The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-10
Federation of L abOr
and Others Meet for
United Action

CHICAGO, III, March g. The
District committee of the Commu-
mist Party, Chicago District, has
issued a statement declaring its po-
sition on the question Of a united
front Of the workers In the fight
against unemployment.
The workingclass organizations
have already set up committees, in
Guiding the Unemployment Councils
the Civic and Public Works Labor
Union, the Chicago Federation d
Labor and locals of the Workers
Committee on Unemployment, to
work out the common program and
actions for this united front. The
following statement of the Chicago
District of the C. p. analyses the
position of the Communists on this
united front:
Throughout the five years of
crisis, the bosses, through the Hoover
and now the Roosevelt government
constantly carried on their attack
upon the working class, through
wage cuts, cuts in relief etc. There
is hunger and starvation among the
unemployed. Now the G. w. A. Jobs
are to be discontinued.
The task confronting the entire
working class is to unite its forces
in struggle for improvement of the
conditions in the shops, increase in
wages, shortening working hours and
establishment of federal unemploy-
ment insurance, that is, to secure
adoption of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill Oh. R. 1899
now before Congress.
Masses Demand Unity
"One of the main reasons why The
capitalists and the government were
able to carry through their offensive
against the workers Is precisely be-
cause of the sabotage and refusal
on the part of the leadership of the
A. F. of L., Socialist Party, etc, to
join in united front actions. On the
contrary, this leadership supported
every move of the Roosevelt hunger
and war government, through the N
R. A. arbitration boards, through
joining the government relief ad-
ministration and helping conduct a
ballyhoo for the NJ R. A.
However, the idea Of the united
front penetrated deep among the
masses. There is a growing senti-
ment among members of the A. F
of L., Socialist Party and masses of
unorganized workers, Negro and
white, impoverished farmers, and
the toiing masses in general, for
united action. Only through unity
can they defeat the aims Of the
bosses and force concessions from
them. Struggles on basic demands
once developed, can be led to a
higher stage, toward the final strug-
gle against capitalism, for the aboli-
ton of the capitalist system, for
the establishment of a workers and
farmers government, with a real
workers democracy, the Dictatorship
OF the Proletar1at, as the only way
out of the misery, hunger and star
walton of the toiling masses.
Basis of Unity
''The Communist Party nationally
and in the Chicago District, on q
number of occasions, proposed united
front actions on burning issues, pro-
posing at the same time that Eat
the time Of the common fight
against capital and fascism, it re-
trains from making attacks on So
cial-democratic organizations, - while
at the same time firmly stating, "the
most ruthless fight must be con-
Quoted against all those who violate
the conditions of agreement to carry
out the united front, or disrupt the
united front of the workers"