The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

out in action When we insist upon action,
they tell us we have bad manners. that we are
disrupters; that we are breaking up the united
front For example, only last August here in
the city OF Cleveland, we participated in a con-
ference together with delegates from hundreds
OF workers organizations, including Music and
his associated leading group We worked out
program OF struggle against the N. R. A. for
Unemployment Insurance and relief, and the
unihcation Of the unemployed mass organiza-
tons. From that conference we went out to
night, to carry out the program adopted Mr.
Music and his associates left the conference
only to forget all about the decisions taken
there, to which they had signed their names
They never turned hand to realize the deci-
sionS they had agreed to- They had pledged
themselves to support the Workers Unemplov-
ment Insurance Bill, but they have maintained
ever since the silence Of death on this oues-
ton. Instead, they support the Wagner Bill
along with the Socialist and A. F. of L, lead
ers. They pledged themselves to help merge
the unemployed mass organizations; instead
they have done everything possible to prevent
any uniication from below, and have them
selves refused to even answer any letters on
the question so far as the top leadership is
concerned They pledge an uncompromisng
hight against the N. R. A.; but instead of this
they carry on an agitation copied from the
Socialist Party, asking the workers to use the
good sides" of the N. R. A. to achieve the
Dement'S that it grants them. United front
With such leaders on such terms is no united
front at all. The Communist Party will con-
tinue in the future, as it has in the past to
denounce all such unity" in words which is
violated in deeds.
Fight For United Front is the Fight Against
Social-Fascism
In spite Of all of these enemies Of the real
united front, the Communist Party moves
steadily forward in building a broad united
front movement Let us examine just few
of these successful united front efforts. First
of all, the movement for unemployment insur-
ance: 1t was the Communist Party that popu-
larized the issue Of unemployment insurance
formulated the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill; it took the lead in bringing into
existence the broad mass unemployment coun-
Gil movement which popuarized the bill: it
helped to initiate the A. F. L. Rank and File
Committee for Unemployment Insurance, which
has held two national conferences in support
/ OF the Workers Bill and has secured the en-
dorsement of 1000 unions, over a dozen CEN
trail bodies, and several state declarations; it
was the work of the Communist Party which
resulted in the endorsement of the Bill by
dozens OF city governments, including that of
the city of Minneapolis which joined with the
pressure of the whole mass movement caused
Ernest Lundeen, Farmer Labor congressman,
to introduce the bill in Congress although his
Party refuses to support the bill It was the
Communist Party which took the political lead
and did most of the practical work which gave
organized expression to the support of this bill
/ by million to million and-a half organized
workers. Truly, this is united front in strlig-
gle for unemployment insurance. The A. F. L.
leaders, Socialist Party the Music group, the
Loyestoneites. the TrotSkytes, one and all, they
sneered at the Workers Unemployment Insur-
ance Bill, they sabotaged the fight for it or
openly opposed it; they threw their support to
the Wagner Bill which is the Roosevelt gov
ernments attempt to head off unemployment
Insurance. they did everything possible to pre-