The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-15
BOSS PRESS
TOLD TOLIE
ON MISERY
Suppression of News
On Unemployment,
Starvation Ordered
Boss Press Responds
Daily Suicides Tell Of
Workers. Misery

In an attempt to curb the militancy
of the working masses throughout
the country, the Hoover administra-
ton on Sept. II ordered all of the
capitalist press to start a thorough
going campaign to make the workers
and the farmers believe that the hor-
ror facing them this winter would
not be worse than ever before in the
history of the country. The day after
these orders were given out all of
the capitalist papers carried Dispatch
eS from Washington which proved
by all sorts of lying figures that I'M
employment was not much worse than
last year and that all of the stories
of starvation were exaggerated"
This campaign of lies about tie
present widespread starvation thru
out the United States is part of the
campaign carried on by the capital
ist class against the workers. The
railroad and steel industries are pre-
pairing to slash the wages of every
worker in those industries. These
wage slashes will be followed, accord
ing to the admissions of the capital
lists themselves, by wage slashes in
every other industry in the country.
What the capitalist class fears is that
the resistance of the workers to this
hunger campaign will grow sharply
in the coming months. For this rea-
son these lies are being intensified
They want to prevent the mass pres
sure of the millions of unemployed
for immediate relief and unemploy-
ment insurance.
The New York Times report Is
typical of those in the capitalist
press. This report, based directly on
the Figures" Of the Hoover propa-
ganda bureau, lies thoroughly about
the number of unemployed last win
ter and then proves" that in the
first place the number of unemployed
will not be much greater than last
year and in the second place unem-
ployment does not mean hunger or
starvation. The report goes on to
make clear the distinction between
unemployment and conditions of act
uaI distress" Distress" probably
means to the capitalist class and its
Hoover administration death from
| starvation.
The unemployed will be taken care
of this winter as they we're last win
ter according to the Hoover report.
Confidence was expressed that
as the problem was solved last win
ter, so it will be taken care of this
winter. In this connection it was
asserted that there was no occasion
for alarm and that nobody would
starve."
This is the promise of starvation
for thousands of the unemployed this
winter. This promise is already be-
ing carried into effect. The Daily
Worker is carrying stories daily of
suicides due to unemployment and
starvation. These reports are taken
from the capitalist press solely and
are only glimpse of the most ter
rible misery that the capitalist class
is inflicting on the working class in
the present crisis. These suicides in
reality are occurring by the score
every day without exception. 1t is
these suicides, this misery, this star
walton and terror that Hoover has
ordered the capitalist press to hide
from the workers.
The answer of the working masses
to this campaign of lying of the Hoo
yer administration must be to broad
cast every suicide, every case of star
walton, every wage cut and speed-up
scheme and to organize the workers
and farmers, in million masses,
against this horror. Fight against
hunger. Build the Unemployed Coun-
ellis. Fight for immediate relief and
unemployment insurance under the
leadership Of the Communist Party.