The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-07
BY
CAPITAL POLICE
Backed by Thousands
of Guns, Cops Jeer

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. 6.-An
around the interned marchers, Ma
tional Hunger Marchers camp yester-
day really unusual tactics of provo
catian were carried out by the Wash
ington police.
When the marchers formed in the
columns in which they had marched
all the way to Washington, and par
AIDED back and forth within the cor
don of thousands of police armed
with machine guns, tear gas, the
war departments new nauseating
gas, clubs, shot guns and revolvers,
with the detachment of police in gas
masks on the heights above them
armed with more gas guns, with 1000
infantry, cavalry, artillery and tanks
of the regular army within a few
minutes march of them, the police
were very courageous.
Come and Fight"
Each time the 5000 totally UNI
armed delegates of the unemployed
workers approached the line of guns
held by the police, the heroic cops
screamed challenges to them tc
Come and fight"
The Washington police their cour-
age bolstered by overwhelming num-
bers and such panapoly of wal
armament as would naturally be
used only against an armed corps
"booed" the representative of the
iobIess, jeered at half starved I'M
employed women and children and
ragged men, called them towards
for not rushing the line of deadly
guns and trying to whip the entire
U. S. army and Washington police
force combined.
Police Swagger.
Later at night, Police Superin-
tendent Brown staggered, and told
the reporters: They're practically
licked now; If they don't rush us
within the next twelve hours, we've
wonl"
Nor did the police rely only on
words for provocation. While the
National Conference of the Unem-
ployed, to which all 5000 marchers
are elected delegates, was in ses-
sion last night in the camp, thugs
were passed through the police
lines, placed on the hillside above
the marchers, and from that van
tage point hurled stones at the
meeting. Police protected the pro-
vocateurs when groups of marchers
went up to stop the stone throwing
Lords and Priests.
A variation of this open police
provocation was the subtler attempt
of state and church to discourage
the marchers. None other thar
Lady Astor of the British nobility
was drafted into this sickening task
She moved, with a police guaro
through the camp, had herself
photographed number of times, anc
then took her trembling Viscount
husband in tow, and led him outside
saying as she went, to the marchers
II don't blame them for not wanting
you people to come to Washington.
The church appeared in the per-
son of a Greek Catholic priest, robeo
in scarlet and gold. The cops showed
him in to read a manuscript, al
about how the capitalists and work
ers need each other"
The Marchers were very explicit il
their answers. They finally con-
WINGED him that they didn't thing
they needed any capitalists, nor any
of their agents, and the priest tucked
up his trailing robes and departed.
Newspaper Lies.
Capitalist editors are chagrined a.
the retreat their government finally
had to make. For the last week the
capitalist newspapers line has beer
to describe the march as an Gin
vading army which the "citize1
forces" are valiantly ready to repulst
and prevent the capture of the city
They hailed the internment of thu
marchers as marvellous victory
Now when the tens of thousands o
workers, liberals, professional men
from all parts of the country star
q wave of denunciation of the higi
handed and tyrannical Imprisonment
of the jobless delegates, and TIN
Washington authorities after al
their threats and swagger. have tx
grant a permit for the parade
through Washington and the presen
tation to congress of the demands O.
the marchers, capitalist editors fun.
BILE. Some Of them, like the Hears
papers in New York, keep up the
heroic note: "rhe marcherS vii
never capture Washington"
Others, like the New York Times