The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-03-01
New Tactics in the
Hunger Offensive
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EGuCIdU1Oll VI AdDOt nAAAOAA
has from the first supported the
Hoover Hunger program beginning
with its united front with the govern
ment, the bankers and industrial
lords for a policy Of wage-cuts under
the guise Of no wage-cuts, through
the period Of the Vancouver con-
vention and its opposition to federal
unemployment insurance, down to its
present endorsement of and active
participation in this latest attempt
to disrupt the ranks of the unemploy-
ed and employed workers and prevent
successful struggle for unemployment
insurance and cash relief at the ex-
pense of the bosses and their gov
eminent.
It Is likewise fitting that involved
in this nationwide scheme to throttle
the struggle for federal unemploy-
ment insurance, and aiding to foster
the illusions created by the initiation
program of Wall Street, are all those
ritualistic orders and secret societies
with middle class-and actual fascist
leadership-which have as their main
purpose the perpetuation OF the
fakery of democracy in country
run by the most powerful capitalist
dictatorship in the world, and to tie
the working class to the chariot Of
its exploiters and their agents.
Listed among them are the Elks,
Moose, Owls, Masons, knights of
the various categories, Redmen, Jul
nior Order of American Mechanics,
knights of Columbus, etc,-the whole
Heterogeneous collection of "fraternap'
eordrs, protestant and cathlic, thru
which American imperialism works
to dominate the minds Of the workers,
farmers and professional and intel
lectual groups.
The campaign Is being conducted
with the aid of the capitalist press
proper and of the various special
publications of the organizations in
wlved. Its methods are those of the
well-known 'high-pressure" sales
manship used in putting over the
world war and the numberless sub
sidiary propaganda campaigns to
which it gave birth.
The "give a job" idea is the So
called public appeal" But it is only
a selling point. The campaign will
not and cannot create employment
except for its sponsors.
More jobs are dependent upon an
upward swing in the production of
commodities for which markets must
be found. There is not the slightest
sign of such development. On the
contrary, production still continues
to decrease. Where one worker is
hired, two are fired. On this basis
some eighty thousand new" Jobs
have been found, according to the
latest figures of the capitalist press
This is a long way from a million
These jobs consist of everything from
a few hours work repairing a front
fence to few days work in a res
taurant washing dishes-and even
these at starvation wages.
There is not single instance, and
there will be no single instance, of
workers by the thousand returned to
the basic industries for steady en-
ployment as result of this cam
paign. Capitalism does not work that
way. Outside of negligible number
Of jobs given by kindhearted bosses
who find this method of aiding the
unemployed cheaper than cash con-
tributions, there will be no change
except that mass unemployment will
continue to increase.
1t is the campaign itself that mat
tiers. 1t is the massing of the prOpa-
ganda forces of American capitalism
to create new, but cruel and unreaIiz-
able hopes among the hungry MILL
ons, and to check in this way the
growing struggle for Workers Unem-
ployment Insurance at full wages,
paid for by the capitalists and their
government, and administered by
committees of workers - the bill
placed before Congress by the Ma
tional Hunger March and the Unem-
lployed CouncilS-this is what matters.
This a major purpose of the present
"give a job" drive headed by the
American Legion and the leadership
Of the American Federation of Labor
partners in the enterprise of pre-
venting the victorious mass struggles
Of the unemployed millions for Work
ers Unemployment Insurance.
1t is betrayal of the interests OF
the American working class on a
scale seldom attempted. 1t can and
must be exposed and defeated by
mass agitation and struggle and in
this the Communist Party must take
leading part.
There is a still more sinister side
to this drive. 1t will be dealt with
later.
Not the least of the purposes Of
these two campaigns, therefore, with
the prominence given TO the Ameri-
can Legion, the American Federation
of Labor leadership and their patrio-
tic appeal for the war" against UNI
employment and the depression" is
the putting of the unemployment
"reiief" and the unemployed them
selves ON war basis.
The exposure of this phase of the
scheme and the struggle against it is