The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-07

Economic Crisis, Unemployment and the
Tasks of the Revolutionary Trade Unions,
issued by the Red International of Labor
Unions-Edtor.)
Question 6: What must be the tasks of the
revolutionary trade union movement if we
take it that the Unemployed Workers Move
ment is bound to grow and develop!
We see that the unemployed workers move
ment evinces a tendency towards further
growth. We also see that the danger of fas-
cism was much in evidence and that efforts
would be made to divide the movement. 1t is
these considerations that determine the basic
tasks of the revolutionary vanguard of the
proletariat for the immediate future.
The basic task is to preserve, strengthen and
develop working class unity in the struggle
against capitalism. The efforts of the bour-
geoisie and social-fascism to divide the ranks
of the working class and set the unemployed
at those in employment, must be countered
by the revolutionary elements by setting up
unity between the unemployed and those in
employment at the factories, and by promot-
ing international working class solidarity be-
tween all sections of the working class. The
outcome of the maturing economic struggles
as well as the class struggle itself will depend
in great measure the organization of the
unemployed and the place they will take on the
general revolutionary working class front.
The chief method of struggle must be the
organization of mass revolutionary demonstra-
lions of all the workers, both employed and
unemployed. The RILU Executive Bureau has
therefore resolved to appeal to all affiliated
RILU organizations to announce March as
an International Day to struggle against I'M
employment arranging mass demonstrations
of the unemployed workers on this day get
ting the workers in employment to leave the
factories before the conclusion of work to take
part in these demonstrations.
The chief demand to be urged at these DEM
onstrations should be: Seven-hour day, more
pay, capitalist state to give full relief to I'M
employed.
At the same time the revolutionary vanguard
of the working class movement must tackle
the problem of organizing the unemployed
workers and leading them in the struggle. To
this end broad agitational activities must be
started among all the workers, both unem-
ployed and employed, explaining the meaning
and the character of present day unemploy-
ment showing that it is rooted in the present
world crisis, urging that the unemployed be
given work by reducing the working day to
seven and six hours, by fighting the ntroduc-
ton of overtime, that the unemployed be guar
anteed state relief at expense of employers
and that unemployment relief should be in
creased to equal the average wages obtaining.
The struggle to get full relief for the I'M
employed, well as the struggle against I'M
employment itself, should be political strug-
gle, that is, should raise the issue of political
power, and should be shouldered by the work
ing class as a whole.
Besides the agitational and propaganda
work, Unemployed Workers Committees
should be organized having representatives of
the workers in the unions as we'll as the I'M
organized workers These committees should
be elected at General Meetings of the unem-
ployed and should be permanent organs for
the movement
The immediate tasks of the Committee are:
To prepare the ground for conferences Of dele
gates from the unemployed in the various dis
tricts and branches of industry, to organize
demonstrations of the unemployed and those in
employment, to organize marches to the CAPT
tails or district centers from the most depressed
areas, publishing leaflets, bulletins and papers
for the unemployed workers.
The revolutionary unions and the revolution