The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-24
Conference i'm Washing
ton to Follow Congress
on Insurance

BY decision Of the National Board
of the National Unemployment
Council, the fourth national con-
vention of the National Unemploy-
ment Council will be held in Wash
ington, D. c., on Jan. 8 and g. 1885.
This convention will be of extreme
Importance in view Of the fact that
the crisis is now in its sixth year,
more than 100000 workers re-
main unemployed and all signs
point to greater unemployment this
winter than ever before. On the
other hand, the federal government
has made it perfectly clear that it
will not introduce the program of
so-called social security" an
nounced by Roosevelt in his speech
Of June %. The only program that
will be presented to Congress will
be one for unemployment reserves,
which will not aid the Is million
unemployed and their families to
the extent Of a single penny. Fur
thermore, the government has an
nounced that relief appropriations
will be cut down, and it will depend
chiefly upon grants to the employ
ers of heavy industry to re-employ
millions of workers.
This is a fallacy. It means. in
reality, lowering of the conditions
of the unemployed, worse starva-
ton for them and their families
and the introduction of forced la
Dor on wide scale as basis for
relief.
At the same time, a drive against
the workers still having jobs is now
on. This includes demands by the
employers for revision Of the
codes, lengthening of hours, wage
cuts and categorical denial of the
right to organize into unions, to
strike, picket, etc.
The forthcoming convention of
the N. U. c., taking place just at
the time that the U. S. Congress
will assemble and Immediately fol-
lowing the National Congress for
" anu OOGldl 1Aloul~
ance, will be of vital Importance
in the mobilization of all unem-
plOyed organizations for the pur-
pose of strengthening the organiza-
ton and building up forces to carry
on struggle for genuine unemploy-
ment and social insurance as en-
bodied only in the Workers Unem-
ployment and Social Insurance Bill
The tasks of all locals, city, coun-
ty and state organizations Of the
N. U. G. are;
y To approach all organizations
in their vicinity and, particularly,
the independent and opponent I'M
employed organizations, to induce
them to send delegates to the Ma
tional Congress for Unemployment
and Social Insurance to be held in
Washington, D. c., jan 5, 6 and 7,
and to participate in the local ar
rangements committees for this
Congress that have been or should
have been established.
a. We shall also induce the OPP
ponent unemployed organizations
to elect fraternal delegates to the
National Convention of the N. U.
c.. so that they may witness how
we conduct our discussions and
make decisions, and thereby be in
position to report back to their
organizations.
D We should reach the indepen-
dent and isolated unemployed or
CARNATIONS and induce them to send
regular delegates 20 the National
Convention of the N. U. c. as we'll
as to the National Congress.
- We should reach the unions
and other mass organizations and
assist them in forming unemployed
committees to carry on a struggle
for the relief of their members and
to cooperate with the N. u. c. Such
committees, with the assistance of
their parent organization, should
elect regular delegates to the Ma
tionel Convention of the N. U. c.
Gas we'll as to the National Con-
gress).
Representation at the National
Convention
The delegates of only such Or