The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-22
JObleSS Convention
To Fight Roosevelt
Firing Of CWA Men

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Continued front PGge u
meeting Wednesday evening elected
Samuel Naimo, secretary of the local,
as delegate.
Tuesday evening, the Finishers,
I Ironers and Packers Local No. S
also voted to send delegate. y
CHICAGO, III, Jan. Il. - Twenty
three thousand Chicago C.W.A.
workers are now to be dropped from
C.W.A. work and no more unem-
ployed are to be hired by the C.W.A.
as a result of RooSevelts announce
ment that the C.W.A. program is
being ended. In answer TO this at
tack the workers of Chicago will
demonstrate on Feb. S for in1ne-
date Jobs or cash relief and for the
passage Of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill.
Chicago Send off Meeting
On Tuesday, Jan. 10th at 7.s0 p. m,
the workers of Chicago will hold a
mass Send-off meeting for their del
egateS to Washington, at the Peoples
Auditorium. Delegates from Seattle,
Wash, and Portland, Ore, on their
way to Washington will address the
meeting.
With hundreds Of thousands Of
| unemployed workers in Chicago reg
istered for C.W.A. Jobs, and while
thousands of others waiting to reg
lister, all without jobs, the National
Convention Against Unemployment
to be held in Washington on Feb. 8,
| 4, and 5 becomes the rallying center
for the fight against Eoosevclt's
newest attack upon the jobless. Now
| those thousands on C.W.A. Jobs are
to be added by Rooseevlt'S orders to
the ranks of the unemployed with
out jobs or relief,
To Hold Mass Demonstration
On Feb. 5th, at the time when
their delegates at the National Con-
vention present to the government
officials in Washington the demands
OF the workers, Chicago workers will
hold mass demonstration for Jobs
or relief and for the passage Of the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
! Bill. The workers will assemble at
Union Park at 10 a. IN, march
through the loop to Grant Park, and
Will elect committees to go to the
C.W.A. headquarters to demand Jobs,
and TO the city hall to demand the
adoption of the Workers Unemploy-
ment Insurance Bill.
S. P. Leaders Sabotage Convention
All working -class organizations. A.
F. Of l.. locals, C.W.A. unions and
workers unemployed and fraternal
organizations are asked to elect del
egates to the National Convention
and to come out in a body to the
city-wide demonstration. The Cook
County Convention Committee asks
all locals of the Chicago Workers
Committee on Unemployment to dis
regard the threats of Carl Borders
and other Socialist leaders that any
local sending delegates to the con-
venton will be expelled from the or
ganizatlon, and to answer this threat
w ClCStLAlS ueieBaCeSs
Youngstown Workers to Hold
Mass Meets
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Jan. al
Workers in this steel center will an
SWer the Roosevelt announcement
that all G. w. A. workers are to be
fired by a. city-wide demonstration to
be held Tuesday. Jan. %, at $3.50
pm, at Watt and Federal SITS.
At a mass meeting held Saturday
night G. w. A. workers under the
leadership of the Relief Workers
Union voted unanimously to support
the demonstration, and to demand
the continuance of the c. w. A., the
immediate hiring of all workers
registered for G. w. A. Jobs, and
against the stagger system announced
by Harry Hopkins, federal relief adj
ministrator.
At the G. W. A. meeting, workers
from every project took the floor and
denounced the abandonment of the
c. w. A. program. 1t was decided to
circulate petitions with their demands
among the workers and to send these
petitions to Washington with their
delegates to the National Convention
Against Unemployment in Washing
ton, D. O., Feb. 3.
A send-off meeting for the Youngs-
town delegates to the National I'm
employment Convention will be held
In Youngstown Thursday night, Feb.
/. All organizations and individuals
wanting to help in the preparations
OF this meeting should get in touch
with the headquarters Of the Relief
Workers Union and the Steel and
Metal Workers Jrdustrial Union at
266 E. Federal St., Youngstown,
Room 3.