The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-07
Los ANGELES
FILLED WITH
UNEMPLOYED
Form League to Aid the
Jobless
BY LIP. RlNDAL
worker Correspondent


Los ANGELES, CAL, Jan Son
Dec. ~ calls ware sent to 1855 work
Ing class organizations with a re-
quest to send delegates to the next
meeting Of thet Los Angeles County
Unemployment League on Jan. 6,
1926, at Room sos Union Labor Tenn
Pile. lufq.
The committeerof action has had
speakers on the street corners since
the 18th of this month-without "ac-
cidents." The police have been too
busy making "Yags" out of morgan
lied workers who are weak-minded
enuf to hang around charitable institu-
tions such as missions, ETC., that they
have had no time to bother those
talking organization and forming de-
mands. To ask for crumbs on your
Bonded knees does not pay. See the
point?
The Negro Open Forum lost no time
electing three delegates to the league
This means the real thing for the
workers-only food for thots for klans-
men.
Your reporter has also seen signs
Of spirit among the colored people
here which gives hope for unity on q
higher plan than merely the question
of unemployment, Lovett Fort-White
man, editor Of The Negro Champion
was prominently mentioned on the
floor of the forum last Sunday-jus
few minutes before the election o
said Negro delegates.
The exact number of idle workers
| in Los Angeles county, Calf, no one
seems to knowlI And those who know
| the situation BEST the business inter
ests and the statisticians, will not tel
the truth to workers seeking enlight
eminent on the subject.
Those claiming to have the interests
| of the ex-serviee men at heart sa.
that out of 10000 world war soldier
80 per cent, Or $4,000, are out o
work, i. O., they have no steady jobs
A large number Of them work nov
and then in the movies, etc.
]. w. Leonard. in a public speech re
Gently, made the statement that S4,OO
skilled workers. are idle In this cit,
alone. His Information came from
'fficial sources, in Sacramento, h
| said. Many ex-service men are in
sluded in this figure, Of course.
| The present, unemployment com
mittee has conservatively estimates
the number of iobless workers in thi
county at from $4,000 to 100000.
The writer went to see DR.. Blocl
of the state bureau Of labor statistics
92S Pacific Finance Bldg, Los Ar
geles, Calf. Mr.. Bloch stated: 1T
impossible to find out just how man
people are out Of work. have hear
the same figures mentioned myself,
he continued, "but l think that the e'
innate of your committee is a littl
too high"
The chamber of commerce is said t
hold on to the figure of $4,000 idl
workers in the city Of Los Angeles
TOO cheerful estimate" said Dr
} Bloch. "The chamber of commerce !
} always trying to create an impression
of prosperity" he added in effect.
Mr.. Jno. A. Greene, manager of tn
Free Employment Bureau (formerl
with hurry and Ready, the bigges
private employment shark agency il
the state) said, when pressed har'
for information: II do not know hoy
many people are out Of work, but
must be about $4,000 in Los Angelo
alone"
Five minutes before this statemen
was made, 900" job-seekers wer
counted under the roof of the fire.
bureau. Even the clerks were idle
because there were no jobs on tn
blackboards. other parts of the slav
market were crowded with idle me-
and women looking for masters to e'
plot them. f..