The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-06
Party Life
Unemployed Work
After Elections
In Harlem
BY FRIEDA JACKSON, Unit 4a4

WHAT does the Communist Party
W want from t he unemployed
struggles? What has been wrong in
our past work, and what is our task
in the future?
The aims of the Communists in
unemployed work is to lead the
workers in struggle for their imme-
ldlate needs and to win unemploy-
ment insurance, therefore the mem
bers of the units must become the
driving force in all struggles in its
vicinity and in every unit through
canvaSsing must learn who is unem-
ployed in the block, who gets relief,
who doesn't get any because of a
tluky excuse of the Home Relief
Bureau. Yes, we must also know who
is Democrat or Republican, in
other words who is a sympathizer
to our movement. Plenty of canvass
ing is done by our Upper Harlem
units but not Systematically enough
to make any reliable estimates. For
instance, my unit, 424, is carrying
out effective open-air meetings, good
educational propaganda, but has
never yet worked out plan, has
never chosen a point around which
to concentrate. Comrades go can
wasting without knowing where the
concentration point is supposed to
be.
Now, after the election campaign
our activities must be intensified.
The struggle for the Workers Un-
employment and Social Insurance
Bill must be brought to the fore
front. We are the only political
party that works and lives among
the masses after election day. This
We must make clear to the unem-
ployed workers who follow the lead
ership of the Unemployment Coun-
ellis.
| Nevertheless, questions are asked
in the locals, what is the council,
part of the Communist Party or a
bipartisan organization? 1 am
sure that if our fractions would
work properly in these locals many
of these confused questions would
be eliminated.
From 135th Street up to 155th
Street, from 5th Avenue to Edge
combe Avenue, there are only $4,000
heads of families who are getting
relief at the 135th Street Home Re-
lief Bureau. Thousands Of unem-
ployed in the territory of the Upper
Harlem units are denied relief. BY
proper systematic canvassing, we can
organize these workers, into unem-
Iployment locals and build a powerful
Communist Party not only at cleo
ton time but at all times to fight
for immediate needs, freedom of
the Scottsboro boys. against war and
fasciSm and for the overthrow of
the bosses system.
Harlem Unit Concentrates on
Unemployed
| WANT to tell you something about
our unit. We have 81 members.
Six of these comrades are doing I'M
employed work, some are in the
LID. and some in the L.SN.R.
We comrades who have been as
signed to do unemployed work con-
slider that this is a very important
task. About four months ago, our
unit was assigned to work in Local
6 of the Unemployed Council. 1t
can be proven that there our unit
did some good work. On the other
hand our unit could have done much
more, if all our Party members had
taken their assignments more seri-
ously. We recruited more than 80
members to the Party from this
lccal. Our discussion in this local
was always appreciated by these
workers. Although we have tried to
keep Party discussions from the To-
calls, these new comrades demand
to hear political discussion. This
also helps to develop our local to
a great extent. We also talked very
often about the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill.
AS members of the Communist
Party we must concentrate now on
unemployed work. We shall not find
out mistakes by talking, but by do
ing work among the unemployed.
Then we shall have something to
talk about.
would like to say few words
about our unit during the election
campaign. We circulated about $50
platforms. We realize that this
number is insufficient. But on the
other hand, we had very good turn
outs for Red Sundays when we sold
Daily Workers and Liberators. Last
night we raised $1,000, our full quota
for the Daily Worker. We hope that
other units followed this good ex-
ample. Aside from this we have
fallen down on the Daily Worker,
taking about so copies a week. The
unit buro realizes that it is not in
this way that the Daily Worker will
be made into mass paper. Com
rades of Unit 422 let's erase this
black mark from our record.
We have been doing splendidly in
the sale of literature. For several
months our unit has bought more
than $3.50 worth. We buy seven
Communists, seven or eight Party
Organizers, one Inprecorr, etc. In
the last few weeks this record has
been spoiled to some extent. Our
comrades must realize that now that
the election campaign is over, we
must buckle down to serious read
ing. 1t is only through reading that
our theoretical and practical ex-
perience can be combined to win the
masses for our Party. Every Party
member must keep in mind that we
have many more campaigns before
us. BY so doing we will become
capable leaders of the great revolu-