The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-03
Bread Prices Rise
60 P. C.; Still Soar
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the rise in the price of bread and
other necessities of life. The rise
in the price of bread is already go
per cent. The rise in the cost OF
meat, vegetables, butter, eggs, is
IS to 20 per cent. Clothing prices
next week or the week after will go
up 20 to so per cent. The wage
demands of the workers should
provide for proportional immedi-
ate increase of wages.
Taking advantage of the Roose-
welt scheme to raise prices and prof.
its by the new schemes. the boss
bakers will raise bread prices to the
limit. Against this action of the
bosses, the workers in all neighbor-
hoods. the housewives, children, the
unemployed and employed. should
organize their committees to resist
these price rises.
The American Bakers Association
very cleverly raise prices first in Iowa
and California, a long distance from
the big industrial centers. But they
want the workers to get used to
the idea. They want to disarm them,
to make. them think it is natural
process of the Roosevelt prosperity
scheme. But there should be no
waiting. The workers in all the
shops and factories should discuss
what this rise in the price of bread
will mean to them, how it will cut
down their wages. In formulating
demands. they should remember all
prices will go up. All unions should
take up the rapidly rising prices and
its relation to wages. Factory gate
meetings should be organized to rally
the workers against the rise in prices
which will mean wage cut.
Neighborhood committees should
be organized now to demand lower
bread prices, to prepare demon
STATIONS in front of the leading
bakery stores, to arouse the house
wives against the inevitable price
rises, TO sound the alarm against
this method of pressing down the
workers living standard.
The Communist Party nuclei,
working with the Trade Union Unity
League, should take the initiative in
forming these neighborhood COM
nittees against the rise in bread
and other prices. A house to house
canvass should be made to enlist the
support of every workers family
Meetings should be called, and res
olutions against the high prices and
the Roosevelt starvation scheme
passed. A program of demonstra-
tons against the bakeries should be
drawn up. The workers children
should be drawn into active par
ticipation in this struggle. Neigh
borhood meeting places of all trade
unions, fraternal and other workers
organizations should be visited to
give their support to the neighbor-
hood committees, to urge these
workers to join the double fight
in the shops and against the
stores-against the rapidly rising
prices.
The millions Of unemployed whose
relief is Systematically being cut,
should, on the basis OF the rise in
bread and other food prices, mobilize
to demand an increase in cash re-
lief. Not only does the Roosevelt
scheme lead to direct cut in the
amount of relief, but the cut is
further emphasized by the rise in
the basic food prices.
Only immediate organization and
struggle on all fronts can be effec-
tive. The bosses are already carry
ing through their speedy program
OF raising prices on all necessities
OF life. With wages low, with mil.
lions OF unemployed now starving,
and millions more having their re-
iief cut, greater starvation faces
the entire working class.