The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-31
ORGANIZES The
JOBLESS ON 4
NATIONAL SCALE
Conference Prepares
for Convention July As


councils, for city committees of the
councils, on which the unions shall
have representation, and for this
conference to elect an executive
committee of 35, fully representa-
tive, to remain in action after the
delegates go back to their work of
organizing in the localities from
which they came, and to lead in
the preparations of the giant mass
convention, July AS, in Chicago.
In all essentials, this program
was adopted. 1t includes the de-
mands published recently in the
Daily Worker) for work or wages,
unemployment relief at the expense
of the employers profits and in
heritances, for the seven hour day
and five-day week, for no discrimi-
nation either on the job or in dis
tribution of relief, against Negroes,
young workers or women workers.
Mass Political Strike
The mass political strike is on
the order of business for the unem-
ployed. There must be greater
demonstration than on March 6, to
force the capitalists and their gov
eminent to grant relief and the
other demands of the jobless. May
1, International Labor Day, is to be
a day of conflict, the workers coming
out in masses, striking in the shops,
rallying from the slums and flop
houses where the unemployed are
forced, and claiming the right to
the use of the streets.
When a representative of James
Eads Howe's "hobo brotherhood
rose to speak, Delegate Turner of
Washington, D. c., rose also, and
exposed the Howite scheme of fool
ing the workers and jobless with
promises of coffee and when
what they wanted was "work or full
wages" and social system like that
in the U. S. S. R.
Following Schmies' speech, all
district delegations put forward
their speakers.
Each told of the unemployment,
eating into the workers lives in all
these localities, of the growing re-
sentiment toward a system that
creates such misery, and of the
heroic demonstrations that took
place March 6.
Against Police Brutality
The terrific brutality of the police
just before the Chicago demonstra-
tons was described. 200 workers
and jobless were arrested in the
police attempt to smash the March
6 preparations, an attempt that
failed, for $4,000 workers paraded
that day. A telegram received by
the Chicago delegation stated that
at the hearing Friday, 40 cases were
dropped, and trial of the rest post
poned to April 81.
The delegates reporting from the
South told of the 112-day sentences
on the chain gang with which the
bosses government in Chattanooga
tried to put an end to unemploy-
ment meetings and demonstrations
But" explained Lewis, "the chain
gang is a system in the South.
They throw the workers, particu-
larly the Negro workers, out of their
Jobs, then arrest them for vagrancy,
for not having a job, and put them
to work at no wages on the county
roads, Demonstrations took place
in several Southern cities. Other
delegations made similar reports.
All reporters stated that organi-
cation had Jagged behind the oppor-
tunities which the demonstrations
had proved existed.
A speech by Robert Minor, editor
of the Daily Worker, speaking in
the name Of the committee of un-
employed workers Of New York, and
presentation of a detailed plan for
organization by Jack tombstone, ma
tional organizer of the TUUL, took
place yesterday.
$4,000 New Members"
tombstone emphasized the neces-
sity of building the revolutionary
unions of the TUUL as part of the
campaign-"50,000 new members
before the July a convention" He
assailed the prayer campaign of the
churches and the bosses against the
Soviet Union, as preparation for war
on the only country which shows the
way to actually abolish unemploy-
ment. The workers must be rallied