The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-10-14

/Il6IG NIOIludy anu 1 ut0udNs
The national committee and the
special representatives sent by the
jobless of practically all the biggest
cities of the country made a session
of about 100 delegates
Full and careful consideration was
given to reports Of all these cenUers,
and the enlarged session thereupon
adopted a manifesto to all workers
and unemployed workers which points
cut that in this fourth winter Of mass
misery and hunger
More than sixteen millions Of us
are already totally jobless. Less than
fifteen percent of the employable
population has full time work Merci-
less, repeated wage slashes have re-
duced by nearly one half the earn
ings of even those who still have jobs.
The jobless army grows at the rate
of 100000 per month. The spectre of
hunger and restitution hoyers over
every working class family in the
United States. Never has there been
greater need for united action by all
sections of the toiling population.
There Is But One Choice, Fight for
Relief Or Starve.
"The Wall st. government at Wash
ington srrogantly refuses to provide
the necessary funds for the relief of
those who have been impoverished by
the prolonged crisis. Instead, every
institution of capitalist society is en-
ployed in the effort to impose new,
intolerable burdens upon the masses,
so that the powerful ruling class may
not be disturbed in its complete mo-
nopoly of the nations enormous
wealth. Only the pressure of the
united toiling masses, can force them
to release their greedy hold upon the
vast storehouses of food and clothing,
for want of which we, our wives and
children die.
In the effort TO force us into silent
submission to their hunger program
the bosses and their government have
unleashed all their forces of violence
ana terror. They are conducting a
ruthless, murderous war against the
hungry masses. Within the last II
months, a score of workers have been
murdered on the streets of Chicago,
Cleveland, Detroit and the National
Capitol-Washington. Many more
have been MANNED and wounded,
gassed and trampled by their hired
police and military. Hoover, the
Chef Executive of Wall st. govern
ment, personally directed the armed
forces that drove the hungry veterans
their wives and children, at the point
Of sabres anc bayonets from their
miserable novels on the mud flats
Of Anacostia.
But fire, sword, savage terror.
brutal attacks, cannot and will not
COW the masses into submission. The
masses of the working class, who
are threatened with death by
slow starvation, must and will fight
for the right to live. Our united
forces CAN defeat the bosses hunger
program and the terror which sup
ports this program.
Militant Struggles Can Win Food,
even the meager relief which has
thus far been afforded has been Sc
cured only through militant, stub
born struggle. 1t was through such
struggle that the workers OF ST. Louis
forced the officials OF that city to
reinstate to the relief rolls the $4,000
families who had been stricken off
these rolls.
Forward to Renewed, Multiplied, In
tensified Mass Struggles!
1.-THE victories achieved through the
mass struggles that have been urged
up to now, point the way to the
greater victories that must be won.
battles which must be waged as the
only means of assuring our existence
through the fourth year of the crisis
which we are now entering.
The National Committee OF the
Unemployed Councils of the U. S.,
CONTINUED ON PAGE IHREED