The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-30

dren who drifted back to the still
smoldering camps to search for what
was left of their few belongings.
R=;Ged Conference
Police raided conference called
by the rank and file committee of
the bonus army at the Old Masonic
Hall on Virginia Ave. and arrested
James w. Ford, Communist candi-
date for vice president and war vet
Gran and AZ other vets. Ford and
the thirty veterans are being held in
communicate by the Washington
police
Ford, who is a Negro worker from
Alabama, served in the Signal Corps
as radio and telegraph operator
during the war in France and was a
member Of a delegation which ap-
peared before the Ways and Means
Committee several months ago to de-
mand full and immediate payment of
the soldiers bonus.
Move to Smash Last Camp
T. = Commissioner Glassford to-
day L;oTTcd his police to smash the
sole remaining camp, of about 200 on
the old Baltimore wharf. Police re-
serves surrounded a group of about
AGO bonus marchers who were trudg-
ing down lower Pennsylvania avenue
and drove them with their clubs out
of the city and on the road leading
out of Maryland. Gusts of rain added
to the desolation of the hunger ex-
soldiers.
The cavalry was still encamped
around Camp Anacostia, forcing stray
returning vets away at sabre points.
Rcut Wome nand Children
Women and children who attempted
to camp for the night in park near
Baltimore were routed and ordered
to keep moving" Fugitive groups
north we're shunted further
away from Washington by police and
state troopers, ION orders from
f.e
1t was clearly the policy of federal
and state authorities to drive the
bonus army permanently away from
Washington and to prevent it from
reforming at any point. That the
Hoover government is planning more
bloodshed for the veterans is obvious
Word came from Kansas City more
than 200 veterans en- route from
will leave there on Sat-
urday or Washington. A spokesman
declared "The fatal shooting of
veteran in Washington will be the
signal for thousands upon thousands
of ex-servicemen to converge upon
the capital"
Stool Pigeon Can Remain
w. w. Waters, stool pigeon COM
mander of the "B. E. F. organiza-
ton which he owns by virtue of hay-
ing incorporated the name, attempted
to capitalize the murder and shoot
ings in order to build his Khaki
shirts" Fascist organization. He an
the opening of headquarters
in Washington. APPARENTLY, the priv
ilege of remaining in Washington is
granted solely to this demagogue,
who announced last week CHAT his
will be modelled on those
of Hitler and Mussolini ito stand be-
tween the constitution and anarchy
All the vets in Washington were
sore, red eyes. The troops
who laid down the tear-gas attack
yesterday made no distinction be-
tween veterans and non-veterans.
One red-eyed spectator today, watch
ing a sweating infantryman driving
sightseers from the part at the foot
Of Capitol Hill called out to him,
rontemptuously:
Work hard, buddy, and maybe
you'll get a bonus some day"
Protest kilograms poured into the
White House frcm all parts of the
country.
This followed the lining up OF over
a hundred veterans at the United
front Conference earlier in the day.
At this time the arrest of the As