The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-11

THE National Board OF the Trade Union Unity
l League. endorses ana calls upon all affiliated
unions, leagues and revolutionary minorltleS to
put into effect the decisions of the eighth
meetings OF Che Central Council of the Red
international Of Labor Unions which again
reiterate and emphasize that the organization
of the everyday struggles of the unemployed, for
their immediate needs, is a central task OF the
revolutionary trade union movement,
We must warn the unions, leagues and re-
evolutionary minorities of the T. U. U. L. that
until now they have without exception failed to
give this problem the necessary consideration
and attention.
We have not only failed to mobilize our forces
to provide leadership for the great masses of
unemployed, but often failed to even participate
in the general actions Of the unemployed. The
daily struggles for the immediate needs of the
unemployed are entirely neglected and ignored,
by almost all Of our organizations and members.
The occasional, sporadic attempts on the part
CT some OF our organizations to develop organized
activity among the unemployed, only serve to
illustrate the quite general neglect underestima-
ton and responsibility towards this important
task of the revolutionary unions, leagues and
minoritieS.
Such an attitude is inconsistent with the most
elementary duties of revolutionary economic
organization, and if persisted in, would prove
disastrous for the workers, who are dependent
upon the revolutionary trade union movement
fo- leadership and for these organizations as
such.
TO neglect unemployed activity means to
neglect 100000 totally jObless and 100000
part time workers, or more than two-thirds of
The working class population which is directly
affected by unemployment. 1t means to fail to
recognize a factor that is decisive in every
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wage cuts and worsening working conditions
1t means that our unions remain without organic
contact with these great masses of workers that
they fail to properly concern themselves with
and provide leadership to the unemployed who
already members of our unions.
l, Role of the Revolutionary Economic
Organization in the Unemployed Movement
l. The revolutionary unions, leagues and
minorities have no separate program of unem-
ployed work. The program for the Unemployed
Councils is their program also.
2. They must become the leaders, the con-
scious organized force that puts this program
into operation.
3. They must be the initiators and or
gani5ers of the united front movement and Or
ganization of the unemployed; of the unem-
ployed committees in the neighborhoods, flop
houses, breadlines, the employment offices, fac
tories trade and industrial markets, ETC.. ETC.;
and of the Unemployed Councils which are based
upon delegates from all committees as we'll rs
from all possible organizations of working class
membership
4. The members Of the revolutionary unions
leagues, ninorities, must be organized for active
participation in the daily work and struggles of
the unemployed on the basis of the neighborhoods
where they live, as well as the trades and fac
tories in which they are employed, and the or
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constitute the fractions within the unemployed