The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-13
UNION GROUP ON
UNEMPLOYMENT
MAPS PROGRAM
Plan Broad Struggle
at Committees
Conference

NEW YORK.-Plans for extending
the united front, and methods of
Welding the unity Of employed and
unemployed workers in the struoele
for relief were the main problems
raised at the Conference of the Trade
Union Unemployment Committee
held at Manhattan Lyceum last Fri
day. A series of mass actions for
relief we're reported.
Stress Need For Struggle
The keynote of the conference was
struck by Carl Winter Secretary of
the Unemployed Councils, who point
cd to the necessity Of the broedest
and most intensive struggle possible.
Winter sounded warning that the
city and private relief agencies are
planning to curtsil unemployment
relief He declared that a struggle
must be DEVELOPED "on the brcadest
possible United Front basis" not Only
to thwart these plans but to win the
struggle for permanent relief - for
Federal Insurance.
Unemployed members of the A. r.
Of L. are being Systematically pushed
out Of the unions by the corrupt Off
cialdom, Winters pointed out. The
unemployed will be organised to de-
mand readmission into the unions.
Jobless Demands
The demands of the employed to-
pether with those of the unemployed
workers were closely interviewer in
the Conference program. Not only
will the fight for relief be carried
into the shops by the employed
workers in the effort to compel the
employers to assume the burden of
relief for the jobless, but sirnultane-
ously fight will be made for higher
wages. better conditions on the job,
against lay-offs against the share
the-work etc.
These demands will receive power
full support through the unemployed
by means of mass actions, demon
STATIONS and picket duty in time OF
strike. In the same way a campaign
will be developed inside of the IN
ions to stop expulsions Of unemploy-
ed members by the corrupt official
dom who are destroying the Unions
and giving direct aid to the en-
ployers in spreading the open-shop
and eliminating the Union scale OF
wages.
Fight On EvictioDs
Every possible effort will be made
BY the Committee to secure the CO.
operation Of its members and all I'M
employed workers in the work OF
strengthening neighborhood Unen-
ployed Councils now waging strug-
giles against evictions.
A great number Of successful re-
lief struggles we're reported at the
conference. These successes have
been achieved by the Unemployed
Councils and the revolutionary I'M
ions affiliated with the TUU.C. The
Needle Trades Workers Industrial
Union reported the most important
extensive victories in the fight for
unemployment relief which it con-
Quoted on a united front basis.
The general program outlined in
the conference includes the following
points:
/. To raise the struggle for un-
employment relief towards continu-
ally higher level. with the demand
for Social Insurance as the objec-
tive.
2. To fight oil forms of discrimi-
nation, particularly against Negro
workers, in the allotment OF relief.
8. To extend the struggle for re-
lief on the broadest possible united
front basis under rank-and-file lead
ership.
d. To develop the struggle against
ev40t'ons. nv means of rent-strikes
and strengthening neighborhood Or
| CARNATIONS.
S. To carry the fight for relief in
to the shops and unions, and to forge
solidarity between the employed and
unemployed workers.
8. The unemployed are to join in
the struggles of the employed for
higher wages, better conditions on
the job, and in the fight against the
corrupt officialdom Of the A. F. of l..