The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1931, Page 4

ara Four (By! Worker Correspondent) NEW YORK.— . A, are surely getting their share of rough handling. When a jobless worker goes there, he is first inter- viewed by the beancseldecctiue! secre- ‘The anemployed in the Bowery Branch of the Y. M. | tary. The worker must tell why and that he is not working and making good like every respectable Am- erican citizen. If the worker can’t goes, But if the secretary takes a king to the worker there is an- | | where he was born and why tt is | explain this out on the street he | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECERBER 19, 1931 other list of questions and answers. He must promise to “love and obey” as a member of the Triangle. Any little deviation from this means out on the street. Next the worker reports to the deck, A man who never smiled in | his whole life gives the worker a | PAY SLASHED TWICE IN THREE C Employed and Unemployed “Miners Urged to Unite and Build Strong N. M. U. (By a Worker Correspondent) CROSB , Minn.—Out of three are working—and they are working oly two days a} At Armour No. 1 and No. 2, two of the mines that are week working, but which employ only 150 men, the miners got their wages slashed two times in three weeks. receive $3.50 a day. miners get 90 cents to $1.40 a over the top. The company says these Common laborers get $3.36. WEEKS IN ROSBY IRON MINES! Average Miner Receives 45 Cents for Car of Ore Weighing 4 Tons the forty-eight mines here only The miners here; Contract car for a four ton car filled up cars hold three tons, but when U. S. INJUNCTION HERALDS DEATH Federal Judge Rules Against Safety Law (By a Worker Correspondent) LAS VEGAS, Nev.—The fact that the federal government sides in with the Six Companies in their absolute disregard for the lives and health of the workers. on the Hoover Dam is proven’ by the injunction recently granted by federal Judge Frank M. Norcross. The use of trucks in tunnels is absolutely dangerous to life due to monoxide gas There was a law passed in the state of Nevada against the use of trucks in tunnels. The Nevada mine inspector sought the en- so the Six Companies obtained an injunction ‘This shows how the, big corporations and the capitalist courts work hand in glove. The lives of the workers mean nothing to the the deadly carbon which they create. forcement of this law, against him. federal courts. Meanwhile Six Companies continue to use as many as 30 trucks at a ‘ume in a tunnel two-thirds of a mile long, @filled up the way we miners are forced to load them they weigh over four tons. Charities ine Food to Starving Women (By a Worker Correspondent) EVANSVILLE, Ind.—John K. Jen- nings, chairman of the United Relief of Evansville, is trying to see how long men can go without food. All the money that was donated for re- lief.was donated by the workers. But it is not being given out as relief The bosses say the workers must work for it and there are not enough jobs to go around. Jennings also stated that he would give no relief to wom~ en. He has five police guard him all the time now. Men are doing hard labor in this town for $2.61 a day. I know workers who have no food in the house al- though eile are woreing: WORKER LEARNS FROM STRUGGLE, Striker Tells Why She ‘The miners have to buy their own! supplies: drills, cables, powder, etc. For each car of iron the miners must pay 40 to 45 cents expenses. The average miner receives about 45 cents for a car after the expenses are paid. The other day the bosses came to, the miners and told them that in- stead of working three days they would haye to work two days a week! in the future. In order to make the miners think that the bosses were interested in the welfare of the workers they said that they were giving us this two days work to keep us from starving to death. They | told ug that the United States had enough steel products to last until 1942. They go on, however, filling our cars twice as full as they did before. What we miners need here is a good strong local of the National Miners Union—a union that will fight for relief for the starving miners, for unemployment insurance and for a living wage. Many of the miners are afraid to expose themselves, but they feel that they must be organized. We must be- gin at once to organize committees in the mines that are working and to organize the unemployed miners into unemployed branches. All hands should support the National Hunger March against starvation. Joins Y.C.L. (By a Worker Correspondent) LAWRENCE, Mass.—-My exper- jences during the strike which started here Oct. 5th have been great ones. First of all I joined the National Tex- tile Workers Union because I admire the courage of the leaders, Edith Berkman, William Murdock and all} the many others, their willingness to sacrafice everything for the working class. Some people say, in speaking of the National Textile Workers Union, that our union wishes to overthrow the government. Well, I say such people have a lot to learn. What does the present government do for the working people? Nothing. If} the workers would all get into the Red Unions and fight the bosses we could defeat the starvation program of the Hoovers and the Wall Street bankers. Yes, I agree with the Communists. We will have to destroy capitalism We will have to build a workers’ gov- ernment in America. Before the strike I did not know anything about the Communist Party. I thought I was a democrat. My six weeks’ experience in the strike, how- ever, which was my first strike, open- ed my eyes. I have joined the YCL and am 100 per cent in the revolu- tionary movement, | slashing, cut. wages. Side by side | wage-cutting, the bosses are forcing the workers to work long hours over- dirty look. He grills him and asks: “Why ail this?” The next station is called the “anemployment room.” Here one meets a rather bored individual by the name of Semenov Rockwell. You shouldn't be unemployed and come and bother him. “Go out and | PHILA. LUGGAGE. WORKERS URGED TO BUILD UNION| Only Mass _ Struggle Will Stop Pay-Cuts and Terror (By a Worker Correspondent) PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Hundreds | of Inggage workers in Philadelphia are speedéd up and exploited by the bosses. The luggage workers are or- ganized and keep a strict watch on all workers who were once active in| | labor unions In order io get rid of union workers | in the shops and to compel them to stop union activites and to become obedient servants submitting to all manner of speed-up and wage- the bosses will not hire a worker unless he comes in with re- ferences from his former boss, which is actually a system of biacklisting. Not mecting any resistance from the workers, the bosses continue to with the time. This wa; cutting campaign of the bosses has reached a point that after working long hours the workers live in a half starved condition. This condition is gradually exhausting the patience of the workers. They are be- ginning to understand that if they remain unorganized, they will be unable to stop the wage-cuts and the merciless . exploitation of the bosses. A number of militant luggage workers of Philadelphia already have broken the ice, and under the lead- ership of the Leather Workers In- dustrial Union are laying the basis for a militant union of luggage workers. Every lugage worker in Phil- adelphia should become an active organizer. Bring your grievance to the Leather Workers Industrial Union, 929 Arch Street, which is in the fore- | front of the struggle of the luggage workers. . Iw. 0. SENDS CLOTHES TO MINERS SEATTLE, Wash.—Recently the International Workers Order Branch here sent 600 pounds of clothes to the ——— UNEMPLOYMENT “RELIEF” IN THE BOWERY OY ann BUTCHERS MADE) Jemployee leaves he receives $25 in miners and their families. | seta TALE job.” he tells you. | Semenoy Rockwell calls for a man to go to work. By the time you get to the desk the job is taken. “You see,” stys Semenov, “if you were hustling like that fe.ow who got the job you wouldn't %¢ here. | i You go o~ and get yourself job. Now comes the holy ceremony. The jobless are herded into a room where they must listen to the brayings ef the Rev. Palmero. a socialist. Here we have a socialist preacher telling us to haye faith in God cn an empty stomach. He then goes into a trance azz asks every- SOUP SPIKED WITH RELIGIOUS DOPE pray to the good Lord to give them Jobs. Meal tickets are next. We pass by the offiical cafeteria to glance at good food and somebody else eating. Iato the slop joint we go to wash our stomachs with horrible body else to go into a trance and | i soup. Three months of this and the victim is ready for Potter’s|) Field, Build a workers correspondence group «in your factory, shop or neighborhood. Send regular letters to the Daily Worker. RAILROAD NEWS| TO STARVE ON JOB Average Agent Cannot Get Proper Foed, Bath Or Room (By a Worker Correspondent) CHICAGO.—The companies that operate news butcher concessions on trains employ thousands of ney; '~ chers on trains who are afraid to voice aheir opinions. The company requires a deposit of $28 to any and all who apply for work, When an place of the $28. The average length of service is three days. Quite a racket for the company which has a labor turnover that is hard to fig- ure out. Before a news agent goes on a run he is taxed 45c by the com- pany. What this is for, no one knows. Another sweet racket that must be exposed. Do not overlook the fact that the agent gets 20 per cent on the dollar. The average agent takes in about $5 to $8 on a run of two days. Figure it out yourself and see the starvation wage. The average news agent can- not afford a room, but sleeps on the train, goes without food and proper bathing facilities, living a life worse than a jungle stiff. I cannot understand why this has never been brought before the pub- lic as I have never read anything concerning this line of work. It would be impossible to have anything like this published in any of the daily papers. These conditions prevail all over the country from coast to coast. Negro Worker Given 20 Yrs. for Defending Self Against Boss GREENWOOD, Miss., Dec. 11— For defending himself against an at- tack by his employer, William Mell, negro farm laborer has been sen- tenced to 20 years to the penitentiary by the bosses court here. The worker approached his em- ployer with a de:aand for wages and was attacked by the white planta- tion manager R. W. Holly. In self- defense he shot and wounded Holly. Jail Workers Who Ask for Relief (By a Worker Correspondent) WAUKESHA, Wis.—The cenditions of the workers here is most appalling. A family of five received only five dollars worth of groceries to live on for two weeks from the so-called re- lief agency. Single citizens’ who ask for food are thrown into jail and threatened. I met a Mexican worker who was out of work for two years. He applied for retief at the outdoor relief station and Mr. Nesh told him to get out of the office. Nesh stated that he had no orders to give relief to single persons. The bosses are tryinz to terrorize the workers by telling them if they organize they will cut off all reiief. What we must do is to organize in order to get some real relief. RICHMAN BROS. SLASH WAGES Threa ten Workers With Blacklist (By a Farmer Correspondent) CLEVELAND, Ohio,—The follow- ing is the absolute truth about our “Richman Family” (this is what the Richman Bros. often call their em- ployes). Richman Bros. cut the price of heir clothes 10 per'cent a week ago. On Dec. 4 they cut the pay of the “Richman Family” 10 to 35 per cent. The foreman’s pay was cut 10 per cent, while the young girls, who did not make a living wage before the cut, had their pay slashed 22 to’ 35 per cent. Whenever an organizer would come around at quitting time and pass leaflets among the workers the bosses would get wind of it. They would at once send information to all of the bosses to inform the work- ers that they are forbidden to take the leaflets, The bosses would stay inside and watch through the win- dows and take the names of those who took the leaflets. Many of the workers would not take them for this reason, but they are talking organ- ization just the same. “The labor movement will gain the upper hand and show the way to peace and socialism.” LENIN. KY. MINERS TO STRIKE; PREPARE CALL FOR) RELIEF TO HELP WIN * 17,000 Hastees ontacks oe Set Date For Strike January 1 Eleomb Miner’s Wife Says Families Can’t Live Without Relief On Dec. Editorial Note. Union District Convention at # at ike National Miners’ Pineville; Ky., 263- delegates representing 17,000 eastern Kentucky miners voted to strike against starvation on Jan. 1. The following letter gives a brief but graphic description of the conditions under which» the miners have been forced to live. that they are preparing to strike against. It is these conditions The strike, how ever,,in order to be successful must be an intense relief cam, paign. The miners and their fed in order to carry on their struggle to victory. Workers International Relief, which © ae is maintaining relief stations in the zone of struggle, is yet only able to give a small percentage of the relief actually needed. Relief must be rushed at once. Send your contributions to the W. I. R., 16 West 21st St., New York City, | * s 8 Elcomb, Ky. Dear Friends: I have been a miner's wits for seventeen years. My husband bas al- ways been a hard working man and has always provided for his family. But for the past two years the wages in the mines have been so low that he could not support us. We have five children. We had to take’ them out of school last year when the weather got cold because they had no clothes. We can’t send them to school now. They haven't any shoes or clothes to wear, We never have over two meals a day now. Sometimes we only have one. We haven't a thing fit to eat. We eat cornbread and water gravy. We haven’t enough clothes to keep us warm. The hunger and cold makes us miserable. I can hardly keep the girls from comitting suicide, the way they have to face is diving them to desperation. It looks like we can’t live if we can’t get relief. My husband is black- listed because he joined the union. families must be clothed and’ The From a heartbroken coal miner’s Wife. COPS PLACE TAX ON PROSTITUTES Collect Heavy Graft In k Atlanta, Ga, (By 2 Worker Correspondent ATLANTA, Ga.—For years the po! lice of Atlanta, acting for the Lasse: have forced the prostitutes to pa: heavy taxes to operate without in’ terference. M Those who refused to pay thij graft or who considered the bosses demands ‘too high were raided. Nov the bosseS: have about cleared thi streets and apartment houses of oper solicitation by these women, putting them in’ the hotels, where they cai) take nearly all they collect from men Police throughout the country fram: innocent working girls to put ther in slavery. ‘These women are not, ss | bosses’ lies say, “bad anyway. knew some of them when they w struggling to exist and erying ar ruining their health worrying becaus’> of impending starvation. Because of racial hatred arouse: by the bosses’ newspapers, Negr: women are easier to control and the: are kept in different sections of th’ city, and they bring a lower “price.” A Program of Struggle for Employed - Unemployed Workers of New York etc., which speculated with funds of labor or- 1, Over a million workers are streets of New York looking in vain for a job. ‘The number of jobless is being still further in- Especially hard hit are the wotkers from the marine, building, textile, trans- portation, needle trades industries and the office workers. More than 60 per cent of the building creased day by day. trades workers are unemployed. Some of the largest metal and textile factories are completely shut down and still others op- The taxi owners and city in addition to the thousands of workers that they have already fired, are now contemplating permanently discharging more Even the post office department is planning a considerable reduc- tion of the working force. Thousands of hungry erate on part time. government, than 50,000 taxi drivers. and homeless men sleep on the above is’ not peculiar to tWese industries only, but is characteristic of all the industries, trades and professions in New York City. Part Time and Wage Cuts. These workers that are still employed work mostly on the stagger system and under reduced For the past several months we witness in New York a wave of wage-cuts, increased wages. speed-up and lengthening of hours tion of the industry. The so-called high wage The standard of policy is a thing of the past. Uving ofthe workers in New York working-class sections of this city. leadership. Advances have been made in the struggle for unemployment insurance and immediate relief, to be paid by the government and the bosses. oo So much so, that numerous capitalist politicians began to form all kinds of “unemployment in- surance” schemes in order to fool and deceive the workers in their struggle for real unem- ployment insurance. Even some rooted and popular this demand came. and burning demand. The great conference is, therefore, to lay the = a re through, mess struggle. Very Little Relief. 4. We have already entered the the economic crisis, The workers’ eectebeter costs rs + as throughout the country, is being fast reduced to starvation wages. As a result of this untold misery, hinger and starvation a wave of suicide, digeate and crime has spread throughout the ‘The conference records at the same time the militaney and readiness for struggle of ever larger masses of unemployed, their realization of the mighty strength the unemployed army possesses ouce it is organized under militant notorious labor fakers expressed themselves at the last A. F. of L. convention in “favor” of un- employment insurance. This proves how deep- ‘The continuous increase of unemployment, due to replacement by machines and speed-up, has forced the employed and unemploped to begin to realize now more than ever before that un- employment insurance is their most immediate organization of the unemployed and employed around militant demands that can be obtained have been exhausted in supporting themselves, friends and families, or lost In bank crashes, xeh a€ tha Rant of TT S.. the Federation Bank, walking the standard of decency.” sum raised which went aries we have the fact New York streets. The ; in every sec- City, as well for the unemployed. mands to the Board of gram, the city work only two erable low wage. of the most already be- In order to divide the task of this basis for the inated against. ployment program” of Tammany government. third year of last savings and unemployment on ganizations. It is high time to examine what the bosses and the city government have done so far for the unemployed. Since October, 1930, to October, 1931, the total relief given out in New York City was $23,000,000. According even to the bosses’ social agencies, the unemployed need $625,000,000 “for the barest If we deduct half of the the unemployed recetved a few crumbs. The few crumbs that the unemployed did get were due to the pressure of the workers through the numerous demonstrations under the leadership of the Unemployed Councils, According to the press, both private and city relief for the coming year will total $30,000,000 in New York City. This is barely sufficient to cover the needs of each unemployed worker for a period of only two weeks. At present Tam- many’s “Unemployment Relief Committee” carrying on a campaign for $18,000,000. Lots of notse has been created, every day a sea of words is spread over hundreds of newspapers. But if we brush aside this noise and even assume that all the $18,000,000 will go to the unemployed, it will mean that each unemployed family in New York will receive = total of $18 for the entire winter, which is a farce. It is, therefore, # bare statement of facta, if the conference records that the city government has done next to nothing Blackjacks Instead of Bread. For the past year, on numerous occasions, elected delegates of unemployed, under the lead- ership of the Unemployed Councils, presented de- relief, but the answer they got was police clubs, blackjacks, and their leaders jailed. Very little effort was made by the city and state government to provide work at least for some sections of the unemployed. Nothing came out of the much advertised public works pro- Some of those who did obtain Jobs from ‘The city employment agency has been already exposed by rival capitalist politiclans (Seabury) as a seat of graft and racketeering in the hands of Tammany Hall. The agency is used to dem- oralize and drive the workers into submission. It acts as a strike-breaking agency. strikes take place in the city, it is the City Em- ployment Agency that supplies crews of scabs protected by the police and gangsters. born workers and demoralize their against unemployment, the city government in- itiated a campaign of terror through a whole- sale deportation of foreign-born workers. Black workers are divided from the white and discrim- ‘This, in brief, is the #unem- Forced Contributions, 3. The bosses who have* brought this misery maintaining thelr fortunes by taking advantage City Labor Conference Resolution Contains Demands, Plan of Action for graft and high ‘sal- that only a number of | of this cris’ entire burd Resolution. funds, the more but t is {cent of the tribution. In order politicians put into the hands of bankers and manufactur- wages. Estimate, for immediate ment. The Council is days a week for a mis- workers. A, F. of L. cause they While hu ‘unemployed ‘Wherever native from the foreign- struggle | and graft of thousan’ unions whi emptied out a cent of Mayor Walker and the the workers and are | 5 The 1 ‘is, by making the workers carry the len of this crisis, are carrying on an “I will share” campaign in a most arrogant and brazen manner, aware of the corruption and graft that prevails in every office of the government and therefore will not entrust them with unemployment relief Realizing that the workers are bosses decided not to “appeal” any 0 take OFF THE WAGES OF THE WORKERS BY A FORCED CONTRIBUTION CHECKED OFF THE PAY! Already more than 50 of the biggest corpora- tions in the city are deducting from 1 to 10 per workers’ pay, for a period of twenty weeks. This tremendous sum of money will not go to the unemployed, but most of it will go into the pockets of the grafters. pay this money have no supervision over its dis- The workers who to make the workers belleve that the! do not control this fund it has been ers, who work hand in hand with these politi- clans. The bosses, of course, try to make the world believe that the money goes to the un- employed and that they, the bosses, give it, but. in reality they just take it out of the workers’ A. F. of L. With Tammany. 4. fhe misleaders of labor—the bureaucrats of the American Federation of Labor, work hand in hand with the bosses and the city govern- New York Central Trades and Labor dominated by Tammany Hall and works under its supervision, ‘The leadership of the A. F. of L. has completely shown its colors at the Vancouver Convention, against unemployment insurance. of the bosses dared to take this step when 60 per cent of the rank and file of the A. F. of L. is out of work. These misleaders are actively par- ticipating in helping the bosses to cut the wages of the workers and to lay off thousands of new ‘Thousands of workers belonging to the when voting ‘These agents unions are being expelled solely be- are unemployed and cannot pay dues. ndreds of thousands of members are 1 and starve together with their families, these labor burocrats get high salaries which In many cases runs into tens ds of dollars. The treasures of the ich were built up on the sweat and blood of the rank and file are being rapidly it by these labor racketeers. But not relief is given even to the neediest members, who for years and years have paid dues and assessments. ‘Thousands of members are dropping out and many locals are in a state of revolt against the burocrats, For Unemployment Insurance unemployed can not look forward to ‘ unemployed in a substantial way ernment, and the bosses. into action, ure for day to day relief from the somewhat to ease up the present conditions of the unemployed. In this respect we can already record certain achievements. The demand the enforcement of the Manning Scale, demands for unemployment relief, presented pathy Aide uNaaes eatin! tlanae oi Ee oe, Watch System, and enforcement 1 through mass demonstrations resulted in appro- |~ safety rules, ¥ priation of some millions of dollars. xven the “a Speen! Be ples agi eine of 2. Crews to be maintained when paid up : charity relief campaign shows the fear of the nets eat ports. bosses before the organized methods of the 1. 2."k- Geet 3. All shipping out by the U. 8. 8. R. to be ers, The neighborhood unemployed branches al- | 3. No dismissals of married women. done by ton. ready have a good record of struggle for imme- 4. Special free municipal lodging houses for 4. No discrimination in manning in regard diate relief, The fight for relief must now be | unemployed women. nationality or race. (Demands 4 and 5 to be p broadened. 8. Free medical care for unemployed pregnant | UP also before the Commissioner of Navigation.) — q Conference Demands, women at the expense of the city. ; oe Saag on be es bape Serv-| ice (Sargeant General) free medical for sea. 6. The New York Conference proposes to Rs sel Se herr imu Seat ipemene anid men regardless how long on shore. further develop the large movement of employed : Organization ‘To Win Demands and nanan Siti to struggle for the fol- Demands for Unemployed Youth In order to carry out the above mentioned p feat tater gram in the most effective manner, the organi4: 1, Unemployment Insurance to be paid by the 1. Opening of all school and public gym- | zational structure mutt. correspond to the needd government and the bosses, No discrimination | nasiums and other recreational c:iters for free | of the unemployed ma‘ses. against workers on the basis of nationality, race, | use for unemployed young workers. 1, The building of neighborhood branches 5 color, sex or age. 2. Free food, clothing and transportation for | sections of the city Where out influences amor 2. Immediate relief from the city government | children of unemployed and part time workers. the unemployed is not very strong. and the bosses in the form of $150 winter relief 3. Opening up of vocational schools’for young 2. In the neighborhoods where we have al. for each unemployed worker and $50 for each | workers on the basis of full wages. ready conducted struggles and our influence ig ae dependent. 'To this end®the city budget shall strong we shall form block committees that w provide $200,000,000. ‘This fund is to be raised A. F, of L. Unions conduct and direct the work on the particulay, ~ by stopping all payments, on bonds during the 4 blocks. crisis, cutting of big selaries, heavy taxes on Workers belonging to A. F’. of L. unions in ad- 3. We must form committees at, flop ) bankers and manufacturers, and all distribution. | dition, as part of their struggle against the bosses, | breadlines, employment and registration fs of relief to be supervised by elected committees | must also develop the sharpest fight against the 4. As the work develops and our org ee of unemployed workers. 3. To appropriate a special sum creational centers 11 borhoods. union rates of pay and 7 hour day be to spread work among greatest. numbers. 4. No discrimination against Negro workers, foreign born or young workers in the of relief or city jobs. 5. To struggle against lay-offs by reduction of the working day with no reduction in the hourly or piece rates and further demand- ing to increase the earnings of the workers, thug the city government ,the bosses, or the A. F. of L. leaders for any help. The only way to nelp the unemployment insurance to be paid by the gov- This can be obtained only through a militant and persistent struggle in which millions of employed and unemployed workers will be involved. This is the way the workers of Germany, England and in other coun- tries have won unemployment insurance. Unem- ployment insurance has already become the de- mand of hundreds and thousands of» workers. It is our duty now to crystalize this demand At the same time we must develop mass press- the government right. now in order at least works, especially the building of workers’ homes, new parks, hospitals, gymnasiums and other re- the working-class neigh- All public ‘works to be paid at trade den of the crisis, the reduced income. 1 ganizations, is through of the unemployed. vision, 1. idler” Abolition of bosses and unbearable for public | craft’ and blacklist. following lines: maintained | 1. distribution demanding : compelling the employer to bear part of the bur- 6. No evictions of unemployed workers. shutting off of light and gas. _ Reductions of rent for the part time employed in proportion to ‘The Unemployed Council must work out a system of self help, through obtaining immediate relief in the neighborhoods. This is to be gotten through mass pressure, from the charity or- factory owners, borough governments. The distribution of relief to be administered by the unemployed commit- tees elected in the neighborhood. 8. Free carfare, milk, food and clothing to be given to the children of the unemployed. 9, The immediate abolition of all shark ern- ployment agencies, who steal the last few cents 10. The opening of public buildings for the use of the unemployed single men, under thei’ super- all anti-hitch hike and other laws aimed against the unemployed youth, Demands tor Unemployed Women 1. Equal unemployment insurance for men policy of dividing the employed from the unem- ployed, through a whole system of discrimination, ‘The A. F. of L.-rank and file shall develop the struggle against the bosses and burocrats the A struggle to prevent the bosses from intro~ ducing any further speed-up methods thus in- creasing the army of unemployed. 2. To eliminate all necessary exp2nses of the union, the reduction of salaries of the officials to the average earnings ‘of the workers in the trade. The economy thus saved to be utilized in helping the most needy members, 3. All unemployed members to be exempt from standing. No and file. stores, city and & bonus”). 2. Right vagrancy “voluntary ae ‘The New ance. carry on a dues and assessments and remain in good 4. No discrimination against the union mem- bers and no favoritism., The jobs to be given out through a hotation system controlled by the r: 5. The unions shall create an unemplo; relief fund at the expense of the employers. 6. Unions that have strong treasuries shall use them to help out the unemployed members. 7. The unions shall create a mutual aid fund on a voluntary basis. Demands of Workers Ex-Servicemen Immediate payment of all back pay due veterans since the war of 1917. slau misnamed, | of veterans*to hire their own doctor at the expense of the government, | 3. Tubercular and 100 per cent disabled ve- erans shall receive a monthly pay of $100. Demands of Unemployed Marine Workers The marine workers, in addition to mobilizi the workers throughout unemployment insuran and $150 winter relief, shall fight for the fol: lowing demands in order to increase employment?) Send delegates to the U. S. Shipping Board, and the Steam Board Inspector general, Hoover, and the Commissioner of Navigation, ployed councils composed of representatives workers’ organizations, trad eunions, block com- mittees, unemployed branches, which will e the work in the particular section. Suport Unemployed Council York Labor Conterence, represer f fy 240 labor unions and associations of New Yo City, endorses the Unemployed Counetl of Great, er New York as the leading body {n the struggig © for immediate relief and unemployment insur} 4 ‘The conference calls upon, all workers’ organ| vations to support the Council and resolves, campaign for affiliations,