The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-07

with it. $3.50
Eve workers
have not taken Amter
this situation
hands down, waiting for something
TO happen. Everywhere the workers
are fighting against hunger. Under
the leadership Of the Unemployed
Councils, they are fighting for relief
and against evictions, for lower rents
and cheaper food prices. They are
procuring relief for the Negroes, for
eign-boTn and single workers, all of
whom are Disseminated against and
in most cases are denied relief.
State Bills for Future.
The demand for immediate relief
and for Unemployment Insurance
grows daily. Roosevelt and the Dem
ocratic Party made demagogic pro-
mises-but the workers have received
no real aid. The Democratic platform
pledged unemployment Insurance
but the bills that are being intro
duced in the states will not provide
one penny TO the 100000 totally
unemployed in the country. These
bills will grant AT MOST about two
dollars week to workers who may
be unemployed in the future. They
require weeks of waiting till the un-
employed worker of the future will
get insurance. And none of them
will go into effect till 1885 or 1887!
"On March 4th, Roosevelt will be
inaugurated president Of the United
States. Up to the present. he has
been a private citizen" He is not q
private citizen" when he deals with
the European debts Of the Wall Street
bankers. He confers with foreign
ambassadors and arrangeS all the
necessary measures. He is not a 'prf
vate citizen" when he deals with
loans of the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation to banks and railroads
He confers with democratic leaders
in the United States congress,
Special Relief Session.
On March 4th we workers will in
augurate an intensified campaign to
force Roosevelt to call a special ses-
sion of the new democratic congress
with one order of business-Immedi-
ate Unemployment Relief and Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance.
The struggle that the workers have
put up has brought results. In Chi
cago, the workers forced the authorl-
ties to withdraw the SO percent relief
cut. In st. Louis, they forced the
city to give relief to 10000 families
that they cut off the list. In New
York, they forced the city to make
higher appropriations for relief. The
National Hunger March and the
state Hunger Marches have compel
led the authorities to make more ano
more concessions to the unemployed
How Bosses Agents Act.
Nevertheless, hunger grows - the
misery of the masses deepens. Work
ers toiling part time earn less thar
many getting relief. The American
Federation of Labor officials, revers-
ing their position, now support the
fake unemployment insurance" bills
Of the bosses. The Socialist Party
and the Musteites, pretending that
the A. F. of L. leaders have turned
revolutionary, support the same
bills. At the same time, With the
aid of the socialist and Musteite
leaders. the bosses have introduced
various kinds Of "self-help', barter
and exchange schemes, which have
enc aim: To relieve the bosses and
the government Of the need OF pro-
yiding adequate relief and Unemploy-
u,cnt insurance.
All Out March 4th.
Workers: Shall We continue Il
starye? Shall we allow our children
to die of hunger? Our answer Is
determined No. Under the leader
chin of the Unemployed Councils on
March 4th, we will mobilize and dem
orstrate as on March 8, 1890, when
Che struggle began for Unemployment
Insurance. BY the millions we must
demonstrate in the streets Of every
city and t0wn-employed and unem-
pIoyed, Negro and white, men and
men. young and adult workers
in the demand that Roosevelt shall
carry out the program Of the jObless
millions. Hunger will not wait -
The workers will fight!
For United Struggle.
In this struggle, there is the cry
ing need of Unity Of all tni'ers. Fverv-
where the demand for United Strug.
gle with United Ranks is vivid. Never
before was unity more necessary than
row when the masses face starva-
ton and the grave danger of war.
Various other organizations the
,o-called Workers Committees ON Un-
employment Unemployed Citizens
Leagues. etc.-carry on their work
splittipg the ranks Of the workers
thereby helping the bosses and the
government cut or deny relief. The
workers in these organizations must
not tolerate this division Of our ranks
The Unemployed Councils call for
unity Of all workers. We propose
at in the daily struggle, the work