The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-06
By Bwrck

LIle "a. T.. OF IL. UNIONS by COmnlu-
nists, and the rather general ne
elect Of this movement by our party
for a considerable period, it grew
by leaps and bounds. Not only was
there a great rallying to the de-
mand for relief and unemploy-
ment insurance at the expense of
the government and bosses, but
issues such as reduction of the huge
official salaries, no dues payments
for unemployed, and trade union
democracy became widely popular.
More A F. of L, unions and mem
bers were taking part in the scores
of local struggles of the Unem-
ployed Councils, its mass demon
strations, hunger marches.
LOSS OF INFLUENCE
BY THE BUREAUCRATS
Something had to be done to
draw the teeth of this growing
revolt or the bureaucracy. espe-
cially that section of it from the
unions hit hardest by the crisis
and the revolt miners, building
trades, etc., and their masters in
the Republican and Democratic
parties yisualized still more rapid
dissipation OF their influence.
The demagOgic program adopted
at the Cincinnati convention, and
its enthusiastic endorsement by the
Socialist Party leaders and press
was the maneuver decided upon.
pUT this maneuver, by the very
~ facts of the acute crisis and
rising mass struggles, in a certain
measures legalzes the fight for
compulsory unemployment insur-
ance for which a few months ago
the A. F. of L. and its unions we're
eXpelling members and organiza-
tionS.
NOT AN EASY TASK
1t is clear that the revolutionary
struggle for federal unemployment
insurance and immediate relief at
the expense of the government and
employers is no simple matter.
These enemies. the Socialist Party
and the A. F, of L. bureaucracy. i'll
their drive to check and hamper
the mass struggle and divide the
working class forces, are the chief
obstacles to the organization of a
mass movement powerful enough to
force the demands Of the unem-
ployed from the capitalists and
their government; powerful enough
TO stop wage cuts, to raise the liv-
ing standards of the masses from
the present pauper level and to de-
feat the expanding drive of polit-
zeal persecution and destruction of
elementary political rights di-
rected especially against the Negro
and foreign-born workers-and de-
signed to suppress the militant Or
CARNATIONS and struggles of the
entire working class.
EXTENDING
THE UNITED FRONT
The united front from below must
be broadened to defeat the social
fascist splitters and bureaucratic
sabotage. In particular is it neces-
sary 10 watch carefully, analyze
and expose the activities Of the
Music wing of the A. T.. of l., It's
task is, by still more revolutionary
phrases and platform over which
the crimson banner OF the class
struggle is draped askew, to patch
up the weak spots in the demagogic
offensive of the official leaders, to
appeal directly to revolutionary
minded workers; even at times to
claim to be Communists or more
revolutionary than the Comlnu-
mist Party.
On this point the statement of
the Twelfth Plenum of the E. c. c.
/. says:
only by taking fully into ac-
count the variety of forms of the
policy and maneuvers of the So
cial fascists in all their concrete
ness will the Communists be able
really to expose and isolate the
social fascists. Only by directing
the main blows against the social
democracy, this social mainstay
of the bourgeoisie--will II be pos
Sible to strike ut and defeat tho
chief class enemy of the prole-
tariat-the bourgeoisie. Aud only
by strict differentiation between
social democratic leaders and
workers will the Communists be
able, by means of the united front
from below, TO break down the
wall which often separates them
from the social democratic work
crs. lin this country also Repub-