The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-13
Lessening Relief Calls for Sharpen
ing Local Struggles

S7500O00O0, while tens of thousands OF workers
families 90 not know where tomorroW's loaf of
bread will come from. And a rich woman spends
$4,000 to make grass grow over her dead dogs
grave. These are only a few instances to prove
that wage-cuts and speed-up of the employed
workers, their ruthless exploitation is coming
fabulous wealth for those already immensely
rich. Twenty-one exploiters of labor were
added to the list Of those with more than three
million year income and 5O4 in this country
have one million or more income year.
Lessening relief for the starving, fabulous
riches for the bosses. This calls for immediate
intensifcation of the struggle of the millions of
unemployed, together with the employed work
erS for immediate and adequate relief for the
jobless, against wage-cutS and speed-up for the
employed workers.
We must at once give all Unemployed Councils
and branches adequate leadership to strengthen
and assist them in their daily activities while at
the same time the members in our unemployed
organization assume the greatest degree Of mi
tiative in discussions, tasks and struggles This
will develop leadership among the unemployed
workers.
We must investigate the starvation cond-
tons of the workers in the neighborhoods, I'M
cover and bring to the light of day the misery
of thousands upon thousands of families who are
slowly starving to death. We must fight for
immediate food and adequate housing for these
families from the city government and the large
corporations, constantly agitatng for memploy-
ment insurance as our major objective We
must continually expose all takers, government
charity, the bosses and all their agents in the
labor movement We must lay the basis for
measure of relief, of food to be given by IN
employed Councils and branches to starving fam
lies while at the same time We emphatically
indicate that such solidarity relief can only be
given in small measure and that the rich and
their government those responsible for unem-
ployment, must be made to give adequate relief.
Hand in hand with this activity must go the
organization Of many neighborhood branches of
unemployed workers, the holding of many neigh
borhood meetings
The bosses and their governments are reduc-
ing and discontinuing the little relief given dur
ing the winter months. In a number of instances
our Unemployed Councils and the TUUL in the
cities are failing to carry on steady struggles
against lessening relief. They look upon this
additional task Of struggling for direct relief for
the starving families as their only task This is
an error. The local struggles must go forward,
must be intensified just now when the capitalists
are condemning the unemployed to starve more
upon the basis that it is more pleasant to starve
in the summer time. The local struggles must
go forward, the struggles against reduction and
discrimination of employment of workers given
a few days work week by the city during the
winter months.
While we battle for food for starving families,
we must broaden and sharpen our local struggles
against all forms of lessening and inadequate
relief