The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-23
The Party in New York
and Work Among Jobless
Make Plans to Launch Drive for Jnem-
ployment Insurance Bill

confidence of the Negro masses,
through failure. to carry on day to
day work. % 80 e.
The unemployment and relief Sit
uation in upper and lower Harlem,
the condition of the tenement
houses, the overcrowding, the hunger
of the children, need no description.
But if in a tenement house that has
long been condemned the stairs are
broken down and rat holes are so
large that a child can crawl through
and the Party and the Unemployed
Council have not made this an issue
not only of the occupants Of the
house, but of all Harlem, then the
negligence of the Party is serious.
This has not been done, because OF
our isolation and failure to carry on
work in this most important con-
centration section of the District.
CHI There is a serious lack OF
leading forces The Section Com
mittees have not assigned the best
forces, and these forces have in many
instances been demoralized by a
process of hunger, lack Of direction,
wrong line and practices, etc. 1t is q
sad and sharp commentary on the
unemployed work of the Party that
out of the hundreds of thousands OF
workers that the Unemployed Coun-
ellis have led, there has developed
only small number of leading forces
This is due TO the bureaucratic
handling by the Party, the lack Of
faith in the workers themselves, the
failure to bring promising workers
forward and give them training and
help. The unemployed movement
should develop the largest number OF
leading forces-men and women
many of whom have had organiZa-
tional experience in the unions and
other organizations. This Is not the
case at all in New York and Is q
most serious danger.
IL The Trade Union Unity Coun-
Gil and It's affiliated unions have
done little or nothing about unen-
p1oy1nent. Although a few unions
in New York did good work-as, for
instance, the Marine Workers In
dustrial Unior-ard some others did
spasmodic work, with no direction
being given to the comrades as
signed, as in the needle trades, at
the present time this work is prac-
tically at standstill--Ilo doubt un-
der the influence of the N. 7. p. A
and because of shop concentration
This neglect of the r. q. u. c.
had to be fought against for con-
siderable period because Of the atti-
tude of leading cor11rade. This at
titude does not exist in the T.U.U.C.
now, but no work Is being done.
Forced Labor Increases
The number OF workers doing
forced labor on the relief Jobs has
increased tremendously; nevertf1e-
less neither the Unemployed Council
nor the r. q. q. G. has considered
this question sufficiently, worked out
plans for organizing the workers, as
signed forces, etc. 90.
Cd Work has been done m the
A. F. OF L. unions on the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill and other issues raised by the
A. F. of L. Committee, but otherwise
the campaign has had purely
propaganda character, with no &C
ton whatever.
This shows an untenable situation
and discloses the main sources.
both politically and organizationally.
Of the serious weakness Of the I'M
employed work In New York today.
eve do not speak of the weakness
Of the work outside OF New York
City and a few surrounding towns.
for, in the rest of the district, unem-
ployed work does not exist at all.>
This situation is menace TO the
entire work of the district.
The attacks being made on the
unions of the Trade Ur.ion Unity
League; the efforts to squelci1 the eff
forts of the militant rank and file
in the reforInist unions; the attempts
to smash strikes by forbidding picket
lines, through iniunctions, compul-
sorry arbitration, ETC.; and particu-
larry the increasing efforts to secure
strikebreakerS, to cut relief and in
troduce forced labor on a general
scale, make it OBLIGATORY that
the situation be changed without
delay. The discussion in the District
on the basis of the extended resolu-
ton on unemployed work in july has
had no effect whatever, because it
did not touch the BASIC CUES
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(CorcIuded Tonoorrowl