The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-20
United Action for HR7598

DRESSED by the rank and file member
ship, the New York City Committee of
the Workers Unemployed Union, on April
13 endorsed the Workers Unemployment
and Social Insurance Bill CHR. 1898. This
action is significant chiefly as proof of the
growing mass support for the workers bill
T.se leadership of this organization which con-
sists in the MAN, of Socialist Party leaders rene
gsdes from Communism Oovestoneites) and lead
ers Of Mustes American Workers Party did not
want to endorse the workers bill. For many weeks
this leadership has refused to come out for H. R.
1898 But the rank and file membership has finally
forced them to endorse the bill
The chief concern of these misleaders, such as
David LASER the socialist leader Harris the Music
lite, Welsh and other Lovestone followers, has been
to prevent the workers in their organizations from
carrying through any united action with the Jnem-
pigment Councils and to stifle any militant fight
for the demands of the unemployed workers.
In the very act of forming the Unemployed
Union. LASER and other leaders of this organza-
tion split their followers away from and refused
to take part in united front action with such fight
ing organizations as the Unemployment Councils
and the Relief Workers League. LASER and the
other leaders of the Unemployed Union kept their
followers out of the united front actions of the I'M
employed against c. w. A. firing, refused to take
part in the Madison Square Garden meeting and
the City Hall demonstration of March 81 against
C. w. A. firing and for adequate cash relief Earlier
when the rank and file followers of LASER forced
him to take part in the united front demonstration
at Union Square, LASER refused to speak for the
Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill
III. R. 1888, saying he not familiar with its
contents.
1t took LASER and most of his fellow leaders
Of the Unemployed Union many weeks to become
familiar" with the contents of the Workers Bill
He finally was forced to act by the demands from
the membership in the locals.
The Daily Worker halls the action of the rank
and file in forcing this action for the Workers
Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill The I'm
employment Councils have called for united fight
on local scale for the BILL H. r. 1893 The next
step is to cement the united front struggle for the
Workers Bill in the neighborhoods. The Workers
Bill (H R. 1899 has been sent to the locals of the
Unemployed Union. Now what is required is not
only a formal endorsement, but an aggressive
united campaign for the bills enactment Unity in
the locals, of the workers in all of the unemployed
organizations Unemployed Councils Workers I'm
employed Union and all others will advance the
fight to wrest from Congress- real unemployment
insurance
The rank and file in the Workers Unemployed
Union which has shown such splendid working class
solidarity, and such fighting spirit by forcing en-
dorsement Of the Workers Bill, should now take
the next STEP to set up neighborhood united front
actions through their locals in the campaign for
the bills enactment These united front actions
can be extended to include not only the fight for
the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill but also
the demand for jobs and for more relief and other
demands for which the unemployed workers, no
matter what their organization, are DESTROYS of
fighting.
LASER and the renegades now leading the Work
ers Unemployed Union have shown that they are
trying to prevent such united front of the rank
and file, united front on the relief Jobs and in
the neighborhoods. They attempt to have narrow
demonstrations with delegations composed of top
leadership only, and not based upon rank and file
local struggle of the masses. The rank and file in
the Workers Unemployed Union must watch these
mlSieaders and over their heads carry through the
securing OF solidarity and unity in the fight of the
unemployed in New York City