The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-28
Minneapolis W Orkers
Played Big Part in
JObless Struggles

speaks for unemployment insuT-
ance" in general. and plots against
the Workers Bill The Musteite
and S. P. leaders Of Pittsburgh and
Ohio try to split the workers soli-
darity for the demands Of the IN
employed. In Chicago the io1less
4 progress toward unity in spite Of
the Socialist misleader Karl Bor-
ders. nov a Roosevelt employe.
But these fascist attacks, eased
in by the social-fascist agents Of
the New Deal" fail to break the
growing strength Of the united front
of the workers. On February 4th
there convened in Washington the
National Convention Against IN
employment, with approximately
1000 delegates from all districts Of
the United States. This convention
was a milestone in the struggle Of
the unemployed workers. It marked
the growth Of the mass demand for
jobs, for relief and for real unem-
ployment insurance.
H.R. 1898
Simultaneous with the calling Of
this convention, there was intro
duced into the United States Con-
gross. for the first time, the Work
] ers Unemployment and Social In
surance Bill now known as H. r.
/ 1893. The Workers Bill wa5 in
troduced into Congress by Ernest
j Lundeen, because Of the mass pres
sure eXerted on him by the rank
and file Of his own party 1the
Farmer Labor Party and the work
ers of Minneapolis.
In two NOR. his following the con
vention, 123 A. F. of L. local unions
demanded that Congress pass the
bill, Central labor unions Of the
a. F. Of L, such as st. Louis, Phils-
delphia, Newark, Providence, with
700 local unions affiliated, demanded
action by Congress to pass the bill.
City councils, faced by the demands
Of the masses, endorsed H. r. 1888
Minneapolis, Toledo. Canton. James
town, N. Y, Milwaukee. and
coal steel and railroad towns.
went on record for its pas
sage. Hundreds of thousands Of
workers, through thsir unions, in
mass meetings, in Unemployed
Council and fraternal organization
meetings, demanded passage of the
Workers Bill.
Mass Struggles Led BY Party
All of these struggles have been
led by the Communist Party. The
Communist Party first put forward
the Workers Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill III. r. 1899
| and from the first has led the cam
| paign for its enactment. the fight
to wrest security from the Hunger
Deal of President Roosevelt In the
work Of the Unemployment Cdun-
ellis and the Relief Workers Unions,
the Communist Party has played a
leading role.
The Communist Party has con-
stantly exposed the social-fascIsts.
the Greens and Tnomases, and their
covered attacks on the unemployed.
The fraudulent Wagner reserves
bill, which evadss granting of un-
employment insurance under cover
of the name unemployment insur-
ancc'; the new work relief" pro-
gram Of Roosevelt, which has drss-
tically cut down the amount Of cash
relief to the workers and fred
100000 from C.W.A. Jobs; the slow
starvation policy OF the Hunger
/ Deal Of Roosevelt in decreasing re-
lief and refusing to grant unsm-
ployment insurance-all have been
unmasked by the Communist Party
| and its official organ, the Daily
Worker.
On the basis of mass strug-
gle, on the basis of the broad
est united front founded on a fight
ing class struggle policy, the grow
ing mass movement of the unem-
ployed sweeps forward, mobilizes to
defeat the increased fascist attacks.
to confound all social fascist and
renegade traitors. to win further
concessions for the starving unem-
ployed In this fight. the May
demonstrs tions themselves this wear
play a large role. Hundreds Of
thousands of unemployed workers
are demonstrating May First Size
by SIDE With the employed.
From these demonstrations the
fight of the unemployed will
receive new impetus, the fight
to force Congress to act on the
Workers Unemployment Insurance.
Bill, to force adequate relief. etc,
will enlist broader masses of work.
ers, and the united front Of the
workers-employed as well as un-
employed-agsinst unemployment,
will forge ahead to new levels.
Eyes Toward Soviet Union
The unemployed workers, this
May First, have their eyes trained
on the Soviet Union. the only coun-
try in the world where unemploy-
ment has been abolished. The les
son of the establishment by the
workers and farmers OF Russia of
workers government strikes for
chilly home to the 100000 unem-
ployed on this May First. The
workers government of the Soviet
Union having abolished the cani-
talist system, and driven out ths
bankers government, has abolished
with it unemployment Every
worker in the Soviet Union has Sc
curity against hunger, sickness and
old age, while here 16,0OO0 600 starve.
We draw the lessons from
this striking contrast in this years
revolutionary May First demonstra-
tons. Unemployment cannot be