The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 6, 1932, Page 3

| Whole Washington P. nn oe eet DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1932 e-em ye = = O lice Force, With 4,000 Hunger Government Troops in Reserve, Interns Jobless Marchers International Notes By PETER HENRY. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Dec. i ‘The bourgeois daily “Las Noticias, commenting on reports that General Sandino, the anti-imperialist leader, is sending his troops into Honduras to aid the revolutionary forces there, gays that this is “pernicious” for Nicargaua, for if the Honduran rev- olution is successful Sandino will ob- tain arms and munitions for his; own battle against American imper- falism, while if the Honduran rebels fail they will join Sandino in the Nicaraguan struggle. After nearly ten years of unde- elared war, the U.S.A. is facing a hotter hornets’ nest in Central Amer- ica than ever. Costa Rica is pre- paring to denounce the American sponsored anti-revolution treaty, while revolutionary forces are fight- ing American puppet governments in Honduras and Nicaragua. We are witnessing the slow disintegration of American imperialism’'s _ positions throughout Central America. WHITE TERROR JN EUROPE PRAGUE, Noy. 17 (by mail)—The editor-in-chief of the “Rude Pravo”, central daily organ of the*Commu- nist Party of Czechoslovakia, Josef Guttmann, has been arrested by the police, charged with violation of the law for the defense of the republic. The editor-in-chief of the Slova- kian “Pravda”, Mascovich, has been sentenced to six months at hard labor under the same law. Zoltan Fabri, well-known Com- munist author and mayor of the Sl6- vakian town of Stos, who wrote a sensational book exposing the ter- rible mass misery and starvation in Slovakia under Czech rule, has been sentenced to prison for a speech at a public meeting. EASTERN . SOFIA. — The Bulgarian police have arrested six deputies belonging to the Workers Party. It is believed that their trial will be a prelimi- nary to the suppression of the party. Minister of the Interior Gorginoff stated in a press interview that the Cabinet is considering the suppres- sion of the Workers Party and the expulsion of its deputies from the Sobranje. a WARSAW.—In Lodz 35 members of the persecuted Left Wing of the Polish Socialist Party are being put on trial. One of the prosecution's witnesses, Novashik, has admitted that his “evidence” was fabricated by the Polish political police and that he signed it upon payment: of 500 zloty and because he feared for the consequences if he refused to do so. These are but a sample of the daily reports from Europe of the brutal suppression of Communist ac- tivity in so-called democratic re- publics. i oe BELGRADE, Nov. 20—The Bel- grade Special Tribunal sentenced Davico, & high school teacher, to five years at hard labor on a charge of Communist propaganda. Two other defendants received similar sentences, Fourteen others were sen- tenced to terms ranging from six months to three years at hard labor. The white terror is raging over Eu- rope practically unchecked, Denro- catic constitutions and civil liberties are scraps of paper when the ruling capitalist class feels its power en- dangered. It is the proletarian duty of all workers to aid the efforts of the International Labor Defense for the release of class-war prisoners. RED MINERS WIN LIGHTNING STRIKE LONDON, Nov. 17 (by mail) — Seven stone workers were fired at the Bardyke mine in the Scottish coal fields for rejecting worse labor conditions proposed by the manage- ment. Repeated efforts to have the men reinstated failed, until the United Mine Workers of Scotland, the revolutionary union, held meet- ings of all the shifts, at which a strike was voted to force their re- hiring. Then the superintendent hanged his tune, the old conditions ave been withdrawn, and the seven m started back at work. ‘This is a reel victory for militant united action with the revolutionary union in the f and mobilizing the miners discontent in the struggle against grievances and for better conditions. UNEMPLOYMENT GROWS IN ITALY ROME, Noy, 19 (By Mail).—Ac- cording to the Triest “Borsa” unem- ployment has been on the rise in Italy ever since the end. of June, 1932. Most of the unemployed are not registered in Italy, but those re- gistered numbered 905,000 at the end of June, while 960,000 were listed at the end of October. Of these less than one-quarter receive any relief at all. This explodes the legends spread in the United States about the “pros- yerous Italy under Fascism.” The Fascist regime means hunger and unemployment for growing masses of workers, enforced by a regime of brutal terror. MASS ACTION WINS IN SCOT- LAND IRVINE, Ayrshire, Nov. 17 (by mall)—The Communiste. a great, march from all over the coun- ty to the County Council. Under the Jeadership of the National Unem- ployed Workers’ Movement contin- CURTIS REFUSES TO GIVE PERMIT Even Breaks Promise) to See Committee (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) committee, not over three, from the marchers. This is not at all satisfactory to the marchers, and is not in accordance with their instructions from the mass- jes of unemployed workers they repre- j sent. In the face of the mobilized police power of the whole capital city and knowing that 4,000 regular army) troops with tanks, cavalry and artil- | lery are waiting 20 minutes march from their camp, they are meeting | to decide the next steps. | The meeting will have a chairman elected, and the vice-chairman will be chosen, one from each of the nine columns of the National March . | Court Answers Wednesday | Today attorneys filed with the clerk | of the Supreme Court of the United | States a petition for a writ of habeas corpus to release the marchers from | their imprisonment by the police and for a writ of mandamus clearing the Police interference from the route and permitting the marchers to go to the capitol building in a body. The case was turneq over to Jus- tice Luhring who stated that he| would give his answer Wednesday. This may serve as a means of plac- ing all branches of the Washington government on record as to their at- titude towards elected delegates of the unemployed who come to demand relief. | Police Bar Halls. | All day long the National Com- | mittee of the Unemployed Councils had been busy trying to hire a hall for the National Conference of the Unemployed, to which all 3,000 marchers are elected delegates. ' The manager of the Washington Auditorium, where the hunger marchers met last year, stated to the committee that he was perfectly willing to rent it again this year, but that District of Columbia Commis- sioner Reichelsderfer had ordered’) him not to do so. This same situation developed at all the halls approached so far in Washington. The National Commit- tee is able and offers to pay the reg- ular rental, the hall owners are ready to rent, but the police stub- bornly refuse to allow them to do so. One hall, holding 800 has actually been rented, and the police refuse to allow any of the marchers to go to it. Adopt Statement. The National Conference of the Unemployed will haye before it for its main business the discussion and amendment and adoption ofa state- }ment to congress and to the masses in America. The draft of the state- ment was prepared by the National Committee. It includes the follow- ing demands to be submitted to con- egress: 1—Immediate federal emerg- ency relief appropriation of $50 | for each unemployed worker, man or woman, plus $10 for each dependent, in addition to exist- ing local relief. 2.—Immediate enactment of a system of federal unemployment insurance by government through taxes upon wealth and income, and direct levies upon employers, providing for each unemployed worker the average wage of his industry and locality for the full period of unemploy- ment. 3.—Full and immediate pay- ment of the war veterans ad- justed compensation certificates (bonus). 4.—Immediate cash relief to the impoverished farmers, pnd legislation prohibiting the seizure of farms or other property for the collection of debts, rents or taxes, 5.—Federal legislation prohi- biting the eviction of unemployed workers from their homes, and @ provision of adequate housing for the homeless. 6—The administration of all relief funds through represent- atives elected directly by the workers and farmers their own organizations. i—The provision of all neces- sary funds for relief and insur- ance by direct taxes on wealth and income, and the diversion of all present appropriations for war purposes. Abolition of all taxes om articles of mass con- sumption (sales tax, etc.). Can Be Won by Struggle. The statement of the National Hunger March, as proposed, ends a ee a that these de- mands can won by. strugggle, and calls on employed and unem- ployed workers to go on with this » locally and nationally, The marchers threw the police into hysteria once by parading on foot with the Red Front Band with a red flag at their head back and forth within the narrow restrictions of the police lines. There was an instant flourishing of guns by the cops. The marchers jeered the police, and be- gan to sing. tn each head of a family who has been out of work for more than two months. This is in addition to the regular unemployment dole. This shows what can be done by organized mass action—more actual relief for the unemployed than by spinelessly waiting for the capitalist government to hand out crumbs in Emergency Relief collected from workers’ pockets, G WORKER CORRESPONDENCE | REPORTS ON SH MANGEL WORKERS GIVE “FREE” TIME Worker Calls for Or- ganization to Win Better Conditions BROOKLYN, N. Y—On Nov. 16 you had in the Daily Worker an article which exposed the miserable conditions under which we are working. For the benefit of those who missed up on this article I re- peat in outline the bulk of the text. | The outstanding feature of the rotten conditions existing in the Mangel’s Store Corporation is that of constant lay-offs and hiring of new help at-lower pay. The violation of the 8-hour law and speed-up cre- ating great competition among us and causes us to become enemies of each other. The vicious stock-buy- ing scheme by which many of us lost money when the bosses sold to us knowing that they would be worth- | less in a short time. | I want to warn against the at- tempts of the bosses to make us a “happy family” and cause good-feel- ing by many methods. Among these was the “turkey raffle’ by which they took hard earned money from us and gave only part.of it back to a few of us in the form of turkeys. Another scheme is to make us share free overtime sessions. Each group awaits their turn to do nerve-wrack- ing-speed-up work in ‘the shop. Day by day-we begin to see things | more clearly. Last time we went out on strike we lost because we had not organized beforehand sufficiently strong. This time we should meet these conditions by organizing shop committee and meet blow for blow. I am tired of the curses and street terms used on us every so often by! Mr. Kavari and his crew of over- seers. I repeat we should organize. Into small groups at first so that we can keep out an stool-pigeons. Those who are ready, get in touch with me through the Worcorr editor of the Daily Worker . . —Mangel Worker. Earns $5. Weekly; Forced to Give $5 to Community Chest SCRANTON, Pa.—In compelling the workers to give to the Commu- nity Chest, the bosses go around the factories 1 get the signatures of those wh¢ re going to give. If you don’t si you are sure of losing your job’ imediately. Many work- ers that I , now of lost their jobs be- cause the refused to give the amount which is from $5 to $1.50. These workers are only making $4.50 and $5.00 a week and many are the sole supporters of the family. Most of the girls who slave in these sweat | mills bum their rides back and forth as they cannot afford to pay the fare which is 16 cents one way. They get up earlier and start bumming. One could see the whole street filled up with them in the morning. Plumbers at Nine Dollar Week; Boss Kids Them Along NEW YORK, N. Y.—After reading | an ad for a plumber's helper I wrote in an answer for the job. I was sur- prised to receive an appointment for an interview. \ called to see what kind of an ani- mé .the boss was who wanted to giv men an “interview” for the low waj . job he advertized. + asked me again for my exper- jence, etc. Then he said that he would call me when necessary. That was four weeks ago. I think plum- bers and helpers should organize into the T.U.U.L. and stop any secret hiring at low wages like this boss is doing. —JI. B. N. Y. C. R. R. in New Lay-Offs; Workers Begin to Study CORY, Pa.—Layoffs continue on the railroad. ‘The first of November, the New York Central Railroad Com- pany laid off the Dispatcher at Dun- kirk, who controlled the Valley Branch. This work is now handled by the Main Line Dispatcher at Erie, in connection with his other work. The agency at Springfield, Pa., is to be closed in a few days. As a result of these “economies” two more tel- egraphers will be forced on the un- employed list. But another result, which the bankers did not bargain for, is that the remaining employees and those who are unemployed, listen with more eagerness to the program of the Communist Party. —W.A.S. S. Phila. Women Need Organization PHILADELPHIA, Pa.—I suggest that we working women should or- ganize, {nto our unions, In South Philadelphia we women work for 10 cents an hour and really work about 75 minutes as an hour. We are starting to organize among ourselves. Working should ¢ at 532 ®\the shop. The wages were cut four OP CONDITIONS No Wages; Workers Made to Slave Only for Commission | Wieboldt CHICAGO, Ill—The i Stores of Chicago have driven down the standard of living for their clerks far below the level of a bare exist- | ence. Instead of paying a decent | wage, they have eliminated wages | and substituted a 4 per cent sales | commission basis. Sales have fallen off to an extent where the girls are forced to slave all day for a meager pittance, and at times do not even earn carfare, The sales forces of these stores can | only hope to better their conditions by uniting in militant struggle under the leadership of the Office Workers Industrial Union and the Trade Un-| ion Unity League. IG C. | N. J. SHIPYARD IN MASS LAY-OFFS Bosses Election Move} Exposed Now KEANEY, N. J.—Five thousand are working at present at the Fed- eral Shipbuilding Drydock Company. Just before the elections 400 addi- tional workers were hired to give the impression that the election of | Hoover will bring back prosperity. The bosses had been putting up signs “elect Hoover if you want to have work.” After the election the 400 were figed and more workers are | being discharged daily. For instance | among the riveters out of 100 who have been working, only 9 remain in times. They used to pay $5 per 100 rivets now the rate is only $2.25, which amount is divided up between the rivefer and his two assistants— | 41 per cent to the riveters—35 per} cent to his helper and 24 per cent} to the heater. —Shipyard Worker, Auto Co.’s Call Men Back Just to Cut Relief FLINT, Mich—The General Mo- tors, Buick, Fishers, Chevrolet have beeni closed all summer. Some time ago the men were called back (just a trick to wipe their names off the welfare list), worked for three or four days, and were layed off again. The only excuse given to the Buick workers was to wait till Fisher gets caught up on her bodies. Same way at the Fisher. There they were filled with the lingo that something has gone flooey at the Buick. Welfare and factory workers have you not been fooled long enough? Build the Unemployed Councils to fight such tricks to take you off the lists. Build the Auto Workers In- dustrial Union to fight for conditions in the shops —M.R. “The struggle against militarism must not be postponed until the moment when war breaks out, Then it will be too late. The struggle against war must be car- ried on now, daily, hourly.” LENIN. War Mongers Speed Production of Big Shells at New Haven, (By a Worker Correspondent.) [{ NEW HAVEN, Dec. 5—Today a cartridge worker, employed for years at the Winchester Arms Company, informed me that they have put on over 500 extra hands producing heavy war shells of the most deadly character. Between | | 1,500 and 2,000 workers are now | | engaged on this work from 7 a. m. to 6 p. m., with hardly any time out for lunch and at reduced} wages. Other departments in the factory are working only two or) three days a week. The source of | the orders for these shells is care fully concealed from the workers Ww. L. MANY GROUPS JOIN PROTEST) Organizations Demand Police Make Way (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) wholehearted support morally, and will express it in action by mobliiz- ing masses of working women to come out in demonstrations in Chi- cago in support of the National Hunger March. 2,000 Shoe Workers Protest. The Shoe and Leather Workers In- dustrial Union, with 6 delegates in the March wired: “In the name of 2,000 shoe workers organized in the Shoe and Leather Workers Industrial Unjon we vigor- ously protest against the brutal treatment of the representatives of the millions of unemployed workers in Washington, D. C. “The working class of this country will fight against the fascist meth- ods used by the bosses’ government in suppressing the struggle of the unemployed.” NEW YORK.—The Trade Union Unity League, central organization of all the militant unions, sent a strong protest against the barring of the National Hunger Marchers from ex- ercising their right to enter Wash- ington in a body and in a body pre- sent demands for winter relief and unemployment insurance to congress. Cat ee Release Ben Gold! NEW YORK.—The Needle Trades Workers Industrial Union has sent; the following telegram on behalf of! its 25,000 members to the District| of Columbia Commissioners, and to: the mayor of Wilmington, Del. i “The Needle Trades Workers In-* dustrial Union in behalf of thousands of workers vigorously protests against the brutal assault against the Na- tional Hunger Marchers in Wilming- ton and their imprisonment in Wash- ington. “We demand the immediate release of all hunger marchers and our sec- retary, Ben Gold. “We demand the right of petition of the hunger marchers without in- terference by the police. “We demand the hunger marchers be fed and housed. “The N.T.W.1.U, will fight for un- employment, insurance.” The telegram is signed by Louis Hyman, chairman of the General Ex- ecutive Board of the union. Se Hie Writers Go to Court t WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 5.—The League of Professional Groups com-# t Woman Hunger Marcher col- lapses at road side on way to Bal- timore, after being clubbed and tear gassed in Wilmington, Del. mA | mittee in Washington composed mainly of well-known writers, has notified the District of Columia Com- missioners that it is applying for a court order restraining the police from interfering with the movement of the National Hunger Marchers into the city of Washington. The League de- mands also the right of the marchers to proceed to the Capitol building and place demands before Congress. The League's statement was signed by members of its leading commit- tee. Among the names signed were those of: Felix Morrow, Charles Rum- ford Walker, Malcolm Cowley, Mike Gold, John Herrman and Robert| Cantwell. get aan | From Fraternal Orders NEW YORK.—The Fraternal Fed-| eration for Social Insurance com- posed of representatives of 15 work- ers’ fraternal organizations, has sent the following telegram to the D .C.| Commissioners, to Garner and Cur- tis: “We protest against holding under armed guard the Hunger Marchers and demand their right to enter the city in a body and present their de- mands to congress.” H Civil Liberties Offers Aid NEW YORK.—The American Civil Liberties Union wrote the District of Columbia Commissioners: “We had thought that the right of citizens to assemble publicy and move in an organized body to the Capitol had been thoroughly establisheq by past experience.” A ee Pan Cyprians Wire Protest NEW YORK.—The Pan Cyprian Brotherhood, a mutual fraternal or- ganization of workers, collected $4.50 from its memberhsip yesterday and sent two telegrams. One wire was to the National Hunger Marchers in Washington, pledging full solidarity and support, and the other was to Speaker Garner of the House of Rep- resentatives, demanding the marchers be allowed to go in a body to con- gress. Metal Workers Union Aroused NEW YORK.—The Metal Workers Industrial Union, New York branches, with 400 members, declared: “We are protesting against the treatment that the National Hunger Marchers are receiving in Washing-| ton. We demand that the marchers have free admittance to Washington and be permitted to demonstrate in| front of the capitol and to present | the demands of 16 million unemploy- ed and their dependants.” TORGSIN All-Union Company For Trade with Foreigners MOSCOW, U.S.S.R. ANNOUNCES THAT Money remitted by mail, cable or radio, by residents of the U.S.A. and Canada, to beneficiaries residing in U.S.5.R. (Soviet Russia), will be placed to the credit of the named beneficiary at any one of the Torg- sin stores located in more than 200 cities. The beneficiary in the U. 8S. S. R. may select at the Torgsin stores any articles of food, clothing, or other commodities to the limit of his credit with Torgsin. In the event that the beneficiary resides in a town, where there is no branch of the Torgsin, desired com~ modities will be mailed to him from the nearest shipping base of Torgsin. Prices on all commodities are con- siderably lowered. wt The following companies are authorized by Torgsin to re- ceive money and/or issue mer- chandise orders for transmis- sion through Torgsin to persons residing in the US.S.R. Amalgamated Bank of New York Am-Derutra Transport Corporation American Express Company Manufacturers Trust Company Postal Telegraph-Cable Company Public National Bank & Trust Company 4 R.C.A. Communications, Inc. General Répresentatives of TORGSIN in the U.S.A. 261 Fifth Avenue New York City, N. Y. ——— eee J apanese Massacre 27 Peasants in New Advance Toward Borders of USSR General Su Pingwen Relinquishes Strategic Pass Without Struggle. Children, Women and Men Lined Up in Ditch and Mowed Down by Machine Gun Fire; Infants Skewered on Bayonets Japanese troops yesterday crossed the Great Khingan Divide in their jurian town only 116 miles from the drive toward Hailar, a North Manchi Soviet borders. General Su Pingwen, troops in the region under egic Shedyn railway pass in the Khingan Mountains without a struggle, although a handful of de- fenders could haye held the pass against the Japanese invaders. The Universal Service correspond- ent in Manchuria confirms the story | released last week by Chinese sources of wholesale massacres by the Japan- ese of the inhabitants of eight Man- churian villages. He reports: “Eight thriving Manchurian vil- lages were laid prone by bombing air- planes, machine-guns and the torch in the course of the Japanese mas~ sacre that cost, the lives of 2,700 Chi- “I tramped through the tragic ruins of each of them, finding new evidence of the slaughter, hearing new tales of this wholesale bloodshed. In each community the same story was told by those terror-stricken survivors who | escaped the holocaust. The 2,700 were slain because the Japanese believed they allows Manchurian rebels to bivouac in their homes prior to an | deb! attack on Fushun.” ‘The 2,700 peasants included wom- en and children, All were assembled commander of the main body of insurgent attack by the Japanese, relinquished the strat- I cd ANA eR ty Fa 00 . Facilitating Advance mowed down by machine gun fire. Infants, children and others not kill- ed by bullets were bayoneted, The Japanese then piled up the corpses, covered them with oil-soaked fuel, and burned them. Several of the Villagers managed to escape and car- ried the news to nearby villages where the machine gun fire ang the horrified screams of the victims had been plainly heard. HOOVER IGNORES DEBT NOTES Borah for Disarming Wall St. Rivals. WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Grim in- MARCHERS; H 60,000 TRY TO GREET THE ELD BACK BY MACHINE GUNS, TEAR GAS Hoover-Roosevelt Hunger Government Gives Exhibition of Th 3000 Jobless Delegates eir “Democracy” Determined to Present Demands to Congress WASHINGTON, D. C, D. | ington workers, Negro and white, see the National Hunger Ma yesterday. ec. 5.— ty thousand Wash- massed in the streets to rchers come into Washington Long before the hour of arrival of the first Columns, the | Northeastern contingents from @— New England, New York, Hastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, the whole Baltimore Turnpike wa: choked solid with workers, and the | cars of the townspeople. All traffic was blocked. Then came Columns 7 and 8 to- gether, 1,700 marchers in 50 truck: and 125 autos in a p: seven and a half miles long, placards flaming from the sides of the trucks with the demands for “$50 federal winter re- let”, and “unemployment insurance”. Singing “Solidarity”, The marchers were Singing “Sol- idarity”, and “The Intern tional”, to | the music of the Red Front Band. Motorcycle state police of New Jer- | sey followed them to the District of Columbia line. | Fifty District of Columbia motor- | cycle police surrounded the head of the column there. Police Superin- tendent Brown conferred with Carl) Winter, column commander _ since | Carl Reeve was beaten until unrec- | ognizable by police. in Wilmington in the hours of fighting Friday night. “We'll lead you into Washington by a short cut”, said the police Surrounded, The column moved on, until it | came to the corner of New York | Ave. and Florida, a wind swept hill- Side, pitching off in a muddy cliff to the clanging noisy Pennsylvania | Railroad Yards, rising in another | steep muddy hillside on the other | side to woods. Over the rise is the Anacostia river and across it the | mud flats where the bonus marchers camped months ago. Looming above the low buildings to the southwest- ward, only two miles away, is the dome of the capitol building, where today congress is ¢onvening, — that congress to which the marchers mean | to go and present their demands for relief and unemployment insur- | ance. But just exactly here on this bar- ren hillside, a row of police four | deep, armed with machine guns and | tear gas guns, appeared. And heavy patrols of police, on foot, mounted, on motorcycles, with machine guns and tear gas bombs, paced behind | ropes across all the streets, four | blocks from the hillside, and block- | ing the way of the thousands of | Washington workers who tried to| come up to the hunger marchers. | Most of the police carried huge | oaken clubs. Many wore leather or canvass jackets with tear gas bombs projecting out of the many pockets. The whole police force had been re- ceiving tear gas drill and instructions | in shooting down “mobs” from the army, in special camps and under | the instruction of army officers who | drove the bonus marchers out with | fire and sword and tear gas before. Sabers Ready, Four thousand regular army men, and marines, were quartered a short | distance. away, waiting the call to} attack these unarmed elected repre- | sentatives of the jobless—to attack with tanks and artillery and charg- | ing, sabering cavalry—as they did once attack the “heroes of 1917”, right in this same city. The army squadrons were within 20 minutes march of the point where the National Hunger Marchers were halted. In Fort Meyers cavalry and | tanks were held in readiness. All| day yesterday “suppression of mobs” drill was conducted in Camp Meade. Five hundred Ku Klu Klan gunmen were mobilized in Arlington, Va., just over the Potomac from Wash- | ington. Nearly a thousand police were mo- | bilized against the National Hunger March, Hardly a policeman was to be seen on the. streets of the city down-town. Firemen were deputized to replace the police, downtown. These forces of violence of the Hoover-Roosevelt capitalist govern- | ver 1s to ignore the latest British | and French notes, withholding any | comment on them until after Dec. 15. | Meanwhile, the governments of Pol- | and, Belgium, and Ozechoslovakia are reported preparing to back up the British and French demands for delay and a revision of the debts. Continuing its attempt to break up ment were arranged against the un- armed Hunger Marchers as a fitting reminder of real nature of capitalist democracy, the right of petition, ete, The column of Hunger Marchers drove right up to the muzzles of the guns, Will Open Fire On You.” “We want to go through to the tity”, yelled those in the lead. If you try, these men will open fire on you!” screamed back Super- intendent Brown. Another parley followed, and, sur- rounded by the armed forces of. the capitalist government, the marchers decided to camp there for the night. Police patrols hundreds strong, with machine guns and gas, were posted on the crest overlooking the camp and along all the roads (tech- nically they are “streets” but infre- quented, nearly empty streets) lead- ing from the camp. Airplanes droned overhead, ready to shower bombs and machine gun fire. Huge crowds of Washington workers were turned back at the rope barriers. There was no drinking | water, no toilet facilities, no shelter, no food. Workers International Re- lief trucks loaded with food came out; and were at first turned back, Afterwards some were allowed in. The marchers made a meal and pre- pared to spend the night in trucks, or wrapped in blankets on the ground. Won't Go Home. The police taunted them, tried to persuade them to go home. It only roused the militancy and determina- tion of the marchers. The night closed down with most of them singing The International, waiting for the mass protest of the millions of workers, employed and unemployed throughout the country to break down the barriers to act- ually win them their right to go as the delegates of the unemployed, and put their demands before congress. Western Columns Arrive Meanwhile the western delegates 1,500 strong from all the states clear to the Pacific coast, were met at Winchester, 50 miles from Washing- ton by Virginia police, barring all direct progress toward the capital city, ang turning the column off on a side road. On this road they were met at Buffalo Lick Spring by state troop- ers flourishing shot guns, and halted, After taking advantage of the stop- | Page to buy 600 gallons of gasoline at wholesale prices, the column was re-routed by the police, and arrived hours later at Washington. At the limits of the District of Columbia, they were met by another mobilization of police, on motorcycles, and led through the city, close to the capitol building, and into the camp by the railroad yards, with the north- eastern marchers. Southern Columns Come Columns 6 and 9, from all the Southeastern states down to Florida and Louisiana, several hundred strong, Negro and white, some of whom had literally fought their way through Birmingham and Chattan- ooga police attacks, came in from the South, practically unnoticed by the police and found their way to the camp with the others. Finally Herbert Benjamin, secretary of the National Committee of the Unemployed Councils argued his way into the camp, and a meeting of all delegation captains was held. Ben- jamin reported on stores of food assembled in Washington, also that a lodging and meeting hall would be available today for 800 of the march- ers. ‘Two hundred and fifty homes, capable of housing hundreds of the marchers, had been placed at ihe disposal of the delegates by Washing- ton citizens entirely out of sympathy with the attitude of the federal gov- ernment, Influenza The police at first refused to allow any marchers to go to these homes, Many of the marchers, particularly women, were still ill from the gassing given them by the police of Wuming- ton. Fourteen cases of influenza de- veloped in the camp. Many had colds, irom the stram of the march ana exposure in the Washington camp. Finally the police allowed part of the women deiegates and those wha were ill to go through the lines to Washington homes ready to welcome this united front, the Washington | them, Government is broadly hinting at the “possibility” of special treatment of the British demands, Meanwhile it insists Britain must pay the Dec. 15 instalment. U. S. imperialism makes Clear, however, that any re- duction of the war debts must be accompanied by concessions in mark- ets, colonies and “arms reduction” in favor of U. S. imperialism. Sena- tor Borah indicated that the imper- ialist rivals of Wall Street would be told just how and where they would have to reduce armaments in order Department of justice photograph« ers circled around, under armed pro~ tection of the police, and took pice tures here and there. ‘The spirit of the marchers remain: ed as high as ever this morning. Farmers and Veterans There are over 3,000 National Hun ger Marchers in the camp. Witt them are several hundred delegate: to the National Farm Relief Confer- ence and bonus marchers, who came into Washington with the Hunger to give U, S. impreialism tts desired advantage Marchers, and are held. prisoner with them, seein)