The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 19, 1932, Page 1

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Entered a5 second-class matter #f the Post Office at G2 New York, M.Y., under the Act of March & 137% NEW YORK, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1932 CITY EDITION In the Day’s News PLAN TO PILOT ROCKET MADGEBURG, Germany, Dec. 18. —Engineer Heinrich Nebel has de- signed a rocket which would carry a pilot some 3,000 feet into the air on the first rocket-pliot flight to be at- tempted. The flight has been sched- wed for next spring. The rocket is to return to the ground by means of | a large, automatic parachute. pilot is to descend by a separate parachute. GOES TO PRISON TO SAVE STARVING FAMILY DETROIT, Dec. 18—Richard Ram- bow, 26, and unemployed for three years is one of the thousands of workers who sacrificed their liberty as the only means of providing sup- port for their families. Rambow re- fused a probations sehtence and chose a two year prison sentence instead after Judge Boyne explained that a man must be sentenced for at least two years before his wife is The | ISSUE CALL FOR ANTI-WAR CONGRESS TO FIGHT WAR PLOTS IN SOUTH AMERICA Warn That Present Wars Are Prelude to New World Slaughter |Urges All Persons Against War to Support| Congress Feb. 28 in Montevideo, Uruguay MONTEVIDEO, Dec. 18.—Declaring war against the im- | perialist wars and bloody coups now raging in South Amer- | ica, the Latin American Confederation of Labor, in co-opera- tion with anti-war committees in Argentine and Uruguay, has | initiated a broad movement for an anti-war congress at Mon-| | tevideo, Uruguay, beginning February 28, 1933. | | A call for the congress, issued by an organizational com- | ‘Trucks of marchers who parade@ Washington and presented demands to congress, entering New York on the way back. They got a big reception from thousands of workers. Wherever the delegations come back, there is immediate growth of unemployed councils and intensified struggle for relief. ‘PASS WALL ST. FILIPINO BILL Senate Votes for Act Against Island Masses 1,500 PROTEST POLISH MURDERS |Force N. Y. Consul to | Soviet Sports 4 Contests Show Great Advance | By N. BUCHWALD Price 3 Cents HUNGER MARCHES ON 6 STATE CAPITALS FOR UNEMPLOYMENT RELIEF | Intensified Struggle As Result of National | Marchers Report and Call of National Comm. | Similar Action: Follows United Front Confe PHILADELPHIA, Pa, “Dec. 18. Soon in Other States; rences Plan Details Six thousand workers in 23 meetings around the city heard the returnec National Hunger Marchers report, and the immediate results of their reports are plans for: A state hunger march on Harrisburg, Feb. 1. A march by children of une of Education here, Dec. 24 Many mass demonstra’ neighborhood and section ba: employed workers on the Board ms and mass meetings on block, Hear Demands NEW YORK.—In an icy blizzard more than 1,500 working men and | mittee set up by the three organizations appeals to the toiling | EXPOSE SELLOUT | Sicuseits Geert eligible for a pension. | SALES TAX TO HIT TOILERS | (European Correspondent Daily Worker). MOSCOW, Dec. 18 (Cable).—The | WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — The State Hunger March. so-called Filipino independence bil! | passed the senate late Friday with- o 2 a) NJ a Tt | America and of the whole world to t ARCHERS WIN | immediately take. up the world-wide The Unemployed Councils of EF: Hees | COPS DEFEND LANDLORD IN | CHICAGO, Dec. 18—The brazen Pike DESY | sellout of the struggle for immediate NEW YORK, Dec. 18.—Trapped by | payment of the bonus by George An- fire and smoke on the top floor of a! thony, self-appointed national field two-and-a-half story building, at 90-| commander of the Bonus Expedi- 38 176th St., which has no fire escape | tionary Forces, is graphically revealed two brothers, 20 and 7 years old, lost| in the December issue of Anthony's their lives, while the mother and| personal mouthpiece, “The B. E. F.- two daughters were seriously and|Camp Hushka News.” painfully burned. The police, who! Anthony, alias Antonovich, is the serve the landlords in eviction cases | notorious police ally who announced immediately came to the defense of | with a great deal of publicity fanfare the owner of the building by saying|that he was organizing a bonus that the rear entrance of the build-| march to Washington. He arrived in ing freed the landlord from the obli-| Washington with two henchmen, gation of installing a fire escape. | went into conference with General + * \ {Frank T. Hines, administrator of BANKERS ORDER 1,600 FIRED | veterans’ affairs, and then “called BALTIMORE, . Md., Dec. 18.—By | off” the bonus march, stating that orders of the Baltimore bankers, | he had made an agreement with around 1,600 of the y's. employees Hines providing immediate relief for will. lose ir jobs ause of the | the vets at. the B. E. F. camp. $2,500,000 additional cuts in the es- The December issue of the “B. E. timates of next years budget. ‘The | F--Camp Hushka News” orders a greatest reductions will be in the De- | ™arch to Washington in the follow- partments of Public Works and Edu- | !& screaming headlines: “On to tation. Wages of public school Washington! March Ordered After teachers had been cut by 10 per Plea for Relief Fails.” ° | ish in the war serving the inter- the Jandlord slave-drivers and the | incipient, greedy, native bourgeoi. | sies. We must frustrate the war | plans or be the cannon fodder sac- | tificed to the interests of the money | bags of our exploiters!” | Danger of World Slaughter. | The Call warns that the undeclared wars between Bolivia and Paraguay and between Peru and Colombia, ac- | companied by bloody coups in Chile, | Brazil, ete., are rapidly developing into a continental war with the sin- ister threat of a new imperialist world slaughter more blcody than the last one. ‘The insatiable voracity of the im- | Perialist magnates and their native | allies in Latin America, the semi- | feudal landlords and the lincipient | national bourgeoisies, is shedding riv~ ers of bleod in the-Chaco region, has provoked armed’ conflicts on the | frontier of Peru with Ecuador and Colombia giving rise to extensive war. |fare in South America. And these are just the beginnings of the con- flagration. Day by day the tense. cent some time ago. A BR SENTENCE KRUEGER’S BROTHER STOCKHOLM, Dec. 18.—Torsten Krueger, brother and co-partner of ‘the late Ivar Krueger whose immense swindle operations shook the cap- italist world and caused losses to thousands of investors, was sentenced to 3 1-2 years in jail for his part in the Krueger Match debacle. In this way capitalism tries to maintain its fiction regarding “justice for all.” MARTIAL LAW IN ARGENTINE Bloody Terror Against Masses BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 18. — The Argentine Government declared mar- tial law yesterday and launched a murderous attack on the Communist Party and other working-class or- ganizations, as a sequel to the police mvasion and gassing of a mass meeting of workers called last Tues- day night to protest against the growing mass misery and the gov- ernment’s drive to participate in the ,undeclared war between Bolivia and Y. Abolish Rights for Masses All constitutional guaranties have been suspended, including freedom of speech and press, thus enabling the government to arrest, deyort or mur. der its opponents witliout court pro- ceedings. The government has sup- pressed the Communist press and closed the offices of four port work- ers’ unions, arresting their organizers. ‘The government used the alleged discovery of a pitt by Hipolito Iro- goyen and other leaders of his Per- ‘sonalista Radical Party for the seiz- ure of power as a pretext for carry. ing out the wildest terror against the toiling masses, although admitting . that the proposed coup was crushed with the arrests of the Irogoyenist leaders. Lies against Communists To “justify” its terror against the _| working-class, the government alleges ’ | that the Communists and other re- ' yolutionary workers were implicated in the Irogoyen plot. It has broad- casted the vicious slander that the Communists had an areement with the Irogoyenists whereby the Com- munists were to be given 48 hours “to sack the city.” ‘The martial law edict is being used fn the provinces to crush the pre- parations of the ruined farmers for a march of 100,000 farmers on the capital to demand relief. Win Use Of City Hall. HAVERHILL, Mass., Dec. 18.— Collection of signatures of 50 citiz~ . ens and persistent demands forced the city council to give the City Hall for the report of Haverhill delegates “on the National Hunger March. The right of workers to use the city hall for meetings has been denied for the last three years. But after the paper had gone to| ness in Argentine-Bolivian and Bo- press, Anthony made his sellout deal | livian-Uruguayen relations is grow- | with Hines. He therefore inserted a|in& Worse . . . Friction is beginning supplement completely reversing the | to manifest itself in the relations be- original orders. This states: “Vet-| tween Chile and Argentine and be- erans Remain in Your States! Re-| tween the latter and Brazil... lef Agreement Reached! Disregard! , A Hunger-War Program. which will draw up a constitution to be voted on by the people of the islands. When, and if, the constitu-| tion is adopted, the islands will enter upon a twelve year preparatory | period, at the end of which time, if they have fulfilled all demands of | the United States imperialists they} will be granted what is described as | | freedom. | Juggle Date Question. The capitalist press refers to this! jas a bill granting independence in! | twelve years. As a matter of fact even this fake independence can be| postponed. for many years while the) juggling with the constitution goes | on. But even after formal independ- | ence the Phillippines will be in a similar condition to the Cubans who | are now supposed to ag! independ- | |ence—but. where Wali Street im- | perialism maintains in power a pup- pet government, maintains naval, military and air bases and crushes | by bayonet and machine-gun any at-| tempt to challenge Yankee tyranny. | This bill is now before congress only as a part of the preparations for war in the Pacific; to‘try to dis- integrate the growing movement for independence in the islands and strengthen its military positions against Japan in the conflict for domination of the Pacific. A powerful anti-imperialist strug- “G.T.O." letters certifying their fit- ness for “labor and defense.” Near- ly two and a half million workers ate qualifying for the coveted “G.T.0.” distinction. ‘Whe members of the athletic groups are among the leading shock workers. 86,000 suggestions for greater efficiency in industry came from these athletes. RIVER FRAME - UP Long Terms Imposed; 15‘ More Face Trial _ NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., Dec. 18. —Six workers, on trial in the South River strike frame-up, were sen- tenced in Judge Lyons court. Fred Litz, only 20 years old, was made ‘to bear the brunt of*capitalist class | "| their protest against the inhuman torture | by the Pilsudski government of revo- | lutionary workers in Polish prisons; against t mass murder of Jewish and Ukrainian workers by govern ment incited pogroms. “Stop this blocdy persecution now,” the demon~ strators shouted. Try to Reach Embassy. The demonstrators tried several | times to march to the front of the Polish Consulate, but only a delega- tion of five succeeded in penetrating y- ing the demands before the N York agent of Polish tascisin. The long line of marchers held up hundreds of banners bearing slogans and demands. They shouted and marched and sang while the beat, against their faces, and tried from three different points to force way tothe consu! ach time the Tammany police threatened force? against the marching men and women. Police Interfere. The police went out of their way to divect traffic into the crowd while snow | “justice” when he was sentenced to) Carl Hacker, secretary of the Inter- | Serve 18 months in the State Prison.| national Labor Def2nse, was deliver- Others convicted are: Frank Irisky,| ing the report of the delegation of sentenced to 1 year in the County | five at the close of the demonstra- Workhouse, John Prujkowsky to, tion. serve 6 months in the workhouse, and But for almost three hours the S‘anley Ploskin, 50, in whose case | large crowd had marched in a line, march, of fighting evictions. | As a result of the reports of the marchers, several new neighborhood branches and block committees of the unemployed council have been| organized. New unemployed coun- cils have been started in North Hills, and Arsly, where previoulsy there was no organization Prepare In Southern Cal. LOS ANGELES, Cal.. Dec. 18. —| Four field organizers left this city Dec. 15 to tour the southern Califor- nia cities and help organize deleg tions and mass support for the Cali- fornia State Hunger March on Sac- ramento, Jan. 10. tions Plan March, Dec. 18—The United | Front Committee for Winter Relief and Unemployment Insurance will | hold’ a city-wide conference here to. day in Carpenters Hall, for the pur- pose of completing arrangements to welcome the western contingents | of the Hunger Marchers and to pre- pare for the Hunger March on the Colorado State Capital when the | legislature convenes early in Janu- | The United Front Committee con- sists of nearly ‘50 organizations in 50 Orga’ DENVER, Col., All Printed News for a March to Washington, D. C.!” The same issue of the sheet also | Statement,” attacking the Daily } Worker for having exposed the fact that Anthony and his henchmen were ruling Camp Hushka with an fron hand and terorizing the rank and file. The writer of the article does not reply to the charge that Anthony embezzled money entrusted to him for ex-servicemen at Camp Bartlett \last summer during the first bonus march. Neither does the writer ex- | plain why the camp M. P.’s man- handled every rank and file veteran | who entered the camp to discuss the jmecessity of another march on Washington. The Chicago Veterans’ Rank and File Committee warns the B. E. F. members against this latest treachery of Anthony’s and calls on them to join in a real united front struggle for relief and payment of the bonus | now in accordance with the program adopted by the rank and file con- ference of bonus marchers in Wash- ington last Thursday. WHAT? A REAL LIBERAL JUDGE WINNIPEG, -Canada.—Because he said there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, and re- fused to send strike pickets to jail, Judge Stubbs is under investigation equivalent to impeachment. ANOTHER STARVING VET CLEVELAND.—George Fisher, 33, World War veteran, after nine months of unemployment, has of- fered to work for anyone who will take care of his two daughters, aged 4 and 6, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18—In ad- dition to increasing threats of war- like reprisals against French s2curi- ties and the French tourist trade, Washington officials on Saturday ex- erted other forms of pressure in their attempt to force the French Chamber to reverse its decision to default on the war debts payments. They declared that the Wall. Street government was willing to continue the debt discussions, but at the same time insisted on unconditional pay- ment by France and the other de- faulting states of the instalments due on December 15. Contradictions of U. S. Imperialism Meanwhile, U. S. imperialism mov- ing for reprisals against France was somewhat hampered by its own con- tradictions, the fear being expressed carries an article, captioned “A Fale™| dians, | “By means of the unlimited ex. | ploitation of the toiling masses, the redoubling of the serfdom of the In- further enslavement of the Negroes, letting loose war, the imper- ialists, the native landlords |and | bourgeoisies hope to unburden them- | Selves of the crisis .. .” | But such a war will have the con- | trary effect: “Hunger, economic ruin, | the destruction of the fruits of de- cades of labor, these will be the con- sequences of this new world war. The daily trend of {world politics | Show the imminency of this. Japan | with its policy of military occupa- tion of Manchuria, its war of pil. | lage and dismemberment of China, | has intensified the struggle among the imperialists, each in its effort | to obtain the greatest. slice of the loot. The wars in South America, the coups, the internal war in Brazil | are also part of the inter-imperialist struggle. It's Anti-Soviet Aim. “The armed forces of imperialism are being mobilized against the Soviet Union, against the construc- tion of Socialism in what used to be the Russia of the czars .. . The Latin American governments are preparing to collaborate actively and under the direction of the imperial- ist general staffs in this attack against the Workers’ and Peasants’ Republic.” The Call outlines the /following proposals for combatting the crim- inal war drive of the imperialists: “This great Anti-War Congress will have for its aim the prepara. tion of an effective struggle against war’ and against imperialism, its instigator and to unify all forces (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) that increased tariffs against French products would at the same time af- fect the products of U. S.-owned plants in France and the other de- faulting countries. These fears, how- ever, did not lessen the volume of chauvinist nationalist agitation in Congress over the war debts. Hoover and Stimson were in secret confer- ence throughout the day at the same time that Roosevelt held similar secret conference with his advisers at Albany. Sociaust Supporters of s«mperiauism French dispatches report that Sen- ators Joseph Paul-Boncour, Minister of War in the repudiated Herriot Cabinet, has been called on to form a new cabinet following the failure of the efforts of Camille Chautemps. Meanwhile, Leon Blum, socialist ‘ gle, uniting in common action against imperialist policy the toil- ing masses of the United States and the colonial masses of the Islands imperialists out of the Philippine Islands. HONOR ENGD AHL Meet Calls for New Effort for Scottsboro NEW YORK.—Crowds were moving up-town yesterday evening and pack- ing into the big Bronx Coliszum for the last tribute to J. Louis Engdahl, who died suddenly in the midst of the struggle he was leading to frec the Scottsboro boys. Engdahl’s ashes were brought into the Coliseum with the work2rs stand- ing and the Workers’ International Relief Band of 40 pieces playing a funeral march, * u The meeting is not only in honor of a good comrade, fearless and tire- Jess leader, but is a new mobilization ‘to carry on the struggle for the Scottsboro Negro boys from the point where death struck down J. Louis Engdahl, A principal speaker scheduded to address the meeting was Mrs. Ada Wright, mother of two of the boys threatened with electrocution on framed charges at, Scottsboro. She is just back from the Scottsboro campaign in Europe, during which Engdahl died. U. S. FEARS WORLD DEBT DEFAULT Socialist Leader Aids Plunder of Masses leader, issued a statement support- ing payment of the war debts de- spite the furious protests of the French working class, who are more and more resisting the tax burdens imposed by the imperialists. Blum assures U. S. capitalism that the re- fusal of the French Chamber to pay the December war debts installment was “only temporary.” He says not one word about the growing mass misery in France arising out of the heavy taxations, armament burdens and increasing unemployment. His entire statement is a defense of French imperialism and a call to the wage-cutters of both countries to co- operate for the capitalist “way out” of the crisis—at the expense of the toiling messes of France and the US is the one*thing that will drive the | IN MEMORIAL the jury recommended “leniency” was given 3 months. | Joe Ploskon and John Kuchewsky, | both of whom are 20, were sentenced to 1 year each in the reformatory. To Try 15 Others. There are still 15 workers to be tried in this case. The International Labor Defense is mobilizing the maximum mass support to save the remaining 15 workers from similar | victimization. Both the New York | and the local offices of the I.L.D. are taking up the question of appeal in the case of the workers who have | been convicted. | butions, and a flood of mass pro- tests are necessary to continue the | defense of these workers. Funds should be rushed at once to the LL.D. Room 328, 80 East 11th St., New York City, BRITISH R. R. STRIKE LOOMS US. Rail Union Chief Says He Can Cut Pay LONDON, England, Dee. Union that a strike on all British railways before Jan. 1, seems inevitable, in the dispute over proposed wage cuts. However, they agreed through John Bromley, president of the En- ginemen's Union, to negotiate fur- ther with Sir Joseph Stamp and Sir Walter Wedgewood, representing the employers, Postpone Irish Cut. BELFAST, Ireland, Dec. 18.—The definite stand of north Irish rail- way workers for strike rather than a new wage cut, has caused the companies to postpone the announc- ed cut for one month, | Whitney Says He Can Cut. CHICAGO, Til, Dec. 18.—A dec- laration by A. F, Whitney, spokes- man of the delegation of 1,500 rail- way union chairmen here that he had ‘unlimited authority to negoti- ate an extension of the ten per cent wage cut agreement, expiring Jan. 81, 1933,” ended until Monday the sessions of the union representatives and company officials here Saturday. The railroad workers were not consulted by their union representa- tives as to what they might think of continuation of the wage cut. The only argument before the negotiators is whether the cut should be continued another year, as contended by the union leaders (!) or last only six month: by the railway companies! It looks as though a compromise would be made. Immediate contri- | 18.— | leaders yesterday declared | s contended | dent also, and there was no oppor-) Denver, of which 19 are A. F. of L. local unions; Unemployed Councils, | Citizens Unemployed Leagues, Inde- pendent Unemployed organizations, fraternal organizations, etc. | |two and one-half blocks long, back and forth along Third Ave., 66th and 68th Sts., bordering the neighborhood of the consulate. They stopped twice to hold meetings,,and in each case the police disrupted the gatherings. After the police pulled down one of the speakers at the first meeting in} the middle of the block on E. 66th pose Child Hunger. TRENTON, WN. J., Dec. 18—On De- cember 23 a committee of 50 needy | New St., the workers paraded to the cor- | childr cities in | { ner of Lexington Ave. and continued ne Governor of \the meeting in defiance of the poli A Lee x | demands to him for Must Continue Fight. | lef to the children, The demonsiration was called by} 5) | a sie a united front committee, including | | Publ peeing pends Jewish, Polish, Ukrainian and Rus- RHODE. Hag ‘eyate Ae i iH rable conditions of the children | sian organizations and the Interna- i paid Sea lta and for the clection of delegates to. Tn reporting the delegation's visit | ‘Ne governct. pe cee wa | t sy. cker sa the | lect uWVEes, 3: ‘7 + OS ie Vals Meagan their parents to |go to the local| consul had replied to them in ex- pected demagogic terms, and cau- tioned that only p. continued mass fight would have any effect in actu- | | The delegation will arrive in Tren- | ally forcing the demands : —_——- | ton on Dec. 22 in the evening and) Ae hold a public hearing | On the 23rd at 10:30 in the morn- | jing the New Jersey Children’s Con- | | He Signs Bill to Cut | ference on Child Misery will be held. City Workers’ Pay | tis conference will elect the com- | mittee of children and parents to | NEW YORK —In the comfortable | present demands adopted by the con- | library of his town house, one of his| ference to the governor at 1:30 P. many homes, the wealthy President- | M. elect Roosevelt, signed, as Governor | of New York, the legislature's bill| Following the call Dec. 14 of the cutting wages of the teachers and | National Commitiee»of the Unem. | permitting the Tannamy Board of ployed Councils for state hunger Estimates to,cut wages of all other | marches and delegations to the legis- | city employes. He joked and laughed latures, to demand relief, Unemploy~ over it, saying that by signing these |ed Councils of six states have. an- bills he reduced his record of yeto- | nounced such action in preparation. | ing. Up to now he had vetoed 28 fe | In addition to the states named | school authorities to place demands | for the immediate relief of the chil- | dren going to these schools. |Roosevelt Jokes As | cent of the bills passed by the legis-| above, there are: Washington, Jan. But not these. 9 and Mlinois, Jan, 29. FISH-NEARING DEBATE Very Funny, But on Low Political Level BY VERN SMITH | high political level. The chief fea~- NEW YORK.—Some 3,000 attended | tures were Chairman Roger Bald- the debate in Mecca Temple Friday | win’s wisecracks and the clowning night betweon Congressman Hamil-) by Fish. ton Fish, Jr. and Scott Nearing,| Nearing sat in business-like fashion under the auspices of New Masses/at the table provided, Fish—as be- and Earnest Briggs. All the tickets | comes a rich man playing politics— at the New Masses and Workers Book | lounged in an easy chair. Shop were sold out ahead of time, | Outlines Cr'sis but Briggs apparently sold large} Nearing spoke first, and. outlined blocks of tickets to scalpers. The|the fairly well known features of police held the crowd, both those who | the crisis: millions of unemployed, had and had not tickets, outside the | over 50 per cent wage cuts, ware~ doors from 7,30 to almost 9 p.m. while | house jammed and industrial plants the scalpers plied their trade. Con- | fully able to provide for everything, siderable resentment was audible in| only the capitalist principle of pro- the crowd jamming the street, but| duction for profit standing in the considerable self discipline was evi- ge! coritiatads: til Selbay ahs " le con is e great expansion of production in Soviet (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) lature. tunity for police to club. Once inside, proceedings were on a| high plane of politeness, but not on a aM | rel in women demonstrated almost three | and Pitts! ll’ Cooee am AEs vag tesaeeelrs lan struggle against war initiated by the | out a record vote. The bill now goes results of the All-Union contest of | jours up and down the snow-covered GLU Ee tee FREE TOLL, G AS reduce existing living standards of | OF B.E. F LEADER War, i ee le e house of| Te ed material. conditions and (streets in the neighborhood of the | from all parts of the state to the 5 | eo Be by | , recently held at Amsterdam. representatives. The senate bill pro-| bs | Polish: Consulate’ on: E, 67th St. be- | state cavi Bf $400,000 ts being pushed by Beas | | ‘The call points out: vides that after it becomes law by| Meher health level of the Soviet | teen Third and Lexington Aves ss ars ; Rane bury C. Mastick who is chairman of Anthony's Own Paper) me stucge nas airived fo take up | action of the 0 poses eee] over Loe ee aan neaut profession of interna-| A united front conference of un-|Jail Four, Revorting the Legislative ‘Tax Revision Com- | LoS APE | the struggle against war or to |per- | and has the signatures of the legis-| Over two thousand athletic or- | tional colidarity, they. raised the | @™Ploved and workers’ mass organi. mance lena mission. | Shows Treacher: lature, which may approve it and| ganizations participated in the con- | voice of ihe U. S. working class in| 2% will be held soon, with the in Farrell, Pa. I . | yy ests of the imperialist oppressors, | call & constitutional convention,| test, 443,000 athletes won their i ee ape main task, in addition to the state ST. LOUIS, Mo. Dec. 18.— mphantly passing over the Mis- ppi River toll bridze- without paying toll, Columns 2, 3 and 5 of the National Hunger March swept into St. Louis, Friday, all.together in one caravan, and ready for-new struggles. They announced a series of victor- jes, gained by the mass support of the workers in cities they.recently passed ugh. In Terre Haute, organized pressure of local workers on the city council forced it to provide 100 gallons of gasoline and oil for the trucks of the marchers. Fifty gallons of gas- oline was won in the same way at Effingham, Ill, and 25 gallons from Casey, Ill, town government This line of returning marchers has had to battle every inch of the way. They were attacked and scat- | tered by police in Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. The weather is the coldest in this part of the country known in 15 years; the temperature in 4 below zero. The column rested over Saturday in St. Louis, made reports to mass meetings of the unemployed and is now on the way to points west and south west. . : Marchers Arrested. FARRELL, Pa., Dec. 18.—Police of Farrell and aaron, and C Steel Co. police and Pennsy state police armed with clubs, tear gas guns, and pistols invaded the Croatian Hall in Farrell Saturday night and arrested the returned Na- tional Hunger Marchers scheduled to report to the mass meeting there. Those arrested were: Archer and Thompson, Negro steel workers; Fox and Loncar, young workers—all un- | employed delegates on the National March. A permit for the meeting had been given, but it was revoked at the fast minute. The local workers had” is- sued a leaflet exposing the low re- lief and the new scheme of cu‘ting jt still lower through an invsetigat- ing commission Meet To Plan Struggle. Shivering in the zero weather, Far- workers clus‘ered around the hall, and 100 got inside. Late last night the steel workers were meet- ing in a private house, planning a campaign to smash the terror and defeat the wage cuts in the mills. They were planning to build the Steel and Metal Workers Industrial Union and build the unemployed council, as well as to win more re- | lef, Ask Jobs For 1,000. Yesterday the mayor tried to bribe a delegation demanding relief, by offering them jobs. The delegates exposed this demagogy by proposing that he give jobs to the thousand un- employed workers they would bring before him. Farrell has been a notoriously “tough” town on workers for a long time. It was here that during the 1919 steel strike men were forced to walk to Ohio. Demand Free Coal. LAWRENCE, Mass., Dec, 18—One of the most rousing meetings held recently welcomed the Lawrence delegation on the National Hunger March when they reported ih Need= ham Hall on Wednesday night. The meeting was greeted by Farrell of the National Textile Workers Union who called upon the workers to take up a fight against the new wave of wage cuts which according to a has already begun in the Wood A resolution calling upon Congress to set all other bills aside to take up the demands presented by National Hunger Marchers and pass upon them in favor of the work~ ers was unamiously passed.° This poeta also denounced Governor ly’s wage cut program, It urged the N.T.W, and rin igs: coun cils to organize, fight the wage cuts and for immediate cash relief to all unemployed, for free coal and electricity and housing, free milk — hot Loe in the schools and the rest of the program put forward by the Unemployed Councib’?