The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-03
to
the Albany
Conference
BY PAULINE ROGERS.

EACH day larger numbers Of work
Il ers ind themselves jobless and
facing starvation. The staggering
figure of two and half million
unemployed has already been
reached in New York State, and
the number Is growing.
The answer Of the boss class to
the demands Of these starving
workers and their families for the
right to live, for unemployment in
Surance and relief has been more
evictions (30l 900 eviction cases
in New York City in 1922 the stag
ger system, wage Slashes and in
creased attacks on the workers.
Every method is being used by
the bosses in the attempt to break
the rising nlilitancy and fighting
spirit of the workers in the pres
ent period of mass unemployment
and increasing Speed-up, The
latest method of attack against UNI
employed as well as employed
workers comes in the form OF an
injunction gotten out by land
lord, which prohibits picketing and
all other activities in connection
with a rent strike in the Bronx.
The injunction up to the present
time has been used primarily as a
weapon in the hands Of the bos-
ses to cripple strikes, to hinder or
ganizatiOn of workers for better
conditions, to try to smash work
ers' resistance TO exploitation and
oppression. Today the landlords
are taking over this vicious weapon
of the bosses in order to stem the
sweeping movement of rent strikes
practically all of which in New
York have ended successfully, with
the tenants winning their demands.
IN the face OF the increasing at
4 tacks against the working class,
every phase of the struggle against
hunger and starvation should be
intensified. The Conference of the
Provisional Committee for Labor
Legislation called for March 5, 6
and Z in Albany, will bring con-
crete proposals on how to relieve
the suffering of the working class
in the present crisis, directly to the
State Legislature.
The Albany Conference, repre-
senting and getting the backing of
thousands and thousands of work
erS in New York State, will draft
and adopt real working class bills
dealing with unemployment insT-
ance, immediate relief, child labor,
evictions, foreclosures, wage-cuts,
discrimination against Negroes,
women and young workers, injunc-
tons, etc.
One of the bills which has been
presented for adoption at the Al
bany Conference is the Bill to AboI-
ish Injunctions introduced by the
Anti-Injunction Committee of New
York.
The few so-called anti-injunc-
ton measures which have been
passed up to the present time, in
Guiding the Federal Anti-In junction
Bill, which the A. F. of L. leaders
falsely hail as a great achievement
for the American working class,
have not stopped injunctions, be-
cause they give the court the right
to grant injunctions if property
rights are threatened. Since the
courts can easily prove the threat
to property rights during a strike,
they have had no difficulty in grant,
ing injunctions.
The only bill which will actually
abolish injunctions is the bill in
troduced by the Anti-Injunction
Committee for adoption at the Al
bany Conference for Labor Legisla-
ton.
While the most immediate and
effective way to smash injunctions
is by mass violation and mass
struggle, nevertheless every effort
must be made through mass pres
sure to force the New York legis-
lature to adopt the kind of bill
this workers anti-injunction bill is.