The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-02


ised to find jobs next week" if they
would only keep away from that or
ganization which belongs to the So
Wet Government"
Meantime, over hundred workers
had gathered outside the hall. Amer
leans, Canadians, Italians, Spanish
workers, and some women too. All
had come to organize into the un-
employed council.
For the time being, they decided
not to take possession of the hall by
force. Seventeen met with the orr
ganizer later in a certain place, and
formed the Unemployed Council of
the Tarrytowns.
The following are the demands
drawn UP, which will be ratified at
the next meetings of the Unem-
ployed Council of the Tarrytowns by
hundreds of workers more:
ISIS per week for all single I'M
employed workers.
2,--$2S per week for all married
unemployed workers.
3.--Free food and clothing for the
children
4.--Ne evietions; no rents during
entire period of unemployment.
5.--Free light, gas and coal in the
house.
6.--When any jobs are to be had
at the Chevrolet or Fisher Body (tLe
only plants in town, the residents of
TarrytoWn are to be given first
choice. To-day, the bosses import
their stool pigeons and favorites from
Detroit and Canada, while the tax
paying workers of Tarrytown starve.
Editors Note: The object of this
sixth demand is evidently to take
away from the company the power
to import its pet stool pigeons and
give them jobs, and so far the de-
mand is correct. But it is not .
useful demand to try to split the
workers along lines of local resi-
dence, or to imply that a taxpayer
has more rights than one who does
not pay taxes. In our opinion the
right demand would be one to force
the company to take back those it
has fired.)
Disrupt Negro JobIess Meeting.
HACKENSACK, N. j., Feb. 1.-The
unemployed mass meeting held in the
Negro section of the city last week
by the Unemployed Councils of New
Jersey was broken UP by the police.
detectives, fascists and city politi-
clans. The cops came down at the
beginning of the meeting and sta
toned themselves outside OF the hall.
to intimidate the workers.
Some of the workers did come in.
AS soon as the meeting was opened.
there began TO enter a steady stream
of cops, dicks and black shirts, until
the audience was completely sur
rounded by them.
After the second speaker finished.
the Negro politicians, put up by the
cops, began to disrupt the meeting.
Before the audience broke up
though. they we're informed that
more unemployment meetings would
be held, and that demonstration
would take place at the public hear
ing Of the city budget where the I'M
employed workers would demand that
a sum of money be set aside for
unemployment relief.
There is a great deal Of unemploy-
ment here with the city doing alb
solutely nothing. except giving out
an occasional job.
The Negro workers before the
meeting began expressed themselves
as ready to fight for relief and
states that the white and Negro
workers must organize together In
order to be able TO fight against the
bosses and their tools, the city poll
ticians.
The Negro politicians at the meet
ing tried to appeal TO the workers by
telling them that the whites were
trying to fool them. but the Negro
workers understand that this. = Just