The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-14

the seventy Thousand unemp
Many workers testified to the
starvation conditions which are
q damning indictment of the
city Farmer-Labor administra-
ton.
An enthusiastic audience pledged
Its full support to the city hunger
march which will be held next Friday
starting at Bridge Square at o'clock,
Hunger March, Additional public
and also in support of the National
hearings in the neighborhoods will be
Asl& next week.
Denonstrate at Baltimore City Hall
BALTIMORE, Md. Nov. 13.-At
the City Hall plaza OF Baltimore that
was filled the day before on Armistics
Day wthmachine guns, tanks and all
the 1891 model paraphenalia for war,
there stood hundreds OF workers on
November 10, protesting unanimously
for immediate relief and against the
war plans of the bosses against the
Soviet Union.
The splendid response by the work.
ers to the speakers gave every in
dication that the following weeks will
witness real action on the part of the
workers to carry on fight for relief
and preparations for the local Hun
ger March of Nov. IS and the Ma
tional Hunger March to be held on
Dec. z to the Congressional body sit
ting in Washington, D. g.
Tremendous hearty sincere APP
plause met tn echairmans appeal for
. vote on resolutions for the freeing
OF Orphan zones, A Negro worker
frsnad up in Snow HILL Md. Long
ayes that resounded through the
Plaza was given for the resolution
against the war Plans of the capital
Isl on the Sovist Union and for the
resolution that gaze expression to the
workers determination to carry on a
unrelentless struggle for unemploy
raent and against evictions.
Hearings Reveal Starvation
The public hearing on starvation
revealed the city administration of
laly,Hio.e as the guilty parties re-
sponsiiole for the misery of the I'M
employed workers and their babies
After testimony offered by many
unemployed workers showing how
they have been looking for jobs for
months, then unable to get food from
the welfare Agency, then thrown out
OF tneir homes, and how they have
TO pick up garbage from market
plf ceS to bring home to their families,
hoy homeless men have to sleep in
toilets Or comfort stations as they are
called by the city all this tes-
t.Elc-ly piled up before the workers
was enough to keep Mayor Jackson
tom 81 -iag tie public hearing to
give his stand on the unemployment
SAsuaticn and why he discontinued
the SOUP lines, and stated that not
one PENNY would be appropriated
from the city budget this year for
the uneen ployed. 1t was learned later
that the mayor was viewing the pro-
ccedlngs from a nearby building
looking on with Capitalist class
hatred and contempt in his heart
for the unemloAad demonstrating
workers, The local press suppressed
vital facts in the demonstration, es-
pecially regarding the resolution on
var and the freeing of Orphan Jones.
The meeting was a great evidence of
the new determination that the Bal
timore workers are beginning to ex-
press for carrying on the struggle.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. ia
march OF women, children and youth
TO the City Hall to present demands
70 the Mayor will take place on Fri
day, Nov. ~,
The hunger marchers will present
p the mayor q number of cases re-
yealed at the public hearings typical
Of thousands of workers children
that attend school without sufficient
sood, proper clothing, or school sup
plies. They will present without re-
Aef and cases Of families when seven
and eight are forced to starve on two
10 four dollars Q week.
The marchers will carry banners