The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-31
AL Workers
In % Cities
Act on Social
Insurance Bill
WeinstOck, on National
Tour, Greeted by
ALL. Workers

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L. Trade Union Committee for IN
employment Insurance and Relief
just returned from a national tour,
spoke at % cities in % mass meet
ings for the Workers Unemployment
Insurance Bill. Eleven of the mass
meetings were arranged by local
unions and district councils of the
A. F. Of L., two were arranged by
A. F. Of L. Central Labor bodies,
and nine we're arranged by rank
and file committees.
At all the mass meetings, which
were attended by members Of the
A. F. Of L. principally, the Workers
Unemployment Insurance Bill was
unanimously endorsed, and city
wide conferences of all local union
were called to discuss the bill and
the rank and file program. The de-
mands of the rank and file program
are: y Immediate enactment of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill by the federal government; .
Dues exemption with good standing
in the union for all unemployed
members; 81 Rank and file control
of the unions; a The right to strike;
and 81 Continuation and enlarge
ment of C.WA. to provide jobs for
all unemployed workers.
Rank and File Federationist
At every meeting, the Rank and
File Federationist," the paper of the
Trade Union Committee, was sold,
and the epamphlet Behind the
Scenes at the 53rd A. F. Of Con-
Yention" was we'll received.
When William Green learned that
the Spokane Central Trades Coun-
Gil was arranging a mass meeting
at which Weinstock was to speak,
he Immediately sent telegram in
structing them that they should not
sponsor the unemployment insur-
ance meeting. Weinstock appeared
before the Central Body, was grant
ed the floor, Green's telegram was
rejected, and the Central Body
without a dissenting vote endorsed
the rank and file program and the
mass meeting.
A. F. of L. Officials Repudiated
In Oakland, California, on the day
that the mass meeting was to have
been held, the official organ of the
A. F. of L. Central Trades Council
published a screaming headline
stating that Weinstock is not a
member of the A. F. of L. The mass
meeting repudiated this statement,
and from the workers present a
committee was elected to demand
that the editors publish a retrac-
ton or the local unions would refuse
to support the paper.
While in California, Weinstock
visited Tom Mooney in San Quen-
tin prison, who gave his unqualified
support to the rank and file program
and endorsed the Workers Bill, H.R.
1898.
Seventeen locals of the A. F. of
L. called the mass meeting in Kan
sas City. AS the meeting was in
progress, Nelson, former secretary
of the Central Trades Council, in
terrupted the speaker, attempted to
break up the meeting, and provoked
a fight. After it was finally neces-
sary to eject him, he returned in a
few minutes with police and detec-
tives, who, without provocation,
started to brutally assault the work
ers. Weinstock and Carter, an off,
cial representative Of the A. F. of
L. painters local, were arrested. The
workers followed them to the court,
where Weinstock was charged with
"sladering William Green" The
presence of the workers in the court
forced the immediate release of the
two workers, and the meeting was
resumed at Musicians Hall.
Prepare for saith A. F. of L.
Convention
One Of the purposes Of the tour
was to organize a strong rank and
file group for the 54th convention
of the A. F. of L., which will be held
in San Francisco the first week in
October. simultaneously, the third
annual rank and file convention will
be held in the same city. Delegates
will be elected to both conventions
from the cities visited, and the
workers have pledged themselves to
take the floor in the 54th A. F. of
L. convention and fight for the
rnrocrar1n of the ,.a1nk and file