Evening star., 1932-12-04

ference sessions. A Washington lawyer
interceded for the alarchers and ap-
pealed to Maj. Brown to urge the Au1i-
to-ium officials to permit the demon
strators to use the building. Mai.
Brown turned deaf ears to the plea.
Thee have been no lasl-minute
changes in the final plans cf the
marchers. according to BENJAMIN.
After their arrival this afternoon they
will be fed and allowed to rest before
the opening session of the convention
at 7:30 O'Clock.
Day Of Sessions Planned.
Convention sessions, he taid, also will
be held ell day tomorrow. at which
petitions will be drawn up for p-esen-
tation to Congress and President Hoo
ver On Tuesday morning between 9
and $50 o'clock. he declared, the
marcherS would start fer the Capitol.
The next objective will be the White
House.
During Tuesday afternoon email
groups of marchers will go to the
Shipping Board and the American Fed
Grafton of Labor to present petitions.
Longshoremen and other marine work
ers will make up the delegation to go
to the Shipping Beard Organized l3bor
representatives in the march will go
TO the American Federation CT Labor.
Tuesday night, according to the pro-
gram, the marchers will hold final
ccSsion to elect officers, summarize the
result Of the pilgrimage to Washington
and organize for departure. Some OF
the marchers will leave Immediately
after the closing conference, but ma
jority will remain until Wednesday
morning.
Text Of Telegram.
The telegram Benjamin received
from members of the National Religion
and Labor Foundation read:
Authorize you to use following in
approaching churches. Releasing this
to press:
THE Constitution provides for the
right of petition. Millions of unem-
ployed in the land of plenty justifies
hunger marches in attempt to drama
tie need for more adequate Federal
relief. Quite evident, however, civil
authorities bent on resisting marchers.
National Religion and Labor Founda-
ton calls on churches and synagogues
in Washington to help provide housing
for unemployed petitioners regardless
Of agreement or disagreement with po-
litical position of sponsors"
To assist Benjamin with his prob
lem of housing the marchers, three
cf the delegation of nine women who
came from New York yesterday to seek
Federal aid for the demonstrators
stayed in the city The others re-
turned to New York after they had
been refused an audience with Presi-
dent Hoover. Those who remained
were Mrs. Polly Chase Boyden. Mrs
Belle Taub and Miss Sylvia Fhning-
ston, all of New York
From a lawyers office near the Court
House, the three women yesterday be-
gan series of telephone calls in an
effort to organize Washington socia,
leaders in support of plans for housing
the marchers. AS a result, the women
announced that five prominent persons
had promised aid, but their names were
not revealed. A statement issued by
the group urged that there be no repe-
tition Of the military action, which to
the hurt of the whole country, dis
persed the Bonus Expeditionary Force
last Summer
Other Press Releases.
otner press releases by the women S
group included one bearing the name
OF Edward D. Campbell as Washington
counsel for the American Civil Liberties
Union, which stated:
The suggestion of the authorities
that the delegates may not enter unless
they are provided in advance with food
and housing, if carried out would have
the effect OF denying to the unemployed
and destitute those constitutional rights
which the wealthy enjoy without inter-
ference.
Statements given by the authorities
to the press regarding the mobilization
OF police, the cancelling of leave in
Army posts, and the arming and depu-
tizing of additional groups are tanta-
mount to a declaration of hostility
against section of the population who
have publicly declared peaceable and
constitutional aims"
Another release quoted the Fellow
ship of Reconciliation of Washington
declaring emphatically for the right to
petition, and calling on authorities ito
see to it" that there be no repetition of
the B. E. F. Summer tragedy" j. B.
Matthews was listed as national execu-
tive secretary and Mary Klaphaak as
Washington secretary of this organiza-
tion.
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