The daily worker., 1931-12-03
COLISEUM MEET
PLEDGE SUPPORT
TO HUNGER MARCH
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As We so to press 10000 New York
workers filled the Bronx Coliseum in
a mass send off to the three hundred
delegates to the National Hunger
March on Washington. Decenlber Z,
More workers were pouring in at this
writing, before the meeting actually
got under way.
A colorful procession around the
hall of unemployed and employed
workers was led by the Red Front
Fighters Band with a red banner with
a workers fist. The members of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League fol-
lowed carrying plaeards, one of which
showed a battlefield. %rhe Last Time
We Fought for the Bosses, the Next
Time We Fight for Ourselves" the
big pfacard read. Following the eX-
servicemen came group of nurses
in white uniform constituting the
New YORK squad of the Workers
International Relief First Aid Corps.
These we're followed by the federated
choruses and oGher workers organi-
cations, prominently among them the
Laundry Workers Union members,
many Of whom are now on strike.
The main resolution TO be present.
ed to the meeting demanded imme-
diate cash winter relief for all un-
employed of $3.50 and federal unem-
ployment insurance; 1t called for sup
port of the National Hunger March
and demanded that congress hear the
demands of the 1900 delegates who
will present a bill for compulsory un-
employment insurance. The resolu-
ton also demands the immediate re-
lease Of the fourteen workers arrested
several days ago for picketing the
White House.
The resolution points out that Tam
many Hall administration and the
Hoover federal administration are
common agencies of the bosses in en-
forcing hunger, starvation for the
jobless and wage cuts for those still
in the shops. The necessity for Or
ganization of all sections of the
workingclass for resolute struggle
against the hunger program of the
employers and their government Is
also stressed. The resolution con-
cludes with an appeal for the defense
of the Soviet Union, which has shown
that the living standards Of the mas
ses can be raised and that the work.
ers and peasants can build their own
society free of capitalist hunger.
An large array of policemen have
been posted outside the hall as the
workers streamed into the building.
With banners at their head, 40
delegates from Beacon, White Plains,
Ossining, New Rochelle, Yonkers and
other towns up state (but included
in the territory of Column No. and
the New York delegation headed for
the Bronx Coliseum last night. They
came in a body, and after an event.
full day. These delegates formed q
little hunger march column OF their
own, and crowded into one day most
of the events the other columns have
met in four days. They came through
Ossining, and were cheered by 5000
workers and unemployed in a mass
demonstration.
In White Plans, $50 police OF all
arms, foot, horse and motorized
charged down on the trucks and sew
eral cars in which the delegates were
travelling. The cars went on through,
but the truck with 80 delegates was
captured by the police and taken tc
the station. Delegates were cross ex-
an1ined as to place Of birth, etc, and
finally, with the International Labor
Defense coming UP to the rescue, al
but one we're released and continued
on towards New York. One was held
on bail, charge not known yet.
In New Rochelle, the marchers hae
a permit to meet at the city limits
The whole police force came out II
escort them. 1t turned out to be Q
public highway in front of a cemeter.