The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-14

necessary in order to alleviate the existing actual
winter starvation conditions.
The Workers Will Fight, Not Starve
The government has done nothing to relieve
the terrible distress of the unemployed This
is because it is a capitalist government alert
to defend the interests of the employers but
callous to the sufferings of the workers, and it
will do nothing real in the matter Of unem-
ployment relief until it is compelled to do so
by the mass pressure of the workers. If the
question of unemployment insurance now comes
forward as a major and living ISSUE this Is
primarily due to the great demonstrations, pro-
tests and struggles, that the workers have carried
through in every industrial center of Importance
How soon unemployment insurance will be es-
tablished and whether it will be of any benefit
to the workers, will be used by the capitalists
to exploit and disorganize the workers, will de-
pend upon the solidarity and militancy which
the working class displays in this fight
Only by struggle can the workers compel the
Federal government to adopt system of I'M
employment insurance The employed workers
whose interests are equally involved, must stand
shoulder to shoulder with the unemployed work
ers. The fight for unemployment insurance
must be coupled up with the struggle for the
other important and burning issues of the work
ers-againSt wage cuts, against the speed-up
for full pay where the stagger system is in force
against lynching and other oppression of Ne
groes, against the registration and deportation
OF foreign born workers. for the release of DO
itical prisoners.
In the fight against unemployment, the work.
ers especially demand the seven-hour day. and
five day week, with the six-hour day in dan
gerous or unhealthy industries, and for young
workers. We demand the immediate Institution
of this shortened work period in all government
institutions.
The unemployed and employed workers will
tight against the war which the capitalists are
preparing to make upon the Soviet Union The
workers will support the fight of the farmers
against starvation and for government relief
They will unite in struggle against the whole
Infamous program Of the Fish Committee
Until the adoption of adequate unemploy-
ment insurance by the federal government. the
workers, despite all police terrorism, will inten-
sify their demands for local relief in every form
for financial relief pay from the local and
state governments, against evictions and for low
er rents, for the opening of all vacant houses
and public buildings to lodge the homeless I'M
employed, for free light. gas and street car fare
for the unemployed, for free food for workers
school children, for abolition of the yagrancv
laws, for full wages on emergency public work.
etc., etc.
We call upon the working class to rally be-
hind the demands of our movement Workers
don't starve, fightl Don't let yourselves and
your children hunger in the midst of plenty The
brave Arkansas farmers, in taking food where
they were denied it by avaricious expIoters
sounded the militant keynote of the awakening
toiling masses Organize unemployment co,,n-
ellis. Build the Trade Union Unity League
Workers, unite! Employed and unemployed, or
ganized and unorganized, join hands in common
struggle, without regard to race, creed, color
age or sex. Organize great national demon
stration against unemployment on February 25
in every industrial center of America, in soli-
darity with the workers of the world who will
demonstrate on that day in all countries against
the mass starvation now being forced upon the
toilers by the bankrupt world capitalist system.
Demand with all your power and militancy the
enactment of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill!
The Workers Unemployment Insurance
Delegation.