The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
BY BARD

Seattle Union Record" it's inside
coterie of union officials, its string
of cooperative" enterprise ranging
from banks and huge steel estate
speculations to corner grocery stores.
For all of these workers paid and in
all Of them they we're hornswoggled
out of their savings by such crooks
as Ault, Rust and company.
These schemes of the leadership
of the U. G. l.. are not utopian.
These are no well-meaning but mis-
guided individuals. Under the lead
ership of the Musteites, under the
guise of practical" measures of
relief the cost Of unemployment re-
lief is placed on the workers them
selves and the class struggle Is showed
into the background. Class coopcra-
ton takes its place.
Like the program of the Hoover
Emergency Relief Committee, this
Musteite program puts unemploy-
LhCll6 1C1lCA OI4 SOlAAlOAnIJ DdSSlS.
No wonder the capitalists in the
state of Washington look compla-
Gently on this movement which is
doing their dirty work among the
unemployed more efficiently than
they themselves could.
But the U. c. L. is unable to over
come one great obstacle-the unem-
ployed workers continue to go hun
CRY. Their grandiose schemes, d.
vorced from the class struggle, do not
feed the workers. The Tacoma writer
is forced to admit this
"a shoe shop and tailor shop
are in operation and other similar
| projects are being planned. Four
teen locals are operating wood
| yards and conmissaries, but as to
the commissaries-there stands
problem. AS yet they are nearly
like Mother Hubbard's cupboard.
The food that has been obtained is
scanty, and hungry men clamor for
relief" and then, with the CHEEKY
optimism of one who is not hun
CRY, a situation which will be al
leYiated as the Leagues machin-
cry of production gets under way,
but immediate relief is needed"
Our emphasis.)
1t is the main task of our COM
rades@i in the. Unemployed Council to
expose clearly all these anti working
class aspects and activities of the
Unemployed Citizens League (the
name itself is symbol of class COL
laboration.)
1t must be kept in mind that the
UCL is now the government OF
Seattle. Demands should eb made
upon the UCL as the government
and not directed to the UCL as a
non-party and classics organization
1t is the main task Of our COM
rades in-the Unemployed Council tc
consistently expose all of these
anti-working class programs ane
activities of the Unemployed Citi.
zens League. Our Comrades must
conduct a systematic struggle
against the leaders of this or.
ganization. They must aim tc
create a clear division between the
Musteite agents and middle elias.
leadership of this unemployed move.
ment and the workers and honest
fighting elements, on the basis o.
demands for their immediate RELIEF
and the fight for unemployment in
surance, and on every issue O
working class concern. Our com
rades in the Unemployed Councils
must seek to establish united frcn
from below against the Unemployed
Citizens League and its leadership
In the mass meeting jointly ar.
ranged by the Unemployed Council
and the Unemployed Citizens League
this was not achieved. Though ol
comrades attacked the leadership q
the Unemployed Citizens League