The Daily Worker

Public Trial Will
Expose Layoffs in
Nut Pickers' Fight
Mass March Today
After Police Mishandle
Unemployed

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Oct. 6.—The nut pickers of the Funsten Co., after forcing the granting of relief from the city, were mishandled by the police and are now organizing a mass march on the Citizens' Relief Committee and the mayor tomorrow morning. A public trial of the Funsten Nut Co. and the N.R.A. has been called by the Food Workers Industrial Union for Tuesday night in the Gayety Theatre, 14th and Locust St., at which the workers have demanded the presence of the mayor, officials of the company and the N.R.A.

The nut pickers include many Negro women, and under the leadership of the Food Workers Industrial Union will expose at the mass trial the speeding up and laying off of workers, without providing adequate relief, and discrimination against Negro workers.

The trial will be a united front, strikers of the Amalgamated Food Workers Union and the American Federation of Labor Workers, acting on the jury. Dean Sweet and other well-known liberals, will take part. The trial will take up the question of sending a delegation to the special session of the state legislature on October 18 to present the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill.

The nut pickers will demand full wages during the period they are laid off by the Funsten Co., and adequate relief from the relief agencies.

A committee of the Food Workers Industrial Union will address the Amalgamated strikers, calling for a united front. A committee is visiting the Funsten Co., Mayor Dickman, and the N.R.A. officials and demanding their presence at the trial.