The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-25
Seamem Sleep IN
Park: Institute
Beds Are Empty
Marine Workers Industrial Union Exposes
Huge "Relef" Graft
South. st. Institute Collects Thousands; Sailors
Get Little Of It

SELL him pair, SO they made him
pay for trousers that had been do
mated to the seamen as part of the
relief Campaign. The Marine Work
ers Industrial Union organized a
committee to go with this seaman
and demand his bag for him.
Cuts Off Relief
Eyes, 500 were on our relief lists
this winter" the SNUG cop continued,
But we have cut it down to only
100 and will probably cut off even
that much very shortly. We can't
afford to continue this relief"
Can't afford? What about those
empty beds? What about the food
in the store rooms? What about the
remaining $4,000 of the 100000 fund
raised by the Joint Emergency Com
mittee of the Seaman's Welfare
Agencies?
AS the Marine Workers Industrial
Union stated in its leaf1et headed
GUILTY" the Seamen's Church In
stitute is guilty of raising funds for
relief in our name and then with
holding that relief Food is there in
the Institute, but they will only sell
it, not give it. Beds are vacant. They
are not occupied because the Institute
expects to make profit out of its
hotel and restaurant.
Over $230,000 was taken in by the
hotel and laundry, according to the
financial report, and over $4,000
by the restaurant. The Institute ad-
mits that it makes profits out of
certain departments when it states
that it does not expect to make prof
it out of the serving of the 10 cent
meals.
After the Marine Workers Indus
trial Union held it's trial of the Sea-
mems Church Institute, the Insti-
tute suddenly served ice-cream with
the next Decent neal 1t is on the
defensive now and is trying to quiet
the anger of the jobless seamen, ly-
ing on uncomfortable park benches
and thinking of the 600 more I'M
used beds up at the Prostitute"
Institute Guarded by Stool Pigeon:
and Cops-Religion Flourishes
This charity racket run by the ship
owners is like joint company union
the welfare" work conducted by sew
eral shipping lines together. Like all
such welfare" it con only be carried
on with the help of company guards
and special policemen. About so G.
these cops guard the building, while
additional stool pigeons report to the
managers any discomfort" expressed
by the seamen.
On the doors of the fire-escapa
stairways sign states that anyone
found on the stairway will be subject
20 suspicion and arrest" Suspicion
and arrest are words that well des-
cribe the attitude and actions of the
ship owners represeI . ives toward
any organized efforts of the seamen
themselves.
While relief is denied, the chapel,
however, is flourishing with three
well-paid clergyman in charge. While
workers starve, the Institute is rails
ing money to pay for stained-glass
memorial windows in the chapel at
$4,000, for sanctuary and chancel
at another $1,000 and for chapel
chairs at $50 each.
For the price of one chapel chair,
$50, a jobless seaman could spend l43
nights in one of those empty beds.
M.WI.U. Organizing Against Charity
Racket
The only organization fighting
against the ship owners and their
agents--organizing the united front
fthe employed and unemployed for
joint struggle against the ship owners
is the Marine Workers Industrial
Union. 1t urges the seamen to or
ganize and put an end to these con-
ditions, to force relief from the In
stitute and the bosses, TO unite and
fight. r