The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 8, 1932, Page 4

ro ety Spe sth St., New York City, N. ¥. Published by the Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., di Telephone ALgonguin Address and mail checks to the Daily Worker, 50 E. 13th St., New York, N. ¥. except Sunday, at é 56. Cable “DAIWORK.” SUBSCRIPTION RATES: By mail everywhere: One year, $6; six months, $3.50; 3 mo: 32; 1 month, %e ! excepting Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and { Canada: One year, $9; 6 months, $5: 3 months, $3 i 2 Messages to Congress WO messages were delivered to the country on Dec. 6: The message of Wall Street to Congress delivered by President Hoover and the m age of the suffering millions delivered by. the 3000 delegates represented by the Hunger March. Mr. Hoover once more declared in his message “The acute phases of the crisis have obviously passed’: he once more appealed to the need of “restoring confidence” as the force which will back, pro: become the theme for the Rooseve song of “Happy The election of Roosevelt, the opening of Cor rity This in a different form t ys are here ag: , Were Suppose: S to but the country in the happy’ mood of cheerful waiting and new hopc, thus preparing “public opinion” for a on the st of living af the toil alse con and hope, Se is rough the two Party t rules, the capitalists hoped to demoralize and disorganize the work- i Class, and to weaken its growing fighting mood. Hunger March delegates throughout the country, new vicious, g masses. murderous a By creating a spir y system by which W i The march of 3000 its presence in Wash- ington, has, to say the least, seriously interfered with and disturbed, the strategy of the bourgeoisie followin, opening of Congress. Beer and war debts w Roosevelt hurried to vonfe ence of form, unanimity monoply capitali lebt ques ist conflicts, particularly between C to be made the main issues. the debt question. s easily ion, ri eat Britain and the U. S., was used ig the election of Roosevelt and the Hoover and With a slight differ- the repre atives of the growing imperial- reached by flectin; as a means of letting loose the poison of chauvinist propaganda and ideology. For what purpose? To d capitalist way out of the crisis. vert the attention of the masses from the struggle for bread, to manufacture public opinion for war as the With the growing taxation, the debt question is also being utilized as a means of putting the heavy taxa- tion program of finance capital on the shoulders of the toiling masses Garner, the running mate of Roosevelt, rushed beer question. But the menacing broke through the iron ring of mil St of the toile: into Congress with the rising from below, y blockade, and upset the little game of the Wall Street politicians. THE HUNGER MARCH IN WASH- INGTON. REPRESENTING THE FROM CONGRESS BREAD BEF ORE BEER ARVING MILLIONS, DEMANDED DEMANDED THAT THE WAR FUNDS BE TURNED INTO THE FUND FOR UNEMPLOYED IN- STANCE. i . WOOVER in his message to Cons distress during this winter, the have been mobilized again” are condemned to death fr ministered by the “great priv employed is steadily growing. . Here once more starvation agenci The representatives of the unemployed said pi In the provision against rivate agencies of the country from the charity relief ad- And the army of the un- marching in Washington exposed the charity starvation relief headed by the leading democrat Newton D. Baker, to demand from the demo- cratic congress that the election promises for unemployrent relief be msde good. THE HUNGER MARCH IN WASHINGTON SERVED NO- TICE ON THE RULING CLASS THAT IT WILL DEVELOP SUCH A STORM OF STRUGGLE THROUGH THE COUNTRY THAT |CON- GRESS. WIT BE COMPELLED TO GRANT UNEMPLOYMENT IN- SUP4NCE TO THE STARVING MILLIONS. Foover in his mes for drastic wage cuts. a “bitter” election “struggle”. poor, war preparation. of the crisis. ace demanded the passage of sales tax. On these points there is touching unanimity be- tween the Republican and Democratic Parties Starvation relie: a_program for the murderous capitalist way out THE HUNGER MARCH IN WASHINGTON DEMANDED He called who just went through wage cuts, taxing the THAT THE RICH WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CRISIS BE TAXED. The presence and unparalelled spirit of the Hunger March in Wash- ington shoved into the background the cheap demagogy of the Wall Street politicians. The deman and issues raised by the Hunger March, the heroism and determined spirit of the 3000 elected delegates, exposed th fake issues of congress and its capitalist program for solving the A feeling of fear and panic seized the rulers of the land. Admiration and pride ran through the working class, for THEIR representatives in Washington. The unyielding gates in Washi sentatives of finance capital. organization and consciousne ington, will be of lasting steel them for further battles. spirit and determination of the Hunger March dele- gton shook the complacency and smugness of the repre- The example of working-class discipline, displayed by the Hunger March in Wash- spiration to the workers in the country and THE very announcement of the Hunger March was met with a declara- Ation of war on the nart of official Washington strangle it in the localities. companying the Hunger announced that the Hunger Mar to demonstrate, to present its demands to Congress. They miserably failed in that they announce that they would never, under any circumstan! marchers to enter’ Washington in a body March brought Hunger Marchers were held as virtual prisoners At first they: tried to Bravely did s allow the But the ms ruggles ac- to Washington. Then the Official Washington would never be allowed to parade, The greatest mil- it itary force and display in peace time ever assembled was organized and sent against the Hunger March. But all in vain. Was compelled to yield and retreat and further retreat. The ruling class It retreated with an army equipped with all the modern paraphernalia, before the Hunger March which was only armed with revolutionary leadership, proletarian discipline and organization. What made the ruling class ield? The struggle and the demands of the millions as represented by the Hunger March. The growing radi- calization of the masses which found concentrated and conscious expres- sion in the heroic behavior of the Hunger March in Washington. The Hunger March raised sharply before the entire country the struggle against hunger. It has stirred up the masses. forced serious increase in local relief in many cities, It has already It has increased and inspired the confidence of the workers in their own strength and class solidarity. It has developed a wave of local struggles which in many cases already brought material results The lesson of mass pressure, mass struggle, militant leadership and organization registered in the Hunger March, will stimulate the grow- ing struggles in the country in the fourth wint er of the crisis. he 16 million unemployed ‘ Engdahl Remenbered the Pets: (J. Louis Engdahl, national chairman of the International Laber Defense, died in Moscow, November 21, 1932. A mass me- morial mecting in his honor will be held in the Bronx Coliseum, December 15.) INE} phase of the life and work of J. Louis Engdahi should be especially noted—his devotion to the interests of the class war pris oners. No matter what his other duties in the International Labor Defense, he atways kept the pris- oners and their families constantly in mind. Largely as a result of his planning and insistence, the Pris- oners’ Relief Fund was set up last year to make special efforts to reach new groups of sympathizers who would help in this prisoners’ relief job. ; In connection with our campaign at that time Comrade Engdahl wrote a special article called “Re- member the Prisoners”, in which he seid. in part: ’ ‘ “One of the first obligations of the working class is to its pris- oners. This also involves our duty to their families, left ‘on the out- side’ without the breadwinner. “This task has been too much neglected in the past. The In- ternational Labor Defense, which organizes and carries through this special task, “has met with considerable indifference, even “vithin its own ranks, in develop- ing the relief of prisoners and their dependents, in uniting the workers on the outside with the elass war prisoners through cor- k tem,. visits wherever possible. Generally, the task is to show every victim of capitalist class Justice entombed in prisons that they have not been forgotten.” Then Comrade Engdah] told his readers precisely what they could do about it: (1) Send an imme- diate contribution to the Prison- ers’ Relief Fund. (2) Pledge to pay a definite and regular amount to the Fund. No more timely excerpt from the varied and forceful writing of Engdahl could be quoted than this appeal for the class war prisoners and their dependents. Were Eng- dahl still with us he would be making such appeals right now, especially in connection with the Prisoners’ Winter Relief Campaign of the I. L. D. (80 East 11th St., New York City). Engdahl’s memory is warm and inspiring to: all those engaged in any form of working class relief but especially to those engaged in this cldss war prisoners’ work, For he was the outstanding figure dn. this type of work, a work that must be carried on now with more than redoubled energy. New work- ers must be brought to help in this work. Comrade Engdahl was al- ways looking for fresh forces to assist in this task .THere should be scores of those who will want to help carry on where Engdahl was forced to leave off, Their slogan of work must be “his own words: “Support the class war prisoners and their depend- enis, We cannot, forget a. single ermondence, the setrmnnge Ag | prisoner top a single days” | DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932 PARE. ARMAMENT. Ye SALESTAR POR POOR Sp * WAGE CUTS vs —By Burck The Press and Police Campaign | of Provocation That Failed “ALL WASHINGTON WAITED 5 APPREHEN- ASH THAT AR MORE THE EViC- 'S ARMY SERIOU: TION. LAST THAT GOVERNMENT 0 FICIALS PREDICTED MAY END IN BLOODSHED AND DEATH.” News, Dec. 5. * THAN OF THE BO : SUMMER—A BATTLE By BILL DUNNE. | "PHE MAGNIFICENT revolutionary morale, mass protest and sup- port throughout the country and unbreakable working class discipline defeated the most elaborate a= tempt yet made in the United States in peace time to provoke ut- terances and actions that would have furnished an excuse for a wholesale massacre of the Hunger March delegates in Wash- ington. working class. The entire capitalist press joined in the campaign to picture the Hunger March as an armed inva- sion of Washington organized by the Communist Party for the pur- pose of provoking bloodshed which | it could “capitalize.” | PROVOCATION BY | PRESS Every sheet from the dignified tory New York Times, the staid and ultra-Republican and - reactionary Herald-Tribune, the Hearst and Scripps-Howard press to the gutter previous efforts in their attempts to create a moral and_ political background for any and all attacks f by the police and military forces organized against the National | Hunger March and the interests and demands of the millions of un- employed workers which it voiced. During this whole period there has been shown the indispens- ability of the Daily Worker and the revolutionary press as the main weapon in exposing this tactic of the enemy, at the same time mobilizing mass support for the whole struggle and for the defeat of the campaign for de- | nial of elementary political rights and forcible suppression, EDS Threaten Bloodshed on Capital March,” said the Sun- day News in a twa-column black headline on Dec. 4. But even this lying and murderously provocative slander of unarmed elected dele- gates of the working class victims of the Republican-Democrat star- vation regime in the richest coun- try in the world, does not character- ize adequately the provocative con- tent of the story. It bears all the earmarks of having been written or inspired by agents of: the notorious department of justice and is quite typical of the mouthings of these spies and provocators, FAKE BENJAMIN SPEECH ‘The agency responsible for this story—whether it be the copy desk of the Sunday News, the reporter, or the government—actually de- scribes a speech of Herbert Benja~ min, secretary of the National Com- mittee of Unemployed Councils, which he never made! Under a Baltimore date-line the story begins: “Plenty of bloodshed and more than one killing is expected when the Hunger Marchers invade Wash- ington tomorrow, a Government of- ficial predicted tonight.” “There's going to be shooting and somebody will die,” declared a Federal undercover agent who has been mingling wtih the Reds since they left New York.” “There's more than one gun hidden in that mob. The sleuth indicated nearly 2,000 surly Communists who hooted and jeered every mention of Uncle Sam at their rally in Tom Mooney Hall.” for trouble,’ he continued, ‘and the police will oblige them when they cross the District of Columbia line,’” se the Sunday News proceeds to write a speech for Benjemin; _ 3,000 | Victory on this issue is with the | tabloids like the New_York Daily | and Sunday News, exxceeded all | “We understand they're coming | into the capital this year primed | | | | | | “The cops can’t put us out. There aren’t enough of them. . . . we'll break into the capitol by brute force!” the agitator deciared. “They will listen to our demands or «we'll stage a riot right on the spot... . If Hoover brings in the troops there'll be a masacre, Pennsylvania Avenue will run red with blood!” This repbrt is made up out of wholecloth. It is the kind of speech the department of justice WANT- ED made. DISSAPOINTMENT IN BOSSES’ CAMP = There isygreat disappointment in the capitalist camp and in the stool pigeon rendevous frequented by the hangers-on of the capitalist par- ties and their press. We must also record the disappointment of Sen- ator Metcalfe of Rhode Island, ben- eficiary of the strikebreaking Man- ville-Jencks textile corporation who sent one of his setretaries to en- list in the Hunger March as a sea- man, to leave the March in Balti- more and report on foreign born workers to Secretary of Labor Doak and other high-salaried stool pig- eons. ‘The 2,000 capital police, the hun- dreds of city firemen, the semi-of- ficial organizations of businessmen and underworld elements, the 4,000 troops held under arms in Fort Myer, the unprecedented rallying of department of justice agents and other armed forces against the Hunger Marchers, were pictured as self-sacrificing heroes ready to lay down their lives in smashing a threat: of civil war. “Invading Red Horde Marches on Nation’s Capitol,” screamed the Sunday News. HE Hunger Marchers were not hungry. This was the general note in the press. They did not represent the interest of the mil- lions of hungry unemployed. ‘This was another note. The leaders were “living in luxury.” This was an- other note. The Hunger Marchers needed no financial aid from other workers. This was a note struck again and again. “From a bankroll the size of a head of cabbage Benjamin paid in- cidental expenses here for his fol- lowers. His money was crisp new notes and when asked where he got it he laughed: ‘There’s plenty of money behind our march to Wash- ington—we're well financed this time.” (Sunday News, Dec. 4.). “With a suite of rooms at the expensive Hotel Raleigh . .. where comely Communist girls lounge about like a Follies troupe in a try- out, Benjamin has been living the life of Riley while he prepared for his Red inyasion.” (Sunday News, Dec. 4.). i “Capital Musters Big Defense Army,” said a headline in the Daily Mirror. “ “Reds to Defy Troop Threat,” said the New York American. ANOTHER ANGLE ‘The Hunger March was violent but was defeated and demoralized as it neared Washington. This was another angle of approach by the enemy press. “Quit Wilmington Under Guard After a Night of Rioting,” said Hearst's New York Journal, “WILMINGTON, Del., Dec. 5— Escorted by grim police, the Red Hunger Army began the retreat from Wilmington today after a night of rioting, tear gas barrages and bloodshed.” * en ® he police, of course, were innocent of any brutality. They had merely driven marchers into a va- cant building and then thrown tear gas bombs among them. The New York Times correspond- ent reported some of the results of the government-inspired press pro- vocation and incitement, to violence against the Hunger March: “CUMBERLAND, Md., Dec. 3.— Confronted by an jmposing array of Cumberland city officials, who were, supported by a ‘ritizen army’ with’ a National Guard company mobilized in reserve, 1,300 Hunger Marchers, comprising the ‘Western Division’ that will converge on Washington tomorrow, abandoned late yesterday their original plan ta ‘occugy’ Cuniberland for the Solidarity and Discipline Defeat the Government-Inspired Drive to Disrupt Hunger March Action of Unemployed night.” Bales ot hay were piled high along the road for use as barricades to frustrate any attempt to rush the defending line. The defense forces took up yosition at a strategic pdint. . .. Where the highway winds be- tween two mountains of solid rock. At that point one man, with a ley- er, could unloose enough tons of rock to annihilate an army.” (New York Times, Dec. 4—All emphasis is ours). “At Buffalo Lick Run . . . State Trooper R. E. Bayliss placed his car directly in the path of the on- coming columns and ordered a halt. He drew his shotgun from his car So as all could see it.” . . . “Tomor- row, when a clash appears inevit- able, Major Brown will have every available policeman guarding the Capitol and the White House.” Hearst's Washington Herald, Dec. 5). The self-described liberal World Telegram did its bit: “WASHINGTON, Dec. 5.—Several hundred of the demonstrators coral- Jed by the police marched in line toward thé guarding forces this morning, as though intending to make a break for the city, but they were quickly turned back.” There never was any such plan of “making a break” through the lines of heavily armed police, with batteries of tear gas and machine guns trained upon the Hunger Marchers.” The authorities and the newspaper correspondents knew that the Hunger March delegates and their leadership were depend- ing upon the mass pressure from workers throughout the country to break down the campaign of per- secution and suppression. But the World-Telegram gleefully reported: “Lines of heavily armed police- men, reinforced by 400 firemen, confined them in/a roped-off sec- tion“of boulevard on the edge of the city, At nearby army posts 4,000 troops stood ready for a double-quick mobilization. pl ibs hunger marchers today were deter- mined to try to overcome by legal writ OR FORCE the cordons of Police who barred them from the halls of Congress.” Sa a f has TIMES injected a new note in a dispatch from Cumberland Dec. 4. The Hunger Marchers were “quarreling among themselves. Po- lice early today reported fighting among the marchers, but this was stopped.” Presumably by the in- tervention of the humane police. Defeat jand discouragement for the Hunger March and what it stood for was the note struck by the New York Herald :Tribune: “Hunger Army Biyouacked; Po- lice Watch—Icy Wind Swirls Dust? Sky Threatens Rain; 2,500 at Jour- ney’s End, Dismal Camp Near Cap- ital—Stern Cordon Bars Further Advance,” the Herald Tribune headline shrieked on Dec. 5, ITS PURPOSE, a ‘The purpose of this barrage of press provocation, of which we have recorded only one-thousandth of one per cent, is made clear by the actions of the police detailed to intern the 3000 Hunger March~ ers. Obviously acting under or- ders, they tried by insult, obscene verbal abuse and physical attacks on individuals and groups to pro- voke an outbreak that would give a plausible public excuse for turn- ing loose the thurderous arrav of gas, guns and bombs with which they had been specially equipped. oo SS i ea Tt restraint of the Hunger Marchers in the face of this abuse was a remarkable example of working class discipline. It brought forth the admiration of many newspapermen and at least one written tribute. The Federated Press reported Dec. 6: “Robert M. Buck . . . descvibed vividly . .. the all-night barrage of insults with which police sur- rounding the pavement ‘camp’ of the marchers tried to make these determined young people forget their danger. He said that the ‘rough stuff’ the police ‘threw in- to’ the Hunger Marchgrs last night convinced many observers that a. detiberate incitement to riot had > 4 + NOTE:— masses. The a a The author shares INSTALMENT 33 eorsia Nigger” is a smashing exposure of the hideous persecution a jy Worker is relentlessly opposed to the white ruling class term, contemptuous treatment of Negroes which it symbolizes. picture of these horrible conditions, he considered it necessary mouths of the boss lynchers terms of respect for Negroes which they do not use.—EDITOR. this to use this term as of! NEGRO SLAVERY Topay | John L. Spivak’s Stirring Novel 4 tional oppression of the Negro ," and te toe oppression and , bu, mm order to paint a tree rwise: he would have put inte the vi youth, is on his THE STORY SO FAR: David Jacks: in, & Negro way to Macon, Ga., to look for a Job when ke is picked up, charged with‘ vagrancy and sentenced to three months on the chain gang. For trying to escape while being taken to the prison camp known as Buzzard’s Roost, the sentence is bec: fellow-prisoners, increased to 12 month wear 20-pound steel spikes riveted around his legs, One of the Negro prisoners dies from’ tuberculosis ause he is. forced to work while ill and then denied medical attention. Now continue: nd David is compelled to He is buried by his HO. Bury ‘em in swamps,” a voice said. “Who cares? Yo! nothin’ but a nigger.” “Should a-taken care o' dat boy,” said another. “Hit ain’ right to ie‘ ‘em die lak dat.” “Niggers got no rights. Mules got rights. Mules cost money,” the first voice said bitterly. “Should a-taken care o’ dat boy,” third voice said with deep con- viction, “Prison Commission sez dey gotter tek care o’ you if you's sick.” HOW INSPECTORS WORK “Yeah. Prison Commission sez de doctor gotter be here w'en dey punish you, too.” “Somebody oughter write ‘em "bout dis boy.” “Yeah? An’ dey’ll sen’ a in- spector an’ he'll repo’t Con got de bes’ treatment. De Cap'n an’ de doctor’ll say de same. An’ wen dat’s over you'll wish you was out dey wid Con.” “Yeah. Nothin’ to do ‘cept wuk out yo’ time—or die out.” “Or run out.” “An’ git ketched an’ put in de sweat box.” “Lots o’ convicts run out.” “Yeah, Whey? Tell me dat? Whey dey run?” “Houn’ dogs on lan’ cats in de swamps.” “Yeah. Dey ain’ no ‘scape fo’ niggers.” an’ wild Cora REO Bee even to think of escape makes it easier when-the guard curses and the sweat dribbles down your body while you bend and rise, bend | and rise, fourteen shovelsful to the ‘ minute, hour after hour, under a tropic sun. Shackles are off and a free body runs in the fields, in the fields, in the swamps, on the high- way, hunted by man and dogs but—tfree. In. the noon period Ebenezer dropped tiredly beside David at the roadside and stared morosely at the spikes. “I got de blues,” he said. The boy nodded sympathetically. “Td lak ter see my two chillun, but I doan even know whey dey is.” Dayid did not answer. “I could fine ‘em if I was out.” THERE OUGHT TO BE TWO The sun’s glare hurt the boy’s eyes and he covered them with his hat. The guard and the walking- boss sat with their backs to a tree, watching the convicts: Mules grazed on the seared grass. “I foun’ ’em once w'en I run out an’ I kin do hit again.” “You got tuh run out fus’.” “Dey oughter be two w’en you run out—one to watch w'en de other's sleepin’.” Pine NAVID turned on his side to look at him. Ebenezer’s eyes were bright. “Ain’ no use. You'd git ketched an’ beat half tuh death.” “Not if I meks de swamps at night. T know swamps. I lived in ‘em till I was man-size. Dey ain’ nobody kin fine me in a swamp in de dark. Nobody. Not even a houn’ dog. An’ by sunup I'd be whey dey couldn't fine me even in daytime.” “Yeah? Yo’ big mekkin’ de swamps.” “T got dat all figgered out.” The boy raised himself on an elbow to look with startled interest at him. “I got a steel file—f’um de black- smith shelter.” “Whey yo’ got hit?” breathed excitedly. “In de brush near de grave. ‘Threw hit in we we was carryin’ Con dey.” “How you figg’rin’ mekkin’ de swamps fo’ de guard shoots you?” David asked eagerly. “Dey cain’ shoot you in de eve- nin’. Dey cain’ even see you. Gimme ten minutes an’ dey’ll never fine me. Houn’ dogs ain’ no good in swamps if yop sticks to water.” PME Aue 3 AVID shook his head. “How you git ten minutes start?” “Dat’s whut I got all figgered out,” Ebenezer said triumphantly. “Jes a li'l mo’nin’ on Con's grave.” It was a simple scheme and in its very simplicity lay the chance for success. ‘The warden knew the Negro custom of mourning the dead and decorating graves with broken crockery, cans, pots—any~ thing sufficiently useless not to be stolen, As for the closeness to the trouble is the boy swamps, everyone in Buzzard’s Roost knew enough not to try for them. Two had fled there once and two weeks later a trapper had found what the wild cats had left of them. The warden would have no fear of a break in that direc- tion, not with chains and spikes on their legs. Only the open road held hope for escaping convicts in this camp, and on that the hounds . Would find them, WORTH THE RISK Against capture and punish- ment was the chance of success, of shedding spik and the fear of shackle poison that might cost him a leg and leave him a helpless cripple, unfit even for a white man’s farm. The thorghts raced through his mind. To the excited imagination fell on indifferent ears, The sun sank behind the fields and the guard shouted “Lay ’em down!” In the truck Ebenezer sat at his side and while the ear shook its way through the gloom, pressed his foot gently, a friendly pressure, Bill Twine called “Come by me! Lemme smell you!” under the reddish flarés. In. the *mess hall the older Negro caught his eye with a significant leok that made his heart pound fiercely, He was half through with his supper when Ebenezer got. up. David knew what to do. He had been told in a few. Swiftrsentences and he raised his legs over the bench and followed him into the yard. The boy walked ‘slowly to the kitchen. He saw the warden and the night guard~tatking to- pounds four bread day each wath; noe ach week. Ai aye a Monte ‘The sick In hospital are given nuch other diet ~-pounds rice; One cup of eoliee tor brent Dies a8 cabbage, potatows, turnips, onions, peas DeAaA, 10. In nensoe WIUNPO Alin AYFHPsoweneve the physician in charge designates, REMARKS: . FACTS AND LIES.—The official reports of the wardens of southern prison camps are concocted in order to conceal the terrible conditions under which thousands of prisoners, Negro and white live. Above is an official diet report of the Monroe Count, Ga. chain gang, containing a@ glowing account of the food |given the prisoners. Five-sevenths pounds of bacon and orte pound of beef per prisoner, various vege- tables “without stint”, “fresh meat or fish are given twice a week with out stint”. Below is ‘something of the real situation as contained in a letter from a prisoner on the McDuffie County, Ga., chain gang. This prisoner writes “Boss men knock and beat up the prisoners and some time we don’t get enuff to eate—don’t get but 2 meals on Sunday. We don’t get but one slice of meat each meal.” ‘The quality of the “fresh” meat can be judged from the documents published yesterday on this page which showed that a Negro prisoner was food. the escape was an accomplished thing. “wren you fixin’ tuh tr§?” he asked eagerly. “Dis ey'nin. Right after supper,” Ebenezer said. TT afternoon was long ‘To Dayid the work songs to whieh he shovelled merely heralded an approaching freedom, Even thé, guard’s customary cries and curses actually poisoned by the gether, but they’ did not look as him, (Continued "Pomorrow) ers WILL THE RUSE WORK? WILL DAVID AND EBENEZER SUCCEED EN BREAKING AWAY FROM THE HORRIBLE PRISON CAMP WHERE NEG! ARE TORTURED AND 3! ARE, DRIVEN TO ‘THEIR GRAVE? DON'T MISS TOMORROW'S IN- STALMENT! been attempted.” “The police taunted and cursed the Hunger Marchers”, he said. “They manhandled them. Their commanding officers looked on and sald.nothing. Police Chief Browi had for two days been telling re- porters and other inquirers that the Hunger Marchers ‘are like any- one else.”» But at no time were they treated like anyone else.” The police singled out Negroes for special abuse. They tried to arouse hatred of Negroes. Here is one incident: 4 “No Jess than 25 policemen, in- cluding a lieutenant, surrounded a car, (There were elght men in it, two of them colored.) ‘Come unt of there, yeu lousy white trash. travelling around with biects’, shouted a policeman, Four of the men were roughly hauled out... ‘Tried to get out on us, hey?’ And stream of unprintable language tumbled from police lips. ‘Well, it don't work. Get back in the car you-—- and drive in where you belong, Sick, are you? Get back into line’.” News, Dec. 6.) WURL VILE EPITHETS. “Meanwhile the police surround- ing the camp were hurling vile cpithats at the men within earshot, and, when occasion offered, hitting individnals or dragging them from cars which had been turned back from lodgings downtown, Only at dawn .. . . did the incitement to violence on the part of the tor- tured marchers cease.” (Federated Press Washington Weekly Letter, Dec. 6.) ° In spite of all lies and slanders masses of workers in other cities rallied to the defense of the Hun- r Marei A storm of protest ¢ over the head of the govern- ment. — Wiies, and letters. in- sisting on the Aonis of the Hunger Marchers and the end of police provocation ay fi persecution poured in. (Washingten Daily . ‘i HE determination, courage and discipline of the Hunger March delegates matched the mflitancy ah We of their mass support. marched through | “ ee capital. ‘They ater ae mands to the Ci and Garn- ers who had mobilized the press and police against. them and the millions of workers_in whose in- terests they marched: and endured insult, hardship and threat of mas- sacre. sf SET NEW HIGH MARK. ‘The National Hunger March and its mass support set a new high disciplined mark for organized and struggle for the demands of the 15-16,09,900 unemployed—for cash winter relief and unemployment, insurance at the expense of the employers and the government, Tt was to prevent this achieve- ment that the cempaign of lies, slander, abuse and» tertor was / Jaunched. ns Se It did not succeed, ~~ Victory rests not with Wall Street's government in this histérie mass action bul with the working ‘class and its rev Tenrler= shin—tho ¥ 5 ‘ i { a é ne.