The daily worker., 1932-12-06

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New England, New York,
Eastern Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, the
whole Baltimore Turnpike was
choked solid with workers. and the
cars of the townspeople. All traffic
was blocked.
Then came Columns 7 and 8 to-
gether, 1,700 marchers in so trucks
and 125 autos in a parade seven and
half miles long, placards flaming
from the sides of the trucks with the
demands for $50 federal winter re-
Het", and unemployment insurance.
Singing Solidarity.
Inc marchers were singing SOL
ldarity', and "The International. to
the music of the Red Front Band
Motorcycle state police of New Jer-
sey followed them to the District of
Columbia line.
Fifty District Of Columbia motor
cycle police surrounded the head of
the column there. Police Superin-
tendent Brown conferred with Carl
Winter, column commander since
Carl Reeve was beaten until unrec-
ognizable by police in Wilmington in
the hours of fighting Friday night.
Wen lead you into Washington
by a short cut, said the police.
Surrounded.
The column moved on. until If
came to the corner of New York
Ave. and Florida, a wind swept hill
side, pitching off in a muddy cliff
to the changing noisy PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad Yards, rising in another
steep muddy hillside on the other
SIDE to woods. Over the rise is the
Anacostia river and across it the
mud flats where the bonus marchers
camped months ago Looming above
the low buildings to the southwest
ward, only two miles away, is the
dome Of the capitol building, where
today congress is convening, - that
congress to which the marchers mean
to go and present their demands
for relief and unemployment insur-
ance.
But just exactly here on this bar
rem hillside, a row of police four
deep, armed with machine guns and
tear gas guns, appeared And heavy
patrols Of police, on foot, mounted.
on motorcycles, with machine guns
and tear gas bombs paced behind
ropes across all the streets, four
blocks from the hillside, and block
ing the way Of the thousands of
Washington workers who tried to
come up to the hunger marchers.
Most of the police carried huge
oaken clubs. Many wore leather or
canvass jackets with tear gas bombs
projecting out of the many pockets.
The whole police force had been re-
ceiving tear gas drill and instructions
in shooting down "mobs" from the
army in special camps and under
the instruction of army officers who
drove the bonus marchers out with
fire and sword and tear gas before.
Sabers Ready.
-Four thousand regular army men,
and marines, we're quartered a short
distance, away, waiting the call to
attack these unarmed elected repre-
sentatives Of the jobless-to attack
with tanks and artillery and charg-
ing, sabering caValry--as they did
once attack the "heroes of 1917,
right in this same city.
The army squadrons we're within
20 minutes march of the point where
the National Hunger Marchers were
halted. In Fort Meyers cavalry and
tanks were held in readiness. All
day yesterday suppression of mobs"
drill was conducted in Camp Meade
Five hundred Ku Klu Klan gunner
we're modified in Arlington, Va,
Just over the Potomac from Wash
ington.
Nearly a thousand police we're mo-
bilized against the National Hunger
March. Hardly policeman was to
be seen on the. streets of the city
downtown. Firemen were deputized
to replace the police, downtown.
These forces of violence OF the
Hoover Roosevelt capitalist govern