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lie works, is being planned for Feb
ruary 9Th. Arrangements are being
made to get the call for this confer
ence signed by both Unemployed
Council and the Polk County Unem-
ployed League.
To this conference all working
class organizations, employed and
unemployed will be invited to send
representatives. A meeting has al
ready been held with representatives
of Polk County Unemployed League
and the Unemployed Council where
plans were being discussed but no
definite steps taken. However, an
agreement was reached on the most
outstanding and important issues in
volved in this conference call. An
other meeting will be held tomorrow
night where final plans will be laid
out. This conference will serve as
preparations for County wide
Hunger March planned for the latter
part of February.
Last Thursday new Unemployed
Branch of the Unemployed Council
was organized on the west side of
Des Moines, this as result of can
wasting this neighborhood by two of
our returned Hunger March dele
gates. The meeting was very en-
thusiastic held in a private home,
and the possibilities for developing
this branch to be a real factor in the
struggle OF the unemployed in this
neighborhood are good. This meet
ing was the result of only ONE day
of canvassing. with II workers from
that neighborhood present,
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will want to spend one of these dol
lars, he will have to spend it all at
once, as there is no such a thing
as getting change for the scrip dollar.
Mass Meeting Feb. 2.
The Unemployed Council is organ
lzing mass meeting on Feb. 2,
where the Scrip Money Plan will be
explained and discussed thoroughly.
AT the present time the Unemployed
Council is having numerous Public
Hearings exposing the condition of
the unemployed workers and the role
of Mayor Mahoney, in preparation
for huge supporting demonstration
for Feb. 20. when the State Relief
March will take place.
The delegates to the Workers and
Farmers Relief March will arrive in
st. Paul on Feb. 10. On Feb. 10 a
conference will be held and the Dem
onstration for Immediate Relief and
Unemployment Insurance, to be paid
by the state and employer, will take
place on Feb. 20 at the Capitol.
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MAYOR MAHONEYS SCRIP PLAN

what they want. When you figure
up the amount that the package to-
tails up, you will find that it is about
half short. In addition to that, the
stuff is the most lousy that can be
found in the store. In addition to
these things. the unemployed have to
suffer from a special Medical Aid
scheme.
Sick Relief.
If a worker happens to be sick and
can't work for his relief, the city
sends him out to Snail Lake, where
according to the city he is to get
medical aid. This Snail Lake is the
dirtiest and lousiest place that can
be found. The medicine is even
worse than the regular sloppy food
that the unemployed get from
Schock'S. The toilets, which the sick
men use in common, haven't even
got running water. For this service,
the city deducts IS and up from the
relief that the unemployed worker
gets, which leaves his family to COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
CUTS in BUDGET
HIT AT WORKERS
Organize Fight for
Relief in Canton

CANTON, O.-The difficulties fac
ing the bosses and their political tools
in their efforts to solve the crisis at
the expense of the workers were re-
vealed here when the last meeting of
the City Council broke up into vari-
Gus fighting factions and Mayor Sec
combe had to be called in to smooth
out the differences, SO that the bosses
program could be put over.
The council was to accept the 1888
budget on that night, budget which
makes drastic cuts in services to the
population, but practically no reduc-
ton in debt and interest retirement
With their masters, the Thinker Roll
Ter Bearing Co., Republic Steel Corp,
Pennsylvania Railroad, etc., demand
ing further inroads on the living
standards of the masses in order to
keep up their profits, and with the
workers growing more and more re-
bellious, the politicians are finding it
difficult to come to an agreement and
factional struggles are splitting their
ranks.
The 1888 budget, while introducing
small reductions in officials salaries,
makes big slashes in the expenditures
for safety, health, parks and other
services that affect chiefly the work
ers. On the other hand, the item
marked miscellaneous" while re-
duced from the 1892 figure, calls fo1
more than twice what was spent IN
1881. Under this heading will come
expenditure for more police and
equipment. At the same time, the
money spent for health will be only
about half the 1881 figure.
In Stark County about half the
funds expended will go to the bank
ing interests, while the 100000 re-
duction in the budget Is also at the
expense of the workers, with officials
salaries remaining the same.
On Feb. 6, the workers of this city
are going to the City Council to de-
mand cash relief for the unemployed
and cash wages for all work, civic
or otherwise. On the same date the
township workers will rally to pre-
sent the same demands before the
county commissioners. The unem-
ployed veterans are also fighting for
cash relief. A united front of all
workers around these and other de-
mandS is now being organized.
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have been able to cut the cost of
our health service, including hos
pitfalls, about 40 per cent; medical
attention has increased and the
needy poor are getting better at
tention than ever before.
''These studies could not have
been made by the france board SO
that board secured the services of
OUTSIDE GROUPS unbiased by
local feeling, to survey these diff
ferent local problems and every
survey that has been made has
proved that economies could be ef-
fected and efficiency increased"
New York also has progressed far
along this road. but Jackson'S speech
sets a goal for further achievement.
Workers! This is the program Of
the bankers and capitalists, and Of
the Tammany and Lehman admin
istrationS!
Build the State Conference
Answer it by moving in every local
union OF whatever affiliation, in every
workers club and workers organiza-
ton OF every sort, for the support of
the State Wide Conference on Un-
employment Insurance and Labor
Legislation. The conference will meet
in Albany Feb. rs to 81 at the call OF
So labor unions and other workers
organizations. 1t will formulate bills
to present to the legislature. There
will be bills for unemployment in
surance, against evictions, against
firing Of city employees and looting
of workers pay for fake relief
schemes, against injunctions and po-
lice terror in strikes, etc.
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Workers Calendar
ILLINOIS

tLLlNOAe
Chicago
LABOR SPORTS UNION opening sports
center at Peoples Auditorium, 2457 W. Chi
cago Ave. Help FSU establish center By
coming to Workers Basketball League Dance
at Peoples Auditorium, Saturday, Feb. 4th
at pm.
LECTURE by Scott Nearing. Sunday at
2:3O pm, Jan. goth at 1853 N. State st.
Subject: Fifteen Years Of Soviet Union"
Auspices FSU. Adm. SOC. With this ad 25c.
NEW JERSEY
LECTURE by E. Bender. secy. Of Unenn-
ployed Councils, Sunday, Jan. 29th at p m.
at workers School Forum, $50 Federal st.,
and War" Admission cents.
Linden
LENIN MEMORIAL CELEBRATION None
day. Jan. 30th at pm. at Ukrainian Hall.
Roselle ST., corner Henry st. Splendid pro-
gram including Lithuanian Chorus and O
play on Lenin. Also good speakers. Aus
pieces Lenden-Roselle Unit c. P.
Passaio
FILM SHOWING of "Road to Life" So
Wet movie of Wandering Children, Sunday,
Jan. Goth continuous, p. M to IL pm. at
Kantor's Auditorium, 259 Monroe st. Ad-
mission-Adults 80 cents; children is cents.
Newark
FORUM at TWO Hall, S47 Springfield Ave.
Just below Bergen St., Sunday. Jan goth
afternoon at pm. Speaker: James Allen.
Subject: Social Equality for Negro Masses
and Why?" Free admission.
NEW YORK
Troy
FORUM OF Workers Educational Club OF
Troy. Sunday, Jan. 2eth in the afternoon.
with Joseph Freeman, author OF Soviet
Worker" speaking on American Imperial
ism" Address: Odd Fellows Hall, 81 4th Ave.
PENNSYLVANIA
PhiIadeIphia
WORKERS INTERNATIONAL RELIEF will
run rummase sale at 1888 Poplar st.. be-
ginning jan 27th. All clothing shoupld be
taken to nearest workers center where IL
will be picked up by WIR for the sale.
PLENUM Of TWO OF Phila. will be held
Sunday. Jan. 90 at 10 am. at $40 Fair
mount Ave. DeIe9ates asked to be on time.
LECTURE on Soviet russia followed by
entertainment. Saturday, Jan. 28 at 8 PM
at Workers Center, 47s4 N Tth ST. Re-
freshrents. Auspices G. p Unit Logan
OPEN FORUM every Sunday at 2n2s ~
32nd st. at p. m. Speaker this Sunday
J. Rechmen on ''War and the Marine Work.
err" Auspices Workers Club, Strawberry
Mansion.
NEIGHB oRHooD AFFAIR for relief class
war prisoners, Sunday, Jan. 20 at 4754 N.
7th st. Auspices Logan Branch lid. Good
program, refreshments. All invited
PACKAGE PATTY given by Section 4,
lid. Saturday, Jan. 2S at p. NJ Enter
teirment excellent food, dancing at 1894
westmoTt ct. Admission IS cents Unem-
rloyed is cents.
RHODE ISLAND
Providence
OPEN FORUM, Sunday. Jan. 20 az 9 pm.
at AGA Hail. 1858 Westminster st. Speaker:
James p. Reid. Subject: Communist Party
and Unemployment Insurance"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
Youth Delegate Back
From USSR to Tour

LOS ANGELES, Cal.-The Inter-
national Labor Defense is arranging
tour for Miriam Brooks, recently
returned from the Soviet Union,
where she went as youth delegate
from Los Angeles to the first World
Congress of the International Red
Aid. The International Labor De-
Tense is the United States Section of
the International Red Aid.
The schedule Of her tour is: Ari-
iona, Jan. 81, %, 20 and 80; San Ber-
nardino, Cal, Jan. 81; Los Angeles,
banquet, Feb !; Santa Barbara, Cal,
Feb. 8; Watts, where a Scottsboro
dance will be held, Feb. 4, and
Bakersfield, Feb. and z.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
(By a Worker Correspondent

ST. PAUL, Minn.-Following the
brutal attack of the Farmer Labor
Mayor Anderson's Minneapolis police
on the City Hunger March of Nov.
20, there appeared an article in the
Farmer-Labor press, making a COM
parison Of the bad" action of Mayor
Anderson of Minneapolis and the
good" action Of Mayor NIalloney of
st. Paul, who let the workers march
peacefully and who in general, they
said, is a friend of labor" But
what are the facts?
In st. Paul the relief for the I'M
employed is even scarcer than in
Minneapolis. Under Mayor Maho-
ney'S goodwill" towards the work
ers, the unemployed are working I'M
der forced-labor scheme whereby
they have to work for their grocer
les.
Schock 81 Co. grocery store sends
out a package of groceries to the
workers without even asking them
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pIete starvation.
But it seems that Mayor Mahoney
thinks that this is yet too good for
the workers. So he is now engaged
in trying to put over the most des-
picable scheme of all under the guise
of giving the workers more relief
This scheme is his Scrip Money Pro-
poSal
MahOney's Scrip Proposal
What is this scrip scheme? First,
the city will issue scrip money in the
form of dollar bills. The unemployed
of the city will be employed and paid
with this scrip. Every week, when
each of these dollars are spent, the
spender will have to paste 2-cent
stamp on the scrip dollar. The city
will sell these 2-cent stamps. On
this basis. at the end of the year the
scrip dollar will have 50 2-cent
stamps on it, which will mean that
the city has gotten $104 on the basis
of the scrip dollar, and then the
dollar can be exchanged.
According to Mahoney, this Will
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When Mahoney is asked, How are
the bankers going to participate in
helping to make this slip of paper
valuable?" his answer Is, ITO hell
with the bankers, we don't want to
have anything to do with them"
Helps the Bankers.
Thus, while sounding as if he is
against the bankers, he is actually
trying to save the bankers from any
responsibility of caring for the I'M
employed. 1t is only natural that it
would be impossible to involve the
bankers in such proposition. Should
a worker want to deposit some of
these dollars in the bank, then the
banker would lose 2 cents every week
on that dollar and Mahoney himself
admits that the bankers will not do
that.
The bigger business men and
wholesale houses will not accept the
scrip. This will mean that only the
workers and small business men will
pay.
In addition to that, if worker
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buTIeUSlldW Is SOrry-canC come
must speak to the soldiers at Fort
Smelling. Rev. Paul left town all OF
a sudden-had to preach in a mis-
sion in Fargo, N. D. The aldermen
in the sixth ward-Bastis and Peter
son are also invited. They must
either be at the Nicholet or Radison
in a dinner conference with the
bankers. planning how to starve the
unemployed some more. Nice repre-
sentatives of labor these so-called
aldermen.
The meeting begins. The chairman
asks the workers to tell the truth
about the conditions they live under.
The first witness an A. F. l..
hricklayer--has lived in the mission
for six months. He seems to be a
fine specimen Of young manhood. He
says, II lived in the mission too long
unable to do heavy work. I like
to go to work but the mission grub
made a wreck out of me-"
Next-18 years as chef and cook.
Don't dare to touch the food-lives
only on coffee and bread. Knows
too much about food to dare to eat
Rev. Paul's meals.
Next one states that the rude
bakers served there put his heart on
the blink. Liable to drop dead any
minute.
Next-states that several of his
friends died in there. Doctor says
no wonder they die, on account of
the eats.
Next-two weeks in the Salvation
ArT1y-lost pounds-sick all the
time. Must use the lavatory every
half hour.
Next stands in line five hours
every day-goes in hungry-comes
out hungry.
Next-seeing and dreaming about
oatmeal all the time. Soon going
oatmeal crazy.
Next question is how's the bedding
blankets and so on.
One blanket a piece. One voice
from the crowd. I lived there one
JSe'A cAio AiebNO, OAlAy OOCAl 1O1OulldGC
enough to get part of blanket.
Next about the soap In the mis-
sion. Soap just enough to wash a
handkerchief. Must last for under
wear-shirts and bath.
Next-worked in the mission for
two northeastern to eight hours
every day-in the kitchen. No money
only room and board. Not able to
eat the food served there. Had to
bum his meals on the streets.
Next-worked four hours for an
old second hand shirt at the Sally.
Loading furniture. Heavy work. His
labor was at least worth 50. The
shirt was not worth five cents.
Next one among thousands
sleeping there on a bedbug infested
bench or sleeping in a chair-sitting
up all night--night after night-the
cold. the abuse of the bomcers all
in the soul-saving Pauls mission.
And so on for an hour and a half
bringing out the misery Of the I'M
employed. Their hunger their
hatred against the present system.
The International is sung and they
all will meet again in front Of the
capitol in st. Paul next month, Feb.
goth. The HUNGER march.
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man OF the State FINANCE Com
mittee Of Fall River, Mass, to
eager, responsive pupils. Those
who heard him were some 200 bank
ers of the Eastern Regional Savings
Conference of the Savings Division
of the American Bankers Association
The speech was made in the Wal
dorf Astoria Hotel.
Jackson said. while in New York
bankers listened eagerly:
"In Fall River we were able to
reduce the school budget by a 20
per cent reduction in salaries; we
dispensed with the services of some
140 teachers, by increasing the
teacher load from 20 to about SO;
by raising the entrance are from
So years to years which closed
the kindergartens, and by closing
the night schools. We also elimi-
mated some ianitors. / believe trat
the economies effected thus far
have not been detrimental to the
child. A further study might read
lily show that our expenses could be
materially reduced through some
simple chances in the curriculum.
This also without detriment to the
child.
Branch libraries have been
closed. Seine department heads
were eliminated by consolidating
several departments under COM
missioner of public works at
saving Of $1,000 year. A few po-
licemen and firemen have been
dropped from the rolls and more
modern methods have increased the
efficiency and economy in operation
of these departments.
"The health situation Of the city
has been very carefully surveyed
by an outside medical group and we
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28

solve the unemployment problem in
st. Paul. According to FACTS, it is
1O4 pei cent tax on the workers of
st. Paul.
A Trip With the Scrip Dollar.
Let us take a trip with the scrip
dollar and see from whose pockets
will come the 2-cent stamps. The
first ones TO use it will naturally be
the unemployed workers, who will
receive it in wages. They will pass
it on to the grocery store, ETC., where
they will get their immediate neces-
stiles of life. Then, these stores
will pass it on to their employees as
wages (this is an admission of Ma
honey HIMSELF, then these employees
will pass it on to other small bust
ness men and workers.
AS q result this slip of paper will
be passing practically through the
hands of the workers and small bust
ness men only, and they will be the
ones who will be putting on the
2-cent stamps and paying for this
scheme at the rate of 104 per cent.
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mittee of Is workers and farmers
were elected to go before the State
Legislature. A State Committee Of
Is was elected as a Workers and
Farmers State Relief Committee.
February Is was set as the date for
the arrival Of the delegates in st.
Paul where mass welcoming af-
fair will greet them. February 10
was set for the Statewide Confer
ence and Feb. 20 for the State March
on the Capitol of Minnesota.
Governor Rejects Demands.
On Friday, Jan. 9Th, when the COM
mittee went to the State Senate,
where it had an appointment for IL
o'clock, it found the doors closed.
Then the committee went to the
Governor, who few days previously
in his inauguration speech put forth
a fake Unemployment Insurance
proposal. After waiting some time
the committee was granted a hear
ing. At this hearing every construc-
tive proposal put forth by our COM
mittee was answered by 'unconsti-
tutional," mot in my power" "im-
possible" "this would be an intrusion
on the rights of the State Legisla-
ture"
At the same time, using his dema-
gogic phrases, he tried to convince
the committee that he is proposing
an Unemployment Insurance Bill.
The committee pointed out to him
that this bill if adopted would only
mean about $28 year or 60c week
for each unemployed worker. In his
arguments with the committee. Gov
ernor Olson admitted that all VIC
tories of the Working Glass we're won
by mass pressure.
When informed that the State Re-
lief March will take place on Feb.
20 and asked if the State would feed
and lodge the delegates, the Governor
was vague in his answers and said
that a committee should come to see
him the first part Of February to
discuss the question. However the
Workers and Farmers State Relief
Committee is not depending on any
promises made by him and his Or
ganized Commissary Committees
throughout the State.
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Only $79.45 was received Thursday
drop of S21099 from Wednesdays
total Of $290.44. Boston sent in the
largest amount, $43.55, while the New
York district made a miserable show
ing, with only $1555 contributed
None of the other districts did any,
thing to brag about, and District 8
(Chicago) once more was silent. AT
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
FARM MILITANCY
WORRIES CAPITAL
Force Legislators to
Pretend Aid

WASHINGTON, d. C.-Increas-
ingly disturbed by the growing mill
fancy of the farmers in their fight
against foreclosures, Congressional
politicians have announced that
farm mortgage relief" would get
precedence in all discussions regard
ing agricultural legislation.
Frankly calling attention to dem
onstrations engendered by foreclo-
sures," senators and congressman,
especially from the agrarian districts,
were moving to make gestures of
laid" to the farmers.
The cue to the real interest of the
friends of the farmers is seen, how
ever, in their solicitude for the mort
gage holders, who, according to an
Associated Press dispatch, ARE find
ing their position precarious unless
they can realize on their investment"
Many fake farm bills have been
offered, but present interest is being
conferred on proposal made by Sem
ator Robinson, the Democratic leader,
to set up national agency ito do
for agriculture what the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation was
designed to do for business" Thus,
it is clear that the beneficiaries Of
such bill would be the banks, rail-
roads and other mortgage holders
who have drawn the moose around
the necks Of the ruined farmers
tighter each day.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.-Five hun
bred workers at Girard Manor Hall
here heard delegates from the
United Farmers Protective Associa-
ton tell how they stop sheriffs'
sales in Bucks County at meeting
held here last night.
Speakers representing the Phila-
delphia Unemployed Councils well
coined the farmers and pledged soli-
darity in their struggles. Bentzly,
leader of the farmers in their fight
against foreclosures and mounting
debts, received an ovation at the
conclusion of his speech when he
called for the building Of a strong
bond Of unity between all workers
on farms and in the city. A reso>
luton was passed pledging defense
of the workers involved in the farm
ers' strike against the milk trust
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
Organizations: Order
Anti-War Manifesto

Mass organizations are urged to
put in their orders at once for the
Manifesto of the Central Com
mittee of the Communist Party of
the U. S. Against Imperialist
War" which has just been pub.
ished in leaflet form. Bundles al
81 per thousand should be ordered
direct from the National Office OF
the Communist Party, Box 81
Station D, New York, N. Y.
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$50 Meet in Syracuse.

SYRACUSE, N. Y About $50
workers came to the Lenin Memoir
ial Meeting in Syracuse in spite of a
terrific oownpour. Conrade Essman,
the main speaker, pointed out that
where Leninins1n was followed the
workers were making great strides
forward, but that where the social
fascists still had influence the work
ers were confronted with misery and
1ascism. Five applications were re-
ceived for the Party and s2.15 COL
1ected for the Daily Worker.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
PROTEST. verdict in Patterson.

PATERSON, N. J.-Workers as
senbled at the Lenin Memorial
meeting last Saturday at Carpenters
Hal adopted q resolution protesting
aaginst the outrageous chain gang
verdict against Angelo Herndon.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
IN CONFERENCE
ON new and SAVAGE lay
OFFS And WAGE CUTTING
Applaud Example of Fall River Where Librar.
les Are Closed, Teachers Fired, Medical
Service Cut 40 Per Cent

NEW YORK. - Practical instruction slashing city
workers overlooking teachers deprivng children
certain sorts of schooling, firing anors reducing public
health service by practically half closing braresths was
the nature of the speech Thursday by James Jackson chair
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
Providence workers Protest..

PROVIDENCE, r. 1.-The Lenin
Memorial and Anti-War meeting
unanimously adopted a protest reso-
luton against the Georgia chain
gang verdict sentencing Angelo
Herndon to 10 TO 20 years on the
chain gang.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-28
MINNESOTA CONFERENCE SETS
HUNGER MARCH FOR FEBRUARY 20

ST PAUL, MinnThytwo representing workers and
Farmers organizations assembled at Statewide
for Workers and Farmers Relief
a State Unemployment Insurance
After thorough discussion