The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 12, 1931, Page 3

—————— The Hunger \ DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1931 Page Three es eS EES —_ SAD ae A EES So Rn eS eee cies = = ee = “ch Demonstration in Wall Street’s Capitol---the Greatest Working Class Demonstration Ever Seen in iz [Tunger March Established Unity of Negro and White in the Face of the Forces of Official Washington: #s (The Workers International Relief Film and Photo League Is Entitled to Credit for All Pictures Reproduced here.) The Hunger March demonstration in front of the Capitol building. In the roped in circle are the Hunger March delegates s eral instructions to the police issued by Major Pelham D. Glassford for handling the Hunger March. Above to the left is a s March assembling for the parade to the Capitol. For the first time in history the “Internationale” was sung in front of A freeing.of Mooney and Billings, no discrimination against Negroes, Hands off the Soviet Union, etc. arated from the scores of thousands of sympathetic workers in conformity with order No. 4 of the gen- on of the Hunger March singing the “Internationale.” Above to the right is a section of the Hunger ican imperialist government. The Capitol echoed to the demands for Unemployment Insurance, the A -Seetion of the Hunger March chanting “We Demand Unemployment Insurance” before the Gapitol as the elected delegation, surrounded by police, were making their way to the Capitol to present their demands. Pei wate The second delegation of three, Bill Dunne, Herbert Benjamin and Ike Hawkins, rettrning under police supervision, after being ejected from the entrance to the Senate chamber. The first delegation consisted of 24 Hunger Marchers who were td also denied admission, A section of the demonstration before the White House where President Hoover re- fused to see the delegation, sending out a secret service detective instead. In the two blocks here pictured more than 40,000 people were assembled, : i eeegs Another view of the Hunger March demonstration before theWhite House. The Hunger Marchers presented their demands A section of the Hunger March. holding a demonstration in Chester, Pa, on the way to to Hoover by holding a meeting with Poindexter, a Negro worker from Chicago, as the official spokesman of the delegation, { Washington. Scores of such demonstrations were held in the various cities on the and Minerich of the National Miners Union and Young G@om ...:ist League as the second speaker. Here the speakers de- ] line of-march to Washington, nounced the lynching of Negroes and demanded the freedom c Tom Mooney and Warren Billings,