The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
Permanent JobleSs Army Is Increasing

They go further. They say Uhat
Roosevelt and johnson should admit
there is no solution for unemployment
under capitalism. I'm the final aE-
alysis," they say. public works and
the civilian works program are mere
stopgaps. They are substitutes for
dole.
Much better If the Administration,
instead of making rosy prophecies and
unfulfillabIe promises in these mat
tiers, would conservatively estimate
what actually can be done and frankly
admit that il cannot achieve the i'm
possible. If General JohnS0n'S state
ment is correct, the country will have
many millions of unemployed on its
hands for many years. The sooner il
knows the probable truth about such
q condition, the better. Nothing is
gained by having it cam0ufIaged."
Yet we must say, despite all these
admissions, despite the obvious fact
/ that very very few have received
work, that the great mass OF unem-
ployed is as great as at any time dur
ing the present crisis, the struggle
for unemployment insurance has
Jagged Woefully. The issue Of the
minimum security of the whole work
ing class is not raised sharply enough
in an organized way.
Comrade Gussev pointed out that
1 throughout the entire crisis this cam
paign has gone on by fits and starts.
For the first three years, the Com
munist Party initiated, led and was
the main force in the campaign for
social insurance. Later reformist ele-
ments entered the struggle confus-
ing the workers. But the Party was
not able TO organize the unemployed,
in unity with the employed, to over
come the confusion and demagogy.
Roosevelt DemagOgy.
NOW the situation IS still more COM
plicated by the Roosevelt demagogy
and action. Roosevelt has been a
skilful maneuverer for the bosses, in
addition to the refornisJ demagogy
that was let loose against the unem-
ployed He has introduced forced la
Dor. He has aroused great hopes
and illusions among many Of the I'M
employed, which all the capitalist
propaganda agencies have not failed
to exploit to the full At this very
period, our organization of the I'M
employed and employed in the strug-
glei for unemployment insurance has
greatly Jagged when we required the
greatest firnness and persistency.
Then when the great strike strug-
giles broke out, we lost sight Of the
main, fundamental basis in the strug-
gle for unemployment insurance, unity
of employed and unemployed. We
did not sufficiently raise the demand
for unemployment insurance in the
strike struggles and where it was
raised it appeared in a mechanical
and purely propaganda form.
Now the CWA is creating some
confusion We do not sufficiently
raise the demand for unemployment
insurance against it, though RooSe-
welt, as we see in the speech of Hop
kinS, loses no opportunity to raise
the CWA AGAINST unemployment in
surance. Besides the concrete de-
mands we raise against the CWA,
such as jobs for all workers, guar
, anteed IS hour week and full weekly
; wages, clothing, etc, out Of all these
struggles the major demand should be
Unemployment insurance.
Party Tasks.
The Communist Party began both
the propaganda and organization Of
the struggle for unemployment in
surance and relief, and is the only
Party fighting in the interest of all
workers and against the capitalist
way out of the crisis. But unless we
more energetically take the lead in
the struggle for unemployment in
surance, the Roosevelt regime will be
able to advance its program of fore
ing capitalism out of the crisis at the
expense Of ell workers, through low
ching their standard Of living and
smashing still further the funds used
for relief. The first major task to
speed the struggle for unemployment
insurance is to mobilize for the ma
tional unemployed convention to be
held in Washington, D. c., January
IS, II and Is.