The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
JOBLEI.SS CONDEMN
CITY GOVERNMENT
Cynically Reject Help
for Needy
(By a Worker Correspondent


MINNEAPOLIS-A delegation of
the Unemployed Council of the Trade
Union Unity League appeared today
before the so-called Public Welfare
Committee" of the city council and
forced the bosses politicians to read
and take up the demands of, the IN
employed Council for immediate re-
lief for the 10000 unemployed now
on the verge of starvation In this
city.
These demands had been present.
ed last Friday to the city council
which proceeded to pass the buck"
to the committee, which in turn, de-
claring that they did not know where
the city of Minneapolis was going to
get $12,0oo,OOO for unemployed relief.
cheerfully passed the demand along
to the ways and Means" committee.
From the very first. it was very
evident that the city aldermen were
going to try to ignore the presence
of the unemployed delegation which
numbered 20. When the leading la
Dor takers of Minneapolis, Walter
Frank and Stanley Anderson, heads
of the A. F. Of L. building trades
council entered also with delega-
ton, they were recognized" by the
bosses politicians of the council and
invited to sit at the council table
which was set off from the rest of
the chamber by rail. While Nthe
takers and the city council 1olled at
ease smoking huge, expensive cigars,
the rank and file workers of the A.
F. of L. together with the delegation
of the Unemployed Council stood out
side the rail. 1t was only after the
Spokesman for the unemployed, Geo.
E. Powers, district secretary of the
Trade Union Unity League has re-
peatedly insisted on the right to voice
the demands Of the unemployed that
the aldermen were forced to listen.
Frank, who with Anderson and
other takers are responsible for the
breaking of the Northwestern Box
and other strikes, confined his re-
marks to complaint that on certain
work organized labor is ignored
What he wanted was that the takers
should be permitted to give out jobs
on certain city work and thus in
crease their prestige, power and in
come. They had nothing to offer in
the shape of concrete proposals for
immediate unemployed relief.
Powers, representing the unemploy-
cd, attacked the city council and the
labor takers for using the sufferings
of the unemployed as a political foot
ball. He pointed out that the de-
r1ands for the appropriation of $l2,-
100000 for immediate relief were en-
tirely feasible and practical. When
city council members inquired how
the money was to be raised, they
were told by the representative Of
the unemployed delegation that there
was plenty of money in Minneapolis
to pay the bankers interest to dec
crate the STREETS with expensive ever
green displays. to provide the mayor
with a new seven-passenger car, but
that when the unemployed were con-
sidered, there were impossible OBJ
stacles in the way of doing anything
One alderman asked Powers if
he wanted the city council to start
q revolution. The answer to this sally
was that If the city council as the
committee Of the bosses in Mime
apolis, doesn't get buy and do some
thing besides talk, the unemployed
will take matters into their own
hands, that the warehouses and stores |
filled with food and clothing would
be visited by the unemployed and
that they would take what they need
cd, whether the city council liked Il
or not.