The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-26
Chicago Unemployed Spur Fight
For Immediate Relief

them, land the bosses should beware once we
get loose"
Chicago again gives the lie to the bourgeois
opportunistic theory of the Negroes being back
ward people. They realize this fact themselves
very well. To the Negro worker the solidarity
shown is not a gift to be thankful for, from
the white workers. On the contrary, they ex-
pect it from us. There were no pleasant sur
prises' on their part to see white workers con
descend" to the Black Belt for the August s
funeral On the contrary, just because they
have confidence in u.s. it was taken for granted
that tens of thousands of white workers will
come and bad disappointment would have fol-
lowed if things would have happened otherwise.
Why is this rapid change in the South Side?
1t is because the Communist Party succeeded to
grasp the main link in the chain of the class
struggle. We have become the fearless fighters
for unen ~loyment relief and for Negro rights
While III Employment is the main issue let us
not mini lze the second point and recall what
an old gro non-Party worker plainly expressed
at the Open Forum, Every Negro must be
Communist because only this Party fights for
full equality"
One more example of the deep changes within
a few months: The South Side branch of the
American Party fascist organization, organ
lied for the last election, decided to join the
unemployed council and brought down their
membership list and all paraphernalia to the
office The Negro masses learned their lessons
from August 3. History written with the blood
of our three martyrs is not closed page yet.
1t is only the beginning of our aim to build
in the South Side in few months unemployed
branches of 5000 members organized in a net
work of block committees, Party section with
al 1ao mi 1hnrS IN in oy1iro
lions into the Unemployed Council and last, but
not least, to prepare for the coming elections,
when Communist candidates must run for Con-
gress against the misleaders, Oscar DePriest,
Jackson, and the other white mems Negroes"
Fight Against Social Demagogy and
Opportunism.
In the struggle to assume the leadership over
the workers, one can not get dizzy with sue
cess, The unemployed workers, led by the Party,
must be aware of the danger of social dema-
gogy that is assuming all kinds of forms. Here
comes the Chicago Federation of LABOR with its
fake Labor Day parade; there is a recently
formed Chicago Workers Committee of Unem-
ployment" of rs members led by Professors
Lovett and Director, and Mr.. Borders. Mullen
bach and other liberals and social fascists in
the A. F. L.. League for Industrial Democracy,
Civil Liberties Union and the socialist party.
We have Mr.. Hunter the head Of the United
Charities who succeeded in fooling many men,
bers of the Unemployed Council, by giving first
preference to the cases brought down by our
branches and other petty favors. In fact, he
told the Unemployed Council to notify him of
the arrests of unemployed workers and he will
use his influence to get them out which was
done in some instances There are several ten
denotes within our Unemployed branches show
ing the effects of this poison of social dema-
gogy. In many instances these branches are
acting attorneys fo- he United Charities by
taking down those workers that come to us for
relief for whatever they can get from the char
tiles. In one branch which was badly ne
elected the Charities even succeeded to have
their own bribed people assume leadership,
which meant humiliation Of this branch This
is serious manifestation of opportunsm, which
must be combatted by the leaders of the IN
employed Council and the Party But this is
not ALL
Opportunsm in our organization manifests it
self in many other ways. Lack of faith in the
masses was shown by comrades who, while talk
ing about drawing in the hundreds of workers
who come down to the headquarters for work.
fail to do so. They didn't see the forest from
the trees" and fundamentally waited for a
fraction to be established and do things while
the masses themselves went out on their own