The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
The Daily Worker will answer in this col
umn questions which are sent in to its Work
ers Correspondence Department.

Question:-What plans have you got to offer
to benefit the unemployed, and what must a
man be that is unemployed, to receive assistance
from you?-Jersey City, N j.
Hoover and the employers said there was no
serious unemployment until the workers marched
out on the streets demanding work or wages.
Then the employers began to take notice. The
New York City Board of Estimates was going
to do nothing until the big demonstration in
front of city hall made them appropriate a mil
lion dollars the next day for the unemployed.
The only way the workers get any relief is to
demand and struggle for it.
The jobs, the industries, and the wealth of the
country belong to the few rich. One authority
says: "a small class, comprising less than l per
cent of the population, own and enjoy
more than half of the accumulated wealth and
resources of the country" Ex-Ambassador Ger
ard says that $50" rich capitalists rule the coun
try. According to the U. S. Department of
Commerce reports, $8,O00y0 100000 was paid out in
interest and dividends last year-this was hun
dreds of millions more than was paid in 1929
when unemployment was less. In 1880 $15,000-
100000 were invested abroad. 1t is from these
owners of industry and their government, these
rich robbers and exploiters, whose wealth right
fully belongs to the workers who produce, that we
must demand and struggle against to get relief,
right now.
Where to begin Join the Unemployed Coun-
Gil GIG West 21st Street, N. Y. c. which organ
ICES and fights for the unemployed, against evic-
TONS against turning off light and gas, for food
and shelter for the starving jobless employed
workers, organize in the shops and with the Red
Unions against wage cuts, lay-offs and the
speed-up)
The Communist Party cannot give you money
because it hasn't it to give but it leads the fight
for immediate relief and for the Unemployment
given by the Communists. Most Of the relief
which has already been obtained is due to this
fight. And we will get more
The personnel manager of the National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers says that it should not
be the aim of American industry to give 100 per
cent employment Capitalists not only will not
give relief unless compelled to do SO, but they
want to keep an army of jobless on hand all of
the time, in case they suddenly need extra
workers, and In order to have competition be-
tween the workers for jobs. Unemployment is
part OF the capitalist system The Communists
say that the only way to do away with unem-
ployment ITSELF is for the workers to take tt
industries and establish workers and farmers
government, like they did in Russia. There they
have solved the problem of unemployment, work
is steady and pay regular
Now we demand immediate relief.
Question:-what is the lot Of the workers and
farmers in Sweden, from an economic and poll
tical standpoint?-A. c.
The crisis has hit Sweden along with the rest
of the capitalist countries hundreds of thousands
are unemployed, mostly young people receiving
J no support Factories are being closed down.