The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-29
1--WE Can Be Just AS Hard, "
Said the Veterans

took it up on a side hill and cooked
and ate. While they were lying
around resting, some one in local
authority came and told them they
couldn't stay there. They found the
'junglesp and at midnight got
freight to Grafton, w. Va, still on
the B. 81 Q.
But one of their number, riding
in a separate car, was picked up at
Fairmont, w. Va, and sentenced to
ten days, which he worked out, and
then overlook the rest in Washing.
ton.
They had discovered that every
body going into the yards at Graf
ton was arrested and sentenced to
three days, so they got off before
they reached the yards.
They walked through Grafton,
and caught coal train to Cum
berland riding hour after hour, on
top of the coal, in a rain.
IN Cumberland they slept in an
abandoned brick kiln. They made
coffee, and while they were drinking
it, the city police came down,
looking for hunger marchers."
1t was here that the tremendous
demonstration of military and po-
lice force met the Hunger March
Columns.
The 'bulV didn't arrest them. but
watched them board a box car, and
supposedly wired ahead. When
they neared Washington, word
reached them that all bonus
marchers were being arrested in
the railroad yards. They got off
before reaching the yards, and
threw away their blankets, and
walked into the capital city of this
nation.
That was Dec, 8, at 8 p, m
IN WASHINGTON
In Washington they got in touch
with the Bonus March headquar-
ters A Negro eX-service1nan,
trustee of a Negro church, loaned
them some church property ON
which to rig up a kitchen, and
there they stayed week through
out the Bonus March.
These % decided to get some
work, buy car, and send a COM
mittee out organizing Workers Elk
Servicemen's League Posts and
Anti-War Committees.
A snowfall gave them their
chance. First two and then two
more got jobs.
Here dissension developed. One
of their number, an ex-Khaki
Shirt man, had been making
trouble all the way. When he got
his turn shoveling snow, he an
nounced that the money he made
would not go to buy any car, he
was going out and get woman
with it," His name was Ruhl.
After a meeting and trial they
expelled him.
AND finally they got seven pas
n senger Buick for $35, reduced
from $3.50 when the agent found
they didn't have enough. The rea
son they had less than they ex-
pected to get was because the Dis
trict of Columbia deducted from
their snow shoveling wages IL per
cent for the Community Chest.
They sold enough Fighting Vets
newspaper of the Workers Elk
Servicemens League) to buy Ii
cense for $3.50.
Nine of them joined the organic
ing squad and they started for
New York.
A sympathizer at filling station
gave them % gallons of gas, two
gallons of oil and two cans of to-
bacco for so cents.
On the way to New York from
Washington, sympathizers donated
gas and oil One garage man in
Newark would give nothing until
he found out there were w. E. S. l..
members among them; then he
sold them five gallons of gas for
so cents.
The playwright, Harold Kicker
son, who is one of the leaders of
the rank and file veterans move
ment had come down from Wash
ington with them. and he collected
SLIGO for them, somewhere in New
ark.
They plan to go with their car
now from New York on an or
ganizing tour of the big industrial
cities along the shores of the Great
Lakes, in conformity with the pro-
gram adopted by the bonus march
ef.n, conference III Wnstranrtnn1