Evening star., 1932-01-07
.JOBLESS ARMY STAGES
MARCH TO CAPITOL TO
ASK GOVERNMENT AID
FIND MARCHER
HAS $1,000 CASH
WHEN STRICKEN
JobIess Man Says
He DreaU Money
After Losing Job.

One of the musicians in Father Cox's
army of unemployed collapsed IN the
street today, despite full stomach and
81 900 in his pocket.
He is M. John Cylkouski. so years old,
of Pittsburgh. He was taken to Emer-
gency Hospital where his condition was
said to be not serious, but where he
was being held for further examination.
CylkUuski's story, as he told it from a
cot at Emergency Hospital shortly after
he regained consciousness, is tale of
held for an emergency. When first
talked to by reporter for The Star,
he did not know he was in Washing
ton. With the reporters help, however,
he soon recalled not only his location,
but his reason for coming here.
Lost Job in July.
Cylkouski is a musician. He plays
trombone and plays it whenever and
for whom he may. But he is not a
professional musician. It's a sort of
side job.
The last regular job I had" he
said, was as a collector for a fur
niture manufacturing company in
Pittsburgh. That's where I'm from,
you know. They laid me off. July
25-it was. I had some money. I had
saved it and had it in the bank. And
then when I found myself out of a
job-and I've got wife to take care
Of tool drew my money out and
I've had it in my pockets ever since.
II was looking for jobs in Pitts
burgh, any kind of job would do, and
I heard about this band that a bunch
of the musicians of the town were get
ting up to come to Washington and
I got hired by them. I don't know
who it was that hired me there's some
things I don't remember I'm all sort
of mixed up But I know now that
I came here in a big bus with other
members of the band. I remember
now seeing the big buildings, the Cap
itol and lots of the other big build
ings and 1 remember now that it's
Washington"
AS he lay in the hospital awaiting fur
ther examination, Cylkouskis sole
worry was the expense his collapse
might incur for him. He wanted to
know how much the railroad fare back
to Pittsburgh was. He was anxious
to find out, too, if he might not be
permitted to leave the hospital in time
to board the bus with his fellow muSi-
clans for his return to Pittsburgh. In
addition to wanting to save his wife
possible worry over his Illness, Cylkou-
ski also was concerned over the posi-
bility Of her having to spend railroad
fare to come TO Washington.
Worries About Money.
I'm all right now" he said, spend
ing 500 or so to come here-that's too
much money"
AS Cylkouski talked his right hand
frequently found its way to his left,
where he toyed with diamond ring on
his little finger. Twice he asked the
reporter if he had seen his money. Upon
being told his interviewer had not, CYL
kouSki reassured himself by saying,
We'll, they told me they've got it out
there in the office"
Cylkouski was the first of two men
from the line of march to find their
way to Emergency. John Yeager, a
fancy baker of Terrick, Pa, who has
been out of work for three years, fol-
lowed him. Yeager, too, had fallen
under the nervous tension of the pro-
cession. He was brought to the hos
pital in an automobile driven by one of
his three companions, the car in which
the quartet made the journey to
Washington. All were vigorous in their
praise of the treatment accorded them
in the Capital and en- route, each claim
ing to have had plenty of food on the
trip. They all insisted there was no
question 0f hunger involved in the COL
lapse of the two men, but blamed it
on excitement.