The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-27
Stop Work Thurs, Mar.
%, at 3 PM; Go
to City Hall
MANY CITIES ACT
Dem on stratiOns To
Protest CWA Firing

z NEW YORK.-The United
{ Front Committee of 100 is
;aking steps in New York City
for the immediate organiza-
ton of strike committees on
all C. w. A. projects and in shops
for the carrying through of the one
hour protest strike for continuation
and extension of the c. w. A,
Thursday, March 20, at 3 P. M. Zone
hour before quitting time), for con-
tinuation and extension of the c.
w A. jobs.
At the same time Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Chicago, Minneapolis,
Portland, Me, and Florida unem-
ployed organizations report that
strikes, demonstrations, meetings
and delegations, have been called
against Roosevelt's G. w. A. firing.
The New York City one-hour pro-
test strike will begin at three o'clock,
and the workers will go in or
ganized groups directly from their
C.W.A. projects or union and other
halls to the City Hall, where the
demonstration will begin at $3.50 P.
". and continue while the workers
are pouring in from the c. w. A.
projects.
/ The Unioed Front Committee of
100 announced that strike commit
tees should be organized at once
on all projects, in shops and neigh
borhoods, to organize the workers
of the projects to come in a body
to city hall park The C. w. A.
workers demands will be presented
to Mayor LaGuardia. The commit
tee is writing the Mayor, notifying
him Of the demonstration and
calling on him to be present at city
hall to receive the delegation. Shops
and unions will also march direct to
S,ity hall.
Will Meet in Capital.
Y A meeting will be held in Wash
rington on April / and 2, Of delega-
}tions elected at the city demonstra-
ltions and G. w. A. projects, to work
tout demands Of the G. w. A. work
ers to be presented to Roosevelt.
The Relief Workers League of
New York has already printed 50,-
600 additional leaflets calling for
the strike on March 90, at P. M,
and urges workers to call at their
headquarters today and tomorrow,
4 at 20 East Goth St., to aid in dis
4 lribution. 1t was announced that
$1,000 was already contributed by
workers and unemployed which was
used to defray the expenses of the
Madison Square Garden meeting
and the leaflet expense.
In Portland, Me-, mass meeting
was scheduled for last night to de-
mand G. w. A. jobs In Minneapolis
a demonstration has been called for
Thursday night, March 29. In
Florida the state convention of the
Communist Party, meeting at Coral
Gables, has called on all Florida
workers and unemployed to protest
at demonstrations and protest
strikes against CIV. A. 1ay-offs.
In Atlantic City the G. W. A. work
ers were to meet last night to pre-
pare one-hour protest strike call
for March 49,
The Needle Trade Workers Indus
trial Union of New York and the
Alteration Plumbers, Steamfitters
and Helpers Union, yesterday dis
tributed call to all members to
take part in the one-hour protest
strike on March 20 at 3 P. M, and
in the city hall demonstration at
$3.50 P. M.
ALI Of the city demonstrations
and protest strikes will demand con-
tinuation and extension of C. w. A.
jobs, immediate enactment Of the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Bill Oh. R. 7598-,