The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-14
Only Mass Struggles Can Force
Unemployment Relief

and 100000 factory and building workers down
state are out of a job. This is only an addition
to the 100000 unemployed workers in Cook
County and workers in many other trades and
industries in Illinois.
1t must be clearly understood that 100000,
which appropriated by the Illinois State
Legislature, was done not because of the
misery and starvation of 100000 unemployed
workers, Negro and white, in the city of Chicago,
and more than 100000 throughout the state,
but because of the militant struggle on the part
of the unemployed workers, particularly in Chi
cagO, which forced the bosses to appropriate
the S20,OOO0O0. This they openly admit.
However this money is to be gotten not from
the rich, but by gasoline tax and other similar
methods of taxation so the burden is put on the
bread strata Of the population and not on the
ones on when it should be put, the capitalist
class
These facts must conclusively bring home to
the workers of Chicago and the state of Illinois
and nationally that workers in this country can
win not only miserable $20,OoOOoO which is
actually drop in the bucket as far as solving
the problem Of misery and starvation of the
Masses but they can force the passage Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill paying
full wages to the unemployed at the expense of
the bosses and their governments, only then
when they organize their power to force the
bosses. There is no other way.
The activities of the lberal-socialist Chicago
Workers Committee of Unemployed" who in a
mice way" want unemployed insurance. are
simply attempts on the part of the bourgeosie
to prevent workers to fight for the real Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill
The fear of the workers in Chicago reflects
itself not only among the capitalist class but
also among their lieutenants in the labor move
ment. The rank and file of the Chicago Fed
ment. The rank and file Of the Chicago Fed
Grafton Of Labor demanded that the Chicago
Federation OF Labor organize an unemployed
demonstration demanding immediate uneIn-
ployed relief The leadership of the Chicago
Federation of Labor refused to comply with the
demands Of the rank an file because, as the
Present of the Chicago Federation of Labor, q
so-called progressive, John Fitzpatrick, said;
1--WE would be dealing with situation that
has lot of danger in it,"
Yes indeed, the Chicago workers would raise
their demands and turn the demonstration of
the Chicago Federation OF Labor into demon
stration for the Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The Chicago workers show splendid response
to the struggles for immediate relief They were
responsible for stopping evctions after Aug. g.
1881, they are again stopping evictions in the
city, they are gaining some demands in the flop
houses, they forced relief to many thousands of
families and now to appropriate s2O,00Oooo. But,
despite all this, despite the fact that there
100000 unemployed, the Unemployed Councils in
Chicago, which has 40 branches and approx
mately 100 or more block committees, with
total membership of 10000 or more, is just very
small percentage of the masses of the unem-
ployed. The present organizational apparatus of
the Unemployed Council must be widened and
broaened embracing the ma iority of the mem
ployed workers and large percentage of en-
ployed workers from shops trade unions in
Chicago
1t is the task Of every Communist, every re-
evolutionary workers. while we continue the
struggle for relief, against evctions to mobilize
masses of workers in struggle to higher plain
for Unemployment Insurance, for building houses
for the unemployed, to do away with the slums,
especially In the Negro neighborhood, open! y Ct