The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-23

payments Tor the JODleSS while Tens
of thousands of families are being
evicted from their homes by the City
Courts and marshals, although over
100000 apartments remain empty. In
face of the rising cost of living, relief
is being slashed, thus increasing the
mass misery and threatening the
wage standards of those still having
jobs.
To present United front of all
Labor in struggle against these con-
ditions is our most urgent need. r.
respective of race, color, creed, nation
ality or political opinion, all forces
must be rallied to secure an end to
evictions and relief-cutting and to
compel an increase in relief and pay
ment Of rents by the City To this
end, the Provisional Committee calls
upon all workers organizations to
elect delegates to a Conference
Against Evictions and Relief Cuts to
be held Saturday, June at 10 A. M.
at Irving Plaza Hall, East 18th Street
and Irving Plaza, N. Y. c.
Program for Unity
The program of this conference will
be based upon:
1-Stopping evictions of unemployed
and part-time workers.
Payment of rents for L. IL ployed
by Home Relief Bureau
3--Increasing relief to meet y. ing
cost of living.
4-Ceas;ng of police and court attacks
upon j0bless.
City wide united demOnStra ton
for these demands.
Such a conference will serve to adj
vance the further demands of the
workers for abolition Of discrimina-
ton in relief to Negroes, foreign born
and single persons, for workers con-
troll of relief administration and fof
Unemployment Insurance.
In view of the urgency Of the Sit
uation. We urge action without delay.
Elect your delegates now. See that
every local of your Organization does
the same. If no regular meeting
takes place before June Bird, call a
special meeting or have delegates Sc
lected by the Executive Committee or
Officers.
Yours for United Action.
CARL WINTER, Secretary.
The Proyisiopel Committee was
formed at preliminary meeting May
10 between Representatives of City
Labor Bodies including A. F. L. Com
mittee for Unemployment Relief and
Insurance, Conference for Progress
sive Labor Action, Trade Union Unity
Council, Industrial Workers Of the
World, Communist Party, Workmen s
Sick and Death Benefit, Unemployed
Committee, and the Unemployed
| Councils of New York.
s. p. Ignores Appeal
| Although the Socialist Party and
| its fraternal organizations as well as
the Workers Committee On Unem-
ployment, The Workers Unemployed
League, and the Association of the
Unemployed, had been invited to join
in forming the Provisional Commit
| tee, they have thus far either refused
or ignored the appeal for urgent
united front action. Instead the cur
rent issue Of the New Leader" makes
vague reference to the calling of a
demonstration under the leadership
of the Socialist Party and its sup
porting organizations, without stating
any definite time or other details.
Splitting Move
This move, made after the an
nounced plans of the Provisional
United Front Committee in which the
Socialist Party had been invited to
participate, serves only to side-track
the desire of the rank and file of the
Workers Unemployed League, the
Workers Committee On Unemploy-
ment, the Socialist Party, and other
organizations for energetic united
front action TO secure rent and relief
by holding aut promise of organizing
a little united front" of its own. The
effect can be only to split the ranks
OF the masses who need now more
than ever before to be united in
| struggle
The Provisional United Front Com
mittee reiterate its appeal to the
Socialist Party, the unemployed or
ganizations and all City Labor Bodies
to join with all other workers or
ganizations in carrying thru one