The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-08
Who Are the
Marchers?
BY GRACE HUTCHINs.

ALONG streets lined so1idly with
n Negro and white workers OF
Washington move the 1000 singing
Hunger Marchers.
Lumbermen, delegates from the
Northwest who have been on the
road for 8 weeks. A tall Swedish
lumberjack with a red worsted cap
and muffler He and his Western
comrades have slept on the ground
for consecutive nights.
Negro women from the South
singing a new song, Stand up Com
.rades, stand up for your class.
Comrade Anna, Negro worker from
North Carolina, leads a group of
Negro and white workers together
as they sing this song.
Miners from the Illinois strike zone
and from the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite district. Women of Column 8
who were gassed and dubbed in a
Wilmington Church. The Red Front
Band in gray uniforms, marching in
step, playing Solidarity Forever"
Marine workers, with Negro dele
gates from the Norfolk strike, cheer
ing in an organized chorus: "Shall
we fight? Yes. For Unemployment
Insurance"
To the Capitol, monument of the
ruling class. Halted by cops, forming
blue wall-called by the Washing
ton Daily News the largest aggre-
CATION of police ever assembled in the
Capitol for any purpose" With fire.
men added as deputies, there is a
policeman for every 4 Marchers.
But neither cops, nor hunger,-and
the Hunger Marchers are hungry
nor sleepless nights on wind
swept hill, can break the determine
ton of the marchers. They have
waited hours for sandwich and 9
cup of beans. They have sat on
cold, red mud of the railroad en-
bankment, and looked down on emp
ty pullman cars on the tracks below
They have looked out over Wash
ington with its empty churches, emp
ty halls, empty rooms, where they
might have had warm beds and a
chance TO wash and shave. But they
are denied all shelter by the ruling
class authorities. Only the women
delegates have entered the city for
short nights in the homes of sy1npa-
thizers. But at last the rulers are
forced to grant a permit for our
march TO the Capitol and the dele
gates of the unemployed enter Wash
ington.
Our committees go 10 the two
houses of Congress TO present our
petition for unemployment insurance
and immediate cash relief. We sing
and cheer while they are gone. The
committees return, fall into line, and
we swing into the main avenues OF
Washington, past the place where
the Bonus MarcherS were burned out
and murdered on July %, 1882. We
remember the date. The Red Front
Band plays the International.
NEGRO and White, Unite and
Fight"
This slogan, called in chorus, ech-
oes through the Negro districts OF
washington, as we see thousands OF
GillIl, eager NeRIO WOIhClS Oll J1lC
sidewalks in the windows, on the
steps of the houses.
Back to the prison" camp" the
concrete highway where the police
hold us trapped. The second session
of our Conference national confer
ence of the unemployed. Reports
from our Committees. Food from
the Workers International Relief
The Daily Worker distributed and
greeted with cheers.
Columns are starting on the jour-
ney back. The Far West columns Is
the last 10 go, for they must have
a nights rest, and daylight to cross
the mountains. They have been eager
TO, talk with comrades in the Easi
and they have a stronger sense OF
solidarity now between East arlc
West.
AS Cotnrade Benjamin said at The
Conference, 1--WE leave washington
with greater determination for strug'
gle. Each marchers is a fighter
for unemployment insurance, for i'm
mediate cash relief"
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