The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-18
OHIO, PENNSYLVANIA JOBLESS TO
MARCH ON THEIR STATE CAPITALS

A resolution condemning the out
rage in Dallas was endorsed by a
standing vote
The State Hunger March was post
pOned from April l to April 16. This
was done because the state legislature
will open on April 81. The march
is to start from Cleveland and other
points on April 16 and be in Column
bus at the time the legislature is in
session
An executive committee of 10 was
elected: two women and one Negro
worker on it. The following were
elected on the committee: F. Miller
E. Trivia, B. P. King, Sophy Ma
zeika, c. G. Zehe, from Cleveland
John Underwood, A. Walton, from
Youngstown, Nina Wilcox, Joe West,
from Akron, and Gust Lahti from
Conneaut, Ohio.
The executive met right after the
conference and elected F. Miller,
1896 West 3rd St, room 316, Cleve-
land, Ohio, as secretary.
The next state conference will meet
OH April 26 in Columbus.
The New York officials of the
Young Womens Christian Association
appealing yesterday to starving I'M
| employed girls to "go home again,
and evidently to get back into the
country towns from which they were
starved out, so their hunger will not
affront the rulers and priests of the
richest city in the world, accidental
ly let out fact that shows why
nothing is really being done for the
jobless.
Mrs. William Henry Hays, presi-
dent of the Y. w. c. A., stated:
Girls now at work report that
many employers require much over
time work for which there is no ex-
ira pay"
Using the Crisis.
Thus the situation in Office work
is seen to be like that in all indus
try, the employers seizing gladly on
the fact that millions are out of work
and desperate, to terrorize those still
at work into taking lower wages,
longer hours, and speed-up condi-
tons. For this reason, The campaign
to organize the jobles3 into unem-
ployed councils is joint campaign
with that to organize these still
working into the militant unions of
the Trade Union Unity League.
There has to be united struggle
for unemployment insurance and re-
lief, and to strike against wage cuts.
This is the time for intensive organi-
zation. The starvation and the wage
cutting is just starting. Terrific
struggles are ahead.
Former Chief of Police Woods, now
head of President Hoover's "Emerg-
ency Committee" on employment, is
sues weekly the usual statements that
conditions are improving. He has
difficult utime finding any evidence
and admits frankly in yesterdays
statement:
Improvement is proceeding slow
ly". He places his main reliance on
the road building campaign in the
states on which only an infini-
tesimal percentage of the 100000
unemployed can get work. Industry
hangs at the same level week after
week, with minor fluctuations.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's house organ, THE Pennsyl-
vania News, shamelessly boasts of
its profits gained by firing workers
and speeding the rest, as follows:
The wide success Of the Pennsyl-
vania's program of efficiency in all
departments. proved an impress
sive factor in retaining a sizeable
surplus from the years business"
This surplus, in addition to all ex-
penses, sinking funds, etc. and in
addition to paying the stockholders
an eight per cent dividend, was SILL
100000 for the year 1880. And this
in spite of what the news" calls
IAN unprecedented decrease of more
than s1186oo,Ooo in operating reve-
nues."
A Pennsylvania r. r. worker writes
in to say that the companys scheme
is to abolish positions, make the rest
do the extra work, or those who FORM
erly got higher wages take lower paid
jobs, and drop those standing on the
wargin