The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-15
ORGANIZE FOR
fight AGAINST
UNEMPLOYMENT
Workers Party Seeking
Relief for JObleSS

ne OSnLFdI ENSCuLlV6 NOtft~
mittee of the Workers Party has
sent instructions to all units of
that organization to inmedi-
ately begin campaign for re.
lief of unemployed workers.
This campaign will take the
form of the organization of
Unemployment Councils to be
made of unemployed workers,
representatives of trade unions
and labor polit' zeal groups,
will carry on the agita-
ton for relief for those who
suffer because they are unable
to secure jobs.
Party Issues Statement.
The statement sent out by the
Workers Party declaress
"All industrial reports in the
United States indicate a continual
ly spreading unemployment. In the
textile industry, the mining indus
try, the automobile industry, unem-
ployment has already reached the
stage where hundreds Of thousands
Of workers are suffering because of
inability to secure jobs. 1t is a
conservative estimate that at the
present time two million workers
are without jobs in this country.
''The only way that relief can be
secured for these workers is by de-
mand upon the employers and the
government for the creation of un-
employment funds to pay union
wages to unemployed workers.
This pressure can only be exerted
if the unemployed workers, togeth-
er with the trade unions, labor po-
litical groups and other labor or
CARNATIONS, unite and make a mass
demand thru meetings, demonstra-
tions, ETC., for the creation of UNI
employment funds and the payment
of workers to whom industry is un-
able to give jobs.
''The form Of organization for
this agitation is the Unemployment
Councils"
Urge Organization of Councils.
The statement instructs all units
of the Workers Party to Immediately
initiate the formation Of Unemployed
Councils in those places where I'M
has already reached
great proportions, such as the textile
industry, the mining industry, and, in
certain cities where the automobile
industry is strongly represented.
Work in preparation for the organiza-
ton of similar councils is to be con-
Quoted thruout the country.
Resolutions are to be introduced in
all trade unions and other labor
bodies which contain the demand for
the organization of Unemployment
Councils.
The Workers Party will also make
the unemployment situation one of
the major issues of its political cam
paign. LaF'ollette and Wheeler, who
claim to be running upon labor
platform, have nothing to say on the
issues of unemployment. The LaFol-
lette platform, sent to the Conference
for Progressive Political Action at
is silent on this question.
The election platform adopted by
the Workers Party, for which Foster
and Gitlow will ask the support of the
contains the following dec
laration in regard to the unemploy-
ment situation:
Make Industry Pay.
Compel industry and govern
ment to pay wages to unemployed.
Industry in the United States is
slowing down and the workers face
another period Of industrial crisis,
with millions of unemployed unable
to earn a living. The Workers Par
ty declares that industry must sup
port the unemployed to whom ii
cannot give work. The govern
ment must take the accumulated
profits of industry, must levy ex-
cess profit and inheritance taxes to
create an unemployment fund to
be administered by the workers for
payment Of union wages to workers
without jobs. The Workers Party
will initiate the organization Of
Unemployed Councils to fight for