The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-05

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marchers by tomorrow afternoon, 10
plainly designed to clear the town OF
bonus army members before the To-
cal American Legion holds its an
nuaI parade here late tomorrow. It
was announced in the local press
that Friday will be Legion Day In
Johnstown.
Gail TO Close Ranks.
The leaflets distributed through-
out the camp by the Workers Ex-
ssrvicemen's League were received
with approval by the masses Of vets.
In all sections Of the camp veterans
gathered in little groups and dis
cussed the contents of the leaf1et,
which urged the vets not to allow
their ranks to be broken.
Refuse to be herded around
Ike cattle; do not allow the fight
for the bonus be broken up" said
the call of the Workers Ex-Ser-
vicemen's League. "Sit tight. Or
ganlze the forces of the rank and
file on the basis Of rank and file
committees
Prepare for Convention.
A call was issued to all veterans
to prepare for the National Conven-
tion of the Workers Ex-Servicemen's
League to be held in Cleveland oct.
1915. All groups were urged to
elect delegates to the convention
which will take up plans for a
march Of the unemployed workers
and veterans to Washington at the
4 opening Of Congress to demand un-
employment insurance at the ex-
pense of the government and the
employers and the bonus. All groups
of vets who have left for their homes
were urged to organize posts of the
Workers Ex-servicemen's League in
their respective towns and rally the
workers and veterans to demand a
special session Of Congress to pass
the bonus bill
! Waters Men Desert.
All the erstwhile so-called COM
manders of the bonus army have
now practically deserted in face Of
the custer order. Waters refused to
appear in the camp yesterday and
remained in Washington. He is the
only member of the bonus army al
lowed by the police and Hoover OFF,
Gals to stay in the city.
McCIoskey Booed.
When McCloskey spoke to the
marchers yesterday in Ideal Park he
was booed down when he said that
Waters had ordered the vets to go
home.
! Most of us have no home" said
one of the vets.
A rank and fiIer following Nc
CloSkey on the platform shouted
to the n1archers, do we want to
go home!"
The marchers answered with
thunderous "No!"
Food Cut Off.
The food for the vets has been
practically cut off. 1t is clearly the
policy of McCloskey and the steel
barons whom he represents to starve
the vets and then drive them out
with state troops if they refused to
| go.
Women Knocked Down.
The camp is swarnling with state
troopers and Department of Justice
men. One woman, the wife Of a vet,
with a child of three was knocked
down by a trooper this morning.
When the veterans protested he
said, That's for the rest of you"
The Johnstown workers, most of
them steel and mine workers, are
very bitter against the police and
city government for the vicious
treatment the vets have received in
their city. Thousands of angered
workers gathered near tn camp today
and cheered the vets. z
A group of Pennsylvania veterans
today declared that they would
march to Harrisburg to demand that
Gov. Pinchot halt his terror CAM
paign against the vets.
Ellison, a Waters man who de-
serted the camp yesterday, started
today with caravan Of IA automo-
biles for the west coast with group
of carefully picked men to be used
as a nucleus for the Waters fascist
Khaki Shirt" organization.