The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-06

of Norman Thomas with Gov
ernor Horner of Illinois immedi-
ately after five companies of
state militia had been sent by
the governor into the coal fields
to put down the miners resist
ance to the attack by the Pea
body Company gunner and the
thugs Of John L. Lewis company
union, United Mine Workers Of
America, dominated by this same
company. Later Thomas went to
Detroit, where the Auto Work
ers' Union, affiliated to the
Trade Union Unity League, is
leading the Briggs workers in an
heroic struggle against wage-cuts
and speed-up. Thomas endorsed
Mayor Murphy, and his program
and his visit to Detroit during
the strike comedies with the mob
iliZation Of Murphy's police force
against the strikers. While in
Detroit Thomas said not one
word regarding the use of Muir
phys city police against the
strikers and the Auto Workers
Union.-EDITORS NOTE.
BY BILL GEBERT
IN Jan. "a and 25 nearly 500 dele
" gates, representing over 10000
organized workers from 49 cities
and towns, met in Labor Temple,
Springfield, Ill, to map out a pro-
gram of struggle against Starva-
ton and hunger, and for immediate
cash relief and unemployment and
social insurance, at the expense Of
the employers and the government.
1t was one of the broadest united
front conferences ever held in the
State of Illinois. The conference
was called by the Unemployed
Councils Of Cook County, Macoupin
County and of Gillespie, Bend,
Sawyerville, Staunton, Mt. Olive
and Girard, Illinois.
WIDE REPRESENTATION
To this conference delegates
came from % local unions Of the
Progressive Miners OF America and
the United Mine Workers Of Amer
lea, seven local unions Of the A. F.
of L. and Railroad Brotherhoods,
IL locals of the Ladies' Auxiliaries
of the PIMA, from Unemployed
Councils of 40 towns, from a num-
Der of fraternal organizations, from
the Young Peoples Socialist League,
Young Communist League, from
industrial unions of the Trade
Union Unity League, Railroad,
Packinghouse, Steel, Needle and
Shoe, from the Communist Party
and also a farmers delegation.
Among the delegates there were
members Of the Socialist Party,
workers belonging to other differ
ent organizations and also mem
berS of the Democratic and Repub-
lican Parties and a delegation
from the Bonus Expeditionary
Force and from the Workers Elk
Servicemen's League.
The conference unanimously
adopted the Unemployment and
Social Insurance Bill, working out
in detail how the money is to be
raised for unemployment insurance
by taxation OF the employers, by
transferring money for military
and police forces and other gov
eminent sources and to be admin
istered by the workers. The con-
ference endorsed the call of the
National Committee of the Unem-
ployed Councils for denoastra-
tons and Hunger Marches on
March t in all cities, towns and
counties in the state and decided
to organize State Hunger March
to Springfield on April 10 and II.
THE Conference adopted num-
i Der Of resolutions, including
resolutions against war and for the
the defense of the Soviet Union,
for the release of the Scottsboro
boys and Tom Mooney, a demand
for the release of the 19-year- old
organizer of the Unemployed Coun-
ellis, Angelo Herndon, who was
sentenced to 20 years on the Geor-
gia chain gang; for protection of
foreign born, for unity and solidar-
1ty Of native, foreign born and Ne
gro workers, and at the same time
adopted an elaborate organizational
plan for Unemployed Councils by
building block committees, commit
tees in bread lines, lighthouses. set
ting up township and ward Unem-
ployed Councils of delegated bodies
OF employed and unemployed
workers. The conference was united
ON all these Issues and there was