The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-11-30

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The desperate necessity of
forcing through the demands
of the National March, $50 winter
federal relief and unemployment in
surance, are proved by the Spectacles
seen by the narchers along the way.
Jobless .scayanged the garbage dump
outside the Salvation Army head
quarters in Rome. N. Y, as the
marchers went through town.
In Toledo, the marchers reached
the city just in time to hear of one
militant worker Louis Borer, whose
relief was recently cut off, collapsing
in the Communist Party Office and
dying shortly afterward from a dis
ease made fatal by his starved con-
dition.
The District of Columbia Com
missioners, directly under U. S. gov
eminent control, and the U. S. De-
partment of Justice threaten TO bar
the National Marchers from the cap
itol grounds and to bar them from
the city altogether unless they prove
to the satisfaction of the authorities
that each has enough to live on
while in Washington. This denies
the Constitutional right to petition
congress for redress of grievances"
Sinnott, chief of the sergeants Of
arms at the capitol states that nc
one will be allowed even in the Wis
itors' gallery of the congress unless
he has an invitation card.
To all these proyocations, the Ma
tional Committee of the Unem-
ployed Councils, calls for a mass
protest throughout the country, calls
for huge mass demonstrations in
every city on Dec 6 to back up the
demands of the marchers. The Ma
tional Committee. over signatures Of
william Peynolds, its chairman, and
Herbert BENJAMIN, its secretary has
sent the District OF Columbia Com
miSsioners the following letter:
Reply to Commissioners.
"Sirs:-This will serve to advise
you formally of the plans, program
and demands of the National Hun
ger March, a body, of delegates rep
resenting employed and unemployed
workers in all parts of the U. s.,
regularly elected at meetings Of IN
ions, fraternal societies and unem-
ployed mass meetings, who will ar
rive in Washington on Dec. 18th.
1.-THE National Hunger March has
been organized on the initiative Of
the Unemployed Councils of the u.
s. as part Of the struggle which must
be waged in order to win winter re-
lief and unemployment insurance for
the victims of mass unemployment.
It will be COMPOSED of approximately
three thousand men and women all
of whom have been elected bv their
neiehbors and fellow workers to car
ry their demands to Congress when
it convenes on Dec. 9Th.
1.-THE very conditions that make
the National Hunger March neces-
sary make. its financing question
OF heavy sacrifices to the workers of
America. The delegates in the Hun
ger March represent men and wo-
men who are either entirely desti-
tute or whose income if they are still
employed, has been reduced to a
starvation level by repeated. drastic
waoe cuts. To claim that these Ges-
titute workers have a constitutional
Iipht to petition Congress and then
deny them the means of exercising
this RIGHT, is sheer hvpocrisy. It is
on par with the m9ckery induced
in by those who tell the millions who
are denied the right to earn a live
lihood, that they are accorded by
the Declaration Of Independence the
Inherent right to "life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness"
by dint of great sacrifice, the
thousands of workers who have par
ticipated in the organizing and sup
port of the Hunger March, have
contributed of their pennies, nickles
and dimes to provide means Of
transportation and other essential
expenses for the Hunger Marchers.
It is however extremely difficult for
them to provide for adequate food
and shelter.
These masses, must accordingly
demand that the government au-
thorities provide them with these
necessities.
"we hope that you viii Prove rs-