The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-03
C.W.A. Workers, JObless
and Trade Unions To
Send Delegates
STOP CWA LAY-OFFS
Socialists Hold Their"
Conference; Exclude
- Militant Workers

1ulltLdQt " OEkCFS
NEW YORK. - About $50 hand
picked delegates met at the Debs
Memorial Hall In the Rand School
Thursday night, as the Socialists and
Lovestoneites convened their" con-
ference on c. w. A
All militant workers had been ex-
Guided at the express orders of those
calling the conference. despite the
sincere desire of the membership Of
the Organizations participating for
the unity OF all workers. No program
ssK'as planned at the meeting
Attempt TO Bar Daily Worker
as the delegates fled past the ap-
pointed credentials committee, rep
1esentatives Of the capitalist press
we're admitted without question. The
Daily Worker reporter, however, was
singled OUT. A corps Of strong arm
guard3'' surrounded him, and only
the protests of the reporters Of the
metropolitan press that his creden-
flsls, which are even honored by the
city police gained him adnlittance
TO the conference.
Dozens Of credentials which did
ros bear the stamp Of approval Of
the Socialist Party we're barred from
the conference At the same time,
SQUAD OF about 35, who had
gathered at the Rand School at 1880
to receive instructions, were admitted
without question ard at the word Of
the guards They're with US"
Michael Davidoff Excluded
Michael DavidofT, president OF the
RELIEF Workers League, the largest
single group of organized G. W. A.
workers in the city, although mem
her Of the united front committee
which called the Feb 18th G. ". A.
demonstration, and bearing creden-
tials from five c. w. A. groups and
letter signed by the secretary Of
the Federation Of Architects,
Engineers, Chemists, and Technical
Workers, was not permitted M the
conference.
Workers from c. W. A. Jobs, who
were afhliated with the Associated
Once and Professional Emergency
Employees. Pere barred, although
Miriam Stgvis, a L0vestoneite and
nehnber OF the A. o. P. E. E, whose
\ rsaAbaiting and nti-organizational
ractivities in the union have4 driven
many sincere workers out Of the
union, was admitted.
Unity Needed Now
Michael Davidoff of the Relief
Workers League, in commenting on
the Socialist conference, urged that
all delegates who attended be present
at the Emergency United Front Con-
ference, to be held March 4, at l
p. M, at Irving Plaza, 18th st. and
irving Pl
This conference will adopt a pro-
gram OF struggle against G. w. A.
1lrings and wage cuts, demand the
enactment Of federal unemployment
insurance at the expense Of the en-
ptoyers and government and plan g
campaign OF action to win unem-
pioyinent insurance, and initiate an
intensive drive for immediate ade-
quate cash relief.
The Unemployment Councils In
their call to the conference. especi-
ally urged that every C. w. A. job
be represented at this conference on
March 4th. Job committees should
gates to the conference.
THE vicious attack upon the work
ers which Roosevelt plans in his So
-called new relief plan" Richard Sui
= Ivan of the Unemployment Councils
said, must be thoroughly understood
by the entire working class, and a
plan OF struggle against It must be
instituted. Even BIZ its most inflated
= figures, it does not provide one half
OF the hopeiessly inadequate program
of the c. w. A. in it's stead
This PLAN" he continued, mot
taking into account the enormous
graft and tremendous overhead ex-
penses.' provides less than 600 mil
lions for relief until July, 1885. For
the millions Of jobless this provides
less than s73 year for relief
Roosevelt, in his proposed plans,
attempts to revert to the rugged in
diyidualisnn' OF Hoover His proposal
to transplant families TO agricultural
areas is in essence a pitiful attempt
to.revert to the pre-capitalist era Of
handicraft. Instead of relief, Roose-
velt plans to give the unemployed q
handful Of seeds
One Of the subjects on the agenda
OF the March 4th conference will be
the Institution Of plan of action
against these attacks Of Roosevelt.
Trade unions, c. W. A. and unem-
ployed groups. and unemployed work
ers in neighborhoods and the flop
houses should take immediate steps
70 have full representation at the
conference.
All organized groups will have rep
resentation on the basis Of three
delegates from each local or branch,
and three delegates from each city
or central body.
L.s.N.R. DANCE TONIGHT