The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-06
Drive the Unemployment Struggle
Along Revolutionary Channels
By LEON PLATT

American Imperialism and its agent, the So
q cialist party and the A. F. of l.. become
alarmed at the extent of the unemployed IN
the United States and the determination of
the masses to fight for work or wages. In
spite of the repeated reports of the U. S.
Department of Labor and the government as
a whole, the number of the unemployed in the
United States is continuously increasing. Even
the capitalist press cannot fail to recognize
that the trend of unemployment in the first
two months of this year is downward. Even
the capitalist press cannot fail to see the COM
plete breakdown of President Hoover's scheme
to solve the present economic crisis. The true
situation shows that the crisis becomes more
accumulated and more deepened, particularly
at the present time with the sharp decline of
the wholesale price of commodities particular
ly agricultural products, most glaringly shows
the sharp contradiction within American and
world capitalism.
In this present situation the struggle of the
seven million unemployed workers is assuming
such wide proportions that the American bour
geoisie and its agents become greatly alarmed.
The outstanding feature in the present unem-
ployment struggle is that the revolutionary
trade unions and the Communist Party are lead
ing the struggle of the seven million unemploy
ed. This is due to the fact that because of its
revolutionary program and militant policy, the
Trade Union Unity League and the Communist
Party are the only capable of directing the
struggle of the unemployed.
The struggle of the unemployed, however, is
not only struggle for certain immediate
nomc demands. To limit the struggle of the
unemployed merely to the struggle for work
or wages would be a great revolutionary
derestimation and an incorrect thing to do
The struggle of the unemployed must be driven
along revolutionary channels, otherwise the
struggle will not be effective. The Communist
Party and the revolutionary trade unions hold
capitalism directly responsible for unemploy-
ment. The Communist Party and the reyolu-
tionary trade unions openly and definitely
state to the American employed and unemploy
ed workers that the true solution of the unem-
ployment question is the overthrow of the
tire capitalist system, which breeds unemploy
rnent
In their struggle, the seven million American
uleinp oyea NO. ners must definitely see the
role Of the A. F. of L., the socialist party, as
agents within the ranks of the workers, serv-
ing only the interests of the bosses. The
workers must that the renegades from
| Communism, Lovestone and Cannon, do not be-
| leve in the vitality and determination of the
| workers to fight not only for the unemploy-
ment demands, but against the capitalist sys-
tenn. The workers must see that Lovestone
considers their struggle against unemployment
and capitalism on March 9th as "Putch," as
an adventure organized and precipitated by the
revolutionary trade unions and the Communist
| Party. The workers must also learn and it is
! the duty of every Communist and every class
-" 70 r1aise clear to the workers
! In the shops, mines and mills that side by side
| ~" s...ggle Of the unemployed for work
or wages, they must actively engage in the
organization of militant industrial trade unions
Under the leadership of the Trade Union Unity
League. Unless the unemployed struggle takes
this FORM we will not achieve what should be
achieved in the present situation