The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-02
TO CALL NATL
VET CONFERENCE
w. E. S. L. Statement
on Bloody Thursday"
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billions of dollars to the bankers, the
railroads and to the rich generally,
does not stop even at murder to
avoid payments rightfully due the
veterans and relief to the millions
who are unemployed.
The leaders Of the Democratic
Party, including Roosevelt, their pre-
sidential candidate, are exposed by
their silence after Bloody Thursday
as supporters of Hoover's unjustified
and murderous actions.
Finally, the complete bankruptcy
Of the policies of Waters and his
advisors is proven, a policy of isolat-
ing the veterans from the great mass
Of the toilers who are also suffering
from the crisis, a policy of crawling
before capitalist politicians rather
tina ma reliance on the mass strength
of the veterans and the unemployed,
a policy Of cowardly retreat in the
face Of Hoover's attacks. These po-
licies have not tended to strengthen
the fight for the bonus, but only to
make out Of the great movement Of
the veterans an instrument to pro-
mote the interest of self-seeking
politicians.
The Bonus movement, learning
these lessons, must now advance to a
higher stage. The Workers Elk
Servicemen's League calls upon all
veterans to carry forward the fight;
it pledges itself to devote all its
strength and energy for a further
rallying Of greater masses Of ex-
saFyicemen for a new offensive for
tn ebonus, an offensive which we
propose to wage together with the
unemployed masses who are fighting
for unemployment insurance and
immediate unemployment relief.
The w. E. S. L. has had a correct
policy. We again emphasize the
main points in our policy, together
with our proposals for the continu-
ance of the struggle to win the bonus
u Leadership by the rank and file
veterans themselves and the rejection
Of the self-imposed leadership of
Waters who now proposes to isolate
the Bonus Army on Maryland farm,
with no further efforts to force the
Washington government to pay the
bonus, and his efforts to iquidate
the bonus fight into his new Khaki
Shirt" scheme to make the bonus
movement a tail to the kite of old
Party politicians.
o Unity of all veterans through
out the country, which cannot be
achieved by separating the bonus
army on some "fuedal estate" but
only by the militant veterans going
into all parts of the country to Or
ganize the mass of the veterans and
to rouse them for renewed, broader
and more determined fight to win
the bonus and immediate unemploy-
ment relief.
- Unity with the unemployed
workers and with the masses of
workers still in the factories and
who have suffered wage cuts in a
broad mass movement.
A. Rejection of Waters policy of
alliances with self seeking capitalist
politicians and a reliance only on
the mass strength of the veterans
fighting together with the entire
Working-cla
To discuss all of these questions
and to rally the broad mass of the
veterans who have so far been in
volved in the movement the WESL
proposes to the bonus army, to local
bodies Of all veterans organizations
throughout the country the calling
of a National Conference Of Vet
Grams to decide on course of action
that will strengthen and broaden
the fight for the bonus. The Hoover
attack on tn eveterans must be made
the basis for rallying new thousands
in the fight against the reactionary
policies and starvation program
which Bloody Thursday typifies.