The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-09
DELEGATES OF
JOBL ESS RETURN
FROM CHICAGO
Build Mass j Bile S S
Movement

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A resolution was then unanimous
ly adopted by the convention de-
claring the intention of the organ
ization formed at the convention to
participate, together with the Com
munist Party and the revolutionary
T.U.U.L. trade unions in the mob
ilization of the working masses for
the August LIST demonstrations, the
unemployed workers to constitute
special sections of these demonstra-
tions.
In the evening Saturday special
conferences were held taking up
the problems confronting the wom-
en-, Negroes and young workers,
now especially effected by the
bosses offensive. In each case spe-
cial demands and organizational
methods were worked out, which
will be dealt with in later issues
of the Daily Worker.
Many Unregistered.
The credentials committee report
on the National Conference on I'm
employment works out an interest
ing tabulation of the delegation by
states, affiliation, industry, age and
sex.
The tabulation is partial, due to
the fact that in a crowded one day
session of such a huge body, with
many delegates arriving through
out the sessions who were delayed,
arrests, breakdown, ETC., as they
were beating their way in on box
cars, or in second, third or fourth
hand Fords and borrowed trucks,
some two or three hundred never
got registered at all. Of those who
registered, the union and other
affiliation was secured for 998, and
the industry in which the delegates
worked was secured for Oil.
There were 1920 registered. Of
these 154 were women or girl I'M
employed delegates. There were
153 Negroes. There are registered
as unemployed young workers, 1877,
and child workers, SO.
Many Metal Workers.
The steel and metal industry,
riddled with unemployment, wage
cuts and speed up, concentrated
largely in the north central part of
U. s. and aroused most by the cam
paign of the Metal Workers Indus
trial League and the Auto Workers
Union, with strike on at the time
in Flint, Mich, had the largest
number of delegates: 307.
A surprise to most workers was
the large delegation from the
building trades, in which the A.
F. L. unions are still relatively
strong, and in which it is generally
understood the proportion of bet
ter paid, skilled workers is quite
high. Even the often repeated
warnings of the Communist and
militant union press of the decline
of the building boom and the failure
of the A. F. L. to prepare in any
way to save it's members from the
effects of that decline had not
caused many to forsee that the
second largest representation at the
| iobless convention would be from
the building trades: 1874 delegates.
Sc From Needle Trades.
Needle trades sent SO delegates,
transport, including marine trans
port, sent so, the food stuff indus
tries sent So, and the miners sent
SO. There should have been
higher proportion of miners, con-
sidering the terrific unemployment
that RACES in the mine fields. Diff
ficulty of reaching the convention
by the absolutely poverty stricken
unemployed miners, and the fact
that they must come mostly from
small towns, often company towns,
where it is hard to borrow means
of transport, accounts apparently,
in part for the failure of a larger
miner delegation.
Of unemployed agricultural work
ers there were seven, and large
number, 232, belonged to many diff
ferent industries not classified by
the report.
The delegates came from unem-
ployed councils, but many of them
also registered as belonging to
other organizations. There were
379 members of the Communist
Party, some of them new members
secured through the struggle to
organize the unemployed. There
were GO Young Communist League
members and 26 Young Pioneers.
From the various committees,
unions leagues, groups, etc. of the
/ Trade Union Unity League there
registered 1913. There were SO
registered delegates who are men,
bers of A. F. L. unions, and 239
registered affiliation to various
workers clubs, language, fraternal,
and beneficial societies.
From The South.
The largest delegations of course
were from the closest states, be-
cause of the financial difficulties of
transporting delegates from farther
away. From Illinois came 4S4 dele
gates; from Michigan, $50; Wis
consin, SO; Ohio, 90; Minnesota,
70; Indiana, Sc; New York, So;
Pennsylvania, 25; Alabama, 81;
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