The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-31
CONFERENCE HITS
ELY'SPROPOSALS
Mass. Toilers Unite ;
For Real Labor Laws

NEW YORK.-The movement for
Unemployment Insurance and Labor
legislation initiated by the A. f. OF
u. rank and file committee and en-
dorsed by the preliminary confer
ence of So organizations I'm Irving
Plaza Hall, Sunday, Jan. ~, has been
given powerful impetus by similar &C
ton of working class organizations IN
Massachusetts,. While a conference IN
Boston issued the call for State
wide conference in Massachusetts, for
labor legislation, preparations are
being intensified in the state of New
York for the New York statewide
conference to take place Feb. rs, 70
and ~ In Albany.
The. Metal. Workers. Industrial
Union announces that at their guar
teriy meeting on Friday, Feb. 3, 8
Pm, at Manhattan Lyceum, Sc Z. 4th
St, elections will be held for dele
gates 10 the Albany conference.
BOSTON, Mass, Jan. 29--Meetlng
In United Front Conference against
Governor Ely's proposals for NOR
atorium" on labor laws, delegates OF
GO working class organizations voiced
their determined opposition to the
proposed attack on labor and at the
same time worked out program OF
action calculated to force better con-
ditioIls for the workers.
This Conference Is part of similar
actions now taking place throughout
the State as {. result of broad CAM
paign against Ely's proposals which
would suspend all existing labor leg
islation and would open the way for
new, unrestrained attacks on wages,
limitation of working hours and other
living standards of the workers.
Conference Delegation.
The delegation to the Conference
included ten representatives from
four A. F. L. locals, ten from the
Trade Union Unity League, including
representation of Shoe, Needle, Up
hoisterers and Building Trades I'M
ions, Ten delegates from seven shops,
as well as representatives of the I'm
employed Council, the International
Labor Defense, International Work
ers Order, Communist Party, Young
Communist League and other organ1-
cations.
Jack Mccarthy, building trades
worker and secretary of the LID,
was elected chairnsn of the Confer
ence, Anna Bloch, now being threat
ened by the deportation authorities
because she was one of the leaders
Of the New England National Hunger
Marchers, was elected secretary. A
Needle Trades Industrial Union rep
resentative, Feingold, gave the main
report.
Conference Program.
The Conference adopted a unified
program on the basis of which it
appeals for the support and united
action Of all workers, organized and
unorganized, employed and unem-
ployed. The program provides as fol-
lows:
1.-Opposition to Governor Ely's
proposals to suspend labor legislation.
2.--For strict enforcement of the
already existing, though inadequate,
labor protection laws, and for the en-
actment of additional and improved
labor legislation with the provision
\ that violation of same be severely
FURNISHED.
N3..--Unemployment insurance and
immediate relief for unemployed and
part-time workers.
4.--No discrimination against any
I worker because of color, race or ma
tiorality, in the distribution of em-
ployment and relief.
5.-Against introduction Of night
work for women, against abolition OF
the 48 hour law and foy the main
tenarice Of needy childy II.