Evening star., 1932-11-05
BRITISH MARCHERS
|. ENTRA|N FOR HOME
Soviet Influence Charged
Behind Trek-M0Sc0W
Letter Read.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, November 5.-The main
body OF the 1000 hunger marchers." "
who treked hopefully into London 10
days ago. rode homeward today toward
Scotland, Wales and provincial Eng
land in comfortable railway coaches at
tached to regular trains.
The railways offered transportation at
the low rate of 1-3 cents a mile and
the National Unemployed Workers Or
ganization, which sponsored the march
on London, raised the funds. They got
the money by public collections and
from sympathetic organizations.
Three coaches were attached to one
train at Paddington Station bound for
West England and Wales carrying the
first detachment homeward.
Wear Red Rosettes.
The police escorted the marchers
through the streets of London in the
early hours quietly and without any
disorder. Most of the marchers wore
new bits of red ribbon rosettes. Some
of their banners and emblems were
still flying Others were furled and
there was not much martial noise from
bands and drum corps as when they ar
rived.
AS the train left Paddington large
emblem of the Soviet Russian hammer
and sickle waved farewell from the rear
coach and the departing ''marchers'
sang "the Red Flag"
At st. Pancras and Kings Cross Sta
tions other trains started homeward
with parties of the army aboard.
Last night most of them attended
final protest mass meetings at Green
wich. Rotherhithe and other districts,
and adopted resolutions against the
means test in the dole system. They
demanded the release of men imprlson-
ed during the series of riots that were
precipitated by their presence.
Shout for Living Wage.
As TOO Scottish Lancashire Parchers
tramped through the smart shopping
streets of Mayfair toward Euston Sta :
ton they raised occasional shouts such
as I'VE want living wage"
They thrust propaganda leaflets into
the hands of mannequins and sales
girls at shop doors and toward fash
ionably- dressed men and women as well
Even the passing limousines did moi
escape the shower.
Dozens of mounted police and a strong
force of patrolmen were on duty al
Euston Station, where the "marchers
entrained. There was no disorder.
A direct interest of the Moscow Ihlro
International in British unemployed
agitation was claimed to be shown by
the contents of long letter read yes
terday in Bow Street Police Court. The
letter was read during hearing OF the
charge of sedition against Sidney Jot
Elias. chairman of the National Un'
EMPLOYED Workers Movement.
The prosecution charged that Ella
was in Russia in September fulflllmt
instructions from an organization callet
the Profntern, which is the sectlon O
the Third Internationale aiming u
control the unemployed movements
throughout the world.
" Leader Denied Bail.
The crown alleged Elias had writ.
ten the letter while in Moscow to w
A. L. Harrington and Emrhys LleWellyn
leaders of the hunger marchers. INT
document conveyed the Prof1ntern's IN
structions to conduct a campaign II
Great Britain and directed the adoption
Of methods of opposing the police. i
urged street agitations, promotion o1
strikes among the unemployed and pre-.
scribed the desirability OF getting al
least 10000 men to join the hunger
marcherS. :,
Elias was remanded to jail and bai
WAS denied him.