The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-16

under the auspices of a join
Colorado Unemployment Councils, {
the Relief Workers Protective
Union, the Cooperative Alliance,
the Spanish Workers League and
American Federation of Labor Rank
and File Committee
One hundred delegates, represent
ing an almost equal number of or
carnations with a membership
totaling tens of thousands, gave the
convention character truly repre-
sentative Of the Colorado working
class.
The report of the credentials
committee showed the presence at
the convention of delegates from
the Denver Building Trades Coun-
ell, representing 81 building trades
unions of the American Federation
Of Labor. Other groups represented
were the Mothers and Daughters
Club. the Old Age Pension Leagues
Of Ell Paso County and Denver, the
United Farmers League, and Amer
lean Federation of Labor locals of
the cement f1nishers, bod carriers,
plasterers and carpenters and mill
mems unions.
Reports of victories in struggles
Of unemployed and relief workers
were heard and an analysis of past
work as the basis for future activ-
tiles was made.
Resolve on Unity
The draft resolution on organi-
rational unity summed up these re-
ports and their analysis by declar-
ing:
I'VE realize that the condi-
lions of the jobless and relief work
ers are daily growing worse. first
because we have failed to popularize
the gains made in the past by
struggle and organization; second,
because we have failed to consoli-
date and strengthen our organiza-
ton after having made gains
through struggle. and third, we
have failed to increase the power
Of our organizations through uni
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To remedy these defects the
resolution proposed the election of
a State and City Unemployed Unity
Committee, the organization of
neighborhood committees for city
and countrywide marches, demon
STATIONS. strikes and special I'M
employed committees to be organ
lied in all American Federation of
Labor youth. fraternal and other
organizations.
Hunger Marches
Plans were also proposed in the
resolution for simultaneous local
united front hunger marches and
unemployed conferences on We'd
nesday, September 10, and for a
Statewide united front conference
and hunger march to the capitol
grounds in Denver on Monday, Oc-
tober 10. Delegates will also be
sent to the National Social Insur-
ance Congress in Washington on
the opening of the 74th United
States Congress.
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The State unity committee is al
ready functioning Each of the or
CARNATIONS represented elected one
delegate to the committee right at
the convention, save for several who
wanted the matter discussed in
greater detail by their own member
ships.
The program of organization was
adopted with a view to fighting for
the following demands:
The passage of the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill (HR.
1899.
A thirty-hour week for all relief
workers at prevailing trade union
wages. The election of all foremen
by the workers. Full pay for loss
CT time, cash relief, and an end to
all evictions, gas, light, water and
heat shut-offs.
The demands stress the elimina-
ton of all red tape and the ending
Of persecution and discrimination
against Negro, Spanish and foreign
born workers.
The most important and most
general of the demands is expressed
in a cry which has become in
creasingly real to the jobless every
where as living costs continue to
sky-rocket: "All war funds for the
unemployed"
Back Rank and File
The unity of jobless and EMPLOYED
was further expressed at the con-
vention by the adoption of a reso-
luton for rank and file policies and
control in the American Federation
Of Labor, presented by the A. F.
Of L. Rank and File Committee on
Unemployment Insurance.
Excerpts from the reports of del
egates give sketchy hints of the
struggles from which victories have
, been forged, the difficulties encoun-
tered and the spirit of the workers.
A. Benavedis, of the Spanish
Workers League told how:
1.-TWO months ago the administra-
ton in Ration, New Mexico, cut the
relief orders We called big dem
onstration. A committee went to
the administration with demands
for more relief; if they didn't get
them, they said, the relief workers
would strike. In six hours they got
their demands"
Pension Group Pledges Aid