The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-08-10
CALL FOR MASS
RANK AND FILE
BONUS FIGHT
Vets, Get Together
With Jobless, Elect
Delegates
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gress to grant the just demands Of
the veterans. Only a solidly organ
lied mass of veterans controlling
their own organizations can win this
fight.
The fight is not over. 1t has only
begun. But for the next battle we
must organize our forces a hundred
times stronger. Especially must we
learn that we cannot leave our cause
in the hands of self-appointed lead
ers who work hand in hand with
our enemies. The greatest weakness
of the bonus army in Washington
was the traitorous leadership, headed
by w. W. Waters and his associates,
who broke up the unity of the mass
of veterans and tried to divide them,
one group against another, and stood
cap in hand before the police and
politicians begging for their favors
and accepting their direction for the
bonus army. We must guard our
selves against further betrayals by
the leaders of the American Legion,
Veterans of Foreign Wars and Dis
abled American Veterans.
Fight for Immediate Relief-Fight
for the Bonus
No solid organization is possible
until the veterans elect their own
leadership from among their own
forces, with the full right of recall at
any time.
Our tasks are, in addition to fight
ing for the bonus, also to stop the
new attacks that are being made
against even the present miserable
disability allowances. Hoover, at the
head of the united camp of our
enemies, is preparing at the next
Congress session to make further
drastic cuts in even those disability
provisions now made for the vet
Grams.
We must organize the masses of
veterans, workers and farmers, clerks
and ruined small businessmen, nurses
and other women who served in the
World War-veterans from all walks
of life-regardless of their political
opinion, regardless Of what organi-
cations they belong to, regardless Of
creed or color. all veterans and ex-
servicemen, Negro and white, who
are suffering starvation and disease
from the complete breakdown of
American economic life. We must
save our families from starvation by
forcing the government to pay us
the debt which it owes to us. which it
has acknowledged in writing, but
which it refuses to pay in order to
have large sums to give to Wall
Street bankers and corporations. We
must also fight now for immediate
relief.
This task requires mass organiza-
ton in every city, in every town, in
every neighborhood, in every shop,
in every union--bringing together all
veterans under a single program.
This requires calling for the broad
est support of the veterans struggle,
especially from the fifteen million
unemployed in the United States,
whose demand for unemployment in
surance and relief has been rejected
by Hoover and Congress in the same
way they rejected our demand for
the bonus.
Veterans, Elect Your Delegates
Camrade Veterans; The Rank and
File Committee, who, together with
the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League
first called for the national march
on Washington, and which led the
struggle in Washington not only
against Hoover in Congress, but also
against the traitors in our own ranks,
issues this call to elect delegates to
the Cleveland conference, September
%, "a and Is.
Fight for the Immediate Cash
Payment of the Bonus.
Fight for Immediate Relief and
Unemployment Insurance.
Unite our Fight with the Fight
of the Workers and Farmers
Against Starvation.
Drive out the self-appointed
leadership of Waters g. Co.
Organize the Mass Fight OF all
Rank and File Veterans, Regard
less Of Political Opinion, Veterans
Organization Affiliation, Greed or
Color.
Defeat the new attacks against
the Disability Allowances.
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