The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-04

ent, in addition to existing local
relief.
2. Immediate enactment Of
system of federal unemployment
insurance by the government
through taxes upon wealth and in
come and direct levies upon en-
pioyers, providing for each unem-
PlOyed worker the average wage of
his industry and locality for the
full period of unemployment.
Since these proposals call for ap-
Of money by congress,
the U. S. constitution provides that
drSt action shall come from the
House Of Representatives. The job
less marched home, carrying their
message Of struggle, and the National
Committee Of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis. /. Anlter. secretary, waited a
few days, and hearing nothing from
congress sent in a note, requesting
that it be notified when the demands
would be heard.
Garner answered on Dec. 10, say
ing:
Gust received yours Of the 18th,
and / note what you have to say
in reference TO the petitions re-
Gently presented on behalf of the
hunger marchers'.
These petitions were referred to
to Ways and Means Committee and
any hearing thereon could be call
ed by the Committee chairman"
Arnter at once wrote to Collier.
Democratic congressman who is
chairman of the Committee on WAYS
and Means, and proof of Golfers in
tention to totally ignore the demands
Of 5000 delegates of tens of thou
sands Of unemployed, is seen in his
reply, Dec. 20, which, written by his
clerk, Eugene Fly, advises" Anlter:
THE demands of the Hunger
Marchers, presented to Mr.. Garner.
were not referred to this committee,
nor has this Committee scheduled
any hearings, relative to these de-
mands"
Somebody was lying, and the Ma
tional Committee of the Unemploy-
ed Councils pointed this out, in much
sharper letters to Garner and Col
ller, at the same time calling on all
unemployed workers, on
mass meetings of the jobless, on
workers mass organizations and
groups to wire their protests against
the cynical juggling of the demands
Of the unemployed and this sentence
to death by starvation which con-
gress seemed intent on passing.
1t was too much for Garner. and
ne broke first. His secretary, Harry
L. Sexton, wrote to Arnter:
For your information am en-
closing tear sheet from the Con-
gressiOnal Record of December 9Th,
and you will note this petition was
referred to the Ways a nd Means
Committee on that date
And, to be sure, Page go of the
Congressional Record for Dec. 6 con-
tains, in Paragraph 1889, the follow
ing statement:
"Also, petition of the unempioy-
ed councils of the United States of
America; to the Committee on
Ways and Means"
This admission, forced from earn
er, not only by the persistent de-
mandS OF the National Committee Of
the Unemployed Councils, but by the
food of resolutions from workers or
CARNATIONS and the rising wrath of
the unemployed who were being
cheated by this parliamentary man
euvering OF RooSevelt'S henchmen in
smoked out Collier.
Collier himself this time, Dec. 2S.
signed letter to Amter, in which
he says:
II beg to advise that the pro-
posals of the Unemployed Councils
of America are now in possession
of the Committee on Ways and
Means.
There will be a meeting Of the
Committee on January 4, 1892, TO
map out program for the re-
mainder of the short session OF
Congress and decide II any he<-
ings will be held. Your letter ans
the petition will be brought TO the
Committees attention at that
time"
They tacitly admit their lying in
but they have the nerve to
tell 100000 hungry unemployed
that the Committee on Ways and
Means will decide whether to even
give an open hearing on the mat
teri
The leaders of these masses of un-
employed workers, the National
Committee of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, answered this Collier letter with
a letter of its own, demanding:
mo further delay in considering
this, the most important business
before the United States Congress"
But at the same time, the Ma
5ional Committee of the Unemploy-
I'd Councils issued statement to
the employed and unemployed work
ers, calling for mass demonstration,
resolutions Of protest, against con-
gressional muffling Of the demands
which are matters Of life and death
TO millions of workers.
Now, tomorrow, while Collier and
Garner and all other important De-
chiefs are in session with
Roosevelt in New York, proposing TO
consider legislation on everything
under the sun but the food and
and very lives of the job
ess, thousands of these unemployed
will demonstrate at Columbus Circle
1t 2 pm. to demand that this con-
ference of government chiefs does
AXE up the questions Of $50 winter
relief and unemployment insurance,
and mt through Iaus tn that effect