The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-26
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER Is, 1894
Unity of the Unemployed

THE New York Post, liberal" capitalist
L newspaper, is forced into position of
recognizing the power behind the Work
ers Unemployment and Social Insurance
Bill and the historic National Congress for
Unemployment Insurance which will meet in Wash
ington Jan. 5.
In a leading editorial Monday, Dec. "a, the
Post declares: The American people are at last
reaching the stage where they are willing to fight
for social security. On this question the masses
of the people are moving beyond their leaders with
accelerating rapdity."
Expression of the public desire" the Post con-
tinues, will shortly be provided by the National
Congress for Unemployment Insurance. All shades
of political opinion, labor organizations and other
interested groups will be represented"
In it's comment on the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill and after setting forth its provisions
the Post states that the bill that the American
people will accept will have to be cast in some
such fortnight terms as these"
COMPARE this with the campaign of the Socialist
New Leader in consciously sabotagng the united
front behind the question of unemployment insur-
ance or with the despcable role played by the rene
gades from Communism
While the New Leader is compelled by the very
pressure of its membership and of the members
Of the Socialist controlled unemployed groups and
trade unions to tip its hat to the drive toward unity
its maneuvers are transparent The continuous APP
peal for unity made by the National Unemploy-
ment Councils have met with complete rebuff on
the part of the leadership of the Workers Unen-
ployed Union
Yet in the of unity" David LASER, So
cialist leader and chairman of the Workers Unem-
ployed Union and of a National Provisional Com
mittee," in leading article in the current New
Leader, wherein he writes of unemployment in
surance among other things makes not one men
ton of the united front behind the Workers Bill
and the National Congress.
On the most burning united front issue before
the working class, the question of unemployment
insurance, the New Leader, which is dominated by
the right-wing of the Socialist Party, has main
tanned complete silence and sabotaged the drive
behind the National Congress
Norman Thomas who at the first National Youth
Congress gave lip service to the Workers Bill has
capitulated to the rightwing of the Socialist Party
and has used his column in the New Leader to
hinder the building of the united front, SANDER
the Soviet Union and thus widen the breach that
separates the American working class
a OVESTONE carries out similar role of SANDER
- and wrecking. Thus this renegade from Com
munism writes What is the National Congress
for Unemployment and Social Insurance? Nothing
but the latest puppet organization of the Comnu-
mist Party just another name for the bankrupt I'm
employed Councils. 1t is merely another Red
paper organization today and can never in the
nature Of the case, become anything else" And with
these words, renegade contributes his efforts to-
ward blocking the drive for genuine unemployment
insurance.
In the A. F. of L.. Green's whole aim has been
to head off the growing revolt of the trade unions
members, who are demanding real unemployment
insurance instead Of the spurious schemes which
he advances
Despite the conscious sabotage the words of the
Post hold true-'the American people are at last
reaching the stage where they are willing to fight
for social security and stability"
The rank and file Of the Socialist Party and of
the A. F. of L, should cement this unity The mem
bers OF the Communist Party must bind the united
front in action wherever it has thus far been
formed, and build the united front locally in every
section of the country.
The National Congress for Unemployment Inslr-
ance will be united front in spite of the sabotage