Forward! Appeal Forward! Stand Up! Croatian Workingmen of Chicago!
Radnicka Straza, Feb. 6, 1908
Lack of work is extending, devastating workers' ranks like a monster.
The man eaters - the capitalists - threw out their slaves into the snow and cold. In Chicago only there are over 150,000 jobless worker slaves.
The misery is becoming bigger every day. The distress worse. The last saved nickels escape through the fingers. Thousands of workers cannot pay rent. Many workers are without coal and wood. Many a workers wanders driven by hunger and cold, like a dog without a master.
Is that true? O it is, it is! It is even worse. Thousands of workers suffer from want, impossible to describe. Is there no way out of this distress? Can we not alleviate that misery? Can we not stop this wretchedness from growing?
2We can, we must. It has to be better.
The Socialist Party of Chicago started a fight to abolish this evil. This fight must be supported by us Croatian workingmen.
We too, with thousands of other workers have to exclaim and shout:
Give us work! Give us bread! For that reason The Croatian Workingmen's meeting will be held Sunday, February the 9th, 1908 at 9 A.M. in the great hall of Fr. Mladic 587 Center Avenue for the benefit of unemployed workers.
The Committee of the Croatian Workingmen's Union for Education and Politics.
