MILLIONS OF UNEMPLOYED TO DEMONSTRATE OCTOBER 24 FOR NATIONAL RELIEF PROGRAM
Halushka, M. V.
Millions of Unemployed to demonstrate October 24 for National Relief Program ByM.V. Holuskka (JflHIGAGO. — Millions of unemWt ployed: throughout the nation txt expected to take part in...
...Firm Servos Militia, Too "Yes," replied the sales manager in response to a question, "we supply tear gas to most of the national guard outfits in the country...
...also to and from the ,fabs be provided...
...We well know that • Wave of reaction is sweeping the •mmtry aiming to cut down even *h« miserable standards upon which *e live, and to deprive the unemployed of their citizenship by taking away their vol...
...he asked...
...24, for our demands...
...Tear Gat Costs Money Declining to give the exact figures, Ailes said: "Tear gas is ?e*y eatpeiuilVh^TheoVmamhroT it has been unusually heavy all summer because of strike troubles and threatened walkouts...
...24, a call will be issued for a congress of representatives of unemployed oiganizations to be held in Washington in January 1935 for the purpose of consolidating all existing unemployed groups into a strong national organization...
...QUINLAN CLUBBED AND HELD...
...The demands include: Demand of Jobless '¦i 1. That the government under fcWW an extensive system of publi< ^JKffks to provide work for the unflNploycd upon the basis of $30 pel |jMk for a 30-hour week, with the jttpnent of skilled or trade union flttes where such are higher...
...Whit makes the situation even mi s ominous is the formation of virt,;lante "committees of citizens" similar to the Ku Klux Klan unti-lalcr groups of former years...
...He then tipped off the police departments and sold tham teat,gss...
...Spokesmen for the Socialist Party will also be on hand, since Comrade Citrine is a member of the British Labor Party and an outspoken Socialist...
...David Lasser of New York, chairman of the Workers Unemployed Union, was elected provisional chairman and Paul Rassmussen of Illinois, provisional secretary...
...Well, many of the large steel companies laid in heavy stocks of tear gas at that time...
...Nine more mills were reported re-opening in the South, a Uvt, thousand employe* returning to the smaller plants, especially in Georgia, where martial law 'fcas been declared...
...But anybody with strike experience knows what) the real function of vigilantes It...
...4 a week for each additional P»r«m be paid...
...In fact, we supply nearly every one in the nation, including police, except the II...
...Millions of unemWt ployed: throughout the nation txt expected to take part in simultaneous demonstration* before city •ltd county . relief boards on Saturday, November 24, to demand "hnmediate action on a national profrani for the unemployed, according to the plans of the National ¦ Css^mittee of Action composed of representatives of unemployed organisations of 15 states, which closed a two day conference at Chicago on Sunday...
...These represent a total membership of ¦mm than 760,000 unemployed...
...At the time of the hunger march on Washington, one of the concern's men marched with "army" and learned from * the leaders where demonstrations would bo held...
...The Lake Erie Chemical Co...
...City police are acting as deputy sheriffs, assisting town constables, deputie< and state cossacks in attempting to smash the picke...
...If this Is war—as the presence of strikers, the use of barbed wire and the latest tear gas and the institution of internment camps seem to Indicate—strikers arc determined that thev will keen ur> their end of...
...4. That the right of all workers on public projects to organize and engafa tt collective bargaining be ' granted...
...P 7. That all war funds be turned OVer for unemployment relief...
...A. S. Ailcs, sales manager for the company, disclosed that the company, nlready working day and night shifts of 40 men each, bad added another HO men to its payroll...
...Organizer Patrick Quintan, for twenty years a union (organizer and strike leader, was dragged into the mill by the deputies, clubbed, and then held in ?IO,000 bail, "We'll give this j?uy a ride," county police oficials declared...
...Representatives of the Asaeifcan Federation of Labor will extend an official welcome to...
...and to make that day a display of the determination of the unemployed to secure jobs and stop starvation...
...That the Lundeen Unemploy¦pnt Insurance Bill be enacted, i' 8. That, pending the passage of •jteraployment insurance legislation, direct cash relief at the rate Hi f 10 a week for a single person, y.fl5 a week for a family of two, , oftd...
...Among the others viciously clubbed and suffering fractured heads are two boys, 19 years old, and one girl, 17...
...Strikers maintain thc'.c picket lines, despite intimidation, and Hying squadrons continue...
...JoVThat Federal adequate disabling compensation be paid on all iP»bIic works...
...Mu '• tial law may be declared in otl • states...
...Unemployed Won't Scab "The unemployed will not scab, but will fight with the .strikers to win their demands," the conference declared in its motion...
...Gorman's telegram to Govern ? Eugene Talmadge of Georgia fallows: "KroiW your conduct I am c :.• vinccd you do not understand the issues in the strike, or your (lutul and obligation* toward the peo, !• of i-nur State...
...You do not seem to evon be *«far»s»*t>tJW>Xfeit«d KtaU* C^ftf...
...Citrine represents 17,000,000 trade unionists...
...The organizations included the unemployed of the following states: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois, West Virginia, New York, Maryland, Indiana, Connecticut, North Carolina, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Florida, and Kansas...
...BOYS AND GIRLS BEATEN BY DEPUTIES I. A N C A S T E R, Pa.—State troopers and Lancaster police and deputy sheriffs concentrated at Manheim Township for the second time Tuesday to block picketing by textile workers of the Stchli Silk Mills...
...S. army, navy and marines, which have their own factories...
...The organizations participating fat the conference were the National Unemployed League, Illinois Workers...
...strikers attended the mass funeral of Jose Nodeck, 21-year-old striker "accidentally" killed by a high tension wire stretched where it din't belong...
...JiJHbH representatives of organpip unemployed before relief administrators be recognized...
...The Manville Jenkes Corporation, scene of the death of another striker a week ago, will attempt to re-open today...
...At Saylesville, Rhode Island, where bloody fighting took place recently, the finishing company re-opened its plant unter militia protection, but few workers took advantage of the well-guarded opportunity to return to work...
...The conference also pledged solidarity and complete support to the striking textile workers...
...MWe will not endure these things...
...V..'i jiave proven yourself an arch e> piny of Isbor using the sin forces of your State to drive nr.a back into starvation conditions n i athebsolute subservience to mill ov ers, Your troops have destroy .4 civil rights and make a mooke y of your Htste laws...
...Militia on Guard Over 800 guardsmen are on duty in Maine helping the textile bosses...
...Do you recall the threatened steel strike...
...lines and break the strike...
...A new ConIjjjsts will meet in January which I© determine in a great measure WWi of t*fe mets*iey«l.Mr the JpM!sw.joe»s,.'Ws" are* eeatasg the nation to demonstrate on Saturday, Nov...
...They v.I'd "assist the police and militia in maintaining order and resisting strikers' attempts to injure the mills or create disorder," is the way the vigilantes' leaders explained their purpose...
...Troops Mass North and South to Fight Workers (Continued from Page One) guardsmen using tear gas to disperse strikers and arresting six of 200 pickets at the Lockwood Manufacturing Co...
...of this city claims that near "war time" activities were resumed at the plant, one of the largest private tear gas manufacturing companies in the nation, as a result of the textile strike...
...Following the demonstrations on Nov...
...One striker, Ered Rickard, was sentenced to six months in jail for being around when the militia stalled ganging un on the strikers...
...He revealed also that his company had supplied practically all the tear gas used against striking automobile parts workers in Toledo and in the San Francisco longshoremen's strike...
...stilution exists or that the* mL - (CeatlasMd en Page s-l) - Tear Gas Plants on War lime Basis By Hy Fish CLEVELAND.—The general textile strike has its good points— even for some of the industrialists...
...It was recalled also that th( company furnished supplies tc police departments that sought t< turn back the army of hungei marchers that descended on Washington two years ago...
...Floys Governor "I ask you to remember that workers also have rights...
...Instead we demand that we be provided with Jobs at living wages, unemployment insurance, or cash *jUef upon which we can live in ••ency and respect...
...At the time of the local and state demonstrations, a committee representing the nation's unemployed will present demands to the administration in Washington...
...As president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, Mr...
...Because of the international character of many labor problems, his address will carry a special interest for the forthcomDsjf' convention of the -American rilflSlillsil ilir'lilsnri pution of trouble in the textile strike zones...
...Can't Ixist oh Promises In a statement issued by the National Action Committee at its conference, its spokesman said: C "The unemployed can not and MIT not continue to exist on promMl and to be fed on starvation ¦Met We have waited patiently PUKlgh Ave bitter years of unemployment and one and a half years W the new deal, for jobs or a dejWBt standard of relief...
...Eft...
...They were held in $1,000 bail each...
...In August "everything is quiet'' as the Edwards Manufacturing ""Co...
...Just Military Prisoners, That's All "We arc holding these strikers simply as military prisoners under military law until the strike emergency is over," National Guard General Camp told reporters, "No formal charges have been preferi I against them, hut they may be be'J on complaints ranging from i • surrertion to resisting mlliti y authorities...
...But everywhere the strikers are advancing or holding their lines intact...
...Both have men denied us...
...Alliance, Eastern Federation of fmnployed and Emergency Worktrl, American Workers Union, WisCSStin Federation of Workers Comarittees, Florida Federation of Unemployed Leagues, and Fort Wayne (fist) Unemployed league...
...Textile Strikers Firm...
...Citrine when he arrives at New York on September 25, on his way to San Francisco...
...With the death in Charlotte, N. C, of Ernest K. Riloy, striker bayonettcd by milic i at Belmont, the Southern situate ti has become extremely tense...
...At a number of towns, like Spartanburg, S. C, and other centers, tear gas and fire hose supplsmentcd the clubs of deputies In "maintaining order...
...shut down mills and keep them si Interned for "Duration" The total of men and won:aa strikers "interned" in concent .ilion camps has increased to 140, i: is reported, and the nation-wide tide of resentment against the-* fascist tactics contines to mount guard officers declare they will keep their prisoners interned it "the duration of the war...
...Another factor that swells tie wave of workers' animosity again/it the mill bosses and stiffens th°(r resistance is the fact that evictk i have already started in mill villages, workers and their families being thrown on the street...
...Twentytwo pickets were arrested after being brutally beaten...
...urvvfc M - Thaw la no oepresahst in the ?eargas industry...
...Ailes disclosed that he had sent two salesmen into New England and others in the South in anticiSociali8t8 to Hail World Labor Head Tuesday in N. Y. WALTER M. CITRINE, secretary of the British Trade Union Congress, and president of the International Federation of Trade Unions, is coming to America at the invitation of William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, to address the convention qf the American A. F. of L., which opens in Sun Francisco October If 1934...
Vol. 17 • September 1934 • No. 96
