The Bismarck tribune., 1933-02-06
MASS MEETING OF
hungry WORKERS
PLANNED FOR CITY
Call Issued BY Three Local Men
For Session Tuesday At
Courthouse

Hungry workers" Of Bufleigh
county have been called to Z mass
meeting at the courthouse here Tues.
day afternoon by Emil Piepkorn, 40
Second St., Joseph H. Tauer, 1904
Avenue G, and David Fryer, 122 Sixth
st.
The purpose Of the meeting Is ITO
exert mass pressure upon the county
commissioners to take the necessary
positive steps to secure 100000 dollars
per month, or more. for the next three
months or longer II necessary for the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
for the relief Of the needy workers
and farmers Of Bismarck and Bur-
leigh county"
Mimeographed circulars calling the
needy to the meeting were distribut-
ed throughout the city Saturday
night.
Peipkorn. Tauer and Fryer are
members of the committee which
made arrangements for the session,
according to County Auditor A. G.
ISaminger.
It IS expected . resolution demand
ing relief will be drawn at the mass
meeting and presented to the board
Of county commissioners. which will
open its monthly business meeting
Tuesday forenoon.
Permission for the meeting in the
courthouse has been granted. Notice
has been served by Sheriff ]. L. KEEL
ley, that the meeting must be order
ly.
To Appear Before Solons
Simultaneous with the announce
ment Of Tuesdays meeting came an
announcement from the Farmers
North Dakota State Relief Confer
ence that members Of this organiza-
ton will assemble here this weekend
to place relief demands before the
state legislature.
Headquarters Of the relief confer
ence have been opened here by Ash
bel Ingerson Of Flaxton, at TIT Thayer
avenue. Ingerson is son Of Ralph
Ingerson, former state senator from
Burke county.
Farmers in many parts Of the
state are busy holding meetings and
electing delegates to the conference
here this weekend" Ingerson said.
"The response to the call has been
very gratifying, showing that farm
ers Of the state are realizing as new
er before the necessity for taking up
in earnest, themselves, the problem
OF relief"
Farmers Of Burke, Divide, Noun
trail, Ward, Williams. Mckenzie,
Dickey, Mclean, Etutsman and many
other counties will be here, he said.
Lem Harris. Washington, D. c.,
executive secretary Of the organiza-
tion's national committee for action
will be here, according to Ingerson,
who denies that the conference Is q
political gathering and says that
farmers are invited here regardless
of political affiliation.
Signed BY Unemployed
The circular announcing the Bur-
leigh county meeting is signed by the
provisional relief committee Of the
Bismarck Unemployed Council" and
contained the following statement:
Every worker and farmer needing
relief-food, clothing. shoes, blankets,
coal, rent relief, medical and dental
attention-unemployed and employed
and all others and farmers interested
in the securing of this relief are in
vited and urged to attend.
Something must be done and done
at once! Children and workers
cannot be allowed to starve and
freeze! Workers who can work, who
want to work, but who cannot find
work, are not blamable for their ne
cessity. They have right to live!
workers, the fourth winter OF the
crisis is upon us. Every day our con-
ditions grow worse and worse. we
starve and shiver because We have
no work. which is not our fault. We
want work, we are willing to work,
but there Is no work! What shall
We do?
1--WE refuse to starve in the midst
Of plenty!"