The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02

July 20, 1882.
Workers, remember this date well.
1t will go down in history as one Of
the red letter days of the class strug-
gle in America.
AS that day dawned, over 10000
world war veterans, bonus marchers,
we're still encamped in washington
and its vicinity. Most of them had
been entrenched in Washington and
Anacostia for over two months.
Starving, they had come to demand
full payment of the Bonus.
Murder-In the Shadow of the
Capitol.
On that day, beneath the very
shadow of the U. S. Capitol, and
within a stones throw of the White
House, police and federal troops
murdered and MANNED war veterans,
choked the women and children of
the veterans with tear gas, and re-
duced the shacks which the bonus
marchers had patiently built up, to
smouldering ruins.
On that day the flames of the vet
Grams shacks and tents illuminated
the dome Of the Capitol building with
an ominous glare.
The events of Thursday, July % are
well worth recounting, that the work
ers and poor farmers of this country
may keep them in mind.
Fear Grips the Govt Officials.
July % found the government off,
Gals, in the White House, almost
paralyzed with fear. Their stool
pigeons among the veterans reported
to them that each day the language
Of the veterans was growing more
menacing. The bonus marchers were
no longer taking stock in the pas
sive" lay-me- down and-d policy Of
the fascist Waters. They were talk
ing of action.
The booing of Waters was growing
louder with every speech the "HitIer
Of America" Gas he likes to imagine
HIMSELF made. The conferences
called by the Rank and File Com
n1ittee of the Bonus Marchers, and
the nightly open air meetings Of the
Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
were drawing greater and greater
numbers of veterans.
Revolution is being threatened,
Mr.. Hoover and Mr.. Curtis were told
by General Douglass Macarthur,
Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. The
huge iron gates of the White House
changed shut, to keep Mr.. Hoover
secure in his hiding place.
In the week previous, the veterans
had been threatened several times
with IMMEDIATE evacuation, but each
time the government had been forced
to back down by the bonus marchers'
grim determination.
The Veterans Thought Differently.
Finally, the day for eviction of
the veterans was set for August 4.
There would be no resistance, stool
pigeon Waters assured Police Chief
General Glassford. The veterans
thought differently about the matter.
1t was decided that August was
too long time to wait to drive the
veterans from Washington.
At 10 a. m, police and government
officials suddenly swooped down on
100 Texas veterans, encamped in a
building on Pennsylvania Ave. and
3rd Street, and ordered the vets out
The police and government men were
told to go to hell.
Meanwhile about 100 of the police
were brought to the scene by General
Glassford Ropes were streached
around the Texas billet Forcibly
the veterans were evicted one by one
each man putting up still fight.
Just before this occurrence, Waters
had addressed the veterans at q
meeting and had called on the vet
Grams to allow themselves to be evic-
ted. He spoke vaguely about having
enough money to shelter them all at
Camp BARTLETT, which was a pri-
vately owned ground.
The vets .booed Waters down
What do you think we are, chill
dren,?" they asked him. Waters
thought he still was able to exercise
his czar-like tactics. "Will you move
or not,?" he demanded. A loud
chorus of mos" answered him.
The news of the eviction Iof the
Texas men spread like wild-ire
among the veterans in all the billets.
Five thousand of the veterans at An
acostia rushed Immediately to the
assistance of the men encanped on
Pennsylvania and Third. The police
and government began their attempt
to eyict other bonus marchers from
o partly-wrecked building they had
occupied.
AS they did so, truck-load Of vets
from Anacostia drew up. They