n tho no-~;ins in the parks II IN
cf-o"t TO ct little warmth.
Net in Cbica~c but c'-o n r',.tsburgh and other
cites, unemployed women ave been forced to
s'ee1 on benches and on gra;s in the parks. In
enc crr7ll paII Of Fi5tsbur III, a war veteran,
his wife and their four n'c nth-old baby we're
found b. the police who olSo counted 473 mea
and II woIen il the same park.