The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-11


of the socialist party 81 branches o
the reactionary socialist controlled
Worknens Circle, and 80 1oca
unions, of the A. F. L. and Amalga.
mated Clothing Workers, at the star
of the meeting.
This was their Conference on IN.
employment" and they didn't ever
trust it. They put up Hillquit, who
talked for an hour, then Waldman
who fi1ibustered for another hour
and then when general protest arose
and demands for discussion, the
chairman, Jacob Roberts, of the Cap
makers IA Musteite, who leads the
millinery scabs) b1andly announced
that, "as this meeting must close In
20 minutes, there will be no discus
sion"
Their Resolution.
The resolutions committee wheeled
on with a, mimeographed resolution
which puts the number of jobless ir
New York at 100000 (where it is in
reality over a million even by off
cial admission. The resolution asks
for relief appropriation from the city
| of S5,000,000 a month, for faster build
ing of subways, etc, already author
lied, for the governor to ask the legis-
lature for $10000O,OoO for relief
chats about $50 a mani for raising
the age limit of child labor to Is, and
reducing the old age pension limit
from 10 to so years, also for unern-
ployment insurance at half pay ane
for six hour day and five day week
by legislation.
The resolution does not specify that
the reduction in hours shall not be
accompanied by wage cuts. Neither
did Eiillquit. waldman, however
argued that there Ought not to be
wage cuts when the hours are cut"
Neither Hillquit nor Waldmar
spoke of organizing the unemployed
neither offered any plan of struggle
to win even the fake demands put
up in the resolution; they just fell
"this is the season for drives anc
the socialist party must get ini''
Hillquit bitterly condemned the
workers for not doing something, anc
mentioned that this is the third o.
fourth conference the socialist party
has called, and that nothing results.
Chairman Roberts, when he got
the floor after Hillquit, to introduce
Waldman, stated categorically thai
the reason nothing happened was the
fault of the socialist party, because
We trade union officers are busy
with other things and we can't b.
bothered"
Building Machine.
Waldman pointed out that the so
oialists demand all relief to the un.
employed shall be administered
through the union officia1s-shall bt
in the hands of the corrupt machine
that now takes the jobless funds tx
hire gangsters for strike breaking anc
to build up its own strength! Wald,
man blandly rounded up his jowl
and opined, This will increase 10y.
atty to the union"l
Then, with about a quarter of al
hour left, and with all chance fol
any worker to say a word apparently
ruled out, the worker who had go
on the resolutions committee de
manded his right to bring in min,
GRITTY reportI
Amidst a storm of dissension, mo
tions from the floor that were neve-
put to vote, howls from socialis
henehmen at the worker reporting
the minority resolution, etc, tn,
chairman read off list of so names
which he said 1--WE on the platform
nominate for standing COMMITTEE,
to visit all meetings. of the city coun
Gil and advance our interests"
No Unemployed There.
The committee members were with
a few EXCEPTIONS, officials and motor.
ious hnchmen of the socialist party
Hillquit and Waldman we're for some
reason oinmitted, but a motion from
the floor put them on.
Some one yelled, ''Are there any
unemployed on that committee?"
"How do I know" said the chair
man.
The Wobbly Progress.
Prominent among the non socialists
on the committee, and also on the
resolutions committee as we'll as nom
mated for vice chairman of the meet
ing, was old Justus Ebert. For is
years Ebert as an editor of T. W. W
papers Numbered against politicians