The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-24
Steel Workers and Miners On
Hunger March to Pittsburgh

ers shall be spared the bitter experience of
receiving money for which no compensating
labor has been given" and therefore attacks
the demand for direct government aid, and
unemployment insurance. Let the workers
pay!" is the slogan of the bosses and their
government.
The Allegheny County hunger march will de-
mand free food and clothing for the children of
unemployed and part-time workers, no evictions
no shutting off of gas, light, or water
The workers will insist that the Sc 100000 sub
way fund, raised through bond issue in Pitts
burgh several years ago for subway that has
not even been started, shall be turned over for
winter relief for the unemployed The demand
for full wages for part-time workers for the
7-hour day without reduction in pay as against
the stagger system proposed by the Bosses the
immediate unemployment of the blacklisted
miners, and the housing of all miners starving
and freezing in tent colonies; an end to the
terror in the company steel and mining towns
the right to the streets for the Workers-these
are also among the demands OF the UNEMPLOYED
The fight for unemployment insurance will be
brought to the forefront as a principal point in
the struggle OF the jobess and part-time workers
The total indadequacy of charity ventures,
the discrimination and degrading Investigations
practiced by private relief associations the pres
ou4C DAOuSIG upOil Tile WOTkeTS III Une QrlVe OF
the Allegheny Welfare Fund and Emergency As
sociation the actions of the Pittsburgh city
government in adopting the stagger system on
public works and cutting down its public works
budget while graft and corruption permeate
every department-theSe issues must be brought
before the workers to unmask the bourgeois and
reformist relief manoevres as attempts to de-
moralize the ranks and dampen the militancy
OF the workers in their struggle for unemploy-
ment relief and insurance
Preparations for the Allegheny County hunger
march take place at the same time that Pin
chots Legislature meets to consider Pinchots
fake relief program On the basis of a concrete
analysis OF this program we must campaign to
break the illusions among masses OF workers
that Pinchot will fight for adequate govern
ment relief and that his aims are basically dit
ferent from Hoovers. We must show how his
road building tent colonies are an ATTEMPT to
develop forced labor in more open form in
Pennsylvania. We must expose his deliberate
failure to propose taxing the rich for unempoy-
ment relief, but instead throwing the burden on
the workers themselves through the indirect
forms OF city taxation schemes. We must point
out that while Pinchot makes denagogic ap-
peas for relief in Harrisburg. his state trooper
attack the unemployed in New Kensingtol, in
Fayette County who organize Hunger Marches
to demand relief
All forces Of the National Miners Union and
the Metal Workers Industrial League in Ale
gheny County must be thrown into the mobili-
zation of the broadest masses OF workers for the
Hunger March. The National Steel Conferences
held in Pittsburgh on September 9th poiueed
out that the organization of the unemployed
steel workers is direct road to the orgalz. ten
of the men in the mills Ii,-cWise, struggle
for the interests of the backlisted and unem-
ployed miners is direct link with those still
employed in the mines, working at the most
two or three day. week.
Every Communist nucleus in the steel and coal
towns OF Allegheny County must consider their
principal task to organize the fighting demon
stration of the unemployed Negro and white
workers, who in the strike of 10000 coal miners
in Western Pennsylvania gave an outstanding
example of class solidarity in their common bat
tie against starvation, must be rallied together
in this united struggle for unemployment relief
1t is necessary to establish common fighting
front OF unemployed, part-time, and employed
workers
In this way we can develop militant mass
movement for the County Hunger March, for
the widest response to the National Hunger
March to Washington, d. O., on December 7th.