The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 17, 1932, Page 6

gee Lwo we ** ak WILLIAM Z. FOSTER (National General Secretary of the Trade Union Unity Leaguc; Communist Candidate for Presi- dent in the Recent Elections.) E are now face to face with winter. The mass misery and starvation of the millions of un- employed and their families is reaching unprecedent acuteness. Al- ready workers’ children are dying in jJarge numbers through actual starv- ation. Large numbers must be kept at home in unheated shacks, some even without light, and without food because they lack the clothes, shoes to go to school. Unemployed are tramping the streets in the cold nichts with. no place to sleep. Others of the “more fortunate” spend the nights behind bridges and dugouts. How much suffering is the lot of the mothers who after ) giving the last drop of food to their little ones while going hungry themselves must invent one excuse after another in answer to the de- mand for food; and of the fathers who are hopelessly looking for a je, or trying to secure relief thru appeals to the city and private charity organizations. And this condition in the face of the abun- dance of the best of everything in the richest country ” the world. NO PROSPECT rR WORK. ‘The crisis grows sharper, une - ployment 42 apo: e*eere ep if scheines, ad Pe ie | arch to DAILY WORKER, NEW YOR QLINéETON os 0 Nov. @4 PUEBLO The Route of the Eight Columns of Hunger Delegates ONLY MILITANT STRUGGLE OF MASSES CAN i is no prospect for work. The fac- 9 tories that could turn out ever A thing the workers need, are idle. Food that would bring relief to the | hungry millions .is being dumped } into the rivers and seas or allowed | te ret on the farms, kept in the granaries, and warehouses. Houses that could give shelter to the home- less are empty. This is all part of the capitalist system of private property and profit. And the local, state and federal governments that claim to represent all the people— what are they doing? They are in reality the governments of the rich against the poor—capitalists against toilers. Instead of providing relief to the hungry millions at the ex- pense of the rich, they are busy devising means of cutting down the taxes of the rich and placing the burden upon the masses, through sales taxes, occupational taxes (as was attempted in Philadelphia) and through the various so-called eco- nomy schemes carried through at the expense of the masses. Everywhere as the winter suffer- ing grows, the local and state gov- ernments are cutting down the re- lief. And even this measly hand- out they are trying to snatch from the poorly paid employed and part- time workers through various com- munity drives, forced collections in the factories and workers’ homes, through the. bai tars « opkishare ‘National Hunger March Will Unite Struggles for Immediate Relief E Republican and Democratic parties have been and are one in their program of starving the masses, in placing the burden of the crisis upon the shoulders of the starving and exploited masses. The Socialist Party and the leaders of the American Federation of Labor are supporting this policy of the bosses. The socialists have not abandoned the policy which brought Norman Thomas, recent candidate for President on the Socialist ticket on the same platform with J. P. Morgan, to appeal through the radio for the recently conducted block-aid campaign. ‘The socialists in Milwaukee, where they control the city government, are like the McKees under Tammany, the Moores of Philadelphia, and the administration of Governor Roose- velt in New York—all cutting the relief to the unemployed and-plac- ing the burden of the crisis and the charity relief on the masses. TELL HUNGRY TO WAIT The bosses and their agents are now telling the masses who still believed in the last election that ‘Roosevelt will bring them. relief that ty, must at wate Roosevelt is in’ office. Already the agenda for the coming session of Congress has been worked out and includes the taking up of prohibition, the sales tax, the war debts, and economy. This is clearly a new attack on the masses and a refusal to furnish relief in this the fourth winter of the crisis. The workers must not accept this scheme of the bosses to continue to foster illusions as to Roosevelt and carry through. their hunger policy for the winter, The next Congress is fully controlled by the Democrats. stantial majority in the lower house, and with the bloc they formed with the La Follettes and the Norrises, the Johnsons, and the rest of the so-called progres- sives, Roosevelt is also in full con- trol of the U.S. Senate. We must not allow Roosevelt to shirk his responsibility on the plea that he is not yet in power. He is in power. Of course, behind Roosevelt stands Wall Street as it is under Hoover. It is clear that Hoover and Roose- velt, the representatives of the cap- italists, are determined to starve the masses the coming winter. There ia onl suena .te ston tht ways ation rr, wis, is, the, way of struggle of the unemployed and em- ployed masses. This struggle must be developed and sharpenedin every city, town and community, whether under a Republican, Democratic or Socialist administration. We must throw back the plea of bankruptcy and economy that faces the workers in their demand for bread. Through struggle the masses can defeat the bosses’ starvation program and force some measure of relief in the localities. Three of these victories taking place in large cities are out- standing. In St. Louis the unem- ployed struggles compelled the city administration to place 13,000 fam- ilies back on the relief lists. In Chicago the mass struggle organized on the broadest basis of the united They have a sub-| front resulted in the withdrawal of the 50% relief cut. In Philadel- phia the mass struggle of the em- ployed and unemployed resulted in ‘the abandonment of the tax on the workers’ wages that was voted by the City Council. This can be achieved everywhere through strug- gle. THE HUNGER MARCH. But aside from the local strug- gles and the local relief we can secure the Washington government must assume responsibility to feed the hungry masses the coming win- ter. Moreoye govern- pant must be twee ont un- S Fer * this: oad oe hantee insu : we inst use Neha a *