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

TsEiE events in Wilmington, Delaware as the
Hunger Marchers psraded through some
Hunger Marchers paraded through give some
tnkling Of the nature of the welcome that greeted
the Msrchers everywhere,
just as no amount of description can &C
Gurately convey the choking emotions that
filled the National Hunger Marchers os they.
Eoared their demands for unemployment insur-
ance in the teeth of the rand Congress as it
assembled IN the capitol so equally difficult is it
20 convey the power, the color, the "blaringly
belligerent temper" las the N. Y. News called it,
1t the N8archers as they paraded through the
hundreds Of cities along the line Of march.
The Source Of Their Strength
Isae imp-essiveness of the Marchers lay not
20 much In their numbers-there were only 1850
81 tosd-nor in their acooutrement, which con-
sisted only Of their two bare fists It lay in
tAeir loud defiance continuously expressed in
revolutionary songs and cheers which were in
bsrsperzed with demands for unemployment in
sEsnce, of the hordes of policemen who lined
ths routes. In the cities particularly these songs
and cheers sweIed into one tremendous roar that
lasted from the moment the Marchers entered
the city limits until they left.
NO one who heard the Marchers could doubt
thst they were giving vent to the hatred that
they felt for the capitalists who had thrown them
accompanies unemployment in capitalist coun-
tries. And no one who heard them could doubt
that the Marchsrs felt the entire working class
Of America was behind them in their demands
fos unemployment insurance.
Hunger Nsarchsrs Like Victorious Army.
The welcome that the workers along the lines
Of march gave the Marchers was the kind OF
welcome that q suffering people extends to
conquerins army drawn from its own ranks. 1t
was the kind Of welcome that the Chinese work
ers extend to g Soviet Army as it drives the
lecherous Landlords and uilitariSts before IT, The
Red Army thst will sometime retrace the steps
Of the National Hunger Marchers will be no
more k-confident and determined than the
Hunger Marchers, nor Will the welcome that is
extended 10 the Red Army be any more heart
felt than that just extended to the Marchers.
Wilmington Is q city of 10000 wage slaves
snd q handful Of rulers whose name is Du Pont.
me Du Pont family springs from Pierre Sam
uel Du Point. the French politician whose openly
reactionaIy policy during the French Revolution
forced him into hiding to save his head. The
black reaction OF the FIRST Du Pont has been
continued by his descendants.
The Du Points make their millions by manu-
featuring munitions One of the first business
necessities Of modern munitions maker is that
he start as any wars as he can 1t is for this
reason that the Du Points are so fervently In the
front rank OF the anti Soviet war rnongers
Own Stats of Delaware
The pu Fonts own the entire state OF Della
ware in the same sense that they own their own
specially made Du Pont automobiles. This makes
70 esxier for them to unleash their unbrtdled
terror at any signs OF revolutionary activity that
appears in any part of the state. The Du Fonts
have broken Up every office that the Communist
Party has opened in Wilmington, the site Of
many Of the Du Pont munitions factories. For
almost two years no workers meeting has been
held IN the state. Even Tom Mooney Defense
Conference was prohibited by the Du Point police.
When the Hunger Marchers approached Will