The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-12
City-Wide Meet on
Jan. Is Is Decision
OF JOblesS Congress
County Conferences
To Elect Delegates
to Washington

NEW YORK Endorsing the pro-
posal for a city-wide demonstration
on Jan. IS, the 500 delegates at the
Convention Against Unemployment
Sunday at Irving Plaza pledged I'M
mediate mobilization Of the workers
in the campaign for the Workers Re-
lief Ordinance and the Public Works
Bill, recently presented at Albany by
the Unemployed Councils
All of the proposals made by the
Program and Organizational Com
nittee were unanimously endorsed
by the convention. The County
Conferences to be held In all five
boroughs will elect delegates to the
National Convention to be held in
Washington Jan. IS to Is and the
city-wide demonstration will be part
of demonstrations to be held
throughout the nation on Jan. 49,
New Executive
The convention elected a new
executive committee for the Unem-
ployed Council, which included:
Freeda jackson of the Harlem I'm
employed Council; Louis Seclmdi,
Bronxyille Unemployed Council; Joe
Clark, East Side Council; Mitchell,
New Utrecht Neighborhood Commit
tee; Jack Anyon, expelled Local 2
and 8 of the Workers Committee on
Unemployment; Merrill Work, Grown
Heights Council; Ben LapiduS, City
Unemployed Council. Representation
from the unions included: Angel,
from the Needle Trades Industrial
Union; Sam Nessin, of the Trade
Union Unity Council; IsaacS, Iron,
Bronze and Architectural Workers
Industrial Union.
The convention decided to leave
three vacancies on the executive for
each of the other jobless organiza-
tons that were not represented at
the convention.
The county conferences to be held
Jan. s will elect a county executive,
! together with unions and fraternal
organizations.
Speaking in the second session of
the convention, Herbert Benjamin
| scored Mary Fox's high-handed re-
lection of the convention as mot be-
| ing good enough for her" He pointed
out that the Central Committee OF
| the Workers Committee on Unem-
! ploynent, of which Fox is an execu-
| tive member, was invited through
special letters long before the Con-
vention took place, to participate in
organizational preparations for the
! conference. These were ignored
Benjamin stated, and then Mary Fox
comes to the convention, not as a
delegate, and accuses the workers OF
being insincere and the convention
narrow.
Her main objection, continued
| Benjamin, was against permitting
| union representation at a conven-
ton for jobless workers, because she
feels that the socialist-controlle
unions would not send employed
delegates to an unemployed corlven-
ton,
This convention" concluded Ben
jamin, although not as broad as we
would like to have it. represents
workers who for four years have put
up valiant struggle and won mil
lions of dollars in relief for the work
ers of the city, and any honest
worker would feel proud to sit in
such a convention"
kilograms of greetings We're sent
to Sam Gonschak, joDless leader i'm
| prisoned at Welfare Island, to Tom
Mooney and the Scottsboro boys. A
resolution demanding release of the
four Communists now being tried for
the Reichstag fire was sent to the
German Consulate. Another resoIu-
/ ton scored police terror at the Home
Relief Bureaus, and a delegation was
elected to deliver this resolution to
Mary Gibbons, head of the Bureaus