D \ILY WORKER, SATURDAY, 27, NEW YORK. JANUARY 1934 Page Three Chicago Workers to 17,000 Arizona CWA Crisis Hits Kid Hardest -tuaop* Police Shoot ißank and File Miners WorkersGetPayCut Meet Police Down Boy in FI av Lewis Machine Despite Reduce State CWA Pav Coal Strike 38 Per Cent al l MW A Convention Anthracite Picketing Ban on Feb. 5 Meeting PHOENIX. Ariz., Jan. 26. More ! than 17,000 C. W. A. workers in Ari- i Continues; Troopers zona have been given a pay slash by Resolutions elected as a member of the District the ! Indicate to Meet at recent Roosevelt announcement Launch Terror Board to avoid any discrimination on Jobless abandoning the C. W. A. program | W ide Opposition to the account of race, color or creed.” the ruling all Grant Park Relief Head Admits Since states that work- (Special Wire the Dailv There are a large number of Despite ers in cities of than 2.5C0 to Worker) Strikebreaking living less WILKES Pa., Clique resolutions demanding the immediate Effectiveness C.P. population will go on a 15-hcur week, BARRE, Jan. 26. Police Refusal of Police of Wilkes Barre and fa- release of the Scottsboro Boy*; practically all C. W. A. workers in shot (Continued Page 1) In Struggles I tally wounded Peter Dobranski, age from a resolution demanding a one day Relief Arizona will get a 50 per cent pay ; CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 36—Police 16, on the picket line at the South strike on May First for the free- cut; very few cities in the state have ! the fact that the membership twice Commissioner Allman yesterday in- Wilkes Barre Colliery early this mor- dom of Tom Mooney; a resolution (By Correspondent) over 2,500 population. in referendum rejected wage contract termed the Cook County Committee a Worker ning. Six other pickets were arrested demanding the release of all work- * the Unemployed Council that he SEATTLE, Wash., Jan. 2.6—Show- According to statements by Miss which provides wage-cuts, That John j of German and charged with rioting and viola- L. Lewis overruled their referendum j ing class victims fascism tad denied the permit for the Feb. ing the effectiveness of Communist Werner, of the state C. W. A. board, tion the court pledging support and solidarity of injunction against vote and forced them to the ] and >th demonstration. permit policy for militancy and organization C. W. A. payrolls in the state have accept struggles The was picketing. As a result of the mass wage reduction. Therefore, local to the of the German work- tar the demonstrators to march from among the working class, Charles F. been reduced 38 per cent. the class; resolutions picketing the of “. ing against depor- ticup the Collieries demands . no referendum Washington » * * vote i Onion Park through the Loop to Ernst, state C. W. A. of all tation of foreign-bom miners. There administrator, recently Companies was more complete. shall be suspended or overruled by | Grant Park, where the demonstrat- admitted at PRESCOTT, Ariz.—Approximately The are resolutions demanding the build- a state C. W. A. | pickets fought back against any international or district officers ing workers will elect their delegates conference, that 1,400 C. W. A. workers, nearly all j attack of ing of a Women's Auxiliary to or- to present King County (Seattle) got re- the the police with rocks or its members.” the workers’ demands to more these working on projects, have been and stones. ganize the wives and daughters of the C.W.A. lief and consideration than other The police claim the boy HU High Salaries of Officials officials, and demand that handed a 50 per cent wage cut by was by them, usual the miners. There was a number the city endorse the Un- counties because it was “Infested not shot the alibi A large of resolutions Workers’ the latest Roosevelt attack on the where such cold blooded murder by batch is. of resolutions adopted demanding employment Insurance Bill. with radicals and Communists to against the high salaries of the of- the establishment of section* whom make workers. police takes place. youth When in October, 1932, Chicago we must concessions.” ficialdom of the U.M.W.A. Local 1533 in the U. M. W. A. to direct the in- Mass pressure better Driven From workers marched down Michigan for conditions Street of Coaldale, Pa., in its resolution, de- terests of the young miners. The has been used repeatedly Boulevard and through the Loop, an under the Terror throughout the anthracite is clares: resolution on youth, however, was leadership of the attempt was made to stop the dem- Communist Party the method now being adopted in an “WHEREAS, fifty cents from j not printed in the pamphlet or and the Citizens Jobs! II ii Unemployed League for CWA • —a mstrators by refusing them a permit. Act ■ ■ lll——————l■■■———— mmmmmmmmmmmm i "■ effort to break the strike of the fight- every dollar gors to the Interna- ; resolutions to the Conven- protests in Seattle, in the struggle for ade- submitted Mass and the determination ing miners and their wives in District tiona! office of the U.M.W.A., tion. There however, resolutions of the quate relief or jobs for unem- That the crisis hits the young- kind of relief are are, workers to take the streets the I roll, being driven No. 1. In the Mayflower and Stanton “WHEREAS, tile rank and file demanding that in the mines youth the ployed. —Urges j as these have hunger ■ forced police to permit the work- National sters hardest is shown by these j been, to and section, the City Police and State are to employed 21 years ers to march poverty. It is to feed kids be after unmolested. children searching among the gar- j like this Troopers are driving the miners from of age without any demands to pro- decently, that the jobless will the streets. To Demand Jobless Insurance particularly trade unions to send bage for food. A recent official re- ; vide for the support of the young Jobless Council gather at the National Unemployed It Whether the Chicago authorities resolutions of protest and delegations port showed that almost half the is in this section that the South miners till they reach that age. j Convention, Feb. sth, in Washing- Barre colliery grant a permit or not, the unem- to Mayor Kelly and Commissioner children of America arc on some I ton. Wilkes is located and (Continued prom Page 1) where the pickets have shown There are a number of other reso- ployed will gather at Union Park on Allman, demanding the right to pro- the lutions such as demanding accounts Feb. sth at 10 a.m., to stop test on Feb. sth. About 50 such greatest militancy. The South Wilkes the mass said. “Every discharged C.WA. of expenses, etc. The fact that the lay-offs on C.W.A. jobs and demand resolutions have already been adopt- Barre colliery is one of the key mines worker should be reinstated at once. of International officialdom has spent immediate relief for all laid off, while ed, including protests by churches. the Glen Alden Coal Company period Every discharged worker should get Guild Formed Hotel particularly in the of the last two year* continuing the struggle for jobs and Resolutions ready for adoption may by Bosses which has been hard hit $1,977,753.51 at immediate relief for the time not raises the demand that Workers Unemployment Insurance. be had the office of the Cook in the strike. a strict account be given of the ex- Mass meetings County Unemployed worked. All workers whose C.W.A. are being held Council, at 3069 Dimmick. the General Manager, penditures tremendous amount throughout the city Armitage Ave. time has been cut must receive full, Is Dues Racket and of this to mobilize the regular wages.” Scab Nest admits that the strike has virtually of money. workers for the Feb. sth demonstra- All preparations are ready for stopped production all of their sending is program the Un- at tions and to lorce the police to grant the Chicago workers’ dele- “This the of collieries which employ more than Wide Opposition Indicated permit gates to employed Councils,” said Benjamin. the for the demonstration. the National Convention Geneva Branch Finally Revolts and Block* Attempt 15,000 men, and he whines that the It is characteristic that these Against “In order to achieve this it is neces- r The Unemployed Councils call Unemployment to be held in Coal Company has orders for 40.000 .r resolutions come from all parts of Washington sary I \ upon all working class organizations, on Feb. 3, 4 and 5. Re- for the C.W.A. workers to set At New Assessment J the coal fields of the U. 8, indicating up of tons per day and this might be lost ports from other parts of Illinois immediately Committees Ac- the and dis- indicate on C.W.A. unless the miners return to work. widespread opposition large numbers of delegates tion all jobs to organize (By a Food Worker Correspondent) | the realize now the protests. Guild that by sup- This is why they now use police satisfaction and growing realization are being elected. Those fired and those NEW porting the Guild were on as to Fight Against Hitler’s on YORK—The Hotel Associa- they sharpen- terror in a mad effort to drive the the part of the miners the • the jobs should get together and • » tion, using the crooked officials of ing the weapon with which to cut miners back into the collieries at the real role of the arch strike-breaker carry through mass demonstrations own To Hold Mass Meet the C.W.A.
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