The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-11-19
ALL NIGHT
SIEGE WINS
4 HEARING
BY a Worker Correspondent

MORGANIOWN, W. va. - AtUer
many months of struggle led by the
Monongaha County Unemployment
Council, the county relief admins
tration has been forced to call q
special meeting of the relief board
TO listen to the demands of the
workers.
For several months the various
locals have been electing committees
to present the grievances Of the
workers to the relief officials with
few victories won. The committees
were usually attacked because
known Communists were on them.
However, the Usage local decided
that they were going to present
their grievances and stay at the re-
lief office until their demands were
granted. Consequently a committee
of 80 men, women and children
came to the Office on Monday, Nov.
5 at 10 a. m. They informed the
watch dog" at the door that they
wished to see Miss Davis, the relief
administrator.
Miss Davis came out and told
them that she would not see any
Communist committee. The COM
mittee stayed through the night at
the relief Office until 2 p. m. of
the following day, and then decided
to go back home and mobilize more
workers to come back.
A mass meeting was held in Usage
on Monday, Nov. Is, and the next
day a committee again came to the
relief Office. Miss Davis very "gra-
ciously" asked the committee into
her Office. She listened to the de-
mands of the committee, agreed
that theE were Reasonable, dis
cussed the problems of the unem-
ployed for about three hours, and
recommended that the committee
put the demands in writing and
elect a smaller committee to present
them to the relief board at a special
meeting, that would be called for
that purpose.
This the committee agreed to do.
The demands are as follows:
THAT the relief administration
recognize the committees elected at
the various locals as representing
the unemployed and part-tirne en-
ployed workers of that territory.
2-That the relief committee i'm
mediately raise the relief standard
to conform to the following Sched-
ule:
Per Week
For single men and women. 500
For man and wife ........ 500
For man, wife and child 80. 750
For a couple and 2 children -. 800
For a couple and children. 1850
One dollar per week for each adj
ditional child.
3-That the relief administration
pay all gas, light and water bills
of the workers, unemployed and
part time.
4That the unemployed and part
time workers be given the medical
and dental attention required, and
that they be allowed to choose their
own doctor and dentist, with service
to be paid for by the relief ad-
ministration.
toppage of discrimination
against Negro and foreign-born
workers. An end to the division of
the school children into one Negro
and one white line at the school
soup kitchens.
6-That a committee elected by
the unemployment council be per-
mitted to meet with the relief board
at all regular and special meetings.
THAT the relief board endorse
the Workers Unemployment and So
ciaI Insurance Bill H. r. 1898.
The Unemployment Council is de-
termined to continue to organize
and mobilize the workers Of the
county to force the relief admins
tration to grant every one OF the
necessary demands of the starving,
destitute workers, and to send a
large delegation to Washington In
January to help forge a united front
program OF struggle on a nation
wide basis that will force the bosses
and the government to enact the
Workers Unemployment and Social
Insurance Pill TT D TSoQ