The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-29
$500 DEMONSTRATE IN STEEL
TOWN AGAINST REFUSAL OF AID

speedup, and mean cuts of approx
mately 10 per cent on the a Part
system, and 1920 per cent on the
5-3 passes.
Hundreds Of tin mill workers we're
in the crowd which cheered when
Edith Briscoe of the MWIL, Beau
mont and Frank Hill called upon the
hot mill men to organize and fight
against the cut, build up committees
Of action against the cut on every
turn, and back up these committees
of action with MWIL groups on every
mill.
Daley read to the crowd a para
graph from the special leaflet on the
cut put out by the Tin Mill Branch
Of the MWIL which states:
'The McKeespOrt Tin Plate Co.
made $I,952.028.72 net profits last
year. One and a half million dol
lars was paid in dividends to the
stockholders. High wages and fat
bonuses we're paid to the big bosses.
Three hundred thousand dollars
were paid in dividends Jan. l, 1892.
And on Jan. LIST the company had
on hand, in cash, $1,99S,989. (And
these figures don't come from
Moscow" either-but from the
company's own financial state
ment."
Fellow Workers! We we're cut 10
30 per cent Oct. LIST. Then they
took away our 10 per cent extra Oh
orders 20 wide and below. Now they
are trying to cut us again. Already
our wages are more than so per
cent below what they were a year
ago. (The men are only working
wOrk-about-Ed. NOte). THEY
WILL CONTINUE TO SMASH
OUR WAGES UNTIL WE STOP
THEM. And there is only one way
to stop them, by ORGANIZING
AND FIGHTING"
Many applications we're gotten for
the MWIB and the Unemployed
Council and quite few workers filled
up applications for the Communist
Party too. In addition TO hundreds
of 2 cent pamphlets, copies Of the
Communist and some "Inprecorrs"
were eagerly snatched up by the
crowd which would have bought even
more literature had it been on hand.
Demands adopted by today's DEM
onstration, in addition to the II
adopted and already submitted to
City Council, including So a week
cash relief with SO to each dependena;
no evictions; free gas light rent: free
hot lunches in schools and shoes,
clothes and school supplies for chill
dren Of jobless; free medical aid and
supplies, also free dental service;
tearing down of miserable shacks in
some sections of the city to be re-
placed by model workers homes to be
rented at low rates; weekly state
ment Of number applying for relief,
number turned down and amount of
relief given out; freeing of the Feb.
4th, Hunger Fighters; turning over
of all relief distributions to elected
workers committees; and endorse
ment by City Council of Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill and
bill for immediate cash payment of
the Veterans tombstone Bonus) are:
l. Exempt taxes for unemployed
and reduced taxes for part time
workers.
z, NO foreclosure OH mortgages on
homes or property Of unemployed
or part-time workers.
other property bought on install. -
). No seizure Of furniture or
other property bought on install
ment by unemployed or part-tine
workers. Moratorium on all install
ment payments by unemployed or
part-timc workers.
=. No liens on furniture or other
property for payment of rent, store
bills or loans to banks.
5. City TO install inside plumbing
ON all workers homes where IL does
not exist-unemployed 10 be hired
for this work at full union wages.
s. Representatives of Unemployed
Council TO sit in on all meetings of
City Council with right TO speed
on all questions, make motions, etc.
7. City to take over all vacant
houses for use of unemployed and
part-time workers, rent free.
8. City Council to take up these
demands and those previously sub
mitted one by one, thoroughly dis
cussing them before voting on them
and down any or all of the demands
so that the workers of McKeesport
can judge for themselves whether
or mott hey consider the reasons
satisfactory.
MCKEESPoRT, Pa, Feb. sS.-
Unemployed Branch of the Metal
Industrial League held IFS second
meeting in the Workers Center,
1900 Railroad street recently. The
recruiting campaign of the MWIL
was discussed and plans made for