The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-10
BY GARL REEVE

BY CARL REEVE
IN POTTSVILLE, Pa, there is an
i unemployed organization, the
Unemployed Union, in which Ro-
bert Cullun, young graduate of
BrookWood Labor College, is try
ing to put into effect the teachings
Of Music. This organization meets
in the Socialist Party hall, and
while the inspiration OF the eS-
adjustment of the organization
was the splendid work being done
by the Shenandoah Unemployed
Council (also in Schuylkill County,,
the Unemployed Union has on its
executive committee a number of
members Of the Socialist Party.
When the Shenandoah Unem-
ployed Council launched county
demonstration to the county COM
rnissioners at the SchuylkilI Coun-
ty court house in Pottsville, for
February Is, the question of the
united front between the Unem-
ployed Council of Shenandoah and
the Unemployed Union in Potts
vile came up.
At the first meeting this week
between the executive committee Of
the Unemployed Union and the
representatives of the Unemployed
Council, Cullum displayed the fol-
lowing differences with the Unem-
ployed Council:
l. He was reluctant to indorse
the state Hunger March to Harris
burg (Which takes place on March
u, saying he wanted to think it
over and 10 discuss it first private
ly with the Unemployed Union.
OBJECTED TO MENTION
OF SCOTTSBORO
2. He did not want the county
demonstration to have banners for
the release of Tom Mooney or the
release of the Scottsboro Boys.
3. He did not take a clear stand
on the workers unemployment in
Surance bill but spoke of demand
ing workers compensation"
But after we had discussed and
explained the program of the State
Hunger Mardh to Harrisburg q
represented the national committee
of the Unemployed Council in this
meeting), every member of the ex-
ecutive committee Of the Unem-
ployed Union present stated their
agreement with the State Hunger
March and its demands. They
stated they would take up the
question in the Unemployed Union
the following day, also the question
of the banners.
RANK AND FILE
VOTE FOR UNITY
The next day, Tuesday, February
ID, the Unemployed Union was
having a mass meeting in the
High School at which l.. Heimbach,
of the Allentown Unemployed
League, also a Music organization,
was the advertised speaker. And
here the splendid understanding of
the rank and file members of the
Unemployed Union and of the
Socialist Party Of the need for
unity showed itself. The Unem-
plOyed Union held a meeting and
endorsed the demands of the State
Hunger March and decided to send
ten delegates on the State Hunger
March. They also invited Peter
Paul Of the Shenandoah Unem-
ployed Council and myself to speak
with Heinbach at the High School
meeting that night.
The meeting at the High School
Tuesday night Of about 700 work.
ers showed the solidarity Of the
unemployed workers in the strug-
gle for relief. AT this meeting,
explained the role of the Unem-
ployed Council. The resolution
which I introduced Endorsing the
demands of the State Hunger
March on March LIST, and calling
for delegates was unanimously
and enthusiastically passed.
explained that the demand for
the release of Mooney and the
Scottsboro Boys was not only
Communist demand, but q broad
united front working class demand.
also went into the national strug-
gle Of the Unemployed Councils for
the workers unemployment insur-
ance bill, and the unity of the I'm
employed Councils with the strug-
gle OF the miners against the wage
cut.
The asals2ss s1s2i1lessaE voted