The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-15
MARCH REPORT
STIRS LAWRENCE
Iron Range and Cook
County Marches, Tues.
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Chicago helped win the fight in Chi
cago against relief cuts, but up to
now got little support in return from
the workers of Chicago. The Emer-
son Joint Emergency Committee took
a antage Of this and split up its
relief organization so as to discrimin-
ate against the suburbs. In Chicago
itself, the relief, for those who get
it, ranges between % and 26 cents a
day,
Lyons Township Unemployed Com
mittee, only a month in existence,
has won increases Of seven to ten
cents a day for every person listed.
They have won some free coal. Here
the Rev. Wesbit and American Legion
heads are conducting a fierce cam
paign to keep the Communists out
of BroOkfield."
Des PLANES Unemployed Council
has been organized only two weeks,
but each week it has won an increase
Of from seven to ten and a half cents
q day in relief. They receive no coal
yet. Some caSt-off clothing is dis
tributed.
The Argo Unemployed Council was
practically smashed by terror of the
American Legion which here is con-
trolled by the Argo Corn Products
Co., and the local police, When this
was done, relief dropped from 16
cents a day to II cents. The Council
is being reorganized.
In Cicero relief is II cents and low
er, but the Unemployed Council by
Gay to day struggle has got some 9TH
er concessions, of 81 to Sc a month for
practically every family fought for
Win Medical Care
At Norwood Park relief for food
averages % to 26 cents per person
per day, but only 1856 out of 200
registered get it.
The neighborhood committee in
Hawthorne, affiliated with the Cicero
Unemployed Council, has compelled
the town supervisors to send q doc
tor to child of unemployed parents
i'll with tonsilitis. The doctor had been
giving pills for that, and the child
was getting worse. Now the town
government agrees to have an opera
ton performed.
Organize and Act at Once
PORT ANGELES, Wash, Dec. "A
Even before the returning National
NIarchers get here, local unemployed
workers are pressing the fight for
relief. Last Wednesday a committee
of ten from the Unemployed Council
accompanied by about so other I'M
employed workers marched into the
court house and put demands before
the county commissioners. This IN
employed Council was but one day
old having been organized the eve
ming before at mass meeting in
Carpenters Hall, with Mike Irwin Of
Seattle as the speaker.
workers Produced Alf
Spokesman of the committee were
John Fahey and Elmer Allen, who in
presenting the demands stated that
the unemployed here claim these de-
mands are entirely reasonable. Be
cause owners Of industry cannot make
profit off our labor they are not
operating We maintain that the
workers had produced all there
is, but a few have all that has been
produced. and it should be up to them
to supply the rest with relief.
I'VE contend that the money for
these demands should be levied on
large capital Where the county is
unable to obtain the money by local
taxes, it can be obtained through
holding corporations, international
bankers and those who have manipu-
lated the small man out of his saw
ings."
Mrs. Abby Allen, wife Of Elmer
Allen remarked that it had been
weeks since she had seen eggs son the
table, and that her electric light had
been cut off for three months.
The commissioners made half