The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-10
Bv BILL GEBERT.

THE Jobless Day on September list at which
L tens of thousands Of workers in all parts
Of the country demonstrated under the leader
shin of the T. U. U. L. and Unemployed Coun-
ellis for the Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill which provides $25 a week for every I'M
employed worker and an additional 80 TOR
each member of the family shows very dell
titely that the militant part OF the American
working class is willing to carry on this strug-
gle 1t must be understood that athough
these demonstrations were not as large as inc
March 9Th demonstrations, they were Une re-
suit of our direct influence The capitalist
press throughout the country was silent on
orr prep5~>tions for JoEless Day on Labor
Dav but ..ayed up to the limit the counter
demonstration against our demonstration, ar
ranged in various cities by the fascist leader
ship of the A. F. of l..
This was particularly true in Chicago where
before March 9th the capitalist press was fulI
of stories of "reds preparing for Jobiess Day
March 9Th" On the Labor Day preparations
not a single capitalist paper in Chicago even
mentioned the demonstration but gave unllm-
tied space with front page headlines, "lOo,OoV
demonstration of unemployed arranged by
A T. of L."
4. F. L. Flops.
The result was that at the demonstration ar
ranged by the TUUL about 10000 workers
demonstrated coming as a result OF our dlrecN
contact with the workers while the chicago
Federation of Labor demonstration melted
from a promised 100000 to about 10000. Even
the Chicago Tribune admits there were not
more than $4,000 The composition of the
Chicago Federation of, Labor gathering was
not of a working class character. The ma
iority were school children modified from the
schools, women and of course a few thousand,
seven or eight, of workers who still have IL
lusions that the Chicago Federation of Labor
is fighting against unemployment,
In our preparations for Jobless Day we did
not sufficiently raise the slogan OF boycott
the demonstration of the Chicago Federation
If Labor and rally to our demonstration EsPe-
ciallv did we fail to raise this slogan in the
locals of the A. F. of L. This shows our in
herent organizational weakness and inability
to reach these workers and precisely because
as vet we have failed to build revolutionary
trade unions of the TUUL. Surely the work
ers who came to our demonstration are poten-
tial candidates for our unions and Unemployed
Councils. We still think that our unemployed
work the struggle against unemployment, Tor
social insurance, confines itself to demonstra-
tions and mass meetings and not to organlza-
tional work. The demonstrations must be
of our activities and must be
Step forward toward the UuIlulIS VI Jul iliONS-
ment. The fact that out of 10000 workers at
the demonstration in Chicago we secured only
81 applications to the T.U.U.L. showed the
basic weakness and inability to mingle among
the workers and to recruit them into our mass
organizations-the TUUL and Unemployed
Councils.
Better organizational results have been
achieved in small industrial towns for instance,
Gary and Indiana Harbor where out of 500
in Gary and 800 in Indiana Harbor at the
demonstration, total over 100 applications to
the TUUL and Unemployed Councils were
turned in. 1t shows that the comrades IN
Gary and Indiana Harbor took much more
seriously the directives of our Party to take
organizational advantage Of the demonstration
than the Party organization in Chicago
Although it is true that compared with
other demonstrations in our district, during
the period Of preparation we achieved more or
ganizational results, these results are insight