The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-03-31

, and by the councils of the I'M
a hundred cities assembled in
Manhattan Lyceum Saturday
and yesterday. In a meeting
tense with determination,
united, vigorous, they ham,
mered out a national organiza-
ton, a program of action in
Guiding all of the demands for
which 1,250,000 demonstrated and
fought the police on March 6, and
elected a national executive COM
mittee of 50 to mobilize a huge
mass convention on unemployment
in Chicago, July As.
The National Preliminary Confer
ence on Unemployment was called
to order at 1870 p. M Saturday by
Pat Devine, representing the T. U.
U. L. which had, with its unem-
ployed councils, summoned the
meeting. Some 20 or more dele
gates from the Middle West, COM
ing by bus, were blocked by the I'M
precedented snow storm. However,
throughout Saturday and yesterday
more and more delegates arrived.
The final credentials committee re
port showed 215 delegates from 40
cities and 10 industries and IS states.
Of these AT were Negro workers, Il
were women and 80 were young
workers. Negro, women and young
workers held special conferences
Saturday night, and reported Sun
day with special demands and
amendments to the draft program
submitted by the T.U.U.L.
They'll Fight!
The walls were placarded with
slogans which read: "Don't Starve
Fight !" "Green Promised Hoover
the Workers Won't Fight-Green
Does Not Speak For the Workers."
"Walker's Salary Is Now $4,000
Yearly While Unemployed Workers
Have No Bread" Form Unem-
ployed Councils-Join the Trade
Union Unity League" "Down With
Green Hoover Thomas, the Holy
Trinity of Capitalism" etc. Almost
every speaker pointed out that I'M
der capitalism, by organized force
the workers could wrest some i'm
| provements, for the jobless and the
employed, but that what is really
needed is revolution.
"This is the first conference Of
its kind" said Pat Devine, opening
the sessions, and this thought was
caught up by John Schmies, MAX
ing an hour and a half report for
the Trade Union Unity League.
"Why is it the first?" he asked,
and told of the misery of jobless
and speeded workers who still have
jobs, of the growing rehabilitation
of the masses, of the appearance
on the scene of the Communists
Party and the Trade Union Unity
League, giving center for organ
rational power, and more organiza-
ton.
He analysed the A. F. L. program
of mo wage increases during the
crisis" as part of the Hoover
scheme, the employers scheme, to
stabilize industry at the expense OF
the workers. He showed the social
list party leaders to be the agents of
the capitalists, putting a face 81
compassion for the unemployed
, over their actual intent, which is
!. clubs for the workers when they
|, resist starvation. The churches and
! the hobo brotherhood and such in
stitutions kid the starving masses
along with a few doughnuts, bu.
the TUUL and the Communist
Party calls for struggle.
Convention July
Schmies analysed the draft pro-
gram submitted by the TUUL with
its list of demands. The program
is for organization Of councils CT
the unemployed in all industr.a.
cite even the smallest, for the =
councils to work in closest harmony
with the militant unions of the
TUUL, for joint committees of ac
.tion between the unions and the
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