The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20

organizational proposals for q pro-
gram of action.
Before the afternoon session
started. there we're three conferences:
Youth, Negro and Women.
Prisoners On Presidiun
A pfesidium COMMITTEE to preside
and make technical arrangements)
was elected, consisting of IA members
and representing Buffalo, Schenec-
tady Rochester, Syracuse, Mt. Vernon
and Spencer "a farm CENTER, Hon
orsry members of the presidium we're
Mooney Billings, Edith Berknan.
the nine Scottsboro boys. and Weiss
berg, Turner, Miller and Adalchi,
framed up New York needle trades
workers,
Carl Winters, secretary of the New
York City Unemployed Council, was
made permanent chairman of the
convention.
1T is very appropriate, said Am
ter, in presenting the platform, that
we meet in Schenectady" In Sche-
nectady, with 100000 population.
there are between 10000 and 10000
workers unemployed. In 1929 there
we're about $4,000 employed in the
Morgan-controlled General Electric
Co Now only 1000 work there.
Some of those work only two and
three days month, with wages cut
continuously.
Work on Soviet Engines
In the same city, 5000 were former
ly employed in the American LOCO
motive plant. Now only 1000 are
there, and they have work only be-
cause there were some orders from
the Soviet Union to be filled during
the past two months.
Hunger and starvation stalk through
the city, with the relief agencies not
even making a pretense to care for
the needy.
Proposing the Platform, Arnter de-
clared that there are more than
100000 men, women, Negro and
white unemployed workers in New
York state. In New York City alone
50 per cent of the school children
are undernourished, Some of them
faint in school from hunger In the
first half of 1892 there were con-
suned 37,Soo,ooo less quarts of milk
than in the first six months of 1929
in New York. Ex-soldisrs are star
wing by tens of thousands. Negroes,
particularly, face the most acute suf-
fering. Employment this year drop
ped 6 per cent. Since 1929, 100000
workers have been fired in this state
from manufacturing establishments
alone. Today 40 per cent of the
$500, 900 factory workers in the state
are iobless. Wage=cuts are more than
IS per cent in New York state.
Farmers are being ruined by the
bankers and trusts permitting the
crops to rot and the milk to be de-
stroyed. A huge parasite, the gov
eminent machinery, is costing each
worker and farmer 81 cents on each
OF his dollars. This same government
machine is used against the worker
when he fights against wage-cuts or
for unemployment insurance.
Who Fights for Insurance?
Hoover and Roosevelt say no I'M
employment insurance will be al
lowed But the fight for unemploy-
ment insurance, at the cost of the
state and the employers, is the very
center of the Communist Party's
election campaign. The fight against
wage-cuts and the fight against i'm
perialist war and for Negro equality
are Communist Party struggles, but
not part of the program of the Re
publican, Democratic or Socialist
Parties.
The platform adopted at the
Schenectady convention declares that
the workers way out of the horrors
and crimes Of capitalism for workers
and poor farmers is by abolition of
capitalism and establishing of work
ers' and farmers government.
For Immediate Relief.
The Communist state platform
makes the following immediate de-
mands.
Social insurance by taxing the en-
ployers. Immediate cash relief, the
state to at once appropriate $40o, 900,
which shall be used TO provide pay
ments of $40 for each unemployed
worker without dependents or with
one dependent, and 81 additional for
each dependent. Immediate appro-'
priation of 100000 for building of
workers, homes TO be rented to work
ers at cost, and for additional schools,
hospitals, Fairgrounds, nurseries and
parks in working class neighborhoods.
No discrimination against Negro, for
eign born, women or young workers
in distribution of relief No evictions
Of unemployed or part-time workers
for non-payment of rent, free gas and
electricity for unemployed or part
time workers, free food, shoes, cloth
ing, milk, school supplies and medical
attendance for children of unem-