The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-02
$500 Demonstrate
in Youngstown
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Column / Of the National Hunger
March, now nearly 700 strong, was
on the road to Pittsburgh today 60
ing through the congested steel
towns, centers of wage cuts and
starvation, Of Eastern Ohio and Yves
tern Pennsylvania, and meeting a
general outpouring Of workers in
each town who demonstratively af-
firmed their support Of the Hunger
March demands.
The Column stopped in Youngs-
town last night, where the city au-
thorities, directed by the mayor, sud
denly broke their promise to the To-
cal unemployed council to feed and
lodge marchers and did everything
they could to block the march. The
mayor stated openly that he was act
ing on orders of the Federal Gov
ernment to discourage" the march
ers. All police attacks failed, due
to the militancy and determination
of the crowd of $500 assembled to
welcome the marchers.
Must Discourage"
Acting Mayor Kistler and Mayor
Mark Moore, in conference with
Governor White at Columbus. tele-
graphed Tuesday that all promises
made the marchers must be retracted
and that the Hunger Marchers must
be discouraged" in every way pos
sible.
Police of youngstown twice at
tempted to change the line of march
when Column arrived yesterday. AS
the head of the more than half mile
long column entered the city. police
cars attempted to block the way and
turn the march away. Mass mill
fancy on the part Of the entire del
egation together with obvious sym
pathy of the workers who lined the
streets with the delegates. forced a
backing down on this attempt
All the way through this Trucson,
Bethlehem and Republic Steel town
the streets were lined with groups
Of workers. pouring out Of stores and
houses. Worker guides took charge
Of traffic and maintaining order
while the march came past the scene
Of the mass demonstration Of $500
at Federal and Watt Streets. loca-
ton Of the largest slop kitchen in
the city. Traffic was blocked and
the marchers were wildly cheered
as they defied police threats and ig-
nored the massed police and plain
clothes men who found the Situa-
ton entirely taken out of their
hands.
Barely Rescue Cop.
One attempt was made to split
the line when plain clothes police
man opened the door of one of the
cars in the caravan and attempted
to turn the line in a different dir
ection. Fellow officers, uniformed
and ununiformed rescued him from
the hatred of the workers who tore
him away from the auto.
Eiker Arrested.
When word that Walter Eiker,
leader of the Detroit contingent of
Bonus Marchers who are keeping up
with Column One of the Hunger
Trek, had been arrested, a thousand
workers marched from the meeting
to the Police Station Immediately
to demand his release.
Eiker had been arrested ION sus-
picion" when he went to demand
again of the Mayors Office that the
Hunger and Bonus Marchers be fed
and housed by the city of Youngs-
town. Eiker was a leader in the
last Bonus March and is now a
National Hunger March delegate.
A committee Of three, elected at
the mass meeting, entered the Office
of Chief of Police Frank Goodwin,
while the workers waited outside
with placards supporting the Hunger
and Veterans Marches and their
demands.
Force Release.
Eiker was released. Chief Good
win feigned willingness to COOP
crate by putting a police guard"
about the marchers and their trucks,
and claimed that they didn't want
trouble" obviously frightened by the
size and militancy of the Youngstown
workers demonstration supporting
the demands of the Unemployed
Councils for immediate cash winter
relief and unemployment insurance.
The between 600 and 700 Hunger
Marchers were fed and housed in
South Slav Workers Home, the Icor
Hall, the italian Workers Club and
in the Workers Center, while a cor
don of local volunteers guarded the
trucks during the night against such
quasi official marrauders as raided
the Unemployed Council headquar-
tiers last week, stealing the type
writer, collection boxes and attempt
ing to cripple Hunger March prepa-
rations. Column One started yes
terday morning with eighty addi-
tional delegates from Cleveland a
dozen from Canton, adding to the
length and impressiveneSs OF the
now more than fifty car long line.
They added too, to the enthusiasm
Of the delegates who sing and shout
slogans all along the way.
Demonstrate in Akron.
In Akron. Ohio, city of rubber,
Goodyear and Firestone, the march
ers ate sandwiches and coffee pre-
pared by the woman of the Akron
Unemployed Councils, while eight
hundred workers held a meeting and
demonstration in Perkins Square and
heard reports from Hunger March
delegates.
The rest room Of the park had
been padlocked by the city author
tiles but crowbars overcame that diff
ficulty.
Akron workers cheered their own
delegation of eleven marchers in two
autos which joined the motor parade