The Daily Worker Newspaper, December 27, 1932, Page 1

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All greetings must be in not later than Jan- 8, » Vol. TX, No. 309 New York, N.Y., ander the Act >: Entered as second-class matter at the Post Offiee at of March 8 137% NEW YORK, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1932 Tn the Day's [39 SLAUGHTERED m ENE FS | TINOIS MINERS’ | | BODIES RAISED) J ' , 54 SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. tisha | NO Hope for Any of ay new government of President Arturo! Driven Into Burning Alessandti has ordered the dismissal N . S ie of all radical teachers from the staffs, Mine by Hunger of the schools and colleges, The Chilean press reports that Com- munist influence ‘is extremely strong among the various teachers’ organ- izations, which are more and more coming out in support of the strug- gles of the impoverished wor and ruined farmers against the na- | News ORDER DISMISSAL OF RADICAL STRIKEBREAKING DID IT Disaster First Fruits of | Pay Cut, Sell Out Escaped Chain Gang JAPANESE BOMB JEHOL PROVINCE BORDER TOWNS Push New Grab for Chinese Territory in Manchuria KILL MANY CIVILIANS | Pressure on Nanking’ Forces New Maneuver From Scene of Japan’s Robber War tive bourgeoisie and their imperial- | BULLETIN ist masters. MOWEAQUA, Til, Dec, 26.— s i = Raising ef bodies was resumed MUST FEED 12 ON 50 CENTS from the Shafer mine today and ARKANSAS, Dec.,.26.--Mrs. Lofton | by. mid-afternoon 39 had been Cook whose husband has been sup- brought up. Fifteen others were porting the family, living in the hills of Arkansas, on the income of 50 cents a day, looked forward with dread to the birth of another child. When the dreaded day came, she delivered quadruplets, which brought the total number of the children in the family up to ten. STORE DESTROYED BY FIRE BARCELONA, Spain. Dec., 26.— Seven firemen and specta‘ors were injured, and inhabitants in surround- ing houses compelled to leave by an intense fire which wiped out Spain's largest department store and des- | still below ground. MOWEAQUA, IIL, Dec. 26.! Searchlights glaring on the tipple and shaft entrance to the Shafer mine here, the yawning grave of 54 miners) killed because’ starvation and lack of relief drove them to work in a gas- filled, burning mine, were Christmas candles last night for this mining town. | All day long, body after body, blan- kets wrapped by rescue crews around | faces charred and torn by the explo- | troyed et the same time a stock of | sion and drawn from the pain that | toys said to have been worth | poe, with a death from breathing $1,000,000. f flames, had come up the shaft, until ‘ any | tWelve were laid out in the special | STARVATION KILLS CHILDREN | noreuc provided by the coroner. Late | NEW YORK, Dec., 26—That the/| last night a curt notice posted on devastating and deadly effect of | the window of the morgue informed starvation and neglec: is yet to be | crowds of widows and orphans out- | registered in future figures for the | side that at least 14 hours of tim- death rate among working-class chil- | bering had to be done before any | dren, was indicated in report of Mar- | more bodies came to the top, guerite Wales, in charge of nurses of | 54 Below the Henry Street Settlement, of the{ Practically all hope (and there Visiting Nurse Service. The death | never had been much) for the lives rate among babies cared for by the of the 54 miners entombed below fled | Service in 1932 was 11 per 1,000. But | when the first body came up, with among those who received no care evidence on it of gas explosion. If and food it was 32 per 1,000 during | there had been no explosion, but only the same period. a fall of rock. some might be alive, | | anniversary of the OGPU, (Unified Robert E. Burns, fugitive from a Georgia chain gang, who won a re- fusal of extradition from New Jer- sey because of the mass pressure brought to bear in his case. Mean- while the hideous chain gang tor- ture system continues to operate in full force against. countless num- bers of Negro toilers. 0.6.P.U. BIRTHDA HAILED BY MASSES 15 Years of Defending Russian Revolution By N, BUCHWALD (European Correspondent for Daily) | MOSCOW, Dec., 26., (By Cable) — | All Soviet papers hail the fifteenth | State Political Administration, for- merly known as “Extraordinary Com- mission” or “Checka”) founded Dec. 20, 1917, : | Greetings by Soviet leaders in- cluding Stalin, Molotoy, and highest agencies of the workers and peasants | Government, as well as numerous factories and regional governments | | The Japanese militarists! have resumed their war drive to add Jehol Province to their, Manchurian grab, at the same, | time carrying on a savage of- { fensive against the Japanese work- fing-class to crush its growing te- ‘sistance to the robber, war on China and armed intervention plans against nese imperialism is waging against Japanese soldiers in Manchurian trenches in undeclared war Japa- the Chinese people. Other unde- clared wars are raging in South America, between Bolivia and Paraguay, and between Colombia and Peru, with the ruling classes of other states threatening to make the wars continent-wide. the Soviet Union. Attacks On Civilians. For the past week Japanese aerial | Squadrons have been raining death | on Jehol border towns. The bomb- |ers have been followed by other | Japanese planes showering leaflets threatening still more bloody attacks on the civilian populations unless all | resistance to the Japanese invasion ts discontinued, Chinese resistance | | is confined to volunteers and Red 2 GOVERNO RS FLEE FROM DELEGATES OF STARVING CHILDREN Rent Strikers Will Carry on Until Demands Are Won NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—A landlady and two henchmen were chased. for blocks, and one of the henchmen beaten, when they snooped around a meeting of 800 rent strikers and sympathizers held at 2 pm. at 1433 Charlotte St. For a full week the tenants, sup- ported by the Block Committee of the Unemployed Council, have been picketing the house demanding the re-instatement of an evicted tenant, a reduction of 10 per cent in rents, and making of necessary repairs in plumbing and other equipment which has been long neglected, causing con- siderable discomfort to the tenants. Today's meeting unanimously re- solved to continue the strike to a victorious conclusion, which would involve granting of all three de- mands by the landlady and the re- cognition of the Block Committee. Today, Dec. 27th, there will be an- and sympathizers at the house, 1433 Charlotte St. Picketing will be car- vied on all day. back in some chamber which had not collapsed. But the charred flesh told the ‘story. A fire had been burning in | the old Shafer mine for days, at least. These unemployed miners, de- nied relief, were trying to make a few jcents a day for their hungry wives | and children by working the old, fire- | are prominently printed. Editorials and special articles ac- knowledge the great service of the | Cheka-OGPU rendered to the work- | ing class in the defense of the re- | volution from all enemies, | Fought Intervention ‘The editorial in the Pravda points partisan troops who have defied the official non-resistance policy of the Nanking Kuomintang government. Heavy fighting is reported between these troops and the Japanese in- | vaders, along the Jehol frontier at | points opposite Chaoyang and Pei- piao. The Japanese are engaged in heavy ‘concentration of troops at Chinchow, | ja highly strategic point from which | | | they can strike out both at Jehol) Province and at North China by the Shanhaikwan coastal route. The Japanese are aided by the forces of | their. Manchukuo. puppet state and | pursued the governor of California by several of the North China war | lords as well-as by the non-resistance | ing that Rolph had promised to see | policy of Nanking. Nanking Maneuvers. So great is the mass anger evoked neces drive that the Nanking Kuo- mintang officials have been forced to maneuver in a sham resistance to ths Japanese. Some of these, of- ficials sre now gathering at Peiping 100 from All Over California March to Rolph | for Relief; He Runs in Carload of Police New Jersey Governor’s Cops Barricade State | House ; Children Read Demands from Steps SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 25.—A delegation of 100 children of the un- | employed from all over the state, marched on Governor Rolph with de- | mands for relief. | Rolph fled from his home in a car loaded with police and with two | federal government deputy marshalls hanging on the running board, and | | secreted himself from the children. The committees of the sion | PE DINO Bill Is | from place to place, and finally hear- them any time after Christmas, the CITY EDITION Price 3 Cents NEGRO CROPPERS DEFY TERROR; HOLD PROTEST MEETING AT CAMP HILL Elect Committee of 15 to Investigate Landlord- Police Attack on Croppers; Organize Defense Many White Farmers Rally to Defense of Ne- groes Against Threats of Mass Lynchings | BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Dec. 26.—Within a few hours of the launching on December 19 of the murderous landlord-police tere ror against the Negro croppers and their union at Notasulga, Negro croppers around Camp Hill gathered in a huge meeting | to protest the landlord-police attacks. The meeting, occurring in Camp Hill, scene of the boss DAVIS ON DEBTS No Real Difference | of self-defense groups of the crop- | | Ders. | Landlords Get Shock. | The militancy of the croppers | came as a severe shock to the orga-| nized lynch gangs of the landlords | . and their police. This shock was | with Hoover further increased by the action of | the more advanced white farmers| ALBANY, Dec, 26.— Presidents | in rallying to the support of the Ne- | elect Roosevelt held a secret confers gro croppers. In addition, the lynch | ence today with Norman H. Davis, gangs found themselves up against | Hoover's representative who has just a deep sympathy among the white | returned from Europe where he lead masses for their fellow Negro vic-| the U. S. offensive against France tims of mass starvation and land-| and England for payment of the war lord robbery and exploitation. debts owing the United States and The croppers showed tremendous | for reduction of their armed forces initiative both in organizing the|0" 2 basis which would strengthen meeting in Camp Hill and in the | U: 8. imperialism at the expense of election at this meeting of a com- | ‘ts rivals. : mittee of fifteen to investigate the Davis—A Democrat events leading up to and ee Davis’ visit here to confer with the pitched battle which occurred at | Roosevelt was made with the sanc- Notasulga when 150 Negro croppers | tion of Hoover, Davis is himself # heroicaly defended themselves | Democrat and a personal friend of against the armed posses organized | Roosevelt. His use by Hoover for the by the landlords and their sheriffs. | important European mission already White Farmers Support Committee. | revealed the absence of any funda- White farmers and Mulbany Ne-| mental differences between the re- groes have rallied to the defense of | publican and democratic parties in the committee against threats of | the war debt struggle or. for that { | trap mine, which had been borrowed | }or leased for that purpose from} | Shafer. | Gas Flooded Mine When they went down Saturday morning they were told the burning { part of the mine had been bulk-head- | jed off. Evidently the fire burned | While the Red Army batiled with | through, and imperfect combustion! yen enemies, the Cheka combatted filled the tunnels and rooms with| white guards behind the front, un- carbon monoxide, which, mixed with | covering plots, fighting white terror air, is highly explosive. Safety-lamps,| py the organized remnants of the Russian bourgeoisi bility. (CONTINUED ON PAGE THREE) | en polergepisle Ag Heeny, SEEAED ce | Ran Down White-Guards | 2 Tampa Defendants Later followed the period of strug- out several phases of the struggle by the Cheka-OGPU against the en- emies of the revolution. The first phase is that of 1917-1920 during which the Soviet Republic fought against “Intervention by fourteen powers.” | | gle against political banditry. The | Moved to State Jail As| Cheka ran down numerous white in a gesture of “organizing defense” | for Jehol Province. An appeal for working-class soli- | darity in the struggle against war | has been received in this country from the anti-imperialist fighters in | Japan. The appeal calls attention to the heroic resistance of Japanese revolutionary workers, peasants and intellectuals to the. imperialist war | and the growing reaction in Japan, | with wholesale raids and arrests on militant workers and their organiza- tions. It points out that the Japa- | nese bosses are trying to escape from | the crisis by means of war abroad | and terror at home. ‘The appeal urges vigorous protest whole body of children’s representa- | tives elected a smaller committee to | ) | place their demands before the gov- | throughout China by the new Japa-| ernor at Sacramento, Dec. 27. | Represent Starving Kids | } | Children delegates had-been elected | 88 representatives from tens of thou- | sands of starving kids in many towns |of the state. They were elected at hunger hearings and at mass meet- ings, and by organizations, including |the Unemployed Councils. Many of them traveled hundreds of miles in cars and trucks. Arriving in San Francisco, they | formed a parade in the streets and marched on Christmas Day right up to the doors of Rolph’s home, at 288 San Jose St. The house was surrounded with po- lice, but the children rang the bell. No one answered. ) Governor Rushes Away | Workers who were on the scene |earlier reported that when the | marching column of children came iL. L. D. Pushes Appeal TAMPA, Fla., Dec., 26—Jim Nine prisoners sentenced to 10 years for leading the Tobacco Workers Indus- trial Union, which struggled for bet- ter conditions for the tobacco work- | ers, and to break down the Jim-Crow . D. BOXES SLND ane system in Florida, have been removed An appeal has been issued by the | from Hillsboro County jail here, to International Labor Defense to all| Raiford State penitentiary. bands, remnants of white armies de- | feated in the open warfare. Pointing out the importance of the first phase of the Cheka, the Pravda | masses of the USSR know that the | victory of the Red Army on the fronts | of the Civil War was made possible | because the rear was protected by the | | self-sacrificing, heroie struggle of the Cheka.” Uncover Damagers demonstrations by American workers | within half a block of Rolph’s resi organizations and individuals that have tag day boxes for the Scotts- boro boys to turn them in immedi- ately to the District Office of the IL, D. 799 Broadway, Room 338. All funds are needed now for the next step in the case. Appeals on their cases are being forced by the . International Labor Defense, whose attorney is now in Tallahassee to obtain a writ of man- damus from the state Supreme Court, to force the local judge here to cer- tify the record of the trial. Call Ohio C onference — for Jobless Insurance Meets in Columbus, Jan. 8; Will Fight Fake Insurance Bill Proposed by Governor .CLEVELAND, Ohio, Dec. 26.—A Columbus Conference on a wide united front basis will take place on January 8th and 9th to further the si le for the Workers’ Unemploy- ment Insurance Bill and other im- mediate demands.. The Provisional United Front Committee for the Workers Unemployment Insurance Bill together with the Unemployed Councils are sending out 50,000 print- ed calls to all sections of the state. These calls ask for delegates from all workers’ organizations and all or- ganized workers on the basis of two delegates from each organization and one delegate for 25, workers. ‘The mass pressure that has been exerted through the struggles of the unemployed has forced the bosses’ agents in the Ohio Legislature to take up the issue of Unemployment In- surance. However, they deal with this issue in such a manner as to defeat real relief. ‘The governor's commission has pro- posed a bill which carries the name of Unemployment Insurance, but in reality would provide it only to a very select few and the large ma- jority of the unemployed workers would get no benefit from it what- ever. It would tax the workers to set up a fund over which workers have no control. ‘The Socialist Party and other or- ganizations are also agitating for their various bills; this serves to di- vide the ranks of the workers in the fight for real unemployment insur- ance. Workers from all organizations are invited to send their delegates to the Columbus conference and make a united front for a bill that would provide unemployment insurance to all those now unemployed, based on the average wage rate and to be ad~ ministered by the workers. Funds for this bill would be obtain- ed by using the money set aside for the big bankers as interest on the state public debts and by taxes on draw up other demands: against | forced labor and against evictions, for the repeal of the Ohio Criminal Syndicalist Law and for a morator- ium on debts of farmers and small home owners. To finance the campaign, each del- egate should accompany his creden- tial with $1. / All workers’ organiza~ tions are asked to arrange affairs and make donations in support of the Room 214—1426 West Third St., Cleveland, Ohio. the rich. This conference will also) struggle, write to the committee | The next important phase of the | struggle against counter-reyolution | | was the period of economic damaging. | | The OGPU “uncovered the Industrial Party, a counter-revolutionary group | of Kondratiev-Chayanoy, counter re- volutionary interventionist organiza- tion of the Menshevik Central Com- mittee, agency of the foreign military general-staffs, agency of the rem- nants of the Russian bourgeoisie lay- ing the basis of economic destruction ‘of the country, and preparation for military intervention for the purpose of restoring the power of the capital- ists and landowners. “The OGPU rendered a great ser- | vice to the world proletariat in hav- ;ing uncovered the counter-reyolu- | tionary work of the Menshevist Cen- | tral Committee which participated in the preparation of intervention | under the direction of the imperial- | ists, in having uncovered the imme- diate participation of the Second “Socialist” International in this counter-revolutionary, interventionist work.” Guard Revolution The editorial points out the pre- | sent importance of the OGPU guard- ing the achievements of the revolu- tion egainst disrupters, and pillagers of public property, kulak elements attempting to disrupt the Socialist form of agriculture from within. “More than ever is needed its vigi- lance in uncovering and struggling against the decayed, burocratic ele- ments rolling down the path of trea- son—the path of counter-revolution. “Deceivers and swindlers carrying | out kulak counter-revolutionary po- licy under the guise of “agreement” with the general Party line, must be | punished severely. The enemy with | Party books must be punished more | ‘gravely than the enemy without Party books.” and intellectuals before the Japanese robber war on China. USE POPE “TRUCE” TO GRAB 4 FORTS Bolivian Offensive in i Imperialist War The undeclared war between Bo- livia and Paraguay has entered a new phase with the Bolivian army definitely taking the offensive as a result of aid received from the Wall | Street imperialists in the form of huge shipments of arms and muni- tions and the weakening of the Paraguayan forces by their reckless assaults on the Bolivian position at Fort Saavedra, The Pope's “Truce” The Bolivians already have re- captured four forts seized by them at the beginning of the conflict but subsequently lost to the Paraguayans. ‘These are Platanillos, Loa, Jayucubas and Bolivar. The Bolivians are now starting a movement to recapture Forts Boqueron, Corrales and Toledo. The fake Xmas truce engineered by Pope Pius was used to develop this movement. The truce was set for 24 hours. It was preceded. by the bombing of a Paraguayan town by Bolivian planes with a toll of sev- eral dead and many wounded among the civilian population, The new development in the war which reflects Anglo-U. S. imperialist rivalries, threatens to involve sev- eral other South American countries. The Argentine government is known to be ready to go to the aid of Paraguay if the latter is faced with defeat. As part of its war plans, the Argentine government is now car- rying on wholesale arrests and raids on Argentine workers and their or- ganizations in an attempt to crush the rising resistance to starvation and war. It has declared a state of siege throughout the country, SPEAKER: Earl Browder j dence, the governor rushed out, leap- | Consulates in this country against | eq into the midst of an auto-load of i | vhite terror in Japan and the | nojj " other meeting of the rent-strikers| and Mario Lopez, Tampa class-war | states; “The Proletarian and tolling | te, ¥ i | police, and fled rapidly from the | scene. The children held a meeting on the | spot, in front of Rolph’s mansion, and | denounced the jailer of Tom Mooney | for refusing to take up the grievance | of the children of the unemployed. | They reminded all who listened | that Rolph won his election for gov- ‘ernor on the argument that he was “a friend of labor.” They branded this as hypocrisy. The children then paraded the streets around, drawing applause from the very neighbors of Rolph. After the parade, the 100 delegates returned to the hall where they had mobilized their march on Rolph, heard a report and elected their committee to see the governor in Sacramento. Ws, Ow Children at State House TRENTON, N. J., Dec. 26.—Thirty- five children delegates, elected in the industrial towns of New Jersey, and representing thousands of the chil- | dren of the unemployed suffering | from mal-nutrition, hunger and cold, marched into Trenton Friday to pre- sent demands to Governor Moore. They came in trucks and cars to Trenton, held a meeting in a hall, and marched in a body to the State House. They found all doors barred against them by police, who informed them that Governor Moore was “out of town.” The children, their misery flouted by this Democratic Party governor, held a meeting right there on the state house steps, and to the assem- bled crowd of Trenton residents, read their demands. They called for: 1, An immediate appropriation by the state of $1,000,000 from the $20,- 000,000 relief appropriation to set up feeding stations in every school in the state; to provide free milk food, (CONTINUED, ON PAGE THREE) Greet your fighting paper, the Daily Worker, in the special Ninth Anniversary-Lenin Memorial edi- tion Jan, 14, All greetings must he in by Jan. 8. 9th ‘DAILY’ ANNIVERSARY--COLISEUM--SATURDAY Slavery Decree nder It Islands Can’t Make Own Treaties WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.—The fake | Phillipine independence bill will go jto the White House for Hoover's | signature in a day or so. The re-| vised bill approved by the senate on | December 22, says it provides for in- | dependence in 10 years. The theory is that it will take this long for them to become “fit” for independence. Nothing is said about the fact that | for more than thirty years these Islands have been under the domin- ation of United States imperialism. Cannot Negotiate Treaties i How much independence there {s| provided in the bill, even after ten years, is seen in the fact that the! Phillipine government will not be | able to negotiate treaties with other | powers, but that the President of the Unied States shall have that power “to safeguard the independence of the Phillipines.” The naval and military posts will also be maintained | and strengthened by American im- perialism. Also the Phillipine legis- lature is prohibited from drafting a | constitution of its own until after it approved the bill now awaiting Hoover’s signature. Then the con- | stitution must conform to the slavish provisions of the bill. It is not a bill to enable the Phil- | lipine Islands to realize independ- lynehing by members of the posses. Negro officials at the Tuskegee In- stitute are becoming even more ac- tive and vicious in their attacks on the struggles of the croppers and the working class organizations support-. ing those struggles. President Mo- | ton of Tuskegee yesterday visited the | Montgomery boss lynchers press to} matter, any other question facing the American people. Roosevelt and Hoover both support the Wall Street policy of using the war debts as a weapon to wrest concessions on trade and colonies from the other imperial~ ist_ countries, To Represent U. 8. Imperialism Following Davis’ conference with j who sought medical attention at the | ask that less publicity be given the | Roosevelt, Davis will return to New struggles of the croppers. He issued | York City to confer with Edmund a statement attacking the Commu- | ©. Day, another of Hoover's “experts” nist Party. on the war debts and the deepening | Score Tuskegee Officials. | economic crisis of world capitalism. Birmingham Negro workers are|It is reported that Davis will then seething with indignation over the | eave for Europe as a representative action of Tuskegee officials in turn | Of U- S. imperialism to assist in the ing over to the posses Clifford James | Preperation of an agenda for the and another wounded Negro cropper | forthcoming international economic conference. Institute's hospital. The Tuskegee; The French press prominently officials also gave active support to| features a story that Norman H. the lynch incitement campaign in| Davis “would act as a liason official the boss press with a statement that | between president Hoover and Pre- Cliff James had declared he “wished Sident-elect Roosevelt to assure con- he had killed the deputies”. James | tinuity in handling foreign affairs.” denies making any such statement. Struggle Sharpens Negro and white workers of this} city are rallying for a huge meeting | at the Old Pythian Temple on Jan. 2 to protest against the terror in Tallapoosa and adjoining counties | in the heart of the tremendous | struggle between the croppers and | the landlord-police lynch posses. They will protest the aid given the | lynch-gangs by Birmingham authori- | Meanwhile, the struggle over the war debts continues to sharpen, with influential sections of the French press demanding that France maintain its position of defaulting on the instalement which was due the U. S. on Dec. 15. It is reported that the new French premier Joseph Paul-Boncour, fearing a general movement for default among the ties when the Red-baiting cop Moser bankrupt states in debt to France, led four carloads of Birmingham po- | is seeking to over-ride the default of | lice to join the armed posses, at the | | ment, a full hour to subdue the fam- ence, but to defeat independence. Sener amar Mass Resistance In Islands | MANILA, P. I., Dec., 26.—So strong | is the mass resistance in these Is- | Jands to the fraudulent independence | bill now in process of becoming law | in Washington that even the noto- | rious traitor to the Filipino people, | Manuel Quezon, president of the Fil- lipino senate, is forced to come out in | opposition to the Hawes-Cutting bill. | How strong the movement for im- | mediate freedom of the Philippines | has grown is indicated by the fact | that this same Quezon approved the provisions of Hawes-Cutting bill when it was first proposed. He is now forced to pretend to fight it in words in an effort to deccive and disarm the masses who are deter-| mined to drive out the agents of | Yankee imperialism. ‘ The Communist Party is waging a big campaign against the Hawes Cut- ting bill, fighting for immediate free- dom, demanding that the military and naval forces of United States imperialism get out of the Islands and stay out. Brazil Prisoners Rebel Against Starvation And Mistreatment | RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil.—Driven to desperation by defective and in- sufficient food being served them, and the oppressive prison regime, 200 prisoners revolted in the local’ house of detention. It took prison guards and extra police, armed with tear gas bombs, in addition to their regular equi ished prisoners. PROGRAM::- Music, Dancing |be a sympathizer of the Vets, and same time that police raids were) carried out here on the Interna-| tional Labor Defense offices and the | homes of Negro and white workers. the French Chamber by a system of “decree laws,” whereby he could pay the Dec. 15 instalment while pretend- ing to meet “the letter of the ideas on debts in the Chamber of Deputies” The Veterans Carry On; Organizing Squad Starts Nine Volunteers from Delegation of 23 That Made An Epic March Across Continent NEW YORK.—Nine war veterans, part of a delegation of 23 bonus marchers whose trip from the Pacific Coast and the Middle West to Wash- ington, D. C., was a regular epic of penniless working class journeying by freight and truck, are now resting up here preparatory to an organizing tour of the cities of the Great Lakes. They worked shoveling snow in the capital city, and bought a seven- $$$ ___________ Passenger Buick, then with gas do- nated by sympathizers along the way, with odds and ends of donated apparatus to repair the car whenever it broke down, they wheeled into New York, parked the car with a parking place man who turned out also to they now intend to use it on the or- ganizing trip. They will go first to Mohigan col-~ ony and Camp Nitgedaiget, then on to Buffalo, then through Ceveland, Detroit and towns and cities along the shore of the Great Lakes, Visit All Veterans’ Groups. They will hold mass meetings, and visit all possible workers’ and veterans’ organizations. They will sell the Fighting Vet, newspaper of the Rank and File Veterans, and will establish committees of the Rank and File wherever they go. They will found new posts of the Workers Ex- Service Men's League, and will sell and distribute the literature of the League along the way, Anti-War We Se Sah me of the pamphlets of the World Con- gress Against War. men who actually saw the war—and felt it— are dead set against imperialist war, In all possible organizations, in shops and among unemployed, they will strive to found Anti-War Comniit- tees, and to aid those newly founded, or already founded, to federate into City Anti-War Committees, affiliated with the American Committee for Struggle Against War, at 104 Fifth Ave., Room 1811, New York City. Anti-war work is not new to the WES.L. Samuel J, Stember, the New York organizer of the W.E.S.L. was a delegate to the Amsterdam World Congress Against War, and took a prominent part in its proceed- Unity With Farmers. 5 ‘Two members of this squad of nine are farmers, and wherever wel nag endl daa ae Ee de