The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-04
Unemployed Struggles ere
The Central Task

AS IT hacks away at relief, and fosters
"A its fantastic, demagogic program Of
construction" the Roosevelt regime keeps
its ears close to the tempo of mass discon-
tent
1t was the Central Committee Of the
Communist Party which first pointed out after the
election results, that Roosevelt's New Deal vic
tory would be shortlived Now from the oracles Of
the ruling class there is confirmation Of this fact.
Many valuable lessons can be drawn from an I'M
Outstanding of this situation.
For example the Political Bureau Of our Party,
in its editorial summary of the discussion on the
election results declared "a careful analysis Of the
election results will indicate that such attacks Con
the workers, employed and unemployed will be
met with the greatest resistance on the part OF the
very same masses who voted for the Roosevelt New
Deal candidates, because they did not yet under
stand the class nature of the New Deal and were
still fooled by the Roosevelt promises and demagogy"
Again: 1.-THE results of the elections show that
the maneuvers of monopoly capital though largely
are bound to prove temporary"
In discussing Roosevelt's schemes for cutting
relief and playing with the bait of construction
program, Ernst K. Lindley, Washington correspond
ent for the Herald Tribune, writes:
There is a strong feeling in administration
circles that the situation now is somewhat compar-
able to that after the 1882 election, when many
people were buoyed up through the winter by the
hope that a new administration would bring about
improvement. They regard the confidence in Mr..
Roosevelt, expressed in the Congressional election
this autumn as a state of mind which may evapOrate
rather rapidly if he does not succeed in greatly in
creasing employment before the 1886 election"
The same gentleman points out that the adj
ministration is learning the great mass of unem-
ployed becoming disillusioned with promises
and are becoming radcalzed.
This becomes the important factor for the
ployers and their government in the effort to smash
down relief and save themselves some profit and
taxes.
Roosevelt is only too willing too happy to carry
out the wishes of the big trusts the big bankers and
the parasite class in hacking away at relief. And
he carries out this program to the maximum, de-
pendent on only factor-the resistance and
struggle of the unemployed and employed against
these starvation schemes.
Lndley, an official biographer of Roosevelt very
close to the chief demagogue admits This, saying:
while many financial and business leaders have
been urging the President to abandon future public
works expenditures and to cut relief to minimum,
the predominant thought in the administration
seems to be that the social risk involved in pursuing
such policy would be too great"
The amount of relief the unemployed get the
question of action unemployment insurance, the
whole problem of what the Roosevelt regime will
or will not do for the unemployed, depends on the
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employed. This has always been the position of
the Communists, VINO have been in the forefront in
developing the most extensive, the snarpest mass
struggles against the Roosevelt program of big
monopoly capital
The mood of the masses is Tor struggle We must
be able to lead these masses into struggle with the
knowledge that the amount of relief to be gotten
is precisely gagged by the strength of the battle
for relief and against the Rooseyelt-Wa Street
program.
Now the Communist leadership in the unem-
poyed organizations must watch every development
in every locality in the direction Of sashing relief
They must take up in the most consistent and de-
termined manner the fight for the needs of the
workers. They should take up the fight against
evictions against relief cuts against abolition Of
cash relief against forced labor
The unemployed struggle at this moment is the
central task before the whole party and It must
be waged with the most and best of our forces with
bulldog tenacity that will guarantee the retention
of the leadership of the fight in the hands of mil
liant, fighting workers.
The success of the National Congress for IN
employment Insurance to be held in Washington
Jan. ST, will depend the effectiveness with which
We take hold Of all local activities Of the unenl-
poyed masses.
In connection with the local struggle the CEN
trail demand for unemployment insurance must be
brought forward the highest political expression
of the whole unemployed struggle