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Domestic News September 19, 1934

The Daily Worker

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois

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Nearly 1,000 delegates from unemployed and relief workers' organizations in New York met Monday night at Webster Hall to plan a mass march to City Hall on Saturday demanding adequate winter relief appropriations and protesting Mayor LaGuardia's relief tax schemes. Detailed assembly points, routes, and participating groups were outlined, alongside related walk-outs and demonstrations.

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N.Y. Mass March
For Relief Is Set
By 1,000 Delegates

NEW YORK.-Nearly 1,000 delegates and members of unemployed and relief workers' organizations filled Webster Hall Monday night to plan action against the LaGuardia relief tax schemes and to prepare the mobilization of their members for a mass march to City Hall Saturday to demand adequate appropriations for winter relief.

Emanuel Levin, organizer of the United Action Conference on Work, Relief and Unemployment, in the main report outlined the present plans for Saturday's march and exposed the LaGuardia tax program as one which prepares the way for future relief cuts by the very inadequacy of its scope, and at the same time lays the basis for further taxation of the masses.

Council Reports on Rally
While Levin was concluding his report, nearly a hundred members of the Thirteenth Street Unemployment Council, just returned from a demonstration of more than a thousand workers at the home of Alderman Fassler, filed in amid tumultuous applause. Julia Miller, member of the local, reported on the demonstration and outlined the plans for a torchlight parade and mass meeting for tomorrow night.

The march will assemble at Seventh Street and Avenue A at 8 o'clock, and march to Avenue D.

Representatives of the Recreational Leaders Association, whose members had already voted to participate in the Saturday march to City Hall, reported that at the Henry Street Settlement House, members of the Association who are also members of the Fourth Assembly District Fusion Club, Mayor LaGuardia's own political machine, would assemble in a body Saturday and join the march to City Hall.

Delegates Pledge Support
Delegates elected at an earlier meeting of the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Employes pledged the support of their membership in the march to City Hall and announced plans for a stoppage on all organized projects.

One of the high points of the conference was reached when a twelve-year old boy, from the Grand Street Settlement House, speaking to the assembled delegates said: "We boys and girls in my neighborhood will form in line at Rutgers Square Saturday and join the parade with your boys and girls."

Plan Torchlight Parade
Another torchlight parade for tomorrow night, to assemble at Sixth Avenue and Bleecker Street at 6:30 o'clock and march to Assemblyman Pelegrino's home to demand adequate relief was announced. The parade will demand that he bring all possible pressure to bear for providing adequate winter relief, and will mobilize the workers in the neighborhood for Saturday's march.

Plans for the march to City Hall Saturday call for the mobilization of all working class organizations and unorganized workers in the city.
N. Y. Mass March for Relief Is Set
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streets fronting Union Square at 10 a. m.

Members of the Unemployment Council will assemble in East 15th and East 16th Sts. Immediately behind them will be the members of the Relief Workers League and the Workers' Unemployed Union.

On East 17th Street members of the white collar groups, the A. O. P. E. E., the Emergency Home Relief Bureau Employees, the Recreational Leaders Association, the Unemployed Teachers Association, the Emergency Workers in Adult Education and the Actors' Emergency Association will form.

Unions will assemble on the West Side of the Square. On West 16th St. the Steel and Metal Workers, the United Shoe and Leather Workers and the Furniture Workers Industrial Union will form ranks. The Marine Workers and the Food Workers Industrial Unions will assemble on West 17th St. On West 18th St. the Federation of Architects, Engineers, Chemists and Technicians, the A. F. of L. unions and opposition groups and the independent unions will be grouped. On West 19th St., the Needle Trades and other T.U.U.L. unions will form ranks.

Fraternal Groups Included
The International Workers Order, the Fraternal Federation for Social Insurance, the Icor and other fraternal groups will mass in West 15th St. The League of Struggle for Negro Rights, the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, the International Labor Defense, the Labor Sports Union and Friends of the Soviet Union will form on East 18th St.

On 18th St. between Broadway and Fourth Ave., the Inter-Professional Association for Social Insurance, Social Workers Group, Social Workers Discussion Club, English Workers Clubs, the Workers International Relief, and nurses and hospital groups will form.

The Young Communist League, C.C.C. Protective Association, National Student League and other youth groups will form on East 19th St.

On East 19th Street between Broadway and Fourth Avenue the John Reed Club, Pen and Hammer, Dance Groups, Theatre Union, Film and Photo League, Artef, Workers Laboratory Theatre, Artists Union, Pierre Degeyter Club, Workers Music League and United Front Supporters will form.

The anti-war and fascism groups and the Anti-Imperialist League will mass on East 20th St. The Women's Councils will form ranks on East 20th Street between Broadway and Fourth Ave. On West 20th St. the language groups and foreign-born Workers' Clubs will assemble. Children, Young Pioneers, I. W. O. schools, etc., will assemble at Rutgers Square.

In the order named the various groups will fall in line, circle the streets above Union Square, march down Broadway, parade East on Fourteenth St. to Second Ave. Turning East on 12th St. the line of march will go to Avenue C and parade to Fourth St. Turning east, the line will march to Avenue D, and parade to Henry St., down Gouverneur St. After being joined by the children, the parade will file down Madison St., through New Chambers into Park Row, and a mass meeting will be held on the City Hall Green.

Acting on the decision of Monday night's meeting of the Associated Office and Professional Emergency Employees, all the workers in the Social Welfare Department walked off the job yesterday to protest at City Hall against the LaGuardia relief tax schemes.

At the Port Authority Building, central office of the Works Department, the 350 members of the A. O. P. E. E. distributed leaflets calling for a complete walk-out. Col. Wilgus, city work relief administrator, ordered that all workers who left the job would not be paid and would be fired. The A. O. P. E. E. immediately lodged a protest with Mayor LaGuardia and demanded the firing of Wilgus.

The A. O. P. E. E. yesterday declared that a mass picket line would be thrown around the Port Authority Building today.

At the call of the Harlem Unemployment Council, 300 workers massed at the Harlem Relief Bureau at 181 West 135th Street demanding immediate payment of relief checks. A mass delegation of twenty-one workers was elected to place their demand before Mayor LaGuardia.

Two thousand leaflets were distributed by the American League Against War and Fascism, calling for a mass meeting in support of the unemployed. The meeting will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at St. Phillips Church, 215 West 133rd Street.

What sub-type of article is it?

Riot Or Protest Economic Charity Or Relief

What keywords are associated?

Unemployment March New York Relief Laguardia Tax Protest City Hall Demonstration Workers Organizations Torchlight Parade Harlem Relief Bureau

What entities or persons were involved?

Emanuel Levin Julia Miller Alderman Fassler Mayor Laguardia Col. Wilgus Assemblyman Pelegrino

Where did it happen?

New York

Domestic News Details

Primary Location

New York

Event Date

Saturday

Key Persons

Emanuel Levin Julia Miller Alderman Fassler Mayor Laguardia Col. Wilgus Assemblyman Pelegrino

Outcome

plans established for mass march and related protests; worker walk-outs and demonstrations occurred; demands made for adequate relief and against tax schemes.

Event Details

Nearly 1,000 delegates met at Webster Hall on Monday night to plan a mass march to City Hall on Saturday protesting LaGuardia's relief tax schemes and demanding winter relief appropriations. Detailed assembly at Union Square and route to City Hall outlined, with participation from various unemployment councils, unions, fraternal groups, and youth organizations. Related actions included torchlight parades, walk-outs by A.O.P.E.E. workers, a demonstration at Harlem Relief Bureau, and a mass meeting announcement.

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