The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22

stration. Now they are waiting for
March when the jobs will be finished
and then they will be ready to Or
ganize the unemployed.
Why did such theories arise2 There
are several reasons, but in my opin-
ion, the basic reasons are: 1-Illu-
sions about the ability Of the Roose-
welt administration to give Jobs to
all the 100000 unemployed. 2-Il-
Illusions about the faith of the workers
in the MIRA. and New Deal. 3-The
mistaken conception that the Com
munist Party is party for the un-
employed; that the Communists can
not organize employed workers.
The first two reasons have been
discussed in the Daily Worker BY
other comrades and I will deal main
y With the third reason. Especially
in our district where most of the
activity has been among the unem-
ployed, our comrades were lost for q
time. They did not know how to ap-
preach workers who had Job. Il
was so difficult for our comrades to
change Their slogans and demands
from those Of relief to demands for
transportation, guaranteed wages,
proper clothing, etc. Our comrades
had been SO used to holding neigh
,borhood meetings that it was difficult
to learn how to arrange meetings Of
workers on certain jobs. They still
shave TO learn this very important
erganizational task.
pvOfhptiUa A
Workers have been organized only In
two cities In our district, Omaha and
Lincoln. Even here we still suffer
from the old methods Of work. In
Omaha we held meeting of C.WA.
workers at which we organized a
C.W.A. workers union. Instead of
taking up at once the organization
OF 100 committees, we continued to
call mass meetings. Not that we
qiidn't stress job committees, we did.
but in practice we did not mobilize
the workers to build up job COM
n1ittees.
Our task is to call meetings of
workers on certain Jobs ct these
meetings elect a secretary of this
JOB and in this way take up the con-
crete grievances of the workers.
IN this connection, it Is also i'm
portant to point out that while we
have begun this very important work,
we have not issued propaganda leaf
lets to the workers explaining Just
what the C.W.A. means, etc. We is
sue leaflets each week inviting work.
erS to attend meetings of the C.WA.
union, but these are short leaflets
with the announcement Of the meet
ing place and the demands adopted
at city-wide meeting. This is not
enough, We need Qualification on
questions which the workers discuss
on the Jobs.
In organizing the C.W.A. workers,
there is danger that our comrades
vtll forget about the hundreds OF
thousands and millions of workers
who did not get Jobs. The demand
.fGr unemployment insurance, for ade-
quate relief, ETC., are still the main
Demands for those who did not get
Jobs, as well as for those who did get
jobs. Due to our one-sidedness in
Omaha, the relief officials have cut
down on the relief of many families.
This will be taken up at once with
the Unemployed Councils. Two relief
stations have even been closed in
Omaha under the pretext that it was
majority Of the unemployed are
necessary to economic" and that
working on the relief jobs.
speak mostly of Omaha
in this article, am sure that this
same weakness is manifested in other
Cities of our district and no doubt in
many cities in other districts. We
should have clarity in the Party on
tasks that face us in the field Of
unemployed work. We are sending
letter to our units on this question
and will try to mobilize them for the
national unemployed convention.