The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-05
Sound United Front
Call for Fight for
JObleSS Insurance
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JODI6SS insurance
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OF the militant delegates from the
80 states represented.
This morning the delegates divided
into separate conferences on trade
unions, on women, on youth. C.WA.
workers and on the farmers. The
trade union conference, attended by
more than two hundred delegates,
-howed that advances are being made
in the unions for broadening and
unifying the fight for the unem-
ployed.
Fight for Relief
BENJAMIN exclaimed why and how
we can win the enactment Of the
Workers Insurance Bill. Eve must
organize the day to day struggles
for relief" he said. land. connect
these struggles with the special
campaign for the workers bill. We
must speak with one voice for one
bill"
Benjamin analysed the provisions
of the workers bill, which Congress
man Lundeen, under mass pressure,
has introduced in Congress, as the
only bill really benef1tting the I'M
employed masses. Wagner's bill, he
said, bars the 10000 900 totally I'M
employed from any benefits, In his
sub report, Phillip Frankfeld, leader
of the Pittsburgh unemployed work.
ers' movement, TIE strongest in the
country, told Of the AZ local unem-
ployed councils organized in the
city Of Pittsburgh.
| Socialist Leagues Fail
Pittsburgh, unemployment COM
rnittees in 81 towns Of Allegheny
County with 10000 members, the
relief won for $4,000 families in
this coal and steel center. Fifty
| per cent Of the unemployed coun-
ell members Of the area are Me-
groes, Frankfeld reported.
. The Socialist-ied unemployed
! leagues have fallen to pieces with
the exception OF three because
these socialist leaders Sabotaged the
demand Of the rank and file for
unity. One league has a delegate
here, Frankfeld said.
To See U. S. officials
Tomorrow the convention viii or
/ ganize the delegations and in the
/ afternoon these delegates will make
their demands on the officials Of
| the Roosevelt government. At
o'clock the session will reconyene to
hear the reports of the delegates
The National Council and officers
will DC elected.
Today the Constitution Commit
tee was discussing the draft consti-
tuition which has been presented
The Program and Resolutions Com
mittee is also taking up a number
Of important resolutions. A program
of action will be presented to the
convention tomorrow for adoption.
Speakers today included HAYES
Jones of the Marine Workers In
dustrial Union; William Friend, a
Negro worker Of the Richmond, Va,
Councils; John Robinson, a Negro
miner from the Pittsburgh area
Juliet Stuart Poyntz, one of the
leading women fighters at the Con-
yention, representing the Trade
Union Unity Council Of New York:
Emil Nygard, former Communist
Mayor of Crosby, MINI.
Trade Union JoblesS
The reports, delivered by Pet5
Chappa, acting Secretary Of the stee
and Metal Workers Industrial Union
Toney AIineTich Of the National Min.
ers Union, and Louis Weinstoek
Chairman of the A. p. of l.. Rank
and File Committee for Unemploy-
ment Insurance, emphasized that the
trade unions cannot afford to ignore
the effects Of unemployment on the
whole working class including tht
employed. They brought out that ths
A. F. OF L. officials policy divides the
workers, splits the employed and un-
employed, fights against relief ant
insurance and drives the unemployed
from the unions who cannot pay dues
The T. q. U. L. Unions and rank
and file opposition in the A. F. Of L.
have the correct program of uniting
all workers, but have been too weak in
carrying out this program.
The conference decided that the
tasks are now to create in each union
an apparatus to conduct the flght
against unemployment as part OF the
work Of trade unions.
For Unity OF All Workers
The Left Trade Unions and the
Oppositions must fight for relief fol
the c. w. A. workers, for real public
works, and against evictions, ard fol-
the shorter working day with full pay
as the needs of the employed as
well as the UNEMPLOYED, or else
the employers will cut wages and
drive down the standards OF livlng
Of those working by using the unem-
ployed against them
The central task is to mobilize the
masses for the Workers Insurance
Bill, a fight which the unemployed
cannot win alone, and to take the
decisive step Of winning the millions
Of A. F. of L. workers away from
their misleaders, the conference de-
cided the united front of the en-
ployed ana unemployed must be built
Thirteen workers spoke, six from
A. T. of L. locals, including a U. M.
w. A. LEGAL, an A-nalg~ mated Local,
an Airpiane Workers Local of Buf-
falo. The T. q. U. L. Unions were
represented in the speeches includ-
ing textile, fur, marine, a Negro G.
W. A. worker from Richmond a
Progressive Miners lccal, etc.