The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-06


and then, or in other words slow
starvation, hundreds of workers chill
dren forced TO go to school without
the proper food and clothing and
many workers being evicted from
their homes for non-payment of rent,
so it is easy to see the kind of re-
lief the city authorities and the Com
munity Chest ("Comedy Chest'D will
issue to the unemployed workers.
The Community Chest" is the
leading capitalist charitable organi-
cation in the city and the other
charity organizations are upheld by
this agency.
Second Public Hearings in PhiIa.
(Telegram to the Daily Worker
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Nov. A
hearing preliminary to the main pub
lie hearing in this city will be held
at the Garyey Hall, 2109 Columbia
Ave, Friday, November 6, at 7:30 p.
m. The final public hearing on mass
hunger and misery among the unem-
ployed here will be held at the Girard
Manor Hall, oil Girard Ave, Friday,
November 10, at 7:30 pm.
Letters have been sent to Mayor
Mackey and other city officials and
members of the Lloyd Committee,
the press and to liberals.
Tag Days to raise funds for the
National Hunger March will be held
Saturday and Sunday, November IA
and IS.
A city-wide conference to elect de-
legates for the Philadelphia delega-
ton to the National Hunger March
will be held Sunday, November %, at
2 pm. at 929 Arch st. All organiza-
tons are urged to send delegates to
this conference.
Springfield Conference Nov. Is.
SPRINGFIELD, Ill-Calling upon
A. F. of l.. local unions, fraternal Or
CARNATIONS and to unemployed and
employed workers, the Unemployed
Council here sent out a call for
conference to elect delegates to the
National Hunger March. The con-
ference will be held at Painters Hall,
Monroe and Adams Sts., November
Is at 2 pm.
The call says in part:
TN Springfield there are ten
thousand totally unemployed. Many
workers and their families are faced
with starvation. Not SO long ago
in the newspapers we read of an
unemployed worker, who told a
story typical of all unemployed.
This worker, unemployed for long
time, forced to live in a rat-in-
tested home, witnessed the death
of his child from "malnutriti0n'',
polite word for starvation. The
child was also bitten by rat, which
helped it to an early grave"
A mass demonstration demanding
relief for the unemployed families of
Springfield will be held November 25,
before the local city hall.
A hunger march to be followed by
an indoor meeting to send off the
delegates to the National Hunger
March will be held here November 80.
10000 JobIess in Providence.
PROVIDENCE, r. declaring
that only small percentage of the
10000 unemployed workers and their
families here received but the most
inadequate charity relief and that
Governor Case refused to call spe-
cial session of. the state legislature to
take up relief measures for the I'M
employed, the Unemployed Council
hire called for redoubled efforts for
a mass support of the National Hun
ger March.
Quoting Mayor Dunno the local
press says: "a city relief program is
now uncertain, and again, "but ! can
see no hope of relief until after jan
uary."
A demonstration will be held in
front of city hall, Saturday, Novem-
Der z, at 3 PM, where a delegation
will be elected to 60 before the meet
ing of the City Council on Monday
demanding immediate relief for the
unemployed.