The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-26
5000 SCORE AID
CUT BY PINCHOT
Parade in Philadelphia
Present Demands

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 25-Oyer
5000 workers, Negro and white dem
onstrated on ReybWn Plaza yester-
day az noon), protesting the starva-
ton Commissary Plan OF liberal"
Gov. Pinchot. 1
William Powell. organizational Sec
rotary of the Philadelphia Unem-
ployed Council was chairman of the
meeting. Ed. Bender, secretary of the
Unemployed Council District 3, ex-
planned to the workers why the rul-
ing class we're trying to put over on
the workers, plan that would mean
a rs per cent cut in relief, regardless
Of the fact that the relief given out
at the present time is inadequate.
Comrade Bender told the workers
how the Commissary Plan works, and
what the workers can expect to re-
ceiye in the line of food. Reading
from the capitalist press, this is what
the workers Of Philadelphia will re-
ccive in there food bundles. Instead
of fresh meats, fat pork, instead of
fruit, can tomatoes, corn meal, beans
and black eye peas.
Reading further from the capital
press; Miss Anna Bowes, head of the
State Children's Health Department
claims the Unemployed of Pennsyl-
vania are extravaganza. That they
buy jam and other Injuries, instead
they should buy salt pork and food of
a cheap price. She agrees with Pin
chot on thu commissary plan that
workers can and should live on Al
cents week, and child on 81 cents
Present Unemployment Demands
The demands of the Unemployed
Councils were adopted unanimously
by the demonstrators calling for the
defeat of the starvation Commissary
Plan of Pinchot, and 81 cash relief
for the head of every unemployed
family, with 81 additional for each
child in the family, and SIS cash per
week for single workers, the abol-
ton of the state eviction law, and
of discrimination in the distribution
Of relief against Negro or young
workers, or the foreign born. A COM
nlittee of fifty workers was elected
from the crowd to present the de-
/ lIldlluS W IllS CbtbC GlIlCL SC4lSy ANC
lief Board at 1850 Cherry st.
Parks was the last speaker He
unmasked the two faced liberal Gov
T..lchot, and asked the 5000 or more
workers present to go to the relief
headquarters with the committee OF
so to back them up when they pre-
sented their demands to the Phila-
delphia Emergency Relief Board.
When the committee left the Plaza,
5000 workers swung in line in back
| of them. When the committee
started to enter the Emergency Re-
lief they were told that only would
be allowed in. When the workers
were told this, such roar of pro-
test arose that the officials Of the
bureau told the police to let the full
committee in. The committee was
received" by Mrs. Coyn, head of the
distribution department of relief, who
told the committee that she thought
it best that the committee go in an
other room.
Get Rid of Police
Comrade Bender opposed this, be-
cause he wanted the 400 to 500 worl,-
ers who had been waiting in the Of
flee all morning for relief to hear
what the committee had to say. Mrs
Coyn was forced to hear the demands
in her general office. The commit
tee also demanded that the police
leave the room. (They were scattered
all around. The police left the room
Mrs. Coyn, after hearing the de-
mands of the committee, said that
the committee should attend the
meeting of the executive committee
of the Emergency Relief Board, which
we're meeting that afternoon at the
office of the chairman Mr.. Philip
Staples, who is also vice president
of the Philadelphia Bell Telephone
Co. But this meeting was postponed
However, the fight is going on and
involving larger numbers Of workers