The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-28
WOMEN AND CHILDREN MARCH
FOR RELIEF TODAY, DETROIT
Demonstration of Protest Against Murphy
Police Attack on Unemployed; Steubenville
Jobless Committee Place Their Demands

DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 2T-The i'm
mediate answer to the tear gassing
and smashing of the unemployed de-
monstration yesterday at city hall,
will be q mass demonstration OF
women and children Saturday morn
ing, at 1oa. M, at Grand Circus Park.
The wives and children Of the men
who we're charged by the police, gas
sed and dubbed yesterday, will carry
ON the demand for immediate winter
relief, for free not lunches, shoes, and
clothing for children at the public
schools, and will denounce the police
terror Of Mayor Murphy. Speakers
will expose Murphy's double tactics;
on the one hand he puts out most
complicated and most useless fake re-
lief schemes, which include forced
labor angle. Then along with this
goes the most ruthless and brutal po-
lice assault on any movement Of the
unemployed to protest the fake relief
stunts and to demand real relief.
Workers of Detroit are called to
defend the children's demonstration
Saturday They are urged to rally for
a struggle for the right to meet and
to demand relief
NEW YoRK.-Further details on
the police attack at the Detroit city
hall yesterday show that there were,
by capitalist newspaper admissions,
at least 1000 demonstrating and an
unknown number of onlookers as well.
According to the capitalist press,
the fighting started when $50 police
attempted to dispense the great crowd
gathered in Grand Circus Park. The
police were carrying out the Police
Commissioner Watkins order that
the jobless could not assemble there.
Mayor Murphy has Endorsed the at
tack by the police, while at the same
time claiming Communists started
the fighting" Even the capitalist press
stories SHOW the contrary.
In the face of this attack, the crowd
did fight back, successfully, and not
only held It's ground but raised a cry,
ION to the City Hail." and surged
up the street. Police opposition was
brushed aside and the demonstration
reached the city hall, with more for
ces than It had in the Park.
They threw dozens OF tear gas
bombs into the mass Of men, women
and children, and some Of these
were promptly hurled back at the
police.
This, the capitalist press makes the
occasion for an enormous headline:
Red Mob Classes Police" Automo-
biles and mounted police, and foot
police welding clubs smashed into
the crowd, and finally broke 1t UP.
There were 30 arrested, all Of whom
were later released at the orders OF
Mayor Murphy, who stated that pro
secutions will be made later"
One policeman broke the bones OF
his hand, smuggling an unemployed
worker. Many Of the demonstrators
were so severely cut and bruised that
they had to have hospital treatment.
The regularly elected committee OF
the unemployed mass meeting, which
was to present the demands to Muir
ply, was not allowed to enter the
city hall, although they walked up to
the Gordon Of police around the city
hall and requested permission to en-
ter.
The demands which they were in
structed by the mass meeting to hand
to Mayor Murphy, were:
/. Food and housing for $50 Ma