The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-17

Gladys steiner, Negro Hunter gradu-
ate, pointed out. She told the story
of how she had gone from employ
ment agency to employment agency,
being turned down for the pitifully
few jobs that were open because she
was a Negro. At the industrial de-
partment of the Negro Y.W.CA., she
found that their sole openings were
for domestic help in the white WV.
CA.
The Home Relief Bureau refused
help to her and her family because
they received, through their grand
mother. tiny pension The Emery
were no openings for Negro workers.
All that employment bureaus would
say was, Wen keep you on record.
Everywhere the Negro college
graduate goes, he is turned down, Or
at best taken on in mental and ILL
paid positions.
Miss Stoner attended the Wash
ington Convention Of the National
Association of Unemployed Alumni,
Socialist Party controlled or
ganization. There she found that
the delegates were baffled by her
presence. 81 guess tlev didn't
think Negroes graduated from col
lege," she said.
Only through the vigorous protests
of another delegate from the Ma
tional Alumni Association was she
able to break through the bars of
segregation that the socialist outfit
was perfectly willing to accept. An
other step in her disbursement was
found here, when, on top of this dis
elimination. she found that the con-
ference confined itself to preparing
resolutions to be sent to the presi-
dent.
Isadore Blumberg, ousted teacher,
told of an educational system in New
York City that had opportunities
only for Tammany favorites. He
described how the political bosses
had cut $2o,O00,OO0 from teachers
salaries in 1888, to prevent the rise
of taxes that would effect those who
are wealthy.
Blumberg told the story of his ex-
pulsion from the school system be-
cause he had dared to act as the
spokesman for a group of teachers
who protested against this arbitrary
cut in their salaries designed to fat
ten the Tammanyites and their fl
nancial bosses.
He told how the teachers have
been organized by the school author
tiles In such way that conflicting
interests keep them from effective
protest. The Association of class
room teachers on the inside and the
Unemployed Teachers Association
on the outside are the only organi-
cations fighting for decent salaries,
smaller classes and better school con-
ditions. The U.T.A has, in the past
year, conducted several effective
struggles. organizing botl, parents
and teachers to fight for the rights
Of the school child and of the
teacher.
Tom Conoly, college graduate
who had been at the Bear Noun
tain Camp, told of conditions fac
ing the workers who went there.
This is, now practically the only
opportunity for the college gradu-
ate indeed, in some commence
ment addresses he has been ad-
vlsed to 90 to the camps and not
look for work In his natural field.
Conoly told briefly the conditions
in the camps that are familiar to
the readers of the Daily Worker: A.
hour work-week, filthy living condi-
tons, inadequate sanitation, uneat-
able food, and brutality of army Of
f1cers.
Dr.. G. J. Stefano, summing up for
the N.A.A. told Of the conditions
facing graduates everywhere. Un-
able To get work, they lost their
training through enforced idleness
and were glad to accept any work
when offered. The bourgeois lead
ers had nothing to offer to aid this
condition. Rodser Babson suggested
that all graduates work a year for
nothing and the editor of Business
Week suggested that they work
three years free. This is the only
suggestion that the financial leaders
Of the country have to offer the
youth who have graduated from COL
leses and universities and and that