The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-25

w. Breen, corporation counsel interrupted
to state that no beatings and arrests had
taken place since April 80 Steve Nelson
stated that only a week ago when the city
started its fake drive against the gangsters
(Which is really smoke screen under which
to attack the working class once more) it
raided a meeting of unemployed at 900 S.
Paulina ST., sending so police to tear down
charters, intimidate workers, especially Ne
groes, and break up the meeting.
Then Nels Kjar reiterated what Nelson had
previously stated: that there would be unem-
ployment as long as this capitalist system
lasts, since the only interest is profit making,
not the betterment of the conditions Of work
ers. He pointed out that the question con-
corning where the delegates born was
simply an attempt to side track the issue In
answer to the question of one of the alder
men concerning whether Kjar believes in a
Soviet form of government, he said he did
because that is the only form of government
which reduces unemployment while in all
other countries it is on the increase. When
asked whether he would go to the Soviet
Union, Kiar said he would if he had the means.
The members of the Judiciary committee were
on the verge of taking a collection to get
rid of him when one of them inquired whether
Kjar would come back, and when he answered
that he very likely would, they withdrew the
offer.
Kjar then asked the members of the Ju-
dietary Committee if they favored a system in
which there starvation because of too
much wheat, too much food, too much cloth
ing Alderman Bowler threatened to throw
Kjar out of the window. Kjar stated that
that was exactly the answer he expected from
a representative of this capitalist system to
the question of unemployment.
Kiar denounced Oscar Nelson. vice president
of the Chicago Federation of Labor, as
enemy of the working class movement, be.
cause he secured an injunction against the
left win movement in the needle trades. Then
a Negro worker took the floor and explained
the acuteness of the situation among members
of his race, stating that he did not ask the
city for charity but for job. He mentioned
the corruption in the city administration, cit
ing bootleg joints, gambling dens, brothels
ETC., under the protection of the police and the
city administration They interrupted by
stating that after next week there will be no
more Then another Negro worker spoke,
stating that he had been out of work for
eieht months and had come to demand work.
When asked whether he favored the Russian
form of government he stated that he was
born here in the U. S. and was calling upon
the U. S. for living.
An attempt at bribery was made when jobs
were offered to Nelson and Kjar and an at
tempt was later made to separate the Negro
and white workers by offering jobs to the
Negro workers, two of whom accepted.
Steve Nelson spoke again, pointing out that
the attempt to bride the Negro workers was
an attempt to catch their votes in the coming
elections. He stated that the Committee of
the Unemployed had no illusions that the city
would do anything for the unemployed work
ers until the workers themselves forced them
He mentioned the July a and S National I'm
employed Convention, and Bowler threatened
to stop the convention.
Steve Nelson demanded to have an imme-
diate answer on what the administration in
tended to do, and Bowler said Nelson should
be shipped back to New York which city he
accused of having given Chicago plenty of
trouble. Nelson pointed out that the same
corruption existed in New York as in Chi
cago. The alderman retalated by declaring
Nelson racketeer, but when Nelson declared
that it was the alderman who was the rack
eteer, he blushed and shut up.