Evening star., 1932-11-28
DOAK THREATENED
BY RACKETEERS
Phone Caller Warned Him
7 Not to Make Speech, He
Tells A. F. of L.
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convention, has been active against
those preying on unsuspecting aliens.
"In the service Of which am chief
today there has been racketeering OF
the basest kind" he declared. aliens
in this country either legally or lle-
gally are prey Of those who would ex-
ploit them in any way that is possible
in order to flch money from them.
They are threatened and assaulted in
case they do not respond to threats.
Pays for Immunity.
Frequently, he said. an alien entering
the country legally is approached by
an official-appearing person and is told
that inaccuracies have been found in
his papers Of admission. Afraid of be-
ing dopo1ted, land under the threat of
exposure by the supposed Government
agent. he pays money for immunity.
He not only pays it once, but he pays 1t
many times. He Is worked to the limit
of his ability to pay, and frequently
the racketeers compel him to give up
half of his living wage in order to ap-
pease their gluttony."
The convention pledged its stand
against school economies as 1.-THE ruin
of the next gensration" and went on
with plans to fight for the shorter work
week and against labor racketeers.
The federation approved a recon-
mendation that the next Congress be
asked to make Nationwide survey Of
school finances and attacked proposals
to reduce teachers salaries, reduce
their number, shorten the school year,
. repeal minimum wage laws. and elm
mate dental clinics. medical inspection
and attendance officers.
It also reafhrmed its stand that social
agencies not be crippled and their ef-
fectiveneSs impaired by "short-sighted
economy methods" in promoting child
welfare.
Asserting that two-thirds Of all chill
dren of from 10 to 13 years of age who
are employed are in the Southern
States although those States have only
Is per cent of the total child popula-
tion Of those ages, the Committee on
Child Welfare reported.
The employment of children at any
time, ard especially during a period of
such unprecedented adult unemploy-
rnent, is at variance with, and incon-
gruous to, all declaration of social pol
icy and economic stability"
The fight against school economies
son of Chicago. secretary of the Con-
vention Committee on Education and
a delegate from the American Fedora
ton of Teachers.
A "two-fold unemployment relief pro-
gram" was outlined and recommended
by President William Green of the
Federation.
Green said one phase Of the pro-
gram concerns immediate relief; the
other permanent provision for the un-
employed.
Short Term Policy.
AS short term" policy, Green ex-
planned, the federation's executive
council has recommended appropria-
tions for unemployment relief by Fed
eral and State agencies, increased de-
1 velopment of public works programs
/ and the flve-day work week and six
hour Gay.
! In accordance with the councils
"long term" planning, he continued,
unemployment insurance administered
through State agencies backed by Fed
eral enactments," and setting up of q
national economic council likely will be
advocated
THE shorter work week and work
! day" he added, might well be included
IN the long term planning, too" It
was with various aspects of this sub
! 1ect that the delegates chiefly were
concerned today.
Green said he had heard criticism
Claiming that a compulsory unemploy-
ment insurance plan proposed by the
Executive Council would affect only
those who are employed now and who
may become unemployed. He answered
this by saying the federation already
has advocated passage of the Costigan-
La Toilette bill for unemployment relief
IN Congress and will insist at the COM
ing session that further relief legisla-
tion be enacted to provide an adequate
sum for pressing, existing needs"