The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-09

attack upon the whole new program
announced by Roosevelt last Friday
In his message to Congress.
Social Workers Report
A delegate to the National Con-
gress for Unemployment Insurance
from the Association of Public Re-
lief Investigators of Minneapolis
next took the floor and announced
the unanimous support which ner
organization had given the Workers
Bill H. R. 1927.
A fifteen point program, embodied
in a resolution submitted by sub
session of the Congress on workers
within the relief agencies, was next
presented to Williams by delegate
from the Association Of County Re-
lief Employees of Philadelphia. The
demands included adequate wage
schedules for all on the relief Jobs,
abolition of the paupers' oaths as q
qualification for relief. adequate
cash relief to meet all the needs of
the unemployed pending the set
ting up of genuine system of I'M
employment and social insurance.
Full right of organization and full
recognition were also demanded in
the fifteen-p point program and an
end to all discrimination and police
violence.
A Negro social worker from New
York, member of the Unemploy-
ment Councils of Detroit. who spoke
In the name Of the iobless single
men at Fisher Lodge - delegates
from Florida. the State of Wash
ington and Wisconsin. an agricul-
tural worker from Iowa-took the
floor and demanded relief COM
mensurate with standard of health
and decency.
-Four dollars and eighty cents
for family of five is the top wage
paid on work relief the Iowa farm
worker said of his locality. Will
liams, who is in charge of the
Works Division of the F'ERA, bright
ened. He said, But the wage is
still forty cents an hour"
Yes" the delegate answered,
forty cents an hour for a twelve
hour week-s4.80 week for a fam
lily Of five"
Drive on Councils by FERA
The delegate from Florida charged
in the very chambers of the FERA.
which pretends to permit organiza-
ton of the unemployed, that the
State FERA of Florida. in order to
smash the powerful Unemployment
Councils, had paid organizers and
disrupters out of federal relief
money to organize spurious state
Unemployment Council" and lead
the unemployed into defeat. FERA
Administrator Williams sat stolidly,
sweated, and did not dare deny the
charge. Later he asked the woman
what relief was paid her-she pro-
duced her last relief check of SITS,
and slowly read it of.
Ben Lapidus, Buffalo organizer
for the United Action Committee on
Work, Relief and Unemployment.
set forth the demands Of the Lake
seamen for a relief project admin
1stered by the seamen themselves.
He demanded the resembling of the
recent 10 per cent relief cut insti-
tuted In Buffalo and a general 20
per cent relief increase for Buffalo
as was won by two Council locals
In Buffalo, when the members
packed the local relief station and
refused to leave until their demands
we're granted.
Amter Reports to Congress
In his report, Amter read mes
sage from Representative Huddleston
OF Alabama, who declared that ne
had read the Workers Unemploy-
ment, Old Age and Social Insurance
Act, H. r. 2827, and said ut is fit
only for the trash basket"
This is the answer of RepreSen-
tative Huddleston,' Amter declared
He comes from a State where the
Negro people are more discrimi-
mated against than in any State of
the union. from the State where
the nine Scottsboro boys face death
And our answer will be that we will
mobilize for this bill in the millions
as we are mobilizing for the defense
of those nine innocent boys"
That semi-fascist, Huey Long,
Senator from Louisiana, however
Amter announced, had just en-
dorsed the entire three-point pro-
gram of the rank and file veterans
convention. This three point pro-
gram Amter said, includes the
Workers Bill, the immediate pay
ment of the cash bonus, and the
repeal of the Roosevelt Nation al