The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-08-05
STAND BY THE VETERANS

THE, UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN
MET, SWIFTLY AND FIRMLY"
With these words Hoover approved the murder OF
one veteran the woundng of dozens OF other
and the burning of their encamPment on BLOOOl
THURSDAY.
What was this challenge? These bonus marchers,
the vanguard of the world turnout the coun
trv had demanded of Congress that their bonus shouo
be paid They were hungry in rags They Pehtoned
CONGRESS in masses for their demands his demand that
the veterans should be given relief, this was according
to BL OODY HOOVER, a challenge to the authority
of the Wall Street government which could hand out bill
lions to the railroads. the banks the great industrial mag
Mates
These demands were met swiftly and firmly by
the Hoover government. They were met with gunshot
with the cold steel of bayonets, with tear and tanks
with infantry and cavalry charges HEY WEKE ME-
WITH MURDER
Fifteen hundred soldiers of the regular army were
ob;zed to aid the police in their bloody attacks in the
largest mobilization in the city of Washington since the
Civil War.
The attack of the Hoover machine on the vet
Grams is not new step in attacks the working class
Is the carving of the most brutal attacks which have been
made against workers on STRIKE demanding relief over
against the veterans On December or last year Hoo
YER modified an army of police and soldiers against the
National Hunger marchers who demanded unemploy-
nent insurance This year have seen the murder OF
Harry Sms in Kentucky by the coal barons thugs, the
murder of the four workers at Fords March l. the
attack on the ST. Louis iobess three weeks ago which
four unemployed workers were shot
This year we have seen the ntensfcation of the eff
forts of the capitalist class to crush the miancy of the
masses thru police and murder In every city thru
out the country the unemployed workers and strikers
have been dubbed and beaten for asserting their de-
mands In Duluth army of police and other gun thugs
was drawn up to terrorze the farmers of St Louis
county Minnesota, when they demonstrated tor relief or
June y.
In the attacks on the veterans the Hoover govern
has used all the at its disposal to prevent the
veterans from insstently demanding relief They have
used kid glove methods thru Glassford, police chic
in Washington urging Cabling, threatening the veterans
They have tried bride them with fare out of thu
city And when these methods failed frghten the
into passive starvation they have used the las
means in the hands of the exploiters- force
Not satisfied with murder the Hoover government
attempting its murderous attacks part of tn
preparations for outawing the Communist party am
crushing all the militant organizations of the tolin
masses The murderous attack of the police and the
S. Army is blamed on the Communists.
In the bonus march it has been the Communists an
the members of the Workers Ex-servicemen's Leagu
who have warned against the leadership of Waters The
have demanded rank and file control of the march, tn
understanding by the Communists of the basic forces
work in the bonus march became evident Blood
Thursday Waters selfappointed leader of the march
ers, and asprant a Mussolin role for the America
capitalist class, hung his tail between his legs and
while the veterans lighting the brutal attacks of tt
Hoover police.
Almost fourteen years after the war to end war
to make the world safe for democracy the veterans
St Mhel of the Argonne, become the veterans of Was
ington the veterans of BLOODY THURSDAY
These veterans, workers and farmers, were sci
away fourteen years ago Wall Street investment
And now to the capitalist class the need for payir
them their adjusted compensation, the bonus they a
murdered and wounded to drive them from Washingto
They workers and farmers they are tolers
we are Their fight is fight part of the struggle
relief from the capitalist class and its crisis The murde
Gus attack them is attack on u.s. The class whi
ordered this attack them thru Hoover is the ella
which exploits, Expresses, and evicts u.s.
Stand by the veterans!
Toiling farmers. Protest the attack of BLOODY
THURSDAY!
Demand the Withdrawal of the u s. troops from
Washington.
Strengthen the fight for the bonus for nm
employment insurance and for emergency relief
for the impoverished farmers!
Against capitalist terror all forms of suppression
of the political rights of worxers-vote Communists