The daily worker., 1932-12-26
UNEMPLOYED OF
PITTSBURGH WIN
CASH RELIEF
200 Delegates Make
County Pledge Shoes,
Aid to Single Men
OTHERS TO CITY COUNCIL
Win Cash Pay On Road
Work, Wilkes Barre

"A delegation of 200 Negro
and white representatives of
the unemployed of Pittsburgh,
with a delegation also from
Glassport which protested especially
against forced labor, wrung important
concessions Friday from Allegheny
County Director of Relief Clancy.
The delegation invaded the county
building in a body, and refused to
leave when requested" to do so by the
county authorities 1t refused point
blank to send in only committee OF
five spokeSmen. The whole delega-
ton saw Clancy, though Phil Frank
field, secretary of the unemployed
councils of Pittsburgh; Ben and Err
nest Carreathers, Negro leaders of the
unemployed; Pete Chapa, acting ma
tional secretary of the Steel and
Metal Workers Industrial Union,
Deadmond and Marcus, unemployed
leaders from Glassport and Hazel
wood, acted as spokesmen. They we're
Negro and white, American and for
eign born.
Win Many Demands
There was long argument, but the
representatives of the unemployed
presented their case with much deter
mination, and Clancy granted
1.-Shoes to be provided for to all
the families whose names were sub
mitted by the delegation spokesman.
2.-Cne dollar per head week re-
lief for family of two and for single
people who until now have received
nothing.
3-Increase from Gle per wek to 9oc
for Hazelwood cases.
4.-Families will receive relief in
addition to SO a week wages which
was formerly denied them. CA worker
who worked one day week or month
earning a few pennies or dollars could
not receive any relief from the county
previously. This form of discrimina-
ton has been partly eliminated)
Son forced labor Mr. Clancy pro-
missed the committee that no victim
ization would take place of those
workers who refused to work for their
groceries.
Christmas Relief Refused
A demand for cash Christmas relief
was denied by Clancy on the grounds
that Governor Pinchot himself was
directly responsible for the distribu-
ton of cash. The demand for cash
payments on road jobs was also
denied on the same grounds. On the
question of representation on the
County Emergency Relief Board, this
matter will be further discussed by
the County Relief authorities and an
answer to this demand will soon be
given.
Prior to this delegation to Clancy
a committee from the South Side
went to City Council with numbers Of
cases needing shoes and this demand
was won. Edith Briscoe of the Steel
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
headed this delegation. Committees Of
single mem went to the Relief Agen-
cies Saturday Dec. oath, to demand
a dollar a week relief.
At a meeting held following the
conference with Clancy the delegation
endorsed the call for United Front
Conference to take place Feb. 5th in
Walton Hail. 1t also endorsed the
calling Of statewide Hunger March
and IA workers joined the Unem-
ployed Councils.
Cash Pay for Road Work
WILKES BARRE, Pa, Dec. 25.-
Wilkes Barre City Council at its ses-
sion Thursday night approved bill
which provides that unemployed
workers doing county and city work
be paid in cash instead of in ''orders, +"
as until now.
There is no doubt that this action
was prompted by the mass resentment
against this form of forced labor. In
Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, the
unemployed went on strike, demand
ing that they be paid in cash, at
union wages, for all work done for the
county. Even John Gallagher, travel
ing auditor for the United Mine
Workers, was compelled to appear be-
fore the City Council and argue for
cash payment.
During the preparations for the
National Hunger March and after the
march, there was continuous prop
aganda carried on by the Luzerne
County Unemployed Committee for
cash payment for all work done for
the county and city.
Wilkes Barre is city of 10000 in
habitants in the center of the anthr-
acite coal fields.
SIX KIDS DIE IN FIRE
BIRMINGHAM, England, Dec. 25.-
Six of the children of Patrick Weir,
crippled unemployed ex-servicsman,
we're burned to death yesterday when