The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30
Get the He'll
Out, =" Hoover's
Chiefs Command

WASHINGTON, D. c., July 28.-
Get the hell out of here" cavalry
officer swinging sabre shouted to
the veterans at Pennsylvania Ave.
and Third Street.
This was the answer of the Hoover
Wall Street government to the ex-
servicemen's demand for their back
wages.
Sixteen abreast the troops led by
eight officers advanced on the veter-
ans who had held the building
against two police attacks in which
one of their number was killed.
The mounted men carried cooked
pistols. The infantry fixed their
bayonets. Baby tanks clattered down
the streets. A machine gunner leaped
from his horse and set up his
weapon.
The veterans, with hunger staring
out of their eyes, stood grim and
determined. Argonne, c tie a u
Tbierry and st. Mihiel were but
vague memories in the minds of
these men now. Here was new
reality, new war-civil war declared
against them by the capitalist gov
eminent, the same government they
fought for in 1917.
The troops advanced. A veteran
shouted, 1.-THE hell with Hoover"
Here's Hoover's Cossacks," shouted
another. what war" Take your
guns away" "Boo," these shouts
greeted the advancing troops.
Vets Stand their Ground
Thereupon the cavalry advanced.
Riding into groups of veterans and
homegoing government workers,
brandishing sabres, the troops cleared
the area of spectators. The veterans
stood theid ground. They had faced
troops before.
Infantry deployed and moved for
ward donning gas masks. officers
gave sharp orders. Then came the
tear gas. Wind blew the gas toward
the crowd gathered across the street.
Then came Swarms of mounted
troops.
Use BayonetS
Infantrymen, obeying orders of
their officers, prodded veterans with
their bayonets. A squad of troops
set fire to the miserable shanties
which the ex-servicemen had built
for themselves when they marched
from the muddy Anacostia fats in
June.
Two blocks from the scene of the
fire the vets rallied and made
another determined stand against the
troops who had just finished the dirty
job OF destroying the last of the vet
Grams belongings.
Ragged veterans and their wives
lined up along the sidewalk aod
jeered the men in uniform.
"Over the top 1882 style"
Murray for the light brigade"
The veterans were grim and deter
mined.
A Negro veteran paraded up and
down before the soldiers carrying a
large American flag. An officer on
horseback galloped into a knot of
veterans who surrounded the man
with the flag.
Cut Vets Ear Off
Another officer hacked at a veteran
with his sword and slashed off part.
of his ear.
Then came the infantry again with
the gas bombs. AS the troops threw
them veterans picked up the bombs
and threw them back at the troops.
Cavalry rushed the ex-servicemen
throwing women and children to the
ground.
Then came a lull. The troops with
drew to eat. The bonus army, how
ever, went without supper.
The final attack begna after dark.
While mothers were putting children
to bed in Camp Anacostia, troops
advanced across the 18th st. bridge.
The troops are coming" someone
shouted. The veterans and their
families began packing up their few
belongings Hoover had issued orders
to the chief of staff of the army to
drive the vets out and burn down the