The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-12
by B. Il. GEBEBT

"AIO one starves in Illinois" declares Governor
~ I. K. EmmersOn of Illinois in q wire to
U. s. Senate: 'eyYhile there is much destdtatiOn
In Illinois, none Of our people are actually
starving One million people in Illinois are
unable to secure employment although able
and willing TO work"
None OF our people are starving" and here are
facts TO the contrary: The Cicero Herald OF
March oath. reports as follows: Lines form
every day at the garbage dump from eight in the
morning to five in the afternoon, awaiting truck
loads Of city refuse that is dumped there daily.
Men and women come here to see if they can't
lind food to carry back home with them. They
get some If they come early enuf"
This is a description OF the life of the workers
in Cicero and vicinity who are primarily former
employees Of the Western Electric owned by the
chairman OF the Hoover starvation committee
Mr.. Clifford.
A Quaker relief worker in Williamson County
writes: II learned that 1t was one thing to read
about starvation and another to walk into
clean home and shake hands viii man who
had been eating nothing but corn-Tnesl and water
for two weeks" A miner in Roella writes that
a mine in that town in Franklin County, was
shut down over Il months ago. The whole town
is starving. They receive relief from the Red
Gross, averaging SC per day per family.
So there is no one starving in Illinois, is there
Mr. Governor? The Chicago Daily News reports
as follows: Chicago and their school board now
owes their $4,000 public school teachers and civil
service employees S35 900 O00 and this debt of the
community to the men and women who are
teaching the young generation in the way 1t
should go is increasing daily. No relief is Of
fered by any one" These teachers, in spite of
being misled by a bunch Of officials of the
Chicago Teachers Federation and Others decided
to arrange a demonstration in front Of the City
Hall demanding immediate relief, as they can
not teach and starve at the same time. Orig
inaly the permit was granted, and later revoked
BY Mayor Cernak and Police Commissioner ALL
man on the grounds that the Communists will
join the demonstration, that there is already
Communist ideas spread among the students and
teachers, and that the demonstration will be
Communist demonstration. This is a clear ex-
ample OF the conditions Of the teachers
And now, what about the farmers? Professors
Carl r. Hutchinson and Dr. Arthur Holt, in
yestigated the conditions Of the farmers in
Newaygo, Kent and Ionia counties of Michigan
and after their investigation Of the conditions
Of the farmers declared that "the farmers be-
lieve that they are worse than all classes" and
as a result of these conditions, the bourgeois
professors declared.
Then there are the farmers now talking the
language of revolt. Their backs are against
the wall and it will take only few dramatic
mortgage sales of lands held by families for
two generations to start the fireworks. For
them the passing Of the American farmer to
peasantry will not happen without struggle
in the spirit of 17T6."
It is true that these conditions are described
in Michigan, but conditions OF the Illinois farmer
are by no means better they are probably wroSe,
and the spirit of the farmers Of Illinois is equal
to that described about the farmers in the three
counties in Michigan.
Here are some facts told by the bourgeois
professors: "Of 131 barns on s. twenty-mile