The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08


END IN BLOODSHED AND
DEATH" - New York Daily
News. Dec. 5. - - -
BY BILL DUNE.
THE MAGNIFICENT revolutionary
l morale, mass protest and sup
port throughout the country and
unbreakabIe working class discipline
defeated the most elaborate at
tempt yet made in the United
States in peace time to provoke ut
terances and actions that would
have furnished an excuse for
wholesale massacre of the 5000
Hunger March delegates in Wash
ington.
Victory on this issue is with the
working class.
The entire capitalist press joined
in the campaign to picture the
Hunger March as an armed inva-
sion of Washington organized by
the Communist Party for the pur-
pose of provoking bloodshed which
it could Capitalize"
PROVOCATION BY
PRESS
Every sheet from the dignified
tory New York Times, the staid and
ultra Republican and reactionary
Herald Tribune, the Hearst and
Scripps- Howard press to the gutter
tabloids like the New. York Daily
and Sunday News, exceeded all
previous efforts in their attempts
to create a moral and political
background for any and all attacks
I by the police and military forces
organized against the National
Hunger March and the interests
and demands of the millions Of I'M
employed workers which it voiced.
During this whole period there
has been shown the indiSpenS-
ability of the Daily Worker and
the revolutionary press as the
main weapon in exposing this
tactic of the enemy, at the same
time mobilizing mass support for
the whole struggle and for the
defeat of the campaign for de-
NAL of elementary political rights
and forcible suppression.
"DEDS Threaten Bloodshed on
II Capital March, said the Sun
day News in a tWo-column black
headline on Dec. 4. But even this
living and mwderously provocative
Islander of unarmed elected dele
gates of the working class victims
of the Republican-Democrat star
walton regime in the richest coun-
try in the world, does not character
ize adequately the provocative con-
tent of the story. 1t bears all the
earmarks of having been written or
inspired by agents of the notorious
department of justice and is quite
typical Of the mouthings of these
spies and provocators.
FAKE BENJAMIN SPEECH
The agency responsible for this
whether it be the copy desk
of the Sunday News, the reporter,
or the government-actu de-
scribes a speech Of Herbert Benja-
min, secretary of the National Com
mittee of Unemployed Councils
which he never made!
Under a Baltimore date-llne the
story begins:
Plenty of bloodshed And more
than one killing is expscted when
the Hunger Marchers invade Wash
ington tomorrow, a Government Of
fetal predicted tonight"
There's going to be shooting
and somebody will die" declared a
Federal undercover agent who has
been mingling with the Reds since
they left New York" There's more
than one gun hidden in that mob.
The sleuth indicated nearly 1000
surly Communists who hooted and
jeered every mention of Uncle Sam
at their rally in Tom Mooney Hall.
We understand they're coming
into the capital this year primed
for trouble he continued. and the
police will oblige them when they
cross the District of Columbia
line"
THEN the Sunday News proceeds
J 10 write speech tor Benjamin.