The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-30
MarCherS Honor
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egates joined the National Hunger
March Column l here last night, and
this morning the column took the
road eastward with over so vehicles.
making parade over half a mile
long, all carrying signs proclaiming
the demands of the hundreds of
thousands of jobless who elected
these marcherS.
The marchers stop today in Lorsin.
o. S. Steel Co. town, for the lunch
the local jobless won for them from
the city authorities. and to hold a
mass meeting there. They go on then
to arrive in Cleveland tonight at about
6 O'Clock, and in Cleveland also the
vigorous local struggles have won two
meals and lodging at the expense of
the city government.
In Toledo the city yielded to de-
mands for food and lodging for 500
marcherS but gave very poor quality
OF both. The marchers slept in the
Welfare House on iron cots with no
mattresses and poor air, and with
lots of cockroaches. They ate rotten
beans, moldy, insufficiently cooked
potatoes and had some SKINNED
milk.
Louis BOrer Dead
Even this fare is better than MANY
Of the unemployeds workers get here.
Sunday Louis Borer, section organ
izer OF the Communist Party and sec
rotary OF the ALL Bricklayers Local
Union No. 3, collapsed in the Com
muniSt Party office, and died shortly
sfterwsrd OF pneumonia. He was
working on Hunger March arrange
ments until the end. His death was
largely brought on by under-nourish-
ment due to his being cut off the re-
lief by the Welfare Director, Rev.
Rowsey, and the liberal Mayor
Thatcher.
Borer's body is lying in state view
ed by hundreds of Toledo workers
who knew him well. and the funeral
will be Thursday.
Struggle Looms in Flop House
The Northwestern delegates held a
rousing meeting with the inmates of
the city Hop house, and this will Ger
tainly lead to a struggle for better
conditions there and more relief gen
orally.
The whole delegation and a long
procession of city workers marched
afterward through the streets, singing
and cheering, to the mass meeting in
the Coliseum. Column Leader Morton
spoke, scoring the starvation policies
OF the Federal, state and city which
show themselves most recently In the
death OF Borer, and in the plans made
in Washington to attempt to keep the
5000 marchers out. The mass meet
ing demanded the right of their del
egates to place demands before Con-
greSs. Other speakers were Born
stein, of Local 275 of the Brotherhood
of Painters and Paper Hangers, Chi
cago and Bob Warren, Negro worker
and assistant leader of the Chicago
delegation. Lowell Watson, of the
Toledo delegation, told how unem-
ployed workers camped on the court
house lawn here until they got relief.
Bob Eiker, bonus marcher, travel
ing along with the National Hunger
MarcherS, spoke and got big re-
ception.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 29-Part
of the National Hunger March prep
arations was an open hearing on star
Walton in Euclid Village, a suburb of
Cleveland, in which 200 young work
erS and children heard witness after
witness tell of hunger, without re-
lief, and of movements by city au-
thoritieS toward forced labor, in spite
of Mayor Ely's repeated promises not
to install 1t. The whole crowd at the
hearing voted Mayor Ely guilty of
starving the jobless, and sent a dele
cation with actual cases of hunger
to demand more relief. The mayor
has made promises to improve mat
tiers.
The National Hunger March was
endorsed, and one youth delegate
elected to go along with Column /.
In Cleveland itself, Anna Szibicki,
10-year-old daughter of an unem-
ployed worker, tainted from under
nourishment IN Mayor Miller,s office
when a committee of sixty workers,
youth and children went to see him
about getting free lunches and clothes
for the children. This delegation was
elected at three open hearings held
on Thanksgiving Day. Mayor Miller
refused to do anything for the chill
dren, saying it was not under his ju-
risdiction. The child fainting was just
unfortunate The Committee was
put out of the office when they in
sisted upon relief.
The committee then went over to
see Mr.. Veins, head of department
of attendance and relief of the Board
of Education. Mr.. Veins was forced
to agree to joint committee of the