The daily worker., 1932-01-07
UNEMPLOYED FUR
WORKERS DEMAND
FUR CHEST FUND
Want to Use
"Relief" Fund to
Break Strikes

| The committee OF unemployed tur
workers elected at yesterdays meet
ing of unemployed worked out the
following demands to be presented to
Mr.. Samuels, manager of the Fur
| Workers Association:
The statement follows:
Mr.. Samuel N. SamueS: You are
in charge of a fund collected in our
name, in the name of the unemploy-
ed fur workers. We, the unemployed
fur workers. have sent you q letter
on December 2, 1881, asking you to
inform us when your committee
meets, so that we, the unemployed
may send q committee to place our
requests before your committee, which
you failed to answer, thus completely
ignoring the unemployed starving
fcTTbsrs
we therefore have decided to send
committee to place the demands
of the unemployed furriers before
you
1--WE furriers who through years OF
slavery. through our sweat and blood
have built up the fur industry, have
produced hundreds of millions of dol
lars of profits for the bosses. The
bankers, the dealers, spectators, the
manufacturers, the contractors, and
the efficiency experts who enriched
themselves from the pockets of the
furriers, have today, in time of sharp
crisis, turned their backs on the un-
employed furriers and their families.
You together with your associates are
utilizing this misery, starvation and
hunger for the purpose of increasing
the profits of the bosses and to pile
up large strike-breaking fund un-
der the cover Of collecting relief, in
order to break the coming struggle of
the fur workers.
Conditions Grow Worse
''Speed-up Las increased to the
fullest degree, hours have been leng-
tf1ened. During the height of the
season thousands of fur workers. can
get no jobs on account of this in
human speed up which was forced
upon the workers by your associa-
ton and the A. F. of L. and socialist
party bureaucrats as result of which
a situation of chronic mass unem-
ployment has developed,
d. "Furriers at the, age of 40 are
thrown out of the shops and put on
the scrap heap with no source Of in
come whatsoever.
THE lives of thousands OF fur
workers are jeopardised While work
ing at the bench we suffer from the
most dangerous diseases = asthma,
consumption, exema, etc. When un-
employed we face misery, hunger and
undernourlShment. You and your as
sociates who are responsible for this
misery of the workers and their fam
lilies want to wash your hands OF
this
Thousands of fur workers are
faced with eYictions and starvation.
Their children are undernourished
and underfed.
Jobless Furriers Need Relief
in your statements published in
the Fur Age Weekly" which is the
voice of the Bosses Association, you
state that the Association is collect
ing funds in the name Of the unem-
ployed fur workers. There are thou
sands of fur workers who are unem-
ployed and are in need of immediate
relief. In the "Fur Age Weekly" you
boast of giving relief to so unemploy-
ed fur workers. What farce: eighty
out of thousands of unemployed!
The mass of fur workers know
and understand that this money
which is collected from the workers
in the shops to give relief to the un-
employed is not being given to the
mass of unemployed but will be used
| against the employed and unemploy-
| cd in the struggle that will be un-
| dertaken by the fur workers for bet
ter conditions
''We therefore demand:
81. All monies collected in the
fur industry for the unemployed
to be turned over to the unem-
pIoyed committees of unemployed
fur workers.
"2. Regular weekly contributions
of ; per cent of the payroll be paid
by the bosses for unemployment re-
lief. To be controlled by the un-
employed,
90. No discharge of workers.
-. Abolition of overtime during
period of unemployment In order
to give employment to the upcm-
ployed fur workers"