The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-28
BROAD CONFERENCE
CALLS ALL GROUPS
TO DEMONSTRATE
Eleven Main Demands
Are Listed at United
Action Farley

LANNAOh II az ~
NEW YORK.-The three hundred
delegates to the fourth session of
the United Action Conference on
Work, Relief and Unemployment,
held here Sunday, called on the
membership of all trade unions, all
workers mass, fraternal and eco
nomic organizations to demonstrate
Saturday, Sept. 20 at Union Square,
and march to City Hall with de-
mands centering around the issue
Of immediate, adequate appropria-
ton for work and home relief dur
ing the coming Winter.
Plans for the march call for the
massing of all working class organ
izstions in Union Square and in
the streets leading into the Square
on Sept. % at 10 am.
Each participating organization is
asked to subscribe to the general
demands presented at the confer
ence, Instead of having a multi
plicity of demands, each participate
ing group is asked to carry, besides
its organizational banner, large
streamerS listing its central slogan
or demand. Thus, for example, the
Women's Council, in addition to
carrying its banners, will carry a
large streamer or banner with its
central slogan - against the high
cost of living" Similarly, the veter-
ans groups will carry banners for
the passage of the veterans rank
and file three point program and
for the enforcement of the Veterans
State Relief Law.
Workers to Garry Symbols
Each worker is urged to carry
symbols of his trade or something
which reflects central grievance
caused by unemployment Here it
is suggested that unemployed work
erS carry huge replicas of eviction
notices or of food vouchers, children
carry empty milk bottles, relief
workers carry picks and shovels.
Employed workers are urged to carry
symbols Of their trades, huge card
board shears, papier- mache ham
merS, etc.
The march will be to present the
eleven main demands adopted at
the conference = for the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill; in
creased cash relief, union conditions
and wages on the relief jobs; for
the workers right to strike, picket,
organize and assemble; a public
works program to provide jobs for
all unemployed and financed by tax
alton on the high incomes, inheri-
tances, profits of public utilities and
corporations, ETC.; for one united
unemployment movement.
Against Bankers Agreement
The conference demanded the
abrogation of the Bankers Agree
ment by which the city limits relief
to the unemployed while playing
S2S 100000 monthly to the bankers
and limiting the taxes on large
realty holdings. A committee was
elected to present the conference
demands for taxation for financing
relief to the Board of Aldermen,
and demanded that no sales tax,
subway tax, or any tax burden
which falls upon the working popu-
lation or the small merchants be
enacted to finance unemployment
relief.
1. Amter, national secretary of the
Unemployment Councils, speaking
before the conference, denounced
Mayor LaGuardia's proposed relief
tax program as providing a direct
cut in relief while placing the bur
den on the shoulders of the working
population and the small business
men. Amter pointed out how the
LaGuardia scheme will provide even
less than is now expended for re-
lief, and holds the promise of future
relief cuts. He urged the confer
ence to adopt plans which would
call for increased relief at the ex-
pense of the big incomes, the trusts
and corporations and not from the
workers.
Of the proposed LaGuardia relief
tax, Amter said: Were not opposed
to the tax, but we demand that it
be placed where it belongs, not on
the workers"
Nation-W Demonstrations
Amter told the delegates that the
month of September would see not
only demonstrations in New York,
but in cities throughout the country
marches of farmers of trade union
members, and of the unemployed.
workers throughout the country"
he said, are planning hunger
marches on their city halls and on
the state capitols."
Amter urged the widest popular
ization of the plans which will be
adopted by the National Arrange
ments Committee which will meet
in New York on August 80 to plan
a national action in Washington
when Congress convenes, and de-
mand the enactment of the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill.
James Gaynor, chairman of the
United A C I'll on Committee, was
elected chairman of the conference
by reclamation. Emanuel Levin,
organizer of the United Action Com
mittee, delivered the main report.