The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-02
Mayor Admits
That relief
Crisis Looms
LsGuardia Calls Farley
of Bankers as City
Slashes Relief

NEW YORK.-Unemployed
workers of New York City
will gather in a mass demon
stration for relief at 10 a, m.
today at the office of the De-
partment of Public Welfare,
50 Lafayette St, the same
spot where. a week ago, iobless
workers were attacked by police and
Is Of their number arrested.
The demonstration will protest the
slashing of relief sllotments and the
cutting of State and Federal grants,
in addition to condemning the
brutal police attack on jobless DEM
onstrators last weekend.
Declaring that a crisis exists in
New YORK City's relief system,
Mayor La Guardia yesterday called
a conference OF bankers and s.
prominent citizens for Monday &c
discuss the relief situation.
Richard Sullivan, secretary of the
New York Unemployment Councils,
declared that the Committee Of One
Hundred will demand that La Guar
dia meet with the representatives
Of the organized unemployed.
Among the bankers and other
Outstanding citizens" invited by La
Guardia to this conference are
Winthrop w. Aldrich, President Of
the Chase National Bank, Felix M.
Warburg. Walter S. Clifford, Presi-
dent Of the American Telephone
and telegraph Corporation, Lionello
Per- Sanker, Alnerindo Portfolio,
ia 2asquale Nsrgarella, Candy
Mevc n, Edward Gerli, Silk
manufacturer.
Preston Goodfellow, Publisher,
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Mrs. Ogden
Reid, Publisher, n. Y. Herald Tri-
bune, william Randolph Hearst
Publisher, Hearst Publications
william T. Dewart, Publisher The
Sun, Fremont c. Peck, Publisher
Brooklyn Times Union, James o.
Flaherty, Publisher, Bronx Home
News, William F. Hoffman,, Pub
Usher, Long Island Press, Leroy l.
Smith, Publisher, The Star, Colonel
Julius OchS Adler. Vice President
New York Times Company, Adolph
S. Ochs, Publisher The Times, Roy
Howard, Scripps Howard Organiza
ton and Arthur Brisbane of the
New York American.
Three former governors of New
York State and three former mayors
of New York City will participa tie
in LaGuardias conference They
are Governors Alfred z. Smith
Nathan L. Miller and Charles S
Whitman; and Mayors John P
O'Brien, Joseph V. Mckee and John
F Hylan.
Serious. critical. no imme-
date improvement Of economic con-
ditions. - states LaGuardia's state
nlent, but he makes no mention Of
abrogating the infamous bankers
agreennt by which the city ha;
mortgaged the lives of the unem-
ployed.
The city has been drawing or
$4,000, 900 borrowed from the banks
last fall. In its agreement with the
bankers, the city promised not IT,
allocate more than S3,000,00t
monthly for relief. More than hail
of the $40 million was paid back tt
the Bankers at once, and used fol
other city purposes.
The state has cut down its appyo.
p-iation for relief in the new Wick
Bond bill to be placed before The
voters in November. and fedora
grants for relief throughout thu
state are being cut each month
From Is million in April, fedora
grants to New York state will b
slashed each month until in August
September and October, only $40,
100000 will be allocated to the state
No provision whatsoever has beer
made for after that date.
To meet" this situation, the Wei
fare Department is about to SLASH
10000 from the relief rolls, stoy
paying rents and fire 10000 relic
workers.
1t is in answer to this grave situa
ton. and these new attacks on thu
jobless that the unemployed worker
will demonstrate at so Lafayett,