The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-02
.CWA Workers Will
Join United Fight
On Unemployment
Tendency to Hide Face of Unemployment Council
Results in Danger of Splitting Struggle for
Unemployment and Social Insurance

our fight to get Jobs for the millions
who registered but were never
placed. and our fight for relief for
these and for the workers who are
now being laid of. effectively, our
mistakes in this instance served 70
support the aims Of the Roosevelt
government for splitting and divid-
ing the ranks Of the unemployed by
means Of C.W.A. jobs, and thus
weakening our fighting forces.
This is not flexibilityl This, when
carried to its logical conclusion is
capitulation! Such opportunism
while processing to aim at the
broadening of our movement, re-
suits in sectarian isolation and In
the LIBERALIZATION of the united
front movement we have developed
over several years. For it condones
and supports the attitude of our
enemies who declare that the On.
employment Council is to he re-
garded as a narrow organization OF
only Communist workers.
If this were the only instance Of
such an attitude, it would perhaps
not be necessary to deal in such
detail with it. But the examples
cited above and some of the ms
takes that we're made in our United
Front with the Musteites, prove that
we are dealing here with tendency
which manifests itself quite fire.
quently. We are too prone to assume
that any organization under our
leadership is not a genuine united
front and that we can and must
build new organizations, with new
labels at will
It is doubtful whether any more
workers were organized by us in the
various relief workers organizations
than could have been organized as
integral although autonomous units
Of the Unemployment Council. It is
a fact that those organized are not
as we'll prepared for the struggle as
they would be if their organization
was based on a correct relationship
with the Unemployment Council. If
We are serious about our slogan,
For one united unemployment
movement" we viii fight for that
slogan and attempt to make every
organization we build and influence
an active unit of this unified move
ment. In such an effort we must be
not only flexible but persevering and
consistent fighters for a Bolshevik
line.
In the course of the struggle
which must now be developed to re-
sist the liquidation Of Civil Works
Jobs and the further extension of
Roosevelt's forced labor and hunger
! program, these errors must be cor
rected. The C.W.A. workers who are
being laid of and threatened by
lay-offs, can see clearly the need for
united action in the fight against
unemployment. They can be con-
WINGED of the need for a determined
fight around the program of the
Unemployment Councils and espe-
cially for unemployment and social
insurance. They can therefore be
drawn into a united front and even
tually merged into the permanent
united front movement against un-
employment - the Unemployment
Councils. This we must do without
loss Of time.
The Eighth Congress of our Party
must, and surely will, also serve to
correct and further clarity the en-
tire Party on the manner in which
we may conduct the fight against all
varieties Of opportunism which ham,
per the development Of Our strITg-
gle and movement.