The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-18
By A. LOZOVSKY.

INTERNATIONAL Day to Struggle Against
Unemployment, organized by the Comm
tern and the RILU demonstrated that the
revolutionary workers movement in every
part of the world had made a further step
towards coordinatng united action. Our IN
formation on how this day was carried out IN
the various countries is still inadequate, but
the facts already to hand enable us to draw
a few preliminary conclusions.
The preliminary results can on the whole
be summarized as follows: There was great
err response and far larger sections OF the
working class were reused on March 9th, 1880,
than on August 1st, 1929 international Day
to Fight the War Menace). Should we con-
trast these two International campaigns. then
it must be said that March Sixth succeeded
in rousing far larger sections of the workers,
both unemployed and employed. Further. the
movement on March Sixth was greater than
on August First And lastly-the third con-
cusion that can be drawn-March Sixth
marked off a definite stage in the struggle
of the working class to unifya it's ranks, for
on this day it made clear to all the work
ers that the interests of those in employment
and out of work one and the same.
What was the political significance of this
day and what is it that deserves our special
attention? The significance of this day lies
in the fact that it was the revolutionary
wing of the labor movement alone. as repre-
scented by the sections of the COmntern and
the RILU, that took up seriously the ques-
ton of fighting unemployment and that on
this day not only the unemployed but all
the workers in employment were brought
into collision with the bourgeois state APP
paratus and their sOcial-fascist flunkeys.
This development was extremely important
for some countries especially in those parts
of the world where large sections of the
workers still support SOcial-Democracy, and
undoubtedly is bound to prove big fac
tor in breaking down social democratic in
fuence among the workers.
Another extremely important development
was that this International Day was organ
lied in every part of the world under the
same slogans, the chief of which were: For
a Ssven- Hour Day, Struggle Against War and
Defend the USSR. Should we take into con-
sideration the present campaign of lies hatred
and Misrepresentation directed against the
| USSR being conducted in the capitalist coun-
tries, the demonstrations organized on this
day under the slogan, "Defend the USSR," are
even more significant from the political view
point. Thus we see that the positive aspects
of March Sixth were: the demonstration that
the interests Of the workers whether in or
| out of employment were the same, the stimuli
| taneous movements of large numbers of work.
| ers on this day on different sides of the from
| tiers, which put up the same slogans, and
| lastly, the fact that in several countries the
response to the call issued by the Comintern
and the RILU was so great as to have been
! unexpected even by the Communist Party and
the revolutionary unions in the given country.
This was seen first of all in the U. S. A. Ac-
cording to preliminary data, approximately one
| million two hundred thousand workers took
| part in the March Sixth demonstrations in diff
| ferent parts of the U. S. A. 1t was a long
time since anything like these demonstrations
had been in the U. S. A.
The imposing demonstrations in the U. S. A.
on March Sixth certainly alarmed the bour-
geoise. Some of the American bourgeoisie
newspapers are already making known their
views. They have put forward the very pc
culiar slogan of Mobilize the Blacks against
the Reds" that is to say, to utilise the back
ward Negro masses to save capitalist "civil-
ization" from the Reds, the militants who
showed the American bourgeoisie Enthusiastically
on March Sixth what international working
class solidarity means.
| But besides the positive factors, March
Sixth made clear several defects and blum
| ders, and, most important of all, that in
adequate preparations had been made. First
| of all, our sections in some of the countries
considered it necessary to fix their own day.
This effor to come out independently, to fix
! or choose their own day. shows that some
| of our comrades do not fully realize the in
| ternational significance of March Sixth and
that its significance grew in proportion to
the way its organization was cOordinated in
every part of the world.
| The second drawback was that in several
countries the preparations made were some
what formal in character. Preparatory activ-
| tiles were limited to few articles published
in the press and to an appeal or so, no SER