The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 2, 1932, Page 3

ORK, FRIDA International Notes By PETER HENRY. Hunger Marches in Bohemia and Germany, PILSEN, Nov. 14 (By Mail) —On Saturday, November 12th, over 2,000 unemployed workers demonstrated under Communist leadership in front of the City Hall. A deputation was elected which presented their de- mands for relief to the City Council of this city, famous for its beer. wide town of Frankenheim is unable to pay out the relief for unemployed. Negotiations with the Mayor were fruitless; the assembled workers then began a hunger march through the town, seizing food in various butcher chops and bakeries, Nothing was taken but food, which was eaten on the spot, so that the police reserves couldn’, arrest anybody when they ar- rived. This hunger march alarmed the District Governor so much that he immediately ordered the distribu- tion of 20,000 Ibs. of potatoes to the unemployed. Negotiations with the Governor were resumed under the pressure of this demonstration, at which it was disclosed that only 500 marks of the sum of 3500 marks al- loted to Frankenheim by the Federal Government for relief had been paid, the remaining 3,000 marks being re- rained to meet the town’s indebted- ress. This revelation enraged the masses, and the Governor was com- elled to order the payment of ad- vance relief for November, together with the immediate distribution of two carloads of potatoes as winter relief. ‘These dispatches show us that only resolute battle and the co-operation of the employed workers with those unemployed will make the authorities listen and yield to the masses’s de- mands for winter relief and food for the unemployed. Hunger marches are taking place ell over the world! ‘The March of the American unem- ployed’s delegates to Washington must become the biggest and most impressive of them ail! More Strikes Won in Germany. The workers of the famous Rosen- thal porcelain works in Selb, Bav- aria decided to go on strike last week against a proposed wage-cut The strike threat had an immediate effect, the management agreeing to withdraw the cut. A strike threat won a similar victory for the leather orkers of the Woehler plant in Vupperthal. After a strike lasting several hours he printers in the Wupperthal “Staatsanzeiger” won the withdrawal of posted wage-cuts, the repayment of wages already deducted and the rehiring of a number of workers who had. been fired for strike propaganda. ‘These strikes, occuring after the recent elections, confirm our predic- tion that the Reichstag elections did not mark the culmination of the huge strike wave sweeping Germany, and that the German workers are de- termined to fight Hindenburg’s and Papen’s efforts to starve them into submission. Nazis Play Hindenburg’s Game. Despite Hitler's fiery threats at- tacking Hindenburg and yon Papett, the Nazi President of the Reichstag, Goering, has turned down the Com- munist motion for immediate ses- sion of the new Reichstag; instead he set the opening day for the latest possible constitutional date, Dec. 6th. his is nothing but playing von sapen’s game, giving him as much ime as possible. to negotiate for the sstablishment of an all-inclusive capitalist cabinet, including Adolf Hitler. How different the Nazis’ words are from their deeds! Hunger Strike Wins. ‘The proletarian political prisoners in Bielefeld, Germany, have broken off their hunger strike now that the prison administration has granted a number of their demands. In the future they will be allowed two hours of exercise daily on a sports field near the prison. They. will also be allowed to be together in a common room during the hours that they are con- fined: within the prison. Lastly, they will be allowed visitors one hour a day instead of two hours per week, as before. Only resolute pressure and struggle will ever win any concessons from prison authorities or free our pro- letarian comrades in jail. The work of the International Labor Defense must be redoubled, with the support ERFURT, Nov. 16 (By mail) —The} i VETS SPEED ON TO BALTIMORE Police Attack Chicago Contingent (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) member of the contingent, received Severe scalp wounds. The Chicago marchers rode out of the city in box cars on the Penn- sylvania Railroad, but were driven away when officials mobilized a small army of railroad dicks and plug uglies. The vets later took possession of several box cars on the Erie line, but were again attacked just outside of Lima. Despite these attacks, the ranks of the Chicago vets are solid and they are determined to get to Washingten by Dec. 5. The Chicago Veterans’ Rank and File Committee has sent telegrams of protest to the mayor of Lima and the governor of Ohio. The Committee also notified Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania that it would hold him responsible for the safety of the vet- erans when they pass through his state. Pe ee Portland Vets Pass Through Chicago CHICAGO (By Mail).—A large del- egation of bonus marchers from Port- land, Ore., passed through here on Sunday. They were fed at the Peo- ple's Auditorium and housed at the West Side Forum. How much the promises of capital- ist politicians are worth was demon- strated here when Mayor Cermak is- sued a statement denying that meals and lodging would be furnished bonus marchers passing through Chicago. Only a few days before, a delegation of the Chicago Veterans Rank and File Committee had been promised by Alderman James Waller, speaking for the mayor in the latter’s absence in Springfield, that the ex-service- men passing through would be fed and housed. Sie Sma | Legion Backs Disability Cuts WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—Not con- tent with declaring only a few days ago that “the bonus can wait,” the leaders of the American Legion are planning to complete their betrayal of the ex-servicemen by supporting the campaign to deprive more than 300,000 disabled veterans of their present meager compensation. A statement issued from Legion headquarters here by Louis A. John- son, national commander, announces that the Legion is starting a spécial “study” .of laws relating to veterans and, as the capitalist press puts it, “will seek to offer remedies for what- ever abuses exist and possibly suggest reductions if some benefits are found to be excessive.” This is eactly the program of the National Economy League, which is leading Wall Street's attack on the tens of thousands of ex-servicemen disabled in the war for Wall Street’s profits. And it comes only a few days after the Legion misleaders an- nounced that they were starting a campaign to extend benefits to dis- abled vets! In Congress too reports today re- vealed that members of both major capitalist parties are sharpening their axes preparatory to a joint campaign to chop down disability allowances. This also includes the so-called “sponsors” of veterans’ legislation who are reported as ready to take $90,000,000 from the starving veterans, while continuing to give huge bonuses to banks, railroads, etc., and spending millions on the biggest war budget in American his- tory. Marchers Smash Thru in Many U. S. Cities (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) outskirts of town. Workers lined the streets in Ellwood Cfy and Wam- pum. Police Prevent Gas Purchase. County police forced the gas sta- tions in New Castle to refuse gas for the cars, and even compelled private homes to do the same, But this did not stop the march. On Dec. 5, there will be a County March on Greenburg, the county seat of Westmoreland County, on Dec. 5, ‘while the National Marchers are in Washington, to make local demands, and to support the right of the marchers to go in a body and pre- sent their demands to congress. Columns 2-3-5 will be in Parkers- of all workers, to free our class-war burg, W. Va., tonight. Column 7 will prisoners in America. "wormist Labor Leaders Ignore The Berlin Traffic Strike. The November 10th issue of the “Press Reports of the International Federation of Trade Unions,” pub- ished in Berlin, does not print a single line concerning the great Ber- lin traffic strike which had tied up all transportation for the entire pre- ceding week. This news service of the reformist, labor faker Federation, which claims to print all the im- portant union news of the whole world, deliberately says not a word about the biggest strike of the month “just because the reformist and Socialist union officials of Berlin for- ade the strike and did all they could to break it. This attitude of the “Press Reports” is another indication of how trade union bureaucrats sabotage all rank-and-file efforts at united action for defense of the work- ers’ standard of living. Workers University Founded in Paris. peg institution of proletarian educa- tion has just been founded in Paris, falled the Workers University. Pro- —ulnent Communist intellectuals such +s Vaillant-Couturier, Rappoport, Ber- “iloz, Prenant, and others will give the various courses. The University catalogue comprises five major divi- sions of study: social sciences, natural sei-ncas, arts and literature, technical courses, ‘This university is destined to be- come a powerful weapon in training the Paris proletariat for the class ’ vuggie. First the Workers’ School in New York, then the Marxist Workers Schools in most of the big citles of Germany, and now the new addition: the Workers University of Paris. To the bourgeois poisoning of workers’ ‘we oppose “minds with Marxist-Len- ae fitting workers as abler ters for the revolution. be in Reading tonight. Column 8 will be in Wilmington, Del. Column 9 will be in Norfolk, Va. Imperial Hotel Change Bosses and Worsens Conditions of Workers NEW YORK, N. ¥.—A few weeks ago Hoover spoke and said that half a million are going back to work every month. So let’s prove it and see how it is done at the Hotel Im- perial in New York City at 31st and Biway. On the 15th of this month the place changed hands and the new parasites did the following to improve the conditions of the workers. They fired two thirds of the help and cut wages of those remaining by 45%. The work tripled and no day off for anybody and 12 hour day. Only cooks and waiters get food; we all used to get it before. We are organizing a group to build the Food Workers’ Industrial Union but many of the workers are scared. Why get fired without fighting? It is better to fight and we can win. If we do not fight we can see what Robe we will get, beer or no ; Waiter. 300 Send Off Hunger Marchers at Rockford ROCKFORD, Ill. — About 300 at- tended the send-off of the delegates to the National Hunger March, The meeting was held in front of the County Court House, Before leaving the city there was a WORKER CORRESPONDENCE — FOOD WORKERS TELL OF SPEED-UP “Sunshine” Workers Called to Organize Against Speed-Up Workers, Answer Death Dealing Methods Wage Cuts, Insurance Graft and Restaurant Listed as Few of Their Grievances LONG ISLAND CITY, N. ¥.—The Loose Wiles Biscuit Co. of this city has speeded up the workers so much that the number of injured workers mounted to 220 out of 1799 employed workers mostly on part time basis, The company has cut wages up to 75 per cent compared to two and three years ago and the company still carr’ Chats with Our Worcorrs The continuous wage-cutting, speed- up, machinery installations, terror, lay-offs, and also the attempt of many food companies to force work- ers to use their spare time to sol! customers for them, are bringing food workers in many big and small food factories to the realization that only through solid organization in the factories, by organizing groups in every department, on the basis of the immediate grievances, will they be able to put a stop to these srowing evils, In order to make these department groups a living force, it is necessary that the activities of these groups be made known to the workers of the factory as a whole. By means of leaflets and shop papers, it should be made Enown to the rest of the workers, who are not yet members of the shop organization, that there is an organizational basis in the fac- tory to react against any attempt on the part of the management io worsen the conditions of the workers. The groups should also establish special worker's press committees, to report to the Daily Worker, and to the Food Worker, which is the Organ of the Food Workers Industrial Union. These reports should describe the conditions of the workers, give warn- ing to the workers on coming wage- cuts, and tell of the sentiment of the workers in the shop for organization and for action against their condi- tions, On the day the story is to appear, a distribution of the Daily Worker or of the Food Worker should be ar- ranged. Then there should also be worked out a systematic plan to visit the homes of the workers, and dis- cuss the story with them, to see whether they liked it or not, and get their suggestions for improving the story the next time. It should be explained to them that these two papers are the only ones in English which are devoted to the interests of the food workers. The role of the Daily Worker, as the champion of the workers of all industries, should be carefully explained. All these activities will help a great deal to broaden the organizational base of the Department Groups, and make them better able to rally the workers of the factory around them and. win their support. We invite all workers to write to us about their conditions of life and work, and any suggestions they may have for helping to fight against them. The Food Worker also invites cor- respondence particularly from food workers, Write to them at the head- quarters of the Food Workers Indus- trial Union, 4 W. 18th St., New York City. NOTICE TO WORKER COR- RESPONDENTS. It is of the utmost importance to get reports from all workers, particularly those working in plants which are adopted to manu- facturing war materials, to report to the Daily Worker on all war orders, shipments of war materials, and war preparations of any kind, A and P PUTS ON SALES PRESSURE Workers “Must Get Costumers or Get Out PITTSBURGH, Pa. — Every em- ployee of the A. and P. in this area was “invited” to attend a meeting in Soldier and Sailor's Hall on Nov. 14 where big shots told us some things we had to do. If you didn’t attend you would get fired or furloughed (without pay) for at least a week. Each worker must get at least 5 hew customers a year or get a wage- cut. Each cusfomer must spend $5.00 or more and as there are 10,000 em- ployees in the central district that ~? think their workers are well paid and means $50,000 per week. Very good salesmanship, only it forces some of the warehouse employees to bother his friends at 10 and 11 o'clock at night after slaving ten hours a day. One fellow that works in the East Liberty Warehouse told me that his foreman told him: “I'll just give you until 5 o'clock tomorrow and you'll get the gate” when he asked him if he got his five customers and was told that he couldn’t get them. I haven't seen him since, so I don’t know if he got fired or not, ‘The daily report sheet is made out for 8 hours a day, but an assistant foreman told me that he had to get 1% hours overtime out of the men and this with % an hour for lunch Makes two hours we are robbed of, In some departments they don’t allow any talking and several girls have been canned for it. They always give some other excuse for it, however, A. & P. Worker, ee them sufficient food for a three day stay in Washington. : delegates represented seven Unemployed Councils, the Blake s on propaganda to make the wor|d contented. One week ago a worker died from rupture sustained while at work. Four more have been ruptured lately. The girls tire and age quickly because of their work on the conveyor belt. Their tas] to pick up crackers from hot ; they burn their finger tips and some blood comes from their wounds and spoils a few crackers, the forelady sees to it that the “guilty” girl gets her share of abuse. Part time work and lay-offs are common, and as a matter of fact very few workeys have a five day week, but the amount of work done is larger than when the week was 5 and a half days. | The “Sunshine” has the greatest real speed-up in the world; it was installed in the floor and baking de- }@rtments where only men work. It comes down from the mixing room and the foremen receive their instruc- tions every day as how to “adjust” their speed in accordance with the production to be achieved. The machines are “adjusted” in the morn- ing and the foremen use large Yale locks so that the workers cannot re- duce the speed. This “labor-saving” device permits the company to set the speed at which hundreds of work- ers are compeled to work and it cuts down production at the cost of their health and lives. The ovens are set at 700 degrees, so imagine the life of the “oven- men.” These are supposed to be en- titled to 40 minutes relief, but it never comes; the speed-up is such that most of the time these workers have no time to eat their lunch. They are the last to leave, when time for dinner comes: they have pans in the | oven, and have to take them out and | see to it that the oven is clean and| ready to take more crackers soon after the machines start anew. Not only wage-cuts, overtime with- out pay, ever increasing speed up, lay-offs, discharges, discrimination and stool pigeons are the lot of the “Loose Wiles” Workers. The bosses have established a few profitable rackets which help them pay their fat dividends. An Insurance scheme proposed by the bosses “in the .in- terests of you and your dependents,” raised the cost of an old policy, and the terms of the new policy were at the mercy of the Company who “re- served the right to modify any of the conditions or discontinue the ar- rangements at any time.” Of course, now with mass unemployment it is very difficult for the Insurance Com- panies to insure individually, but they get around the trouble by making ar- rangements with the large corpora- tions, employing thousands of work- ers, and by splitting the profits with the bosses, the insurance companies. secure large. collective contracts. The bosses on the other hand use the necessary pressure to force the work- ers to take a “voluntary” insurance. This scheme of the Sunshine bosses was busted by the agitation carried on in the shop by the Sunshine Or- ganization Committee, which is or- ganizing the workers for the struggle for’ better conditions. The laundry racket 1s another means of coining money out of the pockets of the workers, Every one is assessed 20 cents every week for the laundry of the uniform. The worst form of robbery, outside of the miserable wages and very bad working conditions in the shop, is the Sunshine Restaurant. Here prices are “ritzy.” A thin slice of bread costs one cent, A small chunck of butter costs one penny. The food is rotten: green ham, stinky stew, meat balls, fish cakes, plenty of canned food. Many cases of sickness and of poisoning are frequently registered. But what do the bosses care about the welfare of the workers, as long as they grind money out of the sweat and blood of the workers they have nothing to worry about. But the workers of the Loose Wiles Biscuit Company started to organize and fight back the attacks of the bosses. They are organizing groups in every department on the basis of the immediate grievances: against. speed-up, lay-offs, discharges, wage- cuts, against the insurance, laundry and restaurant rackets, etc. The workers know that if they join to- gether in their own organization, they will be able to win better conditions; they know that their only hope of ob- taining victory in their demands is through building their union! The Food Workers Industrial Union is the militant organization of the food workers, ‘Workers of the Sunshine: Join the “Sunshine Organization Committee ;” defend your rights to a decent living! For better conditions in the shop, Join the Sunshine Organization Com- mittee! Write about your own par- ticular grievances! Address your ap- plication and your letter to P. O. Box 441, Station D., New York City. FURNITURE WORKERS SPREAD “DAILY” AMONG UNION MEN The Furniture Workers Industrial Y, DECEMBER 2, 19 Page Thre Rush Funds to Defeat Hunger Government (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) ments for housing and food, due to lack of finances. | WE ASK THE WORKERS OF | THIS COUNTRY: | Will you permit the weary and hungry to go without food and lodging? We place this question before the workers and we are convinced that there will be no worker in this coun- try, who reads this appeal, who will not immediately send funds to the Hunger March Arrangements Committee at 1311 G St, N. W., Washington, D. C. "i Show your solidarity Hunger Marchers! Respond immediately! Tomorrow may be too late! Wire all funds available immedi- ately. Take tonight to collect ad- ditional funds! Get money from every possible source, and, above all, SEND YOUR OWN DONATION! NATIONAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTE! JOBLESS BAKER CALLS FOR ACTION N. Y. Bakers Asked to Consider Program with the NEW YORK CITY.—Thousands of bakers are walking the streets of this city looking for a job in bakeries and employment “gyp” agencies. These bakers who once baked bread for everybody cannot supply their starv- ing families with bread. Only five percent of the bakers in New York City are organized in dif- ferent unions under the corrupt lead- ership of the A. F. of L. and AF.W. who compete with conditions ,one against the other. It has been proven many times that the leaders of both unions are paid agents of the bosses and are selling-out bakers every-day. As a result of these sell-outs the bakers are slaving 14 and 16 hours a They work at starvation wages and in many cases 7 days a week. These | unions never attempted to organize the large masses of bakers in the large bakeries or the unemployed among them. The only solution for these bakers 1, Organiaze into an Unemployed | Council of bakers of N. Y. with a program of struggle for work and bread. 2. Force the officials of your union to enforce the eight-hour day and supply work to all unemployed mem- bers without discrimination. 3. Organize into one big militant union of the entire industry to fight | for better conditions. L. S., A Hungry Baker. Thousands Greet March in Jersey COLUMN 8 NORTHEAST TRENTON, N, J., Dec. 1—Column 8 of the National Hunger March, | nearly 700 delegates, stopped over| here in Hungarian Workers Hall last night and is now on its way to Phil- adelphia. It left New York City yesterday with thousands marching in proces- sion behind it to the tunnels under the river to New Jersey. It was met by demonstrations in Jersey City, Newark, and held a meeting and had lunch in Lithuanian Hall, Eliz- abeth. In New Brunswick it ap- proached along two seperate roads, and held another mecting, taking on 14 more marchers, and making a total of 40 trucks and 30 automobiles. A score of recruits to the march missed it at Newark, but overtook the column before it reached Eliz- abeth. Two big mass meetings were held in Newark, about noon. All along the way great crowds turned out to cheer the marchers, in their trucks decorated with enormous cartoons, slogans: $50 Winter Relief,” “Unemployment Insurance” and “On to Washington.” In Trenton, Governor Moore once more rejected the demands of the Jocal unemployed and a committee of the marchers, for the use of the armory for a stop over place. The commander of the column since leaving Boston is Carl Reeve. working with a leading committee of Ben Gold, leader of needle trades strikes in New York; Carl Winters, of the New York Unemployed Coun- cil, and all the district division cap- tains, rite aga Philadelphia Chief Tamer. PHILADELPHIA, Pa. Dec. 1— “There will be no interference with the marchers or the mass meeting on Reyburn Plaza when they get here today,” said Police Superin- tendent William B. Mills to the cap- italist press today. This permit was won by well organized and persist- ent struggle of the unemployed and here, led by the unemployed coun- cil. Reyburn Plaza has been the scene of many meetings which were attacked by the police with many injured and many arrests, Pigg Sar Attacked in Jamaica. JAMAICA, L. I. Dec, 1.—Police charged into and dispersed hundreds | the: of workers gathered in front of the Union of New York oi bee or- aily Worker continually took up the battle of the strikers, Hall Tuesday, to greet the Column of National Hunger March- ers coming down Long Island to join Column 8 in New York City. The police had shotguns and some were mounted. The first speaker was pulled down, but the attack failed to scatter the crowd, which moved to another square and ccn- tinued the meeting. Two more del- egates to Washington were elected right at the meeting, ‘The Column of Hunger Marchers proceeded, in spite of all provoca~ tons, and arrived, at Bronx Coliseum, » {backing dow | Direct Hunger March News| 3,500 Demonstrate in Youngstown COLUMN 1 NORTHWEST YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Dec. 1— Column 1 of the National Hunger March, now nearly 700 strong, was on the road to Pittsburgh today go- ing through the congested steel towns, centers of wage cuts and starvation, of Eastern Ohio and Wes- tern Pennsylvania, and meeting a general outpouring of workers in each town who demonstratively af- firmed their support of the Hunger March demands. The Column stopped in Youngs- town last night, where the city au- thorities, directed by the mayor, sud- denly broke their promise to the lo- cal unemployed council to feed and lodge marchers and did everything they could to block the march. The mayor stated openly that he was act- ing on orders of the Federal Gov- ernment to “discourage” the march- ers. All police attacks failed, due to the militancy and determination of the crowd of 3,500 assembled to welcome the marchers. “Must Discourage.” Acting Mayor Kistler and Mayor Mark Moore, in conference with Governor White at Columbus, tele- graphed Tuesday that all promises made the marchers must be retracted. and that the Hunger Marchers must be “discouraged” in every way pos- sible. Police of Youngstown twice at- tempted to change the line of march when Column 1 arrived yesterday. As the head of the more than half mile long column entered the city, police cars attempted to block the way and turn the march away. Mass mili- tancy on the part of the entire del- egation, together with obvious sym- pathy of the workers who lined the streets with the delegates, forced a n on this attempt. All the way through this Trucson, Bethlehem and Republic Steel town the streets were lined with groups of workers, pouring out of stores and houses. Worker guides took charge of traffic and maintaining order :| while the march came past the scene of the mass demonstration of 3500 at Federal and Watt Streets, loca- tion of the largest slop kitchen in the cily. Traffic was blocked and the marchers were wildly cheered as they defied police threats and ig- nored the massed police and plain clothes men who found the situa- tion entirely taken out of their hands. Barely Rescue Cop. One attempt was made to split the line when a plain clothes police- man opened the door of one of the cars in the caravan and attempted to turn the line in a different dir-| ection. Fellow officers, and ununiformed rescued him from the hatred of the workers who tore him away from the auto. Fiker Arrested. When word that Walter Eiker, leader of the Detroit contingent of Bonus Marchers who are keeping up with Column One of the Hunger Trek, had been arrested, a thousand workers marched from the meeting to the Police Station immediately to demand his release. Eiker had been arrested “on sus- picion” when. he went to demand again of the Mayor's office that the Hunger and Bonus Marchers be fed and housed by the city of Youngs- town, FEiker was a leader in the last Bonus March and is now a National -Hunger March delegate. A committee of three, elected at the mass meeting, entered the office of Chief of Police Frank Goodwin, while the workers waited outside with placards supporting the Hunger and Veterans’ Marches and their demands. Force Release. Eiker was released. Chief Good- win feigned a willingness to coop- erate by “putting a police guard” about the marchers and their trucks, and claimed that they didn’t want trouble,” obviously frightened by the size and militancy of the Youngstown workers’ demonstration supporting the demands of the Unemployed Councils for immediate cash winter relief and unemployment insurance. The between 600 and 700 Hunger Marchers were fed and housed in South Slav Workers’ Home, the Icor Hall, the Italian Workers’ Club and in the Workers’ Center, while a cor- don of local volunteers guarded the trucks during the night against such quasi-official marrauders as raided the Unemployed Council headquar- ters Inst week, stealing the type- writer, collection boxes and attempt- ing to cripple Hunger March prepa- rations. Column One started yes- terday morning with eighty addi- tional delegates from Cleveland, a dozen from Canton, adding to the length and impressiveness of the now more than fifty car long line. They added too, to the enthusiasm of the delegates who sing and shout slogans all along the way. Demonstrate in Akron, In Akron, Ohio, city of rubber, Goodyear and Firestone, the march- ers ate sandwiches and coffee pre- pared by the woman of the Akron Unemployed Councils, while eight hundred workers held a meeting and demonstration in Perkins Square and heard reports from Hunger March delegates. The rest room of the park had been padlocked by the city author- ities but crowbars overcame that dif- ficulty. Akron workers cheered their own delegation of eleven marchers in two autos which joined the motor parade re. Lining the streets of the downtown district, 1,500 steel and other work- ers of Warren massed before the court house to cheer the Hunger Marchers on their way and to ap~ plaud Claude Lightfoot of Chicago, Coleman Taylor of Cleveland and other delegates who addressed them from the speakers stand in the cen- ter of the lawn, on the demands which the marchers are taking to Washington. In Niles traffic was blocked while Lawson, assistant column leader and others spoke from the tops of the ‘trucks to about 800 workers, “€ Marchers Pierce Police Cordon Sweeping Through |__ COLUMNS 2, 3, 5 the Anthracite} W®ST. SOUTHWEST CINCINNATI, O., Dec. 1.—Hum- | COLUMN 7 | dreds of delegates from all the states N.Y. & ANTHRACITE in the southwestern part of the coun- | try, in the merged Columns 2, 3 | and 5 of the Nationa] Hunger March {are expected here tonight and all Dec WILKES BARRE, Pa., De 1—) preparations are made to give them Column 7 from Buffalo, is now|a big reception, marching 120 strong through the! * It heart of the Anthracite fiel stopped last night in Scranton, where; BICKNEL, Ind., Nov. 30 (By Mail). the Hunger March last year w iE City police and Legionnaires came with machine guns, and will stop to-| out armed to try and stop the march night in Allentown, the city of silk) of Columns 2, 3 and 5 at Vincennes mills, where daughters of poverty | and esp! y not to let them into stricken coal miners have to wor e city, Tuesday night. In spite of for the lowest conceivable wages. everything, however, the columns Cheering Throngs me , center of many terrific struggles of the miners, Luz- erne County gave 16 more delegates to the march, of whom ten are miners all from United Mine worker locals. One of these represents a local of 1,800 men, every one unemployed The other delegates are textile work- ers, etc. The police managed to separate the Wilkes Barre delegation from the main column, but the delegation overtook it a little later. Big crowds hailed the marchers in Wilkes Ba In Scranton, a regular terror cen last year, and the scene of the of William Z. Fos' Communi: didate for president, at one oj s campaign speeches—the pressure of |the jobless has forced a change of tactics. The marchers were able yesterday to parade through streets lined with his to Regal Hall to hold a mass meet- night. The Police Chief informed them: “™ this hall you can say anything you like, hold any kind of a meeting you want to.” hall and doorways, and they not only watched the speeches carefully, but they kept every worker out they could. Hundreds gathered in the street outside, demand the right to come in, and finally away by the police. All local unemployed workers took part in the prepara-ions for the ar- rival of the marchers were called be- fore the Poor Board and threatened with cutting off of relief unless they disassociated themselyes from the March. Rate Ne Baltimore Mayor Breaks Promise. BALTIMORE, Md., Dec. The city officials now say that they will provide food but not lodging for the approximately 2,000 National Hunger Marchers of Column 7 and 8 when they merge here the afternoon of Dec. 3, and stay over night. Captain George Marshall of the Bureau for Homeless and Transient Men agrees to give sandwiches, rolls and coffee, but says he will give cots for the women’s contingent only This is a violation of the pi made by the mayor several days when he said many pretty wo! about the “Alw Hospitable Balti- more” and agreed on food and lodg- ing for the full 2,000 marchers. ° * rise Big Reception Ready. On Saturday, Dec. 3rd, when the hunger, marchers from the eastern states pull into Baltimore they will be welcomed by a huge mass meeting in the 104th Regiment Armo) This hall has a seating capacity 5,000 and it is expected that workers of Baltimore wilt fill every available seat. A 27 piece orchestra has been arranged for to provide revolutionary music. An appeal has been broad. cast to everyone coming to this m: meeting to bring a package of food for a Hunger Marcher. Crawling Out. A leading article in the Baltimore Post quotes Police Commissioner Gaither as saying that the marchers will get neither food in Baltimore. states further that re police will cooperate ington authorities in couraging” the hunger march, This statement is a turn about from that made by Mayor Jackson 1 week when he promised to feed a house the marchers. Obviously the promise of Jackson was for the purpose of misleading the Baltimore arrangements com- mittee, of trying to soften up mass pressure and of slowing up indepen@- ent arrangements for feeding and housing. But the trick has nos work- ed. Large quantities of food have been collected and arrangements have been made for housing. Also the mass agitation to force the city to provide food and lodging has been intensified. ‘Hunger nor Unemployed Meeting. WILKES BARRE, Dec. 1. Monday, an unemployed ma. ing took place in Wilkes Barre at the Workers Center, 325 E. Market St. at which four delegates to Washi ton were elected. Over 300 wo packed the hali. On the unemployed program as present- ed by the speakers and the demands for which the National Hunger Marchers are going to Washington. The enthusiasm was at its highest when two young miners from the Stanton Colliery volunteered as delegates. This colliery has been shut down for months, and the breaker was burned, thus shutting off any possible hope for the Stanton miners of getting their jobs back. Spokane Workers Pay Tribute to Engdahl NEW YORK—The following reso- lution of the Ella May branch on the death of J. Louis Engdahl, national chairman of the I.L.D., has been re- ceived by the national office: “The Ella May branch of the Inter- national Labor Defense, Spokane, Washington, sends its deepest sym- pathy to the national office, on the loss of its former secretary, J. Lous Engdahl. Comrade Engdahl died at his post, fighting for the lives and freedom of the Scottsboro boys. The Ella May Branch pledges itself to in- tensify its activity for the release of the Scottsboro boys, and to mobilize cheering masses of workers, and went | ing before they slept there for the} But 70 police were crowded in the| were chased | mect- | The meeting was enthusiastic for| swept into Vincennes in triumph and got a hearty welcome from the thou- sands of workers gathered to meet them The streets were lined with cheer- | ing and singing throngs all the way. | After holding a meeting, the | marchers went on and reached Bick- nell about 8 p. m, Loca) United | Mine Workers unions and other AFI. | loca]s had raised $25 for march ex- | penses, and the delegates were housed ind given food at Eagle’s Hall, where 09 workers attended a mass meeting t same night. Some of the 500 families unemploy- |ed here haye been on the relief list, | such as it is, for three years. ‘County March to Back Up Demands COLUMN 4 | MIDWEST PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 1 A great gathering of workers is forming at West Park to greet the National Hunger Marchers of Columns 1 and 4 due here this afternoon. Column 1 is coming down from the north- | Westward, from Youngstown. Column |4 is reported on its way eastward from Steubenville, today. The united columns will morrow to Uniontown, county. go to- Fayette County Hunger March | GREENSBURG, Pa, Dec. 1— | Merely the announcement of the | Westmoreland County Hunger March | has forced the county authorities to ; grant part of its demands even be- |fore the March takes place. They jagree to abandon the pian of mak- jing all put to work on the county | roads for relief sign a contract waiy- ing any right to collect for injuries |received. ‘They agree to stop con- | fiscating the license plates of cars jof those applying for relief. The | county officials also agree to raise |the wages for road work from 25 | cents an hour to 40 cents. | ‘The march, mostly of unemployed | Miners, will take place, as scheduled, jon Dec. 5, in support of the right of | the National Hunger Marchers to go | through Washington streets in a body | and present their demands to Cong- | ress, also in support of the demands hemselves. The county Hunger Marchers will | also propose to the local authorities | that they give, in addition to the | three demands already won, $1 more |relicf per family, relief for single | men, free coal, milk and free medical | ald, 50 pounds of flour per week to an average unemployed family, and stop discriminating agains; Negro |} @nd foreign born unemployed work~- ers | There are 15,000 jobless in this | county. Relief at present amounts to only two cents a day per person for those who get relief at all. | The County Hunger Marchers will jarrive at the county court house in | Greensburg, Monday at 1 p.m. | Delegates from here to the Nation- al Hunger March will join Columns 1 and 4 in Uniontown, Dee. 2, Fight to Release | 3in Birmingham COLUMN 6 FROM THE SOUTH CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Dec. 1—~ | City officials here launched an at- tack on the National Hunger March- jers of Column 6 Tuesday, and on 300 | workers of the city who tried to as- semble to greet them. The march- ers were fresh from thelr clash with the police in Birmingham, Sunday, where the mass protests from work- ers both Negro and white forced the |elease of the girl marcher arrested trying to speak to them, They were prepared to call on the workers of Chattanooga for protest against the continued holding of three Negro workers arrested in the |crowd at Birmingham when several thousand welcomed the marchers there. Those still held in Briming- ham are Leroy Guyton, Frances Wil- son and Rosalie Wilson. But the Chattanooga police created a case for struggle right here. They arrested over 100 workers, including icQuiston, three of the marchers: M Dinehard and Diaz. The tremendous resentment thru- out the city finally forced the re- lease of all the arrested They had been charged with vage rancy. The attack was planned, in agree- ment with the most vicious anti- working class forces. The Ku Klax barat the streets. Bass closed the cit house in fear that ths tomas would rouse the inmates existing on charity soup there. Huge forces of police and special deputies were assembled by the city adminisiration, The workers showed splendid spirit. Column 6 was to stop over last night in Charlotte, N. C. ee the workers of Spokane to continue the work of our leader and. Comrnday J, Lovie Engdahi” eatin \ 6 ) ¢