The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-17
Bv BILL GEBERT.

Abe Grey, John ONeil and Frank Armstrong,
who died by order of the ruling class because
they dared to fight for unemployment insurance
and against evictions Tens of thousands OF
White workers from all parts Of the city came
to the heart of the Chicago BLACK belt and
Joined with their colored comrades in demon
stration of the fighting unity of the white and
Negro workers against their common enemy
the white ruling class. This demonstration,
which smashed the segregation line in Chicago.
did not lust pay tribute to those who died for
the workers. but it was a demonstration against
capitalism which breeds unemployment war,
police terror, race hatred. misery and starVa-
ton One hundred thousand Negro and white
workers united on the streets under the lead
ership of the Communist Party, and upon an
appeal to join the revolutionary movement over
1900 workers filled out applications for the Un-
employed Council, and hundreds to the Come
munist Party and Young Communist League
1t was a magnificent demonstration Of mill
tancv. unity and solidarity of the Negro and
white workers, giving blow to the plans OF
the ruling class to divide Negro and white work
ers to attack the leadership Of this movement
the Communist Party. After this demonstration
the capitalist press no longer threatens the lead
ership CT the Communist Party with arrests
deportation persecution, etc. The city state and
federal governments are well aware that any
attack against the leader of this movement
the Communist Party-wil arouse the masses OF
Chicago to fight against this attack, defending
the Communist Party. This however does not
mean. and it must be clearly understood BY
everybody that the capitalist class will not carry
out its attacks against the workers and against
the Communist Party. On the contrary, the
capitalist class organized its attack in the most
systematic manner. The Chicago Tribune and
"Herald Examiner" are openly calling in their
editorials for war on the leader of the working
class, the Communist Party. The Chicago
Tribune" glorifes the city government chief OF
police and the police who murdered the mem-
ployed Negro WORKERS 1t declares IN It's eoi-
toral:
These officers who murdered three Negro
worlers-3.Cl met a severe test i'll way
ti~hIy c-c5itable to them, and the police de-
rartr.eat and reassuring to the community"
Brigadier General Abel Davis of Chicago,
former Commander Of the Goth Brigade, Illinois
Rational Guard addressing 1900 troops at
Camp Grant. declared:
i ti-ey uha Communists persist in their
activities and tr.ng conflict among cur
recpIe, we shall know the means to restrain
or sc. rid Of them" The commander in-chief
CT the state forces Governor EmmersOn'
jo.-oa in the applause as reported in the
"ChicSeo Tribune.
re Chicago Journal Of Commerce declares
in its leading editorial:
"-Ut t is a question whether prosecution
End imprisonment of all Communists would
he cxredicnt 1t might give them all the air
C. hc-ces and martyrs. At any rate, thet"
ionto-5 should be i1npriscned-particulariyt the
two CT three Of them who have shown sympt-
toms CT Intelligence.
After this it begins to explain that the Com
nlunist5 are making progress because
foz,z, THE Communists have a place they can
ro.nt 20 as better than the United States.
They can encourage the notion that Russia
Is making paradise for the workman"
Ard then opens the vicious attack against the
U. s S. R, calling for an neconcmic blockade
against the Soviet Union which is, of course,
only step forward to war
The Chicago August Bird massacre Of the three
Negro workers more than any other previous
event, aWakens the struggle of the workers to
such an extent that not only the local city gov
eminent was forced to speak for the purpose
CT pacifying the workers, of some kind of I'M
employment relief in the form of charity, but
even Hoover was forced to make public state
nents that he will consider some proposals to
meet the unemployment situation But not only
the government came into the forefront with
demagogic statements and empty words The
ruling class called to its rescue and support
its loyal defenders. leading writer of the
Chicago Daily News'-Graham Taylor-writes
that unemployed workers shall demonstrate;
mot only to let others know of it who would
not otherwise agree, but more still to demon
strate to the powers that be the necessity of
taking adequate action both for the relief and
prevention of such dangerous disaster" and
after this he calls on nobody else bue the Chi
cago Federation of Labor to organize such
demonstrations and writes as follows:
Late as it is emphasis mine-B.G) would
not such demonstration be very desirable if
held by the Chicago Federation of Labor and
Chicago Association of Commerce separately
of Jointly"
In other words there should be "demonstra-
lions" of the unemployed under the leadership
of the Chicago Federation of Labor, which Mr.
Taylor correctly identifies with the Chicago As
ISOLATION of Commerce, for the purpose of taking
the leadership from the Communist Party
which is today the recognized leader of the I'M
employed masses.
The task outlined by the capitalist paper
1.-THE Chicago Daily Nevis already being
carried out by the Socialist Party, which al
ready lad joint meeting with Negro traitors
real estate owners ministers priests, members
of the Cook County Board of Commissioners
Anthony Overton, manufacturer published and
banker Negro republican politicians, Roberts
and others, including representatives Of the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union, at
which a fake Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment," was set up. One of the Negro work.
ers, speaking in Washington Park declared: