The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-05
$4,000 CHEER DEMANDS MADE
ON CITY GOVERNMENT

! before, without such a mass demon
Stration, they were viciously peaten
up right here" Winters replied, "You
are not extending us any courtesy by
admitting our delegation because the
unemployed masses are forcing yo!I
to listen to us, demonstrating right
under your winI9w for unemploy-
ment insurance. We insist on an
answer so we can report it to the
unemployed workers"
II would be fool to give you an
answer" Mckee said.
II am going out to tell the unem-
ployed that the Tammany city ad-
ministration wants the unemployed
to starve." said Winters.
Il don't care what you tell them, "
was McKee's final word.
I'VE will tell the workers the way
to, get unemployment relief is by or
ganizing and forcing the passage of
unemployment insurance, organizing
Unemployed Councils and srcing you
to give adcqua.0e0 relief weoner you
like it or no..
$4,000 EyictiOns a Month
There are sixteen thousand evic-
tons going on in this city each
month. If you do not put stop
to these evtctions, we will That is
the program of the Unemployed
Councils
The delegation then left city hall.
Outside the workers were massed
around city hall square. A tremen-
dous shout greeted the delegation
when it came out. The workers had
waited over an hour in the cold, after
having demonstrated in Union SQUARE
and after having marched TO City
Hall. The police threatened to break
up the demonstration. Just tell the
crowd to go away" they said The
delegation broke through the police
ranks, crossed the street to TIE Frank
lin Statue to report to the workers.
All the demands of unemployed
were refused by the Tammany graft
ers. Our task now is continued Or
ganization and struggle against the
fake relief agencies. We must roll UP
mass endorsement of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill. We
must build 10 Unemployed Councils
in New York City to take care of
the 70 fake home relief bureaus which
give no relief to the unemployed.
Knock Woman Unconscious
When the crowd started marching
opposite city hall to the Franklin
statue where the delegation reported.
the cops began to push and chase
the workers away. A mounted COP
riding into the crowd flung Anna
Helmowitz to the around, knocking
her unconscious. She was taken to
the city hall.
Inc cops refused any medical aid
and said throw her in the gutter y
They began to threaten the workers
who aided her. When she was fin
ally taken to a hospital. tile doctor
SAID she had fracture of the ribs.
AT Union Square organization after
organization was cheered as their
members marched behind their ban
ners into the square, their fists up
lifted, singing the Internationale.
The square was colorful with the
red banners. Hundreds of placards
bla0ed out demands: I'VE Demand
Unemployment Insurance at Full
Wages" Down With Imperialist
War;" "All War Funds for the IN
employed" Defend the Soviet
Union" Defend the Chinese Sow
lets" No discrimination Against Me-
groes," mo Discrimination Against
Youth" etc.
Carl Winters, secretary of the I'm
employed Councils of Greater New
York, was chairman and opened the
meeting. He outlined the present
condition of the working class in
America, told of the imperialist war
plans against the Soviet Union and
the Chinese and pointed out the task
of the workers.
Ex-Serviceman Speaks.
Stamford of the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League, was the next
speaker. He said: "In the last war
we fought for the bosses, now we are