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for the then four or five millions of unemployed
On March g. 1880, the Communist Party initiated
the mass struggle of the unemployed in which over
a million workers participated This struggle
which dramatzed the need of the unemployed, re-
suited in relief to the unemployed in many parts
Of the country. Since then the Communist Party
has continuously organized the struggles Of the
unemployed and modified the masses for numer-
Gus hunger marches and other actions which COM
PEELED the Federal and local government to give
increased relief to the unemployed Every candi-
date of the Communist Party in the present cleo
lions was and is a leader in the struggles of the
unemployed Under the leadership of the Com
munist Party, hundreds Of thousands Of members
of the A. F. of L. unions, hundreds Of thousands
Of other employed and unemployed workers, were
enlisted in support OF the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill proposed by the Communist Party.
C. P. Is Working Glass Party
The position of the various political parties
only this one burning question facing the workers
should make clear to every worker what party he
should support in the present election campaign.
If we take the other issues facing the workers
we find the same thing true-that of all parties
only the Communist Party champions the interests
of the workers If we take the fight for higher
wages the fight for the RICH to organize, the fight
against company unions the fight against terror
in the strikes what do we see? The whole machinery
OF the government, Une ROOSEVELT MIA. ana hdDOI
Department, the state government, whether Demo-
cratic South, Republican California Pennsy-
vania, etc., or Farmer Labor Odnnesota),
used to break the strikes to errorize and Jail the
striking workers The leaders Of the Socialist Party
in the strike struggles relied upon the N.R.A. and
helped to break the strikes of the workers by
preaching reliance upon the Roosevelt government.
One Of the best and freshest examples of this
was the role of Emil Reve, outstanding Socialist,
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sky leader Of the needle trades union, was just
rewarded for his work by the reactonary Green
VOL leadership of the A. F. of L.. who gave him
a seat on the Executive Council Of the A. F. Of L.
Dubinsky, by the way, voted against unemployment
insurance.
Negro Rights
Let us take Just one more questionable strug-
giles Of the Negro against discrimination
and for equal rights This issue is today best SYM
bolized in the Scottsboro frame-up. What is the
position of the various parties on this question?
Does President Roosevelt disassociate himself from
the Southern lynchers all of whom are leading
Democrats? He does not. He upholds this system
of lynching and discrimination. The N.RA codes
provide, practically in the most cynical manner,
for wage and condition discrimination against the
Negro workers How about the Republican Party?
Where have they stated with one word their oppo-
sition to lynching and to discrimination against
the workers? Why has the Socialist Party refused,
and why does it still refuse, to take up the united
struggle for the freedom of the ScottsbOro boys?
The workers must learn to understand that they
can expect nothing else from the Democratic and
Republican Parties than that they support the
interests of the class which they represent, the
rich class. They must also learn to Judge the
Socialist Party not by their words, but by their
deeds. The workers who engage, in militant class
struggle on the picket line, fighting against the
master class, cannot, without supporting their very
enemies, support the parties that represent the
interests of their class. The elections are also