The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-06
The Fight for Food for 16 Million Unemployed
Depends Upon Mass Support for Daily Worker!

week
Such facts concealed from the workers by the cap
itas press Statistics jugged throughout the United
States and III all industries In the Steel industry, for
ample the basic industry of American capitalism work
who receives days work per month is rated
employed"
THE Daily Worker is the only paper which tells these
facts TO American workers. 1t is the only daily paper
which gives the American working class the
conclusions to be drawn from these facts; that is that
the standard of living of the toing Of the L. s.
has been reduced by 70 cent since 1929 1t is the only
paper for American workers which shows the basis of
such facts that Wall St Government and the cap
alst class VIII Executive Committee it is, is driving
the living and social standards of the entire American
working class to low levels that before iii
history have the living conditions of many millions
of workers been reduced drasticay in simsr length
of time.
pUT the Daily Worker, and the Communist Party of
IL which is the spokesman do not stop with lex
posure" No, the Daily Worker is not merely bearer of
words it is ga of action Through its nssence
organization and struggle through its exposure of
the treacheres of the Socialist Party leaders and the
bureaucrat of the American Federation of Labor and thru
its leadership in action in connection with such exposures
it has made possible for the working class to win decisive
victories in the struggle against the capitalist offensive
is only necessary to cite here one or two outsand
ing examples The Federated Press Washington Cores
pondent sometime ago stated in his dispatches that in
necton with social unrest Chicago considered the
danger spot by the federal authorities The for
this quite clear In Chicago and throughout the State of
Illinois there has organized powerful
ment for unemployment relief against evcons for lower
rents and for compulsory Federal Unemployment Insur
This movement for which the Daily Worker speaks
and liz whose organization the Daily Worker played the
decisive part has wrested from the State of Illinois
from the Federal Government sSS0OO0 for the relief of
the unemployed workers and their dependents
In the face of almost unexampled persecution in the
haT tak tho off
workers Negro and white in the face of clubbng
gassng and wholesale arrests the struggle for Unempo
ment Relief and Insurance with the Daily Worker in the
forefront has gone forward in the State Of illinois, and
the struggle against starvation there has eached the
highest level of any of the movements of the unemployed
in united front with employed workers in any section of
the United States.
In this State of heavy industry coal mining steel
railway and water transport the Daily Worker has taken
leading part in organizing the for the battle
against starvation.
In st. Louis last fall the hunger drive of the en-
poyers and bankers and the city and state government
was to have cut off 5000 families from the un-
employed relief list The Unemployed Councils and the
Communist Party went into action In whole series of
struggles in which the armed forces of the city and state
were called into play in the effort to terrorze and
press the demonstrations of the unemployed work
and tier dependents in the effort terrorze these
to continue the relief for the $4,000 workers and their
dependents whom they had planned to condemn
by slow starvation
In New York City and in the State as whole there
have been the struggles of the Unemployed Councils to
which the Daily Worker has given expression and guidance
that have forced the authorities to continue unempoy
relief for hundreds of thousands of workers they had