Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-01
State Meet
Be Held
In Salem
Broad Sponsors Body
Issues Call
ENDORSES H.R. 2S27


PORTLAND, Jan. Stealing
upon all groups in the state of
Oregon interested in the enact
ment of genuine unemployment
and social insurance legislation
to participate in the move, call
has been issued for a statewide
unemployment and social insur-
anee congress to be held in Salem
February IL.
sThe organization committee is
suing the call include Nolan A.
Mackrill, chairman; X e mn eth
Fitzgerald, secretary; Gail Bell
and Major Lawrence Miner.
Announce Sponsoring Group
The sponsoring committee IN
cludes Rev. Ross w. Anderson,
president of the American Civil
Liberties Union; Ben Anderson,
delegate to the Portland Central
Labor Council from the Operat-
ing Engineers local; A. N. Carl
son, member OF the executive
board of the National Economic
Welfare Federation, a state I'M
employed organization; Rev. Ma
than b. Alderman, chairman of
the Portland section of the Am
erican League Against War and
Fascism; +. A. Hicks, delegate
to the Portland Central Labor
Council from the Electrical
Workers Union; DR.. Virgil Nc
Mickle, Council for Economic and
Social Research; Harry Correll,
state organizer of the United
Farmers League; Harry l.. Gross,
legal advisor for the Civic Elmer
gency Federation; w. f. Engle-
friede, delegate to the Portland
Central Labor Council from the
Typographical Union; Louis Oh
son, Portland section organizer
Of the Communist Party; Harry
Dram of the AFL Operating En-
gineers' local; Ernest KOski, man
ager of the Youngs Bay Cooper
alive Diary, Astoria A. Nelson,
president of the Oregon Voters
Association; the Central Fedora
ton Against Unemployment, of
Portland; Sam Telford, secretary
OF the Marine Workers Industri-
al Union; John NJ. Brost, dele
gate to the Portland Central La
Dor Council FROM the Information
al LongshOremens Association;
and Mrs. G. A. Ramsay, advisor
Utopian Society of America, of
Portland.
Endorsing the Lundeen Unem-
plOyment and Social Insurance
Bill, HR. 1897, now pending be-
fore the U. S. Congress, the call
urges the adoption of a like
measure by the Oregon State
legislature. Each organizatio de-
sirous of participating in the
state congress is entitled to from
one to three delegates at the Sa-
lem conference.
Meeting Hall Undecided
In order to defray expenses of
the congress, states the Organiza-
ton Committee, a charge of so
cents will be assessed for each
delegate to the congress. At the
present time no definite meeting
place has been arranged for the
congress in Salem.
Further information. however.
it is announced, will be forthcom-
Ing soon from the committee In
charge of the arrangements.
Temporary headquarters for
the Provisional Committee have
been set up in room 23S, Worces
ter Bldg, Portland.
Organizations in Portland, AS
toria and the Coos Bay district
in southern Oregon have already
elected delegates to the congress,
and are endeavoring to secure
the cooperation of other organ
izations, the committee reports.
A mass meeting at the Italian
Federation hall in Portland was
held on Wednesday evening, jan
uary %. in support of the pend
Ing Congress. At this meeting
Dirk De Jonge, Oregon delegate
to the national Unemployment
and Social Insurance congress,
gave report on what transpired
at the national conclave.