The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-21
HUNGER MARCHES

O'Clock at night, knocked on the door where
number of the marchers were sleeping, woke
them up and asked to do something for them.
He and his son brought the men big cauldron
of spaghetti, and for few hours there was
much chatting and joking.
In New Jersey, in Cartaret the marchers did
not think that they would have any meeting.
The little town seemed bare, till they came to the
corner of the main street. There the entire
town awaited them. meeting was held then
the marchers set out for the next city. But the
Cartaret workers and their children did not
want the marchers to leave. The trucks we're
sent ahead and the marchers, accompanied by
the Cartaret workers. proceeded along the road.
once more the trucks were dispatched space,
but the workers and their children would not
leave. The children wanted that working
mans psper"--the Daily Worker; they wanted
to learn one of the songs that the marchers
sang. And this was taught them on the road to
Trenton.
In Elizabeth, the marchers held a splendid
meeting, The police did not like the size of
the meeting and tried to interfere. The chief
tried to disrupt the meeting and pull the speaker
from the box. But, with one fling he went fly
ing out Of the crowd, and the meeting went on.
What is the significance of the Hunger
gle for Unemployment Insurance, in that the de-
mand is presented to the state legislature by men
representing the masses of unemployed in their
respective territories; they represent a method
of demand by selected groups of workers; and
they convince large numbers Of workers of the
insincerity of the demagogues who sit in the
state capitols (Roosevelt) and the capitalists
determination not to grant unemployment in
stlrance. They fill the workers with greater will
to fight for Insurance. and convince them that
they will get nothing but by struggle.
In Albany and in Trenton the workers learned
how representatives of the workers, especially
the unemployed, are treated by their" govern
ment They learn that this government, which
receives, with Bonded knee, prostitute queen,
a rake of prince or vicious labor-hater does
not receive the representatives of the workers,
but clubs them, arrests them and prepares to
meet them with machine guns. These marches
have opened the eyes not only of the marchers
themselves, but of the tens of thousands of
workers who greeted them and listened to their
speeches as they marched to the state capitols.
These workers know now that only by more in
tense organization and struggle will they get
relief and insurance. They know now that the
"Reds" the Communists and revolutionary trade
unonists are not their enemies, as Fish, Green,
Woll and Norman Thomas brand them but the
only ones who fight for the interests of the
workers. They know now that they will get
nothing by asking for it, it makes no difference
how much they may be entitled to it. They will
get Unemployment Insurance; they will win the
right to hold meetings and to present their de-
mands to the state Legislatures only when they
are properly organized and ready to fight.
The fight for Unemployment relief and IN
surance goes on. The marches to Albany and
Trenton are now followed by marches in the
other states. The workers all over the country
will not stop there. Although the demand was
already presented to the United States Con-
gress, which merely adopted bill to study
the unemployment situation and then adjourned
without even considering the Workers Unem-
pIoyment Insurance Bill which was presented
by the National Delegation on February 10-the
fight will go on. The 100000 unemployed
workers of this country, backed up by the en-
ployed workers. will continue the fight, by or
ganizing firmer, better knit Unemployed Coun-
ellis, by building up the revolutionary unions
of the Trade Union Unity League and by launch
ing fight that will COMPEL the U. S. ON
gress and the Wall Street bosses whom that
congress represents, to grant Unemployment IN
surance, whether they like it or not.
This is the task of the entire working class
and the Communist Party makes it one Of its
most important jobs.