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Central Federation Against Unemployment : weekly letters
Monday, March 18, 1935
Saturday, June 8, 1935
A2001-074
AF/161014
March 18, 1935 : speakers school each Saturday ; selling of advertising cards ; United front with the International Longshoreman's Association ; committee to form United Fronts with all AF of L unions ; Sellwood dance ; explosion of Kirk Smith ; protest demanding the relies of Minnie Shanks. March 31, 1935 : May day Parade ; United Front for social insurance ; trade with local grocers ; open hearing at city council for Minnie Shanks ; relief grievance committee ; fund raise for the Voice of Action. April 8, 1935 : Membership, new and retaining present ; may Day conference ; deportation proceeding against Baer ; chicken dinner ; Minnie Shanks freed. April 15, 1935 : 13 Albina workers arrested for protesting their relief case ; May Day parade. April 22, 1935 : Harry L. Gross and Irwin Goodman were made members ; picket at Albina Relief Station. April 29, 1935 : United front with trade unions ; lumber workers strike. May 6, 1935 : Compares what the workers got to what the bosses got from the New Deal and N.R.A ; Suggest that unemployed not be used as scabs ; for union wages and conditions. May 13, 1935 : decrease in wages ; attack by the bosses on living standards ; passage of the Workers Unemployment and Social Insurance Bill H.R. 2827. May 20, 1935 : organized unemployed labor ; no scab against the Lumber Union. May 27, 1935 : Lumber workers strike ; dance. June 3, 1935 : rent fees ; dance cancelled because of lack of ticket sales ; Voice of Action. June 10, 1935 : berry field strike ; Voice of Acton drive ; Chicken Noddle dinner ; Youth Congress. Organization : Central Federation Against Unemployment People : Bishop, A.R. ; Raynor, S ; Paper, Ed ; Smith, Krik ; Shanks, Minnie ; Baer ; Gross, Harry L ; Goodman, Irwin ; Fitzgerald ; Ireland ; Key Words : unemployment ; unemployed ; relief ; worker ; May Day Parade ; United Front ; Voice of Action ; strike ; union ; AF of L ; protest ; arrest ; police
