The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-09
Program for Work Among Unemployed
Adopted by the Central Committee of the Party of
the United States.

TINE first and basic principle upon which
l. all struggles against unemployment must
be developed is the unity of the unemployed
with the employed workers.
The basic principle upon which the capitalist
class operates is the division of the unemployed
workers and the use of the one section against
the other.
Against the capitalist strategy of "divide
and conquer" the working class can be success
full in its struggle only by the strategy of
working class solidarity, of employed and I'M
employed, of all races and nations"
As capitalism takes unemployment as a start
ing point for drive against wages, to increase
hours and speed up the workers, so the work
ing class must take it's struggle against I'M
employment as the starting point for demand
ing higher wages, the seven-hour day, against
the speed-up
As the capitalist class uses the unemployed
workers as a reserve to break the resistance
of the employed workers, so the workers in
the shops must unite with the unemployed
workers. make joint struggle with them for all
their demands, and turn them into a reserve
force for the working class, against capitalism.
The American workers must not be misled
by the promises of the capitalists and their
agents to develop public works as a means of
absorbing the unemployed and as a solution of
the unemployment question The Hoover pro-
gram of public works is only a means of i'm
perialist war preparations and at the same
time a means of misleading the workers into
the belief that capitalism can in any way solve
the unemployment question. The illusion of
public works is also being utilized as method
through which the government agents of Amer
lean capitalism are trying to gain the support
of the unemployed workers during local, state
and l.ational ele"tions.
Nor must the American workers permit them
selves to be misled into believing that the
feverish military preparations Of American
Imperialism, the building o. more 5attiesh:ps
will solve the unemployment question. The
preparations for imperaist wars against the
Soviet Union and among the imparasts is only
another method through which capitalism url-
ICES the unemployed workers. in this case for
the purpose Of securing more markets and
eploiting people Of other countries. Imperialist
is only another burden which capitalism
forces upon the working class.
At the same time we must expose the pro-
grams on unemployment of the political parties
of American capitalism, including the socialist
party, which is today the third political party
of the bosses. The workers must expose the
"progressives," the Music Cannon Lovestone
groups who, with their opportunst phrases,
are trying to misead the workers and prevent
them from effective struggle against capital
ISM The American workers must support the
political campaigns of the Communist Party,
section of the Communist International, which
is the only Party today capable of leading the
struggles of the workers against capitalism.
The developing unemployment demands more
intensive struggle against the treachery Of the
American Federation of Labor, supported by
the so-called progressive" Music group. We
must particularly expose the wholesale betrayal
Of the A. f. Of L. through the IToover-Green
agreement and The joining of Eoover's national
fascist council. The A. F. Of /. through its
general policy and through its pledge to pre-
vent workers from fighting for higher wages
and better conditions is only further exposing
its strikebteaking role, and marks the fasciza-