The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
COAL OPERATORS JUDGE REFUSES PROPERTY
BAIL TO KENTUCKY STRIKE ORGANIZERS
GET TO WORK FOR FEB. 4

E Daily Worker today believes it necessary to speak
with the greatest franness in regard to the very ser
ous shortcomings in the agitation organization ana IN
the general work for making February decisive point
in the struggle against the Hoover Hunger Program Io
morrow we will deal with the weaknesses in support OF
the Kentucky strike)
The advisers of the capitalist class apparently
more alert than of comrades In PROOF OF
this we publish the following excerpt from confidential
agency serving the interests of the biggest capitalists
Whaley- Eaton Service
"For Clients Only" American Letter No O9e
Copyright January z 1881
Washington, d. c.
UNEMPLOYED. So far there has been amazingly
little talk interest, amnog the rank and file OF Congress
in the matter of direct Federal appropriations for unem-
poymen and charity relief. The LaFOIete subcommlt-
tee howveer is building up spectacular record of alleged
distress and need The subcommittee and the full COM
mittee Manufactures both handpcked and meas
proposing heavy appropriations almost certain TO
be reported to the Senate. UNDER EXISTING CONDI-
TIONS AND SENTIMENT, ANYTHING VERY En-
TRAyAGAN7 COULD BE SIDE-TRACKED. WIDE
SPREAD DEMONSTRATIONS OR BREAD-RIOTS DUR
ING JANUARY AND FEBRUARY HOWEVER, COULD
CHANGE THIS PICTURE VERY QUICKLY:
This statement points out clearly the decisive part
played by the organization Of the employed and unem
poyed workers and their struggles in determining
the extent of the concessions the capitalist class makes 10
the masses.
It is necessary now to state very sharply: ~ The
Communist fractions in the Unemployed Councils and
their leading committees have not succeeded in developing
any serious agtatOna campaign since the National
Hunger Marcher returned to their respective cities ms
is shown by the ia that only in the state OF California
in the lest few days has there been state hugermarch
any other form of activity and this comedies with
the of the Hunger March delegation which had the
longest journey to make and consequently arrived latest
(2) The campaign for signatures in support of the
workers unemployment insurance b providing for UNI
employment insurance at full wages has hardly begun
There practically reports from the districts IN con-
of tha rio
poyment insurance.
81 The drive into the local unions of the national
and international unions affiliated to the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for the reputation of the decision OF the
Vancouver convention against unemployment insurance
and referendum of the membership of the American
Federation of Labor unions has been begun only in
few cities
But the unanimously favorable votes of the members
of big American Federation of Labor local unions where
this has been presented clearly by delegations
of the Unemployed Councils to show the tremen
dous opportunity right in the A F. of L. for modifying
support of the Unemployed Councils and their workers
unemployment insurance bill that is being neglected
The responsibility for the sagNin the struggle since
the National Hunger Marcia sag due solely to the lack
of systematic work by Party members in the unem
poyed organizations which has created the opportunity
for such berayas of the needs and struggles of the
employed millions the Father Cox hunger march,"
is responsibility for which will and should, be called
to account by the American working class Social dema
gOgy has developed into organizations because of
The Communists in the National Committee of the
Unemployed Councils must also take responsibility for
this delay and the failure to carry forward the
dous impetus given to the struggle for unemployment in
and immediate cash winter relief by the National
Hunger March. ,,,.ts.,.,,...
Agitatonal and propaganda literature of the finest
kind remains in the print shop Districts do not place
their orders for this Neutrality-suspicious. the best of its
kind gotten out in the United States-so that the
inertia of the center and the districts results in
tive checking of the struggles for which hundreds of
thousands of employed and unemployed American work
waiting.
In no it be said that the workers themselves
have retired from the battle front 1t is our leadership
that is not responding quickly and strongly enough the
daily increasing needs of the growing army of the
poyed masses and of the partme workers whose time
of employment is steadily cut down their wages are
likewise reduced
We have three weeks TO make February really
National Day of struggle against unemployment We will
do it, but there must be delay and every available
force must be set in motion for this task every front Of
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