The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-21

Results and Lessons of the Hunger March and the Next
Tasks in the Struggle for Relief Insurance

UI, forward as the leader o. all struggle for
partial economic demands.
We must also take note of the inability of
many of the sections and units to develop pre-
hminary struggles on local issues; the inadequate
participations of many sections and units in the
general preparatory work a.; shown by poor at
tendance at the unit and section membership
meetings proceeding the marches; the instances
of Outright cowardice and sabotage of individual
members who failed to engage in the preparatory
work and were absent from the demonstration
without good cause; the failure to mobilize and
secure the participation of the locals of the A.
r. of L. and even many of the fraternal or
CARNATIONS close to our movement. An error
into which some comrades fell and against which
we must warn is the tendency to be influenced
by reports of the capitalist press on the substance
of speeches made by Party Spokesman.
AS against these shortcomings, the positive
achievements where the plan Of work was APP
piled and the splendid courage of the majority
of the Party membership which participated in
the demonstrations show the steady though slow
progress of the Party in this District. The march
from the Fisher Body plant, distance of over
100 blocks; the development of the unemployed
council in the Negro neighborhood of Section
Two which brought hundreds of Negro workers
into the demonstration as organized body
are indicative of the possibilities that present
and will result in development of mass strug-
gle wherever the correct methods outlined in
the resolutions of the &C. and DC. Plenums are
theoretically applied
Our Next Tasks in the Struggle Against
Unemployment
In the light of the experiences of the Hunger
March Campaign, we must now undertake a
rapid intensfication of our struggle against un-
employment. Our principal task is to establish
lying all workers in the shop, industry or neigh
borhood where they operate. To link up these
councils with the still employed workers through
joint committees of employed and unemployed
of the shop, industry or neighborhood. This
can be accomplished only in the struggle for
immediate relief
We must expect and be prepared to lead or
gained marches upon and demonstrations
around large restaurants, chain stores and ware
houses as the workers realize that they cannot
hope to secure food otherwise. Similar action
must be anticipated in the struggle against eyic-
tions, foreclosures on homes and furniture; use
Of public service (gas, light, water transporta-
tom.
The council shall register all unemployed in
their vicinity; the needs and demands of each
unemployed worker are to be recorded Dele
cations of the councils backed by the entire
membership and all other workers who can be
modified must make daily visits to charity or
CARNATIONS, to city institutions ETC.. to present
the concrete demands Of that day and fight
to compel the granting Of the given demands
The Importance Of involving the workers who
are still employed In the. struggle against I'M
employment must not be lost sight of. This can
be effected by the unemployed themselves, hold
ing meetings in front Of shop-eates going into
shops during working hours and calling upon
the workers employed there to join in struggle
against an eviction or fight for food taking
place around the nieghborhood Of the shop; ir
struggles for reduction Of food prices; against
the stagger system, wage CUTS letc. Our con-
tinued failure to penetrate the reactonary unions
is most serious, weakness. Delegations from
unemployed councils must be sent to every Local
union meeting. We must call upon the member
ship In these unions to establish Joint commit.
tees Of employed and unemployed and industrial
councils for the members Of these locals Fin
ancal support, the lack of which seriously threat
ems our campaign and struggle must be secured
from unions and other mass organizations The
central delegate bodies of the councils must bt
set up on a functioning basis without further de.
lay and must take over the actual leadership ant
direction of all the activities Of the councils.
The partial struggles now taking place MUS
lead up to huge mass demonstrations for unem.
ployment insurance in all cities Of the District
on February 10th, when the signatures now beinl
collected are presented BY the national delega