The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-18
Big Communist Task to
Lead the Jobless Thru
Unemployment Councils
BY J. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TO-DAY, a comrade comes into the DAILY WORKER Editor
al office and tells how 400 been laid off in
single lot at one Of chcagos largest railroad shops The
lay-off is indefinite. The do not know when work will
be resumed
This story has been and Is being duplicated thousand
times the nation This condition inherent in pract-
cay every Industry It offers tremendous possibilities for
Communist activity.
In the great Chicago industries, as elsewhere large
numbers OF those who lose their Jobs workers with
families They take the road hunting Jobs
where This left to the young foot loose worker who does
not realize the futty of this effort knowing grow
ing unemployment prevails everywhere.
When large numbers of workers fired in a group
they remain great part group waiting for their jobs
to open up for them is here that finds the fertile
ground for unemployment councils urged by the Workers
communst) Party the basis for the united front Of the
iobess.
Where the workers are organized into trade unions
point of contact is already developed These labor unions
with unemployed members become direct part of the
unemployment united front In fact they must help organize
it, But this does prevent unemployment councils being
organized in the shops mills and factories where there is
unemployment and where the workers have their trade
unions It should only make easier the Welding together OF
the united front OF the jobless.
Where the workers are unorganzed the unemployment
councils organized the job form the only economic basis
of unity These councils then become the organizers of
public meetings and demonstrations in the vicinity of
the factories the mills and mines that have been shut down.
put part time basis.
United in central unemployment council, with the
workers in trade unions they form front OF organized and
unorganze press for relief of the obes for the sending
of Populations local governmental Offices and other pro-
grams of action.
Not only the work Of organizing the united front of the
obess, but also of giving spirit and direction to the
nent organized falls upon the shoulders of the
Workers Communist Party Thru the units Of our party
everywhere must furnish militant Communist leadership
to this developing struggle Of labor
Unorganzed helpless discouraged obess by the millions
constitute heavy weight upon the whole working class
They gradually become huge strikebreakng army and aid
to the bosses in breaking down wage scales abohing
hardwon conditions the job in destroying the unions
But the obIess when closely knit together in militant
organizations including those who still have work lighting
for definite program and enthused by mass effort will be-
come a powerful force in the class struggle wrestling
valuable concessions from the master class.
Organization of unemployment councils and the carry
ing Of valiant struggle for the obess marks milestone
on the high road of the Communist struggle for all power
The present unemployment situation in this country should
find every Communist at his post carrying on this Communist