The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-12
STARVATION AND MISERY
IN ILLINOIS

stretch Of road Sc per cent were without paint,
81 per cent more needed paint badly and and
only per cent were adequately painted. OF los
farm homes 20 per cent were without paint,
IS per cent needed paint badly and only Il
per cent were adequately painted"
And, if this is not sufficient TO convince Gov.
Emmerson, OF the actual conditions OF the
masses of Illinois, let us quote finally from the
Chicago Tribune, which in a leading editorial of
April End, declares:
"The national income which few years ago
was estimated in excess of 80 billion dollars
is today scarcely half that amount, and every
day sees a further decline. Not one citizen In
thousand is as well off as he was three years
ago. Bankruptcies and receivershipS involve
ing millions of dollars are too common TO be
important news. The number Of unemployed
willing to work but unable TO find jobs is
estimated at 100000, figure without pre-
cedent in American history Steel mills are
operating at less than a third Of their capacity.
Farmers cannot meet their bills for interest
and taxes even though they bleed the land of
its fertility and allow their machinery and
equipment to rust and rot"
It would probably be worth while GOVERNOR
Enmerson to look into the official reports Of the
Illinois Department Of Labor, which is published
under his own signature in its bulletin for for
February, which declares:
Unemployed in 1881, compared with 1929,
has declined in the state of Illinois, 3O8 per
cent, and wages for the same period, declined
46.6 per cent and in the month of January,
1892, further decline Of 2S per cent in unem-
ployment and 81 per cent in wages
These are the conditions Of the masses in the
State of Illinois, according to capitalist sources
which only reveals fraction Of the actual con-
ditions that the workers, miners and small farm
ers throughout the State of Illinois live under
The conditions of the Negro masses in Chi
cago and other cities are much wors ethan the
average conditions of the white workers, en-
ployed and unemployed. In Chicago, there is
more than so per cent Of the Negro workers
unemployed. They are getting worse relief as
rule than the white workers. The Emmerson
Relief Commission discriminates and segragates
against the Negroes in giving out relief, They
are getting so-caled Negro boxes"
Single and young workers are being Cleaned
OUT from the flophouses.
Against all theS conditions, masses Of workers
part time workers, and unemployed workers, must
take much more than ever the campaign to
organize themselves into committees Of the un-
employed committees in the shops and wage
struggle against starvation, hunger, wage-cuts,
which is part Of the bosses war against the
working class.
The workers in Chicago are nliIitantly carrying
on a struggle against evictions. They go to
evictions and stop them. The militant struggle
forced the bosses to appropriate s20,0o0000o for
relief, but this is just a drop in the bucket,
especially when the workers did not receive this
amount The administration for this money
was placed in the hands of the bankers and
Honander, secretary Of the Illinois Federation Of
Labor.
Hnger Marchers to factories, demanding Jobs
and relief, County Hunger Marches, City Hunger
Marches, Hunger marches of children and women
must be organized everywhere demanding re-
lief. The workers refuse to starve They will
fight for the right to 1--we.