The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-02

INTO giarlng contrast the decaylng capitalist
system in other countries with its unemploy-
ment, war and misery for the workers.
The Soviet Union is an inspiration to the
worlds workers and threat to world capital
ism. The capitalists, above all, want to de-
story this living symbol of successful prole-
tartan revolution and to secure the rich mar
kets and resources of the Soviet Union for
themselves.
Fake Leaders of Labor
In all these attacks against American work
ers, in the preparations for war, the employ
ers receive the full support of the fascist lead
ership of the A. F. of L. These strike breakers,
with long record of betrayal of the workers,
and capitalist instruments for beating back the
struggles of the workers, they applauded the
clubbing and falling of the unemployed on
March 6; they are bitter opponents of unem-
ployment insurance, they are sponsors of the
Infamous Wagner ills; they support every lie
and trick of Hoover to deceive and demortlize
the unemployed. They are tools for speeding
up the employed workers and for separating
them from the unemployed They support
every INFLAMMATION plan of American imperial
ism, and they are the leaders in the counter
revolutionary struggle against the Soviet
Union. The A. F. of l.. leaders are fascist,
enemies of the working class and their repu-
diation is first condition for successful strug-
gle by the workers.
The socialist party and the so-called Music
group have the same basic line as the A. F. of
l.. leadership. They are social-fascist. The
difference is that they sugar their treachery
with pretenses at radicalism and progressivism.
They are the special agents of the bosses and
the A. F. of L. bureaucrats. to hold in check
the increasingly radical masses. Their record
in the South, in the textile industry in the
needle trades, in the mining industry, wherever
the workers are in struggle, in one of unmiti-
gated betrayal of the working class. The en-
ployers, the government, the A. F. of L. and
the socialist party are in one great united front
against the workers
Unemployment Relief a Cure
Unemployment cannot be cured so long as
capitalism lasts but must become worse 1t
is inherent in the capitalist system. Only BY
the overthrow of capitalism with its private
ownership of industry and its production for
profit and the establishment of Workers and
Farmers Government, based upon sociaized
industry and production for use, can this social
scourge be eliminated. The Russian workers
have blazed the way that the workers of the
world must go in order to abolish unemplov-
ment poverty, war and tn eother great evils
inseparable from capitalism.
But under capitalism the workers by firm
organization and militant struggle can miti-
gate the disastrous effects of unemployment
The Trade Union Unity League, through its
unions and unemployment councils gives the
organization, program and lead for such strup-
gle. The workers, under the increasing pres
sure of capitalism rapidly become radicalized
and increasingly go on to the counter offensive
against the employers. One of the sharpest
manifestations of this is the great March
demonstration.
Program of Demands
A mes for ,n1o1 ont
relief this convention demands the initiation of
government unemployment insurance, together
with shortening of the work day and work
week, increases in the workers wages and
abolition of the speedup system in its various
forms.
The convention endorses and calls upon the
working class to support the following general
program:
1. Unemployment insurance. The govern
ment on the basis of work wages to pay
every unemployed worker at union rates of
pay. All workers partially employed to re-
ceive compensation sufficient to bring their in
comes up to full wages. This unemployment
insurance to be administered by committees
elected directly by workers working in the
shops, and by the unemployed through their
councils The fund to come out of the Federal
State and City government treasury and to be
raised by taxes on all profits and inheritances.
by reduction OF salaries of high officials, re-
movaf of tax exemption on church property.
etc. Pending the adoption of such legislation,
emergency relief appropriations to be made
and to be administered as above by the work.
! ers. This unemployment insurance to be sup
plemented by state insurance against old age.
| sickness, etc.
z Housing of Unemployed. No work, no
rent. All evictions of unemployed workers for
non-payment of rent to be prohibited. Public
| buildings to be thrown open and accommoda-
lions made for emergency housing of the un-
employed. Special appropriations to be made
for building workers dwellings, which shall be
rented at low rates. with preference to the un-
| employed, with no discrimination against or
segregation of Negroes.
3. Free employment agencies to be estab-
lished under control of workers committees
and unemployed councils. Free lunches in
schools and government maintenance of chill
| dren.
d. The seven-hour day and five-day week to
| be established without reduction of wages, the
| sx-hour day, with rest periods, for the youth
and for workers engaged in unhealthy and dam
gerous occupations
b. Abolition of the speed-up, abolition of
piece-work, bonus systems and overtime. Con-
troll of conveyor speed by the workers. Adolf
| ton of night work for women and young work.
| ers. Abolition of child labor.
| g. General increases in wages for the work.
| ers, with heaviest increases for unskilled work.
| ers. Strike against all wage cuts. Equal pay
for equal work for women and young workers.