The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-03-01
Employed Workers to
Be Represented at
March 18th Conference
Emergency Conference
On CWA To Lay Plan
OF Struggle


NEW YORK. Special efforts are
being made to have Federation of
Labor unions represented at the En-
Urgency United Front Conference
which will formulate a plan of action
and struggle against CWA. firings.
The conference will be held Sunday,
March 4th, at z p. m, at Irving
Plaza, 18th st. and Irving Place.
Andrew Overgaard, chairman of
the Trade Union Unity Council, yes
berday urged all opposition groups in
A. F. Of L. unions to bring the con-
ference to the attention Of the union
membership, and take necessary
steps to elect delegates.
Employed Must Support Struggles
THE struggles of the unemployed
are indisolubly connected with the
struggles ana the welfare of the en-
ployed workers, - Overgaard said in
statement yesterday. Gas long as the
employers have a potential army of
jobless workers at their disposal, this
army of unemployed will be held by
them as a constant threat to those
working. Trade Union Unity League
unions will be well represented at
the united front emergency confer
ence; independent and A. F. of L..
unions will be represented in direct
proportion to the efforts of those
workers now in A. F.. of L. opposition
groups"
Roosevelt Continues Firing
Reports received at the Unemploy-
ment Councils indicate no let-up in
the mass firings of C.W.A. workers
throughout the country. Richard
Sullivan, secretary of the Unemploy-
rnent Councils of Greater New York,
in urging all unemployed groups to
be represented at the conference,
stressed the necessity of unity of all
workers to fight the Roosevelt aban-
Comment Of the C.W.A. TN preparing
the ground for the first C.WA lay
offs, the LaGuardia administration
slandered the C.WA workers by call
ing them 1oafers,' and instituting an
intense campaign in the press in
order to show that the unemployed
do not want to work Yesterday the
BaGuardia administration again filled
the role of apologist for the Roose-
welt government. The Department of
Sanitation announced that C.W.A.
workers would be used for snow re-
moyal jobs. These workers received
no notification, yet, the sanitation
commissioner has spread the page of
the press with the stories that these
workers did not show up for work,
and those that did were only 20 per
cent efficient
Must Stop Fav0ritism
I'VE must also strike a blow
against CWA. favoritism," Sullivan
continued. Yesterday SO per cent of
these employed by the C.W.A. at the
Port Authority Building were fired.
The favored few were given 'separa-
ton (replacement) cards On the
same day that these workers were
fired, the records Of the statistical
department of the C.W.A. show that
1898 new CW.A. jobs were given out,
and 146 transfers made"
Socialist Party leaders," Sullivan
COIlbulQCOy have lSSuSQ d CStll 10 d
C.WA. and relief conference to be
held tonight. From this conference the
Unemployment Councils, the Relief
Workers League and the independent
and TUUL. unions have been ex-
GUIDED. It will be necessary for every
delegate at this conference to raise
the question of unity from the floor,
and to ask that this conference send
delegates TO the March 4th confer
ence in order to unity all the strug-
giles of the unemployed and C.wA.
workers"
The Emergency United Front Con-
ference will also plan q wide city
campaign for the enactment Of fed
eral unemployment insurance at the
expense of the government and the
employers.
All unorganized unemployed work
ers in neighborhoods and flop houses
are urged to hold meetings and elect
delegates to the conference. Among
organized groups, the basis of rep
resentation will be three delegates
from each local or branch and three
from the city or central body.