The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1932-01-08
Friday, January s, 1882
THE HUNGER MARCH

In todays paper we publish the summary of
Comrade Hans Rasmussen's trip TO Washington in
the National Hunger March. From this summary
as well as from the day to day stories which Com
rade Hans wrote as special correspondent for the
Producers News, we have been able to see the out
standing features of this Hunger March.
In this Hunger March the toiing masses of
the entire country were represented thru the 1910
delegates who had been elected at meetings of the
unemployed workers. at meetings of the locals of
the American Federation of Labor, by the workers
in the Trade Union Unity League, at meetings of
farmers. These delegates represented the exploit
ed masses of the United States i'm the struggle
gainst the Hunger Program of the Hoover Hunger
government.
In this Hunger March side by side marched
Negro and White workers, men and women work
ers, employed and unemployed, adult and young
workers. In this Hunger March marched side by
side representatives of all of the telling masses of
the United States One fourth of the delegates
were Negro workers By this symbol the exploited
of the entire country showed that they are
determined to fight against the extra exploitation
and misery and terror that the Hoover Hunger gov
ernment the agent of Wall Street, has forced on
the Negro masses. The solidarity of the Negro
and White masses was demonstrated not only in the
preston of the Negro masses that were carried to
hundreds of thousands of workers on the entire
line of march, but in the fact that the committee
that was elected to see Hunger Hoover was headed
by Negro worker.
The Hunger March was a living example of
the ability of the working masses to organize for
struggle. These 1910 delegates came from all ov-
er the country = came from the farthest corners
of the entire country. For an entire month"; from
the time when the first delegates set out until the
last ones returned to the workers and farmers who
sent them, these delegates were with few excep-
tons housed and fed by the toiing masses whom
they represented. The few exceptions were when
they were fed and housed by the cities along the
line of march, When the delegates par.
took of the gfts' of the cities they got Stops and
lousy quarters
Where the workers along the Line of march
saw to it that they were fed and housed, they re-
ceived the best that the toing masses had to give
often better than many of the workers themselves
had. The maintenance of these delegates by the
telling masses meant great sacrifices on the part
of the workers, but they were sacrifices made
cheerfuly, made with the understanding that these
delegates represented the exploited Glass; that these
delegates going to the Hunger Congress to de-
mand immediate relief for all of the toiling masses
1neSe delegates came from the exploited masses,
they represented the exploited and these saw to it
that the delegates got to Washington and got home
again. The delegates were workers and farmers
PrOletarian precision marked every step of the
Hunger March. Despite the tremendous task of
transporting 1910 delegates to Washington from
the far reaches of the country despite the attempts
OF the police to break up the March, despite techn-
cal difficulties the four columns in the March
reached every city on schedule time, and reached
Washington, they had set out to do, on the OPP
ening day of the Hunger Congress.
In the face of the attempts to crush the Hun
ger March by violence and provocation the march
ers went on. Theirs was the duty, theirs was the
task delegated to them by the tens of millions of
the exploited, to lay before the Hunger Congress
the mass demand for immediate relief for all of the
toilers of the country. Where as individuals they
would have been provoked, as a mass delegation
they went on. Where as individuals they would
have fallen victims to the attempts on the part of
the agents of Wall Stree to deter them by futile
struggle, representatives of the toiling masses
with task delegated to them by these masses
they went on-on to Washington.
On the line of march the Cossack Hordes Of
the Wall Street government, the Black Hundreds
Of the capitalist class prepared 10 attack slug
or kill these delegates. In Washington the
Hunger Congress and Hunger Hoover covered be-
hnd an army of police, troops, behind barrier Of