The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-17
S.P. Heads Block Offer
For Unity Of JobIess
In Fight for Relief
Ignore PIE dyes for Joint Action SiIen
Proposal to Join the National Congress
for Unemployment Insurance

ton. This only serves the interests
Of the bankers, who benefit by this
split.
The National Unemployment Coun-
Gil was also aware that the other
unemployed organizations had ar
ranged for Nov. "a as a day OF
struggle for relief and for the Work
ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill. In its letter the Ma
tional Unemployment Council pro-
posed to the other unemployed or
CARNATIONS that this day should be
a day of joint struggle, with the
demands, method and form of
struggle and leadership to be worked
out jointly on a local, county and
state Scale-and that this united
front should be considered a step
toward the unificatiOn of all I'M
employed organizations.
In reply, David LASER writes that
"the exclusion of an invitation to
the Unemployment Councils to join
the National Action Committee was
based on the unanimous experience
of the representative organizations
that they found it impossible to
work harmoniously with you; and
that the Councils have been a dis
ruptive influence among the or
ganized unemployed"
How does this look IN FACT?
In Pittsburgh, there is a united
front Of five unemployed organiza-
tions, including the Unemployed
Citizens League of Allegheny Coun-
ty, whose leader, Robert Lieberman,
supposedly agrees with Lasser's
statement, but is working in the
united front with the Unemploy-
ment Councill 1t IS this same
Robert Lieberman, Socialist, who
expelled Mckinney, Musteite, and
a few locals of the Unemployed
Citizens League for united front
with the Unemployment Council.
Lieberman is in the united front
in Pittsburgh with the Mckinney
locals and the Unemployment Coun-
Gil, but today he sits on one chair
with the Musteite National Unem-
ployed League in criticism" of the
National Unemployment Council
In Eastern Ohio. the united front
for November "A has been estab-
lished between the Ohio Unem-
ployed League OMuste) and the So
called "disrupters," the Unemploy-
ment Council. In Chicago, broad
united front of twelve organizations
has been SET up for November "a
with the Unemployment Council OF
Cook County playing leading role
At the recent congress in Spring
field, Ill, there we're present dele
gates from the Illinois Workers
Alliance.
Joint Action Vital
What is the meaning of this eff
fort of the National Action Com
mittee" to keep the National IN
employment Council from joint ac-
ton with the other unemployed
organizations It's meaning is clear
it aims to continue the cleavage in
the working class, and particularly
among the unemployed, that can
only make their struggle more diff
cult. This is certainly not in the
interest of the working class. 1t
serves only the narrow, self-seeking
political aims Of these leaders. It
can only serve the enemies of the
working class the finance capital
lists OF the country.
1t comes at 8 time when in all
countries of the world the question
of the united front is being dis
cussed and in several countries is
being carried out by the workers
regardless of political af1liation. AS
a result of this drive among the
masses for the united front, the
Executive Committee of the Social
ist International is compelled to
give up its former position of cate
gorically rejecting the united front
proposals of the Communist Inter
national and to deal with the ques-
ton most seriously. To refuse to
do so would mean that the Social
ist masses would repudiate them.
In the United States this movement
is gathering force, despite the atti-
tude Of the Socialist, Music and
A. F. of L. leaders. The workers
want to struggle, and they realize
that unity in the struggle is basic
if their demands are to be won
and their conditions be improved.
Unity In Action
In its letter to the other unem-
ployed organizations, the National
Unemployment Council declared
that unity of the existing Organi-
cations will not merely mean the
adding together of the membership
of these organizations. 1t would be-
come the magnet that will attract
large numbers of isolated organiza-
tions and at the same time help in
the organization of the masses of
still outside all organ
ization."
1C IN q L v II q OlGlilJlOgIlltLlb
Council laid down no conditions for
this unity except that "it should be
carried through on the broadest
democratic basis and that the pro-
gram adopted should be of fight
ing character based on class lines"
Ignore Pledges
We must remind the Socialist and
Musteite leaders and the rank and
file of their organizations of united
front and unity decisions that they
have made at conferences and con-
held during the past one
and half years: in Chicago, May,
1888, at the Mooney Congress; in
Columbus. July, 1888, at the first
convention of the National Unem-
ployed League; in Cleveland, Aug,
1888, at the Conference for United
Action against the N.R.A.: in New
York, Sept. 1898, at the first con-
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