The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-07-30

evlcted on an ever larger scale. Practically all
day long and every day in the week the
branches of our Unemployed Council are called
to eviction scenes Demonstrations and strug-
giles against evictions are taking place daily in
Detroit. Only the other day demonstration
OF 5000 workers was organized, and this dem
onstration lasted until two o'clock in the morn
ing. The entire Police Department in the par
ticular section of the city was called out. Ma
chine guns were put up and a real atmosphere
of warfare was actually created. Daily arrests
are taking place, as many as IS workers at
time.
Mayor Frank Murphy is showing his real color
and his Social-fascist methods more and more.
This starvation program of the bankers and
automobile manufacturers, which Is being 10y
ally carried out by the city government, is ap-
piled at a time when not less than $4,000 add
tional workers are being kicked out of the auto
mobile industry in the city of Detroit. Besides
the wholesale lay-offs wages are being slashed
to the amount of 80 per cent The speed-up
system is intensified to such an extent as never
heard of in the past. The Hoover "stagger
plan" is being carried out to it's fullest extent
in the automobile shops.
Recently the II. u. u L. office received let
ter from the wife of Ford worker The letter
reads as follows
I'VE have received your address from a
friend who said that you would be able to
help us. My husband has been killed or rather
died from the heat in the Ford Plant He
expired last Thursday at 2:30 pm. We in
CURED about help from the Ford Plant, but
they said they could do nothing about that
IF you could be able to help us or recon-
mend any good person we shall appreciate it
very much. We are not very sure whether she
died from the heat or not. Please answer as
soon as possible whether you could help us or
not c. x"
This letter gives pretty good picture OF the
conditions inside Of this automobile shops and
the conditions as well as the wages under which
the workers are compelled to work.
In summing up the present conditions in De-
troit and vicinity the workers, both the en-
ployed and unemployed, face increased mass
misery and hunger. The demonstrations for the
last two months, and especially since the Michi-
gan State Hunger March, have demonstrated
the increased nilitancy and readiness among
the decisive sections of the working class, the
automobile workers, to follow the leadership Of
the Trade Union Unity League and the Unen1-
ployed Council in the struggles against our COM
mon enemy.
Our immediate task must be to sharply in
crease our activities and to take practical les
son from the striking miners and textile work.
ers who are leading a struggle against the con-
ditions which are developing in all decisive in
dustria1 centers.
Besides developing local demonstrations, be-
sides fighting for relief and against evictions
we must link up the struggle against unemploy-
nert with the building up of powerful anti
war demonstration on August First, the center
Of which must be the struggle against uner1-
ploynent and to bring out all the practical slo-
gans such as mot dollar for in1perialist war
preparations but every cent to the unemployed"
The individual members Of the Trade Union
Unity League and its affiliated unions espe-
cially the members of the Auto Workers Union,
must become ever more active in all Of our
branches Of the Unemployed Council in Detroit
and vicinity.
The demonstrations which we're staged during
the last two weeks must be increased and above
all the building up Of the block committees and
much more activity among the workers in the
shops and employment offices.
The Branches of the Unemployed Council are
developing very rapidly in the last six weeks
Hundreds Of workers are signing up every week
But In addition to this the building up of our
Auto Workers Union and the Building Trades
Industrial League must be much more concen-
trated upon in order to bring about the unity
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