The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-07
1000 WORKERS
GREET MARCHERS
NEAR CAPITOL
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wealthiest country on earth.
The hunger marchers disembarked
soon after entering Washington and
paraded with banners to the heart OF
the city where 1000 workers well
coined them at a demonstration in
the shadow of the capitol building
Two Red Cross ambulances at the
demonstration were the only signs
here of terror ON the part of the
police.
Across the river from Washington
in Alexandria, Virginia, the American
Legion and the National Guard were
modified to meet the hunger march
ers from Gastonia.
Westerners Enter.
Columns and 4, marching to-
gether and carrying their placards,
came shortly after Columns / and Q.
They came singing and cheering
through the streets, selling and giving
literature to the workers who lined
the way.
Among the marchers were lumber
jacks with their blankets and bed
ding on their backs and wearing
boots and fur hats. They were dele
gates from the Pacific Northwest.
Workers were lined four and five
deep on the streets, in front of the
Federal Building on Marshall place,
which is within two blocks of the cap
itol building.
Marines were called out by the au-
tho1ities. but group of them we're
seen fraternizing with the hunger
marchers.
Tomorrow the marchers will go up
to the capitol and insist on present.
ing their demands for unemployment
insurance at the rate of full wages for
all jobless and part time workers, and
demands for immediate winter relief
of $3.50 cash for each unemployed
worker and $50 more for each of his
dependents.
To A.F.L. Headquarters.
American Federation of Labor
members of the National Hunger
March, these members being dele
gates elected by ALL. local unions
which repudiate the stand of the
A.FL. Vancouver convention against
unemployment insurance, will go
Monday to A. F. L. headquarters to
register their protest in person.
They will also denounce ALL, Vice
President Matthew VOLTS letter to all
congressman when the Hunger March
was just starting, in which Vol
started off the whole course of pro-
vocation by urging that the march
Headers be Jailed for "sedition," and
by reviving the old lie of Russian
gold"
They will protest the attack on the
Soviet Union by Vol.
The delegation will demand an OPP
portunity for the rank and file of the
ALL. to express their opinion about
unemployment Insurance. They will
declare that ALL. President Green
and Vice President Vol speak for
the employers, not for the workers in
the ALL Or the unorganized work.
| ers.
The delegation will challenge Vol
and Green to defend their position
against unemployment insurance be-
fore mass meetings of workers in
large industrial centers. At these
meetings, speakers of the Unemployed
Councils are ready to champion the
Workers Unemployment Insurance
Bill, which the National Hunger
March demands shall be passed by
Congress.
Children's Delegation.
immigration authorities announce
their intention to comb the march
ers for deportation proceedings"
This statement was made in the
Washington Star tonight. The cap
itol is policed by guards every Is
yards around the White House.
There are groups of marines all over
the city in uniform. Columns and
4 total 619 delegates in GA trucks and
cars. There are 10 children from
Pittsburgh, McKeesport and Avells.
The telephone wires in the office
of the Washington Arrangements
Committee have been cut, in spite of
the fact that it had been agreed that
the bill was to be paid for at the end
of the month and the month has
not yet expired.
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