The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-05

there. The mass meeting ratified the
demands for unemployment insur-
ance and adopted resolutions for the
freedom of Mooney and Billings and
denouncing Walker for his trickery.
They also denounced the Hammond
police for their attack on Column 5.
Twenty-Five Akron Workers De-
Tense Corps members lead the march
through Barberton, reputed to have
police attack prepared. Not one
policeman showed himself in the
sight of the marchers.
Sign Thru Massilon
A big crowd hailed the marchers
in Massilon, home town Of General
Coxey of ,Coxey's army. The column
swung through Massilon singing so
ldarity" and cheered by the workers
along the way, and by farmers who
had come in.
1900 In Canton
Two thousand waited for the COL
umn at the city hall steps in Can
ton, Ohio. The National Hunger
Marchers parked their trucks and
paraded up to the steps.
Here local delegates, amidst the
cheering of the whole crowd, form
ally joined the National Hunger
March. One Of them spoke, telling
Of a woman falling dead from starv-
alton, and Of a five-year old boy
coming to the home of worker cry
ing for food. He challenged the city
officials to deny this.
Fake relief plans Of the Canton
city administration were scored by
all local speakers.
The Canton unemployed fed the
marchers.
AT Salem, workers and farmers
lined the sidewalks and cheered as
the line of march went by.
2-Mile Parade Youngstown
In Youngstown the marchers got
out and with eleven local delegates
and over 500 workers, who joined
them on their entry into the city, a
parade on foot swung In a two-mile
long hike through the main streets
Of the town an around the public
square. This same square was denied
to the workers on National Youth day
which resulted then in terrific fight.
Thursday, the National Hunger
Marchers and their supporters were
not interferred with by police. The
line two blocks long paraded, singing,
and shouting slogans: Work or
wages" "On to Washington" Don't
Starvel Organize and Fight" These
chanted slogans rose in a loud chorus
to the time of marching footballs.
Thirty-fiye cars and trucks used by
the National Hunger Marchers of
Column followed the parade, which
went to Ukrainian Hall. There the
delegates we're fed by the Youngs-
town Workers International Relief,
and a meeting Of 1900 steel workers
CIlereeu tli6Ir Speakers
| Ray Norman of Seattle, only IT.
years old, told why he was marching.
He started to work in a saw-rnill at
16. He got three wage cuts in one
year. His father makes only $3.50 a
day and he makes only rs cents.
After strike, he was blacklisted. AL
four of the smaller children in his
family are starving. Relief Is cut
off because the relief agency says
there are no jobs. So he joined the
Unemployed Council, and was elected
to represent other Seattle jobless on
this National Hunger. March.
Harvey, Rubicki, Reynolds, Fiker
and Davis, a Negro delegate, and
Beran, spoke on the demands for re-
lief and insurance, on the fight
against evictions, on organization of
the. unemployed, on; building the
Workers International Relief.
The marchers slept over Thursday
night in the Workers Center OF
Youngstown, were given their break
fast through funds collected by the
w. I. r. from workers Of Youngs-
town, and left Friday morning for
Pittsburgh.
Forty-four delegates Joined the
march from Cleveland and environs,
one at Erie, two from Mansfield, two
from Canton, one from Massilon
four from Akron.