The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-30
TOLEDO POLICE
ARREST JOBLESS
GATHERING FOOD
Unemployed Protest;
Hold Open Air
Meetings
lBy a Worker Correspondent.l


TOLEDO, Ohio, March 23.-For
the last couple Of weeks the Toledo
Branch of Unemployed, No. /, has
again revived its activities for I'M
employment relief. The unemployed
workers have started communal
kitchen of their own at Az Monroe
ST., which Is a kind of center for
all revolutionary workers of the city.
Last Wednesday a committee of
seven CD was sent out to gather
food for the kitchen, with irstruc-
items by the executive not to come
back without food. Although this
committee has been getting food Tor
the active group Of unemployed for
some time, that day, instead of
bringing groceries and fresh vege-
tables for their comrades, they we're
picked up by the police and locked
up in the jail, together with the
full bushel of collected groceries.
About 4 p. m. the rest of the un-
employed met and decided to call a
protest meeting and demand the i'm
mediate release Of the arrested COM
rade. In the meantime the I. l.. D.
attorney was notified to give the
unemployed legal defense,
The case came up Thursday morn
ing, all comrades being charged
with soliciting without a permit. 1"
The attorney was on the job and so
were the unemployed, who filled the
police court. The arrested were
brought up for trial and the full
basket with groceries was introduced
as evidence. The dirty lackeys of
capitalism sensed the sympathy of
all present for the arrested workers,
so the crooked judge unanswered by
postpontng the hearing till this morn
ing, in order to prepare fake wit
nesses and frame up charges.
AL present saw that the workers
would never get justice from that
cold-blooded enemy of the workers,
so they went and flooded the city
with leaflets, calling upon the work
ers to join in protest against this
legal persecution of innocent work.
ers who refuse to starve.
The meeting was called for Friday
at Q p. m. Friday morning the
hushel with groceries was again
brought in the court. The unem-
ployed pleaded not guilty. The po-
lice force and all politicians knew Of
the protest meeting. So the judge
acted against his wish and dis
charged three and held the decision
for the other four till tomorrow. But
the I. L. D. got all out on bail.
At 2 p. m. the unemployed held a
mass meeting in the Workers Cen
ter at 412 Monroe st. The weather
was warm and a comrade made a
motion that all present should form
a march and go TO the Mckinley
Monument and hold real demon
stration right before the City Hall.
AL present with revolutionary en-
thuSiasm raised the banners of the
Unemployed Council, formed a pa
rade on the street and marched
through the business section of the
city to the Mckinley Monument,
singing the march of the Soviet Red
Army.
AS this was an emergency action
the police were unprepared. In a
few moments hundreds of workers
gathered around the speakers of the
unemployed. The speakers de-
nonced the police interference with
the activities of the unemployed.
The unemployed workers of Toledo
will send a large delegation of Hun
ger Marchers to Columbus to pre-
sent demands for unemployment re-
lief before the state legislature and
governor Of Ohio.