The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-17
FORGOTTEN MEN
DEMAND ACTION
Present Demands to
Roosevelt Mar. 4th
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IiNoc Gays WOrk u week aG pA.oU per
day paid in cash. All details for
carrying on tfG5 to be administered
by the unemployed. Until this is
put into effect the cemmissaries must
De retained.
Workers Demands Refused.
County Welfare Commissioner
Shannon refused to grant the de-
mands Of the unemployed and re-
fused to state what relief will be,
but intimated that it will amount to
from 81 to 81 per week for family
OF four, but the joker even Of this
hunger ration is that l. will be paid
In retail grocery store scrip on the
basis of forced labor.
Bill Dobbins, now president of the
Unemployed Citizens League, and
Forrest, secretary of the State United
Front Committee of Action, we're the
Spokesman for the workers and put
forth the demands on the basis Of
the exposure of the miserable con-
ditions of the jobless and part-time
workers in the city and county.
Preparing state Hunger March,
There was a parade through the
streets of 5000 to the cityvcounty
building demanding Of the county
commissioners that they supply gas
and trucks for the state hunger
march on Olympia, March |, and
also demanding that commissioners
force action on the relief demands.
Two Thousand occupied the building
and voted TO remain until an answer
was given on the demands, For six
hours the county commissioners
argued, and had their arguments
ripped to pieces by the spokesman
of the workers, They then vent
home, but the meeting OF the unem-
pleyed continued all night.
Committees succeeded in obtaining
food for the Unemployed Citizens
Leag,'e, which met Tuesday night,
| and then adjourned and marched in
bodies to swell the ranks of the work.
ers occupying the city-county bulld-
ing.
Workers Stream Into Town.
Committees OF workers at each
conimissary turned streams of work
ers INTO town all day Wednesday and
still workers continue to arrive from
many parts of the state. The first
delegations arriving Wednesday came
into the city at three o'clock in the
morning. The first was the Belling-
ham Peoples Council that came from
hundred miles away. The Ana
cortes Unemployed Council sent a big
delegation. Before Wednesday there
were already 1900 here from outside
Kings County, and reports are to
the effect that workers from all over
the entire state are converging on
Seattle.
Demonstrate Against Chicago Judge
CHICAGO, Feb. 16.-On Feb. Is the
Home Owners Committee of the IN
employed Councils of Cook County
will demonstrate against the courts
for issuing orders OF eviction. The
demonstration will take place before
the home OF Judge Dennis E. Sulli-
van, of the Superior Court, notorious
fer years as one of the most vicious
anti-labor and iniunctien judges and
who has been one OF the worst OF
the eviction judges. The denenstrar
ton is at $3.50 before the residence
at 340O Lake Shore Drive.
On Feb. 20 all members OF the
Home Owners Committees are eX-
pected to be at the county building,
Randolph and Clark Sts,, where a
fight will be put up before the mas
ter OF chancery against the taking
away of homes Of jobless.
All over the county and through
out the state of Illinois preparations
are going forward for the mass dem
onstrations being prepared for March
4, wen Roosevelt becomes hunger
president.
County Hunger March.
On March there will be county
hunger march in Cook County, as a
means of serving notice upon the ma
tional government, as well as upon
the local and state governments that
the recent intolerable relief condi-
tons must be stopped and iinmedi1
ate relief and unemployment insur-
ance granted.
Prepare Akron Demonstration,
I AKRON, Ohio, Feb. l6,-Workers
and sympathetic organizations in
, Akron and in Summit County are
sending delegates to conference
hat will be held in Painters Union
Hail. IS South Howard st. at ppm.
IN Feb. 20 (Washington's Borthday)
% fight for relief and against evic-
Ions and to arrange to participate
in the nation wide demonstrations
that will be held on Inauguration
Day, March 4.
Dayton Unemployed Active.
DAYTON, Ohio, Feb, i6--Dayton
Unemployed Councils Committee,
representing Mad River township,
Madison township and the city I'M
employed branches are fighting for
relief and especially against the
practice of compelling applicants for
relief to sign contract which per-
mitS the agents Of Welfare Director
Stockline to invade workers homes
and search the property of hungry
workers The March 9TH demonstra-
ton here will, according to indica-
tions be big advance for the work.
ing class Of Dayton.
Los Angeles ALL, Conference.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. l6.--A con-
ference of A. F. Of L. buildings trades
delegates for unemployment insuY-
ance was held at lSth and Santee.
Gene Gordon addressed the confer
ence on the necessity Of unemploy-
ment insurance and called for rank
and file committees to develop an
enlarged conference in the near fu-