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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

tie question. I want you to answer
1t. I'm little girl, and I want to
learn"
A complete silence. No one vol
unteered to answer her question.
CHASED BY THE POLICE
AT the same time that the dele
CATION was being elected from the
White House and the children and
adults were being detained" the
other boys and girls were being
chased all over town by the police.
John Aguire, a fourteen-year-old
Pioneer of New York, tells the story
of what happened to his group:
I'm groups we were to meet on
the street and go to the White
House to meet our delegation. But
the cops told our group to wait on
the next block. We were tricked
and they began to surround us with
hundreds Of other cops. The SER
geant told our leader that we could
not stay there. Our leader began
to argue with them, but they had
their way. They began to chase us
block after block, motorcycle cops,
detectives and flatfoots until we
came to a park. We rested there,
and newspaper men took our pic
lures. Cars stopped and out poured
more detectives and more passersby
who asked us what it was all about.
And we told them. And then we
had to COVE on again.
Pioneer Sophie and me began to
sing songs and crack jokes, to keep
up the courage Of the other kids
who began to get afraid. So Sophie
and told others to refuse to walk
any further, but let the cops get
cars to go back to the center. We
have no shoes to wear out for them.
So the leaders told the cops our
demands. We have no shoes and
we can't wear those we got on out,
just because you're chasing U.S.
The sergeant told the cops to make
us move, but when they found out
that we would not bulge they held
a conference, the sergeant and the
two captains, and they agreed to
pay for the taxis to the house.
UuOOVER welcomed the Boy
ii Scouts and Naval Guards with
a band, but us he received with
clubs. After two hours at the house
the delegates who were arrested
came in free. Hoover needed more
that $50 cops to guard $50 children.
What will they need for 5000 work.
ers who are coming there for the
same thing as we came. We have
not lost our fight, but just begun.
The Hunger March will continue
otS fight, and we in our home
school,"
At night radio reports stated
that the children were crying and
wishing that they had not come,
and they wanted to go back home.
The children delegates declared:
Eve are glad that we were hon
ored by our delegation of children
to go TO present their and our de-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
THE FIGHT OF THE
HUNGER CHILDREN

Little Alice Mack's mother washes
dishes in a Philadelphia soup kit
chen and for this work she gets
enough food for one meal a day for
her six children. Her husband has
been out Of work for nine months.
He was a dye-setter in a Phila-
delphia factory which has been
closed down. Bernard Brooks lives
in the jim-crow Negro section Of
Baltimore. He lives in cellar,
and his father is an unemployed
Iaborer, out of work for the past
year and a half.
Before leaving the han for the
White House the delegation was fed.
The children ate hurriedly, chatter
ing and noise were all around, but
above the din murmurs of: Don't
eat so much, take it easy, you'll get
sick, You got to get used to the
food" And indeed several Of the
children were i'll. Not because too
much food was given them, but be-
cause they were unused to food,
their stomachs were hunger-drawn
and they could not consume as
much as normal child.
A newspaperman asked a boy
where he got his luInberjacket
and pants, which looked rather
new, compared to the clothes Of
the other children. The boy
looked the man in the eyes and
sad: why, Mister, you ought
to know better than that. 1 had
to fight for these clothes. I got
them from the relief"
AT 3:45 in the afternoon the dele
"A cation arrived at the White
House, followed by four motorcycle
cops with sirens blowing all the
way from Georgia Ave. to the
White House. The other children
followed in taxicabs and on foot.
When arrested, the police made
sure that the adult workers were
taken first and the children left
behind. Eve came to see the Presi-
dent, too, and if you take our
guardians you must take u.s. The
children were put into the police
patrol. However, Mr.. Kelley of the
police department thought better
of it, and hurriedly gave orders to
take the children out Of the Black
Maria, and into the hands of wait
ing women detectives who hurried
them to the House Of Detention.
While waiting for the police wagon,
reporters hung around asking the
children all sorts of questions. Ber-
nard Sales drew himself up tall
and straight and with real dignity
told them simply: mo informa-
ton" Alice Mack, from Philadel-
phia, yelled: 81 don't want any
lies told about me-" Grace CHA
rainadi asked: IT want to ask you
q little question, Mr.. Officer, why
is it that when hungry children
come to Washington they are ar
rested and threwn into jail. I
want to know why? It's just a lit
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

out greeted the column.
Gary, Indiana, was the next
stop. Here the enthusiasm ran
even higher. Streets were lined
on both sides for blocks before the
meeting place was reached. Every
section of the working class was
represented in the welcoming
crowds-black, white, foreign, ma
tive, professional Workers-all en-
Enthusiastically backing the march.
The Police Department Of Gary
must have had the major part Of
the force at the place of the meet
ing. However, the crowd was so
large and so militant that even
Gary's police hesitated to provoke
any trouble.
The marchers had speakers here,
also, the first time in the history
of Gary when an open-air meeting
of this size with speaking was ever
permitted without violent interior
ence. In a word-the march of
Column No. of the Hunger March
through the Calumet industrial
district was very inspiring and a
huge success. L. j.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
BY YERN SMITH

T. LOUIS ENGDAHL had been so
y active in the International Labor
Defense and had so much placed
himself in the minds of militant
American workers as a fearless
champion and defender of workers
on trial, that it is wei to recall his
previous career as on editor.
Most Of his life was spent as an
editor Of workers papers. He had
charge Of Socialist and left wing
Socialist journals in his early days,
and he was the first editor, jointly
with Bill Dunno, Nof the Daily
Worker, and of the Weekly before
that.
He was an editor in those first
weeks in New York, when the paper
moved here bodily from Chicago in
the form of two staff members and
box of cuts or photos. Down on
First Street, in q shop without fur
niture, with both linotypeS and type
writer's carrying Hungarian type in
stead Of English and with part of
the printers unable to read English,
he made up a desk of boxes and
books for his machine and with a
window sill for a table proceeded to
get out paper
He was editor during the Sacco-
Vanzetti days, though conditions
were much better by that time.
Turn to some Of your old copies Of
the daily" and see how, with Fred
Ellis best cartoons, Engdahl and
Dunno made the Daily Worker a
unique weapon in the fight to save
those two workers. 1t turned cut to
be a losing fight, but as much
energy and skill went into it as into
any of the later victories-the main
troubles was that the struggle de-
veloped too late. .,a
I think the thing that stuck all of
us on the Daily Worker most in con-
nection with Enedahl's work was his
tireless energy, his continuous, hour
after hour devotion to details. Six
teen hours was a short working day
for j. Louis. And so much was he
interested in every practical detail
of work that he used to go down into
the print shop and to the horror Of
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
15-Year-Old Lad Tries
to Kill Himself; Sick
of Meals from Garbage

HOLLY, Mich.-Here are a couple
III Of stories ON how children get
treated in Henry F'ord's state.
George Terban, is years old, tried
to commit suicide when his parents
could not get relief and he felt
himself a burden to them. His
parents said that they have been
eating garbage because we can't
get relief from the welfare. Our
neighbors give us food occasionally,
but they are none too we'll off
themselves" The family of five
have been living in Detroit for
about IL years.
-Four Iron River workers were
sentenced from 80 to 80 days for
Staying deer in order to feed their
families. These are just two ex-
amples of what suffering the work
ers in Michigan are undergoing and
point the way to organizing strong
Unemployed Councils everywhere in
the state.
Comradely,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
Hunger Figh t
Number>LabOY
Unity Is Out
LABOR UNITY. Official monthly
magazine of the Trade Union
Unity League, December, 1928.

magazine of the Trade Union
Unity League, December, 1928.
WITH the December issue, the
" special Hunger March and I'M
employment issue Labor Unity
takes on a new and more popular
appearance. The cover, in red and
black, attractively features photos
of the life of and struggles the un-
employed.
A leading article is Jack Stachel's
Results of the Elections" Stachel
tells how Roosevelt will carry out
the hunger program begun by
Hoover. Why did huge numbers
of workers vote for Roosevelt? Was
it "a triumph of democracy" as the
liberals state? What lessons are
to be drawn from the Socialist
vote; from the Communist vote?
These are brought out in StacheIs
article.
THE Hunger March and various
L phases of its preparations are
featured. An article, 1.-THE Music
ties Kid the Jobless," tells what
happened at the Ohio State Con-
ference of the Citizens Unen1-
ployed League, steered by the
Musteites out of militant channels.
The delegates of the Unemployed
Councils played an interesting part
at the conference.
How the everyday local strug-
giles in many steel towns, led by the
Steel and Metal Workers Industrial
Union, have won gains for the I'M
employed, is described in the article
'"The Steel Workers Fight for I'm
employment Relief"
The Trenton doll workers strike
was important, even though it took
place in a smaller industry. Many
lessons are to be learned from it.
Dave Doran, in "The Youth Set
the Pace" points out these lessons,
and describes the fine militancy of
the 800 young doll strikers.
The Japanese subway workers
teach us many points in the revo-
lutionary conduct of a strike strug-
gle. How they tied up the Tokyo
subway system, fought off the po-
lice and won a victory in the midst
Of great terror, is told in "a Less
\ IN From Japan"
now are we to approach workers
al who walk out in independent,
spontaneous, unorganized strikes?
Joseph Leedes points out in his
article on independent Strikes"
that the true application of the
United Front is the only way to
gain these workers confidence.
In addition to the above articles
there are many popular features,
such as cartoons, many photos of
the unemployed, short story Of
the unemployed, "The Homeless"
and a section devoted to the Life
of the Revolutionary Unions.
Labor Unity is published at 2 w.
18th St., Room Ala, New York City.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
The Hunger
Children!
By HARRY ALAN PoTAMKIN.

By HARRY ALAN POTAMKIN.
Empty is the cupboard,
No pillow for the head;
We are the hunger children
Who cry for milk and bread;
We are the hunger children
Who cry for milk and bread;
We are the workers children
who must be fed.
WE WANT e.
Shelter and clothes,
Shoes for our toes,
Bread for the body,
A roof for the head.
Scolded in the schoolroorn
Because we cannot think
OF anything but hunger,
OF food to eat and drink;
We faint because we're hungry
And we cannot think
OF anything but hunger
The teachers feed us ink.
WE WANT
Shelter and clothes,
Shoes for our toes,
Bread for the body,
A roof for the head.
The workers child is fighting,
He's too young to be dead;
The hunger children go
Thru frost and rain and snow,
Yes, the hunger children go
Thru frost and rain and snow,
Thru biting winds that blow
The workers child is fighting
Wen have the whole world
know!
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mands. We are not afraid. We
are workers children, and we had
workers demands. That is why we
were not allowed to see the Presi-
dent. We are going home to carry
on our fight. And we want the
adult workers who are coming here
next week to please carry our de-
mands with them. Free food in
the schools, no discrimination
against Negro children, Unemploy-
ment Insurance for our fathers so
that our families can all be to-
gether, aud the abolition Of child
labor. And we, too will carry on
the fight.'
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
J. Louis Engdahl>T4is Years
AS A Revolutionary Editor

the printers scoop up the type II
his hands and change it around here
and there when he thought it would
be better that way.
He was certainly the hardest
working editor the Daily" ever had,
and it is easy to believe that he car
ried this same characteristic over
into defense work, and literally
worked himself to death.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
Duranty's Tale That
Soviet Union Fears
German Revolution

~. l. ".
Editor the Daily Worker:
Dear Comrade:--I would like
you to explain the following item
that appeared in the N. Y. Times
of Nov. 90:
''In Moscow" writes MIR. Du-
ranty, there is one menace which
is feared above all others, and
it is the outbreak Of a revolution
in Germany or elsewhere in Eu-
rope. This is far cry from the
time when Lenin staged the Boil
shevist revolution in Russia, not
because he was interested in Rus
STA but because he wished TO set
Western Europe on fire"
Comradely yours,
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
WHAT IT MEANS
70 BE HUNGRY

why did you come to Washing
ton, Grace?" a newspaperwoman
asked.
Il came here to fight" The news
paperWoman locked as though some
one had taken the props out from
under her feet. Grace's eyes flashed:
II mean I'm going to tell President
Hoover that he's liar, that he
promised us a chicken every day,
and we haven't even got bone
Sparks lit up Grace'S hazel eyes
and her long brown curls bohbed up
and down in her excitement to tell
all that she knew. 'I' have seven in
my family, and I want to tell you
we know what it means to be hun
cry. That's. what I want to tell
Mr.. Hoover,
"But you don't look hungry"
sob, don't I thought Oh, don't I
thought" Grace hurled her words
at the woman. "Some times we go
for days without eating anything.
There's q little baby in our family.
Hes two months old, and he keeps
us worried. He faints all the time.
We never have milk to feed him
with. We're afraid he'll die on us
any day.
1.-THE hardest job I've got is to try
to comfort my little brothers and
sisters. You see I'm the Oldest.
Whenever we pass by store with
food in it, they start to cry.
zone day we went up to the
mayor to demand free food and
clothing, and the mayor asked me if
I was playing game with him. Oh,
no, I said, this Is no game, and
took off my shoes and I showed
them TO him. They gave us some
thing. Another time we didn't have
anything to eat for four days, and
SO couldn't stand it any longer,
and I went down to the mayor my
self and demanded something to
eat. My head was SO dizzy didn't
care what / told him then, and be-
lieve me I-teld him plenty. We got
some relief then, but not enough;
six dollars for two weeks. Now that's
why came to Washington"
Red-haired, freckle-faced Bernard
Sales, ten-year-ol son of an I'M
employed New York baker. 1.-THE
cakes and bread that my father
used to bake are not for us. We
never get cakes and we're glad to
get bread, -,-nt,r7
Demands red-brown eyes, like
his hair, have an inextinguishable
fire. His accent is typical of the
New York sidewalk. my ladder, he
hasn't worked for two years, and
there are eight in my family" AS
he spoke his eyes became sober. II
never have any breakfast before ]
go to school. And for lunch we get
something in school. But when I
come hou.e, VIC many times don't
have supper I'm never surprised.
Every time when I'm hungry my
heart hurts me, and the teacher,
she yells at, me in school, but I'm
hungry.
There are eight in our family
and I'm the youngest. have two
older sisters and they can't find
work, either. My father gets $40
relief for two weeks. We owe rent
and everything and that's why I'm
in Washington"
THE OTHER DELEGATES
Alice Mack, an eleven-year-old
girl from Philadelphia, with large
blue eyes and flaxen hair shoulder
length; Bernard Brooks, an eleven
year old Negro boy from Baltimore,
who looked as though he were
about eight, and Mildred Lee, a
fourteen-year-old girl also from
Baltimore, were the other three
children in the delegation.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
To a Black Man
By v. ]. JEROME


By " j. JEROME
ct significant poem by COmade Jerome Black Mani
during period Open
the sOuh Negro which recently
published in the Daily Wcrker)
Back furnace room
heard you cal your sons to your side
"Hate white
Al And th Z q de gaio Of g 2onr a Being
let hate gather and rumble
and RISE
Ito too n am al, batter
sI to IL the e., foe you hate ssas
him Of black
When they came n dark
stealing on the coast-yiIa6es of Africa
and shot down S the stTugger S''-D' III '' '0p
and snacEed the valiant the finest Inted
when they rammed their black cargo the
footshacked and manacled
brought to seapoT kingston Rio
the SaS9 Pf George shf s 5ssss q sou carolina
for barrels
did they not descend also upon the white man
in the ports of Europe
the driven the machine
dump them into the haT0or towns Of the New world
and drive them In chained gangs
ons the the ROADS ROADS OF New E Sae25n New JERSEY
from to farm from square
Brother
was it black blood that oOzed
| from the bodies lying bulet-gashed
in the stee-yards of
In the coal fields of Colorado they
when gunner and soldiers shot
on the strike fields of Leadylle
Telluride
! Occur d. Alene
Cripple
was the blood white black?
Was it black it white the blood at Ludlow
that night
when the torches we're put to the tents
that scarlet night
heaped ump-carts avay
Manhattan
KatoyiS
Latin
it drpped the death-woundS OF
led in fuslade of fury
shot ringing after shot?
o. Gray
| share-cropper Camp Hill
crying: Toiers Avenged the fields of Alabama
the fields and the factories Of foyght states
And the blood Of Iad Harry Sirnms
faced lad Harry Simms
still the cold mining road Of Kentucky
lis 1t black is it white
the gun-drained blood Of Harry stmns?
brother
| them
in the skin
wheat-heds and coal pits
clothing and houses milk and bread.
We against them.
against
you 'front.'
| the '7hite
It's the earth!
nedn1en
| hammer
| scythe sword
for the earthl
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

Hold an Open Hearing on Hunger
in your neishborhood; invite all
iobless and part time workers and
keep u record of their evidence
against the starvation system.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

effort to discredit the U. S. S. II.
among revolutionary workers and
weaken its defense by revolutionary
workers Of other countries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
EDITORS NOTE

This is Duranty's statement, not
the statement of the Soviet Gov
eminent, the Communist Party Of
the Soviet Union or the Commu-
mist International. 1t Is a conscious
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

The following speech was made
by Earl BrOwder, member of the
Secretar.at of the Communist
Party, at the John Reed Memo
rial meeting held in New York
City on Nov. 25.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03

ut significant that this COmade
period
South" LangOn recently
published n Daily Wcrker)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-12-03
BY HELEN KAY

WHO were these children hunger
W delegates who dared stain the
serenity of the White House Thanks
giving?" -z-.-.-,
Who were these children who
dared declare themselves represen-
tatiVes Of the starving millions Of
American boys and girls. who dared
enter the capitol of the nation
amidst "day Of brilliant church
services and boIntiful dinners?"
On Thanksgiving Day $50 chill
dren from as far north as Worcester
and Lawrence In Massachusetts,,
through Connecticut, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Della
ware, Maryland, and Washington
itself, came by means Of train and
truck, to demand Of the President
protection of their homes, Unem-
ploynent Insurance, and immediate
relief from starvation.
$50 Cops Guard Hoover
The President guarded his seren-
ity. The President had over two
hundred and fifty police surround
ing the White House vicinity to in
sure quiet and peaceful turkey
dinner, and to make sure that these
Negro and white neWsies, boot
blacks, children of unemployed
workers who know what it means
to go cold and hungry, do not enter
the "sanctity of the Presidential
mansion" - .sa.
Traffic on Pennsylvania Avenue
was completely, stopped. Pedes-
TRANS were prohibited within the
White House area, and detectives
filled Lafayette Park. Trucks with
tear gas; armed guards with guns;
police with night. sticks were on the
alert. -a-.-
AND why2 Because a committee
n of five children and six adults
elected by these $50 at q meeting
arrived in Two tGxicabs to see the
President OF the United States, and
demand that he take steps to feed
ana house and shelter the workers
and their children.
The adults in the committee OF
eleven were DR.. Emil Conasson, a
children's specialist, who testified to
the 'malnorisi7ed state of the chill
dren, many Of whom right within
the delegation suffer from ricketts,,
scurvy, and just plain starvation; q
nurse, q social worker, two mothers
from Philadelphia, one Negro and
enc white, and a representative
from the Young Pioneers of Amer
lea. The five children were: Grace
Chiaranladi. the eleven-year-old
daughter OF two Lawrence textile
workers who have been unemployed
for the past two years. Grace's
father and mother used to work in
the Pacific and Print Pacific mills,
both of which ere now completely
shut down.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
NEW 8-ROOM BRICK.
EXCELLENT NV. SECTION.

ONLY $3.50.
An unusual value. home large enough
TO accommodate 2 families. and pay for
itself Colonial front porch; living room.
dining room, reception hall. large kitchen
and sur parlor on first floor; upstairs there
are three bed rooms and large E. incloSeS ne5
6uiit-in tub and shower: oak floors, natural
wood trim; large cedaIslnsd closets and
electric rsfriseration ho fro large sn.
Phone for inspection NOW.
VIM M. THROCKMORTON.
2o8 INVESTMENT BLDG. DIST. 6093.
Evening star., 1932-07-17

OUT-OF-TOWN REAL ESTATE.
EASTERN SHORE COLONIAL HOMES.
tidewater fronts, inland farms, duckinT
shores; all sizes. Prices right: SQUARE
DEAL FARM AGENCY, 22l-D Maple ave.,
Chestertown, Md.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
RENT-FARMS.

SMALL FARM 4K MILES FROM CITY ON
Lee Highway; large house, cleo, city water.
Money maker to practical party. View un-
equaled. See this place. Inspect afternoons.
Allencrest.
Evening star., 1932-07-17

HYATTSVILLE HILLS.
Bungalow, 5 rooms, bath. furnace heat,
garage, cleo. gas; block to bus; nice shrub
berry. s42S0: $50 cash. $40 per mo-. includes
taxes ard ali exrenses
Hyattsyille 332-J.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
EXPEDITION GETS GIFT
East Indies Cruise, to Begin Sep
tember IS, Will Study Diseases.

NEW YORK, July 16 Up. The
American East Indies Expedition an
nounced today gift Of $4,000 from
S. E. Comstock, a director Of the Bridge
Bank of Chicago.
The expedition, sponsored by a group
of small museums throughout the coun-
try, plans to sail September Is on
two-year cruise to collect specimens
and gather information on cancer, tu-
berculosis and narcotics. It's work viii
center mainly around the Dutch East
Indies.
Evening star., 1932-07-17
CENTURY OLD HOME.

10 rooms. bath. shower. modern. 2is acres
OF beautiful grounds and trees. Wonderfu
old stone and frame harm. The most Sc
y,niences 3 blocks from bus. cars. stores and
school. with a little remodeling this would
make a nice little estate. II you are looking
for something different, inspect this home
The price is so low it will surprise you
Easy terms.
F. w. HILBERT. Realtor.
Falls Church, Va, Phone 308. IL