The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-06-07
mo EVICTIONS"
WORKERS SHOUT
AT CITY HALL

NEW NOTWITHSTANDING at II a. M,
workers employed and unemployed
under the leadership of the United
Front Conference Against Evictions
and Relief Cuts began circling City
Hall with their placards and banners.
Some of the placards read mo Evic-
tions, We Demand Rent" mo Relief
Cuts" Not One Cent To the Bank
ers All Funds to the Unemployed.
These slogans and others were
shouted by the workers while their
delegation was inside presenting de-
mands to the Board of Estimate.
Five hundred police with many
held in reserve surrounded City Hall
rejecting the fear of Tammany Hall
and the bankers of the aroused un-
employed of the city.
Norman Thomas Speaks
Introduced as a representative of
the Workers Unemployed League,
Norman Thomas, took the stand at
Battery Park He had just come from
the City Hall where his first act on
entering was to shake hands with the
police inspector at the board meeting,
81 want to compliment your COM
mittee," said Thomas, everything
went off beautifully" He stated that
he could not give the report for the
delegation at the Board of Estimate
since he left before things were fin-
ished. However Thomas spoke of "the
so,,,k oo&;o,, xzI,soI, I,as haay1 a eh;avad
here. today. We have buried our poll
teal differences remember that the
only political party present was the
socialist party for the sake Of our
women and children"
Phrace Mongering
Thomas, continued playing to the
desire for unity of the workers, by
misleading phrase mongering such
as 'if there was unity between the
workers parties, the mayor and the
folks behind him would tell us AL
right boys I'll do what 1 can ano
he would do plenty"
March for Unity
When the delegates of the United
Front Conference came out of City
Hall. the workers began a march
downtown through the financial dis.
/ trict.
Going through Wall Street, they
shouted Make Morgan Pay Relief.
4 Workers of the financial district stoot
on the sidewalks, nodding approya
and many read the leaflets passed out
AS the line swung by the Marine
Workers Industrial Union, an ovation
rang out.
Reach Battery Park
When the line of workers swung
into Battery Park the police made ar
attempt to keep them divided from
the few hundred workers at the So
cialist meeting. The line brok:
through the police Gordon an
damned the square.
A shout of we want to hear ouI
delegation. We want unity" begar
Carl Winter asked for the micro
phone to inform the workers that the
United Front Committee wanted them
to reamain quiet.
Renegade Hits Winters
When Winter raised his hand TO the
railing to ask for this, Becker Love-
stoneite, smashed down on 1t with
his fist Angered, the workers sur
rounded Witer and raised him or
their shoulders. Winter then asked
the speakers to remain quit TO ra mo-
ment so that he could be heard by
the workers. They persisted in speak.
ing, drowning out Winter with theii
amplifiers.
Winter in order to prevent any pro-
vocation for friction led the worker.
to the south end Of the square. There
he and the other delegates, including
Bob Minor, began to speak.
Winter, Bob Minor and other men,
bers of the delegation reported and
the workers dispersed, returning
home for increased struggles, by Or
ganizing in block and house commit
tees, resisting evictions and camping
at the Home Relief Bureaus until
relief is forthcoming
Have YOU approached yovr Eel.