The daily worker., 1932-11-24
1,OOO TAKE CASES
DENIED RELIEF
And WIN DEMANDS
Demonstration Before
Home Relief Grew
Out of Hearing

NEW K.-T'he exposure
through the Open Hearings on FUn-
ser, now going on in New York, has
reet'lted already in one of the moey
determined efforts to force relief
f~cm the Home Relief Bureau for
hungry families whose pleas for food
they hqve rejected. It will lead to
r,crc such struggles within the next
few days, and all these demonstra-
tons will b. recruiting grounds for
10 Unemployed Councils, and the
icrlcss present will he asked to en-
Ccrsa the demands OF the National
Fvngcr March and to elect their
delegates to 60 with it to washing
tor
A3cu5 cna thcuaard workers
storr,ed TIE doors Of the ECme Re
Tac Bureau NJ 291 Elizabeth St. yes
t,-Gs" ed forced it to grant relief
for six families
Trc demonstration grew out Of an
Open Hearing heid Tuesday evening
& Stuyres2Ht Casino. where about
$50 were present. Five delegates to
The National Hunger March were
elected at the Hearing and three
additional ones right at the Relief
Bureau yesterday afternoon.
The workers paraded down to the
Home Relief Bureau. escorting six
families which had been refused re-
lief They found 100 cops barricaded
inside the place.
Go Ahead Anyway.
The demonstrators set up their
platform and speaking began. Two
hundred and fifty more police sur
rounded the crowd menacingly, but
they stood their ground and elected
delegation to take the destitute
families inside.
The delegation and the families
practically had to force their way
inside, but once in they put their
demands firmly to the Relief au-
thorities. and the latter quickly
agreed to come through.
At the Open Hearing a homeless
worker, who had attempted to earn
some money by shining shoes but
had been stopped by the police, tes-
titled and recommended that a dele
cation visit Commissioner of welfare
Taylor and demand that an empty
house or hospital (of which there
are severaD be set aside for the
homeless unemployed, This was ac-
cepted and the delegation will visit
Taylor on Monday, Nov. %, at IL am.
Guilty
Tuesday 300 workers, unemployed
or part-time mostly, gathered at
Boro Park Casino and found that
Miss Mann Of the Home Relief, AL
derman Tonry and Assemblyman Nc
Namara were disinclined to appear
and face the hungry joblesS of their
precincts. All had been invited
De Santos was elected prosecutor
and jury of u also elected COM
prising both native and foreign born,
both Negro and white workers.
Many iobless were eager to testify,
but there was time for only eight.
They told how they went again and
again to the Home Relief, to be put
off with promises that were never
fulfilled, and meanwhile to be al
lowed to slowly starve. They told
how the Unemployed Council called
cut the workers of the neighborhood
and saved them from eviction. They
told how the Home Relief tried to
discriminate against foreign born and
Negro families.
All gave specific and concrete in
stances, and told how the police
v'orSed hand in hand with the Home
y tef to bulldoze and starye them.
fhe jury rendered q verdict of
Guilty as Hell" against the Home
Relief Bureau on charges of starving
the workers.
-Four delegates were elected to go
to Washington on the National Hun
ger March and all present pledged
it their full support.
A resolution was passed calling all
workers of this section to the demon
stration for more relief and no evic-
tons, at Brooklyn Boro Hall, Novem-
Der 2s at noon, and to go to the Coli
scum the evening of November 20 to
support the demands of the National
Marchers.
Another Hearing
Friday at pm. there will be an
Open Hearing on Hunger conditions.
All in the neighborhood are invited
to 1877 Humboldt ST., Brooklyn, to take
part. Assemblyman Brietenback and
Mrs. Feinstein of the Home Relief
: Bureau are requested to come and
say anything they wish in defense a
gainst charges that will be brought.
This meeting will also elect dele
gates to the National Hunger March.
Imprisoned In a Flop House
Tuesday morning there we're speak
ers from the Unemployed Council on
the corner outside of the Gold Dust
Lodge, the Salvation Army Flop
House, and the authorities, instead of
forcing the inmates out into the cold
morning as they usually do, refused
to let them go out at all until the
speakers had gone.
A Committee Of Action is being
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