The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-21

This description of the leading part taken
by Leuiu in the organization of the Unem-
ployed Councils, and in pointing out the line
Of struggle during the revolution of 1905-06
Is part of the pamphlet, unemployed Councils
In ST. Petersburg in 1906" to be published
shortly by the Workers Library Publishers.
This pamphlet is by Sergei Malyshev, one
of tho old members of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union tBolshevik) who was
prompted to write his pre-revolutionary exper-
fences by the abolition of unemployed under
the Soviet Power. Editors note.)
AT o'clock that evening, we sat in country
house at Lesny where the delegates who were to
consider the question of helping the unemployed
had gathered and were waiting for the represent
tatiye of the st. Petersburg Bolshevik group.
This comrade was also the chairman of the
Unemployed Commission. While we were wait
ing we acquainted ourselves with the situation
in the district.
The majority of the delegates we're members of
our Bolshevik circles. All of them, of course,
as the most active workers had been driven from
the factories and blacklisted. But they did not
look as if they and their families had been
thrown out on to the streets and were starving;
the science of Bolshevism had taught them
above all, to control themselves and not break
down no matter what happened.
The chairman OF the commission arrived
greeted us, and then turned to student stand
ing there, our host. He wanted to know if every
thing had been seen to. should the police or the
gendarmes raid the place.
The chairman Of the Unemployed Commission
laughed and said that they could be sure that
they would not be taken either by the gendarmeS
or the police for they would have to be fed in
prison and the boTgeoisie had dismissed them
in order to starve them to death.
Conditions of the Unemployed.
We got down to the business of the day. Our
Bolsheyik comrade started his report on the
condition of the unemployed The funds of the
unemployed were exhausted The levy on wages
in the factories and mills was ceasing because
the employers were obstructing the collection,
and in some places they had ordered the officers
not to give the money deducted to the Soviet of
Workers Deputies. The situation in the districts
was desperate.
This we suppose" said the speaker, turning
to the delegates, you yourselves know we'll but
you must remember that such situation
threatens to lest. Individuals and entire groups
of undesirable workers are being turned out of
the factories and MS. All that the unemployed
had in the way OF clothes and other valuables
have been sold or pawned during this period.
''The term for redeeming these beongings-is
approaching and there is nothing to redeem them
with The things are being lost. The landlords
are throwing the workers and their families into
the streets without pity. There are thousands
of such cases in all the workers districts.
1--WE cannot help these families of the unem-
ployed who are being thrown out on the streets
Some collections are being made for the unem-
ployed at workers meetings, in trade unions,
among the students, but these sums are SO small
that we cannot do anything substantial.
Dining rooms are being opened by the Soviet
o. Workers Deputies and some liberal groups in
districts. These provide some tens of thous-
{ DIS Of dinners. but they may be closed because