The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07

and unemployed to support the National Hunger March
Washington the bearer of the demands of the broadcast
1t calls the workers to strengthen the organza
ton of the unemployed and further develop the struggle
throughout the country for unemployment insurance
Never before has been clear to the broadest
that impossible to better their condition of misery star
walton and despair without forcing the bosses to provide
unemployment insurance at full wages administered by the
workers themselves and at the of the government
and the employers.
The crisis has sharpened such degree and its conse
quences have become terrible that the bourgeose no
longer deny the facts But admitting that the crisis
the result of the postwar crazy economy and that it is
catastrophe second only to the great war; the bourgeoe
is trying make basis and lever for its economic and
political offensive against the working masses.
This that the of hunger the suffering OF
millions the physical humiliation of tens of thousands OF
workers. disease suicide insanity, and the death and life
long Gripping of children will not pass over but will increase
tremendously Without winning unemployment insurance,
millions unemployed workers will remain at the mercy of
miserable charities.
The more the working realize the necessity for
unemployment insurance the becomes evident that
the capitalist government will not grant it without persist
ent and determined struggle For almost two years. the
working varied FORMS with increasing determine
tion has fought for unemployment insurance From March
6th 1880 when million and quarter demonstrated almost
spontaneously for unemployment insurance the movement
has grown organaona strength and
scope
On February 10TH 1884, the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Delegation in the of million and half
workers announced before Congress the demands OF the
soent refusal these demands by the Washington admin
istration showed what forces stand behind these
demands
In thousands of demonstration in Chicago, in Cleveland,
in San Francisco in New York. throughout the country mil
lions workers unfoded the banner of struggle for
poyment insurance In not single strike did the strikers
fail to out with this militant demand for unemployment
And the glorious strike of the Pennsylvania
OhoWest Virginia miners expressed in the most brilliant
the solidarity of the employed and unemployed work
in the fight for their common demand OF unemployment
insurance
All the fights led by the Unemployed Councils against
evctons for immediate relief against the corruption OF the
charities carried out under the main slogan OF unen
ployn1ent insurance struggles that the newly
involved Masses especially the Negroes have shown the
greatest mitancy frmness and readiness to sacrifice
Eternal honor to the workers who fell in the struggle for
unemployment insurance the streets of Chicago Cleveland
and New York;
The Hoover hunger government with stubborness and
nsolence characteristic of decayng ruling class refused
every demand of the workers for unemployment Insurance.
not because they could pretend that unemployment is de-
creasng will decrease but because the suffering and star
walton of millions of unemployed essential part of their
general plan of still sharper exploitation of the entire work
ing class
All the plans Of the bourgeoisie to find out of the
crisis based the continued existence and growth Of
unemployment, and all their denagogic projects to fight
unemployment stagger pan fake unemployment insurance
of the socialists and Mustees have the aim only of making
it less visible and therefore difficult for the to
fight it, The sweeping wagecuts the furiosy increasing
eplotatoa this the capitalists count putting through
by weakening the resistance of the workers through une
ployment. All the preparations of the American i'm
perasts for markets. for colonies against the So
Wet Union calculated the possibility of using the I'M
employed as cannon-fodder for the
American imperialism is stepping forward the inter-
national leader of the struggle against unemployment in
The driving force in the creation of the imperial
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