The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-02
Amter Presents Communist AnSqver to Workers Needs
Truce Talk Signal for NeeV Drive on Labor
An Editorial

SEEM but will result in the most drastic drive on
every right of organization the right to strike,
on the right to build unions, on the right to Or
ganize and struggle against the bosses offensive.
Sixteen million unemployed and their families
face the coming bitter winter without jobs, and
without adequate relief, What did Roosevelt have
to say to them? Did he promise them unemploy
ment insurance? He did not. He reserted again
to his lying promises delivered during his election
campaign and repeated time and again since his
Inauguration in March, 1888. He again promised
jobs to every unemployed worker
You promised, Mr., Roosevelt, that the N r. A..
would end unemployment? But right now your
own Department of Labor is forced to admit that
unemployment is growing. You say there will be
no permanent unemployment army in America?
But for the past five years there has been one of
over 1e,0O00o0l The unemployed cannot eat your
words on your promises. Why were you silent on
unemployment insurance. You were not silent
about profits You assured the employers that your
government would see to it that they made "fair
profit" on their investments. You proudly boast
about the great in profits the parasites achieved
under the N. R. A. But what about the unem-
ployed? Your promised jobs have not materialized
and no one knows better than you in the present
deepening general crisis OF American capitalism
that these jobs will not materialze. On the con-
trary, with the speed-up and streteh-out with the
efforts of the employers, aided by the N r. A., to
ui0ICaSS pTClltSr LIE EEtCNAANENI ARMY OF
UNEMPLOYED WILL GROW
This is the perspective that faces the unemployed
and employed, And you still have nothing to say
concretely about unemployment insurance. You
want a truce in the struggles of the unemployed
for unemployment insurance, Just as you want a
truce in strikes SO that the schemes of the big
trusts, of the big monopolies, of the bankers and
rich parasites will not be disturbed
We must say, Mr., Roosevelt, you have made
who criticized you, to the Republicans and others
who found some fault with your program will bring
great joy to them. They want nothing better than
truce in the class struggle. They are soFey har-
ried by the nihtaney by the heroism, by the fight
ing spirit Of the American workers They we're
afraid that the betrayng leaders who stood between
them and victory for the workers would not be able
to hold out against the growing upsurge in the
labor movement.
Every banker, every coupon clipping drone will
be thankful for your silence on unemployment in
surance.
But we say to the workers, we say to American
labor Roosevelts speech is a challenge to you
Are YOU ready to accept his slave truce? Are you
ready to leave your fate in the hands of Green the
National Manufacturers Association and the Roose-
welt government that panders and fawns at the
feet of the big trusts2
Reosevelts truce must be emphatieally rejected
wages to a smashing of the unions and the rights
won by the workers over decades of bitter and
bloody struggles. In every union, the cry must go
up: mo truee!" There can be no truce with the
prafit-grabbing employers and their wage slaves
There can be only struggle for the rights of labor
for better living conditions for building the trade
unions for recognition and against the whole lying
foul scheme of the Roosevelt government
This is the position Of the Communist Party
and one 1t will fight for at everv turn
broadcast masses Of workers, in the trade unions
IN the election campaigns, before the shop gates
IN the mills, in every nook where workers gather,
The answer to Roosevelts silence on the burning
issue OF unemployment insurance must be ire
mendous campaign to force the government to pass
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill Do
not let him get away with this failure even to men
ton what is life and death need for every unem-
pleyed worker and his family and for every en-
ployed worker faded with the prospect of being
flung out OF a job at any moment.
RooseVelts truce and Green's acceptance throws
upon every Communist the greatest tasks of ex-
posing its meaning to the whole working class It
eonfronts them with the necessity for plunging
more energetically into the struggle, in the trade
unions in the shops, mines, mills, to defeat this
nefarious scheme to stop the bosses new offensive
ana to drive labor ever forward for its immediate
demands and for the still greater struggle against
the capitalists efforts to solve their crisis at the
expense of the toiling masses
1t is this policy of truce" and submission to
NR-A. and government attacks that Roosevelt wants
the workers to vote for in the elections Only the
Communist Party's election program and its day to
day struggle, offer correct answer to this new
offensive.
Roosevet's new offensive raises still sharper the
question OF the united action of the working class
Tor the defense of its rights and for higher living
standards. The Socialist leadership have shown
their trend towards unity with Green German 81
Co. Now every Socialist must ask: what will be
the stand OF his Party the truce?" There should
pc only one answer; united front of the Socialist
and Communist Parties against the whole offensive
of the Roosevelt regime AGAINST tho warl;no close