The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-21
Relief Slash
Withdrawal Is
Main Demand
Delegates Vote To Rally
Members For Saturday
Demonstration


front conference at Mirror Hall
last F9turday, and unanimously
voted 70 organize a gigantic dem
onstr . and parade on Saturday,
Nov. to force the Illinois Emer-
gency Relief Commission to imme-
diately withdraw the sweeping re-
lief Flt put into effect on No
vember l.
In addition to the demand for the
withdrawal of the 10 to IS per cent
relief slash, the conference voted
an eleven-point program of de-
mands, which include the follow
ing:
Enactment of the Workers I'm
employment Insurance Bill, weekly
cash relief of So for single persons,
$l3 for family of two and SO for
each dependent, recognition of all
committees at the relief stations,
for an extensive system of public
works to include building of sub
ways, workers homes, schools and
Fairgrounds with union wages and
conditions; for the unqualified right
OF organization, against eviction
and foreclosures, against discrinli-
nation Of the Negro people, youth
and foreign-born; all war funds to
be used for unemployment relief.
One of the largest single delega-
tons was from the unions of the
A. F. of L. with thirty delegates
representing membership of 1920
workers in seventeen union locals.
Other organizations represented
at the conference were forty EIGHT
branches of the Unemployment
Councils, twenty-nine locals of the
Chicago Workers Committee on
Unemployment, twenty locals of the
u:yions of the Trade Union Unity
League and independent unions.
The Pilgrim Baptist Church NE
gro) with 5000 members, was also
represented, as was the Scandina-
Wan Workers Unity League with a
membership Of 1000. The Commu-
mist Party and Young Communist
League were officially represented,
as were two locals of the Socialist
Party and a circle of the Young
Peoples Socialist League.
The conference elected Frank
Mccullough of the Chicago Work
ers Committee on Unemployment
as chairman, with A. Guss of the
Unemployment Councils and Edw.
Doty of the American Consolidated
Trades Council as the vice-chair-
men. The secretaries of the confer
ence were Elmer Johnson of the
Chicago A F. of L. Rank and File
Committee for Unemployment In
surance and Relief, and Simon Tro-
jer of the Chicago Workers Com
mittee on Unemployment. Reports
were given by Karl Dockner for the
Unemployment Councils and Paul
Herman for the Chicago Workers
Committee on Unemployment.
Bill Gebert, district organizer of
the Communist Party, received a
tremendous ovation from the dele
gates when he made pledge for
full mobilization of the Party be-
hind the march and demands and
pointed out that the militant fight
ing united front, fighting today for
immediate demands, will lead to-
ward the struggle against capital
ism, for the overthrow of capital
ism, for a workers government.
A. GuSs read a telegram received
from Herbert Benjamin o. the Ar
rangements Committee for the Ma
tional Congress for Social and I'm
employment Insurance in Wash
ington, on January 5, and 7, which
urged the election of delegates in
all organizations stating that the
reason no proposal was made at this
conference to endorse the Washing
ton Congress is because a number
of organizations, especially the Chi
cago Workers Committee on Unem-
ployment, are not ready at this time
to endorse the Washington Con-
gress.
A delegation of fifty has been
elected to go to the City Council
meeting tomorrow at pm. at the
City Hall, demanding permit for
the march. The conference likewise
appeals to the workers of Chicago
to come en- mass to the City Hall
on Wednesday at 2 pm.
Although the Jewish Trade Union
Federation endorsed the conference
and donated SIS for the prepara-
lions for the march, they sent no
delegates to the conference.
Likewise, the Cook County Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Socialist
Party, which endorsed the march
and conference, sent no official
delegates to the conference and only
two locals of the Socialist Party and
one circle of the Young Peoples
Socialist League officially sent dele
gates and participated in the de-
liberationS of tn, conference. The
chairman of the Cook County Ex-
ecutive Committee of the Social
ist Party, Mcdowell, spoke at the
conference, not in the name of the
Socialist Party, but as member of
the Chicago Workers Committee on
Unemployment.
In the closing remarks, Karl
Lockner, Communist candidate for
mayor in the Spring, 1885, cleo
lions, and outstanding leader of the
unemployed in Chicago, made
stirring appeal to the delegates,
urging mobilization for the demon
stration next Saturday, and de-
clared that the demonstration and
parade will take place, permit or no
permit. This was enthusiastically
greeted by the delegates
The march will begin on Satur-
day, November "a, 10 am sharp,
from the following points: North
west Side from Union Park, Ogden