The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-12-11
MACHINE GUNS
ARE ANSWER OF
CAPITALISM
WASHINGTON is AN ARMED
CAMP AS DELEGATES MAKE
DEMAND FOR RELIEF.


eve want unemployment insur-
ANGEL" was the demand Numbered
Monday by 1900 National Hunger
Marchers, against the marble
walls of the Capitol building. The
capitol bristled with machine guns
on roof, porticoe and balustrade
and sawed-off shotguns peeped
from windows and porches.
Two hundred thousand workers
and farmers from Washington
and the surrounding country were
massed about the building.
Two delegations elected and
sent in by the National Hunger
Marchers approached the entranc-
es of the Senate and House of
Representative Building at noon,
and demanded the right to read
the demands of these delegates of
100000 hungry, jObless workers
to the 72nd Congress. Each was
refused admittance to the congress
sional halls. Each refused to
turn over the demands to the po-
lice, and each was forcibly driven
from the capitol building by the
police.
This is the Hoover administra-
TONS answer, the answer Of the
big capitalists who rule the adj
ministration! This is the answer
of capitalism to the demand Of
hungry millions of unemployed
workers for the right to live!
Later, Hoover also refused tt
see the representatives of the job
less when the National Hunger
March Numbered at the doors o.
1.-THE White House.
Still later they marched on A
F. of L. headquarters, where Viii
liam Green, president of the Am
erican Federation of Labor, let il
a delegation of the A. F. of 1
/. members in the Hunger March
They denounced Green to his fac
for opposing insurance, daring
him to a debate or to come on
: and repeat his SANDERS to tn
= 500 delegates massed outside.
Voice of the Masses.
Never before in the history o
Washington has there been sue
: scene!
e The National Hunger Marcheri
= representatives of the 100000
iobless, lined up in a huge sem
e circle before the u. S. capitol, al
It ter a parade with banners throug
It the streets of Washington. The
n shouted their demands until Il
n walls of the chief governmel
/ building of American capitals
+ seemed to culver in the vibration
of the echoes.
lt The enormous masses who gait
cred to watch and participate
n this demand stood fast, unawt
L by the display of police armt
force. 1t was the class strugg
symbolized, capitalism unwillir
}, to feed the masses, and the mas
!. es there in huge strength, deman
ing bread. 1t was the culmin
. ton, for the moment, of the mar
~ of delegates elected by organic
II and unorganized unemployed, a.
: by the toiling farmers from t
p Pacific to the Atlantic Coast
40 elected by militant unions a
American Federation of Lab
:" unions in revolt against the A.
of L. policy Of no insurance a
~ of starvation and wage-cuts. tt
VI march had proceeded with mi
tary precision and in spite of G
!, cry possible hardship and prov
= cation, in spite of police alta
~ and government trickery, to t
- gates of the capitalist governme
GU of the richest capitalist country
and it demanded to be heard.
Delegation Wakes Up.
While senator's were slinlir
nc cringingly into their senate roo
~ not feeling safe in their mir
- though machine guns and bayOn'
. fenced them off from the mass
i two delegations Of II each we
a. up, walked through the swarm
= police at the entrance and sta
= ed for the doors Of the senate a
:, house of representatives. Cha
-. man of the house delegation "
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