The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-09
ARBITRATION ENDANGERS GAINS OF ELEVATOR STRIKERS
.JObIess Plan
Fight on Relief
Cuts in Illinois
Large Fa miles Get
800 Relic f Slash
in Cook County

CHICAGO, Ill, NOV. 8.-Calls fol-
united front emergency confer
In special letter to all relief super
visors the Illinois Emergency Relief
Commission orders the cutting OF
all Work Relief Budgets. They
state:
Approximately $4,000 persons
On work relief will receive assign
ments equal to only three-fourths
Of their total monthly budget for
the month of November"
Relief has been too low UP to
now. Thousands of children suf-
fered from under-nourishment on
the old relief budget. This new cut
will mean starvation to 10000 fam
lilies.
The Relief Commission aims to
make the Relief Budget the wage
level in Chicago. This will break
all union conditions if they put it
over.
In many districts the relief is
stopping the payment of rents, gas
and electric light bills. Evictions
are taking place all over Chicago.
Negro workers are Disseminated
against on jobs and in giving out
relief Single workers are forced
into filthy Lighthouses and forced to
work for Is cents a day. The I'M
employed are denied the right to
organize-their grievance commit
tees are barred and driven from the
relief stations.
There will be no C. w. A. jobs
this winter. Instead, work relief is
ence against the sweeping relief
slash ordered by the Illinois Relief
Administration on Nov. l have been
sent to all trade unions, unemployed
groups and to all other working class
organizations by the Cook County
Committee for United Action on
Relief and Social Insurance here
yesterday.
The conference, organized around
a five-point program Of demands,
and endorsed by six organizations
of the employed, unemployed, small
home owners and professional work.
ers' groups, will be held here Sat-
urday, Nov. II, at 1880 pm, at
Mirror Hall, 1876 North Western
Ave, and calls for united front
march and demonstration on Sat-
urday, Nov. "a.
The complete text of the confer
ence call is as follows:
To All Trade Unions:
To All Unemployed
Organizations:
To All Other Working Class
Organizations:
BROTHERS and Fellow Workers:
In the sixth year of the eco
nomic crisis and after two years of
the New Deal,' further attacks on
our living standards are being pre-
pared. Relief has just been cut 10
per cent for small families as much
as 80 per cent for larger families.
being cut. We can defeat the relief
cuts and their hunger program by
lining up the whole Chicago Labor
Movement for a program Of:
l. Public works at union wages
building of the Subway-work-
ers' homes.
2. For cash relief-against the
relief cut.
3. For immediate winter relief
shoes, new clothing, blankets for
the unemployed.
4. For the Workers Unemploy-
r1ent and Social Insurance Bill.
5. For recognition of relief COM
mfttees at the relief stations.
Support the march and demon
Stration to win these demands on
Nov. "a. We call upon all organiza-
tons to elect delegates to this emer-
gency conference in support of the
above demands. Only United Ac-
ton can defeat the relief cut
United Action on Oct. 81, 1892, de-
feated the so per cent relief cut.
Send delegates to this emergency
conference to plan similar action.
Conference will be held at Mirror
Hall, 1136 North Western Ave. at
1880 pm, Saturday, Nov. II, 1884.
Each local and Central Labor
Body is asked to send two delegates.
Financial contributions to help de-
fray expenses are invited.
Cook County Committee for
United Action on Relief and So
cial Insurance.
Room 800, 100. North Wells St.,
Chicago, III. Elmer johnson,
Acting Secretary.
Composed of the
ALL. Trade Union Committee
for Unemployment Insurance.
Chicago Workers Committee on
Unemployment, Unemployment
Council of Cook County, Inter
professional Association for I'm
employment Insurance, Small
Home and Land Owners Fed
GRAFTON of Illinois, Federation of
Fraternal Organizations for I'm
employment Insurance.
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