The daily worker., 1932-12-06
CURTIS REFUSES
TO GIVE PERMIT
Even Breaks Promise
to See Committee
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committee, not over three, from the
marchers.
This is not at all satisfactory to the
marchers, and is not in accordance
with their instructions from the mass
es of unemployed workers they repre-
sent.
In the face of the mobilized police
power of the whole capital city and
knowing that 1000 regular army
troops with tanks, cavalry and artil-
lery are waiting 20 minutes march
from their camp, they are meeting
to decide the next steps.
The meeting will have a chairman
elected, and the vice-chairman will
be chosen, one from each of the nine
columns of the National March
Court Answers Wednesday
Today attorneys filed with the clerk
of the Supreme Court of the United
States a petition for writ of habeas
corpus to release the marchers from
their Imprisonment by the police and
for writ Of mandamus clearing the
police interference from the route and
permitting the nnarchers to go to the
capitol building in a body.
The case was turned over to JUS
tice Luhring who stated that he
would give his answer Wednesday
This may serve as means of plac-
ing all branches Of the Washington
government on record as to their at
titude towards elected delegates of
the unemployed who come to demand
relief
Police Bar Halls.
All day long the National Com
mittee of the Unemployed Councils
had been busy trying to hire a hall
for the National Conference of the
Unemployed, to which all 5000
marchers are elected delegates.
The manager of the washington
Auditorium, where the hunger
marchers met last year, stated to the
committee that he was perfectly
willing to rent it again this year, but
that District of Columbia Connis-
sioner Reichelsderfer had ordered
him not to do SO.
This same situation developed at
all the halls approached so far in
Washington. The National Commit
tee is able and offers to pay the reg
ular rental, the hall owners are
ready to rent, but the police stub
bornly refuse to allow them to do So.
One hall, holding 300 has actually
been rented, and the police refuse to
allow any Of the marchers to go to it..
Adopt Statement.
The National Conference of the
Unemployed will have before it for
its main business the discussion and
amendment and adoption OLA state
ment to congress and to the masses
in America. The draft of the state
ment was prepared by the National
Committee. 1t includes the follow
ing demands to be submitted to con-
gresS:
1.--Immediate federal emery
ency relief appropriation of $50
for each unemployed worker,
man or woman, plus $40 for each
dependent, in addition to exist
ing local relief.
2.-Immediate enactment of
system of federal unemployment
insurance by the government
through taxes upon wealth and
income, and direct Ievies upon
employers, providing for each
unemployed worker the average
wage of his industry and locality
for the full period of unempIoy-
ment.
3.-FuIl and immediate pay
ment of the war veterans ad-
justed compensation certificates
(bonus).
4.-ImInediate cash relief TO
the impoverished farmers, snd
legislation prohibiting the seizure
of farms or other property for
the collection of debts, rents or
taxes.
5.-Federal legislation prohi-
biting the eviction of unemployed
workers from their homes, and
provision Of adequate housing
for the homeless.
6.-Tbe administration of all
relief funds through represent
atives elected directly by the
workers and farmers through
their own organizations.
THE provision of all neces-
sary funds for relief and insur-
ance by direct taxes on wealth
and income, and the diversion
Of all present appropriations for
war purposes. Abolition Of all
taxes on articles of mass con-
sumption (sales tax, etc..
Can Be Won by Struggle.
The statement of the National
Hunger March, as proposed, ends
with a declaration that these de-
mands can only be won by struggle,
and calls on employed and unem-
ployed workers to go on with this
struggle, locally and nationally.
The rlarchers threw the police into
hysteria once by parading on foot
with the Red Front Band with a red
flag at their head back and forth
within the narrow restrictions of the
police lines. There was an instant
flouishing of guns by the cops. The
marchers jeered the police, and be-
gan to sing.