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

night.
Bales OF hay were piled high along
the road for use as barricades to
Illustrate any attempt to rush the
defending line. The defense forces
took up position at strategic point.
where the highway winds be-
tween two mountains of solid rock.
At that point one man, with a lev
er, could unloose enough tons of
rock to annibilate an army" New
York Times, Dec. All emphasis
is ours).
AT Buffalo Lick Run State
Trooper R. E. Bayliss placed his
car directly in the path of the on
coming columns and ordered a halt.
He drew his shotgun from his car
SO as all could see it," "Tomor-
row, when a clash appears newt
able, Major Brown will have every
available policeman guarding the
Capitol and the White House"
Hearsts Washington Herald, Dec.
So.
The elf-described liberal World
Telegram did Its bit:
WASHINGTON, Dec. 5-Severa
hundred of the demonstrators coral
led by the police marched in line
toward the guarding forces this
morning, as though intending to
make a break for the city, but they
were quickly turned back"
There never was any such plan
of making break" through the
lines of heavily armed police, with
batteries of tear gas and machine
guns trained upon the Hunger
Marchers." The authorities and the
newspaper correspondents knew
that the Hunger March delegates
and their leadership we're depend
ing upon the mass pressure from
workers throughout the country to
break down the campaign of per-
secution and suppression. But the
World-Telegram gleefully reported:
Lines of heavily armed police
men, reinforced by 400 firemen,
confined them in roped-off sec
ton of boulevard on the edge of
the city. At nearby army posts
1000 troops stood ready for a
double-quick mobilization.
hunger marchers today were deter
mined to try to overcome by legal
writ OR FORCE the cordons of
police who barred them from the
halls of Congress-
THE TIMES injected a new note
in a dispatch from Cumberland
Dec. 4. The Hunger Marchers were
"quarreling among themselves. Po-
lice early today reported fighting
among the marchers, but this was
stopped" Presumably by the in
prevention of the humane police.
Defeat and disbursement for
the Hunger March and what it
stood for was the note struck by
the New York Herald Tribune:
Hunger Army Bivouacked; Po-
lice Watch-Icy Wind Swirls Dust.
SKY Threatens Rain; $500 at Jour
ney's End Dismal Camp Near Cap
1ta]-Stern Gordon Bars Further
Advance" the Herald Tribune
headline shrieked on Dec. S.
IT'S PURPOSE.
The purpose of this barrage of
press provocation. of which we
have recorded only one thousandth
of one per cent, is made clear by
the actions of the police detailed
to intern the 5000 Hunger March
ers. Obviously acting under or
ders, they tried by insult, obscene
verbal abuse and physical attacks
on individuals and groups to pro-
woke an outbreak that would give
a plausible public excuse for turn
ing loose the Inurderous arrav of
gas, guns and bombs with which
they had been specially equipped.
THE restraint of the Hunger
Marchers in the face of this
abuse was remarkable example
of working class discipline. 1t
brought forth the admiration of
many newspapermen and at least
one written tribute, The Federated
Press reported Dec 6:
Robert M. Buck described
wildly the all-night barrage
Of insults with which police sur
rounding the pavement camp of
the marchers tried to make these
determined young people forget
their danger He said that the
rough stuff the police threw in
to- the Hunger Marchers last night
convinced many observers that a
deliberate incitenent to riot had