The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-16
BY K. BAKER.

BY K. BAKER.
ONCE the XII Plenum of the Central Commit
v tee of the Party serious and decisive steps
have been taken to raise partial demands and
mobilize the workers into struggle for these de-
mands
However,, this is true almost solely in the I'M
employment movement. Especially in the last
few weeks has the Party learned how to raise
concrete slogans successfully The Party today
is the undisputed leader of the unemployed work
ers' struggle for relief This leadership was
achieved through militant battles and struggles
for emergency relief and unemployment insur-
ance. The Party mobihzed the masses of hun
cry workers into hundreds Of militant marches
and demonstrations demanding immediate relief
from the municipal and state governments
In the course of these struggles the move
ment grew in proportion to the improvement of
our demands and the militancy and effectiveness
Of the forms of struggle for these demands.
From the general mass meetings and demon
STATIONS in open squares and halls the struggle
was directed to the city councils boards of es-
innate r ayers, legislatures, etc.
From the general slogan for Relief Work
or Wages" we have concretized our demands into
definite Unemployment Insurance Bill to be
presented to the Congress. This demand was
further concretized and conforned to the stua-
ton in the given city or section until today the
unemployed councils of every city of importance
have local demands for cash relief running from
SIS to s25 per week in accordance with the situa-
ton in each given locality
Our demands assumed another concrete form.
such as stopping of evictions. which we're partly
realized through stubborn and effective mass re-
sistance to evictions Free carfsre and food for
unemployed workers children. free coal, gas and
electricity for the unemployed are some of the
additional partial demands formulated in the
course of the struggle.
The long series of militant struggles have Wis
IDLY forced the city, state and national gov
ernrnents to take unwilling, even though in
adequate, measures to extend many forms of re-
lief through their despicable charity institutions
and in some cases directly by the municipal gov
ernments
The terrible panes of hunger supplemented by
severe cold have forced tens OF thousands Of
jobless workers to enter the miserable and de-
grading bread lines, soup Kitchens and flop
houses. These institutions with their neager
and insulting relief have temporarily stayed
the determination of these desperate, semi starv-
ing workers from taking the means whereby
they may live
Bread Line Demands
With the increasing misery Of all the unem-
ployed and the elaring increase Of homeless,
starving working men and women in the bread
lines and flop houses the situation demanded the
concrete formulation Of the burning and degrad-
ing grievance OF workers in these charity and
municipal institutions.
In consultation with the unemployed in the
bread lines and Lighthouses the comrades work
ed out still more detailed demands and slogans
II the struggle around which the most innporer-
shed. homeless and penniless strata of the vast
unemployed army was modified into struggle
for genuine relief in the form Of state unem-
plc9ment insurance Among the bread line de-
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