The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-06


committee, with its department ub-committees,
Thus from the fight around particular griev-
ance we create the basis for the industrial union
The NeighborhOOd Unemployed Counci-Organ-
national Reservoir.
Through the neighborhood Unemployed Coun-
ellis valuable shop contacts can be obtained. This
oHn be done best by providing at least one meet
ing week in the evening and inviting both en-
ployed and unemployed workers to attend At
such meetings we build the unity of employed
and unemployed. Many employed workers can
be organized directly into the industrial leagues
or unions of the Trade Union Unity League and
assigned to their proper organizing committee.
In this work also, we must use the greatest care
to protect our contacts against the spies and
stool-pigeons of the bosses.
Ward UnempIoyed Councils Center Fight on
Bosses Politicians.
AS far as possible it is we'll to organize the
neighborhood Unemployed Councils in the cities
on ward basis. This brings out the role of
the ward politicians of the bosses political
parties and exposes them as enemies of the
workers, opposing all demands for immediate re-
lief and unemployment insurance. This is being
done in the newly organized Twelfth Ward I'M
employed Council in Minneapolis which is the
stronghold of "Farner-Laborisn." While the
starving workers in this ward are organizing in
unemployed councils to fight for immediate re-
lief NeIlermoe, "farmer-laborte' elected from
the district including this ward, proposes in the
State Legislature a resolution accepting 100000
from the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Spellman
foundations ''to study unemployment"
AS was found in this ward in Minneapolis,
when we penetrate into the neighborhoods, con-
tact with many groups of workers outside the
movement can be obtained. AS a general rule,
few of these workers attend the meetings held
at the center of the city, particularly the work
ing women and housewives. In intensifying our
neighborhood activity, we can also reach many
more youth and Negro workers. While at first
only a garage could be found to hold meetings
in, in the third week of existence this ward
council showed enough vitality to branch out to
the other end of the ward, and is opening up
another meeting place to launch another Unem-
ployed Council. At such mixed meetings of en-
ployed and unemployed very good results can
be obtained in getting subscriptions for Labor
Unity" and organizing Labor Unity Brigade"
Building Labor Unity Builds the TUUL.
In the entire unemployed work, Labor Unity
plays a large role While each organizing COM
mittee and unemployed council should have its
Labor Unity agent, it would be too mechanical
to set up Immediately Brigade" In the I'm
employed Council this can often be very quickly
done, but in the Organizing Committees to do so
at once will often bring complete duplication
of organization meetings, etc. Each organizing
committee should appoint a Labor Unity
agent who must see to it that each member of
the committee gets and properly disposes of
his quota of Labor Unity Then as the commit
formed. This does not mean that the Brigade
should substitute for the activity of the other
members of the committee, each of whom con-
tinues to use Labor Unity" regularly not only
as newspaper, but as an organizer. The "Bri-
gade' specializes in leading the building up of
the circulation of Labor Unity in the neigh
borhood, the factory, among both employed and
unemployed.
In all this work, the Importance of careful,
planned work. the setting and carrying out of
specific, detailed tasks, cannot be too much
stressed To get the best results, the high point
OF every meeting should be the particular task
either an anti-eviction demonstration, present.
ing demands to local authorities, assigning COM
mittees to neighborhoods or to factories, ETC. AT
all meetings Of unemployed employed or both
we must strongly emphasize the role of the I'M
employed Councils part of the Industrial
Union structure. The fight for Unemployment
Insurance and Immediate Relief is the fight of
both employed and unemployed workers. BY
welding the employed and unemployed together
in this struggle, we create the necessary soil
darity which in strike struggle, against wage cuts
speed-up and other grievances, unites employed
and unemployed in suyaao!i Y. slsht!RS ll9ttg e'
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