The daily worker., 1932-11-24
All. of |. COUNCIL
GETS CHALLENGE
ON JOBLESS AID
100 Union Delegates
Hold Conference
BULLETIN

OAANCA4N4NAA OllAOs INuNs fsO.-
The A. F. of L. Convention today
refused to admit rank and file
delegation of members of various
A. F. of L. unions who had asked
for permission to speak to the con-
ventiOn in favor of federal unem-
plOyment insurance and immediate
relief at the expense of the gov
ernment and employers. In spite
of the presence of a large num-
Der of police, requested by Presi-
dent Green, WeinstOck of New
York spoke to the workers who had
crowded into Netherlands Plaza
lobby in support of the delegation.
CINCINNATI, o., Nov. %. - The
American Federation of Labor Rank
and File Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance and Relief opened it's
first session this morning at Labor
Temple, 1918 Walnut Street, with
close to a hundred delegates in at
tendance from New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan,
Minnesota and other states.
A large delegation, over twenty,
were elected by the Cincinnati To-
Gals. Tom Mooney sent a personal
representative from Los Angeles to
attend the convention. More dele
gates were elected but could not at
tend because the locals lacked funds
to send them
The delegates present came not
alone from local unions but from
local conferences and represent many
hundreds of locals who have aff1li-
ated to the movement for unemploy-
ment insurance as organized through
the initiative of the New York A. F..
of L. Committee for Unemployment
Insurance and eRlief
The Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill (Which is being sup
ported the New York a. r. of L..
and A. F.. of L. Rank and File Com
mittees for Unemployment Insurance
and Relief III other cities) calls for
federal unemployment insurance
equal to average wages but no less
than $40 a week and SO for each de-
pendent. 1t calls for insurance to
all unemployed without discrimina-
ton for the entire period of unem-
ployment without any waiting per-
iod. The funds to pay unemploy-
ment insurance are to be secured
through taxing the rich, through tax
ing big profits and all incomes above
five thousand a year.
Walter Frank delivered the key
note speech in which he exposed the
strike breaking, starvation policy Of
the officialdom. He exposed the pro-
posals of the A. F. of L. Council on
Unemployment Insurance as a fraud.
Weinstock Makes Report.
Weinstock, secretary of the New
York A. F. Of L. Committee gave the
main report which was the last
point on agcnda of the first session..
Weinstock traced the history and de-
velopment of the rank and file move
ment for unemployment insurance
and showed how at each stage the
A. F. of l.. officials carried on a
struggle against unemployment in
surance.
Weinstock outlined the proposals
for the continuation and intensifi-
cation of the fight for the program
of the rank and file and referred to
the resolutions which are being pro-
posed for consideration of the con-
ference.
These resolutions are in support
of the Workers Unemployment In
surance Bill, against wage cuts,
against injunctions, against imper-
ialist war; for the unconditional re-
lease of the Scottsboro boys and Tom
Mooney, in support of the National
Huneer March, in defense of the
Soviet Union and for the exemption
from dues payments of unemployed
union members.
Challenge to Green.
The conference condemned the A.
F. Of L. for meeting in the chief
scab hotel The conference decided
to invite Green to come and defend
his policies before the rank and file
at a mass meeting being held to-
night.
Copies of all resolutions were sent
to each of the delegates OF the a.
F. of l.. convention and the confer
ence also voted to inform the A. F.
of L. Convention that committee
of 25 will present the demands of the
conference to the A. F. of L. con-
yention at 2:3o p. M. wednesday.