The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-14
REPAIRING NATIONAL HUNGER MARCH IS OUR NEXT MA
ALL COMMUNISTS
CALLED TO ACT:
TIME IS SHORT
Help Build Up United
Front Committees;
Fight for Relief


Statement by District Committee,
New York District, Communist
Party:
The struggle for winter relief is on
and all the forces of the working
class must be modified in order to
put through this fight. All the
boasts of the capitalists of this city
as to what they are doing for the
unemployed do not cover up the fact
that there are hundreds Of thousands
of starving workers in the city Of
New York who are being openly dis
eliminated against. Young workers
receive no relief whatever. Negro
workers are being openly disa irntn-
ated against. Foreign-born workers
are having their relief cut off or re-
duced to the very lowest level.
Next Main Task
The March to Washington, which
leaves New York on Nov. 80, to ar
rive in washington on Dec. 5, is the
next main action Of the Party. The
Election Campaign had in the cen
ter OF its struggle the fight for I'M
employment relief and unemploy-
nent and social insurance at the eX-
penSe of the employers and the gov
eminent. The workers of the coun-
try look to the Communist Party to
lead them in the struggle. This win
ter is going to be a very bitter one.
win Not Wait Longer.
Mrs. August Belmont may very
well say: I'VE are all of us suffering
to some extent and feeling lessened
incomes and salaries" The capital
ISL class does not feel the lessened
income. The working class, which
has no reserves whatever to fail back
upon, impoverished and reduced tc
the lowest level is determined that
the promises of Hoover that no one
shah suffer from hunger and cold,
OF Roosevelt that relief shall be pro-
lided in sufficient quantity shall
now be fulfilled. The workers viii
not wait until tiae capitalist class has
decided that the lowest level ha|
been reached. but will fight now in
or6sr to save themselves and then
families from absolute starvation anc
ruination.
New York is the richest city in the
country. Mr.. Newton D. Baker may
speak about New York being the
apex and culmination' Of the whole
theory of mu tern society," but the
workers Of New York know the con-
trary. A million and a half unem-
ployed are starving and are deter
mined to have relief.
What to Do.
In order to carry out this struggle
the whole Party must now be thrown
into the work. This means:
u The organization of struggles
in the blocks, the building up OF
Block Committees and the actua
carrying on of the fight for relief.
o Through these struggles, the
election of delegates to the Hunger
March
81 Mobilization of the workers in
the markets, dayrooms, etc, flop
houses, Hoovervilles, etc, in struggle
for relief and the election of dele
gates to Washington.
a Special attention must be paid
10 the mobilization of the workers ir
the Negro sections of the city, special
struggles being put up in order tc
obtain relief.
81 The raising Of funds for the
Hungar March:
al Through the collection Of
solidarity assessments in all unions,
b. The circulation Of w. I. R.
lists,
e. Fullest mobilization Of ali
Party and Y. c. L. members for the
Tag Days on Nov. 19 and 20,
d Acceptance of the scent con-
tribution assessment on all tickets
during the Hunger March up until
Dec. 10.
81 Borough and city-wide actions
as proposed by the Unemployed
Councils.
. Reception of the Hunger
Marchers at Bronx Coliseum on Nov
18th.
81 Demonstration at City Hall al
the time Of the presentation OF the
demands in Washington.
This is the task that is immedi.
ately in hand and every Party mem
Der mist be conscious of the fact
whether he is doing work through TIL
unit, the Union, mass organization
etc. that he is now called upon t.
throw himself with fullest emery I'M
the putting through of the struggl
for winter relief and the Hunre
srcII.
In this struggle there must b
mass recruitment into the Party o
toe best fighting elements, who lool
to the Party as their Party.