RELIEF: Jobless Invasion

In the past two years angry unemployed have besieged the Legislatures of Texas and Illinois with demands for more & better relief. Two months ago members of the Workers' Alliance, No. 1 jobless union, marched into the Wisconsin Capitol, spent ten days in the Assembly chamber, were finally put out by police. All last week members of the Workers' Alliance squatted in the New Jersey State House at Trenton while the Legislature was in brief recess. Reason: New Jersey had run out of State relief funds, and 270,000 jobless had been turned back to local authorities to be cared...

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