The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-15
GENERAL CRISIS
DEEPENS WHILE
OFFICIALS STALL.
Every Section of Land
Now Affected

Two meetings of unemployed
workers will be held today. H. M.
Wicks, of the editorial staff of the
DAILY WORKER will address a
mass meeting arranged by Section 2,
Workers (Communist) Party at 1:30
p. m. at 101 w. 9th st. A rally Of
unemployed hotel and restaurants
workers will be held at p. m. at
the union headquarters, 1873 W. 51sb
ST. Pascal Cosgrove, secretary OF
the union will be among the speakers
The New York Council Of the Un~
employed will hold a large mass
meeting tomorrow evening at Man
haitian Lyceum, &c E. 4th ST., it was
announced last night. Important
questions will be taken up at the
meeting, according to John Di Santo,
secretary.
Establish Centers.
The council announced yesterday
that it has established centers thru
out the city for unemployed workers
in various trades. The centers thus
far established are furriers 101 W.
9th St.; hotel and restaurant work
ers, 1873 w. 51st St.; seamen, q
South ST.; iron workers, 7 E. 10Th
St.; Painters, 143 E. 103d st. and
general center at the Brooklyn
Labor Lyceum, 949 Willoughby st.
The Workers International Relief
is in charge of all the relief work
of the organization, it has been an
nounced.
Between four and five millions are
now unemployed in the United States.
Unemployment which has become
the chief national problem in spite of
the attempts by Coolidge prosperity"
propagandists to conceal its serious
ness is rapidly developing into a crisis.
Edgar Wallace, legislative agent for
the American Federation of Labor,
which incidentally has done practic-
ally nothing to awaken attention to
the problem, estimates that 40 per
cent of all wage workers in the coun-
try are now idle or employed part
time. If this figure is correct, over
four millions are now without the
means of livelihood. Conditions, ac-
cording to all estimates, are now par
allel to those which existed in 1920
and 1921.
These conclusions are based on a
study of reports from many states
throughout the country. The figures
bear out reports which recently were
submitted at hearing held in New
York at which various representatives
stated that fully 40 per cent of wage
workers in this city are now idle or
working part time.
Unemployed Everywhere.
Washington reports a veritable
army of newly unemployed. At the
request of Director Stewart of the
U. S. Bureau of Labor statistics, the
police of the District of Columbia have
been ordered to take a count of un-
employed persons, men and women
separately. Recent alarming in
creases in calls upon local charity or
ganizations have precipitated this
measure which is taken to be a move
to allay temporarily the rising wave
of bitterness which the unemployed
workers are displaying at being forced
to starve while scores of large firms
are still reporting the largest divi-
dends in their history. A similar
move for Survey" in New York 10
now under way at the orders of al
Smith
Reports from Atlanta, Georgia,
state that the situation there is "dan-
gerous." In recent announcement
the executive board of the Atlanta
Federation of Trades stated that the
condition is worse than in years.
Many citizens of Atlanta who have
lived here for years." the report
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