The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-06-20
BONUS FIGHT Is
JUST STARTED!
VETS AROUSED
Demand Grows for A
Leading Committee
Of Rank and File
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dom of assembly. The Provisional
Bonus March Committee headauart-
ers at Dos I ST., N. W., has issued a
call to all workers organizations to
hold mass protest meetings against
discrimination against militant vets,
for the support of the Workers Ex-
Service Mems League and for the
support of the Bonus Marchers. Send
wires to congressman, to Glassford,
and to the Bonus Expeditionary
Force headquarters.
10000 In Ranks.
The ranks of the bonus f1larehers
have swollen to 10000. A few have
left, but the police statements about
thousands going and the ranks
breaking up are false. Veterans
from all the camps are coming to
the W.E,S.L. headquarters for utera-
ture, and the program of electing a
rank and file leading committees, of
joining the struggle of The bonus
marchers with that of the $4,000, 900
unemployed for insurance and of per-
manent organization through the w.
E.S.L., is gaining force.
Waters and the police are trying
desperately to stop this, but Waters
strong arm squad is getting tired of
its job. The members of the Mill
tary Police" are changed almost daily.
Pace, commander of the Michigan
group, was held up by Waters thugs
on the streets, but the rank and file
bonus marchers forced them to re-
lease him.
Waters denounces the W.E.S.L. by
references TO groups with crazy
ideas about government" but the men
do not get enthusiastic about Wat
ers' declaration. Waters and the B.
Eff. chaplain, T. w. Evans, who adj
mitS he is also connected with the
police force, are leading figures on
the committee of seven which today
declared for a permanent political
organization, to be a party similar
to the fasciSts of Italy and Germany
They have dispatched 200 agents to
all sections of the country to carry
out the building of this fascist party.
By HARRY RAYMOND
WASHINGTON, D. c., June 49,
Pelham D. Glassford, chief of the
Washington police, raised the 18th
Street bridge which spans the Pete-
mac in an attempt to break up
march of hungry, unemployed World
War veterans to the Capitol to de-
mand that the Senate vote to pay
their back wages.
had just arrived at Anacostia
Camp from the Capitol Plaza where
5000 vets were then waiting for
report on the Senate vote on the
Soldiers Bonus Bill 1 was talking
to group of Ohio veterans, steel
workers, who were quartered in
makeshift tent made of old carpets
In the center of mud hole, when
suddenly shouts could be heard COM
ing from all sections of the camp.
Rank and File Order March.
"On TO the Capitol" over the
Bridge. Comrades THE Senate is
going to defeat the bill" Everybody
to Washington
These commands were shouted not
by the leaders, but by the rank and
file. The masses of veterans were
overriding Waters and the Committee
OF who had told them to stay away
from the Capitol.
The whole camp suddenly became
alive, Thousands of vets began to
move across the flats toward the 18th
Street bridge. Enthusiasm ran high.
I got lost from the Ohio vets and fell
in with a couple of boys from Texas.
Three thousand had already crossed
the bridge before we got there.
Thousands were following behind us.
Everybody was running up ahead.
They're lifting the bridge" some
one shouted.
Sure enough there we're the police
working like fury trying TO man the
bridge lifting apparatus.
Two thousand more got over. We
we're among the last. And up went
the bridge.
THE dirty bastards," said a vet
from Texas A police officer said,
We've got orders from headouar-
ters."
They did this in Petrogard, Rus
STA, in 1917" said to vet near ms.
Yes he answered. but they
didn't get away with 1t very long and
they won't get away with 1t long
here either"
soo1 at CapitoI.
Eight tho1and arrived at the Cap