The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 2, 1931, Page 10

hs on Six Govt. Sneers At Jobless ‘Delegation One hundred and fifty delegates ,athered in Washington, D. C., on February 9th and 10th to present to Congress the proposed Workers’ Unemployment Insurance Bill, which ealls for $15 a week for every unemployed worker and $3 additional for every dependant. The bill had the backing of a million and a half workers who had signed it, , and White Together and white, young and old, and women delegates had come in old automobilas, hitch- hiked, beat freights, rode busses, from as far west as Los Angeles, from the South, from New Eng- land states. They told of the work being done in their localities by the unemployed councils in the struggle for immediate relief and the Workers’ Social Insurance Bill. Lillian May West, a Negro work- er from Youngstown who was elected as one of the committee of 15 to speak in the name of the delegation, told he senators and congressmen who crowded the committee room, that she and her husband had been out of work for eight months, and that they and their children were hungry, and they did not mean to stand by quietly and starve. Women Tell of Terrible Unemployment Two working women from Can- ton, Ohio, spoke of the exploitation of the women .on the jobs and the terrible unemployment. They said the women wanted to learn about organization. Some of the older women dele- gates told of. being discriminated against, when.they went to look for jobs, and told they were too old te kéep up with the speed. Women delegates took an active part in the entire work of the delegation. Together with the men delegates, and the Washington, D. C. comrades, they prepared and served the food which the Work- ers International Relief rovided for the conference, and prepared food for the delegates to take with them on their long journeys back. Government Gives Them Tear Gas Bombs The reception the celegation got from the boss clase rulers of America — tear gas bombs, ar- mored trucks with machine guns, held in readiness—made them real- ize that the workimgclase cannot depend on signatures and petitions te Congress but only on the or- ganized strength of the working- class. They resolved to go back sad or- ganize greater masses of working- class women inte the Unemployed Couneils, the revotutionary unions affiliated with the Trade Usion cil Tear Bombs Won't Stop Unemployed Councils PITTSBURGH, Psa. — The {rade Union Unity League is organizing the women steel workers and wives of the steel workers in Monessen, inte the Unemployed Councils, to fight | for bread, unemployed insurance and immediate relief for the unemployed. Sarah: da I WITH LINEMPLOYED WOMEN The Women Workers in the Fight For Bread EAN Women workers fought in many demonstrations and hunger march- es on Feb. 10th and on Feb. 25th. Fketo shows arrest of unemployed woman worker in a recent jobless demonstration. Sy “Work Side by Side With Men, Fight Side By Side With Them” (By a Jobless Girl. Worker) DENVER, Colo. — I talked with a young Spanish girl who has been taking part in the demonstrations and hunger marches here in Den- ver. She is a beet worker, and this is her story. “Last spring and summer we worked in the hot sun fourteen or sixteen hours a day, weeding and thinning the beets. In the fall we had to work outside from early in the morning until late at night, no matter what the weather was like. Our hands were blue and cracked, and bleeding from the cold. “There are five in our family. We all worked, and at the end of the beet season, we had forty-nine dollars to face the winter, “We can not find work. , tyare look’d everywhere for’a job! ! need Shoes and-clothes. We saat buy anything. We will have to fight for relief. What else can we do!” There are about five thousand Spanish speaking workers in Den- ver, most of them out of work. They are discriminated against at every turn. Even the charitable institutions refuse to help them. These workers all seem to realize that it is only through organiza- tion and struggle that the work- ers can better their conditions. _ The fine militant spirit of these te take part in the struggles as the men. Their slogan seems: to be “We work side by side with our men, and we will fight side by side with them.” —D. E. E. tions to The Working Woman have. been sent in daring the past month. Many copies of Krup- tle for more subs, but she says the enthusiasm she got from read- ing the book will help her to con- vince many working women for the need of organization. We know that the number of new subs received does not in- clude all the working women who | class family. We Need Women Fighters For Unemployed Relief No food in the house. No money for rent. No milk for the baby. Gas shut off. No fuel for warmth and cooking. Enough to make the wife of every unemployed werker ready to fight and fight hard. And the women in industry now unem- ployed and looking in vain for jobs. Their misery is even more acute than that of unemployed men. Must Draw Women Into Unem- ployed Fight. Why are so few wives of un- employed workers and unemployed women industrial workers in our hunger marches, our demonstra- tions? Why this searcity of wom- en in our unemployed counci!s? We have not reached the women with our relief demands; we have not informed them that the Un- employed Councils of the Trade Union Unity League are the fight- ing organizations of all unemploy- ed workers and their dependents. Can a single Unemployed Council report that an unemployed worker, his wife, his five, six or seven children attended a meeting to participate in planning struggles against hunger and oppression? The fight te live, against sturva- tion, for immediate unemployment relief and unemployment insurance is the fight of the whvie working Our Unemployed Councils, all their activities will be strengthened. mightily, will become more mifitant and pewerful the taoment working class wemen en- .ter the battle against hunger. To- H and wia them for our}: transféemation of) 20-| ciety. There cam be ne real mass) } movement without womet:.” Comrade Lenin further writes wards this end un- employed ceuncils must be increas- ed a hundredfeld. Every half dozen blocks in every city should have its Uaempioyed Council. Every neigh- Krupskaya, widow of Vladimir ', | Ilyich Lenin. She wrote “Memories of Lenin,” which is being given FREE with 10 new subscriptions a crea for the nos one ee Tell your fellow workers stabout the Working Woman. “Working rer pate have its headquarters, open all day and evening. Every head- quarters must be in charge of a committee of women and men, and must become known as the center to which unemployed workers, their wives, the young workers can come for conferences, information; where they can report evictions, the shuting off of gas and light; where they can be mobilized for strikes against high rents and struggles against high food prices. For Free Meals and Free Clothes Leaflets especially addressed to the mothers of families, to unem- ployed women workers, must be is- sued. Social evenings must be or- ganized, participated in by men, women and children.. Make it pos- sible for workers’ wives and their children to voice theif miserable conditions and to suggest remedies, methods of struggle. Make it pos- sible to become acquainted with each other. Organize the children [have i Unemployed Council must | [Seattle Army Of Jobless Women Grow By an Unemployed Woman Worker SEATTLE, Wash. — Prospects for obtaining a job by women workers in Seattle at present are very slim. .During the winter months the factories have been laying off women, thereby increas- ing the army of unemployed wom- *n workers. The bosses realizing that there are plenty of workers to be had, work to death those that are under their merc: Speed-up Causes Unemp.oyment The writer of this happens to be a factory worker. Having many years experience as a sewing ma- chine operator, I was confident of getting work when I arrived ‘here last fall. After looking for work |} for a long time, I was finally taken }on test in an athletic garment fac- | tory. The girls in the tactory are paid |e minimum wage scale ($13.50) a week. They must work as if they | were on piece work. The forelady | ‘times” the work, that is, you are given a certain time to do the work given to you. If you do not finish the work in that time, you are told at quitting time that you are not needed anymore. Those that can produce most to make the boss richer can keep their jobs. Demand Unemployment Insurance That is the way the women in the factories are driven. Yet, we are not paid a decent living wage. We are told to “save for a rainy day” but we are not given a chance to work, even for the $13.50 a week. No unemployment insurance is provided. It is high time that women workers start to realize the importance of organization and demand better pay and unemploy- ment insurance, for themstlves, The bosses will’ never give us any= thing without ‘us fighting for it. BLUE BIRD CAFETERIA and mothers for free meals and free clothes for the school chil- dren of the unemployed. Win working class women for membership in our Unemployed Councils. Acquajnt them with our forms of struggle, our demands. | Once this is done then our fight against the capitalist government, against the idle rich, for immediate relief and: unemployment insur- ance, will march forward with un- botmnded success) > The working class women show- ed their militancy om February 10. They showed it again on Feb. 25. They will show it on March. &th, International Women’s Day, when they fight for bread. special problems. Therefore, we must get on the job and spread The Working Woman. We must alh get busy and get additional subscribers and readers for The Working Woman. Comrades, working men and women, heed the words of our great. teacher, Lenin. 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