Evening star., 1931-12-07

| OF some OF the demonstrators is SHOWN
in the third photograph. Below: Maj.
! Pelham D. Glassford, superintendent of
police. is shown on his motor cycle at
the head Of the police guard. Mai.
| Glassford drove his own motor cycle
even after he was promoted to a
brigadier general during the World War
Star staff Photos.
and don't intend to have you present
anything for us"
Very well" King said, walking
| away.
| A last-minute concession to the
! demonstrators on the part of Vice Pres
! ident Curtis permitting them to carry
| "unobjectionab BILE" banners and placards
| into the Capitol grounds in violation OF
| prescribed rules is thought to have re-
moved one source of potential trouble.
The refusal of admission to the repre-
sentatives of the marehers also had
been expected to cause some disorder,
but the demonstrators marched away
from the Capitol without protest.
Makes Announcement.
The committee of three appointed at
the plaza conference to present the pc
tition Of the marchers to Congress after
the first delegation of IL had been
turned down consisted of Benjamin, an
organizer of the unemployed councils;
Hawkens, colored Pennsylvania miner,
and William F. Dunn, an unemployment
leader from New York
After the committee of three had been
refused admittance Dunn made an an
nouncement to the marchers standing
on the shoulders of four men. Com
rades and fellow workers" he shouted
the Congress OF the United States
meeting in joint session, has refused to
hear the proposals Of the unemployed
councils brought to it through the the
hunger marchers. The entire proceed
ing so far as your committee was con-
ceTned was conducted through the
police. We were not allowed with the
civilians who ordinarily receive such
delegations as ours.
Through his action Vice President
Curtis expressed the attitude OF the
Hoover hunger program and hunger ad-
ministration. COMRADES of the hunger
march, you will proceed to the White
House and there elect committee who
VIII present your demands TO the Presi-
dent himself"
ment in silence and police edged in
to cut off any demonstration AS Dunn
spoke OF moving on to the White House,
there were few feeble cheers Sew
eral minutes later as the column cap
talns began organizing their units for
the march to the White House, the
demonstrators broke into a chant of
their slogan, we demand unemploy-
ment insurance"
Sleep in Abandoned Buildings.
The $500 demonstrators, who de-
.scended on Washington yesterday after
noon in two columns of motor trucks of
ali sizes and description, rose early this
morning from nights sleep in two
abandoned buildings in the Municipal
Center area-the historic old First
Presbyterian Church, on John Marshall
place, and a former wholesale ware
house at 479 c street-and awaited the
signal that started them on the march.
Some OF the demonstrators were in a
belligerend mood after the nights rest.
The accommodations were not what
they had expected and the food was vo-
ciferously condemned even though
many of them appeared to be hungry.
The women were among the loudest
protestants. Some Of them actually re-
fused TO eat bread and coffee which
constituted the breakfast in the old
Presbyterian Church, and to the cries
of Come on Comrades marched
around the corner to the abandoned
warehouse, where the comnlissary was
putting out meal Of dry cereal, jelly,
bread and coffee
The marchers began falling in on
John Marshall place about o'clock,
and spent several hours rehearsing the
songs to be sung along the route Of the
procession. These activities attracted a
crowd of spectators that outnumb-red
! the demonstrators when the time came
! to begin the march to Capitol Hill.
The petition carried to the Capitol
! demanded enactment by Congress OF
| legislation establishing a system Of Fed
| eral unemployment insurance, guaran-
| teeing full wages TO all workers wholly
or partly employed for the entire Pc
! riod of unemployment. 1t also asked
appropriation by Congress of funds SUI
! ficient to pay to each unemployed
! worker for Winter relief the sum OF
! $3.50 in cash, with $50 for each de-
| pendent.
Welcomed at ID. c. Line.
In two columns of trucks of varying
| description and condition, the major
/ portion of the demonstrators came into
| Washington yesterday afternoon, the
group from the West and Northwest
crossing the District Line at Wisconsin
avenue and the other from the North
on Bladensburg road A third dele
-satiof1 Of IS which originated in Gas
| tonia, N c. arrived unceremoniously
| about two hours later.
| The Northern group, consisting OF 7S1
men and women, white and colored,
was the first to reach the District Line
| The head o. It's column crossed the
boundary line at 3:l5 o'clock. halted for
a few minutes for instructions and pro-
/ ceeded OH into the city. A half hour
| later the column from the West entered
| the District at Wisconsin avenue in a
! caravan of 81 trucks and continued to
| its destination on John Marshall place.
Z, The head Of each battalion of the
Y marche;s carried banners containing
inscriptions indicating the purpose OF
the demonstration. ITO He'll With
Charity. We Want Work" read one
Stop Dumping Our Children,
read another. Come on, This Is Our
Fight and Defend the $1yiet Union
were among other legends
Column ], the first To arrive was the
fitst to reach its dcstina ion on John