The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-28
On the Carrying Out of the
18th Plenum Decisions
THE LOCAL AND NATIONAL HUNGER M ARCH

Resolutions favoring our program should be
adopted wherever possible. In this work, we
must utilize the more than half million in
dividuaI signatures demanding unemployment
insurance, collected last winter and now in the
hands of the district organizers.
(b) The first two weeks in November must be
used for the election OF the delegates to the
National Hunger March to Washington, timed
with the opening of Congress. We must strive
by this time to have so popularized our pro-
gram and strengthened our contact with the
masses of the unemployed that hundreds OF
thousands of unemployed will participate in the
meetings where the delegates are to be elected.
The delegation which shall ba a mass del
egation of from one to two thousand, must in
clude Negro unemployed, women and children
of the unemployed, young workers and rep
resentatives OF as many unions as possible.
The Workers International Relief shall be
drawn in to help in the organization of the
march, the collection of food, clothing, means
of transportation, shelter at Washington, etc.
(c) On December ?, the day of the opening OF
Congress-, and the demonstration of the hunger
marchers at Washington there shall be Or
ganized nationwide demonstrations in every
city and town in front of the government bodies,
to be preceded or followed by parades through
the workers neighborhoods and the largest fac
tories. A conference of all delegates and hunger
marchers shall take place in Washington in
connection with the hunger march.
I'D Both in their march to and from Wash
ington we must organize to reach the masses
of the unemployed. For this purpose, Or
ganzerS are to be sent out in advance of the line
of march by the various districts to prepare
for the coming of the delegates the organi-
cations of mass meetings, etc. Also in the
organization Of the march itself, we must take
care to provide sufficient literature and eX-
perienced agitators We must aim as a result
Of the hunger march not only to build organi-
cations Of the unemployed, but also to recruit
members into the T. U. u L. unions and Party.
(e) Upon the return of the hunger marchers
from Washington from the first to the second
week in December) there shall be organized
first meetings by the Councils to hear the re-
ports and the next tasks; and mass demon
STATIONS (eXact date to be fixed later but Just
before Christmas at which the reports are to
be given and the mass modified for the con-
tinuation of the struggle Between December 2
and these demonstrations there should be pre-
pared and ready the plan Of work for the first
three months in 1892.
81 In the entire period Of activity when this
program is being carried into effect, it is neces
sary to connect up the struggle Of the unem-
ployed with the election campaign and to draw
the masses around the platform of struggle of
the Communist Party. 1t is necessary to con-
meet up the struggle of the employed with the
election campaign and to draw the masses
around the platform of struggle of the Com
munist Party. 1t is necessary to draw the
unemployed around the strikes now in progress
and the developing strike struggles In the
struggles against the war danger, we must
particularly aim to draw the masses Of the
unemployed into the November demonstra-
tons This will only be possible if this work is
developed on the basis of the concrete demands
of the unemployed and the slogans properly
fused. One of the major questions that must
be brought to the attention of the unemployed
is the fight against deportations, Iynchings, and
the general terror Of the government and the
faScistS and social-fascists.
(g) In addition special programs of tasks for
each of the most important districts are to be
worked out in consultation with the district
leaderships.
ITO win the majority Of the unemployed does
not only depend upon the ability to correctly
formulate slogans of agitation and action but
first and foremost on the organization of the
everyday struggle of the unemployed in defense
of their immediate demands from
the r. L L. u resolution on UNEMPLOYMENT