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The Daily Worker
Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
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In Albany, NY, on March 8, the Workers Conference on Labor Legislation protested via telegram against denied hearings and police preventing entry to the capitol. They demanded nine bills for unemployment insurance, relief ($10/week for couples + dependents), minimum wage, maximum hours, and protections against evictions, foreclosures, injunctions, child labor, plus maternity benefits, public works, and deposit safeguards. Delegates vow to rally support.
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Conference Demands Action on 9 Bills
ALBANY, N. Y., March 8. -- The Workers Conference on Labor Legislation, which has just concluded its three-day session here, at its final session yesterday sent a telegram to Governor Lehman, Lieutenant-Governor Bray and Speaker McGuiness of the state legislature, vigorously protesting against the refusal to give the delegates a hearing on their demands, as had been promised. The telegram also protested against the mobilization of armed police who refused to let the worker delegates enter the capitol building.
The statement to the legislature, drawn up just before the march on the capitol, demanded the enactment of bills adopted by the conference for state unemployment insurance and immediate relief, a minimum wage and maximum hours bill, bills against evictions and foreclosures, against injunctions and child labor, for maternity benefits to working women, for a public works construction program, and a bill to protect deposits of workers and small depositors.
The bill for immediate relief demands $10 a week for each unemployed couple, with $3 weekly for each dependent, $1 a day for single workers, and cash payment on relief jobs at prevailing trade union rates.
The statement to the legislature pledges the delegates to return to their organizations and to mobilize broad mass support that will compel the legislature to enact the bills.
No Funds for Jobless.
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Albany, N. Y.
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March 8
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The Workers Conference on Labor Legislation concluded its session by telegram protesting the refusal of hearings and armed police blockade at the capitol. They demanded enactment of nine bills for unemployment insurance, relief, minimum wage, maximum hours, anti-eviction, anti-foreclosure, anti-injunction, anti-child labor, maternity benefits, public works, and deposit protection. Relief bill specifies $10 weekly for unemployed couples plus $3 per dependent, $1 daily for singles, and union rates for relief jobs. Delegates pledge to mobilize support for enactment.