The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-11-19
DEMAND HOOVER
AND CONGRESS-
RECEIVE MARCH
Letter Of Washington Ar
rangements Group Sent
to White House
$500 DELEGATES COMING

WASHINGTON, D.
c., Nov. 18. The I'M
employed and part
time workers in city
after city, and down in
in small mining and industrial
towns also, send word that they
are preparing their delegations
for the National Hunger March
on Washington.
So now the Washington Ar
rangements Committee for the Ma
tional Hunger March serves notice on
President Hoover that $500 delegates,
representing millions of unemployed
workers, will be in the capital city
on Dec. 9Th and 7th, and that they
want to speak to Hoover and to
Congress, which will just. then be
assembling. They want to present the
demands of the starving masses for
unemployment insurance and relief,
and they want to be fed and housed
at public expense for these two days
while they present their demands.
The letter to Hoover, signed by
Herbert Benjamin as National Field
Representative and by the Washing
ton Arrangements Committee, was
issued Tuesday from the offices OF
the Committee, 1910 G. ST., N. W.,
Washington, D. G. 1t says:
Herbert Hoover, White House,
Washington, D. G.
"Sir: In order to place before Con-
gress and before the whole country,
their demand for enactment of a
system of Federal Unemployment In
surance that will conform with the
needs Of the millions of workers who
have been denied the opportunity to
earn a livelihood, representatives of
unemployed and employed workers in
all sections of the United States are
undertaking Hunger March to
Washington. These Hunger March,
ers, numbering approximately $500,
will arrive in Washington on Dec. 6,
to address Congress when it convenes
on the seventh.
Refuse To Be Paupers
"The workers, unemployed and en-
ployed, refuse to accept the status of
paupers They demand the right to
live. They demand and are deter
MINED to fight for unemployment In
surance which under present circum-
stances is the only means of securing
the right to live.
Through their unions, unemployed
organizations, in the shops, fraternal
societies and at great mass meetings,
hundreds of thousands of workers
and poor farmers, white and Negro,
native and foreign-born men, women
and young workers, have elected del
egates and instructed them to pro-
coed to Washington and to place be-
fore Congress and yourself, their
program and demands. These del
egates will represent not only those
who leave directly participated IN
their election. They will represent
the interests and needs of all who
suffer hunger, privation, fear of in
security and premature death because
of the unemployment problem.
Poverty compels these delegates to
undertake the additional hardships of
long march, on meager rations, in
all kinds of weather and to brave
possible attacks by hostile local auth
critics They are determined, how
ever, to carry out the important mis-
sion which has been entrusted to
them.
Food, Lodging and Hall
1--WE have been instructed to de-
mand in behalf of the Hunger Mar
cheers, that you as Chief Executive of
this nation. shall see that these rep
resentative of the nations producers,
are provided with all essentials dur
ing their two days stay in Washing
ton These include: Warm lodging;
food; place of assembly and the
opportunity to address Congress and
yourself.
Our committee win meet with
whomever ypou may authorize to
repreesnt YOU in these arrargeuents.o