The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-12
SMASH MARTINS
FERRY TERROR:
HAIL MARCHERS
BY ANN ALLEN

SITSeJS OF lie steel ana mining COWIlS
near here for the return of the Hun
ger Marchers to hear the answer of
the United States ruling class to the
demands of the unemployed for
unemployment insurance.
In Pittsburgh, where three meetings
welcomed them, the Marchers again
and again said they will all go back
to their respective localities as lead
ers and organizers in the fight for
unemployment insurance. Carl Price,
District Organizer of the Commu-
mist Party, speaks in the name Of
the Communist Party. Tremendous en-
thusiasm from the workers. Forty
applications from all over the coun-
try are taken in this meeting alone
from Nebraska, oregon, as well as
Pittsburgh.
Negro Woman Scores Hoover
Yda Brazelton Of Canton, Ohio,
spoke-a Negro woman. She says
I'VE know the President and his pot
bellied crew are only enemies of the
working class. I understand that
Foster will run for President for the
Communist Party. And I ask every
man and woman here tonight, Negro,
white, not to let anything come be-
tween them and the Communist
Party, because in the Communist
Party, we will find deliveranee." Ray
Norman, 17-yar old unemployed lum-
berjack speaks in the name of the
youth.
In the three meetings held in
Pittsburgh, In the one in McKees
Rocks, the same spirit Of enthusiasm
prevails, both on the part of those
listening to the reports of the March
ers and on the part of the Marchers
themselves.
The Marchers say that next time
we won't come back only with 1900
or $4,000 but with the whole popula-
ton of the United States, and take
for ourselves these buildings, those
| WliltC pdluSCp'
In the. meeting on the Hill re-
solution was passed protesting the
vicious campaign of terror Of the
bosses and their government, de-
mandlrg the release OF Tom Mooney
and other working prisoners,
demanding the right of the workers
to organize, to meet, to strike and
fight for unemployment relief.
On the South Side Is applications
to the Party are taken.
Uniontown Demonstration
There was tremendous enthusiasm
and mass meeting by the workers in
towns traversed by the hunger nnarch-
ers on the way from Washington to
Pittsburgh.
In Uniontown thousands of workers
lined the streets waiting for the cara
van of trucks and cars bearing the
Marchers. In spite Of the rigors Of
the cold and dangerous trip over
sleety, misty frost-covered mountains,
the Marchers entered Uniontown
cheering and singing and shouting TO
the workers to join the fight for
Unemployment Insurance. Atensely
listening crowd of about 1000 work
ers listened before the Courthouse to
the speakers to expose the bosses
government, tell how they could not
even present their demands to Presi-
dent Hoover, how they were turned
way from the Capitol, the Senate and
the White House, how Green spoke
against the March. Wilson, March,
er from Cleveland said defiantly-
1--WE know now the bosses will do
nothing for us. Only by mass press
ure will we be able to do what we set
out to do-and we know also that the
workers have been and are with us
in this fight for Unemployment In
surance. Workers of Uniontown--
Join the fight for Unemployment
insurance." A collection Of $ls was
taken from among the workers.
Carl Price spoke Of the work of the
Communist Party in leading the
March, and In this city that has been
closed until the Fayette County Hun
ger March to working class demon
STATIONS, where the police chief made
an empty threat that the Marchers
would not be able to speak at the
Courthouse, here the workers ap-
plauded the mention Of the Com
munist Party. Food was prepared by
the workers for the Marchers.
In Brownsville
In Brownsville, at Snowden Square,
workers stood in the streets hours
awaiting the Marchers. Local unem-
ployed workers who had been on the
March pledged themselves to organize
the fight for Unemployment Insur-
ance.
In Finleyville where the workers
waited four hours for the arrival of
the Marchers whom Wilson. local or
ganizer greeted the workers, were still
on the streets talking about the
March when six more trucks which
had difficulty In crossing the noun
tains, arrived. Running into the
streets, the workers stopped the
trucks. and begged these marchers.
to speak. A special delegation OF
trucks went to the Coverdale Tent
Colony, where one worker who has
the earth for the side Of his dwelling,
says he is the only man who has his
wallpaper on the ground--where chill