The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-10
Party Life
Plans Made For
Recruiting
Unemployed

after reading the open letter Of
n the Central Committee Of Oct. 6
to the Party membership, the Com
munist Party Fraction Of the PhiIe-
delphia Unemployment Councils
took the matter up for discussion at
our meeting Sunday, Oct. 81, and
the following was unanimously de-
cided upon:
l. That discussion be held in
every Unemployment Council local
this week on the relation OF the
Party to the Unemployment Coun-
Gil and the unemployed workers
generally; pointing out how the
Party is fighting daily for the
Workers Bill, its official organ, the
Daily Worker, fights daily for the
jobleSS; compare this with the lack
of support of the Socialist Party
where they even refused to partici-
pate with the unemployed for the
right of Reyourn Plaza in the fight
for immediate relief for the jobleSs.
2. After this discussion 1t be pro-
posed that two or more workers be
selected on the basis Of their hard
work in the local; their willingness,
ETC., to be sent to the Workers
School for a period of six weeks;
the local to raise the fee, and after
school these workers are to be pro-
posed by the local, after a thorough
discussion on the basis of their fit
ness to join the Communist Party.
The City Committee voted on this
proposal unanimously.
This will not only add immedi-
ately approximately fifty new mem
bers to the Party, but will help
train the very necessary cadres for
the Unemployment Councils which
are so much needed, and will help
eliminate the cry, Eve are short
of forces" Also, by the entire mem
bership voting the workers in as
members into the Party, it will
eliminate the matter of anybody
and everybody making application,
and will raise the prestige of our
Party in the minds of the workers.
Leading Fraction. UnempIoy-
ment Councils, Philadelphia.
DACK in a little farming town in
u Indiana lived a man by the
name of M, who was a Socialist
Party member and a revolutionary
worker Not far away in Marion,
lived an eX-Socialist worker-a har-
ness maker by trade. This man,
after toiling away in his shop all
day would pick up his favorite
paper-the Daily Worker-and read
of the hardships that workers
throughout the world were faced
with. One day it happened that M,
who was friend of the harness
maker, dropped in for a visit. They
talked of the old days when Debs
waS one of the militant leaders of
the Socialist Party.
1t seems that M. had never heard
of the Daily Worker, and so there
began discussion on what good
paper 1t was, and what valuable
tool for the organization of workers
to lead the way in the class strug-
gle by mass pressure, and solidarity
of the workers to win better condi-
tionS and prepare for revolutionary
work. So M. became very interested
in the Daily Worker and sent in his
subscription.
In his home in Gas City, the far
mers and glass workers faced many
hardships unemployment, farm
foreclosures on mortgages, evictions,
cuts in relief, starvation and the
speed-up system at the factory.
After reading the Daily Worker
for few weeks, he began to realize
that something could be done by
organized effort. M. also ran bar
Der shop and often the workers
would gather around the shop and
discuss politics.
One day he said to us workers
that we ought to start an unemploy-
ment council, such as he read about
in the Daily Worker. An unem-
ployment council in this town could
win more relief. Right then and
there about six of us workers de-
cided to get together and draw up
a manifesto Of what the council
would stand for. We looked over
the Daily Worker for the demands
to put into the manifeSto-u nem-
ployment insurance, against evic-
tons, cash payment of the bonus,
no discrimination against race,
creed or color, against child labor.
In drawing this up we decided to
set ourselves up as workers for the
Communist Party. Being the most
class conscious, we started as the
vanguard of the workers to lead
them in our struggles. Although not
yet Party members, we knew it
would be alright with the Party as
long as we carried on the struggle
for the correct revolutionary way out
OF the crisis. One Saturday we de-
clded to call on workers and farm
ers to come to meeting. There
were six of uS-one a poor LAWYER,
one farmer, the barber, two glass
workers and myself. We went
around to a lot of workers and
farmers and called them to a meet
ing at workers home. That night
was the beginning of a mass fight
ing organization. About sixty work
!
Socialists, etc. We elected a chair
man, read off the manifesto of
what the council stood for, and all
who wanted to join were asked to
sign his or her name in notebook.
About forty some signed up that
night. We formed a militant organ
ization which went forward, win
ming concessions from the bosses
and their government; we forced